Body Language Experts Sound off on Trump-Putin Meeting

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Dugan Arnett. For body-language experts, Friday was sort of like Christmas.

After months of waiting, after investigations into Russian election meddling, after considerable analysis and build-up, two of the world’s most powerful men — President Trump and President Vladimir Putin of Russia — finally met face to face at the G-20 summit in Hamburg, Germany.

Cameras, of course, were rolling for the initial greeting, and almost immediately, those who study such things say, the two began a nonverbal power negotiation.

Opinions on the interaction varied among body-language experts, but on one thing everyone agreed: For Trump, a man who has been routinely lampooned for the aggressive manner in which he shakes hands, Friday’s performance was quite out of the ordinary. (Read more from “Body Language Experts Sound off on Trump-Putin Meeting” HERE)

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Body Language Experts: Trump “Completely Different” in Recent Meeting

By Chris Baynes. Donald Trump’s body language was “completely different” at his meeting with Vladimir Putin, than it was with other world leaders, according to body language experts who have analysed his meetings with other world leaders.

The US President’s awkwardly long handshakes have become infamous since he took office, with his habit of aggressively yanking other heads of state towards him. Psychologists say this is a tactical move to assert dominance. . .

Unlike in previous meetings with premiers, Mr Trump did not lean in and there was no sign of his trademark aggression.

The pair briefly shook hands for a second time at a media photo call, when the US President leaned back in his seat and refrained from pulling Mr Putin towards him.

[One expert] suggested Mr Trump was wary of appearing “chummy” with the Russian President, amid ongoing investigations into claims Moscow interfered in the US Presidential election to his benefit. (Read more from this story on body language experts and Trump HERE)

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Arch-Terrorists Emerge as Frontrunners for Palestinian Presidency

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If you wondered why Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas was so unwilling to do the reasonable and humane act of stopping payments to terrorists, you now have your answer.

A recent poll shows that the Palestinian public prefers a leader even more radical than the terror-inciting Abbas, who has a long history of stirring up militant action against Israel.

More than nine in 10 Palestinians want their governing body to continue paying salaries to jailed terrorists and the families of terrorists killed in “martyrdom” operations against innocent Israelis, a new poll finds.

The Ramallah-based Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research (PSR) finds that Abbas has become deeply unpopular among Palestinians, accumulating only 31 percent support.

Palestinians prefer Marwan Barghouti — a convicted terrorist currently held in an Israeli prison for the murder of five people — to lead the Palestinian Authority.

Ismail Haniyeh, the leader of the Hamas terrorist organization, comes in second in presidential preference. Haniyeh has endorsed suicide operations as part of a genocidal campaign to destroy Israel.

“If presidential elections were between three: Mahmoud Abbas, Marwan Barghouti and Ismail Haniyeh, Abbas would receive 22%, Barghouti 41% and Haniyeh 32%,” the PSR states.

The poll also finds that only 7 percent of Palestinians support cutting off salaries to terrorists, while 91 percent are opposed. The “martyrs fund” paid out $183 million to 26,800 Palestinian families last year. Additionally, 6,500 jihadi prisoners took home a total of $135 million altogether, according to the 2016 Palestinian Authority budget.

Earlier this week, Abbas vowed to never stop paying terrorists.

“‘Even if I will have to leave my position, I will not compromise on the salary (rawatib) of a Martyr (Shahid) or a prisoner, as I am the president of the entire Palestinian people, including the prisoners, the Martyrs, the injured, the expelled, and the uprooted,” Abbas said, according to a Palestinian Media Watch translation.

White House officials have continued to push Palestinian leadership to stop terrorist payments as a show of goodwill to the Israelis. Trump envoys, Jared Kushner and Jason Greenblatt, have repeatedly asked a defiant Abbas to shut down the martyr fund, but have not had any success in stopping the terrorist-funding pipeline.

In addition to their overwhelming support for jihad against Israel, it might not come as a surprise that Palestinians also tend to be virulently anti-Semitic. A global survey in 2015 found that Palestinians are the world’s most anti-Semitic people, with 93 percent harboring anti-Semitic attitudes. (For more from the author of “Arch-Terrorists Emerge as Frontrunners for Palestinian Presidency” please click HERE)

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Archaeologists Unearth a 500-Year-Old Tower of Skulls — and Another Gruesome Aztec Mystery

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The 400 Spanish conquistadors who walked into the Aztec capital in the 16th century had conquest and new-world riches on their minds, but they were initially welcomed as friends. From that peaceful vantage point, they were amazed by the splendor of the people of Tenochtitlan — and their cannibalistic brutality.

They found temples soaked with blood and human hearts being burned in ceramic braziers, according to the Archaeological Institute of America . . .

