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A regional prosecutor in northwestern Italy accused French gendarmes of stopping and checking two Italian citizens on the Italian side of the border. He said that his office would issue European investigative warrants over the incident.
In other news, a group of migrants trying to enter Croatia from Bosnia clashed with police, throwing rocks at the officers. Three migrants and three Bosnian police were wounded.
Thanks to Dean, Dora, Insubria, JD, Reader from Chicago, Srdja Trifkovic, SS, and all the other tipsters who sent these in.
» Italy: Over 6 Million Pensioners on Under 1,000 Euros a Month
» Avenatti, Swetnick Referred to DOJ for Criminal Investigation Over False Statements on Kavanaugh
» Bernie Kerik on Mail Bomb Investigation: 'They'll Have a Target in Sight Within 2 or 3 Days'
» Bombs A-Weighed
» Columbus Man Accused of Trying to Train With ISIS
» Deep State Rolls Out Staged "Bomb" Attack on CNN Headquarters, Just as Mike Adams and Alex Jones Publicly Predicted on Multiple Video Broadcasts
» Fact Check: Yes, Andrew Gillum Signed Radical Group's Pledge
» Fmr FBI Asst. Director: Bomb Plot Culprit 'Could be Someone Who is Trying to Get the Democratic Vote Out and Incur Sympathy'
» Former Paul Ryan Challenger Arrested in Radioactive Murder Plot
» Judiciary Chairman Refers Avenatti and His Client to DOJ Over Kavanaugh Claims
» Law Enforcement Official: Examiners Think Mail Bombs Could Have Been "Hoax Devices"
» Mail Bomb Design Said to Come From Internet as Manhunt Targets Florida
» NBC Admits "Blue Wave Turning Purple" As Republicans Outnumber Dems in Early Voting
» Roger Stone Tried to Secure Pardon for Julian Assange
» San Francisco's New App 'Snapcrap' Lets Users Report Public Feces
» Tech Community Outraged After SQLite Founder Adopts Benedictine Code of Conduct
» Top Ten Threats by Democrats Against Trump, His Family and His Supporters [Video]
» Trump Turns Tables, Scores Wins Over Russia
» Trump Slams 'Hateful' Media After They Blame Him for Pipe Bombs
» Twitter Loses 9 Million Monthly Active Users in Q3 2018, Its Steepest Decline Ever
» Two Shot Dead at a Kroger Grocery Store in Kentucky, Police Say
» Watch Live: More Package Bombs Found! The Bright Line Between Criticism and Violence
» Why is LinkedIn Founder Dumping Large Sums of Cash Into Congressional Campaign of Former CIA Operative With Ties to Obama's Crooked Iran Deal?
» BBC Losing Audience, Younger Listeners, To Commercial Talk Radio
» French Gendarmes Checked Italians — Spataro
» In Islamised UK Town Diversity Has Completely Disappeared as Almost All Inhabitants Are Muslim
» Italy: Hundreds Line Up in Milan to Donate Bone Marrow for Boy
» Italy to EU: "Italians Come First … Italy No Longer Wants to be a Servant to Silly Rules"
» Italy Budget Outrage: France's Mélenchon Says Brussels is 'Stripping' Rome of Sovereignty
» Norway's Former Minister of Justice Blasts Sweden: Change Your Naive Politics and Apologise for the Tragedy You've Cause
» Poland's Law and Justice Largest Party in Nationwide Elections
» Report: UK Police Becoming 'Irrelevant' As Crime Surges While Charges and Investigations Plummet
» Tony Abbott: Brexit Britain Has Nothing to Lose But Its Chains
» UK Struggles With 700 Live Terror Investigations, 'We Are Not Matched to Threat Level'
» UK: Attorney General Warns: May's EU Deal 'Almost Impossible to Get Out of'
» UK: School That Taught God Only Saved Muslims on Noah's Ark First Fined for Operating Illegally
» Serbia: FCA Largest Exporter With Almost 600 Million Euros
» "No Choice" Other Than War: Israeli Military Strikes 8 Targets in Gaza as the Conflict Escalates
» Prince MbS: A Good Mohammedan
» Cardinal Zen: Pope Francis Has 'Natural Sympathy for Communists'
» China Sought Thousands of French Experts for Work and Espionage
» Have the Chinese Reached a Tipping Point?
Australia — Pacific
» 'They're Like the Ku Klux Klan': Liberal MP Calls on His Own Side of Politics to Ban Islamic Extremist Group That Advocates Domestic Violence — and They're Already Outlawed in Egypt
» Suicides Surge in a Hopeless Venezuela
» Central Europe Spends Millions on Strengthening Libyan Coast Guard
» Europe's Illegal Migrants 'Need to Go Home', Says Czech Prime Minister
» Hundreds of Caravan Migrants Accept Bus Rides Home Amid "Sickness, Fear and Police Harassment
» ICE: Twice-Deported Illegal Alien Wanted for Child Rape in Delaware
» Italy: Three Detained Over 16-Year-Old's Homicide
» Italy in Shock: Third African Migrant Arrested in Gang Rape and Homicide Case of Teen Girl
» LOL! Migrant Mob Member Flashes Gang Sign as Univision Reporter, Jorge Ramos Tells Fox News' Viewers Caravan is Harmless [Video]
» Migrants and Police Injured in Bosnia-Croatia Border Clashes
» Two Illegal Migrants Arrested for Being Involved in Gang Rape and Death of Italian Teen Girl
» US Deploys 800 Troops to Southern Border as 'Migrant Caravan' Approaches: CNN
» Violence Flares as Migrants Try to Storm Croatian Border to Enter EU
» Exploding the Transgender Myth
» The New Social Media: Alternatives to Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, And Other Big Tech Platforms
» UK Student Union President Promises to "Take Down Mural of White Men" Who Died in World War One
Italy: Over 6 Million Pensioners on Under 1,000 Euros a Month
Two-thirds are women
(ANSA) — Rome, October 25 — INPS said Thursday that six million people in Italy have pension earnings of less than 1,000 euros a month — 37.5% of the total. The pensions and social security agency said that 64% of those on less than 1,000 euros, 3.85 million people, were women.
It said 45.9% of women pensioners were on less than 1,000 euros a month.
INPS said 266,180 people, 1.7% of the total, had gross State pensions of over 5,000 euros a month.
It said 80.8% of these high-earning pensioners were men.
Avenatti, Swetnick Referred to DOJ for Criminal Investigation Over False Statements on Kavanaugh
Attorney Michael Avenatti and his client Julie Swetnick have been referred to the Justice Department for criminal investigation for a "potential conspiracy to provide materially false statements to Congress and obstruct a congressional committee investigation, three separate crimes, in the course of considering Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court of the United States," according to a statement released by the Judiciary Committee.
— Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
Bernie Kerik on Mail Bomb Investigation: 'They'll Have a Target in Sight Within 2 or 3 Days'
"They have a ton of evidence."
Former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik explained how authorities will likely apprehend the perpetrator(s) who sent mail bombs to top Democrat Party figures, offering his analysis in an interview with SiriusXM's Breitbart News Tonight.
Kerik, who led the New York Police Department (NYPD) during the 9/11 terror attacks, told hosts Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak that mobile phone data will likely assist investigators in their pursuit of whoever committed the aforementioned crimes.
Bombs A-Weighed
Me yesterday:
"I shall hold off further comment until more facts are known."
No such circumspection stayed Utah Senate candidate Mitt Romney, who reacted instantly to the "suspicious packages" mailed to the Clintons, Obama, George Soros, CNN and others, and weighed in with boundless confidence:
"Hate acts follow hate speech. It is past time for us to turn down and tune out the rabid rhetoric."
This is a nitwit statement even by Mitt's recent standards, and doubtless a preview of the role he intends to play in the Senate. It is also an object lesson in the perils of Tweet-speed insight. "Moderate" "reasonable" "centrists", like all other politicians, should take a deep breath and be mindful of the old adage: Don't just say something, stand there.
"Hate speech" is not a notion a supposedly "severe conservative" (as Mitt once styled himself) would sign on to. "Hate speech" is free speech — because the concept of free speech exists for the speech you hate. In the modern world, "hate speech" is the enforcement arm of identity politics: Once an approved victim group is designated — Muslims, transgenders — "hate speech" is a pseudo-legal concept for shutting people up: Unpersuaded by the benefits of mass Muslim immigration? Concerned that seven-year-olds should not be hustled into "transitioning"? Hate speech, hate speech, hate speech…
Until you reach the stage that most of the western world is at — where polite society has ruled anything worth talking about out of bounds. At which point the masses turn to impolite society — Trump, Brexiteers, Salvini, Orbán…
Is it true that "hate acts follow hate speech"? To lazy types like, alas, "severely conservative" Republican Senate candidates, the logic is self-evident.
— Hat tip: Dora [Return to headlines]
Columbus Man Accused of Trying to Train With ISIS
An Ohio man was arrested and charged with allegedly attempting to provide material support to an ISIS affiliate in Afghanistan, according to a Thursday press release from the Department of Justice cited by 10TV. Naser Almadaoji, 19, was arrested at the John Glenn International Airport, where he allegedly planned to fly to Afghanistan to train with ISIS Wilayat Khorasan or another ISIS affiliate. An affidavit filed in support of the criminal complaint claims that Almadaoji told an individual whom he believed to be in contact with ISIS that he wanted "weapons experts training, planning, executing, hit and run, capturing high value targets, ways to break into homes and avoid security guards. That type of training."
Deep State Rolls Out Staged "Bomb" Attack on CNN Headquarters, Just as Mike Adams and Alex Jones Publicly Predicted on Multiple Video Broadcasts
Exactly as publicly predicted by myself and Alex Jones, the anti-American globalists are now running pipe bombs false flags against CNN. This is not merely similar to what we publicly predicted would take place before the mid-term elections; it is exactly what we publicly predicted would take place. We even named CNN as the most likely target to be selected by the globalist operatives running the operation.
"CNN's New York Headquarters Evacuated After Suspicious Package Found," reports Mediaite.com. Similar "pipe bombs" were also reportedly mailed to Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and George Soros. "The CNN bureau at Columbus Circle in new York City was evacuated Wednesday morning after mailroom workers found a suspicious device," reports The Gateway Pundit. "The bomb scare comes on the heels of suspected IEDs mailed to the home former President Obama in Washington, D.C. and the New York state homes of former President Clinton Clinton and major Democratic Party donor George Soros this morning." A coordinated false flag bombing to be blamed on Trump supporters in order to alter the outcome of the mid-term elections
This is precisely what I have publicly predicted would take place right before the mid-term elections: A coordinated false flag bombing of the left-wing media and left-wing political leaders. It's blatantly obvious that the globalist democrats are sending these packages to themselves, knowing the media will blame Trump supporters, Alex Jones, conservatives and gun owners.
What you are witnessing is the very definition of a media-run false flag event, where the media itself gets targeted so that the same media can hysterically report that it's under attack because President Trump is whipping up "hate" against the media.
You can see proof of our predictions below:
Fact Check: Yes, Andrew Gillum Signed Radical Group's Pledge
lorida gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum is facing questions for claiming during Sunday night's debate that he had "no idea" what opponent Ron DeSantis was referring to when refencing a pledge that Gillum signed that supports a "radical manifesto."
"The fact is, Andrew signed a pledge with the Dream Defenders pledging his support, this radical manifesto," DeSantis said at the televised debate.
"I have no idea what pledge he is talking about," Gillum replied.
Not only did Gillum sign the pledge in question, he has evidenced a close personal and professional relationship with Dream Defenders, the group that promoted the pledge…
Gillum and Agnew are both graduates of the Rockwood Leadership Institute, an Oakland, California-based training school for progressive revolutionaries that has spawned a list of activists who have gone on to become the who's who of the far-left leadership world, with many taking senior positions at organizations financed by billionaire George Soros.
Fmr FBI Asst. Director: Bomb Plot Culprit 'Could be Someone Who is Trying to Get the Democratic Vote Out and Incur Sympathy'
"They're going to be looking at this as a potential terrorist motive, whether it's on one side or the other."
Former FBI Assistant Director Chris Swecker on Wednesday said investigators are going to consider all possibilities when it comes to determining the motive of the culprit who sent suspected explosive devices to the Clintons, Obama and potentially others.
"We're already seeing a little bit of a pattern," Swecker told Fox News on Wednesday. "They're going to be looking at this as a potential terrorist motive, whether it's on one side or the other."
"And as you correctly pointed out earlier," he told Fox News host Harris Faulkner. "This doesn't necessarily mean someone is espousing some sort of conservative ideology and targeting Democrats."
"It could be someone who is trying to get the Democratic vote out and incur sympathy," Swecker said. "It could go either way."
Former Paul Ryan Challenger Arrested in Radioactive Murder Plot
A Madison, Wisconsin man who ran for Congress in 2012 against House Speaker Paul Ryan has been accused of trying to acquire a lethal dose of radioactive material over the internet in order to murder an unnamed individual.
Judiciary Chairman Refers Avenatti and His Client to DOJ Over Kavanaugh Claims
…Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley has referred attorney Michael Avenatti and his client, Julie Swetnick, to the Justice Department and FBI for investigation into their claims about Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
"I am writing to refer Mr. Michael Avenatti and Ms. Julie Swetnick for investigation," Grassley, an Iowa Republican, wrote in a letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions and FBI Director Christopher Wray.
Grassley alleges that Avenatti and Swetnick engaged in a "potential conspiracy to provide materially false statements to Congress and obstruct a congressional committee investigation."
Avenatti, a potential Democratic presidential candidate in 2020, came forward as the attorney for Swetnick just days before Kavanaugh testified before the Senate Judiciary panel about allegations from Christine Blasey Ford, a California psychologist who claimed that Kavanaugh attempted to sexually assault her when they were in high school in 1982.
In a written declaration released by Avenatti on Sept. 26, Swetnick claimed that in the early 1980s, when Kavanaugh was in high school, she witnessed him drugging alcoholic beverages at house parties in order to take advantage of girls.
Swetnick, who is more than two years older than Kavanaugh, also claimed that she saw Kavanaugh at parties where girls were gang raped. Swetnick herself claimed that she was gang raped at one party, though she has said she does not know if Kavanaugh was aware of the attack.
Avenatti and Swetnick claimed that witnesses would corroborate her allegations, but none of come forward so far…
Law Enforcement Official: Examiners Think Mail Bombs Could Have Been "Hoax Devices"
Made to look like bombs seen in movies or TV but not meant to explode
A law enforcement official has told the New York Times that examiners are looking at whether the mail bombs sent to Democrats over the last 48 hours were in fact "hoax devices" that were made to look like bombs seen on television or the movies but not meant to explode.
Another suspicious package was found outside the Tribeca Grill, a restaurant owned by actor and Trump adversary Robert De Niro.
However, according to one source, the bombs could have been complete duds merely made to look like bombs for dramatic effect.
"One law enforcement official said investigators were examining the possibility that they were hoax devices that were constructed to look like bombs but would not have exploded," reports the NY Times.
Mail Bomb Design Said to Come From Internet as Manhunt Targets Florida
Update: The FBI will investigate the device sent to the New York headquarters of CNN, after the network said that it had been taken in a bomb-proof truck to the agency's lab in Quantico, Virginia, for analysis.
Meanwhile, a Reuters source said that investigators believe the design for the devices came from the internet, while they are currently focusing on leads in Florida.
NBC Admits "Blue Wave Turning Purple" As Republicans Outnumber Dems in Early Voting
"Is the blue wave turning purple?"
While this statement might not seem like much of a concession from left-leaning NBC News, a more thoughtful analysis reveals that it's just the latest indication of a shifting political reality — one that anti-Trump news organizations can no longer afford to ignore: That, just like in 2016, Republican turnout in the upcoming Nov. 6 midterm vote is already looking to be much higher than the polls initially predicted as issues like the migrant caravan and the contentious confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh have backfired on Democrats (who had hoped they would sway moderates to vote against Republicans) and instead galvanized the conservative movement and alienated those very same moderates they had hoped to attract.
Roger Stone Tried to Secure Pardon for Julian Assange
Roger Stone, a Republican operative and former adviser to President Trump, tried to secure a pardon for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange earlier this year, telling an associate not to "f*** it up."
"I am working to get JA a blanket pardon," Stone wrote in a January text message to Randy Credico, a comedian who Stone has identified as his backchannel to WikiLeaks during the 2016 presidential campaign.
San Francisco's New App 'Snapcrap' Lets Users Report Public Feces
Authored by Mac Slavo via SHTFplan.com
The city of San Francisco now has a new app that allows users to report poop in public places. The city, under complete totalitarian leftist control, has a large homeless population thanks to unaffordable housing and the high costs of living in the city.
Tech Community Outraged After SQLite Founder Adopts Benedictine Code of Conduct
The founder of the world's most widely used database engine ignited a firestorm in the tech community after it was revealed that he had posted a code of conduct for users based on the teachings of the Bible and an ancient order of monks founded by Benedict of Nursia.
Codes of conduct (CoC) have been all the rage in online communities in recent years. The gaming and tech communities, in particular, have grappled with behavior standards for online users in forums where bad behavior sometimes proliferates. While a CoC for users of a forum or email list sounds like a good idea in theory, increasingly they've been used to push social justice talking points and left-wing ideologies.
