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An agent of the Dutch Secret Service has been suspended from his duties in Geert Wilder’s security detail on suspicion of leaking secret information to a “criminal organization”. The agent, who is reportedly of Moroccan ethnicity, is not a member of Mr. Wilders’ personal bodyguard, but was tasked with clearing locations for the PVV leader’s speaking engagements.
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European Union Threatens to Fine Italy for Deficit Caused by European Union
The inherent contradictions of the euro and the eurozone system are on display here as the European Union threatens to fine Italy for the size of the national debt. That size of the national debt not being something under the control of the Italian government, it’s something determined by the EU itself. Which is, I hope you will agree, something of a contradiction, that the responsibility for the outcome of economic policy is held by a different group of people than those who have the power over economic policy. But that is the euro system and it’s just one more reason why it’s all going to come tumbling to the ground soon enough:
Italy’s government was put on notice Wednesday that it may face a fine from the European Union for not getting the country’s debt levels down.
In a report on Italy’s debt, the executive European Commission urged Rome to take more cost-saving measures, worth up to 0.2 percent of its annual GDP.
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Current stock market valuations are not sustainable. If there is one thing that I want you to remember from this article, it is that cold, hard fact. In 1929, 2000 and 2008, stock prices soared to absolutely absurd levels just before horrible stock market crashes. What goes up must eventually come down, and the stock market bubble of today will be no exception. In fact, virtually everyone in the financial community acknowledges that stock prices are irrationally high right now. Some are suggesting that there is still time to jump in and make money before the crash comes, while others are recommending a much more cautious approach. But what almost everyone agrees on is the fact that stocks cannot go up like this forever.
On Tuesday, the Dow, the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq all set brand new record highs once again. Overall, U.S. stocks are now up more than 10 percent since the election, and this is probably the greatest post-election stock market rally in our entire history.
But stocks were already tremendously overvalued before the election, and at this point stock prices have reached a level of ridiculousness only matched a couple of times before in the past 100 years.
[Comment: Central bankers are intentionally trying to cause an economic collapse. Their “solution” will be massive global centralization — ie more power in their hands and the abolotion of nation states.]
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7 New Earth-Like Exoplanets Discovered, NASA Announces
Astronomers have discovered not one, not two, but seven Earth-sized planets orbiting a star called TRAPPIST-1.
What’s more, three of them are in the habitable zone— the happy place where liquid water can exist on the surface of rocky planets, as it’s not too hot or cold. (Although liquid water could potentially exist on any of the seven, NASA said, it likes the odds on those three best.) The space agency calls the discovery of the fascinating solar system record-breaking.
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The entire time Barack Obama was president, he continually tried to put the screws to the American people. Whether it was doing back room deals with terrorists or knifing our allies in the back, his treasonous antics truly knew no bounds. But now a breaking report is coming in about the sick (and possibly illegal) thing that Obama did his last day in office which is so disturbing, that law makers are immediately calling for a congressional investigation into the incident.
Brietbart News reports that on Obama’ s last day in office, he mysteriously approved a $418 million U.S. weapons sale to Kenya, allowing them to purchase 14 weaponized crop-duster-like planes. Why Obama decided to ram this through during his last day in office is now raising alarm bells, as several lawmakers are questioning why the contract was ever put into place in the first place, labeling the deal as “ highly inappropriate.”
[Comment: NB: “weaponized crop-duster-like plane”.]
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Deconstruction of America Has Stopped
The Left is freaking out because they’ve lost control in their effort to make this a nation run by a Party and not a Constitution.
For the last eight years the nation underwent what was sometimes called fundamental transformation. I call it the deconstruction of America, a process that actually began over a hundred years ago, but was rapidly accelerated by the mass influx of leftist socialists into all levels of government during the Obama administration. It had even progressed — digressed, actually — to the point where the Republican establishment had essentially signed on to it.
But right out the gate, after his November 8 election, Donald Trump began dismantling the framework of the systemic deconstruction of our Constitutional system.
Meanwhile, as the Left protests the existence of a non-Leftist government, they are showing us that they consider the Constitutional process optional. As long as their Party gets elected, our Constitutional system is commendable. But put them out of power in a major way and the goal becomes shutting down the Constitutional process and imposing their will on the rest of us.
Making Trump unable to govern is their goal.
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House Dem Staffers Took Iraqi Politician’s Cash
Rogue congressional staffers took $100,000 from an Iraqi politician while they had administrator-level access to the House of Representatives’ computer network, according to court documents examined by The Daily Caller News Foundation’s Investigative Group.
The money was a loan from Dr. Ali al-Attar, an Iraqi political figure, and was funneled through a company with “impossible”-to-decipher financial transactions that the congressional information technology (IT) staffers controlled.
Imran Awan, ringleader of the group that includes his brothers Abid and Jamal, has provided IT services since 2005 for Florida Democrat Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the former Democratic National Committee (DNC) chairwoman. The brothers are from Pakistan.
The trio also worked for dozens of other House Democrats, including members of the intelligence, foreign affairs and homeland security committees. Those positions likely gave them access to congressional emails and other sensitive documents.
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How CNN Recycled Last Year’s Fake News
If you have any doubts about the basic dishonesty of CNN, consider how the channel not only broadcasts fake news but recycles it.
Remember that CNN “broke” the story about the “Russian Trump dossier” compiled by an ex-British intelligence agent for Hillary Clinton supporters. The document was opposition research against then-candidate Donald Trump, now President.
Despite the lack of any corroboration from any source, including hostile anti-Trump media or the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC), after several months of secret efforts, CNN is now claiming in a February 10 story that its U.S. intelligence and investigative sources say that “some aspects” of the 35-page dossier “for the first time” have been “corroborated.”
Let’s examine this startling claim.
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If You Admit That You Are a Trump Supporter, It May Cost You Your Job
Many liberals that are still extremely bitter about the outcome of the election are taking out their frustrations on Trump supporters all over the country. And in some cases, employees are actually being “ reassigned” , fired or asked to leave their jobs if they openly admit their support for President Trump. This kind of political discrimination is not supposed to be happening in our workplaces, but it is happening. Many leftists that are in positions of authority around the nation are using that authority to punish people that voted for Donald Trump. So if you voted for Trump and your boss didn’ t, you might want to keep your political views to yourself at your workplace if you want to keep your job.
