Thirteen “British” culture-enrichers were sentenced to a total of 150 years in prison for “grooming” and raping an underage girl. The offenses took place in Halifax and Bradford, West Yorkshire, when the girl was between 13 and 15 years old. As far as I could determine, the case had a Mohammed Coefficient of 23%.
In other news, evidence has emerged that the Orlando jihadist Omar Mateen went on the hajj to Mecca in 2012 with a group of American Muslims that included twelve New York policemen.
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CIA Connections With the Families of Omar Mateen and the Tsarnayev Brothers
Seddique Mir Mateen, father of Omar Mateen (the individual that killed around fifty gays in Orlando in the name of Isis), worked for the US secret services in Afghanistan during the war against the communist government and its ally, the Soviet Union (1979-89). After that, he migrated to the US where Omar was born.
He is a media presenter for the Afghan diaspora. Currently, he is presenting a program, The Durand Jirga Show, on Payam-e-Afghan Satellite TV (based in San Francisco). Descendant of the Pashtun tribe, he lent his support to the Taliban (which succeeded the “Mujahideens of Freedom” that the CIA had organized with the Saudi billionaire, Bin Laden to fight against the Russians). After President Hamid Karzai’s departure in September 2014, he refuses to recognize the agreement between Ashraf Ghani and Abdullah Abdullah and comes out in favour of the president in exile of Afghanistan.
His son, Omar Mateen, was employed by the multinational security firm G4S. He had never been singled out as either politically or religiously radicalized. Although married, he used to visit the gay nightclub where he committed his crimes and engaged in sexual relations with at least one other clubber.
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Clinton’s Lead Over Trump Slips After Florida Shooting
Donald Trump chipped away at Hillary Clinton’s lead in the presidential race this week, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Friday, as the candidates clashed over how to respond to the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
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DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson: Passing Gun Control is Now ‘Part and Parcel of Homeland Security’
Though quieter than than it has been under past heads, Homeland Security has clearly maintained the twisted view that all Americans are potential terrorists, and that a preemptive police state, complete with surveillance, data mining and social profile trolling is necessary in order to maintain relative peace.
This attitude is noted in recent meetings of the Homeland Security Advisory Committe, discussing in part its community partnership program for Countering Violent Extremism (CVE):
“Secretary Johnson said there is much left to accomplish in this final year of the Administration… Counterterrorism remains a cornerstone mission of the Department. There is a new environment when it comes to the global terrorism threat, which includes not only terrorist-directed attacks, but terrorist-inspired attacks. These threats call for a whole-of-government response, including military, law enforcement, and robust intelligence gathering and sharing efforts. These efforts extend to the private sector as well, and DHS is very active in this arena.”
It is clear that so-called “right-wing extremists” are still a leading concern for Homeland Security and the federal government agencies.
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Gates Says Altered Mosquito is Next Weapon to Fight Malaria
Bring on the genetically modified mosquitoes, Bill Gates says.
In recent years, biologists armed with a new gene-editing technology have proposed altering mosquitoes so they’re more resistant to diseases like malaria and dengue. Using a mechanism known as a “gene drive,” the researchers say they can quickly push an alteration through an entire species.
“In less than five years, I think there’s a good chance it will be out there,” Gates said in an interview with Bloomberg News before speaking at a conference of the American Society for Microbiology in Boston.
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Homeland Security Report Calls for Rejecting Terms ‘Jihad, ‘ ‘Sharia’
DHS to target millennials in countering Islamist recruitment
A new Department of Homeland Security report urges rejecting use of Islamic terms such as “jihad” and “sharia” in programs aimed at countering terrorist radicalization among American youth.
The Homeland Security Advisory Council report recommends that the department focus on American milliennials by allocating up to $100 million in new funding. It also urges greater private sector cooperation, including with Muslim communities, to counter what is described as a “new generation of threats to the Homeland related to the threat of violent extremism.”
The funds would be used for hiring experts and new social media programs and technology to influence young people not to join terror groups.
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House Votes Down Privacy Measure Blocking Backdoors
Support for the provision dwindled in the wake of the Orlando shootings
The US House of Representatives voted Thursday to block an amendment that would have prevented the government from stepping in to force weakened encryption and security backdoors. Although Politico reports the provision received increasing support in the House over the past two years, that support has weakened in the wake of the Sunday’s mass shooting in Orlando.
The amendment was part of the fiscal 2017 defense appropriations bill, and actually passed through the House twice in 2014 and 2015, but was removed by the Senate on both occasions. After Sunday’s tragedy, the measure’s opponents pointed to suspected Islamic State sympathizer Omar Mateen’s attack on a gay nightclub to justify giving law enforcement increased spying powers and easier access to private data.
