Police in Glasgow arrested five people in connection with a people-trafficking operation that smuggled young women from Slovakia into Scotland. The young women were then abused and prostituted until they were sold, mostly to Pakistani clients.
In other news, eight people were deported from Ireland to the UK after immigrating illegally to Ireland.
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Egypt: Inflation Rose Nearly 30 Percent in January
Egypt says its annual inflation rate has risen to 29.6 percent in January, a rise of more than five percent over the previous month.
The figure was released Saturday by the state’s statistics agency.
The steep rise in Inflation rates for December and January is mostly the result of the floatation of the Egyptian pound in November, which has since lost more than half of its value and sent the price of food, fuel and services soaring.
The floatation was part of a package of reforms introduced to secure an IMF loan of $12 billion to overhaul the economy.
President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi is the architect of the reforms, which he says were necessary to save the country from economic ruin. Speaking on Thursday, he commended Egyptians for enduring what he called harsh and difficult measures.
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Greek PM Tsipras Tells IMF, Berlin to Ease Credit Terms
There are conflicting reports about how much progress was made during the latest round of negotiations on Greece’s debt. But the prime minister has warned that his country is already worn down by six years of austerity.
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras warned the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Germany to “stop playing with fire” in the handling of his country’s debt, saying Athens would not accept “illogical” demands from its lenders.
Referring to Wolfgang Schäuble, Tsipras also called for German Chancellor Angela Merkel to “encourage her finance minister to end his permanent aggressiveness” toward Greece.
Months of feuding with the IMF has raised fears of a new debt crisis, rattled markets and revived concerns about Greece’s place in the eurozone.
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Georgetown Prof Jonathan Brown Justifies Slavery and the Rape of Female Slaves
A professor at Georgetown University is teaching his students that men do not need consent to have sex with women, and that slavery is justifiable under Islamic teachings.
Islamic Studies professor Jonathan Brown recently lectured at the International Institute of Islamic Thought, where he shared his alarming beliefs with students in attendance in his lecture, “Islam and the Problem of Slavery.” Freelance writer Umar Lee expressed his shock over the 90-minute lecture, which included explicit endorsements of rape and slavery.
Brown himself uploaded the lecture to YouTube.
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Georgetown Professor Offers Tortured Defense of Slavery and Non Consensual Sex Under Islam
A Georgetown University Islamic studies professor has come under fire for a talk he gave earlier this week in which he offered an Islam-based defense of slavery, concubinage and non-consensual sex.
Jonathan AC Brown, who serves as director of the Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown, gave his admittedly controversial speech on Tuesday at the International Institute of Islamic Thought, a Virginia-based group that has foundational ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.
The websites Heat Street and The Daily Banter covered the talk, which was entitled “Islam and the Problem of Slavery.”
In the speech, and a subsequent question-and-answer session, Brown, a white convert to Islam, essentially downplayed the harshness of slavery in Islam. He also stated that American and Western society is “obsessed with the idea of autonomy and consent.”
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Judge Forcing Town to Return $3 Million to Residents Fined by Traffic Cameras
New Miami, OH — A Butler County judge has ordered the village of New Miami to refund $3 million in fines to motorists ticketed for speeding by traffic light cameras. The ruling was issued Wednesday by Butler County Judge Michael Oster, who said the money amounted to unjust enrichment of the village.
The cameras were ruled unconstitutional in 2014 by Butler County Common Pleas Judge Michael J. Sage, who approved class action status. That ruling allowed the drivers to seek refunds. Nearly 45,000 citations were issued in just 15 months, and though motorists were permitted to challenge the tickets, the judge saw the administrative system as unfairly favoring the village and police.
Of the $3 million collected in fines, 60% of the revenue went to the village while 40% went to the traffic light company running the program. The village’s attorney plans to take the case to the Supreme Court, claiming the village should not be responsible for funds it did not receive, seemingly ignoring the fact that it was responsible for implementing the unconstitutional program and collecting the fines in the first place.
