An “Australian” man named Mohammed Khan murdered and beheaded his workmate, one Syeid Alam, who was his fellow employee at a meat plant in Queensland. The incident has a Mohammed Coefficient of 100%.
In other news, criminal gangs among the migrants at refugee camps on the border between Greece and Macedonia have reportedly set up makeshift brothels in the camps, where access to the sex-workers costs as little as €5.
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Cucked by Zuck: Establishment Conservatives Rock Up for Pointless Meeting With Facebook
by Milo
A delegation of Establishment conservative types descended on Silicon Valley today to make Facebook look good.
I have some thoughts about it. This is going to be a long column, so strap yourselves in.
I’m sure it wasn’t these conservative figures’ intent merely to assist in Facebook’s marketing efforts, but at this point, if maliciousness is ruled out as a motivation, extreme stupidity is the only possible remaining explanation.
Most damningly, there’s Zuckerberg’s appetite for government diktat, such as the authoritarian stance of the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, towards her own people’s justified concerns about immigration. At the height of the refugee crisis, Facebook and other social networks openly teamed up with the Germany government to quash critics of the country’s open-door policies.
Well, congratulations on the spread of ravaging rapefugees, Mark. Zuckerberg felt emboldened to do the same with the U.S. election but is quickly learning that Americans are cut from a different cloth. It is very dangerous to drink your own Kool-Aid and think you’re the smartest man in the room. Just ask Glenn Beck!
I’ll say it again: the so-called conservatives who are sitting down with Mark Zuckerberg today should consider exactly who they’re breaking bread with. This is a man who marches in lock-step with Angela Merkel and who sat by as she hired an ex-Stasi agent to monitor his platform for “xenophobic” comments.
He’s a man who will cut deals with the Chinese government to expand his user base, while engaging in creepy, Huxleyesque experiments on his own users. Yet the conservatives meeting with Facebook today really believe that a man with as few apparent scruples as Zuckerberg will act in good faith when it comes to a few limp-wristed American Republicans.
If conservatives really want to pressure Facebook, nothing but hellfire will suffice. The left knows how to do it — when feminist activists wanted to pressure Facebook in 2013, they went after its advertisers. With their meal ticket on the line, the company quickly folded. Conservatives should fight fire with fire.
My advice to real conservatives is the same as it was six months ago, when I explained why I’m winning despite the anti-conservative bias in Silicon Valley. Establish presences on multiple platforms. Beyond not having to worry if Cuckerberg has put me on his whitelist, they know if they boot me off one platform, I’m just as strong on five more and I’ll come back at them from there.
When I declared war on social justice earlier this year, I didn’t say, “I declare war with Mark Zuckerberg’s kind permission.” This train brakes for no-one. Anyone who wants to stand in front of the lulz with censoriousness and bias, I encourage to do so. I like seeing train-splats!
As for the cuckservatives, well, if they don’t have enough coal in their engine to break a Facebook blockade on their own terms, it’s probably smart for them to render unto Caesar. To quote Mark Zuckerberg, speaking about his own users: dumb s.
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Earthshine Project Reports on Earth’s Reflectance Over the Last 16 Years
In the early days of WUWT, I reported on this project here: Earth’s Albedo Tells an Interesting Story Now data has been release in a new paper. From the INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE CANARIAS (IAC)
New data on the variability of the Earth’s reflectance over the last 16 years
The measurements of this key climate variable, obtained from telescopes on the ground, agree with the measurements made from satellites and show a period of stability
The Earth’s albedo, or reflectance, is a fundamental atmospheric parameter having deep implications for temperature and climate change. For that reason, experiments have been performed to monitor it over the past two decades to reveal how it evolves. One of these, in which the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias is a participant, has brought up to date the observations made since 2007 and adds to, and gives a new systematic record of the Earth’s albedo covering the period between 1998 and 2014 from California. This study, whose first author is IAC researcher Enric Pallé, has been published in Geophysical Research Letters, and shows that although the albedo fluctuates both monthly and annually, but there is no trend over those years.
The effect of the albedo is important for life on Earth because it affects the energy budget of the planet: it plays a key role in the process by which the planet achieves an equilibrium between the solar radiation which enters the atmosphere and the radiation emitted as heat into space. The albedo is defined as the fraction of sunlight that the Earth reflects back directly into space, and it varies according to cloud composition, ice, snow, and the nature of the surface onto which the sun’s rays fall. The term comes from the Latin “albus” (white), and a rise or fall in the albedo will have consequences for the planet’s global warming or cooling.
To check how the albedo has evolved, since the 1990’s it has been measured from space with instruments such as ERBE and CERES, whose estimations are made using absolute photometric measurements, which could be affected by any degradation in the instrument while in space.
However, a complementary way to measure the reflectance, which does not suffer the same calibration errors since it is a relative measurement, is from the ground, using telescopes that observe the so-called earthshine (the light reflected from the Earth to the night-time face of the Moon). This method has been used during the period 1998-2014 from the Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO) in California, and also, since 2007 from the Earthshine telescope at the Teide Observatory (Tenerife), to measure this climate parameter. These observations were aimed at increasing the temporal coverage of the measurements, and reducing the measurement errors.
The result of this study is that, applying strict quality criteria to the measurements of the earthshine, and after re-calibrating the measurements taken from the CERES instrument in space, the variations found in the value of the albedo not only agree in magnitude but also show identical, small annual variations over the 14 years that the two types of observations overlap. Philip Goode, lead earthshine researcher at BBSO explains that “Although the measurements that we have made of the albedo over the past 16 years show monthly and annual variations, there is virtually no change in the long term. This also coincides with a stabilization in the mean temperature of the planet”, he says.
