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🔥 __***South Africa bus crash 'kills at least 19 children'***__ 🔥
*https://goo.gl/dxeplT*
*BBC*

At least 19 children have been killed in a minibus crash near the South African capital, Pretoria, emergency services and officials say.

The children died after the vehicle burst into flames following a collision with a truck just north of the capital.

There were understood to be both primary and secondary school-aged children on board.

Panyaza Lesufi, the official responsible for education in Gauteng province, said it was a "dark day".

The minibus collided with a truck on the single carriageway R25, between Verena in Mpumalanga and Bronkhorstspruit in Gauteng, having left from Mahlenga High.

The emergency services rescued seven children before the bus burst into flames.

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<:trump:284711336934375425> __***‘Shattered’ Revelation: Clinton Campaign Hatched Russian Hacking Narrative 24 Hours After Hillary’s Loss***__ <:trump:284711336934375425>
*https://goo.gl/isDGuW*
*BREITBART*

The new Clinton campaign tell-all, Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton’s Doomed Campaign, reveals how Hillary Clinton personally placed blame for her bruising defeat on Russian meddling “within twenty-four hours of her concession speech.”

The blistering behind-the-scenes book, by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes, illustrates how Hillary Clinton furiously blamed her defeat on the FBI investigation into her private emails, Russian interference, and Trump’s supposed support from “white nationalists.”

The authors detail how Clinton went out of her way to pass blame for her stunning loss on “Comey and Russia.”

“She wants to make sure all these narratives get spun the right way,” a longtime Clinton confidant is quoted as saying.

The book further highlights how Clinton’s Russia-blame-game was a plan hatched by senior campaign staffers John Podesta and Robby Mook, less than “within twenty-four hours” after she conceded.

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😱 __***Huffington Post Columnist: Trump Supporters ‘Deserve To Die’***__ 🤔
*https://goo.gl/qaMR4r*
*THE DAILY WIRE*

In a **now deleted** Huffington Post article, Chris Cali said that Trump supporters deserve to die "more than he does." He premised this article off President Donald Trump's decision to drop a "Mother of All Bombs" on Islamic State terrorists in Afghanistan and how the world might be on the verge of a major war with North Korea.

Cali contemplated whether his parka will "be enough for this nuclear winter, or should I buy a new pair of long johns." He argued that if nuclear war comes to the United States, it will not come toward middle America or "Trump country," but rather the major liberal metropolises of New York and Los Angeles.

Thus, Cali argues that the ones who "deserve to get nuked" are the ones who voted for President Trump, whom he says is responsible for putting the United States on the "verge" of nuclear war. He ends his article as follows:

*[Trump voters] are the people who should be filling the front lines of whatever war Trump wants to start so he and his billionaire buddies can profit off weapons manufacturing and oil contracts. These are the people who deserve to have their towns annihilated. These people are who actually deserve to die in a war that they’ll line up to support. Not my ass. I have a lot to live for. They’ve already decided that they don’t.*

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🏳️‍🌈 __***Massive power outage hits San Francisco, shuts down businesses, BART station, cable cars, traffic lights***__ 🏳️‍🌈
*https://goo.gl/FMzgEz*
*SFGATE*

A massive power outage in San Francisco caused a blackout Friday in several neighborhoods, from the Financial District to the Presidio, forcing the closure of businesses, a BART station, cable car service and a federal courthouse, officials said.

A spokesman for Pacific Gas and Electric Co. said 88,000 customers lost power and that there had been a fire at a substation at Larkin and Eddy streets. It wasn’t immediately clear whether the fire caused the outage, which swept through the city about 9 a.m., or was ignited as a result of the outage.

At noon, PG&E officials said crews were still working on the problem — and estimated that most customers would have their power restored by 1 p.m. By 1:30 p.m., power was back on for about 25,000 customers, but the mass blackout continued. Company and city officials scheduled a news conference for 2 p.m.

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🇺🇸 __***Freed Egyptian American prisoner returns home following Trump intervention***__ 🇪🇬
*https://goo.gl/H4rvpx*
*THE WASHINGTON POST*

An Egyptian American charity worker who was imprisoned in Cairo for three years and became the global face of Egypt’s brutal crackdown on civil society returned home to the United States late Thursday after the Trump administration quietly negotiated her release.