The conquistadors and the Spaniards who followed them wrote of the victims of human sacrifices rolling down the steps of the temple, where they were dismembered, then eaten in a stew with chilies and tomatoes.

But one thing terrified the European newcomers more than almost anything: A rack of human skulls that towered over one corner of the temple to Huitzilopochtli, the Aztec god of the sun, war and human sacrifice. (Read more from “Archaeologists Unearth a 500-Year-Old Tower of Skulls — and Another Gruesome Aztec Mystery” HERE)

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Vatican Police Raid Drug-Fueled Gay Orgy at Top Priest’s Apartment

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By Megan Cerullo. Vatican police raided a drug-fueled gay sex party at a top priest’s apartment near the city, according to an Italian newspaper report.

The apartment’s occupant, who was not named by police, serves as a secretary to Cardinal Francesco Coccopalmerio, a personal adviser to Pope Francis.

The apartment belongs to the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith — the branch that reviews appeals from clergy found guilty of sexual abuse of minors, according to Italian daily Il Fatto Quotidiano, which first published the explosive report.

Police raided the apartment in June after neighbors complained of unusual behavior among frequent nighttime visitors.

Police arrested the priest and hospitalized him to detox him from the drugs he had ingested, according to the newspaper. (Read more from “Vatican Police Raid Drug-Fueled Gay Orgy at Top Priest’s Apartment” HERE)

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Vatican Police ‘Break up Drug-Fuelled Gay Orgy at Home of Secretary of One of Pope Francis’s Key Advisers’

By Julian Robinson. Vatican police have broken up a gay orgy at the home of the secretary to one of Pope Francis’s key advisers, it has been reported.

The flat belonged to the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which is in charge of tackling clerical sexual abuse.

When police showed up, they found drugs and a group of men engaged in sexual activity, local reports state.

Reports in Italy claim the occupant of the apartment is allegedly the secretary to Cardinal Francesco Coccopalmerio – a key aide to the 80-year-old Pope . . .

It is the latest scandal to hit the Vatican and comes after its finance chief Cardinal George Pell was charged with historical sexual offences. (Read more from “Vatican Police ‘Break up Drug-Fuelled Gay Orgy at Home of Secretary of One of Pope Francis’s Key Advisers'” HERE)

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Secret of Ancient Concrete – Exponentially Better Than Modern Materials – Discovered by Scientists

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Restoring Liberty Editor’s note: Here’s yet another indicator of how advanced our ancestors were: they created a concrete that lasts many times longer than modern versions. Add this on top of the metallurgy of Viking swords, the ancient electric batteries of Mesopotamia, the seafaring, global explorers of prehistoric Polynesia, and more, you’ve got to ask yourself: are we really smarter than those who preceded us?

Compare the writings of our Founders to modern times. We can barely read and comprehend what they wrote, let alone replicate it.

Without a doubt, we are advanced technologically, but that’s happened along with a decaying intellect for two reasons: (1) we effectively have one language combined with the unprecedented collective input of (2) billions of humans.

But the cell phones, super-computers, and other advanced toys delude us into thinking we have all the answers. The opposite is actually true. And it makes us much more likely to be deceived by the lies of our Establishment rulers.

In reality, we believe numerous fairy tales – like we and everything around us are constantly evolving to a more advanced state – or that we have the ability to choose our gender – or that we actually are exercising meaningful choice in the voting booth – to rejecting that we are created beings, ultimately subject to a Divine order.

Don’t you think it’s time to pause and self-reflect? Any effort to throw off our modern chains will require this.

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It is a mystery that continues to baffle modern engineers. Why do 2,000-year-old Roman piers survive to this day, yet modern concrete seawalls embedded with steel crumble within decades? . . .

Now scientists in the US think they have found the answer, and it could finally lead to modern sea defences which withstand time and tide.

They discovered that when saltwater mixes with the volcanic ash and lime used by Roman builders, it leads to the growth of interlocking minerals, which bring a virtually impenetrable cohesion to concrete.

“We’re looking at a system that’s contrary to everything one would want in cement-based concrete,” said Prof Marie Jackson, a geology and geophysics research professor at the University of Utah who led the study . . .

Roman engineers made concrete by mixing volcanic ash with lime and seawater to make a mortar, and then added chunks of volcanic rock. The combination of ash, water, and lime produces what is called a pozzolanic reaction, named after the city of Pozzuoli in the Bay of Naples, triggering the formation of crystals in the gaps of the mixture as it sets. (Read more from “Secret of Ancient Concrete – Exponentially Better Than Modern Materials – Discovered by Scientists” HERE)

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Shadow President? Obama Meets With South Korean President to Discuss Trump

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Former President Barack Obama seems to be feeling nostalgic for his old job, meeting with South Korean President Moon Jae-in Monday for 40 minutes.

