As many as fifty corpses of illegal immigrants were found by police in the back of a truck abandoned on a highway in Austria. The migrants were thought to have already been dead when they were brought across the border from Hungary. Meanwhile, Hungary is preparing for thousands of new arrivals as record numbers of refugees cross the border from Serbia.
In other news, the Swedish furniture retailer Ikea has announced that it will stop selling alcohol in restaurants in its outlets.
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Italy: Milan Bourse Up 2.4% Amid European Rally
Spread falls to 120 points
(ANSA) — Milan, August 27 — The Milan bourse rose 2.4% amid a Europe-wide rally Thursday from heavy losses on China fears earlier in the week.
Europe followed Asia’s lead back up with Frankfurt and Paris up 3% and London up 2.43%.
The spread between Italian and German 10-year bonds also improved, dropping to 120 points.
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Italy: Home Mortgage Loans Up 82% Says ABI
60% of July loans issued at fixed rates
(ANSA) — Rome, August 27 — Banks extended 26.6 billion euros in home mortgages in the first seven months this year, up 82% over the same period in 2014, the Italian Banking Association (ABI) reported Thursday. The figure is the best since 2011, when it stood at 26.9 billion euros, according to ABI.
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Ready for Take-Off: China Steers Course Between Prestige and Profit
China’s slowing economy has German industry worried about its exports to Asia. But as it goes about beefing up the transportation sector, the country poses a completely different threat in the longer-term.
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The United States was the last major country to enjoy, or be saddled with, a central bank. All the major European countries had adopted central banks during the 18th and 19th centuries, which enabled governments to control and dominate commercial banks, to bail out banking firms whenever they got into trouble, and to inflate money and credit in ways controlled and regulated by the government. Only the United States, as a result of Democratic agitation during the Jacksonian era, had had the courage to extend the doctrine of classical liberalism to the banking system, thereby separating government from money and banking.
Having deposed the central bank in the 1830s, the United States enjoyed a freely competitive banking system — and hence a relatively “hard” and noninflated money — until the Civil War. During that catastrophe, the Republicans used their one-party dominance to push through their interventionist economic program. It included a protective tariff and land grants to railroads, as well as inflationary paper money and a “national banking system” that in effect crippled state-chartered banks and paved the way for the later central bank.
The United States adopted its central bank, the Federal Reserve System, in 1913, backed by a consensus of Democrats and Republicans. This virtual nationalization of the banking system was unopposed by the big banks; in fact, Wall Street and the other large banks had actively sought such a central system for many years. The result was the cartelization of banking under federal control, with the government standing ready to bail out banks in trouble, and also ready to inflate money and credit to whatever extent the banks felt was necessary…
The United States was the last major country to enjoy, or be saddled with, a central bank. All the major European countries had adopted central banks during the 18th and 19th centuries, which enabled governments to control and dominate commercial banks, to bail out banking firms whenever they got into trouble, and to inflate money and credit in ways controlled and regulated by the government. Only the United States, as a result of Democratic agitation during the Jacksonian era, had had the courage to extend the doctrine of classical liberalism to the banking system, thereby separating government from money and banking.
Having deposed the central bank in the 1830s, the United States enjoyed a freely competitive banking system — and hence a relatively “hard” and noninflated money — until the Civil War. During that catastrophe, the Republicans used their one-party dominance to push through their interventionist economic program. It included a protective tariff and land grants to railroads, as well as inflationary paper money and a “national banking system” that in effect crippled state-chartered banks and paved the way for the later central bank.
The United States adopted its central bank, the Federal Reserve System, in 1913, backed by a consensus of Democrats and Republicans. This virtual nationalization of the banking system was unopposed by the big banks; in fact, Wall Street and the other large banks had actively sought such a central system for many years. The result was the cartelization of banking under federal control, with the government standing ready to bail out banks in trouble, and also ready to inflate money and credit to whatever extent the banks felt was necessary.
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Ukraine Reaches Debt Relief Deal With Creditors
Deal will extend also payment period
(ANSA-AP) — KIEV — Ukraine reaches debt relief deal with creditors MOSCOW (AP) — Ukraine has reached a crucial deal with its international bondholders that will help prop up its government finances and keep the struggling country from defaulting on its debt.
Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk announced Thursday that the value of Ukraine’s $19 billion sovereign debt will be cut by 20 percent to $15.5 billion.
A statement released by the finance ministry said the deal would also extend the payment period on the government bonds by four years through 2027.
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Russia has refused to accept the terms of a private sector debt write-down agreed between Ukraine and its creditors after months of international wrangling.
Kiev announced it had struck an agreement for a 20pc haircut and a four-year maturity extension with a committee of its largest private creditors over $18bn of government debt.
Ukraine has been battling to satisfy the conditions of an International Monetary Fund bail-out, which requires it to secure relief on its $72bn debt mountain for its war ravaged economy.
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What if the “Crash” Is as Rigged as Everything Else?
A “crash” engineered to set up a buying opportunity for insiders.
Take your pick—here’s three good reasons to engineer a “crash” that benefits the few at the expense of the many.
There is an almost touching faith that markets are rigged when they loft higher, but unrigged when they crash. Who’s to say this crash isn’t rigged? A few things about this “crash” (11% decline from all time highs now qualifies as a “crash”) don’t pass the sniff test.
Exhibit 1: VIX volatility Index soars to “the world is ending” levels when the S&P 500 drops a relatively modest 11%. The VIX above 50 is historically associated with declines of 20% or more—double the current drop.
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California Drought: Water Use ‘Down by 31.3% in July’
Cities in California cut water use by 31.3% in July, exceeding a state-wide mandate of 25% to combat a record four-year drought there, officials say.
It shows Californians are starting to understand “that we are in the drought of our lives,” state water regulator official Felicia Marcus said.
It is the second month in a row the state has exceeded emergency conservation regulation.
California has been dealing with record low water levels for four years.
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Clinton: Republicans Are Like ‘Terrorist Groups’ On Women’s Issues
Hillary Rodham Clinton likened Republican presidential candidates to fundamentalist terrorists with brutal or repressive views about women on Thursday, a significant escalation of her rhetoric about GOP positions on abortion that her campaign sees as a major vulnerability in the general election.
“Extreme views about women? We expect that from some of the terrorist groups. We expect that from people who don’t want to live in the modern world,” Clinton said. “But it’s a little hard to take coming from Republicans who want to be the president of the United States.”
Clinton did not say which terrorist or militant groups she meant as a comparison. Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria have held women as sex slaves and chattel, while the Taliban in Afghanistan refused to allow girls to attend school.
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Clinton Compares GOP Candidates’ Views to Those of Terrorists, RNC Wants Apology
The Republican Party called on Hillary Clinton to apologize Thursday after she compared GOP candidates to terrorists during an Ohio campaign stop.
Speaking in Cleveland, the Democratic presidential front-runner hammered Republican presidential candidates for their views on abortion and other women’s issues.
“Now, extreme views about women, we expect that from some of the terrorist groups. We expect that from people who don’t want to live in the modern world. But it’s a little hard to take coming from Republicans who want to be the president of the United States,” Clinton said. She specifically cited candidates Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Ohio Gov. John Kasich.
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Coming to a Sheriff’s Office Near You
On the front cover of Washington State’s August 2015 “Inlander” magazine, Spokane County Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich is shown hands on hips standing on top of the “Don’t Tread On Me” (Gadsden) flag. The title of the article is “Daring To Tread.”
The sheriff and at least one of his deputies have verbalized opinions that “constitutionalists” are threats to the sheriff’s office, the federal government, and to the country itself. Sheriff Knezovich even went so far as to compare “constitutionalists” with the Sunni Muslim terror group ISIS. The deputy indicated that the presence of armed “constitutionalists” in the county was the principal reason why the sheriff’s office was amassing military equipment. When asked to name names as to who he was referring to, Spokane County’s highest-ranking law enforcement officer (Sheriff Knezovich) named Washington State Representative Matt Shea and radio talk show host Alex Jones (who resides in Texas, not Spokane County, Washington).
Writing for InfoWars.com, Mikael Thalen reports, “The Inlander piece highlights the sheriff’s ongoing campaign against local conservative groups who he feels are pushing dangerous rhetoric. When asked to specifically name those responsible, Knezovich pointed to both Rep. Shea and ‘all those folks that created the video about the Deputy.’
“Knezovich’s statement refers to exclusive footage released by Infowars last December which highlighted unsettling comments made by a Spokane sheriff’s deputy as he stood next to the department’s mine-resistant ambush protected military vehicle (MRAP). After a local resident approached and questioned law enforcement’s need for military hardware, the deputy immediately used ‘constitutionalists’ with ‘firearms’ as justification.
“‘I mean, we’ve got a lot of constitutionalists and a lot of people that stockpile weapons, lots of ammunition,’ the deputy said. ‘They have weapons here locally.’“
The report continued saying, “‘Instead of apologizing for the comments made by his deputy, Sheriff Knezovich essentially blamed Infowars for daring to report on the issue, claiming that the quote was taken out of context while failing to explain how such a brazen statement could be taken for anything other than its face value,’ noted Infowars’ Paul Joseph Watson at the time…
Unfortunately, Sheriff Knezovich is illustrative of the propaganda that local and State police agencies and sheriff’s offices are receiving from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Working in tandem with the ultra-left wing hate group, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), DHS constantly feeds anti-conservative, anti-constitutionalist, anti-patriot, anti-Christian, anti-veterans propaganda to local police agencies via its numerous “fusion centers” across the country.
[Comment: Sheriff is a “useful idiot.” “Useful” to the bankster communist agenda; an “idiot” for betraying the constitution to which he swore an oath.]
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About 25 million Americans are currently taking statins, and under new guidelines issued in November, another 13 million may be eligible for the cholesterol-lowering drug.
While touted as being nothing short of a miracle for preventing heart attacks and stroke, a new study says statins may cause some pretty scary side effects including “aggressive, violently jealous, suicidal or even homicidal behavior.”
Researchers from the University of California found a link between statins and aggression, particularly in postmenopausal women over 45-years-old. Interestingly, women who were innately calm exhibited the most aggressive behavior when on statins.
A separate study out of Pennsylvania State University found that women taking birth control pills were more jealous (to the point of violence) towards their partners.
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Curt Schilling and the Death of Free Speech
by Robert Spencer
“Curt Schilling’s tweet comparing Muslims to Nazis is even worse than it sounds,” howled Max Fisher in Vox €” one of the many voices this week screaming for Schilling’s head for transgressing against America’s new and unwritten, but nonetheless frightfully draconian, speech codes.
Fisher professes ignorance of the perp’s illustrious career, semaphoring that he is a good Leftist elitist, ignorant of Schilling’s brutish, bourgeois athletic achievements: “Curt Schilling, whom Wikipedia informs me is a former baseball star and current ESPN commentator, sent a tweet on Tuesday that seems to have emerged straight from the internet nether-void of racist email forwards.”
“Racist”? Schilling tweeted a graphic that read, “It’s said only 5-10% of Muslims are extremists. In 1940, only 7% of Germans were Nazis. How’d that go?” So where is the “racism”? What race are “extremist Muslims”? What race are Muslims in the aggregate? What race is Islam? Or did Fisher mean that Schilling’s tweet was racist against Germans?
Fisher compounds this muddled thinking by doubling down on the false claim in his headline, that Schilling likened Muslims to Nazis: “The argument here is pretty clear, even if the numbers are pure nonsense, but just so it’s not lost: Schilling is saying that the religion of Islam is akin to Nazi Germany, and that the world’s 1.6 billion Muslims are responsible for the actions of a tiny minority of extremists in the same way that Nazi-era Germans were complicit in Nazi crimes.”