President Trump and his aides worked for several weeks with Egyptian President Abdel Fatah al-Sissi to secure the freedom of Aya Hijazi, 30, a U.S. citizen, as well as her husband, Mohamed Hassanein, who is Egyptian, and four other humanitarian workers. Trump dispatched a U.S. government aircraft to Cairo to bring Hijazi and her family to Washington.

Hijazi, who grew up in Falls Church, Va., and graduated from George Mason University, was working in Cairo with the Belady Foundation, which she and her husband established as a haven and rehabilitation center for street children in Cairo.

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🇺🇸 __***Sessions DOJ to Sanctuary Cities: Show Compliance or Lose Funds***__ 🇲🇽
*https://goo.gl/woZe21*
*BREITBART*

Attorney General Jeff Sessions has made good on his threat to cut Justice Department grants to so-called “sanctuary cities” that refuse to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement. On Friday his subordinates sent letters to nine such jurisdictions demanding proof of compliance.

The letters, sent to the relevant authorities in New York City, Chicago, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Las Vegas, Miami, Milwaukee, and the “sanctuary state” of California, makes clear that Byrne Grants, a major program by which the federal Department of Justice funds local law enforcement, will be withheld if these jurisdictions do not do their part to enforce federal immigration law.

In order to avoid losing their funding, the cities and California must provide the Justice Department documented proof of compliance with 8 USC § 1373 no later than June 30. That law states that:

*[L]ocal government entity or official may not prohibit, or in any way restrict, any government entity or official from sending to, or receiving from, the Immigration and Naturalization Service information regarding the citizenship or immigration status, lawful or unlawful, of any individual.*

The accompanying press release noted the skyrocketing crime rates that have plagued these non-compliant jurisdictions and stressed the need to cooperate on immigration in order to fight growing transnational crime organizations like MS-13.

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🇺🇸 __***Trump Signs an Executive Order to Reduce Tax Regulatory Burdens***__ 🇺🇸
*https://goo.gl/nnPGMs*
*THE GATEWAY PUNDIT*

The President signed two presidential memoranda’s and one executive order today.
He opened his signing:

“This is ‘Identifying and Reducing Tax Regulatory Burdens’,” he paused, then jokingly continues, “*that covers a lot of territory there*.” The President grinned after that, the crowd of reporters laughed, and he signed the document.

“This is the subject of financial stability, the oversight council,” he uncapped his pen, “very important.”

“This is orderly liquidation authority . . . doesn’t sound like much – but it is. That’s a biggie, it doesn’t sound good, but it is.”

After signing the document, President Trump addressed those in attendance, “We’ll be having a big announcement on Wednesday having to do with tax reform . . .”

*POTUS*: “We’ve taken unprecedented action to take back our jobs and return power to our citizens.” pic.twitter.com/dasehcqs0s

— Fox News (*FoxNews*) April 21, 2017

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😂 __***'Who let her in? She is either SICK or a fraud!' White race faker Rachel Dolezal causes outrage as she lectures black South Africans about her 'struggle' with being 'trans black'***__ 😂
*https://goo.gl/Uz8uyB*
*DAILY MAIL*

American race-faker Rachel Dolezal has returned to the limelight with her first ever visit to Africa on a lecture tour about race – a move which has been met with outrage, calls for a boycott and a string of **scathing memes**.

Police flanked Ms Dolezal's first key note event after a hostile meeting with mostly black students who objected to her insistence that she had 'an authentic black identity' despite admitting to being 'biologically white'.

The 39-year-old, who was labeled an 'ethnic fraud' after passing herself off as a black woman for more than a decade, recently took a Nigerian name to make herself sound more authentic.

The shamed black activist, who now calls herself Nkechi Amare Diallo, outraged her young black audience in Johannesburg after equating her claim to being 'trans-black' with the trans-gender experience of Caitlyn Jenner.

