The news feed is light tonight. August is vacation time, especially for Europeans, and our Italian tipsters are no exception. No news from Italy!
A young French woman who seems to be known only as “The Blonde” has become somewhat of a celebrity recently for three YouTube videos in which she talks frankly about the Islamization of France. YouTube has now taken down all three of them (although copies exist, including Vlad’s subtitled versions of two of them, one of which was posted here last week). There was no issue with copyright; the videos were not obscene, nor did they contain any incitement. The only conclusion to be drawn is that YouTube now suppresses any video that offends Muslims, provided that it becomes popular enough.
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American Democrats on a Marxist March Through Other Nations
America’s Marxist-loving Democrats are on a roll. The Dem roll, which has effectively frightened almost the entire Republican Party into quivering RINO jello, is spreading its tentacles all the way across the pond to Britain.
AP reports that Britain’s governing Conservatives have hired Jim Messina, President Barack Obama’s former campaign manager, to advise them ahead of the 2015 general election.
Heads up, Nigel Farage.
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FBI Gives Telecom Provider Spying Devices
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is secretly pressurizing telecommunications providers into installing spying devices inside internal networks of companies in order to facilitate espionage programs.
Citing the authorization of the move under the Patriot Act, FBI officials have been discussing with carriers in their effort to deploy government-supplied software, which will enable intercepting and analyzing all communications streams, CNET reported.
The software, now identified as “port reader”, used to be known internally as the “harvesting program.”
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New York Times Company Sells Boston Globe
The New York Times Company said on Saturday that it had agreed to sell The Boston Globe and its other New England media properties to John W. Henry, principal owner of the Boston Red Sox, returning the paper to local ownership after two decades in which it struggled to stem the decline in circulation and revenue.
Eileen Murphy, a Times spokeswoman, confirmed that Mr. Henry would pay $70 million for the paper. That would represent a staggering drop in value for the Globe, which The Times bought in 1993 for $1.1 billion, the highest price paid for an American newspaper.
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Oakland’s Creepy New Surveillance Program
Earlier this week, the Oakland City Council voted to approve the second phase of a $10.9 million surveillance center that would enable the City to engage in widespread warrantless surveillance of Oakland residents who have engaged in no wrongdoing whatsoever. This is a terrible blow to privacy.
The so-called Domain Awareness Center (DAC) would consolidate a vast network of surveillance data. The project was initially supposed to be about port security.
But in a classic illustration of mission creep, the project as proposed would have pulled in over 1,000 cameras and sensors pointed at Oakland residents, including 700 cameras in Oakland schools.
While surveilling schoolchildren is not going to secure the Port of Oakland, it would allow for the comprehensive tracking of innocent Oakland residents.
The DAC would enable the city to track individuals when they visit the abortion clinic, the Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, or the union hall, or engage in other private activities.
Although proponents of the project claimed that it did nothing more than consolidate existing surveillance systems, the mere combination of surveillance data is extremely intrusive. A mosaic depicts far more information than any individual tile.
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Below is a screen shot of a Google map search for Hawaii Kenya. The result turned up a place called Hawaii Dormitory.
The red dot on the bottom right is Hawaii (Dormitory) Kenya. You can see for yourself by going to this link.
Notice also, the close proximity to a place called “Hell’s Gate National Park.’
Are we saying we have found Obama’s true birthplace? No. We are simply pointing out some seriously creepy connections here. Obama claims to have been born in Hawaii. Others say he was born in Kenya. Now we discover a place, called Hawaii, in Kenya, which sits right outside the Gates of Hell.
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Ruling Puts Release of Inmates in California a Step Closer
In a major setback for Gov. Jerry Brown, the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday declined to block a court order that he release 9,600 inmates from state prisons, moving California a step closer to relocating or freeing those prisoners by the end of the year.
The state can still pursue its appeal — and the administration vowed to do so. But the court’s 6-3 vote was a disappointment for Brown, who had launched a political crusade against a three-judge panel that has consistently ruled that overcrowded prison conditions violate the rights of inmates.
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Subpoenas Issued to State, EPA; GOP Wants Answers on Benghazi
Two of the requests come from House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell E. Issa, California Republican, who has been investigating the 2012 attack on the American diplomatic post in Benghazi that killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans.
