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Saudi King Arrests Billionaire Prince Bin Talal, Dozens of Others in Cabinet Crackdown
In a shocking development, late on Saturday the Saudi press reported that prominent billionaire, member of the royal Saudi family, and one of the biggest shareholders of Citi, News Corp. and Twitter – not to mention frequent CNBC guest – Al-Waleed bin Talal, along with ten senior princes, and some 38 ministers, has been arrested for corruption and money laundering charges on orders from...
Diamond & Silk vow Class Action Lawsuit against Google after Crackdown on their Videos
Just like we published just 2 days ago, Google is becoming the filthy demon we always knew it was and now they demonetized 95% of the videos Diamond and Silk uploaded on Youtube, basically rendering their Adsense account completely useless, just because of supporting Donald Trump.
Diamond and Silk aren’t just some whatever random black women. They had direct contact with the US president, speaking...
Catholic Church Stops Accepting Illegals Amid Trump Immigration Crackdown
A Catholic church in South Texas is closing its doors to illegal immigrants after years of providing housing, food, clothes and water to nearly 75 thousand people.
Since 2014, the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in McAllen, Texas, has been the sanctuary destination for tens of thousands of people who crossed illegally into the US from Central America and Mexico.
On Saturday, without explanation, the...
House Passes Bills Cracking Down on Illegal Immigration, Sanctuary Cities
The U.S. House of Representatives passed two bills Thursday aiming to crackdown on illegal immigration and “sanctuary cities” that refuse to follow federal policies.
Kate’s Law, which targets previously deported illegals who re-enter the country, passed in a 257 to 167 vote, while a measure known as the “No Sanctuary for Criminals Act” passed with a 228 to 195 vote.
In a statement following...
Free Speech Crackdown: German Justice Ministry Stormed
About 50 members of the German Identitarian movement stormed the offices of the Justice Ministry in Berlin on Friday in protest against a massive crackdown on freedom of speech in Germany.
The group arrived in a rental truck carrying a 32-foot ladder and tried to climb onto the roof of the ministry, while throwing pyrotechnics, a police spokesman told national daily Die Welt.
“They were driving...
Over 160 civilians killed in Turkish crackdown on Kurds
In five months of battling the Kurdish insurgency in southeastern Turkey, Ankara has killed over 160 civilians, according to a rights group report. Among them was an unborn child, whose mother was shot.
In August, Ankara launched a ground operation to crack down on Kurdish fighters linked to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). The violence ended a two-year truce with the Kurdish militants, who...
Anti-Establishment Movie Director Found Dead
Filmmaker was working on project envisioning future federal martial law crackdown scenario.
An independent filmmaker and his family were found dead in a Minnesota home over the weekend from what media outlets are describing as an “apparent murder suicide.”
On Saturday, a neighbor alerted authorities after seeing the lifeless bodies of 29-year-old writer, film producer and Army veteran David Crowley,...
Hamas threatens 3rd Intifada to answer massive Israeli crackdown
Hamas is promising to “open the gates of hell” if Netanyahu’s government expels its leaders from the West Bank to Gaza in connection with three missing Israeli teens. The rescue operation resulted in 280 arrests and a death of a Palestinian teen.
With Operation Brother’s Keeper unwinding in the West Bank, the Israeli government and army are set to find Eyal Yifrach, Gilad Shaer and Naftali...
8 killed in local election clashes as Turkey splits over rival parties
15-year-old Berkin Elvan went out to get some bread and got caught in a demonstration crackdown. He later died in hospital of injuries sustained during the clashes.
At least eight people have been killed in clashes between rival groups in Turkey’s municipal elections, media reports say. Tensions soared at the polls that will decide the distribution of power between the country’s two major parties.
Two...
Ethiopians hold anti-Saudi demo in Washington
Ethiopians have held a protest rally outside the Saudi Embassy in Washington to condemn Riyadh’s crackdown on undocumented immigrants in the kingdom.
On Sunday, the Ethiopian protesters also attempted to storm the embassy complex before police intervened.
They were specifically angry at the recent shooting of three Ethiopians in Saudi Arabia.
Similar demonstrations were also held outside Saudi embassies...
Crisis-torn Egypt’s future on edge after crackdown on protesters
The Egyptian military’s crackdown on supporters of ex-President Mohamed Morsi has plunged the world’s most populous Arab nation into its worst violence for decades. The country is teetering between a return to Mubarak-era autocracy and civil war.
Egyptian security forces interrupted a six-week-long stand-off with Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood on Wednesday, launching a crackdown on two sit-in camps...
Saudi prince defects: 'Brutality, oppression as govt scared of Arab revolts'
Prince Khalid Bin Farhan Al-Saud
Saudi Arabia, a major supporter of opposition forces in Syria, has increased crackdown on its own dissenters, with 30,000 activists reportedly in jail. In an exclusive interview to RT a Saudi prince defector explained what the monarchy fears most.
“Saudi Arabia has stepped up arrests and trials of peaceful dissidents, and responded with force to demonstrations by...
3100 people being stripped of Canadian citizenship for fraud
The Canadian federal government is getting tough with fraudulent immigrants as they plan on stripping the citizenship of more than 3,100 people, who they believe have cheated the system.
Immigration minister Jason Kenney said thousands more are being investigated, but admitted that only 19 of the 3,139 Canadians’ citizenships have been revoked, and stated that this is part of a long-term crackdown...
Greek crackdown on illegal immigrants, Thousands arrested
A migrant holds his papers ready for the ID-check, which has been instigated following an estimated 100,000 illegal immigrants slipping into Greece each year.
Greek authorities have this week begun one of the country’s biggest crackdowns yet on illegal immigrants; they have so far deployed some 4,500 police around Athens and have detained more than 7,000 immigrants in less than 72 hours, the...
French leader likens Toulouse shootings to 9/11, vowing crackdown
French President Nicolas Sarkozy
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has vowed to continue cracking down on the so-called suspected Islamists, comparing the recent Toulouse shootings to the September 11, 2001 incidents in the US.
“The trauma… is profound for our country, a little, I don’t want to compare the horrors, a little like the trauma that followed in the United States and in...