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🇮🇱 __***Israel Prime Minister issues Holocaust Day Warning***__ 🇮🇱
*https://goo.gl/cdzo5t*
*AFP*

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday threatened to destroy those who call for the destruction of Israel, in a speech to mark the annual Holocaust Remembrance Day.

"Iran and the Islamic state want to destroy us, and a hatred for Jews is being directed towards the Jewish state today," he said at a ceremony in Jerusalem's Yad Vashem memorial.

"Those who threaten to destroy us risk being destroyed themselves," Netanyahu warned.

"From being defenceless people, we have become a state with a defensive capacity that is among the strongest in the world," he said.

Six Holocaust survivors lit torches in memory of the six million Jews killed by the Nazis during the 1939-1945 World War II.

Israel will also come to a standstill for two minutes at 10 am local time (0700 GMT) on Thursday as sirens wail in remembrance of the Jewish victims of Nazism.

Radio stations and television channels on Sunday were broadcasting programmes about the genocide.

More than 213,000 Holocaust survivors live in Israel today, many of them below the poverty line, according to survivors' groups.

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🇵🇭 __***Duterte says he can be 50 times more brutal than terrorists***__ 🇵🇭
*https://goo.gl/aWm3R0*
*AP*

The Philippine president has warned that he can be 50 times more brutal than Muslim extremists, saying he'd even eat them if they're captured alive by troops.

President Rodrigo Duterte has repeatedly threatened drug suspects with death, but he raised his shock rhetoric to a new level Sunday when he said in a speech during the opening of a national sports tournament what he could do to terrorists who have staged beheadings and other gruesome attacks.

Duterte ordered troops to kill fleeing Muslim militants behind a foiled attack in the central resort province of Bohol, calling the extremists "animals."

He said he can "go down what you can 50 times over ... **just give me vinegar and salt, I'll eat his liver**."

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🇫🇷 __***Le Pen, Macron win top two places in French presidential election, advance to runoff***__ 🇫🇷
*https://goo.gl/GzbN3Q*
*LA TIMES*

The most fiercely contested, scandal-hit French presidential election ended as predicted Sunday, with a first-round victory for centrist Emmanuel Macron and far-right candidate Marine Le Pen, according to projected results.

Early estimates, based on results at several hundred representative polling stations, showed Macron leading at 23.8%, followed by Le Pen at 21.6%. The final count is expected to be close to that early calculation.

Right up to the final minutes of the election campaign, which officially ended at midnight Friday, opinion polls had stuck to the prediction that surveys had suggested for two months: Macron and Le Pen would advance to the second round of voting on May 7.

With up to a third of France’s 47 million voters said to be disillusioned, however, nobody was prepared to bet serious money on the outcome.

In the end, the polls were right.

In Hénin-Beaumont, Le Pen's heartland, crowds of supporters chanted "Marine president" and waved tricolor flags. Seconds before the results were announced, they were singing the national anthem, “La Marseillaise.”

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🇬🇧 __***84 year old UKIP candidate says her 'hormones go crazy' for gorillas at the zoo which she finds 'very attractive'***__ 🇬🇧
*https://goo.gl/Wy3BFG*
*THE MIRROR*

In a statement seen widely on Twitter, the 84-year-old Gisela Allen had said: "I want the death penalty to be re-enacted. It doesn't necessarily have to be hanging. You could have the guillotine. I think the public is entitled to __protection.__"

Later, in addendum to coming out as a __chimp fucker__, Ms Allen added, "Do you think I am going all over the city and saying my idea of a sexually-attractive creature is a gorilla?

**"When I go to a zoo and I see a gorilla my hormones go absolutely crazy. I find a gorilla very attractive."**

Deputy UKIP chair Suzanne Evans tweeted: "Someone has gone massively off-piste and broken every rule in the book.

"I can assure you this does not feature in our local manifesto and will not be in our national manifesto.

"Not over my dead body. __Guillotined or otherwise.__"

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🇺🇸 __***Trump’s presidential approval rating within first 100 days in office lowest since 1945 ***__ 🇺🇸
*https://goo.gl/6AEo8m*
*RT*

As President Donald Trump is approaching the 100-day benchmark in the White House, his approval rating has hit __a historical low of 42 percent__. Twelve of his predecessors averaged 61-percent at this point, a new Washington Post-ABC News poll showed.

Despite the deplorable results, __96 percent of those who supported Trump in November still stand by their vote today__.

Going into the details, the poll says that six out of 10 people “doubt his [Trump’s] honesty and trustworthiness, see him as out of touch, and don’t think he understands the problems of people like them.”

More than half of Americans, 56 percent, say “he’s accomplished little or nothing in his first 100 days,” while almost the same number of people, 55 percent, say “he doesn’t follow a consistent set of principles in setting policy.” However, no more than 48 percent see this as a problem.

However, there are some silver linings for Trump as well. According to the survey results, as many as 73 percent of Americans say it’s good that the new president is pressuring companies to keep jobs in the United States. That number includes Democrats, liberals, and non-whites – the three groups, most unsupportive of Trump.

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<:jewstar:285075531609669632> __***Pope says some refugee centres 'concentration camps'***__ <:jewstar:285075531609669632>
*https://goo.gl/C3EzAb*
*AFP*

Pope Francis on Saturday described some of Europe's refugee centres as "concentration camps" as he paid tribute to an unknown Christian woman slain for her faith in front of her Muslim husband.

"These refugee camps -- so many are concentration camps, crowded with people... because international accords seem more important than human rights," Francis said in impromptu remarks at a ceremony in memory of modern day Christian martyrs.

Departing from his prepared script and appearing unusually emotional as he spoke, the 80-year-old pontiff said he wanted the woman to be remembered along with all the other martyrs commemorated in Rome's Basilica of St Bartholomew.

Other speakers included Francisco Hernandez, a friend of William Quijano, an organiser of "Schools for Peace" in El Salvador and a victim of gang violence in 2009, and Karl Schneider, son of Paul Schneider, a protestant pastor who died in the Nazi death camp at Buchenwald.

The Basilica where Saturday's service took place is home to a large collection of relics of Christian martyrs across the ages, including recently added momentoes of Schneider, Quijano and Hamel.

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🇫🇷 __***Le Pen's Crowd Sings Marseillaise as Spirits Surge at Macron HQ***__ 🇫🇷
*https://goo.gl/JhHsCf*
*BLOOMBERG*

At Marine Le Pen’s election night party, nationalists chanted her name over and over again when TV stations projected she’d make the French presidential runoff -- and then burst into a chorus of the Marseillaise.

But the “children of the fatherland” -- as the French anthem describes those who sing it -- who gathered with the far-right leader in a sports hall in the northern town of Henin-Beaumont were still unsure whether she can secure a victory in the final round on May 7. Her centrist rival Emmanuel Macron was already piling up endorsements from across the political spectrum.

“The duel will be tight, it’s going to be complicated,” party member Joel Jadot, 70, said at the rally in the former mining town, a stronghold for Le Pen’s National Front.

The second-round contest will pit Le Pen’s nationalism against an arch-internationalist in Macron, who’s as committed to reviving the European project as Le Pen is to breaking it up.

Le Pen’s plans to leave the euro have left many French people uneasy, but her broader arguments about the corrosive effect of immigration and the threat of terrorism have struck a chord with voters ground down by years of economic under-performance and unemployment.

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🇬🇧 __***General election: What you need to know***__ 🇬🇧
*https://goo.gl/uEgx3r*
*BBC*

__The UK will have a general election on 8 June. Here's what you need to know.__

**How do the parties stand in the polls? **
*The average of five opinion polls published in April puts the Conservatives on a little under 43% compared with a little over 25% for Labour - a lead of more than 17%. This would translate into a comfortable win for Mrs May's party at an election if that's how people voted.*

**What is a general election? **
*It's how the British public decide who they want to represent them in Parliament, and ultimately run the country.*

**Who is allowed to vote? **
*If you're aged 18 or over on election day, registered to vote and a British citizen you can vote. Citizens of the Republic of Ireland resident in the UK and citizens of qualifying Commonwealth states resident in the UK can also vote if they are over 18 and registered to vote.*

**What if I live abroad?**
*British citizens living abroad can register online to vote as an "overseas voter" if they have been registered to vote in the UK in the past 15 years.*

**How do I register to vote?**
*People in England, Wales and Scotland can register to vote online, or download the forms to register by post, from the government's website. Voters in Northern Ireland use a different form that is returned to their local Area Electoral Office.*

**When is the deadline to register to vote?**
*Assuming you are eligible, you can register any time but be aware that there will be a deadline. The deadline for registration is 22 May 2017. Anyone who misses the deadline won't be able to vote.*

**Why is this a 'surprise' or 'snap' election'?**

*As the most recent general election was in 2015, the next one was scheduled for May 2020. An election can be called ahead of schedule for two reasons - if there is a vote of no confidence in the current government or if MPs vote for an early election by a two-thirds majority. Mrs May chose the second option, which was overwhelmingly backed by MPs, by 522 votes to 13.*

**When will the general election after this one be held? **
*A 2017 general election means that the subsequent election is now due in 2022.*

**What are the key dates?**
*Parliament is expected to break up on 3 May to allow just over a month of full-pelt campaigning ahead of an election on Thursday, 8 June.*

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🇬🇧 __***Oxford University: Students Who Avoid Making Eye Contact With People Are Racist.***__ 🇬🇧
*https://goo.gl/IXjC8T*
*THE DAILY WIRE*

Just when you thought the social justice left couldn’t get any more stupid, it finds a way to outdo itself, giving our rational faculties the routine beating they so richly deserve. This time the cult of idiocy reared its ugly head at perhaps the most prestigious academic institution in the world, Oxford University.

“The university’s Equality and Diversity Unit has advised students that '__not speaking directly to people' could be deemed a ‘racial microaggression’ which can lead to ‘mental ill-health__,’ ” reports The Telegraph. “Other examples of 'everyday racism' include asking someone where they are ‘originally’ from, students were told.”

Fortunately, sanity prevails at England’s rival schools.

Oxford’s guidance is “completely ridiculous” and will make students “hyper-sensitive,” Dr. Joanna Williams, a lecturer at the University of Kent, told The Telegraph. “__Essentially people are being accused of a thought crime__. They are being accused of thinking incorrect thoughts based on an assumption of where they may or may not be looking.”

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🇺🇸 __***New Orleans to take down Confederate statues ***__ <:REEE:281041868056166401>
*https://goo.gl/SPE4rd*
*AP*

Trucks arrived to begin removing the first memorial, one that commemorates whites who tried to topple a biracial post-Civil War government in New Orleans, __around 1:25 a.m. in an attempt to avoid disruption from supporters who want the monuments to stay, some of whom city officials said have made death threats__.

Workers who were inspecting the statue ahead of its removal could be seen wearing flak jackets and helmets. Police officers watched the area from atop the parking garage of a nearby hotel.

Three other statues to Confederate Generals Robert E. Lee and P.G.T. Beauregard and Confederate States of America President Jefferson Davis will be removed in later days now that legal challenges have been overcome.

"There's a better way to use the property these monuments are on and a way that better reflects who we are," New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu said in an interview Sunday with The Associated Press.

Robert Bonner, 63, who said he is a Civil War re-enactor, was there to protest the statue's removal.

"I think it's a terrible thing," he said. "When you start removing the history of the city, you start losing money. You start losing where you came from and where you've been."

Since officials announced the removals, contractors hired by the city have faced death threats and intimidation in this deep South city where passions about the Civil War still run deep.

