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2017-04-15 20:52:37 UTC  

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__***Computer Blunder Might Wipe Out Marine Le Pen In French Election***__
*https://goo.gl/4acJiR*
*THE GOLDWATER*

A computer error might cost Marine Le Pen the French general election as 500,000 citizens living outside of France have the chance to vote twice.

There are astounding reports indicating that half a million people managed to receive duplicate polling cards. The duplicates would allow them to cast two votes in the first round of the election which will be held on the 23rd of April.

The incident will not be investigated by French authorities until the election is over. The authorities confirmed that they would not be investigating the potential electoral fraud so as to allow retrospective prosecution.

The decision by French authorities is likely to crush Ms. Le Pen’s dreams of rising to power, as most French nationals living outside of their country are not right-wing. This was demonstrated by the fact many feel they depend on the European Union to guarantee their stay in foreign countries.

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2017-04-15 21:15:22 UTC  

2017-04-15 21:22:59 UTC  

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__***Devastating aftermath of the 'Mother of all Bombs': Children play among the rubble in Afghan town where largest non-nuclear weapon ever used by US military killed 94 militants including four ISIS leaders***__
*https://goo.gl/tGf6C1*
*DAILY MAIL*

Afghan locals and children were left surveying the devastating aftermath caused by the 'Mother of all Bombs' in the village of Shadal bazar on Saturday, two days after America dropped the largest non-nuclear weapon ever used in combat by the U.S. military.

The death toll of the attack on Afghanistan rose to 94 ISIS members icluding four terrorist leaders, an Afghan official said.

Ataullah Khogyani, spokesman for the provincial governor in Nangarhar, said the number of Islamic State group dead was up from the 36 reported a day earlier and that no civilians were reported dead in the bombing.

A Ministry of Defense official said on Friday that the number of dead could rise as officials assessed the bomb site in Achin district.

*[Click source for array of pics]*

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2017-04-15 21:25:09 UTC  

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__***Hundreds of Trump supporters and counter-protesters clash at Berkeley rally many memes were made many fags arrested ***__
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Hundreds of pro-Trump demonstrators and counter-protesters clashed Saturday at a “Patriots Day” rally in Berkeley, the third time the two groups engaged in violent confrontations on city streets in recent months.

Fist fights broke out among members of both groups on the streets around Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center Park, where pro-Trump supporters had scheduled a rally. Some media reports said at least a dozen people were arrested.

Stewart Rhodes, founder of the citizen militia group known as the Oath Keepers, came from Montana with about 50 people wearing security gear to protect the Trump supporters. They were joined by bikers and others who vowed to fight members of an anti-fascist group if they crossed police barricades.

"I don't mind hitting” the counter-demonstrators, whom he called “neo-Nazis," Rhodes said. "In fact, I would kind of enjoy it."

But Rhodes credited Berkeley police for new tactics that kept the two sides apart and "our side chilled and relaxed," though sporadic fights broke out among both groups throughout the morning and afternoon.*

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-berkeley-trump-rally-20170415-story.html

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2017-04-15 21:25:58 UTC  

fags clash with straights and came wearing riot gear... weak homos throw bagels to signify hate and jewery many cucks arrested

2017-04-15 21:33:13 UTC  

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__***
Trump Replaces Hiring Freeze With Reinvention Push***__
*https://goo.gl/knfdbU*
*REAL CLEAR POLITICS*

The January prohibition on new hiring is replaced Wednesday with what Office of Management and Budget Direct Mick Mulvaney called a “smarter plan” that the administration hopes will complement Trump’s budget priorities and lead to a redrawing of the executive branch from the ground up.

The budget director said the White House is months away from proposing a legislative overhaul to Congress, but will build recommendations into the fiscal year 2019 budget submission, following extensive public comment and input from lawmakers.

In a lengthy OMB memo distributed Wednesday to heads of departments and agencies, Mulvaney said supervisors are tasked to send the White House plans to “maximize employee performance” and adhere to Trump’s spending reductions, including “long-term workforce reductions,” by June 30. Those preliminary plans must be refined by September.

Mulvaney acknowledged that previous presidents, including Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton, also attempted to trim the federal bureaucracy and restructure the executive branch, with mixed results.

Trump’s effort is pegged to his March 13 executive order that instructed agencies and departments to send OMB reinvention plans with the goal of achieving a federal government that is “more accountable, more efficient, and more effective.”