And sharing your political opinions on Facebook is not necessarily safe either. Just ask an elementary school teacher in Collier County, Florida that was just “ reassigned” to administrative duties for a pro-Trump Facebook post…
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John Podesta: ‘Forces Within the FBI’ May Have Wanted Clinton to Lose
John Podesta, the former chairman of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, said Monday “forces within the FBI” may have wanted her to lose.
“There are at least forces within the FBI that wanted her to lose,” Podesta said during an interview with the website NewCo, Politico reported. “I’m not sure they really understood the alternative, but they wanted her to lose. I think that’s one possibility.”
The report said that Podesta did not offer any specific evidence to advance the argument, but Democrats have not been shy in the past to criticized FBI Director James Comey’s decision to—11 days before the election—alert Congress about the agency looking into additional emails.
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Meet the Man Working With NASA to 3D Print a Colony on Mars
In 2004, Behrokh Khoshnevis unveiled a revolutionary 3D-printing method dubbed Contour Crafting (CC), which made it possible to print a 2,500-square-foot building in less than a day on Earth.
Then, in 2016 he took first prize in the NASA In-Situ Materials Challenge, for Selective Separation Sintering — a 3D-printing process that makes use of powder-like materials found on Mars and works in zero-gravity conditions.
Here, Khoshnevis tells CNN why he believes humans will soon build on Mars.
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Melania Trump Re-Files Daily Mail Lawsuit Without Controversial Wording
Lawyers for US First Lady Melania Trump have re-filed a defamation case against UK newspaper Daily Mail.
The new complaint drops wording that said Mrs Trump missed a “once-in-a-lifetime opportunity” to profit from her brand, due to a Daily Mail article.
The initial complaint had led critics to question if she intended to gain financially from being first lady.
The Daily Mail had reported allegations that she once worked as an escort, but later retracted its article.
Mrs Trump is still seeking damages of $150m (£120m).
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More Than 200 Protesters Indicted on Felony Rioting Charges From Inauguration Day
A total of 214 people have been indicted so far on felony rioting charges in connection with the Inauguration Day protests in downtown Washington. On the morning of January 20, protests over Donald Trump’s inauguration turned violent when black-clad “anti-fascist” protesters smashed storefronts and bus stops, hammered out the windows of a limousine and eventually launched rocks at a phalanx of police.
Officers responded by launching smoke and flash-bang devices into the street to disperse the crowds. Six police officers were injured and 230 protesters were arrested that day.
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Muslim Man Raped Woman in Gas Station Bathroom
President Obama and his gender neutral bathroom policy are still having long-lasting negative consequences on the American people. And we don’ t like it. Especially after a violent incident led to a woman being savagely attacked. A report was released indicating a Muslim male immigrant went into the female bathroom at a gas station establishment and raped a woman inside.
Law enforcement officials were able to detain the criminal, arrest him, and put him behind bars. He is being charged with rape, assault, terrorizing, and kidnapping. All five charges are felonies. Since the culprit did not appear at his mandated court appearance the judge set his bail at $1,000,000.
While he was raping the attendant he was chanting Allahu Akbar which translates to, “ God is the greatest” , in Arabic. Witnesses have reported he tried kissing his victim before attacking her and that he called her his wife before pulling her into the bathroom.
Reporters were able to speak with the family of the culprit. His sister appeared on television to speak on behalf of her family. She insisted that her brother is suffering from serious mental disorders. Furthermore, she took the opportunity to explain that his actions are not representative of Islam.
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NASA Telescope Reveals Largest Batch of Earth-Size, Habitable-Zone Planets Around Single Star
NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has revealed the first known system of seven Earth-size planets around a single star. Three of these planets are firmly located in the habitable zone, the area around the parent star where a rocky planet is most likely to have liquid water.
The discovery sets a new record for greatest number of habitable-zone planets found around a single star outside our solar system. All of these seven planets could have liquid water — key to life as we know it — under the right atmospheric conditions, but the chances are highest with the three in the habitable zone.
“This discovery could be a significant piece in the puzzle of finding habitable environments, places that are conducive to life,” said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator of the agency’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington. “Answering the question ‘are we alone’ is a top science priority and finding so many planets like these for the first time in the habitable zone is a remarkable step forward toward that goal.”
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Nigel Farage Hits ‘Hijack’ of Higher Education by the Left
Nigel Farage, the bombastic former leader of the UK Independence Party and key figure in the successful Brexit movement, took aim at liberal academia during a Tuesday speech at Hillsdale College in Michigan.
“Our educational establishments, through school, college, and university have been so completely hijacked by the liberal left, who actually, in the classical O.E.D. definition of it, are the most illiberal people I have ever seen or met in my life,” Farage, who has campaigned against politically correct culture throughout his career, claimed.
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Obama’s Feds Tried to Hack Indiana’s Election System While Pence Was Governor
The attacks are the second confirmed IT scanning assault by DHS officials against states that resisted Obama
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials tried to hack Indiana’s state electoral system with at least 14,800 “scans” or hits between Nov. 1, 2016, to Dec. 16, 2016, The Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group has learned.
The attacks are the second confirmed IT scanning assault by DHS officials against states that resisted then-President Barack Obama’s attempt to increase federal involvement in state and local election systems by designating them as “critical infrastructure” for national security.
Members of the National Association of Secretaries of State voted Saturday at their winter meeting to oppose the designation. They are asking President Donald Trump to overturn it.
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Pamela Anderson: “I’ve Spent More Time Talking to Julian Than All My Ex-Husbands Combined!”
She’s the Playboy model and animal rights activist who recently sparked rumours of a romance with Julian Assange.
But now it looks like whispers of Pamela Anderson dating the Wikileaks founder could be much more than just speculation, with the blonde beauty all but confirming the relaitonship during an interview on The Kyle and Jackie O Show on Thursday.
‘I’ve spent more time talking to Julian than all of my ex-husband combined!’ exclaimed the 49-year-old, who has been married four times to three different people.
