A proposal for Germany to recognize the 1915 Armenian Genocide is being presented in the Bundestag tomorrow. Ahead of the vote, both Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatened Germany with consequences if it recognizes the genocide. Neither Chancellor Merkel nor Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel will be present for the vote.
In other news, an Iraqi man who gained asylum in Austria by professing to be a homosexual has been jailed for sexually assaulting an 11-year-old girl in a swimming pool. There is no word on whether the man mistook the pre-pubescent girl for a boy.
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Donald Trump Claims Real Unemployment Rate is 20%, Vows to Probe Government Economic Stats
If you use data from John Williams’ s Shadow Government Statistics then you could contend that the real unemployment rate in the United States is above 20 percent. This is much higher than the government touted five percent. You could take it one step further with the labor force participation rate, which stands around 63 percent.
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Donald Trump: Katie Couric ‘Should be Ashamed’ Of ‘Fraudulent Editing’
Trump is calling out Couric over the edits.
On May 31, presumptive Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump weighed in on Katie Couric’s “fraudulent editing,” tweeting that she “should be ashamed” of herself.
Katie Couric’s gun control film — Under the Gun — contains an 8-second pause that was inserted in the editing process. That pause gives viewers the false impression that pro-gun proponents were unsure or stumped when Couric questioned them about gun control. Breitbart News previously reported that NPR called the edits “unfair and unwarranted” and made clear it never would have inserted the pause in the film because its journalistic standards are higher than those of Couric.
Now Trump is calling out Couric over the edits, tweeting that she “should be ashamed” and suggesting that she is “third rate,” at best, anyway.
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Facebook Refuses to Remove “I F**king Want to Kill Donald Trump” Page
After signing pledge vowing to remove “hate speech” within 24 hours
Despite signing a pledge to remove “hate speech” within 24 hours, Facebook is refusing to delete a page entitled “I Want to F**king Want to Kill Donald Trump” that has been online for almost two months…
The fact that the page has remained online since April 11 despite being flagged numerous times will bolster charges that Facebook has one rule for leftists and another for conservatives when it comes to policing “hate speech”.
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Facebook Quietly Opts Users Into Off-Site Ad Tracking: Here’s How to Disable it
Social media site changes users’ privacy settings without their consent
Facebook recently began tracking and serving ads to web users who don’t even have an account on the social media site. In doing so, Facebook also quietly changed the ad settings of its users without their consent.
As reported by The Wall Street Journal, Facebook will target both users and non-users across the web to show them advertisements by tracking them with everything from cookies to “like” buttons.
“Our buttons and plugins send over basic information about users’ browsing sessions. For non-Facebook members, previously we didn’t use it,” Andrew Bosworth, vice president of Facebook’s ads and business platform, told the Journal. “Now we’ll use it to better understand how to target those people.”
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Facebook Using People’s Phones to Listen in on What They’re Saying, Claims Professor
The company says that it does use handsets’ microphones, but only to help them out — and there’s an easy way of turning it off.
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Humans to Mars by 2028? Check Out Lockheed Martin’s Red Planet ‘Base Camp’ Idea
Lockheed Martin has launched its campaign to establish a “Mars Base Camp” — a vision for sending humans to Mars by 2028.
In its Mars Base Camp concept video, the aerospace company Lockheed Martin lays out a plan that would transport astronauts from Earth to a Mars-orbiting science laboratory, where they could perform real-time scientific exploration, analyze Martian rock and soil samples,and confirm the ideal place to land humans on the surface.
Lockheed Martin foresees launching this orbiting science station in 2028, setting the stage for a human landing mission in the 2030s.
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Poll: 71 Percent of Dems Think Clinton Should Keep Running Even if Indicted
A strong majority of Democratic voters think Hillary Clinton should keep running for president even if she is charged with a felony in connection with her private email use while secretary of state, according to a new poll.
Clinton was strongly criticized in a State Department inspector general report last week about her email use.
The report found repeated warnings about cybersecurity were ignored and staffers who expressed concerns were told “never to speak of the Secretary’s personal email system again.”