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The deadliest mass shooting in American history happened because of Islamophobia.
Islamophobia killed 49 people in Orlando. It didn’t kill 49 Muslims. Instead it allowed Omar Mateen, a Muslim terrorist, to kill 49 people in the name of his Islamic ideology and the Islamic State.
Omar, like so many other Muslim killers, could have been stopped. He talked about killing people when he worked at G4S Security, a Federal contractor that provided services to the Department of Homeland Security and the State Department. But, according to one of the co-workers he stalked, a former police officer, his employers refused to do anything about it because he was a Muslim.
The FBI conducted an investigation of Omar Mateen. They put him on a watch list and sent informants. They interviewed him and concluded that his claims of Al Qaeda ties and terrorist threats were reactions to “being marginalized because of his Muslim faith.” Omar told the agents that he said those things because “his co-workers were discriminating against him and teasing him because he was Muslim.”
And they believed him.
Poor Omar wasn’t a potential terrorist. He was just a victim of Islamophobia.
Omar got away with homophobic comments that would have gotten Americans fired because he was Muslim. He weathered an “extensive” FBI investigation because he was Muslim.
Anyone who says that there is no such thing as Muslim Privilege ought to look at Omar Mateen.
There is a direct line between Omar’s Muslim privilege and the Pulse massacre. Omar Mateen’s Muslim privilege protected him from consequences. While the media studiously paints the image of a beleaguered population of American Muslims suffering the stigma of constant suspicion, Omar’s Muslim background actually served as a shield and excused behavior that would have been unacceptable for anyone else. Omar Mateen’s Muslim privilege shielded him until he was actually murdering non-Muslims.
And Omar’s case is not unique. The Fort Hood killer, Nidal Hasan, handed out business cards announcing that he was a Jihadist. He delivered a presentation justifying suicide bombings, but no action was taken. Like Omar, the FBI was aware of Hasan. It knew that he was talking to Al Qaeda bigwig Anwar Al-Awlaki, yet nothing was done. Instead of worrying about his future victims, the FBI was concerned that investigating him and interviewing him would “harm Hasan’s career”.
One of his classmates later said that the military authorities, “Don’t want to say anything because it would be considered questioning somebody’s religious belief, or they’re afraid of an equal opportunity lawsuit.”
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Microsoft-Funded Professor Builds Software to Fight Terrorism
Dartmouth College computer science professor Hany Farid — using funding from Microsoft Corp. — has developed technology to help scrub extremist content from the internet.
Working with the nonprofit think tank Counter Extremism Project, Farid built software capable of identifying and tracking photo, video and audio files, even if they’ve been altered. The software, unveiled Friday, would allow websites such as Facebook Inc. to automatically catch flagged content and remove it or prevent it from being uploaded.
On a call to discuss the technology, Farid, who is also a senior advisor to the CEP, said his software would allow companies to automatically remove posts that violate the sites’ terms of use. He also said deleting the content is not a freedom of speech issue because the companies have the right to dictate what’s suitable.
“We allow them to do it fast, accurately, automatically,” he said.
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Obama Returns to Efforts to Ban ‘Assault’ Weapons
President Obama on Saturday renewed his call to ban so-called assault weapons, in the aftermath of the Florida nightclub shooting and other recent terror attacks on U.S. soil.
“Being tough on terrorism — particularly the sorts of homegrown terrorism that we’ve seen now in Orlando and San Bernardino — means making it harder for people who want to kill Americans to get their hands on assault weapons that are capable of killing dozens of innocents as quickly as possible,” Obama said in his weekly radio address. “That’s something I’ll continue to talk about in the weeks ahead.”
The president stayed silent on the assault-weapon issue in public remarks immediately after the attack early Sunday at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla., in which 49 people were killed and dozens more were wounded.
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Orlando Terrorist Was Radicalized by Militant Father
Shooter’s father is known Afghan radio show host who calls for killing infidels
Alex Jones talks with Dr. Steve Pieczenik about the Orlando killer’s motives and how his own homosexuality led him to attack those he associated with due to the paradox of his faith.
His family radicalized him.
His father is a known Afghan Mujahideen that has a weekly radio show that calls for killing of infidels and condemns Pakistan for its involvement in Afghanistan.
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Police: FBI Involved After Local Couple Arrested on Suspicion of Terroristic Threatening
WASHINGTON COUNTY (KFSM) — The FBI is now involved after Daphne Crawford and her husband Alana Crawford were both arrested Thursday (June 16) in two separate incidents.
Alan Crawford was arrested in Sebastian County and his wife, Daphne Crawford, was arrested in Washington County, according to their arrest reports. Both are facing terroristic threatening charges.