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Five-Year-Old Girl Suspended for Bringing Bubble Gun to School
The toy, which is made of clear plastic and accepts a screw-on can of suds, shoots out a stream of bubbles when a child squeezes the trigger.
In explaining the suspension, 5 News described the toy as a “weapon.” The girl’s mother, using the pseudonym “Emma” to protect her privacy, said it was not necessary for the school to do anything more than ask her to come pick up the toy and bring it home. Instead, the school called and told her to pick up her daughter, who was suspended for the remainder of the day.
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House Would Ban Confederate Flags on Va Cemetery Flagpoles
WASHINGTON — The House voted on Thursday to ban the display of the Confederate flag on flagpoles at federal veterans’ cemeteries.
The 265-159 vote would block descendants and others seeking to commemorate veterans of the Confederate States of America from flying the Confederate Battle Flag over mass graves on the two days a year that flag displays are permitted.
California Democrat Jared Huffman drafted the prohibition, saying the flag represents “racism, slavery and division.”
Huffman’s amendment is mostly symbolic and applies only to instances in which Confederate flags are flown on flagpoles over mass graves. The amendment would not ban the display of small Confederate flags placed at individual graves. Such displays are generally permitted on Memorial Day and Confederate Memorial Day in the states that observe it…
[I recall visiting Battle Parks and cemeteries with several Confederate mass graves, including a POW camp that had a mortality rate equal to Andersonville, without the shortages of medicine or provender that the South contended with, that have 200, 500, sometimes over a 1000 casualties buried in them (a rectangle no more than 20×50 ft., sons, brothers, husbands, fathers, but no big deal. Maybe they should just be paved over so Yankees have a place to park their cars when they come to celebrate their victories (after, all the reason Confederate headstones have points on them is so Yankees won’t sit on them, Yankee respect being what it is). If I am not mistaken the allowing of small flags on individual graves is an administrative rule that can be rescinded without any congressmen dirtying their hands, and no doubt will be soon.
When my grandparents spoke about “the War” they meant the War of Secession, since their parents grew up during and were orphans because of it. The First Reconstruction was a living memory in my family (we are now seeing the Second). My mother often told a story of complaining to her great grandmother, who raised 3 children alone during and after the War, about being hungry one particularly bad summer day during the Depression, Granny laughed and said, “Child you can worry about being hungry when a Yankee soldier comes in the kitchen and takes the last biscuit out of the baby’s hand.” I remember that it wasn’t until about 1970 that the economic well-being of the South reached the same level that had existed prior to the War. I have read somewhere that approximately 250 million Americans have an ancestor that fought for their State’s right to secede.
The Battle flag of the Confederacy represents Honor, Courage, and Fidelity; but those are not the reasons it must be suppressed, nor an oblique association with racism, slavery, or “hate” (if those were legitimate concerns then the Democrat Party would have been banned long ago). The dangerous aspect for politicians is that it symbolizes the idea that taking up arms against tyranny is not illegitimate. It is the living, tangible, symbol of the 9th and 10th Amendments; the two that made the U.S. a Federal Republic and the two that must be neglected to death.
My family has a history of serving in every war on North America since the French Indian War. I shall do all in my power to dissuade those who descend from me from serving. Since the U.S Government has broken faith with my ancestors and informs me that a Neo-Reconstruction is the order of the day I feel no need to either pretend or demonstrate loyalty. I have no misgivings about supporting Secession.
This Is A Very Big Deal. — TS]
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How Democrats Manipulated Nevada State Party Convention Then Blamed Sanders for Chaos
According to several individuals, who were present, the Nevada State Democratic Party, led by chairwoman Roberta Lange, engaged in the following during the 15-hour convention:
Lange and an executive board secretly voted on rules two weeks before the convention to give Lange “exclusive control” over the convention and strictly limit motions, as well as challenges to rulings by the chair
Voted on “temporary rules” for the convention and cheated by calling the vote for the “yeas” when the “nays” clearly had larger numbers. The vote happened early at 9:30 am before all the delegates had arrived. [Video here.]
The State Democratic Party was provided with petitions from twenty percent of the delegates in attendance to challenge the adopted rules. Signatures were collected ahead of the convention because there were activists well-aware of what the Party would try to do with the new “temporary rules.” In fact, one of these people, Angie Morelli, was a plaintiff in a lawsuit against the Party, which was partly dismissed a day before the convention. The leadership pretended to accept the petitions and then ignored the fact that proper procedure had been followed, blocking any challenges, which effectively disenfranchised a subsection of people attempting to have their voices heard.
Lange granted herself the authority to have the final decision on all the delegates excluded from the convention. There were 56 Sanders delegates and four Clinton delegates, which were deemed to have improper or inadequate registration information. The number of Clinton delegates outnumbered Sanders delegates by only 33 delegates.
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Hubble Telescope Captures Incredible Up-Close View of Mars
An amazing new Mars image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope shows clouds, craters, ice caps and other features on the Red Planet.
Hubble took the photo on May 12, when Mars was just 50 million miles (80 million kilometers) from Earth. That’s quite close in the cosmic scheme of things; Mars is nearly at “opposition” — when the planet and the sun are on exact opposite sides of Earth from each other — which will come on May 22.
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I saw this week that President Obama’s approval rating is nearing 50% again. What in the world is wrong with people? Have we fallen so far that the American people approve of this obvious Son of Satan?
