Gates of Vienna News Feed 6/26/2015

As part of their new offensive against the Kurdish city of Kobane in Syria, mujahideen for the Islamic State disguised themselves as Kurdish fighters and entered the town from two directions. Wearing Kurdish YPG uniforms, those who could speak Kurdish called out to people in houses and induced them to come out, after which they were shot. More than 140 civilians were reportedly killed in this manner.

In other news, a school in Germany that hosts refugees next to its gym has told girls at the school not to revealing clothes, because they will be passing by where the migrants can see them.

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Thanks to C. Cantoni, Caroline Glick, Dean, Fjordman, JD, LP, Phyllis Chesler, and all the other tipsters who sent these in.

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Financial Crisis
» Chinese Stock Plunge Leaves State Media Speechless
» Eurozone Finance Ministers Gear Up for Last-Ditch Talks on Greece
» Puerto Rico: Greece on the Caribbean
» The Economic Collapse Blog Has Issued a Red Alert for the Last Six Months of 2015
» Why the Greek “Bailout” Failed… Explained With Cats
 
USA
» “Chief Justice” John Roberts is a National Disgrace
» Bolshevism to SCOTUS, Purposefully Redesigning Language
» Brain Implants No Bigger Than Dust Particles on the Way
» Elites Planning Fall of America: “This Reset is the Next Stage in the Plan for Total Global Economic Centralization”
» Exposed: FBI Files Reveal That Valerie Jarrett’s Father Was a Soviet Spy
» Facebook Becomes Godzilla News Outlet for Disinformation
» Google’s Self-Driving Car Hits Public Roads
» Hackers Stole Secrets of U.S. Government Workers’ Sex Lives. Infidelity. Sexual Fetishes. Drug Abuse. Crushing Debt.
» Mysterious Death: Body of Doctor Who Linked Vaccines to Autism Found Floating in River
» Pluto-Bound Probe Faces Its Toughest Task: Finding Pluto
» Prison Escapee Richard Matt Shot and Killed by Law Enforcement Officers, Source Confirms
» Shari’ah Law a Major Threat to American Civilization
» The False Left/Right Paradigm Explained
» The Iranian-American Nuclear Project
» The Week That Changed the Nation
» TPP Endgame: Turn America Into a Third World Wasteland
» Why the Patriot Act is Tyranny and Rand Paul is a Hero
 
Europe and the EU
» Artifacts Found on 700-Year-Old Battle ‘Site’
» Belgium Blocks Record Number of Websites
» Denmark to Get One-Party Government
» Fats From Fish and Plants May Help Older Adults Live Longer
» Headless Body: Scrawled With Arabic, Found at French Blast Site
» Iranian Students Sue Norway Over Expulsion
» Italy: Tidal Wave of Litter Risks Choking Venice
» Man Decapitated in Terror Attack in France
» Police Arrest Suspects After Deadly Attack in France
» Romanian Gangs Mount Bonnets of Cars at 50mph and Form Human Chains to Steal From Lorries in Audacious Raids Across UK
» Suspect in French Decapitation Attack Today Yet Another Case of ‘Known Wolf’ Terrorism
» Terror Attack on Factory Exposes Political Divisions in France
» The Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan — the Genocide of the Peoples of Europe
» The Five Horsemen (And One Horsewoman) of Europe’s Monetary Apocalypse
» UK: By Scapegoating Muslims, Cameron Fuels Radicalisation
» UK: Police Withheld Bombshell Report Revealing How Gangs of Muslim Men Were Grooming More Than 100 Schoolgirls as Young as 13 in Case it Inflamed Racial Tensions Ahead of General Election
» UK: Police Called in to Bradford School After Staff Member Allegedly Shared ‘Tasteless and Offensive’ Facebook Post Calling the Islamic Veil Offensive
» US Report Blasts Czechs Over Romany Discrimination
» Wife of France Jihad Killer: “We Are Normal Muslims. We Do Ramadan.”
» Zombie Burials? Ancient Greeks Used Rocks to Keep Bodies in Graves
 
Balkans
» Kosovo Fails to Pave Way for Tribunal to Try Wartime Leaders for Alleged War Crimes
 
North Africa
» Britons Caught Up in Tunisian Beach Attack
» Brits Among 28 Killed in Tunisia Beach Hotel Attack
» Did U.S. Demand Muslim Brotherhood Candidate be Declared Winner in Egypt?
» Germans Among the Dead in Attack on Tunisia Resort
» Swedes Stuck in Tunisia After Deadly Terror Attack
» Terrorist Coward Hides His Face as Outraged Woman Punches Him After He is Arrested for Killing 28 Defenceless Tourists in Machine Gun Massacre on Tunisian Beach
» Tunisia-Bound Jetair Flight Turns Around in Mid-Air
» Tunisia: Four Policemen Fired for Being Too “Zealous” In Ramadan
 
Israel and the Palestinians
» War Crimes in Gaza: Filmmaker Takes Cameras Deep Into Hamas Territory
 
Middle East
» After IS Attacks Kobane, Kurds Slam Turkey for Allowing Jihadis Through Border
» Day of Terror: Islamist Attacks Around World Follow ISIS’ Ramadan Message
» Dozens Killed in Islamic Militant Attacks in Four Countries
» Fox News Reporting: Christians Find Refuge From Terror in Jordan
» Iraq Residents: ‘We Know America is Providing ISIS With Weapons & Food’
» ‘IS’ Jihadists Massacre Hundreds of Civilians in Northern Syria
» ISIS Militants Disguised as Kurdish Fighters Infiltrate Syrian Town
» ISIS Re-Enter Kobane in Syria and Complete One of Its ‘Worst Massacres’
» ISIS Jihadis Force Girls as Young as 9 Into Sex in Raqqa
» ISIS Kills 140 Kobani Civilians in Second Biggest Attack
» Islamic State Group Kills at Least 145 Civilians in Syria’s Kobani
» Opinion: Terrorism is an Attack on us All
» Syria Crisis: Islamic State ‘Kills 120 Civilians’ In Kobane
» Turkey’s Erdogan Sees Red Over ‘Giant Table’ Accusations
» Video Emerges of Druze Mob Lynching Wounded Syrians
 
Russia
» Alarm in Moscow: Russian Islamic State Militants Are Returning Home
 
South Asia
» Christians and Muslims Slam Everyday Torture in Pakistan
» India: Chhattisgarh: Pentecostal Pastor Jailed on False Charges
» Ramadan Leads to Dehydration in Pakistani Heat Wave
 
Far East
» Amelia Earhart ‘Captured by the Japanese and the U.S. Government Knew’
» Beijing Slams “Golden Triangle” As Source of China’s Killer Drugs
» China Set to Step Up Global Investment Drive
 
Australia — Pacific
» Australia Passes Tyrannical Internet Laws
 
Sub-Saharan Africa
» Islamic Militant Gunmen Storm Somalian Army Base With Bombs, 30 Dead
» Shebab Militants ‘Overrun’ African Union Base
» Somali Militants Attack African Union Peacekeepers’ Base
 
Immigration
» America’s Growing Multicultural Quagmire
» Belgium: Summit on Asylum Was “A Deplorable Spectacle”
» Czechia: New Refugee Camp May be Established
» Denmark’s Asylum Seeker Numbers Up Again
» EU Leaders Approve Voluntary Plan to Resettle Migrants
» Finland: Record Numbers of Asylum-Seekers, Reception Centres Strained
» Germany: Refugee Host School Bans Revealing Clothes
» Hundreds Rally Against Refugees in Czech City, Others Gather to Support Immigration
» Italy Slams EU Leaders for Rejecting Migrant Quotas
» Sardinia’s Poor Defy Anti-Immigrant Mood to Help Refugees
 
Culture Wars
» How Will Same-Sex “Marriage” Affect You?
» Synod. The Battle of Germany
» US Supreme Court Rules Gay Marriage is Legal Nationwide
 
General
» The Stimulus-Response Empire
» U.S.: No Evidence Yet Linking Friday’s Deadly Attacks
 

Chinese Stock Plunge Leaves State Media Speechless

With the heady exuberance over Chinese stocks starting to fade, sowing fears of worse to come, investors are scouring state media for clues to the Communist Party’s thinking.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Eurozone Finance Ministers Gear Up for Last-Ditch Talks on Greece

Finance ministers from the countries that use the euro are set to hold last ditch talks aimed at reaching a deal to unfreeze vital bailout funds to Greece. Without a deal, Athens could go into default within days.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Puerto Rico: Greece on the Caribbean

While investors anxiously watch Greece, another debt time bomb is ticking in Puerto Rico as the country scrambles to meet its obligations. The island commonwealth owes $72 billion in total public debt.

Between June 30th and July 3rd the government has to pay close to $2 billion to avoid default on various general obligation bonds, guaranteed debt obligations and other debt like $415 million in electric utility debt.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

The Economic Collapse Blog Has Issued a Red Alert for the Last Six Months of 2015

I have never done anything like this before. Ever since I started The Economic Collapse Blog in late 2009, I have never issued any kind of “ red alert” for any specific period of time. As an attorney, I was trained to be level-headed and to only come to conclusions that were warranted by the evidence. So this is not something that I am doing lightly. Based on information that I have received, things that I have been told, and thousands of hours of research that have gone into the publication of more than 1,300 articles about our ongoing economic collapse, I have come to the conclusion that a major financial collapse is imminent. Therefore, I am issuing a RED ALERT for the last six months of 2015.

To clarify, when I say “ imminent” I do not mean that it will happen within the next 48 hours. And I am not saying that our problems will be “ over” once we get to the end of 2015. In fact, I believe that the truth is that our problems will only be just beginning as we enter 2016.

What I am attempting to communicate is that we are right at the door of a major turning point.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Why the Greek “Bailout” Failed… Explained With Cats

While we expained in great detail exactly what “good” the previous bailouts for Greece did for the Greek people, we thought the following gif was easier for many to digest.

Please note these are cats: we have not stooped to abusing kittens for our own personal gain.

Here is the somewhat more sophisticated explanation why the bailout (of European banks) failed:

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

“Chief Justice” John Roberts is a National Disgrace

Chief Justice John Roberts today joined Anthony Kennedy and all the Supreme Court Democrats in upholding Obama’s unconstitutional, deceptive, and indescribably destructive healthcare law. Today’s decision in King v. Burwell declares that even though the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) specifically required individuals to enroll through state exchanges to obtain subsidies, enrolling directly through the federal government is essentially the same thing. This decision once again displays the Supreme Court’s willingness to ignore the clear intent of law in order to achieve a politically desired result. For Roberts it has written into stone an unmistakable pattern.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Bolshevism to SCOTUS, Purposefully Redesigning Language

Having touched on this issue in the past, it seems appropriate to revisit how language becomes a weapon used against the people. Harking back to the mid-1970s, this tactic was first brought to my attention while sitting in a foreign language class at the University of Oregon. Professor John Beebe, an extraordinary Slavic linguist, taught more than just the structure and application of the Russian language, he delved into its history and evolution.

Perhaps evolution is a poor choice of ‘words’ as the core of this discussion is specifically about words and how their definitions purposefully change. Related to this is one standout fact that Professor Beebe brought forth in our studies, that of Russia’s mother tongue’s engineered metamorphosis that occurred as part of the Bolshevik revolution.

