The suspect in Saturday’s bombings in Manhattan and New Jersey has been captured after a shootout with police. A third bomb exploded in another part of New Jersey when police attempted to defuse it. All three are thought to be the work of Ahmad Khan Rahami, an Afghan immigrant who is now a US citizen. He reportedly hates America, and also does not care for homosexuals. However, all Americans breathed a sigh of relief when they learned that Mr. Rahami’s actions had nothing to do with Islam.
In other news, two Italians and a Canadian were kidnapped is southern Libya, in an area controlled by the unity government based in Tripoli.
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Biggest Market Crash in History is Coming as Huge Debt Bubble Bursts, Top Investor Warns
Since the financial crisis market bubbles have been created by the world’s central banks, which have flooded markets with money in the hope of stimulating an economic recovery, according to Michael Pento, president of Pento Portfolio Strategies (PPS).
But now this bubble is set to burst, which will mean the total collapse of financial markets across the world, the wall street expert warned.
The predicted crash is set to be so severe that there will not be a single asset that is safe, with even the value of diamonds and sports cars completely decimated, according to Mr Pento.
He said the current financial conditions are “the most dangerous markets i have ever witnessed in my entire life — and i’ve been investing for over 25 years… The membrane has been stretched so wide and so tight that its about to burst.” …
He said: “I think 2008 was just a preview of what’s going to happen.
“If we allowed markets to repair themselves in 2008, in other words, if we allowed home prices to fall and, stock prices to fall and interest rates to rise, and debt levels to contract, then we would have had a depression for a few years, at the most.
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1,000 Officers to be Deployed Across NYC in Wake of Chelsea Explosion
Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Sunday that 1,000 additional New York State Police officers and National Guard troops will be deployed across New York City following an explosion in Chelsea. The stepped-up security is “just to err on the side of caution,” Cuomo said. “I want New Yorkers to be confident when they go back to work on Monday that New York is up and running and we’re doing everything that we need to do.” As the United Nations prepares to host world leaders arriving for the General Assembly, a spokesman told The Associated Press that the organization is assessing security.
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6 States Facing Possible Gas Shortages After Colonial Pipeline Spill
Six states — Tennessee, Virginia, Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama and North Carolina — are facing possible gas shortages after a pipeline spill, officials said.
The states have all declared states of emergency, citing concerns about “fuel supply disruptions” and “disruptions of gasoline” in the wake of the Colonial Pipeline spill.
The governor of North Carolina declared the state of emergency to “help ensure that there will be adequate supplies of fuel across the state and prevent excessive fuel pricing.”
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Authorities Concerned “Active Terror Cell” Operation in NY/NJ
NBC reporter relates information from law enforcement
NBC News: Law enforcement officials say that they are concerned that there MAY be an active terror cell in the NY/NJ area w/ @jonathan4ny
– Tom Winter (@Tom_Winter) September 19, 2016
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Bomb Suspect Rahami a Deadbeat, Hated America, Says His Daughter’s Mother
The man who police nabbed and shot Monday after a day-long dragnet in connection with a series of terror attacks in and around New York was a bad father who disliked America, hated gays and took long trips to his homeland of Afghanistan, according to the mother of his young daughter.
Maria, whose full name is being withheld by FoxNews.com, said her high school sweetheart, Ahmad Khan Rahami, didn’t pay child support and often railed against American culture. The 26-year-old, who spoke after her grandmother called her for a reporter who produced his press credential and identified himself at the grandmother’s home in Elizabeth, said she had not seen Rahami in two years.
“He would speak often of Western culture and how it was different back home,” she said. “How there weren’t homosexuals in Afghanistan.”
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Chicago: Are You Staying or Going?
Chicago’s eternal struggle: Should I stay or should I go?
More than 3,000 people have been shot in Chicago this year. The City Council just approved a new tax on water and sewer bills to pay for city workers’ pensions. That’s on top of last year’s hefty property tax increase. Chicago Public Schools began the school year with a $1 billion operating deficit, and the Chicago Teachers Union might be headed for a strike next month. You can’t blame taxpayers for seeing the city’s future — and their future in the city — as bleak.
[Comment: My goal is to retire as soon as possible and move to Hawaii.]
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Details Emerge of ISIS Attacks
The controlled media has now been forced to admit that the series of attacks over the past weekend in America were part of a coordinated ISIS-inspired terrorist spree-despite their initial attempts to deny otherwise. The FBI have announced that they are looking for an Afghan with “U.S. citizenship,” more evidence that the acts are the direct result of the promotion of mass Third World immigration into the United States.
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Elon Musk Says SpaceX’s New Spaceship Could Go ‘Well Beyond Mars’
“Mars Colonial Transporter” seems like a pretty cool name for a spaceship, but it wasn’t quite ambitious enough for SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk.
“Turns out MCT can go well beyond Mars, so will need a new name,” the billionaire entrepreneur said Friday (Sept. 16) via his Twitter account, @elonmusk, referring to the spaceflight system that SpaceX is building to colonize the Red Planet.
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Explosion at NJ Train Station as FBI Investigates Suspected Pipe Bombs
Elizabeth’s mayor, Christian Bollwage, said the blast occurred when authorities were trying to “disarm” the backpack, and that the explosion was not controlled
An explosion occurred at a train station in Elizabeth, New Jersey, after a suspicious backpack was found. The detonation was not controlled, the city’s mayor said. Meanwhile, the FBI has questioned five people in connection with Saturday’s Manhattan blast.
Elizabeth’s mayor, Christian Bollwage, said the blast occurred when authorities were trying to “disarm” the backpack, and that the explosion was not controlled.
“This was an explosive device” containing as many as five devices, Bollwage said. “Based on the loudness, I think people could have been severely hurt or injured if they had been in the vicinity.”