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Netflix Face Backlash Over ‘Racist’ Dear White People Trailer as People Threaten Boycott
NETFLIX are facing criticism over the trailer for a new original comedy called Dear White People, as subscribers claim it’s “racist” and call for a boycott of the streaming service.
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An ISIS devotee leading a small cell of fellow wannabes admitted Friday to plotting attacks for the terror group.
Munther Omar Saleh, 21, pleaded guilty in Brooklyn Federal Court to planning to aid the organization and scheming to attack law enforcement.
He was arrested, armed with knives and charging at a federal officer tailing him.
His co-defendant, Fareed Mumuni, 22, admitted to the plot Thursday — plus charges Mumuni tried to fatally stab an FBI agent with a kitchen knife.
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Three Sites Where NASA Might Retrieve Its First Mars Rock
Agency narrows possible targets for the first-ever sample return from the red planet.
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true scale of the discontent could be much higher after claims the online broadcaster deleted both a million views and 100,000 accompanying negative comments The trailer for a controversial new Netflix programme has sparked a fierce race row — losing the entertainment company numerous customers in the process.
More than 250,000 ‘dislikes’ were registered for the Dear White People preview on Friday, just 24 hours after it was officially uploaded to YouTube.
But the true scale of the discontent could be much higher after claims the online broadcaster deleted both a million views and 100,000 accompanying negative comments.
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Trump’s Vision of Space Exploration
The Trump administration is seriously considering a major new initiative to privatize much of the space sector, promote a return to the moon by 2020, and aim for Mars and other Solar System targets soon thereafter. This, according to Politico.com’s Bryan Bender, citing Trump administration internal documents obtained by Politico.
The central aim of the administration’s new policy under consideration will be the “large-scale economic development of space,” and it will entail such revolutionary moves as fully privatizing lower-earth orbit, allowing for the mass deployment of private space stations, and freeing up NASA to return to cutting-edge research in new realms like manned exploration of interplanetary space.
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What Voter Fraud? — Mexican Citizen Sentenced to 8 Years in Prison After Illegally Voting in Texas
Rosa Ortega, a Mexican citizen, has been convicted of voter fraud and sentenced to 8 years in prison in Texas after inadvertently admitting to election officials that she had been voting in Dallas County for years. Apparently the voting fraud was discovered by chance after Ortega tried to register to vote in Tarrant County but was rejected after she admitted that she was not actually a citizen of the United States. While she should have probably just accepted the rejection, Ortega pushed back by arguing that she had already been voting in Dallas County, an argument that drew the attention of investigators.
Ortega’s voting privileges were approved in Dallas after she falsified her application by claiming to be a citizen. Of course, liberal lawyers, funded by George Soros, have done a masterful job convincing courts around the country that verifying things like a person’s identity and citizenship status prior to allowing them to vote is unconstitutional. Per CBS:
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Why is Anyone Going Along With the 9th Circuit COA’s Illegal Ruling?
Why are we going along with decisions made by judges that are- legally- not within their purview? Why are we continuing to follow rulings from rogue courts in our country that are illegal on their very face? Are judges a part of the “ special’ class that was once reserved for corrupt politicians who operate beyond the law and get away with it? In this instance, NO judge has the authority to overturn the decision made by the President of the United States… not one.
[Comment: Impeach and jail those “judges”. ]
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Yale University Study Shows Association Between Vaccines and Brain Disorders
A team of researchers from the Yale School of Medicine and Penn State College of Medicine have found a disturbing association between the timing of vaccines and the onset of certain brain disorders in a subset of children.
Analyzing five years’ worth of private health insurance data on children ages 6-15, these scientists found that young people vaccinated in the previous three to 12 months were significantly more likely to be diagnosed with certain neuropsychiatric disorders than their non-vaccinated counterparts.
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EU’s Juncker to Stand Down as Commission President at End of Term
The president of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, has told German media he will not seek a second term. The ex-Luxembourg prime minister has spoken frankly about the state of the bloc following Brexit.
