Two Jews were assaulted by a mob of about forty people on the Boulevard Voltaire in Paris. According to Jewish security service personnel on the scene, the attackers were from BDS and allied leftist groups.
In other news, a French naval vessel rescued 217 migrants off the coast of Libya. All the rescued refugees were men.
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Greece Resumes Debt Talks With Creditors
(ATHENS) — Greece on Thursday resumed talks with its international creditors on critically-needed bailout funds, as officials warned that time was running out for a deal.
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras expressed optimism for a deal which would respect enough of his government’s anti-austerity agenda to be politically acceptable at home, state agency ANA said.
“I am optimistic that we are close to an agreement that will move within the framework of the popular mandate we received and which will be defined by the ‘red’ lines we have set,” Tsipras told the cabinet according to government sources, ANA said.
The same sources said the government wants an agreement by May 11 or even earlier and left open the possibility that Athens will request an emergency meeting of the Eurogroup on the issue.
European Commission spokesman Margaritis Schinas earlier told reporters that the talks in Brussels were “held in a constructive spirit…we welcome this step to deepen and intensify contacts.”
Another EU source said the talks would run non-stop until Sunday.
Greece needs a deal to unblock 7.2 billion euros ($8 billion) from its EU-IMF bailout before state coffers run dry.
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Major U.S. Retailers Are Closing More Than 6,000 Stores
If the U.S. economy really is improving, then why are big U.S. retailers permanently shutting down thousands of stores? ? The “retail apocalypse” that I have written about so frequently appears to be accelerating. As you will see below, major U.S. retailers have announced that they are closing more than 6,000 locations, but economic conditions in this country are still fairly stable. So if this is happening already, what are things going to look like once the next recession strikes? For a long time, I have been pointing to 2015 as a major “turning point” for the U.S. economy, and I still feel that way. And since I started The Economic Collapse Blog at the end of 2009, I have never seen as many indications that we are headed into another major economic downturn as I do right now. If retailers are closing this many stores already, what are our malls and shopping centers going to look like a few years from now?
The list below comes from information compiled by About.com, but I have only included major retailers that have announced plans to close at least 10 stores. Most of these closures will take place this year, but in some instances the closures are scheduled to be phased in over a number of years. As you can see, the number of stores that are being permanently shut down is absolutely staggering…
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Presenting the Most Overvalued Housing Market in the World in One Chart
Canada has the Most Overvalued Housing Market in World
In every inflating bubble, there’s usually two camps. The first group points out various metrics suggesting something is inherently unsustainable, while the second reiterates that this time, it is different.
After all, if everyone always agreed on these things, then no one would do the buying to perpetuate the bubble’s expansion. The Canadian housing bubble has been no exception to this, and the war of words is starting to heat up…
Just over a month ago, the IMF sounded a fresh alarm on Canada’s housing market by saying that household debt is well above that of other countries. Meanwhile, seven in ten mortgage lenders in Canada have expressed “concerns” that the real estate sector is in a bubble that could burst at any time. Deutsch Bank estimates the market is 67% overvalued and readily offers seven reasons why Canada is in trouble.
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10 Books to Celebrate the Socialist Holiday of May Day
May 1 marks what is known as May Day, a celebration of international workers chosen by the socialists and Communists of the Second International to recognize the Haymarket affair in Chicago’s Haymarket Square of May 1886.
In order to ring in the holiday, we thought it apt to share 10 books on socialism and Communism and their impact on mankind.
[Comment: Good list of books. If public education was really about educating, many of these books would have been studied in public school. But then, the pupils would not grow up to be good socialist drones.]
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15 Baltimore Neighborhoods Have Lower Life Expectancies Than North Korea
Fifteen Baltimore neighborhoods have lower life expectancies than North Korea. Eight are doing worse than Syria.
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Baltimore Police Mugshots Released; Confuse the Heck Out of Race-Baiters
That half of the officers are black appears to dispel the notion that the death of Gray was racially motivated, but the debate raged on social media.
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Communists Lead Protest Against Baltimore Police
Alex Jones witnessed a protest march led by communists bearing the infamous hammer and sickle flag.
Dozens of people marched shouting angry slogans while oblivious to the dark meaning behind the standard.
They were blissfully unaware they were pawns in the globalists’ divisive scheme to hijack the anger against the police to further the establishment’s agenda.
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Did You Know a Law is on the Books to Disarm All Americans?
Law provides impetus for “ultimate world disarmament” and U.N. control over military.
Public law 87-297, the Arms Control and Disarmament Act signed by President Kennedy in 1961, provides an impetus to not only ban civilian firearm ownership but to also transfer control of the U.S. military to the United Nations.
“It is the purpose of this Act to provide impetus toward this goal by creating a new agency of peace to deal with the problem of reduction and control of armaments looking toward ultimate world disarmament,” the law states.
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Enemies on the Left False Friends on the Right
In the Communist Daily World of November 8, 1975 it carried a very interesting article entitled, “Planning is Socialism’s Trademark,” by Morris Zeitlin. The Daily World was the newspaper of the Communist Party USA, and was formerly known as The Daily Worker which was founded in 1924. The importance of this article lies in its blatant admission that regionalism, which is gradually becoming the accepted method of unelected governance in the United States (unelected councils and task forces, participatory democracy, public-private partnerships, etc.) is the form of government used in democratic socialist and communist countries.
The entire article by Zeitlin is on page 134 in Charlotte’s book, The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America, and is on her website in pdf download. Planning and a “planned economy” is socialism’s trademark. Think too, of United Nations Agenda 21! Apparently, the neo-cons believe Communism is not very important.
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Harvard Faculty Backs Democrats 96% of the Time, Says School Paper
Republicans running for president might as well skip any fundraisers at Ivy League universities like Harvard, where a new analysis shows 96 percent of faculty donations over the last three years went to Democrats.
