For the first time during the presidency of Barack Hussein Obama, the Senate has overridden one of Mr. Obama’s vetoes. Congress had passed a bill that would allow the families of 9/11 victims to sue Saudi officials, and Mr. Obama had vetoed it. But now the bill will become law.
In other news, the leader of Catalonia says that his region will hold a referendum on independence, with or without the approval of the Spanish government.
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Deutsche Disaster Plan? Merkel ‘Preparing’ Emergency Bailout for Leading German Bank
ANGELA Merkel’s government is preparing an emergency plan for Deutsche Bank should the lender need to be rescued amid a raft of expected lawsuits and fines, according to reports in German newspapers.
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Germany Denies Preparing Deutsche Bank Rescue Plan
The German government denied it was working on a rescue of Deutsche Bank (DBKGn.DE) as Germany’s biggest lender boosted its balance sheet by selling its British insurance business on Wednesday.
Deutsche is facing a $14 billion fine from the U.S. Department of Justice and concerns over its funding pushed its shares to a record low on Tuesday and heightened concerns about the health of the financial sector in Europe’s largest economy.
The finance ministry dismissed a newspaper report that a rescue plan was being prepared in case Deutsche was unable to raise capital to pay for costly litigation.
Weekly Die Zeit had reported that the German government and financial authorities were working on possible steps to enable Deutsche to sell assets to other lenders at prices that would ease the strain on the lender.
The German government would even offer to take a direct stake of 25 percent in an extreme emergency, the paper said without saying where it got its information.
The government was still hoping Deutsche would not need state support and only scenarios for a potential rescue were being discussed so far, Die Zeit added.
“This report is wrong. The German government is not preparing any rescue plan, there is no reason to speculate on such plans,” the finance ministry said in a statement…
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Germany: Deutsche Bank Denies Asking Merkel for State Aid
Deutsche Bank on Wednesday denied rumours it had sought state aid and announced the billion-euro sale of its British insurer Abbey Life, in a bid to reassure investors spooked by a potentially massive US fine.
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Germany’s Banks Huge Threat to EU, Warns Ex-Chancellor Lord Lamont
GERMANY and Italy’s troubled banks have the potential to tear apart the the European Union, according to former chancellor Lord Lamont.
The bloc’s biggest economy is not immune to the problems related to its lenders, while Italy’s financial sector is also in a dire circumstances, said Lord Lamont.
He said: “The biggest threat to Europe is the banking crisis.
“I think Italian banks are in a very serious situation. I think German banks are probably in a very serious situation, too.”
It comes as Deutsche Bank’s share price this week plunged to record lows, prompted by comments that Angela Merkel’s government would not rescue the bank if it needed help.
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Major Fund Manager Panics at Edge of Economy: “Now is the Most Treacherous Time Ever”
This article was written by Tyler Durden and originally published at Zero Hedge.
Editor’s Comment: The zero percent interest problem is continuing to wreck the economy. It has removed the incentive for investment and the growth of new businesses, and has instead rewarded investment into the most bloated and inefficient mechanisms of the state.
The private sector is being forced to invest in government largess at the expense of people who were once their consumer and production base — but are now reduced even further to wards of the state.
$356 Billion Fund Manager: “Now Is The Most Treacherous Time Ever. I’ve Never Seen This In My Career”
by Tyler Durden
Last week we reported that Tad Rivelle, fund manager at the $195 billion TCW Group, uttered a harsh warning, telling readers of his newsletter that “the time has come to leave the dance floor,” providing numerous examples and anecdotes as to why that is the case.
Today it was the turn of Joe Baratta, the top dealmaker at Steve Schwarzmann’s $356 billion Blackstone Group, to follow up with a comparable warning.
Speaking at the WSJ Pro Private Equity Analyst Conference in New York, Baratta said that “for any professional investor, this is the most difficult period we’ve ever experienced”, adding that “You have historically high multiples of cash flows, low yields. I’ve never seen it in my career. It’s the most treacherous moment.”
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Charlotte Motorists Describe Being Surrounded by Feral Black Lives Matter
Editor’s Note: This is only going to become more common. Which way, White America? Huddled in gridlocked cars as a roiling street protest bore upon them in the darkness, motorists pleaded with 911 operators for help in the week’s first wave of violence early Wednesday. Scenes of chaos were described in recordings released Monday by the city of Charlotte. Starting around 1:30 a.m., calls poured in to the emergency communications center as demonstrators angered by the shooting of Keith Lamont Scott flooded onto W.T. Harris Boulevard and Interstate 85. One of the first calls came from a woman in a Chrysler 300 stuck in traffic at Harris Boulevard and North Tryon Street when demonstrators began pounding on cars. “I’m trapped,” she said. “They’re all in the street … Oh my God, they’re coming!”
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Clinton Privately Opposed Major U.S. Nuclear Upgrade
Hillary Clinton privately told supporters this year that she would likely scrap a major upgrade to the United States’ nuclear weapons program, according to leaked audio of her remarks.
At a private event in McLean, Va., in February, Clinton revealed that she would likely cancel plans to upgrade the nation’s cruise missile arsenal. “I certainly would be inclined to do that,” she told a questioner who asked about rolling back the Long Range Stand-Off (LRSO) missile program.
Audio of Clinton’s comments at a gathering of major campaign supporters in February were revealed by hackers who breached the email account of a campaign staffer. One email released by the hackers contained a recording of Clinton’s remarks and a subsequent question-and-answer session.
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Congress Rejects Obama Veto of Saudi 9/11 Lawsuits Bill
Congress has voted to override President Barack Obama’s veto of a bill that would allow families of 9/11 victims to sue Saudi Arabian officials.
In the first veto override of his presidency, the Senate voted 97-1 and the House of Representatives 338-74, meaning the bill become law.
The White House described the move as “embarrassing”.
The president argues the bill could expose US companies, troops and officials to potential lawsuits abroad.
CIA Director John Brennan said: “The downside is potentially huge.”
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Congress Rejects Obama Veto of 9/11 Bill, In First Override of Presidency
Congress on Wednesday overwhelmingly rejected President Obama’s veto of a bipartisan bill letting families of Sept. 11 victims sue the Saudi Arabian government, in the first successful veto override of Obama’s presidency.
Marking a significant defeat for the White House, the House ensured the bill will become law after voting 348-77 to override Wednesday afternoon. This followed a 97-1 vote hours earlier in the Senate.
Despite last-ditch warnings from the Obama administration that the legislation could hurt national security and was “badly misguided,” lawmakers dismissed the concerns.
“This bill is about respecting the voices and rights of American victims,” Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, said.
Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., speaking on the Senate floor moments before Wednesday’s vote in that chamber, pushed back hard on Saudi government objections to the legislation.