Before the fall of the czar, Old Russian more resembled Old English than what we now call modern Russian. What is likely never taught any longer is that the language was intentionally overhauled by Lenin to reflect the new communist order.

This Bolshevik revamping of language to support and, in effect, sponsor a government that ruled over the people rather than served them was a model for the progressivism that was already encroaching on American life in 1917. Because of the changes in American English since the turn of the 20th century, it’s necessary to keep an 1828 Noah Webster dictionary at hand to understand our founding documents in the context they were written. The constant attempt to reinterpret the Second Amendment to mean that the right to bear personal firearms was not what our Founders intended, exemplifies the point of deliberately changing meanings.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Brain Implants No Bigger Than Dust Particles on the Way

A new concept of a brain-computer interface has been proposed by engineering researchers at University of California Berkeley, utilizing what they term as ‘neural-dust’, tiny machines that would be implanted in the brain to help facilitate the collection of neurological data. The tiny components would be powered by piezoelectric materials, of which produce an electric current when compressed, activated by ultrasound waves generated by a transmitter placed on the scalp. The implanted components would have a simple CMOS sensor that would measure the electrical activity being generated by the neurons around it, and re-transmit that back to the sensors on the scalp.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Elites Planning Fall of America: “This Reset is the Next Stage in the Plan for Total Global Economic Centralization”

Why are so many economists so worried about a little country like Greece? It’s all due to a great lie: a dishonest narrative being perpetuated by the establishment that if Greece falls, defaults or leaves the EU, this could trigger a domino effect of other nations hitting a debt wall and following suit. The lie embedded in this narrative is the claim that Greece will cause a “contagion” through the act of default. Let’s be clear — there is no contagion. Multiple countries within the EU have developed their own debt problems in spite of Greece over the past couple of decades, not because of Greece. Each of these countries, from Italy, to Spain, to Portugal, etc. has its OWN sovereign debt disasters to deal with caused by its own fiscal irresponsibility. The only legitimate reason for a so-called contagion is the fact that these countries have been forced into socialist interdependency through the EU structure.

Never forget this: The EU is in trouble not because of Greece, but because of forced supranational interdependency. The EU by all rights should not exist, nor should any centralized supranational single currency system.

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I would also point out that globalist institutions like the International Monetary Fund are highly motivated to initiate disaster in the EU, despite some people’s assumptions that the EU is some kind of representative model of globalization. It’s not. If this were the case, then the IMF would not be stiffing Greece on debt aid while continuing to help Ukraine despite Ukraine’s similar inability to pay.

Why would the globalists want a partial breakup of the EU? What would they gain from such an event? That’s easy; they gain crisis, chaos and an opportunity to present a false dialectic.

Europe is not at all representative of what globalists really want in terms of economic and political structure, no matter what many people assume. It is a, rather, a kind of facsimile; a half measure. When Europe hits the bottom of the financial abyss and the bewildered public begins asking what the hell happened, the elites will be there with an immediate explanation. They will claim that it was not the EU’s interdependency that was the problem. Instead, they will assert that the EU was actually not centralized ENOUGH. They will claim that in order for a supranational economy and currency to work, we must also have supranational governance. In other words, the system failed because it needs to be stabilized by global government.

[Comment: Highly recommended reading.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Exposed: FBI Files Reveal That Valerie Jarrett’s Father Was a Soviet Spy

Trevor Loudon has been saying this for many years — since at least 2008. Suddenly, everyone seems to think this is a revelation. Valerie Jarrett was born in Shiraz, Iran to American parents, James E. Bowman and Barbara Taylor Bowman. She spent the first five years of her life in Iran before her family moved to London. Following a year in London, the family moved to Chicago’s elite neighborhood, Hyde Park. Her father-in-law, Vernon Jarrett, was a one time political associate of Communist Party USA activist and Obama mentor, Frank Marshall Davis. Valerie Jarrett is the great niece of prominent Democratic Party leftist Vernon Jordan. Her maternal grandfather was Robert Taylor, the first black chairman of the Chicago Housing Authority. Jarrett’ s father also had deep ties to communists and was a soviet spy. Valerie Jarrett’ s family is just rife with communist and Islamic connections. She may be Obama’ s right hand consigliere, but I guarantee you she would never pass a real background check.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Facebook Becomes Godzilla News Outlet for Disinformation

From softonic.com, November 15, 2013: “Reddit is only used by 3% of Americans, so it’s right near the bottom of the table. Facebook is the winner, with 64% of the population using the site, and 30% of those users getting news from it.” (emphasis added) (See also this journalism.org article: “News Use Across Social Media Platforms”.)

If those stunning statistics don’t give you pause for thought, consider this: worldwide, 1.25 billion people use FB’s mobile platform.

And now, FB has plunged into the news business, with a program called Instant Articles.

The basic set-up: mainstream media outlets put their news stories on Facebook’s platform…and by that simple transfer, more than a billion FB users will see those stories, absorb them, believe them, accept them. It’s a lifeline for traditional media companies hemorrhaging viewers and readers.

The New York Times and BuzzFeed have already signed up. Soon to follow: The National Geographic, NBC News, BBC News, the Guardian, the Atlantic, Spiegel, Bild. More will come on board.

“Uh…I’m a Facebook user. I don’t have the energy or patience to go to another site and click on a news article, but now it’s great: I can get all my news on Facebook, right there. I mean, the Internet? I’m not even sure what it is. Facebook is the Internet, right? It’s my world. My virtual bubble. I live in it…”

Facebook comes to the rescue of mainstream news and enables its continuous flood of disinformation.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Google’s Self-Driving Car Hits Public Roads

It’s been more than a year since US Internet giant Google unveiled its next-generation self-driving cars. Now motorists could get a glimpse of the company’s latest model cruising the roads in Silicon Valley.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Hackers Stole Secrets of U.S. Government Workers’ Sex Lives. Infidelity. Sexual Fetishes. Drug Abuse. Crushing Debt.

Infidelity. Sexual fetishes. Drug abuse. Crushing debt. They’re the most intimate secrets of U.S. government workers. And now they’re in the hands of foreign hackers.

It was already being described as the worst hack of the U.S. government in history. And it just got much worse.

A senior U.S. official has confirmed that foreign hackers compromised the intimate personal details of an untold number of government workers. Likely included in the hackers’ haul: information about workers’ sexual partners, drug and alcohol abuse, debts, gambling compulsions, marital troubles, and any criminal activity.

Those details, which are now presumed to be in the hands of Chinese spies, are found in the so-called “adjudication information” that U.S. investigators compile on government employees and contractors who are applying for security clearances. The exposure suggests that the massive computer breach at the Office of Personnel Management is more significant and potentially damaging to national security than officials have previously said.

Three former U.S. intelligence officials told The Daily Beast that the adjudication information would effectively provide dossiers on current and former government employees, as well as contractors. It gives foreign intelligence agencies a roadmap for finding people with access to the government’s most highly classified secrets.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Mysterious Death: Body of Doctor Who Linked Vaccines to Autism Found Floating in River

A prominent autism researcher and vaccine opponent was found dead floating in a North Carolina river last week under what many are calling suspicious circumstances.

A fisherman found the body of Dr. James Jeffery Bradstreet in the Rocky Broad River in Chimney Rock, North Carolina, last Friday afternoon.

“Bradstreet had a gunshot wound to the chest, which appeared to be self inflicted, according to deputies,” reported WHNS.

In a press release, the Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office announced, “Divers from the Henderson County Rescue Squad responded to the scene and recovered a handgun from the river.”

An investigation into the death is ongoing, and the results of an autopsy are also reportedly forthcoming.

Dr. Bradstreet ran a private practice in Buford, Georgia, which focused on “treating children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, PPD, and related neurological and developmental disorders.”

Among various remedies, Dr. Bradstreet’s Wellness Center reportedly carried out “mercury toxicity” treatments, believing the heavy metal to be a leading factor in the development of childhood autism.

Dr. Bradstreet undertook the effort to pinpoint the cause of the disease after his own child developed the ailment following routine vaccination.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Pluto-Bound Probe Faces Its Toughest Task: Finding Pluto

New Horizons nears dwarf planet whose full orbit has never been mapped.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Prison Escapee Richard Matt Shot and Killed by Law Enforcement Officers, Source Confirms

Richard Matt, one of two New York prison escapees, has been shot and killed by law enforcement officers, a law enforcement source confirmed to Fox News. He reportedly was killed in a remote area of Franklin County, N.Y. not far from two hunting cabins where he and fellow escapee David Sweat had taken refuge. There was no immediate word on the whereabouts of Sweat.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Shari’ah Law a Major Threat to American Civilization

One of the great stories of American history is how until recently, millions upon millions of legal immigrants came into this country and quickly assimilated themselves into the population. Growing up in Cleveland I saw firsthand the results of the grateful teeming masses who poured unto our shores. It is called Little Italy, where generations of a community of sovereign citizens whose ancestors came to America seeking a better life. To this very day their descendants are grateful that their grandparents and great grandparents chose to come to America.

Unfortunately, America is now being plagued with growing dedicated muslim neighborhood bunkers that are increasingly ruled by shari’ah law. First of all, shai’ah law is a brutal war on women concept that is foreign to our society. The war on women shari’ah law way of death is not legally approved by most American authorities (although officials in Dearbornistan, MI have been rumored to look the other way while shari’ah law has been practiced there.) But it is still generally thought to be incompatible with the existing law of this land and, in numerous respects, contrary to natural justice.

Brutal, uncivilized, dedicated muslim-shari’ah law was started approximately fourteen hundred years ago. The bitter illiterate prophet Mohamed is credited with the origins of islam. He spread his dogma at the end of a sword. One thing that sets the muslim-shari’ah concept apart from most other religions is that it not only covers one’s spiritual walk with a deity, but it is a vicious and cruel legal system. It entails a comprehensive code of law governing the total social, political, and economic lives of all muslims that must be enforced by the state.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

The False Left/Right Paradigm Explained

As the TPP and the TTIP begins to enslave America, it’s important to understand the Hegelian Dialectic and how it was used to pass these “trade” agreements.

What exactly is the Hegelian Dialectic?

Simply put, the dialectic says the human mind can’t understand anything unless it can be split into two polar opposites, i.e. Left / Right.

“For example when people are talking about two political parties, [Republican or Democrat], what they’re actually referring to, without realizing it, is the thesis and the antithesis based off the Hegelian Dialectic,” General Maddox with realnewsaustralia.com wrote. “The only real debate that occurs is just the minor differences between those two parties.”

“Nothing is said or done about the issues that neither left or right is discussing.”

And establishment insider Carroll Quigley revealed why there doesn’t appear to be much difference between Republican and Democrat presidents.

“The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to the doctrinaire and academic thinkers,” Quigley advocated in his book Tragedy and Hope. “Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can ‘throw the rascals out’ at any election without leading to any profound or extreme shifts in policy.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

The Iranian-American Nuclear Project

Under President Barack Obama, the US has implemented policies toward Iran that are catastrophic for Israel specifically, for US Middle East allies more generally and for US national security itself.

Consider, first, the known details of the soon-to-be- concluded nuclear deal.

In an article published by The New York Times this week, Prof. Alan Kuperman explained that Obama’s central justification for the agreement — that it will lengthen Iran’s breakout time to the bomb from the current two months to 12 months — is a lie.