The Crawfords were eating at Mel’s Diner in Prairie Grove (May 24) when Alan Crawford became frustrated with the waitress because he felt she was slamming the door from the dining room to the kitchen, according to an arrest warrant affidavit from Washington County. Crawford said “Only a Christian would treat them like that,” then became more frustrated because he felt his order was taking too long and he thought the food was too expensive, the affidavit states.
Before the couple left, Daphne Crawford told the waitress “People like you are the reason we kill,” according to the affidavit.
Following the incident, the Crawfords made several related posts on social media that displayed weapons and threatened violence, the affidavit states.
The couple targeted another victim via social media after the woman had made a Facebook post asking if anyone knew the Crawfords, according to the affidavit.
Daphne Crawford initiated a conversation with the woman in which she stated her husband, Alan, would show up with an AK-47 and is a former Navy SEAL, the affidavit states. Daphne Crawford also sent the woman a photo of her husband in Muslim attire kneeling with a weapon described as an assault rifle, according to the affidavit.
Daphne Crawford’s bail was set at $3,500 and she bonded out of the Washington County Detention Center Friday, jail records show…
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Report: Clinton’s Campaign Cash is 20% Royal Saudi Money
The history of the Clintons’ taking foreign money suggests it is plausible, and there is reason to believe that the Saudis have already gotten quite a bit for their money.
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Senator Warns Against Push to Expand Feds’ Access to Email Records
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) on Thursday evening warned against pushing a proposal on the Senate floor to give the FBI more power to obtain email records and browsing histories without a warrant.
The provision to expand the scope of government orders, formally called national security letters, will likely be debated next week during the Senate’s work on the fiscal 2017 Commerce appropriations bill, Wyden said.
“This will, I’m sure, be a topic of extensive discussion on the Senate floor next week, Mr. President. I just wanted to take this opportunity to outline my views,” Wyden said.
Lawmakers have attached the national security letters amendment to several pieces of legislation recently.
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Six People Killed in Van Crash Along Interstate 95
A Dodge van carrying 16 people along Interstate 95 in Virginia lost control, crashed into another vehicle and overturned, killing six of the van’s passengers early Saturday morning, Virginia state police said.
The van’s 1o other passengers, including the driver, were taken to two hospitals. Nearly all of them had serious injuries.
Police said the van was traveling north along the highway in Caroline County, about two hours south of Washington, when it veered off the road to the left, then shot back right across two lanes, crashing into a Toyota Camry, before overcorrecting to the left and flipping over five to six times. It’s not clear if anyone was injured in a Toyota Camry that was hit in the accident.
The six passengers who died had been ejected from the van, and they included four men, one woman, and a juvenile. Authorities plan to release the names of the victims once they notify their relatives.
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Student Activist Gets 90 Days in Jail for Fake Racial Threats on Twitter
A University student received a 90-day county jail sentence, along with five years’ probation, and must pay over $82,000 in restitution for making threats against black students at protests she attended, with the aim of stoking racial tensions.
Kayla McKelvey, a black student at Kean University, pleaded guilty to causing a false public alarm by creating a fake Twitter account that she then used to threaten the very protests she was attending, News 12 New Jersey reported. In November, McKelvey tweeted out multiple threats directed at black students attending the rally.
Speaking in court, McKelvey apologized for the tweets, claiming that they were meant to raise awareness of racism on campus. She also said that she had heard students shouting “white power” and referring to black students as monkeys.
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Video: Google Skews Hillary Clinton ‘Indictment’ Search Results
Is tech giant Google keeping information from its readers?
Jae Andres recently performed a side-by-side comparison of Google and Bing search engines to see how results would appear when he searched for information on Hillary Clinton and the beginning of the word “indictment.”
Andres’ video makes it pretty clear Google is skewing the results.
Andres started with two phones, one with the Bing search engine (left) and Google (right).
He first typed in “Hillary.”…
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Why Not Admit the Obvious: The President Won’t Blame Them Because He Agrees With Them
The president is in bed with the enemy
We all know that Barack Obama was nominally a lawyer at some point in his past — not a good one, by anyone’s account, but he was one. Assume for the moment that Barack Obama had as his client The Muslim Brotherhood, or CAIR, or Hamas, or any one of dozens of organizations dedicated to taking down the United States. Could he possibly have done a more effective job of hiding his client’s actions or intentions while they went about conducting criminal operations unmolested as he has for seven years? Could he have been more successful at misdirecting and obfuscating and lying about their intentions and deeds than he has already been?
Though not every lawyer shares a client’s philosophy, the zeal with which an attorney does his job can sometimes be proportionate to his identity with the client’s goals and objectives. The president certainly is a zealous fellow when it comes to radical Islam.
