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While California burns uncontrollably, lunatic state politicians waste billions on useless energy schemes

Larry Hamlin
Watts Up With That
Tue, 29 Oct 2019 22:00 UTC
WSJ California fires climate alarmists
The Wall Street Journal published a superb article that exposes the government lunacy in California where its climate alarmist propaganda driven Democratic politicians have wasted tens of billions of dollars on energy schemes that are totally useless in having any meaningful impacts on global emissions levels while ignoring the statewide wildfire disaster that is destroying massive amounts of property, thousands of homes and taking hundreds of lives.

The article notes the following Democratic Party California government driven climate alarmist absurd climate actions being taken while ignoring the critical need for aggressive statewide highest priorities and resources commitments to addressing long standing failures by the state in addressing its forest management responsibilities.

Comment: California: Lights are out, the plan all along
Politicians blame PG&E for the recent fires that have ravaged the state, but some of the blame redounds to the politicians. Wildfires in recent years have grown more deadly because timber harvesting and brush clearing were greatly curtailed due to myriad environmental restrictions. In the meantime, crucial infrastructure investment targeted at improving the reliability and safety of powerlines has taken the backseat to the state's demands for a huge increase in renewable energy — some of which, ironically, has necessitated the need for more powerlines to connect remote wind farms with the urban centers.
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Hourglass

Former CEO of Scania warns that Sweden is headed for civil war

Paul Joseph Watson
Summit News
Mon, 28 Oct 2019 00:00 UTC
CEO of trucking company Scania

Leif Östling
Military could be required to quell violent unrest in migrant areas.

The former CEO of trucking company Scania has warned that Sweden is heading towards civil war due to uncontrolled mass immigration.

In an interview with Swebbtv, businessman Leif Östling said that the arrival of so many new migrants who have failed to integrate into Swedish society is creating a fertile ground for violent unrest.

"We've taken in far too many people from outside. And we have. Those who come from the Middle East and Africa live in a society that we left almost a hundred years ago," he said.

Explosions and grenade attacks have skyrocketed in many Swedish cities, with much of the unrest being blamed on migrant gangs. Sexual assaults and violent crime is also on the rise.
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Take 2

Kanye West: Dems have 'brainwashed' African-Americans into 'aborting our children'

Yaron Steinbuch
Page Six
Tue, 29 Oct 2019 20:15 UTC
Kanye West
© Reuters / Kevin Lamarque
Kanye West, who released his latest album "Jesus Is King" last week, claims Democrats have "brainwashed" African-Americans — and are making them "abort" their children.

The 42-year-old rapper and fervent supporter of President Trump spoke with radio host Big Boy on Friday as part of his promotion of the long-delayed, gospel-inspired album.

"We're [black Americans] brainwashed out here, bro. Come on, man. This is a free man talking. Democrats had us voting [for] Democrats with food stamps for years," Yeezy said when asked about those who think he has turned his back on the black community.

"What are you talking about? Guns in the '80s, taking the fathers out the home, Plan B, lowering our votes, making us abort our children ... Thou shall not kill," he continued.
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Heart - Black

Entire pride of lions BUTCHERED in South Africa & body parts harvested for BLACK MAGIC


RT
Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:50 UTC
lion
© Pixabay
An entire pride of lions has been brutally murdered by poachers so parts of their bodies could be used in black magic potions. The killers entered a South African game reserve undetected, prompting concerns about an 'inside job.'

The Head Ranger at the Rietvlei Nature Reserve in Pretoria, South Africa, Bradden Stevens, 33, who spent a third of his life caring for the lions, made the grim and grisly discovery last Thursday.

"Jarvis, Bashi, Tawana and Tau were brutally murdered, in what seems to be a muti [black magic] killing," Stevens wrote, in a heartfelt Facebook post. "These last few days have been the darkest I have ever experienced."
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Health

Assange health and mental deterioration spur lawyers to ask Australian government for help

Rob Harris
The Sidney Morning Herald
Mon, 28 Oct 2019 07:45 UTC
Julian Assange
© Medium
Julian Assange
Julian Assange's British legal team has requested Australian diplomatic help as fears grow for his health and mental state in a London prison. The WikiLeaks founder has been held in HM Prison Belmarsh since his April 11 arrest at the Ecuadorian embassy, where he had lived in asylum for almost seven years.

Australian officials told a Senate estimates hearing on Thursday that diplomats had not heard back from Assange's lawyer since writing to her last week asking that she raise with him their offer of consular assistance.

The 48-year-old is fighting US attempts to extradite him to face 17 counts of spying and one of computer hacking in relation to WikiLeaks' release of thousands of classified Pentagon files regarding the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

Barrister Greg Barns, an adviser to the Australian Assange campaign, told The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald his UK lawyers on Friday requested consular assistance following a recent inquiry from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Mr Barns said:
"Julian's lawyers are asking for the Australian government's assistance in dealing with their client's inhumane conditions in Belmarsh prison which has led to, and is continuing to cause, serious damage to Julian's health."
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Star of David

Oslo City Council mulls boycotting products, services from illegal Israeli settlements


Sputnik
Tue, 29 Oct 2019 16:27 UTC
illegal settlement Givat Ze'ev west bank
© REUTERS / Ammar Awad
Houses are seen atop a hill in the Israeli settlement of Givat Ze'ev, in the occupied West Bank February 7, 2017
According to the Norwegian backers of the boycott, it will contribute to "lasting peace and the freedom of the Palestinians".

In a historic step, Oslo's newly installed "red-green" City Council led by the Socialist Left, Labour and the Greens, is contemplating a ban on the municipality's procurement of goods and services from Israeli settlements.