Actually, Schilling’s tweet does neither of those things. It likens not the religion of Islam, but “extremist Muslims,” to Nazis, and it doesn’t say a thing about all Muslims being responsible for the crimes of Islamic jihadists. And Fisher’s woolly logic is typical of the firestorm that has engulfed Schilling, as he has been removed from ESPN’s coverage of the Little League World Series and is being pilloried everywhere. Schilling himself is repentant and apologetic, but it may do no good: he may be facing more punishment, and is taking a beating in the mainstream media for being “insensitive.”
But what exactly is so offensive about his tweet? Is it that he compared “extremist Muslims” to Nazis? Surely that can’t be it. The Islamic State hasn’t murdered six million Jews, but surely would if it could, and meanwhile its gleeful bloodlust, sex slavery, terrorizing of non-Muslims and all the rest of it make the comparison reasonable.
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Donald Trump’s GOP Lead is Only 7 Points Smaller Than Hillary Clinton’s Democratic One
Let’s dispatch with Trump quickly: In Quinnipiac’s new national survey the Bouffant Bruiser continues to Godzilla his way through the Republican field. What’s interesting here is the undercard, where Jeb Bush slips into the single digits. In Real Clear Politics’ polling average, Bush is now in third — a position he hasn’t been in since last October, save for a brief Scott Walkerenaissance late last month. He can thank Ben Carson for that new position: Carson moves to 12 percent support in the new poll, matching what he had in Fox News’s poll right after the first debate.
Hillary Clinton still leads Bernie Sanders by 21.5 points in the RCP average. Trump’s lead is only 13.2. But those … are in the same ballpark. In this poll, Trump is up 16 points on Carson and Clinton is up 23 on Sanders. That is a 7 point difference.
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Feds Go Door-to-Door to Inform Gun Owners Rights Not Absolute
Thank God criminals follow laws — otherwise we might be in trouble. This has always been the traditional attitude of government in regards to gun restrictions.
It is important to note that everybody believes in gun rights. — It is just a question of who has those rights. So-called “gun-control supporters” don’t support the absence of guns in society, they support gun ownership being monopolized and centralized in the hands of the state and their enforcers(police).
By criminalizing individuals 2nd Amendment right to defend themselves, governemnt exempts itself from its own rules and faces no repercussions.
This is certainly the case in victim disarmament areas like school zones where only magical costumes and shinny badges grant one the legal right to carry a firearm — consequently making schools a prime target for mass shootings.
Government revels in the idea of asserting itself over the population — so it is no surprise that a joint initiative launched in New Orleans is doing just that as the ATF, New Orleans Police Department and the Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office go door-to-door across the metro area informing gun owners that they have no rights in school zones.
“Federal law makes it an offense to possess a firearm within a 1,000 feet of a school,” U.S. Attorney Kenneth Polite, who joined in the ridiculous display of hubris, said. “So we wanted to get the word out to the community about this work.”
The resource sucking initiative is being sold as “just a friendly reminder” by local media outlets but startled homeowners answered their doors over the weekend to costumed storm-troopers and plain clothes agents informing them that federal gun laws penalize self-defense in school zones with minimum fines of $5,000 and up to five years in prison.”This is the second time we have focused on a school here in New Orleans East,” Polite said of the 7th District. “[The area has certainly] suffered from a lot of crime over a long period of time.”
Brilliant! What better way is there to ensure the safety of schools than by going to homes and telling everybody no one can legally defend themselves there?
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Fort Bragg Troops Train for Domestic Emergency: “This Exercise is About the Home Front”
They are “ready” too for chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear hazards.
Slightly below the surface, these Fort Bragg Army engineers are also training — this time in Florida — to assist local authorities in the event of domestic disorder and potential chaos — prepared to quell civil unrest, riots, mass unrest or even the aftermath of terrorist attacks.
Scenarios which could all be really coming to America.
And that’s when the potential for martial law kicks in.
ABC11 out of North Carolina reports:…
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Fox Boss Roger Ailes Vows to Save Country From Trump, Calls the Donald ‘Unelectable’
As I reported this week, Trump’s poll numbers remain strong and he’s building a robust campaign operation, which is a threat to Ailes’s political project: “Roger says Trump is unelectable. His goal here is to save the country,” a source close to Ailes told me.
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Government Intensifies Persecution of Gardeners in Attempt to Criminalize Self-Sufficiency
(NaturalNews) Home gardening is a deep-rooted (pun intended) American tradition. Since the nation’s beginnings, gardens have formed an integral part of the landscape, providing healthy, fresh food for millions of families.
Home gardens are a way to save money, increase self-sufficiency and make sure the food we eat is organically grown and free of pesticides and other chemicals.
Unfortunately, there has been a growing trend towards criminalizing home gardeners, but the good news is that more and more of them are successfully fighting back against government attempts to pronounce home gardening as an illegal activity.
A recent article published by GovtSlaves.info explored several cases in which citizens were told their home gardens violating the law. In all of these stories, the home gardeners decided to stand up for their rights and were generally successful in challenging the legal rulings against them as well as raising awareness and gaining support among the rest of the citizenry.
[Comment: Banksters want to control people through food supply. Growing you own food means you are more independent, and this they do not want.]
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Here’s How to Keep Microsoft’s Nose Out of Your Personal Data in Windows 10
If you are using Windows 10, or plan to upgrade soon, it’s worth bearing in mind a number of privacy-related options that are available, even during the installation/upgrade. If you are already running the OS and forgot to turn them off during installation (or didn’t even see them), they can be accessed via the Settings menu on the start menu, and then selecting Privacy from the pop-up.
Among these menus are a plethora of options regarding what data can be gathered about you. However, we should mention that changing any of these options may disable various OS related services, namely Cortana, as Microsoft’s digital assistant has it tendrils buried deep.
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Humvee’s Days Are Numbered, As U.S. Military Announces New Replacement
The days of the Humvee as the US Army’s vehicle of choice are about to come to an end, after the Department of Defense signed a $6.7 billion deal with the Oshkosh Corporation to provide a new vehicle with “far superior protection and off-road mobility.”
The Wisconsin-based defense company beat off competition from a joint bid by Lochheed Martin, the UK’s BAE Systems, and AM General, which had originally produced the Humvees, the Army said in a statement.
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Jeb Bush Sides With Jorge Ramos
(Gateway Pundit) Last night leading Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump held a press conference in Dubuque, Iowa.
During the press conference Trump was heckled and interrupted by Univision reporter, Jorge Ramos.
Jorge Ramos refused to wait his turn and refused to quit talking.
Trump had Ramos escorted from the room for his outburst.
Today Jeb Bush defended Jorge Ramos and criticized Donald Trump for not putting up with his abusive outburst.
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Joe Biden ‘No’ On Bin Laden Raid Could Haunt Him as a 2016 Candidate
The vice president has taken more dovish positions on foreign policy than his potential rival, Hillary Clinton.
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Literary Magazines for Socialists Funded by the CIA, Ranked
In May of 1967, a former CIA officer named Tom Braden published a confession in theSaturday Evening Post under the headline, “I’m glad the CIA is ‘immoral.’“ Braden confirmed what journalists had begun to uncover over the previous year or so: The CIA had been responsible for secretly financing a large number of “civil society” groups, such as the National Student Association and many socialist European unions, in order to counter the efforts of parallel pro-Soviet organizations. “[I]n much of Europe in the 1950’s,” wrote Braden, “socialists, people who called themselves ‘left’—the very people whom many Americans thought no better than Communists—were about the only people who gave a damn about fighting Communism.”
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Male-Escort Site’s CEO Donated to Obama
(FreeBeacon) The CEO of Rentboy.com, who was arrested by federal authorities Tuesday for allegedly promoting prostitution, donated to Barack Obama’s first campaign for president.
Jeffrey Hurant and six other employees of Rentboy.com were arrested and charged in Brooklyn, New York, Tuesday with conspiring to violate the Travel Act by promoting prostitution. The Department of Justice labeled the business the “largest online male escort service.”
Founded in 1997, Rentboy.com hosts thousands of paid advertisements that are allegedly for companionship, not sexual services. The site’s terms of service bars users from exchanging money for sex.
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Nearly 200 Former Generals and Admirals Sign Letter Opposing Iran Nuke Deal
Nearly 200 former generals and admirals signed a letter sent to Congress rejecting the Obama nuclear pact with Iran. Many general and flag officers served under both Democratic and Republican Administrations. Among them are former Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence under President Bush Gen. William “Jerry” Boykin, USAF Lt. Gen. Tom McInerny and former Marine Commandant Gen. Charles Krulak. The letter adressed to both House and Senate Republican and Democratic leaders rebuts one sent a week ago by 33 generals and admirals supporting the President’s nuclear deal with Iran. We hope that Gen. Barry McCaffrey signed up given his rejection of the opportunity to support the Iran deal. According to the Washington Pos t(WP):
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New Orleans Still a ‘Work in Progress’ Ten Years After Katrina
New Orleans has risen from ruin ten years after Hurricane Katrina ripped through the city’s mostly African American neighbourhoods, although many inhabitants continue to struggle to rebuild new lives.
Helped by billions of dollars in recovery money and driven by the grit of its citizens, the ‘new’ New Orleans is whiter and more expensive to live in. African-American neighbourhoods across the city still struggle. And the murder rate is rising again.
President Barack Obama has planned visits Thursday to those locals hardest hit including a largely African-American neighbourhood, the Lower 9th ward, where recovery remains a slow process.
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Obama Marks Katrina Anniversary, Tells New Orleans: ‘You Inspired All of America’
Visiting residents on tidy porch stoops and sampling the fried chicken at a corner restaurant, President Obama held out the people of New Orleans on Thursday as an extraordinary example of renewal and resilience 10 years after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina.
“There’s something in you guys that is just irrepressible,” Obama told hundreds of residents assembled at a bustling new community center in an area of the hard-hit Lower 9th Ward that was once under 17 feet of water. “The people of New Orleans didn’t just inspire me, you inspired all of America.”
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Student Barred From Starting ‘Conservative’ Club
(CampusReform) Moriah DeMartino, an incoming freshman at Hagerstown Community College (HCC) in Maryland, has been told she cannot establish a conservative club on campus.
When DeMartino approached school administrators in mid-August with her desire to start a Turning Point USA (TPUSA) club, she was told there could be no such club. Heather Barnhart, the school’ s club and student organization adviser, told Moriah in an email she could start a Republican club if, and only if, a Democrat club was launched simultaneously.
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Theater Shooter Holmes Gets 12 Life Sentences, Plus 3,318 Years
(CNN) A Colorado judge formally sentenced James Eagan Holmes to multiple life terms plus thousands of years in prison for the Aurora movie theater massacre that killed 12 and wounded 70.
Holmes, a 27-year-old former grad student, received one life term for each person he killed, plus 3,318 years for the attempted murders of those he wounded and for rigging his apartment with explosives. He is not eligible for parole.
“It is the court’s intention that the defendant never set foot in free society again,” Judge Carlos A. Samour Jr. said after imposing the sentence Wednesday. “If there was ever a case that warranted a maximum sentence, this is the case. The defendant does not deserve any sympathy.
“Sheriff, get the defendant out of my courtroom please.”
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Trump: The Problem is Not Guns, It is Mental Illness
“This isn’t a gun problem, this is a mental problem,” Trump said. “It’s not a question of the laws, it’s really the people.”
“In the old days they had mental institutions for people like this because he was really, definitely borderline and definitely would have been and should have been institutionalized,” Trump told CNN. “At some point somebody should have seen that, I mean the people close to him should have seen it.”