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker revealed Saturday that he will not run for a second term.
Speaking to German public radio Deutschlandfunk in an interview to be aired on Sunday, Juncker said he would “not stand again” to head the EU’s executive branch. His current term expires in November 2019.
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EU’s Mogherini Warns US Not to ‘Interfere’ In European Politics
The EU’s foreign policy chief has cautioned Washington about meddling in the bloc’s political life. Trump’s administration has reached out to EU officials, asking which nation was next to leave, an ex-US ambassador said.
[Comment: Trump should just nod his head to that, in a “point taken” gesture, and then proceed to provide as much leverage to the anti-EU movement as possible.]
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First Dedicated ‘Bitcoin Bank’ Opens in Vienna, Austria
What is likely the world’s first dedicated Bitcoin bank has opened in the heart of the Austrian capital Vienna.
Named simply ‘Bitcoin-Bank,’ the dedicated physical outlet is owned and managed by a local Blockchain startup Bit Trust.
It is designed to make buying and selling Bitcoin easier and safer than other in-person options such as Localbitcoins meetings.
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France and Dutch EU Votes Expected Even if Wilders and Le Pen Lose
REFERENDUMS on the EU in France and the Netherlands could still happen even if Geert Wilders and Marine Le Pen lose out in upcoming elections, an economist has warned.
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France: Fillon: ‘My Voters Will Go Straight to Le Pen”
Beleaguered French Presidential Candidate François Fillon has said that if he drops out, or is eliminated in the first round, his supporters will back Marine Le Pen for President.
Speaking as he tried to shake off accusations he employed his wife and children in “fake jobs”, the former frontrunner indicated large numbers of his voters will switch to populist Front National leader Marine Le Pen rather than centrist pro-EU Emmanuel Macron.
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France: Half of Police Back ‘Front National’
MARINE Le Pen has been handed a vote of confidence from French police forces as around half of them have voiced their support for the far-right party.
Marine Le Pen’s Front National has pledged to give power and resources back to French police in order to combat disorder unfolding across European streets.
French forces responded in kind to the promise, as a new poll revealed that half of the country’s police consider backing the party in this year’s presidential election.
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French Police Arrest 4 People, Including 16-Year-Old Girl, In Anti-Terror Raid
French anti-terrorism forces arrested four people on Friday, including a 16-year-old girl, and uncovered a makeshift laboratory with the explosive TATP and other base ingredients for fabricating a bomb, the Paris prosecutor’s office said.
The prosecutor’s office said around 70 grams of TATP were seized in the home of a 20-year-old man, along with a liter each of acetone, oxygenated water and sulfuric acid. TATP, which can be made from readily available materials, was used in the November 2015 attack in Paris and the March 2016 attack in Brussels carried out by Islamic State extremists.
Two other men were arrested, a 33-year-old and a 26-year-old, along with the 16-year-old girl, according to the prosecutor’s office, which handles terrorism investigations in France.
A police official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss the unfolding investigation, said one of the suspects was believed to be planning a suicide attack but that the investigation had not yet uncovered a specific target.
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Geert Wilders: The Populist Genie is Out of the Bottle
Poll-leading Party for Freedom (PVV) leader Geert Wilders, who stands a chance of being the Netherlands’ next prime minister, has said the demise of the European Union (EU) is now “irreversible” and that attempts by the bloc to punish the UK for leaving would backfire.
Speaking just five weeks before the Netherlands goes to the polls to decide on the composition of their next government, Mr. Wilders told The Telegraph he would seek to form a coalition government after the election if his vote share was comparable to the level presently being predicted by opinion polling. While the polls have failed to predict the outcome of major electoral battles in the United Kingdom and the U.S. in the past year, Mr. Wilders’ PVV had topped or tied every national poll for months.
