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Former German General Blasts Merkel on Open Borders, Joins Populist AfD

Former three-star general Joachim Wundrak is running for mayor of Hanover for Alternative for Germany (AfD) after expressing contempt for Chancellor Angela Merkel’s open border policies.

Wundrak, a former member of Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party, has accused the German leader of facilitating mass migration, which he has labelled an “anti-German” policy, Swiss newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung reports.

In an interview with the paper, Wundrak said that he chose to leave the CDU in 2017, saying Merkel could not recognise what she could have done differently during the height of the migrant crisis in 2015.

He said that joining the populist, anti-mas migration AfD in 2018, shortly after he retired as a general in the Luftwaffe, came at a risk, saying: “Anyone who confesses to supporting the AfD is bullied and marginalised. They also get into the focus of Antifa.”

The alt-left extremist Antifa group have repeatedly targetted AfD politicians, advocating for assassinations and even allegedly taking credit for a brutal attack on AfD politician Frank Magnitz earlier this year in Bremen.

Wundrak noted that Merkel’s CDU could lose the confidence of the German armed forces, the Bundeswehr, saying: “The AfD is the only party that fully supports the Bundeswehr.”

“The support of the AfD is likely to be even greater in police circles than among the soldiers,” he added.

“The comrades in the police experience the aberrations of German politics on the street every day. They are at the front.”

While the AfD is routinely painted as extremist by other political parties and the press, Wundrak said he had not experienced any extremism after joining and said the party platform was in line with the CDU’s platform from 2003.

On the subject of Ms Merkel, Wundrak said: “Merkel has sworn an oath to Germany, but she already has a problem talking about a German people. She prefers to speak of ‘population’. Many German politicians struggle to profess their own nation.”

“The protection of one’s own borders is no longer a priority goal. Germany is giving more and more sovereignty to the EU, the European Central Bank, to supranational organisations. I do not agree with this. The nation-state is the primary form of organisation for Germany. Where structures become too big, an undemocratic spirit quickly arises,” he added.

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Hungary Announces Investigation into Social Media Censorship in Europe

Hungarian Justice Minister Judit Varga has announced that she will be starting an investigation into censorship of political views on social media in Hungary and across Europe.

The Hungarian minister made her announcement on social media platform Facebook over the weekend, saying she would be creating a “working group” within the ministry to “investigate the possibilities for a legal environment to ensure the transparency of social media service providers – both on EU and national level.”

“Originally their job would not be to influence societal processes and elections by censoring comments on an ideological basis, however, if they had done it once they shall accept the necessity of the regulation and follow the rules of democracy,” she added.

The announcement comes only a month after Emmanuel Macron’s government announced it would be taking the opposite view and would look to force search engines and social media networks to censor “hate speech” in France.

The measure, which was passed in early July, would see large fines for internet companies who do not remove offending material within a 24-hour period.

The European Union has also pushed for censorship of “hate speech” on social media in recent years, including proposing a similar law to the French legislation in September of last year.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government has also demanded social media companies remove “hate speech” and introduced fines of up to 50 million euros for companies which violate the policy.

Social media censorship has been a major issue in the United States with President Donald J. Trump looking to use various agencies, including the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), to potentially regulate online censorship through an executive order.

A leaked draft of the executive order, entitled “Protecting Americans from Online Censorship,” would allow the FCC to change how social media companies are treated under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act which allows tech companies to censor lewd or questionable content.

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Rudy Giuliani on Epstein’s Death: “What Happened Here is Mind-Boggling, It’s impossible to Happen” (VIDEO)

Former New York City Mayor and Trump Attorney Rudy Giuliani joined America’s Newsroom on Tuesday to discuss the death of Jeffrey Epstein at the MCC in Manhattan.

Rudy said, “What happened here is mind-boggling. It is impossible to happen.”

Rudy added, “This argument over whether he was on suicide watch or not is like, silly. Because if he wasn’t on suicide watch he should have been ‘on watch.’ The guy was a high risk prisoner. Wasn’t he? He’s a guy where there are probably 50 very important people who had a motive to kill him. We don’t even know who they are. I’m not acknowledging that any of the people named. But it’s true there are some people who are in a lot of trouble because of Epstein.

