According to the latest statistics, almost one third of the migrants residing now in Vienna are criminals. More than a third of those culture-enriching criminals are under 20 years old.
In other news, teachers at schools in Molenbeek and Schaerbeek in Brussels report that 90% of their pupils in the 16-17 age range consider the terrorists who committed the attacks in Brussels and Paris to be heroes.
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Italy GDP Nine Points Behind Pre-Crisis Levels Says Govt
Production output 20 points behind
(ANSA) — Rome, April 11 — The economic recession was “unprecedented” for Italy and national GDP still lags pre-crisis levels by nine points, the government said Monday in a report to parliament accompanying its 2016 financial and economic planning document (DEF). “Compared to pre-crisis production trends — which were already posting unsatisfactory results prior to 2008 — the gap in production output is almost 20 points,” the paper said. “This is of unprecedented gravity”.
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A Great Divide in American Death: Statistics Show Widening Urban-Rural Health Gap
White women have been dying prematurely at higher rates since the turn of this century, passing away in their 30s, 40s and 50s in a slow-motion crisis driven by decaying health in small-town America, according to an analysis of national health and mortality statistics by The Washington Post.
Among African Americans, Hispanics and even the oldest white Americans, death rates have continued to fall. But for white women in what should be the prime of their lives, death rates have spiked upward. In one of the hardest-hit groups — rural white women in their late 40s — the death rate has risen by 30 percent.
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Boston Globe Warns America: If Trump Elected, Trade Deals and Immigration Laws Will be Enforced
The editors’ analysis seems to comport with the analysis of Pat Caddell and others who have suggested that Sen. Cruz’s candidacy is an essential ingredient necessary for the Establishment to choose their preferred nominee.
Ironically, the editors bash Trump as being “anti-immigrant” for his America first platform — but then seem to wonder why he’s so popular in the first place:
At some point, after the election, Republicans will also need to ask themselves some tough questions about how their actions and inactions made the party vulnerable to Trump. After all, a candidate spewing anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim, authoritarian rhetoric didn’t come out of nowhere; the Tea Party has been strong enough long enough that someone like him shouldn’t be a surprise. Chasing short-term political gains, the GOP missed a lot of chances to fight the hateful currents that now threaten to overwhelm it.
The talking point that Americans are anti-immigrant or hostile to immigrants is the typical slander employed by the proponents of mass migration like Hillary Clinton, George Soros, and Paul Ryan, who believe there should be no pause or cessation in record migration even if it means more crime, overcrowded schools, and depressed wages.
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Disgusting! Colorado Trump Delegates Scratched From Ballots at GOP Convention — Cruzers Listed Twice
Ted Cruz supporters took all 13 of the delegates up for grabs at the Colorado GOP Convention on Saturday to complete a clean sweep of the state.
But it was not without controversy.
The Cruz camp and GOP establishment leaders strong-armed their way to a sweep by banning Trump delegates and omitting them from the ballots… and listing Cruz delegates TWICE!
They even listed their candidates twice on the ballots.
The liberal media and GOP establishment will call this “good electioneering.”
One Trump delegate (379) was not listed on the ballot while a Cruz delegate (378) was listed twice.
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Election Fraud: Trump Delegates Being Replaced!
Delegate testifies election fraud is taking place in Colorado after being “removed and replaced” off the roster for voting pro-Trump
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (INTELLIHUB) — A Delegate who voted for Trump said he hasn’t been “this mad in a long time,” after finding out that the Republican Party “removed and replaced” his vote for Trump, committing election fraud.
“My name is no longer on the roster, as a Delegate I have been removed and replaced, my vote nullified because I had voted for Trump.”
The “Delegate” said that he is “going to raise holy hell over this” and is “ashamed to call himself a Republican.”
They are a “corrupt bunch of thieves.”
The Delegate said that he was “threatened,” forewarned, that if he voted for Trump he ‘would be replaced.’
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Hillary Rodham Clinton: An Exceptionally Dishonest Life
During her time as Secretary of State, she utilized Muslim Brotherhood female aide Huma Abedin to counsel Hillary and push Abedin’s Islamic influence into the White House. Today, no less than 13 Muslims aide and direct Barack Hussein Obama including the head of the CIA, John O. Brennan, who converted to Islam.
While Secretary of State, she illegally used outside and insecure email servers to carry on our nation’s highest top secrets of classified information. That’s a direct violation of our laws and punishable by prison.
Additionally, in 2012, she ignored calls from Ambassador Stevens as to the dangers facing him and his staff in Libya. She failed to send in Special Forces in the area to protect Stevens’ life and that of embassy staff. Four perished.
She later explained and gave excuses, “What difference did it make?”
Four good men lost their lives as well as the anguish of their families. Hillary Clinton, like all bureaucrats enjoys 24/7 protection from harm. Additionally, she created a story that a video against Islam caused the attack, which proved totally false…
She told reporters that America needs to inject more than 75,000 Syrian refugees, as if none of them will instigate the next Brussels, Belgium or Paris, France terrorist attacks in America. She neglects to mention that African-Americans struggle horribly in today’s economy. She neglects the 1.5 million homeless Americans as well as 14 million unemployed, but expects to place all those refugees on welfare. She forgets that America suffocates under a $19 trillion debt. She fails to comprehend that America imports 1.2 million legal immigrants annually with 91 percent of them subsisting on welfare paid for by struggling Americans. She promises amnesty for 20 to 30 million illegal aliens violating our nation’s borders. She refuses to secure America’s borders.
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40% of Americans do not believe in man-made global warming. How do the powers that be change that? They intimidate them by demanding their emails on the subject, and harass them into submission by threatening jail time.
The latest assault on free speech and the scientific process is part of a coordinated campaign by a coalition of Democrat and far-left attorneys general calling themselves “AGs United for Clean Power.”