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In the 23-page document faxed to ABC News, the writer says “MY NAME IS BRYCE WILLIAMS” and his legal name is Vester Lee Flanagan II” He writes what triggered today’s carnage was his reaction to the racism of the Charleston church shooting:
“Why did I do it? I put down a deposit for a gun on 6/19/15. The Church shooting in Charleston happened on 6/17/15…”
“What sent me over the top was the church shooting. And my hollow point bullets have the victims’ initials on them.”
It is unclear whose initials he is referring to. He continues, “As for Dylann Roof? You (deleted)! You want a race war (deleted)? BRING IT THEN YOU WHITE …(deleted)!!!” He said Jehovah spoke to him, telling him to act.
Later in the manifesto, the writer quotes the Virginia Tech mass killer, Seung Hui Cho, and calls him “his boy,” and expresses admiration for the Columbine High School killers.
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What is Obama’s Top Population Control Freak Hiding?
To this day, Holdren has escaped questions about his freaky-deaky population-control agenda. Remember, this is the unrepentant sky-is-falling guru who joined fellow whack jobs Paul and Anne Ehrlich in co-authoring “Ecoscience,” a creepy tome that called for saving the planet by proposing that:
—Women could be forced to abort their pregnancies, whether they wanted to or not.
—The population at large could be sterilized by infertility drugs intentionally put into the nation’s drinking water or food.
—Single mothers and teen mothers should have their babies seized from them against their will and given away to other couples to raise.
—People who “contribute to social deterioration” (i.e. undesirables) “can be required by law to exercise reproductive responsibility” — in other words, be compelled to have abortions or be sterilized.
—A transnational “Planetary Regime” should assume control of the global economy and also dictate the most intimate details of Americans’ lives — using an armed international police force.
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy obstinately refused to answer my questions for Holdren on his views about forced abortions and mass sterilizations or on his continued embrace of forced-abortion advocate and eugenics guru Harrison Brown, whom he credits with inspiring him to become a scientist. Holdren’s mentor likened the global population to a “pulsating mass of maggots.”
the social psychology of their facilities.
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White House Pushes Race War, Then Blames Guns for Flanagan’s “Race War”
The Obama administration is blaming guns for the WBDJ-TV shooting, even though the shooter, Vester Flanagan, was influenced by the White House’s race baiting.
The White House has been falsely insinuating that racism is the dominant factor behind numerous events over the past several years, even those that didn’t involve race at all, and although Flanagan admitted he was motivated by a “race war,” the administration’s now blaming gun owners.
“As you’ve heard me in the past, this is another example of gun violence that’s becoming all too common in communities large and small, all across the United States,” said W.H. Press Secretary Josh Earnest, who wasted no time to politicize the tragedy.
But in reality, the shooting is an example of what happens when the Obama administration racially divides the country. Remember how both President Obama and then-Attorney General Eric Holder interjected their personal opinions into the shooting deaths of Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown? Neither of them had any reason to interfere with the ongoing investigations.
“Both of them made unprecedented and blatant attempts to influence the outcomes of those legal proceedings,” Story Leak’s Michael Thomas wrote. “Such improper and provocative meddling is practically unheard by the Executive Branch, especially by the top law officer in the land and his constitutional lawyer supervisor!”
“This Administration has taken more initiatives than any before it concerning ongoing investigations of minority deaths; they have also made more overtures to their chosen political proxies and like-minded agents throughout the mainstream media to pour fuel on the fabricated race riot fires.”
“Obama practically gave the rioters in Ferguson the go ahead ‘to tear the place up,’“ he added.
And remember Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, who gave rioters “space to destroy” property and reportedly told police to stand down during the April protests? She was a key playmaker for the Obama administration.
The Obama administration is fueling racial tensions to instigate violence the White House then exploits to push gun control.
This strategy, known as the Hegelian Dialectic, has been used successfully by politicians for millennia to expand government which can only grow at the expense of individual liberties, such as the loss of the Second Amendment.
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Why Did Obama Nationalize the U.S. Food Supply With Executive Order 13603?
(NaturalNews) In March 2012, President Obama quietly signed an Executive Order that has major implications should some sort of national emergency arise, such as enabling the federal government to take over management and distribution of all food, water and other resources.
In issuing the order, EO 13603, titled, “National Defense Resources Preparedness,” Obama claimed authority under the Defense Production Act of 1950, a Korean War-era statute (50 U.S.C.) (see it here) that gives the government the power to marshal whatever resources are necessary to protect and defend the country during “military conflicts, natural or man-caused disasters, or acts of terrorism within the United States,” the statute says.
In justifying the order, Obama wrote in Section 102 under “Policy:”
The United States must have an industrial and technological base capable of meeting national defense requirements and capable of contributing to the technological superiority of its national defense equipment in peacetime and in times of national emergency. The domestic industrial and technological base is the foundation for national defense preparedness. The authorities provided in the Act shall be used to strengthen this base and to ensure it is capable of responding to the national defense needs of the United States.
If you like your food, you can’t keep it
Among other things, the order directs various federal agencies and government officials to “identify requirements for the full spectrum of emergencies, including essential military and civilian demand,” and “assess on an ongoing basis the capability of the domestic industrial and technological base to satisfy requirements in peacetime and times of national emergency, specifically evaluating the availability of the most critical resource and production sources, including subcontractors and suppliers, materials, skilled labor, and professional and technical personnel.”
In addition, the order directs government agencies “to take actions necessary to ensure the availability of adequate resources and production capability, including services and critical technology, for national defense requirements.”…
In addition, he notes, “food resources” includes “all potable water” and every imaginable agricultural product.
What is disturbing, he writes, is the order’s potential implication for anyone who is storing food in their homes or in special locations for consumption in the event of an emergency. The order — and indeed, the 1950 act — appear to grant the government such authority.
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Toronto Man Denied Subsidized Housing for Not Being Muslim
At 21, Austin Lewis of Toronto lives his life in a wheelchair. Now, as Sean O’Shea reports he’s also dealing with another obstacle when it comes to getting a subsidized apartment: he has the wrong religion.
A disabled Toronto man had his name removed from the waiting list of a subsidized city apartment because he does not meet the main criteria for living there: being Muslim.
The letter reads, in part: “The vision of this community includes providing housing for households in which at least one person is a member of Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at. This means if none of the individuals of your household are a member … you will be removed from the waiting list.”
“It’s prejudiced, it’s racist,” said Laura Whiteway of Brampton, Lewis’s mother. “It’s wrong on every single level: this goes against everything Canada represents to me.”
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1,000 New Words Are Added to the Oxford Dictionary
New entries include manspreading, when a man sits with his legs wide apart on public transport, bants — short for banter — and NBD, an abbreviation of no big deal.
[Comment: Oxford dictionary is quickly becoming the worst dictionary for the english language, as evidenced by many of these idiotic slang entries — most of which won’t be used in a decade. ]
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Artisanal Beer Revenue Rising in Italy
Unionbirrai and Alta Scuola Imprese 2015 report
(ANSA) — PALERMO, AUGUST 26 — Artisanal beer production is growing in Italy in terms of revenue, size, production and volume.
Over 60% of beer factories earn between 100,000 and 800,000 euros, over 51% make use of personnel on permanent contracts and the volume of beer produced on average has risen to 445 hectoliters, equal to 3.3% of the total hectoliters of beer produced in Italy. These are some of the figures from the third report on artisanal beer in Italy presented at Expo Milano 2015 by Unionbirrai and drawn up by ALTIS, Alta Scuola Impresa e Società dell’Università Cattolica di Milano.
“The production of artisanal beer has begun to do good things for Italian employment,” Unionbirrai director Simone Monetti said. “Today small producers are growing and have a large number of employees on permanent contracts. It is a sector in which there aren’t any lay-offs.” There are 750 beer factories in Italy, mostly in the northern and central parts.
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EU Set to Propose Ukraine Visa-Free Travel
European Commission president Juncker said in Brussels Thursday, alongside Ukraine leader Poroshenko, commission services are likely to propose an EU visa-free travel pact with the 45mn-strong war-torn country by the end of the year. Juncker added he has “no doubt” EU states’ll endorse the proposal despite the EU migrant crisis.
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Exclusive: ‘I Love Anders Breivik for Who He is, Not What He Did’
Shy Swedish woman reveals eight-year relationship with white supremacist who massacred 77 people
To the world he is the smirking racist who murdered 77 innocent young people in Norway’s worst ever terrorist atrocity, in the name of white supremacy.
But to a shy Swedish woman Anders Breivik is the only man she has ever loved and who she is prepared to wait a lifetime for, in the hope that one day they can be together.
Shunned by her sister and threatened in the aftermath of the July 2011 massacre, the anxious blonde clings on to the kindness and support Breivik, 36, has shown her as evidence he is not the monster most people believe him to be.
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French Woman Wins Grant for ‘Gadget Allergy’
A French court has awarded a disability grant to a woman claiming to suffer from a debilitating allergy to electromagnetic radiation from everyday gadgets such as cellphones. The applicant, Marine Richard, 39, hailed the ruling as a “breakthrough” for people afflicted by Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (EHS).
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French Intelligence Fears Islamist ‘Missile Strike on Airliner’ or 9/11-Style Attack
French security forces are bracing for the eventuality of civil unrest and fear there could be a missile strike on a passenger airliner or a September 11-style attack, according to sources close to French intelligence.
“Airlines have been warned of a possible attack on a plane with an anti-tank missile,” a source told The Telegraph. “But pilots are unsure how to take evasive action.”
After Friday’s thwarted attempt to massacre passengers on an Amsterdam-Paris train and a series of terrorist attacks and attempted killings in France this year, President François Hollande warned the nation to prepare for more violence, considered inevitable as the Islamist threat grows.
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Germany: Facebook to Meet Government on Internet Hate-Mongering
Facebook on Thursday accepted an invitation from Germany’s justice minister to discuss doing more to purge the social network of racist posts after widespread complaints from users.
In a letter to Facebook’s European subsidiaries, Justice Minister Heiko Maas suggested a meeting with company executives on September 14 to talk about “improving the effectiveness and transparency of your community standards”.
Facebook’s German unit agreed to meet Maas, saying in an email sent to AFP it “takes his concerns very seriously”.
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Ikea Stops Selling Alcohol at Swedish Restaurants
Global flat-pack furniture giant Ikea is in the midst of clearing out all the alcoholic beverages from shelves in the restaurants at its Swedish stores, after alcohol sales dwindled.
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France is braced for a 9/11-style attack or a missile strike on a passenger plane, intelligence sources claimed today.
Security forces and the army are reportedly readying for more violence on a far larger scale after a series of terror attacks in the country.
President François Hollande has also warned of the inevitable threat by Islamist insurgents after a jihadi gunman was thwarted while storming a high-speed train on Friday.
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Italian Woman Locks Up Man for Refusing Sex
A 46-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of abduction after locking a 25-year-old man in the basement of her home near Naples because he denied her sex, Italian media reported.
The pair reportedly met this summer and enjoyed a fling, Il Messaggero reported.
But the man soon grew weary of the amorous adventure, and refused to have any more intercourse with the woman, who is separated from her husband.
Unhappy with the rejection, she then allegedly locked him in the basement of her home in Arzano, a town north of Naples.
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Italy: Gabrielli Gets More Powers Over Rome
Prefect to enact eight-point plan with Marino
(ANSA) — Rome, August 27 — Rome Prefect Franco Gabrielli is to get sweeping powers to help embattled Mayor Ignazio Marino address the manifold woes of the Italian capital ranging from trash to migrants and the environment after major scandals including a probe into a new city mafia that ran kickback rackets all over the city.
Gabrielli will effectively be vetting all council acts as well as the machine for the upcoming Catholic Jubilee, under a decree approved by the cabinet Thursday.
