Investigators searching for accomplices and co-conspirators in Friday’s Paris massacre are focusing on the culturally enriched Brussels suburb of Molenbeek. Based on a Belgian car that was seen parked at the Bataclan, authorities have zeroed in on a specific neighborhood in Molenbeek. Meanwhile, the Belgian prime minister advised citizens not to travel to Paris unless it was strictly necessary.
In other news, thieves broke in through the roof an Army Reserve armory in Worcester, Massachusetts, and made off with six M4 assault rifles, ten pistols, and several long guns. Authorities hastily assured the public that the incident had nothing to do with terrorism. Or Islam, for that matter.
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Greece Credit Rating Affirmed at ‘CCC’ — Fitch Ratings
Greece has been assessed as having CCC’s Issuer Default Ratings for its long-term foreign and local currency, Fitch Ratings in London announced in a release.
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — Fitch explained that Greece’s financial assistance program with the European Stability Mechanism of up to 86 billion euros has reduced the risk of the country defaulting on its private sector debt obligations and supports the rating at ‘CCC’.
“The issue ratings on Greece’s senior unsecured foreign and local currency bonds have also been affirmed at ‘CCC’. The Short-term foreign currency IDR has been affirmed at ‘C’ and the Country Ceiling at ‘B-’,” the release stated on Friday.
However, Fitch warned that the risks to the program remain high and further deadlocks in negotiations are possible.
“It will take some time for trust to be restored between Greece and its creditors… Meanwhile, the political situation in Greece remains unpredictable,” Fitch cautioned.
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Italy’s Inflation Rate Edges Up to 0.3%
Rise of 0.1 of a percentage point compared to September
(ANSA) — Rome, October 30 — Italy’s annual inflation rate edged up to 0.3% in October, an increase of 0.1 of a percentage point compared to September, Istat said Friday, confirming its October 30 preliminary estimate. The national statistics agency added that its consumer-price index was 0.2% higher in October than in September, according to provisional data. The slight speedup of inflation was mainly due to a further increase in the prices of unprocessed food (+4.2%, from +3.3% in September 2015) and of services related to recreation, including repair and personal care (+1.5%, from +1.1% in the previous month).
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The Age of Machines and Unemployment: “Robots Could Steal 80 Million US Jobs”
A vast joblessness is coming. Perhaps the system will develop some gentle pretext to keep everyone occupied with busy work to cope with the problem. But the simple fact is that the future doesn’t need us.
And central banks are officially gearing up for that impending reality.
via CNBC:
80 million jobs in the United States are at risk of being taken over by robots in the next few decades, a Bank of England (BoE) official warned on Thursday.
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US Retail Sales Barely Grow in October
US consumers remained hesitant last month, spending more on their homes, health and restaurants but cutting back on big-ticket items like cars and appliances, the Commerce Department said Friday.
In a report that comes just ahead of the Christmas shopping season, overall US retail and food service sales grew just 0.1 percent from September, less than analysts had expected, hitting $447 billion for the month.
Automobile sales, which have underpinned overall retail sales growth for the past two years, fell 0.5 percent by value, and electronics and appliances were down 0.4 percent month-on-month.
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Bernie Sanders ‘Reveals’ The Real Cause of Terrorism… Climate Change
Forget multiple millennia of ingrained religious zealotry, generations of ingrained hatred of ‘ infidel’ invasions and resource exploitation, Bernie Sanders revealed, in an apparently entirely serious statement on CBS’ s Face The Nation that climate change will lead to terrorism, adding that the attack on Paris is an early example of this phenomenon playing out.
The Democratic presidential hopeful already raised eyebrows, as The Hill reports, when he made the claim at the second Democratic primary debate on Saturday…
But now appears to doubling down on the topic…
“The reason is pretty obvious: If we are going to see an increase in drought and flood and extreme weather disturbances as a result of climate change, what that means is that peoples all over the world are going to be fighting over limited natural resources,” Sanders said on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”
[Comment: Q.E.D. /sarcasm. Porridge brained Communist tool.]
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Hillary Clinton and the other Democratic presidential candidates are being criticized for declining to use the words “radical Islam” during Saturday night’s debate, following the deadly terror attacks in Paris.
Former Secretary of State Clinton, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley declined to use the words after being asked during the CBS debate whether they would agree with GOP presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio saying, “We are at war with radical Islam.”
The front-running Clinton said using the term “radical Islam” would be “painting with too broad a brush.”
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DFLer Abruptly Quits Race After Saying ‘ISIS Isn’t Necessarily Evil’
Dan Kimmel of Burnsville says his Twitter posting was “badly misinterpreted.”
A Burnsville DFLer’s campaign for the state House abruptly ended Sunday morning within hours of him posting on social media that ISIS “isn’t necessarily evil” and is “made up of people doing what they think is best for their community.”
The Twitter posting Saturday by Dan Kimmel, coming as the world’s emotions remain raw from Friday’s terror attacks in Paris, brought swift rebuke from others on Twitter. House Minority Leader Paul Thissen, DFL-Minneapolis, called for Kimmel to give up his campaign.
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In March 2015, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), which is the research arm of the World Health Organization (WHO), determined glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide, to be a “probable carcinogen” (Class 2A).
This determination was based on evidence showing the popular weed killer can cause non-Hodgkin lymphoma and lung cancer in humans, along with “convincing evidence” it can also cause cancer in animals.
Monsanto has maintained that the classification as a carcinogen is wrong and continues to tout glyphosate (and Roundup) as one of the safest pesticides on the planet.1
However, they’ve now been slapped with a growing number of lawsuits alleging they long knew that Roundup’s glyphosate could harm human health. Reuters reported:
“Monsanto ‘led a prolonged campaign of misinformation to convince government agencies, farmers, and the general population that Roundup was safe,’ the lawsuit states.
[…] ‘We can prove that Monsanto knew about the dangers of glyphosate,’ said Michael McDivitt, whose Colorado-based law firm is putting together cases for 50 individuals. ‘There are a lot of studies showing glyphosate causes these cancers.’“
In fact, internal Monsanto documents reveal they knew over 30 years ago that glyphosate caused adenomas and carcinomas in the rats they studied — and that’s only the beginning of Monsanto’s trouble.
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ObamaCare, Amnesty, Judges, NSA, Blackmail & Cover-Ups
It is alleged Chief Justice John Roberts wrote both opinions for the decision for what’s known as Obamacare or the false official title: Affordable Care Act: How Roberts Was Blackmailed To Support ObamaCare. That particular piece covers the likely illegal adoption of two infants, a boy and a girl by Roberts and his wife from Ireland in 2000. (Marriage is always a good cover) Under Ireland’s adoption laws, it appears Roberts’ and his wife ran afoul of the law. Roberts was confirmed to the high court, September 29, 2005.
Then, there are those who believe John Roberts, a strict Catholic is a closet sexual deviant. According to two people I know who work in downtown DC in the legal field, Roberts’ sexual preference has been the talk all over town since he became Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. In the mid-90s while my husband and I lived in Colorado, there was a huge war over a constitutional amendment pertaining to sexual deviants:
“Romer v. Evans, 517 U.S. 620 (1996), is a landmark United States Supreme Court case dealing with sexual orientation and state laws. It was the first Supreme Court case to address gay rights since Bowers v. Hardwick (1986), when the Court had held that laws criminalizing sodomy were constitutional.
“The Court ruled in a 6-3 decision that a state constitutional amendment in Colorado preventing protected status based upon homosexuality or bisexuality did not satisfy the Equal Protection Clause. The majority opinion in Romer stated that the amendment lacked “a rational relationship to legitimate state interests”, and the dissent stated that the majority “evidently agrees that ‘rational basis’ — the normal test for compliance with the Equal Protection Clause — is the governing standard”. The state constitutional amendment failed rational basis review.”
As Wikipedia so aptly put it: “The decision in Romer set the stage for Lawrence v. Texas (2003), where the Court overruled its decision in Bowers, and for the Supreme Court ruling striking down Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act in United States v. Windsor (2013).” Stage is an accurate word because Lawrence v Texas was deliberately staged: “The Lawrence case was a set up to catch two males engaging in sodomy to test the courts and it worked. Even though Sandra Day O’Connor didn’t deny sodomy is a chosen sexual practice, the “high court” ruled against states rights, decency and mankind. In other words, it doesn’t matter if sodomy is a chosen behavior, that’s okay. Equal protection under the law and soon will come protection for pedophiles and every other sexual deviancy known on this earth.”
In the end, the choice of the citizens of Colorado was ‘over turned’. Now, act surprised. Who was butt deep in dumping on the voters in Colorado? “The Los Angeles Times reports that Roberts was “instrumental” behind-the-scenes in working to get the Supreme Court to declare a Colorado state constitutional amendment unconstitutional in the case of Romer v. Evans. The amendment prohibited all legislative, executive and judicial action designed to protect homosexual persons from discrimination…Roberts performed his work on the behalf of his law firm’s pro bono department at Hogan and Hartson. Hogan and Hartson allow their employees to refuse help on pro bono cases if they find them “morally repugnant”. Apparently, Roberts doesn’t have a problem with two men putting their Johnson in each other’s feces (sodomy) as he not only did that case, but others in favor of individuals who claim discrimination for sexual activities they prefer since they are not born that way.
