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on May 23, 2016 in World News

‘Whoever Loves Austria Is Sh*t’ – Austria’s New President Hates His Own Country

by Raheem Kassam They called it an “election gimmick” and a “campaign gag”, but the new president-elect of Austria once presided over his party’s campaign that declared: “Anyone who loves Austria must be shit”. Alexander Van der Bellen – who appears to have defeated the Freedom Party’s Norbert Hofer by around just 30,000 of nearly five million votes – has a track record of opposing the nation state as a concept, and his own as a reality. In 2007, while he was leader of the Austrian Greens, the party published a picture of a dog with the Austrian flag in… View Article

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on May 23, 2016 in World News

Mexican Government Will Not Be Able to Stop Cartel Violence in Acapulco

by Ildefonso Ortiz Acapulco was once a bustling tourist region in the Mexican state of Guerrero. The beach-resort city has now become a heavily contested drug territory where executions have become commonplace. Large scale gun battles continue to bring the city to a halt. The violence continues despite the many assurances by the Mexican government that the region is safe and that state and federal authorities have been deployed en force to restore order. The violence currently taking place in Acapulco, Guerrero is not new. As Breitbart Texas reported last year, during the last decade the once calm beach resort area began to… View Article

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on May 23, 2016 in World News

Rep. Gutiérrez Presses Obama Admin. To Extend Temporary Legal Status to Ecuadorians

by Caroline May Following last month’s earthquake in Ecuador, Rep. Luis Gutiérrez (D-IL) is again calling on the Obama administration to shield potentially hundreds of thousands of Ecuadorians from deportation. “It has already taken longer than it should have to grant [Temporary Protected Status] – more than a month since the terrible earthquakes rocked Ecuador,” Gutiérrez said Monday. “I am asking [Homeland Security Sec. Jeh Johnson] to take action as quickly as possible to lift the uncertainty facing Ecuadorians in the U.S. who might be deported.” Temporary Protected Status is an immigration benefit granted to nationals of foreign countries that… View Article

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on May 23, 2016 in World News

4 Chicagoans Killed, 53 Wounded in Only Four Days

by Warner Todd Huston The last four days, ending on Sunday evening, saw a terrible bloodletting in the city of Chicago–53 shootings and four deaths. With 33 shot and four killed, the weekend itself was bloody enough, but Wednesday night into Thursday set the table with an additional 20 Chicagoans shot in a mere sixteen-hour period. The shootings on Thursday included a 12-year-old boy who was wounded in a drive-by shooting when entering a fast food establishment on the 200 block of South Western. Witnesses said as many as 15 shots were fired at the boy and his friends as they entered… View Article

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