Based on nothing more than the number of centrifuges Iran will be allowed to possess and the amount of enriched uranium necessary to make a nuclear bomb, Kuperman demonstrated that far from prolonging Iran’s nuclear breakout time by 10 months, the deal will only prolong its breakout time by one month. In other words, the deal is worthless.

Actually it’s worse than worthless…

           — Hat tip: Caroline Glick [Return to headlines]
 

The Week That Changed the Nation

Washington (CNN) The times, they are a changing, suddenly at whiplash speed.

After a momentous week, same-sex couples can now marry in all 50 states, the Confederate flag’s historic hold on the political institutions of the Deep South is fraying by the hour and Obamacare, after defying another attempt to dismantle it, is now reaffirmed as the law of the land.

And as a capstone to these seismic events, the first black president of the United States spent Friday afternoon singing “Amazing Grace” on live television in front of an African American congregation.

Political and social conventions on civil rights and race relations that for decades have seemed immovable are being swept away in a cascade of grass-roots change. Politicians have been left struggling to keep up.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

TPP Endgame: Turn America Into a Third World Wasteland

This corporate drive to impoverish humanity and consolidate wealth and power is part of a process designed to reinvent and modernize the feudal system of the Middle Ages. The new serfdom now emerging will not simply control Europe, but the entire world under the rule of a globalist government.

In the Middle Ages under monarchical feudalism peasants were slaves who had no rights, were perniciously taxed, were forced to turn over the best part of their harvest to manorial lords, were not allowed to own oxen or horses, hunt (under penalty of death) and had to ask permission to move or get married. They were not allowed to own weapons.

As Daisy Luther notes, a return to this system is now emerging. From globalist trade agreements and corporate monopolization and ever increasing government regulation, today’s oligarchs are ushering in a return to serfdom.

“Agenda 21, a document devised by the United Nations, goes even further to separate the 90% from the 10%,” she writes. “In the name of tree-hugging largess, A-21 is quietly working to round up the peasants and place them in cities, with massive restrictions on their movement. Through public transit that only goes to certain places, A-21 is ‘keeping the peasants on the estate.’ People are shoehorned into tiny apartments with no opportunity to become self-sufficient and grow their own food. Using ‘national land’ (parks) requires payment in many areas. Even the collection and use of rainwater is being targeted by Agenda 21, sending the very clear message: WE OWN EVERYTHING.”

TPP is about the global elite not only owning everything but also reducing humanity to a state of grinding poverty. People on the edge of starvation and homelessness are less concerned with liberty and overthrowing the elite and their minions than merely surviving.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Why the Patriot Act is Tyranny and Rand Paul is a Hero

The fact is Rand Paul is a defender of American security unlike any other candidate currently running to lead this nation. He’s one of a very few to openly stand for the Constitutional rights of all Americans to be secure in their homes and free of government snooping into their private business.

The created hysteria over the Patriot Act being a guardian of our freedom is hog wash. This is the Patriot Act that was rushed into place just after a horrific terrorist attack — 911. Of course the nation was scared and of course out went the cry — “Do something NOW to protect us.”

When introduced, we were assured by the Justice Department that the Patriot Act was simply to give federal law enforcement agencies the surveillance and investigative tools they needed to deter future terror attacks. However, the emotional rush to “do something” by quickly passing the Patriot Act, left little time for lawmakers to put its measures under scrutiny. In fact, then Congressman Ron Paul said he couldn’t even get a copy of the Act before the vote.

As a result, provisions of the Act offered major opportunities for government abuses of law-abiding private citizens. The Act says that the government does not need to have a suspect or to even be conducting an investigation related to terrorism to monitor your visits into web sites on the Internet.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Artifacts Found on 700-Year-Old Battle ‘Site’

Archeologists have found 14th century artifacts on what could be the site of the Battle of Morgarten, when soldiers of the Swiss confederacy ambushed Austrian soldiers in a victory that consolidated the nascent nation of Switzerland 700 years ago.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Belgium Blocks Record Number of Websites

Last year the authorities here in Belgium blocked access to a total of 127 foreign websites. An article on Friday’s edition of the financial daily ‘De Tijd’ reports that this is many more than in previous years. For example, in 2013 access was blocked to a total of just 2013 foreign websites. Action is taken to block access to a site if it contains, illegal, paedophile, racist, discriminatory or extremist content.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Denmark to Get One-Party Government

Denmark will have a one-party government consisting solely of Lars Løkke Rasmussen’s Venstre after talks with the Danish People’s Party and other right-of-centre parties failed to bear fruit. Lars Løkke Rasmussen will become Denmark’s next prime minister and reside over a one-party government, he said on Friday night.

Rasmussen was selected to become prime minister despite Venstre finishing in third place with 19.5 percent of the vote, behind Helle Thorning-Schmidt’s Social Democrats and the far-right DF, which saw support jump to 21.1 percent from 12.3 percent.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Fats From Fish and Plants May Help Older Adults Live Longer

Older adults who eat plenty of fish and vegetables may live longer than people who don’t, a large Swedish study suggests.

Among more than four thousand 60-year-old men and women, those with the highest blood levels of polyunsaturated fats (PUFAs), which come from fish and plants, were significantly less likely to die from heart disease or any cause over about 15 years than those with the lowest levels.

“The study supports current dietary guidelines that advise having sufficient intake of both fish and vegetable oils in a heart-healthy diet,” senior study author Dr. Ulf Riserus, a nutrition researcher at Uppsala University in Sweden, said by email.

Polyunsaturated and monounsaturated fats are the “good” kind that can promote healthy cholesterol levels, especially when used in place of saturated and trans fats, the “bad” actors.

These good fats are found in fish such as salmon, trout and herring, as well as in avocados, olives, walnuts and liquid vegetable oils such as soybean, corn, safflower, canola, olive and sunflower.

           — Hat tip: Fjordman [Return to headlines]
 

Headless Body: Scrawled With Arabic, Found at French Blast Site

SAINT-QUENTIN FALLAVIER, France A decapitated body daubed with Arabic writing was found at a U.S.-owned factory in southeast France on Friday after an assailant rammed a delivery van into gas containers at the site, triggering an explosion.

A source close to the investigation said the victim was the boss of the suspect, a delivery man. The two had gone to the company to make a delivery but the assailant killed and beheaded his 50-year-old manager before entering the secured site in the vehicle.

The attacker was injured in the blast and arrested on the site. His wife was later taken into custody and authorities were questioning at least one other suspected accomplice.

Speaking from a European Union summit in Brussels, French President Francois Hollande described it as a terrorist attack and said all measures would be taken to stop any future strikes on a country still reeling from Islamist assaults in January.

Referring to a separate gun attack at a hotel in Tunisia which killed 28 people and a suicide attack in Kuwait that killed 25, Hollande called for nations to work together to combat security threats.

“There is no other link other than to say that terrorism is our common enemy,” he told reporters on his return to Paris…

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Iranian Students Sue Norway Over Expulsion

Two Iranian PhD students have taken the Norwegian state to court after being expelled from the country on suspicion of gathering knowledge that could “aid Iran’s nuclear program.”

Hamideh Kaffash and Shanin Akbarnejad are among more than 50 Iranian students who have been refused permission to stay in Norway in recent years. More than 60 other applicants have been stopped before even entering the country.

The two students say they believe Norwegian authorities are making decisions based either on misunderstandings or nationality alone. That is why they have now taken the Norwegian state to court to have their expulsion overturned.

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Italy: Tidal Wave of Litter Risks Choking Venice

Venice. The historic city goes by many names: it’s the “city of bridges”, “the city of masks” and “the city of canals”. But perhaps a more fitting name would be “the city of rubbish”.

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Man Decapitated in Terror Attack in France

A man was decapitated in a terrorist attack at a gas factory near Lyon, eastern France, on Friday. The attacker, who had links to an extremist movement, has been arrested.

“I call on the Jews of France — come home! Anti-Semitism is rising, terror is increasing,” immigration minister Zeev Elkin, a member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s rightwing Likud party, said in a statement. “This is a national mission of the highest priority.”

Netanyahu sparked controversy by encouraging French Jews to move to Israel in the wake of January’s Paris attacks that left 17 dead, including four at a Jewish supermarket.

Jean-Charles Brisard, the chairman at the Paris-based Center for the Analysis of Terrorism, has told The Local that the French should expect another terror attack. “I think what’s happened was unfortunately something we were expecting. We knew there would be more attacks,” he said. “This was the first time in France that we have had an attempt to commit a suicide bombing, the first time the target is a sensitive facility.” He added that the choice of target was an “interesting” one.

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Police Arrest Suspects After Deadly Attack in France

French officials have arrested the main suspect, his accomplice and family members in connection with an attack on a gas plant. A decapitated body and its severed head were found at the scene.

“Considerable police means have been deployed,” French President Francois Hollande said on the sidelines of an EU summit in Brussels, adding that all measures had been taken to avoid another tragedy.

The main suspect was arrested on the site of Air Products, the scene of the attack, Hollande said. Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve named the suspect as Yassin Sahli, whose wife, sister and a third person were also taken into custody.

Sahli, a 35-year-old professional driver, did not have a criminal record but was monitored from 2006 to 2008 on suspicion of radicalization. Prosecutors told the media that Sahli’s vehicle was allowed to pass through the gates because he was authorized to make deliveries. CCTV cameras lost track of his movement, but picked up the van again as it drove towards a warehouse. A loud explosion was heard.

Emergency services that arrived a few minutes later found a headless body and a knife nearby. “The head was discovered hanging on the factory’s wire fence, framed by two flags that included references to the shahada, or the (Muslim) profession of faith,” public prosecutor Francois Molins told the press. Reuters news agency reported that the beheaded man was Sahli’s boss.

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Romanian Gangs Mount Bonnets of Cars at 50mph and Form Human Chains to Steal From Lorries in Audacious Raids Across UK

Police said today Romania’s EU membership has allowed ‘feudal’ criminal syndicates to freely cross Europe carrying out these crimes, pictured, making them up to £30,000 per day.

[Comment: Straight out of movie “Fast and Furious”.]

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Suspect in French Decapitation Attack Today Yet Another Case of ‘Known Wolf’ Terrorism

by Patrick Poole

The suspect in the beheading today at a factory owned by an American company near Lyon, France today, Yassin Salhi, 35, had been known to authorities for his connections to the Salafist networks in the area since 2006 and had been noted for his increased radicalization over the past two years, reports indicate.

The plant is owned by an American company, Air Products.

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Terror Attack on Factory Exposes Political Divisions in France

While some French leaders called for unity in the wake of Friday’s terrorist attack on a US-owned gas plant near the southeastern city of Lyon, others took the opportunity to criticise the government over national security.

As the country reels from what is the second terrorist attack on its soil in less than six months, many of France’s leaders called for national unity as well as action.

The attack on the US Air Products factory in Saint-Quentin-Fallavier, around 36 kilometres southeast of Lyon, comes after 17 people were killed in attacks on French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo and a Jewish grocery store in Paris in January.

President François Hollande said on Friday that all possible measures would be taken to avoid future attacks, while warning against divisions.