“It’s very simple. If the Saudis were culpable, they should be held accountable. If they had nothing to do with 9/11, they have nothing to fear,” Schumer said.
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Rights warriors demand reverse-ferret on printers snubbing unofficial cartridges
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has written to HP Inc demanding it reverse its attempt to prevent any third-party ink cartridges or refilled cartridges from working in its Officejet Pro printers.
HP Inc, and many other printer makers, have traditionally sent users a Doomsday warning message when anything but their own expensive cartridges are detected. These warn you of possible damage to the machine and that normal high standards might not be maintained by your use of cheaper products.
But HP Inc’s latest firmware upgrade masquerading as a security update appears to stop any printing happening at all.
The EFF objects that HP is depriving its customers of a useful feature — to use any ink they choose.
It further accuses the ink giant of abusing the security update process by introducing doubt into the update and patching process.
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Europa Orbiter Could Sample Jovian Moon’s Watery Plumes
NASA’s Europa orbiter mission, set to launch toward Jupiter’s moon in the 2020s, would be able to collect samples of the icy plumes of water that might erupt from Europa’s surface, mission scientists say.
Yesterday (Sept. 26), using Hubble Space Telescope observations, scientists announced the possible detection of icy water plumes erupting from the surface of Europa. Another study, in 2012, had reported the possible detection of plumes from Europa, but the findings of both studies are far from certain.
Europa harbors a liquid water ocean deep below its thick, icy crust, and scientists think it’s possible that subsurface heat sources could create an environment fit for life. NASA’s Europa mission will evaluate the moon’s potential to host life. During a news conference yesterday, NASA scientists discussed whether the probe would be able to study the plumes and look for signs of life there.
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Graffiti on Wall in Florida Includes ‘Black Lives Matter’ & “Kill White People”
One wall was hit along Gornto Lake Road in Brandon, with the phrase “kill white people” spray painted. Other tags read “black lives matter” and “BLM.”
A crew painted over the phrases.
“It’s uncalled for, there’s a way to protest, there’s a way not to, this is just, it hurts everybody,” Cat D’Alessandro said.
She saw a deputy along the road working to cover up the hate message, bought her own spray paint cans and helped out.
“I was kind of sad really because why does it have to be like, why does it have to get to this?” she said.
[Comment: The result of the psy-op by the great divider obama and blm funder George Soros.]
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Yes, really!
Hillary Clinton’s new anti-Trump poster child is literally a porn star who was accused of driving the getaway vehicle for a murder attempt and later threatening to kill a judge.
But the media is saying Trump is the villain of the piece because he once said she was overweight (despite CNN reporting the same thing).
Let that sink in.
Hillary brought up Alicia Machado, who won the Miss Universe pageant owned by Trump in 1996, during the debate on Monday night, claiming that Trump once called her “Miss Piggy” because she gained a lot of weight while representing the pageant.
When CNN’s Anderson Cooper confronted Machado with her own sordid past, she didn’t try to deny it, simply waving her hand and scoffing, “I have my past, everybody has a past, I’m not a saint.”
Yeah, not everybody’s past includes being accused of acting as an accomplice in an attempted murder, Alicia. That’s kind of out of the ordinary.
Machado’s past also involved going on to do anal porn scenes for cash. Sounds like a classy lady.
But wait, that’s not all.
The former Miss Universe was also reportedly the incubus for the child of a notorious Mexican drug kingpin.
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With her comments about crime, policing, and race, the candidate helps push a false—and dangerous—narrative.
by Heather Mac Donald
The current mendacious narrative about policing and race has to change or we can expect to see further violent-crime increases and further racial violence. It is clear, however, that Hillary Clinton will continue to enflame racial tensions through a set of lies about the criminal-justice system.
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by Robert Spencer
Does Huma Abedin also believe that the state should enforce Sharia? Now that these statements by her father have come to light, will she repudiate them? Will any mainstream media reporter ask her to do so? Almost certainly not.
Syed Abedin, the father of top Hillary Clinton aide Huma, outlined his view of Sharia law and how the Western world has turned Muslims “hostile” during a wide-ranging video interview that shines newfound light on the reclusive thinker’s world views, according to footage exclusively obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.
Abedin, a Muslim scholar who was tied to the Saudi Arabian government until his death in 1993, has remained somewhat of a mystery as the media turns its eye to his daughter Huma, a top Clinton campaign aide who recently announced her separation from husband Anthony Weiner following his multiple sex scandals.
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Monsanto Gets the First CRISPR License to Modify Crops
Consumers won’t know if they’re eating GMOs, thanks to current laws
Monsanto announced last week that it licensed the CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing tool from the Broad Institute in Boston for use in seed development. The technology will allow the agritech giant to edit crops’ DNA by “snipping” away undesirable traits — or adding in more desirable ones — of the plants’ genetic codes. Frankenfood? [1]
What this means is that you’ll be eating even more GMOs, except you won’t know it, becausecompanies will be able to label them as non-GMO. Confused? Welcome to the world of biotech. Let me try and clear things up a bit.
Under current law, a food is only consider genetically modified if something is added to its genetic code. You can snip away all the DNA you want from a crop, and it is still considered non-GMO. It makes no sense, but that’s the way it works.
That’s bad news for individuals, but this license — and current law — is great news for Monsanto. The company will likely save years in the lab and within regulatory approval processes, not to mention at least $35 million per marketed trait in regulatory testing and registration expenses.
[Comment: Part of the agenda to “denutrify food” for the cattle (that’s globalist speak for us) while achieving a patent lock on all food produce. This quote is from a study of GM wheat in 2012 — “Professor Judy Carman, biochemist and director of the IHER, Flinders University, Adelaide, added: “If this silences the same sort of gene in us — as it silences in the wheat — — then, well, children who are born with this enzyme not working tend to die by the age of about five. And adults with this problem, just kind of get more and more sick, and more and more tired, until they get very very ill indeed.” http://www.naturalnews.com/037170_GM_wheat_liver_failure_GMO.html. http://www.naturalnews.com/genetically_modified.html. ]
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Muslim Woman to Appear in Playboy in a Hijab
A Muslim-American journalist Noor Tagouri will appear in Playboy magazine’s October issue wearing a hijab, a decision that has elicited praise in some quarters and provoked condemnation in others.
She’ll appear alongside a sex activist, a comedian and novelist as part of the magazine’s “Renegade” series, which highlights people who have “risked it all — even their lives — to do what they love.”
Earlier this year, Playboy changed directions, enacting a several changes, the biggest of which was to do away with fully nude photos.