Yet, this seems not to be a big issue among Democrats.
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This Deep-Sea Creature Could be the World’s Oldest Living Animal
Deep in the waters off the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands lurks a 3.5-metre-long behemoth — the world’s largest known sponge that could be hundreds, if not thousands, of years old.
Sponges are some of the simplest and most ancient of animals, though they don’t look like animals as we usually know them.
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After 1,000 Years, ‘Forgotten’ Danish Viking Fortress Opens
The historic discovery two years ago of a fifth Viking ring fortress was celebrated in grand style on Monday.
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Antwerp Terror Suspects Planned Attack on Far-Right Politician: Report
Suspects reportedly wanted to shoot far-right leader Filip Dewinter and also planned major terror attack.
A group arrested in Antwerp earlier this week on suspicion of being terrorists planned to shoot Filip Dewinter, the leader of the anti-immigration Vlaams Belang (Flemish Interest) party, Belgian media reported Friday.
Federal police said the plans were at an early stage but were advanced enough to cause great concern, according to the newspaper De Gazet van Antwerpen.
Four people were arrested on suspicion of being part of a terrorist group and planning to commit a terror attack, the federal prosecutor said Wednesday.
One of the suspects is alleged to have wanted to walk into Dewinter’s office and “shoot him down.” However, they later changed their focus to a large-scale terror attack using explosive belts.
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Austria May Have World’s Biggest Gnome Collection
An Austrian woman who has spent over 25 years and €80,000 buying thousands of garden gnomes may have the largest gnome collection in the world.
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British Battle of Jutland Victim Honoured 100 Years Later
Royal Navy Able Seaman Harry Gasson was properly laid to rest in Esbjerg on Tuesday, a full century after being killed in the Battle of Jutland, the biggest naval battle of the First World War.
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Death of Free Speech: EU Blasted for ‘Orwellian’ Crackdown on Online Criticism
EUROPE’S elite have announced a sweeping crackdown on freedom of speech online which has been branded “lamentable and Orwellian” by pro-democracy campaigners.
Brussels bureaucrats are launching a flagship blitz on what they term ‘hate speech’ on social networks such as Facebook — but critics warn it includes anything deemed contrary to the federalist project’s aims.
It is to draft in an army of pro-EU censors who will have draconian powers to remove any social media postings transgressing the “current societal developments” promoted by the 28-nation bloc.
The EU has signed a deal with Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Microsoft designed to curb the use of hate speech online that has been blasted as “ill considered” by the very people who helped draw it up.
Democracy campaigners have warned that the definition of ‘hate speech’ is so vague the EU could end up with the power to get postings critical of the Brussels project removed from the Internet forever in what constitutes a “frightening path to totalitarianism”.
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Eurocrats ‘obsessed’ with the goal of a European superstate forget the people of Europe are not interested in the idea, the EU Council president admitted today.
Donald Tusk said the EU had ‘failed to notice’ the goals of its officials differed widely from the ambitions of the people in different member states.
Mr Tusk’s intervention came hours before Chris Grayling, a leading Vote Leave campaigner and cabinet minister, warned the ‘special status’ claimed by David Cameron for Britain in the EU would not protect the country from further integration.
Mr Grayling said the Lisbon Treaty, signed by Gordon Brown, was worded so loosely it was open to interpretation and expansion by officials and European judges.
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Is This Greek Hilltop the 2,400-Year-Old Burial Place of Aristotle?
Greek archaeologist ‘almost certain’ he has discovered the long-sought tomb of world’s greatest philosopher
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Jewish Groups Welcome FB, Twitter Pledge to Crack Down on Hate Speech
Jewish groups welcomed a pledge by four internet giants to crack down on online hate speech, though some questioned the firms’ commitment to act.
Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Microsoft on Tuesday signed a code of conduct with the European Commission that requires them to delete the majority of reported illegal hate speech within 24 hours, The Telegraph reported.