On January 14, 2009, the impostor who usurped the office of president, Barry Soetoro aka Barack Hussein Obama, met with Chief Justice John Roberts in private:
“A ‘ceremonial’ meeting between a president elect and justices of the Supreme Court is somewhat traditional. However, in this instance, it’s flat out wrong. Chief Justice Roberts has cases on the docket where Obama is the defendant or is the subject of the litigation. Roberts and the other eight justices have already held two ‘Distribution for Conferences’ on the Donofrio and Wrotnoski cases on Obama’s citizenship ineligibility. They just turned away one of Phil Berg’s cases a few days ago; that one is still in the Third Circuit. Tomorrow is the fourth case; another from Phil Berg.
“On Wednesday, Roberts meets with the man at the heart of that case in private. Two days later, he sits down to discuss the case with the other justices after having a closed door meeting with the defendant! There is still the Lightfoot v Bowen case to be heard in conference, January 23, 2009. Again, Chief Justice Roberts will sit in that private meeting to discuss whether the case should go to oral arguments. Does anyone see major conflict of interest here? How can Chief Justice Roberts meet with Obama behind closed doors under such circumstances?”
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I mentioned Sibel Edmonds in my last column on 9/11. Ms. Edmonds knows all about the spying of government officials having worked for the FBI. Another whistle blower is a man named Russ Dice. Please go to this page and begin reading at this sentence: “Russ let’s visit a June 20, 2013, The Blaze post under the headline: Bush-Era NSA Whistleblower Makes Most Explosive Allegations Yet About Extent of Gov’t Surveillance — and You Won’t Believe Who He Says They Spied On” (To make it easy in case you don’t know — hold down the Control and F on your key board. Type in Bush-Era and it should take you right to that sentence.) Please do take the time to read that posting because it is information too many have never seen and it’s all true. There’s no question the NSA has been spying on judges, high ranking politicians and members of the U.S. military for decades.
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Obama Gives Early Release to 6,112 Federal Prisoners, Many of Whom Have Violent Histories
The White House claims that prisoners applying for early release were put through a vigorous review process to be sure they were not a threat. How thorough a review process? Not very, because 74 percent of all applications for early release were approved.
When you hear liberals talk about “rethinking federal sentencing,” what that really means is that they hated all along the idea that drug criminals had to do serious prison time, and if they ever got in power and got enough judges on their side, they would let them go. They’re not “rethinking” anything. They’re doing what they always wanted to do.
And as a serious review of the prisoners’ histories (not to mention anyone’s common sense) would tell you, drug criminals are almost never just harmless little guys who happened to traffic a little cocaine, heroin or meth. They’re serious criminals who commit a variety of crimes because these are the kinds of people who traffic drugs. And now they’re going to be free to do it again. The sheriffs point out that about a third of the prisoners set for release are illegals, which means they’ll have an even harder time than most released prisoners finding work — and it’s hard to take seriously the Obama claim that they’ll be deported.
[Comment: Part of the communist subversion process — release the criminals in order to destabiliza society.]
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Terror in Paris: Can it Happen Here?
Details are still pouring in about last night’s horrific jihadist massacre in Paris. Although ISIS has claimed responsibility for the carnage, we still don’t know, as of this writing, the identities of the eight jihadists who carried out the slaughter at multiple venues. Were they all French citizens? Were they “returnees” who had fought and trained alongside ISIS in Syria and returned home to France with instructions to attack on their native soil? We should have the answers to these questions soon (according to this report, one of the terrorists was a “refugee” from Syria. If true, this would, sadly, be no surprise). In the meantime, here are some quick thoughts on the deadliest violence to rock France since WWII—and the second deadliest Islamic terror attack (next to the 2004 Madrid train bombings) to strike a Western city since 9/11:
—The Paris massacre is the West’s Mumbai. Ever since the November 2008 attacks in Mumbai, India in which ten jihadists armed with guns and bombs fanned out across that city and created mass havoc, there has been fear among Western intelligence agencies that the Mumbai massacre would be replicated by jihadists in a major Western city. The tactics used and targets hit in last night’s attacks certainly echo those used in Mumbai, as do the casualty numbers. With radical Islamists gaining a firm foothold the past few decades in major cities throughout Western Europe, we can, unfortunately, expect more large-scale attacks like we witnessed in Paris, particularly with battle-hardened ISIS “returnees” trickling back into their countries of origin. In April 2015, a top EU official said that as many 6,000 Europeans have traveled overseas to join ISIS, including some 1,500 French citizens. That is an astounding number. As I wrote in my latest book, “ISIS Exposed,” the goal is for ISIS “city wolves” —homegrown sympathizers and returnees from the battlefields of Syria and Iraq—to turn European and American cities into guerilla war zones, where we see Paris-style carnage on a regular basis. By the way, Western Europeans do not need a visa to enter the United States…
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Weapons Missing After Break-in at Mass. Reserve Armory: FBI
More than a dozen military weapons are missing after an overnight break-in at a Massachusetts army reserve center, officials said.
The Worcester armory’s missing weapons include six M4 assault rifles, ten pistols, and several long guns, a law enforcement source told the Daily Beast.
FBI agents were looking into the gun heist, Hank Shaw, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Boston division said. Shaw said the break-in is not being considered as a terrorist threat.
“There is nothing at this point in time that would tie this to any specific threat or anything else at this point,” he said during a press conference on Sunday.
Investigators said the thieves snuck in through the reserve center’s roof, WCVB reported.
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Weekly Featured Profile — Shoshana Bricklin
Shoshana Bricklin is a Philadelphia marxist, lawyer and Democratic Party activist.
She has been involved in campaigns for Bricklin For Judge, Philadelphia City Councilman Curtis Jones, Jr. and is Legislative Policy Advisor to Councilwoman Cindy Bass.
She was an unsuccessful candidate for the Philadelphia Municipal Court in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania in 2013.
Bricklin is very active in the Democratic Party and serves on the Philadelphia Ninth Ward Democratic Committee.
From 2008-2012, she was Legislative Counsel to the Philadelphia City Council.
In 1996, Shoshana Bricklin was a member of the Democratic Socialists of AmericaNational Political Committee. She had earlier co-founded the Philadelphia Marxist School.
She was an organizer of the Northwest Progressive Democratic Club, “ a project of the Northwest Philadelphia branch of DSA.”
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Why is FBI Whistleblower Sibel Edmonds Boiling Over Former Speaker Hastert’s Plea Deal?
She’s Launching a Campaign to Blow the Cover Off the Cover-Up!
Former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) whistleblower Sibel Edmonds, founder of Boiling Frogs Post, is boiling mad these days and has launched a campaign to blow the cover off the cover-up of powerful criminals, including pedophiles, operating at the highest levels of the United States government. The ACLU calls her a “silenced patriot.” Edmonds started the National Security Whistleblowers movement as a result of her findings and her treatment as she tried to report criminal activity within the U.S. government. The abject failure of federal investigators, as well as the U.S. media, to cover the rest of the Hastert crimes is what upsets Edmonds today. What exactly were Hastert’s crimes and what was he indicted for?
Dennis Hastert rose from wrestling and football coach at the local small-town high school in Yorkville, Illinois to become a U.S. Representative, and then Speaker of the House. His fall from grace will see him sentenced in February 2016 with what could be from months to years in prison. Edmonds, a Farsi and Turkish language speaker, was hired by the FBI to translate wiretaps and other intelligence on targeted individuals. In the course of her duties, according to Edmonds, with her Top Secret clearance, she learned of treason, blackmail of Members of Congress, bribery, and other criminal activities, including pedophilia. The information that Edmonds gleaned from the wiretaps that she was translating provides context for the White House scandal that became known as the “Valerie Plame Affair.” When Edmonds reported the content of this intelligence to her superiors, she eventually was slapped with a “State Secrets” gag order and prohibited from talking about what she learned. She skirted that gag order by placing photographs online of the targeted individuals whose conversations she had translated, thereby discovering their criminal activities. Finally, in 2009, as a result of another lawsuit on an entirely different subject, Edmonds was able to air her information publicly under oath. That deposition is here. Edmonds has written two books about her experiences, a memoir, Classified Woman, and a novel, The Lone Gladio.
The renewal of Edmonds’s ire came as the former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, J. Dennis Hastert, appeared in Court defending himself against two felony accusations: one, that he withdrew cash from his bank account in a way to evade federal scrutiny and two, that he lied to investigators about the reason he was making the withdrawals. The media awkwardly reported Hastert’s clumsy situation; mentioning the indictment, even mentioning the “prior misconduct” against “Individual A,” while giving a complete pass on why “Individual A” was being paid $3.5 million by Hastert for hush money.
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ISIS claims of responsibility for Friday’s Paris massacre are being reviewed by US intelligence analysts Sunday morning, with a focus on the English-language version, which is delivered in American-accented English, Fox News has been told. It is now clear the plot included a rollout of ISIS propaganda, which was prepared in advance, including threats directed toward the Russian people, Rome, London and Washington DC.