Mr. Obama showed his true nature this past weekend by running interference for TARGET when he doubled-down on “transgender” bathrooms. Until the social scientists got involved we called them cross-dressers. I hope you are smart enough to realize that this whole debate is not about restrooms. It is about the promotion of deviancy. It is about what the Bible calls Doctrines of Demons. It is about normalizing that which is not normal.
Homosexualities in particular and deviant sexual behaviors in general, are the fruits of perversion from the decadent American culture. Obama is the Godfather of the anti-Christian mafia that is hell-bent on the destruction of Western Civilization.
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Pakistani Man Arrested at Texas Border
Lied to federal agents after his capture…
Last October the Texas Department of Public Safety director warned that border agents were capturing individuals from countries known to have a terrorism presence.
“…Individuals that come across the Texas/Mexican border from countries with a known terrorism presence and the answer to that is yes,” DPS Director Steven McCraw stated.
“We have individuals that we’ve needed to debrief in Pashto/Dari,” McCraw said at an annual Texas Border Coalition conference, referring to two languages spoken in Afghanistan. “Not a lot of Pashto and Dari speakers around.”
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Preppers Warn Obama Dividing the Country: Prepare to “Live Through a Civil War”
Is civil war coming to America?
Those of us watching see the signs, and have witnessed our rights being trampled upon. That’s why so many have been prepping for what is coming.
Now a prominent prepper author is warning that Americans must also be prepared to stave off a complete divide in this country as Obama’s term is coming to an end.
According to the Washington Examiner:…
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Racist Black Student Wails on White Student. Leftist Media Silent…
News coverage? Nowhere to be found. Just like this girl’s decency.
If a non-black person so much as looks at a black person the wrong way, mainstream media jumps on it with a vengeance. This black student viciously attacked a white student who sits in her desk and doesn’t fight back. The black girl scolds: “Remember your motherf****ing skin tone.”1
News coverage? Nowhere to be found. Just like this girl’s decency. Watch:…
Notice how nobody steps in to stop this psycho? Probably because if they do, they’ll be called a racist. This isn’t the first time a white person has been targeted for their race (see College Employee Assaults White Student for ‘Racist’ Dreadlocks and Racist Brags About Making White Waitress Cry). And it won’t be the last either, thanks to race-baiting slimebags like BlackLivesMatter and Obama.
The left has fostered the perfect environment for racism to thrive. Bullies like this go unchecked and even protected (Harvard Tries Hiding ‘Debate’ Video: ‘Kill Yourself Over White Privilege’). They’re emboldened by the fact that they get special protection for being a “minority.” Don’t take my word for it. Refer back to video above. Want to defend yourself? Too bad. Embrace your white guilt and take the beating. Or you’re a racist.
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Proponents of more gun control for American citizens are frequently people who live their lives surrounded by good guys with guns. Moreover, gun control proponents are also people who use tragedies as an opportunity to push more gun laws even when said laws would have done nothing to prevent the tragedy that occurred.
Occasionally, all these hypocritical qualities are found in one person or, in this case, seven people.
Hillary Clinton: Clinton is currently pushing to gut the Second Amendment via a reversal of District of Columbia v. Heller (2008). Heller reasserted that the Second Amendment protects a preexisting individual’s right to keep and bear arms, rather than a collective one, and it struck down the DC gun ban. Moreover, Clinton is campaigning for president on a platform of universal background checks and an expansion of instant background checks into indefinite background checks. She has said the Australian gun ban is “worth looking at” for U.S. gun policy.
Clinton’s hypocrisy on the subject is evident in the fact that she spends every waking moment with the benefit of being surrounded by good guys with guns. In fact, Breitbart News previously reported that Clinton has enjoyed tax-payer funded armed security for decades. Yet her policies and proposals will ultimately eliminate average Americans’ ability to keep their families safe with a firearm. …
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Trump Vows to Nix Paris Climate Treaty
Donald Trump has signalled an end to the United States’ disastrous flirtation with green crony capitalism by promising to nix the COP21 Paris climate treaty if and when he becomes US president.
“I will be looking at that very, very seriously, and at a minimum I will be renegotiating those agreements, at a minimum. And at a maximum I may do something else,” Trump has told Reuters.
In further good news for the US economy, he has also assured his Twitter followers that he’s not remotely interested in introducing a carbon tax either.
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Blockchain Goes Beyond Crypto-Currency
Starting next September, some logistics companies in Finland, Sweden, Estonia, and Latvia will begin outfitting shipping containers with a soda-can-size device that will beam out the cargo’s location, how much it’s vibrating as it travels, and its ambient temperature. The data will flow into a repository in the cloud so the entire supply chain can be informed if a shipment’s been delayed. That will prevent redundant e-mails and phone calls. “There are massive problems communicating between companies,” says Mika Lammi, who’s overseeing the project from his perch at Kouvola Innovation, a business development agency in southern Finland. “Instead of having separate databases, why not have a single blockchain where everyone can pool information?”
Blockchain is the technology created to support bitcoin, but it may soon surpass the crypto-currency in importance. In the first quarter of 2016, venture capital investment in startups commercializing blockchain eclipsed that in pure-play bitcoin companies for the first time, according to industry researcher CoinDesk, which has tallied $1.1 billion in deals to date.
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French PM Urges ‘Harsh’ Penalties for Anti-Cop Violence
France’s prime minister called on Thursday for “harsh” punishment for those attacking police officers, a day after protesters torched a police vehicle in central Paris.
“The punishment must be harsh, the enquiry has just started, arrests have been made,” Manuel Valls told RTL radio.