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Trump Month One: Success for His Supporters — Charlotte Allen
Trump has managed to do something that no U.S. president, even Reagan, has been able to do in recent decades: bring to a screeching halt, if only temporarily, the reign of a globalist, virtue-signaling elite that has gained control of every social and cultural institution, the political establishment (including many Republicans), the news media, the universities, the entertainment industry, even corporations — and then steamrollered his agenda over ordinary Americans whether they liked it or not.
Trump has stood in front of the steamroller and begun to roll it back. He might not be able to push it very far in the long run, but the loud and uncompromising “resistance” from all of America’s elites indicates that he has made a good start.
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Today I believe the UN has strayed from its original goals. In reaction, the US should defund the UN and kick their useless butts out of town. Let them set up shop in Riyadh and see how they like it. There are many reasons in support of what I am suggesting, but for now let’s stick to the two biggies: (1) The UN has become a pawn of the Islamic world; and (2) Self-serving UN bureaucrats are committed to a totalitarian globalist agenda that is diametrically opposed to US interests. Oh, I forgot a third reason: We can use the money.
Muslim states account for 18 of the 47 seats on the UN Human Rights Council. This Muslim bloc has been the driving force, says cnsnews.com, behind two key items on the Council’s agenda: the campaign for anti-blasphemy laws and condemnations of Israel. Now it seems they have the support of UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres.
Guterres has cited “Islamophobia” as the reason for increasing terrorism around the world. “One of the things that fuel terrorism,” said Guterres, “is the expression in some parts of the world of Islamophobic feelings and Islamophobic policies and Islamophobic hate speeches.”
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Canadians Want a Light Shone on Radical Islam
Last year, I revealed news that the imam of a mosque that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visited was publicly listed on the mosque’s very website as the member of a group that was designated a terrorist organization abroad and whose leader had been banned from entering the United Kingdom and France for his extremist views.
While regular Canadians read the story with great interest, the mainstream surprisingly wanted nothing to do with it.
The only other coverage that came out of it was a write up or two of the press release the mosque sent out denouncing my reporting. At the same time, local politicians and even law enforcement took aim at me and someone at the Prime Minister’s Office even had the gall to call me up and chew me out for it.
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Ontario Teacher Faces Discipline for Allegedly Telling Students They ‘Could Die’ From Vaccination
Teacher allegedly disrupted a 2015 vaccination clinic at his southern Ontario school
A southern Ontario high school teacher allegedly tried to scare his students into not getting vaccinated for polio, diphtheria and other diseases, a discipline panel of the Ontario College of Teachers heard on Tuesday.
Timothy Sullivan, a science teacher at the Grand Erie District School Board, is accused of professional misconduct relating to a 2015 school vaccine clinic where, according to the allegations, he “told students they could die as a result of the vaccination.”…
Sullivan, who said he can’t afford a lawyer and is representing himself at the hearing, is focusing his defence on the “informed consent” required for health officials to give vaccines.
“I’m not an anti-vaxxer. I’m pro informed consent,” Sullivan told reporters at the hearing.
“They make it sound like I was running around saying this will kill you. What I was doing was referring them to a product label,” Sullivan said in his opening remarks.
In his cross-examination, Sullivan went through a long list of rare side-effects, including anorexia and convulsions, contained in a vaccine’s product monograph, asking Swick if she informed each student of them.
“We warn them of the most common side-effects,” Swick said.
“But not the most serious?” Sullivan asked.
“It’s so rare, that we don’t,” Swick answered.
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200 Evacuated as Avalanche Hits Arctic Svalbard
Over 200 people have been evacuated in Longyearbyen, the capital of Norway’s Arctic Svalbard Archipelago, after an avalanche crashed through the town, demolishing two buildings. The islands’ governor Kjerstin Askholt said that no one had been injured or killed in the event, which is the latest in a string of avalanches to hit the town.
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A Muslim convert who tried to join ISIS kept a diary detailing how he wanted to buy a nine-year-old slave girl.
In the diary found on his phone Patrick Kabele, from Willesden in north London, also said he had a ‘death wish’ and wanted to die young.
Jurors at Woolwich Crown Court, where the 32-year-old is on trial for a terrorism offence, heard Kabele was stopped as he tried to board a Pegasus Airlines flight from Gatwick to Istanbul, Turkey on August 20 with £3,000 in cash.
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Cat Ownership Not Linked to Mental Health Problems, Study Says
Studies have suggested that cat ownership could be linked to certain mental disorders, such as schizophrenia, but researchers at University College London say they found no link between cat ownership and the development of psychotic symptoms.
Published in the medical journal Psychological Medicine, the new study is the first to prospectively look at childhood cat ownership and the infection of the parasite Toxoplasma gondii as a risk factor for psychosis. House cats are known to be the primary host of T. gondii, which infects various warm-blooded animals (including humans) and causes a disease called toxoplasmosis.
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Danish Social Democrats Back Ban on Uni Prayer Rooms
Denmark’s Social Democratic party has joined calls to ban prayer rooms at schools and universities, as it continues its flirtation with the populist right.
Mattias Tesfaye, the party’s spokesman on vocational education, told the Jyllands-Posten newspaper that the move was necessary to prevent young Danes being lured into practicing Islam.
“Denmark’s schools, colleges and universities are not a place for religious practice,” he said, warning of the “danger of prayer-rooms”, which he claimed extremists sometimes used to share radical Islamist literature.
“There may be social control in which some Muslim students, for example, push others to practice Islam in school,” he argued.
The move sees the country’s largest centre-left party deepen its tentative alliance with the populist, anti-immigrant Danish People’s Party, which proposed the prayer ban.
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Danish Man Who Burned Quran Charged With Blasphemy
A man who filmed himself burning the Quran has become the first person to be charged under Denmark’s blasphemy law in 46 years.
The 42-year-old filmed himself burning a copy of Islam’s holy book in his back yard in December 2015. He then posted the video on the anti-Islamic Facebook group, “Yes to freedom — no to Islam” along with the words, “Consider your neighbour: it stinks when it burns.”
Danish prosecutor Jan Reckendorff announced his decision to bring charges in a press statement issued on Wednesday afternoon.