Academia in general, and the elite northeastern schools in particular, have long been seen as a bastion for left-wing professors. Nationally, about two-thirds of college professors say they are liberal and less than a tenth identify themselves as conservative, according to one study. The imbalance at Harvard, uncovered by the student newspaper Harvard Crimson surprised even Harvard administrators.
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Hillary Clinton “Thinks She is a God”
Behold!
In a government and corporate sphere dominated by and filled with psychopaths and sociopaths, arrogant and ruthless ladder climbers and ultra wealthy manipulators, Hillary still stands out head and shoulders above the rest. Not just in 2016, throughout her entire quest for power.
The Washington Free Beacon reports:
Emmanuel Badejo, the bishop of Oyo in southwestern Nigeria, told the Rome correspondent of Aleteia, an online Roman Catholic newspaper, in an interview published Wednesday that Hillary Clinton “thinks she is a god.”
“I believe there are three groups of people in this world: those who believe in God, those who do not believe in God, and those who think they are gods,” Bishop Badejo said when asked to respond to the former secretary of state’s recent claim that “Deep-seated cultural codes, religious beliefs, and structural biases have to be changed” in order to reconcile support for abortion rights with Christianity. “Hillary Clinton I think is one of those who thinks she is a god,” Badejo said.
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He continued: “From the way she spoke, people like herself very clearly don’t want to hear anything about God. Even if they say they believe in God, they really don’t.
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Morgan Freeman: White Police Committing ‘Terrorism’ On Black People
Morgan Freeman argued Thursday that the unrest in Baltimore is spurred by “the terrorism we suffer from the police” and questioned why so many black people are dying at the hands of white officers.
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Netflix’s Daredevil Pushes Measles Vaccine
Propagandist script writers refer to vaccine-skeptical parents as “idiots.”
Disturbingly, at least one episode in the series contains dialogue geared to propagandize its audience and at the same time mock and shame parents who are understandably skeptical of the efficacy of certain vaccines.
The series’ third episode, entitled Rabbit in a Snowstorm, features a conversation between two characters, one of whom is a doctor.
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With much of the nation focused on the police abuse protests happening in Baltimore and New York City, the Denver police and their actions against a group of protesters on Wednesday has largely gone unnoticed.
But police were dressed for war. Paramilitary style. And they weren’t going home without using a few cans of pepper spray and filling up a paddy wagon.
Video that surfaced shows a group of about 100 protesters walking the streets of downtown Denver where they were met with line of motorcycle cops who forced the group on to the sidewalk. One overzealous officer can be seen breaking away from the pack chasing down pedestrians, using his motorcycle as a large weapon.
At one point, the motorcycle cop rams a man on a bicycle, who had every right to be riding in the street.
In what appeared to be a peaceful scene of protesters walking with signs and chanting, albeit on the street, turned chaotic after police formed a human barricade, initiating a confrontation. Most protesters complied with orders to get on the sidewalk, but that didn’t stop one police soldier from continually shooting pepper spray into the faces of non-violent people.
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Soviets in the Classroom… America’s Latest Education Fad
Fascinating Story behind the boycott of Soviets in the Classroom…
[[Soviets in the Classroom…America’s Latest Education Fad, written in 1986, was published in 1989. The delay in publication date to 1989 is an interesting story in itself. Although submitted to all conservative media outlets and sent to all conservative organizations in 1986, it was ignored by all until 1989 when the late Judge Robert Morris, N.J. who had recently been named President of America’s Future, a well-known conservative organization, found it in his desk, called me, and immediately published it. [ Rudy Scott, former President of America’s Future, one of the many conservative organizations that had turned it down for publication, had by mistake left the manuscript in the bottom drawer of his desk.]
(Bob Morris, who had been deeply involved in the congressional investigation of communism in public education was, of course, shocked to find out, four years after the fact, what had happened in 1985 when President Reagan and the Carnegie Corporation signed the extensive agreements with President Gorbachev of the Soviet Union and the Soviet Academy of Science, respectively, to basically merge the two nation’s education systems.)
Obviously, when a well known member of the nation’s conservative establishment did not even know what had happened, one can draw no conclusion other than that the boycott had been successful beyond belief.
So, here, FINALLY, is the article, successfully boycotted for over THIRTY-THREE YEARS!]
Education Agreements with the Soviet Union:…
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Special Report: Federalized Police Force Rising
The police state intensifies as feds absorb law enforcement nationwide.
Alex Jones breaks down how the police are being pushed further and further into globalist control and how they will eventually be used against patriots and the liberty movement.
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Taking the Agenda 21 Fight to the Maine State Legislature
Agenda 21 is a threat to our nation, to our states, and to our local communities — because it is, in their words, a comprehensive blueprint specifically designed to change our way of life and our form of government.
That’s its purpose. That’s why they call it an “agenda!”
Agenda 21 comes to us in three parts.
Economic. Equity. Environment. We call it the three Es. And they encompass every aspect of our lives.
The Economic section means Public Private Partnerships between government and selected private corporations.
Through these partnerships the government gains the ability to hide behind the independence of business. Those private corporations spend their advertising dollars to convince us to accept the policies. They become the government’s free propaganda tool.
Business gets the power of government, such as the use of Eminent Domain and special tax credits. In fact, now spreading through legislatures across the nation is a policy called Benefit Corporations.
Benefit corporations create a new class of corporations that have accepted Sustainable policy as their own. Once they take that step, these private companies essentially get to go to the head of the line for government programs, protections, and hand outs.
It’s a new business model that shifts the economic focus away from profits for shareholders in order to fulfill social and environmental missions. The business gets ahead by essentially becoming a sustainable monopoly protected by the government.
That brings us to the second E. Social Equity or Social Justice. If you fail to understand this aspect of Agenda 21, then you will have no understanding of the issue. Social Equity is simply redistribution of wealth and is at the root of literally every sustainable policy.