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🇸🇪 __***Sweden arrests second suspect over deadly truck attack***__ 🇸🇪
*https://goo.gl/SiSEiZ*
*REUTERS*

Swedish police said they had arrested a second suspect linked to the deadly truck attack in Stockholm this month.

The unnamed person was detained on Sunday on the order of prosecutors, the force said, without going into further details on the suspected offence.

Four people were killed and 15 injured when a truck plowed into a crowd on a shopping street and crashed into a department store in the center of the capital on April 7.

The suspected driver, an Uzbek asylum seeker named by police as Rakhmat Akilov, is already in custody.

Police said the second arrest had followed the examination of unspecified material gathered after the attack.

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🇲🇽 __***Dutch ‘abortion ship’ arrives off coast of Mexico to provide free healthcare to women ***__ 🇳🇱
*https://goo.gl/wqlsKT*
*RT*

The so-called Dutch ‘abortion ship’ has arrived off the coast of Mexico, having been expelled from Guatemala in late February. The Women On Waves crew will now operate a women’s health clinic in international waters.

Although abortion has been legal in Mexico City for the past decade, widespread poverty throughout the country, and the vast distances involved in reaching the capital from rural areas, preclude many women from seeking safe abortions.

The Women On Waves crew arrived off the coast of the Mexican state of Guerrero last week and on Thursday carried out two successful and safe medical abortions, reported DW.

The ship has previously visited countries such as Ireland, Morocco, Poland, Portugal, Spain and, more recently, Mexico’s southern neighbor Guatemala.

The boat was seized by authorities while off the coast of Guatemala in a move that drew widespread international media attention to both the boat and the underlying cause its crew is fighting for.

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🇫🇷 __***‘I won’t devote my life to a$$holes’: Socialist French mayor threatens to quit after Le Pen wins region ***__ 🇫🇷
*https://goo.gl/ry7hdQ*
*RT*

Daniel Delomez, the mayor of Annezin in the Pas-de-Calais commune of northern France, vented his anger over Marine Le Pen gaining 38 percent of the votes in the region, warning he may resign because he “*doesn’t want to dedicate life to assholes*.”

Delomez, from the Socialist Party, has been the town’s mayor for almost a decade – since 2008 – and slammed the latest election outcome as “*catastrophic*,” speaking to the local newspaper L’Avenir de l’Artois.

“*It’s likely that I will resign because I don’t want to devote my life to assholes*,” the mayor said, as quoted by the media outlet.

Over the past 24 hours, these words posted on the newspaper’s official Twitter account have been retweeted over 7,500 times, and liked over 6,100 times.

Opinions are divided, with apparent Le Pen supporters urging the mayor to go ahead and quit, saying things like: “*If (sic) YOUR FELLOW CITIZENS voted for Le Pen, maybe you missed something*.”

Another user said, “*I suggest that all the locals in Annezin come forward with a complaint against this one, for his lack of respect towards the residents*.”

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__***A shooting has been reported at an office tower in Lake Highlands, near the High Five.***__
*https://www.dallasnews.com/news/dallas/2017/04/24/possible-shooter-reported-dallas-office-building-near-high-five*
*Dozens of officers — including a SWAT team — responded to the the building along LBJ Freeway, near Schroeder Road, as workers evacuated from the building about 10:45 a.m. Monday.

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Multiple media outlets have reported two people were shot and two ambulances were dispatched to the location, but police had not released any details about what happened.
Mary Jo Nsuk, who works in the building, stood in the parking lot shoeless just before noon. She was on the 10th floor when she heard a commotion coming from below and heard police say, “Come out with your hands up."*

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/dallas/2017/04/24/possible-shooter-reported-dallas-office-building-near-high-five

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🇫🇷 __***French election: Emmanuel Macron 'to blow Marine Le Pen out of the water’ in second round***__ 🇫🇷
*https://goo.gl/xfK4vh*
*THE INDEPENDENT*

Emmanuel Macron will “blow Marine Le Pen out of the water” as the French presidential elections head to a second round of voting, (((leading politics experts))) believe.

The centrist made historic gains in the first round, with his independent En Marche! campaign receiving 23.8 per cent of the vote, closely followed by the National Front candidate on 21.5 per cent.

However, despite the tight margin, experts believe there are very few scenarios that could put the brakes on Mr Macron's charge to the Élysée Palace.

French politics expert Dr Rainbow Murray, from Queen Mary University of London, told The Independent Mr Macron is set to "blow Le Pen out of the water" and said it would take a scandal of "significant proportion" to ruin his chances.

“The presidency is Macron’s for the taking. Le Pen is too divisive and she does not have the majority of the electorate that she would need,” she said.

“An unprecedented scandal is the only scenario, as I see it, that could halt Macron’s chances, even another terrorist attack I think wouldn't change the outcome.”

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🇫🇷 __***Police Injured, 143 Arrests as Far Left Riots in Paris to Protest Le Pen***__ 🇫🇷
*https://goo.gl/Seh7GV*
*BREITBART*

__Six policemen were injured__ as far left activists rioted, burned cars, and smashed property during violent demonstrations against Marine Le Pen Sunday night in Paris, where __143 arrests were made__.

Before the results of the first round were announced on Sunday, several hundred self-styled “__anti-fascists__” gathered in Paris to oppose the pro-France, anti-globalisation Front National candidate.

Police were pelted with bottles and firecrackers by left wing extremists, many of whom were hooded and dressed in black. According to AFP, demonstrators also torched cars and smashed windows.

“We have come to protest against the __masquerade__ that is this election,” one protester told public broadcaster Franceinfo. “__All of its main candidates__ — [Emmanuel] Macron, [François] Fillon, Le Pen — __are standing only to perpetuate the reign of an oligarchy__ which hoards power and steals the wealth from ordinary people.”

Commenting on how this year’s election has seen France’s two main parties — the Republicans and the Socialists — rejected en masse, a student of neuroscience who spoke to journalists in the Place de la Republique pointed to “the [2008] financial crisis” as the cause.

Clashes broke out in various parts of France when the results of the election’s first round were announced. Three people among those who took to the streets in protest against the successes of Macron and Le Pen were arrested in Nantes. There, police were forced to use tear gas as __rioters set fire to public property__.

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🚹 __***WATCH: Bill Nye DESTROYS What's Left Of His Credibility ***__ 🚺
*https://goo.gl/Afe1zR*
*THE DAILY WIRE*

Airing on his new Netflix special called *Bill Nye Saves The World*, the **Not A Scientist Guy** and hero of the Left featured the world's most insane, anti-science segment about sexuality and gender performed by a sitcom actress, who are, of course, famous for their extensive knowledge of biology.

The performance by *Crazy Ex-Girlfriend* actress Rachel Bloom was given a glowing endorsement by Nye, who introduced the song(?) as "very special." Within the performance, Bloom suggests that sex and gender are on a "spectrum" and that her "sex junk" is "much more than either or," meaning it's non-binary.

"*My vagina has its own voice / Not vocal cords, a metaphorical voice / Sometimes I do a voice for my vagina*," she sings. Charming.

Then there are these super-scientific lines: "*Versatile love may have some butt stuff / It's evolution, ain't nothing new / There's nothing taboo about a sex stew.*"

In effect, whatever was left of the manmade climate change zealot's credibility was officially wiped out, **unlike our Antarctic ice sheets**. Of course, there wasn't too much credibility left to demolish; this is a guy who once suggested climate change dissent be criminalized and said poignantly "many, many, many, many more hundreds of eggs are fertilized than become humans."

Video: __*https://pic.twitter.com/NSPHO9lZQo*__

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__***'Get to Mars during my first term': Donald Trump talks to Nasa astronauts in livestream***__
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/04/24/get-mars-first-term-donald-trump-talks-nasa-astronauts-livestream/

Quick rundown:
- The Don stated that America reach to Mars on his first or his second term during livestream with astronauts

Donald Trump instructed Nasa astronauts to get to Mars within his first term - or failing that, his second term, in a livestream with Peggy Whitson.

The President congratulated her via video link from the Oval Office alongside his daughter, Ivanka, and NASA astronaut Kate Rubins.

Appearing to forget he had signed a bill directing Nasa to send astronauts to Mars by the 2030s, Mr Trump asked: "Tell me, Mars, what do you see a timing for actually sending humans to Mars?"

Politely, Ms Whitson replied: "Well, I think as your bill directed it will be approximately in the 2030s".

Mr Trump said: "We want to do it during my first term and at worst during my second term so we want to speed that up, OK? "
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🇫🇷 __***Le Pen Steps Down as Head of National Front Before Final French Vote***__🇫🇷
*https://goo.gl/UvvQiA*
*BLOOMBERG*

Marine Le Pen said she stepped down as head of the National Front party to campaign for president as a "free" candidate who could represent "all the French people."

Speaking in an interview with France 2 television, the candidate says she wants to rally French voters around her candidacy. Le Pen says she needs "only 10 little points" to win the election on May 7, citing polls that show independent rival Emmanuel Macron would beat her by a margin of 60 percent to 40 percent.

Macron, who created his political movement one year ago, has received endorsements from former Republican rival Francois Fillon and President Francois Hollande, a Socialist, as the establishment parties unite against Le Pen.

Le Pen became the head of the National Front in 2011, succeeding her father, Jean-Marie Le Pen.

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<:jewstar:285075531609669632> __***US-Israeli man indicted in Israel for threatening Jewish centers, airlines & politician ***__ <:jewstar:285075531609669632>
*https://goo.gl/mU4Mty*
*RT*

Israel has indicted an __18-year-old Jewish man__ with dual American-Israeli citizenship for __making bomb threats to Jewish community centers__ (JCCs) in the United States, among other actions. He was arrested after a joint probe by US and Israeli authorities.

Michael Ron David Kadar made __more than 2,000 threatening calls__ to schools, airports, police stations, malls and other targets over a span of two years, Israeli prosecutors say.

He faces multiple charges in Israel, including the extortion of a Delaware state senator and publishing false information in order to cause panic.

Kadar has been held in Israel since his March 23 arrest following an investigation by the FBI and Israeli police. His crimes were committed over the Internet from Israel, according to reports, at times using computers in other countries.

On April 21, Kadar was charged in US federal court in Florida with 28 counts of threatening calls and false information. He was also charged with three counts of cyberstalking in an indictment out of federal court in Georgia.

Some of __Kadar's threats were made on behalf of others in exchange for Bitcoin payment__, according to authorities. He made $238,000, at times using subcontractors.

Kadar attempted to extort money from Delaware state Senator Ernesto Lopez and threatened to kidnap and kill the children of George Little, a former Pentagon and CIA spokesman, according to prosecutors.

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<:DeusVult:288704994973188097> __***Reddit Allows “Syrian Rebel” Group To Promote Al-Qaeda Affiliates***__ <:DeusVult:288704994973188097>
*https://archive.fo/HVVMF*
*DISOBEDIENT MEDIA*

An investigation has revealed that terror groups operating out of Syria have taken to Reddit, utilizing the online messageboard as a forum for individuals who support Islamic terror groups operating inside Syria.

Disobedient Media has determined that the subreddit r/SyrianRebels lists at least one moderator who appears to support extremist-aligned groups in Syria and has recently announced that they will host an “Ask Me Anything” session with a senior Al-Qaeda militant in charge of media outreach for the terror group.

Reddit has refused to remove the subreddit, claiming that it does not violate their site’s rules.

[**click archive link for details of investigation**]

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🇺🇸 __***North Korea nuclear: White House calls Senate to briefing***__ 🇰🇵
*https://goo.gl/ZkP1ZI*
*BBC*

In an unusual move, the entire US Senate is being called to the White House for a briefing on North Korea.