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German Social Democrats Refute Finance Minister’s Schulz-Trump Comparison
Leading members of the SPD have hit back after Germany’s finance minister said candidate Martin Schulz’s speeches were akin to the populist rhetoric of US President Donald Trump. Elections are due in September.
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Greece: Long-Buried World War II Bomb Prompts Massive Evacuation
As a rule, it’s considered less than desirable to have a long-unexploded bomb buried deep in the ground near your property. Even less so when that property is a gas station.
Yet that’s precisely what residents in Thessaloniki, the second-largest city in Greece, discovered last week. And it’s precisely why some 72,000 of them are scheduled to be evacuated from the city Sunday, as authorities seek to defuse and extricate the World War II-era weapon.
Reuters reports it is the largest peacetime evacuation in the country’s history.
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Greek WW2 Bomb Forces Huge Thessaloniki Evacuation
At least 70,000 people in the Greek city of Thessaloniki are being evacuated so that a 500lb World War Two bomb can be defused, officials say.
It is thought to be one of the largest wartime bombs to be found in urban Greece in addition to being one of the largest mass evacuations.
The bomb was discovered during road works last week and is due to be disposed of on Sunday.
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Orban Renews Attack on Influence of George Soros
Hungary’s populist prime minister on Friday lashed out against billionaire financier George Soros, claiming he and groups backed by him want to secretly influence the country’s politics.
In his annual state of the nation speech, Viktor Orban said groups partly funded by Soros, who was born in Hungary, needed to be made transparent and identifiable.
“Large-bodied predators are swimming here in the waters. This is the trans-border empire of George Soros, with tons of money and international heavy artillery,” said Orban, who received a Soros-funded scholarship as Hungary was transitioning from communism to democracy in the late 1980s.
“It is causing trouble … that they are trying secretly and with foreign money to influence Hungarian politics,” Orban said.
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Renewable Lies and the Deception of Dutch Commuters
Do The Netherlands’ Trains Really Run On 100% Wind Power?
This question generated a number of comments in the last Blowout so I thought I would take a quick look at it. I find that the electrified portion of the Dutch railway network (Nederlandse Spoorwegen, or NS) runs on grid electricity that comes dominantly from fossil fuel generation (natural gas and coal). NS claims 100% wind power because it has a contract with various wind farms to produce enough energy to power its rail system, but this is just an accounting transaction. Only a small fraction of the power delivered to its trains actually comes from wind.
First some details on the Netherlands’ electricity sector. As shown in the table below installed capacity is dominantly fossil fuel, with natural gas making up 61% of total installed capacity and coal 15%. Wind contributes 4,117MW, representing 13% of the capacity mix. (Data from ENTSO-E ):…
As for the Netherlands’ railways, Roger concludes below, after explaining why, that “the Netherlands’ electrified railways continue to be powered dominantly by fossil fuel electricity. The “Harried Dutch commuters” who are “travelling on one of the most environmentally friendly rail networks in the whole of Europe, if not the world” are being sold a bill of goods.”
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Scotland: Trafficking Ring Which ‘Sold Teenagers and Women for £10k’ Busted in Govanhill
A TRAFFICKING ring which sold teenagers and women for as much as £10,000 has been busted in Glasgow, say police.
Women who it’s suspected were raped, abused and forced to work as prostitutes were led to safety prior to the major police raid in Govanhill.
Dozens of officers from Police Scotland ‘s Specialist Crime Division and Europol targeted four flats in Govanhill yesterday as part of a three year long operation into trafficking and exploitation.
Two flats on Allison Street, one on Langside Road and another on Calder Street were raided by 70 officers around 8.45am and three potential victims were found inside along with their alleged traffickers.
A further 13 suspected victims, aged between 18 and 25, had already been helped to safety by police ahead of yesterday’s sting from across the UK, including in Glasgow.
Five people have been arrested in connection with the raid, dubbed Operation Synapsis, which has been in development since 2014 and spans the length of the UK.
