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Virginia Police Officer Suspended After Turning Over Suspected Illegal Alien to ICE Debra Heine

By on October 2nd, 2019

https://amgreatness.com/2019/10/01/virginia-police-officer-suspended-after-turning-over-suspected-illegal-alien-to-ice/

A Virginia police officer was suspended after he turned over a suspected illegal alien to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) following a traffic accident last month.

In Fairfax County, Va., that’s a no-no—even if the suspected illegal immigrant got into the accident while driving without a license. The officer—who has been on the job for several years—will now have to undergo remedial training so he doesn’t make this mistake again.

“This is an unfortunate issue where the officer was confused,” Fairfax County Police Chief Edwin Roessler Jr. said. “We have trained on this issue a lot. This is the first time we’ve had a lapse in judgment, and the officer is being punished.”

The incident occurred in Alexandria on Sept. 21, according to Fox News.

The officer discovered one of the drivers didn’t have a Virginia driver’s license and ran a check with the state Department of Motor Vehicles, police said. The check revealed the driver had a violation for failing to appear for a deportation hearing.

The officer verified the warrant and alerted ICE, who quickly sent an agent to the scene of the accident.

After citing the driver for not having a driver’s license, the officer turned him over to the ICE agent.

Fairfax County PD enacted a policy in 2007 that prohibits officers from taking individuals into custody based on civil violations of immigration law.

Roessler apologized for the officer’s “lapse in judgement,” according to Fox, and ordered an internal investigation to make sure it doesn’t happen again.

“Our county is one of the most diverse counties in the nation and no one should have the perception that FCPD is acting as a civil immigration agent for ICE,” he said. The law abiding residents of Fairfax Country were not asked for comment.

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Kamala Harris is the Winner from the Impeachment Push But the Game is On by Karin McQuillan

By on October 2nd, 2019

amgreatness.com/2019/10/01/kamala-harris-is-the-winner-from-the-impeachment-push-but-the-game-is-on/

The Democratic strategy is to create a coalition that excludes mainstream voters and their concerns entirely. That’s why Paleface Warren can’t do this job. It has to be Kamala Harris.

The Democrat leadership and political elite have decided to go all in on impeachment. It’s just their latest big media play. It remains to be seen how far they push it beyond posturing and investigations, since Nancy Pelosi’s “official investigation” reportedly is what Representative Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) has been doing all along. Nonetheless, in political terms, the Democrats are making a consequential move that is likely to undercut the Biden campaign.

Republican pundits are busy pointing out that the Ukraine story will hurt Joe Biden more than President Trump. They are wondering why Democrats would go back to the same failed ploy they tried with the Mueller investigation, which only uncovered wrongdoing by the Clinton campaign and Obama’s CIA and FBI appointees, and none by President Trump. These pundits are missing the point.

Winners and Losers

There are two losers here and two winners. The losers are President Trump and candidate Joe Biden. The winners are Elizabeth Warren in the short term, and Kamala Harris in the long-term.

President Trump loses because, once more, his brand is associated with a bad smell. The screeching press coverage of the flimsy Ukraine accusations amount to powerful, free campaign ads for his opposition and they’re running 24/7. They are aimed at low information swing voters who never bother to get the details, just the headlines. And as such they work.

The key audience here is Democrat voters themselves, the moderate but loyal Democrats who are becoming restive about their party’s left turn. A small but significant percentage of these voters ordinarily would give President Trump a fair chance. There is a lot for them to like in his record. President Trump has been an outstanding president in the two realms that count: the economy and national security. We are in a period of job growth not seen in decades, and unheard of in the lifetime of millennials. President Trump has disproportionately helped blacks and Hispanics. We are at peace.

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Trump Calls Illicit Impeachment Inquiry “a Coup” And the evidence supports the president’s claim. Matthew Vadum

By on October 2nd, 2019

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2019/10/trump-calls-illicit-impeachment-inquiry-coup-matthew-vadum/

President Donald Trump justifiably lashed out at the congressional Democrats trying to impeach him, accurately describing the Left’s unseemly effort to overturn the 2016 election as a “coup.”