The European Jewish Congress offered an “enthusiastic welcome” to the code of conduct in a statement Tuesday, but the World Jewish Congress reacted more coolly in a statement the same day, voicing “skepticism about the commitment of these firms to effectively police their respective platforms.”
YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and others “already have clear guidelines in place aimed at preventing the spread of offensive content, yet they have so far utterly failed to properly implement their own rules,” the CEO of the World Jewish Congress, Robert Singer, said in the statement.
“Tens of thousands of despicable video clips continue to be made available although their existence has been reported to YouTube and despite the fact that they are in clear violation of the platform’s own guidelines prohibiting racist hate speech. … Nonetheless, YouTube gives the impression that it has been cracking down on such content. Alas, the reality is that so far it hasn’t.”
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Jutland: Why World War I’s Only Sea Battle Was So Crucial to Britain’s Victory
OPINION: Modern understanding of World War I is dominated by the immense human cost of the war on land with its trenches, artillery, and machine guns — but the war was won by sea power.
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Next EU Prez: ‘Islam Has No Place’… ‘Migrants Change the Character of Our Country’
Just over a month before Slovakia will take the rotating presidency of the European Union, Prime Minister Robert Fico claims that Islam has no place in his country.
“Islam has no place in Slovakia,” Fico told media on Wednesday night saying that the problem of the migrant crisis was not, “that migrants come, but that migrants change the character of our country,” and continued, “we do not want the character of this country to change. Let’s be honest and say that will not happen in Slovakia,” Der Standard reports.
The Slovakian Prime Minister has made similar comments in the past in reaction to the Cologne New Years Eve sex attacks when he and several other nations demanded stricter border controls and said, “the idea of multicultural Europe has failed… The migrants cannot be integrated, it’s simply impossible.”
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Orcas Are First Non-Humans Whose Evolution is Driven by Culture
Many researchers accept that cultural experiences have helped shape human evolution — and evidence has now emerged that the same may be true of killer whales.
Human genomes have evolved in response to our cultural behaviours: a classic example is the way that some human populations gained genes for lactose tolerance following the onset of dairy farming.
But whether genomes and culture co-evolve in other animal species has been unclear.
Andrew Foote at the University of Bern, Switzerland, and his colleagues suspected that killer whales might follow a similar pattern to humans.
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Police Investigating Reports of Sexual Assaults at German Music Festival
Police in Germany are investigating reports of a series of sexual assaults against women at a music festival in what appears to be a smaller scale repeat of the New Year attacks in Cologne.
“The women said that it was their impression the perpetrators were South Asian,” the police spokesman said.
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Replica Viking Ship Will Recreate Norse Voyages in Greenland
GREENLAND: Eight volunteers will set sail in June to recreate the original Norse adventure along the west coast of Greenland. During the voyage, archaeologists hope to learn more about the Greenlandic Norse culture.
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State Department Issues Summer Travel Alert for Europe Terror Threat
The State Department on Tuesday alerted U.S. citizens traveling to Europe to heightened risks of terrorism, citing events in France and Poland this summer that are expected to draw large crowds.
The European soccer championships and the Tour de France bicycle race, both hosted in France in June and July, could be terrorist targets, the alert said. The Catholic Church’s World Youth Day in Krakow, Poland, in late July, expected to draw up to 2.5 million visitors, will result in stricter security screenings there, the alert said.
The alert was issued because of the start of summer and the approach of high-drawing events, said State Department spokesman John Kirby.
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Stolen World: ‘Planet 9’ Likely Came From Another Star
There may be an alien planet lurking within Earth’s own solar system.
If the hypothetical Planet Nine does indeed exist, the sun probably ripped the world away from another star long ago, a new study suggests.
“It is almost ironic that while astronomers often find exoplanets hundreds of light-years away in other solar systems, there’s probably one hiding in our own backyard,” study lead author Alexander Mustill, an astronomer at Lund University in Sweden, said in a statement.
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Switzerland Gotthard: World’s Longest and Deepest Rail Tunnel Opens
The world’s longest and deepest rail tunnel has officially opened in Switzerland, after almost two decades of construction work.