And the third E is Environment. It is nothing more than the excuse to get us to blindly accept sustainable policy, basically under the use of fear. Everything in human society today, we are warned, damages the environment. And so society has gone into a kind of paralysis, afraid to move forward.
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Texas Ranger Drops Jade Helm Bombshell: “There Are Trains With Shackles on Them”
The reports about the coming Jade Helm 15 operation across the southwest continue to suggest that this is not merely a standard training exercise to prepare our military personnel for foreign engagements as has been suggested by officials.
A letter sent to Dave Hodges at The Common Sense Show by a concerned Texas Ranger indicates that the government is preparing for a scenario similar to what has been described in William Forstchen’s recent novella Day of Wrath in which ISIS terrorists cross the southern border of the United States and simultaneously attack soft targets across the nation.
But the letter doesn’t stop there. The Ranger, who has kept his identify private for obvious reasons and makes clear that the scope of Jade Helm is so secret that the intent is not completely clear, says that the JH15 mission objectives may go much farther than just preparing for terrorists. According to the law enforcement insider there are trains moving throughout Texas and some of them have been outfitted with shackles, presumably to “transport prisoners of some sort.” The claim adds further credence to a report about Jade Helm dissident roundups and arrests and widespread martial law declarations following an emergency.
His letter sheds some light on the Walmart store closings, suggesting at least one may be utilized in a national security capacity as a staging point for the Department of Homeland Security, an agency that is apparently not trusted by anyone within the Texas Rangers organization, according to the source.
[Comment: Bill Ayers’ extermination plan pieces being set up?.]
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We have observed over the past several weeks how the Republicans, especially the leadership, and maybe even most of the members, have aligned themselves with Obama in his goal to “Fundamentally Transform America” by supporting his so-called “free trade” agenda which consists of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). [Link]
At the present time, Obama and his traitorous Republican alliance is attempting to push through the legislature, a Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) provision called “Fast Track Authority.” This would enable the President to get these proposals passed with a simple up or down vote, i.e., yes, or no.
This, of course, would mean proceedings with limited debate and no amendments, which would prevent disclosure of many provisions in the secretly negotiated, so-called “free trade” proposals consisting of some 2000 pages only in the Trans-Pacific Partnership. It stands to reason that this is why so much effort and deceit has come about to pass the “Fast Track Authority,” so that these proposals can be passed with the contents remaining unknown. However, a recent leak reveals evidence that there are possibly many sinister provisions that remain hidden which the supporters of the “trade agenda” purposely desire to remain undisclosed.
An article, Leaked Obama “Trade” Pact Exposes Assault on Self Government, published in the New American Magazine, April 23, by Alex Newman, sheds light on this:
According to the article, “As establishment Republicans join forces with the Obama Administration to ram through a series of sweeping pseudo-”free trade” agreements with the European Union, critics are up in arms over various leaked provisions that would all but crush the principles of self-government. Especially alarming to opponents is the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, or TTIP, which, among other concerns, would limit the ability of voters and their elected representatives to enact laws interfering with the agenda of Big Business and Big Government. Another agreement being pursued in tandem, the Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP, would do the same, allowing unelected and unaccountable transnational bureaucrats to develop ‘harmonized’ regulatory regimes for the bloc purporting to supersede federal and state laws. Critics from across the political spectrum say the plot must be stopped.”
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You’re Not Paranoid: The Government is Using E-ZPass to Track You
Wireless E-ZPass tollbooth transponders are being read routinely throughout New York City to systematically collect location data about drivers.
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Czech Anarchists Planned Train Attack
MfD: Czech Police special unit had been tracking group for months
Prague, May 2 (CTK) — The police have uncovered the plans of a number of terror attacks on various targets to be perpetrated by Czech anarchists, daily Mladá fronta Dnes (MfD) writes today.
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Denmark Closer to Joining EU Bank Union
Denmark could be the first non-eurozone country in the EU’s banking union after its justice ministry on Thursday concluded that membership does not constitute a loss of sovereignty and could be decided by parliament without referendum. The Danish People’s Party called it “yet another step” toward adopting the euro.
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Europe’s Next Space Chief Wants a Moon Colony on the Lunar Far Side
The incoming leader of the European Space Agency is keen on establishing an international base on the moon as a next-step outpost beyond the International Space Station (ISS).
Johann-Dietrich Wörner expressed his enthusiasm for a moon colony at the Space Foundation’s National Space Symposium, a gathering of global, commercial, civil, military and “new space” experts that was held here from April 13 to April 16.
“It seems to be appropriate to propose a permanent moon station as the successor of ISS,” Wörner said. This station should be international, “meaning that the different actors can contribute with their respective competencies and interests.”
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France: 40 Person Mob Assaults 2 Jews on Paris’ Boulevard Voltaire
Two Jewish residents of Paris were assaulted on the street by a gang of about 40 people on Friday, Israeli French JSS News reported on Friday.
The gang of attackers were associated with anti-Israel groups Gaza Firm and the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign, said security personnel responsible for protecting the Jewish community.
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France: Femen and Her Father Ruin Le Pen’s Big Day
Bare-chested Femen activists making Nazi salutes disrupted a speech by France’s far-right leader Marine Le Pen for five minutes Friday at her National Front’s traditional May 1st rally in Paris.
Two others members of the militant feminist group had earlier tried to stop Le Pen laying at wreath at a statue of Joan of Arc in the French capital but were unceremoniously bundled away by the party’s security guards.
But the second intervention by three activists carrying a “Heil Le Pen” banner on a balcony overlooking the podium on which she was speaking, seemed to destabilise the usually combative leader, who last month made week Time magazine’s list of the world’s 100 most influential people.
Le Pen took several minutes to recover her composure enough to hit back with, “Strange how people who call themselves feminists should interrupt a speech in honour of Joan of Arc.”
Earlier her father Jean-Marie Le Pen had done his best to ruin her day by striding uninvited onto the podium at Opera to upstage her and take the ovation of the crowd.