Top Ten Threats by Democrats Against Trump, His Family and His Supporters [Video]
DEMOCRATS and the Democrat Antifa group have been threatening President Trump, his family, his cabinet and innocent Americans who support President Trump from the moment President Trump became the official Republican presidential candidate in 2016.
Trump Turns Tables, Scores Wins Over Russia
President Trump's often-criticized effort to forge better relations with Russia has morphed into a confrontational stance that this week scored economic and national security wins.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced that her government is backing construction of a shipping depot for importing liquefied natural gas from the U.S., bowing to Mr. Trump's demand that she loosen Russia's grip on the country's energy supply.
Mr. Trump then went directly after Moscow. He announced that the U.S. was pulling out of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty that for the past 31 years limited the development and deployment of missile or launch systems that can threaten Russia's European neighbors.
The president accused Russia of violating the missile system ban for years and, to the Kremlin's dismay, vowed to force an expensive new arms race.
Russian President Vladimir Putin was riled.
At a meeting Tuesday in Moscow with National Security Adviser John R. Bolton, Mr. Putin described the developments as "unprovoked moves that are hard to call friendly."
Trump Slams 'Hateful' Media After They Blame Him for Pipe Bombs
"It has gotten so bad and hateful that it is beyond description."
President Trump slammed the media as hateful Thursday morning, after a night of broadcasts dedicated to blaming the President for the crude pipe bombs sent to leading Democratic figures.
Trump blamed "purposely false and inaccurate reporting" for a swell of "anger" in today's society.
Twitter Loses 9 Million Monthly Active Users in Q3 2018, Its Steepest Decline Ever
In today's third quarter earnings release, Twitter announced that its number of monthly active users has declined for the second straight quarter as the company seeks to rid its platform of spam, bots, and hateful content.
Twitter reported 326 million MAUs during Q3 2018. That's down from 335 million MAUs last quarter. It was expected that Twitter's MAU numbers would drop, however this is the largest quarter-over-quarter decline in MAUs in the company's history.
Two Shot Dead at a Kroger Grocery Store in Kentucky, Police Say
A male suspect fatally shot a man and a woman at a Kroger grocery store on the outskirts of Louisville, Kentucky, on Wednesday, and then exchanged fire with an armed bystander before fleeing the scene, police said. He was captured shortly afterward.
Both victims died at the store, said Jeffersontown Police Chief Sam Rogers. He did not say whether police had determined a motive. He also did not identify the suspect.
Police received a call about 3 p.m. reporting the shooting, Rogers said. He said the suspect fired multiple rounds at the man inside the store, and shot the female victim multiple times out in the parking lot. A citizen armed with a gun engaged the shooter in the parking lot, but the suspect was able to flee before he was captured on a nearby road, Rogers said.
Eric Deacon, who identified himself as an EMT, told The Associated Press that he was in the self-checkout lane of the store when he heard the first shot, in the pharmacy.
He said a man came around the corner and "the look on his face, he looked like he just didn't care."
Deacon said he saw another man in the store with a gun who appeared to be shooting at the suspect, trying to get him out of the store. Deacon went outside and saw a woman in her mid-50s or early 60s who had been hit, and tried to resuscitate her.
"She was gone, there's nothing I could do," Deacon said. "I think she just got caught in the crossfire."
As police officers swarmed the scene and blocked off the area with yellow crime tape, a man identified by the Louisville Courier Journal as Tim King stood in the parking lot waiting for his wife to come out. He said he drove to the store after she called him sobbing to tell him what had happened.
"I said, 'What's wrong?'" King said in a video posted on the newspaper's website. "And she said, 'There's someone shooting up here.'"
King said his wife said she heard popping noises, then someone ran around a corner and said, "Oh my God, he's killed her."
Customers were moved to the back of the store, she said.
"It's just a very, very scary situation," King said.
— Hat tip: Dean [Return to headlines]
Watch Live: More Package Bombs Found! The Bright Line Between Criticism and Violence
Robert De Niro and Joe Biden latest targets of possible false flag campaign
More bomb packages have allegedly been discovered Thursday morning, with one package addressed to actor Robert De Niro and another addressed to former Vice President Joe Biden.
Why is LinkedIn Founder Dumping Large Sums of Cash Into Congressional Campaign of Former CIA Operative With Ties to Obama's Crooked Iran Deal?
Why is LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman dumping massive amounts of cash into the coffers of Democrat plant, and former CIA operative, Elissa Slotkin?
Slotkin is virtually unknown in the state of Michigan where she's challenging conservative Republican Congressman Mike Bishop in the 8th District. Slotkin, a Pelosi plant, has never owned property in Michigan, has never paid taxes in Michigan, and has never voted in a Michigan election until her name appeared on the ballot in the Democrat primary election.
U.S. Congressman Mike Bishop has been the constant target of an angry Democrat Mob, who follows him around to campaign events, screaming obscenities, and forming human chains around his vehicle so he's unable to leave the parking lot. Bishop has spent his entire life in Michigan.
According to The Gateway Pundit, Slotkin played an integral role in negotiating the Iran deal that secretly sent over a $ billion in cash on pallets to Iran officials. She is also being called out her part in the enormous misstep, when the Obama regime pulled our troops from Iraq, leaving ISIS to fill the vacuum and to flourish in the middle east…
In March 2018, the WORLD SOCIALIST WEBSITE reported on an alarming scheme to plant former CIA agents in the US Congress.
Last week, during a debate in Howell, MI, Slotkin accused Congressman Bishop of not making himself accessible for questions from his constituents. Watch what happens when Elissa Slotkin is asked by a Michigan resident about her involvement in the crooked deal that secretly sent over $1 billion in cash to Iran on pallets that was ultimately used to support terrorism.
BBC Losing Audience, Younger Listeners, To Commercial Talk Radio
The BBC's radio stations have seen weekly audiences fall while commercial and digital radio are enjoying a rise in popularity with listeners.
The British public licence-funded broadcaster, home to several talk and music stations, has seen an overall fall in audience with the number of people listening each week falling by 1.6 percent to 34.3 million listeners, reports The Times.
French Gendarmes Checked Italians — Spataro
Prosecutor to issue warrant on Aug 2 incident near Claviere
(ANSA) — Turin, October 26 — Special forces in the French gendarmerie stopped and checked two Italians in Italian territory on August 2, Turin Chief Prosecutor Armando Spataro said Thursday.
He said his office would issue a European investigative warrants on the incident, which comes after gendarmes have been accused of dropping migrants back over the border in the area, at Claviere.
The two Italians said they had been stopped by four armed men at Gimont near Claviere.
In Islamised UK Town Diversity Has Completely Disappeared as Almost All Inhabitants Are Muslim
Only 48 of the 4,033 people living in Savile Town are white, native British and there's barely any diversity left in the town as most other residents or from Pakistan or India.
In a documentary style article, the Daily Mail calls Savile Town "one of the most racially homogeneous parts of Britain" as most people have the same culture and are Muslim.
Italy: Hundreds Line Up in Milan to Donate Bone Marrow for Boy
About 500 in 2 days, 'extraordinary'
(ANSA) — Milan, October 25 — Hundreds have offered to donate bone marrow to an 18-month-old boy named Alex in desperate need.
His parents had launched an appeal online and organized events across Italy in order to find a match.
"I put myself in the shoes of the little boy and felt the need to take on this responsibility," said Costanza, a 22-year-old university student lined up with about one hundred others in Milan to sign up to donate bone marrow. About 500 people took part in the event held by the ADMO bone marrow donors association between Wednesday and Thursday. Regional councillor and volunteer for the association Mirko Antonioli said that the participation was "extraordinary' and that "the number of participants increased five-fold compared with the previous year." Alex, who was born in London to Italian parents, has a rare genetic disorder and needs a transplant to survive but no match has been found yet on international donor registries.
The experimental drug keeping him alive will reportedly work for the next five weeks but could lose effectiveness after that time period.
His father Paolo has opened a Facebook page and the parents' appeal has gone viral to find a donor, who has to be between the ages of 18 and 35, and in good health.
Potential donors have been urged to contact a hospital or ADMO.
Events have also been planned in Piazza Sraffa in Milan on Wednesday and Thursday, Saturday in Naples, in Piazza Trieste and Trento, and Sunday in Caserta.
Italy to EU: "Italians Come First … Italy No Longer Wants to be a Servant to Silly Rules"
Interior Minister Matteo Salvini today said that the Italian government will not change its budget plan for 2019 despite the European Commission's rejection of the government's fiscal plan and call on Rome to rewrite the package within three weeks, employing the 2013 power to send back a budget of a euro zone country it says violates the rulebook.
Italy Budget Outrage: France's Mélenchon Says Brussels is 'Stripping' Rome of Sovereignty
FRANCE'S far-left leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon called for his nation to stand by Rome following the European Commission's unprecedented rejection of its 2019 draft budget, saying that Italy's populist leaders were acting in their country's best interests. The unprecedented rebuke of Rome's audacious spending plans has sparked controversy, but Italy's unbending leaders have pledged to stick to their guns and "put Italians first".
Norway's Former Minister of Justice Blasts Sweden: Change Your Naive Politics and Apologise for the Tragedy You've Cause
Swedish citizen Makaveli Lindén who recently was arrested for murder in Norway spent a lot of time in isolation, and also threatened guards when in prison. Yet he was released after two thirds of the sentence.
In October last year, Makaveli was sentenced to 1.5 years in prison. During his time there he was a problematic prisoner. Documents from the prison show several disciplinary crimes and threats.
Poland's Law and Justice Largest Party in Nationwide Elections
As we reported earlier and is now confirmed by Thursday's official results.
Poland's electoral commission reveals that the ruling populist party, Law and Justice, have won 254 seats in regional councils in local elections last Sunday and are now the largest party in Poland. The opposition coalition won 194 seats.
Report: UK Police Becoming 'Irrelevant' As Crime Surges While Charges and Investigations Plummet
UK police risk becoming "irrelevant" to many people as they fail to investigate huge numbers of reports and bring a "shockingly-low number of charges" for some crimes, despite the number of reported crimes rising steeply, MPs have said.
The report, by Parliament's Home Affairs Select Committee, argues there could be dire consequences for public safety if problems in the police are not addressed.
New data gathered by the committee reveals that recorded crime has surged by 32 percent in three years — including steep rises in robbery, theft, and vehicle crime — but charges and summons are down 26 percent.
It says that "in all neighbourhoods, without local engagement, policing is at risk of becoming irrelevant to most people, particularly in the context of low rates of investigation for many crimes".
The police in England and Wales are said to be "struggling to cope" thanks to out-dated technology, falling numbers of officers, and "fragmented" leadership.
[Comment: Not fragmented, but traitorous globalist leadership. No policing is part of the globalist tactic of destabilization of the nation state.]
Tony Abbott: Brexit Britain Has Nothing to Lose But Its Chains
Former Australian Prime Minister and noted conservative Tony Abbott has spoken out on the fundamental errors being made by British negotiators in the Brexit process, calling for "robust leadership", and telling Britain that it has nothing to lose from Brexit.
UK Struggles With 700 Live Terror Investigations, 'We Are Not Matched to Threat Level'
Police counter-terror chief Neil Basu has revealed the British authorities are struggling with a record 700 live terrorism investigations — and they are "not matched" to the threat.
"My predecessor Mark [Rowley] when he was in front of you a year ago said 'despite our best endeavours we're not yet as well matched to the threat as we were a year ago'," Basu told the Home Affairs Select Committee in Parliament.
UK: Attorney General Warns: May's EU Deal 'Almost Impossible to Get Out of'
Geoffery Cox has told the Cabinet that once signed up to Prime Minister Theresa May's customs backstop, there would be no option to withdraw, according to reports in The Spectator.
The Attorney General says there are three options, No Deal, sign up to the backstop that is impossible to leave, or hope to avoid the backstop in negotiations.
UK: School That Taught God Only Saved Muslims on Noah's Ark First Fined for Operating Illegally
The leaders of an "Islamic learning centre", that taught only Muslims were saved by God during the biblical flood, have become the first-ever in the UK convicted for operating an illegal and unregistered school in England.
Headteacher Beatrix Bernhardt, 38, and director Nacerdine Talbi, 47, were convicted at Westminster Magistrates' Court of running the Al-Istiqamah Learning Centre in Southall, west London.
Serbia: FCA Largest Exporter With Almost 600 Million Euros
15 major companies' export value 3.3 bln in first nine months
(ANSA) — BELGRADE, OCTOBER 23 — Fiat Chrysler Automobiles Serbia (FCA Srbija) remains the biggest exporter in Serbia, according to new data from the ministry of Finance, quoted by local media.
The total value of export from Serbia of the first 15 major exporters in the first nine months of 2018 amounted to 3.3 billion euros. Of the total, the export of FCA had a value of 599.6 million euros, followed by the HBIS Group, the owner of the steel factory of Smederevo, with 581.4 million euros exports (+36.5% year-on-year), by the Naftna industrija Srbije (NIS), with 346.6 million euros exports and by Tigar Tyres, a company based in Pirot, which recorded a 295.4 million euros export.
"No Choice" Other Than War: Israeli Military Strikes 8 Targets in Gaza as the Conflict Escalates
Israel and Hamas are already essentially in a state of war, and yet the mainstream media in the United States has been virtually silent about this conflict. For the past 6 months, Hamas has been conducting violent demonstrations along the border with Israel, and last Friday 130 protesters got shot as the violence escalated wildly out of control. Over the past several weeks, Israel has been enduring an endless barrage of incendiary devices and rockets, and the Israelis appear to be out of patience at this point. On Wednesday night, the Israeli military hit eight different Hamas targets in the Gaza strip. The following comes from Haaretz…
Prince MbS: A Good Mohammedan
by Srdja Trifkovic
It is the duty of every Muslim to emulate the example of his prophet as recorded in the Hadith. By ordering the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, Prince Mohammad bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud has only acted in accordance with that orthodox, 14-century-old principle. It would have been eminently un-Islamic, in fact, for "MbS" to allow an outspoken critic of a divinely ordained polity to go on living.
THE CONTEXT — Islam is a revealed religion focused on its grounding in history—specifically on the person of Muhammad, his revelation and his example. Events as they happened, dominated by the "Prophet's" words and deeds recorded in the Hadith, are the foundation of the Islamic faith, law, and social custom. His actions and utterances are passed on as rules and mode of conduct, in accordance with the Kuranic statement that Muhammad is "a beautiful pattern of conduct" (Kuran, 33:21). They guide the lives of Muslims to this day: whereas imitatio Christi is a voluntary spiritual endeavor for a pious Christian, a bona fide Muslim is obliged to imitate Muhammad.
The hadithic literature is the essential guide in this endeavor. It contains thousands of instances in Muhammad's life which serve as binding models. The "approved" ones supply the precedents for legal and religious duties (ahkam), and define what is allowed (halal) or forbidden (haram) to a Muslim. Here Muhammed provides the model of behavior for every little detail of everyday life: when to blow the nose, how to urinate, how to conduct sexual union in marriage . . . No mere mortal has ever been revered to the point of regulating whether one's hair is to be cut from left to right or vice versa. Authoritative hadithist Bukhari attests that Muhammad encouraged the trend, saying he was the apex of all the generations of the children of Adam" (Al Hadis, Vol 4, p. 316). "I have been sent to perfect good character"; and, most remarkably, "Nobody truly believes until I become dearer to him than his parents, children, and all mankind." (Al Hadis, Vol. 1, p. 97).
Allah is so distant and abstract that his prophet perhaps inevitably acquired quasi-divine status. The Muslims nevertheless insist that Islam is not "Mohammedanism," the religion of Muhammad, corresponding to Christianity, the religion of Christ. They do not worship Muhammad but Allah, they contend; the former is only the messenger. Theoretically, perhaps; yet imitatio Muhammadi as the source of daily moral and legal guidance elevates the prophet of Islam to divinity. The difference between Allah and Muhammad becomes blurred once a mortal and sinful man is recognized as the absolute authority on the will of the creator and sustainer of the universe. In reality Islam is "Mohammedanism" indeed, de facto bi-theism.
— Hat tip: Srdja Trifkovic [Return to headlines]
Cardinal Zen: Pope Francis Has 'Natural Sympathy for Communists'
