Police at Brussels Airport say that at least fifty supporters of ISIS have jobs at the airport, despite background checks that are intended to keep extremists out. The police are threatening to go on strike if more is not done to deal with such security problems.
In other news, an Illinois man shot and killed a state trooper at the bus station in Richmond, Virginia, before being shot and killed by other troopers. No motive has yet been adduced for the perp’s murderous actions.
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93,482,000 Americans Out of Labor Force in March
The number of Americans not participating in the workforce in March dipped again compared to the previous month but was still higher than it was a year ago, according to Labor Department data released Friday.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that 93,482,000 Americans were neither employed nor had made an effort to find employment in March.
March’s non-participation level continues a multi-month trend of decline after the number of people out of the workforce hit a record high of 94,610,000 in October — declining another 206,000 compared to February.
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One-Third of All Americans Don’t Make Enough Money to Even Cover the Basic Necessities
Do you remember the days when it seemed like almost everyone in America was middle class? Unfortunately, those days are long gone and the grinding down of the middle class in the United States appears to be accelerating. According to a brand new study that was just released by Pew Charitable Trusts, household spending increased by 14 percent between 2004 and 2014, but median household income decreased by 13 percent during that same time period. Both of those figures were adjusted for inflation. What this means is that the cost of living has steadily gone up, but our incomes have gone down. In fact, as you will see below approximately one-third of all Americans don’ t even make enough money to pay for the basic necessities at this point. The middle class is being squeezed like never before, and very few of our leaders seem to care.
It isn’ t because we are buying a lot of luxuries that our expenses are going up. According to Pew, U.S. families are now spending a larger percentage of their budgets on the basics such as housing, food, health care and transportation than they were a decade ago. In fact, it has gotten to the point where approximately one-third of all Americans don’ t bring home enough money to cover the core necessities. The following comes from Zero Hedge…
[Comment: Destruction of the middle class is a goal of communism. Tyranny cannot be imosed until the middle class is destroyed and the people are unarmed.]
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[…] the gun controls pushed in one state are often simply a recycled version of gun controls that are failing in another. The same thing can be said of federal gun control efforts, where the gun control specifics pushed by Representatives, Senators, and President Obama are often demonstrable failures before they are fully introduced.
Here are five of the worst gun control proposals regularly recycled and put forward at the state and/or federal level: …
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Bill Could Make ‘Burner’ Phones Illegal in the U.S.
Congresswoman Jackie Spier proposed a bill that will force everyone to register their personal ID before buying a cellphone, effectively banning ‘burner’ phones.
A ‘burner’ is a pre-paid phone which can be bought anonymously and disposed of once used up.
Spier argues that the measure would “close one of the most significant gaps in our ability to track and prevent acts of terror, drug trafficking, and modern-day slavery.”
She claims that the ‘burner phone’ is a loophole in the country’s legal framework which allows terrorists to communicate, and that they were successfully used by terrorists such as the 9/11 hijackers, the Times Square bomber, and the Paris attackers.
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Confirmed: Cruz Camp Stealing Trump Delegates From States Trump Won (Video)
The Ted Cruz campaign is running Cruz supporters as Trump delegates in states that Trump won. That way they can steal the nomination from Trump in Cleveland although they’ve only won a fraction of the states Trump has won.
Guy Benson: This has been percolating for several months. He has a very sharp legal team that know the rules inside and out in a way the Trump campaign clearly does not. It’s not just Louisiana. And it’s not just finagling to just get Rubio delegates or unbound delegates. What they’re also doing is getting people elected as Trump delegates who are not, in fact, Trump loyalists. So they would be bound to Donald Trump on the first ballot only. After which, although they are technically Trump delegates, they’ve been sort of put in place to jump.
And these are the same people who call Trump supporters ‘morons’ one day and beg them to support Ted Cruz the next.
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Cory Lewandowski Set up by a Professional Man Hating Scammer
Corey Lewandowski is Donald Trump’s campaign manager. He was charged with misdemeanor battery after allegations of forcefully grabbing a reporter at a Jupiter news conference. Following a March 8, conference at Trump National Golf Club, Michelle Fields, a 28-year-old reporter formerly with Breitbart News Network, said she was grabbed on the arm by Lewandowski, 41, after she asked Trump a question about affirmative action.
Fields, who Tweeted photos of bruises on her arm she said resulted from the battery, resigned Breitbart less than a week after the incident. She cited Breitbart’s refusal to stand behind her amid the allegations as her reason for leaving.
Lewandowski replied to Fields’ Tweet, writing: “You are totally delusional. I never touched you. As a matter of fact, I have never even met you.”
