The president of the former Soviet Socialist Republic of Moldova has rejected any possibility of his country’s entry into the EU. He said he would prefer an alliance with Russia, referring to Vladimir Putin as a “patriot”.
In other news, about ten bullet holes were discovered early Monday morning in the front wall of a police station in the Swedish town of Södertälje. The damage was evidently the result of an overnight attack against the station by unknown persons.
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Eurozone Economy Still Requires Stimulus: ECB’s Mario Draghi
European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi says the eurozone still needs significant monetary stimulus to help boost inflation. The bank is gradually reducing its bond purchase program but it may continue past September.
His comments referred to the ECB’s asset purchase program, which began three years ago, and which has seen the central bank spend €2.55 trillion ($3.14 trillion) to buy government bonds and other financial assets.
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Unemployed in Germany Have Greatest Risk of Poverty in the EU
Despite its reputation as one of Europe’s wealthiest and economically-stable countries, Germany has the highest risk of poverty for the unemployed. According to the latest EU figures, the risk is as high as 70 percent.
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CNN Boss Jeff Zucker Expresses Deep Concern Over Google and Facebook’s Growing Power
CNN President Jeff Zucker expressed confusion Monday over why regulators look into big corporations in the telecommunications and media industry when it comes to their growing power but not tech companies like Facebook or Google.
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Fearing Islamophobic AirBnB Hosts, Entrepreneurs Aim to Build ‘A Muslim-Friendly Solution’
Services like Muzbnb and Book Halal Homes offer features that may appeal to the Muslim community, including maps with mosques and halal food.
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‘Free Speech’ Suit Aims to End Twitter’s Political Censorship
A group of free-speech lawyers filed the most serious legal challenge yet to Twitter’s censorship policies Tuesday in San Francisco County Superior Court, seeking a ruling preventing Twitter from banning users purely on the basis of their views and political associations.
The 29-page complaint contends that, under a California legal doctrine that recognizes some private facilities as “public forums,” Twitter may not discriminate against speech on their platform based purely on viewpoint. If successful, it would be the first extension of that doctrine to internet social media platforms and could transform the way free speech is treated online. The suit became all the more relevant Wednesday as Twitter stood accused of locking out thousands of conservatives under the guise of cracking down on “Russian bots.”
One of those purged is Jared Taylor, founder and editor of “American Renaissance,” a fringe-right journal on race and immigration.
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Update: As of late Tuesday afternoon, Google has restored many of the Google Shopping search results discussed in this article, such as water guns. Certain search terms like “AR-15” and “revolver” still display no results. The original article follows.
Google has removed search results for any product that contains the word “gun” in it, including water guns, toy guns, the band “Guns and Roses,” and even “burgundy” from its shopping section.
Google has removed results in its shopping tool for a wide range of terms related to firearms, unwittingly censoring completely unrelated items such as music groups and movies whose titles matched filtered terms.
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Independence Police Confirm ‘Suspicious Device’ Found at Apartment Complex Was an Explosive
INDEPENDENCE, Mo. — Independence police say the “suspicious device” found in a vacant apartment at the Independence Ridge Apartments was an improvised explosive device made of consumer fireworks with added shrapnel. Police say it was made to harm people.
Residents like Lindsey Wesley watched the bomb squad recover the I.E.D. Monday night.
“To be honest my initial thought was maybe meth lab because who thinks to put a meth lab in an apartment?” asked Wesley. “I am like, ‘oh, they are just going to bring everything out. Everything is going to be okay.’ That’s when they were like, ‘you need to get inside for your safety.’ I was like, ‘okay, there is something actually serious going on right now.’“
Wesley moved from her balcony to her bedroom to continue to watch the drama unfold. She says she saw the bomb squad officer in the apartment move the I.E.D. on to the balcony and lower it to a barrel on the ground.
“He was brave,” Wesley said, “because he wouldn’t even turn his back on it once.”
Neighbors said the man who used to live in the apartment was a trouble maker. One person, who did not want to be identified because she was scared for her safety, said she saw him beat up his girlfriend and threaten another neighbor. Police were called both times.
Police said they are looking at that person as a possible suspect…
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Juan Williams: Three Black Women Could Beat Trump
The three strongest Democratic challengers to President Trump’s reelection are now all black women.
They are talk show queen Oprah Winfrey, former first lady Michelle Obama and Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.).
Former White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon has said Oprah and the “Me Too” movement pose an “existential threat” to the Trump presidency.
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Marmite Maker Unilever Threatens to Pull Ads From Facebook and Google
Unilever has threatened to withdraw its advertising from online platforms such as Facebook and Google if they fail to eradicate content which “create division in society and promote anger and hate” .
Keith Weed, chief marketing officer of the sprawling multinational, whose brands include Dove, Magnum, Persil and Marmite, said that online platforms were sometimes “little better than a swamp”. He told major advertising, media and tech firms gathered at a conference in California: “As one of the largest advertisers in the world, we cannot have an environment where our consumers don’t trust what they see online.”
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Monica Lewinsky: Bill Clinton Affair a Gross Abuse of Power
Monica Lewinsky, the former White House intern who had an affair with former president Bill Clinton, has said their relationship constituted a “gross abuse of power” on his part.