Jubilee contracts will have new rules to make sure the kind of infiltration by the gangsters and corrupt officials collectively called the Capital Mafia will not happen again — and national anti-corruption czar Raffaele Cantone may be given a key role.
The government’s decree stops short of putting Rome under a commissioner and stripping Marino of all his powers — which was the fate of nearby Ostia, dissolved for mafia infiltration Thursday — but it gives the mayor from the ruling Democratic Party (PD) a kind of oversight “tutor” in Gabrelli, Italian media said.
Marino was not in Rome to hear the announcement of his effective demotion since he is on holiday in the Caribbean despite suggestions that he should have come back, including from PD leader and Premier Matteo Renzi.
From his holiday location he said he was “satisfied” with the government’s moves to help clean up the city. “The hypothesis of dissolving the city council was taken off the table and (Interior Minister Angelino) Alfano’s words sweep away the rumours of a commissioner being appointed,” the mayor said.
Marino reiterated his claim that the infiltrations highlighted by the Capital Mafia probed had happened under the stewardship of his rightwing predecessor Gianni Alemanno and he had blocked them with “a wall”.
Alemanno responded by saying that Marino was “off the wall” and that Rome “has never been so abandoned”. Announcing Gabrielli’s new brief, Interior Minister Angelino Alfano said after a cabinet meeting on Rome’s woes Thursday that “I proposed letting the Rome prefect plan intervention in eight areas with the mayor”. These are parks, trash collection, the environment, housing, immigration and Roma people camps, the minister said. Measures will include updating city regulations, setting up a list of city contractors and new internal control protocols, and an audit of all city contracts, including with AMA trash collection and waste disposal company.
Franco Panzironi, formerly the powerful head of AMA, and three other senior AMA managers were convicted in May of nepotism in hiring at the firm. Panzironi was arrested previously in connection with the so-called Capital Mafia corruption scandal that has rocked the capital since December.
Council officials from both the PD and the opposition Forza Italia party of former premier Silvio Berlusconi have quit in the scandal over a gang led by former rightist militant and gangster Massimo Carminati and the powerful head of a leftwing cooperative, Salvatore Buzzi.
The ringleaders were caught on police wiretaps saying that skimming off contracts for Roma and migrants was “more profitable than drugs”.
Cabinet Secretary Claudio De Vincenti played down the effect on Marino’s status, saying Rome had not been put under a commissioner like Ostia.
But he had to admit that the situation was similar to the one in Milan where Prefect Francesco Paolo Tronca was given powers over the Expo world’s fair, again after a string of scandals.
Rome’s legality councillor, Alfonso Sabella, summed up the situation by pointing out that Gabrielli would be responsible for the “coordination” of the Rome Jubilee like his counterpart in Milan, Tronca, coordinates the Expo there. “I don’t think either (Milan Mayor Giuliano) Pisapia nor (Lombardy Governor Roberto) Maroni feel stripped of their powers,” he noted. “The only difference is the money…which in Rome is sadly lacking,” he added. Resources for the Jubilee are billed to come from the Rome budget, which has a large deficit.
The Catholic Jubilee on Mercy, expected to bring millions of pilgrims to the Italian capital, runs from December this year to November next.
Sabella also claimed that the government had “recognised” the work of Marino’s reformed council, saying the eight eras to be targeted were ones where they had already made “significant progress”.
But he admitted that Rome came out “badly” from the government assessment and the “administrative machine comes out devastated, but it was inevitable”.
The centre-right opposition Forza Italia (FI) party of ex-premier Silvio Berlusconi was among those calling for elections to replace Marino.
FI said that “Romans must be able to choose a new mayor for themselves and a new government for the capital. “Rome must return to the vote as soon as possible to end one of the darkest chapters in its recent history”. It said “we are working towards this goal with civic movements” including that of (an independent candidate defeated by Marino in 2013), Alfo Marchini”. FI claimed that the government had “effectively appointed a commissioner in place of Marino”.
The anti-establishment 5-Star Movement claimed that Renzi had “saved” Marino in order to avert being forced to go into an early general election. In another statement Thursday, Alfano backed the measures Gabrielli had taken to respond to a huge row over the lavish and highly controversial funeral of mafia boss Vittorio Casamonica in Rome last week.
Gabrielli said he would set up a new liaison group among police forces to make sure all information on the mafia “got to the top” and ensure there would be no repetitions.
Alfano said: “I endorsed the decisions of Prefect Gabrielli and the law-and-order committee” on the funeral.
He added: “We are weighing other moves and we have for example urged (civil aviation authority) ENAC to start checking how the flight (of a helicopter that dropped rose petals onto the hearse) was authorised and a possible revision of the licenses that were issued”.
In other reactions to the government’s moves, Cardinal Agostino Vallini, the Vicar General of Rome, said Rome is “a spiritually anaemic city” and that explains the moral crisis shaking the capital.
“Today Rome is a spiritually anaemic city and this leads to all those negative moral consequences,” the Cardinal said in an appeal launched from Lourdes where he is leading a diocesan pilgrimage, “that is why it needs new life blood running through it”.
“One needs Christian lay people who in their life and work environments become points of reference and of fruitful discussion,” the prelate was quoted by Vatican Radio as saying. Vatican Jubilee chief Msgr Rino Fisichella told ANSA he had “learned with satisfaction and approval of this package of (Italian government) measures in view of the Jubilee. They are significant measures made necessary also by the shortness of time, but which meet the effective needs of such an important event”.
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Italy: Cabinet Orders Controls on AMA Waste Disposal Contracts
Decision disclosed by Interior Minister Angelino Alfano
(ANSA) — Rome, August 27 — The Italian cabinet on Thursday ordered checks to be carried out on contracts between the Rome city government and the graft-infested AMA Spa garbage collection corporation for the Eternal City, Interior Minister Angelino Alfano said. The cabinet decided “the start of checking and revision of contracts including those for the services with AMA Spa to verify their effective conditions and sustainability,” Alfano said.
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Italy: Vatican Confident ‘Rome Can Do it’ On Jubilee
Monsignor Fisichella statement to ANSA
(ANSA) — Rome, August 27 — The Vatican is confident that the city authorities in Rome will be able to cope with the logistic challenges of the special Jubilee at the end of the year, Monsignor Rino Fisichella, Pope Francis’ special representative for the extraordinary Holy Year, said Thursday.
“The organisational challenges require direction able to be immediately operational while respecting the law and the rules,” Fisichella, the president of the pontifical council for New evangelisation told Ansa.
“We do have confidence”.
“From this point of view it seems to me that we follow with trust the work the (Italian) Cabinet has approved and I am certain that in the next meetings of the bilateral commission we will be able to deal directly with the questions that involve both the HOly See and Italy”.
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Kullervo: Tolkien’s Fascination With Finland
On Thursday JRR Tolkien’s early story The Story of Kullervo will be published for the first time. The dark tale reveals that Tolkien’s Middle Earth was inspired not only by England and Wales… but also by Finland.
“Hapless Kullervo,” Tolkien called him. Kullervo, an orphan boy raised into slavery, a tragic hero who commits incest in the dark forests of Karelia and hurls himself on his own blade.
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‘Nazi Gold Train’: Poland Asks Treasure Hunters to Stop Search
Officials believe they have found the train said to carry gems and other valuables and urge enthusiasts to let them secure site
Poland has appealed to second world war buffs and rail enthusiasts to stop searching for a Nazi train believed to have lain undiscovered for 70 years and rumoured to carry treasure.
Authorities say they believe they have located the train in the county of Walbrzych, after they were tipped off by a German and a Pole who said last week that they had found it and expected a finder’s fee of 10%.
The culture ministry said “foragers” had since become active in the area and urged them to stop, saying they risked harming themselves.
“I’m certain the train exists, but it might contain dangerous material,” said Piotr Zuchowski, the head of national heritage at the ministry. “This is an appeal for any further investigations to be put on hold until we have finished the necessary official procedures relating to securing the site.”
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Norway and Sweden Join Forces to Save Arctic Fox
Norway and Sweden are combining forces to save the Arctic fox, which is under threat from climate change and the incursion into its territory of the common red fox, which is almost twice the size.
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Polish Official ‘Convinced’ That Mystery Nazi Train Exists
A leading Polish cultural official said Thursday he is “convinced” of the existence of a Nazi treasure train that has been missing for 70 years and which two men claim to have found recently.
Deputy Culture Minister Piotr Zuchowski also warned treasure hunters in southwestern Poland to stop looking for the “so-called ‘gold train”‘ because it could be mined and dangerous.
Since the end of World War II, local Polish legend has said that a German train filled with gold, gems and armaments went missing around the city of Walbrzych while fleeing the Red Army in 1945. Fortune-hunters have looked for it for decades, and in the communist era, the Polish army and security services even carried out apparently fruitless searches for it.
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Spain: Attack on Young Right-Wing Politician an “Unspeakable Act, “ Says Minister
Inmaculada Sequí, the 18-year-old leader of the Cuenca chapter of right-wing party Vox, was allegedly assaulted by three individuals on Tuesday morning as she left to meet her father for coffee at around 8.45am.
She was admitted to hospital and discharged the same day, but required medication on Wednesday morning to handle the pain resulting from the beating, according to party sources. Sequí said three individuals had approached her and attacked her, calling her “a fascist.”
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Sweden: ‘You Get Street Smart When You Live in Malmö’
Since the start of the new year Malmö has on average been rocked by an explosion a week. The deputy police chief and residents speak to The Local about the Swedish city’s summer of violence.
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Sweden: Desperate Fans Queue for Millennium Sequel Book
The eagerly-awaited sequel to best-selling Swedish author Stieg Larsson’s Millennium crime trilogy hit store shelves in 25 countries on Thursday, as the author admitted he wrote the book in a manic depressive state.
Speaking to reporters just hours ahead of the launch, David Lagercrantz said he was “terrified” as he wrote The Girl in the Spider’s Web.
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Switzerland: Figuring Out Why We Get Sick
What does an ancient Egyptian mummy or a 17th century skeleton found in Zurich tell us about illnesses that affect us today? Quite a lot actually, if you are looking from an evolutionary medicine perspective.
Combining such fields as evolutionary biology, archaeology and immunology, this relatively new research field looks to the past to gain some understanding of the present and find some solutions for the future.
The University of Zurich, which has the world’s only full-scale institute dedicated to evolutionary medicine at a medical faculty, is at the forefront of this type of research, particularly when it comes into delving into the health secrets of the ancients.
It recently hosted the first-ever European conference on Evolutionary Medicine.
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This Man Survived the 2011 Utøya Terror Attack. Now, Norway Wants to Deport Him and His Family.
By the time Anders Behring Breivik was arrested by Norwegian authorities in 2011, he had already killed 77 people in one of Europe’s most gruesome terror attacks. Mubarak Haji Ahmed and Khalid Ahmed only narrowly survived the attack at a summer camp on the island of Utøya. Their brother, Ismail Ahmed, was killed.
Mubarak still suffers from mental health issues and hearing loss caused by the shooting spree. That, however, has not stopped Norwegian officials from trying to deport him, a move that has outraged many Norwegians.
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by Raheem Kassam
He walks by the door, missing the postbox, and instead delivers his parcel — a brick with a note — directly through the window of the shop, which is now the Woodford Muslim Cultural Centre. The glass smashes. The sirens wail. And the man hot foots it past the florist to the left, and disappears into the night.
Rewind to just eight months prior, when hundreds of local residents signed petitions and lodged their objections with their local council over the building of the mosque. Not because it is built for Muslims, but rather, because their high street wasn’t built to take such a “cultural centre” — and the very nature of the planning application was opposed by their elected leaders on the basis that it didn’t comply with the local plan for the retail areas of the community.
