A fourth devastating fire at an Orthodox religious structure has been reported, this one in an historic building at the Valaam monastery in northern Russia. Like the other three — one in Manhattan and two in Australia — the fire at the monastery occurred after services on Orthodox Easter.
In other news, the number of unaccompanied children claiming asylum in Europe last year quadrupled to almost 90,000.
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A New Digital Cash System Was Just Unveiled at a Secret Meeting for Bankers in New York
The potential for tyranny would be absolutely off the charts.
Last month, a “secret meeting” that involved more than 100 executives from some of the biggest financial institutions in the United States was held in New York City.
During this “secret meeting”, a company known as “Chain” unveiled a technology that transforms U.S. dollars into “pure digital assets”. Reportedly, there were representatives from Nasdaq, Citigroup, Visa, Fidelity, Fiserv and Pfizer in the room, and Chain also claims to be partnering with Capital One, State Street, and First Data. This “revolutionary” technology is intended to completely change the way that we use money, and it would represent a major step toward a cashless society. But if this new digital cash system is going to be so good for society, why was it unveiled during a secret meeting for Wall Street bankers? Is there something more going on here than we are being told?
None of us probably would have ever heard about this secret meeting if it was not for a report in Bloomberg. The following comes from their article entitled “Inside the Secret Meeting Where Wall Street Tested Digital Cash”…
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In addition, the potential for tyranny would be absolutely off the charts.
Just imagine a world where the government could serve as the gatekeeper for who is allowed to use the cashless system and who is not. They could require that we all submit to some sort of government-issued form of identification before being permitted to operate within the system, or it is even conceivable that a loyalty oath would be required.
Of course if you did not submit to their demands, you could not buy, sell, open a bank account or get a job without access to the cashless system.
Hopefully people can understand where this is going. Paper money is a very important component of our freedom, and if it is taken away from us that will open the door for all sorts of abuse.
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Warren Buffett Warns He’d Take His Money Out of the Banks in Subzero Interest Rate Environment
Subzero interest rates may not arrive in the United States with rampant price inflation looming in the background. But if they do become implemented by the Federal Reserve, one iconic billionaire investor is warning to take your money out of the banks and place it under the mattress.
Speaking in an interview with CNBC on Monday, Warren Buffett said he would take his money out of the banks if customers are charged money on deposits.
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ABC’s ‘Quantico’/ American Terrorist Cell Shouts ‘Make America Great Again’ Before Attack
An American militia cell shouted the GOP presidential hopeful’s campaign slogan, “Make America Great Again,” before an attack in Chicago.
ABC thriller Quantico took a shot at Donald Trump in Sunday night’s episode, when it was revealed that an American militia cell shouted the GOP presidential hopeful’s campaign slogan, “Make America Great Again,” before an attack in Chicago.
Fans of the show took to social media to congratulate the show’s writers for the dig:…
But not everyone was impressed.
“Could they be any more predictable? Apparently, ‘Make America Great Again’ is the equivalent of ‘Allahu Akbar,’ in Hollywood’s minds,” writes Media Research Center’s Erik Soderstrom.
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Bill ‘To Shut Down Most Gun Shops’ Drafted in Illinois House
Legislation “to shut down most gun shops” in Illinois is expected to come up for a vote in the state House this week.
The bill, which has yet to be named, would require gun stores to acquire a license from the state even though stores already operate under the auspices of a Federal Firearm License holder (FFL).
To acquire and maintain the license, gun stores would be required to install surveillance equipment sufficient to video tape all gun sales and transactions, to “install state-of-the-art vaults and alarms in their shops,” “to fill out stacks of new forms and keep reams of paper records covering your firearm purchases,” and to allow the Chicago Police Department to “inspect and audit any gun shop in the state at any time.”
The Illinois State Rifle Association (ISRA) warns that the vault and alarm requirement alone could cost each gun store “$2 million.” Those that could not afford it, would be forced to close up shop.