A rare rally by police to protest against “anti-cop hatred” descended into violence on Wednesday, with a small group hammering a police vehicle with iron bars before hurling an explosive device inside. This all happened while the officers were still inside.
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Mark Zuckerberg Still Denies Suppressing Content After Hosting Conservatives at Facebook
While Zuckerberg acknowledged that “many conservatives” do not trust the platform’s promise to remain politically unbiased, he continued to deny allegations that any suppression of conservative content occurred.
“Our community’s success depends on everyone feeling comfortable sharing anything they want,” wrote Zuckerberg. “It doesn’t make sense for our mission or our business to suppress political content or prevent anyone from seeing what matters most to them.”
This is in stark contrast to the comments Zuckerberg made to German Chancellor Angela Merkel earlier this year, in which he promised to tackle so-called “hate speech” against migrants on Facebook. The social network has since openly colluded with the German government to delete criticism of mass immigration on the platform.
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Naples Brings Pizza Record Home With 1.8km Margherita
The world’s longest ever pizza, measuring a whopping 1854 metres, was built in Naples on Wednesday.
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Norway Opens New Arctic Zones to Oil Exploration
Norway awarded Arctic drilling licences to 13 oil companies on Wednesday, including in a hitherto unexplored part of the Barents Sea, drawing condemnation from environmental groups.
It is the first time since 1994 that the country has opened a new sector to the oil industry, and comes as Norway’s output has halved since 2000 and as a collapse in crude prices has slashed state revenues.
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Norway Won’t Change Plans for Utøya Memorial
The threat of lawsuits from neighbors are not sufficient grounds to change plans for a memorial at Utøya, the Norwegian government said on Thursday.
The government did, however, agree to a meeting about possible adjustments to the design of the memorial, which will commemorate the massacre of 69 people, mostly teenagers, on the island in 2011.
Earlier this month, a lawyer representing local residents said that he would initiate legal action against the state unless the July 22nd memorial ‘Memory Wound’ was stopped.
‘Memory Wound’ is a “permanent scar” that would see the tip of Sørbråten, the peninsular which juts out into the Tyrifjorden towards Utøya, severed from the lakeside, and the names of the dead then carved on the exposed surface of the new island.
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Scottish Local Government Approves Covert Spying on Citizens Via Fake Facebook Profiles
It has emerged that a local government in Scotland has finalized plans to secretly spy on its citizens via the popular social media platform, Facebook.
According to local media reports, the East Lothian Council has given local government workers the power to create fake Facebook accounts, befriend citizens and spy on them for the prevention of disorder and perceived mischief. East Lothian is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland. The area is near the capital, Edinburgh.
The council made the disturbing revelation in a comprehensive document, titled Surveillance through Social Media Policy.
Here is how the covert spying activity is going to work: Firstly, some so-called investigating officers [spies] are permitted to use social media, especially Facebook, for surveillance purposes.
The officers will create a fake account on the social media platform. They will then send a friend request to suspected citizens. They are also permitted to enter into personal relationships with third party users, or be part of various groups on Facebook.
It was also revealed that in some circumstances, spying is also permitted through the officer’s private or departmental identity. This means the officers can spy on citizens overtly and covertly.
[Comment: Communists always seek to identify anti-commmunists for future round up into gulags and extermination.]
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Shame on Britain’s Streets: Vile Paedophiles Assault Girls After Plying Them With Alcohol
A PAIR of sick paedophiles have been found guilty of grooming schoolgirls by asking the to swap sexual favours for cigarettes and alcohol.
Osmon Koroma and Max N’Gasa were convicted of involvement in a series of 18 sexual exploitation offences against twelve teenage girls.
The duo targeted girls as young as 13 across Littlehampton, West Sussex, buying them booze and supplying them with cigarettes between 2010 and 2014.
Koroma, 31, from Hove, East Sussex, was convicted of eight offences against five different girls — rape, two sexual assaults and five offences of sexual activity with a child.
N’Gasa, 25, also from Hove, was convicted of ten offences against seven girls, including two offences of rape and eight offences of sexual activity with a child.
He was also found not guilty of one sexual assault and one offence of attempting to carry out sexual activity with a child.
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Swiss City Fights Extremism With Anti-Radicalization Centre
The city of Winterthur has launched a new service aimed at preventing radicalization.
Winterthur, in the canton of Zurich, has hit the headlines several times in recent years due to an increasing number of young people in the city turning to Islamic extremism.
The result of 18 months of planning, the new centre is one of a series of measures aimed at countering the “phenomenon of jihadism” in the town, the city council said in a statement.
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UK: London Prison is ‘Jihadi Training Camp’ Claims Former Muslim Inmate
A former Muslim prisoner has declared London’s Belmarsh Prison to be nothing short of a “jihadi training camp” where Islamic State celebration parties are freely held.
In an opinion column in the Evening Standard, former inmate and Muslim student “Jamal” — whose name was altered for his safety — claims that he was “devastated” when watching prison officials take no action to curb radical Islamist ideals dominating the South East London jail.
Jamal says new inmates were left with the impression that those in charge were a group of radical Islamists known as “the Brothers” or “the Akhi” — rather than the prison guards themselves.
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UK: Report: Education System ‘Letting Men Down, ‘ Women 75% More Likely to Go to University
A report from Britain’s Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) indicates that the decline in the number of boys going to university is a result of the increase in female teachers in Britain’s schools.
UCAS (Undergraduate Courses at University and College) Chief Mary Curnock Cook said that the “dominance” of women in the teaching profession was a key factor in men choosing not to go to university.
The findings will come as a shock to feminist academics who have long argued that women are inherently disadvantaged by the education system, as the study calls for more institutions to set targets to improve male recruitment.
