Turkey has closed down 130 media outlets as part of a continuing crackdown in the wake of the failed military coup. Among the outlets closed down are 45 newspapers and 16 television stations.
In other news, police in the German city of Bremen have acknowledged that at least 24 women were sexually assaulted by young migrant men at a recent music festival.
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Deutsche Bank Profit Plunges 98%
A lagging economy, messy politics and negative interest rates have combined to brutalize European lenders, few more prominently than Deutsche Bank AG.
The German bank reported steep second-quarter falls in its investment-banking and securities-trading businesses, a potent sign of the bank’s acute struggles and of the deep malaise that has settled over Europe’s financial institutions.
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Bernie Sanders to Return to Senate as an Independent
PHILADELPHIA — Bernie Sanders said he plans to return to the Senate as an independent, despite winning 13 million votes in the Democratic Party’s presidential primary contest.
“I was elected as an independent; I’ll stay two years more as an independent,” Mr. Sanders said.
Speaking at the Bloomberg Politics breakfast on Tuesday, Mr. Sanders also said the resignation of Debbie Wasserman Schultz as chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee doesn’t go far enough in fixing the situation and that more staff members need to leave following embarrassing disclosures of thousands of internal emails.
“We need a DNC which has as very different direction,” he said. “I honestly don’t know many of the people there. But my guess is we’re going to need new leadership, a new direction and new personnel.”
Asked after the event whether Mr. Sanders considers himself a Democrat or an independent, a campaign aide said, “He ran for president as a Democrat but was elected to a six-year term in the Senate as an independent.”
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Black DNC Protest Tells Crowd: “White People to the Back”
Organizers of the Black DNC Resistance March in Philadelphia were seen Wednesday on video segregating their protest by ordering white people to the back of the line.
“I need all white people to move to the back — make space because this is a Black Resistance March,” one of the leaders yelled from the bed of a pickup truck. “I need all white people to move to the back and make room for the black and brown brothers and sisters.”
Local media reports the march was organized by a coalition of neighborhood groups including Black Lives Matter Philadelphia.
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Clinton Campaigns Move to Force Trump Super-PAC Ad Off TV
PHILADELPHIA — Hillary Clinton’s campaign is pressuring TV stations across the country to stop airing an anti-Clinton political ad sponsored by the pro-Trump super-PAC Rebuilding America Now.
The campaign claims the ad, titled “Outsourcing,” is “directly contracted by evidence in the public record.”
The ad claims Clinton went to India and talked up outsourcing — and then received a donation from Indian politician Amar Singh of up to $5 million in 2008.
The Clinton campaign contends that the donation was made in a different year.
A lawyer for Rebuilding America Now, Cleta Mitchell, said the political ad “is well within the scope of important public discourse.”
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Flash Mob Robbery Caught on Video in Roslindale Store
Unfortunately for Gloria Mantas, she became the victim of a flash mob robbery over the weekend.
Mantas was working at her convenience store gas station on Washington Street early Sunday morning when about 25 teenagers suddenly came in at once just after midnight.
They started grabbing drinks, candy, ice cream and anything they could get their hands on. Then, in less than a minute, they all left at once — without paying for anything.
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Inside Tesla’s Gigantic Gigafactory
Does Elon Musk have more money than sense? Or could it actually be more sense than money?
The chief executive of Tesla is, in a post-Steve-Jobs world, the stand-out visionary voice in Silicon Valley. There’s no question about that.
But with each product launch — or, in this case, a building launch — it seems he needs both more time and more money to realise his own ambitions.
The more he achieves, the bigger the task, and budget, seems to get.
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Obama Tells Democrats to be Scared of Trump
Democrats should be “running scared” at the challenge posed by Donald Trump, President Obama has said.
After launching his candidacy as an outsider last year, Mr Trump went on to overcome all rivals to clinch the Republican presidential nomination.
Some polls have since indicated he is leading Democrat candidate Hillary Clinton in the presidential race.
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Reagan Would-be Assassin John Hinckley Jr to be Released
John Hinckley Jr, the man who tried to assassinate US President Ronald Reagan, is to be released from a psychiatric hospital next month after 35 years.
Mr Reagan and three others were injured in the shooting outside a hotel in Washington in March 1981.
Mr Hinckley was found not guilty by reason of insanity but was sent for treatment to a Washington hospital.
He has already been spending 17 days a month at his mother’s home in Virginia under strict conditions.
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Sanders Supporters Look to Green Party’s Jill Stein to Take Up the Cause
While Bernie Sanders supporters turned out in droves to the Democratic convention, many are chanting another name in the streets of Philadelphia as the senator steps back into the party fold: Jill Stein.
