UPDATE 1:30am – Explosion in New Jersey terminal while bomb squad robot was inspecting a backpack containing “numerous devices”. It was NOT a controlled detonation. Thankfully no-one was hurt, area previously evacuated.

#BREAKING video shows moment bomb robot accidentally detonated device found @ Elizabeth NJ train station. @PIX11News pic.twitter.com/xfO97F2ebm

— Anthony DiLorenzo (@ADiLorenzoTV) September 19, 2016

According to New York Senator Marty Golden, media and eye witnesses, five men dressed in Arab garb have been stopped, and detained, by the FBI.

FBI took several individuals into custody on the Belt Parkway in the area underneath the Verrazano Bridge, with a possible connection to the bombing last night in Chelsea (link)

Eyewitnesses report several NYPD officers in swat gear armed with rifles had a vehicle stopped on the Belt Parkway.
Five men were then taken in custody after the FBI called for NYPD backup. The men were believed to be headed to the airport, The New York Post reported.
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See kids, this is what happens….
Presidential Candidate Gary Johnson appeared on CNN at 11:30 this morning to discuss current events including last nights’ bombing in New York (Chelsea), and the Jihadist stabbing in Minnesota.
29 people were wounded in the New York bomb blast, and 9 people were injured in the stabbing attack.  However, apparently no-one told Gary Johnson – as he remarked:

…”well, first of all, just grateful that no-body, er, got hurt”…

This is almost,.. almost, too much winning.

According to Egyptian news media President Fattah al-Sisi will meet republican presidential candidate Donald Trump for the first time during his visit to New York for a scheduled U.N. General Assembly meeting.

Dear readers, we cannot adequately encapsulate the incredible potential, what is entirely possible, in our future if these two leaders can unify their demonstrably effective goals.  We’ll expand on that, but first, here’s the breaking news:

EGYPT – President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi is expected to meet US republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on the sidelines of his visit to New York, state news agency MENA reported.

Al-Sisi will arrive in New York on Sunday afternoon to attend the 71st debate of the United Nations (UN) general assembly.

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• Why did CNN specifically broadcast the Congressional Black Caucus dinner in Washington DC yesterday?
• Why did President Obama and Hillary Clinton make the decision to attack Donald Trump at this dinner?
• Why did Hillary Clinton’s campaign make a specific decision to resurrect the worn out Obama birtherism narrative?
• Why did Pastor Faith Timmons plan to ambush candidate Donald Trump during a speech in Flint Michigan?

The reason for those and many more obvious racial political strategies can be found within the following report: “Black voters are turning from Clinton to Trump in new poll”

[…]  Donald Trump is gaining support among African-American voters — whose enthusiasm for Hillary Clinton is eroding, a tracking poll released Saturday revealed.

Trump saw a 16.5 percentage-point increase in backing from African-American voters in a Los Angeles Times/University of Southern California tracking poll, up from 3.1 percent on Sept. 10 to 19.6 percent through Friday.

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Against the backdrop of a looming monster vote, and with the media beginning to discuss the “enthusiasm gap”, it can be challenging to get real reports not filtered and spun through the prism of the mainstream media. Subsequently, a deplorable in Ohio wanted to check out the reality:

How much actual enthusiasm for Hillary Clinton exists today in Ohio?

To find the answer, one deplorable supporter went to a scheduled 1:00pm Hillary Clinton outreach event (door knocking) in Delaware Ohio. Here’s the result:

Donald Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway hits the Sunday talk show circuit:
CBS John Dickerson – Face The Nation:

Donald Trump is interviewed by Fox’s Howard Kurtz this morning and explained why it is so critical to push back against the transparently “biased” media.  For years conservatives have prayed for a candidate willing to call out the media; well, here he is...
Last year we mentioned how one of Trump’s strengths is his willingness to own the downside and simultaneously explain his ‘why-motives’ using a type of honesty and common sense the average person can relate to.  This interview is a solid example.

In under a minute you can see/hear an audio visual demonstration showing why the vast majority of Americans just laugh at journalists in the 2016 presidential campaign.

A well sedated Secretary Clinton begins her remarks (00:28) by saying:

“I’ve been briefed about the bombings in New York and New Jersey, as well as the attack in Minnesota”…

Note the emphasis: “briefed about the bombings“.
However, seemingly oblivious to the fact Secretary Clinton just said “bombings“, Hillary’s traveling press pool asks the very first question 40 seconds later (01:08) which was:

“Do you have any reaction to the fact that Donald Trump, prior to taking the stage tonight, called the explosion tonight a bomb, and if that’s an appropriate term”?

Watch below: (more…)

Motive “unknown”…   
Minnesota – A knife-wielding man who injured eight people at a mall in central Minnesota Saturday evening asked at least one victim whether they were Muslim and referenced Allah during the assault, authorities said Wednesday.

St. Cloud Police Chief William Blair Anderson said the suspect, whom he did not identify, was shot and killed by an off-duty police officer. All but one of the eight victims had been treated and released from a local hospital and all were expected to survive their injuries.
Police responded reports of several stabbings at the Crossroads Mall at around 8:30 p.m. local time. Witnesses also reported hearing gunshots at the scene.  (more…)

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