Never mind. Because just seven months on Britain’s central government agency, the Planning Inspectorate, decided that the council and local residents were wrong. The mosque should be allowed. Damn the parking problems. Damn the impact on community cohesion. And damn the fact that the council as well as local residents had promised to find a more suitable location. No, according to the British government, there must be a mosque on this main high street. Directly opposite the 111-year-old St. Barnabus Parish Church, and just yards away from rows of terraced housing, where parking is already hugely problematic.
Circa two hundred worshippers can now attend the mosque on Snakes Lane East, in the borough that has experienced a four-fold increase in its Bangladeshi population since 2001, and which has the highest proportion of Pakistanis of all London boroughs. In short: the rise of “multiculturalism” and top-down enforced “diversity” is playing havoc with this local community.
And it may seem crass, or insensitive to say it, but it is little wonder that thugs are arming themselves with bricks, terrorising the owners of the mosque who circumvented the council’s as well as the residents’ wishes by appealing to the Planning Inspectorate to get their way. It’s not condoned, it is not acceptable, but we have to be honest about what we know happens when local democracy is treated with such scorn, while immigrant populations continue to rise at a pace that locals simply cannot adjust to. It breeds resentment. On both sides. And there’s no doubting that Redbridge is not the only place in the country with such problems…
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UK: Controversial Woodford Green Islamic Centre Attacked With a Brick
A controversial Islamic centre in Woodford Green reportedly had a brick thrown through its window on Monday night — the latest in a spate of incidents.
The next day the Woodford Muslim Cultural Centre, in Snakes Lane East, had both a door and part of a window boarded over. There were no reported injuries.
The anti-Muslim violence website TellMAMAUK reported, last week, the word “bacon’ had been graffitied on a door at the centre.
In November 2014 a note was found at its entrance saying: “Enough is enough. A mosque is not wanted in Woodford. The rivers of blood are close to overflowing.”
Bashir Chaudhry, chairman of the Redbridge Islamic Centre, said: “Those who have any fear or concern should talk to each other.”
The centre was involved in a protracted battle, between the owners, residents and councillors, for planning permission.
It was initially denied permission by Redbridge Council, but that decision was overturned by an independent planning inspector in July.
Cllr Paul Canal (Con, Bridge), who opposed the inspector’s decision due to the loss of retail space, said: “I oppose violence in all forms. It is distressing that the catalyst for this was the decision by a planning inspector who was not from the borough.”…
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UK: Islamist Indoctrination of London Schoolgirl in Family Home Was as Bad as Sex Abuse, Judge Rules
A schoolgirl “fully-radicalised” by Islamist propaganda must be removed from her family home, a High Court has ruled, comparing her parent’s treatment of her to child sex abuse. A Family Division judge said the 16-year-old from east London must be taken away from her “deceitful parents”.
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Kosovo Agreement Clears Serbia’s EU Path
The agreement reached Tuesday (25 August) between Serbia and Kosovo lifted the main obstacle to opening membership negotiations between Serbia and the EU. But no formal decision will be taken soon.
The accord, which establishes an association of Serb-majority municipalities in Kosovo and deals with energy and telecommunications, “leads to the opening of negotiating chapters with the EU”, Serbian PM Aleksandar Vucic said in a statement.
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Mass Migration: What is Driving the Balkan Exodus?
More than a third of all asylum-seekers arriving in Germany come from Albania, Kosovo and Serbia. Young, poor and disillusioned with their home countries, they are searching for a better future. But almost none of them will be allowed to stay.
But it is difficult to be somebody in Kosovo, unless you have influence or are part of the mafia, which is often the same thing.
But a lack of prospects is not a recognized reason for asylum, which is why Krasniqi’s application was initially denied. The 30,000 Kosovars who have applied for asylum in Germany since the beginning of the year are in similar positions. And the Kosovars are not the only ones. This year, the country has seen the arrival of 5,514 Macedonians, 11,642 Serbians, 29,353 Albanians and 2,425 Montenegrins. Of the 196,000 people who had filed an initial application for asylum in Germany by the end of July, 42 percent are from the former Yugoslavia, a region now known as the Western Balkans.
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Libya: Tripoli Deserts Negotiations in Morocco, Source
Delegation head Salah Al Makhzoum resigned yesterday
CAIRO — Libya’s General National Congress (GNC), the internationally unrecognized parliament in Tripoli, “won’t participate today in negotiations in Morocco,” a well-informed Libyan diplomatic source said Thursday.
The source, who requested to remain anonymous, said, “the Congress won’t take part in the dialogue in Morocco” because “the draft agreement lacks some guarantees that would protect them”.
Yesterday, GNC delegation leader Salah Al Makhzoum resigned, as did Mohamed Mozeb, a member of the delegation.
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Tourism: Tunisia, Strong Drop of Foreigners in July
(ANSAmed) — TUNIS, AUGUST 27 — Tourism in Tunisia has plummeted after the terror attack in Sousse on June 26.
According to the Tunisian Central Bank, the number of foreigner tourists registered in July this year dropped 44.1% from the same period in 2014 and 65.7% from the same period in 2010, the year used as a reference point by tourist operators before the 2011 uprising.
Among foreign tourists who ‘deserted’ Tunisia as a holiday destination, British nationals ranked first (down 93.1%), followed by Italians (79.6%), Germans (66.4%) and French nationals (39.45). Tourists from Maghreb countries increased by 26.3%.
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Netanyahu Wants to Reinforce Italy-Israel Ties
Israeli premier proposes greater bilateral cooperation in Africa
(ANSA) — Milan, August 27 — Italy and Israel are linked by “strong friendship” that can be reinforced in fields such as “tourism, technology, science (and) culture,” Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday during a visit to Milan Expo 2015.
“Israel and Italy work together in Africa in just one country,” said the Israeli premier, referring to Senegal.
“We could help much more, why not in 10 or 20? We want and we must reinforce our collaboration and I am ready to talk about it with (Premier Matteo) Renzi in Florence”.
“Israel has been a pioneer in science applied to agriculture,” he added, “We made such progress in irrigation and desalination in the 1970s that today we recycle 80% of our water”.
“We are proud of this and want to share our science with the rest of the world. We are ready to do our part”.
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Ultra-Nationalist Israelis Take Over More Housing Units in Arab Neighborhood of Jerusalem
Ultra-nationalist Israelis have taken over a four-story building in the heart of an Arab neighborhood in east Jerusalem, raising fears of fresh violence in the tense area.
A small group of activists from the Ateret Cohanim settler organization moved into the building on Thursday. It was the latest in a wave of settler advances since nationalist Jews began buying up properties in Palestinian neighborhoods two decades ago.
The building is located in Silwan, a neighborhood that is home to several hundred Jewish residents and some 50,000 Palestinians. Israeli soldiers were guarding the latest wave of settlers.
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Evidence Mounts That Soon-to-be Flush Iran Already Spurring New Attacks on Israel
An unsettling surge in terrorism by Iranian proxies has many Israelis convinced the release to Tehran of tens of billions of dollars in frozen funds is already putting the Jewish state in danger.
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Human Rights Watch Slams Saudi-Led Coalition for Using Cluster Bombs in Yemen
Between April and July, the Saudis carried out at least seven attacks in which they employed such weapons with devastating effect. HRW calls for a stop to their use, urging the parties to the conflict to sign the treaty banning them. Meanwhile, joint Arab League regional force has been postponed under Saudi pressure.
Sana’a (AsiaNews/Agencies) — Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday urged the Saudi-led coalition battling Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen to stop using cluster munitions, saying it had uncovered new evidence of their devastating impact.
The New York-based watchdog said that scores of civilians were killed or wounded in at least seven such apparent attacks in the northwestern province of Hajja between late April and mid-July.
Cluster bombs are a form of airdropped or ground-launched explosive weapon that releases or ejects explosive bomblets, smaller submunitions that are designed to kill personnel and destroy vehicles. However, many of the latter often remain unexploded on the ground causing damage at a later date.
“Cluster munitions are adding to the terrible civilian toll in Yemen’s conflict,” said HRW researcher Ole Solvang. “Coalition forces should immediately stop using these weapons and join the treaty banning them.”
HRW said its researchers visited four of the alleged attack sites and found unexploded submunitions or remnants of cluster munition rockets.
Joining other NGOs, it calls on the United Nations Human Rights Council to create a commission of inquiry to investigate alleged serious laws-of-war violations by all parties to the armed conflict in Yemen.
Back in January, the country became embroiled in a bloody conflict between the Saudi-backed, Sunni-dominated government and Iran-supported Houthi Shia rebels.
Since March, the Saudis have led of a coalition against the rebels, launches air strikes against their positions. At least 4,500 people, mostly civilians, have been killed since 19 March, with an additional 6,000 wounded, this according to United Nations reports.
In Sana’a, Yemen’s capital, some of its oldest artistic sites, many classified as UNESCO heritage sites, have been destroyed during the conflict.
In the meantime, the Arab League gave to its member states four months to agree on a joint force against the Islamic State; however, this was postponed to “a date to be decided” at the request of Saudi Arabia, supported by Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar , the United Arab Emirates and Iraq.
For some analysts and experts, this attitude is due to a power struggle inside the Saudi regime, as well as the latest developments in the Iran nuclear affair.
For any regional coalition to succeed against the Islamic State, it must include Sunnis and Shias, which implicitly means that both Tehran and Riyadh have to be on board.
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Iran Nuclear Side Deals Expose Additional Flaws
This new push for Democratic endorsements for the deal comes at a time when the details of one of the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) secret deals with Iran have gone public, and it becomes all the more apparent that Iran is not going to be held accountable for its past nuclear activities. It makes it all the more unlikely that Iran will face tough scrutiny from the international community, or the IAEA, under the framework’s proposed inspections regime.
The Associated Press and Fox News have reported that with the IAEA’s second of two secret side deals, Iran will, essentially, be allowed to inspect itself at Parchin. But these news outlets and others aren’t covering an equally important development.
IAEA director general Yukiya “Amano was in Washington recently to brief members of Congress and others about the recently inked nuclear accord,”reported Adam Kredo for The Washington Free Beacon on August 18. “However, he did not discuss the nature of side deals with Iran that the United States is not permitted to know about.”
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A video showing an Irish man fighting off a mob of Istanbul shopkeepers who attacked him with sticks and chairs in the middle of a busy street has gone viral in Turkey.
The man has been identified by Turkish media as Mohammed Fadel Dobbous, a Kuwait-born Irish citizen.
The video shows him disarming the shopkeeper, seen wearing a green-and-white striped polo shirt, and the fight spills out into the street.
CCTV shows how a mob of shopkeepers gangs up on the Irishman, attacking him with sticks and plastic chairs.
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Muslims Are Not Doing ‘Enough’ To Fight the Islamic State, Says Queen Rania
The Queen of Jordan — in France for a number of meetings — calls for greater attention to young people in the Middle East: if they are not given jobs and opportunities they swell the ranks of Isis militias. The urgent need to create 100 thousand jobs by 2020. The global consequences.
Paris (AsiaNews / Agencies) — According to Queen Rania of Jordan, moderate Muslims are not doing “enough” to combat the “evil ideology” of the Islamic state (IS), and she is asking the international community to pay greater attention to young people, before the Middle East is “devastated”.
The Queen of Jordan is in France for a series of meetings with groups of businessmen and universities. In the various meetings she stressed that helping young people in the Middle East is crucial to fighting against Daesh (Arabic acronym of IS)
Daesh — she said — she continues to spread its evil ideology” and “change the local perception of our region”. “ Moderate Muslims the world over are not doing enough to win the ideological struggle at the heart of this battle.
“We’re not actively helping Daesh, — she added — but we’re not actively stopping them either. We can’t stand against them until we as Muslims agree on what we stand for.”