All but an afterthought for much of the primary season, the Green Party candidate’s political stock has risen in recent days as Sanders supporters search for an alternative. Stein herself has maintained a presence on the sidelines of the Philadelphia chaos, even marching with protesters Tuesday after Hillary Clinton was nominated.
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk Says Nevada Gigafactory Will Have Much Higher Production Than Planned
Tesla’s upcoming Model 3 car could generate $20 billion in revenue per year and an annual gross profit of about $5 billion, Chief Executive Elon Musk said.
“Things are on track to be able to meet the Model 3 cell production timing in the middle of next year,” Musk told reporters at a press conference on Tuesday at Tesla’s “gigafactory” facility in the Nevada desert.
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Violent Crime Rising in US Cities, Study Finds
(CNN) Violent crime is on the rise so far this year in major cities across the US compared to the number of homicides, rapes, robberies, assaults and shootings that occurred in the same cities by this point in 2015, a new report has found.
The midyear violent crime survey released Monday by the Major Cities Chiefs Association shows 307 more homicides so far in 2016, according to data from 51 law enforcement agencies from some of the largest US cities.
In addition to a large increase in homicides, major cities in the US have experienced more than 1,000 more robberies, almost 2,000 more aggravated assaults and more than 600 non-fatal shootings in 2016 compared to this time last year.
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Air France Warns of ‘Concern About France as a Destination’
Air France-KLM has warned there is concern about “France as a destination” as recent terror attacks affected sales in the second quarter of the year.
Air France also joined other European airlines in warning of the impact from the “high level” of geopolitical and economic uncertainties.
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Catalan Parliament Votes to Start Separating From Spain
Defying Constitutional Court, central gov’t to appeal resolution
MADRID — The regional parliament of Catalonia on Wednesday approved a resolution to begin seceding from Spain, in open defiance of the Constitutional Court. The decision was approved by 72 regional MPs out of 135. Ten MPs from the CSP group linked to Podemos, Partido Popular and Ciudadanos walked out of the assembly and the Socialists did not vote. A recent poll shows that 48% of the Catalan population currently supports independence compared with 43% against it.
The Spanish government under outgoing prime minister Mariano Rajoy announced it would be filing an appeal with the Constitutional Court against the resolution passed earlier by the Catalan government. Deputy Prime Minister Soraya de Santamaria said that the announcement by the Catalan MPs was a “very serious matter”, coming as it did despite a veto placed on it by the central government, adding that the appeal would be approved by the government on Friday.
Spain’s Constitutional Court had in recent days prohibited the regional parliament in Barcelona from voting on it. The resolution was presented by the pro-secessionist groups Junts Pel Si and CUP. The anti-secessionist parties — PP, Ciudadanos and PSC — have spoken out against the “illegality” of the decision. PP parliamentary chief Xavier Garcia Albiol has said that the act is tantamount to a “coup” against the government in Madrid and warned that there will be a price to pay for it. Catalan regional president and pro-secessionist Carles Puidgemont instead says that the position taken by the regional MPs is “legitimate” and has in recent months confirmed that the goal is to achieve an independent “Catalan Republic” by the end of 2017.
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France: The Civil War Has Begun
By Dan Hannan
In one of those eerie coincidences, the day of the Charlie Hebdo atrocity saw the publication of a novel by the grumpy French intellectual Michel Houellebecq (pronounced Wellbeck).Entitled Submission, it envisioned a charismatic candidate from the Muslim Brotherhood winning the French presidency in 2022 and, in coalition with the other parties, gradually taking over the education system.Readers hoping for a Bat Ye’or/Mark Steyn/Frank Gaffney style takedown of Islamism were disappointed. The president, Mohammed Ben-Abbes, is depicted more-or-less sympathetically, and Islam is portrayed as filling an emptiness in the soulless French state…
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French Media to Stop Publishing Photos and Names of Terrorists
Several French news organisations have said they will no longer publish photographs of people responsible for terrorist killings, to avoid bestowing “posthumous glorification”.
Le Monde published an editorial after the latest attack, the murder of an elderly priest in a church near Rouen by two men claiming allegiance to Islamic State. Under the headline “ Resisting the strategy of hate “, Le Monde argued on Wednesday that all elements of society had to be involved in the struggle against terrorism, and that media organisations had a special role to play.
“The sites and newspapers that produce this information cannot excuse themselves from self-examination on several fronts. Since Isis terrorism first appeared, Le Monde has changed its practices several times,” the newspaper said.
It first chose not to republish images from Isis propaganda documents. Then, after the attack in Nice on 14 July, when a truck drove through crowds enjoying the Bastille Day public holiday, Le Monde said it had decided to “no longer publish photographs of the perpetrators of killings, to avoid the potential effect of posthumous glorification”.