This is part of their cooperation platform for 2019-2023, the three left-of-centre parties intend to "investigate the extent of trade regulations that exist in order not to procure goods and services produced in an area occupied in violation of international law by companies operating under the permission of the occupying power".

Comment: Let's hope the city of Oslo grows a spine, and refuses to be intimidated by the Israeli Lobby in Europe.

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Mr. Potato

Big-brain move: Sweden beckons more migrants to come and receive free benefits


RT
Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:07 UTC
refugees malmo
© Reuters / TT News Agency
Sweden is beckoning even more migrants with a government website advertising its generous benefits system, while the former CEO of automaker Scania warns that a glut of foreigners is pushing the country toward civil war.

Sweden.se, a government-run website, entices migrants to make the journey north and details the benefits they can receive. Boasting the world's longest parental leave (though most new arrivals from the Middle East and Africa remain unemployed), Sweden also offers free health and dental care to immigrants, as well as sizable child allowances - which the website calculates for a family with six children.

The site, operated by the Swedish Institute (SI), is available in four languages - English, Chinese, Russian, and Arabic. While the English version offers the usual tourism-industry listicles on "10 Swedish myths uncovered" and "20 things to know before moving to Sweden," the Arabic version prominently features sections on benefits, acquiring work permits, and the rights of the child (including the right to education in their mother tongue).

Per-Arne Wikström, SI's head of communications, defended Stockholm's creation. "I have no problem with showing off that Sweden is a welfare country. We have a system that arouses interest," he told TV4 on Monday as politicians eviscerated the site for enticing even more migrants - needy, yet internet-connected - into a country already overburdened with benefits-seekers.

Comment: The money for a welfare state doesn't grow on trees. It can only be sustained by industry and working taxpayers. The more people who come to Sweden for the benefits - and don't pay in by working and paying taxes - the more everyone else has to pay, or the less everyone else gets in terms of benefits. Whoever came up with Sweden's immigration policy is either stupid, or wants to destroy their economy.

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Attention

Poll: Seven out of ten American millennials say they will likely vote socialist

Jennie Taer
SaraCarter.com
Mon, 28 Oct 2019 17:04 UTC
Hammer and sickle
Seven out of ten Millennials say they will likely vote socialist, according to a new survey conducted by the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation. The report found that support for communism increased by 36 percent from 2018's numbers as capitalism continues to go out of style. It's likely due to a shift in higher education, where Marxist ideology is taught favorably.

"The historical amnesia about the dangers of communism and socialism is on full display in this year's report," said Marion Smith, Executive Director of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation.
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Propaganda

If you have two sets of news media, you may as well have no media

Matt Tiabbi
Rolling Stone
Mon, 28 Oct 2019 16:41 UTC
trump white house
© Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP/Shutterstock
President Donald Trump speaks in the Diplomatic Room of the White House in Washington, announcing that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the shadowy leader of the Islamic State group, is dead after being targeted by a U.S. military raid in Syria.
Two sets of headlines over the weekend described the suicide of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. From the Washington Post Sunday morning:
"Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, austere religious scholar at helm of Islamic State, dies at 48"
The Post has since rewritten that, though the description of an "austere religious scholar with wire-rimmed glasses" remains in the lead paragraph. Meanwhile, the headline on Foxnews.com:
"Al-Baghdadi kill: how the daring military operation went down"
The Post headline would fit a quiet academic who died in his sleep, not a genocidal jihadist leader. The Fox headline is less nuts, but still not quite right: al-Baghdadi wasn't killed but reportedly committed suicide, while pursued by American "military dogs."

Donald Trump was correct when he tweeted Saturday night that something "big" had happened, but from there, America received two almost completely different versions of the story of al-Baghdadi's pursuit and suicide. It was a vivid demonstration of how dysfunctional the modern news landscape has become.

Comment: RT highlights an example of liberal media's Trump Derangment Syndrome in the person of Max Boot. The public wasn't having it:
One of President Trump's loudest critics right of center, Boot has made a brand out of attacking the commander in chief at every opportunity. However, this week's column presented Boot with a unique challenge: how to spin the news of the jihadi mastermind's death into a jab at the president?

He found a way. Taking issue with President Trump's description of Baghdadi as a "coward," Boot shot back that the so-called Caliph's death by explosive suicide - killing three of his own children in the process - itself proved his bravery. Apparently confident in that take, Boot even pulled the line from his column to post as a standalone tweet, but it soon provoked a torrent of ridicule from commenters online.



Reacting to the backlash, Boot later decided to delete his ill-fated tweet and scrub the Baghdadi line from his column altogether, offering an explanatory tweet in their place suggesting his words were misinterpreted.



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Yellow Vest

Iraqi police open fire on protesters - kill 13, injure 865


Sputnik
Tue, 29 Oct 2019 16:50 UTC
iraq protests
© REUTERS / THAIER AL-SUDANI
Mass rallies that began across the Middle Eastern country earlier this month have led to violent clashes between protesters and police, reportedly claiming the lives of around 250 Iraqis.

At least 13 people were killed and over 850 injured overnight after police opened fire at protesters in the city of Karbala, Reuters reported citing sources.

The city, which hosts the shrines of Imam Husayn and Abbas, sacred for Shia Muslims, witnessed another round of violent clashes between law enforcement and an angry crowd on Monday.

The news comes after people ignored a curfew, imposed by the military, and held meetings in the centre of the Iraqi capital over the last several days. The authorities have used tear gas to stop people from storming the Green Zone, an area with government offices, embassies, and foreign companies.

Comment: Lebanon, Hong Kong, Chile... The protests continue worldwide:

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