Ms Lewinsky was 22 when she became romantically involved with the then president, who was 27 years her senior.
She has written an article for Vanity Fair magazine, reflecting on events after the #MeToo movement.
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A New York Times best-selling author who specializes in crime smelled trouble when she thought she saw a Confederate flag waving in her neighborhood.
Author Rebecca Morris then tipped off the Seattle Times who went to investigate the banner waving in the Greenwood neighborhood of the city.
However upon investigation it turned out that the suspected Confederate banner was actually the Norwegian national flag, raised by a patriot in support of Team Norway in the Winter Olympics.
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YouTube Backs Down After Putting Infowars on Verge of Deactivation
YouTube issued a second strike to Alex Jones’s main channel early Tuesday over a pair of videos related to the Florida school shooting — bringing it perilously close to termination, and loss of one of its main revenue streams, however the second strike was removed hours later for unknown reasons.
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PM Says Official’s Theory That Indian Factions Sabotaged His Trip is True
OTTAWA — Justin Trudeau is standing by a senior government official who suggested factions within the Indian government were involved in sabotaging the prime minister’s visit to India last week.
During his first question period since arriving back in Canada, opposition MPs are grilling Trudeau about invitations issued to Jaspal Atwal — a B.C. Sikh convicted of attempting to assassinate an Indian cabinet minister in 1986 — to attend two events with the prime minister in India.
In a background briefing arranged by the Prime Minister’s Office, a government official suggested that Atwal’s presence was arranged by factions within the Indian government who want to prevent Prime Minister Narendra Modi from getting too cosy with a foreign government they believe is not committed to a united India.
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This A.I. Literally Reads Your Mind to Re-Create Images of the Faces You See
Google’s artificial intelligence technology may sometimes seem like it’s reading our mind, but neuroscientists at Canada’s University of Toronto Scarborough are literally using A.I. for that very purpose — by reconstructing images based on brain perception using data gathered by electroencephalography (EEG).
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Andreas and Sandra Live in a German Forest as There’s No House for Them
Andreas and Sandra have been living for months in a forest near Höhenberg, Cologne. Although they visit the city’s housing office every week, there isn’t a house for the homeless couple.
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BBC Flagship EastEnders Show Set to Feature Mosque But No Church
The set of the BBC’s flagship soap opera EastEnders is to include an Islamic mosque as part of a £15 million makeover, despite not having a church and featuring only one Muslim family in the cast.
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British Astronaut Hails ‘Groundbreaking’ Airbus Satellite
British astronaut Tim Peake on Monday hailed a “groundbreaking” satellite being built by Airbus which its developers say will bring an unprecedented level of flexibility to space telecommunications.
The Eutelsat Quantum satellite is being put together by the multinational company in Portsmouth, on the south coast of England, where it was unveiled Monday ahead of transfer to France for testing later this year.
When launched in 2019 it will for the first time allow a commercial satellite to be fully reconfigurable while in orbit, with operators able to change key elements in real time, such as its frequency and which parts of the earth it covers.
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English Pub Scraps Snail Race as Cold Makes Competitors Sluggish
An English pub has canceled a charity snail race scheduled to take place on Saturday after unseasonably icy weather made potential competitors too slow to compete.
“The cold snap has led to a medical problem with our racing snails — it’s called hibernation,” the Dartmoor Union Inn in southwest England said on its Facebook page.
Temperatures across much of Europe are below normal for the time of year.
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EU ‘Wants Brexit Britain to Accept ECJ Rulings Indefinitely’
The EU will demand that Brexit Britain be subject to rulings from the European Court of Justice indefinitely, according to the Financial Times.
The text of the “governance mechanism” is due to be presented tomorrow, however, according to officials who have seen it, any Brexit agreement will require Britain to accept the ECJ as the ‘ultimate arbiter’ of disputes.
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Far-Right Group Hijacks Pro-Refugee Rally by Dressing as Merkel and Staging Mock Beheading
A FAR-RIGHT group hijacked a pro-refugee rally in Spain’s capital city by holding a shocking mock Isis beheading.
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French Authorities on Alert as Deep Freeze Sets in Across France
Tuesday is set to be the coldest day of France’s Siberian freeze which has seen swathes of the country activate their “cold weather plans” and left three homeless people dead, so far.
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Germany’s Top Court Rules Against Education Minister Over Anti-AfD Statement
Federal ministers must exercise restraint in disputes between parties, Germany’s Constitutional Court has ruled. The complaint against Education Minister Johanna Wanka was brought by the far-right opposition AfD party.
The Karlsruhe-based court ruled Tuesday that Wanka had exceeded the neutrality required of her office when in a 2015 ministry press statement she called for a “red card” boycott of the Alternative for Germany (AfD).
Wanka had breached the precept that Cabinet ministers should remain neutral and treat political parties as equals in terms of political competition, Germany’s top court ruled.
The case dates back to the height of Germany’s crisis over refugee arrivals — when Wanka used an Education Ministry press statement to demand a “red card” against the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party.
It was her repost to an AfD’s call for “red card” demonstration in Berlin against Merkel over her pro-refugee stance.