The redoubtable Cardinal Joseph Zen said Thursday that the recently inked deal between the Vatican and China over the naming of bishops spells the "annihilation" of the Church in China.
In an op-ed for the New York Times titled "The Pope Doesn't Understand China," Cardinal Zen — the retired bishop of Hong Kong — speculated that the new deal, which concedes an unspecified role in the appointment of bishops to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), is fruit of the naivete of Pope Francis.
"Francis may have natural sympathy for Communists because for him, they are the persecuted," Zen wrote. "He doesn't know them as the persecutors they become once in power, like the Communists in China."
China Sought Thousands of French Experts for Work and Espionage
One way the Chinese regime extends its global subversion and influence is by recruiting and spying on experts abroad. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is trying to recruit or spy on thousands of French experts using fake LinkedIn accounts, according to Le Figaro.
Several hundred people have been compromised, the French paper reported.
Chinese agents targeted some 4,000 French individuals, including civil servants, scientists, high-level managers, and other influential figures, Le Figaro reported on Oct. 23. Of that figure, about 1,700 are employed or otherwise involved with national institutions.
Have the Chinese Reached a Tipping Point?
Private groups in China instead of SOEs have suffered from Beijing's push to eliminate "debt and financial risk over the past 18 months upsetting the social and economic fabric of society that has enjoyed un-paralleled success since former President Deng's "Four Modernizations" program. But these actions also illustrate China's unwillingness to allow open trade and political freedom. The Chinese's recent actions in Hong Kong (a city in real trouble) — using the bullet train coupled with large infrastructure projects to tighten their grip and banning the city's Pro-Independence Party — demonstrate that the communist government is confronting serious issues.
Now Mexico, Canada, the E.U., Japan, and the United Kingdom have all agreed under the revised NAFTA agreement and in separate negotiations with the U.S. to "cut China out of trade deals with partners." This new "pivot" means that all countries have to notify the U.S. before trade negotiations with a "non-market economy" take place. This new NAFTA is a major setback to Beijing, trying to co-opt the U.S.-led post-World War II liberal order for its Marxist-capitalistic system. The world is confronting China using trade instead of guns for this new battle, and if Beijing doesn't change course there is the real possibility of economic, cultural, and political stagnation for decades ahead.
'They're Like the Ku Klux Klan': Liberal MP Calls on His Own Side of Politics to Ban Islamic Extremist Group That Advocates Domestic Violence — and They're Already Outlawed in Egypt
Gareth Ward, a Liberal Party member of Parliament from the New South Wales South Coast, has called on the federal government to ban Muslim extremist group Hizb ut-Tahrir.
— Hat tip: SS [Return to headlines]
Suicides Surge in a Hopeless Venezuela
(Bloomberg) — The patients arrive by night or in broad daylight, alive and sometimes dead.
A record surge of suicides in troubled Venezuela is wearing down doctors who work at the university hospital in the Andean state of Merida. People who have tried to kill themselves arrive at an uncertain rhythm that breeds dread in the professionals who receive them.
Central Europe Spends Millions on Strengthening Libyan Coast Guard
The Visegrad Group (V4) countries are spending 35 million euros in North Africa to strengthen the Libyan coast guard with a view to halting illegal migration to Europe, a government official said late on Tuesday.
Europe's Illegal Migrants 'Need to Go Home', Says Czech Prime Minister
Populist Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis has said that Europe's illegal migrants "need to go home" and rejected European Union plans for increasing the size and power of its border force Frontex.
"There are 700,000 illegal migrants — they need to go home," Prime Minister Babis told The Guardian ahead of Brexit talks with Prime Minister Theresa May in London on Wednesday.
Hundreds of Caravan Migrants Accept Bus Rides Home Amid "Sickness, Fear and Police Harassment
"Sickness, fear and police harassment" has taken its toll on the migrant caravan making its way to the US border, according to AP, as several hundred asylum seekers have accepted government offers to bus them back to their countries of origin.
ICE: Twice-Deported Illegal Alien Wanted for Child Rape in Delaware
An illegal alien who had been deported from the U.S. twice in the same year is wanted by police in Dover, Delaware, for allegedly raping a six-year-old girl in 2011, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials told Breitbart News.
Officials told Breitbart News on Wednesday that illegal alien Juan Carlos Hernandez-Tapia, 33, a Mexican national who had been accused of raping a six-year-old girl in 2011, had been deported two times that year.
Italy: Three Detained Over 16-Year-Old's Homicide
Investigators believe Desiree Mariottini was drugged, gang raped
(ANSA) — Rome, October 25 — Three people have been detained by police in relation to the homicide of Desiree Mariottini, a 16-year-old girl found dead in an abandoned building in Rome's San Lorenzo district last week, sources said Thursday. Investigators believe that Desiree was drugged and gang raped while unconscious before she died.
Two Senegalese nationals — Mamadou Gara, 26, and Brian Minteh, 43 — were held overnight.
A third suspect, a 40-year-old Nigerian, was detained on Thursday.
They are suspected of sexual violence in a group, selling drugs and voluntary manslaughter. Sources say the police are trying to track down at least one other suspect.
"Two illegal immigrants held last night for the rape and death of Desirée, two others are wanted," Interior Minister and Deputy Premier Matteo Salvini said via Twitter after Gara and Minteh were detained. "Thank you to the police. I will do everything so that the worms guilty of this horror pay in full for their vileness, with no discounts". "Today I'm happy because three beasts who raped a girl have been captured," Salvini added later in the day in Verona.
"The fourth will be nabbed within minutes". Gara went missing after an expulsion order in 2017, sources said.
"Now I want justice for Desiree. I don't want this tragedy to happen to other girls," said the victim's mother, Barbara Mariottini, who was at her home in Cisterna di Latina, south of Rome.
Deputy Premier and Labour and Industry Minister Luigi Di Maio said Thursday that Rome Mayor Virginia Raggi's powers should be boosted following the case. "It's time to give more powers to the mayor of Rome," Di Maio told Radio 24. "Rome has no rivals in Europe in terms of its complexity and size". Raggi is a member of Di Maio's 5-Star Movement (M5S).
Italy in Shock: Third African Migrant Arrested in Gang Rape and Homicide Case of Teen Girl
The Italian police have arrested a third suspect in a case that shocked the country. As we reported earlier, the body of the 16-year-old Desiree Mariottini was found in an abandoned building in Rome on Saturday.
LOL! Migrant Mob Member Flashes Gang Sign as Univision Reporter, Jorge Ramos Tells Fox News' Viewers Caravan is Harmless [Video]
Watch at the 2:45 mark. Ramos is in the middle of attempting to convince MacCallum that despite "the optics" that there is no invasion of illegals into the U.S., when two young men walk up behind him. The young man on the right sees the camera and pulls his hoodie up over his head to hide his face. As he approaches the camera, he flashes a gang sign at the camera, while Ramos continues to blather on about the harmless nature of the mostly male caravan of illegal aliens headed for our borders.
Migrants and Police Injured in Bosnia-Croatia Border Clashes
Refugees camped out near border, interior ministers meet
(ANSAmed) — BELGRADE, OCTOBER 25 — Three migrants and three Bosnian police were injured in incidents that broke out on Wednesday evening at the Maljevac border crossing near Velika Kladusa, on the border between Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia.
The police resisted the latest attempt by the migrants, after a previous one on Wednesday, to force their way into Croatian territory. The news was given on Thursday by the Bosnian police, which have been deployed in mass at the border, alongside Croatian ones on the other side of the border. The migrants threw stones and other objects at the police, who briefly charged at them to push them back. The tension on the Bosnia-Croatia border remained high on Thursday after several clashes on Wednesday between police and migrants intending to enter Croatia to continue their journey towards other EU countries in Western Europe. Bosnian media report that over the night the migrants camped out in the open air in a sort of 'no-man's-land' and lit fires to keep themselves warm. They then send groups of children and youths towards the police cordon to chant 'Open border, open border'.
Placards and banners shown by the refugees have slogans such as 'EU, where are you?' and 'We do not want the war' written on them. Police forces have been noticeably stepped up on the Croatian side of the border and in recent hours Croatian interior minister Davor Bozinovic discussed the situation with his Bosnian counterpart Dragan Mektic.
Two Illegal Migrants Arrested for Being Involved in Gang Rape and Death of Italian Teen Girl
Late Wednesday night two arrests were made in connection with the rape and possible murder of the 16-year-old Italian girl Desiree Mariottini.
The teen girl was found dead in an abandoned building in a suburb in Rome. It is believed that she was drugged and gang raped while being unconscious, investigators say.
US Deploys 800 Troops to Southern Border as 'Migrant Caravan' Approaches: CNN
As Mexican authorities do little to stop the 'migrant caravan' from cross southern Mexico, Defense Secretary James Mattis is reportedly preparing to order an additional 800 troops to the southern border as soon as Thursday, CNN reported.
Violence Flares as Migrants Try to Storm Croatian Border to Enter EU
HUNDREDS of migrants have clashed with police at the border between Bosnia and Croatia after they tried to cross into the EU via the Balkan country, resulting in road closures.
Exploding the Transgender Myth
The entire transgender legitimacy movement is a fabrication in which new vocabulary was introduced to glorify those who suffer from the psychiatric condition known as gender dysphoria. Although it has been sanitized to reflect political correctness and liberal values, the American Psychiatric Association's classification of gender dysphoria treats the condition as a mental disorder; it is hard to avoid the inescapable scientific truth. Under President Obama, the federal government was directed to deny this truth and to treat those with gender dysphoria as really being of the sex they imagine they are, due to their disorder. President Trump has corrected this error and should be applauded.
Imagine someone suffering from Dissociative Identity Disorder (which was previously referred to as Multiple Personality Disorder) being assigned two Social Security numbers, two legal names, and two different birthdays, due to the person's psychiatric delusion that he is two different people. It would be absurd for one's legal identity to be controlled by fantasies that are the product of a mental disorder. Is not the transgender issue equally absurd, such that one's imagined sex, which represents a psychiatric ailment, should dictate to the government whether such a person is legally male or female?
The New Social Media: Alternatives to Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, And Other Big Tech Platforms
Lately, I've written a lot about the alternative media purge and how Big Tech social media platforms are attempting to control the narrative, the elections, and public perception through censorship and financial blacklisting. Lots of people are ready to leave websites like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube for less-censored pastures. But what are the social media alternatives that are currently available?
Here are some social media alternatives to check out.
Before we get into the alternatives, please understand that all of them will start small. None of them will be able to take on Big Tech without a lot of help and support. We've gotten used to free social media because the companies with whom we've dealt have virtually raped us, reading our so-called "private" messages, and pillaging our date to sell to the highest bidders. So really, it isn't that free after all.
You probably won't find your parents, your best friend from kindergarten, and your Aunt Suzie on these platforms — not yet, anyway. But what you WILL be able to do is speak without fear of censorship. You'll be able to find your favorite alternative media sources there and find answers that simply aren't supported by the mainstream.
The only way to change this dystopian atmosphere is to actually make changes ourselves. Go where the freedom is!
UK Student Union President Promises to "Take Down Mural of White Men" Who Died in World War One
Emily Dawes, who is the Student Union President of Southampton University, said in a tweet, "Mark my words— we're taking down the mural of white men in the uni Senate Room, even if I have to paint over it myself".
Barn Swallow on October 26, 2018 at 1:06 am said:
"New data gathered by the committee reveals that recorded crime (in the UK) has surged by 32 percent in three years — including steep rises in robbery, theft, and vehicle crime — but charges and summons are down 26 percent."
This seems to be the plan all along, using "change agents" from "Common Purpose" and such, they disassemble UK security forces from within – the Police, the Navy, the Military… In the end, all that UK will do is to invite "European Forces" to help them out with the public unrests that are coming, effectively ending the existence of the UK.
Baucent on October 26, 2018 at 3:40 am said:
The advocates of Multiculturalism never talk about this phenomenon. That a rising immigrant population just keeps rising and eventually smothers the indigenous culture. In the end the cultural groups don't live side by side in happy unity but in completely separate neighbourhoods, towns and eventually cities (your future Birmingham).
"Imagine someone suffering from Dissociative Identity Disorder (which was previously referred to as Multiple Personality Disorder) being assigned two Social Security numbers, two legal names, and two different birthdays, due to the person's psychiatric delusion that he is two different people."
A very good point. Is it only a matter of time before we will hear calls to allow people claiming to have dual identities, a legal documented status as "bi-identity".
Елена on October 26, 2018 at 5:39 am said:
Singer Sinead O'Connor converted to Islam
https://www.bbc.com/russian/news-45989063?ocid=socialflow_twitter
Modern writer Viktor Pelevin, popular in Russia, wrote:
"Eh, fearless young bitches who terrified the network with their exploits would know that activism is different in all eras, but old age, icons and cats are the same at all times."
I think his words are outdated – cats and icons should be replaced with Islam and hijab
Елена on October 26, 2018 at 12:05 pm said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oybDMsXHub0
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Vladimir Putin arrived on mount Athos
Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived on mount Athos in Greece, where he will meet with Greek President Prokopis pavlopoulos a, reports "Interfax".
The head of state is in Greece on an official visit. It is planned that while on mount Athos, the President will visit the administrative centre, Karyes and Svyato-Panteleymonov monastery. In karyes Putin will also meet with protepistates the Holy mountain with father Paul and the members of the Holy Kinot.
According to the program of the visit it is planned that in the Church of the Dormition of the Theotokos on mount Athos held a brief prayer service. Followed by the speech of the President in the building of the Holy Kinot.
Putin also plans to meet with a hundred year old Abbot of the Russian Svyato-Panteleymonov monastery shiarhimandrita Jeremiah. In the monastery, Putin will meet with Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia Kirill. In the meeting of the President and Patriarch Jeremiah shiarhimandrita will be attended by the spiritual father of the monastery, hieromonk Macarius.
The arrival of the head of state on mount Athos dedicated to the Millennium of the presence of Russian monasticism. The monastery itself was founded in 1169, although Russian monks settled on the mount in the 10th century.
On the eve of a meeting of Putin with Prime Minister of Greece Alexis Tsipras. Athens, he said, can serve as a "bridge of cooperation and friendship" between Russia and the EU. Tsipras said that, in General, Greece opposed sanctions against Moscow. Putin expressed hope that Greece will be able to influence decisions in the European Union.
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Never have I wanted one million dollars to spend at a fashion show. Never have I cried at the conclusion of a fashion show. Not, because the clothes were fabulous…and they were. Not because the accessories sparkled….and they did. Not because the style was unique…and it was. But, because the models and their mission were all about one thing…LIFE.
Last night, the Cure for Cancer fashion show at Franklin Park on Sonterra exceeded all expectations, and brought event organizer, Carol Kaye Glaze closer to her goal of raising one million dollars for the Department of Genitourinary Medical Oncology at MD Andersen Cancer Center. Her mother's doctor from the center in Houston was pleased to tell the audience how moved he was by their generosity.
Glaze and her family from Morris Kaye and Sons Furs located in the Quarry, also had their expectations blown. The turnout was so large organizers had to scramble to find enough seats for the live auction. Terry Dickerson of Machinery Auctioneers brought his humor and expertise to the stage where prize after prize resulted in thousands of dollars raised. The extra incentive is that all cancer research money is matched. Dickerson was so infectious, SA business owners in the crowd such as, Ben Adams and J Green Jewelers, tossed in extra auction items from their seats.
(L-R) Richard Howell, Paige Carr, Debra Hurtado enjoy this celebration of life. Hurtado's husband, singer George Strait's pilot is in remission. She appeared with an autographed Strait guitar for the auction.
They did not walk the traditional "model's walk" down the runway….they danced for sheer joy to be alive. Tears flowed as all the models danced to song lyrics, "we're alive" over and over again and then ran into the arms of waiting loved ones. San Antonio came out strong last night, but needs to show up even stronger next year. Here's an event where your investment is dancing right before your eyes.