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Sheriff Clarke Takes Down Unruly Passenger on Flight
(CHARLOTTE OBSERVER) A Milwaukee man was arrested by Charlotte Mecklenburg police and charged with intoxicated and disruptive behavior Saturday after he allegedly berated Milwaukee County Sheriff and popular Republican speaker David A. Clarke Jr. throughout a two-hour flight from Milwaukee to Charlotte, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported.
Clarke is a well known champion of conservative causes and was a speaker at this year’s Republican National Convention. He is known as a supporter of Donald Trump’s presidency.
Flight passenger Preston Bluntson, 36, was arrested by police at around 7:10 p.m. Saturday. Both Bluntson and Clarke are African American, and Bluntson appeared appeared to be familiar with Clarke’s political affiliations and said the sheriff was “not one of us.”
[Comment: Another communist useful idiot aka BLM member.]
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SpaceX’s Mars Spaceship Could Explore the Entire Solar System, Elon Musk Says
The spaceship that SpaceX is building to colonize Mars could also take people out to Jupiter’s ocean-harboring moon Europa and beyond, company founder and CEO Elon Musk said.
On Tuesday (Sept. 27), Musk unveiled SpaceX’s planned Interplanetary Transport System (ITS), a rocket-spaceship combo that the billionaire entrepreneur hopes will allow humanity to establish a permanent, self-sustaining, million-person settlement on the Red Planet.
Mars is the first planned stop for ITS, but it may not be the last.
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The First Debate: Advantage, Clinton
by Srdja Trifkovic
The debate was not a hands-down victory for Hillary Clinton, as the media pack predictably claims, but on Monday night Donald Trump missed a great opportunity to damage her credibility and question her record. For that reason she has grounds to feel pleased with the outcome.
Clinton was the first to mention Wall Street, but Trump did not respond by stressing her close links with Goldman Sachs et. al, which is one of her many vulnerabilities. Just as inexplicably, he did not mention the Clinton Foundation once. Worse still, he failed to bring up the issue of deleted emails and private server when Holt asked a question on cybersecurity, and bizarrely talked about leaked DNC emails concerning Bernie Sanders instead.
Trump mentioned the “vacuum” in the Middle East created by Obama’s and Clinton’s policies. At that moment I expected him to follow up by raising the issue of Benghazi—which would have been an obvious and effective line of attack—but he talked about ISIS oil revenues instead, which was far less consequential point. He was strangely silent on Clinton’s immigration policy which still includes bringing in tens of thousands of Syrian refugees, even after a string of terrorist attacks by Muslim immigrants. He did not remind the audience of Clinton’s “basket of deplorables” blunder, not even when she boasted that she and President Obama had decided not to “go low” when attacking him…
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A lawsuit has been filed against a Silicon Valley tech firm founded by financier Peter Thiel claiming that it systematically discriminates against Asian job applicants.
The US Department of Labor claims Palantir Technologies ‘routinely eliminated’ Asian candidates during its resume-screening and telephone-interview stages of its hiring process.
It follows statistical analysis by federal officials responsible for making sure government contractors comply with anti-discrimination laws.
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Transcripts of Orlando Shooter’s Conversation With Police Reveal ISIS Influence
Holed up in an Orlando nightclub and surrounded by police, Omar Mateen told a hostage negotiator that he was angry about the death of a top Islamic State operative, according to recently released transcripts of their phone conversations during Mateen’s massacre earlier this year.
The new details of the conversations, released by Orlando Police last week, show Mateen had more than a passing interest in Islamic State, counterterrorism experts said. He specifically singled out the death of Abu Wahib, one of the more visible leaders of the terror group, as one of the main motivations for his attack. Abu Wahib was killed in an airstrike in Iraq just weeks before Mateen opened fire at the Pulse nightclub in June in an attack that killed 49 people and wounded 53. Mateen died in a shootout with police.
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Trucker to 911 as Looters Close in: ‘They Are Coming This Way … Hundreds of Them’
Huddled in gridlocked cars as a roiling street protest bore upon them in the darkness, motorists pleaded with 911 operators for help in the week’s first wave of violence early Wednesday.
Scenes of chaos were described in recordings released Monday by the city of Charlotte. Starting around 1:30 a.m., calls poured in to the emergency communications center as demonstrators angered by the shooting of Keith Lamont Scott flooded onto W.T. Harris Boulevard and Interstate 85.
One of the first calls came from a woman in a Chrysler 300 stuck in traffic at Harris Boulevard and North Tryon Street when demonstrators began pounding on cars.
“I’m trapped,” she said. “They’re all in the street … Oh my God, they’re coming!”
A scream can be heard outside…
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U.N. Demands U.S. Pay Reparations to Blacks
(DAILYCALLER) — A new report released by the United Nations concludes the United States owes reparations to African-Americans for slavery and recent police-involved shooting deaths.
The report was produced by the United Nations’ Working Group of Experts on African Descent and strongly condemned America’s “racist” history.
“In particular, the legacy of colonial history, enslavement, racial subordination and segregation, racial terrorism and racial inequality in the United States remains a serious challenge, as there has been no real commitment to reparations and to truth and reconciliation for people of African descent,” the report read, according to The Washington Post.
[Comment: The proper response to is reduce funding of all UN programs to zero, shutdown the UN building and relocate the UN headquarters to Brussels.]
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Bath Discovered in Roman Barracks in Bulgaria
Science & Scholarship in Poland reports that a team of archaeologists from the Center for the Study of Antiquity of Southeastern Europe at the University of Warsaw excavated a Roman barracks at the site of Novae in Bulgaria. Although the buildings had been constructed with wood, the floor of one large room had been made from hydraulic mortar, suggesting that the room had been used as a bath.
“Until now, throughout the empire only two baths in wooden buildings have been discovered, but never and nowhere in the barracks of legionnaires,” said archaeologist Piotr Dyczek. The team also uncovered terracotta and lead pipes, water channels lined with stone and bricks, and a collection of 48 coins dating from the beginning of the second century A.D. to the mid-third century A.D. Dyczek thinks the coins may have been hidden during the invasion of the Goths.
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Border Control Measure ‘Illegal’: Norway’s ‘Migrant Fence’ Could be Torn Down Amid Blunder
The fence was commissioned by the Norwegian government after police chief Ellen Katrine Hætta demanded more resources to control the number of migrants entering the country from Russia.
It was argued that building a 200 metres (660 feet) long and 3.5m high fence near the Storskog border point in northern Norway would help local authorities regain control over the country’s borders.
However, it has now been discovered the construction could be illegal as 50m of the fence might have been built too close to the Russian border.
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Boris Johnson: UK Will Help Turkey Join the EU
Britain will support Turkey’s bid to join the EU despite its June 23 vote to leave the bloc, the U.K.’s foreign secretary said on Monday.
“We may be leaving the European Union but we are not leaving Europe,” Boris Johnson said while on an official visit to Turkey, AFP reported. He added the U.K. “will help Turkey in any way.”