The newspaper said it would continually debate other practices in relation to the coverage of terrorism…
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French Church Attack: Faith Leaders Call for More Security
French religious leaders have called for more security at places of worship following the murder of an elderly priest in Normandy on Tuesday.
Representatives of Christian, Muslim, Jewish and Buddhist faiths spoke after meeting President Hollande.
Father Jacques Hamel was killed while conducting morning mass in his church in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, a suburb of Rouen.
The killing came 12 days after the attack in Nice in which 84 people died.
Only one of the two attackers has been named. Adel Kermiche, 19, had twice tried to reach Syria to fight with the self-styled Islamic State group (IS).
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Armed police officers have launched a raid on a mosque and several homes belonging to a group believed to be radicalising Muslims in Germany.
Apartments belonging to eight board members of the radical German-speaking Islamic group DIK were searched by officers in Hildesheim, Lower Saxony.
It comes as part of a crackdown on the group, which is thought to have been encouraging people to travel to Syria and Iraq to join ISIS.
The group ran sermons, seminars and lectures entitled ‘the hatred of infidels’, according to German media.
The raid on Wednesday night involved up to 400 volunteer staff, as well as a special police task force.
‘The DIK in Hildesheim is a nationwide hot spot of radical Muslims that we have been watching for a long time,’ said Lower Saxony Interior Minister Boris Pistorius.
‘After months of preparation, we have taken an important step to end the association.’…
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Germany: Bavaria Interior Minister: Ansbach Bomber’s Phone Record Suggests Accomplice Involved
Bavaria’s top security official has revealed new details of a bombing in the German town of Ansbach. In the wake of several attacks on German soil, officials have considered deploying the military in country.
Bavaria’s interior minister, Joachim Herrmann, on Wednesday said that a suspected accomplice may have contacted the 27-year-old Syrian asylum seeker who blew himself up last week, injuring 15 people in the town of Ansbach.
“There was apparently an immediate contact with someone who had a significant influence on this attack,” Herrmann said in a statement.
The state interior minister noted that the assailant was in an online chat immediately prior to the attack, although it is unclear who he was speaking to or whether it was a member of the “Islamic State” militant group, which claimed responsibility for the attack.
The group said he had been in constant contact with a “soldier” of the self-declared Islamic State.
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How Was ‘Ticking Time Bomb’ Free to Attack French Church?
France was seeking on Wednesday to understand how a jihadist awaiting trial on terror charges and described as a “ticking time bomb” could attack a small-town church in broad daylight, killing a priest in the latest atrocity claimed by the Islamic State group.
Adel Kermiche was one of two attackers who stormed the church in the northern town of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray during morning mass, slitting the throat of an 86-year-old priest and leaving a worshipper with serious injuries.
The attack, claimed by IS jihadists, comes less than two weeks after Tunisian Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel ploughed a truck into a crowd in the Riviera city of Nice, killing 84 people and injuring over 300.
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ISIS Warn London ‘Next to be Attacked’ As UK Churches Put on Terror Alert After French Priest Murder
London is on the next list of target cities for twisted jihadis, it has been claimed.
Images threatening attacks in London and other major world capitals have been posted on messaging app Telegram, according to analysts at SITE Intelligence Group.
One picture chillingly shows New York’s Statue of Liberty engulfed in flames but with the caption “Washington soon” — referring to the US capital 225 miles away.
The threat comes as security at British churches is being ramped up amid a new terror alert after ISIS knifemen forced a French priest to kneel before slitting his throat on camera.
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ISIS Killers Who Slit Throat of Priest Filmed Sick Beheading
The evil jihadis who butchered a French priest at a church altar were filming themselves while they tried to behead him.
The pair of ISIS knifemen stormed the Normandy church with blades and a camera before forcing Father Jaques Hamel, 85, to kneel as they performed a sermon in Arabic.
The jihadis then slashed the priest’s throat in a frenzied attack while screaming “Allahu Akbar” as they recorded the whole thing, according to one terrified nun taken captive near the city of Rouen.
ISIS have a history of capturing their atrocities of video.
Just this month they filmed the crucified corpse of a Syrian pilot after downing his jet and and earlier this year murdered an alleged spy on video by strapping explosives to his neck.
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Marion Le Pen Has Said She Will Enrol in the French Army Reserve
Marion Le Pen announced on Twitter she would join the French Army reserve after a spate of Islamic State-inspired terror attacks in Europe.
The 26-year-old also blasted the “ineffective” French army as the country reels from the murder of 84-year-old Father Jacques Hamel by two teenagers who said they were ISIS “soldiers”.
