Arnold Schwarzenegger Brutally Attacked in South Africa by Crazed Lunatic! (VIDEO) –Update — SECOND ANGLE

Arnold Schwarzenegger was attacked from behind at a sporting event in Johannesburg, South Africa. The cowardly lunatic, after attacking Arnold from behind, begins screaming, “I need a Lamborghini!”

Arnold Schwarzenegger, who is currently in Johannesburg, South Africa, for the Arnold Classic Africa, was kicked badly in the back at the Sandton Convention Centre.

According to reports on the Internet –

The video, which is circulating on social media, shows how Schwarzenegger was watching a rope-skipping competition when he was approached to take a video of the children skipping. Schwarzenegger obliges and is filmed as he gets up from his seat and then takes a video of the children while speaking into the phone camera. A man can be seen lurking behind him and it seems that he is pulled away by what appears to be Schwarzenegger’s security team.

Just as Schwarzenegger hands over the phone on which he was taking his video, the man returns again, runs up, jumps up and kicks Schwarzenegger in the back.

Schwarzenegger tumbles forward into a crowd of people while the man who kicked him is held down by security.

Shortly afterwards, Schwarzenegger takes his seat by the side of the court again, seemingly unharmed by the incident, but a short while later he and his team get up from their seats and move through the convention centre, which is where the video ends.

It’s unknown at this time if the former Governor of California and actor was seriously injured. But that had to hurt.

UPDATE— EWN says Arnold was not seriously injured in the attack.

Found a piece right after you posted this. It is said that Arnold was not injured. https://t.co/Q7ZsoSO1aA

— Katharine Russ (@writerRuss) May 18, 2019

UPDATE— Here is a second angle of the attack.

ANOTHER ANGLE on the Arnold Schwarzenegger attack (posted by @Benlanga4) pic.twitter.com/zDAuQgReq3

— Nick Monroe (@nickmon1112) May 18, 2019

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/05/arnold-schwarzenegger-brutally-attacked-in-south-africa-by-crazed-lunatic-video/

'As soon as possible': Austria's Kurz on snap elections following leaked video scandal

Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz has proposed calling a snap election after the country's Vice-Chancellor Heinz-Christian Starche resigned after what he called "political assassination."

“I have proposed to the president today to hold snap elections in Austria as soon as possible,” Kurz said.

He called on those, who support his reform course and those satisfied with the policies of his government over the last two years to back him during the forthcoming vote.

Kurz also said he could have attempted to avoid snap elections and retain his power as the Chancellor but added that it would not be “the right way.”

The development follows a scandal that involved Strache, who is a member of the Freedom Party (FPO) – a junior member of Kurz’s right-wing coalition. On Friday, the German newspapers Spiegel and Suddeutscher Zeitung broke a story centered around a leaked secret 2017 recording showing Strache and another high-ranking FPO member talking to a woman who was described as a “niece of a Russian oligarch.”

The politicians discussed the ways the woman could support their election campaign ahead of Austria’s 2017 general vote in exchange for future preferences in acquiring government contracts in the field of construction. They particularly discussed the possibility of her buying a majority share in an Austrian tabloid newspaper and using it as a platform to support the FPO.

Following the reports, Strache announced his resignation both from the post of vice-chancellor and the post of the FPO leader while calling the leak “political assignation.”

However, he did not dispute the video’s authenticity, arguing instead that it should be made public in full and adding that he maintained during that meeting at “everything must be within the law.”

The scandal rocked the Austrian society with thousands of people taking to the streets to demand snap elections. Some 5,000 protesters joined a spontaneous rally outside of the Chancellor’s Office in the Austrian capital of Vienna.

The chancellor also spent a significant time of his speech praising the work of his government and his achievements over the past two years.

https://www.rt.com/news/459694-austria-chancellor-kurz-scandal-speech/

Not Just Florida: Border Patrol To Fly Thousands Of Illegal Migrants To San Diego

Yesterday we reported that the Trump administration would be dumping thousands of illegal migrants in Florida due to overcrowding at the border.