We know he won’t call it “radical Islam,” claiming that that is a distraction or a talking point. Perhaps the real reason is that he doesn’t believe that what the Islamists he supports are doing is radical at all. Maybe the actual issue is that he believes in and supports their efforts to infiltrate and subvert the United States. That would explain an awful lot, wouldn’t it?
For seven years, we have heard how the president “doesn’t get it” and is in over his head, is naive, and countless other excuses. None of this has ever been the problem. He gets it. He simply gets it with regard to his own agenda, his own end game.
[Comment: Read it all.]
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Britain First Deputy Leader Jayda Fransen Examines the Monstrous Lies Peddled by the Media
The media is in overdrive trying to incriminate Britain First in the murder of Labour MP Jo Cox, without even the flimsiest of hard evidence.
All the eye witnesses have stated they either did not hear Britain First being shouted, or have said they heard “PUT Britain First”.
The claim originated with a Labour MP who has now retracted her statement on Twitter.
This hasn’t stopped the media dragging Britain First into this act of despicable criminality.
In this video, deputy leader Jayda Fransen examines the “evidence” for the Britain First claim.
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Italy: Christo ‘Walk on Water’ Project Opens on Lake Iseo
Thousands of people have tried out the latest installation by conceptual artist Christo — a 3km (1.9 mile) walkway on water in northern Italy.
Queues built up to get on the Floating Piers, made from more than 200,000 interlocking cubes wrapped in yellow nylon, as it opened on Lake Iseo.
Christo has warned the experience will be like walking on water — or on the back of a whale.
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Three Suspects Face Charges After Major Anti-Terror Raid in Belgium
Belgian authorities charged three men with terror-related crimes after two days of raids and the detention of 40 people in a major investigation which they said required “immediate intervention” because they feared a new attack was close.
Across Belgium parties were held Saturday to watch live broadcasts of the country’s soccer team playing Ireland at the European Championships in neighboring France and some media said such events could have been the targets.
Prime Minister Charles Michel said the nation would remain “extremely vigilant, hour by hour,” but that the terror level across the nation would remain at the second-highest level, meaning a threat of an attack “is possible and likely.” Belgium has been living under such a threat level since the November attacks in Paris, some of whose perpetrators were either Belgian nationals or had lived in Brussels. On March 22, attacks on the Brussels subway and airport killed 32.
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UK Astronaut Tim Peake Returns to Earth
UK astronaut Tim Peake is back on Earth after a historic six-month stay on the International Space Station.
A Soyuz capsule carrying Major Peake and two other crew members touched down in Kazakhstan at 10:15 BST.
He called the journey back “the best ride I’ve been on ever”, adding: “The smells of Earth are just so strong.”
Maj Peake is the first person to fly to space under the UK banner since Helen Sharman in 1991 and made the first spacewalk by a UK astronaut.
During the 186-day mission mission, Maj Peake also remotely steered a robot on Earth and ran the London Marathon.
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Thirteen men have been sentenced to more than 150 years in prison for child sex offences.
Four more men will be sentenced tomorrow at Leeds Crown Court and they include a Huddersfield man.
Mansoor Akhtar, 25, has been found guilty of one charge of sexual activity with a child and a charge of supplying Class B drugs.
The offending mainly took place in Halifax and Bradford between 2009 and 2011.
One victim was sexually assaulted. The other victim was systematically abused by many men, most of them from the Halifax and Bradford areas.
The conclusion of the trial is the culmination of a four-year investigation by West Yorkshire Police which resulted in 25 defendants being charged in December 2014 with offences including rape, trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation, sexual activity with a child, sexual assault, voyeurism, sexual grooming, conspiracy to engage in sexual activity with a child under 16, causing a child under 16 to engage in sexual activity without consent and supply of a controlled drug of class B.
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UK: Girl Was Abused in the ‘Grossest Possible Way’ By Many Men
Jailing eight men after the second trial Judge Marson said: “Over a period of years she was sexually abused in the grossest possible way by very many men of which you form part of a small number.
He said they could not be held responsible for the total psychological damage but what each did made a contribution to it.
Many of the offences were opportunistic. “There was an element of her availability becoming known and to that extent she was targeted for abuse.”
“She was taken advantage of when she was drunk and under the influence of drugs,” he said.”In some cases there was an element of grooming and in most cases a significant disparity in age.”
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A Labour MP has been accused of trying to politicise the tragic murder of his colleague Jo Cox after appearing on Newsnight just hours after her death to criticise the ‘dangerous material’ published by the Leave campaign.
Neil Coyle, Labour MP for Bermondsey and Southwark, said Leave campaigners were putting out ‘very dangerous’ material which ‘risks inspiring the hard-right’ as he commented on Mrs Cox’s death.