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Catalonia to Hold Independence Referendum With or Without Spain’s Consent
Catalonia will hold a referendum on independence from Spain next year whether or not the central government in Madrid agrees to one, the region’s head Carles Puigdemont said on Wednesday
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Could Neanderthals Hear & Speak Like Modern Humans?
The Christian Science Monitor reports that scientists led by Alexander Stoessel of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology examined the tiny bones of the Neanderthal middle ear. They found that although the bones look very different from the ossicles of modern humans, they amplified the vibrations received from the eardrum in a way similar to the modern human ear. This suggests that Neanderthals were capable of hearing the same range of frequencies as modern humans, and probably heard speech as modern humans did.
Previous research has found that Neanderthals and modern humans also had similar hyoid bones, a horseshoe-shaped structure that supports the tongue and the ability to speak. Unfortunately, a larynx, or voice box, which is formed from soft tissue, has not been found in the Neanderthal fossil record.
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First Computer-Generated Music Record From Alan Turing’s Lab Restored
The first-ever computer-generated music, recorded in the labs of computer pioneer Alan Turing in 1951, has been restored, according to The British Library.
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First Brexit, Now Frexit: Brussels Insider Claims France Will be Next to Leave EU
Support for the bloc is declining across many of the 28-member-states with referendums and elections opening up across the continent.
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Five Jihadi Suspects in Spain, Belgium, Germany
Police in Spain, Belgium and Germany on Wednesday arrested five people suspected of forming a cell that spread propaganda and sought to recruit militants for the Islamic State armed group, officials said.
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France: Saudi Princess ‘Told Guard to Kill Paris Decorator’
A Saudi princess has been accused of ordering her guard to “beat up and kill” an interior decorator in Paris.
It all allegedly started when the decorator took photos inside the woman’s apartment block on the chic Avenue Foch in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, reported Le Point newspaper.
The Saudi Princess accused the man of taking the pictures just to sell them to the press, although he said it was just part of the job.
“You have to kill this dog, he doesn’t deserve to live,” the princess allegedly told her bodyguard soon afterwards.
It’s alleged that the bodyguard then struck the decorator in the head before tying his hands.
The guard, who was (legally) armed, then reportedly ordered the Parisian decorator to kneel and kiss the feet of the princess, who is the daughter of the former king Khalid of Saudi Arabia.
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France: ‘Five Terror Plots Thwarted’ on Riviera Since Nice Attack
Authorities in Nice say five potentially deadly terror plots on the French Riviera have been foiled since the Bastille Day truck attack in the resort.
In a documentary to be screened on Wednesday evening the prosecutor of Nice makes a chilling disclosure that as many as five serious plots have been thwarted since the atrocious truck attack on the Promenade des Anglais on July 14th.
In a documentary titled “Deradicalized” to be shown on France 3 prosecutor Jean-Michel Prêtre said the plots were planned to target particular sporting events, schools or places of worship across the Côte d’Azur.
“Several cases were handed over to the specialist counter-terrorist judges in Paris,” said Prêtre.
“They involved plots to attack places of worship or certain gatherings, sporting events, stadiums, schools, which are recurrent themes on the communication published on the internet.”
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French Judge Bangs His Gavel in Trial of Protesters Who Ripped Shirts From Air France Execs
A judge lost his temper today, banging his gavel and shouting: ‘This is not a show!’ as cheers and jeers greeted the start of the trial of 15 people who allegedly attacked two Air France executives.
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Geert Wilders for Breitbart: Let’s Lock the Door to Islam
Yesterday, I visited Maassluis. It is town near Rotterdam, where the indigenous Dutch inhabitants have become the victims of immigrant youths of Moroccan descent.
Cars have been demolished, houses vandalized, people threatened. The Dutch no longer feel free and safe in their own city. When the local radio station interviewed some of the victims and referred to the perpetrators as Moroccans, it received an anonymous letter: “You are racists! Your time will come! I won’t take care of it because I am too old. But our boys are the new soldiers.”
Maassluis. It is just one of the many Dutch towns and neighborhoods terrorized by Moroccan or Turkish youth gangs. Others are Schilderswijk, Oosterwei, Kanaleneiland, Zaandam, Helmond,… Not surprisingly, a poll shows that 43% of the Dutch people want fewer Moroccan immigrants in our country. These people are not racists; they are decent people, patriots who love their country and do not want to lose it.
The great Ronald Reagan once said that “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.” These wise words are more true today than ever before. We are the free men and women of the West.
Freedom is our birthright. But if we fail to defend it, we are bound to lose it. And, sadly, that is exactly what is happening today.
2016’s Black Summer of Jihad, with terror attacks all over the free world, teaches us that the enemies of freedom are already among us. The ruling elites all over the Western world have accepted millions of people into our countries without demanding that they assimilate.
Many of these immigrants acquired our nationality. But some do not care for our country at all. They do not love it. They do not respect it. Nor do they respect us and our values.
They carry our passports, but they do not belong to us. They spit on our identity and behave like conquerors.
This is particularly true of many immigrants with an Islamic background. That is not surprising. Islam is a totalitarian ideology aimed at establishing tyrannical power over non-Muslims.
Islam commands its followers to make all nations submit to Islamic Sharia law, if necessary through the use of violence and terror…
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Germany: Man Arrested in Wuppertal as Part of Spanish ISIS Raids
Police have arrested five suspected members of an Isis cell in Spain, Belgium and Germany that spread propaganda for the group online, the Spanish interior ministry said Wednesday.
The suspects, a Moroccan and four Spaniards, are accused of inciting attacks and acting as go-betweens for Isis recruitment in Europe.
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How Tintin Creator Hergé Reflected the Ups and Downs of the 20th Century
Belgian cartoonist George Rémi, known as Hergé, was the creator of the famous reporter Tintin. Reflecting on the 20th century, his work is both criticized and cult. A major retrospective shows why he was a pioneer.
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“The actions of your ancestors are the reason for our actions today.”
by Soeren Kern
The Islamic State document said that since the establishment of the Spanish Inquisition in 1478, Spain “has done everything to destroy the Koran.” It said that Spain tortured Muslims, including burning them alive. Therefore, according to the Islamic State, “Spain is a criminal state that usurps our land.” The document calls on jihadists to “reconnoiter airline and train routes for attacks.” It also calls on followers to “poison food and water” with insecticides.
“We will kill any ‘innocent’ Spanish infidel we find in Muslim lands, and… whether we are European in origin or not, we will kill you in your cities and towns according to our plan.” — Islamic State document, May 30, 2016.