One of his subpoenas calls for the State Department to turn over the records it shared with its own internal Accountability Review Board, an internal investigative effort which the GOP argues did not do enough to hold high-ranking officials responsible.
The other subpoena orders the administration to leave 25,000 pages of documents with the oversight committee. Currently, those documents are carted into Congress each day and then carted out at night in order to prevent lawmakers from having physical custody, House investigators said.
“State Department tactics to delay and impede accountability have exhausted the committee’s patience,” Mr. Issa said, warning that further subpoenas could follow.
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A Saudi national in Missouri accused of first-degree murder—and who remained in jail for 11 months even after the Saudi Arabian government posted his $2 million bail—is a free man.
Ziyad Abid was accused of paying his roommate to kill a popular bar owner in Warrensburg, Mo., a town about an hour east of Kansas City, but prosecutors dropped those charges Friday due to insufficient evidence, according to the Associated Press.
And many in Warrensburg are livid.
“There’s a stench to this, this town is outraged,” resident Steve Ciafullo told WDAF-TV. “Anyone else would face trial, he might be innocent but he should stand trial like everybody else should.”
Mike Bodenhamer was a friend and business partner of the victim, Blaine Whitworth, and believes Abid’s release is nothing but dirty politics.
“He’s smiling on his way home probably,” Bodenhamer told WDAF. “The fix was in a long time ago in my opinion.”
Abid, 24, was briefly taken into custody Friday by immigration officials then released on his own recognizance hours after Johnson County prosecutors dismissed all charges, the AP reported.
The case against Abid, who had been jailed since Sept. 5, drew national attention when Circuit Judge Michael Wagner refused to release him even after the Saudi Arabian government posted his $2 million bail, according to the AP.
Abid was arrested after his roommate, Reginald Singletary Jr., told investigators Abid paid him to kill Whitworth last September, the AP said. But Abid’s attorney insisted that police led Singletary to accuse Abid, and now Singletary’s story has allegedly changed, WDAF reports, which led to charges being dropped…
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XKeyscore: NSA Tool Collects ‘Nearly Everything a User Does on the Internet’
A top secret National Security Agency program allows analysts to search with no prior authorization through vast databases containing emails, online chats and the browsing histories of millions of individuals, according to documents provided by whistleblower Edward Snowden.
The NSA boasts in training materials that the program, called XKeyscore, is its “widest reaching” system for developing intelligence from the internet.
The latest revelations will add to the intense public and congressional debate around the extent of NSA surveillance programs. They come as senior intelligence officials testify to the Senate judiciary committee on Wednesday, releasing classified documents in response to the Guardian’s earlier stories on bulk collection of phone records and Fisa surveillance court oversight.
The files shed light on one of Snowden’s most controversial statements, made in his first video interview published by the Guardian on June 10.
“I, sitting at my desk,” said Snowden, could “wiretap anyone, from you or your accountant, to a federal judge or even the president, if I had a personal email”.
[Comment: Informative article.]
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France’s Top Cop Assures Tourists Paris is Safe
Visitors to Paris take note: Interior Minister Manuel Valls assures you that the City of Light is dealing with the pickpockets and petty criminals that have recently targeted tourists.
France’s top cop toured some major sites Friday, from the Louvre Museum to the Eiffel Tower, to check on his tourist-friendly plan and put out the word that “Paris is a safe city.”
The French capital has been getting a bad rep recently because of a rise in the number of small-scale crimes on tourists. The Louvre Museum even closed for a day in April when employees angered by pickpockets walked off the job.
In response, Valls has added 200 police to survey major tourist sites and put out a stay-safe guide in six languages.
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YouTube (i.e. Google) has censored the Blonde of YouTube, whose video was featured in my previous post. However, she has made a new version (apparently from copies made by viewers) of that video and her latest one on Islam. Both of these newer versions have English subtitles. I am posting both of them here, and leaving my previous post as is, without a video. I had provided my own translation which is almost identical to the one they provide here, so anyone who reads that post will still know what she said.
This latest act of censorship by YouTube is troubling and we can foresee future similar actions by the “information” giant, obviously under orders from political forces both in the United States and France, or so easily intimidated by accusations of racism they quake in their boots, and remove any video, however benign, that tells a truth they cannot allow to spread for fear the general population actually wakes up from its media-induced coma.