The party’s founder had been conspicuously dropped from the line up of leaders on stage after a fierce public feud with his daughter after he repeated claims that Nazi gas chambers were merely a “detail of history” — — comments that have seen him convicted in the past for denying the Holocaust.
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France: African Migrants Set up Camps in Central Paris
Hundreds of African migrants have set up camps in the heart of Paris after their efforts to cross the Channel from Calais were thwarted by British border controls.
About 500 people, mainly Sudanese, Eritreans and Ethiopians, have pitched blue and green tents on two sites, one on the banks of the Seine near Austerlitz railway station; the other near the Eurostar terminal at the Gare du Nord.
The first few tents appeared about a year ago, but the camps have expanded rapidly in recent weeks.
Bruno Morel, the head of the Emmaus Solidarité charity, which helps the migrants in Paris, said: “These camps are growing. We can provide initial humanitarian relief, but we need solutions for housing.”
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Germany Spied on France and EU Commission: Report
German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government has been embarrassed by reports that the country’s intelligence service was spying on France and the European Commission for the US National security agency (NSA).
According to the Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper on Thursday (30 April), the BND, the German intelligence service, listened in on officials from the French presidency and foreign affairs ministry, as well as the EU Commission.
Phone tapping was done from the BND’s Bad Aibling spying station in Bavaria and information was transmitted to the NSA under an agreement signed in 2002, writes the Sueddeutsche Zeitung.
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Germany: Investigators Find Extremist Videos on Computer of Couple Suspected of Attack Plan
German authorities say they found violent Islamic extremist videos on a computer belong to a couple suspected of preparing an attack on a cycling race.
Udo Buehler, a spokesman for the criminal police office in Hesse state, declined to give details of the videos found at the home of the couple in Oberursel, near Frankfurt.
The couple, who haven’t been identified, were arrested Thursday. Police seized a cache of weapons, including a pipe bomb and chemicals that can be used to make explosives. Officials believe they may have planned to target a professional cycling race in the area Friday — the race was canceled.
Buehler said Saturday that investigators are still going through evidence and working to determine whether the Turkish-German man and his Turkish wife had any accomplices.
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Germany: Turkish Couple Suspected in Attack Plan Had Extremist Video
German authorities say they found violent Islamic extremist videos on a computer belong to a couple suspected of preparing an attack on a cycling race.
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Half Italian Teens Think Mafia ‘Stronger Than State’
71% say govt ‘not doing enough’
(ANSA) — Palermo, April 27 — More than half Italian 16-18-year-olds, 52%, think the mafia is stronger than the State, a survey by the anti-mafia Pio La Torre centre said Monday.
Almost three quarters, 71%, think the State is not doing enough to fight the mafia, said the centre named after the Communist anti-mafia campaigner slain in 1982.
One of Italy’s top anti-mafia prosecutors, Nino Di Matteo, said he was not discouraged by the data.
After meeting Catania university students, he said: “I met many young people passionate about truth and justice who want to combat the mafia and the mafia mentality”.
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Italy: Ex-Regional Councillor Nabbed on Mafia Vote-Rigging Charges
Along with four members of ‘Ndrangheta clan
(ANSA) — Rome, April 29 — Carabinieri paramilitary police on Wednesday arrested five vote-rigging suspects in the southern Calabria region, including former Calabria regional council member Santi Zappala’.
Investigators say Zappala’ paid the Pelle family clan of the powerful ‘Ndrangheta mob and other clans a total of 400,000 euros in exchange for votes in his successful run in the 2010 regional election on Silvio Berlusconi’s now-defunct People of Freedom (PdL) party ticket. Zappala’ was arrested in December that year, and was sentenced to two years eight months in prison for election rigging in collusion with the mafia.
The other four suspects arrested are members of the Pelle clan, police sources said.
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Italy PM Says Riots Will Not Ruin Milan Expo
Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi warned Saturday that stone-throwing protesters who clashed with police in Milan during the Expo 2015 opening would not ruin the world fair.
“They tried to ruin the fair, but four spoilt brats won’t ruin the Expo,” Renzi told Italian public television, while saluting the security forces.
On Friday afternoon, hours after the Expo 2015 opened, dozens of protesters opposed to Milan’s hosting of the fair took to the streets wearing balaclavas or gas masks…
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Scottish Nationalists to Hold UK Balance of Power
The Scottish Nationalist Party is poised to hold the balance of power following next week’s UK elections, after new polls suggested that Nicola Sturgeon’s party will win all 59 Scottish constituencies.
A survey released on Wednesday (29 April) by pollsters Ipsos Mori puts the SNP on 54 percent of the vote in Scotland, with the once dominant Labour party trailing on 20 percent.
The SNP surge makes it increasingly likely that the party will be kingmakers after the poll on 7 May.
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Spain: Second Ex-Andalusian Premier Set to Leave Politics Over Ere Case
Manuel Chaves to follow José Antonio Griñán in move demanded by opposition parties
Manuel Chaves, a former Andalusian premier and a Socialist deputy in Congress, will leave politics in seven months after this fall’s general election.
Sources within the Socialist Party confirmed that the 69-year-old, a veteran figure of Spanish politics, will follow José Antonio Griñán, who succeeded him at the helm of the Andalusian government and recently announced his decision to abandon public service…
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Sweden: Ex-Muslim: Koran Revealed a Religion I Did Not Like
GOTHENBURG, Sweden — Mona Walter is on a mission. Her mission is for more Muslims to know what is in the Koran. She says if more Muslims knew what was in the Koran, more would leave Islam.
Walter came to Sweden from Somalia as a war refugee when she was 19. She says she was excited about joining a modern European nation with equal rights for women. But as a young Muslim woman, that was not the Sweden she encountered.
A Real Introduction to Islam
It was in Sweden that she first experienced radical Islam on a daily basis.
“I discovered Islam first in Sweden. In Somalia, you’re just a Muslim, without knowing the Koran. But then you come to Sweden and you go to mosque and there is the Koran, so you have to cover yourself and you have to be a good Muslim.”