“We will recover al-Andalus, Allah willing. Oh dear Andalus! You thought we forgot about you. I swear by Allah we have never forgotten you. No Muslim can forget Córdoba, Toledo or Xàtiva. There are many faithful and sincere Muslims who swear they will return to al-Andalus.” — Islamic State video, January 31, 2016.
“Spain is the land of our forefathers and we are going to take it back with the power of Allah.” — Islamic State video, January 7, 2016.
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Meet the Western Charlatans Justifying Jihad
by Giulio Meotti
Why has the philosopher, Michel Onfray, become so popular among the French jihadists fighting in Syria and Iraq? Journalist David Thomson, a specialist in jihadi movements, explained that “Onfray is translated into Arabic and shared on all pro-ISIS sites.”
Onfray recognizes that we are at war. But this war, to him, was started by George W. Bush. He “forgets” that 3,000 Americans were killed on September 11, 2001. If you remind him that “ISIS kills innocent people”, Onfray will reply: “We have also killed innocent people.” It is the perfect moral equivalence between ISIS and the West. Barbarians against barbarians! With his moral relativism, Onfray opens the door to Islamist cutthroats.
The French intellectual Thomas Piketty, after the massacres in Paris, pointed at “inequality” as the root of ISIS’s success. Another well-known German philosopher, Peter Sloterdijk, claimed that the September 11 attacks were attacks were just “small incidents”.
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Michael Howard: UK Does Not Need to be in EU Single Market
Britain should not remain a member of the single market once it leaves the European Union, former Conservative leader Michael Howard has said.
Lord Howard told the BBC the UK should secure “access” to it instead.
He also said Brexit negotiations should be concluded “as soon as we can” to avoid prolonged uncertainty about the UK’s future relationship with the EU.
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Northern Italian Region Approves ‘Anti-Mosque’ Laws
Councillors in the northern Italian region of Liguria on Tuesday evening approved a set of measures drastically restricting the freedom to build new places of worship.
While the text doesn’t refer to any particular religion, politicians opposed to the law argue that it unfairly targets Muslims, and the proposals have been dubbed ‘anti-mosque laws’ by local media.
The laws introduce restrictive criteria regarding the creation of new places of worship, and give regional authorities much greater power in deciding the location and appearance of religious sites.
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Spanish Joint Operation Nabs Suspected Jihadists
Germany, Belgium help in detaining five individuals accused of forming ‘active and dangerous’ ISIL cell.
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Spanish Jihadists Arrested for Forming Terror Cell in Europe
Police have arrested five suspected members of an Islamic State cell in Spain, Belgium and Germany that spread propaganda for the group online, the Spanish interior ministry said on Wednesday.
Two suspects were arrested in Barcelona in northeastern Spain, one in Spain’s North African territory of Melilla, one in Brussels and another in Wuppertal, in Germany, it said in a statement.
The suspects included one Moroccan national and four Spaniards.
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Sweden: Nationalists Suspend Aide After Russia Propaganda Claim
The anti-immigration Sweden Democrats have suspended a political secretary following a newspaper report that he was spreading Russian propaganda, only days after a Russian-born aide in the party resigned amid claims he was a security risk.
On Tuesday, Swedish newspaper Hela Hälsingland reported that a political aide to SD member of parliament Kent Ekeroth had published Facebook posts praising Russian propaganda channel RT for being the “only channel which reports the truth”, as well as stating that Vladimir Putin is a politician who should be “bowed before” and linking to conspiracy theory websites.
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Switzerland Still World’s ‘Most Competitive’ Nation
Switzerland has shrugged off economic challenges to retain its crown as the world’s most competitive country, topping the World Economic Forum’s annual competitiveness ranking for the eighth consecutive year.
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Switzerland Moves Towards Nationwide Burqa Ban as Draft Law Approved in Parliament
Switzerland has moved a step closer to imposing a nationwide burqa ban after politicians approved a draft bill by just one vote.
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UK Govt Report: Employers Must Islamise Because Muslims Least Likely to Have a Job
A government report has found Muslims are the least likely faith group in Wales to be employed. In response, it demands places of work provide halal food, prayer rooms, and accommodate face veils and even “cultural differences around handshaking and direct eye contact”.
The “Creating a faith-friendly workplace for Muslims” report concedes that some employers “are trying hard to attract Muslim staff but are finding it difficult”. Yet the authors chose to focus solely on “creating faith-friendly workplaces” rather than examining Muslim attitudes to work and integrating with Welsh society.
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A top ballet star died when his motorbike was hit by a minicab as the driver made a hands-free call on his mobile, a court heard.
Acclaimed dancer Jonathan Ollivier, 38, was on his way to give his final performance of the season as the lead role in Matthew Bourne’s The Car Man when he was killed.
Driver Abdul Qayyum stands accused of causing death by careless driving following the crash in Clerkenwell, central London, on August 9 last year.
Highbury Corner Magistrates’ Court heard Qayyum had both earphones in when he pulled out of a junction ‘abruptly’ before hitting Mr Ollivier with his Mercedes E320.
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Sanjay Nijhawan, 46, is accused of stabbing and strangling to death his 38-year-old accountant wife Sonita at the couple’s £2million mansion in Weybridge, Surrey, on May 21.
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An ARABIC man used Google translate to tell his schoolgirl victim “I am interested in you” before assaulting her in a park, a court heard.
The teen was allegedly sexually assaulted by three men in the park moments after her friend was also molested by one of the attackers.
Badreddin’s two pals Mohammed Alfrouh, 20, and Mohammad Allakkoud, 18, (pictured) allegedly joined in the attack behind a hut
One of the defendants, Omar Badreddin, had typed into Google Translate “I am interested in you” and shown it to one of the 14-year-olds before the attack in Leazes Park, Newcastle, a jury heard.
Omar Badreddin, 18, took selfies with the girls before the alleged sex attacks occurred on May 10, Newcastle Crown Court heard.
Badreddin and his two friends Mohammed Alfrouh, 20, and Mohammad Allakkoud, 18, all of whom have Arabic interpreters in court, are all charged with sexual assault.
Alfrouh, 20, of no fixed address, is accused of kissing one of the 14-year-olds against her will, the day before, in the same park.
He is also charged with kissing her by a tree and trying to put his hands down her trousers while undressing himself the following day…
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Who is Marine Le Pen? Meet the National Front Leader Who Could Take France Out of the EU
Marine Le Pen is the leader of France’s National Front (FN) and a frontrunner in next year’s presidential elections.
After topping the polls in last year’s European elections, Ms Le Pen now hopes to be elected as France’s first far-right president.
A recent poll by Radio Classique/Les Echos suggests she could top the first round of voting with 28 per cent support, though many expect she will be toppled in the final run-off.
An ardent Eurosceptic, Ms Le Pen has pledged to give France a referendum on EU membership should she win next year’s election. She has said that she wants France to be “a free, proud and independent people”.