Some of you may have software that can copy a YouTube video. You may want to use that software for the Blonde’s videos, and other similar videos of dissent liable to be hastily removed by the KGB snoops who watch over our morals.
From Riposte Laïque, this quote from the Blonde:
“They will not silence me. I do not know what defeat is… The Blonde upsets people but the Blonde will not leave the millions who are behind her. I belong to no political party! I kept my thoughts to myself… Now I have found my family and I am going to fight! Marine Le Pen, I am sorry for not having supported you before! Now, I’ll roll up my sleeves…”
Now she will be demonized for being a Lepeniste, and the media will proclaim that she was shilling for Le Pen all along.
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When Elaine Perry was threatened by a couple after complaining about their rowdy children, she called police in the hope they would protect her.
Instead, the 57-year-old librarian was arrested by two women officers who hooded her, taped her legs together and bundled her into a van in front of a crowd of onlookers.
Miss Perry, who says she was made to feel ‘totally humiliated’, ended up in court charged with using threatening behaviour and assaulting one of the officers.
But the mother of two was cleared by magistrates and now intends to sue Sussex Police and complain about her ordeal to the police watchdog, particularly over the use of the special hood, designed to prevent prisoners spitting at officers.
She was kept in the hood, which looks like a plastic bag but is made of mesh, for about 15 minutes and released from it only when she began hyperventilating.
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A teacher who claimed £1.2 million after winning a racial discrimination claim has been jailed for two years for hiding her criminal record when applying for a post at a school.
Samantha Burmis, of Bellman Avenue in Gravesend, was sentenced in her absence at Maidstone Crown Court today.
The mother-of-four had denied obtaining a pecuniary advantage by deception and perverting the course of justice, but was convicted of both charges last month.
At her latest trial, Burmis denied she had either served a prison sentence or had a criminal record, but police had her finger prints from when she was originally arrested.
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Ever since the attack, rumors have been swirling that the United States was illegally running surface-to-air missiles out of Benghazi, through Turkey, and into the hands of Syrian rebels. The State Department — whose employees account for the remainder of the Benghazi staff — claims that it was only helping the Libyan government destroy aging, unstable weaponry left over from the Gadhafi years. However, they’ve told CNN specifically that they “can’t speak for any other agencies.”
So, the question becomes: “Was the CIA running weapons to Syrian rebels, and if so, were they arming Syrian factions controlled by Al Qaeda?”
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Make Public Egyptian General Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi’s “Classified” 2006 U.S. Army War College Thesis
by Andrew Bostom
At the beginning of this week, Sunday July, 28, 2013, Foreign Affairs published an alarming analysis of the ideology, and political ambitions of General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the man who orchestrated Egypt’s military putsch, which deposed President Muhammad Morsi.
Written by Robert Springborg, a professor at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, long recognized for his published expertise on the Egyptian military, the essay highlighted al-Sisi’s previously unrecognized (or dismissed) near term political aspirations—such as running for Egyptian President (also suggested here, here)—and of equal significance, his political ideology.
During various interviews he granted in the immediate aftermath of Morsi’s overthrow (see here, here, here, and my own earlier blog), Springborg had forthrightly summarized al-Sisi’s core Weltanschauung as being essentially identical to that of the sacked Egyptian President, and Muslim Brotherhood ideologue, Morsi. Now, Springborg’s 7/28/13 Foreign Affairs essay has provided irrefragable, hard evidence of the General’s, and potential Egyptian Presidential candidate’s, Sharia supremacist ideology: al-Sisi’s own written words, recorded in his 2006 U.S. Army War College mini-thesis.
Although, as Springborg notes, innocuously entitled, “Democracy in the Middle East”, al-Sisi’s mini-thesis, “reads like a tract produced by the Muslim Brotherhood.” Indeed, within the very opening paragraph, according to Springborg,…
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“The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.” This quote attributed to Winston Churchill is applicable to our current situation as it is a consequence of our policies and actions in the Middle East and north Africa.