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Google Patent Application Shows Device That’s Injected Directly Into Your Eyeball to Improve Vision
Google has a penchant for far-out tech that never reaches the market. The latest is a method of injecting a device into an eyeball, mostly as a means to correct poor vision. Described in a patent application dated April 28, 2016, the device is injected in fluid that then solidifies to couple the device with the eye’s lens.
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Hispanics Planning More Anti-Trump Violence
Hispanic activists are planning even more violent protests as US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump moves his campaign into California, one of the most heavily overrun states in the country. The protests have successfully proven the point that the 2016 US Presidential election has become all about race.
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Insults Fly in GOP Race as Cruz Hits ‘Amoral’ Trump, Front-Runner Cites Tabloid Story
Even by 2016 campaign standards, the war of words that broke out Tuesday between Ted Cruz and Donald Trump was a new level of nasty.
In a rapid-fire exchange of insults that escalated as voters went to the polls in Indiana’s presidential primary, Texas Sen. Cruz unleashed on the Republican front-runner, calling him “utterly amoral,” a narcissist and a “pathological liar” — after earlier suggesting Trump also harbors “contempt” for Christians.
The fusillade of put-downs was delivered after Trump, speaking on Fox News, invoked a tabloid report claiming his rival’s father, Rafael Cruz, showed up in a 1963 photograph with John F. Kennedy’s assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald.
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Judge Orders Mother’s Child to be Snatched Because She Believes in “Chemtrails”
A judge in Colorado ordered a mother’s child to be removed from her custody because the mother’s interest in “chemtrails” was a “fringe subculture” and represented a threat to her daughter.
Boulder Judge Dolores Mallard told Becca Vandb that her interest in the chemtrail conspiracy — which holds that some contrails emitted by commercial and military aircraft are in fact part of clandestine geoengineering programs — – was a radical view because “99% of people would know those are just contrails.”
Vandb said that the inquiry was triggered after she raised the subject of chemtrails during a visit to her daughter’s school and was immediately told to leave the premises.
“I can now only see my daughter with a social security worker standing over me taking notes, and the judge said this was so that if I mention chemtrails they would put a stop to that. I am being railroaded for expressing my views about chemtrails,” wrote Vandb, adding that she had not received any CPS visits nor were there any allegations of child abuse made by the court or her daughter’s school.
According to Judge Mallard, Vandb being “immersed in a fringe subculture” means “she is a danger to her daughter.”
“The school helped him take away custody because I had the gall to argue with them when they severely embellished my comments (made to adults only) about chemtrails,” Vandb told YourNewsWire.
Vandb’s Facebook page features numerous posts about chemtrails and other conspiracies.
Whether you believe in the reality of chemtrails or not, the notion that the state can order someone’s child to be seized because of their private beliefs — – with no evidence whatsoever of actual child abuse — is chilling.
What’s next? Taking people’s kids because they don’t agree with the “consensus” on man-made global warming?
Last year we reported on the Naughler family, who had their 10 children seized by police because of concerns over their off-grid, traditional lifestyle.
We also previously highlighted the case of a father who was harassed by Child Protective Services because he chose to only give his children organic food and refused to let them drink unfiltered tap water.
Allowing the state to characterize holding certain harmless beliefs or living completely legal lifestyles as a form of child abuse is an incredibly dangerous precedent and should be opposed at every turn.
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Today is the first anniversary of the Islamic State’s first attack in the homeland.
Just a couple of short months later, in response to the Chattanooga jihadi who slaughtered four Marines, one Navy officer said: “The War Has Just Begun. More to Come.”
He was right. Yet one year after jihadis attacked our Muhammad Art Exhibit and Cartoon Contest in defense of free speech, the West is in full surrender mode. In the wake of the Garland jihad attacks, the world says: let the bullies silence you. Don’t draw Muhammad. Comply with their other demands.
Garland changed everything for my colleagues and me. Its personal toll has been enormous. It has affected our lives and our careers in innumerable ways, all of them negative. Our security costs are now astronomical. We cannot step outside without remembering that we are hunted, and at any time jihadis could strike at us.
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Pedestrian Struck and Killed by Hijacked Metrobus in D.C., Police Say
Authorities say a pedestrian was struck and killed by a Metrobus that was hijacked Tuesday morning in Northeast Washington.