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Five Men in Arab Garb Detained in New York En Route to Airport — *Update* More Bombs in New Jersey…
Explosion in New Jersey terminal while bomb squad robot was inspecting a backpack containing “numerous devices”. It was NOT a controlled detonation
According to New York Senator Marty Golden, media and eye witnesses, five men dressed in Arab garb have been stopped, and detained, by the FBI.
Eyewitnesses report several NYPD officers in swat gear armed with rifles had a vehicle stopped on the Belt Parkway.
Five men were then taken in custody after the FBI called for NYPD backup. The men were believed to be headed to the airport, The New York Post reported.
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Guess How the Minnesota Mall Terrorist Was Stopped From Stabbing Even More People…
It looks like terrorists have finally figured out where to go to inflict mass casualties on the most innocent of Americans.
On the same day as two separate improvised devices were detonated in New Jersey and New York, a knife wielding terrorist dressed in a private security uniform and claiming allegiance to ISIS walked into the St. Cloud Crossroads Mall in Minnesota, asked passersby if they were Muslim, and then proceeded to stab them.
The man slashed at least eight people and had planned to hurt or kill more but he was stopped dead in his tracks by a lone individual with a concealed handgun.
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Minnesota Stabbings: Somali Americans Warn of Alienation
As part of the BBC’s US election coverage, we’ve sent a team across the northern US by train to listen to voters’ concerns.
They start in Minnesota where, just this Saturday, a Somali-American man stabbed and injured nine people in what police say may be a possible terror attack.
Much has been said about Muslims this election, and the apparent threat some people feel they pose, but how are Muslim Americans feeling ahead of the vote?
Aleem Maqbool reports from Minneapolis…
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Minnesota Mall Attacker’s Father Had ‘No Suspicion’ Son Involved in Terrorist Activity
The father of a Somali man who stabbed nine people at a Minnesota mall Saturday night said he had “no suspicion” his son was connected to terrorism as the ISIS terror group claimed responsibility for the rampage.
Ahmed Adan identified the attacker as his son, 22-year-old Dahir A. Adan, who was shot and killed by an off-duty police officer after he injured nine people in a bloody stabbing spree inside Crossroads Center mall, according to the Star Tribune.
The FBI said it is investigating the attack — which targeted seven men and two women ranging in age from 15 to 53 — as a possible act of terrorism.
The attacker — dressed in a private security uniform — reportedly asked at least one victim whether they were Muslim before stabbing them, and refenced Allah during the rampage.
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Sources: Bomb Suspect Had Prior Contact With Authorities
The Afghanistan-born suspect taken into custody Monday in connection with weekend bombings in New York and New Jersey had prior contact with authorities, two government sources told Fox News.
The extent and nature of federal authorities’ contact with Ahmad Khan Rahami is unclear. One source said Rahami was not on a terror watch list. But a federal law enforcement source said he was not an unknown, either.
Officials provided details at two separate press conferences Monday afternoon, though, that revealed at least some level of prior contact.
In New York City, the FBI’s New York Assistant Director in Charge Bill Sweeney said there had been a domestic incident reported against Rahami.
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The Road to Fascism in Just Two Charts
The old left-right divide was, and still is, indistinguishable for the open minded. The following chart attempt to show how we look at the political spectrum. As can be seen, the left-right axis is nothing more than a childish quarrel on which special interest group is entitled to most of the spoils. This model is broken, consumed by its own greed, and the world of politics is rapidly drifting into good old fascism. Whether it is in the form of Trump, Clinton, Hollande, Le Pen, CDU, AfD, Podemos or Golden Dawn is not important. What is important is the fact that this shift is happening under the pretense of some big intellectual battle of good versus evil. It is not. It is pure evil and we are lead astray by the different way of delivering the message.
Secondly, the reason why the broader electorate feel left out is the fact that they have lost to global competition. Asset owners in the west and the middle class in emerging markets have seen their income grow rapidly over the last 20 years, while the middle class in developed markets have not.
Naturally such grave disparity lead people to conclude it is either the fault of the rich or global competition, when in reality the enormous amount of capital consumption allowed by Keynesian policies is the real culprit.
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Video Emerges of NYC Explosion
(DAILYMAIL) — An explosion from a suspected bomb in a trashcan ripped through Manhattan on Saturday night leaving at least 29 people injured — and police are investigating a second suspected bomb in a pressure cooker.
Terrifying CCTV footage shows the blast ripping through New York’s affluent Chelsea neighborhood at around 8.30pm on Saturday night.
The Office of the Deputy Commissioner Public Information (DCPI) exclusively told DailyMail.com the video was ‘confirmed amateur video footage from incident location’ .
The blast on 23rd Street and Sixth Avenue is believed to have come from a dumpster and was the result of ‘an intentional act’ , according to the NYPD.
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Wells Fargo Sued by Customers Accusing it of “Fraud and Reckless Behavior”
The lawsuit, as reported by Reuters, was filed in the U.S. District Court in Utah, and seeks class-action status on behalf of hundreds of thousands of customers nationwide. In the complaint, three plaintiffs said customers were hurt by “abusive and fraudulent tactics” used by employees who felt they had to “do whatever it takes,” including selling products they did not need or want, to meet sales quotas.
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‘AfD Will Become Germany’s 3rd Largest Party. At Least’
After scoring yet another impressive result in state elections in Berlin on Sunday, the far-right Alternative for Germany’s (AfD) deputy leader claimed they are heading for third place in national elections next year.
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France’s Le Pen Picks Burkini-Banning Mayor as Campaign Director
Far-right leader Marine Le Pen on Saturday named the young politician David Rachline as the director of her presidential campaign, a risky choice who should appeal to party loyalists, while she reaches out to a broader audience.