Ben Shapiro, former Breitbart editor-at-large, also resigned, claiming in a prepared statement that the conservative news outlet, seen largely as supportive of Trump’s presidential bid, “abandoned” Fields “in order to protect Trump’s bully campaign manager.”
Several other employees followed suit in the following weeks and resigned, according to multiple reports.
So, you’ve got Cruz supporters, Ben Shapiro and Fields both resigning from Breitbart, but what they aren’t telling you is that Breitbart is owned and funded by Robert Mercer, and Mercer is the main donor behind four of Cruz’s Super Pac’s, who raised a total of $31 million. Makes you wonder if Fields’ allegations were true or not since Breitbart wouldn’t back them up. Shapiro is a Cruz bot and I’d imagine Fields is as well.
I really have to wonder what she got paid to bring assault charges against Corey, as I definitely believe someone hired her to do what she did. Twice she touched Donald Trump, and the Secret Service who were several steps behind him told her to stop. Corey Lewandowski was there and moved her away. She had a pen in her hand which is not surprising for a reporter, however, it can be seen as a weapon. This woman has a history of complaining about her treatment by those she’s trying to interview or ask questions.
Here is the actual video showing that she was not thrown to the ground, that she didn’t lose her balance, that Corey actually just gently moved her away from Mr. Trump.
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John Bolton: ‘I Don’t Want to See Anybody Else Get Nuclear Weapons’ — Even Our Allies
With talk of nuclear proliferation heating up within the Republican presidential primary, Former UN Ambassador and AEI scholar John Bolton made his position very clear to Breitbart News Daily host Stephen K. Bannon: “In terms of letting other countries get nuclear weapons, I have a very clear view and that is, I don’t want to see anybody else get nuclear weapons, whether they’re friends of ours, or not.”
As for nuclear weapons, their deployment and command and control, Bolton also expressed strong feelings, saying, “The reason people are even talking about countries like South Korea or Japan getting nuclear weapons is because they think under Obama, our nuclear umbrella is disappearing and that, if we’re not going to provide that deterrent capability, they need to provide it for themselves. The strongest argument against other countries getting weapons is, we’re going to take care of that. Underneath that umbrella, countries like Japan and South Korea do have an obligation, I think, to do more than they’re doing now. Obama doesn’t push them, or encourage them to do that because he doesn’t care about our national security, or that of our allies, either.”
As for command and control, Bolton stated: “With the issue of tactical nuclear weapons that we possess, I think this is still got to be a decision by the President himself, and it’s a last ditch response. … Since the end of World War II, we have withheld the use of any kind of nuclear weapons, relying on it for its deterrent power, than actually using it. And certainly, if you’re in some context like the War on Terrorism, it’s difficult if not impossible for me, frankly, to see when we would need to use them. I don’t rule it out because I don’t think a President should rule anything out given the circumstances. But in terms of the prudential decision whether or not to use … I think it should be extraordinarily rare and only at the President’s own decision. I don’t favor having lower level commanders having the discretion, at least in present circumstances, to do that.”
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Ned Ryun: GOP Establishment Has a Plan to Take the Nomination Away From Trump and Cruz
Ned Ryun, CEO of grassroots conservative organization American Majority, tells Breitbart News Daily he thinks the Establishment has a plan to keep the GOP nomination away from both Donald Trump and Senator Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX).
Just days before a crucial primary in Wisconsin, Cruz is leading that swing state according to most polls. Ryun agreed with that consensus, handicapping the race at 36 delegates for Cruz to 6 for Trump. Such an outcome would bring the race one step closer to a brokered convention… at which the Republican Establishment may very well attempt to steal the nomination from both Trump and Cruz, giving it to an Establishment pick who never competed in a single state primary.
“The thing that does trouble me, with everything that’s taking place right now, is Trump and Cruz are literally tearing each other apart, and the Establishment’s just sitting there,” said Ryun. “Quite frankly, I think they’ve got a plan that if nobody has the magic number come convention, that they’re going to put in place a plan that makes sure the Establishment wins in the end.”
“Some of my sources have told me about meetings that have taken place in the last few weeks, that there are serious conversations and plans to work some things on the convention floor,” he added.
Given the machinations of that not-so-secret conspiracy, it might have made sense for the two outsider candidates to join forces against in an “anti-Establishment ticket,” which would certainly have more than enough combined delegates to take the nomination… but Ryun thought the possibility of an alliance had been taken off the table by “Trump and Cruz tearing each other apart in a real vicious way, the last couple of weeks.”
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‘Never Trump’ Supporter Advertises Trump Death Threat T-Shirts
Shirt inspired by rap video which promotes assassination of Trump
A supporter of the #NeverTrump movement advertised t-shirts for sale advocating the assassination of Donald Trump.