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2017-04-15 21:42:13 UTC  

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__***Poland Considers Hungarian-Style Migrant Concentration camps***__
*http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/04/15/poland-considers-hungarian-style-migrant-camps/*
*The Polish interior ministry has said the country is considering creating a “container village” camps for asylum seekers, taking inspiration from the Hungarian government’s policy.
Polish Interior Minister Mariusz Błaszczak discussed the proposal during an interview with Radio ZET, saying the government was looking into setting up the camps in preparation for a possible emergency migrant situation. He added it was conceivable that Poland could be flooded with migrants in the near future, newspaper Dziennik Gazeta Prawna reports. Błaszczak noted that “such camps are, for example, in Germany”. He cited German Chancellor Angela Merkel who said there were too many asylum seekers in cities. “In this regard, they are politely arguing that they wish to move them to the countryside,” the interior minister said.

He noted the recent fire at the Grande-Synthe migrant camp in Dunkirk as a reason to have gestapo present at migrant camps

http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/04/15/poland-considers-hungarian-style-migrant-camps/
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2017-04-15 21:47:47 UTC  

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__***Canadian Green Candidate Blames ‘White Privilege’ For Awkward MLK Speech Reenactment***__
*https://goo.gl/zewf1C*
*DAILY CALLER*

A Green Party candidate in the British Columbia provincial election says his impersonation of Martin Luther King, Jr. was a consequence of his own “white privilege” and “a misguided attempt to share the inspiration” of the American civil rights leader.

“I went to the mountaintop, y’all,” Neufeld said. “And I looked over – my, my. My eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Greens!”

Members of the audience looked around at each in disbelief as Neufeld continued to lift portions of King’s famous speech. “I’m not fearing any man,” Neufeld said as some people walked out, afterwards telling reporters that it was objectionable for the Green candidate to compare his political campaign with the civil rights legacy of King.

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“In a misguided attempt to share the inspiration of one of the greatest leaders of our time, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., I made one of the greatest mistakes of my life. I was excited by the crowd, but I was wrong to do what I did. I take responsibility for my actions and I am very sorry,” he wrote.

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2017-04-15 21:55:28 UTC  

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__***US Conducts Successful Field Test Of New Nuclear Bomb***__
*https://goo.gl/2YKHBb*
*INFOWARS*

In a well-timed statement, just as tensions over North Korea’s nuclear program and potential US airstrikes run wild, the NNSA said that in conjunction with the US Air Force, it had completed the first qualification flight test of B61-12 gravity nuclear bomb on March 14 at the Tonopah Test Range in Nevada.

In the press release, the NNSA said that the “non-nuclear assembly test” was dropped from an F-16 based at Nellis Air Force Base and was intended to evaluate “both the weapon’s non-nuclear functions as well as the aircraft’s capability to deliver the weapon.”

The B61-12 consolidates and replaces four B61 bomb variants in the nation’s nuclear arsenal. The first production unit is scheduled to be completed by March 2020.

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2017-04-15 22:01:15 UTC  

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__***WikiLeaks: ISIS Tunnels Blown Up By MOAB Were Built By CIA***__
*https://goo.gl/j0IF2N*
*MEDIAITE*

The ‘Mother of All Bombs’ was dropped on ISIS territory yesterday, though the Nangarhar Province of Afghanistan already had quite the history in America’s Middle Eastern campaign. Not the least interesting part about this is that the tunnel system held by the Islamic State was possibly built out by CIA.

The 2005 article from the New York Times reports about how Bin Laden worked alongside the CIA to liberate Afghanistan from occupation by the Soviet Union during the 1980’s. The base in Tora Bora was described as “part of a C.I.A.-financed complex built for the mujahadeen,” and Bin Laden made further improvements to it when he turned the complex into the hideaway where he was engaged by special forces.

Back in 2001, the Battle of Tora Bora was fought there when American forces launched one of their first efforts to capture or kill Osama Bin Laden.

The al Qaeda leader was hiding out in the region at the time, and yesterday, Wikileaks put out a tweet about why that was the case:

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/852681705391521792/photo/1

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2017-04-15 22:27:12 UTC  

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__***'Concrete evidence of collusion between Trump team and Russia' handed to official investigation***__
*https://goo.gl/1v9OVN*
*THE INDEPENDENT*

The official investigation into relations between Donald Trump and Russia now has "specific, concrete and corroborative evidence of collusion", it has been reported.

New evidence proves discussions took place “between people in the Trump campaign and agents of [Russian] influence relating to the use of hacked material,” a source allegedly told the Guardian.

The developments come as it has emerged that Britain’s spy agencies were among the first to alert their American counterparts to contact between members of Mr Trump’s campaign team and Russian intelligence operatives.