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The Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan — the Genocide of the Peoples of Europe

One of the main initiators of the process of European integration was the man who designed the genocide plan of the Peoples of Europe. The elite consider him the founder of the European Union. His name is Richard Coudenhove Kalergi. His father was an Austrian diplomat named Heinrich von Coudenhove-Kalergi (with connections to the Byzantine family of the Kallergis) and his mother the Japanese Mitsu Aoyama…In 1922, he founded the “Pan-European” movement in Vienna, which aimed to create a New World Order based on a federation of nations led by the United States. European integration would be the first step in creating a world government…

In his book “Praktischer Idealismus”, Kalergi indicates that the residents of the future “United States of Europe” will not be the People of the Old Continent, but products of miscegenation. He clearly states that the peoples of Europe should interbreed with Asians and colored races, thus creating a multinational flock with no quality and easily controlled by the ruling elite.

Kalergi eliminates nationhood and self determination using ethnic separatist movements and mass migration. In order for Europe to be controlled by an elite, he wants to turn people into one homogeneous mixed breed of Blacks, Whites and Asians. Who is is this elite however? Kalergi is particularly illuminating on this:

The man of the future will be of mixed race. The races and classes of today will gradually disappear due to the elimination of space, time, and prejudice. The Eurasian-negroid race of the future, similar in appearance to the Ancient Egyptians, will replace the diversity of peoples and the diversity of individuals. Instead of destroying European Judaism, Europe, against her will, refined and educated this people, driving them to their future status as a leading nation through this artificial evolutionary process. It’s not surprising that the people that escaped from the Ghetto-Prison, became the spiritual nobility of Europe. Thus, the compassionate care given by Europe created a new breed of aristocrats. This happened when the European feudal aristocracy crashed because of the emancipation of the Jews [due to the actions taken by the French Revolution].

Although no textbook mentions Kalergi, his ideas are the guiding principles of the European Union. The belief that the peoples of Europe should be mixed with Africans and Asians, to destroy our identity and create a single mestizo race, is the basis of all community policies that aim to protect minorities. Not for humanitarian reasons, but because of the directives issued by the ruthless Regime that machinates the greatest genocide in history.

[Comment: Nation State started with group tribal affiliation. Eliminate this with mass migration and then you can eliminate the nation state in practise. The names of the countries will still be there, but they will be meaningless. No strong independent nation means no country can stand against a global world government. This is why the mass migration policies of Europe are being implemented against USA (Canada also). In other words, mass migration is intentional and planned. Only useful idiots believe the “compassionate society” argument.]

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The Five Horsemen (And One Horsewoman) of Europe’s Monetary Apocalypse

As the late great U.S. comedian and social commentator extraordinaire George Carlin once said, the table is tilted, the game is rigged. Nowhere is this truer than in today’s Europe, where power is increasingly concentrated in the hands of unelected, unaccountable bankers and bureaucrats. The result is that representative democracy is on its last legs and national sovereignty (that dirty “S” word) could soon be a thing of the past.

Europe’s tilted table is dominated by the five presidents of its main institutions. Politico calls them, the “Five Horsemen of the Euro’s Future.” Or as I call them, the “Five Horsemen of Europe’s Monetary Apocalypse.” At the head of the table — the same negotiating table that is now being used as a platform for browbeating Greece’s upstart leaders into submission (see this image for that table and those sitting around it) — is Mario Draghi, Europe’s central banker-in-chief.

It is no surprise that Draghi enjoys pride of place at the top of the table. As the historian Carroll Quigley documented in his book Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time, it is the world’s central bankers who are the true power brokers of today’s increasingly globalized world.

This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements, arrived at in frequent private meetings and conferences. The apex of the system was the Bank for International Settlements in Basle, Switzerland; a private bank owned and controlled by the world’s central banks which were themselves private corporations. The growth of financial capitalism made possible a centralization of world economic control and use of this power for the direct benefit of financiers and the indirect injury of all other economic groups.

No region of the world has been more exposed to this incremental process of financial centralization than Europe.

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UK: By Scapegoating Muslims, Cameron Fuels Radicalisation

by Seumas Milne

The anti-Muslim drumbeat has become deafening across the western world. As images of atrocities by the jihadi terror group Isis multiply online, and a steady trickle of young Europeans and North Americans head to Syria and Iraq to join them, Muslim communities are under siege. Last week David Cameron accused British Muslims of “quietly condoning” the ideology that drives Isis sectarian brutality, normalising hatred of “British values”, and blaming the authorities for the “radicalisation” of those who go to fight for it.

It was too much for Sayeeda Warsi, the former Conservative party chair, who condemned the prime minister’s “misguided emphasis” on “Muslim community complicity”. He risked “further alienating” the large majority of Muslims fighting the influence of such groups, she warned. Even Charles Farr, the hawkish counter-terrorism mandarin at the Home Office, balked. Perhaps fewer than 100 Britons were currently fighting with Isis, he said, and “we risk labelling Muslim communities as somehow intrinsically extremist”.

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UK: Police Withheld Bombshell Report Revealing How Gangs of Muslim Men Were Grooming More Than 100 Schoolgirls as Young as 13 in Case it Inflamed Racial Tensions Ahead of General Election

Britain’s second largest police force withheld a report about gangs of Muslim men grooming children in case it inflamed racial tensions ahead of a General Election, it was revealed today.

West Midlands Police were warned more than 100 predominantly white children — some as young as 13 — were at serious risk of child exploitation five years ago.

A document entitled ‘Problem Profile, Operation Protection’ from March 2010 reveals Asian gangs targeted schools and children’s homes across the force area.

The report, written for senior officers, also reveals how white girls were used to recruit other vulnerable victims on behalf of the gangs.

But there were fears over a row ahead of the May 2010 General Election and an English Defence League rally in April leading to a ‘backlash against law abiding citizens from Asian/Pakistani communities’.

Despite the warnings police did not warn the public or appeal for information about the men responsible and the report was only published this week under the Freedom of Information Act.

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UK: Police Called in to Bradford School After Staff Member Allegedly Shared ‘Tasteless and Offensive’ Facebook Post Calling the Islamic Veil Offensive

A secondary school, where pupils are mainly Muslim, has called in police to investigate a ‘hate crime’ due to a Facebook posting criticising women publicly wearing Islamic veils.

A photo of three women in niqabs with the message ‘share if you find this offensive’ was seen on the Facebook page of a member of the school’s support staff and reported.

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US Report Blasts Czechs Over Romany Discrimination

Zeman singled out for criticism over his anti-Islam statements as well

Prague/Washington, June 26 (CTK) — The 2014 human rights report by the U.S. Department of State, which criticizes the Czech Republic for persistent discrimination against ethnic Romanies, provides factual and correct assessment, Czech Minister for Human Rights Jiri Dienstbier told the Czech News Agency today.

The report criticizes President Milos Zeman’s statements about Islam and voices reservations about Slovakia’s policy toward Romanies.

Social prejudices and discrimination against Muslims are a source of concern. Despite the government condemnation of anti-Muslim rhetoric, this is fuelled by top political officials, the report said.

In his public statements, Zeman still places on the same footing Islam and terrorism, most recently on the Israeli Independence Day in May, refusing to backpedal on his words.

The report points out Zeman’s speech he made last year in which he condemned the attack in the Brussels Jewish museum that claimed four lives. He said this xenophobia arose from the essence of the ideology on which Islamic fanatical groups were based.

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Wife of France Jihad Killer: “We Are Normal Muslims. We Do Ramadan.”

Yassin Salhi, aged 35, had previously been investigated in 2006 for radicalisation and links to the Salafist movement, Bernard Cazeneuve, the interior minister, said. “He was investigated in 2006 for radicalisation, but (the investigation) was not renewed in 2008. He had no criminal record,” Mr Cazeneuve said.

“We are normal Muslims. We do Ramadan. We have three children and a normal family life,” says the wife of the suspect.

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Zombie Burials? Ancient Greeks Used Rocks to Keep Bodies in Graves

Ancient supernatural practices may explain why two Grecian graves contain skeletons that are pinned down with heavy objects and rocks, almost as though people wanted to trap the bodies underground, a new article finds.

Archaeologists have known about these two peculiar burials since the 1980s, when they uncovered the graves along with nearly 3,000 others at an ancient Greek necropolis in Sicily. But a new analysis suggests the two graves contained so-called “revenants,” dead bodies thought to have the ability to reanimate, leave their graves and harm the living — essentially an ancient version of zombies.

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Kosovo Fails to Pave Way for Tribunal to Try Wartime Leaders for Alleged War Crimes

PRISTINA, Kosovo — Kosovo’s Parliament has failed to pass constitutional amendments that would allow the establishment of a special court to prosecute war crimes including the killing of hundreds of Serb civilians.

In a major blow to relations between Kosovo and its main international backer, the United States, the 120-seat legislature voted 75-7 on Friday in favor of the amendments. A two-thirds majority of 80 votes was needed to approve the changes.

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Britons Caught Up in Tunisian Beach Attack

British tourists have been describing an attack on a beach in the popular Tunisian resort town of Sousse.

At least 28 people have been killed, including Britons, Tunisians, Germans and Belgians, Tunisia’s health ministry said.

The UK Foreign Office says it is investigating and holding discussions over whether to bring tourists home.

Prime Minister David Cameron said he offered “our solidarity in fighting this evil of terrorism”.

At least one gunman has been shot dead and another is being pursued, officials say.

Gary Pine, from Bristol, who is on holiday with his wife and son at the El Mouradi Palm Marina hotel, said he had been on the beach with his family about noon when he heard a sound he initially thought was firecrackers.

“You could see within seconds of the noise breaking out that people started to exit the beach very, very quickly.

“It seemed to be happening 150 yards to our left. The people in the direct vicinity of the incident were breaking in all kinds of different directions.

“There was confusion. No-one knew what seemed to be breaking out. My wife was shouting to my son to get out the sea, and as he ran up the beach he said ‘I just saw someone get shot’.”

He also said that he heard an explosion on an adjacent hotel complex.

A British tourist named Anthony says he was about to check out of a hotel at the time when he “heard a few bangs”.

“There was a lot of panic and running into the lobby and a lot of people came in.

“We eventually found a British holidaymaker that also said that they were on the beach and said that they’d seen a man or two men on a boat come in from the sea shooting.

“Everyone was going crazy. People were coming in saying, ‘What happened?’ We then got told to stay in the room.

“And from our balcony you can see over the beach, and you could see lots of running and shouting and screaming.”…

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Brits Among 28 Killed in Tunisia Beach Hotel Attack

David Cameron has said the West must stop “the poisoning of young minds” by Islamic State and other extremists.

The Prime Minister said he had spoken to Francois Hollande to offer his support after the attack near Lyon and would also speak to the Tunisian government following the attack there to offer “our solidarity in fighting this evil of terrorism”.

“The people who do these things, they sometimes claim they do it in the name of Islam. They don’t. Islam is a religion of peace,” he said.

“They do it in the name of a twisted and perverted ideology that we have to confront with everything that we have.”

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Did U.S. Demand Muslim Brotherhood Candidate be Declared Winner in Egypt?