Bringing together more than 15 top state prosecutors and self-styled climate guru Al Gore, the effort aims to crack down on skepticism and skeptics of the increasingly discredited anthropogenic (man-made) global-warming (AGW) theory.
The campaign of persecution, supported by Rockefeller-funded AstroTurf groups, was formally announced by Democrat New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman last week. “Financial damages alone may be insufficient,” he warned, suggesting prison time might be in order for climate heretics who cast doubt on the imploding AGW theory.
“The bottom line is simple: Climate change is real; it is a threat to all the people we represent… We have heard the scientists; we know what is being done to the planet.” The New York prosecutor made the announcement with Gore, just days before record cold temperatures struck New York as part of the infamous “Gore effect,” in which unusually freezing temperatures seem to follow the discredited alarmist around the world to his “global warming” events.
Lawyer Schneiderman and numerous other politicians hoping to tax the gas of life, also known as carbon dioxide, as if it were “pollution,” claim their theory is true and allegedly supported by different arbitrary (and totally bogus) percentages of scientists.
However, the observable evidence suggests strongly that the alarmists, widely ridiculed by climate experts as “global warming Nazis” and the “climate cult,” are wrong. The fact that satellite and weather balloon data show there has been no global warming in some two decades or more, for example, thoroughly discredited every single United Nations climate model, all of which predicted warming. [Comment: Bankster plans to de-industrialize the west using energy restrictions, via the global warming scam, is in jeopardy as the truth comes out. Hence the Stasi tactics.]
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Ted Cruz Not on NJ Ballot — Will Hearing Today Finally Expose His Con Game?
Now in April 2016, we have come full circle back to the State of New Jersey and a write in candidate for president by the name of Victor Williams who has quite a resumé:
“Victor Williams is a clinical assistant professor in the Lawyering Skills Program. He teaches Law and Economics and Lawyering Skills. Victor earned three law degrees: an LL.M. (specializing in Law and Economics) from George Mason University School of Law in 2005; an LL.M. from Columbia University’s School of Law in 1994; and a J.D. from the University of California’s Hastings College of the Law in 1990. While in law school, he was an articles editor of the Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly. Victor also served as a student editor of American Review of International Arbitration while completing his graduate law study at Columbia.
“Victor served as a federal judicial law clerk with U.S. District Court Judge W. B. Hand from 1990-1992. Victor also worked as a federal judicial extern for U.S. Court of Appeals Judge G.B. Tjoflat of the Eleventh Circuit and for U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Joseph Sneed of the Ninth Circuit. Additionally, he interned with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, working on enforcement issues at the SEC’s regional office in Los Angeles. Prior to affiliating with The Columbus School of Law, Victor Williams held a tenured appointment as an associate professor of Law with the City University of New York’s John Jay College of Criminal Justice. At CUNY, he taught a variety of law and policy courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.
“His academic writings include articles and essays published by the law journals of Michigan, William & Mary, Columbia, George Mason, Kentucky, Marquette, Seton Hall and Loyola. His practice-oriented articles and essays have been published by the Banking Law Journal, Commercial Law Journal, Administrative Law Journal, American Journal of Comparative Law, Trial, Judicature and Federal Lawyer. Additionally, Victor has published commentaries and op-eds in The American Lawyer, Christian Science Monitor, National Law Journal, Connecticut Law Tribune, Jurist.org, Legal Times, New Jersey Law Journal, Fulton County Daily Report, Miami Business Daily, and the Recorder. Victor’s present research interests include law and economics, the federal appointment process, ethics, administrative law, constitutional law and intellectual property.”
Williams is challenging Cruz’s eligibility:
Why Ted “Canadian” Ted Cruz Is NOT Eligible to Run for President (except maybe for Prez of Goldman Sachs)
“Rafael Edward Cruz was born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. But there was no need to for journalists to search for the birth certificate — Lawyer Cruz has admitted that he is a natural-born Canadian. Few would doubt the raw intelligence of Ted Cruz. He is renowned as a Princeton man, a Harvard-trained lawyer, and U.S. Supreme Court advocate who preaches a textualist, strict-constructionist message. Nor should his raw ambition (that over-leaps itself) be denied. Behind closed doors, Mr. Cruz finagled a series of huge (undisclosed) loans from Goldman Sachs to fuel that ambition. But these facts only go to prove the nature of the ballot con that is being perpetrated by Ted Cruz.
“Indeed, Mr. Cruz knew (and knows) that he is not a “natural born” American citizen. His statements made to obtain ballot access for each state’s primary (including those states where Williams is bringing challenges as a competitor candidate), were (are) nothing less than fraudulent. Some may find it kinder just to call his actions part of a “good old” fashioned Alberta long-con, eh…Ted Cruz fails this “Jus Soli” (law of the soil) test. The requirement of “Jus Soli” citizenship was, and is, antithetical to any statutory conferring of citizenship on children born abroad of American parents. And Mr. Cruz knows that he fails the test yet he continues with his fraudulent campaign.”
I encourage readers to go to the link above and read Williams’ full analysis which is the basis for his ballot challenge. Cruz filed and signed the required documentation on the drop dead date to appear on the ballot, but he’s not on the ballot yet.
Williams discovered he could be a write in candidate in nine states. Right now it’s New Jersey:
Ted Cruz Risks Immediate Primary Disqualification in New Jersey with Secretary of State Formal Hearing Scheduled
“A primary ballot disqualification hearing is scheduled by the Secretary of State for Monday, April 11 at 9:00 a.m. in Mercerville, New Jersey. Washington D.C. Law Professor Victor Williams charges that Ted Cruz fraudulently certified his constitutional eligibility for office to gain ballot access.