D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier said a man was taken into custody at a gas station when the bus was stopped. The pedestrian who was killed was not immediately identified. She said the suspect was “violent and resistant.”
The entire incident was less than three minutes, she said.
Lanier described the event as bizarre, saying it was rare occurrence for someone to take a bus and attack the driver. It was not immediately clear what weapon was used in the attack.
The bus driver suffered non-life-threatening injuries, but there were no injuries to passengers, according to Metro Transit Police…
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This Ancient Laptop is the Only Key to the Most Valuable Supercars on the Planet
This is a Compaq LTE 5280 laptop from the early 1990s, running a bespoke CA card. In 2016, McLaren Automotive-one of the most high-tech car and technology companies on the planet-still uses it and its DOS-based software to service the remaining hundred McLaren F1s out there, each valued at $10 million or more…
Why is McLaren spending thousands of pounds on a specific version of the LTE 5280 laptop, a piece of ancient history you could otherwise grab on eBay for a few hundred bucks?
“The reason we need those specific Compaq laptops is that they run a bespoke CA card which is installs into them,” a fellow from MSO told me. “The CA card is an interface between the laptop software (which is DOS based) and the car.”
He added: “We are currently working on an new interface which will be compatible with modern laptops as they old Compaqs are getting less and less reliable and harder to find.”
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Trump Links Cruz’s Father to JFK Assassin
(THE HILL) Donald Trump on Tuesday morning linked Ted Cruz’s father to Lee Harvey Oswald, the man who shot President John F. Kennedy.
During a phone interview on “Fox and Friends,” Trump mentioned a tabloid story claiming Rafael Cruz was with Oswald before the assassination.
“His father was with Lee Harvey Oswald prior to Oswald being shot. I mean, the whole thing is ridiculous,” Trump said. “Nobody even brings it up, they don’t even talk about that.”
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West Virginia Coal Worker Confronts Hillary About Putting Coal ‘Out of Business’
Last month, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton vowed to “put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business.”
On Monday, an emotional unemployed coal miner by the name of Bo Copley confronted Clinton on her promise, asking how she could claim to be friends of the coal miners while also putting them out of jobs.
“I don’t know how to explain it other than what I said was totally out of context for what I meant because I have been talking about helping coal country for a very long time,” she replied. “It was a misstatement because what I was saying is the way things are going now, they will continue to lose jobs. It didn’t mean that we were going to do it. What I said is that is going to happen unless we take action to help and prevent it.”
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Will SpaceX Get People to Mars Before NASA?
Billionaire tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, never one to rest on his laurels, recently laid out the opening move in his long-term quest to land people (himself included) on Mars.
The plan begins with a Dragon capsule, similar to one of the cargo ships now parked at the International Space Station, blasting off for Mars aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket as early as 2018.
The Falcon Heavy, which will have 27 first-stage engines, compared to the nine aboard SpaceX’s current Falcon rocket, is scheduled for its first flight before the end of this year. Falcon Heavy will be the most powerful U.S. rocket to fly since NASA’s Saturn 5 moon rockets of the 1970s.
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Governments in Canada Spent More Than $25 Billion on Childcare in 2015
TORONTO-The federal and provincial governments in Canada spent more than $25 billion on childcare in 2015, with much of the funding targeted at low- and middle-income families, finds a new study released today by the Fraser Institute, an independent, non-partisan Canadian public policy think-tank.
“The range of programs relating to childcare, and the degree of financial support by governments for families with children, may not be fully appreciated in Canada,” said Christopher Sarlo, professor of economics and senior fellow with the Fraser Institute, and author of Child Care in Canada: Examining the Status Quo in 2015.
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Chinese Police to Patrol in Italy in Pioneering Experiment
Four Chinese police officers will patrol alongside Italian police in Rome and Milan, as a two-week experiment.
The officers, who speak Italian, are being sent in a bid to make Chinese tourists feel safe during the peak tourism period, said Italian Interior Minister Angelino Alfano.
“If the experiment is successful, we will expand it to other cities in Italy,” he said.