Walter says she grew up in Somalia never having read the Koran.
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The Welsh Language Election Debate
English speakers: there’s a whole other political debate about the UK election taking place in the Welsh language. But it’s not particularly large.
More than half a million people speak Welsh, it’s been a language of politics and government since the Welsh Assembly was created in 1998, and the Welsh nationalist party Plaid Cymru has been visible across the UK media in the run up to the general election on 7 May. But on social platforms it seems that very few speakers are choosing to take part in political discussions online — at least in the Welsh language.
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UK: Duchess of Cambridge Gives Birth to Baby Girl
LONDON — A princess is born.
Prince William’s wife, the Duchess of Cambridge, “was safely delivered of a daughter” Saturday morning, less than three hours of checking into central London’s St. Mary’s Hospital, royal officials said.
Kensington Palace said the baby was born at 8:34 a.m. London time and weighed 8 pounds 3 ounces.
The announcement was greeted by cheers outside the hospital, where die-hard royal fans dressed in patriotic Union Jack gear have been camping out on the sidewalk, eagerly awaiting news. Delighted chants of “Princess! Princess!” sounded outside the hospital’s private Lindo Wing.
The princess is fourth in line to the throne and the fifth great-grandchild of Queen Elizabeth II. The statement said senior royals have been informed and “are delighted with the news.”
Kate, who wed William in April 2011, gave birth to Prince George at the same hospital in July 2013.
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The second royal baby is here! Prince William’s wife Kate has given birth to a baby girl. The girl was born in St Mary’s hospital in the west of London and is fourth in line to the British throne.
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UK: Lutfur Rahman: Police Poised to Re-Open Inquiry After Election Scandal
Police are re-investigating the electoral fraud scandal surrounding Lutfur Rahman, the former mayor of Tower Hamlets in London, after four new allegations came to light in an official report.
Scotland Yard confirmed last week’s High Court electoral fraud judgment into Rahman, Britain’s first elected Muslim mayor, contained new material which had not been previously reported to them.
It means the inquiry into Rahman and potential collaborators could now be formally re-opened, bringing into question the Metropolitan Police’s decision to previously shut down the investigation.
However, police admitted they are powerless to act over a fifth potential new allegation because electoral law contains a 12 month “statute of limitations”, or time limit, which has already expired.
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UK: Mosque Paints Dome Backing Candidate Running Against Nigel Farage
An east London mosque has shown its political colours with a giant slogan daubed on its dome which endorses a candidate running against Nigel Farage in a constituency more than 70 miles away.
But Shacklewell Lane mosque’s bold display of support for Nigel Askew, who is running in South Thanet for an anti-austerity party launched by Happy Mondays’ dancer Bez, has landed it in hot water with the Charity Commission.
Askew, from the Reality party, was invited by trustee Ramadan Guney to paint “Vote for Hope” on the mosque — and said that at the last minute he had been persuaded to add his own slogan “Vote Nigel Askew — Reality Party”.
Askew, who is a real pub landlord in the seat where comedian Al Murray is also standing as his character the Pub Landlord, said he was worried about growing Islamophobia.
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UK: Subway Sandwich Shop Worker Says He Was Forced to Quit Over Texts From Boss
A teenager has quit his job in frustration after being inundated with a string of David Brent-style texts from his boss.
Declan McCurdie, 17, allegedly received messages from his employer referring to him as ‘big boy’, telling him to ‘lose the beard’ and questioning if he would ever see a ‘much improved version of the man we know you can be’.
Many of the cringe-inducing messages rival those of Ricky Gervais’ famous character from The Office — a bumbling boss who patronises and offends his staff.
Declan worked at the Subway store in central Ayr for about 12 weeks before finally quitting last week after becoming fed up with the alleged barrage of texts from his employer, store owner Kenny Thomson.
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UK: Video Shows Gulam Chowdhury Leaping Over Counter and Stabbing Rival to Death
[WARNING: Disturbing Content.]
Gulam Chowdhury, 24, was today sentenced to 28 years in prison after he murdered 22-year-old Mohammed Yasser Afzal in a frenzied knife attack at his workplace in Stratford, east London.
This is the terrifying moment a jealous boyfriend jumped over the counter at a minicab office and stabbed his love rival to death while chanting verses from the Koran.
Gulam Chowdhury, 24, was today sentenced to 28 years in prison after he murdered Mohammed Yasser Afzal in a frenzied knife attack at his workplace in Stratford, east London.
Dramatic CCTV footage showed a masked Chowdhury storm the E20 minicab company in the Broadway on March 24 last year before vaulting over the counter armed with a carving knife…
Having converted to a strict form of Islam while held in an immigration detention centre, Chowdhury regularly quoted the Koran in his messages to Ms Riaz, who worked at Primark in Hackney.
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France: Qatar Buys 24 Rafale Jets, Accord to be Signed Monday
Hollande also in Doha
(ANSAmed) — PARIS, APRIL 30 — Qatar has decided to sign an agreement to buy 24 Rafale fighter jets produced by France’s Dassault, the company said in a statement, adding that the contract will be officially signed next Monday in Doha at the presence of French President Francois Hollande.
Qatar, whose army already boasts several aircrafts Mirage F1, Alpha Jet and Mirage 2000 of French production is the third foreign country to decide to buy Rafale jets after Egypt and India. The agreement was confirmed, according to the Elysee palace, on Wednesday by emir Tamin ben hamas Al Thani in a phone conversation with Hollande.
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Iraq: Baghdad Grants Amnesty to Deserters to Fight the Islamic State Group
Prime Minister Abadi offers an amnesty to defectors who return to their units within 30 days. The military collapse last June paved the way for the Islamic State group to seize parts of the country. The amnesty does not include those who committed crimes against state security, corruption and abuse of influence. Meanwhile, suicide attacks continue.