“Williams’ fraud charges had quick effect in New Jersey. Rather than accepting Cruz’s ballot petition when filed last week, the Secretary of State (Kim Guadagno) scheduled the unusual Administrative Law hearing for April 11. The Canadian-born Cruz must prove that he did not falsely certify his eligibility for office. Cruz’s ballot eligibility is also being challenged in California, Maryland, Montana, Nebraska, Oregon, South Dakota, and Washington.”
Williams feels he can avoid the judicial hallucination called ‘standing’ because he is a write in candidate just like Montgomery Blair Sibley was back in 2012. We’ll see if he is successful in keeping conniving liar, Ted Cruz, off the ballot in New Jersey which would cause a political earthquake like nothing we’ve ever seen.
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Ted Nugent’s 20 Reasons to Vote for Trump Goes Viral… Liberals Terrified
Conservative Rocker Ted Nugent hasn’t ever been shy about telling it like it is, and he loves to get on social media and do his best to upset our enemies on the left, which is exactly what he did in a recent Facebook post about Donald Trump.
Nugent, who says he has yet to endorse a candidate because he admires “both gentlemen,” published a list of “special” points about Trump that he says are a great reason to vote for him, and it’s hard to disagree. Trump seems to have all the right people terrified about the possibility of him becoming president, and since you can tell a lot about a man by his enemies, patriotic Americans seem more than willing to throw their support behind him.
Here’s Nugent’s post in it’s entirety:…
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Trump Erupts as Cruz Sweeps Colorado Without Votes
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump erupted on Twitter Sunday night, after a weekend which saw Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas sweep all of Colorado’s 37 delegates without any votes being cast by citizens in a traditional primary process.
“How is it possible that the people of the great State of Colorado never got to vote in the Republican Primary? Great anger — totally unfair!” wrote Trump.
He followed it up with a second tweet: “The people of Colorado had their vote taken away from them by the phony politicians. Biggest story in politics. This will not be allowed!”
It was last August when officials with the Republican Party in Colorado decided they would not let voters take part in the early nomination process.
The Denver Post reported Aug. 25: “The GOP executive committee has voted to cancel the traditional presidential preference poll after the national party changed its rules to require a state’s delegates to support the candidate that wins the caucus vote.”
“It takes Colorado completely off the map” in the primary season, Ryan Call, a former state GOP chairman, told the paper.
In late February, just before Super Tuesday, the Post published a scathing editorial, saying the party blundered on the 2016 presidential caucus:
“GOP leaders have never provided a satisfactory reason for forgoing a presidential preference poll, although party chairman Steve House suggested on radio at one point that too many Republicans would otherwise flock to their local caucus.
“Imagine that: party officials fearing that an interesting race might propel thousands of additional citizens to participate. But of course that might dilute the influence of elites and insiders. You can see why that could upset the faint-hearted.”
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Victory! The Arch From the Temple of Baal Planned for New York City Has Been Canceled
The Temple of Baal is NOT coming to Times Square in New York City next month. This is great news, and it represents an incredible victory for Christians in the United States. As you will see below, the New York Times, Snopes and a whole host of other mainstream news sources reported last month that everything was on track for reproductions of the giant 48-foot-tall arch that stood in front of the Temple of Baal in Palmyra, Syria to be put up simultaneously in Times Square in New York City and Trafalgar Square in London during the month of April. But now that will not be happening. The only arch that will be going up will be in Trafalgar Square, and it won’ t be the one from the Temple of Baal. Instead, the Institute for Digital Archaeology has changed plans and will be putting up a reproduction of the Arch of Triumph which the Romans originally built in Palmyra and that has nothing to do with Baal. So why has there been such a dramatic change in plans?
On Friday, I received an urgent message from a contact that has been investigating this, and she told me that she had talked directly to someone from the Institute for Digital Archaeology and that she had been informed that no arch was going up in New York during the month of April.
I pressed her for confirmation, because every mainstream source that I could find said that the arch from the Temple of Baal was indeed going up next month. So her information would definitely change everything, but I needed to be able to confirm this.
Well, confirmation came in the form of an article from the Telegraph, which is one of the most important news sources in the United Kingdom. On Friday, they reported that the original plan to put up the arch from the Temple of Baal in New York and London simultaneously had been scrapped…
When the IDA revealed last December that it was intending to use its data and expertise to build not one but two replica Palmyra arches — to be unveiled simultaneously in Trafalgar Square in London and Times Square in New York — it generated headlines across the world.
Since then there has been some backtracking on the original idea. There will be no simultaneous unveiling in New York — they may transport the London arch there later, or build another one — and the Palmyra arch that is being reconstructed is no longer the entrance to the Temple of Bel (which survived an attempt to blow it up in August 2015) but the Arch of Triumph (partially destroyed in October) formerly located at one end of the Great Colonnade.
As you can see, this report confirms what they were originally planning to do, and this represents a massive change of direction.
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This Vancouver Home Just Sold for More Than $1 Million Above the Asking Price
Not a day passes without the Vancouver real estate market succeeding to amaze us all over again.
Just over a month ago we were amazed to learn that, in confirmation of the local buying frenzy, the Vancouver home shown on the photo below sold for $735,000 above asking.
As Vancity Buzz wrote, “The house at 3555 West 1st Avenue was built in 1912, is 3,400 square feet and sits on a standard 33 x 120 foot lot without a view. The selling price of $4.23 million is about $1.6 million above the lot’s assessed property value.”
For his part, real estate agent Brandan Price is incredulous. “For it to go over $4 million is remarkable. I had five offers,” he said. “These were local buyers just looking to make a shift who wanted to move into this area.”
“They were willing to sacrifice lot size to move into this area.” Maybe, but things seem to be getting out of hand and part of the “problem” may indeed be demand from investors attempting to find a home for capital they’ve moved out of China. As Thomas Davidoff with UBC’s Sauder School of Business told Vancity Buzz: “These prices are getting pretty freaking nuts in my opinion.”