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America’s Marxist Fever

America is burning with repulsive Marxist fever which has reached a scorching level. Like sharks circling mad in bloody waters, the mainstream media, academia, the Democrat Party, and its American supporters are engulfed by Marxist fever and stirred into a daily frenzy devoid of logic and truth, ready to impeach our president and deport anybody who is not a Democrat Socialist.

The social/racial justice warrior activists are determined to replace the “evil capitalism” they suddenly detest and reject, with “equitable, classless, non-racist, and socially just socialism/communism.” They have no idea what socialism and communism really are but that is of no consequence—they just want their promised “free stuff.”

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WaPo Gives Four Pinocchios to 2020 Dems Who Say Michael Brown Was Murdered

The Washington Post Fact-Checker gave its harshest rating of Four Pinocchios to a pair of Democratic presidential candidates who claimed black teenager Michael Brown was murdered in 2014 by a white policeman.

Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) and Kamala Harris (D., Calif.) both tweeted last Friday—which was the fifth anniversary of Brown’s death in Ferguson, Missouri—that Brown had been murdered by Officer Darren Wilson. However, Wilson was not indicted for a crime, and the Obama administration Justice Department issued an 86-page investigative report concluding there was no credible evidence that Wilson wasn’t telling the truth that he killed Brown in self-defense.

Reporter Glenn Kessler wrote Warren and Harris willfully ignored the Justice Department’s findings and furthered the false narrative that Brown died with his hands up begging Wilson not to shoot: "Hands Up, Don’t Shoot."

"Harris and Warren have ignored the findings of the Justice Department to accuse Wilson of murder, even though the Justice Department found no credible evidence to support that claim," Kessler reported. "Instead, the Justice Department found that the popular narrative was wrong, according to witnesses deemed to be credible, some of whom testified reluctantly because of fear of reprisal. The department produced a comprehensive report to determine what happened, making the senators’ dismissal of it even more galling."

Witnesses supported Wilson’s description of events that Brown tried to take his gun in a scuffle after he had robbed a store. After Brown punched Wilson several times, he ran off and ignored Wilson’s calls to stop. Witnesses then said Brown turned around and ignored Wilson’s repeated instructions to stand down, charging at the policeman. One witness said they would have shot sooner:

Witness 103, a 58-year-old black man: The witness "saw Brown punching Wilson at least three times in the facial area, through the open driver’s window of the SUV. Witness 103 described Wilson and Brown as having hold of each other’s shirts, but Brown was ‘getting in a couple of blows.’ Wilson was leaning back toward the passenger seat with his forearm up, in an effort to block the blows. Then Witness 103 heard a gunshot and Brown took off running."

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Witness 104: "Wilson did not fire while Brown momentarily had his hands up. Witness 104 explained that it took some time for Wilson to fire, adding that she ‘would have fired sooner.’"

Witness 102: "Wilson only fired shots when Brown was coming toward Wilson. It appeared to Witness 102 that Wilson’s life was in jeopardy. … Witness 102 said he wanted to ‘bring closure to [Brown’s] family,’ so they would not think that the officer ‘got away with murdering their son.’"

Witness 105: "She explained that she was coming forward because in speaking with her neighbors, she realized that what they believed had happened was inconsistent with what actually happened. She further explained that she had not been paying attention to media accounts, and had been unaware of the inaccuracies being reported."

The Fact-Check noted there was pressure in the neighborhood to not tell the truth about what happened. The "Hands Up, Don’t Shoot" mantra that arose from the killing was dubbed one of the Post‘s biggest "Pinocchios" of 2015. Left-wing Washington Post writer Jonathan Capehart acknowledged it was "built on a lie."

Liberal explainer site Vox also dinged Warren and Harris for their tweets, in less stark terms.

"The evidence, including a report released by President Barack Obama’s Department of Justice, says otherwise," reporter German Lopez wrote.

Left-wing billionaire Tom Steyer also referred to Brown’s death as a murder, although his tweet didn’t fall under the Post‘s purview.