“It is the prosecution’s view that circumstances involving the burning of holy books such as the Bible and the Quran can in certain cases be a violation of the blasphemy clause, which covers public scorn or mockery of religion.”
This marks the fourth time in history anyone has been prosecuted under Denmark’s blasphemy clause: four people were sentenced for posting posters mocking Jewish teachings in 1938; two people were fined for carrying out a fake baptism at a masked ball in 1946; and two programme leaders at Danish Radio were exonerated in 1971 for airing a song mocking Christianity.
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France: Furious Marine Le Pen Accuses European Fraud Team of Double Standards
FRENCH right-wing presidential hopeful Marine Le Pen has reacted with fury after the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) raided her Front National party HQ as part of a probe into payment irregularities.
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France: Le Pen’s Headquarters Raided by Police in EU Parliament Jobs Probe
French police searched the headquarters of Marine Le Pen’s National Front party west of Paris on Monday (20 February) in relation to a probe into alleged misuse of European Union funds to pay parliamentary assistants.
France’s far-right party accused authorities of staging a media stunt to influence the presidential election after police searched its headquarters in an investigation into “fake jobs”.
“It looks on the face of it like a media operation whose goal is to disturb the course of the presidential campaign,” the National Front said in a statement…
Reportedly, the money went to Catherine Griset, a close friend of Ms Le Pen, as well as to her cabinet director. The funds were conditional on Griset spending most of her working time doing parliamentary work in Brussels or Strasbourg but the parliament says most of her time was instead spent working in the National Front’s headquarters in Paris.
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Germany’s Bavaria to Ban Full-Face Veil
The German state of Bavaria has announced plans to ban the full-face veil in government workplaces, schools, universities and while driving.
“Communication happens not only via language but also looks, facial expressions and gestures,” said state Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann.
But critics say the ban will have little practical impact in a state with only a small number of Muslims.
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German Family Sues Danish State Over Rock-Throwing Fatality
The family of Nelli Gosmann, the German woman who was killed after the car she was travelling in was hit by a rock thrown off a motorway bridge in Funen last August, has decided to sue the Danish state for compensation.
According to the family’s Danish lawyer, Jan Hollmén Olesen, a compensation claim is in the works to cover the death of 33-year-old Gosmann and the severe damages sustained by her husband Andreas, who remained in a coma for weeks after the incident.
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Greek FM: Turkey Close to Crossing Greece’s Red Lines
Turkey came very close to crossing Greece’s red lines in the Aegean last week, when a Turkish coast guard vessel fired shots in Greek territorial waters east of the islet of Farmakonisi, Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias told Skai Television’s “Istories” program Tuesday night.
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Major Discovery! 7 Earth-Size Alien Planets Circle Nearby Star
Astronomers have never seen anything like this before: Seven Earth-size alien worlds orbit the same tiny, dim star, and all of them may be capable of supporting life as we know it, a new study reports.
“Looking for life elsewhere, this system is probably our best bet as of today,” study co-author Brice-Olivier Demory, a professor at the Center for Space and Habitability at the University of Bern in Switzerland, said in a statement.
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Brother of ISIS’s ex-Gitmo Briton says he wasted his life
The family of a British ISIS fighter who was handed £1million in compensation after he was freed from Guantanamo Bay have said he ‘wasted his life’.
British Jamal Udeen al-Harith, 50, is understood to have detonated a suicide bomb in an ISIS attack on an army base near Mosul earlier this week.
The Manchester-born Muslim convert — who changed his name from Ronald Fiddler in 1994 — had been suspected of terrorism after being caught by US forces in Afghanistan in 2001.
But he was freed from Guantanamo Bay in 2004 after Tony Blair’s government lobbied for his release, claiming he posed no threat.
The bomber then launched a compensation bid, claiming MI6 was complicit in his mistreatment by the Americans, and was handed £1million to stay silent.
Last night, his brother Leon Jameson confirmed that an image released by ISIS was al-Harith.
The photograph shows him smiling, dressed in camouflage clothing and appearing to be sat in a vehicle with wires and switches in the background.
‘It is him, I can tell by his smile,’ Mr Jameson told The Times. ‘If it is true then I’ve lost a brother, so another family (member) gone.’
He said his brother had ‘wasted his life’, but added: ‘I’m not ashamed of him, I never will be.’
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Netherlands: Police Union Warns About Rise in Violent Vigilante Groups
Police union ACP said on Tuesday that some local anti-crime initiatives risk becoming violent vigilante groups. The right to use violence is restricted to the police but the actions of some citizens’ patrols risks undermining their authority, deputy chairman Erwin Koenen told news agency ANP. ‘There are lots of positive examples of the way citizens’ groups act as extra eyes and ears for the police,’ Koenen said.
There are now some 700 people who carry out voluntary patrols in the Netherlands, particularly in the evening and this is five times the 2012 total, Trouw said last September. Almost half the country’s local authority areas now have some sort of neighbourhood watch or other scheme, the paper said, quoting research by Erasmus University sociologist Vasco Lub.
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New Data About Two Distant Asteroids Give a Clue to the Possible ‘Planet Nine’
The dynamical properties of these asteroids, observed spectroscopiccally for the first time using the Gran Telescopio CANARIAS, suggest a possible common origin and give a clue to the existence of a planet beyond Pluto, the so-called ‘Planet Nine.’
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Nordic Cuisine: From Culinary Disaster Zone to Noma
The turn of tides in Nordic gastronomy has probably not escaped the notice of anyone with eyes on the culinary scene. Danish restaurant Noma has been voted the best restaurant in the world four times and chefs from the Nordic countries have been up front in prestigious culinary competitions such as Bocuse d’Or. Swedish chef and ethnology professor at Lund University, Håkan Jönsson has been researching this, the gastronomic revolution.
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Northern Lights and Heavy Drinking: What it’s Like to Spend 100 Days Without Sunlight in Svalbard
With a brutal winter that sees no sunshine for four months, no wonder the residents of Svalbard drink more booze than anywhere else in Norway.