Over several months, different agencies targeting the same people began to see a pattern in communications between the Republican's inner circle and Russian operatives. For six months, until summer 2016, these interactions were repeatedly flagged to intelligence officials in the US, who sources have said were slow to act.

GCHQ's involvement in the investigation is controversial, with Mr Trump's press secretary, Sean Spicer, having previously accused the "British spying agency" of bugging Trump Tower on behalf of Barack Obama. Mr Spicer cited an unsubstantiated report on Fox News, from which the television station later distanced itself.

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2017-04-15 22:36:40 UTC  

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__***The Last Country America "Liberated" From An "Evil" Dictator Is Now Openly Trading Slaves***__
*https://goo.gl/51MFW2*
*ZERO HEDGE*

It is widely known that the U.S.-led NATO intervention to topple Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi in 2011 resulted in a power vacuum that has allowed terror groups like ISIS to gain a foothold in the country.

This week, new findings revealed another unintended consequence of “humanitarian intervention”: the growth of the human slave trade.

According to Livia Manente, an IOM officer who interviews survivors, “their driver suddenly said middlemen had not passed on his fees and put his passengers up for sale.”

“Several other migrants confirmed his story, independently describing kinds of slave markets as well as kinds of private prisons all over in Libya,” she said, adding IOM Italy had confirmed similar stories from migrants landing in southern Italy.

“If the number of migrants goes down, because of death or someone is ransomed, the kidnappers just go to the market and buy one,” Manente said.

As Libya, once a beacon of stability in the region, continues to devolve in the fallout from the Western “humanitarian” intervention – and as human beings are dragged into emerging slave trades while rapes and kidnappings plague the population - it is increasingly obvious that further war will only create even further suffering in unforeseen ways.

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2017-04-15 22:42:23 UTC  

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I found a cute vid of my doggo when he was a pupper :D

https://puu.sh/vlrFT/b0ed48906f.mp4

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2017-04-15 23:03:50 UTC  

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***N. Korea’s missile launch attempt fails – Seoul***
*https://www.rt.com/news/384904-korea-pyongyang-missile-launch/*

North Korea has tried, but allegedly failed, to conduct a new missile test launch, according to South Korea’s Joint Chief of Staff. The alleged botched launch comes amid heightened tensions on the Korean Peninsula and a day after Pyongyang showcased its new sea based and intercontinental missiles.

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2017-04-15 23:23:09 UTC  

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__***Google’s new job site might let recruiters see your search history***__
*https://goo.gl/4ugI4x*
*NY POST*

It comes as no surprise that a prospective boss is going to Google you before you get an interview. But now the search giant is building its own recruitment tool that will help companies learn a lot about its applicants.

Its top secret project is called Google Hire. It will work similarly to LinkedIn but will let employers track and manage applications, tech website Axios reported.

For now, it appears to be accessible using your personal Google account, which links up your search history, your Google Plus and your YouTube account.

The site offers the option of using your personal account, prompting you to “sign in with Google.” Applicants will just have to make sure they don’t do any X-rated browsing while signed in.

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2017-04-16 05:37:53 UTC  

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__***Hive***__
*https://wikileaks.org/vault7/#Hive*
*14 April, 2017
Today, April 14th 2017, WikiLeaks publishes six documents from the CIA's HIVE project created by its "Embedded Development Branch" (EDB).

HIVE is a back-end infrastructure malware with a public-facing HTTPS interface which is used by CIA implants to transfer exfiltrated information from target machines to the CIA and to receive commands from its operators to execute specific tasks on the targets. HIVE is used across multiple malware implants and CIA operations. The public HTTPS interface utilizes unsuspicious-looking cover domains to hide its presence.

Anti-Virus companies and forensic experts have noticed that some possible state-actor malware used such kind of back-end infrastructure by analyzing the communication behaviour of these specific implants, but were unable to attribute the back-end (and therefore the implant itself) to operations run by the CIA. In a recent blog post by Symantec, that was able to attribute the "Longhorn" activities to the CIA based on the Vault 7, such back-end infrastructure is described:

For C&C servers, Longhorn typically configures a specific domain and IP address combination per target. The domains appear to be registered by the attackers; however they use privacy services to hide their real identity. The IP addresses are typically owned by legitimate companies offering virtual private server (VPS) or webhosting services. The malware communicates with C&C servers over HTTPS using a custom underlying cryptographic protocol to protect communications from identification.
The documents from this publication might further enable anti-malware researchers and forensic experts to analyse this kind of communication between malware implants and back-end servers used in previous illegal activities.*

https://wikileaks.org/vault7/#Hive

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2017-04-16 09:27:31 UTC  

Can't stump trump new video is like the equivilant of news
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNNuc1Uleuo

2017-04-16 11:25:30 UTC  

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__*** US F-35 fighter jets arrive in Europe for the first time ***__
*https://goo.gl/HPqmy1*
*RT*

A fleet of F-35 stealth fighter jets has arrived in Europe from the United States as part of a planned NATO exercise aimed at “deterring” Russia.