The shirts were emblazoned with the logo “We got a choppa in the trunk for Donald Trump,” words inspired by an amateur rap video entitled “F*ck Trump Anthem” which features black teens armed with weapons rapping about their hatred for the Republican frontrunner while making thinly veiled death threats.
Choppa is a slang word for an AK-47.
The shirts were being retailed by Venom Apparel, which is run by someone who goes by the Twitter handle ‘Curious George IV’. He tweeted out a link to the t-shirt under the hashtag #NeverTrump.
The listing was subsequently deleted although an image of the shirt still appears in a collection on the website entitled “Never Trump!”
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There appears to be something very odd happening at the edge of our solar system — and at least some scientists suggest that it is being caused by a huge, mysterious planet
New evidence strengthens the idea that there is a mysterious planet hiding at the far edge of our solar system.
Objects have been spotted moving around unusually at the edge of our solar system. And the best explanation for the strange orbits is the mysterious Planet Nine, according to one of the scientists who has argued that the hidden planet exists.
In January, a pair of scientists argued that they had found another planet, based on calculations using objects at the distant end of our solar system. By studying the orbit of six objects in the Kuiper Belt — a mysterious area thought to be filled of astroids and other icy objects — they argued that they were being affected by something large and previously unknown.
Now Mike Brown, who made those original claims, says that he has tracked another object in that Kuiper Belt that is also moving unusually. And its strange movement is exactly how what would be expected if Planet Nine is real, he claimed.
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Police ID Gunman at Virginia Bus Terminal as Illinois Man
RICHMOND, Va. — A 34-year-old Illinois man fatally shot a Virginia state trooper at a busy bus terminal before the gunman was killed by other troopers, authorities said Friday.
Virginia State Police spokeswoman Corinne Geller identified the shooter as James Brown III, of Aurora, Ill. Police did not give a motive for the shooting.
Brown shot Trooper Chad P. Dermyer, 37, multiple times Thursday in Richmond before he was killed by two other troopers, police said. Dermyer had been participating with about a dozen other troopers in a training exercise at the bus station when a brief encounter with the gunman quickly turned violent, police said.
Two women also were shot but were expected to recover. Their names haven’t been released, but spokesman Ryan Yarosh with Binghamton University in New York said Friday that one of the women was a member of the school’s track team. The team was headed Thursday to a meet at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, about 50 miles from Richmond.
Virginia State Police Superintendent Col. Steven Flaherty said Thursday that the gunman had a criminal record but did not elaborate.
Richmond Police Chief Alfred Durham said law enforcement officers have become the target of “folks out there with evil intentions.”
“It’s unfortunate these are the days we’re living in, where folks want to harm law enforcement,” Durham said. “We just want our officers to end their shifts and to go home to their families.”
Police say the slain trooper, the father of two children, was a native of Jackson, Michigan, and a former Marine who had served on the force in Jackson and Newport News, Virginia.
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Sarah Palin in Wisconsin to Stump With Trump as the Donald Makes Final Push
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who’s endorsed Donald Trump, is in Wisconsin campaigning for the GOP frontrunner.
Palin posted on Facebook, “Just touched down in the great state of Wisconsin to #Stump4Trump! Wisconsin’s middle class has been hurt by DC politicians’ out-of-touch policies worse than any other state — 100,000 jobs lost to Mexico and China thanks to trade deficits with countries that cheat on our ‘agreements.’“
Donald J. Trump has fought for American workers and against trade deficits for decades in the private sector, unlike his competitors who actually support Obama’s reckless TPP and TPA deals that are entirely unfair to the U.S. worker! As President he’ll bring manufacturing jobs back home; his interests are OUR interests, and his trade policies will finally put America first. Watch this clip of Donald Trump 20 years ago standing up for American workers! #jobs #jobs #jobs
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White House Warns of Nuclear Terrorist Attacks: The Four Ways They Could Strike…
Within hours of the Brussels attacks earlier this month we learned that rogue terrorists presumably operating under the banner of the Islamic State had set their sights on a high-value target so significant that it could have left hundreds of thousands of people dead.
According to investigators, the terrorists who carried out the attacks had been actively planning to take over and/or target a nuclear power plant. They went so far as to plant hidden cameras at the power plant director’s home so they could monitor his movements and even killed a security guard in the process.
The plan, which failed to come to fruition, called not just for suicide bombing several dozen civilians, but for turning Western Europe into radioactive wasteland for the next several thousand years.
