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2017-04-22 19:51:30 UTC  

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🇺🇸 __***"Total Chaos" - Cyber Attack Feared As Multiple Cities Hit With Simultaneous Power Grid Failures***__ ⚡
*https://goo.gl/aX51qR*
*ZEROHEDGE*

The U.S. power grid appears to have been hit with multiple power outages affecting San Francisco, New York and Los Angeles.

Officials report that business, traffic and day-to-day life has come to a standstill in San Francisco, reportedly the worst hit of the three major cities currently experiencing outages.

Power companies in all three regions have yet to elaborate on the cause, though a fire at a substation was the original reason given by San Francisco officials.

The cause of the outage has not yet been made clear, though given the current geo-political climate it is not out of the question to suggest a cyber attack could be to blame. It has also been suggested that the current outages could be the result of a secretive nuclear/EMP drill by the federal government.

As we have previously reported, the entire national power grid has been mapped by adversaries of the United States and it is believed that sleep trojans or malware may exist within the computer systems that maintain the grid.

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2017-04-22 19:58:51 UTC  

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🇺🇸 __***US actions to weaken Syrian govt will empower ISIS – UK consultancy***__ 🇸🇾
*https://goo.gl/ZrD5ea*
*INFOWARS*

Any attempt to act against the Syrian government will make Islamic State and other terror groups in the country stronger, London-based consultancy IHS Markit said in a recent report, calling such situation an “inconvenient reality” for Washington.

According to the analyst, weakening the Syrian forces, which are already overstretched on a large front, may lead to the jihadists moving from the desert to populated areas in the west of the country, which endangers such cities as Damascus and Homs.

Strack believes that Deir ez-Zor is currently the main strategic goal for Islamic State, as capturing the largest city in eastern Syria would allow the group to gain “a new major population center from which to run the Caliphate” after losing Mosul and Raqqa.

Washington, which wants President Assad removed from power, has been backing the so-called “moderate opposition” with funds and weaponry for years. The rebel fighters received money, training, ammunition, including TOW guided anti-tank missiles, which was funded by the US, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and American allies.

The foreign support led to a surge of Islamist groups in the country as the “moderate rebels” were reported to have lost their weaponry to the jihadists from Islamic State and Jabhat al-Nusra or joined the ranks of the radicals voluntarily.

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2017-04-22 20:01:13 UTC  

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🇺🇸 __***DOJ puts nine sanctuary cities on notice; New York, Chicago, Philadelphia make name-and-shame list***__ 🇲🇽
*https://goo.gl/wDRRnw*
*THE WASHINGTON TIMES*

The Trump administration put nine of the country’s top sanctuary cities on notice Friday that they could soon have to give up some federal funds unless they can prove they are no longer thwarting Homeland Security’s efforts to deport illegal immigrants.

The entire state of California is being targeted, as are the cities of New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Las Vegas, New Orleans and Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Cook County in Illinois and Miami-Dade County in Florida round out the list.

In letters to each of the nine jurisdictions the Justice Department said they signed documents last year, when they applied for Byrne Justice Assistance Grant money, saying they complied with a section of federal law that demands cooperation when immigration agents ask for it.

“Many of these jurisdictions are also crumbling under the weight of illegal immigration and violent crime,” the Justice Department said as it sent the letters.

Sanctuary cities are those jurisdictions that thwart efforts by deportation officers to kick out illegal immigrants. One common version of a sanctuary policy prohibits local police from alerting federal agents when an illegal immigrant is in custody, or when the illegal immigrant is going to be released. Other versions refuse all contacts.

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2017-04-22 20:07:08 UTC  

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🇺🇸 __***Outraged Muslims to Rally Against Amazon Over Alleged Lack of Prayer Rooms ***__ 😂
*https://goo.gl/dBTFrQ*
*FOX NEWS*

Outraged Muslims are reportedly planning a May 1 demonstration at the Amazon headquarters in Seattle, Washington.

The company is under fire after several Muslim security guards demanded time and space to pray five times a day, while on the job.

The guards contend in a lawsuit filed this week that the subcontractor who employs them does not appropriately accommodate their faith and retaliates against those who speak out.

The Service Employees International Union and the guards allege that Amazon grants high-earning tech workers conference rooms to pray in, but they do not provide the same accommodation for contracted security officers during their law-mandated work breaks.

Amazon and the security contractor have refuted the allegations.