He also appeared to suggest the attacker who ambushed the 41-year-old outside a West Yorkshire library may have been politically motivated and criticised UKIP’s new poster depicting migrants…
However, many were quick to criticise the 37-year-old, accusing him of politicising Mrs Cox’s death.
Topsaroola wrote: ‘How disgusting to even try and politicise this dreadful news into some stay in the EU cr*p. Give it a bl***y rest. RIP Jo’
Paul Butler added: ‘As soon as I think MP’s can’t go any lower they surprise me again. Political gain on the back of a colleague’s death.’
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UK: More Than 150 Years Jail for 13 Men Who Sexually Abused Vulnerable Halifax Schoolgirl
A judge has passed jail sentences totalling more than 150 years on 13 men convicted of the horrific sexual abuse of a vulnerable schoolgirl from Halifax.
Four other men have yet to be sentenced for sex offences in the case, which could not previously be reported because of potential prejudice to a series of trials at Leeds Crown Court but restrictions were lifted this evening (June 16) at the end of the fourth and last trial.
The girl was raped and abused between the ages of 13 and 15. One of the men sentenced for offences against her was also jailed for a sexual assault on another girl.
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UK: Vile Sex Gang Caged for 168 Years for ‘Systematically’ Grooming and Abusing Teenage Girls
Fifteen men have been jailed for 168 years for “systematically” grooming and sexually abusing teenage girls in Halifax — with one man getting 25yrs alone.
Child sex offences they were accused of included rape, grooming and trafficking — in crimes which the police described as “horrendous”.
The young girl victims who gave evidence against the gang are tonight being praised for their “immense courage and bravery”.
It is said to be one of the largest and longest running investigations into child sexual exploitation ever to take place in the UK.
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A few purple pansies planted under a huge cypress tree mark the spot on the lawn outside the Greek Parliament building where a life ebbed away.
Here in Athens’s Syntagma Square, just after breakfast time one weekday morning, pensioner Dimitris Christoulas put a handgun to his head and pulled the trigger.
The retired pharmacist had walked out of his flat in a middle-class suburb for the last time. He locked the heavy shutters behind him, and the door where he had hung a sign saying: ‘Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay’.
In his jacket he carried a note saying his pension had been cut to ribbons and he couldn’t face a future of ‘raiding rubbish bins for food’.
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Egypt Sentences Ex-President Morsi to Life on Espionage Charges
Egypt’s deposed President Mohammed Morsi has been sentenced to 40 years in prison on charges of leaking secret state documents to Qatar. Two al-Jazeera journalists were sentenced in absentia to death in the same trial.
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Iraqi Troops Clear Islamic State Mines as Battle for Fallujah Continues
Iraqi government forces cleared mines and explosives left behind by the Islamic State group in recently recaptured areas of Fallujah, as fighting continued in other parts of the city Saturday, an Iraqi military official said.
Military operations were ongoing in Fallujah, with the air force hitting targets in the city including IS snipers positioned near the main hospital, Brig. Haider al-Obeidi told The Associated Press.
Troops were advancing toward the hospital cautiously, concerned that militants stationed there may use patients as human shields, he said.
Al-Obeidi’s comments came a day after Iraqi special forces swept into Fallujah, recapturing most of the city as IS’s two-year-old grip crumbled after weeks of fighting. The Fallujah offensive began in late May, and IS’s defenses in much of the city collapsed abruptly.
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Orlando Shooter Took 2012 Pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia With Groups From New York
Orlando shooter Omar Mateen traveled to Saudi Arabia in 2012 as part of an annual pilgrimage led by an Islamic center in New York, joining a group of roughly 80 people that included 12 Muslim officers from the New York Police Department.
The group that organized the trip, the Islamic Center at New York University, was stunned after learning from The Wall Street Journal of its connection with Mateen, and said it was notifying law-enforcement officials immediately about his presence on the trip. It will assist with the investigation, a university spokesman said.
Groups from institutions such as Columbia and Yale universities, as well as about 40 people from an NYPD contingent, participated in the trip, the university said in a statement Friday.
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Radiohead Listening Party in Istanbul Attacked by Islamists
For drinking alcohol during the holy month of Ramadan
A group of radical Islamists attacked a record store in Istanbul where Radiohead was holding a listening party for fans in support of their new album.
The men reportedly stormed the record store, Velvet Indieground, in Istanbul, Turkey, and used pipes to violently beat fans running away from the venue for drinking alcohol during the holy month of Ramadan.