Washington has become increasingly concerned at North Korean missile and nuclear tests and threats to its neighbours and the US.

The briefing, involving 100 senators as well as Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Defence Secretary James Mattis, is being held on Wednesday.

China, North Korea's main ally, has called for restraint from all sides.

China's call came in a phone conversation between President Xi Jinping and President Donald Trump on Sunday.

Mr Xi urged all parties to "maintain restraint and avoid actions that would increase tensions", according to the Chinese foreign ministry.

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🇬🇧 __***Communist Party champions Corbyn’s Labour, says it won’t stand election candidates ***__ 🇬🇧
*https://goo.gl/yz8DpO*
*RT*

The Communist Party of Britain (CP) has confirmed it will not stand its own candidates in the general election, telling its supporters to get behind Jeremy Corbyn’s campaign.

The Marxist-Leninist group also called on “*all leftwingers*” to vote for Labour on June 8.

“*In every general election since the formation of the CP in 1920, we have stood our own candidates, not least in 2015 when we fielded nine*,” said the party’s general secretary, Robert Griffiths, in an open letter published in the Morning Star.

“*Now, on this occasion, we will not contest any seats, although this does not signal any withdrawal from the electoral arena in the future*.”

Speaking to RT, Griffiths highlighted that these were “*extra-ordinary conditions*.”

“*The Labour Party has its most left-wing leadership in modern history and is under attack from all sides for putting forward policies that are in the interest of working class people*,” he added.

While the far-left group is backing a potential Labour government, Griffiths and his fellow members were not so keen on the much-discussed ‘progressive alliance’ between Corbyn and the Scottish National Party (SNP) and the Greens.

“*This is why a clear and unambiguous call for a Labour vote everywhere is so essential, rather than muddying the water with frivolous chatter about a ‘progressive alliance’ with the pro-EU, free-market fundamentalists of the Green, Liberal Democrats, SNP and Plaid Cymru parties*,” Griffiths told RT.

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<:jewstar:285075531609669632> __***Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales creates news service Wikitribune***__ <:jewstar:285075531609669632>
*https://goo.gl/8JOU5S*
*BBC*

Wikipedia's co-founder Jimmy Wales is planning a news service that combines the work of professional journalists and volunteers.

His goal is for Wikitribune to offer "factual and neutral" articles that help combat the problem of "fake news".

The service is intended to be both ad-free and free-to-read, so will rely on supporters making regular donations.

One expert said it had the potential to become a trusted site, but suggested its influence might be limited.

Wikitribune shares many of the features already found in Mr Wales's online encyclopaedia, including the need for writers to detail the source of each fact and a reliance on the public to edit articles to keep them accurate.

However, while anybody can make changes to a page, they will only go live if a staff member or trusted community volunteer approves them.

The other big difference is that the core team of writers will be paid, although there may also be instances in which a volunteer writes the initial draft and then a staff member edits it.

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🇺🇸 __***Trump Admin Unloads Block of 271 Sanctions on Assad Regime for Chemical Weapons Attack***__ 🇸🇾
*https://goo.gl/fwZGTj*
*BREITBART*

The U.S. Treasury announced on Monday that it is putting into place 271 new sanctions in Syria following a chemical weapons attack on April 4 that killed dozens of people, including many children.

Treasury said in a press release that the sanctions are “*in response to the attack on innocent civilians in Khan Sheikhoun, Syria, by the regime of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad*,” calling the move one of the largest blocks of sanctions in the history of the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC).

The sanctions are against 271 employees of Syria’s Scientific Studies and Research Center (SSRC), all of whom have expertise in chemistry and related “*disciplines*” and have been supporting Assad’s chemical weapons program since at least 2012, according to Treasury.

“*These sweeping sanctions target the scientific support center for Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad’s horrific chemical weapons attack on innocent civilian men, women, and children*,” Treasury Secretary Steven T. Mnuchin said in announcing the sanctions. “*The United States is sending a strong message with this action that we will hold the entire Assad regime accountable for these blatant human rights violations in order to deter the spread of these types of barbaric chemical weapons*.”

“*We take Syria’s disregard for innocent human life very seriously, and will relentlessly pursue and shut down the financial networks of all individuals involved with the production of chemical weapons used to commit these atrocities*,” Mnuchin said.

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🇺🇸 __***PATHETIC: Republicans Set for Full Capitulation in April Budget Fight***__ 🇺🇸
*https://goo.gl/ZgEhKF*
*THE DAILY WIRE*

The continuing resolution currently funding the federal government expires at midnight on Friday, April 28; absent an appropriations package, a new continuing resolution, or some other byzantine funding mechanism that contains elements of both, there will be a government shutdown on April 29.

And yet, just as sure as the sky is still blue and Elizabeth Warren still rain dances around the teepee when she isn't shilling for economically illiterate Keynesianism, all signs now point toward the Grand Old Party preparing for a Grand Old Surrender.

There is no appetite whatsoever amongst congressional Republicans right now to wage battle over taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood—despite the fact that __the organization demonstrably profits off the sale of dismembered baby parts__, and despite the reality that the current state-sanctioned prenatal infanticide regime is the moral and legal successor to the antebelleum slavery that the nascent Republican Party was once formed to stand athwart.

There is no appetite right now to go to budgetary war over defunding the jihad-funding, kleptocratic Palestinian Authority

There is scarcely any talk of a legislative denuding of Obama's purely evil Iranian nuclear deal, despite the fact that that monumental abomination is back in the news this week in a way that makes Barack Obama and John Kerry look less like Henry Kissinger and more like the love child of Neville Chamberlain and Ethel Rosenberg.

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🇺🇸 __***Obama’s Iran Deal Was Much Worse Than We Suspected***__ 🇮🇷
*https://goo.gl/unV0sQ*
*THE FEDERALIST*

What if Donald Trump had unilaterally shut down every investigation into Russian espionage, released over 20 suspected Russian spies, struck a deal to get rid of sanctions against Russia—in return for honoring deals that had been signed years before—and then lied to the American people about the entire episode?

That’s the Obama Administration’s Iran deal. It might have been the first time the United States has offered extensive concessions to a nation that has continued to destabilize its interests, for nothing in return. But Barack Obama didn’t just support Iran’s position over our allies like Israel (no surprise there, considering his antagonism) or Sunni nations — he supported it ahead of his own Justice Department’s 30-year counterproliferation efforts.

According to an over 8,000-word investigation by Politico, Obama’s efforts to placate Iran includes __releasing genuine spies__ (not the type we see behind every bowl of borscht these days) to a terror-supporting theocracy that has American blood on its hands and threatens the stability of the entire Middle East.

Then the administration, including the president, __lied about the deal they had struck over and over again__. It’s true that Obama lied with far more sophistication than our current president. But democracy dies in “*echo chambers*” created by unqualified foreign policy aides obsessed with making the Islamic Republic into a regional superpower.

Obama went as far as accusing anyone who opposed the deal of being in “*common cause*” with hardline Islamists in Iran. In fact, using the administration framing, it would be correct to say that Obama was in “*common cause*” with both Putin and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Both of them were in favor of the Iran deal.

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🇺🇸 __***ALEC: Mostly Democratic-run States Are A Total Disaster, Have The Worst Economies***__ 🇺🇸
*https://goo.gl/skTe2p*
*TOWNHALL*

The American Legislative Exchange Council released their “Rich States, Poor States” report last week and shocker — __mostly Democratic-run states are a disaster concerning economic performance and competitiveness__. ALEC included the top and bottom ten states in the press release announcing the 10th edition of the report.

Some states, like New Jersey and Illinois, are not shockers. While they have Republican governors, Democrats dominate the legislatures. In New Jersey, Christie touted pension reform, though the Garden State has a long way to go, with ALEC noting that it’s actually underfunded by $235 billion.

__Bottom 10__:

#41: Oregon (Dems control the legislature and governor’s office)

#42: Maine (Dems split control of the legislature with Republicans)

#43: Hawaii (Dems control the legislature and governor’s office)

#44: Illinois (Dems control the legislature)

#45: Minnesota (Dems control the governor’s office)

#46: Connecticut (Dems control the legislature and governor’s office)

#47: California (Dems control the legislature and governor’s office)

#48: New Jersey (Dems control the legislature)

#49: Vermont (Dems control the legislature)

#50: New York (Dems control the legislature and governor’s office)

I guess we shouldn’t have been surprised as to who is the bottom ten in the country. Nevertheless, there’s troves of data here. Have fun.

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🇺🇸 __***College Libs Wash Away “Hateful” Free Speech***__ 🇺🇸
*https://goo.gl/k4nHlP*
*CONSERVATIVE TRIBUNE*

“*Safe space*” babies devoid of sense and reason are a dime a dozen these days, in that they can be found at practically every university, including the University of Maryland, College Park, where this week students literally washed away free speech.

The hoopla occurred Tuesday on the university’s “*Social Justice Day*,” when __triggered students discovered chalk markings__ on campus that read “*deport dreamers*,” “*we won snowflakes*,” “*CNN is fake news*,” etc., according to The Washington Times.

“*I was shocked but not very surprised*,” snowflake Brandon Carroll, a junior at the school, later told The Tab. “*During the election Trump supporters did the same thing in the middle of the night and wrote #trump2016 and so on. That feeling of __shock__ of course turned to __anger__ when I found out that __the student union won’t remove it because it’s considered free speech__.”*

Darn that pesky free speech, eh? And since the student union was rightfully unwilling to stamp out free speech, students like Carroll reportedly took matters into their own hands, __using buckets of water to wash away the chalk__ like good little fascists. It’s like book burning, but without all that pesky fire.

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🇺🇸 __***Ivanka Trump booed at women’s panel in Germany***__ 🇩🇪
*https://goo.gl/YCF0WX*
*THE HILL*

Ivanka Trump faced a tough audience Tuesday after calling her father a "*tremendous champion of supporting families*" during a women's panel in Germany.

The first daughter spoke about about her father's attitude toward women, saying she has heard criticism from the media and noted her goal through her role in her father's administration is "*incremental positive change*."

She also said her father "*encouraged me and enabled me to thrive*."

She said she can speak "*on a very personal level*" about Trump as a daughter.

*Ivanka gets booed and hissed by audience when she says her father is a"tremendous champion of supporting families."
— Annie Karni (@anniekarni) April 25, 2017*

*Some in audience now hissing Ivanka as moderator presses her about @ Potus's attitude toward women. #W20
— Hallie Jackson (@HallieJackson) April 25, 2017*

Trump is in Germany to participate in panels and will have dinner with German chancellor Angela Merkel.

During the trip, the first daughter will take part in discussions on empowerment and entrepreneurship at the W-20 summit.

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🇺🇸 __***Donald Trump Announces 20 Percent Import Tax on Canadian Softwood Lumber***__ 🇺🇸
*https://goo.gl/mcJTOJ*
*BREITBART*

President Donald Trump announced that he wanted a 20 percent tax on softwood lumber coming from Canada, telling conservative media he thought the country was treating Canada “*very unfairly.*”

“*We’re going to be putting a 20% tax on softwood lumber coming in — tariff on softwood coming into the United States from Canada,*” Trump announced during a meeting with conservative journalists. He also signaled he wanted action on Canadian dairy products as well.

“*We’re going to start doing lumber in our country, it’s going to mean that farmers are going to start selling milk in our country,*” Trump said.

The president’s decision is the latest sign that he will keep his promises on trade deal negotiations.

A senior administration trade official said that the issue was a “*long simmering problem*” with Canada, pointing out that they get cheap lumber from federally-owned timber and sell it at subsidized rates.