Which led us to observe that in Canada, an interesting paradox is visible. On the one hand, the country’s oil patch in Alberta is mired in a painful depression, where the worst 12 months for job losses in 34 years is contributing to rising property crime, higher food bank usage, and a rash of unsold condos and empty office space in Calgary.
On the other hand, if simply looking at real estate in Vancouver and Ontario you’d think you were looking at home prices for an economy that is thriving. In fact, prices in Vancouver have reached nosebleed levels. In January for instance, the average selling price of detached homes was an astronomical $1.82 million…
“Because prices are going up so rapidly, so out of control, it’s hard to know what the price is,” he said. “The rate of price increases is reaching hysteria levels. It’s not sustainable.”
This is what is known as a bubble, and while everyone admits it, the frenzy goes on.
[Comment: No different than the Tulip mania. Massive real estate bubble is being artificially created by banksters.]
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Belgium: Majority of Muslim Students Think Brussels Terrorists Are ‘Heroes’ Say Teachers
Teachers working in the predominantly Muslim districts of Molenbeek and Schaerbeek in Brussels have reported that “90 percent of their students, 17, 18 years old” called the Islamist terrorists who attacked Paris and Brussels “heroes”.
The revelation came in an article in the New York Times, wherein Steven Erlanger spoke to a Belgian policymaker who relayed the information from Belgium.
The piece, entitled “Blaming Policy, Not Islam, for Belgium’s Radicalised Youth”, interviewed Yves Goldstein, chief of staff for the minister-president of the Brussels Capital Region and a Schaerbeek councilman. Schaerbeek and Molenbeek are now infamous as the areas in which for months Islamists lived, hid, manufactured weapons and made preparations for the Paris and Belgium attacks.
Reflecting that “our cities are facing a huge problem, maybe the largest since World War II,” Goldstein poses the question, “How is it that people who were born here in Brussels, in Paris, can call heroes the people who commit violence and terror?”
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Erdogan Poem: Turkey Demands German Action Over ‘Obscene’ Satirist
Turkey has made a formal request to Germany to prosecute a TV satirist for reading an obscene poem about President Erdogan, officials in Berlin say.
Jan Boehmermann made clear before he read the poem that it contained allegations that breached German rules on free speech.
Germany prosecutors launched a preliminary inquiry, as insulting foreign leaders is considered illegal.
Broadcaster ZDF has said it will stand by Boehmermann.
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Hungary: Trade Surplus Eur 1bln in February
Export up by 8%, import +7.4% year-on-year
(ANSA) — TRIESTE — Hungary’s trade surplus amounted to 979.2 million euros in February, 112.1 million more than in the same month of the year before, data released by the National Bureau of Statistics shows. The exports rose by 8% year-on-year, reaching 7.7 billion euros in February, while imports rose by 7.4% in the same period, amounting to 6.7 billion.
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Italy: RCS Stock Soars After Cairo Bid
Bid for Corriere della Sera publisher ‘not hostile’
(ANSA) — Milan, April 11 — The share price of RCS, the publisher of top Italian dailies Corriere della Sera and La Gazzetta dello Sport, soared by 22%, taking it to 0.55 euro, in early trading on Monday. The rise comes after media businessman Urbano Cairo announced after markets closed Friday that he was making a bid for a controlling stake in the group. Cairo, who owns Torino soccer club and TV broadcaster La7, said Monday that he was not launching a hostile takeover, stressing he wanted existing stakeholders to stay on board. The bid features a share-swap offer with 0.12 of a share in Cairo Communication being offered for each RCS share. “It’s a market operation, not a hostile takeover,” Cairo said. “We want to keep the old partners inside so they can benefit with me from the eventual revenues of RCS once it is re-structured. We have valued RCS at 770 million euros, almost 700 million when you subtract the 90 million for the sale of RCS Libri (books arm) to Mondadori. That is twice as much as the stock-market capitalisation of (rival) group Espresso”.
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Pakistani Islamist Behind Mumbai Attacks Captured in Austria After Entering Europe as Refugee
Pakistani Islamist Muhammad Ghani Usman was captured in Austria after entering Europe as a refugee.
Muhammad Ghani Usman (left) and Adel Haddadi have been arrested at a refugee centre in Austria and are believed to be linked to terror groups and the suicide bombers who blew themselves up outside the Stade de France in Paris in November. (Daily Mail)
Muhammad Usman was behind the deadly Mumbai terrorist attacks in 2008.
In November 2008, 10 Pakistani Islamists carried out a series of twelve coordinated shooting and bombing attacks lasting four days across Mumbai.
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Portuguese Court OKs Ex-CIA Agent Extradition to Italy
De Sousa convicted over imam snatch in Milan
(ANSA) — Lisbon, April 11 — The Portuguese supreme court has rejected an appeal by Sabrina De Sousa, an ex-CIA agent involved in the abduction of Muslim cleric Hassan Mustafa Omar Nasr in Milan in 2003, against extradition to Italy, AP reported on Monday. The agency reported that a supreme court official said De Sousa’s only recourse now is to appeal to Portugal’s Constitutional Court. De Sousa is a 60-year-old who was born in India but has dual American-Portuguese citizenship. Portuguese authorities seized her passport, pending a decision on her extradition, after she tried to leave the country in October to visit her mother in India. She was among 22 CIA agents convicted in Italy in the case of the rendition of the Egyptian cleric, an Islamist suspected of recruiting jihadi fighters. De Sousa faces six years in prison if extradited to Italy. The Nasr case was the world’s first judicial examination of the controversial practice of extraordinary rendition in the so-called war on terror.