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Germany: Has the Oktoberfest Become the Oktoberfortress?
More police, as well as barriers and admittance controls — security is tighter than ever at this year’s Oktoberfest in Munich. Yet visitors are relaxed, as Felicitas Wilke observes.
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Germany Heading for Financial Nightmare as Biting Brexit Sees Confidence Fall Off a Cliff
[…] Chris Beauchamp, chief market analyst at trading platform IG, said: “Germany seems to be suffering more from the Brexit breakup than the UK, with the latest ZEW reading on sentiment falling off a cliff.
“Indeed, perhaps the more immediate impact is going to be felt in Europe, where the loss of a key partner makes the whole bloc look less attractive, while, for various reasons, the UK remains an attractive destination, not least for its political stability, thanks to Prime Minister May’s firm hand on the tiller.”
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Hundreds of Turks attacked police and white Belgians in Ghent over the past weekend as members of the pro-European Voorpost organization held a “no Turkey in the European Union” rally in the city.
After being given several warnings by the police to stop their violence, the nonwhites were dispersed by police water cannon and at least one was arrested.
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Human Skeleton Found on Famed Antikythera Shipwreck
Two-thousand-year-old bones could yield first DNA from an ancient shipwreck victim.
Through the window, sunlight sparkles on cobalt water. The researchers are on the tiny Greek island of Antikythera, a 10-minute boat ride from the wreckage of a 2,000-year-old merchant ship. Discovered by sponge divers in 1900, the wreck was the first ever investigated by archaeologists. Its most famous bounty to date has been a surprisingly sophisticated clockwork device that modelled the motions of the Sun, Moon and planets in the sky — dubbed1 the ‘Antikythera mechanism’.
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Judge Dismisses ‘Vague and Cagey’ Police Case Against Tommy Robinson After ‘F*ck ISIS’ Flag Incident
The leader of Pegida UK, Tommy Robinson, appeared in court today, successfully arguing against the imposition of a ‘Football Banning Order’ by Bedfordshire Police.
The police had sought to argue that an English flag held up by PEGIDA UK leader Robinson with the words “
ISIS” printed on it amounted to incitement of hatred against Muslims.
Attending Luton Magistrates Court today with her client, Mr. Robinson’s lawyer Alison Gurden argued that attempts to impose the order amounted to an attempt to breach his right to freedom of speech and assembly.
According to Mr. Robinson, the judge agreed, dismissing the police’s case against him as vague, cagey, and not genuine.
Judge “evidence is vague & cagey & not genuine” case dismissed
— Tommy Robinson (@TRobinsonNewEra) September 19, 2016
Bedfordshire Police tried to serve him with the order in June of this year to ban him from attending the Euro 2016 football tournament, only to find that he had arrived in France days earlier. Upon his return to Britain, he was immediately served with the order and his passport was confiscated, preventing him returning to France to watch further matches.
During his time in France, he was pictured holding an English flag with the words “
ISIS” emblazoned upon it. The incident appears to have prompted the police to argue in their application for the banning order that Mr. Robinson posed “a significant risk of both violence and disorder… This is especially so in terms of his established capacity to organise disorder from an anti-Muslim perspective”.
The ban would have prevented him from walking in Muslim areas of Luton, his hometown, for the next three to five years. But Mr. Robinson opted to contest the application, resulting in his successful court appearance today.
Earlier this month, Ms. Gurden argued in a blog that the case was merely a front for the Home Office to restrict Mr. Robinson’s movements in an attempt to thwart his legal political activities.
“This Football Banning Order application aims to prevent Tommy Robinson from entering the town of Luton for 12 hours on a Saturday when Luton Town FC are playing a home match, and from attending events overseas where England is represented,” she wrote.
“Without a Football Banning Order, the Home Office would struggle to find a legal mechanism to restrict Mr Robinson’s movements, as his political protests are not unlawful. While some may not agree with his views, Mr Robinson has just as much right to lawful protest as any other individual or group.
“Hence it is a logical conclusion that this application is made as an abuse of the Bedfordshire Police power as it is actually an attempt by the Home Office to restrict Mr Robinson’s movement and expression of his political beliefs.”
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Major Archaeological Find in Iceland
A recent archaeological find in Iceland suggests that the country may have been inhabited as early as the year 800, or 74 years earlier than its official settlement date, Vísir reports. Four weeks of excavation in Stöðvarfjörður, the East Fjords, under the direction of archaeologist Bjarni F. Einarsson, have revealed some of the most interesting signs of human presence found i the country. They suggest a longhouse was built there shortly after 800, but until now, Iceland’s first permanent Nordic settler, Ingólfur Arnarson, is said to have arrived in 874.
Signs of human presence from a similar time have been discovered before in Kvosin, Reykjavík, in Hafnir, Reyjanes, and in Húshólmi by Krýsuvík.
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New World Order: US Police Chiefs Meet With World’s Top Cops in the Hague
Over 450 police chiefs, senior law enforcement officers from Europe and beyond gathered at Europol’s headquarters in The Hague this week for the 2016 European Police Chiefs Convention (EPCC). The turnout this year was the highest since the first European Police Chiefs Convention organized by Europol in 2011.
Co-hosted by Europol and the Slovakian Police in the context of the Slovakian Presidency of the Council of the EU, the event attracted high-level representatives from all 28 EU Member States, as well as Albania, Algeria, Australia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Egypt, Georgia, Iceland, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Liechtenstein, Moldova, Montenegro, Morocco, Norway, Palestine, Serbia, Switzerland, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Tunisia, Ukraine and the USA.
[Comment: Building a world police force to enforce NWO diktats.]
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Nine Ideas to Bring Islam and France Closer Together
A French think tank has laid out a series of propositions aimed at making Islam more compatible with France and French Republican values.