MSNBC host and civil rights activist Al Sharpton referred to Brown’s death as a "murder" in a tweet promoting his coverage over the weekend. MSNBC and CNN did not cover Warren and Harris’s false tweets.

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What’s wrong with Red Flag Laws

What’s wrong with Red Flag LawsWhat’s wrong with red flag laws?

Most Americans will agree that if a person is truly challenged by a debilitating psychiatric condition, they should not have a gun. Now, I’m not referring to people living with PTSD that is under control, or eating disorders. But if someone is suffering from paranoid delusions, or has schizophrenia, or some similar condition, then they probably shouldn’t own a gun.

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GOOD NEWS: Legal Organization Didn’t Adopt Dangerous ‘Affirmative Consent’ Standard – For Now

The American Bar Association voted to postpone a vote to adopt “affirmative consent” as the organization’s standard going forward. If adopted, the organization would pressure state legislatures to adopt the same standard, effectively ending the presumption of innocence and force the accused to prove a negative.

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Out-of-State Dems Come to the Rescue in NC Special Election

Several left-wing groups from Massachusetts are organizing two canvassing trips down to North Carolina to campaign for Democratic congressional candidate Dan McCready ahead of his special election on September 10th.

Alix Smullin, a longtime "political activist" who has donated thousands of dollars to Democratic candidates including $1,970 to McCready’s campaign, is organizing two trips on the progressive online platform, Action Network, which is used by progressive groups and activists to organize events around the United States.

The first trip will be August 23rd through the 25th. The second trip will be September 5th through the 10th.

"Travel to Waxhaw, NC to Canvass for Dan McCready (NC-09) ahead of the September 10 special election," the event details read. "Dan McCready’s redo election in NC-09 on September 10 is the most important Congressional election of 2019. Early voting begins on August 21. Join others from the Boston area for the campaign’s big push weekend canvassing to Get Out the Vote."

"Waxhaw is very close to Charlotte and the areas we will canvass are suburban neighborhoods with many transplants from the Northeast," the event details continue. "We will coordinate the canvassers from MA to maximize efficiency of travel, car rental, and housing – and to make sure we also have a great time!"

Some of the groups sponsoring the trips are the Greater Boston and North Shore/Cape Ann chapters of Swing Left. The Swing Left PAC launched in response to Hillary’s Clinton’s failed 2016 campaign and is dedicated to helping Democratic politicians in swing districts.

During the second quarter of 2019, Swing Left received $50,000 from Hillary Clinton’s 501(c)4 non-profit, Onward Together, which is dedicated to "advancing progressive values." The PAC also received $45,000 from actress Meryl Streep, $495,000 from billionaire Nicholas Pritzker, and $250,000 from hedge fund manager Aaron Sosnick, according to the FEC website.

The canvassing trip down to North Carolina is also sponsored by the Massachusetts Statewide chapter of Indivisible, which is a national progressive "grassroots" groups dedicated to fighting against "racism, authoritarianism, and corruption." Indivisible, which organized multiple manufactured chaotic Republican town halls in 2017, was one of the progressive groups who put pressure on the 2020 Democratic candidates to support the decriminalization of illegal border crossings. The group also put pressure on House Democrats earlier this year to investigate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District is currently vacant after supporters of Republican candidate Mark Harris committed election fraud, resulting in the state election board not certifying the results of the 2018 election. Harris would go on to lose to state representative Dan Bishop in the Republican primary. McCready was unopposed in the Democratic primary.

"The most recently released poll in this race, conducted in mid-July, came from McCready’s campaign," according to RollCall. "It showed the race tied, with each candidate at 46 percent."

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Jeffrey Epstein Kept Secret Diaries As An ‘Insurance Policy’ Which Could Come Back To Haunt His Powerful Friends…

Looks like those folks who thought they could breathe easily are going to have to think again… Via The Sun: JEFFREY Epstein kept “meticulously detailed” diaries of his friendships which could come back to haunt his powerful pals, reports claim. The billionaire paedo, who died from an apparent suicide on Saturday, was once friends with […]

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