Separately, Fox News has learned that four credible, ISIS-linked social media accounts began sharing messages 72 hours before the Paris attack, including images of weapons, the Eiffel tower, as well as blessings for the attackers’ mission. A military intelligence source says the social media traffic is now seen as evidence the three teams had gone operational.
The translations include “God bless you in your mission” and “Support the deployment,” as well as a reference to our “sister,” suggesting an operative, or member of the support team was a woman.
Meanwhile, FBI Director James Comey has told field offices across the country to intensify surveillance on ISIS suspects, hoping to prevent violence in this country. Before the attack, Comey confirmed there are 900 active ISIS investigations, spread over all 50 states.
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A Message to Europe — Prepare for Nationalism
Actions have consequences, and people can only be pushed so far before they snap. I believe the Paris terror attacks will be a major catalyst that will ultimately usher in nationalist type governments in many parts of Europe, culminating in an end of the EU as we know it and a return to true nation-states. Although I think a return to regional government and democracy is what Europeans need and deserve, the way in which it will come about, and the types of governments we could see emerge, are unlikely to be particularly enlightened or democratic after the dust has settled.
My thoughts and prayers go out to all the victims of these horrific events, but the Paris attacks didn’t happen in a vacuum. The people of Europe have already become increasingly resentful against the EU, something which is not debatable at this point. This accurate perception of an undemocratic, technocratic Brussels-led EU dictatorship was further solidified earlier this year after the Greek people went to the polls and voted for one thing, only to be instructed that their vote doesn’t actually matter. Here’s what I wrote in the post: Greeks Flock to Grassroots Alternative Currencies in Affront to Euro Debt Slavery:
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by Diana West
Some thoughts.
Fourteen years after 9/11, the civilized world has finally become unified, working as one in response to global jihad by … lighting up landmarks in the colors of the latest victim-state.
This is not an effective response.
Nor are public displays of grief, including candles, teddy bears, flowers. Nor is embarking on another pointless war in the Middle East (Syria). One clear lesson of the past decade is that tying the fate of the United States of America to the fortunes of warring Islamic primitives, one indistinguishable from the next, is no way to protect the United States or the wider West.
Today’s update on doings in Syria (hat tip Andrew Bostom) offers an object lesson on “indistinguishable.”
Israel National News reports:…
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Belgium Urges Citizens to Avoid Paris
Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel on Saturday urged his fellow citizens to avoid travel to Paris following the attacks that left at least 128 people dead.
Michel, speaking live on RTBF television, issued “a message to our citizens by asking them to avoid travelling to Paris if it is not strictly necessary.”
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Belgium to Enforce More Police Control at Big Events After Paris Attacks
Belgium will enforce stricter police control at major events such as concerts after the Paris terrorist attacks, Benoit Ramacker, spokesperson of the crisis center of the ministry of interior of Belgium, told Sputnik.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) — One of the Friday Paris attacks took place at the Bataclan music venue where a rock concert was underway. Hostages were taken at the concert hall and at least 100 people died before police managed to neutralize the terrorists.
“We made some recommendations not for people traveling in the direction of France, but we made recommendations for the big events in Belgium, like concerts or shows or so, for specific big events, there will be more police control during these big events,” Ramacker said.
Belgium introduced special security measures at the border with France following the Friday terrorist attacks.
“We are only taking measures to the border, just to reinforce the control. That’s all,” Ramacker told Sputnik.
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Belgium: ‘I’m Going to Clean Up Molenbeek’
Belgian interior minister said “we can’t accept this any longer,” vows anti-terror crackdown.
By Paul Dallison
Belgium’s interior minister vowed Saturday to force the Brussels district of Molenbeek — a hotspot for Muslim extremists — to clean up its act.
Speaking on VTM News Saturday evening, Jan Jambon criticized authorities in Molenbeek and elsewhere in Brussels for failing to tackle radicalization with the same degree of success as elsewhere in Belgium. Law enforcement authorities traced suspects in the Paris terror attacks to Molenbeek, where they arrested three people Saturday.
“I’m going to clean up Molenbeek,” Jambon said. “We can’t accept this any longer — we have to look at how to tackle this problem, how to eradicate it once and for all.”…
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Belgium Targets Molenbeek Neighborhood in Anti-Terror Clampdown
Belgium announced a counter-terrorism clampdown in the immigrant district of Molenbeek in Brussels after at least five people with suspected links to Friday’s attacks in Paris were arrested in that neighborhood.
The Belgian federal prosecutor’s office said two of the killers in the Paris attacks have been identified as French citizens living in Brussels, one in Molenbeek, broadcaster VRT reported on its website.
Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel called for a stricter clamp-down in Molenbeek, the municipality hosting the largest population of North African descent in the Belgian capital and an apparent hot spot for terrorist activity as shown by its involvement in earlier attacks and foiled plots this year.
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Belgium: Things “Not Under Control” In Molenbeek
Molenbeek is in the centre of the attention after it turned out that the Belgian link with the Paris terrorist attacks led detectives to this Brussels municipality just west of the city centre. Interior Minister Jan Jambon said that “we have to step our efforts there to ‘clean up’ what’s going wrong.”
Both Prime Minister Charles Michel (Francophone liberal, MR) and Jan Jambon (Flemish nationalist, N-VA) have announced extra measures for Molenbeek, which is apparently a haven for those preparing terrorist attacks. French media are talking about the “Belgian connection” and are labelling Molenbeek as “the jihadi capital of Europe”.
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Belgian Link With Paris Attacks Confirmed: 5 Apprehended
In the aftermath of the Paris shootings, police carried out house searches in Molenbeek, Brussels, on Saturday. 5 suspects were apprehended, says Mayor Françoise Schepmans. The Belgian Justice Minister Koen Geens said that it was a car with a Belgian number plate parked in front of the French concert hall Bataclan that led detectives to Molenbeek.
The house searches took place at different locations in Molenbeek: the Gentsesteenweg, Hertoginneplein and Osseghemstraat, where a “large-scale police operation” took place. Apart from the presence of heavy-armed policemen, the bomb disposal unit DOVO was at the scene. The atmosphere was “tense” and police refused to give any comment, journalists at the scene reported.
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Confirmed: French Government Knew Extremists Before Attack
As predicted and previously reported, terrorists who took part in an unprecedented attack in the center of Paris killing over a 100 and injuring hundreds more, were well-known to French security agencies before the attack took place.
The UK Daily Mail reported in its article, “Hunt for the Isis killers: One terrorist identified as ‘young Frenchman known to authorities’ — another two found with Syrian and Egyptian passports,” that:
One of the terrorists involved in last night’s attacks in Paris has been officially identified as a Parisian, according to local media reports.
The man, who was killed at the Bataclan, was identified using his fingerprints and was from the southern Parisian neighbourhood of Courcouronnes.
French reports say that the man, who was around 30 years old, was already known to French anti-terrorist authorities prior to last night’s attacks.
Similarly in January 2015 in the wake of the “Charlie Hebo attack” which left 12 dead, it was revealed that French security agencies tracked the perpetrators for nearly a decade beforehand, having arrested at least one terrorist a total of two times, incarcerating him at least once, tracked two of them overseas where they had trained with known terrorist organizations and possibly fought alongside them in Syria, before tracking them back to French territory.
Astoundingly, French security agencies never moved in on the terrorists, claiming that after a decade of tracking them, they had finally decided to close their case for precisely the amount of time needed for them to plan and execute their grand finale.
More Wars and More Surveillance Can’t Help
With a similar scenario now emerging, particularly in the wake of the “Charlie Hebo attack,” where French security agencies knew about extremists but failed to stop them before carrying out yet another high-profile attack, even with enhanced surveillance powers granted to them by recent legislation, it appears that no amount of intrusive surveillance or foreign wars will stem a terrorist problem the French government itself seems intent on doing nothing to stop.
The problem is not France’s immigration laws. Dangerous people are in France, but they are being tracked by French security agencies. The problem is not Syria. Terrorists have left to fight there, acquired deadly skills and affiliations before returning to France, but have likewise been tracked by French security agencies. Instead, the problem is that French security agencies are doing nothing about these dangerous individuals knowingly living, working, and apparently plotting in the midst of French society.
In the coming hours and days, the French government and its various co-conspirators in their proxy war against Syria will propose a plan of action they claim will stem the terrorist threat France and the rest of Europe faces. But the reality is, the problem is not something the French government can solve, because the problem is clearly the French government itself.
ISIS is Behind the Paris Attacks, But Who is Behind ISIS?
With the so-called “Islamic State” (ISIS) emerging as being behind the attack, the question that remains is, who is behind ISIS itself? While the West has attempted to maintain the terrorist organization possesses almost mythological abilities, capable of sustaining combat operations against Syria, Iraq, Lebanon’s Hezbollah, support from Iran, and now the Russian military — all while carrying out large-scale, high-profile terrorist attacks across the globe — it is clear that ISIS is the recipient of immense multinational state-sponsorship.