Queen Rania said focusing on the youth of the Middle East — many of whom are unemployed or forced to flee their countries — was a necessity. They need “education, opportunities, work and… also a little bit of luck, that someone believes in them..”
According to the Queen at least 100 thousand jobs are needed by 2020 to prevent frustrated young people joining the military ranks of the jihadists.
“Failure — she concluded — is not an option because if we fail in the face of these extremists and if they win, the region will quickly be devastated “ producing global repercussions.
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Sweden Pushes for Emergency UN ISIS Talks
Sweden’s Foreign Minister, Margot Wallström is calling for a United Nations emergency meeting to discuss the violence towards women and children by the terror group Isis which she says is “unmatched in modern times”.
Margot Wallström told Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet on Thursday that the radical extremist group was so dangerous that violent and sexual crimes against women were embedded in its ideology.
“I intend to demand that the Security Council should hold a special meeting on this,” she said.
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Swedish Man Feared Dead After Joining ISIS
A man from central Sweden who is believed to have been fighting alongside Isis is reported to have been killed.
The Swede, who is thought to be in his 30s and who had been living in Örebro, is understood to be one of a group of three people from the area known to have travelled to the Middle East to join the radical Islamist group, also known as Isis and IS.
According to Mahdi Warsama, chairman of the African Horn Cultural Centre, the man’s relatives have received information confirming his death.
Sweden’s biggest news agency, TT, reported in June that the trio — two men and a woman — had made multiple attempts to travel to the war-torn region
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Terror and Economic Crisis, The Dark Year of Turkish Tourism
Arrivals plummet over instability, weak ruble. Italians down
(by Cristoforo Spinella) (ANSAmed) — ISTANBUL — Security concerns following the conflict with ISIS and Kurdish PKK, recent terror attacks also in Istanbul, the fall of the ruble and low-cost Greece has led to a very poor year for tourism in Turkey as the summer season draws to an end.
According to data released by the government, the number of foreigners who travelled to the country in the first semester of this year dropped 2.25% from 2014, a little under 15 million of arrivals. According to the national statistics agency, the sector plummeted 13.8% from March to June — a trend that now risks to worsen.
“We are expecting a dramatic drop in official data on July and August”, explained Timur Bayindir, president of Turob, among the main category associations. The situation is so alarming that the government of Ankara has postponed school openings from September 14 to September 28, leaving families on holiday for the Islamic festival of sacrifice.
The factor weighing the most on Turkish tourism is domestic instability. “Many countries have issued advisory warnings for their citizens”, recalled in a point of order Chp opposition MP Cetin Osman Budak. The significant drop concerns arrivals from northern and continental Europe, with the exception of Germany.
Israeli tourists have also significantly diminished. Italian visitors also dropped by almost 20% in the first six months of the year.
“Ever since the incidents in Paris and then Tunisia, fear concerning Islamic terrorism has grown” among Italians, Gianluca D’Ottavio, director of “Scoprire Istanbul”, discovering Istanbul, the agency organizing tours with Italians in the city on the Bosphorus, told ANSAmed. “The drop for us since April is of about 50% and July and August could be even worse”.
The weak ruble has also weighed on Turkish tourism, preventing an estimated half a million Russians from holidaying as usual on the Mediterranean in the first seven months of the year. The Aegean coast is also in difficulty, with a drop estimated at 10%. In spite of the renowned beaches and archaeological treasures, many this year preferred to travel to the nearby Greek islands, also attracted by more competitive prices.
Many Turkish nationals also chose them for their holidays.
On a positive note, tourism has grown 8.3% in Istanbul from January to July.
Iranians have contributed to the rise, with a potential for growth following the nuclear agreement and détente in diplomatic relations.
Overall, the best news for Turkey is perhaps the Chinese tourism market with a booming 61%, though numbers remain low at 144,000 arrivals.
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UK Jihadist Junaid Hussain Killed in Syria Drone Strike, Says US
A British man described as a “top cyber jihadist” has been killed in a military drone strike in Syria, US officials say.
They said Junaid Hussain, 21, a convicted computer hacker from Birmingham who fled to Syria in 2013, had been a “high-value target” within the Islamic State group.
The US called it a serious blow to IS.
Michael McCaul, chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, said his death sent an “unmistakable message”.
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US Drone Strike in Syria Reportedly Kills Top ISIS Online Recruiter
A U.S. drone strike in Syria Tuesday reportedly killed a fugitive British computer hacker who had become one of ISIS’ top online recruiters.
The Wall Street Journal reported the death of Junaid Hussein late Wednesday, citing two people familiar with the operation. The officials said that Hussein was killed by a targeted airstrike near the Syrian city of Raqqa, the de facto capital of ISIS’ self-proclaimed “caliphate”.
Hussein was a native of Birmingham, England who fled Britain for Syria in 2013 after serving prison time for hacking the e-mail of a former aide to British Prime Minister Tony Blair and publishing Blair’s personal information online. Adopting the name of Abu Hussain Al Britani, he repeatedly called for young, computer-literate Muslims to come to Syria and Iraq to join ISIS.
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France to Refund Russia €1 Billion for Mistral Warships
France says the cost of the cancellation of the sale of two Mistral-class warships to Russia is below 1 billion euros ($1.1 billion). French government spokesman Stephane le Foll said Wednesday that the amount includes refunding all the advances paid by Russia. He said he wouldn’t give the exact figure because parliament needs to be formally informed first.
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Ukraine Clashes Kill Eight, Hurting Push for New Truce
Ukraine and pro-Russian rebels on Thursday reported the death of eight people in fresh clashes that endanger nascent talks on a new truce agreement for the war-torn separatist east.
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Col Richard Kemp: Turning Our Back on Afghanistan Could Trigger Another 9/11
Another 9/11 attack could come from terrorists in Afghanistan if Western forces stop helping the country’s police keep the peace, Britain’s former commander in the region has warned.
Col Richard Kemp, who headed up the UK’s military involvement in Afghanistan in 2003, said there was a “big danger” the country could once again become a “safe haven for terrorism”.
He warned that the Taliban want to regain control of Afghanistan and said there was a risk Isil could also increase their influence in the region.
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Everest: Sherpas to Repair Dangerous Khumbu Icefall Route
A team of specialised Nepalese Sherpa mountaineers have begun work to repair the climbing route on Mount Everest four months after it was destroyed by a devastating earthquake.
In April, 18 mountaineers and support staff were killed when the earthquake triggered an avalanche which swept through Everest base camp.
The team, known as the Icefall Doctors, have begun surveying the mountain.
They plan to fix ropes through the Khumbu Icefall in the next few days.
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Indian Army Deployed to Patrol Modi’s Home State Amid Caste Violence
Soldiers of the Indian army have been deployed in Gujarat after several people died in caste-related violence. Clashes spread after an influential traders’ community demanded preferential treatment for government jobs.
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India’s Prime Minister Endorses Call for Britain to Pay Reparations for Colonial Rule
India’s prime minister has praised an opposition MP who made an impassioned appeal for Britain to pay reparations for 200 years of colonial rule.
Narendra Modi said Shashi Tharoor’s speech at the Oxford Union, which was posted online last week, “reflected the feelings of patriotic Indians” and that he said “the right things at the right place”.
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Report: Pakistan’s Nuclear Arsenal Could Become the World’s Third-Biggest
A new report by two American think tanks asserts that Pakistan may be building 20 nuclear warheads annually and could have the world’s third-largest nuclear stockpile within a decade.
The report by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the Stimson Center concludes that Pakistan is rapidly expanding its nuclear capabilities because of fear of its archrival, India, also a nuclear power. The report, which will be released Thursday, says Pakistan is far outpacing India in the development of nuclear warheads.
Analysts estimate that Pakistan has about 120 nuclear warheads, while India has about 100.
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US Airstrikes Hit Southern Afghan District Seized by Taliban, Possible Casualties
U.S. forces have launched airstrikes on a district in southern Afghanistan seized by the Taliban the day before.
Afghan army Brig. Gen. Mohammad Rasool Zaizai says NATO and Afghan warplanes struck the army and police headquarters in the Musa Qala district in Helmand province Thursday, likely killing fighters and civilians.
He says it is not possible to confirm casualty figures because insurgents control the area.
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Tianjin Explosion: Chinese Prosecutors Investigating ‘Dereliction of Duty’ By Company Officials
Twelve people have been arrested over the explosion which killed 139 people in north-eastern China two weeks ago, state media reported.
Those held include the chairman, Yu Xuewei, and his senior managers of Ruihai International Logistics company at the centre of the country’s worst chemical explosion in years.
In the days following the explosion in the north-eastern port city of Tianjin, Chinese president Xi Jinping promised that those responsible would be brought to justice, adding that the country’s work safety sector must be reformed in the wake of the disaster.
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The Sydney Schools Becoming Anglo Ghettos
Some of Sydney’s most prestigious private schools have become Anglo-Australian ghettos as the education of high school students across the city is increasingly segregated along ethnic lines.
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Dozens Killed as Al-Shabab Militants Ambush Somali Government Convoy
Dozens have been killed in southern Somalia after al-Shabab gunmen ambushed an army convoy, officials and local elders said. The al Qaeda-allied group frequently launches attacks on officials in the country.
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Chilean Students Hold Protests Complaining About Delays in Promised Education Overhaul
Thousands of students are marching in the streets of the Chilean capital to complain about delays in an education overhaul.
Thursday’s protests were mostly peaceful. Students waved flags, chanted slogans and danced in the streets to the beats of drums asking President Michelle Bachelet to fulfill her campaign promise of free education.
But the marches ended with clashes between police and hooded vandals who often infiltrate the protests.
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Venezuela’s Food Shortages Trigger Long Lines, Hunger and Looting
Hours after they looted and set fire to a National Guard command post in this sun-baked corner of Venezuela earlier this month, a mob infuriated by worsening food shortages rammed trucks into the smoldering edifice, reducing it mostly to rubble.
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Austria: Kurz Threatens Tighter Border Controls
Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz has threatened to introduce stricter border controls in Austria if a European solution cannot be found for the asylum crisis.
Speaking to the ORF Wednesday evening, Kurz warned that if no solution was found Austria would introduce processes to quickly decide if a refugee had been waved through another European country before arriving in Austria.
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Donald Trump Gets Earful in Spanish as Latino Outlets Air Disdain
Ricardo Sánchez, known as “El Mandril” on his Spanish drive-time radio show in Los Angeles, has taken to calling Donald J. Trump “El hombre del peluquín” — the man of the toupee.
Some of Mr. Sánchez’s listeners are less kind, referring to Mr. Trump, who has dismissed some Mexican immigrants as “rapists” and criminals, simply as “Hitler.”
Mr. Sánchez says that he tries to focus on the positive in presidential politics, but he, too, at times has used harsh language to describe Mr. Trump, according to translations of his show provided by his executive producer.
“A president like Trump would be like giving a loaded gun to a monkey,” Mr. Sanchez said in one broadcast. “But a gun that fires atomic bullets.”
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Dutch Coalition Parties at Odds Over Refugees
Labour leader Diederik Samsom wrote in a Dutch newspaper article Thursday he wants an end to the Dublin regulation, the current EU rules on asylum applications. But his coalition party, Mark Rutte’s Liberals, want to keep the rules, which say that the country of arrival should process asylum seekers.
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Eight Million Migrants Live in UK: Calls for Britain to Quit EU to Halt Soaring Migration
Oxford University experts predict that the figures will confirm the population landmark has been reached, with one in eight UK residents born abroad.
The Office for National Statistics bulletin is also likely to show net migration is at a record high. It follows years of migrants flooding in because of Labour’s open-door border policy, which the last coalition government failed to stem.
The shock figures do not include numbers for illegal immigrants.