The threat is most certainly real and senior officials from Europe to the United States are now warning of the potential for a large-scale nuclear attack:…
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Canadian Government Drops Murder Charges Against Mobsters to Hide Stingray Use
“This is a matter of prosecutorial discretion and I will not comment further”
Murder charges filed against six mobsters were dropped by the Canadian government Wednesday in order to keep details on cell phone surveillance technology concealed.
The prosecutors, who convinced the defendants to instead accept murder conspiracy charges as part of a plea deal, were able to use the decision to halt a separate hearing that could have exposed information on the Royal Canadian Mounted Police’s IMSI-Catcher.
IMSI-catchers or cell-site simulators, commonly referred to as “Stingrays,” are devices which mimic cell towers in order to track and capture data from cellular phones.
The case, which lasted over five years following the 2011 death of a New York man in Canada, utilized the technology to monitor the accused.
Speaking with The Globe, Quebec prosecutor Robert Rouleau declined to comment when asked about the decision to drop the first-degree murder charges.
“This is a matter of prosecutorial discretion and I will not comment further,” Rouleau said.
Investigation by The Globe also discovered that the Canadian government appeared to purposely rename the devices in order to keep them immune from disclosure.
“Crown prosecutors had taken to publicly calling the RCMP device a ‘mobile device identifier’ in an apparent bid to escape some of the criticisms surrounding devices more commonly known as ‘IMSI-catchers,’“ writes Colin Freeze.
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10,000 Millionaires Left France Last Year Amid Rising Racial Tensions
An astonishing 10,000 millionaires left France in 2015 thanks to rising social tensions caused by Islamic immigration and terrorism. But while Britain has been warned to expect a similar exodus should racial tensions also rise here, the possibility of Britain leaving the European Union is more likely to keep millionaires within our shores.
Overall last year France lost approximately 3 percent of its total number of millionaires, while it’s capital, Paris, lost about six percent of its millionaires. That amounts to some 7,000 people from Paris alone, mostly to the UK, the USA, Canada, Australia and Israel, according to a report by New World Wealth, an agency which compiles data on the global wealth sector.
“The large outflow of millionaires from France is notable — France is being heavily impacted by rising religious tensions between Christians and Muslims, especially in urban areas. We expect that millionaire migration away from France will accelerate over the next decade as these tensions escalate,” the report warns.
China saw the second largest outward flow of millionaires last year, the authors found, followed by Italy, India, Greece, the Russian Federation, Spain and Brazil.
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Police at Brussels airport have claimed at least 50 Islamic State supporters are working there as baggage handlers, cleaners and catering staff.
In an astonishing open letter, the officers said they have warned about the terrorist sympathisers whose security badges give them access to planes, but they remain employed.
The airport police, who are threatening to go on strike because of security deficiencies, also said they have raised the issue of terrorists scouting the airport to plan possible attacks.
The extraordinary claims come after the Mail reported how the family of two of the bombers involved in the attacks last week said they had worked as cleaners at the airport.
‘Some people suspected of having fought in Syria came to the airport as “false tourists”. We reported their presence but we do not know if anything was done with that information,’ the airport police wrote in their letter…
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Police at Brussels airport have claimed at least 50 Islamic State supporters are working there as baggage handlers, cleaners and catering staff.
In an astonishing open letter, the officers said they have warned about the terrorist sympathisers whose security badges give them access to planes, but they remain employed.
The airport police, who are threatening to go on strike because of security deficiencies, also said they have raised the issue of terrorists scouting the airport to plan possible attacks.
The extraordinary claims come after the Mail reported how the family of two of the bombers involved in the attacks last week said they had worked as cleaners at the airport.
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Yet European authorities are betting the future of their nations upon the assumption that these Muslims will assimilate and become loyal citizens of a secular society. There is absolutely no basis for this assumption, and it could mean the death of Europe as a home of free societies.
“Belgian vice PM acknowledges street celebrations following Brussels attacks,” JTA, March 30, 2016 (thanks to Rudi):
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France: ‘Explosion’ In Central Paris After ‘Domestic’ Accident
A “powerful” explosion was heard in central Paris on Friday after midday, according to reports.
Thoughts turned to terrorism, but according to initial witness reports on France Info, the blast, in the city’s 6th arrondissement, was due to a “domestic” accident.
According to Nouvel Obs, the explosion was due to a gas leak in a block of flats. Five people were lightly injured in the blast, which was heard all through central Paris.
Pictures are circulating on social media of a damaged roof and staff of a school canteen being evacuated…
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France: Exodus of 10,000 Millionaires Amid Rising Muslim Tensions
The report warns that other European countries, including the UK, Belgium, Germany and Sweden “where religious tensions are starting to emerge”, will also see similar trends
Rising tensions in France, especially in Paris following a series of Islamist terrorist attacks in 2015, have spurred an exodus of its super-wealthy citizens, a new report on migration trends of millionaires and high-net worth individuals across the world reveals.