“As I learn more and more each day, I am coming to the conclusion that what is taking place is not an impeachment, it is a COUP, intended to take away the Power of the People, their VOTE, their Freedoms, their Second Amendment, Religion, Military, Border Wall, and their God-given rights as a Citizen of The United States of America!” Trump tweeted Oct. 1 at 4:41 p.m.

Trump was echoing the words of trade adviser Peter Navarro who earlier in the day told Fox Business Network he believed the president was the victim “of an attempted coup d’etat.”

Since even before Donald Trump was elected president the Left has been trying to make the normal presidential job-related things he has been doing look abnormal. The impeachment circus is filled with examples. There were anti-Trump protesters outside the Trump International Hotel in the nation’s capital in the dark wee hours of Nov. 9, 2016, not long after the media called the race for Trump. The manufactured, media-driven mass hysteria directed against Trump only grew over time.

Even as he was being inaugurated, the Left was howling for Trump’s impeachment, removal from office by the Senate or by military coup, and even assassination, as they came to grips with the fact that the new Chief Executive was deadly serious about protecting America and rolling back President Barack Hussein Obama’s poisonous legacy. No claim or statement has been too crazy, lawless, undemocratic, or barbaric for the Left as it has desperately tried to keep the borders open to Muslim terrorists as well as illegal aliens they view as future Democrat voters, Americans groaning under the chains of Obamacare, businesses buried under mountains of red tape, and the welfare state ballooning.

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Keep It Steady and Cool with Iran, America By Victor Davis Hanson

By on October 2nd, 2019

https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/10/us-foreign-policy-iran-keep-it-steady-and-cool/

And keep pumping that American oil and gas.

Expect more desperate Iranian efforts to prompt a U.S. military response in the Persian Gulf. Trump’s sanctions have cut off 90 percent of Iran’s oil revenues. Soon Tehran’s shattered economy will be followed by more pent-up domestic unrest of the sort that Barack Obama ignored in 2009, when he felt that the continued viability of the murderous theocracy fed his bizarre dreams of enhancing a new Shiite, Persian hegemony to counterbalance the Sunni Arabs.

In contrast, America’s newfound role as the largest gas and oil producer in the world has not only lessened the importance of imported oil, whether from enemies such as Iran and Venezuela, or purported friends like Saudi Arabia and the Gulf monarchies. In a weird way, it has also turned the last half-century of oil politics upside down.

Tensions in the Gulf now help as much as hurt the United States. America is soon slated also to become the world’s largest exporter of gas and oil. Any increased costs for importing overseas oil will be offset by greater profits from American exports.

There are five general principles that should guide Trump in isolating Iran.

First, Iran desperately needs a military confrontation of some sort — preferably short of an all-out war. Their rationale behind missile and drone attacks is to get Trump out of office by 2021, to unite a factionalizing Iranian public around heroic resistance to the Great Satan or a lesser Satan in Tel Aviv, and to create enough chaos that some outside party might step in to save Iran from what otherwise would probably be an inevitable death spiral. They yearn for a return of Kerry-ism, or the chance that America’s naïve coastal elites will return to power and virtue-signal away whatever Tehran wants.

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The Problem with Impeachment By Rich Lowry

By on October 2nd, 2019

https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/10/democrats-impeachment-inquiry-will-make-everything-worse/

For Democrats, Ukraine is the release valve for nearly three years of fear and loathing.

Impeachment is about to make everything worse.

If our politics seems overheated, our institutions beleaguered, and our public debate degraded, just wait until we are in the midst of the impeachment debate.

Democrats have had an impeachment itch that they’ve been desperate to scratch ever since Donald Trump took office. For them, Ukraine is equal parts a genuine outrage and an excuse, the release valve for nearly three years of fear and loathing.

Rather than conducting himself as if he were aware that a hysterical opposition is eager to impeach him just as soon as it finds a reason, Trump has embraced constant provocation. He has shown little interest in distinguishing between himself and the high office that he holds. Although we need to learn more, there’s clearly an impropriety in his handling of Ukraine.

If he’d only urged Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy to cooperate with Attorney General Bill Barr on the probe related to the beginnings of the 2016 Russian investigation, it would have been completely appropriate (the president reportedly pushed other countries to cooperate as well). Or if the story only involved Rudy Giuliani poking around in Ukraine under his own power to find damaging information on the Bidens, it’d be standard hardball politics. It’s the intersection of the latter with Trump’s official capacity as president that’s inappropriate.