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UK: Jimme Savile Boasted He Had a Vasectomy So He Could Not Get His Victims Pregnant
Chilling claims will be aired tonight as part of BBC1 documentary Abuse: The Untold Story, which follows the stories of victims of attacks by Savile, pictured, and other predatory paedophiles.
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A Muslim man has walked out of Bear Grylls’s reality TV show after he became uncomfortable because the female contestants were wearing bikinis all the time.
Rizwan Shabir, a married father of three, will be seen leaving The Island tonight, saying he is ‘not used to living with women who are half-naked’.
The 27-year-old from Bradford, West Yorkshire described his time on the show as ‘the best thing and the worst thing’ he has ever done, after viewers saw emotional scenes of him breaking down in tears because he missed his family.
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Angry postal workers pose a risk to the government’s referendum campaign by threatening to dump the pro-remain EU leaflet described as “one-sided propaganda”.
The reaction of postal workers to the government’s EU leaflet — the enticingly-titled “Why the Government Believes That Voting to Remain in the EU is the Best Decision for the UK” — is split. Some are said to be angry that David Cameron will increase their workload by forcing them to deliver his 16 page message to every household in the United Kingdom, some 27 million homes.
An even more extreme reaction has been suggested by some particularly rebellious postal workers, reports The Sun. They are threatening to dump copies of the EU leaflet, described by Justice Secretary Michael Gove as “one-sided propaganda”, with one saying:
“I want to leave the EU and don’t really want to assist the campaign to remain. I resent being forced to be part of this propaganda machine.”
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This Wednesday, Phillips will be presenting a TV show on Channel 4 called ‘What British Muslims Really Think’. The programme has been made on the back of a survey, the biggest ever, of British Muslims’ views.
I reckon it’s going to be a “must watch” show. And here’s why.
Phillips wrote this weekend: “I thought this latest exercise would be intriguing. In fact, it has turned out to be astonishing.
“The data collected by the respected research firm ICM shows what the polling experts call ‘a chasm’ opening between Muslims and non-Muslims on such fundamentals as marriage, relations between men and women, schooling, freedom of expression and even the validity of violence in defence of religion.
“And the chasm isn’t going to disappear any time soon; indeed, the gaps between Muslim and non-Muslim youngsters are nearly as large as those between their elders.”
Some of the figures quoted by Phillips are startling.
Just for instance, because this is by no means the most stand-out of results, 39 per cent of those polled agreed that “wives should always obey their husbands”.
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As he winds down toward the end of his eight-year term as President, Obama has been keen to trumpet all of the things he believes his administration got right during his time at the helm.
But during an interview on Fox News on Sunday, Obama took a moment to reflect on his biggest mistake while Commander in Chief.
Speaking to host Chris Wallace, Obama said: ‘Probably failing to plan for the day after what I think was the right thing to do in intervening in Libya.’
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by Srdja Trifkovic
In an interview with FOX News aired on Sunday, April 10, President Barack Obama said that failing to prepare for the aftermath of the ousting of Libyan leader Col. Muammar Qaddafi was the worst mistake of his presidency. He added that intervening in Libya nevertheless had been “the right thing to do.”
The second part of Obama’s statement is incomprehensible. The intervention was a debacle. No less than Iraq, Libya would have been better off without the U.S. doing “the right thing.” The country has descended into Hobbesian mayhem. It is today a paradigmatic “failed state” ruled by competing militias. Today’s Libya is a safe haven for thousands of battle-hardened jihadists. According to General David Rodriguez, head of U.S. Africa Command, the current number of ISIS fighters in Libya is “around 4 to 6,000,” twice the group’s size estimated last year. The North African redoubt of the Islamic State—strongest by far outside Iraq and Syria—has prompted some of Obama’s advisors to press for a second American military intervention in Libya. The country is the greatest threat to the region’s stability—notably in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, in Nigeria (Boko Haram) and Mali—and it is the main point of departure for hundreds of thousands of mostly Muslim migrants flooding into Europe.
Even more alarming is the possibility that the main architect of the Libyan disaster will be the next occupant of the White House. Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates said last January that he thought then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s “influence was pivotal in persuading the President to broaden the goal in Libya beyond just saving the people in Benghazi” from the alleged threat presented by Qaddafi’s army, and “essentially focusing more on regime change. The President told me that it was one of the closest decisions he’d ever made, sort of 51-49, and I’m not sure that he would’ve made that decision if Secretary Clinton hadn’t supported it.” Gates later recalled asking, “Can I finish the two wars I’m already in before you guys go looking for a third one?” Colonel Qaddafi, he said, “was not a threat to us anywhere. He was a threat to his own people, and that was about it.”…
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ISIS Killed 21 Christians in Al-Qaryatayn, Syrian Patriarch
Before regime troops retook the city last week
LONDON — At least 21 Christians were killed by Islamic State fighters in the Syrian city of Al-Qaryatain before it was retaken last week by regime and allied troops backed by Russian air support, the BBC reported on Monday. The head of the Syrian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem II, told the BBC that some had been killed as they were trying to escape and others when they broke the terms of their “dhimmi contracts”, which require them to submit to the rule of Islam. The British media outlet said that the city had been retaken early last week. The patriarch said that almost 300 Christians had remained in the city after it was taken by ISIS in August 2015. Some managed to escape while others died trying and others — the patriarch said based on accounts from people in the city — had been killed for refusing the rules of their “dhimmi contracts”, which impose restrictions and require them to pay a tax in exchange for “protection”. The patriarch said that at least three women were among those killed and noted that warnings had come that ISIS planned to sell Christian girls into slavery.
Some Christians are currently missing and feared dead. Al-Qaryatayn has in the months since it was taken by ISIS suffered serious damage, including the destruction of a 1,500-year-old Christian monastery.