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Millions of Feral Pigs Pose Bigger Threat to Environment than Previously Thought
21st Jul 2021 Shea Woodrow Comments 0 Comment
Feral pigs are releasing about 4.9 million metric tonnes of carbon dioxide across the globe annually – the same as 1.1 million cars
Tracks zigzagging across the heavy black soil are a common sight at Mark Dunne's farm, an hour's drive west of Rockhampton in Queensland.
It's perfect for growing pulses and legumes, but it's also a feral-pig magnet.
Mr Dunne's 1,200-hectare farm can lose tens of thousands of dollars in a single season from pig damage.
"There's only a couple here at the moment," Mr Dunne said.
"They're just foraging and looking around, but at times we can get mobs of up to 30 to 50.
In numbers that high, mobs of pigs can dig up a couple of football fields in a night.
Feral pigs are a known threat to Australia's $65 billion agricultural industry, destroying crops, spreading disease and preying on livestock.
Now new research from the University of Queensland (UQ) reveals the environmental threat from feral pigs is greater than previously thought.
Carbon emitters
By uprooting carbon trapped in soil, the research estimates that they're emitting the equivalent of more than a million cars globally each year.
"Undoubtedly, when you disturb soil, there's going to be emission, but we didn't realise that it would be at that magnitude – 1.1 million," lead author Dr Christopher O'Bryan said.
He says it's a conservative estimate and emissions could be three or four times higher.
The international team led by UQ used predictive population models with advanced mapping techniques to pinpoint the climate damage from feral pigs across five continents.
They found Australia and New Zealand produced the bulk of global emissions because the country has millions of pigs.
"We're talking about a decent proportion — enough to catch your attention," he said.
Dr O'Bryan said pigs in their native environment may damage soil, but they filled an ecological niche in the system.
He said soil contained almost three times as much carbon than in the atmosphere, so even a small fraction of carbon emitted from soil had the potential to accelerate climate change.
The research, published in Global Change Biology, warned of ramifications for curbing the effects of climate change into the future.
Wide-ranging impacts
Feral pigs not only threaten species that are already in decline due to human pressure, but they have an impact on agriculture, cultural heritage and spread disease — like foot and mouth.
"It's been estimated if [foot and mouth] disease were to spread through the wild pig population in Australia, this would be well over $50 billion in losses due to agriculture just in livestock," Dr O'Bryan said.
Controlling them is challenging, however, because feral pigs are prolific breeders, producing two litters of four to 10 piglets a year in good conditions.
"There's not a one-off silver bullet solution," Dr O'Bryan said.
The federal Department of Agriculture has funded a National Feral Pig Action Plan, which it anticipates to deliver in September.
It's an initiative between state, federal and local governments, national resource management, private landholders and industry groups.
"They've done a good job at estimating the current risk and the potential strategies moving forward," Dr O'Bryan said.
"And they estimate we need to get to 70 per cent reduction of population growth to prevent any sort of population recovery of pigs."
Full story by Inga Stunzner at ABC News Australia
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Le néoplatonisme est une doctrine philosophique, élaborée par des platoniciens de l'Antiquité tardive à la suite du médio-platonisme. Philon d'Alexandrie est le précurseur de ce mouvement vers 40, puis il se développe à Rome à partir de 232 par Ammonios Saccas, maître de Plotin, et les élèves de ce dernier, Porphyre et Jamblique. Le néoplatonisme est une école très influente dans l'Antiquité, avec de grands continuateurs comme Proclus, jusqu'à l'exil de ses derniers représentants comme Damascios et Simplicios de Cilicie en 529, à la suite de la fermeture des écoles et lieux de culte païens par l'empereur Justinien.