Baghdad (AsiaNews/Agencies) — Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi on Thursday offered an amnesty to members of the security forces who fled the Islamic State (IS) jihadist group, provided they return to their units within 30 days.
Last June’s mass defections allowed the jihadists to seize without fighting Mosul and other areas north and west of Baghdad.
Images of the collapse of Iraqi security forces were splashed around the world. In their haste to flee, some security personnel shed their uniforms and abandoned vehicles, weapons and other equipment, which the jihadists have since employed against government forces.
The statement from Abadi’s office did not specifically mention IS, but the amnesty covers those who fled, were absent or harmed themselves to avoid service.
The amnesty specifically excludes those who committed offenses, including crimes against state security, corruption and abuse of influence.
Since last year’s defeat, Iraq’s military has managed to regain part of the jihadist-held territory with the help of paramilitary groups, US air strikes and Iranian support.
Since 2 March, around 30,000 Iraqi troops and thousands of allied Shia and Sunni militias have been involved in Iraq’s biggest offensive to dislodge IS forces from the northern part of Salahudin Governatorate, including Tikrit and other key towns and villages.
However, the army’s offensive has not stopped violence and attacks in Baghdad and elsewhere in Iraq.
Last Sunday, at least 22 people were killed in explosions across the country, including a suicide car bomb attack on a military post in western Anbar province.
A car bomb went off near Khilani Square in central Baghdad, killing six and wounding 17 others.
On Saturday, IS fighters attacked again Baiji, the country’s largest refinery, using mortars and machine guns fixed to pickup trucks.
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Is ISIS’s Leader Dead or Seriously Injured?
Over at The Atlantic, Adam Chandler takes a look at reports that ISIS’s leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi may be dead or injured.
In other words, we don’t know. And as Chandler notes, there’s a good chance that killing al-Baghdadi would have more symbolic than operational importance. While we should target al-Baghdadi and every other significant leader in ISIS to disrupt command and control and kill charismatic leaders before they gain celebrity status (or effective battlefield experience), we of course can’t judge overall military progress by our success at taking out leaders. When I was in Iraq, virtually every American soldier in the field hunted local commanders, renegade shiekhs, or al Qaeda “princes” in the hopes that chopping off the head would kill the body. But we were fighting a movement, not a man — or even a small group of men. For victory to be lasting, it has to be comprehensive — inflicting severe losses at every level of the organization while taking and holding territory. ISIS (including its predecessor, al Qaeda in Iraq) has already cycled through a number of leaders, and there’s no reason to believe it can’t cycle through many more.
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ISIS Leader Incapacitated With Suspected Spinal Injuries After Air Strike
The leader of the Islamic State (Isis), Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, remains incapacitated due to suspected spinal damage and is being treated by two doctors who travel to his hideout from the group’s stronghold of Mosul, the Guardian has learned.
More than two months after being injured in a US air strike in north-western Iraq, the self-proclaimed caliph is yet to resume command of the terror group that has been rampaging through Iraq and Syria since June last year. Three sources close to Isis have confirmed that Baghdadi’s wounds could mean he will never again lead the organisation.
Isis is now being led by a long-term senior official, Abu Alaa al-Afri, who had been appointed deputy leader when his predecessor was killed by an air strike late last year.
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Islamic State: Militants ‘Kill 300 Yazidi Captives’
Several hundred Yazidi captives have been killed in Iraq by Islamic State (IS) militants west of Mosul, Yazidi and Iraqi officials say.
A statement from the Yazidi Progress Party said 300 captives were killed on Friday in the Tal Afar district near the city.
Iraqi Vice-President Osama al-Nujaifi described the reported deaths as “horrific and barbaric”.
Thousands of members of the religious minority group were captured last year.
It is not clear how they were killed, or why this has happened now, says the BBC’s Middle East editor Alan Johnston.
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Qatar Says Afghan, Taliban Officials to Hold 2 Days of ‘Reconciliation’ Talks in Gulf Nation
DOHA, Qatar — Qatar’s state news agency is reporting that Afghan and Taliban officials will be holding two days of “reconciliation” talks in the Gulf nation.
QNA reported that the talks would begin Saturday. It did not identify which officials would be attending the talks.
In a statement, the Taliban earlier identified eight people they said would take part in the talks on their behalf. However, it said the discussions “should not be misconstrued as peace or negotiation talks.”
Afghan presidential spokesman Ajmal Abidy says members of the country’s High Peace Council would attend the talks in Doha in their “personal capacity only.”
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Qatar Says Taliban, Afghan Officials to Hold 2 Days of Talks
DOHA, Qatar — Afghan and Taliban officials will hold two days of “reconciliation” talks in Qatar, the Gulf nation’s state news agency reported Saturday, although both sides sought to downplay expectations from the meeting.
QNA did not identify the officials taking part in the talks, which it said began Saturday, citing Foreign Ministry official Yousif Al Sada.
“The dialogue will be through open discussions about the Afghan reconciliation between all parties in Afghanistan,” the agency said.
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Saudi’s $650m Satellite Deal Takes Off
Saudi Arabia and two global aerospace giants, US-based Lockheed Martin and French satellite launch company Arianespace, announced on Tuesday they have signed deals to build and launch two new communications satellites and boost future Saudi satellite endeavors.
At a news conference in the Saudi capital Riyadh, Prince Dr. Turki Bin Saud Bin Mohammed, the President of King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST), said investments of up to 650 million US dollars (2.4 billion Saudi riyals) would be made in order to build the new satellites, which will provide television, Internet, and telephone services for Riyadh-based satellite operator Arabsat.
The satellites will be built by Lockheed and then launched by Arianespace using its Ariane 5 rocket from the Guiana Space Center in French Guiana. The deals were signed on April 9 and construction will commence immediately. The satellites will be launched in 2018.
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State Department Reportedly Deems Mission to Rescue Americans in Yemen Too Risky
The State Department has reportedly deemed any mission to rescue U.S. government assets in war-torn Yemen too risky.