The report warns that other European countries, including the UK, Belgium, Germany and Sweden “where religious tensions are starting to emerge”, will also see similar trends.
Regarding a Brexit, the report suggests millionaires would want to stay in Britain even if it leaves the single currency bloc.
The report was compiled by New World Wealth, an agency that gives information on the global wealth sector. The report was based on data collected from investor visa programme statistics of each country; annual interviews with around 800 global high net worth individuals and with intermediaries like migration experts, second citizenship platforms, wealth managers and property agents; data from property registers and property sales statistics in each country; and by tracking millionaire movements in the media.
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Large Explosion in Paris Due to “Gas Leak, “ Not Terror Police Say
Images that surfaced on social media show black smoke billowing from the site of the blast. Ambulances have been reportedly seen in the area of the incident. Some have suggested the incident was gas-related, and that account appears to have been confirmed by authorities.
Still, everyone is understandably on edge following last week’s attacks in Brussels.
The area has been evacuated. Here are some of the images from France:
[Comment: the old “gas leak” excuse — cover-up for a “work-accident” ?]
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Left-Leaning Website Admits, “Europe’s Muslims Hate the West”
“Europe’s Muslims hate the West” is not a title from Jihad Watch or Gates of Vienna, but left-leaning website Politico. It could make one wonder if Trumpian immigration policy will one day be the norm.
The writer, Dutch novelist Leon de Winter, sets out to tackle a certain politically correct assumption. As he writes, “The first reaction to the Brussels massacres among postmodern European intellectuals was predictable: What did we, Europeans, do to them, our Muslims?” His answer?
Nothing.
The conventional narrative on Muslim terrorism is now familiar and multi-faceted. For example, State Department spokesman Marie Harf floated the notion last year that providing “jobs” was a solution to combating jihadism. Yet de Winter points out that “the unemployment figure in Brussels’ infamous Molenbeek neighborhood — now referred to as the jihadi hothouse of Europe -” of 30 percent is “not unusual in southern European countries or the Arab world.” He not only points out that blue-collar Belgian youth and Muslim youth are identical socioeconomically, but also writes “In Spain, youth unemployment has reached 50 percent and the welfare state is less developed than in Belgium, yet Spanish citizens aren’t blowing themselves up in metro stations.”
In reality, there’s simply no correlation between poverty and terrorism. The economic conditions of hundreds of millions of South Americans and non-Muslim Africans and Asians are far worse than those of Europe’s Muslims, yet terrorism simply isn’t noticeably present in their populations. In fact, Europe’s Muslims enjoy the fruits of Western living: ample food, medical care, available schools, and opportunities for success unimaginable in their native lands. There is also this simple statistic: Only one in six jihadists in Belgium comes from a poor home.
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Muslim School in Dewsbury ‘Says UK Culture is Poisonous’
The Islamic Tarbiyah Academy in Dewsbury, Yorkshire, which teaches 140 primary age children in after-school classes and runs full-time programmes for over-16s, is now being investigated.
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UK: London: “Too Many White Men”
In one of the most blatant recent displays of anti-white racism, the UK Labour Party’s nonwhite candidate for London mayor has said that there are “too many white men” working for the city’s underground train service.
Any white person saying such a thing about nonwhites would most certainly be charged with “racial hatred,” but because it was said by a nonwhite about whites, there will be no consequences.
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Caroline Glick: The Stench of a Rat
Tuesday the news broke that the police are investigating Interior Minister (and ex-con) Arye Deri and opposition leader (and former criminal defendant) Isaac Herzog. The two men are suspected of carrying out various forms of financial corruption.
Judging from the reports, neither man has reason to sleep easy. But then again, the investigations are nowhere near completion.
Which raises the question, why did law enforcement officials decide to reveal the ongoing criminal probes now?…
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Malaysian Court Upholds Right to Convert to Christianity From Islam
Rebit was born into a Christian family in 1975 but his parents converted to Islam when he was eight years old… In 1999, Rebit embraced Christianity and was baptized.
[World Watch Monitor] In a landmark ruling last week a Malaysian court upheld the rights of a Christian to convert from Islam.
The judgment establishes a precedent in a country where religious conversions, particularly from Islam to Christianity, have been steeped in controversy.
The verdict reaffirms the supremacy of the Federal Constitution, which under Article 11 defends every Malaysian citizen’s right to freedom of religion.
For Rooney Rebit, the plaintiff, the decision could not have come at a more opportune time than in Holy Week: he was asking judicial authorities to declare that his belief in Jesus Christ was a fundamental human right.