The F-35A Lightning II jets landed at Royal Air Force Base in Lakenheath, England Saturday, having made the journey from Hill Air Force Base, Utah.

“This is an incredible opportunity for [US Air Forces in Europe] airmen and our NATO allies to host this first overseas training deployment of the F-35A aircraft,” said Air Force General Tod D. Wolters.

“As we and our joint F-35 partners bring this aircraft into our inventories, it’s important that we train together to integrate into a seamless team capable of defending the sovereignty of allied nations.

The deployment will last several weeks and is part of the European Reassurance Initiative, a US build-up of troops and weapons in Europe launched in 2014 to “deter Russian aggression.”

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2017-04-16 11:30:47 UTC  

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__***Suspects Arrested in Brutal Killing of Pakistani Student for ‘Blasphemy’***__
*https://goo.gl/aKWcSE*
*THE DAILY BEAST*

Several suspects have been arrested in the brutal killing of a Pakistani student beaten to death Thursday over accusations he’d shared “blasphemous” content on social media.

The student, identified as Mashal Khan, was stripped naked by a lynch mob of fellow students at Abdul Wali Khan University and beaten with planks in an attack that was caught on video.

Mardan's Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Police Mohammad Alam Shinwari said Saturday Khan’s attackers had been preparing to burn his body when police intervened.

Video shows about 10 students shouting “Allahu Akbar!” as they attacked Khan, who was also reportedly shot and thrown from the second floor of his hostel during the attack. The suspects face charges of murder and terrorism.

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2017-04-16 11:37:55 UTC  

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__***(((Mike Cernovich))) Threatens Sexual Blackmail if Steve Bannon is Fired: ‘I Know Everything’***__
*https://goo.gl/oSJHOu*
*MEDIAITE*

That was the none too veiled warning online provocateur Mike Cernovich had for the White House, Thursday, if President Donald Trump decides to pull the trigger and fire his chief strategist Steve Bannon.

“If they get rid of Bannon, you know what’s gonna happen? The motherlode. If Bannon is removed, there are gonna be divorces, because I know about the mistresses, the sugar babies, the drugs, the pill popping, the orgies. I know everything,” he said. “If they go after Bannon, the mother of all stories is gonna drop, and we’re just gonna destroy marriages, relationships—it’s gonna get personal.”

Cernovich made the claims on Periscope, one of his preferred mediums, but they received wide mainstream attention after a Daily Beast report from Ben Collins Friday afternoon.

“Fake news people are claiming that I threatened the Trump administration because I said I would release damaging information about Deep State,” he said. “I would never threaten anyone in the Trump family, legally or otherwise.”

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2017-04-16 11:44:15 UTC  

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__***Turkroaches support the coronation of Sultan Cockroach Erdogan***__
*https://goo.gl/hWZ3q7* (Big Black Cocks (BBC) News)

Voting is under way in Turkey in a landmark referendum that will determine whether President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will be granted sweeping new powers.

Mr Erdogan's supporters say replacing the parliamentary system with an executive presidency would modernise the country, but opponents fear it could lead to greater authoritarianism.

A "Yes" vote could also see Mr Erdogan remain in office until 2029.

There have been reports of gunfire at a polling station in Turkey's south-east.

Two people were killed and one wounded in the incident in Diyarbakir province, the Hurriyet daily reports, saying the violence was sparked by "differing political views".

About 55 million people are eligible to vote across 167,000 polling stations, with the results expected to be announced late on Sunday evening.

Opinion polls suggest a narrow lead for "Yes".


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2017-04-16 11:51:51 UTC  

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__***Cucked gov't trying to get Sandniggers to vote in the French election***___
*https://goo.gl/ewWyBP* (Big Black Cocks (BBC) News)

Votes have no colour, religion or class, so why so few election posters in multi-ethnic La Busserine?

About 3,000 people (nobody seems to know for sure) are packed into this 1960s housing estate in northern Marseille and they have some serious issues.