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Poland Rejects EU Criticism of Court Changes
Poland’s foreign ministry said on Monday in a formal reply to Brussels that changes to the country’s constitutional court are in accordance with European standards. The European Commission is worried that the reforms undermine judicial independence of the court. If it deems Poland’s answers as unsatisfactory it has the right to resort to Article 7 of the EU treaty, allowing sanctions and suspension of voting rights in the EU council.
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Possible Mole in Security Detail of Geert Wilders
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A Dutch security official responsible for protecting anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders has been detained on suspicion of leaking classified information, a police spokesman said Wednesday, sparking fears for the safety of the populist lawmaker who for years has lived amid tight security.
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Possible Mole in Security Detail of Dutch Frontrunner Wilders
A Dutch secret service agent who was part of the team responsible for protecting Geert Wilders, the frontrunner in next month’s election, has been suspended on suspicion of leaking details to a criminal organization, the secret service said on Wednesday.
Wilders, who campaigns on an anti-Islam platform that includes closing mosques and banning immigration from Muslim countries that has led to the protection, condemned the alleged breach, saying he cannot function without adequate security.
Dutch newspapers De Telegraaf and NRC Handelsblad and the country’s national broadcaster NOS identified the suspect as an experienced officer in his mid-30s, using his first name and last initial.
Secret Service chief Erik Akerboom said he could not confirm the man’s identity but confirmed media reports he has a “Moroccan background”.
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Sweden: ‘A Question of Education’: What Rinkeby Residents Think About the Riots
Rinkeby in Stockholm made global headlines this week after riots broke out involving car fires just days after Donald Trump thrust the spotlight on Sweden. But what do the people who actually live and work in the suburb think about it? The Local spoke to them to find out.
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Sweden: No Arrests After Rinkeby Riots
Police have responded to criticism that they did not do enough to stop riots in the Rinkeby suburb north-west of Stockholm on Monday night.
Violent unrest erupted in Rinkeby at around 8pm on Monday, including rock throwing, looting and car fires, after police were called there to make an arrest near the underground station.
The situation calmed down shortly after midnight and no further disturbances were reported, as police stepped up their presence in the area. But residents criticized police for waiting too long before clamping down on the rioters.
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‘The EU Will End’ Terrified European Chief Fears Marine Le Pen Victory Will Crush the Bloc
Pierre Moscovici, France’s former finance minister, said it would be “crazy” if the Front National leader was to become the leader of his country.
Moscovici said: “If Marine Le Pen comes in office, if she asks for a referendum on Frexit, what would Europe be about? Europe was founded precisely in order that France and Germany and others work together in a common project.
Moscovici was dismissive of Le Pen’s chances of winning the second round of voting — meaning she would ultimately fall short of her aim to France’s next president.
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by Srdja Trifkovic
At the security conference in Munich over the weekend and at the EU headquarters in Brussels on Monday, VP Mike Pence offered profuse assurances to the European elite class that the Trump administration supports unity and cohesion in the face of various threats allegedly facing the Western alliance. His remarks amounted to an explicit repudiation of Trump’s campaign statements and promises.
“The United States strongly supports NATO and will not waver in our commitment to our transatlantic alliance,” Pence said, in contrast to Trump’s repeated (and reasonable) remarks before the election that NATO was “obsolete.” In a conference dominated by the narrative of the “Russian threat,” hacks and other fake news (Sen. Lindsey Graham warned France and Germany that the Russians were coming after them, vowing to “kick Russia in the ass in Congress”), Pence did not sound a single discordant note. He paid tribute to “our shared values,” our “noble ideals—freedom, democracy, justice and the rule of law.” “As you keep faith with us,” he went on, “under President Trump we will always keep faith with you.”
Defense Secretary James Mattis—who also attended the Munich conference—made similar points in a speech last Saturday—points which until recently would have been considered distinctly un-Trumpian. President Trump has “thrown his full support behind NATO,” Mattis declared, and warned of threats “on multiple fronts as the arc of instability builds on NATO’s periphery and beyond.” Earlier last week Secretary of State Rex Tillerson went to Germany for the Group of 20 foreign ministers’ meeting. According to The Washington Post, as he left the meeting “there was a palpable sense of relief” among the Europeans, which “stemmed in part from a sense that Tillerson is a serious man who came to Bonn willing to hear their viewpoints.” According to the Post, after Tillerson’s meeting with Russian’s FM Lavrov,…
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UK: Counter Terrorism Officers Arrest Prisoner
Counter terrorism officers have arrested a man in prison over alleged support for so-called Islamic State.
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Internal EU Report Exposes Libya Turmoil
An internal report from the EU’s border mission for Libya provides a bleak account of the country’s misfortunes, casting a long shadow over EU aims to control its migration flows towards Italy.
The assessment broadly echoes statements made by the UN’s Libya envoy, Martin Kobler, who told BBC Newshour over the weekend that efforts to deliver services to Libyans “is getting from bad to worse.”
Kobler’s comments follow the EU’s announcement last month to channel some €200 million into Libya-centric migration and border projects throughout much of north Africa.
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Jewish Families Have 3.56 People, Arabs Ones Have 4.59, Says CBS
The average Israeli family has 3.7 people, a figure that has not changed in 20 years, according to a report released Tuesday by the Central Bureau of Statistics ahead of Family Day.
When broken down by sector, the average Jewish family has 3.56 people, and the average Arab family has 4.59.
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A Muslim ABC presenter who told Q&A she practised sharia turned to an Islamist who repeatedly refused to condemn Islamic State murders in a shocking television interview.
Youth activist Yassmin Abdel-Magied told Q&A last week sharia to her meant praying five times a day and that Islam was the ‘most feminist religion’.
After that polarising appearance the 25-year-old writer, who also hosts an ABC News 24 program, turned to Hizb ut-Tahir spokesman Wassim Doureihi for advice on social media about how to present her arguments.
This is the same man who in October 2014 repeatedly refused to condemn Islamic State’s murderous atrocities in northern Iraq — despite being asked 11 times to do so in an 11-minute interview on the ABC’s Lateline program.