Le néoplatonisme ou platonisme de l'Antiquité tardive tente de concilier la philosophie de Platon avec certains courants de la spiritualité orientale comme les Oracles chaldaïques, ainsi qu'avec d'autres écoles de la philosophie grecque, notamment celles de Pythagore et d'Aristote. L'œuvre d'Aristote finit par être conçue par les néoplatoniciens comme une introduction à l'œuvre de Platon.

Le mot « néoplatonisme » a été inventé par Thomas Taylor, dans sa traduction des Ennéades de Plotin en 1787, et repris par Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom Stein en 1864 dans . Ce mot peut cependant être source de confusion pour le public non averti. En effet, ces philosophes tenaient compte aussi d'autres philosophies, comme celle d'Aristote. Les néoplatoniciens se disaient eux-mêmes simplement platoniciens, mais cette appellation n'est plus exacte aujourd'hui tant leurs rapports à la philosophie de Platon furent complexes: tout en lui étant restés fidèles, ils diffèrent amplement de lui.

Le néoplatonisme se caractérise par l'importance donnée au Premier Principe, l'Un, en métaphysique, et par des expériences mystiques. Le néoplatonisme eut pendant des siècles une profonde influence sur la philosophie juive, la philosophie chrétienne et la philosophie islamique, ainsi que sur des philosophes comme Hegel et Schelling. Il existe un néoplatonisme propre à la Renaissance appelé néoplatonisme médicéen.