The High Court in Kuching, Sarawak state, duly agreed. The judge, Yew Ken Jie, said: “He is free to exercise his right of freedom to religion and he chose Christianity.”
Rebit was born into a Christian family in 1975 but his parents converted to Islam when he was eight years old. His Muslim name was Azmi Mohamad Azam Shah…
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China’s Win-Win Regional Strategy
by Srdja Trifkovic
Faced with a fresh barrage of threatening rhetoric by North Korea, its fourth nuclear test (January 6), and its subsequent successful launch of a ballistic missile capable of reaching the mainland United States, on March 31 President Barack Obama advocated closer security ties among America’s chief allies in the Far East. More significantly, he also urged increased cooperation with China to discourage Pyongyang.
As world leaders gathered for the fourth Nuclear Security Summit in Washington, Obama first met with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and South Korean President Park Geun-hye. He then had a meeting with China’s President Xi Jinping at which both leaders urged North Korea (DPRK) to give up its nuclear arsenal. Xi also agreed to fully implement the latest economic sanctions against the regime of Kim Jong-un which were imposed by the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on March 2. The wording of that resolution was stronger than initially expected, primarily due to China’s displeasure at Pyongyang’s tendency to take Beijing’s support for granted even when its actions run contrary to China’s strategic interests…
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Japan: Cervarix and Gardsil Victims to Sue Government and Drug Makers
Victims suffering side effects from cervical cancer vaccines that were once recommended by the government announced Wednesday they will file a lawsuit against the state and drugmakers.
“Many victims are still suffering from side effects of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines Cervarix and Gardsil, which include overall pain and disorders of perception, movement and memory,” lawyer Masumi Minaguchi, a representative from the planned lawsuit’s defense team told a news conference in Tokyo.
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Luis Fleischman: Obama Visits Argentina as President Macri Changes Course
Obama’s visit to Argentina last week took place at a time of considerable change in Argentine politics. After 12 years of the Kirchners, President Mauricio Macri, who came to power last December, has shifted gears away from many of the policies of his predecessors. Problems with Argentina included the country’s unwillingness to pay debts, direct conflict with the American judicial system over “vulture funds”; an absurd agreement with Iran where the Islamic Republic was to be part of the investigation of the bombing of the Jewish community center in Buenos Aires (AMIA) when Iran was the main suspect; and; the mysterious death of prosecutor Alberto Nisman in charge of investigating the AMIA case. In general the Kirchner government saw the United States as an adversary and joined, not as a member but as a strong supporter, of the Bolivarian alliance (ALBA), a group of left-wing countries led by Venezuela that promoted anti-Americanism and alliances with Iran and U.S. rivals.
President Macri made a quick decision to scrap the infamous and ridiculous agreement with Iran. Likewise, Macri pledged to solve the mystery of the death of prosecutor Nisman and paid a warm visit to Nisman’s young daughters. By contrast, the Kirchner government tried to ruin Nisman’s credibility and casted doubt on his honesty. Macri also recognized the good services that Nisman rendered to the country.
In another move, Macri decided to withdrew Argentina’s association with Telesur, a continental TV network modeled after CNN and Al Jazeera. Telesur was initiated by Venezuela, whose main aim was to spread Bolivarian ideology and promote ideological world views mostly aligned with left-wing governments in the region. Of course, anti-Americanism is an important component of this ideology. Argentina funds 16% of the network. Macri argued that Telesur’s reports were one-sided and lacked diversity. Macri expressed particular concern about the fact that Telesur, which is also pro-Cuban, does not report on political prisoners and violations of democracy perpetrated by some of the countries of the region. This is a very courageous step on Macri’s part and a major blow to the regional left-wing coalition that has attempted to impose hegemony through social, cultural and political means…
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Cruise for 1,700 School Kids Ends in Tragedy as Migrant Passengers Gang-Rape Girl
Five men, including two believed to be accessories to murder, have been arrested on suspicion of gang raping a girl on-board a special, high school kids-only pleasure cruise in Sweden.
Four men aged between 18 and 19 were arrested when the luxury MS Galaxy landed after its cruise to Finland on Wednesday, with a fifth arrested yesterday. They are all accused of gang-raping an unidentified woman, and face charges of aggravated rape.
The prosecutor has given no more detail about the crime or the victim, and was initially even reluctant to disclose that it was a woman who had been raped.
Although the politically-correct Swedish police have gone to their usual lengths to obscure the identities and nationalities of the suspected perpetrators, a mistake by Sweden’s largest newspaper has revealed the men to be migrants.
A film crew from newspaper Aftonbladet interviewed a number of students boarding the ship as it prepared to sail earlier this week for a feature on the cruise.