The Korea Herald reported that Moon spoke about his recent meetings with President Trump in Washington and asked Obama for his advice on how to improve that relationship.

The meeting came after Obama spoke at the Asian Leadership Conference and the Fourth Congress of Indonesian Diaspora in Jakarta. There he attacked Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris climate change accord.

“In Paris, we came together around the most ambitious agreement in history about climate change, an agreement that even with the temporary absence of American leadership can still give our children a fighting chance,” Obama said in Indonesia. (Read more from “Shadow President? Obama Meets With South Korean President to Discuss Trump” HERE)

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There Won’t Be Gender Restrictions at 2018 Olympics

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The International Olympic Committee (IOC), in charge of making the rules for the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in South Korea, said that there will be no sex or gender testing required for the upcoming games.

“With regard to Hyperandrogenism in female athletes, there were no regulations in place at the Olympic Games Rio 2016 and there will be no regulations in place at the Olympic Winter Games PyeongChang 2018 as we are still awaiting the resolution of the Dutee Chand case,” the IOC wrote in a June email in response to an inquiry into how it would regulate the upcoming Olympics.

The response follows controversy that sparked after 800-meter South African runner Caster Semenya won gold at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Brazil. Semenya’s intersex condition causes her to produce more testosterone (hyperandrogenism) than most women, prompting questions about whether she had an unfair biological advantage.

“These kind of people should not run with us,” Italian middle-distance runner Elisa Cusma said. “For me, she is not a woman. She is a man.”

In the past, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), the world’s governing body for track and field, sought to preserve the male-female division by administering gynecological exams, chromosome tests, or hormone tests to ensure fair competition. (Read more from “There Won’t Be Gender Restrictions at 2018 Olympics” HERE)

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Achtung! Germans the New Minority in Major German City

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Frankfurt has officially become Germany’s first “majority minority” city, as data from the city’s Office for Multicultural Affairs reveal more than half of the city’s residents now have a migrant background.

Sylvia Weber, the city’s secretary of integration, presented the new information this week, confirming 51.2 percent of Frankfurt’s population has a so-called “migration background.” A “migration background” includes people with a non-German nationality as well as Germans born abroad and minors whose parents have immigrated to Germany.

“The trend is clear,” Weber stated. “We are a city without a majority.”

Turks, who represent 13 percent of the population, are the city’s largest non-German minority. Relations between Germany and Turkey have deteriorated since last July’s failed coup in Turkey, and this week Germany rejected a request by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to address ethnic Turks in Germany next week on the sidelines of the G20 summit.

There are about 3 million Turks in Germany. The large diaspora is a legacy of Germany’s massive post-war guest-worker program of the 1960s and 1970s. (Read more from “Achtung! Germans the New Minority in Major German City” HERE)

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U.N. Goes Orwellian: 3 Disturbing Identifiers for Mass Migration

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Migration is INEVITABLE. Migration is NECESSARY. Migration is DESIRABLE.

These three sentences flash at the end of a new video released by the International Organization for Migration (IOM), a United Nations group dedicated to “promoting humane and orderly migration for the benefit of all.”

The video highlights that 244 million international immigrants, often called “refugees,” are living abroad worldwide, and cites this number as proof that “migration is inevitable, necessary, and desirable.”

The video is composed of words superimposed over scenes of migrants, consisting of rhetoric that is meant to elicit sympathy such as “undocumented, discriminated, forgotten,” as well as words meant to present the migrants positively, such as “grateful, skilled, compassionate.”

“The rise in the number of international migrants reflects the increasing importance of international migration, which has become an integral part of our economies and societies. Well-managed migration brings important benefits to countries of origin and destination, as well as to migrants and their families,” said Wu Hongbo, U.N. under-secretary-general for economic and social affairs. (Read more from “U.N. Goes Orwellian: 3 Disturbing Identifiers for Mass Migration” HERE)

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Pope Removes Conservative Vatican Doctrine Chief

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Pope Francis is removing the head of the Vatican’s doctrinal office, one of the Church’s most senior cardinals, who has taken an orthodox stand from the beginning of the pontificate.

LifeSite has confirmed with a source in Rome that Cardinal Gerhard Muller, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith, is to be removed from his office on July 2, the end of his five-year mandate in the position . . .

But Cardinal Muller, 69, has been steadfast in his opposition to the liberal interpretation of Amoris Laetitia favored by Pope Francis.

In terms of vocal conservatives in the hierarchy of the Vatican only Cardinal Robert Sarah remains. Cardinal Burke was removed by Pope Francis and demoted to patron of the Order of Malta. Australian Cardinal George Pell, as reported yesterday, is now off to his home country to defend himself against media-hyped charges of sexual abuse. (Read more from “Pope Removes Conservative Vatican Doctrine Chief” HERE)

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