Origines
Il est possible de voir un précurseur du néoplatonisme en la personne de Philon d'Alexandrie qui, vers 40, traduit le judaïsme en termes d'éléments stoïciens, platoniciens et néopythagoriciens et soutient que Dieu est  et ne peut être atteint qu'à travers l'extase. Il ajoute que les Oracles de Dieu fournissent le matériel moral et les connaissances religieuses. C'est Philon qui fait circuler l'idée que Platon admet deux mondes, dont un monde intelligible (). Platon, pourtant, n'admet que deux niveaux, deux lieux, l'intelligible, le sensible, en participation. Platon n'admet qu'un Tout, un Univers (en deux niveaux, en deux lieux qui participent), pas deux mondes séparés : il parle de « lieu intelligible » et de « lieu visible », en rapport d'analogie, de ressemblance (La République, VI, 508b).

Les plus importants précurseurs du néoplatonisme, sont les médio-platoniciens, tels que Plutarque (vers 80) et les néopythagoriciens, surtout Numénios d'Apamée (vers 150).

Les premiers philosophes chrétiens, tels que Justin de Naplouse (vers 135) et Athénagoras d'Athènes, ont essayé de relier le néoplatonisme au christianisme. Les chrétiens gnostiques d'Alexandrie, surtout Valentin (vers 150) et les disciples de Basilide, ont aussi représenté des éléments du néoplatonisme.

Il n'y a cependant pas de preuves d'une quelconque influence de philosophies juives ou chrétiennes chez Plotin. Alexandrie, d'où le néoplatonisme est originaire, est baignée dans des pratiques religieuses orientales. C'est uniquement le néoplatonisme tardif, à partir de Jamblique, qui propose un parallèle entre Platon et les Gnostiques.

Écoles
Les écoles du platonisme les plus anciennes, depuis la fondation de l'Académie de Platon en -388, sont :
 L'école paléoplatonicienne ou platonisme ancien. Elle comprend les disciples immédiats de Platon : Speusippe (premier scolarque, recteur, de l'Académie de Platon en -348), Philippe d'Oponte, Eudoxe de Cnide, Héraclide du Pont, Xénocrate (deuxième scolarque en -339). Suivent Philon de Larissa (douzième scolarque en -129), etc. Speusippe et Xénocrate tirent du côté de Pythagore, du Nombre. Mais quand Pythagore met les nombres dans les choses, Platon sépare Nombres et réalités sensibles ;
 L'école médioplatonicienne ou moyen-platonisme ou platonisme éclectique : Eudore d'Alexandrie (40 av. J.-C.), Ammonios d'Athènes (maître de Plutarque en 66), le fameux Plutarque de Chéronée (46-125), Théon de Smyrne (vers 130 ?), Atticus, Alcinoos le Philosophe, auteur du Didaskalikos. Enseignement des doctrines de Platon, vers 150), Apulée de Madaure (125-180), Maxime de Tyr (), Numénios d'Apamée (vers 155). À partir de Numénios, la distinction entre néopythagorisme et néoplatonisme se brouille. Parmi les lettres attribuées à Platon, les , VI, IX, XII et XIII viennent d'un « milieu pythagoricien fin du  ou début du  » ; la II relève peut-être de la pensée d'Eudore d'Alexandrie.