The National Front MP Tweeted: “Due to the threat facing France, I have decided to join the military reserve.
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New Thoughts on Making Rope in the Paleolithic
TÜBINGEN, GERMANY—Impressions of string have been found on fired clay, and string has been depicted in Ice Age artwork, but scholars have thus far known little about how European hunter-gatherers produced rope. Now according to a study conducted by researchers from the University of Tübingen and the University of Liège, Paleolithic hunter-gatherers may have used mammoth ivory tools to weave rope out of plant fibers. UPI reports that a team led by Nicholas Conard of the University of Tübingen found a 40,000-year-old tool in Hohle Fels Cave that had been carved with holes lined with spiral incisions. Veerle Rots of the University of Liège used replicas of the device to produce rope from plant fibers available near Hohle Fels. Similar tools have been found at Paleolithic sites in the past, but they were thought to be shaft-straighteners, artwork, or even musical instruments.
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Philae Comet Lander Goes Quiet for Good
European Space Agency switches off radio communications with popular space probe.
Philae, the space probe that made history by landing on a comet in November 2014, has been silent since July 2015 — and is now silent for good.
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She worked as a cleaner and shared a flat with a new friend. Three months before the fatal attack, she found a full-time job in a kitchen at the Mangal Kebab fast food store.
Jolanta left her four children aged eight, 19, 22 and 23 in Poland.
The youngest daughter was supposed to join her mother to live in Germany soon. On the day she was killed, Jolanta had just arrived back from a visit to her homeland.
According to local media, Jolanta almost managed to escape the attack.
The attacker, identified only by his first name Muhamed, knew Jolanta from Mangal Kebab and fell in love with her, according to local media…
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Spain Arrests Moroccan Brothers Suspected of Financing ‘Islamic State’
The arrests have marked the first time authorities discover concrete evidence of the group’s finance networks in Europe. In Morocco, police have detained over 50 people for trying to establish a province for the group.
Spanish police on Wednesday arrested two Moroccan brothers, aged 33 and 22, in the northeastern city of Girona for helping finance the “Islamic State” (“IS”) militant group’s operations in Syria and Iraq, Spain’s interior ministry said in a statement.
Police discovered a large amount of cash and telecommunications data at the brothers’ home. The information is expected to assist authorities in exposing the militant group’s presence in Europe, police said.
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Sweden: Police Hunt Suspected Gunman, 22, In Malmö
Malmö police are looking for a 22-year-old suspect in connection with a shooting at a shopping centre in Rosengård.
The man is suspected of shooting another man at the Rosengård Centrum mall in southern Malmö yesterday afternoon. He has been formally detained in absentia.
“He is wanted and we’re looking for him,” police spokesperson Ewa-Gun Westford told regional newspaper Sydsvenskan.
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Tapping Genetics for Better Beer
A Belgian lab aims to turn the brewing world on its head with new strains of yeast.
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Terror Attacks and Mass Killings Are Becoming a Daily Event
Terror attacks and mass killings are happening so rapidly now that it is really difficult to keep up with them all. In fact, as you will see below, so far there have been several this week alone. This latest attack in France during which radical Islamic terrorists slit the throat of a Catholic priest was particularly disturbing. Just a few days ago I warned that churches in the western world would be targeted, and now it is happening. According to thereligionofpeace.com, there have been 1274 Islamic terror attacks in 2016. These attacks have been spread across 50 different nations, and as a result of these attacks more than 11,000 people have been killed and more than 14,000 people have been injured. When are we going to finally wake up and understand how serious this threat really is?
[1 Peter 5:8]
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UK: Leytonstone Attack Sentencing: Knifemen Facing Jail for Sick Rampage
THE Leytonstone Tube attacker is to be sentenced today after pleading guilty to attempted murder.
Muhiddin Mire, 30, cut the throat of musician Lyle Zimmerman as he screamed “Allahu Akbar” during a blade-wielding rampage.
He thrust a rusty knife at and threatened at least four passengers before he was finally Tasered by cops in December.
Mire faces years behind bars for his sickening attack.
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Video Captures ISIS Killers Using Nuns as Human Shields After Slaughtering French Priest
The two self-proclaimed “soldiers of ISIS” who stormed a church in northern France during Mass Tuesday and slit the throat of an 85-year-old priest held nuns at gunpoint as they tried to flee, in a dramatic moment caught on video just before police marksmen killed them.
Video posted on the French news site Le Telegramme captures the jihadists, who had earlier pledged allegiance to ISIS, as they spill out of the church, using the nuns as human shields. The killers, identified by police as Adel Kermiche and Abdel Malik, shout “Allahu Akbar” as they run from the church in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, each holding a gun to the head of a nun as police snipers take aim.