“Our hearts go out to those attacked tonight at Velvet IndieGround in Istanbul,” Radiohead said in a statement. “We hope that someday we will be able to look back on such acts of violent intolerance as things of the ancient past. For now, we can only offer our fans in Istanbul our love and support.”
It’s unknown how many people were injured in the uproar or the severity of their injuries.
One of the store’s owners allegedly posted about the encounter on Reddit, saying, “I am the person that’s speaking in that video. I am the owner of that periscope account. They were determined to kill us. We were beaten by more than 20 men with pipes in their hands, beer bottles were broken on our heads. I don’t even know how we made it out. I will share the details later guys, just hoping that no one will die.”
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Radiohead Fans Attacked at Istanbul Record Shop
UK rock band Radiohead have condemned an attack on people listening to their new album at a record store in the Turkish city of Istanbul.
Some 20 suspected Islamists beat up customers and staff for drinking alcohol and listening to music during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
Unconfirmed reports said one person was injured in the incident on Friday.
The band described the assault on the Velvet Indieground store as an act of “violent intolerance”.
Local media reports said the male attackers used sticks and bottles against those present.
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State Department Officials Call for Military Intervention to Topple Syria’s Assad
More support for al-Qaeda “rebel” groups
In addition to increased military intervention by the United States, the memo calls for more support for “moderate rebel” forces fighting against the Syrian government.
There are currently few if any moderate rebels in Syria. The Free Syrian Army and other so-called moderate rebels have functioned largely as a public relations front while the actual fighting is done by al-Nusra and other jihadi groups supported by Saudi Arabia.
[Comment: Bankster owned State Department destabilized Libya and ran the gun running operation from Libya through Turkey to Syria to supply ISIS. This is why Americans were left to die in Benghazi. They were trying to keep their ‘arms to ISIS’ operation secret and out of the American public eye. now ISIS is losing and the State Department wants American military and lives to help ISIS win and create a Sharia state. State Department is functioning as an implementation agency for a globalist agenda.]
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Militant Group Plotting Terror Attacks Neutralized in Russia’s Dagestan, 4 Police Killed
A major militant group that was reportedly planning terror attacks has been neutralized as a result of a two-day operation in Dagestan in the North Caucasus, according to Russia’s anti-terror committee.
At least nine militants, along with Gasan Abdullayev, the leader of a terror syndicate responsible for criminal activities inside and outside Dagestan, were detected and then neutralized by Russia’s special police forces, Russia’s National Anti-Terrorist Committee (NAC) reported.
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China Spends More on Infrastructure Than the U.S. And Europe Combined
Despite a crying need for better infrastructure, investment in it has fallen in 10 major economies, including the U.S., since the financial crisis, according to a new study by the McKinsey Global Institute. Meanwhile, China is still going gangbusters on roads, bridges, sewers, and everything else that makes a country run.
“China spends more on economic infrastructure annually than North America and Western Europe combined,” according to the report published on Wednesday.
Economists around the world have been arguing that now is a great time to invest in infrastructure because interest rates are super-low and the global economy could use the spending jolt. “Is anyone proud of Kennedy airport?” Harvard University economist Lawrence Summers likes to ask.
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“Capital Punishment for Homosexuals.” Why is This Sheikh Still Preaching Here?
The Turnbull Government this week cancelled the visa of an Iranian-resident Muslim cleric, Farrokh Sekaleshfar, who says gays should be killed.
But it still allows Feizel Chothia, a Muslim cleric from South Africa, to live and preach in Perth.
From Chothia’s book Sex and Sexuality in Islam:
Islam prescribes capital punishment for Homosexuals. While such punishment may seem cruel, they have been instituted to maintain the purity of society and to keep it clean of perverted elements…
It is one of the major sins Islam [sic]. The Holy Qur’an says: […]
About Chothia:
Sheikh Feizel Chothia is a qualified Islamic scholar, author and an experienced instructor. A member of the Council of Muslim Theologians — South Africa and Western Australia, Sheikh Feizel has served as Imam in numerous Mosques both in Australia and South Africa and is actively engaged in Islamic instruction and developing Islamic Studies curricula and materials for Islamic elementary and secondary schools as well as Islamic enrichment programs for non-Muslim audiences.
Here is how the West Australian newspaper has described the sheikh:
Sheikh Chothia … heads a collection of moderate Muslims known as the Lighthouse Group…
If this is moderate, imagine what the hard-liners are preaching.
What is the Turnbull Government going to do about this?
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Venezuela Makes Arrests at the End of a Dark Week as Food Riots Turn Bloody
Venezuelan authorities on Saturday claimed to have arrested several suspects accused of being behind the looting and vandalism that swept towns and left at least five people dead last week.
