Confessed Killer Wants Fewer Restrictions on His Freedom

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Former al-Qaida terrorist and confessed killed Omar Khadr is going back to Canadian court to seek fewer restrictions on his freedom.

According to the Canadian Press, Khadr wants his bail conditions changed so that he can move anywhere in Canada, have complete access to the internet, and visit his controversial sister without his lawyer and bail supervisor being in the same room.

Khadr’s sister, Zaynab Khadr, has infuriated Canadians with her positive appraisals of al-Qaida and Osama bin Laden. In an interview with PBS’s Frontline, she was asked how parents could allow their children to become suicide bombers and Zaynab responded: “You must be very brave. You must be very, very, very brave. I mean I don’t have the guts to do that yet.”

Omar Khadr has written-off the comments by saying his sister was “saying things out of frustration.”

The Trudeau government gave Khadr $10.5 million (CDN) in “compensation” and issued a formal apology at the beginning of July because the Supreme Court of Canada described his incarceration at Guantanamo Bay as “oppressive.” Khadr claims he was tortured by U.S. and Canadian interrogators while a prisoner there. The payout and apology angered Canadians, given that Khadr had produced improvised explosive devices for the Taliban in Afghanistan and confessed to killing U.S. Army special forces medic Sgt. Christopher Speer with a hand grenade. (Read more from “Confessed Killer Wants Fewer Restrictions on His Freedom” HERE)

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Divers Recover the Remains of All Ten Sailors Who Died Aboard the USS McCain

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Divers have recovered the remains of all ten U.S. sailors who lost their lives when an oil tanker slammed into the side of a U.S. destroyer.

The sailors were lost in an accident involving the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS John McCain and the tanker Alnic MC, the 7th Fleet Public Affairs Office revealed Sunday.

The sailors who perished in this incident are:

Electronics Technician 1st Class Charles Nathan Findley, 31, from Amazonia, Missouri

Interior Communications Electrician 1st Class Abraham Lopez, 39, from El Paso, Texas

Electronics Technician 2nd Class Kevin Sayer Bushell, 26, from Gaithersburg, Maryland

[And more.]

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Students: LGBT Flag Is Like Confederate Flag

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Students and parents at a high school in Alabama are calling for the removal of a classroom LGBT “rainbow pride” flag, saying it is comparable to the Confederate flag.

More than 2,400 people thus far have signed a Change.org petition calling for the flag to be taken down at Auburn High School.

“The following signers of this petition ask that the Pride Flag flown in Mrs. Yeager’s classroom be removed as we strongly feel that it creates a hostile and provocative learning environment for students not comfortable to openly supporting the LGBTQ+ community in a public school where students come from diverse political and religious backgrounds,” the petition reads.

“Furthermore, we believe it is unprofessional and distracting for a teacher to be so openly displaying their political views in an unbiased and socially neutral public setting.” (Read more from “Students: LGBT Flag Is Like Confederate Flag” HERE)

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Shocker! ‘Islamophobia’ Is Decreed in Quran

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Is it irrational to fear Islam?

It’s a question that deserves a real answer, because those who hurl the “Islamophobia” epithet around recklessly are actually characterizing people who fear Islam – including increasingly bloody acts of Islamic terrorism committed in the name of Allah – as irrational, insane, perhaps even stark raving mad.

A phobia is a type of anxiety disorder, defined by fear of an object or situation. It is a persistent, irrational fear, exaggerated and usually inexplicable and illogical. It often leads to a kind of hysteria or paralysis when a phobic person is confronted by the object or situation that is feared. We’ve all seen videos of people losing it when they see a harmless snake or spider. We read about or see depictions of people who are afraid of heights or going outdoors.

But when was the last time you saw someone hysterical at the sight of a woman in a hijab or the Quran, or hearing the call to prayer? Not very often. So, this definition of Islamophobia clearly doesn’t match any clinical disorder, and it is certainly is not connected to the way anyone actually uses the word.

Yet this slur – this derogatory, offensive term – is used by politicians, the media, professors and Islamic activists as a catchy and convenient way to define bigotry, prejudice and hatred against individual Muslims. Note, however, that the word “Muslim” is not part of the term – Islam is. So, the literal meaning of Islamophobia would not be bigotry against individual Muslims, it would be an irrational fear of Islam – a religion, an ideology, a political institution. (Read more from “Shocker! ‘Islamophobia’ Is Decreed in Quran” HERE)

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Last Days? Bible Predicts Events Like Charlottesville

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Though we do not want to think about it, and some will deny its existence, there is a worldwide phenomenon happening right now. It is ripping apart nations, communities and even families.

It’s called “identity politics.”

It is dangerous. Those who engage in it are contributing to the destruction of our great nation. Those who promote it in government, the media and international relations are doing so for their own political and financial benefit.