Now, we learn that San Diego will receive hundreds of migrant families from South Texas for processing, as the agency struggles to keep up with large numbers of Central Americans who have flooded into the country. The agency said that it was also considering distributing apprehended border-crossers to Detroit, Miami and Buffalo, New York, according to the Globe and Mail.

Flights from Texas' Rio Grande Valley to San Diego were slated to begin on Friday - continuing three times a week indefinitely. Each flight will carry 120 - 135 people, according to the Border Patrol's interim San Diego sector chief, Douglas Harrison. Conservatively, that means at least 1,440 migrants per month, or 17,280 annually.

"We don’t have an end date," said Harrison. "This is a contingency operation. We’ve got to give the people in Rio Grande Valley some relief."

Plans to fly from Rio Grande Valley to Detroit, Miami and Buffalo were preliminary, Harrison said. Authorities were researching available airports and the ability for non-profit groups to provide temporary assistance.

Already, U.S. authorities are moving four buses a day from the Rio Grande Valley to Laredo, Texas, about 100 miles (160 kilometres) away. There is also a daily flight contracted through U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to Del Rio, Texas, about 275 miles away (440 kilometres) away.

Agents in the Rio Grande Valley will collect biographical information and do a medical screening before sending migrants to San Diego on flights contracted by ICE, Harrison said. Migrants will go from San Diego International Airport to a Border Patrol station, where they will be fingerprinted, interviewed and screened again for medical problems. Processing at the station typically takes hours. -Globe and Mail

ICE will decide whether to detain or release the families in San Diego. It has been longstanding practice to quickly release them into the community with notices to appear in immigration court.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-18/not-just-florida-border-patrol-fly-thousands-illegal-migrants-san-diego

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‘Political assassination’: Austrian Vice Chancellor Strache resigns after leaked video scandal

Heinz-Christian Strache has resigned as Austria’s vice chancellor a day after German media reported that he and a close aide discussed potentially illegal quid pro quo arrangements with a suspected Russian business woman.

Speaking to the media on Saturday, Strache said he has submitted his resignation letter to Chancellor Sebastian Kurz. Strache also stepped down as leader of the Freedom Party of Austria (FPO), the junior member of the Austrian ruling coalition.

He insisted that he and his fellow party member Johann Gudenus, who took part in the controversial meeting, were victims of a long-running smear campaign, which culminated in the release of the “illegally recorded” footage.

“It was political assassination,” the politician stated.

https://www.rt.com/news/459668-austria-vice-chancellor-resigns/

US airstrike, coordinated with Afghans, accidentally killed as many as 17 policemen fighting Taliban

KABUL, Afghanistan — U.S. air support killed as many as 17 Afghan policemen and wounded 14 more after a police attempt to tear down a Taliban flag in southern Helmand province prompted a counterattack from the insurgents, Afghan officials said.

A statement from the U.S.-led NATO Resolute Support mission said an Afghan unit on the ground had told coalition forces that the area was clear of friendly forces.

“Unfortunately, they were not and a tragic accident resulted,” the statement read. “Afghan Security Forces as well as Taliban fighters were killed in the strikes. We’re examining the miscommunication to ensure it is not repeated. We regret this tragic loss of life of our partners and are committed to improvement every day with every mission.”

The Afghan Defense Ministry confirmed in a statement Friday that U.S. aircraft conducted attacks during the fight Thursday. Afghan Interior Ministry preliminary estimates said that at least eight had died and 11 were injured.

A local army commander, a Helmand provincial councilman and a hospital official in the provincial capital all said Friday that 17 had died and 14 were hurt.

The incident took place just outside of Lashkar Gah, the capital of the embattled southern province. Much of Helmand remains a Taliban stronghold.

Among those killed was a police battalion commander charged with securing a key highway, said Attaullah Afghan, head of the provincial council.

The police officer, Haji Gran Habib, was a former Taliban fighter who had joined the government side 17 years ago, said Maj. Hedayat Rasoly, an army battalion commander.

Rasoly often met with Habib on how to secure the highway from Lashkar Gah to neighboring Kandahar, an area “almost under the Taliban,” he said.