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🇺🇸 __***Imprisoned Russian pedophile appears to be linked to hack of DNC computers ***__ 🇷🇺
*https://goo.gl/YAuccU*
*MSN*

A twice-convicted Russian pedophile imprisoned in a heavily forested gulag some 500 miles from Moscow appears to be the man a controversial dossier says helped hack into Democratic National Committee computers last year.

Sevastyan Kaptsugovich's name is misspelled in the dossier, which was compiled by a former British spy. But his history matches that of a computer expert described in the dossier who had been "compromised" by the Russian intelligence agency known as the FSB and forced into cooperating in the Russian meddling in the U.S. election.

The likelihood that Kaptsugovich is the man the dossier named as "Seva Kapsovich" answers one question about the findings of former spy Christopher Steele, whose compilation of connections between Donald Trump's presidential campaign and figures in Russia has been viewed with intrigue and skepticism. But it invites other questions in the widening probes into connections between Trump's campaign and Russia.

The 35-page dossier, which was published in full by BuzzFeed and contains a number of as-yet-unverified allegations, suggested that Kaptsugovich had been forced to cooperate with the FSB in hacking U.S. computer systems. It didn't reveal how he was involved, however.

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🇺🇸 __***Obama Injects Himself Into French Election***__ 🇫🇷
*https://goo.gl/TSNMCh*
*TOWNHALL*

Remember when President Obama urged the British to vote to stay in the European Union, and they completely ignored him? He apparently hasn’t learned to stay out of European races. A new report confirms that Obama, now a private citizen, called French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron, from the centrist party En Marche!, just three days before the contest begins.

The progressive candidate was so excited about the call that he filmed it.

Let’s keep defending our progressive values. Thank you for this discussion *BarackObama*. *pic.twitter.com/8rhNdHkLo8*
— Emmanuel Macron (*EmmanuelMacron*) April 20, 2017

Macron said Obama wanted to exchange views about the French presidential campaign and that the ex-president had stressed how important the relationship between the two countries was.

"Emmanuel Macron warmly thanked Barack Obama for his friendly call," Macron's party "En Marche!" said in a statement.

Obama’s team insists his phone call was not indicative of an endorsement

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🇺🇸 __***Second Detroit Doctor Busted in Female Genital Mutilation Ring***__ 🇪🇬
*https://goo.gl/cy2fpf*
*BREITBART*

Dr. Fakhruddin Attar was arrested in the Detroit suburb of Livonia, Michigan Friday, accused, along with his wife Farida Attar, of involvement in the same female genital mutilation conspiracy that led to the landmark arrest last week of Dr. Jumana Nagarwala.

The three suspects now charged represent the first prosecution in the United States for female genital mutilation (FGM), a practice common primarily in Muslim countries, particularly those in Africa. For example, UNICEF estimates that 98% of Somali girls and 87% of Egyptians have endured the procedure.

As in the case of Dr. Nagarwala last week, the 16-page criminal complaint issued against Dr. Attar and his wife in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan Friday refers to “a particular religious and cultural community” without specifying that community. **It is now believed that that community is the Dawoodi Bohra Muslim sect**, whose world leader, Syedna Mufaddal Saifuddin, has called for the tradition to continue.

According to the complaint against Nargawala, the victims’ parents brought them to the Detroit area for the grusome procedure. The girls were told it was to be a “special girls trip.” The parents also allegedly said the cutting would “get the germs out” and that they were not to talk of what happened inside the Burhani clinic.

One of the girls later told the FBI she screamed in pain as she endured what Dr. Nargawala called “getting a shot.” She then said she was barely able to walk as she left the clinic. Upon examination by doctors working with the FBI, both seven-year-olds were found to have genitalia that was “abnormal looking” with “scar tissue” and “small healing lacerations.”

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🇺🇸 __***Marine Le Pen gets poll boost after Paris attack as Donald Trump says her chances of victory have improved***__ 🇫🇷
*https://goo.gl/HN7Y8U*
*THE TELEGRAPH*

Donald Trump has said the Paris terrorist attack would boost Marine Le Pen's presidential chances after a last-minute poll gave her a modest increase in support.

The US president said the shooting would "probably help" Ms Le Pen in Sunday's election, because she is "strongest on borders, and she's the strongest on what's been going on in France."