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Doctor Who Treated Paris Wounded and Charlie Hebdo Victims Calls for Unity
An emergency doctor who treated the wounded in both January’s Charlie Hebdo attack and Friday night’s massacre in Paris has said France must stand strong and united and show a “Churchill spirit”.
Patrick Pelloux said he felt there was a clear terrorist strategy to target France and other countries. “It means that the reaction should be European. We musn’t be afraid, we must all stand together to find a Churchill spirit. We’re at the start of something. We mustn’t give in. They won’t win.”
“It’s a war. We’re at war,” Pelloux said after working through the night on Friday. “We were treating war wounds made by war weapons, with bullets that go in very fast, that break and burn and send a very strong shockwave so it creates extremely serious injuries.
“The team tried to save a lot of people but there were terrible wounds. Most were aimed to kill, at the head, thorax, abdomen. Others were defensive wounds where people had put their hands up to their face. We tried to save a woman who had nine bullets in her body but she died upon her arrival at hospital.”
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Donald Trump Says Tough Gun Control Laws in Paris Contributed to Tragedy
BEAUMONT, Tex. — Donald Trump says the tough gun control laws in Paris contributed to the high death toll during a series of terrorist attacks on Friday. The attacks, he added, also reveal the danger in allowing Syrian refugees into the country.
“You can say what you want, but if they had guns — if our people had guns, if they were allowed to carry — it would have been a much, much different situation,” Trump said to cheers during a political rally at an arena in southeast Texas on Saturday afternoon. “I hear it all the time, you know. You look at certain cities that have the highest violence, the highest problem with guns and shootings and killings — Chicago is an example, toughest gun laws in the United States, nothing but problems. So our country better get smart because we’re not smart right now.”
By making that comment, Trump doubled down on a message he tweeted in January, following a smaller-scale terrorist attack: “Isn’t it interesting that the tragedy in Paris took place in one of the toughest gun control countries in the world?” As that dated tweet recirculated on Friday evening, the French ambassador to the United States, Gerard Araud, tweeted at Trump: “This message is repugnant in its lack of any human decency. Vulture.”
[Comment:…And the French Ambassador is repugnant in his ignorance. Intentional mass importing of “refugees” leaves defenceless French citizens at mercy of such terrorists. ]
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Expert Attributes Paris Terror Attacks to France’s Political Weakness
The Friday’s terrorist attacks in Paris may well be attributed to France’s current “weak position”, according to Dimitri de Kochko, President of the France-Ural Association.
In an interview with Sputnik, Dimitri de Kochko, chairman of the France-Ural Association, argued that France’s current “weak position added significantly to Friday’s terrorist attacks in Paris.
“Politically, France is really in a weak position now,” de Kochko said.
He singled out an array of problems related to France’s domestic and foreign policy that he said should be considered when it comes to the Friday attacks in the French capital.
“The [French] government is not very popular, because there are very big economic problems, because of the migration crisis and because there will be regional elections soon in which the far-right may win,” he said.
According to him, the only way for France to become a strong country is for it to try to pursue a sovereign foreign policy.
The interview came just hours after France declared a state of emergency and closed its borders following a series of deadly terror attacks in Paris.
Late Friday evening, suicide bombers and gunmen armed with automatic rifles attacked several public locations across the French capital, including restaurants, a music hall and a sports stadium.
According to the latest estimates, at least 127 people were killed and dozens more were injured in the assaults.
The highest death toll has been reported at the Bataclan music hall, where terrorists slaughtered up to 100 young people who had come to attend a heavy metal concert.
Following the tragedy, French President Francois Hollande pledged that the country would continue its fight against terrorists and that the fight would be “merciless”.
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France’s Hollande Wants 3-Month State of Emergency: Political Sources
French President Francois Hollande said Sunday he wanted the state of emergency declared after the Paris attacks to last three months, parliamentary sources told AFP, a move that would cover the upcoming UN climate conference.
“He told us he wanted the state of emergency to last three months,” one of the sources said.
Any extension to a state of emergency beyond 12 days requires parliamentary approval…
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France: Paris Attacks: Suicide Vests Mark a New Threat
The suicide vests used by Friday’s attackers in Paris — a first in France — were made by a highly skilled professional who could still be at large in Europe, intelligence and security experts say.
All seven of the militants wore identical explosive vests and did not hesitate to blow themselves up — a worrying change of tactic for jihadists targeting France.
Unlike the attacks in London in 2005 where the bombers’ explosives were stored in backpacks, Friday’s attackers used the sort of suicide vests normally associated with bombings in the Middle East.
“Suicide vests require a munitions specialist. To make a reliable and effective explosive is not something anyone can do,” a former French intelligence chief told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity.
“A munitions specialist is someone who is used to handling explosives, who knows how to make them, to arrange them in a way that the belt or vest is not so unwieldy that the person can’t move,” he added. “And it must also not blow up by accident.”
French authorities say the vests appeared to have been made with TATP, or acetone peroxyde, that is easy for amateurs to make at home but is highly unstable. The vests also included a battery, a detonation button and shrapnel to maximize injuries.
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France’s Far-Right Le Pen Says Government Soft on Security
France’s far-right leader Marine Le Pen said Saturday that the Socialist government badly needed to toughen up on security following the attacks in Paris that left at least 129 people dead.
“The nation must remain united,” she said in response to President Francois Hollande’s call for the country to stand united across the political spectrum in the face of the tragedy.
But in a taste of potential opposition criticism over lax security, she added: “Beyond words, only forceful relentless action can protect the French and maintain this unity.(But) France and the French are no longer safe (and) urgent measures are needed.”
Saying France had become “vulnerable”, she called for Islamist organisations to be banned and radical mosques closed.
“Foreigners who preach hatred must be expelled as well as illegals who have nothing to do here,” she said.
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French Suicide Attacker ‘Trained in Syria’
Ismael Omar Mostefai, the French suicide attacker identified from DNA taken from one of his fingers, is believed to have trained with Isil in Syria for several months.
Mostefai, 29, travelled through Turkey and is thought to have crossed into Syria towards the end of 2013, returning early in 2014, a source close to the investigation said. “There are indications that he made contact there with Isil,” the source said.
His identity was revealed after police matched DNA from one of his fingers, torn off when he blew himself up at the Bataclan concert hall on Friday night, with that on France’s national DNA file. His DNA was on the file because he had been arrested and convicted of a string of petty crimes while growing up in the Paris suburb of Courcouronnes, although he was never jailed.
He was flagged up as a potential security threat in 2010 after being radicalised in Chartres, a cathedral town south-west of Paris, reportedly by a Belgian imam. Mostefai moved to Chartres to join one of his brothers who ran a shisha bar there, a municipal official said.
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Graffiti Sprayed on to German Politician’s House After He Spoke Out Against Far Right
Politician Soeren Herbst, who regularly speaks out against the far right, said someone had sprayed a gallows on the front of his house in Magdeburg, Germany.
As a local lawmaker in the east German city of Magdeburg who regularly speaks out against the far right, Soeren Herbst has endured years of animosity.
But the sight that greeted him outside his home last week made the Green Party politician realise that the abuse had reached a new level.
Someone had sprayed a gallows on the front of his house, along with Herbst’s name and the word ‘Volksverraeter’ — traitor to the German people.
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Italy: Versace to Go on Stock Exchange ‘Soon as Possible’ — Ferraris
Fashion house turnover for 2015 predicted at 640 mln euros
(ANSA) — Milan, November 13 — Versace Managing Director Gian Giacomo Ferraris said Friday he hopes the fashion house will be floated on the stock exchange “as soon as possible” as the company predicted its 2015 turnover will be some 640 million euros.
“The family has chosen the stock exchange to be independent and wants to retain control in the middle-long term,” he said.
Turnover in 2009 was just 277 million and the company then was making a loss but Ferraris says its turnover soon is expected to reach nearly 1 billion euros.
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A Friday night in Paris, France turned into a bloody rampage when at least two Muslim men armed with assault rifles left 160 dead and scores wounded. Some reports also indicate that suicide bombers were to blame for multiple explosions heard by witnesses.
A de facto state of Martial Law now exists in France, with mandatory curfews and the country’s borders sealed for the first time since the 1962 Algerian war. Paris authorities also announced a closure of all schools and universities in the French capital. Armored vehicles have been deployed around the city.
This is likely only the beginning for a wave of terror that could sweep the region in coming months and years. With hundreds of thousands of unidentified, fighting-age men having entered European borders in the last six months, the zones’ citizens from Germany to Hungary are, quite literally, up in arms.
In October we reported that Europeans were scrambling for guns amid the Islamic immigrant invasion and that Austrians were so desperate for personal protection that long guns across the entire country sold out within weeks.
In early November officials reportedly found aweapons cache at a Swedish migrant center, suggesting that citizens panicking to get firearms was completely justified.