HEPI director and the co-author of the report Nick Hillman concluded, “Nearly everyone seems to have a vague sense that our education system is letting young men down, but there are few detailed studies of the problem and almost no clear policy recommendations on what to do about it.”
“Young men are much less likely to enter higher education, are more likely to drop out and are less likely to secure a top degree than women,” he argued. “That is a serious problem we need to tackle.”
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Why Italy’s Facing a Birth Rate Apocalypse
It’s been almost two years since Prime Minister Matteo Renzi introduced an €80-a-month ‘baby bonus’ for low-and-medium income families.
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Donald Trump: It Was a Great Mistake to Bomb the Serbs Who Were Our Allies in Both World Wars
Donald Trump with Larry King on the occasion of the anniversary of the bombing of Serbia criticized Bill Clinton and criminal attack on Serbs, the ally of America in both wars.
– The Clintons have made a mess in the Balkans and Kosovo. Look what we did to Serbia in an aerial bombardment from a safe height. Those same Serbs rescued American pilots in World War II.
It is a mistake that we bombed a nation that has been our ally in two world wars. Clintons believe that was a success, and I find it shameful…
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Egyptair Flight From Paris to Cairo Disappears
An EgyptAir plane headed to Cairo from Paris with 59 passengers and 10 crew members on board disappeared at dawn from the radar, the carrier said in a statement.
Flight MS804 took off from Paris last night, the airline said. Its media center will update as more information becomes available.
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Egyptian Plane With 66 Aboard Crashes; Terrorism Suspected
CAIRO (AP) — The latest news on EgyptAir Flight 804 from Paris to Cairo, carrying 66 people, which Egyptian officials say crashed early Thursday into the Mediterranean Sea off the Greek island of Crete. (all times local):
4 p.m.
Kuwait’s Foreign Ministry has identified a Kuwaiti feared dead in the EgyptAir plane crash in the Mediterranean Sea.
A ministry statement carried Thursday afternoon by the state-run Kuwait News Agency named the missing passenger as Abdulmohsen al-Muteiri. It offered no other details about al-Muteiri.
The statement quoted Sami al-Hamad, an assistant foreign minister for consular affairs, as saying Kuwait had been in touch with Egyptian authorities over the crash.
The EgyptAir flight from Paris to Cairo with 66 passengers and crew on board crashed Thursday morning in the Mediterranean Sea off the Greek island of Crete. Egyptian Prime Minister Sherif Ismail has said it is too early to say whether a technical problem or a terror attack caused the Airbus A320 to crash.
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3:40 p.m.
Among passengers on missing EgyptAir Flight 804 was a student training at a French military school who was heading to his family home in Chad to mourn his mother.
The protocol officer for Chad’s embassy in Paris, Muhammed Allamine, said the man “was going to give condolences to his family.” Allamine said the man, who wasn’t identified, was a student at France’s prestigious Saint-Cyr army academy.
Another passenger on the flight was an Egyptian man returning home after medical treatment in France, according to two shocked friends who turned up at Paris’ Charles de Gaulle airport.
“It breaks my heart,” said one friend, Madji Samaan.
Passengers arriving for the 3:45 p.m. EgyptAir flight from Paris to Cairo faced heavy gray curtains drawn over the departure hall and journalists waiting outside. Most of those interviewed stayed stoic, saying it didn’t make sense to cancel their plane trip out of fear — even if many acknowledged being a little rattled.
Officials say EgyptAir Flight 804 from Paris to Cairo crashed into the Mediterranean Sea early Thursday with 66 people on board…
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Egyptair Flight 804: Airline Official Says Debris Not From Plane
Cairo (CNN)The search for EgyptAir Flight 804 is continuing after reports that the plane’s wreckage had been found turned out to be false.
When searchers got close to debris found in the Mediterranean Sea they realized it didn’t come from the missing airliner, EgyptAir’s Vice Chairman Ahmed Adel told CNN.
The Airbus A320, which had 66 people on board, disappeared early Thursday as it flew from Paris to Cairo. Earlier Adel told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour that the plane’s wreckage had been found.
“We stand corrected on finding the wreckage because what we identified is not a part of our plane. So the search and rescue is still going on,” Adel told CNN’s “The Lead with Jake Tapper.”
Adel said EgyptAir is not involved in the search and is getting its information from Greek authorities and the Egyptian military, but he didn’t give details on why the debris found in the water was said to be from the plane or how that information was gathered…
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Egyptair Flight Ms804 Went Into a ‘Sharp Spin’ And Fell 22,000ft Before Vanishing From Radar
The Airbus A320 left Charles De Gaulle Airport at 9.09pm GMT last night before coming down off the Greek island of Karpathos ten miles into Egyptian airspace at around 00.30am GMT.
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Wreckage From Egyptair Flight Possibly Found as Officials Probe Links to Terror
Debris found so far in the Mediterranean Sea off Greece does not belong to that of the EgyptAir flight that went down early Thursday with 66 people on board, a senior Greek air safety official reportedly confirmed.
Athanassios Binis, head of Greece’s Air Accident Investigation and Aviation Safety Board, told state ERT TV that “an assessment of the finds showed that they do not belong to an aircraft,” The Associated Press reported. Binis added that this has been confirmed by Egyptian authorities.
The update came amid conflicting reports from government officials from France, Greece and Egypt, who spoke at separate news conferences even as boats and ships from several countries searched the waters off of the Greek island of Karpathos, where EgyptAir said debris from the plane was found.