A new Ifop opinion poll based on the results of an unprecedented survey of French Muslims has produced some interesting results.
While it revealed that the vast majority of French Muslims accept the country’s Republican values, some 30 percent were in “revolt” against the secular values.
Based on the poll’s results the Institute Montaigne, a liberal think tank, has drawn some conclusions about what could and should be done to help create a “French Islam”.
The question of whether Islam is compatible with French values has long been a hot button issue in France but even more so after a string of terror attacks and the divisive row about the burkini.
“Islam of France must become French. Today it is not,” reads the report by the think tank, which aims to develop policy in the areas of social cohesion.
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Sweden on the Brink: Malmö in Flames as Vengeful Thugs Set Cars Alight
SHOCKING footage from Sweden shows police struggling to keep the deal on the unprecedented levels of crime as cars burn across Malmö.
More than 20 vehicles were set on fire in the southern city, which has been plagued by increasing levels of violence amid growing tensions.
The video shows chaos in Malmö as vandalism is only one of many incidents to have occurred as police crack down on organised crime.
Saturday saw Sweden’s third largest city suffer the worst surge of violence since July, with at least 70 cars burned out in less than three months.
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Sweden Prepare for War: Tanks and 150 Soldiers on High Alert Over ‘Russian Threat’
SWEDISH armed forces have been placed on high alert after Russia made a serious threat against the country.
In early September defence chief Nicael Bydén and defence minister Peter Hultqvist warned the threat from the nuclear superpower was growing.
Now the Scandinavian country has deployed soldiers to Gotland island for the first time in a decade.
The reason for the sudden appearance of 150 soldiers and tanks on the southern island off the Swedish coast has been labelled classified and officials are refusing to disclose any more information.
[So, 150 transsexual, gender neutral soldiers will keep them safe. Sweet dreams.]
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Switzerland: Blocher Attacked Following EU Debate
Former cabinet minister and Swiss People’s Party strategist Christoph Blocher was attacked by a civilian following an event at a Zurich hotel. Blocher was not injured.
The attack occurred following a podium discussion hosted by Blocher and Social Democratic Parliamentarian Corrado Pardini entitled “Switzerland-EU: which way forward?” At the end of the event, an elderly man approached Blocher and attacked him. Security officers were able to subdue the attacker before the police arrested him a short time later.
According to the Zurich police, the attacker was an 81-year-old man. A search revealed he was carrying a knife.
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The man who filmed a police officer smashing his car has spoken of his ‘terror’ and revealed he refused to leave his vehicle because he did not feel safe.
Leon Fontana was pulled over by officers in Camden, London, in a case of mistaken identity.
The 25-year-old posted a video on Facebook showing the officer ordering him to get out of his car, which has since been viewed more than one million times.
Mr Fontana, who said he spent the evening in hospital after getting glass in his eyes, said it was ‘complete madness’ and that he is ‘still in shock’.
He said: ‘Every time he smashed the glass, fragments of glass were just ricocheting in my face.’
The officer in the clip has since been put on ‘restricted duties’ and his use of force will be examined, the Met Police has said.
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UK: Ministry of Defence Pay Married Couple £5m a Year to Build Cases Against Our Troops
Red Snapper Recruitment, the firm paid nearly £5million a year by the Ministry of Defence to provide staff to the Iraq Historic Allegations Team, is owned by Martin (pictured) and Helen Jerrold.
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UK: Paul Gascoigne Guilty Over Racist Comment
Ex-England footballer Paul Gascoigne has pleaded guilty to racially aggravated abuse over a joke at a show.
Gascoigne “humiliated” a black security guard assigned to protect him during An Evening With Gazza in Wolverhampton, Dudley Magistrates’ Court heard.
The ex-player was fined £1,000 after he admitted using “threatening or abusive words or behaviour”.
Gascoigne, 49, asked Errol Rowe “can you smile please, because I can’t see you?”
District Judge Graham Wilkinson also ordered Gascoigne to pay Mr Rowe £1,000 in compensation.
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When Churchill Mixed Swiss Business and Pleasure
On September 19, 1946, Winston Churchill gave a historic speech in Zurich in which he called for a “United States of Europe”. Exactly 50 years after his death, swissinfo.ch goes behind the scenes of the speech and looks at what he thought of Switzerland — and what Switzerland thought of him.
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Two Italians Kidnapped in Southern Libya
Two Italians have been kidnapped in Libya, the Italian foreign ministry has said.
The ministry said in a statement it heard of the kidnapping on Monday morning, but gave no further details.
Media reports said the two were taken in the southern town of Ghat, along with a Canadian national, and that all three worked for a company doing maintenance work at the local airport.
Ghat is controlled by the Tripoli-based government of national unity.
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Leaked: Source Reveals Coordination Between US, ISIS in Attacking Syrian Army
The ISIS launched attacks on the Syrian army positions in Deir Ezzor only 7 minutes after the US-led coalition’s airstrikes on Saturday, a military source said, adding that the air and ground assault were highly coordinated, According to FNA report.
The source said after the coalition’s pounding of the Syrian army near Deir Ezzor airbase, the ISIS could take full control of al-Tharda mountain and then Deir Ezzor military base, adding that the army and national defense forces deployed near the airbase immediately won it back from the terrorists by launching a counterattack.
Noting that Deir Ezzor is now almost in tranquility and no change has occurred in the military map of the region, the source said by attacking the Syrian army positions, the US seeks to prevent military operations to break the terrorists’ siege on the city.