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Rather than being open minded to other cultures, Muslims always demand everyone else conform to their 6th century barbaric religion. We see this not only here in America, but in other countries too, where any woman visiting the Middle East will be expected to don a hijab in order to not offend these archaic people. But when reigning U.S. chess champion Nazi Paikidze was told by the Iranian government that she had to wear a hijab in order to compete in the world competition hosted by their country this year, she had a few words to say on the matter that will leave you proud as hell to be an American.
While the world championship for chess being held in Iran is insane enough, FIDE, the international organization that oversees the event, backed Iran on their “ morality laws” that gave Paikidze very little in her way of options. She could either conform and wear the Muslim garb and compete, or give the opportunity to defend her world title. But for the all-American girl, the choice for her was easy. Here’ s what she told Marie Clare magazine: “By participating, I would be forced to submit to forms of oppression designed specifically for women. It sets the wrong example, particularly for young girls interested in chess.” Paikidze posted further on Instagram about her decision.
“This is a post for those who don’t understand why I am boycotting FIDE’s decision. I think it’s unacceptable to host a WOMEN’S World Championship in a place where women do not have basic fundamental rights and are treated as second-class citizens. For those saying that I don’t know anything about Iran: I have received the most support and gratitude from the people of Iran, who are facing this situation every day.”
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A British ISIS suicide bomber has been revealed as a former Guantanamo prisoner who was handed £1million in taxpayers’ money as compensation before fleeing to Syria.
UK national Jamal Udeen al-Harith was photographed moments before blowing himself up in an attack on a military facility near Mosul in Iraq.
Shortly after detonating the explosive-laden car near an army base, ISIS released a statement revealing al-Harith had been fighting for them under the name Abu Zakariya al-Britani.
The Muslim convert — who changed his name from Ronald Fiddler in 1994 — was sent to Guantanamo Bay in 2002 after he was caught by American forces in Afghanistan…
Terror suspects we gave £1million each to keep them quiet
As many as 16 British citizens and residents received millions of pounds in compensation after being held in Guantanamo Bay.
A deal believed to be worth almost £20million was agreed by the Government after the terror suspects threatened legal action.
The detainees, many of whom claimed they were victims of kidnap and torture, warned they would sue Britain for its involvement in their abuse. Many alleged that UK spies were complicit in barbaric mistreatment at the US military base in Cuba following 9/11.
Ministers settled the case on the grounds that they could not defend themselves against the damaging allegations without harming British security by revealing sensitive intelligence information.
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Turkey Lifts Ban on Hijab for Women Army Officers
Since the AK Party came to power in 2002, it has been moving to lift the decades-long ban on Muslim headscarfs in many areas of public life.
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The Armenia-Azerbaijan War: A Refugee’s Story
It was one of many in the anti-Armenian pogroms that took place after the local parliament in the Armenian enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh voted, on 20 February, to split from Azerbaijan and join Armenia.
The events that followed, amid the break-up of the Soviet Union, cost up to 30,000 lives and displaced more than 1 million people in a four-year war.
Full hostilities ended in 1994, but the so-called frozen conflict still goes on, with everyday exchanges of fire on the line of contact. It threatens to escalate at any moment, destabilising the South Caucasus and drawing in regional powers Iran, Russia, and Turkey.
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A strong Jihadi mob of 80 persons smashed the school on Saturday wee hours.
Upananda Brahmachari | HENB | Kolkata | Feb 22, 2017:: When the students and teachers of Liladevi Memorial Institute, a junior high school sponsored by the state govt at Dashadrone in the area of Rajarhat under greater Kolkata, reached their school on saturday morning, were completely shocked with a scene of devastation. Some of them were shocked to senseless and most the children started crying inconsolably.
An army of 80 Jihadi men apparently sent by a Muslim developer smashed the roof of a two-storey school in Baguiati in an overnight operation in the wee hours of Saturday, obviously flexing the muscle power as boosted with the steroid of appeasement and vote bank politics .
One of the walls of Liladevi Memorial Institute in Dashadrone was partially demolished and the roof was smashed in a way as if a big explosion was occurred. Students could not take their annual exams Saturday morning and had to return home crying as most of the classrooms were full of debris and broken furnitures.
This was certainly a world record that a govt sponsored school running for 20 yrs, not in any war zone or not in any havoc social unrest, was demolished by a group of Muslim labourers led by a Muslim antisocial named Mizanur Rahaman. And this record was helped to set by none other than the Jihadi didi, the Islamist CM of West Bengal whose indulgence was the main inspiration of her Jihadi brothers to commit such nefarious nuisance in the campus of education…
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Triple Talaq: India’s Battle Against Three Words That Grant Instant Divorce
Farha’s husband instantly divorced her last year by saying “talaq, talaq, talaq” in a fit of anger after their 10-year-old daughter had asked him for five rupees (seven cents) to buy some firecrackers for a holiday celebration.
Triple talaq, as it is commonly called, is an ancient and controversial Islamic practice where a man divorces a woman by saying the word talaq, the Arabic word for divorce, three times. Sometimes, it’s even delivered by phone or text message.
India, home to the second largest Muslim population in the world, is among the few that do not ban the practice. Other countries with majority Muslim populations like Pakistan and Indonesia have outlawed the practice for years.
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China Nearly Finished Building South China Sea Structures to House Missiles, Officials Say
In a move likely to stoke tensions in the region, China has built new structures to potentially house surface-to-air missiles on three of its artificial islands in the South China Sea, but so far no missiles have been sent there, two U.S. officials confirmed to Fox News.
The news comes as the U.S. Navy deployed an aircraft carrier to the South China Sea during the weekend — the first time since President Trump took office.
China has built runways on Subi, Mischief and Fiery Cross islands, built atop former reefs in the Spratly chain of islands. China has constructed 24 new buildings across these three islands in the past few months, according to the officials.
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Kim Jong-Nam Killing: North Korea Condemns Malaysia
North Korea has said Malaysia is responsible for the death of one of its citizens and is attempting to politicise the return of his body.
It does not name Kim Jong-nam, but the KCNA report appears to be state media’s first reference to the death of the half-brother of North Korea’s leader.
Mr Kim died after being poisoned at Kuala Lumpur airport and his body remains in a hospital mortuary.
Several North Koreans are wanted in connection with his death.