Think "ghetto" and you are on the right track.

La Busserine is in the 14th Arrondissement, a district which made national headlines in 2014 when, together with the neighbouring 13th, it elected the city's first (sector-level) mayor from the far right National Front (more on that later).

Yet over two days, the only traces I found of this month's presidential election were a few posters for radical leftist Jean-Luc Mélenchon.

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2017-04-16 11:57:16 UTC  

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__***25K Brits would rather (((stay))) in cucked Belgium, wants to be cucks too and are proud of it***___
*https://goo.gl/qABo62* (Big Black Cocks (BBC) News)

The rights of British citizens living there and elsewhere are still to be decided, but a handful of the 25,000 British people living in Belgium do not want to wait for the outcome and are applying for citizenship in their adopted home.

In her house in a smart Brussels suburb, British-born business consultant Glynis Whiting brandished her stiff, shiny, new Belgian passport.

"I went through customs in Germany with it recently and I thought: 'This is me stating that I am a slightly different person than I was,'" she told me.

A resident of Belgium for two decades, she applied for Belgian citizenship before the UK's referendum on membership of the EU.

She described it as her insurance policy.

"If the UK had voted to leave it would have been essential for me to stay in Europe with no worries," she explained.

"If the UK had voted to stay then it was a vote of confidence in my now home country."

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2017-04-16 13:03:00 UTC  

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__***German president warns French voters against trusting Le Pen’s ‘siren songs’ week ahead election***__
*https://goo.gl/iyWNYz*
*RT*

The German President, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, has urged the French electorate to be responsible and not to vote for the "populist and nationalist" candidate in the upcoming presidential election out of fears that Marine Le Pen will stage Frexit, shattering one of the pillars of EU stability.

“Don’t listen to the siren songs of those who promise you a great French future after getting rid of all that is part of France today — guaranteeing European stability and being a pillar of the European Union,” Steinmeier told French newspaper Ouest-France and Germany’s Funke Mediengruppe in response to a question about the possibility of Le Pen securing the election.

Without mentioning Le Pen by name, the German president hinted that her ideas will lead to a potential Frexit, as the National Front leader remains extremely critical of the European Union. In the past, she promised to renegotiate France’s membership of the bloc and potentially pull out of the Union.

Less than 10 days before the first round of the French presidential elections, Le Pen and her National Front (FN) party are leading in the majority of the polls.

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2017-04-16 13:06:55 UTC  

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__***Based Czechs take in a dozen refugees, but no more – minister***__
*https://goo.gl/IaOH0l*
*RT*

The Czech Republic has only accepted 12 refugees out of its quota of around 1,600 set by Brussels and does not intend to take in any more – even if that means suffering penalties, Interior Minister Milan Chovanec has said.

Speaking to the site Parlamentni listy, Chovanec said his country would be willing to face any sanctions imposed by the EU.

"As gradually we check the remaining refugees, I think it is not possible to take anyone else,” he told the website. “It is then up to the government to assess if it was worth sanctions or not. In my opinion – yes. You cannot let people here without control.”

The EU may launch proceedings against the Czech Republic in September if it continues to turn down refugees. Hungary and Poland are facing similar action from the EU.

In May 2016, the European Commission put forward a proposal to fine countries €250,000 ( $290,000) per asylum seeker if they refuse to take in their share. The proposal was dismissed by Hungarian officials as “unacceptable”.

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2017-04-16 17:46:29 UTC  

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__***Syria war: 'At least 68 children among 126 killed' in bus bombing***__
*https://goo.gl/kHFAhO*
*BBC*

At least 68 children were among 126 people killed in Saturday's bomb attack on buses carrying evacuees from besieged Syrian towns, activists say.

A vehicle filled with explosives hit the convoy near Aleppo.

The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said at least 109 evacuees from government-held towns were killed, along with aid workers and rebel soldiers.

Many more were injured in the attack, the group said.

The explosion shattered buses and set cars on fire, leaving a trail of bodies, as the convoy waited in rebel territory near Aleppo.

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2017-04-16 17:54:14 UTC  

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__***Majority of Hungarians Back Orban’s ‘Anti-Soros’ University Law***__
*https://goo.gl/8HZubl*
*BREITBART*

The majority of Hungarians support the government’s legislation which would force foreign universities, such as the George Soros-founded Central European University (CEU), to adhere to new regulations.

MPs in the 199-seat unicameral parliament, led by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s conservative Fidesz party, voted 123 in favour and 38 against the legislation. The bill was then signed into law by President János Áder on Monday.