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Glimpsing the “New Europe” In Prague
by Bruce Bawer
“I’m so angry at my country’s government!” he finally exploded.
The country in question being Norway.
K. explained. We had just seen a good deal of Prague, and had passed heaven knows how many thousands of people. Not once had we seen a hijab. Let alone a niqab or burka.
“In this whole big city, not one!” he cried. “And yet in that little town where we live — in the middle of nowhere! — you can’t look out of the window for a minute without seeing one.”
We return home. Total number of women in hijab observed during a week in Prague: zero. Number of minutes, upon arrival back in Norway, before I caught sight of one: zero.
She was at baggage claim at the Oslo Airport.
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How France Hopes to Help Radicals Escape Jihadist Net
France is currently monitoring 12,000 people for signs of “radicalisation of a terrorist nature”. It has announced a new strategy to tackle the problem — but will it help keep the country safe from attacks?
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How the Drug Gangs in Spain’s La Línea Are Providing Work for 3,000 People
Increasingly violent traffickers are taking control of the city’s neighborhoods and ruling with impunity, to the rising concern of locals and authorities alike
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Hungarian Leader: Only Christianity Can Save Europe
As Europe struggles with the engineered arrival of millions of Middle Eastern and African Muslims, and with many millions more preparing to join the influx, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán (shown) said a return to Christianity was Europe’s “last hope” if it is going to avoid destruction at the hands of globalists. The fiery leader, who has warned of a “treasonous conspiracy” of “internationalist fanatics”running the European Union super-state, said the greatest danger to Western civilization was now the radical politicians in Brussels, Paris, and Berlin orchestrating the mass migration and the de-Christianization of the West. Soon, the forces of Islam will be swamping Hungary not just from the South, but from West, too, as Western Europe becomes increasingly Islamic and less Christian. In response, Orbán is working to forge an alliance of nations devoted to liberty, Christianity, and the nation-state that can resist the globalist onslaught. He also vowed to take on the United Nations.
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Italian Election 2018: Will Italy Leave the European Union? Is Italexit on the Cards?
ITALY will go to the polls this weekend in a general election that will not only see the succession of a new government but will also potentially have major implications for the European Union. What does the election in Italy mean for the Brussels bloc and will Italy LEAVE the European Union?
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Italian Election: EU Refuses to Punish Italy on Major Issues in Fear of Fuelling Right
MIGRATION, debt and air pollution are all divisive issues the EU is avoiding before the Italian election in a bid to stop a eurosceptic backlash which could hand victory to populist or right wing parties in Italy.
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Italy Braces for More Freezing Weather as Snow Causes Traffic Chaos
Italy’s current wintery weather is expected to last for at least another week, experts warned on Tuesday. The country has been hit by blankets of snow and below-freezing temperatures, causing disruption to traffic and school closures.
The Siberian winds have seen temperatures plunge across much of Europe and have claimed at least ten lives across the continent.
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Limited Number of Weapons in German Military Ready for Action: Report
German lawmakers are set to hear about how Germany’s military, the Bundeswehr, has access to less than 50 percent of many major weapons systems. The findings are the latest to underscore problems in the armed forces.
The Defense Ministry’s report comes after the Bundestag’s military commissioner, Hans-Peter Bartels, complained about “large holes in personnel and equipment” in the Bundeswehr in a separate paper published in mid-February.
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Massive UK ‘Rosary on the Coast’ Gains Support of Bishops
A grassroots Catholic crusade for a day of a rosary prayer for the future of Great Britain has gained the support of key prelates, following on similar initiatives in Poland, Ireland and Italy.
The campaign, which now has 60 confirmed locations along the British coast, has garnered the endorsement of the Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Vincent Nichols, Bishop John Keenan of Paisley (Scotland), Bishop Philip Egan of Portsmouth, the Archdiocese of St. Andrews & Edinburgh, as well as a number of other clerics and associations.
Organizers have called on the faithful In Scotland, England and Wales to gather along Britain’s coasts on April 29 to pray the rosary for “faith, life and peace in the British Isles.” The traditional rosary prayer invokes the intercession of the Virgin Mary, asking her to beseech her son Jesus to come to the aid of those in need.
Last year’s rosary campaigns in Ireland, Italy and Poland focused on praying for an end to abortion, the strengthening of the Christian faith and protection from the “Islamization” of Europe.
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Norway to Ban Semi-Automatic Weapons
Norway plans to ban semi-automatic firearms as of 2021, a decade after right-wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik’s mass shooting that left 69 people dead, a Norwegian lawmaker said Tuesday.
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Scientists Are Racing to Save Europe’s Beloved Ash Tree
A fungus spreading rapidly east to west across Europe is wiping out valuable forests. Scientists are racing to plant and multiply resistant strains before the species disappears.
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Spanish Government Admits to Chronic Police Shortage
Spain’s national law enforcement agencies are low on manpower. On October 31, the National Police and Civil Guard were 20,800 officers short: of the 163,491 who should have been in active service, the real figure was 142,691, and that included recruits at training academies, according to Interior Ministry data.
Recruiting is particularly difficult in the Catalan provinces of Girona and Lleida, where separatist sentiment is strongest: only 30% of positions are being filled. And in the Basque Country, the province of Gipuzkoa has the lowest presence of Civil Guard officers on duty.