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Foreign Influence and Double Standards Democrats want to stop Barr from investigating what happened in 2016.

By on October 2nd, 2019

ttps://www.wsj.com/articles/foreign-influence-and-double-standards-11569971481

We hope the prosecutors won’t be deterred. When Washington is in impeachment heat, it pays to be skeptical and look for the other half of the story.

Washington is in an impeachment frenzy, which is a dangerous moment for facts and context. A classic example is the political and media overreaction to Monday’s stories concerning Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Attorney General William Barr and impeachment.

Mr. Pompeo’s alleged misdeed is that he was among those listening to Mr. Trump’s July 25 telephone call with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky. But why shouldn’t a Secretary of State be on a call to the new President of an important country? U.S. foreign policy is the secretary’s job. As far as we know, Mr. Pompeo isn’t responsible for Mr. Trump’s decision to mention Joe Biden in that conversation. This is not impeachable behavior, or even impeachment news.

As for Mr. Barr, he is supposedly implicated because he asked Mr. Trump to ask Prime Minister Scott Morrison for Australia’s cooperation with the Justice Department probe of illegal foreign influence in the 2016 election. Mr. Barr and prosecutors have also sought the cooperation of other foreign governments.

We certainly hope they have. Everyone has known for some time that Justice is investigating what happened in 2016, and Justice made that public last week in a statement when the transcript of Mr. Trump’s Ukraine phone call was released.

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CHARLOTTE’S NEWS WEB- UNITED KINGDOM

By on October 2nd, 2019

UNITED KINGDOM

A rapist migrant who tied his victim up with a phone cable after forcing his way into a flat has been convicted of rape; Temesgen Desta, 32, grabbed his victim by the throat to stop her screaming for help and hit her causing her to fall, in Birmingham city centre, West Midlands; also wanted for attempted sexual assault of a 54-year-old woman at Crosby beach, Merseyside, the previous afternoon; both women who were unknown to Desta.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/rape-phone-cable-birmingham-liverpool-sex-attacks-temesgen-desta-a9124516.html

Two men in their 20’s in critical condition after shooting in Ilford, east London; No arrests have been made and a crime scene remains in place.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/sep/28/two-men-in-critical-condition-after-east-london-shooting

A gang member who stabbed his rival in an unprovoked attack in broad daylight in Luton, Bedfordshire, has been jailed; gang member ran up to his rival’s car at a set of traffic lights brandishing a knife; repeatedly stabbed him through the open passenger window

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/luton-stabbing-gang-violence-dashcam-video-police-tyriq-richards-tindle-a9124226.html

Police officer rushed to hospital after being injured in hit and run attack in Coventry, West Midlands; officer was attempting to stop a car; driver sped off after hitting officer

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1182671/Coventry-Police-officer-hit-and-run-injured-west-midlands-police-appeal

Man suffers serious burns after being soaked in flammable liquid and set alight in Skelmersdale, Lancashire; the man is in hospital in a critical but stable condition after suffering serious burns at his home; Officers have launched an attempted murder inquiry

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/sep/26/lancashire-man-set-on-fire-on-doorstep-in-dreadful-targeted-attack

Hillingdon, west London, stabbing: Man brutally knifed to death on platform of London tube station by a group of young men

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1182196/hillingdon-stabbing-london-knife-crime-london-underground-tube-metropolitan-line

A car was deliberately driven into pedestrians in north London, injuring one; the driver deliberately mounted the pavement after an argument earlier in the day, and hit “a number” of pedestrians; It took place outside Highbury and Islington Underground station.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/highbury-islington-station-car-crash-met-police-hit-run-a9117196.html

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) could and should have extradited a PAEDOPHILE music teacher suspected of grooming and sexually abusing a string of girls at a school in Manchester; was first investigated in 1990 after abuse allegations but case was dropped due to supposed lack of evidence

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/sep/30/cps-could-and-should-have-extradited-paedophile-music-teacher

Illegal skin lightening creams found on sale in England and Wales; Criminals exploiting boom in market, with products ‘acting like paint stripper’; skin-whitening cream market is predicted to almost double in the next 10 years; the highly toxic creams could increase the risk of cancer.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/28/illegal-skin-lightening-creams-on-sale-england-wales