The new amendments will ban institutions from outside the European Union from awarding degree certificates without an agreement between national governments. Foreign universities will also be required to have a campus and faculties in their home country — conditions not currently met by the American CEU.

János Lázár, the Minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office, said that Soros-backed lobbyists are agitating against the Fidesz-led government, putting pressure on the governments in Brussels, Washington, D.C., and Berlin.

“There is ongoing lobbying against Hungary”, the minister said, adding the “Soros network will most probably continue to apply pressure” to interfere in Hungary’s “right of sovereignty [to] regulate the foundation and operation of universities”.

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2017-04-16 17:57:59 UTC  

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__***Teen Girl Chastised by 'American Idol' Judges For Chaste Lifestyle Wins Movie Role***__
*https://goo.gl/xtTLkH*
*THE DAILY WIRE*

She may have been too chaste for American Idol, but a contestant on the show mocked by the judges for her conservative lifestyle is starring in a new movie that will be distributed by the same group that handled The Passion of the Christ.

Moriah Peters was just 16 when she appeared on American Idol. She told judges Simon Cowell, Randy Jackson, Kara DioGuardi and Avril Lavigne that she was a devout Christian and that she was saving her first kiss for marriage.

"Peters said the celebrity judges praised her looks and her singing, but belittled her chaste lifestyle," The Hollywood Reporter writes. "One judge told her, 'You're trying to be too perfect,' while another told her, 'Go out, kiss a guy, come back,' she says." Ah, Hollywood.

Luckily, Peters didn't take their advice. Instead, she signed on to star in a movie, titled Because of Gracia, in which she plays a high school student who -- like Peters herself -- is saving herself for marriage. "She also sings and is called 'perfect' in the movie, just like on American Idol seven years ago," the Reporter writes.

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2017-04-16 18:28:34 UTC  

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__***Harvard Law Professor Suggests Without Evidence Judge’s Death Was ‘Racist Islamophobic’ Murder***__
*https://goo.gl/52u87Z*
*FREE BEACON*

Noted liberal Harvard Law Professor Laurence Tribe claimed without evidence in a series of tweets Thursday that a recently deceased New York judge was the victim of a racist murder.
Tribe tweeted out his condolences, demanding that her death be investigated as a hate crime.

Tribe may have spoken too soon. New York Police Department officials are now saying they believe Abdus-Salaam's death was likely a suicide, and that she had been battling depression for weeks.

"There are no apparent injuries to her body," NYPD Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce told the New York Daily News. "It appears to be non-criminal … There is no apparent trauma. No physical abnormality at all."

When Ed Whalen, a blogger for National Review and president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, pointed out that fact on Twitter, Tribe doubled down.

Maybe so, @EdWhelanEPPC. Too soon to tell. *https://t.co/cVqns4nLZb*

— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) April 13, 2017

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2017-04-16 18:41:58 UTC  

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__***Erdoğan claims victory in knife-edge Turkish referendum on new powers.***__
*https://goo.gl/qKvFEo*
*THE GUARDIAN*

The state-run Anadolu agency is reporting that President Erdoğan has called allied political leaders to congratulate them over the yes win, with the words: “May this result be fortunate for our nation.”

Reuters are reporting that Erdoğan told the prime minister and the leader of nationalist party that the results were “clear”, according to presidential sources.

Sources in Erdogan’s office said he told Prime Minister Binali Yildirim he was grateful to the nation for showing its will at the polls.

State-run Anadolu agency is reporting that 51.31% of Turks have voted Yes, with 98.2% of the ballot boxes opened.

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2017-04-16 18:50:42 UTC  

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__***UK primary school take pupils on day out to meet ‘extremist’ Islamic preacher***__
*https://goo.gl/Eiv2ys*
*RT*

Children from a London primary school spent a two-day school trip with an imam described by a British High Court as supportive of “extremist Islamic positions.”

Aged between six to eight, the children from Kilmorie Primary School met with Shakeel Begg to discuss Islam at the Lewisham Islamic Centre on March 21 and 22.

Begg gained notoriety as the imam of the mosque attended by the killers of British army soldier Lee Rigby in 2013.

Details and images of the visit were posted to the center's website, reported the Telegraph, but have since been removed.

The center’s web page describes Begg as being impressed with the keenness of the children to test his knowledge of Islam and their understanding of “the many shared beliefs and values of different faith communities.”