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Tattoo Addict Inks Entire Body Including Eyeballs, Inside Mouth
A man has gone to ink-redible lengths to cover his entire body in black tattoos, including his eyeballs and the inside of his lips. Eli Ink, a 27-year-old tattoo artist from Brighton, England, has undergone a 10-year transformation to turn himself into a walking exhibition of his tats. Ink uses several coats of black coloring to permanently blacken his skin.
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Ten Bullet Holes Found in Swedish Police Station Attacked Overnight
Police in the Swedish migrant-majority town of Södertälje discovered ten bullet holes in the local police station thought to have been attacked by an unknown assailant on early Monday morning.
The shooting occurred at the town’s police station, located about a 30-minute drive from Stockholm, overnight, according to investigators. Police spokesman Sven-Erik Olsson said the holes were likely from bullets but that he could not make a definitive comment until technicians had examined the scene, Aftonbladet reports.
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The Phantom at the Edge of Our Solar System
Stargazers worldwide are feverishly searching for a previously unknown giant planet. Among them is Swiss astrophysicist Christoph Mordasini of the University of Bern, who believes we will soon know for sure whether there are eight planets in our solar system…or nine.
“Planet Nine would have a magnitude of about 24, but current telescopes that could find it can only identify those with a magnitude of up to about 22.”
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By Robert Spencer
This is chilling, because what the British government usually means by “far right extremists” are those who are trying to resist that government’s policies of appeasement and accommodation of Islamic supremacists. Those who do not want to see a Britain under Sharia are “far right extremists” (including me). The idea that there is some “far right” threat in Britain that is equivalent to the jihad threat is a propaganda fiction, a tool of Mark Rowley, Theresa May and their cohorts that is used to enable them to harass and persecute opponents of jihad terror more effectively. “Far right extremists” in Britain are not trying to bring down the government and replace it with an authoritarian and violent system of their own. They are not part of a global network of terrorists that has committed terror attacks all over the world. They have not called for the murder of British civilians.
Mark Rowley ought to be made to resign in disgrace for this nasty bit of moral equivalence, and denigration of patriotic Britons. Instead, he will retire laden with honors.
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Woman on Holiday in Spain Robbed While Being Raped by Moroccan
The police in the Spanish seaside town of Torrevieja have arrested a 27-year-old man of Moroccan descent and are seeking two other individuals following the rape and robbery of a 32-year-old Belgian woman.
Police say that the Belgian tourist was out walking her dog at around 6 am when she was approached by a man who tried speaking to her in several different languages. When she attempted to walk away, the man grabbed her by the arm and raped her, Belgian newspaper Het Nieuwsblad reports.
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‘You’re in Denial’ Macron Under Fire as Critics Condemn France’s Battle Against Terror
France’s conservative Les Républicains political party warned the French government’s new plan to counter radicalisation focuses too much on the consequences.
The programme does not look at the “root causes” of radicalisation, Les Républicains spokeswoman Lydia Guirous said, adding that President Emmanuel Macron’s government was locked in a state of “denial” over Islamic terrorism.
The plan, announced by Prime Minister Edouard Philippe last week, includes 60 measures and puts the accent on prevention and on the need to catch danger signals within French society.
The measures include doubling the number of prisoners evaluated for radicalisation to 250 per year and creating 1,500 extra “isolated” prison places for radicalised inmates.
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Zurich Launches Muslim Pastoral Care Project
When a Christian needs emergency spiritual support in a hospital, in a care-home or after an accident, there is an existing network in place to make sure pastoral carers can attend quickly. For the 100,000 Muslims living in canton Zurich however, only one man has been on call 24 hours a day until now: imam, Muris Begovic.
Together with the Association of Islamic Organisations in Zurich (VIOZ) and two Christian churches, the canton of Zurich is supporting the expansion of Muslim emergency— and hospital-care by providing start-up funding.
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4 Powers Condemn Iran for Violating Arms Embargo on Yemen
The four Western powers that are parties to the Iran nuclear deal are condemning Iran for violating an arms embargo on Yemen, a day after Russia vetoed a Security Council resolution that took aim at Tehran over its failure to abide by the U.N. sanctions.
France, Germany, the United Kingdom and United States issued a joint statement Tuesday saying Iran’s non-compliance, as described by a U.N. panel of experts, “poses serious risks to peace and stability in the region.”
The experts said Iran failed “to take the necessary measures” to prevent the direct or indirect supply of missiles and drones to Houthi Shiite rebels.
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There is a Turkish saying: tell the rabbit to run and tell the greyhound to catch him.
By Robert Ellis
Two days before ceding the Sudetenland to Nazi Germany in Munich in September 1938, British prime minister Neville Chamberlain dismissed the issue as “a quarrel in a faraway country between people of whom we know nothing.” Pretty much the same can be said of the attitude of the West towards Turkey’s attack on the Kurdish enclave of Afrin in northwestern Syria, and indeed of the bombing of eastern Ghouta.
A fortnight after Turkish troops and their Free Syrian Army (FSA) auxiliaries launched “Operation Olive Branch,” Turkey’s leader, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, gave a speech to the parliamentary group of his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) that was reminiscent of the Munich conference.
