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Sunday over the city of Inca on the popular tourist island, with five of the victims...killed in the chopper and the other two in the airplane, the BBC reported. Authorities said the airplane passengers were locals but haven’t officially identified any victims or the nationalities of the other three killed. At least one of the helicopter victims was Italian, according to Spanish news agency Europa Press. Photos of the wreckage...showed a tail section on a local road and a twisted hunk of metal on fire in a garden.

Islamic State jihadi asks to be freed so he can keep other Muslims from “making the same mistake that I did” AUG 24, 2019 4:00 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER “I accidentally joined a mafia in Iraq and Syria, maybe not a mafia, but a very bad group of people, thinking they are Muslims. If I had learned Islam properly, If I had understood I would have learned that these were a very bad group of people. I wouldn’t have been in the situation that I’m in.” This kind of talk is music to the ears of Western leaders, but once...

[Catholic Caucus] The Papacy in Jesuitical Captivity: Archbishop Viganò and the “60-Year-Old Plan” Editor’s Introduction: One year ago today (Aug. 25, 2018), Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, former apostolic nuncio to the United States (2011-2016), made history by publishing his explosive testimony concerning ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick’s decades of homosexual predation and abuse, indicting over a dozen high-ranking prelates – including Pope Francis himself – as being guilty of covering up McCarrick’s notorious sexual deviancy. Archbishop Viganò referred to such prelates in his 11-page testimony as belonging to “the homosexual current in favor of subverting Catholic doctrine on homosexuality,” describing “[t]hese homosexual...

Virginia: Imam prays that Allah would “grant victory to his servants, the mujahideen, wherever they are” AUG 25, 2019 11:00 AM BY ROBERT SPENCER All the regimes against which the imam Shaker Elsayed rails are non-Sharia regimes. And when he asks Allah to grant victory to the mujahideen, he doesn’t have an interior spiritual struggle in mind, as is made clear when he says: “The door to freedom is stained red with the blood of all the hands that have knocked on it.” “Fairfax, VA Imam Shaker Elsayed: Arab Regimes Collaborate with Israel; We Must Remove Arab Governments by Any...

When CNN's Brian Stelter isn't worrying about whether or not Sean Spicer's foxtrot around ABC's dancefloor will cause lasting damage to America's social fabric, he's bringing guests on 'Reliable Sources' to sound off cockamamie psychological theories around President Donald J. Trump. Today, Stelter had on a psychiatrist who suggested that President Trump is 'more destructive' than Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, and Mao Zedong combined.Ex-Townhall contributor and current Washington Examiner writer Julio Rosas picked up the exchange. Dr. Allen Frances, former chairman of the Psychiatry Department at Duke University, told Stelter that he is not in favor of psychologists and psychiatrists...

UK: Muslim screaming “If you don’t believe in God, I’ll kill you all” hits random man on head with machete AUG 24, 2019 9:00 AM BY ROBERT SPENCER Sy was also screaming “In the name of Allah.” Jonathan Sharp, of the CPS, said: “Daouda Sy was a regular user of the street drug Spice and was well aware of the effect it had on him, having already been prosecuted for brandishing an axe whilst under its influence in March 2018.” Jonathan Sharp, of the CPS, did not address the fact that Sy screamed that his victim “did not believe in...

Germany: Muslim migrants insult woman, start brawl because they thought her skirt was too short AUG 24, 2019 1:00 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER The principle is always and everywhere the same: in Muslim countries, one must conform one’s behavior to suit Islamic sensibilities. And in non-Muslim countries, one must conform one’s behavior to suit Islamic sensibilities. “Brawl in Duisburg because a woman’s skirt was too short,” translated from “Schlägerei in Duisburg, weil Rock einer Frau zu kurz war,” by Sinan Sat, Waz, August 22, 2019 (thanks to Searchlight Germany): Duisburg. “Cultural differences” were the trigger for a brawl in the...

Liberal Reaction to Death of Koch Prominent liberals exploded in vicious joy at the news that Koch had died. Perhaps the worst reaction was Bill Maher, who said, "F‑‑‑ him...I'm glad he's dead, and I hope the end was painful." An outlier? Hardly. His audience roared its approval. Bette Midler got in on the act, wishing his brother were also dead. She echoed Maher's profanity-bomb language and directed it at Kay Cole James, the black American leader of the Heritage Foundation, showing once again that no insult directed toward a minority is too vile when it comes from a liberal....

The mother and step-father of a 15-year-old San Bruno CA girl are in jail after allegedly assaulting and kidnapping the teenage boy they found in their daughter's bedroom.