“*We love Canada, wonderful people, wonderful country, but they have been very good about taking advantage of us through NAFTA,*” Trump said.

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😂 __***Far-Left Voters More Likely to Share Their Wives, Right Wingers More Sexually Dominant, Claims Study***__ 😂
*https://goo.gl/cEQdas*
*BREITBART*

The propensity for people on the far left to engage in partner swapping and group sex may be down to their belief that property is theft, and populist-right wingers enjoy kinky sex because their willingness to reject feminism and social norms in politics also extends to the bedroom, a new study claims.

Commissioned by “libertine social network” Wyylde, the study of 4,000 French individuals found that people on the far left are much more likely than the average Frenchman to share partners and have group sex, while Front National voters are more inclined towards sexual domination, spanking, and practices polling company IFOP says are derived from “porn culture”.

“It is in the electorates of the ‘protest candidates’ that one finds a greater proportion of people who engage in more obscure and transgressive sexual acts,” commented IFOP.

“[It is] as if their rejection of ‘the system’ is linked with a greater ability to overcome society’s prevailing standards of sexuality,” the polling company added.

People situated “to the left of the [traditional] left” on the political compass are “distinguished in particular by their experimentation in practices of a libertine nature,” the study said.

“Having a threesome” and partner-swapping are examples given in the commentary, which highlights that the proportion of swingers amongst far left voters (23 per cent) is more than double the average in France (nine per cent).

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🇩🇪 __***Welcome To Germany: Crime By Migrants Leaped 52% in 2016***__ 🇩🇪
*https://goo.gl/sy6td3*
*THE DAILY WIRE*

On Monday, the German Interior Ministry released figures showing the number of crimes committed by migrants surged 52.7% in Germany last year. In 2015, migrant crimes totaled 114,238; in 2016, they totaled 174,438 crimes. Migrants represented 8.6 percent of all crime suspects in Germany in 2016, up from 5.7 percent in 2015.

Violent crimes in general, including rape, murder, and bodily harm, shot up 6.7% in 2016; violent crimes by German nationals rose 1% in 2016, those by migrants nearly doubled.

The German police define migrants as refugees and rejected asylum seekers.

While migrant crime was surging, crimes committed by German citizens dropped 3.4% to 1.41 million.

The coming election in autumn 2017 is expected to revolve around the issue of the huge number of refugees.

Karsten Woldeit, a politician for the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany in Berlin, reminded the public that his party “predicted and warned about this development after the uncontrolled entry of hundreds of thousands of migrants in 2015.”

Syrian immigrants represented roughly 37% of immigrants to Germany in 2016 and were responsible for 17.6% of crimes.

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🇪🇺 __***EU lawmakers vote to make YouTube fight online hate speech***__ 🇪🇺
*https://goo.gl/GAe2Dx*
*REUTERS*

Video-sharing platforms such as Google's YouTube and Vimeo will have to take measures to protect citizens from content containing hate speech and incitement to violence under measures voted by EU lawmakers on Tuesday.

The proliferation of hate speech and fake news on social media has led to companies coming under increased pressure to take it down quickly, while internet campaigners have warned an excessive crackdown could endanger freedom of speech.

Members of the culture committee in the European Parliament voted on a legislative proposal that covers everything from 30 percent quotas for European works on video streaming websites such as Netflix to advertising times on TV to combating hate speech.

The lawmakers approved an amendment that would define video-sharing platforms as services or a "*dissociable section of a wider service*" that "play a significant role in providing programmes and user-generated videos to the general public, in order to inform, entertain or educate," which could include social media networks including Facebook and Twitter that also carry videos.

"*Social media should not be regulated through the back door. Tackling hate speech on social media is important, but the CULT (culture) committee should not jump the gun by adopting a far-reaching definition of video sharing platforms without any proper impact assessment,*" said Marietje Schaake, a member of the Liberals group of the parliament.

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🇺🇸 __***Judge blocks Trump order on sanctuary city money***__ 🇲🇽
*https://goo.gl/QVW0vg*
*PIX11*

A federal judge in San Francisco has blocked a Trump administration order to withhold funding from communities that limit cooperation with U.S. immigration authorities.

U.S. District Judge William Orrick issued the temporary ruling Tuesday in a lawsuit over the executive order targeting so-called sanctuary cities. The decision will stay in place while the lawsuit moves through court.

The Republican president’s administration and two California governments that sued over the order disagreed about its scope.

San Francisco and Santa Clara County argued that it threatened billions of dollars in federal funding.

But an attorney for the Justice Department, Chad Readler, said at a recent court hearing that it applied to a limited set of grants.

Readler said less than $1 million was at stake nationally and possibly no San Francisco funding.

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🇺🇸 __***U.S. Air Force to launch test missile off Central California coast***__ 🇺🇸
*https://goo.gl/3chDCw*
*LA TIMES*

An unarmed intercontinental ballistic missile will be launched Wednesday from Vandenberg Air Force Base to test the weapon’s effectiveness, accuracy and readiness, according to the Air Force Global Strike Command.

The Minuteman III missile test launch will occur between 12:01 and 6:01 a.m. from the north end of the base near Lompoc, according to Vandenberg’s 30th Space Wing. The 576th Flight Test Squadron, which will help oversee the operational test launch, is responsible for telemetry, tracking and command destruct systems on the missile.

In a statement, Col. Chris Moss, Vandenberg’s 30th Space Wing commander, said missile launches are “*essential to verify the status of our national nuclear force and to demonstrate our national nuclear capabilities.*”

The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization, criticized the timing of the launch, citing heightened tension between the U.S. and North Korea. In recent weeks, North Korea has stepped up its testing of ballistic missiles.

“*When it comes to missile testing, the U.S. is operating with a clear double standard: It views its own tests as justified and useful, while it views the tests of North Korea as threatening and destabilizing*,” foundation president David Krieger said in a statement. “*What is needed is diplomacy rather than military provocations. Threats, whether in the form of tweets, nuclear-capable aircraft carrier groups, or nuclear-capable missile launches, only increase the dangers to us all*.”

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**JARED TAYLOR AMA ON VOAT**

https://voat.co/v/identitarian/1818307

Jared Taylor of American Renaissance is answering questions on voat. You can create an account without an email, just enter user and confirm password.

https://voat.co/v/Identitarian/1818307/8900087 Please upvote this comment afterwards so that it can hopefully be answered by him.

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__***Ted Cruz Calls for $14 Billion Seized from ‘El Chapo’ to Fund Border Wall***__
http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2017/04/25/ted-cruz-calls-14-billion-seized-el-chapo-fund-border-wall/
Quick rundown:
- El Rato story arc, use the money from criminal asset forfeiture to build wall
- Legislation has been posted and will apply specifically only to actual criminal forfeiture of a member of a drug cartel

Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) introduced a bill calling for the use of $14 billion seized from cartel drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman to be used to pay for the President’s border wall between the U.S. and Mexico.

“Fourteen billion dollars will go a long way toward building a wall that will keep Americans safe and hinder the illegal flow of drugs, weapons, and individuals across our southern border,” Senator Cruz stated, according to a statement obtained by Breitbart Texas from the senator’s office. “Ensuring the safety and security of Texans is one of my top priorities.”

The Texas senator said that leveraging criminally forfeited assets from El Chapo and other Mexican cartel members and drug dealers can “offset the wall’s cost and make meaningful progress toward achieving President Trump’s stated border security objectives.”
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__**Twice the price of Clinton: Obama to net $400K for Wall street speech**__
https://www.rt.com/usa/386134-obama-wall-street-speech/
Quick rundown:
- Obama start doing "speaking" events where people pay him $400k to give a speech. Twice the price for Hilldog
- POTUS salary is $400k annual

Former President Obama is set to net $400,000 for speaking at a Wall Street health care conference; that's nearly twice what Clinton was paid to become one of the most expensive speakers on Wall Street.

Obama will be the keynote speaker for one day and has signed a contract although a formal announcement is being coordinated. Fox Business said it confirmed Obama’s appearance with senior members at Cantor, a financial services firm.

The former president’s reported speaking fee is near twice the price commanded by Hillary Clinton, the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee.

Obama won’t be the first former president or politician to accept large fees for speaking to business groups. All ex-president get pensions, to the tune of $205,700 annually, and the amount increases to keep up with inflation.

Bill and Hilary Clinton have reportedly been paid upwards of $200,000 per speech over the years, with Bill receiving over $500,000 for some guest-speaker engagements.

Joining her parents, Chelsea Clinton commands a speaking fee of $75,000 according to the New York Times. The fees go directly to the Clinton Foundation.
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🇺🇸 __***Confederate flag to fly at city hall in Florida***__ 🇺🇸
*https://goo.gl/oIxpqh*
*WND*

A third flag will join the U.S. and Florida ones on Wednesday at Belleview’s City Hall to honor Confederate History Day.

The third national Confederate flag, also known as the “blood-stained banner,” will be raised to half-staff around 7:30 a.m. to honor Confederate veterans. The local Sons of Confederate Veterans unit has performed this tribute ceremony for more than 10 years.

Sons of Confederate Veterans 8th Brigade Commander Chuck Kadel said it is important to recognize all American veterans.

“*(Confederate veterans) were veterans just as American veterans are,*” he said.

April is recognized by the state of Florida as Confederate History Month. A Belleview city proclamation passed April 4, which will be read at the flag raising ceremony, states that Florida supplied the greatest percentage of its population as soldiers compared to all other Confederate states. Further, one-third of the Floridian soldiers did not return from war.

Being the least populous state, Florida provided 15,000 soldiers to fight in the war, 5,000 of which were killed, according to a website called “*Exploring Florida*,” curated by the Florida Center for Instructional Technology at the University of South Florida.

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😂 __***‘Immortal’ psychic accidentally stabs himself to death***__ 😂
*https://goo.gl/kGwFD7*
*NY POST*

A psychic medium died after reportedly stabbing himself in the heart during a bungled act to prove his immortality.

Theprit Palee, 25, had been performing a traditional dance in front of spectators in Chiang Mai, northern Thailand, yesterday afternoon.

The folk ritual is believed to honor the spirits of ancestors and in previous shows Palee would impress onlookers by appearing superhuman when the blade broke as it was pressed against his chest.

But the well-known clairvoyant’s act is reported to have gone horrifically wrong when he accidentally plunged the blade inside him after it failed to snap.

Crowds are said to have gathered round the man as they tried to revive him but he was later pronounced dead at the hospital.

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<:swastika:301285389753122818> __***UC-Berkeley readies police as Ann Coulter plans to speak in public plaza on campus***__ <:swastika:301285389753122818>
*https://goo.gl/JvCaFV*
*THE WASHING POST*

The University of California at Berkeley is bracing for massive protests and potential violence in an open, public space known as Sproul Plaza after learning that conservative commentator Ann Coulter plans to give a speech there **Thursday afternoon.**

The state flagship university has become ground zero for an intense confrontation between the far left and the far right since Donald Trump’s election in November, with some protesters trying to stop controversial speakers from appearing on campus and others objecting that such actions violate their right to free speech.

Some of the clashes have devolved into riots, leaving the school and city to struggle with how best to balance the free exchange of ideas with community safety.

In February — and twice more since then — masked extremists turned protests over the boundary between free speech and hate speech into violent confrontations, setting fires, causing injuries and leaving hundreds of thousands of dollars of property damage in their wake.

*“The character of that attack on campus was unprecedented,”* UC-Berkeley chancellor Nicholas Dirks said Tuesday.