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2017-04-17 02:29:15 UTC  

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__***Another victory for Kekistan-Outer Heaven, vs LaBeouf and the Cucks***___
*https://goo.gl/D0b8Zp* (Big Black Cocks (BBC) News)

Kekistan-Outer Heaven owes the great Cabin Crasher, Caos, for this wonderful victory against the nation of Cuckistan and Normiestan

Outspoken Hollywood actor Shia LaBeouf has been the target of trolls - congregating on anonymous websites - ever since his anti-Trump performance art project began in January.

For his latest art installation, he's alone in a cabin in Lapland, with only one line of communication to the outside world - the Kiasma Museum in Helsinki.

But that still hasn't stopped the trolls, as BBC Trending witnessed first-hand.

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2017-04-17 11:37:17 UTC  

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__***Liberal Director: 'Love' Needed To Defeat ISIS, Not Bombs***__
*https://goo.gl/ef5QnR*
*THE DAILY WIRE*

On Thursday, Josh Fox, director of the anti-fracking documentary "Gasland," sent out a barrage of tweets condemning the recent MOAB strike against the Islamic State:

Atrocity. Murder. Abomination. When will we learn that only #love stops hate, and bombings only create more #ISIS? #moab #stoptrump
— Josh Fox (@joshfoxfilm) April 13, 2017

If you want #peace you send aid, teachers, culture and diplomats. If you want #war you send indiscriminate bombs. Which do you want? #MOAB
— Josh Fox (@joshfoxfilm) April 13, 2017

While it may be true that some members of radical Islamist organizations are driven to join up because they feel as though they have no other options, the true believers will not be affected by cash aid, education, or "love." As such, those true believers must be eliminated, and the only way to accomplish that is by detention or death.

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2017-04-17 11:48:08 UTC  

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__***Haitians get word of Trump crackdown, slow flow to border by 97%***__
*https://goo.gl/CP3BPp*
*THE WASHINGTON TIMES*

Sometime around November, word began to trickle back down the spine of Latin America: The U.S. was getting stricter about letting in Haitians at the border.

Not only had the Obama administration begun deporting Haitians after a six-year humanitarian pause, but President Trump also had just been elected, presaging an even tougher policy.

Many of those en route, such as the hundreds staged at migrant camps in Costa Rica and Nicaragua, figured they had gone that far and had little to lose by trying to finish the journey north.

But for the tens of thousands of Haitians in Brazil, Chile and elsewhere in South America who had been planning to journey north, the news was devastating. In a matter of weeks, the northward stream of people dried up.

It is one of the biggest among a plethora of success stories from the southwestern border, where illegal immigration appears to have nearly dried up in the two months since Mr. Trump took office.

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2017-04-17 11:59:23 UTC  

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__***UK attorney general in bid to block case against Tony Blair over Iraq war ***__
*https://goo.gl/9j7UOo*
*THE GUARDIAN*

The government’s top law officer is going to court to demand the rejection of an attempt to prosecute Tony Blair over the Iraq war, the Guardian has learned.

The planned intervention by the attorney general comes after a judge ruled the former Labour prime minister had immunity from the attempt to bring a criminal charge against him and that pursuing a prosecution could “involve details being disclosed under the Official Secrets Act”.

The private prosecution relates to the 2003 Iraq war and seeks the trial in a British court of then prime minister Tony Blair, the foreign secretary Jack Straw, and Lord Goldsmith, the attorney general at the time.

It seeks their conviction for the crime of “aggression” and is based on the damning findings of last year’s Chilcot report into the British decision to join the invasion of Iraq, under the false pretext that the Saddam Hussein regime had weapons of mass destruction.

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2017-04-17 12:03:33 UTC  

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__***Former South Korean president facing possible life sentence ***__
*https://goo.gl/8HEo34*
*THE GUARDIAN*

South Korean prosecutors have formally charged Park Geun-hye over high-profile corruption allegations that could potentially send the former president to jail for life.

The indictment covers multiple charges, including abuse of power, extortion, bribery and leaking state secrets.

It is the latest in a series of humiliations for Park, who was driven from office by huge peaceful protests. She was impeached late last year, officially stripped of power in March and has been in a detention facility near Seoul since being arrested last month on allegations that she colluded with a confidante to extort money from businesses, take bribes and commit other wrongdoing.

Park will remain in the detention centre and taken to a Seoul court for her trial. It is expected to start within weeks and could take up to six months. It is unclear if the trial will be under way before 9 May when a special election will be held to determine her successor.

Prosecutors also indicted Shin Dong-bin, the chairman of Lotte Group, South Korea’s fifth-largest business conglomerate, on a charge of offering a bribe of 7 bn won ($6m) to Park and her confidante, Choi Soon-sil, in exchange for a lucrative government licence to open a new duty free shop.