Around three million Chinese tourists visit Italy annually.
Mr Alfano said that Italian officers would also soon be heading to Beijing and Shanghai to patrol alongside Chinese officers.
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DNA Secrets of Ice Age Europe Unlocked
A study of DNA from ancient human bones has helped unlock the secrets of Europe’s Ice Age inhabitants.
Researchers analysed the genomes of 51 individuals who lived between 45,000 years ago and 7,000 years ago.
The results reveal details about the biology of these early inhabitants, such as skin and eye colour, and how different populations were related.
It also shows that Neanderthal ancestry in Europeans has been shrinking over time, perhaps due to natural selection.
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Europe’s Mars Life-Detection Mission Postponed
Europe and Russia are delaying launch of their ExoMars life-scouting rover mission to Mars from 2018 to 2020, the next time Earth and Mars are best aligned for interplanetary flight.
“Russian and European experts made their best efforts to meet the 2018 launch schedule for the mission,” the European Space Agency said in a statement Monday.
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First Gym Specifically for Muslim Women to Open in the UK
The first gym for Muslim women is due to open in the UK.
Haya Fitness, will ban men — though non-Muslim women are welcome. Women will be able to ditch their headscarves, hijabs or burkas for workouts at the female-only gym.
Haya has all the usual fitness equipment including treadmills, exercise bikes and weights and it will also feature an onsite prayer room.
The businessman behind the idea for the gym in Cardiff, South Wales, believes there’s a gap in the fitness market for Muslim women, who maybe don’t feel like they can comfortably attend their local or high street gym.
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Germany: Communists Attack AfD Convention
Police arrested more than 400 violent communist thugs outside the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party convention in Stuttgart over the weekend-but the thuggery did not prevent the 2,400-strong convention from going ahead as planned. The communists also burned tires and threw firecrackers at journalists and the 1,000-strong police presence.
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Germany: Officials ‘Tried to Erase Rape’ From Cologne NYE Report
A high-ranking police officer has alleged that his seniors tried to strike the word rape from an internal police report after the mass sexual assaults in Cologne over New Year.
A chief superintendent in the Cologne police told the investigative committee established in the wake of the attacks that the interior ministry in North Rhine-Westphalia had sought to influence the investigations.
The officer explained that an official from the ministry had called about a rape charge mentioned in an internal police report.
“That isn’t rape. Get rid of it. Delete the report,” the ministry official said, according to the chief superintendent.
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Glasgow Primary School Has 222 Pupils and Not One is Scottish
Annette Street School is pleading for cash to help teach its Roma, Eastern European and Asian children, who don’t speak English as a first language.
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Hundreds of Pages of TTIP Agreement Leaked
Greenpeace has leaked hundreds of pages of the controversial Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) which show that negotiations may be in danger of collapsing.
According to newly leaked documents, the United States and the European Union are divided on certain agreements to the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP)…
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Londoners go to the polls on Thursday to choose a replacement for the outgoing Mayor, Boris Johnson MP. Despite the fact the Labour Party is currently mired in an anti-Semitism scandal, if all things remain equal, expect the party’s candidate Sadiq Khan MP to be confirmed in the early hours of Friday morning.
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Dead Sea Area Contains Oil Worth Nis 1.2 Billion — Report
A new report released Sunday by Israel Opportunity Energy Resources LP and filed with the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange claimed an oil reservoir near the Dead Sea is worth NIS 1.2 billion ($320 million).
The study, conducted by the independent Australian-based Dunmore Consulting company, said that the Hatrurim area contains from seven to eleven million barrels of oil. According to Channel 2, the Israel Opportunity Energy Resources said the report indicates a 100 percent chance of striking oil at the site, which covers 94 square kilometers in the Dead Sea area.
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Dead Sea Alive Again With New Oil Worth $322 Million
An old oil well in the Dead Sea is now believed to contain reserves of 7 to 11 million barrels according to a report commissioned by the Israeli companies holding the drilling license.