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Turkey Refuses Deal with Israel Unless it Lifts Gaza Blockade
After progress announced towards normalization of relations
(ANSAmed) — ISTANBUL, APRIL 11 — Turkey will not drop its demand for an end to the blockade of Gaza in order to normalize relations with Israel, President Tayyip Erdogan’s spokesman Ibrahim Kalin said on Monday.
“What is happening in Gaza is unacceptable. The Israeli occupation must end,” he said. Turkey’s foreign ministry had on Friday issued a statement after the latest round of talks with Israeli envoys in London, saying that the agreement would be finalized in the next meeting, “which will be called soon”.
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Bangladesh: Wife of Protestant Minister Raped to Seize Their Land
The victim was attacked in her own home. Her screams attracted the attention of her husband, who prevented her murder. The four rapists are local thugs, well-known land grabbers. Police refuse to file the case until after local elections (not scheduled for many months). For Catholic activist, “This is totally immoral.” For her, police “are working for the criminals and violating human rights.”
Khagrachhari (AsiaNews) — The wife of Rev Sushil Jibon Talukdar was raped by four known land grabbers. As a result of her screams, the clergyman was able to rush to the scene and prevent her murder.
The attack took place in the victim’s home in the village of Boronala, Khagrachhari district, a hilly area in ??south-eastern Bangladesh. When her husband went to file a report at the Mahalchori police station, they “refused to register the case against the rapists,” he told AsiaNews. Instead, “They told us that they would do something only after the local government elections.*
The attack took place last Friday (8 April). The victim was alone at home when four men broke in and raped her.
Her husband, who was working in nearby fields with other people, said that he “arrived just in time. The four brutes were attacking my wife and trying to kill her. But we heard her cries and saved her. Her clothes were all torn up.”
The couple are members of Immanuel Baptist Church (Protestant) in Boronala to which they converted in 2002.
“We just want justice for my beloved wife,” said the pastor, who informed local Church leaders and some activists. He and his wife have also received death threats.
Rosaline Costa, a Catholic activist, offered help to the victim. “I strongly condemn the attack and rape,” she told AsiaNews. “As members of a minority, they have become victims.”
“The police refused to file the complaint, saying that they would consult the victim after local elections, months from now. That is totally unethical.”
In so doing, they “are working for the criminals and violating human rights. I condemn the attitude of the local police”.
Violence against Bangladesh’s Christian community has been increasing. In a country of 152 million people with a Muslim majority (89.8 per cent), Christians represent only 0.2 per cent of the population. Hindus are 9.1 per cent. Both have been the subject of various attacks and land grabs.
Experts point out that the reason is not so much religious as economic. Given the high cost of land, some resort to grabbing land by various means from minorities to avoid paying the full price.
* Union Councils (or Union Parishads) are the lowest rural administrative government level in Bangladesh.
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“You Tweet Too Much” About Refugees, The Dutch Are Told by Police
Dutch police have been visiting the homes of people critical of asylum centres on Twitter, urging them to delete posts.
It was thus on a Monday, in the town of Sliedrecht, that Mark Jongeneel (28) got a very disturbing phone call. His mother was on the line, worried that two policemen were looking for him, but would not say why. As Jongeneel told the Dutch daily NRC Handelsblad, the police came to his office and told him: “You tweet too much. We have orders to ask you to watch your tone. Your tweets may seem seditious.”
In Sliedrecht there had been a citizen meeting about a refugee center in the region. At the end, Jongeneel had posted a few tweets. One said: “The College of #Sliedrecht comes with a proposal to take 250 refugees over the next two years. What a bad idea! “Earlier he had also tweeted:” Should we let this happen?! “
In recent months, police have visited the homes of many more people that criticised the plans for asylum centres. In October 2015, in Leeuwarden about twenty opponents of the programs received police visits at home. It happened in Enschede, and in some places in the Brabant, where, according to the Dutch media, people who had been critical of the arrival of refugees and ran a page on social media on the topic were told to stop.
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Austria Starts Barricading Italy Border
Building Brenner Pass barrier against asylum seekers
(ANSA) — Bolzano, April 11 — Austria has begun barricading its side of the Brenner Pass at the border with Italy, sources said Monday.
Austria has repeatedly said it will not allow asylum seekers in and that it fears an onslaught from Italy, which has an open door policy to people seeking international protection. Guardrails have been taken down and road signs will be changed as a 250-meter barrier will cross both the highway and the state road, Tyrolean Police Chief Helmut Tomac told the Austria Press Agency (APA).
Traffic checks will take place in a parking lot north of the border beginning at the end of May, with the interior minister to decide the exact date.
Italian and Austrian interior ministers Angelino Alfano and Johanna Mikl-Leitner said after talks in Rome Friday that the two countries had agreed “to intensify bilateral and operational collaboration in the monitoring and control of the joint border with the strategic aim of guaranteeing the fluidity of the Brenner Pass and safeguarding the freedom of movement envisaged by Schengen”. Austria on Thursday threatened to shut the Brenner Pass if migrant flows increased to “uncontrollable” levels and said asylum seeker arrivals in Italy were set to double to 300,000 this year.
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Bombshell Report: Berlin ‘Lost to Arab Clans’ Now Recruiting ‘Physically Strong Young Migrants’
Berlin’s criminal underworld has been “lost to Arab clans” according to a new report published by the mainstream German newspaper Die Welte.
The report, which reveals how Arab migration has transformed Berlin’s entire criminal landscape, exposes how extended migrant families, now recruiting new migrants, run the entirety of the city’s organised crime.
The report speaks of the ‘amazing’ sight of luxury sedans cruising up to refugee, asylum centre, and migrant lodgings filled with “people who have lost everything.”