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Congress Rebukes Obama, Overrides Veto of 9/11 Legislation
In a resounding rebuke, Democrats joined with Republicans Wednesday to hand Barack Obama the first veto override of his presidency, voting overwhelmingly to allow families of Sept. 11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia in U.S. courts for its alleged backing of the attackers.
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EU Gives Cash to Invaders in Turkey
Taxpayers in the European Union (EU) have been forced to start paying monthly cash grants to invaders in Turkey who claim to be Syrians to the tune of at least ‚€348 million, it has emerged. The scheme means that the EU is now paying the nonwhite hordes while they are still on their way to Europe, effectively encouraging them to carry on with their trek.
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ISIS Fighter Admits Soldiers’ Wives Used as ‘Slave Girls’
A captured ISIS fighter has admitted that the wives of Free Syrian Army soldiers, the group most closely aligned with the West’s hopes for Syria’s future, are being seized by ISIS and used as “slave girls.”
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Italy ‘Held Naval Manoeuvres With Iran’ In Strategic Strait
An Italian frigate has held manoeuvres with two Iranian warships in the Strait of Hormuz after making a rare Western port call in the Islamic Republic, an Iranian commander said Wednesday.
The joint manoeuvres in the strategic waterway between the Gulf and the Sea of Oman come after a series of incidents between Iranian vessels and US warships in the area in recent months.
Italy was Iran’s largest trading partner before the European Union joined the United States in imposing sanctions — now lifted — over Tehran’s nuclear programme.
It has been keen to restore that position and in April Prime Minister Matteo Renzi became the highest-ranking European leader to visit Iran since its nuclear deal with world powers in July last year.
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Listen to the World’s Oldest-Known Melody
In 1950, a collection of 29 tablets was discovered in the ruins of Ugarit, an ancient city in the northern region of present-day Syria, but only one had survived the intervening centuries well enough to be deciphered.
Known as H6, the 3,500-year-old clay tablet revealed a simple hymn specifying the use of nine lyre strings and the intervals between them, much like an “ancient guitar tab,” reports ClassicFM, which has recently picked up the story.
The resulting melody, it says, isn’t just the oldest discovered in the world, but “utterly enchanting.” Musician and composer Michael Levy plays it in this YouTube video.
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Syrian Army Seizes Aleppo’s Central District From Terrorists — State Media
The terrorists left munitions and weapons
Syrian government forces have re-captured Aleppo’s central district of al-Farafirah from terrorists, state outlet SANA reported, citing army sources.
According to SANA, the Syrian Army is now in control of al-Farafirah with sappers currently clearing the area from “mines and improvised explosive devices planted by terrorists.”
“The army retook control of the entire al-Farafirah district northwest of the Aleppo citadel after neutralizing many terrorists. Units are now demining the area,” AFP quoted a military source as saying.
After their retreat, the terrorists left munitions and weapons, including large-caliber machine guns, RIA Novosti reports, citing another source with knowledge of the matter.
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Turkey to Complete Syria Border Wall Within 5 Months
A concrete wall being built to stop illegal crossings along the length of Turkey’s 900-km (560-mile) border with Syria will be finished by the end of February, an official at a Turkish state institution with knowledge of the project said on Wednesday.
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MH17 Missile ‘Came From Russia’, Dutch-Led Investigators Say
International prosecutors say Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was downed over eastern Ukraine in 2014 by a Buk missile that had come from Russia.
They also narrowed down the area it was fired from to a field in territory controlled by Russian-backed rebels.
All 298 people on board the Boeing 777 died when it broke apart in mid-air flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur.
Russia says it cannot accept the findings as the final truth, saying no Russian weapons were taken to Ukraine.
“Based on the criminal investigation, we have concluded that flight MH17 was downed by a Buk missile of the series 9M83 that came from the territory of the Russian Federation,” chief Dutch police investigator Wilbert Paulissen told a news conference on Thursday.
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How Cars Have Transformed China
China has become both the world’s largest car market and the world’s largest producer of cars and vehicles. New vehicle sales in China have now surpassed those in the US.
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Ahmad Al Faqi Al Mahdi Who Destroyed Ancient Shrines in Timbuktu Found Guilty of War Crimes
Ahmad Al Faqi Al Mahdi had pleaded guilty and expressed remorse for his role in overseeing the destruction of nine mausoleums sand a mosque door in Timbuktu, Mali in 2012.
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Front National Leader Says Whites in South Africa ‘Only Have Five Years Left’
The leader of the far-right Front National in South Africa has said the country’s white population “only have five years left” before they disappear entirely.
Hannes Engelbrecht said new official figures showed more than 95,000 white South Africans emigrated in the four years up to June 2015.
His party, which was formed in 2013 as the spiritual successor to the Federale Vryheidsparty, campaigns for self-determination for Afrikaners, white South Africans tracing their heritage back to Dutch settlers.
According to Times Live, Mr Engelbrecht described the formation of the first African National Congress party under Nelson Mandela in 1994 as a “sell-out” of white rights.
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Brussels Forces US to Live With People We Don’t Want to Live With — Hungarian Leader
Mr Orban showed no signs of softening his stance on immigration as Hungarians prepare to go to the polls in a referendum on the EU’s controversial refugee quota system.
Voters will be asked: “Do you want the European Union to be able to mandate the obligatory resettlement of non-Hungarian citizens into Hungary even without the approval of the National Assembly?”
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Denmark Reverses Course on Refugee ‘Child Brides’
Denmark’s decision to separate married couples in refugee centres if one party is below the age of 18 has been reversed after the government concluded it was in violation of international conventions.
Specifically, the agency concluded that the separate living quarters would violate the UN’s Convention on the Rights of the Child and Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which guarantees the right to one’s “private and family life”.
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Denmark: Anti-Mass Migration Political Party Hand Out ‘Anti-Migrant Spray’
A tongue-in-cheek stunt highlighting the epidemic of migrant sex attacks in Europe has drawn criticism, after a Danish anti-mass migration party handed out cans of ‘Asyl-Spray’ repellant, which the packaging boasts is “legal” and “effective”.
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DHS Head: 750 Immigrants Granted Accidental Citizenship
The incident has drawn ire on Capitol Hill
The actual number of individuals under deportation orders who were accidentally given U.S. citizenship is around 750, approximately 100 fewer than a watchdog reported, Department Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Jeh Johnson said Tuesday.
Pressed at a hearing by Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) on the number of immigrants given citizenship from so-called special interest countries, Johnson tried to downplay fears but said he did not know.
“I have no basis to believe that any of them were terrorists or suspected terrorists,” Johnson said told the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, which was examining terrorist threats to the U.S.