*“If somebody brings weapons, there’s no way to block off the site, or to screen them,”* Dirks said, noting that officials know that some of the demonstrators, such as those known as Black Bloc, know how to penetrate the crowd and use it as a shield. *“In an open space, you have almost no control over that,” he said. “The challenges are immense.”*

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__***Trump vows to confront anti-Semitism on Holocaust Remembrance Day***__
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/330421-trump-marks-holocaust-remembrance-we-will-confront-anti-semitism

Quick rundown:
- Trump said (((We will confront anti-Semitism))) during (((Holocaust))) rememberance
- wtf i hate trump now

President Trump vowed to stamp out anti-Semitism Tuesday in remarks at the Capitol commemorating the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's National Days of Remembrance.

"This is my pledge to you: We will confront (((anti-Semitism))), we will stamp out prejudice, we will condemn hatred, we will bear witness and we will act," he said.

"As president of the United States, I will always stand with the Jewish people and I will always stand with our great friend and partner, the state of Israel."

The president's annual address is a staple of the museum's programming around Yom Hashoah — Holocaust Remembrance Day in Israel.

"You tell of these living nightmares," Trump said to (((survivors))) in the audience, "because despite your great pain, you believe in Elie's famous plea that for the dead and the living, we must bear witness.

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🇷🇺 __***Islamism, liberalism & pseudo-communism threats to civilized world – senior Russian senator ***__ 🇷🇺
*https://goo.gl/VWV1jl*
*RT*

Islamic fundamentalism, North Korea’s pseudo-communist ideology and Western liberalism are the triple threats currently facing the civilized world, Senator Konstantin Kosachev has warned.

*“The three ideological fundamentalisms are currently as follows: Islamism, personified by Islamic State [IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL]; a pseudo-communism, manifested by the DPRK [North Korea]; and the liberal-globalization represented by certain elites of the West.*

*“These threats are, of course, unequal in scope and ideological roots, but they have much in common: each resorts to blackmail and threats, as well as use of force, visual and media effects, relying on __zombie activists ready for everything for the sake of an idea__,”* Kosachev, the head of Russia’s upper house Committee for International Relations, wrote in an opinion piece published in Izvestia daily on Monday.

*“There is a small hope that, having ceased to feel like life is a ‘sinking ship’, the global liberal elites will calm down a bit and, among other things, will reduce the tonality of their campaigns against the external ‘enemies of European values’, among which Russia is the main one.*

*“Otherwise, the third global threat – the threat of Western fundamentalism – will continue to be relevant with its readiness to organize a ‘__liberal jihad__’ in the form of another coup d’état, ‘humanitarian intervention’ or ‘color revolution’ anytime, anywhere in the world,”* Kosachev concluded.

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🇺🇸 __***High School Senior Wears Prom Dress With Pictures Of Trayvon Martin, 14 Other Blacks Killed In Shoot-Outs***__ <:shiiiiit:283899583028002836>
*https://goo.gl/qLGMss*
*THE DAILY WIRE*

A Palm Beach, Florida high-school senior decided to make a political statement using her prom dress, which showed pictures of 15 African-Americans who were killed in police-involved shootings, including Trayvon Martin, Sandra Bland, and Michael Brown.

This Florida teen made a statement at prom by wearing a dress with Trayvon Martin's face on it. pic.twitter.com/T8I8Cnw7aF
— NBC News (@NBCNews) April 25, 2017

Milan Bolden-Morris, 17, told designer Terrence Torrance, who described the dress as “pretty with a purpose,” “O.K., I’ll do whatever you need me to do.” She added, “I feel like it was a very vital issue.” Torrence had designed Morris’ cousin’s wedding dress.

Morris posted a picture of herself in the dress on Instagram with this statement: “Yes I'm black. Yes I'm 17. Yes GOD is using me to convey a message that's bigger than me. #AllLivesMatter️#BlackLivesMatter #MoveWithPurpose.”

After she wore the dress to the Pahokee High School prom last Friday, Morris told CNN, “When someone loses a mother, father or child in unnecessary circumstances, it should not be overlooked but addressed.” Torrence said, "With all the killings that was going on, it just hit me one day: you should put that into a dress. I wanted to paint a picture and put a story out there through my fashion, and I wanted to show we could spread out message with not just posters and fliers but also with garments.”

Morris, who played basketball in high school, will attend Boston College in autumn 2017.

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🇺🇸 __***White House slams 'egregious' ruling on sanctuary cities***__ 🇲🇽
*https://goo.gl/2f1o5N*
*SOURCE*

The White House on Tuesday rebuked a federal judge's decision to block a Trump administration directive aimed at stripping funding from *"sanctuary cities,"* calling the court decision yet another case of *"egregious overreach by a single, unelected district judge."*

Earlier Tuesday San Francisco-based U.S. District Court Judge William Orrick blocked President Donald Trump's administration from enforcing a portion of its Jan. 25 executive order that would halt federal funding to municipalities that did not uphold federal immigration laws.

In a statement released Tuesday night by the press secretary's office, the White House claimed the ruling undermined the American political system.

*"Today, the rule of law suffered another blow, as an unelected judge unilaterally rewrote immigration policy for our Nation,"* the statement read.

The White House added: *"This case is yet one more example of egregious overreach by a single, unelected district judge. Today’s ruling undermines faith in our legal system and raises serious questions about circuit shopping."*

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🇺🇸 __***Marine Shot to Death in McDonald’s Drive-Thru After Honked Horn Leads to Fistfight: Police***__ <:REEE:281041868056166401>
*https://goo.gl/L7KXSH*
*NBC CHICAGO*

A man has been charged with fatally shooting a Marine in the drive-thru of a McDonald's in Bedford, Indiana, according to police and NBC affiliate WTHR.

Justin Lampkins, 25, was in a truck with his friends in line at the fast food restaurant early Saturday morning about 1:19 a.m., police say. The Marine Corps veteran was involved in a fight after *“a horn was sounded”* in the line and Evan Schaffer, 22, got out of his car and punched Lampkins, WTHR reports.

Police say it's unclear who honked the horn.

*"The victim shoved the accused back, the accused then presented a handgun,"* Bedford assistant police Chief Joe DeWees told WTHR.

Police said Schaffer shot Lampkins in the chest before fleeing the scene. Lampkins was taken to Indiana University Health Bedford where he later died, according to a police department Facebook post.

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🇬🇧 __***Molly the Jack Russell is bouncing back to health after having a SEX CHANGE op when vets discovered she was born a hermaphrodite after she cocked her leg to pee***__ 🇬🇧
*https://goo.gl/5fBcAh*
*DAILY MAIL*

A Jack Russell terrier has undergone a sex change operation after vets discovered she was born with both male and female genitalia.

Molly was found to be *'overly-excited'* due to the fact she had two sets of sex organs.

Vets said that despite appearing to be completely female to those that met her, she was in a significant amount of discomfort because of her external genitalia.

Molly's pain meant that she __underwent a gender reassignment operation__ at the *Pets'n'Vets Family's Roundhouse Hospital* in the Pollokshaws area of Glasgow.

As Molly underwent surgery, it was found that the dog had male internal sexual organs as she had testicles in place of ovaries within her abdomen.

Veterinary surgeon Ross Allan said that if Molly was left untreated then she risked developing a long-term debilitating condition.

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🇨🇳 __***China is in talks with Europe about launching a lunar settlement***__ 🇪🇺
*https://goo.gl/mzLyJF*
*DAILY MAIL*

China is talking with the European Space Agency about collaborating on a human settlement on the moon. The secretary general for China's space agency, Tian Yulong, disclosed the talks today in Chinese state media.

The ESA has previously described its *'Moon Village'* as a potential international launching pad for future missions to Mars. Further details on what the collaboration could entail were not revealed. But last year, the head of the ESA elaborated on plans to build a village on the moon.

*'The future of space travel needs a new vision,' said Jan Woerner. The concept is a base for lunar exploration by humans and robots, which would act as a stopover for spacecraft, and become a 'village' with mining and even tourism.

*'Right now we have the Space Station as a common international project, but it won't last forever,'* said Woerner.

*'If I say Moon Village, it does not mean single houses, a church, a town hall and so on. No, that would be misleading. My idea only deals with the core of the concept of a village: people working and living together in the same place. And this place would be on the Moon.'*

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🇱🇷🇱🇷 🇱🇷 ***99 Percent Chance of Violence if Ann Coulter Speaks at Berkeley get hyped.*** 🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷

Law enforcement sources have told Fox News that there is a “99 percent” chance of violence on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley if conservative author and commentator Ann Coulter speaks on Thursday.

Once known as the home of the Free Speech Movement, UC Berkeley has become a virtual no-go zone for conservative speakers, from libertarian entrepreneur Peter Thiel (chased offstage by a mob in 2014), to gay conservative writer Milo Yiannopolous (shut down by riots in February). Berkeley administrators and police have refused to intervene to stop students and off-campus activists, and to protect the exercise of First Amendment rights.

Coulter was invited to speak by the Berkeley College Republicans, Young America’s Foundation (YAF), and a student dialogue group called BridgeCal. The event was set for April 27, but the UC Berkeley administration canceled the event. It offered alternative dates, ostensibly because they would be more manageable from a security standpoint. But Coulter refused to bow to the “heckler’s veto” — or, more accurately, “rioter’s veto” — over when she would speak.

Now, Coulter is planning to show up on campus Thursday regardless. She is expected to speak outdoors in Sproul Plaza, which is a designated free speech area on campus, and the site of the 1964 demonstrations that launched the Free Speech Movement. (No time has yet been set for the speech.) Fox reports that police are bracing for riots by leftists, anarchists, and so-called “anti-fascist” activists, whether or not Coulter actually appears on campus and tries to speak.


Berkeley wars episode 2: the meme wars, coming to theaters near you April 27th
If they kill people, they become a terrorist group. If they don't we beat their asses again 😎
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http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/04/26/cops-99-percent-chance-of-violence-if-ann-coulter-speaks-at-berkeley/
Forgot sauce

https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/857273440004427777

>implying this isn't to minimize antifa readiness and she does it anyway

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🇺🇸 __***Terrorist March For Women Organizer To Be Deported After Revealing She Lied To Illegally Obtain Citizenship***__ 🇺🇸
*https://goo.gl/Za3szi*
*THE DAILY WIRE*

On Tuesday, a 69-year-old Arab female pleaded guilty to having illegally obtained her American citizenship in 2004.

Initially coming to America on an immigrant visa in 1994, Rasmieh Odeh swore an oath of allegiance to the Constitution and the nation’s laws in 2004.

During her immigration process, Odeh did not disclose her 1970 conviction in Israel for terrorist crimes related to a 1969 bombing of a Jerusalem supermarket in which two Israeli Jews were murdered. In an interview with an immigration officer, she denied having any criminal history or affiliation with any terrorist organizations.


Despite being sentenced to life imprisonment, Odeh was released by Israel in a “prisoner exchange” with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) in 1980.

The PFLP was designated as a terrorist organization by the federal government in 1997, and remains on the State Department’s list of foreign terrorist organizations. Canada has designated the PFLP as a terrorist organization since 2003.

Initially charged in 2013 with immigration fraud, Odeh was convicted in 2015. She was sentenced to eighteen months in prison out of possible maximum of ten years, subsequently winning an appeal for a new trial. Last week, her defense team reached a plea agreement with prosecutors; she will serve no jail time, surrender her U.S. citizenship, and leave the homeland.

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🇺🇸 __***White House unveils dramatic plan to overhaul tax code in major test for Trump***__ 🇺🇸
*https://goo.gl/JCThlo*
*WASHINGTON POST*

President Trump on Wednesday proposed a dramatic overhaul of the tax code, calling for sharply lower rates for individuals and businesses but also eliminating key tax breaks.