Investigators reported that the criminal gangs have “exploited the situation” of the migrant crisis, in which German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s policies saw well over a million migrants from the third world world settle in Europe last year.
The source explained that “young and physically strong men” are targeted by the gangs and then used for “dirty work” like burglaries, drug trafficking, and fights with criminal competitors. Child refugees are also welcomed as their faces are unknown to the police.
Despite the prospect of arrest, or even going to prison, many of the new arrivals are willing to take the risk as it is unlikely they will be deported.
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Germany: Reds Red-Faced After Fake “Hate Crime”
A far-left “anti-racist” vigil in the German town of Bingen-has been left empty-handed after the “hate crime” it was supposed to be protesting against turned out to have been committed by a “refugee.”
The reds-including the Socialist Party of Germany (SPD) Prime Minister of the Rhineland-Palatinate state, all local churches, and the Confederation of German Trade Unions-called out the vigil after swastikas were found scrawled on the walls of a local invader center.
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According to the Halifax Regional School Board, refugees began registering at Chebucto Heights, located in the Cowie Hill neighbourhood of Halifax, in mid-February. (STAFF)
HALIFAX — Concerned parents are reporting incidents of violence by refugee students at Chebucto Heights Elementary School.
Reports of students choking, pushing, slapping and verbally abusing their fellow classmates are causing parents to worry about the school’s disciplinary action.
“There has always been some fighting and bickering going on at the school but never to this degree,” said Missy, the mother of two children who attend Chebucto Heights. She asked to be referred to by her nickname for this story.
Missy said her daughter, who is in Grade 3, was choked on Monday and Thursday last week by two refugee boys. A chain was used on both occasions, but she cannot confirm the size or strength of the chain. She said one boy yelled “Muslims rule the world” while choking her daughter. School staff intervened, but to her knowledge, the students were not disciplined further.
According to the Halifax Regional School Board, refugees began registering at Chebucto Heights, located in the Cowie Hill neighbourhood of Halifax, in mid-February.
[Comment: Were these by any chance the same refugees that Trudeau welcomed at the airport?]
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One in five Muslims in Britain never enter a non-Muslim house.
The former head of Britain’s Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), Trevor Phillips, has admitted he “got almost everything wrong” on Muslim immigration in a damning new report on integration, segregation, and how the followers of Islam are creating “nations within nations” in the West.
Phillips, a former elected member of the Labour Party who served as the Chairman of the EHRC from 2003-2012 will present “What British Muslims Really Think” on Channel 4 on Wednesday. An ICM poll released to the Times ahead of the broadcast reveals:
One in five Muslims in Britain never enter a non-Muslim house;
39 per cent of Muslims, male and female, say a woman should always obey her husband; 31 per cent of British Muslims support the right of a man to have more than one wife; 52 per cent of Muslims did not believe that homosexuality should be legal; 23 per cent of Muslims support the introduction of Sharia law rather than the laws laid down by parliament.
Writing in the Times on the issue, Phillips admits: “Liberal opinion in Britain has, for more than two decades, maintained that most Muslims are just like everyone else… Britain desperately wants to think of its Muslims as versions of the Great British Bake Off winner Nadiya Hussain, or the cheeky-chappie athlete Mo Farah. But thanks to the most detailed and comprehensive survey of British Muslim opinion yet conducted, we now know that just isn’t how it is.”
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Major Newspaper Censors Politically Incorrect Story About Muslim Chain Attack
“Muslims rule the world” quote deleted before article pulled entirely
A major newspaper in Canada has removed a story about two refugee children who choked a girl with a chain while shouting “Muslims rule the world” in a shocking example of politically correct-driven censorship.
The original article published by the Chronicle Herald described how a grade three girl at Chebucto Heights Elementary School was choked on two separate occasions by two “refugee boys” who had arrived in February and that “a chain was used on both occasions”.
According to the girl’s mother ‘Missy’, who didn’t want to be named because she feared retribution, the boys yelled “Muslims rule the world” while they carried out the assault, but were not even disciplined by the school.
252 refugee students are currently enrolled in the region, with another 71 waiting on settlement of permanent housing.
Another mother quoted by the Herald also claimed that her daughter begged her to be allowed to stay home from school after she was “slapped after she and a classmate disagreed in the schoolyard,” and that the school again took no action and didn’t even call her.
But perhaps the most shocking turn of events came when the Herald, which had already printed the story in its hard copy, first edited the article on its website to remove the “Muslims rule the world” quote and then deleted the story entirely.
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The fact that the story was removed from the Internet after being published in the physical newspaper (see images below) attests to the complete cowardice of the Chronicle Herald in bowing to public pressure from perpetually outraged social justice mobs.
Because the story completely demolished the leftist narrative about the wave of “refugees” now arriving in the west, it was censored.
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Professor: Civil War “Most Likely” Outcome of Migrant Crisis
Low IQ of “refugees” threatens foundation of western civilization
A prominent Danish professor warns that western civilization is “threatened” by the influx of migrants from the Middle East and North Africa and that a “civil war” is the most likely outcome.
Writing in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, Professor Helmuth Nyborg, who is an expert in the connection between hormones and intelligence, discussed his previous research on how, “The effect of Europeans having few children and immigrants with low IQ” would lead to “Westerners (being) a minority in Europe, and that the average IQ drops so much that prosperity, democracy and civilization is threatened”.
Nyborg has previously asserted that low IQ migrants arriving from non-western countries leads to a decline in the average intelligence of western societies and therefore a drop in living standards and rising crime rates.
“In 2016, the current immigration policy gives us three alternatives — submission, repatriation or civil war. Unless Europe starts to lead a responsible family, immigration and integration policy, stated by the theory of evolution, I think civil war is most likely,” writes Nyborg.