The 57km (35-mile) twin-bore Gotthard base tunnel will provide a high-speed rail link under the Swiss Alps between northern and southern Europe.
Switzerland says it will revolutionise European freight transport.
Goods currently carried on the route by a million lorries a year will go by train instead.
The tunnel has overtaken Japan’s 53.9km Seikan rail tunnel as the longest in the world and pushed the 50.5km Channel Tunnel linking the UK and France into third place.
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Twitter, Facebook Team Up With EU to Stamp Out “Hate Speech”
by Robert Spencer
The problem with both Jourova’s and White’s statements below, and with this whole initiative, is that they assume that “hate speech” is an entity that can be identified objectively, when actually it is a subjective judgment based on one’s own political preconceptions. And given the years-long insistence from Leftists and Islamic supremacists that any honest discussion of how Islamic jihadis use the texts and teachings of Islam to justify violence and supremacism constitutes “hate speech,” these new rules could mean the end of opposition to jihad terror on the Internet.
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UK’s Oldest Hand-Written Document ‘At Roman London Dig’
Roman tablets discovered during an excavation in London include the oldest hand-written document ever found in Britain, archaeologists have revealed.
The Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA) said it had deciphered a document, from 8 January AD 57, found at the dig at Bloomberg’s new headquarters.
The first ever reference to London, financial documents and evidence of schooling have also been translated.
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World’s Longest Rail Tunnel Opens in Switzerland
Switzerland has inaugurated Gotthard Base Tunnel, staging a massive celebration to honor the longest and deepest railway tunnel in the world. Leaders of France, Italy and Germany attended the opening ceremony.
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King Tut’s Blade Made of Meteorite
King Tut was buried with a dagger made of an iron that literally came from space, says a new study into the composition of the iron blade from the sarcophagus of the boy king.
Using non-invasive, portable X-ray fluorescence spectrometry, a team of Italian and Egyptian researchers confirmed that the iron of the dagger placed on the right thigh of King Tut’s mummified body a has meteoric origin.
The team, which include researchers from Milan Polytechnic, Pisa University and the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, detailed their results in the journal Meteoritics and Planetary Science.
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Outcry After Egyptian Official Calls Africans ‘Dogs and Slaves’
Egypt has agreed to investigate allegations that one of its diplomats referred to Black Africans as “slaves and dogs” during a UN conference last week — while at the same time denying the incident ever took place.
According to Kenyan diplomat Yvonne Khamati, who heads the Africa Diplomatic Corps technical committee, the racist remarks targeting Sub-Saharan Africans came at the end of the United Nations Environment Assembly in Kenya last week.
Kenya’s Capital News identified the Egyptian official in question as Egypt’s Minister for Environment Khaled Fahmy, who is also President of the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment.
The comments were made in Arabic, but were understood by many Sub-Saharan African delegates, who were shocked and infuriated.
Khamati has lodged a complaint, demanding an official apology from Cairo.[…]
[He forgot he was speaking in a place where Arabic is understood and accidentally let the true dog out of the bag]
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Erdogan Holds Mass Celebration on Ottoman Conquest Anniversary
Huge crowds took to the streets of Istanbul to celebrate 563 years since the Ottoman siege that conquered the city. In a speech, President Erdogan used the occasion to condemn the US, Russia and Iran.
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Erdoganomics Pushes Turkey Credit Risk Above Junk-Rated Russia
Unpredictable politics and a clouding economic outlook have persuaded investors that Turkey’s debt is now a riskier bet than junk-rated Russia.
The cost of insuring Turkish bonds against non payment jumped in May by the most in eight months, with five-year credit default swaps widening 33 basis points to 273, surpassing Russia for the first time since mid 2014. The two first crossed on May 4 as Turkish bonds retreated in the midst of a political row between President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and former Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, culminating in the premier stepping down.