Of the 1,700 young people who sailed they by chance ended up interviewing two of the attackers.
The non-Western young men told the camera of their plan to have a good time while at sea, remarking they wanted to “Just f*** about”. He remarked “because we are students”, they wanted to “actually go f***ing wild”, reports Sweden’s Aftonbladet.
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The Angela Merkel-EU “deal” with Turkey to take back “refugees” landing in Greece has inadvertently exposed the lie behind the nonwhite invasion-because it means that Turkey is a “safe” country and there is no reason to flee it in the first place.
Several EU member states already know this, and have deliberately kept their reports in this regard secret from the public.
In terms of all international law and treaties governing “refugees,” a person has the right to flee a country where their life in is danger from political or other persecution.
The EU-Turkey deal specifically makes plans to return all “refugees” who have landed in Greece to Turkey, starting April 4.
The inventors of this plan-mostly under the direct leadership of Merkel and other EU leaders in Brussels-have however failed to realize that this means that Turkey is already a “safe” country for “refugees”-otherwise they could not send them back there.
An EU report, which followed meetings in Ankara this week between EU special envoy on migration Maarten Verwey and Turkish officials, even called on EU member states to make public reports which portray Turkey as a “safe third country” for refugees.
This means that all the one million-plus “refugees” who have already crossed over into Europe-have broken all the international conventions on asylum.
They have not fled a country in which “their lives are in danger,” but have instead just hopped from one “safe” country to another in search of the best welfare payments upon which to scrounge.
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Germany’s Refugee Crisis Has Left it as Bitterly Divided as Donald Trump’s America
We thought we could handle the migrant numbers — I invited them into my home. Whatever happened to our welcoming spirit?
Last autumn, when Angela Merkel opened Germany’s borders to refugees, my wife and I decided we would be happy to have some of them stay with us in our Berlin apartment. Mostly they would come and stay for just one night, arriving late and leaving at dawn to register with the city authorities.
One night the voluntary organisation that placed refugees with German families called us after midnight and said it had a Moldovan who needed a rest. So we Googled Moldova. We were OK with Syrians coming for a sleepover. But what about Moroccans, Eritreans, or the citizens of former Soviet republics? Well OK, we thought, why not?
Six months have passed since then. The EU has struck a complicated deal with Turkey that is meant to reduce the influx. It may or may not work. But whatever happens in the coming months, Germany’s Willkommenskultur — the belief that we should welcome refugees with open arms — has arguably come to an end. What’s more, the nation that took in more than a million people seems irredeemably changed by the experience — and not for the better.
Germany is bitterly divided on the refugee question. Neighbours and families are divided. The poisonous atmosphere has been fuelled by rightwing hatemongers. But the adherents of the Willkommenskultur, in my view, are also to blame. Where did it all go wrong?
Looking back, the events of September 2015 seem strangely unreal. Hundreds of Germans gathered at Munich’s central station to applaud incoming refugees. A smiling Merkel posed for selfies with Syrians at asylum-seeker homes, and ordinary Germans opened their doors for “welcome dinners”. I remember feeling both excited and a little nervous. Something extraordinary was happening and we were there to witness it first-hand…
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The anti-Fascists — who are the establishment clowns- go nuts when Nationalists take to the streets. The traitors think they have already won — little they know the backlash is just starting.
An alliance of nationalist groups is planning a demonstration in Dover this weekend, dubbed “Stop the Fakeugees and Gimmigrants”. They will be met by numerous ‘Anti-Fascists’ and ‘Anti-Racist’ groups — hard left protesters with equally, if not more violent histories.
Their explosive flyer for the event reads:
“In 1940 when the Luftwaffe started dropping bombs on our cities and towns, the British people didn’t pack up and move, we didn’t get the boats out start rowing across the sea. We dug in! We put our flags up and two fingers and said ‘BRING IT ON’.
“These fakeugees and gimmigrants are only fleeing for one thing, our money, Europe’s money because most of our nations are ruled by weak, limp wristed traitors. All these men are of fighting age, young, fit, willing and able to rise up against our nations…”
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Video: SJW Bernie Supporters Tell Jewish Immigrant: “Go Back to Germany”
Bernie lovers tell Jewish immigrant he should vote Sanders because he’s “also a Jewish guy”
After offending a German Jewish immigrant by waving a “Trump = Nazi” sign in his face, Bernie Sanders supporters said he needed to “go back to Germany.”
“Do you not see any correlation? You should look up World War II,” one of the social justice warrior said to the immigrant, who promptly told her he found the sign highly offensive.
Another SJW responded by telling him to “go back to Germany, then.”
And the Bernie supporter holding the sign told the immigrant he should support Bernie over Trump because Sanders “is also a Jewish guy” and added “down with the republic!”