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2017-04-17 12:49:32 UTC  

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***NEWS IS BAD FOR YOU GOYIM***

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/apr/12/news-is-bad-rolf-dobelli

In the past few decades, the fortunate among us have recognised the hazards of living with an overabundance of food (obesity, diabetes) and have started to change our diets. But most of us do not yet understand that news is to the mind what sugar is to the body. News is easy to digest. The media feeds us small bites of trivial matter, tidbits that don't really concern our lives and don't require thinking. That's why we experience almost no saturation. Unlike reading books and long magazine articles (which require thinking), we can swallow limitless quantities of news flashes, which are bright-coloured candies for the mind. Today, we have reached the same point in relation to information that we faced 20 years ago in regard to food. We are beginning to recognise how toxic news can be.
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2017-04-17 17:28:35 UTC  

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__***‘Start down the dark path you won’t’: Master Yoda asks French voters not to opt for Le Pen (VIDEO) ***__
*https://goo.gl/a7IMRW*
*RT*

Cult characters from films and cartoons, including Master Yoda, Harry Potter, and Aladdin, have popped up on posters in Paris on Monday, urging people not to vote for French far-right candidate Marine Le Pen in the presidential election.

“Don’t put her name on the ballots,” Harry Potter tells passers-by, pointing at potential voters with a wand in an apparent reference to Lord Voldemort, commonly referred to as He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named.

“You won’t start down the dark path,” the iconic Jedi Master Yoda says, as pictured on another poster.

Another popular character, Asterix, is up in arms over the cost of fish after France – as suggested by Le Pen – leaves the Eurozone. “What?! Is that why we left the euro zone?” he wonders.

The forthcoming French presidential election will be held in France in two rounds, the first of which is due on April 23, and the second, on May 7.

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2017-04-17 17:35:36 UTC  

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__***NBC Sports: U.S. Flag at Baseball Games Too Political***__
*https://goo.gl/SmFWY4*
*NEWSBUSTERS*

Everything is political to the overly sensitive mind of today’s leftist. When the Atlanta Braves unfurled a gigantic flag for the playing of the national anthem, it prompted an ultra sensitive member of the partisan media and his Twitter followers to express a whole host of ridiculous claims.

In a Twitter post this weekend, NBC baseball writer Craig Calcaterra complained that the presentation of Old Glory evoked overly political tones. He and his like-minded comrades used the occasion to attack the flag, the military, President Trump, conservatives and the singing of God Bless America:

Will you keep politics out of sports, please? We like sports to be politics-free.”

Mark Simon hit the NBC lib right between the eyes: “This is a left-wing screed. It is not about patriotism, rather what offends your politics.” Ryan Kantor explained to Calcaterra how his complaints are viewed: “You should applaud apolitical patriotism or everyone will mistake your criticisms for anti-American rhetoric.” Cameron Darnell argued, “People die for our rights in this country, so yeah we’re gonna layout the flag. We’re also gonna have a military.”

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2017-04-17 17:49:57 UTC  

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__***Maine Democrats Joke About Rising Suicide Rates Among White Males***__
*https://goo.gl/hUfV04*
*FREE B(E)ACON*

A Maine Democrat who launched a failed state senatorial run in 2016 joked about the rising suicide rate among white males during a "Values and Vision" community meeting hosted by the Maine Democratic Party, causing others in the room to burst out laughing.

Video of onetime candidate Richard Fochtmann joking about suicide was circulated by Maine First Media on Friday, according to the Daily Caller.

"A lot of white men were committing suicide, and I almost thought, ‘***Yeah, great***,'" Fochtmann said while laughing. "Then I thought about it little more and I thought maybe I shouldn't say that out in public."

The audience can be heard laughing with the former Senate candidate.

https://youtu.be/8ywsSInVMF8

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2017-04-17 20:12:23 UTC  

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***Russian teen blows off his own hand with home-made bomb after showing off about the explosive in chat rooms***

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4418424/Russian-teen-blows-hand-home-bomb.html

A blundering chemistry student has allegedly blown his hand off after fashioning a bomb in his bedroom.

The 17-year-old teen, known only as Andrey, is said to have bragged to his friends and girls in chat rooms about the home-made explosive.

A photo showed the boy surrounded by blood and writhing in pain on the floor following the explosion.

He is believed to have posed for a picture with the bomb-making kit at his home on Vasilievskiy island, St Petersburg, before the accident.

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