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Turkey’s Erdogan Warns Germany Ahead of Armenian Genocide Vote
Turkish President Erdogan has warned Germany of consequences if it passes an Armenian genocide resolution. Berlin and Ankara’s deep cultural, economic, political and military ties could sour at a critical time.
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UN Says 20,000 Children Trapped in Fallujah as Iraqi Forces, ISIS Battle for Control
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warned of a potenial humanitarian disaster in Fallujah, Iraq Wednesday, estimating that 20,000 children were trapped with their families inside the ISIS-held city.
In a statement, UNICEF called on Iraqi troops and ISIS militants to “protect children inside Fallujah” and “provide safe passage to those wishing to leave the city.” The statement also warned that children ran the risk of being forced to fight alongside the terror group.
“Children who are forcibly recruited into the fighting see their lives and futures jeopardized as they are forced to carry and use arms, fighting an adults’ war,” UNICEF said.
Backed by aerial support from the U.S.-led coalition and paramilitary forces mainly made up of Shiite militias, Iraqi government troops more than a week ago launched a military operation to recapture Fallujah which has been under control of the extremist group for more than two years.
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In Pictures: Ukraine Removes Communist-Era Symbols
Ukraine has been trying to break free from its communist past, and the campaign is changing the face of whole cities.
Zaporizhya is typical of eastern Ukraine in that it was full of communist monuments and street names. But new laws say they must be removed because they symbolise the country’s repressive past.
The campaign has triggered controversy, with critics saying that it is a crude assault on Ukraine’s past.
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Russia Detains 50 Suspected Hackers for Malware Bank Attacks
Russian police detained 50 members of an alleged criminal ring that hacked the nation’s banks and stole money from client accounts, according to the Interior Ministry.
The suspects were arrested during a joint operation with Russia’s Federal Security Service, a successor to the Soviet KGB, the ministry said in a statement on its website. Searches conducted in 15 regions uncovered proof that the suspects were involved in creating networks of infected computers to attack banks and state entities to steal money, according to the statement. The individual banks weren’t identified.
“As far as I know, this is the largest ever arrest of hackers in Russia,” said Ruslan Stoyanov, head of computer incidents investigation at Kaspersky Lab, which helped to identify the hackers and collect evidence. “Russia is tightening its grip on financial hacking.”
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Armenia: Don’t Let Erdogan Bully You on Genocide Bill
Armenia’s president Wednesday urged German lawmakers to not be intimidated by Turkey ahead of their vote on branding the massacre of Armenians by Ottoman forces a “genocide”, as leaders in Ankara warned it could harm ties.
On the eve of the Bundestag vote, Armenian President Serge Sarkissian told Bild daily: “It would not be fair to not call the genocide of Armenians genocide just because that makes the head of state of another country angry.”
“I am sure that Bundestag politicians see it this way too and will not be intimidated,” he added.
In Ankara, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim stepped up pressure against the vote, calling it “absurd”, and warned of consequences for ties with Germany if the resolution were passed.
Yildirim’s call adds to a similar warning by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who also telephoned Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday over the resolution.
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Pakistan: Woman Burnt to Death for Rejecting Marriage Proposal
A Pakistani woman who was set on fire for refusing a marriage proposal has died of her injuries.
Maria Sadaqat, a schoolteacher in her early 20s, was attacked in her home by a group of men on Sunday and died in hospital in Islamabad on Wednesday.
Her family say she had turned down a marriage proposal from the son of the owner of a school she had taught at.
Campaigners say attacks against women who refuse marriage proposals are common in Pakistan.
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Pakistan’s Hindus and Sikhs Forced to Bury Their Dead
Hindus and Sikhs living in Pakistan’s northwestern areas are forced to bury their dead instead of cremating them. What are the reasons behind this discrimination? Faridullah Khan reports from Peshawar.
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Taliban Storm Afghan Court After Suicide Blast
Islamic insurgents killed several civilians and a policeman during a battle in a court building in Ghazni, eastern Afghanistan. The latest attack comes after the Taliban kidnapped dozens in Kunduz.