The Wall Street Journal, citing a State Department official, reports that any evacuation point designated in a country where an Al Qaeda affiliate is active and an unstable security picture puts Americans and any U.S. military assets involved at risk.
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U.N. Warns of Imminent Yemen Infrastructure Collapse
Key infrastructure in war-torn Yemen, including water supplies, health services and telecommunications, are on the verge of breaking down due to a major fuel shortage, a United Nations official said Saturday.
“The services still available in the country in terms of health, water, food are quickly disappearing because fuel is no longer being brought into the country,” Johannes van der Klaauw told AFP in Djibouti.
“Without fuel hospitals can’t work, ambulances can’t go out. You can’t have the water system working because water has to be pumped. The telecommunication network risks shutting down. This all extremely preoccupying. If something is not done in the next few days in terms of bringing fuel and food into the country, Yemen is going to come to a complete stand-still,” he warned.
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Russian Warships Disrupt Swedish Cable Laying
Russian naval ships have repeatedly disrupted cable-laying work between Sweden and Lithuania in the past few months, prompting diplomatic protests from both countries affected.
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Damaged, Ruined by Deadly Quake, Fate of Nepal’s Beloved Heritage Sites in Doubt
KATHMANDU, Nepal — The blue-rimmed eyes of Kathmandu’s gold-spired Swayambhunath stupa stare silently from a hilltop overlooking this city in the Himalayan foothills.
But since Nepal was shattered by a mammoth earthquake Saturday, those eyes have gazed upon a nation in mourning — and on a microcosm of destruction and despair inside the ancient temple itself.
Swayambhunath, which dates back to the 5th century, is one of at least 68 cultural heritage sites in Nepal that were damaged by the tremor, according to Nipuna Shrestha of the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, citing preliminary figures from the Department of Archaeology. That’s nearly 80 percent of historic landmarks in seven monument zones that have been declared as World Heritage Sites in the Kathmandu Valley alone.
Few would compare the loss of Nepal’s historic treasures to the massive human misery wrought by the magnitude-7.8 quake, which has claimed more than 6,600 lives, damaged more than have a million homes, and displaced nearly 3 million people.
And yet, “it’s hard to describe how painful this is,” Shrestha said. “These are not just monuments, they are part of our daily life. It feels like losing part of your family.”
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Thailand Police ‘Recover 26 Bodies’ From Jungle Camp
Thai police say they have recovered 26 bodies from shallow graves at an abandoned jungle camp in southern Thailand.
A police spokesman said it was not clear how those found had died, but that tests were being carried out to establish their identities.
The camp was found on Friday on a route regularly used to smuggle Rohingya Muslims fleeing persecution in Myanmar (formerly known as Burma).
One very ill survivor was also found.
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China’s Secret Plan to Supplant the United States
A new book claims to shed light on a strategy that would make China the sole superpower by 2049.
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Plenty of crazy stories about executions come out of North Korea. Many turn out to be dubious. Remember Kim Jong Un’s executed ex-girlfriend? She later turned up, very much alive. Kim’s uncle, executed using a pack of wild dogs? Executed, yes, but the dogs part turned out to be sourced to a satirical Chinese blogger.
One of the most long-standing execution rumors, however, has been that North Korea had used unconventional and extremely powerful weapons, such as mortar rounds, to kill high-ranking officials. Over the years, a number of North Korean analysts questioned whether North Korea, for all its cruelty, would really use such a needlessly destructive and absurdly impractical method for executions.
Now, satellite imagery appears to show that these absurd execution methods may be true.
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New Exoplanet Too Big for Its Star
The Australian discovery of a strange exoplanet orbiting a small cool star 500 light years away is challenging ideas about how planets form.
“We have found a small star, with a giant planet the size of Jupiter, orbiting very closely,” said researcher George Zhou from the Research School of Astrophysics and Astronomy at The Australian National University.
“It must have formed further out and migrated in, but our theories can’t explain how this happened.”
In the past two decades more than 1,800 extrasolar planets (or exoplanets) have been discovered outside our solar system orbiting around other stars.
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Doing More: The Church and the Plight of Migrant Workers in Japan
“Although it is hard to judge from a legal and legislative point of view, from a human one, expelling them from the country is an injustice,” said PIME regional superior. Perhaps, the Church “ought to do” something. Yesterday, a group of immigrants staged a protest, calling on the government to allow them to remain in the country where they have lived for decades.
Tokyo (AsiaNews) — Irregular workers are a “just cause,” said Fr Mario Bianchin, regional superior of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions (PIME) in Japan. “Although it is hard to judge from a legal and legislative point of view,” he added, “from a human one, expelling them from the country is an injustice”.
The PIME missionary spoke to AsiaNews after some 70 workers with an expired work permit staged a protest yesterday, with their families, in Tokyo’s Ginza district, to ask the government to let them stay in the country where they have lived for about three decades.
“Immigration is a major problem in Japan, involving a lot of people,” Fr Bianchin said. “It all began about 30 years ago, when the governments of Japan and Brazil agreed to a programme to allow Brazilian nikkeijin (overseas Japanese) to work in Japan if they wanted.
“Two- or three-year work permits were granted, with the possibility of renewal,” he said. “For both governments, it was an act of goodwill. Japan got new workers, and the latter got good wages.”
Often, when work visas expired, Japanese authorities just “turned a blind eye,” this according to the Asian People’s Friendship Society, the NGO that organised the protest.
Now however, the “economic crisis is creating problems for both immigrants and government,” Fr Bianchin explained. And “The government is no longer interested in keeping them in the country; instead, it is trying to remove them.
“Many foreign workers chose not to renew their contract, opting instead to go home. Yet, for others, it is hard to return to their native countries after 30 years living abroad. Many prefer to stay in Japan illegally fearing that they might not find work.
