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Hundreds of migrants storm 6m-high razor wire at Spanish exclave Ceuta

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At least 150 of an estimated 250 migrants who attempted to storm Spain's north African exclave Ceuta, made it to the city's Temporary Migrant Reception Centre (CETI) of Jaral in the early hours of Friday morning.

Six Spanish police officers were injured in scuffles as migrants stormed the six-meter-high fence, which bristles with razor wire, at 7:20 am local time near the breakwater of the town of Benzu.

The Red Cross were deployed to treat injured migrants who became stuck on the fence. Video from the scene shows Spanish authorities escorting jubilant migrants through the streets of the city along Morocco's northern coast.

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ISIS fighter was still claiming UK housing benefits while he was beheading people in Syria

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Anouar Haddouchi was dubbed 'the executioner of Raqqa' for his sickening crimes.
A former resident of Birmingham who beheaded more than 100 people in the Islamic State's former Syrian capital has been captured.

Anouar Haddouchi, dubbed 'the executioner of Raqqa', was originally from Belgium but moved to the Midlands in 2009.

The terrorist managed to claim thousands of pounds in housing benefit while fighting for ISIS in Syria.

Haddouchi, 35, is reportedly now being held in a prison run by the Syrian Democratic Forces, a force comprising a mix of Kurdish and Arab fighters.

Haddouchi beheaded more than 100 people in ISIS's former Syrian capital of Raqqa, Het Laatste Nieuws reports.

Troops arrested the fighter and his 32-year-old wife Julie Maes after the battle for the last ISIS stronghold of Baghouz.

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Sweden ends sweeping 'automatic asylum' policy for Syrians

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© Reuters / Johan NilssonA police officer escorts migrants from a train at Hyllie station outside Malmo, Sweden.
Stockholm has tightened its lenient migration laws with regard to Syrian asylum seekers, saying that not all parts of the war-torn country are equally dangerous anymore.

Since the intensity of the war in Syria "has slightly decreased," the new asylum seekers "will not automatically be granted protection in Sweden" any longer, the Swedish Migration Agency said on Thursday.

From now on, officials will assess each Syrian asylum seeker, considering what part of the country he or she came from. The residents of the six 'more dangerous' provinces - Aleppo, Raqqa, Idlib, Homs, Hama, and Deir ez-Zor - can still expect asylum to be granted automatically. That will not be true for people living in 'less dangerous' regions in the south, including Damascus, as well as in Latakia and Tartus on the Mediterranean coast, and the Kurdish-held northeast.

Comment: See also: 'Don't go out alone': Swedish police warn women after four rapes in four days in town of Uppsala


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Israeli police throw stun grenade at Haaretz photographer during raid on East Jerusalem neighborhood

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Israeli police threw a stun grenade at a Haaretz photographer in Isawiya, East Jerusalem, and detained a journalist and two members of a parents' committee during the Wednesday night raid on the Palestinian neighborhood.

A large police presence entered Isawiya as part of an ongoing crackdown in the area that has seen almost nightly raids for months, with 340 arrests and one fatal police shooting in what residents say is an intimidation campaign.

When the authorities were leaving the area Wednesday night, people threw stones at them and young men threw a firebomb and fireworks. Police ordered the crowd of residents, journalists, and Israeli activists to disperse.

Video footage shows a police officer hurling a stun grenade at Haaretz photographer Emil Salman, who was filming in the yard of a house and was not standing near other people at the time. A police officer can be heard saying, "throw at him, throw," before the grenade was flung.

Comment: Impression management - If there is no evidence to prove Israeli malfeasance, then 'it didn't happen'.


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NH survey center admits 'our polling schedule is determined by CNN'

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© Paul Sancya / Associated PressRep. Tulsi Gabbard speaks in Detroit on July 31, 2019 during the second of two Democratic presidential primary debates hosted by CNN.
Before debates, dark money is stifling debate within the Democratic Party

It's no secret that the Democratic establishment fears Tulsi Gabbard. It's also no secret that they are perfectly willing to pull the necessary strings to determine the outcome of an election (see 2016). Many, now, are sounding the alarms on the DNC's methods of who gets airtime during the 2020 debates.

In an exclusive comment to CitizenSource, the University of New Hampshire Survey Center — one of the only DNC-approved pollsters in New Hampshire (due to the fact that they are "partners" with CNN) — explained why they wouldn't be conducting a poll this month in the battleground state before the crucial September debate. Director Andrew E. Smith responded:
"The UNH Survey Center is funded by grants and contracts. We have contracted with CNN during this primary cycle as we have since 2000. Our polling schedule is determined by CNN and their polling budget."