Just hours before the Parisian massacre Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban blasted European Union member states, claiming that there is a “master plan” for a political takeover of the continent:
The migrant invasion to Europe from the Middle East and Africa may be part of a left-wing plot to pack the continent with sympathetic voters, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has told Swiss magazine dieWeltwoche
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Now, Mr. Orban has ramped up his rhetoric, insisting that there is a “master plan” by left-wing activists on both sides of the Atlantic, specifically pointing to “radical American Democrats” for their involvement, and the fact that Western, Judeo-Christian culture is being ignored in the whole debate.
“Nobody has raised the question whether this is about our very existence, our cultural identity, our way of life.
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Manhunt in Europe for at Least 1 Paris Suspect
Authorities were scouring Europe on Sunday for at least one other suspect, and possibly two, who were “directly involved” in Friday night’s attacks in Paris, as investigators tried to ascertain whether they were among a number of people arrested over the last 48 hours in Belgium, according to two French officials familiar with the case.
French police took seven people in for questioning Sunday in connection with the deadly siege that killed at least 129 people, expanding an international dragnet and investigation that now stretches from the Aegean Sea to the teeming Paris suburbs. But police continued searching for at least one other participant in the attacks, which French officials and the Islamic State both initially claimed were carried out by eight men. Police said seven attackers died, six of them by detonating suicide vests and one from police gunfire.
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Mixed Marriages in Italy on the Wane — ISTAT
De facto unions exceed 1 million in 2013-2014
(see related) Rome, November 12 — The number of mixed marriages and marriages contracted between foreigners in Italy fell in 2014 in line with an overall drop in the number of marriages contracted, Istat said Thursday.
Roughly 24,000 couples where at least one partner was non-Italian tied the knot last year, down 1,850 on 2013. These marriages accounted for 12.8% of all marriages celebrated, Istat said. In mixed marriages it was typically the wife who is foreign and in 50% of cases she was from Eastern Europe, the statistics agency added.
The number of de facto unions continues to rise in Italy, exceeding one million in the period 2013-2014 Istat said. Some 25% of children born in 2014 had unmarried parents.
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Molenbeek: The Brussels Suburb at the Heart of Belgium’s Jihadist Threat
(CNN) The search for the perpetrators of the Paris attacks has led authorities across the Belgian border to an impoverished suburb of Brussels with a history of links to terror plots.
Two of those who attacked Paris on Friday have been identified as French citizens who lived in the Molenbeek district of the Belgian capital, Jean-Pascal Thoreau, spokesman for the Belgian federal prosecutor, told CNN on Sunday. Seven people have been arrested in relation to the attacks in the raids, Thoreau said.
According to figures released by the International Center for the Study of Radicalization and Political Violence in January, an estimated 440 Belgians had taken up arms for Sunni extremist groups in the Middle East, a per capita figure about double that of France, and four times that of the UK.
Molenbeek has a large, predominantly Muslim population of first-, second- and third-generation immigrants from North Africa that has gained an unwelcome reputation as a hotbed of jihadism.
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Netherlands: Pensioners Worried About Tax Office’s Plan to go Online Only
Pensioners’ organisations are furious about government plans to phase out paper tax returns, forcing everyone to fill in their tax return online.
The organisations say up to one million elderly people don’t have a computer or internet connection and will be forced to turn to family or outsiders for help.
The finance ministry said this autumn it is phasing out the use of blue envelopes from next year. For example, all supplementary benefits, such as housing and health insurance subsidies, will only be dealt with online from 2016.
Tax returns will go online over a two-year period.
‘There is no safety net for people without a computer,’ Hagar Roijackers of the pensioners’ lobby group Unie Kbo told the Telegraaf.
‘And what about security? People without a computer will have to authorise someone else to deal with their tax affairs… which will also involve handing over their secret Digid number.’
The pensioners’ organisations are urging people who are worried to phone the tax office themselves. In the meantime, officials are looking into a fall-back system for pensioners who are without a computer or can’t fill in the form themselves, the paper says.
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Netherlands: Time is Right to ‘Wipe Out’ ISIS, Says Rotterdam’s Muslim Mayor
Rotterdam mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb has said in a reaction to the Paris attacks that it is time to ‘wipe out’ ISIS. ‘I am no military strategist, but as a manager I say ‘it is time to wipe out the 40,000 to 50,000 people who have joined ISIS,’ he told broadcaster Nos. For some people, membership of ISIS is ‘symbolic’ of something, the mayor said. But it is only when they are gone that the problem will have been dealt with. The Muslim community must make its voice heard, Aboutaleb said. ‘Because these events first and foremost turn against Muslims in Europe. All peace-loving Muslims in Europe should distance themselves from this.’
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Paris Attacks Not a Fight Between West and Islam, Says NATO Chief
NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said Saturday the deadly attacks in Paris highlight a fight between extremists and supporters of democratic values rather than one between the Islamic and western worlds.
In a brief telephone interview with AFP, Stoltenberg said the attacks would only strengthen the resolve of supporters of democracy who will ultimately win the fight because they have “superior values.”
Islamic State jihadists on Saturday claimed a series of coordinated attacks by gunmen and suicide bombers in Paris that killed nearly 130 people in scenes of carnage at a concert hall, restaurants and the national stadium.
“The important thing now is to underline how much we condemn the atrocities and the attacks on innocent people in Paris last night,” Stoltenberg said after his office proposed the interview to AFP and other media…
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Paris: Three Major Intelligence Failures May Have Let the Killers Get Through
Vital clues were missed that could have averted the Paris atrocities, it was feared last night as it was revealed that:
A heavily armed suspect was stopped on his way to the French capital more than a week ago but German police who uncovered an arsenal of weapons in his car did not tell anti-terror chiefs.
At least one of the terrorists was a Parisian who had been on a terror watch list for five years, but was not being monitored closely enough to be stopped before he took part in the murderous attack.
Greek authorities believe that two of the gunmen sneaked into Europe posing as a refugee from Syria — heightening fears that not enough security checks are being carried out on migrants.
As details of the killers’ identities began to emerge yesterday, Corinne Narassiguin, spokeswoman for France’s ruling Socialist Party, admitted: ‘Obviously there was a failure of intelligence.’
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Paris Attack Puts Dagger Through Heart of Liberal Europe
The Paris attacks that killed at least 128 people on Saturday night will put renewed pressure on Europe Schengen agreement and threaten the “very essence” of the European way of life, as far-right parties seek to capitalise on the attacks, analysts have warned.
With Paris now enduring this second major terror bloodbath in under a year, questions are now being asked about how much longer both Europe’s open border system and vision of a tolerant, multi-cultural society can survive.
“With Paris in lockdown and France closing its borders, we can see all too clearly that what is at stake here is the very essence of our way of life in Europe,” said Davis Lewin, the deputy director of the Henry Jackson Society, a conservative think-tank.
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Paris Attacks: EU Border Crisis as France Demands New Controls
European freedom of movement was last night under scrutiny in the wake of the Paris attacks, as it emerged that some of the terrorists may have posed as refugees to enter Europe before carrying out the atrocities.
The issue of border control was yesterday being debated by European leaders after a Syrian passport was found alongside one of the suicide bombers, suggesting that Isil terrorists are exploiting the refugee crisis and Europe’s freedom of movement rules to get to the continent.
Last night there were demands for the borders to be tightened from the French.
The demands include a fingerprinting system and a database of travel records for everyone travelling on planes and high-speed trains in the EU.
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Paris’s Charlie Hebdo-Prompted Alert Does Little to Defend City
The gunmen who mowed people down in cafes in central Paris and at a packed theater in the French capital on Friday were acting in a city on high alert since terrorists attacked satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo and a Jewish supermarket in January. That did nothing to stop them.
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Paris Attackers Linked to Belgian Suburb Where the Authorities Have ‘Lost Control’
Two of the Paris attackers — and at least three other people involved — are linked to a heavily-Muslim suburb of Brussels where the authorities admit they have “lost control.”
The neighbourhood of Molenbeek, which has been involved in many previous terror attacks, was last night emerging as a key centre of the plot. Belgian prosecutors said that one of the seven killers who died in Paris had been identified as a Frenchman living in Molenbeek, which is described by one expert as “the capital of political Islam in continental Europe.” A second attacker lived in or close to the district.
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Recent Terrorist Takedown in Europe the Tip of the Iceberg — Indian Expert
The arrest of the thirteen suspected members of a jihadist group represents a great success, but only fixes part of the problem, according to Indian anti-terror expert Rashmi Singh.
In an interview with Sputnik, Rashmi Singh, a lecturer in Terrorism Studies at the University of St. Andrews’ Handa Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence, praised the detention of 13 suspected members of a jihadist group during raids across Europe, but warned that it is “the tip of the iceberg.”
She specifically pointed to the fact that prior to the arrests, it was very difficult to track the scattered terrorist network and identify particular individuals who could be members of the jihadist cell.
“The fact that this has happened is a huge success but it is just the tip of the iceberg,” Singh said.
She also said that the problem with international terrorism is that its diversity makes it very difficult for law enforcement to penetrate any particular terrorist network.
Separately, she underscored that the radicalization of Islam was problematic.
“There has been increasing radicalization happening on the ground within Europe”, she said.
Singh added that the arrest of the 13 suspected members of the jihadist cell was a particularly important move.