Likewise, Erdogan stressed that Turkey was a patient nation, but vast swaths of its land had been seized through diplomatic treachery. A sleeping giant had been awakened, he said, and the Turkish nation was advancing toward a completely new era. He spoke of being responsible for building a greater Turkey, as proved by its economy, diplomacy, and its fight against terrorism in the Euphrates Shield and Olive Branch operations. Now no country or organization could question Turkey’s strength.
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Citing Sanctions Violation, Russia Uses Veto to Protect Iran at UN
Russia vetoed a United Nations Security Council draft resolution sponsored by the United Kingdom Monday that would have included a promise of action against violations of a U.N. arms embargo on Yemen that showed Iran in violation in a recent U.N. report.
Russia’s veto led the U.S. representative to call its actions “perverse.”
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How Would Muslims Take Control of America?
by Amil Imani
American Mosques, Warehouses Of Jihad
They do it first by establishing mosques in every town and city. These meeting places are perfect warehouses of not only indoctrination but future terrorists, who are made to read and understand the principles of Jihad, martyrdom and Dar-al-Harb (“land of war”-anyplace not Islamized).
Mosques cost money, and the money for these warehouses of hate is coming straight from Saudi Arabia. These mosques are being infused with an activist strain of Islam, Wahhabism. If you have to ask where the Saudis are getting their money, you are not paying attention…it’s coming from you. According to a National Portrait, a survey released in April 2001, there were at least 1,209 mosques in the US, but today it’s estimated that number has quadrupled.
Mosque Leaders Promote Sharia
Mosque elders tend to be sent to the US with one clear mission: Make Sharia law the supreme rule within the United States, using any and all tactics necessary. Next, from within the safety of their local mosques, they begin to use their revolting practices, riotous youth, and wild sermonizing to force genteel Americans to relocate to safer, less threatening neighborhoods and cities. Of course, not all Americans will move or can afford to do so. And to take control of a town, Muslims will not need to evict everyone. They probably need about 25% in order to make life very unpleasant for those who do not go along with their demands.
Political Islamist Infiltration
They will elect Muslims to all positions of local influence, who will create and enforce policy according to the Quran. Once they have control over a town, they will begin to establish informal Sharia, and there’s nothing the government can (or will want to) do about it.
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At the same time, Muslims will ally with leftist politicians who will gladly cede some of their power to this group of enforcers, so conservative politicians and Christians who advocate self-defense and sane social policies are kept out of office.
[Comment: Recommended reading.]
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Main Opposition CHP Slams Dutch Parliament’s Motion on 1915 Mass Killing of Ottoman Armenians
The main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) has condemned a recent motion in the Dutch parliament that recognized the 1915 mass killing of Armenians under the Ottoman Empire as “genocide.”
Speaking to journalists in parliament on Feb. 26, CHP deputy chair Öztürk Yilmaz said: “The decision taken in the Dutch parliament recognizing the 1915 events as genocide is wrong and we condemn it.”
Yilmaz said “nobody could use Turkey’s history to serve their own domestic policy.”
Last week, the Dutch parliament passed a motion acknowledging the killings of Ottoman Armenians in 1915 as “genocide” with 142 votes in favor of the recognition, while the Turkish-founded Denk Party opposed it with three votes.
Yilmaz called on the Turkish government to take necessary steps before the U.S. Congress makes the same decision.
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Netanyahu Tells Iran That Israel ‘Will Act if Necessary’ After Drone Incident
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Iran on Sunday that Israel “will act if necessary” after an Iranian drone entered the country’s airspace earlier this month and warned the country is growing its presence in the Middle East.
Netanyahu made the remarks at the Munich Security Conference, where he urged U.S. and European officials and diplomats to counter Iran as the country increases its power as the Islamic State terror group has been decimated by the U.S., according to Reuters.
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New Satellite Photos Show Iran Establishing Another Base in Syria
Iran has built another permanent military base outside Syria’s capital city complete with hangers used to store missiles capable of hitting all of Israel, according to Western intelligence sources.
Exclusive satellite images from ImageSat International obtained by Fox News show what is believed to be the new Iranian base, eight miles northwest of Damascus, operated by the Quds Force — the special operations arm of Tehran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). The photos show two new white hangars, each roughly 30 yards by 20 yards, used to store short— and medium-range missiles.
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Saudi Arabia Allows Women to Join Military, Promotes Female to High-Level Post
Saudi Arabia is opening soldier rank positions to women for the first time ever in regions including Riyadh, Mecca and al-Madina.
In order to apply, Al Arabiya reports, women have to be of Saudi origin and between the ages of 25 to 35 with at least a high school education. The applicants also have to pass various tests and be interviewed and meet certain height and weight requirements.
The development comes amid a wave of reform efforts instituted by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman that include allowing women to drive for the first time ever, opening soccer matches to female spectators and allowing cinemas to open for the first time in 35 years.
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A theology professor from Istanbul’s Marmara University has drawn criticism after slamming the keeping of male and female patients in the same rooms during intensive care. Faruk BeSer, who is also a columnist at daily Yeni Safak, took to Twitter on Feb. 27 to criticize current measures in Turkish hospitals.