At the same time, Japanese immigration law is very strict. Jus solis is not enough for citizenship; one must have at least one Japanese parent. For this reason, the Japanese-born children of illegal workers very often cannot stay in Japan.
If foreign workers have Japanese relatives, they can choose to be placed with them, but their family will have to go.
For Fr Bianchin, “Japan has never been very welcoming to immigrants because Japanese society is very uniform, impermeable [to outside influences].”
“Legally, immigrants face a difficult situation,” the PIME missionary noted. “Once their visa expires, they have no legal recourse. Any small incident, like a car accident, allows the government to identify and expel them.”
“In the case of undocumented Christian workers, many do not want to give their name in parishes because they are afraid that the government might find them. It is not that the government is persecuting them, but it takes very little to be thrown out.”
In light of the situation, “The Japanese Church is getting more socially involved,” Fr Bianchin explained. “However, perhaps we ought to do more in this vast and important area.”
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French Patrol Ship Rescues 217 Migrants Off Libyan Coast
A French navy ship sent to boost EU migrant patrols in the Mediterranean rescued 217 people Saturday off the coast of Libya, officials said.
The migrants — all men — had been on board three boats, the authorities said, adding that two suspected people smugglers were also caught and will be handed over to Italian police.
The French patrol boat “Commandant Birot” was sent on Tuesday to reinforce the EU’s Triton surveillance operation after a series of migrant tragedies in which nearly 5,000 have drowned since the start of the year.
Italian coastguards said they were involved in coordinating the rescue of at least six migrant boats on Saturday morning, with some of the operations still ongoing…
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Greek Sergeant Decorated for Rescuing 20 Migrants
After shipwreck off Rhodes
(ANSAmed) — ATHENS, APRIL 28 — The photo that shows him carrying a young Eritrean woman on his back has been seen around the world.
It is for the saving of over 20 migrants in a deadly shipwreck off the island of Rhodes that Defense Minister Panos Kammenos on Monday awarded the Cross of Excellency to an army sergeant. Photos showing Antonis Deligiorgis saving men, women and children made it into the front pages of many international newspapers, including the New York Times and the Guardian. It was the one of him lifting onto his shoulders the young Eritrean Wegasi Nebiat that became best known, however. Other people that the officer saved include the pregnant 26-year-old Eritrean Elizabeth Abraha.
Deligiorgis was on the beach when the shipwreck occurred and jumped into the water to help the 90 migrants from Syria and Eritrea. Other beach-goers followed his lead. Three of those onboard — a man, a woman and a child — died of drowning. A few days after the shipwreck, Abraha have birth to a baby boy in the Rhodes hospital and has said she will call it Antonis in honor of her rescuer. Before going to Athens to receive the award, Deligiorgis visited the mother and newborn in the hospital. “She was very emotional because of all the support she has received,” said lawyer Kalliope Papapavlou, head of a human rights committee at the island’s bar association, which is assisting her after the birth.
“(Deligiorgis) was also very emotional at their meeting. He came to the hospital with roses.”
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More Than 500 British-Bound Migrants Set Up Camps in the Heart of Paris
Many have reached the French capital after perilous journeys on traffickers’ boats from Libya — in which hundreds have drowned in recent weeks.
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Two German Navy Ships in Mediterranean to Save Migrants in Distress
The German navy has sent two ships as part of efforts to prevent migrants from dying in the Mediterranean. The EU was spurred into action after a migrant ship capsized, killing around 800 people a few weeks ago.
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What Can the EU Learn From the US on Immigration?
The US took in about 70,000 UN-registered refugees last year — the same as the rest of the world combined. Most came from the Arab world, Africa, and South-East Asia. Some came from the Western Balkans and Ukraine.
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‘Gay Marriage’ Activists Target Archbishop
‘We can expect increasing pressure on Christian leaders who hold to biblical morality’
Last week, activists promoted the pro-homosexual “Day of Silence” national event at a Catholic high school in the archdiocese, leading to a walkout by nuns.
The attacks against a defender of traditional marriage come as many Christians face legal jeopardy for advocating biblical morality.
Death threats and overt physical violence have been committed against some Christians who refuse to bend on their beliefs.
Evangelical leader James Dobson, the founder of Focus on the Family, has warned Christians are about to become a “hated minority.”
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This is How Fast America Changes Its Mind
By Alex Tribou and Keith Collins
Eleven years after Massachusetts became the first state to allow same-sex couples to marry, the Supreme Court on April 28 will hear arguments about whether to extend that right nationwide. The case comes amid a wave of gay marriage legalization: 28 states since 2013, and 36 overall. Such widespread acceptance in a short amount of time isn’t a phenomenon unique to gay marriage. Social change in the U.S. appears to follow a pattern: A few pioneer states get out front before the others, and then a key event—often a court decision or a grassroots campaign reaching maturity—triggers a rush of state activity that ultimately leads to a change in federal law.
We looked at six big issues—interracial marriage, prohibition, women’s suffrage, abortion, same-sex marriage, and recreational marijuana — to show how this has happened in the past, and may again in the very near future.
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Lost in Space: Half of All Stars Are Rogues Between Galaxies
As many as half of all stars in the universe lie in the vast gulfs of space between galaxies, an unexpected discovery made in a new study using NASA rockets. These stars could help solve mysteries regarding missing light and particles that theory had suggested should exist, scientists say.
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MSM Finally Admits Antibiotics Are Causing Mental Illness
The overuse of antibiotics is destroying our gut bacteria. Not only do antibiotics cause depleted immunity, but since the gut is often referred to as our second brain, they are also seriously affecting our mental health. Only now is the mainstream media admitting this.
Natural Society talked about the link between antibiotics and mental illness back in 2011 — and the mainstream press completely ignored the study that was published in the popular journal Nature. The study revealed that antibiotics are permanently destroying beneficial bacteria within the gut, a condition scientists link to mental illness.
Apparently the problem is worth noting now, since experts are saying “the cure to brain disease and mental health” is really in your gut.
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