The Hatrurim sector covers an area of about 94 square kilometers in the Dead Sea region, and the new report drawn up by Edinburgh-based Dunmore Consulting assesses the oil reserves ranging between 7 and 11 million barrels and valued at some $322 million.
And since oil has been produced from this same reservoir before, assessors are looking at a 100 percent geological certainty.
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Drilling Turns Up Nis 1.2 Billion of Oil Near Dead Sea
Drilling carried under the Haturim oil and gas exploration license near the Dead Sea has turned up NIS 1.2 billion-worth of oil, theJerusalem Post says, citing a report published by Dunmore Consulting, which holds the license.
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Firm Says Old Dead Sea Well Could Hold $322 Million of Oil
An Israeli energy company looking to revive an old oil well near the Dead Sea said on May 1 a new resources report showed the field could hold reserves worth 1.2 billion shekels (US$322 million).
Israel Opportunity Energy Resources LP said the report prepared by Edinburgh-based Dunmore Consulting on the Hatrurim license, which covers 94 sq km (36.3 sq miles), gives a best estimate of the field containing 7 million barrels (MMbbl) of oil, while the high estimate is 11 MMbbl.
Partners in the Hatrurim project include Zerah Oil and Gas Exlorations LP, Gulliver Energy Ltd., Ashtrom Group Ltd. and Cyprus Opportunity.
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IDF Thwarted Smuggling Attempt of 4 Tons of Ammonium Chloride Into Gaza Strip
The IDF and the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) thwarted an attempted smuggling of over 4 tons of ammonium chloride into the Gaza Strip before Passover. The report was cleared for publication on Tuesday.
According to the Shin Bet, the chemicals were concealed in a shipment of salt, the chemicals to have been used for manufacturing long-range rockets. Initial reports give little information given an ongoing investigation is currently underway. The attempted smuggle was orchestrated by Hamas, the Shin Bet reportedly locating a terrorist linked to the shipment, a resident of the Gaza Strip.
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Turkish Lawmakers Brawl Over Controversial Immunity Proposal
ANKARA, Turkey — Punches were thrown and water bottles were hurled, but a Turkish parliamentary committee has approved a contentious ruling-party proposal to strip legislators of their immunity from prosecution.
The proposed constitutional amendment, which could pave the way for the trial of several pro-Kurdish legislators on terror-related charges, was cleared by the committee late on Monday.
Pro-Kurdish party lawmakers walked out of the meeting following the brawl, which left one legislator with a dislocated shoulder and a second with a bloodied nose.
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USS Cole Commander Blasts Transfer of Al Qaeda Gitmo Detainees to Saudi Arabia
The man at the helm of the USS Cole when it was attacked by an Al Qaeda cell in 2000 said last month’s release of a Guantanamo Bay detainee linked to the bombers denies justice to the 17 people killed aboard the ship.
Kirk Lippold, who was commanding officer of the U.S. Navy guided missile destroyer when suicide bombers aboard a small fishing boat blew a hole in the side of the ship, told FoxNews.com Mashur Abdallah Ahmed al Sabri’s release was a mistake.
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Fire Rages at Russia’s Revered Valaam Monastery (Video) — Rt News
People were evacuated and an emergency helicopter was deployed after a hotel in a 19th century building on the premises of historic Valaam monastery in northern Russia caught fire.
The huge blaze covering some 800 square meters (8,600 sq feet) started on Sunday morning, as the Orthodox Christian community was celebrating Easter day…
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Indonesia Police Confiscate Sex Toy Mistaken for ‘Angel’
Indonesian police have confiscated a sex toy from a remote village after its inhabitants and some on social media mistook it for an “angel”.
The doll was found in March floating in the sea by a fisherman in the Banggai islands in Sulawesi province.
His family took care of the doll, and pictures soon spread online along with claims it was an angel.
Police investigated amid fears the rumours would cause unrest, and found it was in fact an inflatable sex doll.
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Visiting the World’s Most Powerful Telescopes: #MeetESO
Some of our planet’s most powerful eyes are located in Chile, where a group of powerful observatories are constantly at work. Managed by the European Southern Observatory (ESO), a collaboration of 16 member states and based out of Germany, the ESO sites in Chile include Paranal Observatory (home to the The Very Large Telescope) and La Silla Observatory. The ESO is also a partner in the the awesome Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) that was inaugurated in 2013. ALMA is the biggest and most powerful observatory on the planet.