“First of all, it shows a very concrete step toward cooperation between at least six EU countries”, she said.
The thirteen suspected terrorists were detained in raids across Europe on Thursday in what the police dubbed “the most important police operation in the last 20 years”.
According to officials, all the detainees were members of the jihadist cell Rawti Shax. The group is known for providing financial and logistical support to terror organizations in the Middle East as well as training foreigners for a future conflict in Kurdistan.
The network was also trying to free its leader, Mullah Krekar, who is currently serving a prison term in Norway for making threats and instigating other people to commit criminal acts.
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Saudi School in Paris Teaches Violence Against France
Washington DC — The Institute for Gulf Affairs is releasing a report on the Saudi government school in Paris and the content of its schoolbooks that promotes terrorism and hatred.
Some of the violent and extremist teachings include:
1- One lesson titled “The Danger of Crusades” states that there is an ongoing war between Muslims and Christians.
2- The lesson considers the French Revolution apostasy and deviant ideology; its followers are to be killed.
3- The killing of those who espouse secularism, and the killing of all Jews.
4- The text also legitimizes child marriage, and hand and leg amputation.
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Shock: The Grand Lesson of the Paris Jihad
The grand lesson is that such attacks must and willcontinue to multiply in severity. Why? Because Western nations, their leaders and media talking heads continue to be shocked and dismayed. As Judith Berman writes for the Gatestone Institute today:
One of the most surprising aspects of the terrorist attacks in Paris on Friday night is how “deeply shocked” members of the European political establishment appeared to be.
Angela Merkel, David Cameron and the Pope all expressed their condolences—and “deep shock”—at the well-coordinated, citywide terror attacks in six different places across Paris‚…
Even “NBA players express shock, sympathy over Paris terrorist tragedy.”
What is truly shocking is that so many are still shocked. When someone is shocked, they are essentially saying they have no idea how a specific event, in this case yesterday’s Paris attack, came to pass.
In turn, this means that all the factors that led up to such terrorist attacks—from an already large Muslim presence further engorged with more Muslim migrants, to an inability to speak honestly about Islam’s supremacist and violent teachings—will continue unabated.
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Suicide Bomber Was Blocked From Entering Stade de France
At least one of the attackers outside France’s national soccer stadium had a ticket to the game and attempted to enter the 80,000-person venue, according to a Stade de France security guard who was on duty and French police.
The guard—who asked to be identified only by his first name, Zouheir—said the attacker was discovered wearing an explosives vest when he was frisked at the entrance to the stadium about 15 minutes into the game. France was playing an exhibition against Germany inside.
A police officer confirmed the sequence, adding that police suspect the attacker aimed to detonate his vest inside the stadium in order to provoke a deadly stampede.
The account sheds light on why the suicide attacks on Stade de France failed to cause the carnage that occurred at the Bataclan concert hall and restaurants across Paris.
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Swedish City ‘Is Largest Recruiting Ground for ISIS’
Gothenburg, in western Sweden is, per capita, the European city from which most people have joined Islamic extremist groups, according to Swedish integration police chief, Ulf Boström.
The largest of these groups is Islamic State (Isis), which claims to have carried out the terrorist attacks in Paris on Friday that killed 129 people.
Boström, who works with the Muslim community in Gothenburg, told Swedish newspaper Göteborg-Posten on Sunday that Isis “has the strength, intellectual capacity and ability to coordinate. They are no fools.”
Previous statistics from the Swedish security service, Säpo, suggest that just over 300 Swedish nationals have left the country to travel to fight with Islamic extremist groups in Syria and Iraq.
40 percent of those — around 120 young men — are from the Gothenburg area, primarily from Bergsjön and Angered. According to Boström this means that Gothenburg is the European city which, in proportion to its population (just under 1m people live in the metropolitan area), contributes the highest number of people to violent extremism.
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The Paris Massacre, Social Justice, And Redistribution of Wealth
Social justice is defined as “promoting a just society by challenging injustice and valuing diversity.” It can only exist when “all people share a common humanity and therefore have a right to equitable treatment, support for their human rights, and a fair allocation of community resources.”
There are many problems with this definition. The most glaring is the fact that “personal responsibility” does not seem to be a variable. Another problem is the fact that, to quote Dr. Savage, “Without quality there can be no equality.” Thirdly, this much touted and failed diversity/multiculturalism is causing severe problems in the west as the advancing hordes of Muslim “refugees” are causing massacres, chaos, and destruction in Paris and in Europe, soon to emerge in the U.S.
Not all people share a common humanity, some are quite barbaric. Western societies have built a civilization based on huge libraries of knowledge whereas theocracies like Islam base their entire existence on one book to the exclusion of all else. Additionally, allocating community resources fairly from an economic stand point is logistically impossible unless governments steal from one group or persons and give to others.
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UK: Woman Arrested Over Beauty Salon’s ‘No Muslims’ Paris Attack Post
A 43-year-old woman has been arrested in connection with a “racially abusive” posting on a beauty salon’s Facebook page.
The Facebook postings read: “Blinks of Bicester are no longer taking bookings from anyone from the Islamic faith whether you are UK granted with passport or not” and “Sorry but time to put my country first”.
A Thames Valley Police spokeswoman said: “We have arrested a 43-year-old woman in Bicester today after a number of complaints about a racially abusive post on social media.
“The woman was arrested under section 19 of the Public Order Act which relates to the display of written material which is threatening, abusive or insulting with the intention of stirring up racial hatred, and for producing malicious communications.
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Was Paris Attack Planned by Belgian Terror Cell in ‘Jihad Capital of Europe’?
French police are hunting 26-year-old Salah Abdeslam, from Brussels, who is accused of renting a Volkswagen Polo used by the suicide bombers who killed 89 people at the Bataclan music venue.
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We Want Our Markka Back! 50,000 Finns Sign Petition to Leave Eurozone
A petition for Finland to leave the Eurozone has reached more than 50,000 signatures, triggering a compulsory parliamentary debate.
A campaign for Finland to leave the Eurozone has gained more than 50,000 signatures for its proposal, the number of votes that forces parliament to debate its proposal for a national referendum on the issue.
The petition was organized by Finnish MEP Paavo Vayrynen, a veteran politician and former presidential candidate from the Center Party, who has also served as a Finland’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister.
It requests parliament to order a national referendum on the Eurozone, of which Finland is a founder member. In 1998 Finnish parliamentarians decided to join the single currency, and the following year the euro replaced the markka, Finland’s currency since 1860.
“The euro area has not developed as was presented to the parliament in 1998. Affiliation with it has caused financial loss to Finland, unemployment and bad government deficit,” the European Citizen’s Initiative reads.
“Member states in distress are being financially supported in a way that violates the EU Treaties. These support mechanisms are being strengthened, and put in place on a permanent basis. The euro area decision making system is being changed in a way that would essentially reduce the economic and state independence of Finland.”
Vayrynen is continuing to collect signatures for the petition, which Finns were able to sign both on paper and electronically.
“The collection will continue. Some of the signatures may be discarded because some people could have signed the initiative twice,” said the MEP, who began collecting signatures for the petition four months ago, and had collected 42,000 signatures after two months.
The signatures are currently being verified by Finland’s Population Register Center, which will then forward the initiative to parliament.
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What Parisians Need Are Guns, Trump Says
The ISIS terrorist attack in Paris might not have happened if French laws allowed for more people to carry guns, Donald Trump suggested at a rally Saturday in Beaumont, Texas.
“The toughest gun laws in the world: Paris,” Trump said during a campaign rally of about 8,000 people in a community center. “If they were allowed to carry — it would have been a much, much different situation.”
The Republican presidential candidate’s tough talk played well in Texas. Trump repeatedly praised veterans and their families. He repeated his suggestion that the U.S. should have taken over Iraq’s oil fields and sent the profits to veterans of the invasion. That idea drew cheers from the crowd, as Trump dismissed the notion that it couldn’t be accomplished.
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Why the Paris Massacre Will Have Limited Impact
by Daniel Pipes
The murder of some 127 innocents in Paris by a jihadi gang on Friday has again shocked the French and led to another round of solidarity, soul searching, and anger. In the end, however, Islamist violence against Westerners boils down to two questions: How much will this latest atrocity turn public opinion? And how much will it further spur the Establishment to deny reality?
As these questions suggest, the people and the professionals are moving in opposite directions, the former to the right, the latter to the left. In the end, this clash much reduces the impact of such events on policy.
But when it comes to the Establishment — politicians, the police, the press, and the professors — the unrelenting violence has a contrary effect. Those charged with interpreting the attacks live in a bubble of public denial (what they say privately is another matter) in which they feel compelled to pretend that Islam has no role in the violence, out of concern that to recognize it would cause even more problems.
This defiance of common sense has survived each atrocity and I predict that it will also outlast the Paris massacre. Only a truly massive loss of life, perhaps in the hundreds of thousands, will force the professionals to back off their deeply ingrained pattern of denying an Islamic component in the spate of attacks.