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2017-04-22 21:36:10 UTC  

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__***Socialist Venezuelan Leader Steps Up Arming of Supporters After Outlawing, Confiscating Civilian Guns***__
http://freebeacon.com/issues/socialist-venezuelan-leader-steps-arming-supporters-outlawing-confiscating-civilian-guns/

Quick rundown:
- Gov outlawed private gun ownership (only LE/Mil/Gov can own guns) in 2012
- Now Maduro stepped it and allows his 400k commie militia to own guns
- The majority (commies) have guns, but not for the opposition

The socialist leader of Venezuela announced in a speech to regime loyalists his plan to arm hundreds of thousands of supporters after a years-long campaign to confiscate civilian-owned guns.

"A gun for every militiaman!" Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro said to uniformed militia members outside the presidential palace, Fox News reported on Tuesday.

The arming of Maduro's supporters comes five years after Venezuela's socialist regime outlawed the commercial sale and civilian ownership of firearms. Only the military, police, and groups like security companies can buy guns and only directly from one state-run arms company under the law passed in 2012, according to the BBC.

As protests and unrest increase in Venezuela, Maduro's regime has created a landscape where civilians are disarmed but his supporters are not.
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2017-04-22 22:41:36 UTC  

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🇫🇷 __***Marine Le Pen: Islamism Has Declared War On Our Nation, On Reason, On Civilisation***__ 🇫🇷
*https://goo.gl/69TNSG*
*BREITBART*

French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen has denounced radical Islam as “a monstrous totalitarian ideology that has declared war on our nation, on reason, on civilisation,” after a deadly Kalashnikov attack on police officers in Paris.

**“Hate preachers must be expelled, the Islamist mosques closed,”** the Front National leader declared, lambasting the Socialist Party government as “notoriously feeble”.

**“We cannot afford to lose this war … for the past ten years, Left-wing and Right-wing governments have done everything they can for us to lose it. We need a presidency which acts and protects us,”** she declared, calling on outgoing president François Hollande to expel all foreign nationalists on the extremist watch list and terminate France’s membership of the EU’s borderless Schengen area, which was castigated as “effectively an international passport-free zone for terrorists” by former INTERPOL chief Robert Noble after Islamists killed 130 people in Paris in 2015.

Ms Le Pen’s main rival for the presidency, __former Rothschild banker__ Emmanuel Macron, was the Socialist economy minister until recently, and struck a very different tone following the attack, telling RTL France he would not invent an anti-terror programme in response to the police killing.

In another interview shortly after the shooting, Macron described radical Islamic terrorism as and “imponderable problem” which would be “part of our daily lives for the years to come”.

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2017-04-22 23:01:16 UTC  

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🇺🇸 __***Trump’s ‘Hire American, Buy American’ Is Redistribution by Another Name***__ 🇺🇸
*https://goo.gl/ji4cgr*
*NATIONAL REVIEW*

First, the notion that American companies should be forced to hire American labor is a __conceit of the Left__. It is based on the same failures of economic understanding that lead to advocating higher minimum wages: the notion that cramming through an increase in labor cost does not cost jobs to a company, does not raise costs to the consumer, and does not degrade the quality of future products.

Second, Trump’s program of ensuring that government contracts go to American companies makes little sense, given that __this is merely a government subsidy__ of popular political interests. Why should taxpayers foot the bill for cement made in Pennsylvania rather than China, absent some political payoff from politicians?

Finally, Trump’s program of producing everything in America is economically illiterate.

Subsidizing domestic industry and cutting off imports in order to “help” the economy is a fool’s errand. Back in the 1930s, Nazi Germany embarked on a course of “autarky,” assuming that they could strengthen the domestic economy through a combination of subsidies and tariffs. The result, which Hitler actually wanted: a requirement for territorial expansion, since trade enriches countries with resources beyond their own borders. __North Korea is autarkic today. So is Venezuela. Both are impoverished.__ Trade enriches both sides; banning trade indirectly taxes certain domestic parties in behalf of others.

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2017-04-23 01:18:04 UTC  

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🇫🇷 __***Tear gas, smoke grenades & flares: Violence erupts at Paris protest day before election***__ 🇫🇷
*https://goo.gl/ztAvSe*
*RT*

Members of dozens of French unions and civil groups have taken to the streets of Paris ahead of Sunday’s presidential vote, protesting what they call a “political masquerade.” Police deployed tear gas after protesters used smoke grenades and flares.