The controversy comes after an Islamic preacher in Turkey recently drew a backlash for suggesting that clean-shaven men sometimes “cannot be distinguished from women” and can cause “indecent thoughts.”
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EU Embarrassed as Moldovan President Rejects Bloc and Wants Alliance With ‘Patriot’ Putin
THE EU has been dealt a massive blow by Moldova’s president as he rejected calls for the Eastern European nation to join the Brussels bloc and warned against the country alienating “patriot” Vladimir Putin.
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A Malaysian rapper is facing up to a year in prison for allegedly insulting Islam with a video that features dancers wearing dog masks.
Rapper Wee Meng Chee, known by his stage name Namewee, released a video for his song ‘Like A Dog’, filmed in Putrajaya, earlier this month.
Several black-clad dancers wearing masks of dogs — an animal considered unclean in Islam — gyrate and mimic sex acts around the rapper, who is sat in an office chair in a public square.
The song, which sees Namewee mimic dog barks from around the world, was released to mark the start of the Year of the Dog currently being celebrated across Asia.
Lunar New Year is a major celebration in Malaysia, where a quarter of the population are from the Chinese diaspora.
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China’s Flagship Port in Pakistan Shackled by Heavy Security
For the thousands of attendees it was meant to be a conference to showcase China’s flagship Belt and Road project in Pakistan — the port in southwestern Gwadar that gives Beijing access to the Arabian sea.
In the evenings the almost 8,000 delegates were wowed with cultural shows and a firework display at the newly opened five-story Gwadar Exhibition Center which was host to about 100 companies last month. Yet what really caught the attention of some investors were the hundreds of Pakistani troops patrolling the roads and guarding high-end hotel lobbies.
“Nobody will come and invest in this climate of fear,” said Muhammad Zafar Paracha, director at the Pakistani partner of MoneyGram International Inc.
With national elections due in July, Pakistan’s government is keen to trumpet the commercial viability of the deep seaport in the once sleepy sea town of about 200,000 people in a province long racked by separatist insurgency. To secure Beijing’s funding of more than $50 billion in infrastructure projects, Pakistan has raised a special 15,000 strong security force.
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China’s Military Throws Weight Behind Controversial Move to Scrap Term Limits
PLA mouthpiece says proposed changes to constitution ‘reflect new achievements, experience and demands of party and country’
China’s armed forces have voiced support for the ruling Communist Party’s controversial proposal to end the two-term limit on the presidency that could see Xi Jinping stay in power indefinitely.
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China’s Xi Jinping: Extending President’s Rule Would be Farce, Says Critic
Allowing Chinese President Xi Jinping to rule indefinitely will be seen by historians as a farce, a government critic has told the BBC.
In a rare show of public dissent, ex-state newspaper editor Li Datong sent an open letter opposing the proposal.
He says in the letter that scrapping term limits for the president and vice-president would sow the seeds of chaos.
China’s internet censors have been deleting critical comments across Chinese social media platforms.
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End to Term Limits at the Top May be Start of Global Backlash for China, Analysts Say
Letting Xi Jinping stay on as president could boost the country’s offshore drives but also raise the stakes from one man’s bad decisions, they say
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Gus Kenworthy’s Dog Adoption in South Korea Sparks Debate
US Olympic skier Gus Kenworthy has sparked a debate on social media after ‘saving’ a puppy from a South Korean dog meat farm.
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President, or Emperor? Xi Pushes China Back to One-Man Rule
China’s Communist Party has handed President Xi Jinping an open path to indefinite rule — a move analysts warn carries enormous risks by abandoning a succession model that brought stability after turbulent decades under Mao.
China’s rubber-stamp legislature is expected to give Xi his second term and remove the 10-year limit at its annual meeting opening on March 5.
“Term limits were a crucial part of the institutionalisation of the leadership transition, something that has plagued Communist parties leading to both tyrannical reigns and catastrophic party decline,” said Jonathan Sullivan, director of the China Policy Institute at Nottingham University.
The rule enabled smooth transitions and preserved party unity, he said.
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Self-Driving Bullet Trains? Arriving in 10 Years in China
China’s future high-speed trains might be self-driving, travel at a top speed of around 600kmh, equipped with adjustable interior and entertainment system, and high-speed internet, a senior engineer said on Monday (Feb 26).
Most of these new features will be completed within the next decade, said Ding Rongjun, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. He is also one of the key scientists behind Fuxing — the first bullet train fully developed in China.
Fuxing, which debuted last year on the line connecting Beijing and Shanghai, has an operating speed of 350kmh — the world’s fastest.
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About an hour south-east of Adelaide is a town where a 68-year-old woman was chased down the street with a running chainsaw and children as young as 11 are addicted to ice.
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A 48-year-old man was found dead with stab wounds after a fight with his flatmate in Heidelberg Heights while a man in his 70s was found dead at a home in Meadow Heights.
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So many Comanchero bikies have been deported from Australia that members have set up the first chapter of the club in New Zealand.
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Footage of a drive-by shooting occurring near Mascot, in Sydney, in broad daylight shows shots being fired from a ute towards another car at point-blank range.