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What is the Link Between the Attacks in Germany Last Week?
A security expert tells The Local how the attacks could be related, but also how they could have nothing to do with one another whatsoever.
“It’s very difficult to know if there is any link,” between the four attacks which took place in Germany last year, terrorism and security expert Raffaello Pantucci tells The Local. “But it is quite common to get clusters of attacks following on from each other, and also to get ‘copycat’ attacks.”
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British Woman ‘Kept in Cage in Saudi Arabia by Father Who Disapproved of Her Behaviour’
A British woman has been held in a cage in Saudi Arabia by her father, who controls nearly every aspect of her life, a court was told this week.
Swansea-born Amina Al-Jeffery, a 21-year-old dual British-Saudi citizen, was taken from her home in Wales by her father Mohammed Al-Jeffery, 62, four years ago, the court heard. Her father reportedly disapproved of her behaviour when she lived in the UK.
The High Court was told she is now being held against her will at her father’s home in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, The Times reported.
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Turkey Shuts Down 130 Media Outlets After Failed Military Coup
Turkey’s government has decided to close down dozens of media outlets, including 45 newspapers and 16 television stations in the wake of a failed military coup, the country’s state-run news agency reported Wednesday.
CNN Turk reported that 130 media organizations had been shuttered in a widening crackdown by Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government. The list also inlcuded 23 radio stations, three news agencies and 15 magazines. Many of those targeted were regional media outlets as well as several organizations that had already been seized by the state over alleged links to Fethullah Gulen, the U.S.-based cleric accused of being behind the failed uprising.
The state-run Anadolu Agency also reported that close to 1,700 military officers have been formally discharged.
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Turkey Dismisses Military, Shuts Media Outlets as Crackdown Deepens
Turkey on Wednesday deepened a crackdown on suspected followers of a U.S.-based cleric it blames for a failed coup, dismissing nearly 1,700 military personnel and shutting 131 media outlets, moves that may spark more concern among its Western allies.
So far, tens of thousands of people — including police, judges and teachers — have been suspended or placed under investigation since the July 15-16 coup, which Turkey says was staged by a faction within the military loyal to the Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen.
Gulen, who lives in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania but whose movement has a wide following in Turkey where it runs a large network of schools, has denied any involvement in the failed putsch.
Western governments and human rights groups, while condemning the abortive coup in which at least 246 people were killed and more than 2,000 injured, have expressed concern over the extent of the crackdown, suggesting President Tayyip Erdogan may be using it to stifle dissent and tighten his grip on power…
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New App Connects Russian Orthodox Church to Believers
The Russian Orthodox Church is to launch a new messaging app in order to help priests to keep in touch with believers.
It’s being made by the same designers behind the Church’s dedicated social network, Elitsy, which was launched in 2014. The app, which is currently in development, will “satisfy the needs of the faithful for interaction and continuous contact between parishioners and the Church”, according to Elitsy’s press service, cited by Tass news agency. It adds that the app has the blessing of the Church’s leader, Patriarch Kirill.
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How a Pakistani Doctor Nearly Lost His Life After Treating a Christian
Doctor claims he received death threats after he saved a Christian man’s life using medicine donated through Zakat
A Pakistani doctor, currently seeking political asylum in the US, claims he received death threats and was discriminated against at work after he saved a Christian man’s life using medicine donated through Zakat.
The doctor, writing anonymously, shares his story in a startling blog in The Guardian. As a young medical graduate fresh out of university, he was working an ER shift one night when a patient came who needed urgent dialysis. “Unattended and disheveled as he was, there was no one with him to get him the medicine he needed. Fearing he might die, I instinctively grabbed the emergency medicine donated via Z akat, an Islamic system of alms-giving, and performed the life-saving hemodialysis,” he writes.
The doctor was able to save the patient’s life but his own soon became imperiled. “He survived but I immediately faced the wrath of the nurse. She was mad at me because the patient was a Christian and she said Islamic alms are not meant to be used on non-Muslims. But I did not know the patient’s faith, nor did I know that such a law existed.”…
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China to Crack Down on ‘Vile Effect’ of Journalism
Citizens of China can rest easy, knowing that their authoritarian government has taken steps to protect them from the “vile effect” of independent journalism.
As the UK Guardian puts it, this bold crackdown on thoughtcrime involves Beijing forbidding big Internet portals like Netease, Sina, and Sohu from reporting on “social and political issues.”
From now on, all such reporting must come from government-controlled “news” services, with “enhanced” penalties awaiting the defiant.