By John Rosenthal

According to Al-Monitor, local Egyptian press has reported that then U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton contacted Tantawi prior to the announcement of the election results with the aim of “putting pressure on Egyptian authorities to hand power over to Morsi. While it’s important to keep in mind that the Egyptian press is often filled with all sorts of conspiracy movies, there’s no doubt the Obama administration tended to show an unseemly affection for Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood president that it never had for Mubarak and has not had for Sisi. Insofar as the White House may have wanted to spare Egypt a “bloody conflict,” it wouldn’t be surprising if it backed what it believed was the popular, and authentic, voice of Egyptian politics—the Muslim Brotherhood.

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Germans Among the Dead in Attack on Tunisia Resort

German, British and Belgian tourists are among those to have been killed in an attack on a hotel at the Tunisian beach resort of Sousse. The resort is popular among European tourists.

At least 37 people, including foreign nationals, were killed in the attack at the Imperial Marhaba hotel in the Tunisian resort of Sousse, around 140 kilometers (87 miles) south of the capital, Tunis, on Friday. Several others were reported to have been injured and were being treated in local hospitals.

“This was a terrorist attack” Interior Ministry spokesman Mohamed Ali Aroui told Tunisian national television.

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Swedes Stuck in Tunisia After Deadly Terror Attack

Sweden’s foreign minister has condemned a terror attack which killed dozens of holidaymakers at a Tunisian tourist resort on Friday, where around 200 Swedes were staying.

Tobias Vestergren, a press officer for Sweden’s Ministry for Foreign Affairs in Stockholm, told The Local that around 200 Swedes were currently understood to be staying in the area around Sousse, with 800 others elsewhere in the country.

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Terrorist Coward Hides His Face as Outraged Woman Punches Him After He is Arrested for Killing 28 Defenceless Tourists in Machine Gun Massacre on Tunisian Beach

Terrified tourists today told of the moment gunmen massacred sunbathers as they lay on a beach in Tunisia.

Militants, feared to be from ISIS, opened fire on holidaymakers at two hotels in Sousse, killing at least 28 and injuring 36 others.

A 16-year-old English boy reportedly survived the bloodbath after seeing his parents and grandmother killed in front of him.

He was being treated for his injuries in hospital, according to a report by a Tunisian radio station.

Another Briton, Matthew James, from Nottingham, is fighting for his life after being shot four times in the stomach, MailOnline understands.

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Tunisia-Bound Jetair Flight Turns Around in Mid-Air

In the light of Friday’s terrorist attack on a hotel in the Tunisian resort of Sousse, the tour operator Jetair has decided to fly most of its customers currently on holiday in Tunisia back to Belgium. Jetair has also cancelled all its holidays to Tunisia for the time being.

A Jetair that plane was on its way to Tunisia when news broke of the Sousse attack turned back above Corsica and has since arrived back at Zaventem Airport, near Brussels. A second Jetair flight that was due to leave Liège for Enfidha was cancelled. All four Jetair flights that were due to leave Belgium for Tunisia on Saturday have also been cancelled.

Jetair will use the six planes to bring home its customers that are currently holidaying on the Tunisian mainland, mainly in the Monastir region.

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Tunisia: Four Policemen Fired for Being Too “Zealous” In Ramadan

They threatened and beat up customers, owner and waitress in a bar open during the holy month’s hours of fasting. But in Tunisia there is no law prohibiting eating and drinking in public during Ramadan.

Tunis (AsiaNews / Agencies) — The Interior Ministry has decreed the dismissal of four Tunisian police who threatened and beat the owners and customers of a bar that was open during the day in the period of fasting of Ramadan.

The four are the police chief of Monastir district, at the center of the country, and three officers of Marsa, a suburb north of the capital. All were fired for “abuse of power”, regarding “cases of bars open during the time of fasting.”

The fact shows how the secular state is applied in Tunisia, a 97.4% Muslim country.

During the month of Ramadan, which began last week, Muslim faithful must abstain from eating, drinking, smoking and sex from sunrise to sunset. Out of respect or fear many bars and restaurants are closed during the day or put sheets of newspaper on their windows to hide the inside.

The bar was open and the Monastir district leader felt compelled to “insult and brutalize” customers who fled from the room. In addition one of the policemen took a chair and chased a waitress out onto the street beating her.

Unlike other Islamic countries, in Tunisia there is no law that prohibits people from eating or drinking in public during the month of Ramadan. Thus the bar owner filed a complaint against the policeman.

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War Crimes in Gaza: Filmmaker Takes Cameras Deep Into Hamas Territory

by Phyllis Chesler

Just as another “Freedom Flotilla” is sailing to Gaza, veteran filmmaker Pierre Rehov’s latest film War Crimes in Gaza will be shown next week to the European Parliament under the auspices of the Simon Wiesenthal Center.

Pierre Rehov’s film should also be seen by the International Criminal Court, which has just received files documenting what it claims are “Israeli war crimes.”

This 55-minute film is superb and packed with both visual, factual, and historical information. If everyone on board this flotilla watched this film—and if they were open to reason—they would turn back.

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After IS Attacks Kobane, Kurds Slam Turkey for Allowing Jihadis Through Border

Three car bombs hit a checkpoint on the outskirts of the city. At least 57 people die in fighting. In a village south of the city, IS executes 23 Syrian Kurds, including women and children. Ankara rejects accusations, calls them “black propaganda”. For Mideast expert, IS’s “spectacular attacks” are “diversionary operations aimed at distracting the Kurds from their role approaching Raqqa.”

Damascus (AsiaNews/Agencies) — Turkey and Kurdish forces are again at loggerheads after Islamic State (IS) forces launched an attack yesterday against Kobane, a city near the Syrian-Turkish border.

The city, which is near the border with Turkey, became a symbol of resistance after the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (Kurdish: YekÃ(r)neyên Parastina Gel€Ž or YPG) snatched control of the city from Jihadis in a fierce battle last January,

Yesterday, Islamist militants carried out three car bomb attacks on the Turkish border crossing just north of Kobane and battled Kurdish fighters in the city, killing and wounding several people.

The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which has contacts on the ground, said that the fighting killed at least 57 people, including 35 civilians and Kurdish fighters and 22 IS militants.

Jihadi fighters used human shields during the drawn-out battle.

Quickly, claims circulating on the Internet suggested that several cars loaded with explosives and IS militants passed through the Mursitpinar border crossing in Turkey to make their way into Kobane.

From there, they attacked a village south of the town, and executed 23 Syrian Kurds, among them women and children.

On social media, Kurdish activists accused Turkey of assisting the IS group, with the hashtag #TerroristTurkey becoming a trending topic on Twitter.

Arin Shekhmos, a Syrian Kurdish activist, said that IS entered Syria from Turkey through the Mursitpinar border crossing, slamming Turkey for letting them through.

He also claimed that IS fighters were wearing Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) uniforms as a disguise when they entered.

Turkey reacted angrily to the accusations. “The claim that Daesh militants passed through the Turkish border is entirely a lie and part of a black propaganda,” Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus said in a message on Twitter.

The Governor’s Office in the border region of Sanliurfa claimed that its information “proves” IS members infiltrated Kobane from Jarablus in Syria, and not across the Turkish border.

Mutual accusations come amid growing tensions between Syrian Kurds and Turkey.

Ankara Turkey insists that Syrian Kurdish forces who recently made gains in Syria against IS are linked to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which for decades has waged a deadly insurgency inside Turkey.

Many Western governments have repeatedly criticised Turkey for failing to stop the flow of Jihadis in and out of Syria along the 900-kilometre border it shares with that country.

Turkey’s opposition pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP), which made a major breakthrough in last month’s parliamentary elections, accused the authorities of long allowing IS fighters back and forth across the border.

However, “Events overnight in Kobane and Hassakeh have displayed classic ISIL strategy, whereby unexpected, spectacular attacks have been launched as diversionary operations aimed at distracting the Kurds from their role approaching Raqqa,” said analyst Charles Lister of the Brookings Doha Center.

As a result of recent fighting, Peshmerga forces are less than 60 kilometres from the capital of the so-called Caliphate.

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Day of Terror: Islamist Attacks Around World Follow ISIS’ Ramadan Message

Terrorists gunned down dozens of tourists on a Tunisian beach, left a severed head atop a fence outside a French factory and blew up a Kuwaiti mosque Friday in a bloody wave of attacks that followed an ISIS leader’s call to make the month of Ramadan a time of “calamity for the infidels.”

There was no confirmation that the attacks were a coordinated effort ordered by ISIS, but the suspects who attacked a U.S.-owned gas factory in southeastern France left the terrorist army’s flags next to the severed head of their victim, and an ISIS affiliate claimed responsibility for the deadly Kuwait blast.

If the attacks were indeed an answer to ISIS spokesman Abu Muhammad al-Adnani’s recent call for savagery, it would represent a hideous perversion of Islam’s most holy period, which began June 17 and ends July 17.

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Dozens Killed in Islamic Militant Attacks in Four Countries

Islamic extremists left more than 80 people dead in four countries after attacks at a French factory, a Tunisian beach, a mosque in Kuwait and a town in Somalia.

As French police pieced together what happened in the incident at a gas plant near Lyon where one man was decapitated, at least 28 were gunned down in Tunisia. A suicide bomber at a Shiite mosque in Kuwait left 25 worshippers dead, while al-Shabaab militants killed 30 peacekeepers in Somalia.

There’s no suggestion the attacks were coordinated, yet they all bore similar hallmarks. They also come a year after Islamic State officially declared its caliphate in Syria and Iraq and has renewed its push to take more territory. The deaths underscore the difficulty security services face in tackling what’s become a franchise as the extremist group lured thousands of fighters from the Middle East and Europe.

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Fox News Reporting: Christians Find Refuge From Terror in Jordan

When America leads from behind, who meets our enemies head on? Jordan’s King Abdullah known widely as “The Warrior King” has given Fox News Reporting unprecedented access to his life and country as he fights two wars at once. But the picture he paints of the region and it’s future is a tragic one. In an interview with Bret Baier featured on tonight’s Special, Fox News Reporting Crossing Jordan — Escape From Terror, he warns that, “this could well be the beginning of World War Three”.

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Iraq Residents: ‘We Know America is Providing ISIS With Weapons & Food’

The people of Iraq are increasingly blaming the United States government for the spread of ISIS in their country, a Wall Street Journal report reveals.

While interviewing Iraqi refugees in a tent city in Baghdad, journalist Yaroslav Trofimov discovered that a growing number of residents believe ISIS is receiving direct support from the American government.

“We all know that America is providing ISIS with weapons and food, and that it is because of American backing that they have become so strong,” said Abbas Hashem, a 50-year-old who recently fled Ramadi.

Others, such as prominent lawmaker Alia Nusseif, made equally striking comments, accusing the US of using ISIS as a proxy army to split up the country.

“We don’t have any trust in Americans anymore,” Nusseif said. “We now think ISIS is being used as a tool by America to divide and weaken Iraq.”…

An ISIS fighter speaking with Al-Jazeera the year prior confirmed that the FSA would regularly donate or sell their weapons after reciving shipments from the US, a well-known issue ignored by the Obama administration and supporters of the Syrian war.

“We are buying weapons from the FSA,” Abu Atheer said. “We bought 200 anti-aircraft missiles and Koncourse anti tank weapons. We have good relations with our brothers in the FSA.”

One of the most troubling aspects for Iraqis has also been the repeated US weapons airdrops to ISIS fighters, a continuous mistake according to US officials.