ISIS Shock: Families of British jihadis plot to smuggle them to UK as Johnson’s Cabinet sink his calls for children to be repatriated; ISIS members have already been smuggled out of camps where British citizens are held

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1184282/isis-news-shamima-begum-terrorism-boris-johnson-priti-patel-conservative-ben-wallace

Jihadi bride Shamima Begum begs to come home saying she was brainwashed about Islam; regrets her past and wants to come back to the UK for a “second chance to start my life over again” after being “brainwashed” before leaving Bethnal Green for the desert; “I came here believing everything that I had been told while knowing little about the truths of my religion.”

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1182885/isis-bride-shamima-begum-return-britain-bethnal-green-schoolgirl-syria

Dover BOMB SCARE: P&O ferry passengers evacuated after suspicious package found; army bomb squad have been ordered in to investigate

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1183786/dover-P-O-ferry-security-suspicious-package-evacuation

UK courts powerless to prevent deportation of girl, 10, at risk of FGM; Fear child may return to Sudan via Bahrain; A family court had ruled that the girl could be subjected to FGM if taken abroad. But Britain’s Home Office challenged the court’s power to prevent her deportation and on Wednesday the court accepted it did not have such powers; About 87% of Sudan’s women aged between 15 and 49 have been cut, and the majority have undergone the severest form, infibulation, according to the World Health Organization.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/sep/25/girl-10-at-risk-of-fgm-faces-deportation-from-britain

Grooming gang members who targeted girls as young as 12 in Manchester park jailed; Two brothers and two cousins jailed after other members of Romanian gang flee UK; the men met victims in a park and then targeted them in the Levenshulme area and using social media between 2016 and 2018.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/grooming-gangs-manchester-jailed-rape-romanian-calin-baltatu-levenshulme-a9117391.html

Youth services ‘decimated by 69 per cent’ in less than a decade amid surge in knife crime, figures show; Campaigners warn austerity is pushing more children and young people into street violence; Knife crime has meanwhile surged, with 43,516 offences reported to police last year across England and Wales

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/knife-crime-youth-services-cuts-councils-austerity-ymca-a9118671.html

POLICE in Manchester have responding to reports of a suspicious package at Manchester Airport’s train station, with bomb disposal officers carrying out a controlled explosion after an incident apparently triggered by a naked man running amok.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1181465/Manchester-Airport-latest-bomb-police-lockdown-terror-attack-Manchester-airport-flights

Moorgate, London, tube station evacuated: Police swoop in after ‘suspect package’ spotted

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1180605/moorgate-tube-station-security-alert-suspect-package-travel-delay-london-underground

Inspectors discover poor standards at 28 mental health units; Psychiatrists call for inquiry after report on private units, many occupied by NHS patients

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/sep/25/inspectors-discover-poor-standards-at-28-mental-health-units

PAEDOPHILES, killers and drug dealers were among 12,000 who applied to be carers for the vulnerable and elderly last year. It is unknown how many applicants with criminal pasts might have been hired by bosses desperate for staff.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1181313/care-home-horror-crimes-vulnerable

Prisoners take over wing in disturbance at HMP Long Lartin; Staff retreat from wing after being attacked with pool balls at Worcestershire prison

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/sep/24/prisoners-take-over-wing-in-disturbance-at-hmp-long-lartin

MORE than 60 rapes and killings were carried out by suspects on bail for other crimes last year. They were among 13,456 offences committed by so-called “bail bandits”, according to Ministry of Justice figures.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1181057/Crime-UK-rape-killing-murder-bail

Women’s rights group sues CPS over failure to pursue rape cases; New approach has led to collapse in number of defendants charged, say activists

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/sep/24/womens-rights-group-sues-cps-over-failure-to-pursue-rape-cases

The amount of money stolen by criminals through bank transfer scams has risen by 40% in a year and is running at more than £1m a day, according to official UK data; people were duped into authorising a payment to an account controlled by a criminal; scam is officially known as authorised push payment (APP) fraud and includes cases where criminals hack into email accounts of individuals or companies the individuals have employed, to dupe consumers into sending large sums to criminal accounts.