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How an Industry Helps Chinese Students Cheat Their Way Into and Through U.S. Colleges
Part Three: The University of Iowa suspects at least 30 Chinese students of having used ringers to take their exams. The case offers a look inside a thriving underground economy of cheating services aimed at the hundreds of thousands of Chinese kids applying to and attending foreign colleges.
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The expansion of China’s military and coast guard, its territorial disputes, and tension on the Korean peninsula over North Korea’s nuclear ambitions, have prompted countries around the region to upgrade and expand their militaries and civil maritime law-enforcement agencies.
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1,037 Syrian Refugees Admitted in May: Two Christians, 1,035 Muslims
May’s figure of 1,037 Syrian refugees brings the total number since the beginning of 2016 to 2,099 — compared to 2,192 for the whole of 2015, according to State Department Refugee Processing Center data.
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500,000 Migrants Could Move to UK Under New EU Rules
‘Up to half a million refugees and their relatives could move to Britain after 2020 because of new EU rules on the free movement of people, a new report by Migrant Watch claims.
The group, which campaigns for tighter border controls, says a projected 968,000 migrants will have been granted asylum or humanitarian protection in 2015 and the first quarter of 2016.
It argues that those granted asylum in Germany, Greece and Italy could settle in the UK in the coming years after they have acquired EU citizenship.’
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How Safe, Low-Crime Sweden Was Sacrificed to the God of Diversity
by Brenda Walker
Here’s a five-minute video describing how a small, naive country was transformed for the worse from unwise immigration. The Gatestone Institute essayist notes that the government dumped large numbers of unfriendly Muslims on Swedish communities that were overwhelmed and had no idea what they were getting.
Most shocking is the metamorphosis of safe Sweden into the worst rape country on earth as of 2012. Mass immigration of young Muslim men will do that.
Back in 2005, Norwegian blogger Fjordman warned about the worsening violence against women: Muslim Rape Epidemic in Sweden and Norway — Authorities Look the Other Way. But as often happens, diversity-enthralled elites don’t want to hear any discouraging words about their liberal religion, and the Swedish media went along with the censorship of Muslim violence. Women’s safety was sacrificed as a result.
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An Iraqi immigrant who said he was gay when claiming asylum in Austria has been jailed for sexually assaulting an 11-year-old girl at a swimming pool.
Appearing in court this week, the 36-year-old insisted that he is homosexual and that the contact with the child was his first experience of a sexual relationship with the opposite sex.
He reportedly came to Austria 13 years ago and had no previous convictions before he was arrested over the attack on the schoolgirl in the changing rooms of the public swimming pool in the Huetteldorf area of Vienna.
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Sweden Struggles With First Gender Balance Shift in 267 Years
Famous for its efforts to put women on an equal footing with men, Sweden is experiencing a gender balance shift that has caught the country by surprise: For the first time since record-keeping began in 1749, it now has more men than women.
Swedes don’t quite know what to make of this sudden male surplus, which is highly unusual in the West, where women historically have been in the majority in almost every country. But it may be a sign of things to come in Europe as changes in life expectancy and migration transform demographics.
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Sweden: Private Schools Allowed to Put Refugees First
Newly arrived refugees will be able to advance to the front of the queue for places in private “free schools”, after a cross-party agreement opposed only by the Left and Sweden Democrat parties.
Normally municipal councils determine which children get places in schools based on a queue system. But the new law makes it possible to set aside five percent of places in free schools for children who have been in Sweden for less than two years before the school year begins.
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Sweden: Fewer Than 500 of 163,000 Asylum Seekers Found Jobs
Of almost 163,000 people who applied for asylum in Sweden last year, less than 500 landed a job, according to a report by a Swedish public broadcaster.
Using figures from Sweden’s employment agency Arbetsförmedlingen and migration authorities Migrationsverket, SVT reported on Tuesday that 494 asylum seekers who arrived in 2015 have managed to find a job to support themselves while waiting for their application to get processed.