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Erdogan Takes ‘Indignation’ Out on German Diplomat
Turkey has summoned the European Union’s top diplomat in Ankara after he reportedly criticized the conduct of Turkish officials in implementing a landmark refugee deal, diplomatic sources said on Wednesday.
Hansjörg Haber, a German diplomat who heads the EU delegation to Ankara, was summoned to the Turkish foreign ministry on Tuesday, the sources said.
He was told that his comments had caused “indignation” and were condemned by Turkey.
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Political Storm in Iran as Rafsanjani’s Daughter Meets Bahai Leader
A political storm has erupted in Iran after the daughter of former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani visited a leader of the persecuted Bahai religious minority while she was on leave from prison.
Senior conservative clerics denounced Faezeh Hashemi following her meeting with Fariba Kamalabadi, a mother-of-three who was temporarily released and allowed home to see her newborn grandchild.
Iran’s religious establishment regards the Bahai faith, which emerged in Iran in the 19th Century, as a heretical sect.
Bahais, who number approximately 300,000, are often denounced as unclean and accused of being agents of the US and Israel.
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Vladimir Putin Given Go-Ahead to Build Super Army to Destroy ISIS Around Entire World
The National Guard force — which was approved by the Russian parliament today — will be put under the strongman’s personal command.
It will be used for major counter-terrorism operations across the planet and have vast powers, including the authority to shoot into crowds and hold suspects for indefiite interrogation.
Experts say the ruthless force will act as an “extension” of Putin himself.
It will be used to conduct military operations around the world, detaining terror suspects for as long as is necessary to glean intelligence from them before handing them over to the police.
The former KGB leader was today given the green light by Russia’s parliament for the elite unite, which will be headed by his one-time bodyguard Viktor Zolotov.
Russia’s State Duma passed the first reading of the controversial bill with 345 parliamentarians approving the motion and just 14 voting against.
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Man Charged Over Murder of Syeid Alam at Rockhampton
A ROCKHAMPTON man was decapitated by a workmate from a local meatworks, police will allege.
Syeid Alam, 33, was found dead at a creek off Fitzroy River in Rockhampton on April 16, 10 days after he was last seen.
Police today charged his colleague, Mohammed Khan, with his murder and interfering with a corpse and he was to appear at Rockhampton Magistrates Court at 2pm.
Detective Inspector Darrin Shadlow revealed Mr Alam was the victim of a brutal decapitation. Both men worked at a local meatworks.
“They were associates. It wasn’t a random attack. There is certainly not a threat to the community,” he said…
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Venezuelan Man Burned Alive Over $5 Becomes Symbol of Country’s Misery
The mob didn’t know at first what Roberto Bernal had done, but he was running and that was enough.
Dozens of men loitering on the sidewalk next to a supermarket kicked and punched the 42-year-old until he was bloodied and semi-conscious. After all, they had been robbed of cell phones, wallets and motorcycles over the years, and thought Bernal had a criminal’s face.
Then a stooped, white-haired man trailing behind told them he’d been mugged.
The mob went through Bernal’s pockets and handed a wad of bills to the old man: The equivalent of $5. They doused Bernal’s head and chest in gasoline and flicked a lighter. And they stood back as he burned alive.
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“You’re a German, You’re Nothing!” Migrant Filmed Assaulting & Bullying German Teen
“Next time I’m going to bloody your eye — I will stab it out if I feel like it!”
Disturbing video censored from YouTube shows a young German teen being bullied and punched in the face by what appears to be a Turkish migrant.
After punching the young German in the face for “annoying” someone, the migrant chastises him, “what kind of a girl are you?”
“I eat something like you for breakfast.”
“Why are you crying? That was a simple slap you peasant,” he says as the teen tends to his bleeding nose.
“Every day I’m going to give him a beating so he gets hardened!”
The migrant then gets up in his face and says: “You’ve never heard of honor.”
“You’re a German, you’re nothing!”
The teen murmurs something in response.
“Shut the f**k up, how dare you talk back to me!”
“Next time I’m going to bloody your eye — I will stab it out if I feel like it!”
“I don’t take something like you seriously — you’re a dog! When I say ‘bark’ you will bark the next time! Have I made myself clear?”
The German kid submits and says “yes,” at which point he’s ordered to “bark” and the video cuts off…
In February, Breitbart reported German families are pulling their children out of “diverse” schools en masse because of “migrant children who often disrupt class and bully native Germans.”
While none of these migrants appear to have received any punishment, Germans accused of posting “anti-refugee” messages on social media are having their homes raided by police.
[Comment: When will German people do something about their traitorous elite? “If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without blood shed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.” -Churchill.]
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Brothel at the Border: Migrants ‘Pimping Asylum Seekers’ For €5 at Greece-Macedonia Camp
MAKESHIFT brothels have been ‘set up for migrants’ paying just €5 at the Macedonia border with Greece.
Police are investigating the claims that criminal gangs run by Iraqi and Moroccan migrants have set up the brothels at the Idomeni refugee camp, which is home to 11,000 people.
The brothel operation allegedly has a sign saying “road to the roses”.
A Greek newspaper claimed the gangs were forcing vulnerable women to adopt them as protectors from other men at the camp.
A senior police officer said: “We are investigating the claim, but so far no official claim has been made by any victim to substantiate it.”
Director of the healthcare aid agency Medecins du Monde Nikitas Kanakis said: “The claims are no surprise. If anything, such activities are bound to spring up within an encampment that has become semi-permanent, operating in a state of anarchy.”
The charity warned that the migrant camp was beginning to resemble Calais.