Ukip blamed the EU freedom of movement rules for Britain’s soaring foreign population.
The party’s migration spokesman Steven Woolfe said: “These numbers show the impact of uncontrolled EU migration on our country.
“On top of this visible, legal population growth, we have the explosion of undocumented illegal immigrants.
“How the authorities can plan the future of Britain’s public services with population growth on this scale is never explained.
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EU-Bound Migrants in Serbia Risk Winter Exposure
Serbia’s inability to house asylum seekers in the upcoming winter months is causing concern as Hungary scrambles to complete its 175km razor-wire fence on the shared border.
Up to three thousand asylum seekers, many coming from war-torn Syria, are expected to transit through the Western Balkans on a daily basis up until November.
Vladimir Petronijevic, executive director at the Belgrade-based migration centre Grupa 484, told this website on Wednesday (26 August) the situation risks becoming dramatic.
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Finland: Online Opposition to New Reception Centres “Systematic”
New immigrant reception centres to be built in Finland are facing strong and organised opposition, especially on social media. One researcher says that these apparently spontaneous reactions are in fact part of a phenomenon of testing the limits of public discussion on immigration policy.
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France Prepares for Mass Unrest, Radicalized Immigrants Taking Over Cities
French security forces are preparing for mass civil unrest and radicalized immigrants taking over entire neighborhoods, according to intelligence sources.
The Army is making contingency plans for the “reappropriation of national territory,” winning back areas of cities, in the event of immigrant populations obtaining weapons and becoming openly hostile to authorities.
“There are a lot of alienated and angry fourth-generation immigrant kids in the suburbs and the prospect of radicalisation is increasingly likely,” the intelligence source told the Telegraph, adding that highly organized networks of Islamist militants have smuggled Kalashnikov automatic rifles and anti-tank missiles into the country. The weapons were sourced in Libya after the French government armed jihadist rebels during the overthrow of Colonel Gaddafi.
The missiles could be used to bring down airliners, said the source, adding that pilots have not been trained on how to take evasive action.
Last week, a radicalized jihadist attempted to carry out a massacre on a high speed train from Amsterdam to Paris but was thwarted by the brave actions of three Americans and one Brit who overpowered the terrorist.
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Freed Asylum-Seekers in Israel Scramble for New Homes
They are finally free. After a lengthy battle in the courts, 1,200 Sudanese and Eritrean asylum-seekers that spent more than a year locked up in a detention centre have been released. But there is a big caveat: on their release permits, it is written that they are banned from going to Tel Aviv or Eilat, which are the two cities where most of them lived and worked before their imprisonment.
In the span of a decade, about 50,000 African asylum-seekers entered Israel, fleeing multiple conflicts in Sudan and large-scale human rights abuses in Eritrea, notably lifelong military service and forced labour. They were given temporary visas that did not allow them to work; however, most of them did, mainly as hotel cleaners and construction workers.
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Greece Offers ‘War Relief’ To Greek-Origin Ukrainians
Greece has said it would give special treatment to Greek-origin Ukrainians on the front line who want to resettle in the EU.
Its foreign ministry told EUobserver on Tuesday (25 August), that the 90,000 or so Greek-origin people who live in the Mariupol region in Ukraine would be treated as “returnees” instead of ordinary refugees or asylum seekers.
“Greek Ukranians (not possessing Greek citizenship) who would choose to resettle to Greece would get a special status — as was the case with people of Greek origin emigrating to Greece after the split-up of the former Soviet Union”, Anastasia Christofilopoulou, a Greek spokeswoman, said.
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Hoteliers Who Host Refugees ‘In Wrong Job’ Says Salvini
‘Concept of hospitality being destroyed’ says Northern Leaguer
(ANSA) — Sondrio, August 27 — The leader of the anti-immigrant, anti-euro Northern League party said Thursday hotel owners who host refugees are in the wrong line of work.
“What is happening in Italy is the destruction of the concept of hospitality,” Matteo Salvini said.
“If you need illegal immigrants to fill your hotel, you should change jobs”.
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Hungary Braces for Thousands More Refugees as Record Numbers Cross the Border With Serbia
Footsore, exhausted and sweating under a hot August sun, they tramped down the railway line in an almost unbroken column.
Some were hobbling on crutches, suffering from gunshot wounds that they said were inflicted by Syrian regime soldiers, while many carried babies in their arms and whimpering toddlers on their shoulders.
More than 3,000 refugees and migrants poured into the European Union on Thursday across Hungary’s border with Serbia.
On Wednesday, Hungarian police detained more than 3,200 refugees — the highest number in a single day.
Officials said they expected even those unprecedented numbers to swell further in coming days.
“A week ago we were receiving 1,500 people a day. Since then it has doubled. Next week? Who knows, but we are expecting more,” Brigitta Safar, of the Hungarian Red Cross, told The Telegraph as green army tents were erected in a makeshift camp close to the border in anticipation of the expected influx.
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Italians Help Fuel Surge in UK Immigration
Despite signs of improvement in the Italian economy, a growing number of young nationals are among the surge of immigrants settling in the UK this year.
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Italy: Migrant Phenomena ‘Set to Last 10-15 Years’ Gentiloni Says
Challenge requires European solidarity, collaboration
(ANSA) — Milan, August 27 — Europe will have to deal with migration issues for the next 10 to 15 years using “solidarity and collaboration” instead of “hiding the problem,” Italian Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni said Thursday.
“You can’t respond to the migratory phenomena by hiding the problem, closing yourself inside national frontiers or building walls, but for the next 10 to 15 years we will have to take this phenomenon into account with solidarity and in a collaborative way at the European level,” Gentiloni told a debate on populism and xenophobia at the national Unità festival.
Gentiloni said the climate at the EU level on immigration had changed positively after an EU summit held at Vienna Thursday even if the death of a number of migrants in a lorry in Austria recalled “the dramatic dimension of what is happening,” indicating the need for “a European effort”.
“As far as Italy is concerned we have done what was possible and to who says we should do more I say that certainly we ought to do more but we are proud that Italy has contributed to saving tens of thousands of human lives,” Gentiloni said, “and this allows us to go with head held high in international forums”.
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Jorge Ramos: “Trump Offers Horror, A White Utopia Without Migrants”
Journalist Jorge Ramos is one of the leading figures in United States journalism, especially in the Hispanic community. Millions tune in each day to watch his influential news program on Spanish-language channel Univision.
Born in Mexico, 57-year-old Ramos has suddenly become the star of the US presidential campaign after being thrown out of a press conference by Donald Trump, the frontrunner for the Republican Party’s nomination and the man who has been attracting the most headlines and airtime in the race for the White House.
The business magnate-turned-politician’s controversial immigration policies — which include deporting the country’s estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants, building a huge wall along the border with Mexico, and denying citizenship rights to children born in the US to illegal migrants — has opened a fiery debate that has dragged several Republican candidates to extreme positions and put the Latino community on alert.
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Macedonia to Face Thousands of EU-Bound Migrants
Up to 3,000 migrants are expected to cross into Macedonia on a daily basis throughout the next several months, as the European Commission eyes court action against over a dozen member states for violating asylum rules.
The projected migrant figure, announced Tuesday (25 August) by the office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), also comes amid demands by Hungary for the European Commission to dole out more border funds.
UNHCR spokeswoman Melissa Fleming said large groups of people are arriving in Macedonia and then traveling to Serbia by train or bus.
“We are anticipating that this influx and this route is going to continue at the rate of up to 3,000 people per day”, she said.
The agency said around 10,000 people crossed into the Western Balkan country last weekend, many of them women and children.
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Migration to UK Hits Record High, 330,000 Last Year
Italians up 37% to 57,600
(ANSA) — London, August 27 — The latest official figures collected by the British Office for National Statics (ONS) show that migration to Great Britain has never been higher. Three hundred and thirty thousand people moved to the UK last year, 94,000 thousand more than the previous year, 56,000 thousand of them being EU nationals. The number of Italian migrants has reached 57,600, marking a 37% increase with respect to previous statistics.
Against these numbers, efforts by the government of British Prime Minister David Cameron to reduce net migration to “tens of thousands a year” only, hardly appear realistic. “This data is very disappointing”, commented Immigration and Security Minister James Brokenshire.
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Migrant Tragedy Leaves Dozens Dead in Austria
Dozens of migrants have been found dead inside a truck on a highway in Austria, police said on Thursday.
The vehicle, which contained between 20 and 50 bodies, was found on a parking strip off the highway in Burgenland state, police spokesman Hans Peter Doskozil said at a press conference with Interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner.
“Today is a dark day… This tragedy affects us all deeply,” Mikl-Leitner said.
“Human traffickers are criminals. Anyone still thinking that they’re kind helpers cannot be helped.”
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Migrant Crisis: Austrian Police Work to Recover Bodies From Lorry
Forensic teams are working through the night to establish how many people died inside a lorry found abandoned on a motorway near the Hungarian border, Austrian police say.
Police estimate 20-50 people, almost certainly migrants, were in the lorry.
The victims were probably already dead when the vehicle crossed into Austria, authorities said.
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Obama Tells Merkel He Appreciates Her Leadership on Migrant Crisis
US President Barack Obama spoke by phone with German Chancellor Angela Merkel about the recent refugee crisis and said he appreciates her recent decision to ease the asylum application procedure for Syrians.
In a phone call with German Chancellor Angela Merkel late on Wednesday, Barack Obama voiced appreciation for her leadership in dealing with refugees fleeing to Europe, the White House said in a statement.
Germany, which is preparing to receive a record 800,000 asylum applications this year, has eased the asylum application procedure for Syrians fleeing the country’s brutal civil war — a decision especially praised by the US president.
The surge in migrants seeking refuge from conflict or poverty in the Middle East, Africa and Asia has confronted Europe with its highest refugee numbers since World War II.
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Poland Fears Mass Exodus of Ukraine Refugees
The EU should factor in a potential mass-exodus of Ukrainians to Poland in its migration policy, Polish president Andrzej Duda has said.
Speaking to German tabloid Bild, on the eve of his first state visit to Berlin on Friday (28 August), he noted that: “Poland, as an EU member, wants to show solidarity, but in terms of refugees, we have a special problem because of the conflict in Ukraine”.
“When the conflict escalates again, a lot more people will come to us. From the signals we’re already getting, several hundred thousand Ukrainians want to escape to us. Other European countries should take this into account when we talk about readiness to offer help”.
With Germany expecting 800,000 asylum applications this year, by far the highest number of any EU state, Duda added: “We understand this problem’s very important to German people”.
He said Polish society is ready to welcome refugees, because Poles have a history of receiving help from abroad.
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President Closes Border, Orders 1,000 Illegal Aliens Deported… in Venezuela
(CNSNews.com) — Venezuela’s Socialist president vowed to continue his crackdown on illegal aliens after closing a major border crossing with neighboring Colombia last week and ordering the deportation of 1,000 Colombians living illegally in his country.
The crackdown was triggered by the recent shooting of three Venezuelan soldiers who were searching for smugglers in the state of Tachira, which is located near Venezuela’s 1,400-mile border with Colombia.
“Venezuela won’t tolerate this anymore,” President Nicolas Maduro said during a two-hour press conference on Monday, according to the Associated Press.
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Refugees Face Death Threats at Italian Hotel
Italian police are investigating claims that dozens of immigrants have received death threats in a xenophobic letter sent to the hotel which is hosting them in Lombardy’s Valtellina valley.
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Report: Every Deported Illegal Household Saves Taxpayers More Than $700,000
Advocates for mass-migration are using skewed financial claims to smear Donald Trump’s popular border proposals, which actually would help revive the near-bankrupt Social Security and Medicare programs.