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Review of ‘The Iran Wars,’ by Jay Solomon
by Omri Ceren
In the summer of 2013, Iran was sliding into geopolitical, diplomatic, and economic chaos. The Iranian economy was within a few months of a downward spiral that Tehran had no good options for halting. A binding United Nations Security Council resolution had ordered Iran to halt all uranium, plutonium, and ballistic-missile work, and to disclose the full scope of its previous nuclear cheating, or face increasing isolation.
Then the Obama administration led the P5+ 1 powers in launching negotiations with Iran. In exchange for sitting down and talking, the Iranians would get hundreds of millions of dollars monthly, stabilizing their economy. Eventually U.S. diplomats offered Iran a deal that legalized full-blown uranium, plutonium, and ballistic-missile work on a timeline—with international sponsorship for Iranian work in the meantime—and did not force the country to disclose its previous nuclear cheating.
The deal also immediately released roughly a hundred billion dollars to Iran, shredded the international sanctions regime, would have American officials traveling to drum up business for Iran, removed restrictions on a range of Iranian terrorists, and allowed Iran to keep spinning thousands of centrifuges throughout the deal—and then, to sell all of that, the president and his allies said that American diplomats did the best anyone could have.
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On the 15th September, 7 year old Haider Ammar Al Hamoud, was shot through the stomach by an Ahrar Al Sham sniper, the US backed terrorist group besieging the Idlib villages of Kafarya and Foua. Haider was ignored by western media.
His life-threatening injury did not merit any outcry from human rights organisations or the NATO-aligned media who ignore the deaths and injuries of tens of thousands of children in Syria because it does not serve their agenda to demonize the Syrian President, Bashar al Assad or the national armed forces.
On the same day, we have been told that two other villagers were also wounded by sniper attacks. Akkak Ahmed Hassan, 25 and Jawad Sofan, 18 in the neighbouring village of Kafarya. Ahrar Al Sham are a heavily protected US asset conducting assassinations on behalf of their donors and backers, operating across Syria, but nowhere more viciously than against these two besieged, starving villages living under threat of a full scale ethnic cleasning.
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Turkey: Looting? $283 Million Flow of Artifacts to US Revealed
Artifacts exported to the United States from Turkey — a country that shares a lengthy border with war-torn Syria and Iraq — soared in the last few years, a Live Science investigation has revealed.
Documents obtained by Live Science from the U.S. Census Bureau revealed that the increase started in the years after the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq and escalated further after the start of the Syrian civil war in 2011. Altogether, the documents reveal that since 2003, a total of about $283 million worth of artifacts have been successfully exported from Turkey to the United States. (The resale value of the artifacts could be higher, said a U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesperson.)
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Not content with arming ISIS, the U.S. military last week openly attacked the Syrian army in an airstrike, allowing ISIS forces to seize an important Syrian army position near the Deir al-Zor airport. The U.S. said the attack, which killed 90 Syrian soldiers, was a “mistake”-something that is highly unlikely, given modern satellite, drone, and on-board radar surveillance technologies.
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Pro-Kremlin Party Wins Big Majority in Russian Parliament
President Vladimir Putin sees the governing party’s huge gain in parliamentary elections as a vote of confidence in his government, despite a low voter turnout which suggests broad public apathy and dismay with the political process.
United Russia, the main party supporting Putin, expanded its grip on parliament, winning three-quarters of the seats, the Central Elections Commission said Monday.
“The results of the vote reflect our citizens’ reaction to attempts of foreign pressure on Russia, to sanctions, to attempts to destabilize the situation in our country from within,” Putin said.
He pledged to continue a foreign policy “devoid of any signs of aggressiveness, but with unconditional observance of our national interests and securing the nation’s defense capability.”
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Scientists Reconstructed 5 Thousand Years Old Elite Tomb Discovered in Ukraine
Scientists reconstructed the monumental 5 thousand years old tomb discovered on the border between Ukraine and Moldova. It belonged to a representative of the elite of the community of nomadic shepherds.
“This is the most complex tomb that we have discovered during the excavations carried out since 2010” — told PAP Dr. Danuta Zurkiewicz of the Institute of Prehistory, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan.
Members of the community living in this area 5 thousand years ago were mobile shepherds — they moved over longer distances with carts. Consequently, no permanent settlements were built, which is reflected in the lack of discoveries of houses from this period by archaeologists. But there are cemeteries.
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Kashmir Attack: Pakistan Hits Back at India Accusations
Pakistan has hit back after India accused it of masterminding a militant attack in Indian-administered Kashmir that killed 18 soldiers.
A statement from Pakistan’s foreign ministry condemned the “vitriolic statements” by India.
It called India’s stance a “blatant attempt” to deflect attention from human rights abuses in Kashmir.
Indian Home Affairs Minister Rajnath Singh called Pakistan a “terrorist state” soon after Sunday’s attack.
The attack comes as violent protests against Indian rule in the disputed region continue, with a curfew imposed.
More than 80 people, nearly all anti-government protesters, have died in more than two months of violence.
Both India and Pakistan claim all of Muslim-majority Kashmir in its entirety but only control parts of it.
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China Threatens EU Over Dalai Lama Visit
Beijing has lashed out at the European Parliament for hosting the Tibetan spiritual leader, describing the move as “mistaken actions.” The Dalai Lama called on Europe to toughen its stance on China during his visit.
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Filipino Militants Got Ransom for Norwegian: Analysts
A notorious kidnapping-for-ransom gang in the strife-torn southern Philippines enjoyed another lucrative payday when it released a Norwegian hostage after a year in captivity, analysts said on Monday.
A bearded and bedraggled Kjartan Sekkingstad was released Saturday on a remote southern island after what analysts said was almost certainly a payment in the thousands of dollars after the Abu Sayyaf demanded millions.
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In Sexless Japan, Almost Half of Single Young Men and Women Are Virgins: Survey
Talk about a shrinking population. A survey of Japanese people aged 18 to 34 found that almost 70 percent of unmarried men and 60 percent of unmarried women are not in a relationship.