"Whoever is the toughest on radical Islamic terrorism, and whoever is the toughest at the borders, will do well in the election," he said.

US presidents typically avoid weighing in on specific candidates running in overseas election. But Mr Trump suggested his opinion was no different from an average observer, saying: "Everybody is making predictions on who is going to win. I'm no different than you."

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**BREAKING NEWS: You're all cute and wonderful and I'd smooch you if I could**

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🇫🇷 <:pepesmug:281041251749462016> __***DIGITS FORECAST FRENCH ELECTION RESULT***__ <:pepesmug:281041251749462016> 🇫🇷
*http://boards.4chan.org/pol/thread/122266340#p122266666*
*http://boards.4chan.org/pol/thread/122218609#q122222222*
*/pol/*

SHADILAY BROTHERS!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXZQd0mQcwg

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🇸🇪 __***Muslim Avoids Jail For Anally Raping Teen Because He “Couldn’t Understand No”***__ 🇸🇪
*https://goo.gl/bSBuQe*
*INFOWARS*

The Hovrätten (royal court) of Western Sweden said the Iraqi, who had former convictions, had “suspected ADHD,” which, according to the court, gave him “difficulties in interpreting and interacting with other people as well as recognizing the standards he is expected to live up to.”

This despite video evidence of the girl resisting and repeatedly saying “no” during the sexual assault – and despite evidence indicating the girl was blackmailed by the migrant who reportedly threatened to harass her family.

The court sided with the migrant even further by suggesting the girl’s repeated “no” only pertained to forced anal sex, which the judges somehow did not consider rape.

“Abdul will instead be sentenced for protection and will be included in the Freedom Relation and Relationship Program ROS, instead pay 60,000 SEK [roughly $6,650 US dollars] to the girl in compensation,” reported Swedish media, who also said Abdul is still a citizen of Iraq.

The incident occurred on Oct. 4, 2016 in Gothenburg at Abdul’s own apartment, but it wasn’t reported how the girl got there in the first place.

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__**copied from /pol/ news**__

__***THOUSANDS OF RADICAL LEFT WING GROUP MEMBERS DOXXED***__
*https://goo.gl/sfRNy3*
*Infinity Chan(archived)*
Late friday night over eight-thousand plus members of radical left wing groups such as Antifa, BAMN (Byany means necessary), Shareblue, and other groups that have set their goal to destroy right wing political power were doxed by members of the infamous imageboards of 8chan and 4chan.

**THIS REPORT IS FOR JOURNALISM PURPOSES ONLY, PLEASE DO NOT USE THIS INFORMATION IRRESPONSIBLY**

What goes around comes around. Words to live by.

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🇬🇧 __***Acid attacks 'hidden' by fearful victims, say police***__ 🇬🇧
*https://goo.gl/TCaZhE*
*BBC*

ACC Kearton, from Suffolk Police, who is the National Police Chiefs Council spokesperson on corrosive attacks, told BBC Radio 4's Today Programme that although hundreds of assaults were reported across the country, other victims might be staying silent.

"I do fear that this is a hidden crime and that some of the victims are in fear of reprisal and don't come forward," she said.

As well as the nightclub attack on Monday, over the last month a family were attacked in the street in north London and a driver was carjacked in east London using "noxious substances".

Figures from police forces across the UK suggest that the number of assaults involving corrosive substances has risen by 30% in two years.

In London, the number of attacks increased from 261 in 2015 to 454 last year. About 74% of police investigations since 2014 were wound down because the perpetrators could not be identified or victims were unwilling to press charges.

"It's something that is used in order to maim and disfigure people and, as we've heard, it has lasting physical and emotional damage for victims," said ACC Kearton.

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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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🇺🇸 __***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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🇺🇸 __***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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🇺🇸 __***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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__***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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🇫🇷 __***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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🇺🇸 __***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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🇫🇷 __***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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🇺🇸 __***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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🇮🇪 __***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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__***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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🤤 __***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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Who cares? The kid was a living dead zombie anyway. At least now his parents will get some cash.

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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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🇺🇸 __***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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🇮🇱 __***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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