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Woman in Paris Attack Video Called for Help as She Held on to a Bataclan Window Ledge
Video footage has emerged of a pregnant woman clinging desperately to a window ledge of the second floor of the Bataclan theatre in Paris as she tried to hide from the terrorists.
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Emirates Sets Record With Most Passenger Seats on New Plane
Emirates unveiled a redesigned Airbus A380 over the weekend that boasts a record-breaking 615 passenger seats.
The Airbus A380 is already the biggest commercial airliner in the world, with most carrier configurations accommodating around 520 passengers. Before Emirates debuted its new plane, Air France’s A 380s held the most passengers with 538 seats.
Emirates’ new design eliminates bulky first class seats, instead offering just two classes — economy and business.
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French Jets Target ISIS in Raqqa
French jets struck the heart of ISIS-controlled territory on Sunday in the first direct retaliation for Friday’s deadly terror attacks that killed 129 in Paris.
French fighter jets dropped 20 bombs on a command and control center, jihadi recruitment center, munitions depot and ISIS training camp in the Syrian city of Raqqa, AP and Reuters reported, citing a statement from the French Defense Ministry.
The “massive” raid was launched from the United Arab Emirates and Jordan and was carried out in coordination with U.S. forces.
Raqqa is the de facto capital of the Islamic State’s “caliphate.”
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State Department May Exclude Middle East Christians From ISIS Genocide Victim Ruling
Nina Shea of the Washington, DC-based Hudson Institute Center for Religious Freedman is the most outspoken critic of Administration policies towards Middle Eastern Christian and other non-Muslim religious minorities. The latest episode concerns a proposed ruling by the State Department of minorities threatened by extinction by the Islamic State, as a predicate for possible rescue, asylum determinations and assistance. Incredibly this ruling excludes, those Christians in Syria and Iraq, who are threatened with extinction by ISIS barbarity. Shea writes about this in a National Review On-line article, “ISIS Genocide Victims Do Not Include Christians, the State Department Is Poised to Rule.”..
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Syria Army Conscription, Multiple Tours Stir Anger
The Syrian army’s decision to repeatedly extend tours of duty and aggressive recent conscription campaigns are stirring anger online and in private conversations among pro-regime Syrians.
Depleted by years of conflict, with its ranks approximately halved, the army has been forced to keep conscripts on well past their usual two years of service.
And it has expanded its bid to tackle endemic draft dodging, setting up multiple checkpoints in Damascus in recent weeks and scooping up men between the ages of 20 and 40…
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Turkey Abandons Missile Deal Negotiations in China, Considers Building Own ‘National’ System
ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey’s state-run news agency says Turkey has ended negotiations with China on building a missile defense system.
The Anadolu Agency, citing unnamed officials, said Sunday that Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu decided to abandon the missile tender over the possibility that Turkey may construct its own “national” defense system.
The deal with China had been a source of tension with NATO partners, who said they would not integrate Chinese-made hardware with a European-wide system.
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Victory Over ISIL Requires Coalition Containing Russia — Sarkozy
Nicolas Sarkozy said that victory over Islamic State jihadist group requires a broader coalition with the participation of Russia.
PARIS (Sputnik) — The victory over Islamic State jihadist group requires a broader coalition with the participation of Russia, the former president of France, Nicolas Sarkozy, said Sunday after a meeting with current President Francois Hollande.
“I told President Hollande that it is necessary to change the emphasis of our foreign policy,” Sarkozy, the leader of the largest French opposition party The Republicans, told reporters.
“We need to do everything to destroy the Islamic State, we need a broader coalition, including, of course, Russians,” Sarkozy stressed.
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Nepal’s PM Asks India to Lift “Undeclared Blockade” And Help Restore Age-Old Relationship
KATHMANDU, Nepal — Nepal’s prime minister has asked neighboring India to lift an “undeclared blockade,” saying the Himalayan nation is facing a severe fuel shortage and trouble obtaining medicine and food supplies blocked at the border.
Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Oli in a televised address on Sunday said Nepal is facing a humanitarian crisis because of the trouble at the border points.
Nepal has been facing severe fuel shortages in the past two months because India has restricted imports of fuel.
India, which has been supplying most of the oil products for Nepal, is unhappy with the new constitution adopted in September.
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Secret Talks to Free Hero Pakistani Doctor Break Down Despite CIA Priority
High-level talks to free the Pakistani doctor imprisoned there ever since his role in a ruse to uncover Usama bin Laden’s hideout have broken down, a key military and intelligence source told FoxNews.com, saying Shakil Afridi remains too unpopular in his homeland for officials to consider a swap.
Although senior officials at the Central Intelligence Agency gave back channel negotiators the informal green light to do “whatever it takes” to secure Afridi’s release, the agency’s Pakistani counterparts at the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) have rejected recent overtures.
The physician worked with the CIA to verify the terror chief’s presence inside an Abbottabad compound, paving the way for the daring, 2011 raid in which Navy SEAL Team 6 took out the world’s most wanted terrorist.
Afridi was hailed as a hero by U.S. officials for posing as a vaccination manager in the operation, obtaining DNA samples of bin Laden relatives and establishing his presence in the compound. But officials, including then-CIA Director Leon Panetta, made Afridi’s role public before the doctor and his family could get out of Pakistan, and he was quickly arrested.
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Do Refugees in Brussels Still Feel Safe?
Refugees that fled their war-torn country and ended up in Brussels, have expressed their disbelief towards the recent developments in Paris. Asylum seekers still feel relatively safe, but hope that the government(s) can safeguard security in Europe.The VRT spoke with Bassel Abufakher, a refugee from Syria.
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Egypt Police Kill 15 Sudanese Migrants at Israel Border
Egyptian police on Sunday killed 15 Sudanese migrants and wounded another eight who were trying to jump into Israel over the fence separating it from Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, security and hospital officials said.
They said police opened fire on the migrants after they ignored warning shots and sprinted toward the fence. The security forces arrested another eight Sudanese migrants who were not wounded.
The incident took place at a border point about 17 kilometers (12 miles) south of Rafah, an Egyptian town on the border with the Gaza Strip. The killings ended a lull in attempts by migrants to cross into Israel from Sinai, mostly because of stricter surveillance and stepped up military operations in the area by Egyptian security forces battling Islamic militants led by a local affiliate of the extremist Islamic State group.
Israel’s Interior Ministry says more than 45,000 African migrants and asylum seekers, who include many Sudanese, are in Israel.
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German Minister Cautions Against Terror-Refugee Link
Germany’s defence minister Sunday sought to quash speculation in the wake of the Paris attacks that radicals bent on violence could slip into Europe among a flood of asylum seekers arriving on the continent.
“Terrorism is so well organised that it does not need to take the difficult route taken by the refugees, who risk their lives by crossing the high seas,” Ursula von der Leyen told reporters.
“So I would advise that we be cautious about mixing the idea of terror with refugees,” she said…
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Illegal Immigration is Destroying America
You can spout all the politically correct nonsense that you want but the time has come to call a spade a spade. Islam is NOT anything that has to do with peace, tolerance or anything else civil. It is a barbaric, satanic, vile and abusive ideology that needs to be eradicated from the earth. What we witnessed in France this week is true, unadulterated islam! Some people that just can’t seem to open their eyes to the truth will claim that not all muslim’s are like that. No, not all will slit your throat. The ‘moderates’ will only hold you while the radicals slit your throat! The president of Turkey, Tyyip Erdogan, stated that there was no moderate islam, islam is islam. Every day you here a windbag imam call for the death of America, death of Israel, all through violence and bloodshed. There is no moderation in that political ideology. It has been a violent and bloody ideology ever since a person who could not read and could not write and had a penchant for underaged girls thought he heard from god but was not intelligent enough to know it was the god of this world, satan, that he heard from.
You’ll hear fools, like Pastor Rick Warren, say that the god of islam is the God of the Bible. Sorry Rick but the God of the Bible is not schizophrenic. He doesn’t tell Christians to love your neighbor, Matthew-5:44 But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; and then tell muslims to kill Christians a Jews: “Fight against such as those to whom the Scriptures were given [Jews and Christians]…until they pay tribute out of hand and are utterly subdued.” (Surah 9:27-). It isn’t rocket science only common sense. The Pope has even said that the Bible and the Koran are the same book! That is stupidity on steroids!
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Immigration Issue Explains Trump’s Rise
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RUSH: Now, even despite — even despite — not including the Trump tirade from last night, Trump still goes up, and there are things that happened. Like, a lot of people thought Trump was a nonentity in the debate, that he really wasn’t there.
He certainly wasn’t the fiery, dominating Trump that everybody’s gotten to know. And so some speculated that, “Well, maybe that means Trump’s getting bored or maybe just has less excitement in general.” It’s when I came in and reminded everybody, “Don’t judge it that way. Debates do not make candidate. A debate can break somebody. But a debate format, so many people on stage…” Trump is not where he is because of how he’s done in the debates, because, arguably, if all people knew about Trump was what he said in the debates, he probably wouldn’t be leading the pack.
