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'Repentant Jihadi' from Toulouse claims terrorists planned to bomb a nuclear plant in France


Westmonster
Fri, 29 Jun 2018 13:33 UTC
Jonathan Geffroy repentant jihadist
Jonathan Geffroy, a former jihadist who claims to be repentant, has told French media that the terrorists who attacked Paris in November 2015 had also planned to bomb a nuclear power station.

Geffroy, who spent two years in Iraq and Syria living among ISIS fighters, was captured by the Free Syrian Army whilst trying to flee Syria. When he was taken into French custody, he vowed to tell security services everything he knew about the group.

"From the moment I left ISIS until today, I made a commitment to say everything I knew about IS," he told the media.

Geffroy told French media that the son of the Clain brothers (the jihadis who claim responsibility for the Paris attacks) told him that 'adolescent kamikazes would be sent to Europe' by the Islamic State.

Comment: ISIS jihadists are not only heartless fanatics, they also lack brains. Did they think that a car bomb at the entrance of a nuclear plant compound would make the whole nuclear plant blow like a nuke?

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Brick Wall

Border Patrol Agent: The best way to end to the humanitarian crisis on our southern border is Trump's wall

Brandon Judd
Fox News
Fri, 29 Jun 2018 14:15 UTC
US-Mexico border wall
If Democrats and the media elite truly cared about the safety of illegal immigrants, they'd be down on the border right now working to build the wall President Trump wants America to have.

As a veteran Border Patrol agent, I know firsthand that a secure border with the big beautiful wall the president is building is the only humane and permanent solution to the crisis at the border.

Despite Democratic obstruction, President Trump is building the wall now, and he will play hardball with Congress to ensure that the necessary funding to complete the wall is secured. Without a completed wall, thousands of illegal immigrants will continue to put their lives at risk.

Comment: A little too much sense-making in the above article. We can't expect hysterical democrats to listen to reason when it comes to the illegal immigration issue. They don't actually want to solve the problem or care about the illegals they're shedding their crocodile tears over - they want to use this issue to lambast Trump and his supporters.

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Moon

Tickets to space going on sale in 2019


RT
Sat, 30 Jun 2018 13:14 UTC
moon
© Simone Brandt / Global Look Press
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos will start selling passenger tickets for trips into space as early as next year, according to Blue Origin, the space-tourism startup owned by the billionaire.

The company expects its New Shepard suborbital vehicle to carry the first space tourists to orbit in 2019, according to Blue Origin Senior Vice President Rob Meyerson. The top manager hasn't provided any details on ticket prices.

"We plan to start flying our first test passengers soon," said Blue Origin senior vice president Rob Meyerson, as quoted by Space News. "We expect to start selling tickets in 2019."
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Palette

The unhinged left increasingly portrays Trump as a dictator

Rich Lowry
New York Post
Fri, 29 Jun 2018 12:55 UTC
Protesters rally against Trump administration immigration policies in New York City, June 19, 2018.
© Brendan McDermid/Reuters
Protesters rally against Trump administration immigration policies in New York City, June 19, 2018.


The Nazi analogy has long been recognized as the crudest and dumbest form of argument, but it's enjoying a renaissance.

Former CIA Director Michael Hayden notoriously and unapologetically tweeted a photo of Auschwitz-Birkenau as a response to family separations at the border. Upon a report that parents at the border were being told that their children were being taken to get bathed and disappearing, Chris Hayes of MSNBC tweeted, "What does this remind you of?" Soledad O'Brien chimed in, "Welp, I guess we've put to rest the question: 'Nazi Germany: Could it happen here in America?' "

Progressives imagine that they are protecting our system when making these and related charges, but they are really losing faith in it themselves and undermining its legitimacy.

Kumail Nanjiani, a comedian and actor with more than 2 million followers on Twitter, objected to President Trump's contention that illegal immigration brings criminals into the United States. He said Hitler "focused on crimes by Jews," and this is what brought on Nazi Germany over time.

Comment: Left-wingers in the US should be careful what they wish for:

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Car Black

Police put the kibosh on British racers speeding on French autoroute

Brian McCulloch
The Connexion
Tue, 26 Jun 2018 13:00 UTC
Gendarmes confiscate licences of Modball Rally drivers after vehicles clocked driving at between 180kph and 265kph on A26 near Calais

Modball Rally

Cars at the start of the 2017 Modball Rally in London
French gendarmes confiscated driving licences and imposed on-the-spot fines of €750 on four British drivers taking part in a Cannonball Run-style race.

One of the drivers was clocked at 265kph on the A26 autoroute near Calais, police said. Others were travelling at more than 180kph, regional newspaper Voix du Nord reported.

As they were clocked driving at more than 50kph above the speed limit, they were immediately banned from driving in France. Police can hold licences for 72 hours, and the cases are then sent to court, where bans of up to three years can be imposed.