Freddy Bernal, national coordinator of the Claps, announced on Twitter that 49-year-old José Luis Marcano Ramírez, known as “The Baron”, had been apprehended for organising the raids in Cumaná.
He also posted a photo and announced the capture of Rafael Quijada, or “Tazmania”, as another alleged ringleader. “Cumaná overflowed, the patriotic people took to the streets to defend the revolution and say no to vandalism,” he tweeted.
Violent food riots marked a dark turn for Venezuela as unrest escalates over chronic shortages…
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Chart details immigration surge from majority-Muslim countries since Obama took office in 2009
The Obama Administration is on pace to issue more than a million green cards to migrants from majority-Muslim countries, according to an analysis of Department of Homeland Security data.
A chart released by the Senate Subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest Friday details the surge in immigration to the U.S. from majority-Muslim countries since President Barack Obama took office in 2009.
Specifically, in the first six fiscal years of Obama’s presidency (FY2009 — FY2014), his administration issued 832,014 green cards to migrants majority-Muslim countries, the most of which were issued to migrants from Pakistan (102,000), Iraq (102,000), Bangladesh (90,000), Iran (85,000), Egypt (56,000), and Somalia (37,000).
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Federal Judge Dismisses Texas’ Bid to Block Syrian Refugee Resettlement
US district court judge declares state “lacks a cause of action” against the feds
Texas lost its contentious bid to block the resettlement of Syrian refugees in the Lone Star State after a Dallas-based federal judge this week dismissed the state’s lawsuit against the federal government and an aid agency.
U.S. District Court Judge David Godbey issued his final judgment Wednesday, declaring that the state “lacks a cause of action” against the feds. He also said the state had “no plausible claim” against the International Rescue Committee for breach of contract.
The decision was not a surprise, given that Godbey had twice rejected the state’s emergency requests to halt Syrian refugees from entering the state.
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House Rejects Effort to Ban Illegal Immigrants From Military Service
Amendments failed narrowly…
In a break from previous votes on the issue, the House on Thursday rejected two GOP proposals to prevent the Obama administration from enlisting young illegal immigrants to serve in the military.
Lawmakers voted down two measures offered by immigration hard-liners Reps. Steve King (R-Iowa) and Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) that would have prohibited the use of federal money to enlist young illegal immigrants who have been granted work permits under President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
[Comment: Goal is a military full of illegals that will be used to try and crush American dissent. Illegals have no appreciation for the Constitution or the USA — they will blindly follow unconstitutinal orders.]
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Study: Migrants Hurt Long Term Economic Growth
A new study casts doubt on migrants propping up the economy, saying that they could heavily impact the economy in a negative manner.
Enzo Weber from the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) in Nuremberg and his colleague Roland Weigand produced a new report on the long term economic effects of mass migration. According to the IAB report, without additional efforts from the German government and others in the European Union (EU) the long term impact of mass migration could be highly negative for the economies of Germany and Europe.
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They say that the real problem with migrants is a distinct lack of qualifications, or qualifications that don’t meet European standards, and the huge language barrier between migrants from places like the Middle East and North Africa, reports Die Welt.
According to the pair of researchers, not only will long-term unemployment rise and total tax revenues fall in the long term but the medium term economic forecast could be just as dire, if not more so.
They say that the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), which measures the total wealth created generally per year in a country, could decline not only overall, but also per capita. The researchers note that this effect could also lead to job losses resulting in higher unemployment as the government must decide whether to raise taxes to pay for government services or make well paid government workers redundant.
“If you’re doing nothing then mass-migration has a long term negative effect,” Mr. Weber said. The researcher claimed that it was crucial to get migrants proper skills training. While some migrants may have certifications or degrees from universities and institutions in the Middle East or North Africa, the curriculum could be entirely different leading to an uncertainty as to their true expertise in their given subject.
Mr. Weber noted that language was also important; no matter how skilled a migrant may be, without language skills they may be reduced to performing low skilled labour where language is not a deciding factor…
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Lesbian Couple Talks Forcing Their Son Into ‘Queer’ Relationships
“I’m constantly, like, trying to queer my relationship with him”
A recent Buzzfeed video features a lesbian “gender non-conforming” couple speaking about how they force their son into “queer” relationships with his own gender.
The couple, Dashiell and Michelle, have no problem pushing a certain sexuality onto their son despite his young age.
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Facebook Continues Jihad Against Pages Critical of Islam
The social media platform has again been censoring pages that criticise Islam. Facebook banned the page of gay magazine Gaystream after the publication wrote an article attacking people for defending the attitudes of the religion towards homosexuals.
Journalist and editor-in-chief of Gaystream, David Berger, claimed that the site had blocked the magazine’s page because of an article that sharply criticised Green party activists who “played down the causes of the attack,” Junge Freiheit writes.