For every illegal migrant household that leaves the United States under Trump’s plan, Americans would recoup nearly three-quarters of a million dollars ($719,350), according to 2010 data collected by Heritage scholar Robert Rector.
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Rx for Prosperity: German Companies See Refugees as Opportunity
The German business community views the recent influx of refugees as an opportunity to help companies grow and ensure long-term prosperity. Many are calling for bureaucratic red tape to be lifted so that new arrivals can enter the labor market faster.
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Senegal Migrant Town Tambacounda Mourns Its Lost Sons
People in one of Senegal’s poorest areas are in mourning after dozens of their loved ones lost their lives in shipwrecks off the Libyan coast as they tried to make the treacherous journey to Europe. The BBC’s Laeila Adjovi visited them.
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Swedes Take 600 Rescued Migrants to Dock in Italy
A Swedish coastguard ship carrying more than 600 migrants plucked from boats drifting off Libya’s coast was to dock in Palermo late on Thursday, Swedish officials said. But 52 of those on board are understood to be dead.
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Sweden: Influx of Child Migrants Causes Severe Shortage of Interpreters
The recent influx of unaccompanied migrant children to Sweden has caused a nation-wide shortage of interpreters and several Swedish authorities are worried that it could have serious consequences, newspaper Svenska Dagbladet reports.
According to the paper, there are reports of newly arrived children who have had to cancel or postpone medical check-ups because there were no interpreters available and the Swedish Migration Agency says that the shortage could mean even longer waiting times before the children get their decision.
“We rely on interpreters for our initial meetings with these children and we sometimes have to reschedule because there are no interpreters available,” says Johanna Uhr, press spokeswoman with the Migration Agency.
Ola Karlsson Rühmkorff at the National Board of Institutional Care says the situation is ‘critical’.
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Syrians Cross Norway’s Arctic Border on Bicyles
More than 100 Syrian refugees have crossed the Arctic border from Norway to Russia on bicycles, exploiting a loophole in the country’s border regulations.
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The Very Real Economic Costs of Birthright Citizenship
by Ian Tuttle
In 2012 Chinese state media reported 10,000 “tourist births” by Chinese couples in the United States; other estimates skew as high as 60,000. Following Donald Trump’s call for an end to birthright citizenship, and renewed attention on “anchor babies,” Carlson’s exposé on “birth tourism” seems to confirm that the current interpretation of the 14th Amendment works as a magnet for at least some parents across the globe. But just how big a magnet is it?
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UK Net Immigration Soars to Record High Leaving David Cameron’s Pledge in Tatters
In the 12 months to March, 330,000 more people arrived in the UK than left — smashing the previous record of 320,000 at the height of the Eastern European immigration boom under Tony Blair.
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Up to 50 Migrants Found Dead in Abandoned Truck in Austria, Report Says
Police on Thursday discovered the partially decomposed bodies of at least 50 migrants piled up in a truck parked on the shoulder of an Austrian highway leading from the Hungarian border, Austrian officials say.
The state of the bodies made establishing the identity and exact number of dead migrants difficult, but the total number could rise to 50, said Hans Peter Doskozil, the chief of the Burgenland police. Doskozil said the truck had Hungarian license plates.
He said the truck was apparently abandoned Wednesday and its back door was left open, exposing the bodies to police.
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Xenophobic Violence ‘Shames’ Germany
Several hundred people from the small town of Nauen, in north-east Germany, marched in protest on Tuesday (25 August) with signs which said “refugees welcome”, after a gym, supposed to house 100 migrants next month, was burnt down on Monday.
Between 300 and 500 protesters sent the message of solidarity.
But recent reports from the EU’s biggest member state send out different messages.
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ECtHR Rejects Parrillo Embryo Appeal
Italy law ‘doesn’t violate her rights to privacy, property’
(ANSA) — Strasbourg, August 27 — The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on Thursday turned down an appeal by Adelina Parrillo, an Italian woman who wants to donate her frozen embryos to science, ruling that Italy’s 2004 law banning the destruction of human embryos does not violate her right to privacy or property. In 2002, Parrillo and late life partner Stefano Rolla created five embryos and had them frozen for future implantation.
Rolla, a film director, died the following year at the age of 66 in a suicide bombing attack on Italian military police headquarters in Nasiriyah, Iraq, that took the lives of 19 Carabinieri policemen, four Army soldiers and two civilians.
In her appeal filed on July 26, 2011, Parrillo argued that Italy’s restrictive law on assisted reproduction — which banned most assisted fertility techniques including the use of anonymous donor gametes and the freezing of embryos for future use — violated her rights to privacy and to private property because the embryos were generated before the law went into effect.
This was the only reason she and her deceased partner had been able to freeze them instead of having them implanted immediately, she argued.
“Human embryos can’t be reduced to a piece of property, as defined in…the European Convention on Human Rights,” the court wrote.
The judges also found there was no evidence to support Parrillo’s claim that her late partner had wanted the couple’s embryos donated to science. Italy’s controversial 2004 law on assisted reproduction was effectively struck down last June when the supreme Court of Cassation lifted a ban on the use of extramarital gametes for assisted fertilization.
In April the Constitutional Court had ruled that a couple’s right to have a child was inviolable even in the case of sterility, overruling a 2004 ban on donor sperm and eggs that did not come from a spouse.
The hot-button case of assisted fertility had pitted Catholics against members of the scientific community who had called for a wider review of the law, which among other measures banned the screening of embryos for abnormalities or genetic disorders — even for couples with a family history of genetic disease.
The ECtHR in 2012 had already rejected most of the law, saying it went against several provisions in its convention for the protection of human rights.
Under the law — which was originally passed by a cross-party alliance of Catholics — single parents, same-sex couples and women beyond child-bearing age were essentially banned from using assisted-fertility techniques that were available to married heterosexual couples.
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Op-Ed: Only Israel, Not the West, Grants Civilization Hope of Survival
By Giulio Meotti
“All forms of collective violence have a religious dimension” Roger Scruton, the most influential English philosopher, professor at St. Andrews University, a fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Society of Literature tells me in our conversation. “Christians are vulnerable and ISIS will go on with their decimation and will not stop until the West militarily attacks the Islamic State. The West is in retreat from the world, has lost all the spiritual and cultural values on which Europe was founded. Otherwise, facing these reports of Christians killed and churches destroyed, the West would immediately intervene against ISIS. But it will be punished, even by its own European multiculturalism”…
A few hours after this conversation, a Muslim tried to kill a good many Westerners on a train travelling from Amsterdam to Paris.
According with Scruton, the fault lies in the culture of repudiation. “The Christians of the East are the scapegoat of our weakness in this existential moment. There is a deep sense of guilt, but also the elimination of war from our public and political imagination. Muslims, instead, want to fight for something and are eliminating in their passage entire cities, cultures, innocent people. Feminists and those who have defended the ‘minorities’ are silent on the return of the sexual slavery for Yazidi girls. The fate of Christians in the Middle East is important for us Westerners. We must not turn our backs on these communities since their fate, in the long run, it will also be our destiny”…
But the West is letting Islamic forces destroy people and civilizations. Who in the West would be capable of the sacrifice of Khaled Asaad, the archaeologist of Unesco’s jewel, Palmyra, beheaded by ISIS for refusing to tell them where he had hidden its treasures?
Barack Obama only cares about LGBT causes and is closing his eyes and big mouth on the killing of Christians and other minorities (he has already abandoned the Israeli Jews under the Iranian atomic umbrella). Europe is living as if it is the last generation there ever will be, inspired only by hedonism, science and a horrible cult of the present…
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Summer Reading List With Gay Theme Stokes Controversy at Elite University
A gay and lesbian-themed graphic novel on an elite university reading list for some incoming college freshmen is generating pushback among Christian students who feel the material is “pornographic.”
“Fun Home,” a best-selling story that features a girl coming out as a lesbian and discovering her father was gay, is among several books selected by Duke University “to give incoming students a shared intellectual experience with other members of their class.”
Instead, the racy reading material — which is recommended, but not required — seems to have stirred up controversy.
[Comment: Right out of the homosexual agenda playbook by Madison(?); “culture jamming” — constantly promote the agenda in all media forms. ]
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Sweden: Stockholm Schools to Teach LGBT Lessons
Sweden’s famously gender equal capital is now planning to spend millions of kronor on lessons to teach ‘LGBT-awareness’ to schoolchildren.
The city of Stockholm has announced that it has earmarked eight million kronor ($950,000) to fund the special lessons in primary and high schools in a move to promote and broaden the acceptance of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender pupils.
“LGBT students are subject to more violence and threats (than other students) and they suffer more from health problems so it’s important that we deal with these issues at school,” Gita Nabavi, a spokeswoman for Sweden’s feminist party Feministiskt Initiativ which has led the initiative, told public broadcaster SVT.
The programme, which is part of push to increase the awareness of human rights, is due to start in 2016.
“This is long-term work and that’s why it is important to work strategically with these questions and that we include them in our day-to-day work,” Navabi said.
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Teaching Ourselves to Kill Our Culture
What would you think of handing your 14-year-old a novel described as “The Silence of the Lambs” for children?
“I Hunt Killers,” packaged and pitched as Young Adult fiction, is the tale of the teenage son of a serial murderer, trained by his old man to become an even more prolific killer. Reviewers exult in this book as a gore-fest spiced with warped comedy. Not too long ago, amazon.com offered it as a “Kids’ Daily Deal”—not that everybody writing Customer Reviews thought that was a good idea. But it does suggest that the book is very popular.
For the adults—well, people who are supposed to be adults—there’s a new movie out, “The Diary of a Teenage Girl,” about a sexual affair between a 15-year-old girl and a 35-year-old man. I believe this used to be known as statutory rape. Besides which, the guy is the girl’s mother’s boyfriend. Barf bag, please.
It’s a fact that our public schools and universities work tirelessly to pry students away from Christianity. Our education system purposely teaches “values” like “gender fluidity,” homosexual acting-out, abortion, and atheism.
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Facebook Celebrates One Billion Users in Single Day
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) — Facebook boasted of a new benchmark on Thursday in its seemingly inexorable march to Internet ubiquity: a billion people used the social network in a single day. “We just passed an important milestone,” chief executive and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg declared in a post on his Facebook page.
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The World’s 8 Newest Countries Are in a Disaster
Six of the eight countries that didn’t exist before 1993 have per capita GDP lower than the world’s $15,048 as calculated by the World Bank. In South Sudan, GDP per capita adjusted for relative purchasing power has fallen 23 percent since 2011. In neighboring Sudan, GDP per capita in the same period rose 17 percent.
The Czech Republic and Slovakia are the exceptions partly because of the advantages they derived by joining the European Union following the dissolution of Czechoslovakia. Serbia, which is also trying to gain membership, may enjoy the same benefit too, one day.
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‘Hillary Clinton views Republicans same as “terrorist groups” on womens’ issues…’
Not bad, considering she belongs to the party dragging millions of woman-hating muslims into America! And people are buying this?
Yet another case of the inversion of the truth.
>> This data [on large-scale immigration to the U.K.] is very disappointing”, commented Immigration and Security Minister James Brokenshire. <<
That's it, I guess. A comment from the minister and followed by a resounding silence on WHAT . . . TO . . .DOOOOOO about it!
How do these weaklings and traitors live with themselves?
“Migration for the benefit of all”
There is an organisation called International Organization for Migration, established in 1951, already. Looking at what is going on in the …field of migration today, this seems like something to take a closer look at.
“Promoting migration”…!
“International Organization for Migration – Wiki…..
It is the principal intergovernmental organization in the field of migration. IOM is dedicated to promoting humane and orderly migration for the benefit of all.”
This looks like nothing but part of a planned continuous invasion and occupation of developed countries, first and foremost, Europe.
Did anyone here already know this organisation?