Another local security official, who asked to remain anonymous, said Habib and two of his men decided to take down a Taliban flag from a nearby water tower on Thursday night. The white insurgent banners are often displayed along the roads from Lashkar Gah, sometimes in view of Afghan military bases.

Although the water tower was within walking distance of a police training center, covert local support for the Taliban ensured anyone who tried to take down the flag received immediate sniper fire, local residents told Stars and Stripes via phone.

Habib decided to remove the flag but did not inform his chain of command before proceeding, Rasoly said.

https://www.stripes.com/news/us-airstrike-coordinated-with-afghans-accidentally-killed-as-many-as-17-policemen-fighting-taliban-1.581437

After Army Col. Warns of False Flag to Start War with Iran, US Blames Iran for Attacks

Often, the American mainstream media becomes a de facto government employee, taking the claims of U.S. officials and reporting them as proven fact — and nothing exemplifies this penchant better than reporting on the Gulf of Tonkin incident — perhaps one of most flagrant lies ever dreamed up as a justification for war.

On August 5, 1964, the New York Times reported “President Johnson has ordered retaliatory action against gunboats and ‘certain supporting facilities in North Vietnam’ after renewed attacks against American destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin.” Additional outlets, such as the Washington Post, echoed this claim.

But it wasn’t true. At all. In fact, the Gulf of Tonkin incident, as it became known, turned out to be a fictitious creation courtesy of the government to escalate war in Vietnam — leading to the deaths of tens of thousands of U.S. troops and millions of Vietnamese, fomenting the largest anti-war movement in American history, and tarnishing the reputation of a nation once considered at least somewhat noble in the eyes of the world.

In 2010, more than 1,100 transcripts from the Vietnam era were released, proving Congress and officials raised serious doubts about the information fed to them by the Pentagon and White House. But while this internal grumbling took place, mainstream media dutifully reported official statements as if the veracity of the information couldn’t be disputed.

Tom Wells, author of the exhaustive exposé “The War Within: America’s Battle Over Vietnam,” explained the media egregiously erred in “almost exclusive reliance on U.S. government officials as sources of information” and “reluctance to question official pronouncements on ‘national security issues.’”

If due diligence had been performed, and reporters had raised appropriate doubts about the Gulf of Tonkin false flag, it’s arguable whether support for the contentious war would have lasted as long as it did.

And now, a very similar event has unfolded this week in which ships were allegedly attacked near the Strait of Hormuz and an “initial US assessment indicated Iran likely was behind the attack,” according to the Wall Street Journal.

https://thefreethoughtproject.com/after-army-col-warns-of-false-flag-to-start-war-with-iran-us-blames-iran-for-attacks/

Dutch King pays surprise visit to multicultural Hague district and joins Muslim migrants for Ramadan meal

King Willem-Alexander joined an Iftar in the multicultural Transvaal district in The Hague this week – to the great surprise of the other attendees. Iftar is the evening meal with which Muslims break their daily fast at sunset during Ramadan.

The community center on Mandelaplein had enough food to also feed the King, even though the assembled local residents had no idea that he would be joining them, AD reports.

The King’s visit was a well kept secret, because Willem-Alexander did not want the residents to feel weird about his presence at their self-organised party. And that seems to have worked. The initial excited surprise soon changed into relaxed togetherness, according to the newspaper.

The King joined four different tables, chatting with the residents and community center workers about their neighbourhood, the meaning of the community center and the activities there.

Youth worker Nadir Abdel Moumen was getting ready to break the fast when suddenly he was sitting next to the King. “Yes, it was initially a matter of searching for conversation topics”, he said to AD.

“Should it be chic? Or politics? It ended with the King telling about the areas in Morocco he has visited.” Willem-Alexander also told him that this was his first Iftar. “So we helped with his hazing.”

Cansu Alkurt took a while to recover from suddenly sitting next to the King, she said to the newspaper. “I never thought I would meet the king and now he comes to me. Really bizarre”, the pedagogical employee of the local pre-school said.