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The Muslim-convert academic, who is married to the host of The Project, described as ‘lazy’ the suggestion women were oppressed in Islam. ‘I don’t really feel a sense of contradiction,’ she said.
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Rwanda: Police Shot Dead 11 Refugees in Food Riot
Rwandan police killed 11 people as they were breaking up a crowd demonstrating against a cut in food rations, the United Nations refugee agency has said. The World Food Program cut food rations by 25 percent in January.
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“Black Panther” Is Inspiring Black Brazilians to Occupy Elite, White Shopping Malls
Much of the hype around “Black Panther” focuses on black professionals occupying positions in Hollywood that are usually dominated by whites, from heroic lead to producer to director. As tribute to that fact, the organizers of the rolezinho preto, the Black Collective (Coletivo Preto) and the Grupo Emú, chose the whitest and most elitist spaces in one of Rio’s toniest neighborhoods to stage a group viewing of the movie. The event also protested the lack of black professionals in Brazil’s entertainment industry. A survey by the National Cinema Agency, Ancine, revealed that only 7 percent of professionals in the field are black in a nation in which the majority of citizens have African ancestry.
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In Pictures: Thousands of Venezuelans Join Mass Exodus Into Colombia
Some 3 million Venezuelans—a tenth of the population—have left Venezuela since late leader Hugo Chavez started his socialist revolution in 1999. More than 500,000 have fled to Colombia—many illegally—hoping to escape grinding poverty, rising violence and shortages of food and medicine in the once-prosperous nation.
Photographer Jaime Saldarriaga joined Reuters journalists at the Paraguachón border crossing to document the exodus from Venezuela, which is now on a scale echoing the departure of Myanmar’s Rohingya people to Bangladesh.
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Three Italians Missing in Mexico Were “Sold for €43” To a Criminal Gang
Mexican authorities have confirmed that three Italian men who went missing in late January were delivered to a criminal gang by local police officers in Jalisco state.
“They were sold for €43, it is monstrous,” said Francesco Russo, a relative of all three, in recent statements to the state broadcaster RAI1. “Mexican police officers sold my relatives for 43 [expletive] euros. Those are the criminals, and not my brother, father and cousin.”
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Venezuelans Going to Bed Hungry as Food Crisis Deepens
People are skipping meals and missing out on vital nutrients because of the persistent shortages
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“Migrants Want to Benefit From European Consumption and Economic Goods”
The Czech writers of a new book about migration say they want to battle the “misleading notion that migration is a positive and completely natural process”. Václav Klaus, the former President of the Czech Republic, wrote the book together with his former advisor and Arabist, Jiri Weigl.
Weigl mentioned in Hungary that “Immigrants en masse from the Middle East, Africa and Asia did not start out to contribute to the enrichment of European societies, but want to benefit from European consumption and economic goods.”
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Potential migrants will be subjected to three rounds of tests including covert research to establish how likely they are to integrate into Australian society under new plans being drawn up by ministers.
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Greek Authorities Anticipate Spike in Turkish Appeals for Political Asylum
Greek authorities are anticipating a significant increase in applications for political asylum from Turkish nationals fleeing their homeland amid a continuing crackdown by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Kathimerini understands.
According to official government figures, 1,827 Turkish citizens lodged applications for asylum in Greece last year.
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Hungary Demands Resignation of UN Human Rights Chief
Hungary has demanded that the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein, step down from his post following a speech on rising xenophobia in Europe in which he singled out Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
The Hungarian government deemed Zeid’s comments about Orban’s anti-immigration rhetoric to be “unacceptable” and “inappropriate.”
“Xenophobes and racists in Europe are casting off any sense of embarrassment — like Hungary’s Viktor Orban who earlier this month said ‘we do not want our color … to be mixed in with others’,” the Jordanian UN diplomat said at the opening of the 37th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
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Immigrant ‘Ikea Murderer’ Explains Away Murder Motive Claiming ‘S*** Happens’
Eritrean failed asylum seeker turned murderer Abraham Ukbagabir claim in an interview that he wants to “forget” his killing of a 55-year-old woman and her 28-year-old son in an Ikea in 2015 and said, “s*** happens”.
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Japan Maintains Tough Stance on Refugees, Only 20 Accepted in 2017
Japan received a record 19,628 asylum applications in 2017, but only 20 were successful, according to preliminary figures released by the Justice Ministry on Feb. 13.
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Migrant ‘Ikea Murderer’ Explains Away Murder Motive Claiming ‘S*** Happens’
Eritrean failed asylum seeker turned murderer Abraham Ukbagabir claim in an interview that he wants to “forget” his killing of a 55-year-old woman and her 28-year-old son in an Ikea in 2015 and said, “s*** happens”.
The 37-year-old, who was convicted of murdering a woman and her son in an Ikea in the city of Västerås, opened up about his past in Eritrea and brushed off the murder in a new interview with Swedish newspaper Expressen.
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Multiculturalism is Dead — Even Merkel Warns Immigrants ‘Fit in or Face Consequences’
GERMAN Chancellor Angela Merkel has warned immigrants to “integrate or face consequences” in a last desperate bid to gain support for her crisis-stricken coalition as she attempts to cling to power.