While France is observing pre-election silence on Saturday ahead of the first round of the voting, crowds have been marching through the streets of Paris rejecting the policies of all the candidates leading in the polls.

Some 2,000 people took part in the protest, according to estimates from the organizers, which included some 70 groups and organizations, TASS reported.

The protesters demand that more attention be paid to the needs of French society’s lower income people, TASS reported.

France's largest __trade union__, the General Confederation of Labor, is among the organizers of the Saturday march.

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2017-04-23 01:32:02 UTC  

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🇺🇸 __***Trump to hold rally on night of White House correspondents' dinner***__ 🇺🇸
*https://goo.gl/AZpmcL*
*THE HILL*

President Trump will hold a rally in Pennsylvania the night of the White House Correspondents' Association dinner, he said Saturday.

*Next Saturday night I will be holding a **BIG** rally in Pennsylvania. Look forward to it!*
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 22, 2017

The announcement comes after Trump decided earlier this year that he would skip the annual dinner in Washington, D.C., breaking with longtime political tradition of the president attending the event alongside lawmakers and celebrities.

The dinner is on April 29 at the Washington Hilton.

Trump on Saturday also said he plans to announce new tax reforms next week.

"**Big** TAX REFORM AND TAX REDUCTION will be announced next Wednesday," Trump said.

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2017-04-23 01:43:53 UTC  

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🇮🇪 __***Abortion in Ireland: committee votes for constitutional change***__ 🇮🇪
*https://goo.gl/BzmuN9*
*THE GUARDIAN*

A committee set up to deliberate on Ireland’s strict abortion regime has voted for the constitutional rules to be changed.

The Citizens’ Assembly, a randomly selected group of 99 members of the public chaired by the supreme court judge Mary Laffoy, met on Saturday to discuss the contentious issue for the final time.

At the heart of the assembly’s work is examining the eighth amendment to the republic’s constitution, which gives equal right to life to the mother and the foetus. In the first of a series of votes by members on whether to advise constitutional reform, the assembly voted 87% in favour of change.

Since 2014 in Ireland, a pregnancy can be terminated under the Protection Of Life During Pregnancy Act if there is a risk to the woman’s life, including from suicide. The procedure can involve a medical or surgical termination, or an early delivery by induction or caesarean section.

There has been a strong campaign for women to be allowed to have an abortion in cases of rape and incest, or if there has been a fatal foetal abnormality diagnosis.

On Saturday, Judge Laffoy said the result of the vote provided a mandate for changing the status quo and, if implemented by the government, it would require a constitutional referendum, the Irish Times reported.

Opening the session, she praised the commitment of the assembly members.

“This exercise in deliberative democracy allowed us to withdraw from the polarising perspectives and begin first and foremost with the facts.”

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2017-04-23 02:25:06 UTC  

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__***Trump OKs DACA Amnesty: ‘This Is a Case of Heart’***__
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/04/21/trump-says-daca-illegals-can-rest-easy/

Quick rundown:
- Putting "dreamers" in the low priority for deportation
- Go after the criminals first

Illegal aliens who crossed the border as children don’t have to worry about being sent home, President Donald Trump told the Associated Press in a Friday interview.

Illegals enrolled in the President Barack Obama’s “Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals” DACA program can “rest easy,” Trump said, because “this is a case of heart.”

Federal enforcement agencies are “not [going] after the ‘dreamers,’ we are after the criminals,” he said, using the Democrats’ ‘dreamer’ euphemism for young illegal immigrants. “That is our policy,” he added.

The Friday comments confirm Trump’s reversal of his 2016 campaign promise to stop the DACA quasi-amnesty created by Obama during his 2012 reelection campaign. He created the program in 2012 by telling his immigration enforcement officers to provide young illegals with free work permits instead of repatriation orders.
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2017-04-23 11:23:06 UTC  

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🤤 __***School Bus Driver in Hurry to Sex Meet-Up Leaves Autistic Boy To Die Onboard***__💀
*https://goo.gl/JAjXJq*
*THE GOLDWATER*

A bus driver in California was so eager to have a sexual tryst with a colleague that he neglected to fully check his bus and left a __severely disabled teen__ inside the vehicle on a scorching hot day. The special boy had little chance of survival under the circumstances and tragically died on the bus.

Bus driver Armando Abel Ramirez, 37, was so preoccupied with exchanging sexually explicit messages with a female colleague that he failed to check the bus to make sure everyone had left after driving them to school, before hurrying to his __sexual escapade__.