That prompted the Jewish immigrant to turn around and tell her “I’m going to stay here in the United States because I belong here, unlike these illegal aliens.”
The confrontation further demonstrates the excessive hypocrisy of SJWs who are completely intolerant — and in this case xenophobic — to anyone who disagrees with their world views.
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Why Are Western Countries Importing More Muslim Terror?
The burning question of the 21st century: why are Western countries importing millions of Muslim refugees that turn their countries into third world terror camps? Sweden deformed itself from one of the most successful and peaceful countries on Earth into a Muslim quagmire. An astounding 91 percent of Muslim immigrants live on cyclical welfare — never to contribute to Swedish society.
Swedish women fear for their lives on the streets of Malmö and Stockholm. They face rapes, beatings and molestation at every juncture of their days.
Norway, once as neat, clean and peaceful as Sweden, now houses 400,000 Muslims that suck the life out of Norwegian society. Women fear for their lives in Bergen, Oslo and Trondheim.
In London, England, with 2.5 million Muslims, you see two different cities in one. The Islamic side of London and the British side of London. British fear treading into the “Sharia Law” no-go zones of London.
The same holds true for Belgium, Holland, France, Austria, Italy and Germany.
One German I interviewed named Wolfgang S. said, “We are not allowed our opinions anymore in our country. Angie Merkel controls the conversation.”
[Comment: planned destruction of western nation states prior to implementation of NWO. Traitorous politicians are following bankster orders — either intentionally or as a “useful idiot”.]
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The 13 Countries Where Being an Atheist is Punishable by Death
A number of countries continue to criminalize atheists and humanists
It’s often said that the world is becoming an increasingly secular place. Just last week David Cameron sparked backlash when he used his Easter message to describe the UK as “a Christian country”. Critics pointed out that just 30 per cent of people in the UK describe themselves as religious, making Britain one of the least religious countries in the world. 53 per cent of people say they have no faith, while 13 per cent claim they are committed atheists.
However, despite the prevalance of atheism and humanism in the UK, many may be surprised to know that having no faith can be a life or death matter around the world. In thirteen countries, you can be sentenced to death for not having a faith:
| 1. | Afghanistan | |
| 2. | Iran | |
| 3. | Malaysia | |
| 4. | Maldives | |
| 5. | Mauritania | |
| 6. | Nigeria | |
| 7. | Pakistan |
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*** I remember feeling both excited and a little nervous ***
This clown thinks in terms of “rightwing hatemongers,” helping people who’d escaped from a “brutal civil war” seeming like an an “unquestionably” sound thing to do, and Germans “embrac[ing] their role as moral leaders of the western world.” The only more fatuous ideas than the latter one are that the world yearns for “American leadership” and “American exceptionalism.” This article by itself revenge for the 10,000,000 times the world has heard either idea from U.S. ruling class nimrods.
He ignored German participation in the demonstrably international war; couldn’t factor in what he knew about (1) French and Swedish no-go zones and immigrant crime or (2) jihadis and welfare-seeking opportunists in the “refugee” swarms; and felt flattered that the immigrant swarms wanted to come to Germany because Germans don’t have a reputation of being lovable. (Cue video of African cavorting and yelling “Give me money!”)
He writes, “Were we naive? Perhaps.” That’s a tough one alright! And then fills up the rest of his article with Merkel’s mistakes being “oddly out of character,” economists who had sudden 2015-vintage epiphanies about refugee economics, and right-wing populists and Gutmenschen hating each other’s guts.
If any of those RWPs take a dim view of this clueless idiot I’d sure as heck understand why.
…by itself is total revenge …
Turkey realized last year that the influx of cheap labor from third world Islam was going to undercut the market for Turkish labor in the EU especially Germany. It was also raising the “disapproval” numbers in Germany for free and generous benefits for immigrant workers which also probably would affect Turks down the road. Caught between massively profiting from human trafficking from their shores and/or killing off the immigrant Turkish labor market which acts as a social upheaval safety valve for economically pressured Turks, Erdogan was forced to protect Turks after allowing human trafficking as long as he could get away with it.
The parallels between the US and Mexico and Turkey and Germany are significant. Mexico was happy to funnel in as many Central American laborers and drug trafficker gangs into the US until they realized (also belatedly because their grip on cause and effect is as tenuous as Turkey’s) that it would adversely affect their own ex-pat populations. Turkey AND Mexico are bad actors and only interested in how much they can siphon off other country’s economies to prevent having to deal with their own.
Mexico has played us like a cheap fiddle but with loads of cooperation on our part and cheerleaders for a third-world U.S. like Jorge Ramos.