New York Is Named After a Horrendous Slave Trader

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New York, both the city and the state, is named after the house of York and particularly for James Stuart, then Duke of York, one of the most successful slavers in colonial American history.

President Donald Trump wondered aloud during a raucous press conference Tuesday whether the impulse to tear down memorials to leaders of the Confederacy like Gen. Robert E. Lee would slip into calls to remove monuments to America’s founders, like Thomas Jefferson and George Washington, both of whom owned slaves.

The memory of slavery is enshrined in the name New York as well as the name of the nation’s capitol, even though both cities have vastly changed from their christening.

James Stuart conquered the settlements between the Delaware and the Connecticut rivers from the Dutch in 1664, and the name of the principal port, New Amsterdam, was promptly changed to honor the new master. James’ brother, King Charles II of England, gave the territory to the duke in exchange for four beaver pelts annually.

The Duke of York, who later became King James I of England (and James VII of Scotland), created Britain’s greatest slave empire known as the Royal African Company, which transported between 90,000 and 100,000 African slaves to the Caribbean and American colonies between 1672 and 1689. (Read more from “New York Is Named After a Horrendous Slave Trader” HERE)

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Two Former Wasserman Schultz IT Aides Indicted for Conspiracy Against U.S.

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A federal grand jury Thursday indicted two former information technology (IT) aides of Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz — Pakistani-born Imran Awan and his wife Hina Alvi — on four counts of conspiracy in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

The FBI arrested Awan at Dulles International Airport July 24 as he was preparing to board a flight to Pakistan. When his wife Alvi left the U.S. for Pakistan in March, federal authorities found more than $12,000 in cash hidden in a suitcase. She had withdrawn the couple’s three children from local schools and does not intend to return to the U.S., according to the FBI.

“Defendants AWAN and ALVI did unlawfully, willfully, and knowingly conspire, combine, confederate, and agree with each other to commit offenses against the United States,” including bank fraud, false statements, and unlawful monetary transactions, the indictment said.

An arraignment date has not yet been set, and a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia did not immediately respond to The Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group’s question about when Hina Alvi would become a fugitive if she does not return to the U.S. voluntarily, or whether officials would seek to extradite her from Pakistan. (Read more from “Two Former Wasserman Schultz IT Aides Indicted for Conspiracy Against U.S.” HERE)

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Senator: ‘I Hope Trump Is Assassinated!’

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A Missouri state senator said in a now-deleted Facebook post that she hopes President Donald Trump is assassinated.

Maria Chappelle-Nadal acknowledged on Thursday that she wrote a post which read: “I hope Trump is assassinated!”

She made the comment in an exchange with a left-wing activist who claimed that his cousin is a Secret Service agent.

Chappelle-Nadal confirmed to a reporter with St. Louis TV station KMOX that she posted the comment.

“I put something up on my personal Facebook page and it has now been deleted,” she said.

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Now President Who FREED SLAVES Torched by Vandals

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In the midst of anti-Confederacy monument hysteria sweeping the nation, not even America’s beloved 16th president – who issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1862 that freed the slaves – is safe from mayhem and destruction.

Chicago Alderman Ray Lopez says vandals torched a bust of Abraham Lincoln that stood in West Englewood for nearly 100 years.

And Lopez places blame for the destruction squarely at the feet of President Trump.

He claims the president emboldened vandals in the “Land of Lincoln” when Trump blamed “both sides” for violence at a Charlottesville, Virginia, rally, which left one woman dead and 38 injured . . .

President Trump unequivocally and repeatedly condemned the “violence, bigotry and hatred” and called for national unity. But it still wasn’t enough for the mainstream media and leftist detractors. Despite the mishmash of extremist groups on the scene, the left and mainstream media demanded that Trump condemn the hateful actions specifically of the white supremacists and neo-Nazis. But nary a peep was said of Antifa’s role in the violence. On Monday, President Trump specifically condemned white supremacists. On Tuesday, Trump said: “I think there’s blame on both sides. You had a group on one side that was bad. You had a group on the other side that was also very violent. Nobody wants to say that. I’ll say it right now.” (Read more from “Now President Who FREED SLAVES Torched by Vandals” HERE)

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Barcelona Terror: 13 Dead, 100 Injured After Van Rams Pedestrians

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A van zigzagged at high speed through a popular pedestrian zone in Barcelona, killing at least 13 people and injuring more than 100.

ISIS has claimed responsibility for the terrorist attack Thursday at 4:51 p.m. local time near the famous, tree-lined Las Ramblas promenade.

“The perpetrators of the attack in #Barcelona are Islamic state soldiers and carried out the operation on command of [ISIS’ leader] of targeting coalition countries,” the ISIS release stated, according to SITE Intel Group.

Two suspects are under arrest, and a manhunt is underway for the driver of the van.

Police now believe the attack is related to an explosion that took place Wednesday night at a house in the Spanish town of Alcanar in which one person was killed. The connection raises the possibility the terrorists intended to use explosives in the attack, but police did not provide further details. (Read more from “Barcelona Terror: 13 Dead, 100 Injured After Van Rams Pedestrians” HERE)

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22 GOP Lawmakers Targeted in Trump-Impeachment Plot

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Calls for impeachment of President Trump are nothing new – some started within minutes of his January inauguration – but efforts to put the country’s 45th president on trial are reaching a fevered pitch in the wake of the Charlottesville protest clashes and left-wing attempts to link the president to “white nationalists.”

A group affiliated with the online activist group Anonymous on Thursday posted the hacked private cell-phone numbers and email addresses for 22 Republican members of Congress in a bid to push for Trump’s impeachment. Among those on the list were U.S. Sens. Ben Sasse of Nebraska, Bob Corker of Tennessee and Charles Grassley of Iowa.