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Swedish Government Kicks Local Family Out of Home, Gives it to Muslim Migrants
Father of two told to make way for people “from other countries”
A local family in the Swedish city of Lidingö has been ordered by the government to leave their home so that it can be given to migrants arriving from a foreign country.
Father of two teenage boys Uffe Rustan received a voicemail from his local municipality telling him he would need to vacate the property by August in order to make way for asylum seekers from the Middle East.
“I was evicted from my home over the phone. When I asked for the reason, he said that people come from other countries. He left the news and basically just said have a nice weekend,” Rustan told a newspaper.
Rustan lives with his teenage sons Rasmus (15) and Linus (17), all of whom were born in Lidingö. He rents the home from the city and has been living in it for less than a year.
“It feels like I’m worthless, even though I pay taxes and my kids go to school here. You cannot put a family on the streets for another family,” said Rustan. “Just when it starts to feel like home, we are evicted.”
Rustan said that the news was “depressing” and wondered why native Swedes were being treated worse than migrants arriving in the country for the first time.
Despite suffering from a housing shortage, Sweden is handing over property to economic migrants, with some politicians even encouraging citizens to give up their garages to asylum seekers.
[Comment: How much more will the Swedish citizens take?]
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Swimming Pool Segregation on the Rise to Accommodate Muslim Migrants in Sweden
SEGREGATED swimming hours are on the rise in Sweden to encourage more Muslim women to exercise.
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Video: Latino Immigrants Make Spirited Case for Donald Trump
Video shows dozens of Latinos at rallies and around the country supporting Trump
Angelo Gomez embodies the American spirit.
Gomez is from a family of immigrants, but that only increases his love of country.
Mark F. (@Latinos4Trump) put together a video making the case for why Gomez supports Donald Trump for president, and why many other Latinos do, too.
“My name is Angelo Gomez and I have something very clear to say to the liberal media and Hillary Clinton: yes, I’m an American Latino who supports Donald Trump.
“Yes, I come from a family rooted in immigrants and I support Donald J. Trump to be the next president of the United States.
“I support Donald Trump with every ounce of my being,” Gomez says, “for the very reasons that this country, that the Constitution, that this flag behind me was founded upon and that’s putting the American people first. That’s putting this country first.”
He adds, “Hillary Clinton is the face of an incompetent politician who has lied to, who has cheated, and who has gotten Americans killed.
“If we get this wrong, our country will no longer be here for the future generations,” Gomez says.
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Western Europeans Flock to Christian, Traditionalist Hungary to Escape Migrant Crisis
Growing numbers of citizens from Western European nations are moving to conservative, Christian central Europe to escape the developing political and social situations of their home countries.
While the target nations — Hungary and the Czech Republic — have hardened themselves against illegal migrants by building fences and rejecting the European Union’s forced resettlement programme, they have welcomed the migration of right-wing “refugees” from the first world.
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White People vs. White Privilege
In certain corners of the country, white Americans are not only embracing the concept, but deciding that it might be key to resolving racial inequalities.
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Mars Also Undergoing Climate Change as Ice Age Retreats, Study Shows
Planet’s tilt and orbit cause “substantial shifts in the planet’s climate, including ice ages…”
The Earth isn’t the only planet grappling with climate change: Newly published evidence suggests Mars is experiencing warming as it emerges from an ice age.
The red planet, which moved closer to the Earth on Monday than at any time since 2005, has seen a retreat from a glacial period that would have covered large areas in white before ending about 370,000 years ago, according to a study published Friday in the journal Science.
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Nearly 46 Million People Trapped in Modern Slavery, Report Finds
Asian countries were home to nearly 60 percent of the world’s modern slaves, survey found.
Nearly 46 million people across the globe are living in modern slavery, a system of exploitation that governments and businesses must do more to end, according to the Walk Free Foundation.
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Merkel clearly showing her complete lack of spine. And to think she is the one lecturing my prime minister Viktor Orban on democracy and values. What a joke!
You are quite correct. He is unfortunately the exception to the rule though.