“You didn’t think to ask if any were from Libya or Syria?” Sasse asked.
[Comment: An accident, yeah, sure. All part the banskter destabilization agenda. What is the penalty for treason in America?]
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EU Expects to Move 30,000 Refugees From Greece by End 2017
The EU should be able to move the remaining 30,000 refugees in Greece eligible for its relocation scheme to other countries by the end of next year, the European Commission said Wednesday.
“With the increased capacity of the Greek Asylum Service, and if member states step up their efforts, it should notably be possible to relocate the remaining relocation candidates present in Greece (around 30,000) within the next year,” it said in a report.
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EU Migrant Quota Idea is Finished, Fico Says
Slovak prime minister Robert Fico, whose country holds the rotating presidency of the EU, has declared the idea of migration quotas “politically finished”.
“Quotas today clearly divide the EU, therefore I think they are politically finished,” he told journalists in Bratislava on Monday, according to Reuters.
The quotas were introduce last year at the peak of the refugee crisis with an aim to distributing asylum seekers streaming into the continent among European Union member states based on solidarity.
Slovakia, along with Hungary, has challenged last year’s council decision to distribute 120,000 asylum seekers at the EU’s top court.
Hungary will hold a referendum on Sunday where voters are expected to reject EU migration quotas.
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Following the Money: On the Trail of African Migrant Smugglers
Since 2013, over 10,000 migrants have drowned while attempting to cross the Mediterranean to Europe. Behind the deaths lies a multi-million dollar smuggling trade with financial connections to Frankfurt, Italy and Libya.
The rules of this murderous business are dictated by Ethiopians, Sudanese and Libyans, but particularly by men from Eritrea. Their homeland is one of the poorest countries in the world, a single-party dictatorship referred to by Human Rights Watch as a “gigantic prison.” More than a million Eritreans have fled abroad, representing a huge market for Eritrean migrant smugglers, who are increasingly using the central route across the Mediterranean.
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Germany: Police Shoot Dead Father Who Attacked Daughter’s Abuser
Berlin police on Tuesday night shot and killed the father of a young girl at a refugee home as he tried to attack a man who allegedly sexually abused his daughter.
A 27-year-old man at a Berlin refugee home was accused of sexually abusing an eight-year-old girl. Witnesses said that the man lured the girl to a park near the home and then sexually abused her there.
Police responded to the report and arrested the man for sexual abuse. But after officers had handcuffed the suspect and were bringing him into a patrol car, a 29-year-old man — believed to be the girl’s father — ran at the suspect with a knife.
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Germany: Knife Attack Migrant Short Dead by Police
Police in Berlin shot dead an asylum seeker as he attempted to stab another migrant who he claimed had sexually abused his eight-year-old daughter.
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Greece Will Bring Refugees to Mainland
Greece is planning to transfer most of the refugees to the mainland amid deteriorating conditions due to overcrowding on the islands, according to Greek Europe Minister Nikos Xydakis.
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Hungary Tells Brussels to Build Migrant City Protected by EU Army to Stop Crisis
Anti-immigration leader, Viktor Orban, said the designated holding area outside Europe would ensure migrants are forced to wait while EU countries decide whether to let them in or not.
He said: “We need a land, a big refugee city outside Europe that we can protect by army forces, where the people who are looking to enter the EU can wait, while the EU countries decide who they want to let in.”
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Inside France’s ‘Jungle’: Desperate Migrants Keep Coming to Calais
The migrants from Afghanistan, Sudan, Eritrea and elsewhere keep coming. Almost 100 a day arrive at this dusty, ramshackle camp perched at the edge of the English Channel, just 31 miles from Britain, their ultimate goal.
The French authorities have tried for 18 months to dismantle the vast camp, known as the Jungle. In their last attempt, in March, when about 4,000 people lived here, they leveled almost half of it. But since then, the camp has almost doubled in size. It is larger than ever, and it remains one of the most visible symbols of Europe’s inability to cope with the influx of so many desperate people.
“The situation is like Africa in this Jungle,” said Mohammed Zakaria, a 25-year-old Sudanese man who shares a 12-by-7-foot tent with nine others.
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Learn to Love Migrant Quotas, Juncker Tells Eastern EU
European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker has dismissed claims that he abandoned a proposal to relocate migrants under national quotas.
“I remain attached to the idea that we need to answer the migration crisis with solidarity and the heart,” he said on Tuesday (27 September) during a debate with Martin Schulz, the president of the European Parliament.
Earlier this month, Juncker had seemed to disavow the idea when saying, in his annual speech of the union, that solidarity cannot be imposed from above. He now rebuffed such interpretations.
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Migrants Are Racist to Blonde Women, Swedish Ethics Professor Says
Professor of Ethics Ann Heberlein has argued that blonde people in Sweden are subjected to racist abuse and violence from “people with a non-European appearance”.
Ms. Heberlein, who appears regularly on Swedish Radio’s “Thoughts for the Day” and “Philosophical Room”, says blonde and Swedish victims of this racism choose to stay silent because “anti-racist” left wingers say that as a “privileged” group, ethnic Swedes have no right to complain.
The professor at Lund University describes the racist abuse hurled at white women in Sweden, with phrases like “Svenne (meaning ethnic Swede) whore” and “bloody racist whore” shouted at them by people with migrant backgrounds.
Ms. Heberlein notes that when Swedes answer back to these “unwelcome overtures”, they’re met with further “abusive epithets and sometimes physical violence”.
She addresses the issue of a recent incident in which she and her teenage daughter were standing waiting to cross a road when, from a passing car, a man stuck his head out of the sunroof to scream “f***ing blondes!”
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Millions of North African Migrants Could Travel to Europe, Warns Egyptian President
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi claims five million migrants residing in the country and the number leaving in boats travelling to Southern Europe is increasing.
It is estimated the number of migrants to have left Egypt in 2016 is 12,000 with German news outlet Zeit Online claiming Islamic State militants are profiting from their movement.
Human traffickers, many of whom are believed to have links to ISIS, are said to be notching-up a tidy profit by charging migrants around £3,000 per person or £5,000 for a family.
President el-Sissi said the volume of ISIS fighters in his country is much larger than previously estimated and Egyptian authorities estimate 250,000 people are currently registered as refugees in the North African nation.
Italian authorities have also claimed efforts to coordinate with the Egyptian government to tackle illegal migration across the Mediterranean have been futile.
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Norway to Go After ‘Asylum Cheats’
Many asylum seekers have cheated their way to a residence permit in Norway, according to Immigration and Integration Minister Sylvi Listhaug.
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Pakistani Boy Gang-Raped in Greek Migrant Camp, Police Say
Four Pakistani minors have been arrested for allegedly gang-raping a 16-year-old Pakistani boy in a Greek migrant camp, police said Wednesday.