First, it is important to understand that the so-called Arab Spring did not start on December 18, 2010 as a spontaneous revolutionary wave of demonstrations by people to rid themselves from the shackles of governmental oppression. It was planned many years ago by the globalist power brokers, with the latest incarnations perhaps sketched out in the bowels of a Saudi mansion or an estate owned by a cabal of central bankers, partly to change the geopolitical power structure of the Middle East, and partly as a “jobs program” for the military-industrial complex.
This was confirmed by a 1300-word e-mail dated June 8, 2008, sent by former British Ambassador to Libya Sir Vincent Fean to Tony Blair, just shy of a year after Blair stepped down as prime minister. The e-mail consisted of a briefing on the state of relations between Great Britain and Colonel Muammar Gaddafi in advance of a visit by Blair to see Gaddafi. His June 10, 2008 visit with Gaddafi would be one of six made by Blair after leaving office and just three years before Gaddafi was deposed by the U.S. and UK-led interests and ultimately murdered.
Exactly what was the purpose of this meeting as well as the others made by Tony Blair on behalf of the Crown?
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If you have understood how we arrived here by the short summary provided, then you will see that we are standing on the brink of not just a regional war, but a global war. Those in power do not want you to know their plans until there is nothing anyone can do to stop them.
It is vital to understand that the embassy closures are a signal of the rapidly escalated intervention in the region by the US. It is a modern day equivalent to the Bay of Pigs, except Barack Hussein Obama is no John F. Kennedy.
[Comment: Informative article. Recommended reading.]
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Put Middle East Peace to a Vote
By Stacie Goddard
The Middle East peace process is back. Intense efforts by Secretary of State John Kerry have paid off, bringing the Israelis and Palestinians together for direct negotiations for the first time in three years. But for many supporters of negotiations, the political news coming from Israel seems grim.
On Sunday, the Israeli cabinet approved a bill requiring that all territorial concessions be ratified by Israeli voters in a special referendum. On Thursday the bill cleared its first vote in the Knesset, and is on its way to becoming a Basic Law of Israel — tantamount to a constitutional amendment.
Supporters of the peace process are furious, believing that a referendum would be yet another obstacle to reaching a final deal. It was the Jewish Home Party, which supports continued settlement in the West Bank, that pressured Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to bring the bill to Parliament.
But far from undercutting the peace process, a referendum is necessary to the legitimacy of a two-state solution. Formal public support of a potential deal could, in fact, be one of the keys to long-term sustainability of peace. Supporters of the peace process should get behind the referendum proposal.
Other compromises to long-term disputes in which a referendum was required, such as the 1998 Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland, demonstrate that national support is critical to building durable territorial settlements…
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Syrian Religious Group Bans Croissants Because They Symbolise ‘Oppression’
A Syrian religious group have banned croissants because they symbolise western oppression.
A Sharia committee issued a fatwa, or religious ruling, declaring croissants ‘haram’, which means they are forbidden in Islamic law.
The group, which operates in a rebel-held area of Aleppo, said that they have ‘colonial’ significance.
They claim that the pastry’s crescent shape celebrates European victory over Muslims, reported Al Arabiya.
Islamis sharia committees have declared several strict fatwas in rebel-controlled areas of Syria.
Aleppo’s society usually adheres to moderate Islamic teachings.
A fatwa was issued on Facebook prohibiting ‘Muslim women wearing makeup and tight clothes that reveal physical features from going out.’
Another, issued by the Council of the United Judiciary, gave a year in jail for those not fasting during Ramadan.
Member of the opposition Syrian National Coalition Samir Nashar said there are civil movements resisting the extremist tendencies of such committees.
He also told Asharq al-Awsat that the FSA should unite its forces in Aleppo and work to prevent the expansion of these committees.
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Turkish Government Uses a Secret Racial Coding System to Classify Non-Muslim Minority Citizens
An official document penned by the Istanbul Provincial Education Directorate has surfaced, revealing that Turkey’s population administration system has been recording citizens who have Armenian, Jewish or Anatolian Greek (Rum) origins with secret “race codes.”
The Armenian-Turkish weekly newspaper Agos published as its headline story on Aug. 1 a report on an official document that openly states “citizens with Armenian origin are coded with ‘2.’“ The implementation is reported to have been in place since 1923, the foundation year of the Turkish Republic.
A Turkish citizen’s mother whose origin is Armenian requested to register her child at an Armenian kindergarden, but the school responded by asking her to prove she had the “2 code” in order to check that she had not changed religion, according to the document. In Turkey, only minority communities’ members can register their children at minority schools, according to the education law.