Moreover, many of them have never got close and cuddly. Around 42 percent of the men and 44.2 percent of the women admitted they were virgins.
The government won’t be pleased that sexlessness is becoming as Japanese as sumo and sake. The administration of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has talked up boosting the birthrate through support for child care, but until the nation bones up on bedroom gymnastics there’ll be no medals to hand out.
Far from getting together and getting it on, the sexes are growing apart.
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Philippines President to Extend Violent War on Drugs for Six More Months
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has said his country’s drug problem was far worse than he anticipated when taking office. Around 3,500 suspected dealers and traffickers have been killed in the last 10 weeks.
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Were Ancient Dogs Really Hunting Companions?
Science reports that Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology zooarchaeologist Angela Perri surveyed excavations of prehistoric sites in Japan for evidence that early dogs helped people to hunt. She focused on the hunter-gatherers of the Jomon culture who lived off the dense forest on the east coast of the island of Honshu, and found that beginning about 9,000 years ago, the Jomon buried their dogs in shell middens in much the same way that they buried human hunters. Some of the 110 dog burials in the literature provided evidence of broken legs and teeth, injuries that the dogs may have sustained while hunting. And some of those injuries had healed, suggesting that humans had cared for the dogs.
But after the Jomon began farming about 2,500 years ago, dog remains appeared in the archaeological record as random piles of bones, and sometimes were even butchered. Perri suggests that the Jomon revered dogs while they served a valued purpose as hunting companions, but when they were no longer needed to flush prey out of the forest cover and protect human hunters, dogs may have become a source of food.
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EU Launches ‘Marshall Plan’ For Africa
Up to 88 bn of investments to counter migration
Brussels has launched a ‘Marshall Plan’ for Africa contemplating an initial expenditure of 3.7 billion euros but with an investment potential of up to 88 billion euros in an attempt to tackle the root causes of migration to Europe. EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini has described the plan as a ‘Copernican revolution’. The aim is to promote development, employment and stability in Africa by creating opportunities for EU companies and beneficiary countries.
The European Commission hopes to see the plan in place before the EU-Africa summit in March 2017. “The investment plan and the Migration compacts are two separate projects acting together because both will help us to manage the migration phenomenon,” Mogherini said.
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Video: Black Riots Shut Cape Town University
The world-famous University of Cape Town (UCT) has been shut down with immediate effect “in anticipation of protest action” by thousands of rioting blacks, a statement from the college has announced. The decision follows riots last week over tribunals against “students” arrested for assault, intimidation, arson, and vandalism during earlier “protests.”
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Farms built up and created by whites in Zimbabwe-and forcibly seized by the black government in an anti-white racist frenzy-are being handed over to Chinese “immigrants,” it has been revealed.
The farms-large-scale operations which were previously the backbone of the Zimbabwean agricultural industry-have collapsed after being seized from their white owners.
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Analysts Cite Clinton’s Illness in New Plunge by Mexico Peso
Economists have long said that when the United States catches a cold, Mexico gets pneumonia.
But analysts now say that Hillary Clinton’s pneumonia has given Mexico’s peso something worse.
The peso broke the psychological barrier of 20 pesos per dollar Monday, and analysts and commentators cite the role of the U.S. presidential campaign.
A Banco Base analysis says the strength of Republican candidate Donald Trump influenced the peso. Mexico newspaper columnist Carlos Loret says Democrat candidate Clinton’s health problems are key.
Trump has been critical of Mexico and the trade agreements its economy relies on.
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Venezuela: Over 15% of People Eat Garbage to Survive
A new study finds Venezuela on the brink of famine, with an alarming fifteen percent of citizens saying they can only feed themselves with “food waste discarded by commercial establishments,” while nearly half say they have had to take time off work to search for food.
The study — conducted by More Consulting and published in the Spanish-language Diario de las Américas — reflects a reality that has become the signature of President Nicolás Maduro’s tenure: a food and medicine shortage that forces most in the nation to wait in supermarket lines that can last up to eight hours. On many occasions, after the wait, they find that there is nothing left to buy.
The More Consulting study found that three out of every four Venezuelans (72 percent) was unable to feed themselves an optimal diet of breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
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“There’s No Turning Back!” Swedish TV Ad Says Swedes Must Accept Multiculturalism
There is going back. It’s called closing your borders and creating a deportation squad.
Swedes need to give up their identity and they must integrate with migrants because “being Swedish needs to be about more than skin color and place of birth.”
In this new TV advert from swedish charity organization “IM,” Swedes are called on to create “Det Nya Landet,” or “The New Country,” which appears to just be Africa with some Muslims and one Asian dude.
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100,000 Somalis Admitted to U.S. Since 9/11
(CNSNews.com) — Almost 100,000 Somali refugees have been resettled in the United States since 9/11, including 8,619 so far during the current fiscal year. The largest number — some 16 percent of the total over the past 15 years — have been resettled in Minnesota, home to the nation’s biggest Somali-American community.
Of the 97,046 Somali refugees admitted to the U.S. since the fall of 2001, 99.6 percent were Muslim, and 28,836 (29.7 percent) were males between the ages of 14 and 50.
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22 Percent of Resettled Refugees in Minnesota Test Positive for Tuberculosis
One of every five refugees resettled in Minnesota by the federal government tested positive for latent tuberculosis in 2014, according to the state’s Department of Health.
Only 4 percent of the general population in the United States tested positive for latent tuberculosis in the most recent report provided by the Centers for Disease Control.
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Angela Merkel Admits She Regrets Open-Door Migrant Policy
Following a devastating defeat in Berlin state elections today, Mrs Merkel said she accepted her share of responsibility for voters punishing her ruling Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) party for her refugee-friendly migrant policy.