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Women Who Assassinated Half-Brother of Kim Jong UN Coated Hands in Poison, Official Says
The women suspected of assassinating the half-brother of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un doused their hands with a toxic chemical before wiping them on the man’s face, Malaysian officials said Wednesday.
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In central China’s Hunan Province, archaeologists have uncovered evidence of a zinc production site dating to the late Ming Dynasty (1368—1644). The finds include large smelting furnaces as well as zinc slag, the by-product of the conversion of zinc ores to pure zinc. Along with India, China was one of the major production centers for zinc between the twelfth and eighteenth centuries, after which the material began to be produced on a larger scale in Europe.
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Colonial-Era Artifacts Uncovered in Australia
An excavation in a suburb of Sydney has turned up evidence of the early decades after the arrival of Europeans in Australia, according to a report from ABC News. The site, in North Parramatta, was home to an early nineteenth-century “female factory,” where women convicts sent to Australia were put to work. Later, it was expanded to include a mental asylum and orphanage. Among the items found at the site are toothbrushes, combs, beads, and bits of jewelry.
The archaeologists are unsure who owned these items. A number of small pieces of glass have also been discovered, possibly dating back to 1788, around the time the first colonists arrived in Australia. Archaeologist Jillian Comber believes these provide evidence of relationships between the European settlers and Aboriginal people, who used the glass for cutting or carving.
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Nigerians in South Africa ‘Living in Fear’ After Attacks
Members of Nigeria’s community in South Africa have raised concerns over renewed anti-immigrant violence, appealing to authorities to intervene before the situation gets out of control.
Nigeria’s presidency on Monday called the South African government to step in to stop what it said were “xenophobic attacks” following recent reports of violence against Nigerians and other nationals in the capital, Pretoria.
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Mexico Homicides Jump by a Third Amid Cartel Infighting
Homicides in Mexico jumped by more than a third in January, new figures showed, fueled by violence in states hit by an internal split in the Sinaloa drug cartel.
Murders were up by more than half in the northern states of Chihuahua and Sinaloa, according to official figures dated Monday. In Baja California there were almost 50 percent more.
Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, the powerful boss of the Sinaloa cartel, was extradited to the United States last month and is currently in a New York jail awaiting trial.
That power vacuum has led to an internal power struggle in the cartel, causing gang violence to surge in northern Mexico, Defense Minister Salvador Cienfuegos said earlier this month.
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Austria: Nine Asylum Seekers Accused of Gang Rape From Same Family Go on Trial
NINE asylum seekers from the same family have gone on trial in the Austrian capital Vienna for the New Year’s Eve 2015 gang rape of a 28-year-old German teacher.
Prosecutors charge the Iraqi men with “abuse of a defenceless person and rape in a very humiliating and agonising way for the victim”.
At the opening of the trial yesterday the court heard how the woman identified as Sabine K. was “blind drunk” when she went with the men to an apartment.
Most of them deny the charges but DNA proved that sperm from six of them was found in or on her body.
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Austria Tries Asylum Seeker Over Syria Murders
An asylum seeker charged by Austrian authorities with 20 murders in Syria has had his case adjourned until the end of March.
The 27-year-old man, who was arrested in western Austria in June, faces the charge of “murder in the context of terrorism”.
He is accused of shooting unarmed or wounded soldiers following a battle in Homs, Syria.
His lawyers have said that he was severely traumatised at the time.
The man — who has not been named — denies the charges. According to Der Standard, he is a stateless Palestinian who grew up in a refugee camp in Homs.
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Canada Sees Spike in Border Crossers Coming From US
Thousands are leaving the United States for Canada and immigration advocates say the political rhetoric of the Trump administration is playing a role.
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DHS Publishes Memoranda on Immigration Policy to Secure the Border
In keeping with President Trump’s promises to secure the borders of the United States, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published two memoranda on Tuesday detailing how the Trump administration will enforce existing immigration laws both along the border and in the interior.
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Donald Trump is Correct — I Live in an Immigrant Area in Sweden and it is Not Working Well
by Chang Frick
SWEDEN Is it correct that Sweden got major problems handling the immigration? I would say yes. My grounds for claiming that is just by looking out the window where I live, inside a migrant dominated area. Almost every evening cars are set on fire and police officers are attacked by criminal gangs. But you don’t read very much about it in the Swedish main stream media.
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Greece: Plans for Migrant Centers Fuel Ire
Government plans to create “pre-departure” detention centers for migrants ineligible for refugee status have run into opposition from locals on Chios and other eastern Aegean islands, many of whom are planning legal action in a bid to limit the number of migrants residing in their communities.
Authorities say the new facilities will accelerate returns to Turkey and, as a result, help reduce the numbers of migrants on the islands which currently total more than 14,000.
Meanwhile, sources indicate, a group of islanders are planning legal action in a bid to secure the removal of all migrants from Kos, concerned that their continued presence on the island could harm the prospects for a good tourist season.
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Italian Authorities Investigating Possible Smuggler Funding of Migrant Rescue Boats
A number of privately-run migrant rescue vessels ferrying refugees and migrants between Libya and Sicily has caught the attention of Italian authorities who suspect that some of the fleet’s funding may come from smugglers.
Carmelo Zuccaro, chief prosecutor of Catania, a city on the eastern coast of Sicily, formed a task force to determine whether some of the independent rescue operations may be working with regional smugglers. Catania’s port is where a majority of Libyan migrants and refugees are brought after being rescued from the Mediterranean Sea.
“Last summer we saw something we’d never seen before: At times there were 13 boats operated by NGOs working at once,” Zuccaro recently said to Reuters.
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Italy Rescued Hundreds of People Off the Libyan Coast Last Night
Italy’s coast guard has rescued about 630 migrants off the coast of Libya who were trying to cross the Mediterranean.
The Italian coast guard said it mounted operations to rescue two drifting vessels, a large boat and a rubber raft.
The number of attempted crossings has surged this year, with most departures taking place from the west of Libya, from where Italy is just 300 kilometres (190 miles) away.
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Leaked Report: Six Million Migrants Want to Enter Europe
Third World immigration time bomb on verge of exploding
A leaked secret report from the German security authorities has revealed that almost six million migrants from countries around the Mediterranean want to enter Europe.