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2019/sep/26/number-of-bank-transfer-scams-in-uk-rise-by-40-in-a-year

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CHARLOTTE’S NEWS WEB…NEWS FROM SWEDEN

By on October 2nd, 2019

Increasing numbers seeking hospital treatment for gunshot wounds; The number increased by 20 percent last year, and has more than doubled compared with 2012.
https://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=2054&artikel=7310086
A new report circulating in Swedish media has revealed that the overwhelming majority of shooting suspects in the multicultural city of Malmö, Sweden have migrant backgrounds; Together, the men have been convicted of a total of 180 crimes – everything from traffic violations to robberies, beatings, and murders; a 2018 study revealed that foreign men committed the vast majority of rapes (around 85 percent) in Sweden.
https://voiceofeurope.com/2019/09/sweden-vast-majority-of-malmo-shooting-suspects-have-migrant-backgrounds/
In just 48 hours, several violent incidents – including a knife murder, multiple mass car fires, gunfire, and a bombing – all played out in Sweden.
The Swedish government has allowed an ISIS fighter to return to the country to receive medical treatment from the state for an injury he received in Syria. They then allowed him to return to Syria to continue fighting for the ISIS terrorist organization; Khaled Shahadeh, a former resident of Gothenburg and an ISIS terrorist, has reportedly bragged about receiving medical treatment from the Swedish state
https://voiceofeurope.com/2019/09/injured-isis-fighter-traveled-back-to-sweden-for-medical-care-before-returning-to-syria-to-continue-fighting/

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Intel Community Admission Of Whistleblower Changes Raises Explosive New Questions By Sean Davis

By on October 2nd, 2019

https://thefederalist.com/2019/10/01/intel-community-admission-of-whistleblower-changes-raises-explosive-new-questions/

In a press release issued late Monday, the intelligence community inspector general admitted it changed its policy and its whistleblower form after an anti-Trump complainant alleged that Trump broke the law during a phone call with the Ukrainian president.

On Monday, the intelligence community inspector general (ICIG) admitted that it did alter its forms and policies governing whistleblower complaints, and that it did so in response to the anti-Trump complaint filed on Aug. 12, 2019. The Federalist first reported the sudden changes last Friday. While many in the media falsely claimed the ICIG’s stunning admission debunked The Federalist’s report, the admission from the ICIG completely affirmed the reporting on the secretive change to whistleblower rules following the filing of an anti-Trump complaint in August.

The ICIG also disclosed for the first time that the anti-Trump complainant filed his complaint using the previously authorized form, the guidance for which explicitly stated the ICIG’s previous requirement for firsthand evidence for credible complaints. The Federalist reported last week that it was not known which form, if any, the complainant used, as the complaint that was declassified and released to the public last week was written as a letter to the two chairmen of the congressional intelligence committees.

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CNN Uses Andrew McCabe To Question Investigation Into Andrew McCabe By Chrissy Clark

By on October 2nd, 2019

https://thefederalist.com/2019/10/01/cnn-uses-andrew-mccabe-question-validity-investigation-into-himself/

During “CNN Newsroom” with Brooke Baldwin today, former acting FBI director Andrew McCabe questioned why anyone would investigate the beginnings of the Russia probe. Perhaps it’s because the available evidence suggests he might have been involved.

Baldwin asked McCabe why Attorney General William Barr is meeting with foreign counterparts to find out more about the hoax that duped the U.S. government into spending two years and millions of dollars unsuccessfully searching for Russian collusion with the Trump campaign to steal the 2016 election.

“The first question you have to ask is, ‘Why is he doing this at all?’ The circumstances behind the opening of the Russia case are not a mystery,” McCabe said. “I have testified under oath about them as early as December 2017, Jim Comey has made comments about them publicly, I have, we both wrote books that touched on the issues, so the circumstances behind the case are widely known.”

While being paid to talk on-air as a contracted CNN contributor, McCabe questioned the validity of an investigation into his and James Comey’s misconduct. McCabe is being investigated for repeatedly lying to the FBI’s inspector general about his decisions while at the FBI. Comey has been criticized by the Justice Department watchdog for violating FBI rules. Both are implicated in applications to a secret court to spy on the Trump campaign.

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