"There Is No Christian Anymore in This Town": Persecution of Christians, June 2019 by Raymond Ibrahim August 25, 2019 at 5:00 am https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/14766/persecution-of-christians-june Send Print Share339 Three men and one woman robbed, beat, and poisoned Sagheer Masih, a 35-year-old Christian auto-rickshaw driver. "He was well-mannered, polite and very friendly. Knowing he had the responsibility of taking care of three younger siblings... he ensured that he always got to work early and left late in order to gather as much money as he could to care for them.... Instead of killing him in on the spot, they forced him to drink...

Former Obama CIA Director and current MSNBC contributor John Brennan is believed by some to be the architect of the Russia-Collusion sham. He now claims he doesn’t know much about the topic! John Brennan is said to be the mastermind of the coup to remove President Trump from office. Much of this sham started with the still unproven conspiracy that Hillary Clinton’s emails were stolen by Russia. Once the emails were stolen, they were supposedly used by Russia to damage the US election and Hillary Clinton. For example, we first hear of “dirt on Hillary” meaning Hillary’s leaked emails in...

Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) has finally caved after the top Democrat blasted far-left "Squad" member Reps Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib for sharing an anti-Semitic cartoon on social media.In a rogue move, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Nadler slammed the two progressive Democratic lawmakers over their recent anti-Semitic antics.Nadler also criticized other members of both parties for “the growing anti-Semitism” in America’s “political dialogue” as ongoing anti-Israel rhetoric continues to go unchecked.

Germany: Nurse refuses sex in subway station, Muslim migrant kicks her in the face AUG 25, 2019 9:00 AM BY ROBERT SPENCER Sexual assault occurs in all cultures, but only in Islam does it have divine sanction. One survivor of a Muslim rape gang in the UK said that her rapists would quote Quran to her, and believed their actions justified by Islam. The Qur’an teaches that Infidel women can be lawfully taken for sexual use (cf. its allowance for a man to take “captives of the right hand,” 4:3, 4:24, 23:1-6, 33:50, 70:30). The Qur’an says: “O Prophet, tell...

Mnuchin: Trump's 'as determined as ever' on China trade fight BY ZACK BUDRYK - 08/25/19 09:41 AM EDT Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Sunday that President Trump is “as determined as ever” in the ongoing trade war with China after Trump suggested he had regrets about escalating the standoff in comments the White House insists were misinterpreted. “The president is determined to have fair and reciprocal trade,” Mnuchin, speaking from the Group of Seven (G-7) Summit in France, told Fox’s Chris Wallace on “Fox News Sunday.” “He’s as determined as ever on this issue, he wants a good deal.” “Yeah,...

Amazing Grace original cover with Irish low whistle and viola in abandoned church!

A wide ranging interview with Steve Bannon, mostly on China. IMHO, he is spot on.

After a bit of a build-up, former Illinois Rep. Joe Walsh has made it official and announced he’s running for president . He will challenge Donald Trump for the Republican nomination in 2020. “I’m going to run for president,” Walsh said on ABC’s This Week. “I’m running because he’s unfit; somebody needs to step up and there needs to be an alternative. The country is sick of this guy’s tantrum—he’s a child.” The announcement wasn’t exactly surprising considering the controversial radio host known for his incendiary remarks has been saying for days that Trump needed a challenger from the right....

(Interesting twist on the media driven 'racist' narrative and fake news) Democratic Rep. Jahana Hayes (Conn.) pushed back on news stories with "exaggerated headlines," saying reports she said she's received racist threats since taking office are not true.Hayes hit reporters for “driving this narrative that I am using race as a dividing card,” in a statement Sunday, in response to two headlines she said are “clickbait journalism at its worst.” Hayes called out a headline in The Connecticut Mirror that said “Hayes has ‘heightened sense’ about security concerns," and a Republican American headline that said “U.S. Rep. Jahana Hayes claims...

DOJ: 64 Percent of All Federal Arrests in 2018 Were Noncitizens The Department of Justice in Washington on July 11, 2018. (Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times) Noncitizens accounted for 64 percent of all federal arrests in 2018, according to new data released on Aug. 22 by the Justice Department. The surge was driven largely by immigration-crime arrests, which have soared to the highest level in at least two decades. Federal authorities conducted 108,667 arrests for immigration crimes in 2018, up more than five times from the 20,942 arrests in 1998. Immigration arrests accounted for 95 percent of the total increase in...

“The goal of The 1619 Project, a major initiative from The New York Times that this issue of the magazine inaugurates, is to reframe American history by considering what it would mean to regard 1619 as our nation’s birth year,” The New York Times Magazine editors declare. “Doing so requires us to place the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of the story we tell ourselves about who we are as a country.” The scale of the opening offering is massive by the standards of modern journalism: 100 pages (with a few ads),...