The report, which was obtained by German tabloid Bild, claims that there are at least 5.95 million migrants in countries around the Mediterranean who are seeking to enter Europe. In Turkey alone, the report estimates there to be 2.93 million migrants who have set their sights on the benefits of being an asylum seeker in a western European country like Germany OE24 reports.
Libya, according to the report, is presently home to 1.2 million migrants who want to get to Europe. Last year a record-breaking number of migrants crossed the sea to Europe with most of them arriving in Italy. The Italian government has vowed to crack down on illegal migration this year, but the country has seen little slowdown in the number of migrants arriving so far.
Jordan, which has taken in a large amount of Syrians fleeing the civil war, is also mentioned in the report. The German security services estimate there could be up to 720,000 migrants in Jordan who want to come to Europe.
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Mexico’s Foreign Minister Rejects Trump Deportation Policy
Mexico has condemned new guidelines issued by the United States on deporting undocumented immigrants.
Under plans unveiled by the Trump administration on Tuesday, almost all people staying in the US illegally can be subject to deportation.
Mexican Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray said his country could not “accept unilateral decisions imposed by one government on another.”
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Migrants Accused of Burning Down Germany Refugee Centre Could Go Free
TWO MIGRANTS who were accused of burning down a refugee centre and causing £8.5million worth of damage in a row over Ramadan could be let off.
The men, known only as Adel Z and Mohammed B, were wanted under a police warrant — but a court has today lifted the restriction claiming there was an “absence of an urgent need for action”.
The pair are likely to walk out of court free men tomorrow amid reports they will be acquitted for the arson attack.
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Riots Erupt in Sweden’s Capital Just Days After Trump Comments
Just two days after President Trump provoked widespread consternation by seeming to imply, incorrectly, that immigrants had perpetrated a recent spate of violence in Sweden, riots broke out in a predominantly immigrant neighborhood in the northern suburbs of the country’s capital, Stockholm.
The neighborhood, Rinkeby, was the scene of riots in 2010 and 2013, too. And in most ways, what happened Monday night was reminiscent of those earlier bouts of anger.
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Swedish Mainstream Media is “Hiding the Full Picture”: Trump is Right About Immigrants
Authored by Chang Frick via Nyheter Ida,
Is it correct that Sweden got major problems handling the immigration? I would say yes. My grounds for claiming that is just by looking out the window where I live, inside a migrant dominated area. Almost every evening cars are set on fire and police officers are attacked by criminal gangs. But you don’t read very much about it in the Swedish main stream media.
There are lots of claims about what is going on in Sweden. On one side you have the Swedish main stream media that are very close to liberal press in the United States. We do not have anything like Fox News in Sweden, so there is not any big “right-wing” media. Instead of Fox News, there is an “alternative” scene with different kind of media outlets, some more serious than others. And some of them you can claim is based mostly in fake news.
But, you wont get the whole picture from the Swedish main stream media either. And you might just as well get fooled about specific claims about what is true and not.
My name is Chang Frick and i run this news outlet that you are reading right now. Ive been reporting a lot about whats going on in the suburbs in Sweden. When i work i am very often on the ground with my camera, taking photos and filming. So everything you see in the video above is produced by me. On top of that, i live in an area called “Hallunda” in southern Stockholm. That is an heavily immigrant dominated area, mostly people from the middle east.
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Swiss Harness Power of Nollywood for Anti-Migration Campaign
The Swiss government is funding a Nigerian television series to show potential migrants the difficulties of emigrating illegally to Switzerland.
The 13-episode series is being filmed by a Nigerian film crew in Nigeria and Switzerland with the alpine country picking up the $450,000 price tag, news agencies reported on Monday.
The series, called Missing Steps, came out of a 2011 migration agreement between the two countries which saw Nigeria pledge to help citizens who want to voluntarily return to the African nation.
The story follows a Nigerian man who comes to Switzerland and realizes that life isn’t as good as he thought it would be.
[Comment: This story is NOT from The Onion.]
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Unaccompanied Minors Entering Germany Will Cost €3 Billion
UNACCOMPANIED minors entering Germany will cost the European powerhouse around £3.4billion in 2017 alone amid growing calls from politicians to return many of them to their parents.
The Federal Office of Administration calculated admitting thousands of unaccompanied child migrants will cost the astronomical sum, but German politicians are saying this is no longer necessary.
Michael Kretschmer, of the [CDU/CSU] Union at the Bundestag, said: “When parentless minors from Poland or France are picked up in Germany, the family is found and they are brought back to their parents. When the unaccompanied minor comes from Afghanistan or Africa though, we bring him to the youth office and prepare him for permanent immigration with great effort, even if the teenager talks to his family on the phone every night.”
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Where Millionaires Are Moving: Australia Tops the List
Australia is the top destination for millionaires on the move.
An estimated 11,000 millionaires moved to Australia in 2016, according to a new report by wealth research firm New World Wealth. That compares to 8,000 millionaires who moved Down Under the previous year.
The U.S. and U.K. have traditionally attracted the highest number of wealthy migrants. But the allure of Australia has increased in recent years, especially for wealthy citizens of China and India.
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From the Mariana Trench to the Arctic: Plastic Pollution is Ocean Enemy Number One
Pollutants in the deepest part of the ocean, increasing litter on the remote Arctic seabed and a sad image showing a turtle entangled in a plastic fishernet. It is high time to tackle marine pollution.
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“Norwegian” Somali
named Prime Minister
in Somalia
With a US president and a Norwegian prime minister in a Somalia seeking to strengthen ties with Saudi Arabia, what could possibly go wrong?
A Somali given a Norwegian passport has been appointed Somalia’s new Prime Minister
“Feb. 23, 2017 9:40 AM ET
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Somalia’s new President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed on Thursday appointed a political newcomer as the prime minister, shortly before departing to Saudi Arabia for his first foreign trip since his election.”
Everyone pray for Geert Wilders! It would be an immense loss to the whole world if we lost a truth teller such as he.
While you’re at it, pray for the vigilantes in the Netherlands, too. If our elected officials won’t protect us, we have to do it ourselves. So they’re doing it!