The proposal is a one-page outline — key details are left incomplete — but it presents an initial offer to begin negotiations with lawmakers, as White House officials think reworking the tax code is one of their biggest priorities to boost economic growth.

*“We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to do something big and important on taxes,”* White House National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn said Wednesday.

White House officials are ambitious, but the path to overhauling the tax code is riddled with political land mines. Many budget experts say they believe the White House’s plan would reduce federal revenue by so much that it would grow the debt by trillions of dollars in the next decade, growing interest costs and slowing the economy.

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🇫🇷 __***Marine Le Pen springs surprise visit on Macron during picket line campaign trip***__ 🇫🇷
*https://goo.gl/OfXHWz*
*THE GUARDIAN*

The French presidential __frontrunner Emmanuel Macron was met with boos and jeers at a factory picket line__ in northern France after he was upstaged by a surprise appearance by his far-right rival, Marine Le Pen.

Macron arrived in Amiens on Wednesday morning and sat down for talks with union representatives from the factory in the chamber of commerce building. But Le Pen suddenly appeared unannounced at the factory gates and posed with picketing workers live on rolling TV news channels.

She said: **“Everyone knows what side Emmanuel Macron is on – he is on the side of the corporations. I am on the workers’ side, here in the car park, not in restaurants in Amiens.”** She added: **“He’s showing disdain for workers, so I’ve come to see them.”**

Macron, visibly riled, accused her of only turning up for 10 minutes “because I am here” and said it was a mere photo opportunity. He then rushed to the factory gates himself, after Le Pen had gone, and waded into a group of workers. There were boos and jeers when he arrived, but he launched into a heated debate with them that his campaign team live-streamed on Facebook.

Shouting *“listen to me”* and __waving his finger at the workers__, he then passed round a microphone to let them speak. *“I try to fix problems, not exploit them,”* he said, making a dig at Le Pen. *“Getting France back on its feet is going to take time and it will be difficult,”* he added. He said he couldn’t keep the factory open – as Le Pen had promised – but vowed to fight for good terms for the closure.

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🇺🇸 __***Video: Planned Parenthood exec who ‘wanted a Lamborghini’ caught haggling over baby body parts***__ 🇺🇸
*https://goo.gl/tLba0o*
*THE WASHINGTON TIMES*

The Center for Medical Progress released a never-before-seen video Wednesday showing a top Planned Parenthood executive haggling over the price of baby body parts from abortions.

Mary Gatter, president of the medical directors’ council at the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, is the same executive who, in a previous undercover video, was caught saying she wanted to buy a Lamborghini with the profits from fetal tissue.

In the new video, when an undercover journalist tells Ms. Gatter he is willing to pay $50 per fetal tissue specimen, she says that’s *“on the low end.”*

*“$50 was like 12 years ago,”* she says.

Ms. Gatter also asks the undercover journalist how much fetal tissue he wants to buy.

*“What kind of volume do you need and what gestational ages?”* she says, adding that specimens are available up to 16 weeks.

The video comes as Republicans attempt to redirect Planned Parenthood’s nearly $500 million annual budget toward women’s health clinics that do not perform abortions.

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__***Good ol' USA tells Hermit Kingdom to fuck off with the nukes***___
*http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/892314/us-vows-to-force-north-korea-back-to-nuclear-talks* (Inquirer)

WASHINGTON, United States — The United States pledged Wednesday to step up sanctions to force North Korea to resume dialogue over its nuclear program but said it was not looking to bring Kim Jong-Un’s regime to its knees.

After briefing senators at the White House, top US officials said President Donald Trump wants to use diplomatic measures and new sanctions to pressure Kim.

The president aims to “pressure North Korea into dismantling its nuclear, ballistic missile, and proliferation programs by tightening economic sanctions and pursuing diplomatic measures with our allies and regional partners,” read a statement from Pentagon chief Jim Mattis, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats.

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🇺🇸 __***Trump Discovers Obama Was Spending $300 Million on Fake Afghan Soldiers, Gives Pentagon New Orders***__ 🇺🇸
*https://goo.gl/7xX7A7*
*CONSERVATIVE TRIBUNE*

Millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars were being foolishly wasted paying for the salaries of non-existent *“ghost”* soldiers and policemen in Afghanistan under the Obama administration, but no more.

According to the special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction, John Sopko, who recently sat down for an interview with Sharyl Attkinson of Full Measure, the ongoing problem may have been worse than anyone realized, but was being addressed by President Donald Trump’s Pentagon.

*“We’ve been raising this concern about ghosts going back a number of years,”* Sopko said. “Actually I want to say we heard about it from (Afghan President) Ashraf Ghani years ago, before he became president, he warned me about ‘ghosts,’ so we started looking three years ago.”

*“What we’re talking about are policemen, Afghan policemen, Afghan military, Afghan civil servants who don’t exist or they have multiple identity cards and we’re paying their salaries,”* he explained. *“By ‘we’ I mean the United States and the international community. And we started finding out that we had no capacity to measure the number of soldiers, teachers, doctors, military people who we are paying their salaries.”*

Fox News reported in October that the fraud could have amounted to more than $300 million annually.

Asked if this indicated fraud had been taking place, Sopko replied: *“Major fraud. And what’s happening is the commanders or generals or other higher officials are actually pocketing the salaries of the ghosts.”*

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🇺🇸 __***Exclusive interview: Trump 'absolutely' looking at breaking up 9th Circuit***__ 🇺🇸
*https://goo.gl/DzKAm1*
*THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER*

President Trump said Wednesday that he has *"absolutely"* considered proposals that would split up the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, where judges have blocked two of his executive actions.

*"Absolutely, I have,"* Trump said of considering 9th Circuit breakup proposals during a far-ranging interview with the Washington Examiner at the White House. *"There are many people that want to break up the 9th Circuit. It's outrageous."*

*"Everybody immediately runs to the 9th Circuit. And we have a big country. We have lots of other locations. But they immediately run to the 9th Circuit. Because they know that's like, semi-automatic,"* Trump said.

His comments came one day after U.S. District Judge William Orrick temporarily blocked Trump's efforts to withhold funds from any municipality that refuses to cooperate with immigration enforcement officers. Orrick, based in San Francisco, argued that Trump had overstepped his authority in January when he directed the Justice Department to put immigration-related conditions on grants for so-called sanctuary cities that may not be directly related to law enforcement. The case, if appealed, would go before the 9th Circuit.

Trump said Wednesday that opponents of his policies have engaged in *"judge shopping"* in their efforts to find a sympathetic judicial platform for their partisan objections.

*"You see judge shopping, or what's gone on with these people, they immediately run to the 9th Circuit," Trump said. "It's got close to an 80 percent reversal period, and what's going on in the 9th Circuit is a shame."*

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😂 __***Wild boars overrun Islamic State position, kill 3 militants***__ 😂
*https://goo.gl/KleITv*
*USA TODAY*

Three Islamic State militants setting up an ambush in a bitterly contested area of northern Iraq were killed by a herd of stampeding boars, local leaders say.

Sheikh Anwar al-Assi, a chief of the local Ubaid tribe and supervisor of anti-ISIS forces, told The Times of London the militants were hiding on the edge of a field about 50 miles southwest of Kirkuk when the boars overwhelmed them Sunday. Five other militants were injured, al-Assi said. He said the group was poised to attack a band of local tribesmen who had fled to nearby mountains since militants seized the town of Hawija three years ago.

*“It is likely their movement disturbed a herd of wild pigs, which inhabit the area as well as the nearby cornfields,”* he said.

Al-Assi said the militants had summarily executed 25 people attempting to flee the militant's would-be caliphate in the three days before the boars attacked. Hawija, about 100 miles south of Mosul, sees dozens of residents flee to Kurdish Kirkuk daily, and the Iraqi military has planned to launch an offensive in the region after a laborious effort to liberate Mosul is completed.

*“We know that a massacre took place in Hawija district through our sources,"* al-Assi told the Times. *"This will not be ISIS’s last massacre against citizens."*

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🇺🇸 __***Oregon rose parade canceled after radicals threaten to oust Republican celebrants***__ <:REEE:281041868056166401>
*https://goo.gl/VJ7PHn*
*THE WASHINGTON TIMES*

An annual community parade in Oregon has been canceled after radicals threatened to shut down the event unless the local Republican Party was banned from participating.

Organizers of the 82nd Avenue of Roses Parade in East Portland received an anonymous email urging them to bar the Multnomah County Republican Party, or **“we will have two hundred or more people rush into the parade into the middle and drag and push those people out.”**

The 82nd Avenue of Roses Business Association issued a statement Tuesday saying that it could *“no longer guarantee the safety of our community and have made the difficult decision to cancel the parade originally scheduled for Saturday, April 29, at 9:30 a.m.”*

*“The related Carnival at Eastport Plaza is also canceled,”* the association said. *“We are deeply disappointed that the agendas of these outside groups have so regrettably impacted East Portland and the 82nd Avenue community.”*

The threatening email, sent by **[email protected]**, referred to previous protests and warned, **“You have seen how much power we have downtown and that the police cannot stop us from shutting down roads so please consider your decision wisely.”**

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yeah,dont arrest the problem,just shut it down OY VEY

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🇭🇺 __***First, Soros met with EU President Junker, now European rights body calls on Hungary to suspend laws on NGOs, universities***__ <:jewstar:285075531609669632>
*https://goo.gl/a7fjHi*
*REUTERS*

The Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly has called on Hungary to suspend a debate in the country's parliament of bills which tighten rules on non-governmental organizations and foreign universities.

The two bills, drafted by Prime Minister Viktor Orban's right-wing government, have drawn strong protests at home and abroad.

The European Union opened a case against Hungary on Wednesday over the law on foreign universities, which targets a university in Budapest founded by the liberal U.S. financier George Soros.

Orban has advocated an "illiberal democracy" and strong national governments within the EU, which he says are necessary to preserve the European way of life in the face of migration.

His views are at odds with the liberal views promoted by Soros.

Orban has also accused NGOs funded by Soros and operating in Hungary of promoting illegal migration, with what he said were paid political activists serving foreign interests.

The bill debated in the Hungarian parliament would require non-governmental organizations with foreign donations of at least 7.2 million forints to register with authorities and declare themselves as foreign-funded.

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🇺🇸 __***UC Berkeley Gears Up For Violent Protests Over Coulter Speech Cancellation***__ 🇺🇸
*https://goo.gl/L8TzLN*
*CBS*

Following the cancellation of the Ann Coulter speech at University of California, Berkeley, far-right supporters plan to hold a rally Thursday to denounce what they claim is the attempted silencing of their conservative views, stoking fears of another violent encounter with far-left groups.

UC Police said it was preparing for violence Thursday between militant factions on both sides, even as the speech by the conservative firebrand Coulter was canceled over fears of violence.

Gavin McInnes, founder of the pro-Trump *“Proud Boys,”* said he would fly to Berkeley to speak Thursday and was encouraging other alt-right forces to make a large appearance at the gathering, scheduled for 2:00 p.m. at Civic Center Park.

In a YouTube video, McInnes challenged the so-called anti-fascist groups, *“… our army will be a bigger audience than most of these liberals get when they do talks. So you f***’ed up. Once again, you have created this mythical universe of Nazis on every corner and you’ve tried to shut it down based on that lie. Well, we’re not allowing that to happen. The show must go on.”*

*The @AnnCoulter event in Berkeley is NOT canceled. I will be speaking tomorrow with @Lauren_Southern @FaithGoldy @BrittPettibone #POYB*

— Gavin McInnes (@Gavin_McInnes) April 26, 2017

The Proud Boys call themselves Western chauvinists who *“refuse to apologize for creating the modern world.”* They flooded Berkeley in huge numbers earlier this month and appear to be amassing a return visit from such characters as the *“Based Stickman”* and others who have made their name with violent responses to the antifa (anti-fascist) anarchists.