The document, sent from the Istanbul Provincial Education Directorate to the Sisli District National Education office, stated that “since 1923, the secret code of Armenians is ‘2’ on identity registration certificates,” according to the Agos report.
“Since 1923, identity registration certificates have a secret ‘race code,’“ the document added.
The family’s lawyer, Ismail Cem Halavurt, said the struggle to register children at the Armenian kindergarden was still continuing.
“We are now waiting for an official document saying, ‘Yes, your race code is 2, you can register at an Armenian school,’“ Halavurt told the Agos.
Interior Ministry officials were not available for comment when approached by the Hürriyet Daily News, and referred reporters to the Directorate General for Population and Citizenship Affairs, which is a body working under their own ministry.
An official from the population administration told daily Radikal that the practice was being conducted “to allow minority groups use their rights stemming the Lausanne Treaty,” signed between Turkey and Western countries, which led to the establishment of the modern Turkish Republic.
As part of the practice, Greeks were coded 1, Armenians were coded 2, and Jews were coded 3. Other minorities or groups are not coded, the official told daily Radikal.
While there was no immediate official response to the report, opposition parties’ lawmakers harshly criticized the alleged document.
“If this is true, it is fatal. It must be examined. I will bring this onto Parliament’s agenda,” Sezgin Tanrikulu, deputy head of the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), told the Hürriyet Daily News.
Altan Tan, a deputy of the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP), stated that there had long been such allegations, but they were always denied by the authorities. Tan urged Interior Minister Muammer Güler to make a statement on the issue.
“If there is such a thing going on, it is a big disaster. The state illegally profiling its own citizens based on ethnicity and religion, and doing this secretly, is a big catastrophe,” Tan said.
Source: Hurriyet
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[WARNING: Disturbing content.]
A British mother has been hacked to death during a violent robbery in Bangladesh.
Rehana Begum, 43, was on holiday when she was attacked by a gang of four men who targeted her for her jewellery and money, her family said.
The British national, from Stepney, east London, died in Sunamganj, Bangladesh, today, the Foreign Office has confirmed.
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400 on Sunshine Coast Bid to Aid Refugees
WHILE politicians shut the gates on asylum seekers, Sunshine Coast families are opening their hearts and homes to offer sanctuary to people fleeing oppression.
More than 400 have expressed interest in providing homestay opportunities for refugees caught by policy changes last year that means they cannot work or study while their future is being decided.
The region was chosen in 2012 as the first outside a capital city to trial the placement of refugees into the community.
Between August, 2012, and April this year, 48 refugees have stayed with Coast families for six weeks or longer.
John and Faye Pitts of Tanawha have hosted 43-year-old Sri Lankan refugee “R” for the past five months.
They became involved at the urging of their two adult daughters after last year watching the provocative SBS series Go Back to Where You Came From.
Like many of the refugees who have been housed on the Coast, “R” has brought a real benefit to the community volunteering for Landcare and Fusion.
Buddies of Buderim, an advocacy and support group founded more than a decade ago, assists with transport to and from volunteer work, creating opportunities for the refugees to socialise and improve their English.
Buddies meets monthly at Buderim, emails a six-page newsletter to 460 people on its mailing list and holds regular fundraising drives that help raise awarenes.
Australian Homestay Network executive chairman David Bycroft said the response had come after only minimal promotion about the Community Placement Network Project aimed at refugees already in Australia.
“The Sunshine Coast has been one of the most successful areas in terms of placements,” Mr Bycroft said.
The goal now is to get under-18 asylum seekers out of detention.
“There is no reason why they couldn’t be located in the community,” Mr Bycroft said.
“There is a silent army of people who want to give fairness. The sooner people can be hosted the better the outcomes for the economy and the community.”
Mrs Pitts said she and her husband John became involved at the urging their daughters, both nurses.
“They drove us,” she laughed this week.
“They said we had a spare room, got us the (phone) number and urged us to call.
“We wanted to help someone who needed it. John calls him his mate.”
When “R’s” six-week placement ended, they did not have the heart to move him on.
“He is so thoughtful and helpful. He had to get out of his country to stay alive.”