To pave the way for this glorious new era of absolute government control over thought and expression, Chinese President Xi Jinping toured state media organizations in Beijing earlier this year, to guarantee their “absolute loyalty” and make it clear their job was to disseminate the Communist Party’s “policies and propositions.”
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HK Journalists Jailed in China for ‘Illegal Business’
Two journalists who worked on political magazines in Hong Kong have been jailed in mainland China for running an illegal business.
Publisher Wang Jianmin and editor Guo Zhongxiao worked on New-Way Monthly and Multiple Face, which published gossipy news about mainland leaders.
The articles were published in Hong Kong, which has greater media freedoms, but copies were sent to the mainland.
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Johannesburg Tours Reintroduce Residents to the City They Grew Up in
Guide James Manguza takes people out of their ‘bubble’ to neighborhoods that have long been considered no-go zones for the South African city’s tourists and suburbanites alike.
“South Africans live in a bubble,” Manguza says later, as he leads the group down a busy artery, where Ethiopian restaurants jostle up against bars thumping Congolese pop music and tiny corner shops selling highlighter-red palm oil and gnarled West African yams.
The tour they’re on focuses on the culinary offerings of this immigrant-heavy neighborhood, Yeoville. “Because of the crime, people live with the paranoia that everyone is out to get them,” he says. “What we’re trying to do is get people out, show them their neighbors.”
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Venezuela Cuts Oil Shipments to Cuba Forcing Castros to Consider Veering to U.S.
Venezuela’s grim situation is impacting not only millions of households around the country — it is also sending panic waves across the Caribbean all the way to Cuba, a solid ally that for decades now has relied heavily on Chavismo’s generosity.
Cuba, a communist country with a weak economy, has alienated itself from the rest of the world and has largely relied on Venezuela to stay financially afloat. But Venezuela’s falling oil prices is causing Cuba to distance itself from the South American country.
So far this year Venezuelan oil shipments to the island have declined by 19.5 percent, forcing an energy rationing that is reminding people of the early 90s, when the Soviet Union dissolved and Cuba lost its top provider almost overnight.
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Venezuela Receives Worst-Ever Grade for Citizens’ Security; Worst for Any Nation Since ‘05
Venezuelan citizens are in bad shape when it comes feeling safe in their country, new research shows.
In its annual assessment of perceived security, Gallup gave Venezuela the worst score in its history — 35 out of 100 — which is also the worst grade for any nation in more than a decade.
The Law and Order Index rated 133 countries based on their respective citizens’ confidence in local law enforcement, sense of security and incidence of theft. The higher the score on the index, the higher the proportion of the population that says they feel safe, Gallup said.
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Date Set for Verdict in Asylum Home Murder Trial in Sweden
The trial of a man accused of killing a worker at a home for young refugees earlier this year has ended.
Alexandra Mezher, 22, was stabbed to death at an asylum home for young people in Mölndal last January. The incident was covered extensively in the international media, and stoked tensions in Sweden over the refugee crisis.
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Germany: Merkel Faces Backlash After Killings
German chancellor Angela Merkel faces a political backlash over her open-door policy for migrants after several attacks in the country.
The four brutal killings in Germany’s south, three of which were carried out by asylum-seekers, have shocked Germans and emboldened critics of Merkel’s welcoming refugee policy to blame her for the attacks.
Horst Seehofer, leader of CSU, the sister party to Merkel’s CDU, has long been critical of Merkel’s migration policy and now criticises her for “dodging the issue”. The “policy of open borders cannot be tolerated any more”, he said, adding that terrorists were “using the [refugee] routes to enter Germany”.
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Germany Migration Office Explosion: Blast Near Federal Building Caused by Suitcase Bomb
EARLY reports suggest the explosion near a government office for migrants in the German town of Zirndorf was caused by a suitcase filled with aerosols.
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Germany: 24 Cases of Migrant Sexual Assault at Music Festival
Bremen police have admitted that they have at least 24 alleged sexual assault investigations open following a cultural festival where women say they were sexually harassed by young migrant men.
“Breminale” is a multi-day festival in the city of Bremen designed to celebrate the different cultures in the city. Police have revealed that some have used the festival as an excuse to harass and sexually assault at least 24 young German girls. The perpetrators are all said to be asylum seekers and authorities say they currently have 5 suspects, all Afghan nationals aged 17-18. The migrants are said to have committed the crimes in broad daylight, reports German broadcaster ARD.
The main incident occurred at a concert of punk band “Alltag” at around 3:05pm. The sexual harassment was so brazen and obvious to the crowd and the band that the band even stopped playing music in order to tell the migrants to stop groping and attacking the young girls at the concert.