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EU Faces ‘Populist Uprising’ If it Fails to Control Migration Crisis, Former MI6 Chief Warns
Former spymaster said the impact of mass migration is ‘eating away at the willingness of EU states to act together’
The EU faces a “populist uprising” if it fails to take control of the migration crisis, Britain’s former MI6 chief has warned.
Sir Richard Dearlove also fears offering visa-free access to millions in Turkey is like the European Union “storing gasoline next to the fire”.
The head of the Secret Intelligence Service until 2004, who has previously claimed the impact of leaving the EU on Britain’s security would be low, believes the UK referendum will be the “first roll of the dice in a bigger geopolitical game”.
His warnings come as key figures on opposing sides of the debate, including David Cameron and Boris Johnson, prepare to deliver a fresh round of speeches to voters as the referendum campaign battle intensifies.
The former spymaster said the impact of mass migration is “eating away at the willingness of EU states to act together”.
He told the BBC: “If Europe cannot act together to persuade a significant majority of its citizens that it can gain control of its migratory crisis then the EU will find itself at the mercy of a populist uprising, which is already stirring.”
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EU-Turkey Migrant Deal Unravels Turning Greece Into Massive Refugee Camp
On May 8, the German newspaper Bild reported on a confidential plan to house all migrants arriving from Turkey on Greek islands in the Aegean Sea. Public transportation to and from those islands to the Greek mainland would be cut off in order to prevent migrants from moving into other parts of the European Union.
Migrants would remain on the islands permanently while their asylum applications are being processed. Those whose asylum requests are denied would be deported back to their countries of origin or third countries deemed as “safe.”
The plan, which Bild reports is being discussed at the highest echelons of European power, would effectively turn parts of Greece into massive refugee camps for many years to come. It remains unclear whether Greek leaders will have any say in the matter. It is also unclear how Plan B would reduce the number of migrants flowing into Europe.
Speaking to the BBC News program, “World on the Move,” on May 16, Sir Richard Dearlove, the former head of the British intelligence service MI6, warned that the number of migrants coming to Europe during the next five years could run into millions. This, he said, would reshape the continent’s geopolitical landscape: “If Europe cannot act together to persuade a significant majority of its citizens that it can gain control of its migratory crisis then the EU will find itself at the mercy of a populist uprising, which is already stirring.”
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Exclusive — Immigration Hawks: Facebook Engaging in Deliberate Suppression of Our Content
The advocates claim that Facebook suppresses users who promote material which could undermine Facebook’s lobbying efforts for expanding the admission of foreign labor. They say that Facebook has ceased to be an impartial communications facilitator, but is now a “political combatant.”
The allegations raise difficult questions about the new media landscape, where multinational, multi-billion dollar corporations simultaneously exert extraordinary control over people’s access to information and perception of world events, while at the same time lobbying for controversial changes to federal law that would expand their profits at the expense of the very people who use their service.
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Mr. Murdoch is one of the co-Chairmen of an organisation called Partnership for a New American Economy (PNAE), which published a series of articles in the Washington Times on the subject of “immigration reform”.
PNAE says its principles include the aim of “secur[ing] our borders and prevent[ing] illegal immigration”, but at the same time publishing masses of pro-immigration propaganda and urging a lowering of barriers for legal immigration into the United States.
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German Police: ‘Migrant Background’ Males Kicked Teen to Death Then Molested His Girlfriend
Germany was shocked by the death of 17-year-old ‘Niklas P.’ last month, who passed away last week, six days after he was attacked by a gang as he walked home from a concert.
Police have now confirmed the suspect remanded into custody today is an Italian citizen of “migrationshintergrund” — immigration background — who has been in Germany several years. No further details are known about the identity of the arrested man other than that he is not an ethnic Italian, is 20 years of age, and already has a significant police rap sheet for “violent offences”, reports Rheinische Post.
Two further men are being sought. The case has not yet gone to court, but the man is to be charged with manslaughter.
In the early hours of Saturday 7th, Niklas P. received a fatal beating as he walked home after a concert with his girlfriend and another couple. While the exact reason for the fight that broke out between their group and the gang of migrant males is unknown, it is understood the attackers made an unprovoked approach.
Niklas was punched on the side of the head, police revealed in their press conference today, which in one blow knocked him down, unconscious. The 20-year-old migrant male is accused of then kicking Niklas in the head twice, which put him into the coma to which he would succumb almost a week later.
It was also revealed at the press conference that as her boyfriend was being kicked to death by the gang, another one of the assailants molested Niklas’ girlfriend on the “unterlaib” — crotch — and then slapped her in the face.
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How Italy’s Richest Region is Feeling the Migrant Strain
Wealthy South Tyrol — a little bit of Austria in Italy — is the latest bottleneck in Europe’s refugee crisis. Angela Giuffrida finds a region battling with the consequences.
But modelling up to the year 2050, by Rand Europe and auditors KPMG, suggests 10 million people could die each year — equivalent to one every three seconds.
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Hundreds of Refugee Children Have Gone Missing in Sweden
More than 300 refugee children have disappeared in Sweden in the first four and a half months of the year, according to the most recent figures.
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Can White Kids Grow Up to be Black? Some Preschoolers Think So
According to a University of Michigan study, white preschoolers often believe a person’s race can change over time, and the youngsters even think they can can grow up to become black adults.
Steven Roberts, a U-M doctoral student and the study’s lead author, said that although children may be aware of races other than their own, they don’t have a strong understanding of what race is — at least not to the degree of adults.
Roberts and colleague Susan Gelman, U-M professor of psychology and linguistics, examined the extent that children believed race was stable; that is, whether a black child would grow up to be a black adult.