Speaking at a news conference in Berlin, she said: “If I could, I would turn back the time by many, many years.”
The German premier admitted she could have been better prepared for the influx of migrants last year.
She added if she knew how people wanted her to change her migrant policy she would consider it.
And she admitted Germany had not been “world champions” in integrating migrants in the past, saying it would take time to integrate them.
Monday’s defeat is the second in two weeks, with the Chancellor being defeated in her own constituency in the state of Mecklenburg-Western-Pomerania…
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Just days after the Obama administration leaked plans to admit 57% more refugees in 2017 compared to 2015, the Department of Homeland Security Inspector General, John Roth, released a memo highlighting how the U.S. government mistakenly granted citizenship to at least 858 immigrants from “countries of concern to national security” who had pending deportation orders from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
The report does not identify any of the immigrants by name, but, according to the Associated Press, Inspector General John Roth’s auditors said they were all from “special interest countries” — those that present a national security concern for the United States — or neighboring countries with high rates of immigration fraud.
Per the DHS release:…
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Enough! Migrants Protest as Switzerland Slams Border Shut in New Crackdown
The Swiss government expects far fewer asylum requests this year following intense restrictions on migrants crossing the border from Italy.
Italy has become the frontline of the migrant crisis after a number of Balkan countries, as well as Austria and Hungary, almost completely shut down their borders.
The Mediterranean nation has shouldered an unprecedented number of migrants with little help from their EU neighbours, sparking a spat between Matteo Renzi’s government and Germany’s Angela Merkel.
Abdul, 16, who fled from Sudan, said he was fed up with Italy and wanted to move to Switzerland, where “life is good”.
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Finland: Asylum Seekers Face High Hurdles to Rent Flat in Helsinki Area
Ali, an asylum seeker based in Helsinki, tells about his fruitless attempts to secure a rental apartment on the private market.
Many asylum seekers can and do seek help from reception centres in order to find new living arrangements, but if unsuccessful they’re forced to turn to private and pricey brokers.
Ameer Ali, an asylum seeker from Iraq, says he has been trying for some time now to find a rental property in the Helsinki area but doesn’t think he’ll get one.
“I have searched dozens, if not hundreds of homes, without result,” Ali says.
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Germany: Merkel Accepts Partial Blame for Berlin Defeat
One day after her conservative party got hammered in Berlin’s local election, Chancellor Angela Merkel took responsibility for the loss. She also said there would be no repeat of “uncontrolled” immigration.
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Germany: Berlin Election: Merkel Links Migrant Crisis to CDU Defeat
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has accepted responsibility for her Christian Democratic party’s “bitter defeat” in Berlin state elections.
She voiced regret over mistakes that contributed to last summer’s migrant crisis in Germany. More than a million migrants reached Germany — a record.
“If I could, I would turn back time for many, many years, to prepare better,” she told reporters.
The centre-right CDU won 17.6% of the vote — its worst-ever result in Berlin.
Mrs Merkel conceded that her open-door policy towards migrants — embodied in her phrase “wir schaffen das” (we can manage it) — was a factor in the election. She has now distanced herself from that phrase, calling it “a sort of simplified motto”.
She has been widely criticised in Germany for the policy, which was a humanitarian gesture faced with the desperate plight of migrants, many of them refugees from the war in Syria.
The right-wing, anti-migrant party Alternative for Germany (AfD) will enter the Berlin state parliament for the first time with 14% of the vote.
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Germany: Syrian Hurls Kids Out Window ‘Because Wife Wants Freedom’
The trial begins in Bonn this week of a Syrian man who threw his three children from a first-floor window, allegedly because he disliked his wife’s desire to enjoy the same freedoms as German women.
The 36-year-old refugee is suspected of attempted murder after hurling the children out the window of the asylum centre where the family lived.
His seven-year-old daughter and five-year-old son suffered broken bones and skull fractures in the fall. His one-year-old daughter landed on her brother and escaped the potentially deadly fall with bruises and a liver contusion.
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Greece: Far-Right Elements Fuel Tensions on Islands
Ultra-nationalists reportedly attacked three female students on the island of Lesvos on Monday during a protest rally organized by residents calling on the government to reduce the number of people at a refugee and migrant processing center in the village of Moria that is dangerously over capacity.
Local media reported that a group of around 15 men chanting anti-migrant slogans physically assaulted the three women, one of whom is known as a volunteer who works with migrants. Lesvos Mayor Spyros Galinos was also reportedly attacked by ultra-nationalists, who appeared at the rally as part of a group calling itself the “Patriotic Movement of Lesvos.”
The events on Lesvos mirror similar violence last week on the island of Chios by ultra-nationalists who gate-crashed a protest rally calling for more action from Athens to manage more than 13,500 refugees and migrants who are trapped on just five islands in the eastern Aegean.
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Hungary Likely to Reject European Union Refugee Quota
Viktor Orbán, Hungary’s prime minister, is not taking any chances. On state television, advertisements warn of a growing migrant menace. Billboards across the country proclaim that Brussels plans to relocate a city’s worth of potential terrorists to Hungary. And ministers and lawmakers from the ruling right-wing Fidesz party are calling on supporters to go to the polls on October 2 to make sure Orbán gets the answer he wants to the following referendum question: “Do you want the European Union to be able to order the mandatory settlement of non-Hungarian citizens in Hungary without Parliament’s consent?”
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Le Pen: ‘France Has Caved in to Brussels and is Now Teeming With Enemies ‘
FRENCH presidential candidate Marine Le Pen has urged the nation to vote for her and keep the nation a “sovereign state” or back the opposition and live in a “foreign country” they will “no longer be able to recognise”.