In what appears to be a coordinated effort, the DNC sent out an email alert to Democrats Thursday requesting that they show up this weekend at anti-Trump rallies in cities across the U.S.

It’s apparently part of a strategy to feed off of the anti-Trump energy created in the media post-Charlottesville with the destruction and removal of Confederate monuments in multiple cities such as Baltimore; Atlanta; Nashville; Durham, North Carolina; and San Antonio, Texas.

“What happened this past weekend in Charlottesville, and Donald Trump’s disgraceful actions since, should only motivate us to keep fighting even harder for what is right,” DNC Chair Tom Perez says in the email. “Come out this Weekend of Action to an event near you, and say you’ll rise and organize with us.” (Read more from “22 GOP Lawmakers Targeted in Trump-Impeachment Plot” HERE)

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USA Today Channels the Mark of the Beast: ‘All Americans Will Be Chipped – Eventually’

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“It will happen to everybody,” says Noelle Chesley, 49, associate professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. “But not this year, and not in 2018. Maybe not my generation, but certainly that of my kids” . . .

For now, Three Square Market, or 32M, hasn’t offered concrete benefits for getting chipped beyond badge and log-on stats. Munster says it was a “PR stunt” for the company to get attention to its product and it certainly succeeded, getting the small start-up air play on CBS, NBC and ABC, and generating headlines worldwide. The company, which sells corporate cafeteria kiosks designed to replace vending machines, would like the kiosks to handle cashless transactions.

This would go beyond paying with your smartphone. Instead, chipped customers would simply wave their hands in lieu of Apple Pay and other mobile-payment systems.

The benefits don’t stop there. In the future, consumers could zip through airport scanners sans passport or drivers license; open doors; start cars; and operate home automation systems. All of it, if the technology pans out, with the simple wave of a hand. . .

[A]nalysts believe future chips will track our every move. For example, pets for years have been embedded with chips to store their name and owner contact. Indeed, 32M isn’t the first company to embed chips in employees. In 2001, Applied Digital Solutions installed the “VeriChip” to access medical records . . . In Sweden, BioHax says nearly 3,000 customers have had its chip embedded to do many things, including ride the national rail system without having to show the conductor a ticket [and in] the U.S., Dangerous Things, a Seattle-based firm, says it has sold “tens of thousands” of chips to consumers . . . (Read more from “USA Today Channels the Mark of the Beast: ‘All Americans Will Be Chipped – Eventually'” HERE)

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Surprise! Conservative State Goes ‘LGBT’ on Bathrooms

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Amid opposition from hundreds of businesses and moderate Republican lawmakers, a Texas measure that would restrict access to bathrooms in schools and public buildings according to the gender on a person’s government-issued ID appears to be dead, according to lawmakers.

The state Senate passed SB3 in July by a 20-10 vote, but it was never referred to the House. The House version, HB46, never made it to committee, making passage unlikely before the legislature completes its 30-day special session on Wednesday.

“The bathroom bill in this session is dead and buried with dirt over its coffin,” said Mark Jones, a political science professor at Rice University in Houston told Reuters.

Proponents of the measure, who argue open bathrooms expose women and girls to sexual assault, have hoped that passage in Texas would give momentum in other states to legislation that would protect against the movement to open restrooms according to “gender identity.”

The bill would regulate bathroom access and locker rooms for public buildings and schools based on birth certificates and other government-issued identification documents. (Read more from “Surprise! Conservative State Goes ‘LGBT’ on Bathrooms” HERE)

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Developer Must Build Gay Bar in New Development, or It Won’t Get Building Permit

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A U.K. City Council has ordered a private company that it cannot build luxury flats and offices on a site it recently purchased that included a closed gay-bar unless it agrees to include a new gay bar as part of the development plan.

Tower Hamlets Council ordered earlier this month that developers Regal Homes must build a gay bar that will “remain a lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender-focused venue for a minimum of 12 years,” regardless of its ability to stay economically afloat.

The bar will only be deemed ‘complete’ once it passes an inspection from the mayor’s office who will make sure it is sufficiently “gay.” Standards for determining “gayness” were not disclosed.

“I am delighted that as a council we are leading the way in using innovative ways to protect spaces such as the Joiners Arms site,” said Tower Hamlets Mayor John Biggs.

The order comes after a majority of London’s gay bars have gone out of business over the past years, from 125 in 2006 to 53 today. (Read more from “Developer Must Build Gay Bar in New Development, or It Won’t Get Building Permit” HERE)

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Roy Moore Sails to Victory in Alabama Senate Primary Election

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Christian constitutionalist and former judge Roy Moore handily won the first stage of Alabama’s Republican primary for a U.S. Senate seat last night, setting the stage for an epic battle next month between the “elitist” national GOP establishment and conservatives who want the D.C. “swamp” drained.

The strongly pro-life and pro-natural marriage Moore cruised to victory in a nine-man Republican field, winning almost 39 percent of the vote to almost 33 percent for current Alabama Sen. Luther Strange. A former Alabama Attorney General, Strange received President Trump’s endorsement and millions of dollars in support from a Senate PAC aligned with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

“WE’RE ON TO THE RUNOFF! Time for Conservatives across Alabama to unite and deliver a knockout punch to the establishment! #ALSen,” Moore, the former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice who lost his job last year fighting to preserve Alabama’s natural marriage law after the U.S. Supreme Court imposed homosexual “marriage” on the nation, tweeted at 9:02 last night, with his victory assured.

Conservative Congressman and House Freedom Caucus member Mo Brooks — whose campaign could not recover from a wave of McConnell-allied, sometimes-vicious attack ads — came in third with almost 20 percent of the vote. (Read more from “Roy Moore Sails to Victory in Alabama Senate Primary Election” HERE)

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