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‘IS’ Jihadists Massacre Hundreds of Civilians in Northern Syria

At least 120 civilians have been killed by “Islamic State” since the group launched an offensive in northern Syria on Thursday, according to a monitoring group. Some 60,000 have fled the area, the UN’s Syria office said.

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ISIS Militants Disguised as Kurdish Fighters Infiltrate Syrian Town

(CNN) ISIS militants disguised as Kurdish security forces infiltrated Kobani on Thursday and killed “many civilians,” said a spokesman for the Kurds in Kobani.

Idriss Nasan, speaking to CNN by phone from the Kurdish-held city in northern Syria, described a complex attack Thursday morning in which ISIS militants entered Kobani from the east and west in disguise.

“They were wearing YPG (Kurdish security forces) uniforms, so when people saw them they did not fear them, and they (ISIS) opened fire. Many civilians lost their lives,” he said.

Eyewitnesses said some gunmen spoke Kurdish and knocked on doors telling locals to come out. “People rushed out and were killed,” Nasan said.

ISIS fighters also attacked Syrian regime forces Thursday in the northeastern city of al-Hasakah, said the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

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ISIS Re-Enter Kobane in Syria and Complete One of Its ‘Worst Massacres’

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said many of the dead in Kobane were in their homes when they were killed by the group’s rockets. Snipers shot at ‘anything that moved.’

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ISIS Jihadis Force Girls as Young as 9 Into Sex in Raqqa

Life in Raqqa once revolved around cotton farming. Muslims and Christians lived together here and the sexes mixed freely. Now, there is no music or dancing and men and women cannot mix any more.

Raqqa is the epicentre of global Islamic terror, a place where the barbarism of Islamic State is matched only by the sophistication of its ideologues in using social networking to recruit Muslims from across the world to their ‘cause’.

This is the hellish city to which the three Dawood sisters, who vanished after telling their families they were on an Islamic pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia, are now said to be heading with their nine children, aged between 15 and three.

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ISIS Kills 140 Kobani Civilians in Second Biggest Attack

ISIS militants killed more than 140 civilians in the Syrian town of Kobani Thursday in what activists are calling the group’s second biggest massacre since declaring the establishment of an Islamic caliphate across parts of Iraq and Syria a year ago.

Civilians in the contested border town between Syria and Turkey, otherwise known as Ayn al-Arab, as well as in the nearby village of Brakh Bootan were attacked by ISIS members wearing the uniforms of the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), according to the U.K.-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. More than 200 people were wounded. Elderly people, women and children are among the dead, according to the Observatory.

“They were wearing YPG uniforms, so when people saw them they did not fear them, and they [ISIS] opened fire. Many civilians lost their lives,” Idriss Nassan, a spokesman for the Kurds in Kobani, told CNN. Eyewitnesses say gunmen, some of whom spoke Kurdish, knocked on houses in the city and killed people as they came out.

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Islamic State Group Kills at Least 145 Civilians in Syria’s Kobani

The Islamic State group killed at least 145 civilians in an attack on the Syrian town of Kobani and a nearby village, in what a monitoring group described on Friday as one of the worst massacres by the hardline group in country.

The militants pressed a separate assault to capture government-held parts of the northeastern city of Hasaka, blowing up a security building and triggering a government appeal for all residents to take up arms. The United Nations said 60,000 people were reported to have fled the attack.

The twin attacks which began on Thursday showed the Sunni extremist group returning to the offensive in Syria after two weeks of defeats at the hands of Kurdish-led forces, supported by US-led air strikes…

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Opinion: Terrorism is an Attack on us All

Almost a year after Islamic State declared its caliphate, a wave of terrorist attacks has hit several countries on the same day. That raises uncomfortable questions, especially for Western countries, says Rainer Sollich.

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Syria Crisis: Islamic State ‘Kills 120 Civilians’ In Kobane

Islamic State (IS) militants have killed more than 120 civilians since launching a fresh attack on the Syrian border town of Kobane, activists say.

IS “fired at everything that moved” after entering on Thursday, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

A separate IS attack on the north-eastern city of Hassakeh has displaced 60,000 people, the UN says.

Kobane became a symbol of Kurdish resistance in January after an IS siege lasting several months was repelled.

IS launched an apparent two-pronged offensive on Thursday after Kurdish fighters from the Popular Protection Units (YPG) cut off one of the militants’ major supply routes near Raqqa.

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Turkey’s Erdogan Sees Red Over ‘Giant Table’ Accusations

Already stung by accusations that his presidential palace in Ankara is a megalomaniac folly, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is facing new claims of wasteful extravagance.

But this time the controversy does not surround a grand new building but a humble table set for the traditional fast-breaking iftar meal for the holy Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.

The circular table, however, is perhaps not so humble. The size of a squash court, it is so vast as to be impossible to have a conversation with the person at the other end.

The Ankara Architects’ Chamber — a frequent critic of Erdogan over the palace — gave an itemised valuation of the table, chairs, and ornaments, saying they were worth one million lira ($375,000)…

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Video Emerges of Druze Mob Lynching Wounded Syrians

Days after members of Israel’s Druze minority ambushed an Israeli ambulance and killed a wounded Syrian being transporting for medical treatment in the Golan Heights, a video of the deadly was leaked to the media.

The attacks came as Israeli Druze have voiced concern over the advance of jihadist rebels in southern Syria, including the massacre of 20 Druze villagers earlier this month.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the unprecedented outburst of violence a “lynching,” and vowed to to catch those who “took the law into their own hands.”

Two soldiers were also injured in the incident while trying to protect the wounded Syrians. Both soldiers were also members of the Druze community, according to Hebrew-language media reports.

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Alarm in Moscow: Russian Islamic State Militants Are Returning Home

The warning from the Federation Security Council: they are posing as tourists who have lost documents. Meanwhile, the Emirate of the Caucasus swear allegiance to ISIS and “dump” al Qaeda.

Moscow (AsiaNews / Agencies) — The Russian militiamen who joined the Islamic State are returning home. This is the warning — described as “a looming threat” — sounded by the Russian Federation Security Council. According to information gathered by the authorities, the terrorists are coming into Russia from Turkey, posing as tourists who have lost their passports.

The Rossiskaya Gazeta newspaper quotes the deputy secretary of the Security Council, Yevgeny Lukianov, speaking at the international conference on security in Ulan-Ude. He claims the Islamic State fighters “are already coming back”: they turn to Russian diplomatic missions to request documents to enable them to return home.

Almost contemporarily the Islamic State spokesman, Abu Mohammed al-Adnani, stated that the group “has accepted the allegiance” of Isis militants in the North Caucasus. Thus the Muslim majority Russian region has been upgraded to the status of ‘Vilayat’ (province), with a ‘governor’ Sheikh Abu Mohammad al-Qadari. According to Russian intelligence, about 2,000 Russians and citizens of the countries of the former USSR have fought in the ranks of the jihadist group in Syria and Iraq.

“We proclaim our allegiance to the Caliph”, known as Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, announced the main extremist group in the area, the Caucasus Emirate, in a video on Youtube, later re-briadcast by the specialist website Caucasian Knot. “We can testify that all the fighters in the Caucasus, in Chechnya, Dagestan, Ingushetia and Kabardino-Balkaria are united in this decision and have no differences,” says the video filmed in Russian, with subtitles in Arabic. This is the first time that the Russian Caucasus has officially and uniformly sworn allegiance to IS.

According to Institute for the Study of War (ISW) analysts, IS may now start a fight with al Qaeda for influence in the region. “It is unclear whether al Qaeda continues to seek to strengthen its ties with the Caucasus Emirate in the light of the recent statements of the Islamic State or if the organization is focusing on other regions, such as Syria and Yemen”, say experts .

Both the Islamic State and the Caucasus Emirate are considered terrorist groups in Russia, as also in the US and several other countries. Recently, the Russian authorities raised the alert level for the phenomenon of recruitment of Russian students in the universities of the country and have called for “strengthening cooperation” in the fight against international recruiters for extremist organizations. (M.A.)

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Christians and Muslims Slam Everyday Torture in Pakistan

Pakistan has failed so far to respect the UN Convention against Torture, which it ratified in 2010. Every day, at least one prisoner is tortured in one of the country’s 1,300 police stations. Critics call on the authorities to respect and protect fundamental human rights, as well as shield and rehabilitate victims. Prisoners are safe only if they pay bribes.

ahore (AsiaNews) — Pakistan’s Anti Torture Alliance (ATA) adopted a resolution yesterday calling on the government to pass legislation to outlaw torture by the country’s police and penitentiary institutions.

The appeal was made public at a press conference to mark International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, which falls today.

In addition to ATA, organisers included the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) and the Asia Human Rights Commission (AHRC). Panellists included Christian and Muslim activists.

The resolution called on the authorities to respect and protect fundamental human rights. In particular, it called for a ban on torture and an end to the impunity enjoyed so far by law enforcement agencies.

At the same time, it urged the government to setup up victim rehabilitation centres, respect international treaties, modernise the judicial system, free those who have been unjustly arrested, and improve the treatment of prisoners in police stations. It must equally guarantee the safety of activists, journalists, opposition politicians, writers and students.

For Tanveer Jahan, director of the Democratic Commission for Human Development, police and security agencies are the main culprits in torture cases.

A person in custody is safe only if he has political connections or deep pockets to bribe officials. Intimidating and torturing suspects to extract confession is common practice.

At a press conference, the director presented the results of a recent study based on interviews with a thousand jailed inmates in three Punjab districts, in east-central Pakistan.

“Half of them said they had been the victim of torture,” he said. “I was stunned by their courageous statements, which they made in front of cops in courthouse lockups (Bakhshi khanas in Urdu). They knew they would pay dearly for what they said once back in prison in the evening.”

Pakistan ratified the United Nations Convention against Torture in 2010 but has done very little to implement it. The convention itself was adopted in 1984, and came into effect three years later.

In January of this year, the Senate passed an anti-torture bill that critics have deemed “toothless” because it is full of ambiguities.

Although only 14 deaths were formally recorded in 2014, 63 people (including four women and two children) are known to have died in prison, this according to a report by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan.

In addition, at least 47 people (including seven women) endured some form of custodial torture last year.

Some of the speakers at the press conference also noted that a department associated with the military runs 52 private torture cells and that in the country there are 1,300 police stations in which at least one person is tortured every day.

“The primitive methods of the three degrees of torture are still being applied,” Samson Salamat, director of the Centre for Human Rights Education, told AsiaNews.

“The life of anyone who survives is destroyed. What is needed for an independent judicial probe is effective legislation, a proper legal system and zero tolerance for offenders”.

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India: Chhattisgarh: Pentecostal Pastor Jailed on False Charges

A court has denied Rev. Gigi P. Paul, of the Faith Gospel Mission, bail. Religious intolerance against the Christian minority rife in Indian state.

Mumbai (AsiaNews) — For the past four days, the rev. Gigi P. Paul, president of Faith Gospel Mission, has been locked away in a prison in Chhattisgarh on the basis of false accusations made by some Hindu radicals.

Yesterday a court denied him bail. The new hearing to decide his release was scheduled tomorrow. Sajan K. George, president of the Global Council of Indian Christians (GCIC), told AsiaNews: “The tiny Christian community continues to live without freedom of religion and the increasing intolerance is creating problems of public order.”