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Haitian Migrant Crisis Exposes Rift in the Catholic Church
Immigration has long been a divisive issue on Hispaniola, the Caribbean island shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
For decades, large numbers of Haitians have migrated — many of them without papers — to the Dominican Republic, to escape the poverty and lack of employment in their homeland.
In 2013, the Dominican Republic’s highest court ruled that children born there to undocumented migrants were not automatically eligible for Dominican nationality.
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Hungary PM Says Migration is ‘Poison’
Hungary’s prime minister Viktor Orban on Tuesday described immigration to Europe as a “poison”, reports AFP. “For us migration is not a solution but a problem … not medicine but a poison, we don’t need it and we won’t swallow it,” he said at a press conference in Budapest with Austrian chancellor Christian Kern. Urban also said there is no need for a common European migration policy.
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Hungary Taunts Merkel Over Terror and Says ‘Our Problem is Not in Mecca, But in Brussels’
THE BITTER divisions ripping the European Union apart intensified today as Hungary launched an eviscerating attack on Brussels over migration and taunted Angela Merkel for failing to protect German people from Islamist terror.
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‘Juncker Has Blood on His Hands’ Eurocrat’s Arrogance Blamed for Terror Attacks in Europe
Responding to this morning’s horrific Islamist attack at a church in Normandy, leading Ukip figures laid the blame at the European Commission president.
Juncker has refused to respond to a clear and present danger across the continent, with today’s bloodshed coming just two weeks after the Nice massacre.
Mike Hookem MEP blasted Juncker and German leader Angela Merkel for “overseeing mass migration” into Europe “without any security checks”.
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Mexican Border Agency Seen as Aiding Illegal Immigration
South of the border, Grupo Beta is seen as a humanitarian organization that steers north-bound migrants through the crossfire of warring drug cartels. But in Texas, many view it as part of a pipeline that sends humans and drugs pouring into the U.S., all with the funding and backing of the Mexican government.
Grupo Beta, supported by Mexico’s National Institute of Migration, may be the sole bastion of relief for migrants in Tamaulipas state, across the border from the southeast Texas region which includes such cities as Brownsville, Laredo and McAllen. The 25 year-old agency was created to help Tijuana deal with huge numbers of migrants passing through, but has since expanded its reach across both the northern and southern borders of Mexico. Critics say the agency, whose motto “vocation, humanitarianism and loyalty,” is complicit in breaking U.S. laws.
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Norwegian Minister: Immigration Reforms Inadequate
Integration Minister Sylvi Listhaug of the anti-immigration Progress Party warned that further immigration and asylum restrictions may be on the way.
Only a few months after a number of immigration reforms aimed at making Norway a less attractive destination for refugees and migrants were pushed through the Norwegian parliament, Integration Minister Sylvi Listhaug of the anti-immigration Progress Party has now warned that further restrictions may be on the horizon.
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Pamela Geller: How Muslim Migrants Devastate a Community
In my report at Breitbart about the appalling official mistreatment of the Twin Falls, Idaho family whose five-year-old daughter was raped by Muslim migrants, I wrote:
“The victim’s family has received no assistance — no financial aid from federal or state programs to help them relocate. It is almost impossible to find a place to rent because of the housing shortage due to the sudden crush of refugees. Rents have gone way up as well. The five-year-old rape victim is still living next door to the ringleader of the Muslim mob that raped her.”
That family’s story is terrible, and it is just one of many that illustrate the devastation that the Muslim migrant influx is bringing to American communities.
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Tim Kaine Promises Bill to Legalize Illegal Immigrants in ‘First 100 Days’
A new Clinton administration would pursue a bill to legalize illegal immigrants in “the first 100 days” of her tenure, vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine told Spanish-language network Telemundo in an interview Monday, presenting a deep contrast with Republicans.
Mr. Kaine also predicted that House Republicans, who stopped President Obama’s last bid for legalization in 2013, will reverse themselves next year and said House Speaker Paul D. Ryan will lead the GOP to embrace legalization.
“Paul Ryan and the other leaders of his party are going to understand that if they want a future for their party they are going to have to work together to find a solution to this,” Mr. Kaine told “Noticias Telemundo,” according to a transcript provided by the network.
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Old Planets Always Get Too Hot or Cold for Life in the End
Age matters. Searching for alien life on planets orbiting older stars may be fruitless because they always become prohibitively hot or cold.
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As I See It, by Warren P. Russo
We are at war with radical Islamic terrorism, despite the administration’s refusal to admit it. Whether ISIS, ISIL, Taliban or Daesh, these invaders have a much longer world view than any Western culture. Consequently, they are willing to sacrifice themselves in the fight for a global caliphate, even if it takes another 1,000 years. Their all-encompassing socio-political ideology goes far beyond religion, spreading quickly as the terrorists force infidels to either convert to Islam, pay ruinous taxes, or worse.