Le néoplatonisme s'est développé en plusieurs écoles, depuis Ammonios Saccas en 232 jusqu'à la fermeture de l'école néoplatonicienne d'Athènes par Justinien en 529 ou jusqu'au milieu du  pour l'école néoplatonicienne d'Alexandrie :
 L'école néoplatonicienne de Rome : Ammonios Saccas (fondateur du néoplatonisme en 232, maître de Plotin), Plotin (244, maître de Porphyre, Amelius, Roghatianus, premier scolarque en 244), Porphyre de Tyr (264, secrétaire et éditeur de Plotin, second scolarque en 270), Jamblique (305, élève de Porphyre), Cornelius Labeo (). Ammonios Saccas, poursuivant le moyen-platonisme, affirme le concordisme Platon/Aristote : « Ce fut Ammonios d'Alexandrie, l'inspiré de Dieu, qui le premier, s'attachant avec enthousiasme à ce qu'il y a de vrai dans la philosophie et s'élevant au-dessus des opinions vulgaires qui rendaient la philosophie un objet de mépris, comprit bien la doctrine de Platon et d'Aristote, les réunit en un seul et même esprit, et livra ainsi la philosophie en paix à ses disciples Plotin, Origène [le Platonicien] et leurs successeurs » (Hiéroclès d'Alexandrie, cité par Photios). Plotin se présente comme un exégète des enseignements de Platon : « Cette doctrine n'est pas nouvelle. Elle fut professée dès les temps les plus anciens, mais sans être développée explicitement; nous ne voulons ici qu'être les interprètes des premiers sages et montrer par le témoignage même de Platon qu'ils avaient les mêmes dogmes que nous » (Ennéades V.1.8) ;
 L'école néoplatonicienne d'Apamée (en Syrie), théurgique : Amelius (268 ; disciple de Plotin en 246, maître de Jamblique), Jamblique (313), Sopatros d'Apamée (325, successeur de Jamblique), Édésios de Cappadoce (parti à Pergame), Eustathe de Cappadoce ;
 L'école néoplatonicienne de Pergame, première ramification de l'école syrienne, d'orientation magique : Édésios de Cappadoce (disciple de Jamblique, fondateur de l'école de Pergame vers 330), Maxime d'Éphèse (disciple d'Édésios de Cappadoce, et maître du futur Julien l'Empereur dès 351), Chrysanthe, Julien l'empereur (350), Priscus (385, vivant à Athènes), Eunape de Sardes (historien de l'école avec sa Vie des sophistes, 395) ; la production littéraire de l'école néoplatonicienne de Pergame est suspendue vers 332 lorsque l'édit de Constantin pour la destruction des temples païens entre en vigueur ;
 L'école néoplatonicienne d'Athènes, deuxième ramification de l'école syrienne, d'orientation mystique : Nestorios le Hiérophante (hiérophante à Éleusis de 355 à 380), Plutarque d'Athènes (premier scolarque de l'école d'Athènes, vers 400), Syrianos (deuxième scolarque, en 435), Proclos (disciple de Plutarque d'Athènes et de Syrianos, troisième scolarque en 438), Ammonios, fils d'Hermias (maître de Jean Philopon, d'Athènes comme élève, d'Alexandrie comme maître), Marinos (quatrième scolarque, biographe de Proclos, 485), Hégias, Isidore de Gaza (maître de Damascios, sixième scolarque en 490), Zénodote (495), Damascios (huitième et dernier scolarque de l'école d'Athènes en 520, maître de Simplicios à Athènes), Simplicios de Cilicie (« dernier représentant », de retour à Athènes en 533). L'école naît donc à Athènes vers 400, avec Plutarque d'Athènes, Syrianos, puis elle émigre à Alexandrie vers 430, avec Hiéroclès d'Alexandrie, Hermias, Ammonios, fils d'Hermias. En 529, l'empereur romain d'Orient Justinien  fait fermer l'école d'Athènes, aussi sept philosophes néoplatoniciens (Damascius le Diadoque, Simplicios de Cilicie, Priscien de Lydie, Eulamios de Phrygie, Hermias de Phénicie, Diogène de Phénicie, et Isidore de Gaza) durent quitter Athènes et se réfugièrent en Perse, chez le roi de Perse Khosrô , puis à Harrân, en Mésopotamie ; après le traité de paix signé en 532 entre Khosrô  et Justinien , les philosophes retournèrent, malgré les instances du roi de Perse, dans l'empire byzantin ;
 L'école néoplatonicienne d'Alexandrie, troisième ramification de l'école syrienne, d'orientation exégétique : Hypatie (tuée en 415), Synésios de Cyrène (élève d'Hypathie, évêque de Ptolémaïs en 410), Hiéroclès d'Alexandrie (peut-être vers 430), Hermias, Ammonios, fils d'Hermias (vers 500), Jean Philopon (disciple et assistant d'Ammonios, fils d'Hermias ; 517), les Prolégomènes à la philosophie de Platon (début du VI s.), Olympiodore le Jeune (scolarque en 541), Étienne d'Alexandrie (vers 620). Jean Philopon s'est converti au christianisme vers 529, sans doute à cause de la mesure de Justinien . Pour Ilsetraut Hadot,  (Le problème du néoplatonisme alexandrin. Hiéroclès et Simplicius, 1978).

Après Damascios (470-544), les penseurs sont moins philosophes, davantage compilateurs ou alchimistes. Certains sont considérés comme commentateurs en alchimie : Synésios peut-être identique à Synésios de Cyrène), Olympiodore l'Alchimiste peut-être identique à Olympiodore le Jeune, Étienne d'Alexandrie (Stephanos d'Alexandrie (v. 620). Olympiodore le Jeune oppose contemplatifs et théurgistes : « Beaucoup, comme Porphyre et Plotin, préfèrent la philosophie, d'autres, comme Jamblique, Syrianos et Proclos, préfèrent la théurgie (ιερατική) »<ref>Olympiodore d'Alexandrie le Jeune, In Platonis Phaedonem, édi. par W. Norvin, 123.3. Eric Robertson Dodds, Les Grecs et l'irrationnel (1959), Flammarion, coll. "Champs, 1977, p. 301, en grec.</ref>.

Le platonisme a continué en créant :
 le gnosticisme platonisant : Ménandre (fin du ), Basilide (vers 120), Cérinthe, Satornil, Hermogène, Isidore, Bardesane d'Édesse (vers 220) ; les écrits séthiens (Allogène, Zostrien, Les trois stèles de Seth, Marsanes) : triade Être/Vie/Intellect ;
 le néoplatonisme chrétien : Marius Victorinus (Ad Candidum Arianum, vers 350), Augustin d'Hippone, le Pseudo-Denys l'Aréopagite (vers 490, en Syrie), Boèce (dont les traités théologiques datent de 520). L'école de Chartres, avec Bernard de Chartres (1124), Bernard Silvestre, relève du platonisme ; d'ailleurs, Étienne Gilson a écrit sur « le platonisme de Bernard de Chartres » (1923) ;
 le néoplatonisme islamique ésotérisant : Rhazès (865-v. 925), Avicenne (1020), Sohrawardî d'Alep (1155-1191), Ibn Arabî (1220, surnommé « Fils de Platon »), les néoplatoniciens musulmans d'Espagne ;
 le néoplatonisme juif ésotérisant : Bahya ibn Paquda (1040), Avicebron (Ibn Gabirol, mort en 1058), Abraham bar Hiyya (1100), Abraham Ibn Ezra, le cercle des rabbins de Provence (Abraham ben Isaac de Narbonne, Jacob Nazir de Lunel), les kabbalistes néoplatoniciens (Isaac l'Aveugle en 1180, Ibn Latif en 1300, David ben Abraham ha-Lavan), Moïse de León (auteur du Zohar en 1280) ; Léon l'Hébreu, avec ses Dialogues d'amour (1503) accomplit la « synthèse du néoplatonisme et de la Cabale » (P. Béhar) ;
 le platonisme de Perse : Sohrawardî d'Alep (1155-1191) (mélange de soufisme, néoplatonisme, mazdéisme, zoroastrisme), Mollâ Sadrâ Shîrâzî (1572-1640) ;
 le platonisme de Mistra : Gemiste Pléthon (1409), Bessarion (1430) ;
 le néoplatonisme médicéen protégé par Laurent de Médicis, se servant aussi des écrits attribués à Hermès Trismégiste : Marsile Ficin (1484), Jean Pic de la Mirandole (1487) ;
 le néoplatonisme kabbaliste commence en 1486, dès Pic de la Mirandole, quand, dans son Discours sur la dignité de l'homme, il déclare avoir « trouvé dans les livres de la Cabale moins la religion mosaïque que la chrétienne ». En 1494 Johannes Reuchlin publie son De verbo mirifico (Du verbe admirable), mélange de néoplatonisme, de kabbale, d'hermétisme. Léon l'Hébreu atteint le sommet avec ses Dialogues d'amour, 1503 ;
 le platonisme de Cambridge : Henry More (1641), Ralph Cudworth (1654), lady Anne Conway (1692), Th. Burnet, R. Burthogge.

 Philosophie
La philosophie néoplatonicienne a pour but la résolution d'un des problèmes au cœur de la pensée grecque antique, à savoir le problème de l'Un et du multiple. Plus particulièrement, il s'agit de comprendre comment articuler l'Un au Multiple. Nous constatons le Multiple dans la nature, or l'Un est le fondement de l'intelligibilité. Cette philosophie est rattachée au platonisme par sa volonté de résoudre les apories de la pensée de Platon, et en particulier celles d'un des dialogues les plus difficiles : le Parménide, où Platon envisage trois hypothèses principales sur l'Un (l'Un absolu inconnaissable et ineffable qui exclut tout multiple ; l'Un qui est être et admet donc tous les contraires ; l'Un qui est et qui n'est pas, et qui donc est changement, instant).

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 « toute multiplicité suppose une unité qui lui donne sa structure » : principe d'unité systématisante ;
 « toute unité transcende la multiplicité qu'elle unifie » : principe de transcendance ;
 « toute multiplicité est contenue en quelque manière dans l'unité qui la transcende » : principe d'immanence ;
 « toute réalité qui, pour se réaliser, doit sortir de l'unité où elle était contenue, ne peut se réaliser pleinement que par un retour à l'unité dont elle émane » : principe de conversion.