Late Wednesday, the City of Berkeley urged peaceful demonstrators in a press release to keep a distance from those violent groups on both sides, and not to get baited by provocateurs.

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***Donald Trump to sign executive order withdrawing US from Nafta

The draft order is in the final stages of review

WE WILL NO LONGER SURRENDER THIS COUNTRY OR IT'S PEOPLE TO THE FALSE SONG OF GLOBALISM***

https://www.google.com/amp/www.independent.co.uk/news/donald-trump-nafta-executive-order-trade-deal-us-america-leave-latest-a7703926.html%3Famp

Donald Trump's team is readying an executive order to take the US out of the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta), it has been reported.

Withdrawing from the trade agreement between Canada, Mexico, and the US was one of Mr Trump's key promises on the campaign trail in 2016. He claimed it is a "job killer" and was antithetical to his "America First" approach to governing.

The order has been submitted for final review to the appropriate teams within the White House and may be signed as early as the next few days.

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🇭🇺 __***George Soros ‘Has Ruined the Lives of Millions of Europeans’ Says Hungarian Prime Minister***__ <:jewstar:285075531609669632>
*https://goo.gl/Ua6zAF*
*BREITBART*

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán delivered a stinging speech in the European Parliament Wednesday, asserting Hungary’s right to self-governance and defending its actions regarding immigration and against American financial speculator George Soros.

*“I know that the power, size and weight of Hungary is much smaller than that of the financial speculator, George Soros, who is now attacking Hungary,”* Orbán said.

*“Despite ruining the lives of millions of European with his financial speculations, being penalized in Hungary for speculations, and who is an openly admitted enemy of the euro, he is so highly praised that he is received by the EU’s top leaders,”* he said.

The Prime Minister’s address built upon comments he made in an Easter interview with Magyar Idők, in which he stated the motives behind Hungary’s diffidence toward George Soros.

*“There can be no special privileges, and no one may stand above the law – not even George Soros’s people,”* he said.

Through his organisations in Hungary, and hidden from the public gaze, Orbán said, *“George Soros is spending endless amounts of money to support illegal immigration.”*

*“To pursue his interests he pays a number of lobbying organisations operating in the guise of civil society. He maintains a regular network, with its own promoters, its own media, hundreds of people, and its own university.”*

*“I believe that George Soros must not be underestimated: he is a powerful billionaire of enormous determination who, when it comes to his interests, respects neither God nor man,”*

*“Our position is clear: we do not want, and do not think it is in accordance with the founding treaties of the Union, to settle migrants in our country in a mandatory way,”* he said. *“The decision on who we live with can only be made by the Hungarian citizens.”*

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Media bias chart for reference.

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__***Tim Pool livestreaming UC Berkley Pro-Trump vs. Antifa***__

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3atH9v3E1U

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🇦🇹 __***Austrian Pres: All Women Must Wear Headscarves to Fight Islamophobia***__ 🇦🇹
*https://goo.gl/bD5OJc*
*INFOWARS*

Austria’s far-left president, Alexander Van der Bellen, has suggested that one day all women must wear headscarves to fight Islamophobia.

During a talk to students, Van der Bellen said that whilst be believes a woman should wear *“whatever she wants”*, should Austria’s *“rampant Islamophobia continue, there will come a day when we must ask all women to wear a headscarf – all of them! – out of solidarity towards those who do it for religious reasons”*.

Van der Bellen, who was sworn in as president in January after defeating anti-mass migration Freedom Party candidate Norbert Hofer in last December’s presidential re-run, has spoken of his support for abolishing national borders and creating a federal Europe, describing it as a *“project of peace”*.

Whilst running on an election platform in 2007 for the Austrian Greens, Van der Bellen presided over a poster that declared: *“Anyone who loves Austria must be shit.”*

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🇸🇾 __***Arms depot near Damascus International airport goes up in flames after series of overnight strikes blamed on Israel.***__ 🇮🇱
*https://goo.gl/CM478L*
*AL JAZEERA*

Israeli strikes have hit an arms depot operated by the Lebanese Hezbollah group near Damascus airport, Syrian opposition sources told Al Jazeera.

Witnesses said a total of five strikes occurred near the Damascus airport road, about 25km from the capital, early on Thursday.

Syrian state TV quoted a military source saying rockets fired from Israeli territory targeted a military area in the southwestern part of the airport which caused explosions.

Later on Thursday, Israeli military reported shooting down an aerial *"target"* over the Golan Heights.

Israeli media said residents in the northern Israeli town of Safed reported seeing two missiles being launched and of explosions occurring afterwards.

Al Jazeera's Imtiaz Tyab, reporting from Beirut, said the missiles were so powerful that the impact was felt several kilometres away in the Damascus countryside.

*"In recent weeks, Israel has increasingly carried out a number of strikes against Hezbollah targets for what they describe as a __'red line'__,"* he said.

Allegedly video of the #Damascus International Airport tonight on fire after what are claimed to be Israeli airstrikes. pic.twitter.com/jftHcxtyQ2
— Vince Beshara (@Jacm212) April 27, 2017

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☀ __***Analysis: It’s not just droughts, but nearly all extreme weather is declining or at or near record lows***__ ☀
*https://goo.gl/q985tz*
*CLIMATE DEPOT*

On Eve of DC climate march, drought drops to record lows in U.S. as nearly all extreme weather is either declining or at or near record lows.

*"It is not just droughts that are at or near record levels. On almost every measure of extreme weather, the data is not cooperating with the claims of the climate change campaigners. Tornadoes, floods, droughts, and hurricanes are failing to fit in with the global warming narrative."*

*“Drought in the U.S. fell to a record low this week, with just 6.1% of the lower 48 states currently experiencing such dry conditions, federal officials announced Thursday. That’s the lowest percentage in the 17-year history of the weekly U.S. Drought Monitor report,”* USA Today reported on April 27.

But it is not just droughts that are at or near record levels. On almost every measure of extreme weather, the data is not cooperating with the claims of the climate change campaigners. Tornadoes, floods, droughts, and hurricanes are failing to fit in with the global warming narrative.

Below is a complete rundown of the very latest on extreme weather conditions...

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🇸🇾 __***Trump is puppet of US ‘deep state,’ has no ‘own’ foreign policy – Assad ***__ 🇺🇸
*https://goo.gl/9N6bTR*
*RT*

US president Donald Trump is not a truly independent political leader but merely a puppet of US corporations, military and intelligence, and who serves their interests, Syrian President Bashar Assad has told the Latin American TeleSUR TV network.

Trump pursues *“no own policies”* but only executes the decisions made by the *“intelligence agencies, the Pentagon, the big arms manufacturers, oil companies, and financial institutions,”* the Syrian leader said in an exclusive interview with TeleSUR.

*"As we have seen in the past few weeks, he changed his rhetoric completely and subjected himself to the terms of the deep American state, or the deep American regime,"* Assad added.

He referred to the fact that Trump came to power on a political platform promising a departure from the interventionist policy of the previous US president, Barack Obama, but soon forgot his promises and ordered a missile strike against the Syrian air base following a chemical weapons incident in Syria’s Idlib province.

The Syrian president also said that it is *“a complete waste of time to make an assessment of the American president’s foreign policy”* as *“he might say something”* but what he really does depends on *“what these [US military and business] institutions dictate to him.”*

He also added that it *“is not new”* and *“has been ongoing American policy for decades.”*

*"This is what characterizes American politicians: they lie on a daily basis... That’s why we shouldn’t believe what the Pentagon or any other American institution says because they say things which serve their policies, not things which reflect reality and the facts on the ground,”* Assad told TeleSUR.

He went on to say that the US continues to pursue its age-long policy aimed at establishing and maintaining a global hegemony by turning all countries that oppose it into war zones.

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🇵🇭 __***President Duterte Kicks Rothschilds Out Of Philippines***__ 🇵🇭
*https://goo.gl/S5UHQJ*
*YNW*

President Duterte has vowed to *“eradicate all traces of Rothschild financial criminality”* from the Philippines, announcing that he will no longer respond to pressure or financial blackmail from the US government or Rothschild-controlled global banking institutions.

The president, who claims to have killed cartel bosses with his own hands, is not one to be bullied, and he has now set his sights on cleaning up the financial corruption in his country, promising to *“drive them out like the scavengers they are.“*

Before Rodrigo Duterte assumed the office of president, the Philippines was suffering from the effects of IMF/World Bank-imposed austerity and privatization that exploited its people and resources. It was also one of Asia’s most corrupt and troubled nations.

Though the Filipino people, through strong showings of popular resistance over a period of years, were able to curb some of the most rampant crony corruption, many of the shackles imposed by these Rothschild-controlled institutions remained.

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🇨🇳 __***China Delivers Humiliating Slap to Kim Jong Un***__ 🇨🇳
*https://goo.gl/JrS5rH*
*CONSERVATIVE TRIBUNE*

China has no desire to see the United States topple the North Korean regime and plant a pro-Western government right on China’s borders. In fact, it appears that China may be taking actions to rein in North Korea.

An editorial published in the Global Times, a newspaper widely believed to be __the unofficial mouthpiece of China’s Communist Party, warned that North Korea would suffer if it conducted another nuclear test.__

The editorial seemed to suggest that China wouldn’t be surprised __if the U.S. launched a strike against North Korea__ if the country conducted another nuclear test — and perhaps more importantly, __the article never suggested that China would respond to such an action__.

*“Once the US launched surgical strikes against North Korea’s nuclear and missile facilities, the Pyongyang regime will be forced to make a life-or-death decision. By then, if North Korea does not resort to strategic retaliation, its deterrence will lose ground and Washington will play it like a fiddle,”* stated the article.

China has already taken unprecedented action to show its displeasure with North Korea, such as turning away coal shipments from the country.

President Donald Trump has repeatedly stated that he wants the Chinese to do more to stop North Korea, but that if they are unwilling to help him, he is willing to go it alone against North Korea.

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🇺🇸 __***Donald Trump warns of 'major, major conflict' with North Korea ***__ 🇰🇵
*https://goo.gl/rEgYLH*
*THE GUARDIAN*

Donald Trump has said that a *“major conflict”* was possible with North Korea though he would prefer to solve the standoff over the country’s nuclear and missile programme through diplomacy.

Trump’s warning on Thursday came towards the end of a week where the administration has made a concerted effort to restrain Pyongyang from carrying out major new weapons tests.

At the same time, US officials sought to clarify US policy after a variety of mixed signals in the administration’s first 100 days.

Rex Tillerson, the secretary of state, said that the US would be prepared to enter into direct talks with the regime of Kim Jong-un, but that it would have to prepare to negotiate getting rid of all its nuclear weapons.

The opening to diplomacy came as the head of the US Pacific Command, Admiral Harry Harris told the Senate that the standoff with North Korea was the worst he had seen. It was an assessment echoed by the president.

*“There is a chance that we could end up having a major, major conflict with North Korea. Absolutely,”* Trump told Reuters.

*“We’d love to solve things diplomatically but it’s very difficult,”* the president added.

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🇬🇧 __***LONDON SHOOTING: Police foil 'active terror plot'***__ 🇬🇧
*https://goo.gl/NoQFlb*
*BBC*

Police say they have foiled an active terror plot after __a woman was shot__ during a raid on a house in Willesden, north-west London.

The 21-year-old woman was one of the subjects of the investigation and is in a serious but stable condition.