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U.K. To Help Out Belgium to Clamp Down on Transit Migration
The United Kingdom and Belgium have clinched a deal about the fight against transit migration. The Belgian Interior Minister Jan Jambon and Asylum Secretary Theo Francken (both Flemish nationalist) had travelled to London to negotiate a deal on the matter.
Trans migrants are migrants coming to Belgium without the intention to apply for asylum here, but rather to use Belgium as a hub to get into Britain illegally and start a new life there. They have been spotted in Brussels, along motorways to the Belgian coast, and in the ports of Zeebrugge and Ostend. Moreover, Ostend is reinstalling a ferry link with Ramsgate this spring.
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What Can Scandinavia Learn From Canada on Immigration?
Canada’s positive view of “immigrants as a resource” has served to inspire new attitudes towards labour immigration in Denmark, Norway and Sweden.
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What You Need to Know About the Man Who Loves Open Borders, Migration and Anarchy
Who is George Soros?
György Schwartz, better known by his later name George Soros, is a Hungarian-born, Jewish-American billionaire, hedge fund manager, convicted felon and open-borders globalist. He has been described as “the single most destructive leftist demagogue in the world.” Others have characterized him as the world’s preeminent “malignant messianic narcissist.”
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First Transgender Service Member Joins Military Following Trump Ban
A transgender service member has joined the military for the first time since President Donald Trump announced a ban last July, the Pentagon said Monday.
“The Department of Defense confirms that as of February 23, 2018, there is one transgender individual under contract for service in the U.S. Military,” Maj. Dave Eastburn, a Pentagon spokesman, told Fox News.
Defense Secretary James Mattis, breaking with Trump, formally recommended last Friday that transgender troops be allowed to serve in the U.S. military provided they can deploy overseas.
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A transgender model, who was sacked by L’Oreal over a race row has been enlisted as an adviser to the Labour Party.
Munroe Bergdorf, 29, was dropped by the cosmetics giant after she branded all white people ‘racist’.
And she sparked fresh controversy in December when she repeatedly used the n-word during an appearance on Good Morning Britain in December.
But it has emerged that she has got a new role advising Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party on LGBT issues.
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Transgender Boy Wins Girls’ State Wrestling Title for Second Time
For the second year in a row, a transgender wrestler has won the Texas girls’ Class 6A 110-pound division.
Mack Beggs, an 18-year-old senior from Euless Trinity High School near Dallas, entered the tournament in Cypress outside of Houston with an undefeated record. He beat Chelsea Sanchez — who he beat for the title in 2017 — in the final match Saturday.
Video posted online showed a mix of cheers and boos from the crowd following Beggs’ win.
Beggs is in the process of transitioning from female to male and taking a low-dose of testosterone.
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University of Alaska Opens Its First All-Gender Restroom
University of Alaska’s first all-gender restroom has opened at the Fairbanks campus’ engineering building.
The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reported Monday that the restroom is open to all people regardless of gender identity. It features private, lockable stalls in an inclusive and genderless manner.
University spokeswoman Marmian Grimes said inclusive restrooms have been in the works for a while.
Jenny Campbell, director of design and construction for the University of Alaska Facility Services, said the idea came to life when the Department of Education published its 2016 “Dear Colleague” letter outlining the need for Title IX compliance in campuses across the country.
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ISIS supporters are attempting to strike fear across the globe by threatening attacks on major cities.
A poster released by pro-ISIS group Muharar al-Ansar shows a handful of landmarks, including the Eiffel Tower in Paris, the Sydney Opera House, and the Statue of Liberty in New York.
Written across the ‘terror meme’ in red letters are the word’s ‘What Will Be the Next?’, alluding to potential attacks on one of the cities.
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YouTube Censorship: ‘They Are Stepping it up, Something is in the Works’
Most can see that YouTube is scrubbing videos and deleting accounts that don’t tow the line and parrot the mainstream media and government’s official timeline of events for things. And it’s getting worse by the day, it seems.
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South Africa officially commits suicide:
http://voxday.blogspot.com/2018/02/the-equalitarian-future.html
South Africa will go the same way as Zimbabwe -from breadbasket of Africa to white genocide ,failing farms , mass starvation and food aid.
And then you will see all the South African blacks applying for refugee status in the West .
Good luck Moldova. NATO & Ukrainian mafia will not like that answer.
In my country, I’ve heard from old people that when satan want your soul, first he taking your minds.
Reading the news, I must agree that old people are right.
My grandfather used to say always, Satan first takes your mind, then your belongings.
In Republic of Moldova, in many villages and cities, people are voting to re-unite with Romania. It is good, but also bad.
Our friends in the great state of Texas know how to compose an active shooter policy:
http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2018/02/27/texas-sheriff-dont-wait-engage-active-shooters-save-lives/
More leftist insanity:
http://www.unz.com/isteve/washington-post-what-black-panthers-wakanda-can-teach-us-about-africas-history-and-its-future/
How is it possible the author of that column is allowed to set foot on campus of the Naval War College, much less receive a paycheck from that venerable institution?
https://www.justice.gov/usao-edva/pr/two-men-arrested-exporting-firearms-chechnya
Two Men Arrested for Exporting Firearms to Chechnya