The Pentecostal pastor was born and raised in the district of Pathanamthitta in the State of Kerala. After completing his theological studies at Bible school, he moved to the north of India. Since 1991 he has worked in the district of Bastar in Chhattisgarh.

Here, in addition to guiding the community of Faith Gospel Mission, he is also the dean of the Faith Bible Training Centre, Director of Faith Child Development Centre and president for the Chhattisgarh Indian Pentecostal Church of God, the largest Pentecostal denomination in India.

“Rev. Gigi’s arrest — said Sajan George — took place on 22 June, just three days after the attack on a Salesian Sister “. According to the GCIC president this climate of intolerance is related to Chhattisgarh Freedom of Religion (Amendment) Act 2006, the State anti-conversion.

“The measure — he said — is a tool of intimidation and abuse against the Christian minority. In some districts, the Christian students of the ashram are not allowed to participate in Sunday Mass. In Mahasamund an official has banned Christian missionaries from being called ‘father’ by their students”.

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Ramadan Leads to Dehydration in Pakistani Heat Wave

More than 1,100 people have already died of dehydration in Pakistan’s scorching temperatures. The risk is made worse because devout Muslims don’t eat or drink anything between sunrise and sunset during Ramadan.

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Amelia Earhart ‘Captured by the Japanese and the U.S. Government Knew’

The mystery surrounding what happened to Earhart (pictured with her plane) and her navigator Fred Noonan could soon be resolved after two new tantalising pieces of evidence were uncovered.

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Beijing Slams “Golden Triangle” As Source of China’s Killer Drugs

Border area between Myanmar, Laos and Thailand is a drug trafficking hub. Heroin and methamphetamines produced there and then flooded onto the market across the border. 90% of drugs seized last year by the Beijing government came from the region.

Yangon (AsiaNews / Agencies) — The “Golden Triangle” — the no man’s land on the border of Myanmar, Laos and Thailand dedicated to the cultivation of drugs — remains, even today, the main source of production of heroin and methamphetamine that is flooding the Chinese market. This has been confirmed by a report released today by the Beijing government, according to which 90% of the 9.3 tons of heroin and 11.4 tons of methamphetamine seized in 2014 were produced in the region, which borders the southern Chinese province of Yunnan .

In contrast, the heroine from the Golden Crescent — the area that also includes Afghanistan, which remains the largest producer of opium in the world — covers only 2% of the total of drugs seized in China.

The government report, the first on drug use of a scientific nature by Beijing, points out that “the Golden Triangle continues to be the most dangerous region in the field of drug production for China”. Experts speak of a “persistent” regional “threat” in spite of the authorities’ efforts to stop drug trafficking along the border, fueled by criminal groups, gangs and armed rebels in areas inhabited by ethnic minorities.

A report by the United Nations Organization for Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in 2013 reported that the “Golden Triangle” covers “at least 18%” of the production and sale of the world’s opium. And last year Myanmar was placed second, behind Afghanistan, in the global production of opiates due to growth of crops by the Shan and Kachin ethnic minorities who are often at war with the central government of Burma.

According to state experts, last year the use of synthetic drugs — methamphetamine and ketamine — surpassed heroin in popularity and spread. Since the early 1980s, with the loosening of controls on the trafficking and consumption of drugs coincided with the rise to power of the communists in 1949, China recorded a growing trend in the use of drugs.

To date, in China there are at least 3 million certificated addicts, but when you consider the number of those who have tried drugs at least once in a lifetime this number climbs up to 14 million (out of a total of 1.4 billion). Added to this is the fact that users are increasingly younger and come from various social and economic spheres; they experiment with various types of substances, including cocaine from South America.

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China Set to Step Up Global Investment Drive

According to a new study, Chinese companies are expected to triple their foreign assets over the next five years, with Europe being in the center of the thrust. The authors urge governments to adapt to the situation.

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Australia Passes Tyrannical Internet Laws

Ostensibly designed to stop you illegally downloading new episodes of Game of Thrones, they may have far broader implications for online freedoms.

On Monday afternoon, Labor and Coalition senators voted together to wave through legislation rolling out a new Australian internet filter.

The law is intended to stop the circumvention of copyright online — i.e. crack down on the pirating of films, TV shows, music and other content.

But the way it will do this has made advocates of online freedoms and opponents of censorship decidedly nervous.

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Islamic Militant Gunmen Storm Somalian Army Base With Bombs, 30 Dead

Islamic militants from the al Qaeda-linked al-Shabab group attacked a remote African Union base in Somalia Friday, beheading women and killing at least 30 people, officials and witnesses say. In a tweet, the African Union mission confirmed there had been an early morning attack on their outpost in Lego, but did not provide any further details.

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Shebab Militants ‘Overrun’ African Union Base

Shebab militants claimed to have overrun an African Union army base in a village in southern Somalia on Friday, in the latest attack during the insurgents’ annual Ramadan fighting season.

The military outpost in Lego village, 100 kilometres (62 miles) northwest of the capital Mogadishu, is manned by Burundian soldiers who are part of the 22,000 strong African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM).

Residents said the dawn raid started with a suicide bomber driving a car loaded with explosives into the entrance of the base, before dozens of militants armed with machine guns and rocket propelled grenades began their assault.

“We could see smoke and hear explosions, there was heavy fighting in the AMISOM base with heavily armed Shebab fighters,” said Hassan Mohamed, a resident…

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Somali Militants Attack African Union Peacekeepers’ Base

Al Shabaab militants battled with African Union (AU) troops in Somalia on Friday after exploding a car bomb at a peacekeepers’ base south of Mogadishu at dawn, military officials and a rebel spokesman said.

The attack in Leego, some 130 km (80 miles) south of the Somali capital, came as residents gathered for morning prayers. It was the latest of several assaults since the Islamic holy month of Ramadan began a week ago.

The Islamist militants fighting to overthrow the Western-backed Mogadishu government have often launched attacks during Ramadan and officials had deployed additional security because of the heightened security risk…

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America’s Growing Multicultural Quagmire

Just announced this week: 121 illegal aliens released by Obama through his amnesty committed murders of Americans as reported by the Washington Times, “A total of 121 illegal immigrations whom Obama released back into the community went on to be charged with subsequent killings, according to government data released Monday that raises more questions about whether immigration authorities are doing enough to detail illegal immigrants awaiting deportation.”

In the past three months, Obama quietly oversaw the importation of thousands of Syrian Muslims from that wore-torn country that will number in excess of 75,000 when the refugee resettlement program finishes. None of them vetted as to terrorism! Ironically, federal authorities brag about the terrorist threats they neutralized with Muslims already inside our country. Because of Muslims in America, Pam Geller and Hersi Ali must be guarded 24/7 from death threats. Minnesota Somalia Muslims fly out of our country to fight with ISIS.

Does anyone connect the dots as to our country’s multicultural quagmire? When you import religions that foment terror, you witness terror in your own country. You witnessed Paris, France; you watched Sydney, Australia; you noticed the beheadings in London, England. You saw the killings in Ottawa, Canada, all by Muslims.

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Belgium: Summit on Asylum Was “A Deplorable Spectacle”

The Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel (Francophone liberal) has reacted with disappointment to the failure of EU heads of government to reach an agreement on quotas for the reception of refugees. Speaking after Thursday’s European Summit, Mr Michel told journalists that “As far as some countries are concerned solidarity only works one way.”

The Belgian Prime Minister was responding to the opposition of mainly Eastern European EU member states to a quota system to ensure a fair distribution of refugees across the European Union. Mr Michel believes that this is a very bad sign and “bad for the future of Europe”.

Only after an exhaustive discussion did EU leaders agree to accommodate 60,000 refugees. There will be no quote and each member state is free to accept as many or as few refugees as it sees fit. The Baltic States and a number of other Eastern European were particularly strongly opposed to the introduction of quotas.

“It was a very difficult meeting.

I am not happy, because I think that Europe can do better. Immigration is an important issue for the future of Europe. What I saw yesterday was that some countries find solidarity difficult and this poses a big problem for the future”, Mr Michel called yesterday’s meeting “a deplorable display”.

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Czechia: New Refugee Camp May be Established

Existing space won’t be enough if the country takes more refugees

Prague, June 26 (CTK) — Czech authorities may build a new camp for refugees in Vysni Lhoty, north Moravia, if the Czech Republic accepts hundreds of refugees as the capacity of the existing centers will not be sufficient, daily Mladá fronta Dnes (MfD) writes today.

Justice Minister Robert Pelikán told journalists today that his ministry can offer the Vysni Lhoty facility to the Interior Ministry for refugees. Originally, the Vysni Lhoty facility was to be turned into a prison, he said.

The Czech government may accept perhaps up to 1,000 refugees and the police have detained tens of them when illegally crossing the border, it adds.

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Denmark’s Asylum Seeker Numbers Up Again

A new report from the Danish Immigration Service showed on Wednesday that 2015 is on pace to be another record year for the number of migrants who came to Denmark seeking asylum.

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EU Leaders Approve Voluntary Plan to Resettle Migrants

European leaders have agreed on a voluntary scheme to share refugees after a heated debate on the Mediterranean migrant crisis. German Chancellor Angela Merkel has called for more solidarity among member states.

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Finland: Record Numbers of Asylum-Seekers, Reception Centres Strained

With a record level of asylum-seekers arriving in Finland so far this year, reception centres throughout the country are being filled to capacity. The largest numbers have been arriving to Helsinki where they are being transferred out of the city due to a lack of space in the capital’s facilities.

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Germany: Refugee Host School Bans Revealing Clothes

A school in Bavaria has sent a letter home to parents warning them not to let their daughters wear revealing blouses or short skirts, because emergency accommodation for refugees has been set up next to the gym.

A week ago emergency accommodation for 200 Syrian refugees was erected right next to the gym of Wilhelm-Diess-Gymnasium in Pocking, Bavaria, Die Welt reports.

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Hundreds Rally Against Refugees in Czech City, Others Gather to Support Immigration

BRNO, Czech Republic — Hundreds of far right supporters have rallied against immigration and Islam in the Czech Republic’s second largest city Brno, while others gathered nearby in support of immigration.

The rally follows a similar demonstration in the Slovak capital of Bratislava on Saturday which turned violent. They reflect the rising tensions surrounding immigration Europe, even in countries that have not been significantly hit by the recent wave of asylum-seekers.

Riot police on Friday separated the groups and were pelted with objects such as beer cans and bottles by the anti-migrants protesters.

Tomas Vandas, the leader of the far right Workers Party of Social Justice condemned the decision of EU leaders to relocate 40,000 migrants from Italy and Greece in Europe and demanded they are sent back to their countries of origin.

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Italy Slams EU Leaders for Rejecting Migrant Quotas

Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi lashed out at fellow EU leaders Thursday for rejecting mandatory migrant quotas amid sharp divisions over how to halt the tide of humanity washing up on Europe’s southern shores.

Diplomatic sources said discussion at a late-running summit dinner became increasingly heated and “emotional” as Renzi accused his peers of looking after only their own interests.

“If that’s your idea of Europe, you can keep it,” Renzi told his 27 counterparts, Italian sources told AFP…

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Sardinia’s Poor Defy Anti-Immigrant Mood to Help Refugees

CARBONIA (ITALY) (AFP) — Italy’s wealthy north may have tired of asylum seekers, but in one of the poorest regions of Sardinia locals are clothing and feeding refugee families.