Comment: The Democratic party continues its evil ways. It's likely to come back to bite them hard in 2020. But they are too wrapped up in their progressive bubble (again) to see it.


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Illinois police launch investigation after video shows officer placing a choke hold on a suspect

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Police are reviewing an incident caught on video where Elonte McDowell was choked by police in DeKalb, Ill., on Saturday, Aug. 24, 2019.
An Illinois police department has opened an excessive use of force investigation after social media footage appeared to show an officer placing a man in a choke hold during an arrest for marijuana possession.

The DeKalb Police Department in northern Illinois said it was reviewing footage and witness statements in connection with the arrest of 25-year-old Elonte McDowell, a black man who was placed in a choke hold and tased by white police officers last week, authorities said Tuesday.

McDowell's girlfriend, Alyssa Retuerto, captured the Aug. 24 arrest on video and posted it to Facebook with the caption, "For you guys to decide. Right or wrong?" Retuerto can be heard pleading with the officers in the video, asking why they needed to use a Taser while McDowell was pinned to the ground and in a choke hold.

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Teen went shooting with his mom and now he can't return to school

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A Colorado teen has been told he cannot return to school until authorities hold a "threat assessment hearing" after he went target shooting with his mother. Nate Evans, a junior at Loveland High School in Loveland, Colorado actually got a visit from police after he posted video of his plinking with his mom Justine according to the Colorado 2nd Amendment group Rally For Our Rights.
A report had come in to the police department about the video and they were told Nate was a threat. After showing the videos to the police officers and explaining that they'd simply gone on a mother-son outing to train with their legally owned firearms, the police stated that they had done nothing illegal and were well within their rights. They also determined Nate was not a threat to himself or anyone else, and went on their way.

But it wasn't over.
Unfortunately, even after police determined that there was nothing nefarious about a mom taking her son out for some firearms training, the school district wasn't convinced.

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Uproar after Indian judge brands Tolstoy's War & Peace 'objectionable material'

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An Indian judge's lack of literary appreciation has been roundly mocked online after he reportedly demanded a defendant explain why he had a copy of a book about a "war in another country," in reference to 'War and Peace'.

Activist Vernon Gonsalves was on trial in Bombay High Court for allegedly inciting violence back in December 2017, the PTI agency reports. Police presented the court with what they considered "highly incriminating evidence" seized from Gonsalves' home, namely "books and CDs with objectionable titles."

While the court agreed with the defense that mere possession of literature does not make one a terrorist, it demanded an explanation from the defendant about some of the works in question - chiefly, 'War and Peace'.

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One-third of Americans actually believe Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide

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Only one-third of Americans believe Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide behind bars, according to a new poll by Emerson College.

Voters were asked to weigh in on the convicted pedophile's Aug. 10 death at Manhattan's Metropolitan Correctional Center — and they were split in even thirds.

Thirty-four percent believe Epstein was murdered, 33 percent believe the city medical examiner's ruling that he hanged himself and 32 percent are unsure.

Comment: One-third of Americans believing this in-your-face nonsense seems a bit high!


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The moral decay of the US military goes way beyond subtlety

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At this point, there's no hiding that a considerable number of MSM sources directly promotes the agenda of both US military contractors and the Pentagon, trying to advertise the US military as the ultimate combat force akin to those unvanquishable legions of Rome from two thousand years ago. Unsurprisingly, the military brass is more than willing to uphold this image, as it has recently been announced by the Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, Joseph F. Dunford, that these days there's no force able to withstand a joint assault mounted by the US military. Well, somehow the Department of Defense (DoD) wants even more money, even though there's no logical explanation as to why the mightiest army on the planet would need to improve anything, when everyone else is obviously lagging far behind.

However, it's been rightfully pointed out by Global Research that:
With the biggest military budget in the world, five times larger than the next six countries, the largest number of military bases - over 180 - in the world and the most expensive military industrial complex, the US has failed to win a single war in the 21st century.
It would, indeed, be tempting to allocate all blame on those dubious weapons programs that draw mind-boggling amounts of resources without ever producing anything to show for them. But it's far past this stage by now, as it's obvious that the US military itself is undergoing a period of moral decay, where young men who enlisted to defend their country with honor and dignity are gradually turning into crooks.