Why do I believe “identity politics” is so dangerous? Well, Jesus Himself thought it threatening enough that He warned us that in the last days it would be prominent.

He said, in the days just prior to His return, “… nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom” (Matthew 24:7 NASB). (Read more from “Last Days? Bible Predicts Events Like Charlottesville” HERE)

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The Most Dangerous Hate Group in America

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By Michael Brown. Which is more insidious, the enemy you recognize or the enemy that appears to be your friend? Which is more dangerous, a rag-tag bunch of poorly-funded white supremacists, or a well-organized, massively funded “civil rights” organization that demonizes Christian conservatives? And which lie is more likely to spread, one that is false from beginning to end, or one that mixes falsehood with truth?

Based on the obvious answers to these questions, it is the Southern Poverty Law Center, the SPLC, that is most insidious and dangerous, and it is the lies of the SPLC that are more likely to spread. The SPLC even has blood on its hands and by its own definition should be listed is a hate group.

To give you an idea of just how dangerous the SPLC is, consider this recent headline from the San Diego Union-Tribune: “Eight hate groups are in San Diego’s backyard, civil rights organization says.”

Really? Eight hate-groups in San Diego’s backyard? How does that make you feel if you live nearby, and what protective action should you take? And who, exactly, are these groups?

Some are black supremacist groups; one denies the Holocaust; one supports Islamic terrorism and wants to establish Shariah law; and two are conservative Christian organizations. (Read more from “The Most Dangerous Hate Group in America” HERE)

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Christian Ministry Sues Over Listing on Southern Poverty Law’s ‘Hate Map’

By Valerie Richardson. A conservative Christian media group has slapped the Southern Poverty Law Center with a defamation lawsuit after being listed alongside neo-Nazis and white supremacists on its “hate map.”

D. James Kennedy Ministries filed a lawsuit this week in federal court in Alabama alleging that the SPLC “illegally trafficked in false and misleading descriptions of the services” offered by the ministry, subjecting it to “disgrace, ridicule, odium, and contempt in the estimation of the public.”

“These false and illegal characterizations have a chilling effect on the free exercise of religion and on religious free speech for all people of faith,” said president and CEO Frank Wright in a Wednesday statement.

Also named in the lawsuit are Amazon and GuideStar. The ministry alleges that the online retailer has excluded it from its Amazon Smile charitable-giving program, according to AL.com.

The charity tracker GuideStar ran afoul of conservative nonprofits this year when it included and then removed the SPLC “hate group” tag from its listings. (Read more from “Christian Ministry Sues Over Listing on Southern Poverty Law’s ‘Hate Map'” HERE)

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KKK Wanted Monuments Taken Down, Too

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By Kerry Picket. The Ku Klux Klan attempted to tear down monuments dedicated to Christopher Columbus too, an advocate of the famous explorer told The Daily Caller.

Patrick Korten of the National Christopher Columbus Association said in a statement Friday that “Columbus has been the target of white supremacists since the 1920s, when a resurgent Ku Klux Klan attacked monuments and celebrations of Columbus from coast to coast.”

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio and other city leaders are now contemplating whether to remove statues like Columbus from their respective cities.

De Blasio appointed a commission to review monuments that are dedicated to historical figures. Some of these monuments, like a 76-foot tall Christopher Columbus statue, could be removed from city property if it is deemed too distasteful. (Read more from “KKK Wanted Monuments Taken Down, Too” HERE)

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KKK Hated Columbus, Too

By J.P. MCCUSKER AND PATRICK KORTEN. Christopher Columbus is also on the growing list of targeted historical figures. There are calls to remove statues of Columbus in several cities — even Columbus, Ohio — as well as petitions to Columbus Day celebrations. And in a move rich with tragic irony, vandals — dressed in the now familiar dark hooded garments worn by Antifa and its allies — defaced the oldest monument in the country dedicated to Christopher Columbus in Baltimore on Sunday night.

In doing so, those in the dark hoods inadvertently did the bidding of those in white hoods, who for years sought to expunge statues and celebrations of the Italian Catholic explorer who sailed under Spain’s banner, precisely because he was Italian and Catholic.

In the 1920s, from coast to coast, members of the Ku Klux Klan opposed Columbus. In Richmond, they tried to stop the erection of a Columbus monument. In Pennsylvania, they burned fiery crosses to threaten those celebrating Columbus. The Klan newspaper, The American Standard, attacked honoring Columbus — on the basis that a holiday for him was some sort of papal plot.