A raid also took place in Kent, with __six people arrested in total.__

Officers say the operation was not connected to an arrest near Parliament on Thursday, when a man was detained on suspicion of terror offences.

Police said the house in Harlesden Road, Willesden, which was raided on Thursday evening, had been under observation.

At about 19:00 BST, firearms officers entered the property. CS gas was sprayed and a woman was shot.

A 16-year-old boy, and a man and woman, both aged 20, were arrested. A 43-year-old woman was arrested in Kent.

Two further arrests were made in Willesden after a man and woman, both aged 28, returned to the raided property.

The police said the suspects had been arrested __on suspicion of the commission, preparation and instigation of terrorist acts__.

They are in custody at a south London police station.

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🇺🇸 __***Feminist Site Teaches Women How To Give Themselves Unsafe At-Home Abortions***__ <:REEE:281041868056166401>
*https://goo.gl/gR0Gup*
*THE DAILY WIRE*

A newly launched feminist website is breaking free from even the facade of caring, teaching women how to give themselves unsafe at-home abortions, possibly with the use of illegally obtained pills. The practice of at-home, self-induced abortion comes with major health risks and is illegal in some states.

International pro-abortion group Women Help Women instructs women on how to *"use the abortion pill at home, offering online advice and counseling about how to use medications the Food and Drug Administration says should be taken only by prescription and under medical supervision,"* reports The Washington Post.

As even the Post admits, the organization is teaching women how to self-induce abortion with pills some may have *"illegally obtained ... on the Internet or through other means."*

*"The abortion pill approved by the FDA is actually two drugs that may be used in combination through the 10th week of pregnancy. Taken during 24 to 48 hours, the drugs — mifepristone and misoprostol — halt the development of pregnancy and induce miscarriage,"* continues the Post. *"The agency recommends medical supervision followed by an in-person follow-up appointment, and it warns people not to obtain the pills over the Internet because they might be unsafe."*

Ethical stuff.

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🇺🇸 __***TRUMP: 'I'm a nationalist and a globalist. I'm both'...***__ <:jewstar:285075531609669632>
*https://goo.gl/BLdvmz*
*THE WALL STREET JOURNAL*

President Donald Trump was prepared to end the North American Free Trade Agreement deal, which had governed trade relations for the past 23 years, with a dramatic announcement Saturday at a Pennsylvania political rally marking his 100th day in office.

As rumors spread of the possible action, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto called the president urging him not to pull out of the accord. *“Let me think about it,”* Mr. Trump said. Within a half hour a call came in from Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau with a similar request.

But Mr. Trump said in the interview that he still holds his strongest card. *“We’ll terminate Nafta if we’re unable to make a deal, but hopefully we won’t have to do that.”*

Craig Fuller, who served eight years in former President Ronald Reagan’s White House, said in an interview: *“The trouble here is I don’t see how you get a course correction when there isn’t a course. It’s just erratic.*

*“He needs to go look at the two factions inside the White House and get rid of one of them. You can’t operate that way in the White House.”*

Mr. Trump dismissed talk about a split inside his White House between aides with a nationalist or globalist orientation. __*“Hey, I’m a nationalist and a globalist,”* he said. *“I’m both. And I’m the only one who makes the decision, believe me.”*__

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🇺🇸 __***"The CIA Has Been Deeply Humiliated" - Ron Paul Interviews Julian Assange***__ 🇦🇺
*https://goo.gl/gc4Dlc*
*ZERO HEDGE*

Having blasted the Trump administration for their hyprocritical flip-flop from *"loving WikiLeaks"* to *"arrest Assange,"* Ron Paul made his feelings very clear on what this signals: *"If we allow this president to declare war on those who tell the truth, we have only ourselves to blame."* Today he sits down with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for a live interview...

*"The CIA has been deeply humiliated as a result of our ongoing publications so this is a preemptive move by the CIA to try and discredit our publications and create a new category for Wikileaks and other national security reporters to strip them of First Amendment protections,"*

Full interview below: https://youtu.be/QwkrtpXp-wg

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🇺🇸 __***‘Cult leader’ Alex Jones loses full custody of children in bitter courtroom battle ***__ 🇺🇸
*https://goo.gl/SQ1khK*
*RT*

Right-wing conspiracy theorist and Infowars host Alex Jones was described as a *“cult leader”* who brainwashed his children into *“cult followers”* by his ex-wife’s lawyer during a bitter custody battle.

No doubt Jones’ loyal followers – or rather 'fans' – will take offense to the label, delivered by Kelly Jones’ attorney, during closing statements in the pair’s court battle over their three kids.

*“Mr. Jones is like a cult leader,”* said Robert Hoffman, according to the Austin American-Statesman. *“The children appear to be cult followers, doing what daddy wants them to do,”* which the attorney went on to liken to *“straight up child abuse.”*

*“Somehow, this man has gotten away with murder,”* Hoffman added. *“It’s the equivalent of that and it’s wrong.”*

*Currently in the Alex Jones trial, we are going over whether he believed his daughter's doctors when they said her toe was broken*
— *dan solo (@dansolomon) April 19, 2017*

Hoffman went on to claim that Jones was *“emotionally, sexually, physically abusive”* during their marriage, and used wealth to *“escape detection,”* reports Law Newz.

Other revelations brought forward during the nine-day trial include Jones’ claim (under oath) to have slept with more than 150 women before the age of 16, admitted to smoking weed to test its strength, and his failure to remember basic details about his kids because he ***“ate some wicked chili.”***

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🏳️‍🌈 __***Milo Yiannopoulos Is Starting a New, Ugly, For-Profit Troll Circus***__ 🏳️‍🌈
*https://goo.gl/4AqD4L*
*VANITY FAIR*

Days after releasing a video touting his return to the campus, Yiannopoulos told the Hive that he would be launching a new media venture in the coming weeks with what he says is a $12 million investment from backers whose identities he is protecting. (Yiannopoulos showed me a page from the contract with the investors' names blacked out.)

Another person involved with the company, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, was similarly secretive: *"Milo has the best instincts about these things,"* he said.

The business, which will be called Milo Inc., will be even more focused on stoking the sort of ugly political conflict that's closer to the surface than ever in these early months of the Trump administration.

Milo Inc., according to a press release, will be based in Miami, with a planned staff of 30. It will be in the business of what can be best described as corporatized trolling via live entertainment, with Yiannopoulos and his investors hosting events featuring right-wing talent.

Milo Inc.'s first event will be a return to the town that erupted in riots when he was invited to speak earlier this year. In fact, Yiannopoulos said that he is planning a *“week-long celebration of free speech”* near U.C. Berkeley, where a speech by his fellow campus agitator, Ann Coulter, was recently canceled after threats of violence.

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🇺🇸 __***Congress approves stopgap spending bill to avert shutdown***__ 🇺🇸
*https://goo.gl/AvuxA8*
*FOX NEWS*

Congress on Friday approved a one-week, stopgap spending bill to avert a government shutdown this weekend, giving lawmakers more time to negotiate a broader budget deal – as lawmakers also pushed off talks on a new health care package.

The spending measure passed the Senate by voice vote after clearing the House on a bipartisan 382-30 vote. It now goes to President Trump’s desk.

Lawmakers had been facing a midnight deadline to pass a new funding bill. They will now continue to work on a bigger, $1 trillion budget package, under a new deadline of next Friday.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said earlier that bargainers were *"very close"* to an agreement. But underscoring lingering battles over environmental and financial regulations, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., continued to object to what he called *"poison pill riders."*

But the bipartisan budget talks had progressed more smoothly after the White House dropped a threat to withhold payments that help lower-income Americans pay their medical bills and President Trump abandoned a demand for money for a border wall with Mexico.

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🇺🇸 __***AUDIO: student forced to stop reading Bible before class***__ 🇺🇸
*https://goo.gl/LwzrtE*
*CAMPUS REFORM*

A Northern Arizona University student was recently asked to stop reading his Bible prior to the start of one of his classes, according to audio obtained by Campus Reform.

In a recording of the February incident, provided to Campus Reform by Kevin Cavanaugh for Congress, Mark Holden explains the situation to History Department Chair Derek Heng, who had been called in by the instructor, Dr. Heather Martel, after Holden had refused her request that he put his Bible away.

Holden tells Heng that he had arrived early to his U.S. history course and, as usual, used the spare time to read his Bible, but claims that Martel had objected to the routine because she didn’t want to see a Bible in front of her.

*“So Prof. Martel says that she doesn’t want you sitting in front of her because you put, you know, a Bible out, right?”* Heng can be heard explaining to Holden, adding that while he doesn’t *“know what the dynamics [are] going on in the classroom,”* the *“real key is to make sure that, you know, the class is able to go on and that you are in the classroom.”*

Nonetheless, and despite Holden’s protestations that class wasn’t going to begin for “another five minutes,” Heng concluded the conversation by again asking Holden if he would put his Bible away.

*“So, will you, will you, will you, put your Bible away?”* he asks, to which Holden replies that he always puts his Bible away once class begins, stating that he only reads the Bible *“before class”* and always makes sure to stow it away *“before class starts.”*

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🇨🇳 __***China Bans List of Islamic Names, Including ‘Muhammad’, in Xinjiang Region***__ <:pepesmug:281041251749462016>
*https://goo.gl/v0xE1r*
*BLOOMBERG*

Authorities in China's Xinjiang region are prohibiting parents from giving children some Islamic names in the latest effort to dilute the influence of religion on life in the ethnic Uighur minority heartland.

*"Muhammad,"* *"Jihad"* and *"Islam"* are among at least 29 names now banned in the heavily Muslim region, according to a list distributed by overseas Uighur activists.

An official at a county-level public security office in Kashgar, a hub in southern Xinjiang with strong Islamic influences, says some names were banned because they had a *"religious background."* It is unclear how widespread the ban is or whether it is tightly enforced. The official refused to identify herself, as is common with Chinese officials.

The naming restrictions are part of a broader government effort to secularize Xinjiang, which is home to roughly 10 million Uighurs, a Turkic people who mostly follow Sunni Islam. Top officials including Xinjiang's Communist Party chief have publicly said that radical Islamic thought has infiltrated the region from Central Asia, protracting a bloody, yearslong insurgency that has claimed hundreds of lives.

Aside from the prohibition on Islamic names, local Xinjiang officials have, at times, strongly discouraged or prohibited Islamic veils, while government-linked commentators have called for bans of mosques with domes or other Middle Eastern architectural styles.

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🇺🇸 __***Obama secures $800,000 for two speaking engagements***__ 🇺🇸
*https://goo.gl/wRsGKu*
*RT*

Former President Barack Obama has secured another $400,000 fee as he was interviewed for 90 minutes by cable network A&E Networks
before an audience of advertisers. It is second speaking engagement for $400K announced in the same week.

At the event at the Pierre Hotel in New York on Thursday, Obama got a standing ovation when he entered the room. Asked about what
he missed most about the White House, he said it was sitting on the Truman Balcony on summer nights and gazing at the Washington Monument
and the Lincoln Memorial, a source in attendance said, according to the New York Post.

US Senator Elizabeth Warren (D, Massachusetts) said she was troubled, and concerned about the overall influence of money in politics.

*"I was troubled by that,"* the Massachusetts senator said Thursday during an interview with the SiriusXM show *"Alter Family Politics"*
on Radio Andy, according to ABC News.

Former presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) called it *"unfortunate"* that the Democratic leader would ally himself with Wall Street interests.

*"I think at a time when people are so frustrated with the power of Wall Street and the big money interests, I think it is unfortunate*
*that President Obama is doing this," Sanders said on CBS's "This Morning."*

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