“The four minors, aged 16 to 17, will appear before a prosecutor today,” a police source told AFP.
The incident allegedly occurred on Sunday in the Moria camp on the island of Lesvos.
Greece is accommodating over 60,000 refugees and migrants stuck in the country after a succession of Balkan and EU states shut their borders earlier this year.
Many of the camps are grossly overpopulated, and rights groups have repeatedly warned that minors must be housed separately for their safety.
There are also regular fights amongst refugees and migrants, who are forced to wait months for their asylum applications to be processed.
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Pepe the Frog Meme Branded a ‘Hate Symbol’
Online cartoon Pepe the Frog has been added to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL)’s database of hate symbols.
Other logos cited as offensive by the ADL include the Swastika and the “Blood Drop Cross” of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK).
The anti-bigotry group said “racists and haters” had “taken a popular internet meme and twisted it”.
Pepe has recently been depicted as Adolf Hitler and a member of the white supremacist KKK.
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World’s First Baby Born Using New ‘Three-Parent’ Technique
‘Hopefully, this will tame the more zealous critics … and we will witness soon a birth of the first mitochondrial donation baby in the UK’
The world’s first child created using a controversial “three-parent” baby technique has been born in Mexico, it has been announced.
Limited details about the birth were revealed ahead of the American Society of Reproductive Medicine’s scientific congress in Salt Lake City next month, where it will be discussed more fully.
According to critics, the procedure is tantamount to genetic modification of humans or even “playing God”. But supporters say it allows women with a particular type of genetic disease to have healthy children who are related to them.
A report in the New Scientist magazine said the baby was now five months told. His parents are Jordanians and the work was carried out by a team of experts from the US.
[Comment: Now the entire DNA line of this child is contaminated. In 10 generations how far will this contaminated DNA spread in Jordan? Watch for unforeseen repercussions because of scientists playing God. Remember Dolly the cloned sheep? Remember the accelerated aging and degenerative diseases? No? That’s because mainstream media made sure public were not informed of the reality. Latest research shows that DNA is not like lego blocks…changing just a part of DNA can change things other than the part just changed.]
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Facebook’s AI Boss is on a Mission to End Spoon-Fed Machine Intelligence
You need to feed a lot of information — 10 to 10,000 bits per sample — into the machine for it to make sense of the data and make crude predictions. But for real progression in AI, the machine should be able to predict any part of its input from what it has observed, such as being able to predict future frames in videos based on the sequences of actions it has seen before.
That type of learning is unsupervised and requires at least 100 times more computing power than supervised learning at millions of bits per sample.
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Full Text: 10 Things Milo Hates About Islam
by Milo
[…] Islam preys on the most vulnerable in society, offering them a sense of higher purpose. It’s no wonder that gingers convert to Islam in such high numbers!
Islam today is like communism in the early stages of the Cold War. They’re presenting young, disaffected people with an idealistic, tribal, utopian vision that is drawing in millions. And like communism, it’s inspiring violence all around the world.
If there’s one thing we learned from the battle with communism, it’s that the west can’t compromise on its values. It can’t apologize for itself, like the left constantly wants us to do.
Like Thatcher and Reagan, we must present future generations with a vision of the west that is compelling enough to beat Islam’s warped vision of the good society.
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Where to Put the Next Billion People
Richard T. T. Forman and Jianguo Wu call for global and regional approaches to urban planning.
By 2030, 1.1 billion more people will live on Earth — bringing the total to about 8.5 billion. Most of them will arrive in dense Asian and African cities, exacerbating pollution and resource shortages. Urban expansion alters a city’s ‘big seven’: natural vegetation; agricultural land; clean water; jobs; housing; transport; and communities. Rapidly growing cities such as Kano, Niamey, Sikasso and Bobo-Dioulasso in sub-Saharan West Africa, for example, are already converting woodlands into irrigated farmland to feed their rising populations.
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Heated arguments are raging on social media in French, following the broadcast of a TV programme on Islam in France called “Dossier Tabou”. Basically it reiterated what is well known to readers of this site, but has provoked some indignation, especially re child abuse & how gays are seen.
Link in Fr
https://francais.rt.com/france/26984-dossier-tabou-m6-bdlv-controverse
“In other news, the leader of Catalonia says that his region will hold a referendum on independence, with or without the approval of the Spanish government.”
We must have referenda control now!
Matters are getting out of hand….
I blame Brexit.
Brexit to blame? Catalonia was seeking independence way before anybody had even heard of Brexit. Still, I am very happy we are out.
Agreed,
Apologies, I should have had the sarcasm/irony tag on my comment.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but you are NOT out, and if May and others have their evil way, things will just drag on, and on, and on….
You are rid of Cameron, but now you must get rid of May, and somehow find someone honest to do the deed! Good luck!
Indeed, we are not.
It will be rather interesting to see if they renege on a democratic will on this one.
This was a democratic form only conducted in the belief it would go the elite way. It didn’t.
There are real stresses in our civilisation and I personally believe that matters are now beyond talking. It’s only a matter of time as to when the explosion will occur but occur it will.
I also believe that the highly sensitive and very confidential social surveys our masters will have access to will have told them this very clearly.
I think this is part of why we are seeing the almost totalitarian levels of social control measures being put in place.
Time will tell as all.
There are apparently three days left before Obama (and his motley crew) hand over Internet control to “others”! Has Gates of Vienna anything on this? Breitbart did
tonight when I checked it and received over 4,000 responses in the combox! October 1 is the designated day! Come on, Baron, surely this deserves exposure!? God bless GoV!
I cover it via the news feed — there have been many items on it. I don’t have time to write about it myself, because I don’t know enough about the topic in depth, and would have to spend hours researching it. But I’ll outline what little I know.
ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), and under it IANA (the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority), are to be removed from the control of the Department of Commerce and handed over to “multilateral” (international) oversight, presumably the United Nations.
This has been coming on for many years, since long before Obama was president. There was resistance from Bush, but basically none from Obama. And more likely, active assistance at the behest of the UN crowd.
Now that Congress has totally surrendered its traditional role, there is nothing to stop a President from doing harm to the country. Congress — under the leadership of the REPUBLICAN Party, mind you — could stop this nonsense if it had the testicular fortitude. But it has institutionally gelded itself. So as far as I can tell, we are governed by the whim of the president with the permanent bureaucracy as his eager administrator.
We are to be handed over to the UN, and there isn’t a damned thing we can do about it.
Many thousands of people have been writing their Congressbeings for many months, to no avail. Congress is useless. All it does is roll over for the president. Its major function seems to be to pass continuing resolutions.
Although maybe I’m being uncharitable — it overrode its first Hussein veto yesterday. It only took eight years for it to manage one of those!