Most EU countries seem quite content to cede the rights of their citizenry to democratic self determination, without any mandate, to the mendacious Merkel.
Here in the UK I feel ashamed to witness the Prime Minister and the Chancellor belittle our nation in their desperate attempt to scare people to vote remain in the upcoming referendum. Both are career politicians, pernicious snake oil salesmen devoid of any moral values who flip flop their alliances on a daily basis. However, due to the apathy of the Great British public I genuinely fear the their tactics will succeed the EU will punish us for having the temerity to challenge their divine vote to rule.
Vote Leave are failing to point out the elephant in the room – immigration. No wonder why they are the official recognised opposition. Useless.
You’re giving Merkel a great deal of credit by implying that she cares about the people killed by the Armenian genocide, but merely doesn’t have the courage to make a formal recognition.
My own reading is that Merkel could care less about actual people, so she simply goes in the direction most beneficial to her.
I think it is time we all boycotted Facebook and Twitter.
I’ve never Twittered but I am,after six years, contemplating leaving Facebook. It depends on two things – which way the Brexit vote goes and who gets elected as US President . If the EU wins later this month and Clinton becomes president in November I have no doubt that Zuckerberg will become more emboldened to censor and that will my time to say “bye-bye” to anything set up by the Powers on the internet. Time will tell. Although I’m Canadian, and there is some hope (on the horizon) that Trudeau is ending his “honeymoon” with the public, it’s actually those two events that I am most interested in.
So the Turkish President and Prime Minister are threatening Germany with adverse consequences if the German Parliament recognizes the Armenian Holocaust. Now what would they be? A call on all people in Germany who identify as Turks to return to Turkey? Now that would be a tragedy for Germany, all those welfare-dependents, criminals and all round trouble makers packing up and leaving.
I’d like to say that I don’t usually read the GoV newsfeed, but on looking at it, I’m truly amazed at how informed it leaves the reader, as opposed to looking at, say, the headlines at Fox News. There’s more news, no fluff, and no “human interest” stories of no value whatsoever.
Ronald : I too have become disenchanted with Fox. I like Judge Jeanine and Hannity but everything else in their regular programming is ,as you would classify it ,”fluff”. Living in Canada, the Sun News Network was a godsend against all the left-wing drivel that is broadcast in this country. When Sun went belly-up though, I turned more to Fox. I actually get more news from Gates of Vienna and a couple of other web sites than I do from any other source. And thank goodness Ezra Levant was to find an outlet with his Rebel site !
Not only the Turks were responsible.
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German General Otto Liman von Sanders was the commander of the Turkish Fifth Army.
He arrived in Turkey at the end of 1913 at the request of the Young Turks to reorganize the Turkish military.
In a report to the Ottoman authorities, von Sanders wrote that the entire Greek population of Ayvalik must be deported immediately to the Interior otherwise “he would be unable to take the responsibility for the security of the army”.
Sanders was reported as saying, “Couldn’t they throw these infidels into the sea?”
The deportation of the Greek population of Ayvalik to the Turkish Interior was carried out on von Sanders’ orders and many died as a result.
The Ayvalik deportations took place in 1917, the destinations being Yenişehir and Bilecik located 350km and 400km to the interior.
In a 1919 newspaper article titled First Hun Held For Atrocities, Sanders’ arrest for Greek and Armenian massacres was recorded:
“Sanders is first of the German commanders to be seized for trial for violation of the rules of warfare.
And he’s going to be tried in Constantinople, too.
Sanders was in command of the Turkish forces which were operating under direction of Berlin.
He is known to have sanctioned Turkish Atrocities, including massacres of Greeks and Armenians.”
Sanders had been arrested by British forces when he attempted to return to Germany in February 1919. He was held at Malta for six months as a war criminal.
Liman von Sanders retired from the army in October 1919 and died in Munich on 22 August 1929.
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In Greece of 2016 we have a genocide but in a “civilised” way.
The latest update is that Germany has recognised the Genocide and Turkey has recalled their ambassador, cold this be the start of a barroom brawl?