She spoke to the King about the importance of language for children and their parents. “The King gives the impression that it does not matter that we are migrants. It makes you feel important that he comes here to our community center.”

https://voiceofeurope.com/2019/05/dutch-king-pays-surprise-visit-to-multicultural-hague-district-and-joins-muslim-migrants-for-ramadan-mea/

Facebook Admits Israeli Social Manipulation Company Spent $800,000 To Influence African Elections

In keeping with their spectacular reputation of violating privacy and rigging elections, Facebook has said that it removed "hundreds of accounts" from Facebook and Instagram that were used to influence elections in Africa, according to CNN. Only it wasn't Russia who was behind this latest intervention, but Israel.

Archimedes Group, an Israeli company, reportedly spent more than $800,000 in advertising (far more than the Kremlin allegedly spent on its "ad campaign" to crush Hillary Clinton and get Trump elected) and ran accounts that had nearly 3 million followers, for the purpose of targeting African elections. The group primarily targeted Nigeria, Senegal, Togo, Angola, Niger and Tunisia.

For perspective, the $800,000 reportedly spent by the group compares to the $100,000 that has been claimed by the U.S. mainstream media to have been spent for ‘Russian bots’ used to allegedly sway the 2016 US presidential election, according to RT.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-17/facebook-admits-israeli-social-manipulation-company-spent-800000-influence-african

Italy’s Salvini: Merkel and Macron ‘Ruined’ Europe – ‘We Want Nothing to Do with You’

Following an attack from Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel, Italy’s Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini struck back at her and President Emmanuel Macron of France, stating the pair had “ruined” Europe.

Merkel’s comments come as some members of the European People’s Party (EPP) parliamentary group which her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) sits with in the European Parliament have called for an alliance with Salvini and other populist parties.

Merkel totally rejected the idea, according to a report from Italian newspaper Il Giornale.

“It is clear that we have different approaches, for example in migration policy,” said Merkel, who opened Germany’s and arguably Europe’s borders unilaterally in 2015.

She added that this was “already a reason why the EPP cannot open up to Mr Salvini’s party.”

Salvini, who acts as Minister of the Interior for Italy as well as Deputy Prime Minister, reacted to Merkel’s comments by slamming both her and French president Emmanuel Macron, saying, “It is we who do not want to have anything to do with Merkel and Macron and those who have ruined this European Union. We want to save Europe which is not of bureaucrats, bankers, financiers and those who have it ruined in these past years.”

For months Salvini has been building a new populist alliance ahead of this month’s European Parliament elections and is scheduled to hold a large-scale rally Saturday in Milan where at least ten parties and movements will be represented.

Orban Labels Salvini ‘Most Important Person in Europe’ Ahead of Visit https://t.co/AhxONg4HY3

— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) May 2, 2019

The idea of the EPP forming an alliance with Salvini comes mainly from Hungarian leader Viktor Orban, who advocates that the “centre-right” Euro group looks to the populist right rather than the liberal left when forming political alliances. His own Fidesz party was suspended from the EPP earlier this year.

Former conservative Prime Minister of Italy Silvio Berlusconi has also backed a right-wing alliance, saying, “Lega and the Brothers of Italy also realised that alone in Europe they would remain in the corner or they would not count for anything. Our mission starts with changing alliances with the European left. We must build, also with my presence in the EPP, a new alliance with the moderate right parties and also with Orban and Salvini.”

Le Pen: Together With Populist Salvini, Real Change in Europe Is Possible https://t.co/IKvOMGlBlP

— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) May 17, 2019

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/05/17/salvini-to-macron-and-merkel-i-want-nothing-to-do-with-you/

Syrian Air Defences Intercept Projectiles From Israeli-Held Territory - Reports

The report comes less than 24 hours after the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) said that Syrian air defence systems shot down a number of "luminous objects" launched from "occupied territories."

On Saturday, Syrian air defences fired at projectiles that were launched from Israeli-controlled areas into southern Syria, according to state media.

https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201905181075123696-syria-air-defences/

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yes

>>6529836

By us not God