Student Hun Joon "Paul" Lee was 19, __had autism and the mental capacity of a three-year-old.__ He was also nonverbal, making it __impossible for him to cry for help__ when he was left alone inside the bus on one of the hottest days of the year.

The boy was found dead on the bus, hours after leaving home, when his mother learned that he failed to turn up in school when she called his school. It was heartbreaking for the mother to see his son pronounced dead about eight hours after she last bid him goodbye for school.

The family of the special boy is now (((suing))) the company that employed the two bus drivers, as well as the local school district. Ramirez has already been jailed for two years over the incident that happened on September 11, 2015. The Lee family's case with the bus company and the school district is still ongoing.

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2017-04-23 16:13:46 UTC  

Who cares? The kid was a living dead zombie anyway. At least now his parents will get some cash.

2017-04-23 19:32:44 UTC  

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🇫🇷 __***France elections: Macron-Le Pen through to run-off, projections say***__ 🇫🇷
*https://goo.gl/6cX9sG*
*BBC*

The centrist Emmanuel Macron and far-right leader Marine Le Pen have won the first round of voting in French presidential elections, projected results say.

Mr Macron won 23.7%, while Ms Le Pen won 21.7%, French TV says.

The two saw off a strong challenge from centre-right François Fillon and the hard-left Jean-Luc Mélenchon, according to the projections.

The pair now face a run-off vote on 7 May.

Whoever wins the next round, the voting marks a shift away from the leftist and centre-right parties that have long dominated French politics.

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2017-04-23 19:37:20 UTC  

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🇺🇸 __***Despite MSM Claims, Anti-Trump Marches Keep Fizzling***__ 🇺🇸
*https://goo.gl/tHilXC*
*THE DAILY WIRE*

In the lead-up to the vaunted March For Science on Saturday – in which opponents of President Trump were to gather in cities across the country to protest his environmental policies – the mainstream media pitched it hard. To hear their tale, millions would descend on hundreds of cities and demand change.

**Didn't happen.**

NBC News estimated that __only "about 10,000 gathered"__ in Washington, D.C. The scene was the same in many cities: The St. Louis Dispatch said a "few thousand" turned out for the march there; "Thousands of people" marched in downtown Chicago, reported ABC7Chicago; "several thousand protesters" gathered on Boston Common, reported WBUR News.

But that pales in comparison to what march organizers – and news organizations – expected. In Chicago, "__organizers expected more than 40,000 to attend__," ABC7 reported. In D.C., "tens of thousands of people are expected to rally to the National Mall," Newsweek reported in the run-up to the event. In Boston, "around 20,000 people are expected to assemble," Newsweek said.

To hear the mainstream media tell it, there is a groundswell of opposition to Trump. In their breathless stories, America is going to rise up en masse and march on Washington to demand his impeachment. **But over and over, that fails to happen.**

“Science is all about truth — empirical data,” she told the St. Louis Dispatch.

Yup. True. So when will the MSM use some "empirical data" to write about how protests against Trump just keep on fizzling?

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2017-04-23 20:52:36 UTC  

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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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2017-04-23 20:55:55 UTC  

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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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2017-04-23 21:44:51 UTC  

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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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2017-04-23 21:45:01 UTC  

2017-04-23 23:56:22 UTC  

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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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2017-04-24 00:04:06 UTC  

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2017-04-24 00:08:02 UTC  

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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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2017-04-24 00:13:50 UTC  

2017-04-24 00:16:17 UTC  

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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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2017-04-24 00:36:39 UTC  

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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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2017-04-24 09:56:13 UTC  

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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'?**

2017-04-24 09:56:20 UTC  

*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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2017-04-24 10:04:22 UTC  

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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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2017-04-24 10:12:17 UTC  

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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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2017-04-24 10:23:14 UTC  

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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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2017-04-24 10:28:06 UTC  

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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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2017-04-24 10:31:47 UTC  

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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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2017-04-24 17:21:50 UTC  

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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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2017-04-24 17:21:58 UTC  

a little local shit

2017-04-24 17:49:10 UTC  

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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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2017-04-24 17:54:20 UTC  

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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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2017-04-24 17:54:23 UTC  

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2017-04-24 19:27:06 UTC  

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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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2017-04-24 20:34:54 UTC  

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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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2017-04-24 20:45:25 UTC  

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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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2017-04-24 20:45:41 UTC