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‘Secret Plan’ To Fly in 250,000 Migrants a Year, Every Year, From Turkey
There is an understanding between Ankara and Brussels that the nations of the European Union (EU) will agree to “quotas” of a quarter-million migrants a year directly from Turkey, claims a German Sunday paper.
The report states there is a clearly understood but little-discussed agreement between the governments of Turkey and the EU over migrant quotas, with so-called ‘refugees’ being flown directly from Asia Minor to their new European homes.
While media coverage of the agreement has mainly focussed on the deportation of migrants from Greece back to Turkey, and the payment of potentially several billion euros to Ankara in compensation, there has been less coverage of migrants being sent from Turkey to Europe. At a rate of 250,000 a year, it seems likely under the agreement Europe may receive more ‘official’ migrants than it is able to send back.
Despite the lack of public understanding of this side of the deal, the mass movement of migrants to Europe is now getting underway and is expected to be in full-swing shortly. Speaking to Welt am Sonntag, Gerald Knaus of the European Stability Initiative said of the ‘understanding’ over migrant numbers: “The Turkish side expects the Europeans to begin taking about 250,000 Syrians a year in a few weeks so”.
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UK: Ex-Race Police Chief Warns on Islam
The former head of Britain’s race-police has condemned what he called “unassimilated” Moslem communities in the UK, and admitted that the large-scale admission of Muslims was a mistake with serious consequences. Trevor Phillips, who served as EHRC Chairman from 2003-2012, made his remarks in a Sunday Times article ahead of a TV documentary due to air this coming week.
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Vienna: One Third of ‘Asylum Seekers’ In Capital Are Criminals
The number of ‘asylum seeker’ criminals in Austrian capital Vienna is on the rise, with a greater proportion turning to crime than ever, with nearly one third suspected or guilty of crime.
Fastest growing among criminal groups in Austria are so-called asylum seeker youths, the number of which increased by 72 per cent last year. Criminality among the youngest immigrants in society is so rife, seven children below the age of nine are included in this figure, reports Austria’s Kronen Zeitung.
Although through the 2015 migrant crisis season the majority of illegal immigrants accessing Europe through the Balkan peninsula and moving north decided to pass through Austria to high-benefit paying countries like Germany and Sweden, many thousands decided to settle there. The new statistics reveal that of 21,000 official asylum seekers who were living in capital city Vienna at the end of 2015, nearly one third — 6,403 — are criminals.
The figure resembles an increase of 46.6 per cent from 2014 figures.
Of the 6,403 criminal foreigners, some 2,270 are under the age of 20, with 38 under the age of 13. In the past year the number of so-called “delinquent youth” living in Vienna’s migrant homes have increased ten-fold, according to the report.
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Council of Europe Says Abortion Too Difficult in Italy
Doctors who are not conscientious objectors face discrimination
(ANSA) — Strasbourg, April 11 — The Council of Europe said Monday that women in Italy continue to encounter “significant difficulty” in accessing pregnancy-termination services even though abortion is legal. The Council said that, as a result, Italy was violating women’s right to health. The nation’s biggest trade union CGIL filed a petition on this issue to the Council, which aims to promote human rights and democracy. The organization added that doctors who decided not to be conscientious objectors in abortion procedures faced discrimination in Italy. It said these health professions were victims of “various types of direct and indirect labour disadvantages”.
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I am a doctor, I love my beautiful, peaceloving religion…!!!!
https://youtu.be/4XUub1no1qw
I would guess that the problems in Halifax are courtesy of ‘Baby Doc’ Trudeau!!!
Look at this [waste material]. All of these NGO’s are zombified!
3h3 hours ago
Paul Gillingwater @ahbleza
NGOs slam Austria’s asylum law changes: Austria’s biggest charities have joined forces to slam
Stephen Hawking, Yuri Milner and Mark Zuckerberg reveal $100m alien-hunting mission http://dailym.ai/22rOZVI
They KNEW they were funding these terrorists. They KNEW and then have the AUDACITY to say ” only love can save the world!”
JACKASSES! ALL of them, JACKASSES!
Anne, I checked the link, and saw no connection with your allegation, though I’m aware of Mark Zuckerberg’s dubious history. Please explain.
Where is the “terrorism” part of this strange odyssey they’re planning? The only ‘jackass’ part I can see is a certain dilatory attitude toward the really pressing problems here on Planet Earth. Alpha Centauri? Not so much.
BUT…fascinating story on the side bar. Why can’t they throw money on this?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3535461/Tiny-turbine-fits-DESK-runs-carbon-dioxide-produce-energy-power-small-town.html
Or even on the critical water problems facing much of the 3rd world – which is driving migrants to the places where they can get water. Israel is one of the leading R&D countries when it comes to water:
http://nocamels.com/2016/03/desalination-groundwater-california-water-crisis/
Or, six months ago:
http://nocamels.com/2015/10/world-leaders-praise-israeli-water-technologies-watec/
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Even though our well is deep I’m aware of the potential for problems should we go thru a drought. Thus I use drip irrigation for our vegetable garden.
And a trip to Alpha Centauri with nanobots seems… well, as they’d say around here, “them rich boys is a might triflin'”
“Italy GDP Nine Points Behind Pre-Crisis Levels Says Govt”
But I thought all those immigrants were helping the economy? This is what the rest of Europe is going to be like, totally impoverished!!
Phillips admits: “Liberal opinion in Britain has, for more than two decades, maintained that most Muslims are just like everyone else… Britain desperately wants to think of its Muslims as versions of the Great British Bake Off winner Nadiya Hussain, or the cheeky-chappie athlete Mo Farah. But thanks to the most detailed and comprehensive survey of British Muslim opinion yet conducted, we now know that just isn’t how it is.”
I suppose a Liberal admitting he might have been wrong about Islam, is something to cheer, but look at the cost.