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No Need for Complete Rethink on Refugees After Paris Attack: Juncker
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said Sunday there was no need for a complete review of the bloc’s refugee policy after the Paris attacks claimed by Islamic State jihadists.
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Paris Attacks: Impact on Border and Refugee Policy
The Greek authorities say at least one of the attackers may have passed through the island of Leros with a group of 69 refugees. The man, apparently, registered in Greece and had his fingerprints taken.
It is too soon to know whether a passport, registered in Greece, found at the scene of one of the attacks can definitely be matched to one of the attackers.
But the Serbian Interior Ministry says that the holder of the Syrian passport crossed into Serbia on 7 October and sought asylum.
If the link is established the refugee crisis will take on a new dimension.
It can already be detected in Poland. The incoming Minister for European Affairs Konrad Szymanski said “we will accept refugees only if we have security guarantees”.
Under the scheme to re-locate refugees, Poland was to take 4,500. That now appears in doubt.
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Poland Backs Away From Plan to Accommodate Migrants After Paris Attack
Appearing to take political advantage of Friday’s deadly terror attacks in Paris, an official from Poland’s incoming government told local media that Warsaw may now back out of the its commitment to host refugees under Brussels-mandated quotas.
Commenting on the attacks in an op-ed for Polish news portal wPolityce.pl, European Affairs Minister designate Konrad Szymanski noted that his government had not agreed to the EU-mandated relocation measures in the first place, and that now, “in the face of the tragic events in Paris, we do not see the political feasibility of implementing the decision [to relocate] refugees.”
Szymanski, one of the leading figures of the right-nationalist Law and Justice Party, which trounced its moderate right opponents in elections last month, noted that “the attacks [in Paris] indicate the need for an even deeper revision of European policy on the migrant crisis.”
The official added that “Europe must urgently put on the agenda proposals [on tightening] the EU’s external border controls, and those aiming at fighting the crisis at the source, in agreement with third countries.”
It remains unclear exactly which third countries Szymanski was referring to, and whether the Syrian government, long demonized by Warsaw’s allies in Washington, may be one of them.
Human Rights Watch EU Director Lotte Leicht criticized the minister designate’s comments, tweeting that Szymanski’s statements were a “ridiculous and ignorant response” to the terror attacks, and to refugees “flee[ing] war and persecution.”
Leicht’s comments were themselves subjected to criticism from Polish twitter users, who suggested that Szymanski’s viewpoint represents the position of the majority in Poles, even if they may have been made at a politically insensitive moment. A user named Lukasz angrily told Leicht that “believe me, we don’t need your medals,” with a user named Artur adding that the HRW official should “wipe ignorance off your face and get on with the human rights of the rightful citizens of EU.”
A user named Joanna offered a more measured reply: “@LotteLeicht1 please do not forget that we are also human too, and also have our rights, and here is our home, refugees are only visitors.” Moreover, not everyone supported Szymanski’s comments, with a user named Marta noting that “as a Pole I am extremely embarrassed of those words. I’m so sorry World!”
On Friday, a series of gun and bomb attacks were carried out in Paris, claiming the lives of at least 127 people and becoming the worst terrorist incident in French history. Following the attacks, over 300 people were hospitalized, 80 of them in critical condition. On Saturday, French President Francois Hollande declared three days of mourning.
Ahead of last month’s elections, the Law and Justice Party called on the EU to pay more attention to Poland’s national interests, stepping out against accepting economic migrants and Muslim refugees from war-torn countries in the Middle East and North Africa. Earlier, in September, the EU’s interior ministers had approved a plan to redistribute some 160,000 refugees throughout the bloc under a quota system. An opinion poll conducted for Sputnik last month found that over half of Poles were opposed to the former government’s decision to accept refugees under the EU plan.
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Report Lists Complaints of Abuse in Bulgaria
Oxfam: extorsion, robbery, violence, threats of deportation
(ANSA-AP) — BERLIN — A report says migrants crossing Bulgaria on their way to Western Europe have complained of widespread abuse by the police including extortion, robbery, violence, threats of deportation and police-dog attacks.
The report funded by Oxfam and carried out by the Serbia-based Belgrade Center for Human Rights says more than 100 people interviewed after coming to Serbia from Bulgaria complained of abuse to the researchers.
The report released on Friday says one group spoke of a gun being held to a migrant’s forehead, police taking their valuables, food and water and releasing dogs on them, after which seven people went missing.
In another incident two Afghan men said police had shot at their group, wounding two, while another Afghan man alleged he was pistol-whipped by Bulgaria’s police.
Stefano Baldini, Oxfam Director for South East Europe, says “these testimonies present a consistent picture of alleged incidents in Bulgaria.” He adds “the European Union has to intervene and take concrete action to protect basic human rights within its borders.” There was no immediate reaction from the authorities in Bulgaria.
An EU member bordering Turkey, Bulgaria has put up a fence on the border to stop the migrants from crossing. The country has stayed out of international focus as only hundreds pass through, compared with thousands going through Greece.
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Turkey: Tax Breaks for Firms Employing Migrants to Ease Refugee Crisis
Sanem Oktar,the president of the Turkish Women Entrepreneurs Association (KAGIDER), said that it would be wiser to have systems for the refugees to find jobs and maybe some kind of tax reduction for the companies employing them.
ANTALYA (Sputnik) — Giving tax deductions to companies employing refugees and creating jobs for them would pay off economically, the president of the Turkish Women Entrepreneurs Association (KAGIDER) told Sputnik on Sunday on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Antalya.
The migrant crisis is expected to be high on the agenda of the G20 world leaders’ meeting underway in the southern Turkish resort. Turkey hosts around 2 million refugees, most of them from Syria.
“Economically, it would be wiser to have systems for the refugees to find job for them… and maybe some kind of tax reduction for the companies employing them, as well as finding appropriate sectors — like textile industry or agriculture,” KAGIDER President Sanem Oktar said.
Oktar, who sits at the Steering Committee of the Women 20 (W20) group under the auspices of the G20, said these proposals had been discussed for two weeks with representatives of G20 countries prior to the summit.
“We had a long discussion about refugees… We are now expecting some precise solutions,” the business leader said. She added that more women should participate in political decision-making to move forward on the migrant issue.
Turkey is a key transit country for thousands of refugees fleeing conflicts in Syria and elsewhere in the Middle East. The European Union has been pressing Ankara to stem the outflow of migrants through its northern border into Europe.
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UN Plan Estimates Up to 600,000 New Middle East Migrants Will Enter Europe in Next 4 Months
A plan by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees for dealing with the European refugee crisis anticipates that as many as 5,000 Middle Eastern refugees and migrants could pass from Turkey into Europe each day over the next four months—with a total of 600,000 moving into Europe from November through February.
“Between November 2015 and February 2016, UNHCR anticipates that there could be an average of 5,000 arrivals per day from Turkey, resulting in up to a total of 600,000 arrivals in Croatia, Greece, Serbia, Slovenia and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia,” says the UNHCR’s “Winterization Plan for the Refugee Crisis in Europe: November 2015-February 2016.” The plan was published on Nov. 5.
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Torn apart by an open door for migrants: Sweden is seen as Europe’s most liberal nation, but violent crime is soaring and the Far Right is on the march,
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3317978/Torn-apart-open-door-migrants-Sweden-seen-Europe-s-liberal-nation-violent-crime-soaring-Far-Right-march-reports-SUE-REID.html
“A report says migrants crossing Bulgaria on their way to Western Europe have complained of widespread abuse by the police including extortion, robbery, violence, threats of deportation and police-dog attacks.”
and…..?
Bulgaria treats its own citizens in a similar manner as well as foreign tourists. Bulgaria is a lawless, cess pit of post communist oppression. The communists have not gone away. They have just changed their name. Do not go to Bulgaria.
“culturally enriched neighborhood” = a formerly decent place to live that has been turned into a crime-filled ghetto by savage followers of islam
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A link to a story on politico.eu that I found at http://www.diewelt.de (a German-language website with good coverage): http://www.politico.eu/article/the-saudi-wahhabis-are-the-real-foe-islamic-terrorists-salafi-violence/ The linked story discusses the Saudi Wahhabi connection to Islamic terrorism, and how an entire generation has been conditioned to accept/expect (yes, both) such.
Note: Die Welt showed photos of two dead terrorists in its story on how Belgium seems to be the Control Center of European terrorism (http://www.welt.de/politik/ausland/article148922305/Das-kaputte-Belgien-ist-Europas-Terror-Brutstaette.html). Their photos, to show that these criminals are dead, are marked with…CROSSES! (mad cackling laugh ensues)
The brother of the Paris suspect on the run is currently mewling on French TV.
If the West had any guts they would remand the last brother to a CIA black site and detain him indefinitely until his brother turned himself over to the authorities.
On a more positive human note, I have an Algerian friend who lives east of Paris, and she is terrifically stressed out by the assault.
This is because she emigrated to France in the 90s to escape these sorts of situations that frequently arose during the Algerian Civil War. She is deeply disturbed that this filth has followed her to France.
She is also well aware that the radicals are not human beings as we in the West conceive of them. If only our so-called leaders could find such wisdom between their ears.