Mr. Berger claims that not only was the Facebook page deactivated, but his personal account was also shut down for 30 days after he posted an article he had written called: “Cologne professional Homos scale new stage of Islam-masochism.” In the article, he heavily criticised the Cologne Gay Museum director Dr. Brigit Bosold who told German media she was more afraid of straight white men than Islamic radicals and migrants.
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In excess of 60m. to house in jail these grubs who abused those poor girls in Leeds. What a waste xshould be extradited to somewhere. No thank you not here to Australia we have had our turn . Might I suggest Antartica or even the Falklands. Let them fend for themselves there. No housing ,no sustenance, no sex other than with themselves leve them there to rot.
Destroying a child’s innocence and severely degrading their future prospects via grooming should be considered a capital offence.
“The conclusion of the trial is the culmination of a four-year investigation by West Yorkshire Police which resulted in 25 defendants being charged in December 2014 with offences”
It’s worth remembering that the abuse went on for so long because of political correctness thinking in the Police and Social workers, who couldn’t join the dots for fear of being accused of Islamophobia or profiling ethnic groups. The same trap that seems to have caught the bumbling FBI in Orlando.
But Orlando wasn’t about kids in care. And it didn’t evolve slowly; Orlando was sudden and overwhelming. Who/what the perp was became clear within twenty-four hours. The LBGT coalition is a strong one; they’re not minor children with no one to speak for them.
Yes, the FBI is useless, but they weren’t necessary anyway.
No, you missed my point. I was actually referring to the unwillingness of investigators to join the dots. The Orlando terrorist was known to the FBI, interviewed three times, yet not watched. He attended the same small mosque as a homicide bomber. We can conclude the indoctrination of FBI staff in avoiding profiling, even not using terms like Jihadist, all contributed to the ball being dropped. Much the same happened in places like Bradford, where PC thinking made Police & Social workers see only isolated unconnected incidents not a pattern.
No, you missed my point. I was actually referring to the unwillingness of investigators to join the dots.
You’re right. The differences though are significant: that was a whole group of men whereas Mateen was one lunatic. And there were hundreds (thousands?) of girls who were victimized over a very long period of time.
However the fear in both authorities of being seen as racist was what allowed both tragedies to happen.
There was a comment the other day about the fact that Muslims have managed to close up all but three of the gays bars in East London…not that there are fewer gays, just that they don’t congregate nearly as much in East London…and that was done “quietly” – i.e., there was no way to fight back because police don’t ‘do’ racism.
“Racism” is the great sin. It has replaced treason as the worst thing one can do. In fact, the idea of treason has become a shibboleth – imagine being arrested for betraying one’s country?
Racism is a great transgression against a particular group of people, but not a nation. Treason is simply quaint. Remember when the Russian spies in the U.S. and Britain would flee to the USSR for protection? I cannot imagine the Rosenbergs being put on trial today.
Of course Julian Assange is still on the lam, but the gravitas of his betrayal seems lessened. And the MSM displayed no qualms about using his material
“We’re Told the EU Makes us All Stronger. But This Haunting Dispatch From a Despairing, Destitute Greece May Make You Change Your Mind”
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I remember the day when this poor man ended his life,not only because he did not want to eat what he could find in the rubbish bins but also because he did not want to become a burden to his only child.
I have written that Germany genocides the Greek nation,and if you read what genocide means,under the UN,you will understand what i am writing about.
The International Convention of the Prevention
and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide on
December 9, 1948 set the United Nations
definition of genocide:
General Assembly Resolution 260A (III) Article 2
In the present Convention, genocide means any of the
following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole
or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as
such:
(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the
group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life
calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or
in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the
group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group
Only the (e) has not taken place yet.
What is happening in our country the last six years is something that we will never
forget.
We are like elephants.
We will survive and we will repay.
Ask the Germans about the Greek gold reserves, looted by the Nazis to pay for the occupation.
Oh, do you mean Germany is going to return those gold reserves? Or that they already have done? That’s real moral rectitude on the part of the Germans. I’m impressed.
With the recent political assassination of Labour European Unionist MP Jo Cox, we are now barred from talking about immigration and false flags. The noose around our necks is tightened again.
Opinion Polls are tied with Remain slightly ahead. Leave went ahead because we won the immigration debates, now it is impossible to to talk about the very crux of our problems – immigration.
There is only one televised debate left on Tuesday, it must be won arguing about control and power to determine your own identity. Immigration debate is now silenced in this referendum. Well done Thomas Mair, well done and he isn’t even registered to vote!
Must be false flag now.
** State Department is functioning as an implementation agency for a globalist agenda **
JD hits another one out of the park.