The Klan was no fan of Columbus. He stood athwart their nativist desire for a country pure in its Anglo-Saxon and Protestant origins. (Read more from this story about the KKK and its hate for Columbus HERE)

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Here’s the Real Reason Trump Is Angry With McConnell and Ryan

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President Donald Trump is angry with Republican leaders because of a proposal floating around Capitol Hill that undercuts his legislative agenda and provides major concessions to Democrats, two conservative strategists with more than 40 years of Hill experience told The Daily Caller News Foundation.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Paul Ryan are planning to pass legislation that would raise the debt ceiling and fully fund Obamacare subsidies through the 2018 election cycle, a source within the administration told TheDCNF. Leadership is also preparing to pass a short-term spending bill — a continuing resolution — that would fund the government through mid-December, include no appropriations for Trump’s border wall, and continue funding to Planned Parenthood, the conservative strategists told TheDCNF.

The administration announced in late August that it wants lawmakers to pass a “clean” debt ceiling increase, meaning a piece of legislation that raises the debt limit with no additional measures attached.

Ryan is counting on Democrats in the House to get the proposal passed — a risky strategy as leadership does not typically get the minority party to raise the debt limit, the conservative strategists told TheDCNF. (Read more from “Here’s the Real Reason Trump Is Angry With McConnell and Ryan” HERE)

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Next Stop, Recession: The Financial Meteor Storm Is Headed Our Way

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Business-cycle recessions are not just inevitable, they are necessary to flush bad debt and marginal investments/projects from the system.

The next recession–which I suggested yesterday has just begun–will be more than a business-cycle downturn; it will be a devastating meteor storm that destroys huge chunks of the economy while leaving other sectors virtually untouched.

The dynamic that’s about to play out is simple: wages for the bottom 95% have gone nowhere for 17 years, while costs have soared far above official inflation for everyone exposed to real-world costs.

We have filled the widening gap between stagnant household income and rising expenses with debt. This stop-gap works for a while, but eventually the cost of servicing debt consumes the entire budget, leaving little to nothing to save or invest.

Absent savings and incentives for productive investment, productivity falters once productivity falters, wealth is no longer being generated or distributed widely.

After eight long years of filling the widening gap with borrowed money, the jig is up: the returns on adding debt have diminished to zero, and the financialization games that were supposed to be temporary emergency measures are now permanent.

Like a field exposed to toxins for 8 long years, all this permanent monetary and fiscal stimulus has weakened the productive economy while causing the most destructive weeds to flourish.

When credit expansion stops, the effect is like a meteor storm: marginal borrowers and lenders crater, and every sector that depends on marginal borrowers and lenders for sales and profits also craters.

Those sectors that are heavily in debt and dependent on marginal borrowers for sales implode once sales slump. As these enterprises default, all the lenders who issued this commercial debt also blow up.

Every node of the economy that is heavily indebted and dependent on marginal borrowers for sales, profits and taxes will be struck by a financial meteor. Every sector that avoided debt and sales funded by debt will escape with only light damage.

Here’s total credit in the U.S.: up from $26 trillion 2000 to $66 trillion today.The $12 trillion increase since 2009 required trillions in monetary and fiscal stimulus and hundreds of billions of dollars in savings diverted to the banks via zero-interest rate policy (ZIRP).

While explode higher, wages for the bottom 95% stagnated. Only the top 5% of households experienced any real (inflation-adjusted) income expansion . . .

Many of those about to be vaporized did not grasp the fragility of the “prosperity” they assumed was both solid and permanent. The difference between earned income and sales derived from earned income and debt-based income and debt-based sales is about to become painfully clear: the coming financial meteor strike will vaporize debt-based activity and leave whatever isn’t dependent on debt relatively unscathed. (For more from the author of “Next Stop, Recession: The Financial Meteor Storm Is Headed Our Way” HERE)

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Hurricane Harvey Smashes Into Texas

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Hurricane Harvey made landfall on the Texas coast near Rockport as a powerful Category 4 storm late Friday night, packing 130-mph winds and unleashing powerful storm surges.

Harvey, the first major hurricane — classified as Category 3 or above — to hit the U.S. since Hurricane Wilma in 2005, could dump up to three feet of rain in some regions near the Gulf Coast in the next week as it lingers over the area . . .

The National Weather Service updated Hurricane Harvey to a Category 3 storm with 125-mph winds and located the storm five miles north of Rockport. The National Weather Service also said that it expects Hurricane Harvey’s winds to slowly weaken, but maintain hurricane-force speeds through Saturday . . .

Harvey is the first major hurricane — classified as Category 3 or above — to hit the U.S. in over a decade. Harvey could dump up to three feet of rain in some spots in the next week as it lingers over the area, adding to the threat of flash flooding and storm surges.

Some forecasts are calling for as much as a mind-boggling 60 inches of rain from Harvey. The National Weather Service also warned that Harvey could linger for days and even spin back offshore to regenerate in the Gulf before heading toward Louisiana. (Read more from “Hurricane Harvey Smashes Into Texas” HERE)

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