The Pitts have written to the Federal Government urging it to allow refugees on temporary visas to work.
“They would be paying taxes, it would help morale and would create a future. ‘R’ can’t go back.”
About 550 refugees have been placed in Australian homes through the homestay program.
For his part “R” grabbed the opportunity offered him. The alternative was share- house accommodation with other refugees in Brisbane, with limited opportunity to improve his English and minimal contact with Australians.
Through Buddies he has a chance to contribute through volunteer work, socialise with both Australians and fellow refugees and to get advanced English lessons.
“Hundreds of lifelong friendships have been formed,” Mr Bycroft said.
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In the street battle for supremacy between man and baboon, it can only be said that both sides are using guerrilla tactics.
For the baboons it means swarming SAS style up the sheer sides of blocks of flats, prising open windows and plundering anything that is inside. Usually they just want food, but sometimes a flapping set of net curtains or a child’s cuddly toy bear can provide some added entertainment.
For the humans, the weapons of choice — given that their enemy is a protected species — tend to be paintball guns and pepper sprays. They have the momentary effect of driving the baboons away, but hunger and sheer nerve always bring them back.
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Officials were accused of using heavy-handed tactics yesterday during a public hunt for illegal immigrants on Britain’s streets.
Immigration officers were alleged by rights groups to have used ‘racial profiling’ to stop and arrest suspects.
A total of 139 suspected immigration offenders were held in raids this week at Tube and train stations in and around London as well as in Durham, Manchester, Wales and Somerset.
The Home Office said three people were held at Kensal Rise Tube station in North West London on Thursday — a Ukrainian, a Brazilian and an Indian — and 14 in Walthamstow, East London — eight from Pakistan, two Indians, one Afghan, two Ghanaians and a Nigerian…
But Immigration Minister Mark Harper said there was ‘no racial profiling’ and no one was stopped unless officers had reasonable suspicion they were in the UK illegally.
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NFL Champ Skips WH Visit Because Obama Said ‘God Bless’ Planned Parenthood
Retired Baltimore Ravens center Matt Birk, who won a Super Bowl with the team last year, skipped the team’s visit to the White House due to President Obama’s support for Planned Parenthood.
“I have great respect for the office of the presidency but about five or six weeks ago, our president made a comment in a speech and he said, ‘God bless Planned Parenthood,’“ Birk, a former Minnesota Viking, told a local Minnesota sports blog. “I’m very confused by [Obama’s] statement,” he explained. ““For God to bless a place where they’re ending 330,000 lives a year? I just chose not to attend.”
Birk said he’s a pro-life Roman Catholic. “Planned Parenthood performs about 330,000 abortions a year,” he said. “I couldn’t endorse that in any way.”
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San Antonio Proposal Could Bar Christians From City Council
Churches across San Antonio are expressing outrage over a proposed anti-discrimination law that would protect LGBT workers but would not provide a religious exemption and would effectively prohibit anyone who opposes homosexuality from holding public office or getting a city contract.
The proposed change would add “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” to the city’s discrimination ordinance. It would protect gays, lesbians, transgender, and veterans — a move that had critics accusing the council of playing politics with the military.
“No person shall be appointed to a position if the city council finds that such person has, prior to such proposed appointment, engaged in discrimination or demonstrated a bias, by word or deed, against any person, group or organization on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, age or disability,” the ordinance reads.
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Sicily’s First Openly Gay Governor Wins Support With Anti-Mafia Crusade
Of the last two men to sit in Sicily’s palatial governor’s office, one is up on criminal charges and the other is doing hard time. Enter their successor, Rosario Crocetta — the unlikeliest politician ever to govern Cosa Nostra country.
Back when he was mayor of a coastal town plagued by mob violence, Crocetta took on the dons, combating the ingrained practice of pizzo, or forced protection payments, while helping put hundreds of gangsters behind bars. His anti-mafia revolution led crime boss Daniele Emmanuello to call for his assassination, with police subsequently arresting a series of mobsters for plots against his life.
Since winning the governor’s job nine months ago, Crocetta has taken his crusade island-wide, kicking a hornet’s nest as he strengthens anti-mafia laws and takes aim at the cronyism, waste and corruption that turned Sicily’s treasury into the gift that kept giving. But to get this far, the 62-year-old former Communist with a penchant for sea-blue spectacles first had to tackle another powerful adversary: masculine stereotypes in Italy’s macho south.