The vast majority of the world’s 1.6 billion Muslims are peaceful, but using the most conservative current estimate of 10 percent radicalization, that means there are 160 million radical Islamic terrorists roaming the earth.
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*** Terror Attacks and Mass Killings Are Becoming a Daily Event ***
For every death, 10,000 Muslims in the vicinity of any killer’s residence need to be randomly selected and deported.
Let the wailing and rending of garments of the noodle heads begin but assimilation isn’t going to happen and all Muslims support the killing or subjugation of infidels. Period. There is a deafening silence from the ummbah when Muslims run wild. Exhibit A.
I was thinking along similar lines: for every death, 1,000 mosques confiscated and dynamited. There need to be stronger incentives for effective self-policing by the ummah, enabling the ‘anti-terrorism’ budget to be largely abolished. Call it ‘reverse jizya’?
I like it ALL. The Hope Diamond of Islam’s treatment of (surviving) infidels is second-class status and any manner of degradation as it amuses any nearby Muslim to inflict.
Westerners with no sense or guts cling, however, to suicidal notions of fairness and equality before the law. This works well for Norwegians, Spaniards, Southerners, and Japanese among each other but not where Muslims are concerned. Sleeping with scorpions is a safer course.
Even the measures we have mentioned are inadequate. A terrible mistake/betrayal was made/inflicted and nothing whatsoever requires us to compound this by embracing and celebrating the result thereof and swooning over the new “diversity.”
“Hungary’s prime minister Viktor Orban on Tuesday described immigration to Europe as a “poison”, reports AFP. “For us migration is not a solution but a problem … not medicine but a poison, we don’t need it and we won’t swallow it,”
This guy is even more politically incorrect than Trump.
Very true. They are poisoning the world with their inferior Islamic subtle and aggressive greedy expansion. They should be quarantined and then deported back to their too many Islamic enclaves in Middle East, North Africa, Central Asia or South East Asia. Close down their poisonous Sharia courts, Close down their poisonous mosques. Close down their deceptive Islamic infested schools.
Close down their halal butchering.
Stop the infectious spread of their meaningless Islamic logo that are everywhere that are infested by them that are meant to intimidate or force us nonbelievers to submit to their evil ideology.
It has been alleged that the situation in Turkey is a staged coup d’état in order to purge the government,academia,the political class and military of all opposition. ‘Uncle Joe Stalin’ would be proud. What boggles one’s mind is that Turkey is still a NATO partner and on the list for EU membership.
How is purging the government, academia, the political class, and military of all opposition any different than what has already happened in Europe and to a lesser extent in the US?
Only real difference is that it has been more gradual in Europe and in Turkey it’s happening suddenly.
So I’m not really surprised that the EUSSR is OK with this.
The EU(SSR) has been groomed by the mo.hams for decades. Even since WWII, and before. Der Führer and his friend from Jerusalem, Husseini, remember.
And, the Ottoman Empire, The Gates of Vienna, and the list goes on until the beginning of (the) time of that 7th century desert warlord.
Over the centuries the names have changed. Today the name happens to be EU(SSR), but the idea was always “to take Rome”.
The mo.hams have been working on this long before Charles Martell stopped them in France, needless to say.
At what point in time, can we say, with certainty that there was no islamic infiltration in Europe?
Nimrod-
I have come to the conclusion that TPTB in the US and Europe are not loudly condemning Turkey because they see the current situation as a test case for their own future plans.
Great article by Warren P. Russo!!!
Swedish
policewoman
not to be messed with
Thief masquerading as selling newspapers underestimated bikini-wearing Mikaela and her friends.
Photo shows how private Mikaela deals with individuals not respecting other people’s privacy and belongings. When they had made known to him that they would not buy his newspaper, he put one down on their blanket, and then picked it up. At the same time, their phone disappeared, which make Mikaela charge.
One photo says it all.
Note: Thief’s hair has not been pixeled.
I would have done the same, even without the bikini, Mikaela says to Aftonbladet.
– There’s nothing stopping me!
Mikaela on instagram, link in link
Viktor Orban is a hero. He might be one of the very few in Europe that remembers their history with the Muslim hordes of long ago. It hasn’t changed any. They are never-changing, the muslims. . . still reading that same book. Still thinking they can conquer the world for Allah. Ain’t going to happen but it will take some time to convince them since they are still stupid and primarily illiterate, other then their ruling class.
Killing a Hungarian priest while he was saying Mass was not a good idea, either. But . . . what happens next?