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Turkey is on course to be handed visa-free travel to the European Union for its 75 million citizens, despite not meeting a series of key targets. On Wednesday the European Commission is expected to recommended a radical loosening of travel conditions for the country.
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90,000 Children Enter EU on Their Own in Just a Year as David Cameron Faces Pressure
The number of lone children claiming asylum in Europe nearly quadrupled to 88,300 last year, official figures revealed yesterday. Nearly 12,000 of them were 13 years old or younger.
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German Coverup Scandal: Ministry Urged Erasing “Rape” From “Monstrous” Cologne Migrant Attack Report
A key turning point in German public sentiment (and subsequent anger) against the unprecedented refugee wave swarming the nation took place during a NYE celebration in Cologne, when multiple reports suggested that as many as 1,000 men “of Arab or North African origin” participated in “monstrous” coordinated attacks on German women in Cologne. “About 90 women have reported being robbed, threatened or sexually molested at New Year celebrations outside [the city’s] cathedral,” Reuters wrote, adding that the men were “between 18 and 35” and appeared to be “mostly drunk” as well as of foreign origin.
This led to an outpouring of anger across Germany, and even Cologne mayor Henriette Reker chimed in calling the incident “unbelievable and intolerable” while Justice Minister Heiko Maas described the attacks as “a new scale of organized crime.”
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Migrant Crisis: EU ‘To Back’ Visa-Free Travel for Turkey
The European Commission will give conditional approval for Turks to travel without visas to Europe’s passport-free Schengen area, sources have told the BBC. The move is part of a deal in which Turkey is taking back migrants who have crossed over the Aegean Sea to Greece.
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Syrian Bishop: West Must Stop Welcoming Refugees
According to the Archbishop of Aleppo, when Westerners open their doors to Syrian refugees, it hurts, rather than helps, their cause. The solution lies not in welcoming more refugees, but in helping resolve the situation back home so they will not need to leave.
Archbishop Jean-Clement Jeanbart said he is “not happy” with the news that Canada has welcomed about 25,000 Syrian refugees in the past few months, despite its good intentions.
“We’re not happy when we see the Canadian government moving refugees and facilitating their integration. It hurts us. A lot,” he said.
Jeanbart, who has served as Melkite archbishop of Aleppo since 1995, stated that his real wish is to see the Syrian population, especially the Christians, stay in Syria.
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Turks Look to EU to Scrap Visas for Travel in Europe
Visa rejection is still a stain on Tan Morgul’s memory. “The most insulting time of my life,” he says.
“I’ve seen applicants shivering with fear that they won’t be accepted,” he says. “We want to travel to expand our minds; it’s our basic human right.”
That right may finally be given for the 79 million citizens of the Turkish republic.
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‘Frozen’ Fans Tweet Disney: Make Princess a Lesbian
Hundreds of “Frozen” cartoon film fans took to Twitter to press Disney, the producer of the children’s mega-hit musical, to make a sequel — only this time, give the leading lady, Elsa, a lesbian love interest.
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Triggered SJW Sends Hilarious 2,000-Word Complaint to College Authorities After Milo Event
A student at UMass sent a furious 2,000 word email to 25 separate university authorities outlining her demands “for appropriate disciplinary action” to be taken against UMass Republicans for “harassment and libel” against her following the event “The Triggering” featuring Breitbart Tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos.
In the email, Jennie Chenkin, a student in “political theory, carceral studies, and conflict resolution,” explains that she protested the event by holding a banner up that said “Content Warning: Bigotry Inside,” whilst handing out fliers that explained “what I believe political correctness stands for.”
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Some person at the DAILY MAIL online is insisting it was the Croats who did the fire at the Serbian Church in NYC because the Serbs do not want Nazi allied Stepanak , a priest who served during the WAR years in Croatia and who was sent to prison by Tito for war crimes after the war.
I do not believe that.