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Now the Barbarians Are Inside the Gates
Current disaster of Detroit, and many of the states in financial trouble, has roots that go back to behaviors that are 9,000 years old
In the past few decades a discovery in western Turkey has excited the archaeological world no end. An early “city”, with perhaps a few thousand inhabitants has been discovered at a site that archaeologists have named “Çatalhöyük” (and since the word is Turkish, don’t even think of asking how to pronounce it).
What makes this little city noteworthy is that is about 9,000 years old. For nine millennia, humans have banded together to voluntarily live in small, dark, single story dwellings that appeared to be something between very small garden apartments and cramped public housing. One has to wonder why people of the very distant past would willingly huddle together like that. It’s not as if the whole world was overpopulated back then. It’s not as if they all had jobs on antiquity’s version of Wall Street and just hated the long commute. It’s doubtful that the performing arts were so incredible that everyone wanted to live close to the theaters and concert venues of the time so that they’d never miss an opening night.
How about people gathering in (at that time) large numbers to provide for some mutual self-defense? Archaeologists have not fully excavated Çatalhöyük, so they are not yet sure whether or not the city was surrounded by a wall, although such a wall, in some form, would be likely. At the Israeli settlement of Jericho, archaeological evidence has been found of a wall surrounding the village / town that dates back to about 8,000 years ago, and in archaeological terms, a thousand year difference is not much more than the blink of an eye.
It would appear that creating a defensive wall was a response to external threats that were a real and serious danger to the community…
So it appears possible that even as long as 9,000 years ago humanity found itself divided into “makers” and “takers.” So much for the posturing of Progressives that humans have “evolved” and are no longer the same base animals that they used to be.
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Why Won’t They Tell Us Why Tomorrow Is The Day Attacks Are Feared?
The Night of Destiny or Night of Power (Laylat al Qadr) is a very important night for Muslims. It is the night in which the Quran was revealed to Prophet Muhammad.
God describes this night as better than a thousand months. During that night, the angels and the Spirit descend therein, by God’s leave, to carry out every command (97:1-5).
Because the Night of Destiny is such a special night, the Muslims (Submitters) who want to gain extra credit in righteousness spend the night by commemorating God the Almighty, either in their privacy or in a mosque with other Muslims. There are also some Muslims who retreat to a masjid or mosque in the last ten days of Ramadan to take advantage of God’s blessings further and increase their faith of submission.
Although the Night of Destiny falls on the 27th night of Ramadan, some “Muslims” are never sure about it because of confusion from the hadith. However, Submitters always trust their Lord, and when God Almighty informs them in the Quran (6:38) that “We did not leave anything out of this book” they know all that they need is found in His divine revelation.
And what does this mean? And why should you care?
You see, tomorrow is the last day of Ramadan. It’s a special day, linked to a special night, the Night Of Destiny, the Night Of Power. It’s a time when Muslim fanatics, the kind who take Islam most to heart (and you never know what Muslim will, for whatever difficult or impossible to discern reason, might take islam completely to heart), and seek the quickest way to the Mohammedan heaven of black-eyed houris and pearly boys, and every other good thing to eat and drink, by slaying Infidels.
The Ameican government shuns down embassies, issues warnings to travellers, whips up its own and others’ hysteria, but it doesn’t dare to explain why it worries most about Sunday, Sunday, Sunday. Why don’t they say it?…
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If it’s her below you mean, she’s back up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urs4DeyannU
That’s one of Vlad’s subtitled mirrors of her. Her own videos are still down, as far as I know.
Can you post or send the links to the blond French woman, I saw the one you posted last week but would like to see all three and download them for the future,
Love your site, as An American who has witnessed cultural enrichment as you call it In Europe I love this site and send the articles to my friends, Please keep up the good work There are people out there who feel the Same way you do,
P.S. Nephew is EDL member much to the chagrin of my wife’s family
The third video has not yet been subtitled. As I understand it, Vlad has a copy of it, and is working on it. When it’s ready I’ll post all 3.
Thank you
The blonde on U tube islam videos you refer to posted by Ban Koran are still available
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ban+koran
half way down page
Cheers
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