Quelques traits du néoplatonisme.
 Le livre le plus commenté est le Parménide de Platon, car ce livre porte sur les premiers principes, sur l'Un. Les néoplatoniciens voient dans le dialogue de Platon une théologie, alors que les savants d'aujourd'hui y voient plutôt un jeu intellectuel.
 Le néoplatonisme retient surtout l'idée de l'absolue transcendance du Bien et néglige la philosophie politique.
 La philosophie tend vers la mystique, elle se donne pour fin morale l'union avec le Principe originel, divin : Plotin avait des extases (Porphyre, Vie de Plotin), Jamblique cherchait à  (Vie de Pythagore, 86).
 On repère beaucoup de triades : trois dieux chez Numénios d'Apamée, trois hypostases chez Plotin, les triades être/pensée/vie, repos/procession/conversion, substance/activité/puissance…
 Les hypostases, c'est-à-dire les principes divins (Un, Second Un, Être, Vie, Intellect) se multiplient.
 La philosophie orientale est plus ou moins présente (Égyptiens, Chaldéens, judaïsme). Les néoplatoniciens veulent systématiser et unifier la mythologie grecque, l'orphisme, le pythagorisme, le platonisme, les Oracles chaldaïques.

Les néoplatoniciens identifient les dieux avec les Idées platoniciennes. Mais Plotin et Porphyre considèrent la pratique religieuse comme indigne du sage, parce qu'il est capable d'atteindre Dieu directement par l'élévation spirituelle de sa pensée, tandis que Jamblique, Proclus et l'école néoplatonicienne d'Athènes s'efforcent d'observer le plus religieusement possible les rites traditionnels. La théologie néoplatonicienne se complexifie. Selon Proclus (Commentaire du Parménide, VI, 1061-1063), Syrianos aurait décomposé la seconde hypothèse du Parménide de Platon en quatorze parties correspondant à la procession de tous les degrés de l'être après l'Un : les trois triades des dieux intelligibles (= l'être), les trois triades des dieux intelligibles-intellectifs (= la vie), les deux triades des dieux intellectifs (= l'intellect), la septième divinité (= la séparation des dieux supérieurs avec les dieux du monde) ; les dieux hypercosmiques (= les chefs), les dieux hypercosmiques-encosmiques (= les dieux détachés du monde), les dieux encosmiques (= les dieux célestes et sublunaires), les âmes universelles, enfin les êtres supérieurs (anges, démons et héros) (R. L. Cardullo). Dans son Commentaire sur le Timée, Proclus admet neuf niveaux de réalité : Un, être, vie, esprit, raison, animaux, plantes, êtres animés, matière première. Il pose une hiérarchie des dieux en neuf degrés : 1) l'Un, premier dieu ; 2) les hénades ; 3) les dieux intelligibles ; 4) les dieux intelligibles-intellectifs ; 5) les dieux intellectifs ; 6) les dieux hypercosmiques ; 7) les dieux encosmiques ; 8) les âmes universelles ; 9) les anges, démons, héros (Pierre Hadot).

 Expériences spirituelles
Les néoplatoniciens connaissent contemplations, extases et pratiques de théurgie.
De Plotin : « Souvent lorsque je m'éveille à moi-même en sortant de mon corps [extase mystique], et qu'à l'écart des autres choses, je rentre en moi, je vois une beauté d'une force admirable » (Plotin, Ennéades, traité IV,8).
 Sur Proclos : « Nuit et jour, il se livrait à des rites apotropaïques [qui protègent contre les sortilèges et les maléfices], à des ablutions et à d'autres pratiques de purification, soit orphiques soit chaldaïques [des Oracles chaldaïques], et chaque mois il entrait sans hésiter dans la mer, quelquefois même deux ou trois fois le même mois… De fait, il ne s'alimentait que fort peu. Le plus souvent il s'abstenait de la chair des êtres animés… Chaque mois, il passait dans la pureté les fêtes de la Mère des dieux [Cybèle] en usage chez les Romains ou antérieurement même chez les Phrygiens ; il observait les jours fastes des Égyptiens… Il jeûnait certains jours à la suite d'une apparition divine… » (Marinus, Vie de Proclus, § 19).

 Liens entre le néoplatonisme et le christianisme
 Le Dieu unique et la philosophie
L'idée d'un Dieu unique est une valeur qui devient prégnante au moment du développement des premiers christianismes. Ainsi, chez Plotin, l'''Un indicible, principe suprême, est au-delà de l'Être et origine de l'Être tout à la fois. Puis vient l'Être lui-même, dont le premier degré est l'Intellect - ou l'Esprit : en grec  (noûs) - et, dernier ordre de réalité avant la Matière, l'Âme universelle. Avec les néoplatoniciens postérieurs, le système se complexifie : on assiste à une multiplication des hypostases ontologiques. Jamblique, par exemple, place en deçà de l'Un les dieux, puis les archanges, puis les anges, puis les démons, puis les héros, hiérarchie - étymologiquement : « gouvernement des saints » - qu'on retrouve par la suite dans la hiérarchie angéologique du Pseudo-Denys. Proclus, pour sa part, introduit toute une série de subdivisions parmi les dieux.

Les œuvres de Plotin ont été éditées par son disciple Porphyre de Tyr, un Phénicien. Ce dernier attribue des titres aux différents traités de Plotin et les ordonne en Ennéades. Le traité 10, suivant l'ordre chronologique donné par Porphyre, correspond à l'Ennéade V, 1, et porte le titre : Sur les trois « hypostases » qui ont rang de principe. Le mot « hypostase » est un terme grec pour désigner les différents ordres ontologiques du système néoplatonicien. Ce terme n'apparaît pas chez Plotin mais fait florès chez Athanase d'Alexandrie pour tenter d'expliquer le mystère de la Sainte Trinité. Son usage dans ce contexte introduit une question : « Peut-on dire de l'Un qu'il est une hypostase, puisque la réalité c'est l'être, et que l'Un étant au-delà de l'être donc de la réalité, il paraît difficile d'en faire un ordre de réalité ? » Cela dit, le mot hypostase a fait son apparition en théologie trinitaire dès la première moitié du troisième siècle (Origène, dans le Commentaire sur l'évangile de Jean et déjà dans le traité des Principes, œuvre de jeunesse), époque à laquelle il ne doit rien au système néoplatonicien en cours d'élaboration. Il est donc employé dans la tradition chrétienne, le plus souvent, dans un sens assez différent et moins technique que l'emploi plotino-porphyrien, c'est-à-dire dans le sens de subsistance ou d'existence, sans préjuger d'un niveau d'être spécifique, donc d'une subordination d'une hypostase à une autre. Le mot avait d'abord un sens antimodaliste, pour exprimer l'altérité réelle de ceux que désignent les trois noms divins.

Il existe donc une différence sémantique assez radicale entre les hypostases dans l'école Alexandrine néo-platonicienne et les hypostases telles que les chrétiens de l'école Alexandrine les utilisent. La version d'Arius semble la plus proche de la version de Plotin relu par Porphyre, vu son système de subordination, celui-là même qui conduira certains de ses contemporains à l'accuser de di-théisme. Les néoplatoniciens considèrent que les hypostases sont hermétiques : il y a bien communication entre les différents ordres ontologiques, mais ces ordres sont bien distincts. L'Incarnation pose dès lors problème aux néoplatoniciens puisqu'elle se définit comme l'interpénétration de deux mondes, Ciel et Terre, divinité et humanité. Pour un néoplatonicien, chaque chose doit demeurer à sa place : un dieu n'est pas à sa place dans notre monde, sinon sous la forme du symbole. Cela signifie que si Dieu apparaît, ce n'est pas lui-même, tel qu'il est en lui-même, qui apparaît, mais lui en tant qu'il se révèle, donc qu'il revêt des formes de plus en plus grossières, de moins en moins divines. L'Un ne peut venir ici-bas. En revanche, il peut y avoir des symboles ou des messagers des dieux. L'impulsion divine vers le bas doit traverser toutes les hypostases ; au cours de ce voyage et s'altère de ce fait. Donc, pour un néo-platonicien, Dieu dans le ciel ne peut être le même que Dieu ici-bas.

Si « hypostase » est un terme employé pour parler des trois personnes de la Trinité chrétienne, il faut se souvenir que l'idée de triade est très présente chez les platoniciens - notamment par l'influence des Oracles chaldaïques. Il est vraisemblable que cette idée ait fait l'objet d'une relecture chrétienne.

À partir des trois hypostases de la trinité alexandrine - l'unité absolue engendre l'intelligence, l'intelligence à son tour engendre l'âme et toutes trois constituent un Dieu unique - la relecture chrétienne construit une trinité dont les trois hypostases sont égales entre elles et s'interpénètrent ontologiquement. Elles sont aussi distinctes, ce qui soulève des problèmes philosophiques chez les opposants. Toutefois, sur ce dernier point, il faut aussi se souvenir que l'hypostase (grecque) comme la personne (latin : persona) désignent aussi le masque revêtu par l'acteur du théâtre antique pour signifier son rôle. Dès lors, on comprend mieux les interprétations dissidentes telles que le modalisme.

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 Olympiodore d'Alexandrie le Jeune, Commentaire sur le premier Alcibiade (après 527), trad. an. : Olympiodorus, Commentary on the First Alcibiades of Plato, Amsterdam, North-Holland Publishers, 1956.

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Notes et références

Notes

Références

Annexes

Articles connexes
 Alexandrinisme
 Ammonios Saccas
 École néoplatonicienne d'Alexandrie | École néoplatonicienne d'Athènes | École néoplatonicienne de Rome
 Isidore d'Alexandrie
 Jamblique
 Moyen-platonisme
 Néoplatonisme médicéen
 Platon
 Plotin
 Porphyre de Tyr
 Proclus
 Simplicios de Cilicie
 l'Un

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