Front National leader Ms Le Pen also criticised the European Union’s current immigration policy and “politico-religious habits coming from abroad” — citing “foreigners” and “communitarianism” as the cause.
Speaking at the launch of her campaign for president, she said: “France is no longer a sovereign state. It is now teeming with enemies who are desperately trying to impose their own way of life on the French.
“French people have been robbed of the right to be ‘themselves’ in their own country.”
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Lesbos Horror: Thousands of Migrants Flee Greek Refugee Camp ‘After Setting Fire to it’
THOUSANDS of migrants have been forced to flee after a huge fire ripped through a Greek refugee camp.
Around 4,000 asylum seekers have escaped the camp in the Aegean island of Lesbos.
The blaze at the Moria camp has left a trail of destruction including damaged tents and housing units.
Police sources claimed a number of migrants had begun the blaze which ripped through the facility.
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Merkel is ‘Lying to Public’ Italian PM in Furious Attack as He Warns Europe is a ‘Ghost’
In a brutal attack on his fellow European Union (EU) members, he said the first EU summit without the UK amounted to no more than “a nice cruise on the Danube”.
Having been excluded from a joint news conference by the German Chancellor, Mrs Merkel and French President Francois Hollande, he said he was dissatisfied with the Bratislava summit’s closing statement.
The outspoken Italian premier hit out at the lack of commitments on the economy and immigration in the summit’s conclusions, despite signing it himself. …
Talking about his fellow leaders, he said: “If we want to pass the afternoon writing documents without any soul or any horizon they can do it on their own.
“I don’t know what Merkel is referring to when she talks about the ‘spirit of Bratislava’.
“If things go on like this, instead of the spirit of Bratislava we’ll be talking about the ghost of Europe.”
Mr Renzi said he is preparing a 2017 budget which he claims will cut taxes despite a slowing economy and record high public debt.
He added: “At Bratislava we had a nice cruise on the Danube, but I hoped for answers to the crisis caused by Brexit, not just to go on a boat trip.”
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Somali Import Behind Stabbing Terror Attack in St. Cloud Mall, Officials Demand ‘Tolerance’
Our diversity is our strength
Once again, a Somali import has committed an act of terror on US soil.
I’m sure terror had nothing to do with it — even though he asked people if they were Muslims before stabbing them, ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack, the Somali community in Minnesota is the number one terror recruitment hotbed in the country, and 99.8% of Somalis are Muslims.
Fifteen years of welfare and handouts to him and his family — and this is how he repays us.
The Star Tribune and the Governor, both of whom are in full support of the mass Somali importation programs, immediately went into #NotAllMuslims mode:
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Theresa May Tells UN: UK Has Right to Control Borders
The UK has the right to control its borders and turn away “economic migrants” who pose as refugees to gain entry, Theresa May has told world leaders.
[Comment: hear, hear!]
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Thousands of migrants were today forced to flee one of Greece’s main refugee camps after people living there apparently started a huge fire.
Police said that up to 4,000 migrants evacuated the Moria camp on the island of Lesbos, which is just 15 miles from the coast of Turkey.
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‘We’ve Failed to Change Brussels’ Hungary Blasts ‘Self-Destructive’ EU’s Migration Policy
The Visegrád Four — Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia — has even tabled plans for a new EU based on notions of self-defence and strong national identity.
They are demanding a complete revolution in EU policy and hope to use a recent meeting to put forward specific proposals on the nature of a new EU.
Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán said last week’s Bratislava summit had been unsuccessful in that “we failed to change Brussels’ immigration policy”.
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Words From a “High” Representative of the EU
Federica Mogherini, High Representative on Foreign Affairs of the European Union, announced clearly the strategy of the EU with regard to migrants. According to her, it is imperative that the policy of massive movements of refugees and migrants to Europe be continued.
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The terrorism silver lining. I’m finding it amusing the way the media and NY mayor and governor find such comfort in describing the NY & NJ bombings “terrorism but not INTERNATIONAL terrorism.” or “no international link” as if the local grown version is more benign and tolerable. I would have thought that if you were a victim of such an attack, whether the bomber was a paid up card carrying member of ISIS or simply a online friend would make little difference. But with politicians and media desperate to find that “silver lining” the separation of terrorist acts into a “international” box and a local box, might seem like a way of playing with the statistics. A way of downplaying a growing threat.
Merkel is lying to cover her behind. And she will keep doing it until she is kicked out.
Lately, I have been reflecting that while Islam poses a massive challenge, perhaps the real enemies of the people are those of their fellow countrymen and women who have been sold, or turned into zombies, constantly repeating the same nonsense and never having to give any reasons.
The whole thing about “French Islam” is ludicrous. Where is the “French” part in it?
Aww, ain’t those socialists cute? While moslems are burning down Malmo, Sweden is desperately trying to shift attention to an external enemy. Classic case from a socialist handbook.
In other news, islamic terrorist number one has been living disguised as a president of USA for 8 years. Shock!
having been subjected to US immigration procedures, I wonder how this afghan can have travelled to Pakistan and Afghanistan repeatedly without being under close scrutiny of the concerned authorities, 95 by number or less?
Oh ,I forgot, he is a US citizen, a right that would take me 5 years or more to acquire. Maybe I would screw up the grammar- part of the test.And it was Johnson( not Lyndon B.) who followed Lincoln in the White House,right?
and Rahami had stated that there were no homosexuals in Afghanistan.R.O.L !
As a matter of fact, male homosexual contacts are widespread in all islamic countries, they are even attracting homosexual tourists in large numbers and have always been.cf. writings of A. Gide,W.S. Burroughs e.a.
And Somerset Maugham, who liked North Africa because the boys and the booze were cheap.
And that’s why Lawrence went to Arabia.