Muslims from Bosnia and Kosovo would love to have destroyed the beautiful Serbian church…because they SIMPLY have hated Serbs since they defeated the Turks in WWI and those two groups could no longer treat the Serbs ( or the Croats) as second class citizens and get all that lovely Jigzah tax from them.
I do not believe the candles started the fire. They are bee’s wax and not large or thick. They are placed in a water bucket after being taken from the sand trays where they sit in front of Icons. The sand is sifted ( we uses a kitty box slotted scoop) and then the melted wax bits are also dumped in the water bucket. The candles and pieces of wax are later melted and by a sorting process they are reformed into candles.
Other candles are in glass candle holders.. They would be white wax .
I think somebody could have set times incendiaries and gained access to the church in the midst of the huge crowds at service and at the luncheon. I hope there may be ccc-tv units saved .
Thanks for the information. Islam’s representatives do minor damage to their own places and claim it was done by infidels. I went through an annual report by the OIC – unlike Americans, they knew what Gates of Vienna was so they actually named us in one of their annuals (2010, I think). I slogged through all their reports of “terrorism” against their mosques for the year – there were hundreds – and without exception they were things like painted slogans, pork on the steps near the door, damaged swing sets, etc. In other words, no real damage, just propaganda.
I was in that beautiful and solemn church a few years ago at a talk given by Serge Trifkovic. There was a bust of Tesla near the entrance -hope it survived. I’m not a great believer in coincidence with four such fires occurring at the same time.
http://m.sputniknews.com/russia/20160504/1039081661/russia-terrorist-arrest.html
More arrests made in Russia, this time in Moscow.
That’s a frustrating report. Beyond the headline, there’s no real meat.
Not yet. Wait and see for a couple of days to see if it pans out or not.
Better info
https://www.rt.com/news/341834-fsb-terrorists-attack-plan/
Syria & Turkish connection to the ‘stans.
Does anyone know whether this is Photoshopped. It is quite telling.
http://www.libertepolitique.com/Actualite/Decryptage/UNE-PHOTO-QUI-PARLE-SEULE
Looks staged. One cannot walk for long with the hooded garment like that. It needs to be tied at the front.
I seriously doubt that any muslim man would have his hand on his “wife” like that in public, unless he thinks she might try to escape from him.
I think, they only walk off one bus for photo session, and then go on the next bus.
All of them, here, young males, likely, strong enough to carry at least one child for some time. The woman seems to be carrying two.
On a third look that might not be the man’s hand on her right side… it may be the baby’s leg. but why isn’t he helping carry the baby-backpack??? Oh, never mind…. she IS the pack animal.
Opening the image and zooming in in Photoshop confirms the appendage is the child’s leg. The boy is wearing blue elastic cuffed trousers and boots which may have a cartoon character on their top. The woman is also carrying a Red Cross package that any one of the men could have at least carried. But, like you said, SHE is the pack horse – and the only barefoot member of the entire group.
New ottoman sultan
supports fired islamist in Sweden
As there are no borders in the caliphate, the sultan is perfectly entitled to announce his opinions about how Sweden is run.
Again, islam has been a “victim of islamophobia”, according to sultan’s speech on Wednesday, about how muslims are treated in the West.
– Just look what happened to a muslim who had reached a position as minister in Sweden!
As a sultan, of course, he should have been consulted, and of course, no non-muslim should be allowed to push an islamist from this power position as a minister.
Firing of TurkishMehment Kaplan was big news in Turkey. Kaplan held a position as minister of housing in Sweden.
Kaplan came to Sweden at the age of one. At such a young age, an individual should have plenty of time to adjust to his new country in the West, but the ties to Turkey, or, rather the caliphate to be, seem to have been much stronger than those to Sweden.
Once the religion of infiltration has reached such a position in a Western state, it should not, ever, be forced to let go of it. The plan is to gain and keep the power.
In 2010, Kaplan as one of the activists of the convoi Ship to Gaza, was arrested by the Israeli army.
– So, then why can’t erDOGan take his lap dog home?
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Good, it’s China’s turn to police the world.