Standing amid piles of shoes, T-shirts, pyjamas and baby bibs, Susanna Steri describes how she had to ask the inhabitants of Carbonia to stop bringing donations for the 90-odd men, women and children from Sierra Leone and Nigeria.

“We only had a few hours’ notice to prepare,” Steri told AFP, describing the weekend of May 30, after distress calls made from 22 boats in the Mediterranean led to the rescue of 4,200 migrants, and the discovery of 17 bodies.

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How Will Same-Sex “Marriage” Affect You?

Marriage is the foundation of the family. As such, it forms the most fundamental unit of all society. It is the first human relationship Almighty God instituted for mankind (Genesis 2:21—25) and it lies at the very bedrock of civilization, itself. To believe that we can change marriage in such a completely foundational way and not experience radical consequences is arrogance of staggering proportions.

Indeed, the facts already show that many claims made by homosexual activists during their march to acceptance are, in the end, lies—whether born of unintended and willful ignorance, confused delusion or practiced deceit.

Artists and craftspeople who serve couples at their weddings—cake decorators, planners and photographers—are already facing lawsuits and financially devastating fines when they exercise their religious convictions and choose not to help celebrate a same-sex “marriage.”

Ministers who run wedding chapel businesses are finding that they must be willing to “marry” same-sex couples or perhaps face fines and even jail time. Local pizza makers who say they cannot in good conscience cater a “gay wedding” have experienced threats to their business. State laws guaranteeing religious freedom are increasingly under attack, out of concern that individuals may use them to express their religious conscience in support of traditional marriage. Millions of Americans are feeling as if their vaunted First Amendment freedom of religion is giving way to the mandate, “Thou shalt embrace gay marriage.”

What happened to “Why can’t we all live and let live?” Apparently, that platitude has fallen by the wayside as the need to espouse it has diminished.

What about “Our same-sex relationship doesn’t make any difference in your life”? If you are living as a Christian, you are increasingly seeing that this is not so. And many observers, religious and secular, see that this is only the beginning. An April 2015 article in the Christian Post put it well: “Dear Churches in America: Prepare to Be Treated Like 1st Century Christians in Rome.”

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Synod. The Battle of Germany

The German bishops are fighting to open the way for divorce and homosexuality. But six of them have broken ranks. And in a book one jurist thoroughly criticizes Cardinal Kasper’s ideas. “It is a crisis of faith,” comments African cardinal Sarah

by Sandro Magister

ROME, May 29, 2015 — In perfect temporal conjunction four days ago, right when the council and general secretariat of the synod of bishops were at the Vatican with Pope Francis preparing the next session of the assembly, on the same day and not far away, at the Pontifical Gregorian University, the presidents of the episcopal conferences of Germany, France, and Switzerland and about fifty bishops, theologians, and experts from these three countries, led by Cardinal Reinhard Marx, were discussing behind closed doors how to steer through the synod their reformist ideas on the two most controversial points: divorce and homosexuality.

Germany, France, and Switzerland overlook the Rhine River. But the participants at the Gregorian know very well that the game is being played on the shores of the Tiber, in Rome. Their ambition is to be once again, as at Vatican Council II, the winning side in the renewal of the universal Church, the Rhine that with its waters invades the Tiber.

29.5.2015

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US Supreme Court Rules Gay Marriage is Legal Nationwide

The US Supreme Court has ruled that same-sex marriage is a legal right across the United States.

It means the 14 states with bans on same-sex marriage will no longer be able to enforce them.

Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote that the plaintiffs asked “for equal dignity in the eyes of the law. The Constitution grants them that right.”

It is unclear how soon marriage licences will be issued in states where gay unions were previously prohibited.

The ruling, which sparked celebrations outside the court in Washington DC, brings to an end more than a decade of bitter legal battles.

President Barack Obama said the ruling was a “victory for America”.

“When all Americans are treated as equal, we are all more free “ he said.

However, Christian conservatives decried the decision.

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The Stimulus-Response Empire

I’ve spent the past 30 years analyzing, taking apart, and exposing highly centralized structures:

Government, supra-government, corporate, energy, intelligence, education, medical, mind-control, media, organized-religion structures; those are some of the targets.

They all operate on the basis of stimulus-response.

The elite future is stimulus-response. It’s based on the premise that humans are inherently (biologically) programmed to be dangerous and the programming must change. In other words, a better Pavlovian dog must be created.

Stimulus-response has been the guiding principle of elite rule since the dawn of history. The priest-class searches for the most effective inputs it can find, which in turn will produce the desired responses from the population.

Mainstream media, which are actually disseminated propaganda, aim to produce three overall responses to stimuli: a) “conflicts and major problems are never resolved”; b) “I should be afraid”; and c) “this is all too confusing,” which results in viewers and readers sinking into passivity.

For the most part, political leaders have paid no attention to the idea of freedom, regardless of which documents they’ve signed and given lip-service to. Why? Because freedom implies something beyond stimulus-response. Freedom implies action by choice. And politicians know their power depends on managing conditioned response in populations.

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U.S.: No Evidence Yet Linking Friday’s Deadly Attacks

U.S. officials say they have seen no evidence yet to suggest that Friday’s series of deadly attacks across three continents were linked, but they are continuing to investigate.

“At this point it’s too soon to tell whether or not these various and far-flung attacks were coordinated centrally or whether or not they were coincidental,” said Army Col. Steve Warren, a Pentagon spokesman. “We are continuing to look into this.”

In Tunisia, a gunman killed 37 people, mostly tourists, at a seaside resort. In Kuwait, an Islamic State suicide bomber killed at least 27 people at a Shiite mosque. In France, a driver rammed his truck into a U.S.-owned gas factory, where a decapitated body was found with the head hanging at the entrance. In all, at least 65 people were killed across the three continents.

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10 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 6/26/2015

  1. Now, whose bright idea was it to put “emergency refugee accomodation” right next to a school gym full of nubile teenage girls – and all this in a quaint town in Bavaria?

    And were their guidelines on “how to dress” issued to protect the girls – or to protect the refugees from getting too hot and bothered during their holy month?

    Nice that the gym lessons have to be moved (meaning the better gym, built doubtless at taxpayers’ expense, gets less used), and teachers have to be more on duty during breaks, all because some geniuses decided to place 200 Muslims in a rural Bavarian town…wouldn’t it have been easier to relocate them to some Muslim country where they wouldn’t get so worked up about seeing uncovered women?

    Btw, the German-language article’s headline refers not to the story, but how it’s being used by the “Rechte” (“rightists”) to spread “hate”. Not only does it imply that all right-wingers are loons, indistinguishable from the KKK – but it makes us (yes, us) the bad guys in this story. Not the clueless bureaucrats, or the frustrated refugees, or the wannabe groomers amongst them, but us – for seeking to “spread hate”. It seems that now, combatting “hate” is more important than combatting actual crimes, and letting teenage girls grow up free from harassment? (unless, of course, that hate is being spread from a mosque during Friday prayers)

    • The news media, whether it’s in the U.S. or Germany seems to be run by the same sort of people. Fanatical Leftists who despise anyone who holds views different from theirs and are willing to sacrifice their own people and culture in the name of PC/MC.

      Their main tools of the trade are labeling people “racists”, “nationalists”, “nativists”, “xenophobes” , “Nazis” in the hopes of shutting them up. What we need to do is embrace those labels and say “so what and is that the best you can do?” to the treasonous moral lepers called journalists to start rendering them irrelevant.

    • “Hate” is not hate. Just the islamic way of manipulating into intimidation.

  2. State laws guaranteeing religious freedom are increasingly under attack, out of concern that individuals may use them to express their religious conscience in support of traditional marriage. Millions of Americans are feeling as if their vaunted First Amendment freedom of religion is giving way to the mandate, “Thou shalt embrace gay marriage.”

    What happened to “Why can’t we all live and let live?” Apparently, that platitude has fallen by the wayside as the need to espouse it has diminished.

    “What about “Our same-sex relationship doesn’t make any difference in your life”? If you are living as a Christian, you are increasingly seeing that this is not so. And many observers, religious and secular, see that this is only the beginning. An April 2015 article in the Christian Post put it well: “Dear Churches in America: Prepare to Be Treated Like 1st Century Christians in Rome.”

    And I agree with this. Now that traditional marriage has taken a fatal blow, the next stop is the churches already weakened by their own doing in many respects but certainly attacked by ideologues intent on their destruction.
    In addition, the fact that the PEOPLE of the United States were not afforded, state by state, to vote on this matter is very troubling to me and it does not bode well.
    Keep inmindthat the latest gov’t report cites that less than 3% of the population of this country is LGBT. It really is remarkable that that small minority could make such a huge impact on our culture.
    It doesn’t matter whether you support gay marriage or you don’t. All should be concerned that legalizing gay marriage was instituted by 5 people in black robes in Washington DC., not the citizens of this country.

    Do you want to know who doesn’t support LGBT values? Islam…
    Think on that for a minute…

    • Aside from the fascist “anti-discrimination” mobs, the next issue to follow this will be legalization of plural marriage. So far, all of the same legal justification that I’ve seen for gay marriage also implies that plural marriage, or even plural bisexual marriage, is protected by the constitution as well.

      • Also on the horizon: incest, pedophilia, and bestiality. After plural marriage, incest is probably next. I’ve already seen some sympathetic articles about it seeded to the media.

        • Yes, that’s true. The canonical feminist bible, The Dialectic of Sex by Shulamith Firestone, claims that incest and pedophilia will become normalized after cloning chambers are developed and “women are freed from their reproductive role” such that sex no longer has anything to do with reproduction.

          Before any cloning chambers are built though, the argument will be that contraception and abortion have already negated the connection between sex and reproduction, therefore why not incest and pedophilia now?

          The only legal concept limiting pedophilia would be at what age someone could legally consent. Similarly, the arguments surrounding beastiality would be about whether or not animals can consent to such a thing and whether or not they’re being abused.

          At this point it seems like a can of legal worms has been opened and it won’t be contained without a constitutional amendment.

          • While I agree with you that we are headed down the polygamist, phedophelist slope, I dond’t see any stoppes to it.

        • It would not surprise me in the least. The thing about the Left is that it never stops. There is always more to change, to control and to punish.(very similar to Islam). The last hundred years of Socialism has left a 100 million + people dead at their hands. It’s legacy is a series of execution pits, death camps and the crushing of humanity underneath the boot of totalitarianism.

          My mother and father personally saw the horror inflicted on people by the Communists and Nazis. My mother who now is nearing the century mark, now worries that we may be in for repeat of what she experienced as a child.

          I had hoped that with the passing of the Soviet Union that my generation would never experience what they went through. But it’s clear that that poisonous strain of humanity is thriving here and abroad and preparing to inflict all sorts of horrors as they complete their grasp on the levers of power.

          I’m too sick to do much fighting, but I’ll go out on my feet rather than be their slave.

  3. So, there. Only the followers of a totalitarian ideology are complaining that the rest of the world does not comply with their political symbols worn as clothes. Migrants is the same as muslims, then. What might lead you to think that there is an ongoing deployment of soldiers on the enemy’s territory.

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