The drivers all passed breathalyser tests, and gendarmes did not confiscate the vehicles. No date has yet been set for the drivers' appearances at court in Saint-Omer.
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Brick Wall

Cutting welfare to illegal aliens would easily pay for Trump's wall

Paul Sperry
New York Post
Sat, 10 Mar 2018 12:21 UTC
border wall
© AFP/Getty Images
Mexico won't have to pay for the wall, after all. US taxpayers won't have to pick up the tab, either. The controversial barrier, rather, will cover its own cost just by closing the border to illegal immigrants who tend to go on the federal dole.

That's the finding of recent immigration studies showing the $18 billion wall President Trump plans to build along the southern border will pay for itself by curbing the importation of not only crime and drugs, but poverty.

"The wall could pay for itself even if it only modestly reduced illegal crossings and drug smuggling," Steven A. Camarota, director of research at the Center for Immigration Studies, told The Post.

Federal data shows that a wall would work. A two-story corrugated metal fence in El Paso, Texas, first erected under the Bush administration has already curtailed illegal border crossings there by more than 89 percent over the five-year period during which it was built.

Absent a wall, the Homeland Security Department forecasts an additional 1.7 million illegal crossings at the US-Mexico border over the next decade.

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Star of David

Belgian model poses nude at Jerusalem's Western Wall photoshoot - predictably admins not happy


RT
Sat, 30 Jun 2018 09:51 UTC
jews jerusalem angry
© Reuters / Ronen Zvulun
A Belgian model known for her provocative photoshoots has stirred up controversy after posing nude on a Jerusalem rooftop - with the Western Wall, one of the city's most sacred sites, in the background.

The photograph of 26-year-old Marisa Papen is part of an exhibition in the Belgian coastal town of Knokke. Titled "Road to Liberation," the photo shows Papen reclining in a plastic beach chair, with the Western Wall - a Jewish holy site - serving as the backdrop.

While her native Belgium appears unfazed by Papen's nudity, the photograph has outraged the Western Wall's rabbi and administrators, and has sparked heated debate on social media.
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Eggs Fried

'Huge, serious divergence' between UK and EU on Brexit, says EU negotiator Michel Barnier

Oliver Rowland
The Connexion
Fri, 29 Jun 2018 12:40 UTC
Michel Barnier

Michel Barnier says time is running out to secure an exit deal for the UK
A 'huge and serious divergence' remains between the UK and EU on Brexit, says the EU's negotiator Michel Barnier.

Speaking to journalists at the summit of EU leaders taking place in Brussels, he said finding a solution to the Northern Irish border remains the biggest problem.

He added: "After Brexit, we want, the EU want, an EU-UK ambitious partnership, on trade as well as on security.

"But we have to base this partnership on our values and principles, respecting also the UK red lines. That means for us integrity of the single market, indivisibility of the four freedoms, autonomy of the decision making of the EU, and protection and respect of the fundamental rights of EU citizens. And this point is key for our future cooperation and security."

Comment: Jean Claude-Juncker says EU is getting ready for no-deal on Brexit

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Bad Guys

Terrorism in Europe and the high cost of 'Batman Syndrome'

Giulio Meotti
Gatestone Institute
Sat, 30 Jun 2018 12:28 UTC
soldier Eiffel Tower
© Franck Prevel/Getty Images
A soldier stands guard in front of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France
The European Union lost €180 billion (USD $210 billion) in GDP due to terrorism between 2004 and 2016. The United Kingdom (€43.7 billion) and France (€43 billion) suffered the highest losses, followed by Spain (€40.8 billion) and Germany (€19.2 billion), according to a Rand Corporation study.
"Beyond those who have been directly physically affected by terrorist attacks, the extensive coverage of terrorist attacks through multiple media and social media channels has substantially increased the amount of people and companies that could be psychologically affected. This subsequently affects their economic behaviour".
New statistics have also come from the Britain's anti-terrorism office. 441 people have been arrested in the UK for terrorism in the last year alone, and 4,182 since the attacks of September 11, 2001. The threat of terrorism is exhausting Europe.
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Snowflake

MSNBC & CNN demand Dems 'rise up' to keep Trump from appointing Supreme Court justice


BB4WP
Sat, 30 Jun 2018 12:28 UTC
Angele Rye

Angele Rye
Former Dem Rep. Donna Edwards and CNN analyst Angela Rye called for Democrats to do whatever it takes to stop President Donald Trump from getting a Supreme Court justice appointed this fall.

As Josh Caplan pointed out: MORE violent rhetoric from the Left as CNN and MSNBC analysts urge Democrats to "raise hell," and "throw down," to prevent Pres. Trump from getting Supreme Court justice appointed.
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