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Has America Lost the Will to Survive?
The big question is: are the moms and dads of America’s public school children going to stand for this perversity that is going to directly affect their children? Are they really going to sit back and give their sons and daughters over to the government-mandated corruption of the innocence and moral purity of our nation’s schoolchildren? Lt. Gov. Patrick predicts the implementation of this order will be the “end of public education.” But will it? Will the parents of America actually resist this blatant attempt to invade not only the bathrooms and showers but also the moral conscience of their children? Or will they passively allow their children to be subjected to this grotesque and overt attempt to destroy their moral conscience?
If this order is allowed to be fully implemented, this nation is toast. In the entire history of the world, no nation has ever survived once it has given itself — and especially its children — over to universal moral corruption. Ever. And giving our children over to moral corruption is exactly what Obama’s proclamation does.
David French also correctly wrote, “First, the very act of teaching biology and human physiology will be hate speech unless it’s modified to conform to the new transgender ‘facts.’ Teachers will have to take great pains to note that chromosomes, reproductive organs, hormonal systems, and any other physical marker of sex is irrelevant to this thing called ‘gender,’ which, ‘factually,’ is a mere state of mind.
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Shopper Upset Man Allowed to Use Women’s Dressing Room in Ross
“I was in the dressing room, when we heard a man’s voice”
A Forney woman says a Ross department store in Mesquite let a man into the women’s dressing room Monday.
“I was in the dressing room, when we heard a man’s voice,” said Lisa Stickles, who says she quickly told a manager.
“She went inside the dressing room, came right back out and called me to the side and told me… he was representing himself as a woman today,” Stickles said.
A customer service representative with Ross would not comment on the alleged incident but said they do not discriminate against the transgender community; adding, customers may use changing rooms that apply to their gender identity.
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Swedish Church Boss: ‘Homosexuality is a Trend’
A member of the highest decision-making body of the Swedish Church has described homosexuality as ‘just a trend’ in response to other priests’ participation in a Pride parade.
Last week’s Pride Festival in Växjö in southern Sweden attracted around 9,000 participants and included events organized by the local branch of the Swedish Church (Svenska Kyrkan).
But Bruno Edgarsson, who is head of Växjö diocese’s adminstrative board as well as a member of Sweden’s Centre Party, caused a stir in the famously open and tolerant Nordic country when he made controversial comments in response.
“I am definitely against Pride. I think it should be a man and a woman and I can’t reconcile myself with LBGT,” he told local paper Smålänningen.
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A Rough Guide to Spotting Bad Climate Science
Being able to evaluate the evidence behind any scientific claim is important. Being able to recognize bad science reporting or faults in scientific studies is equally important. These following points may help you separate the real science from the pseudo science.
Speculative Language…
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Giant Tsunamis Washed Over Ancient Mars
Meteorite impacts triggered enormous waves in now-vanished ocean.
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Global Antibiotics ‘Revolution’ Needed
A global revolution in the use of antimicrobials is needed, according to a government backed report.
Lord Jim O’Neill, who led the Review on Antimicrobial Resistance, said a campaign was needed to stop people treating antibiotics like sweets.
It is the first recommendation in the global plan for preventing medicine “being cast back into the dark ages”.
The report has received a mixed response with some concerned that it does not go far enough.
Superbugs, resistant to antimicrobials, are estimated to account for 700,000 deaths each year.
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EC faces POPULAR, not “populist” uprising.
It appears as though my distant German cousins would prefer to live on their knees than die on their feet.
Simply embarrassing conduct from a once-great people.
Its the same all across the western Eurofrakenstein monster. Apparently all have been successfully [emasculated]. It only gets violent if the governor cuts the “free” bread.
well beware when the Germans wake up again then we see who kneels down and barks on command !
what does your comment mean?
The albedo study, while interesting, covers broadband visible spectrum. It would be more relevant to possible CO2 heating if it also covered IR reflectance.
Dymphna, Baron, there is something of question regarding the i.c.e. article. All the facts claimed are known of publicly pretty much for some time now, as a collection, and the name is coming up in strange ways on searches as fictional. You may want to check the story, or pull it. It all could come to pass yet before the devil is out, and the economy is being pushed as about to fail this year by many to as usual make money. Here is a wiki source, and more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neal_Caffrey
http://nypost.com/2016/05/06/man-found-at-pier-40-with-self-inflicted-gunshot-wound/
http://www.snopes.com/new-york-ice-agent-suicide-note/
I know snopes isn’t perfect, but the story just doesn’t smell wholly right, because I’ve known of the primary info for so long from so many sources of fair to great quality on the web.
It didn’t smell right to me, either. Thanks — I’ll pull it.
The thing is, people have been predicting imminent martial law and mass detentions for EIGHT YEARS. They started as soon as Barry was inaugurated, and have been predicting the same thing ever since. With me, their credibility is shot.
This takes me one step closer to excluding all “News With Views” articles from the news feed. I don’t have time to check everything, so heavily suspect sources (e.g. Natural News) just get banned entirely. It’s easier that way.
Thanks Baron, I understand. It’s a lot more responsibility running a blog to be correct in content, than merely the responsibility being a commenter. A blog of dependability requires much work, and much discipline, and constant diligence. I’m hoping to do one soon, and have spent much time reviewing what must be done to achieve and maintain the top 50 in category goal we at least you and I and many others all have.
Good luck in your endeavor with a new website. For many years you’ll have to hang in there just to be heard. And then, when you begin to attain some success, you’ll find the blog runs you.