Two Slovakian women, aged 40 and 25, two Slovakian men aged 58 and 28, and a Nepalese man aged 35, were taken into police custody yesterday and have subsequently been arrested.
They are expected to appear at Glasgow Sheriff Court today.
Police claim that Slovakian women as young as 18 were trafficked to the UK by bus and plane, having been promised a better life and work…
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Sweden’s ‘No-Go Zone’ Crisis: Three Police Officers Injured After Being Attacked by Thugs
Officers in Sweden’s capital were on patrol in the suburb of Rinkeby when they are set upon by a group of 20-30 thugs.
Police spokeswoman Eva Nilsson said the sickening attack on her colleagues happened after they stopped to search an individual at around 11pm.
Moments later the mob appeared and started hitting, kicking and throwing bottles and glass at the attending officers.
Ms Nilsson said: “It is utterly unacceptable that this happened during normal service.
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UK Set for Cannabis Boom as Gw Pharma Storms Ahead
The UK could become the world’s biggest grower and processor of cannabis plants destined for use in prescription medications after one of the country’s most promising biotechs announced plans to ramp up its production of the plant.
GW Pharmaceuticals, which in 2010 launched the world’s first prescription cannabis-derived drug in the form of multiple sclerosis treatment Sativex, is boosting cultivation and manufacturing of the crop this year ahead of the launch of another promising experimental drug called Epidiolex, which has shown to be hugely effective in treating children with a deadly form of epilepsy.
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Iran Hails Relations With Sweden During Prime Minister’s Visit to Tehran
Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven has visited Tehran to discuss important economic and political issues. Iran’s supreme leader praised the Scandinavian country’s foreign policy.
Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven was in the Iranian capital on Saturday to take part in talks addressing “economic relations and important regional problems,” he said.
Lofven’s visit was greeted with praise from Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who hailed the positive relationship between the two countries during a meeting with the Swedish premier in Tehran.
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Russian Jets Using Iranian Airspace for Strikes Into Syria
Iran has allowed Russian planes to again use its airspace to fly attacks in neighboring Syria. The first use of an Iranian air base by Russian aircraft last year drew criticism from the US and some Iranian lawmakers.
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Swedish, Danish Citizens Arrested on Terror Accusations in Turkey: Reports
A Swedish citizen and a Danish citizen have been arrested in Turkey on suspicion of planning acts of terror in Europe, according to Turkish media.
The pair are said to have been trained by Isis since 2014.
“We have received information from Turkish security services stating that a Swedish citizen has been arrested in Turkey,” Nina Odermalm Schei, press chief with Swedish security agency Sapö, told news agency TT.
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Turkey Arrests 2 Suspected ISIS Militants
Two men suspected of planning Islamic State group attacks in Europe were arrested in Turkey following a 10-day police operation, Turkey’s state-run agency reported Saturday.
Mahamad Laban, 45, a Danish citizen, and Mohammed Tefik Saleh, 38, a Swedish citizen, received weapons and explosives training in Syria for the past three months, the Anadolu Agency said.
Pictures published by Anadolu show Laban and others in trenches covered with sandbags. In several pictures, Laban is seen wearing camouflage gear and holding a machine gun.
Anadolu did not provide details on the arrests but said Saleh’s wife had informed Swedish authorities that he had crossed from Turkey to Syria and joined ISIS in 2014, along with his two daughters. The agency says the wife didn’t go to Syria and returned to Sweden.
The agency said the two men entered Turkey using fake identification with the intention of going to European countries.
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Watch: Former Marine Posts Warning From Iraq After Travel Ban Uproar
A former U.S. Marine who works as a private security contractor took to Facebook to warn of the dangers Americans still face in Iraq.
Steven Gern’s video, which was posted from Iraq and has been viewed more than 44 million times, came just a few days after President Trump’s executive order triggered massive protests at U.S. airports.
The order temporarily banned travel from seven Muslim-majority countries, including Iraq, Iran and Syria.
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India: Caste Splits Tamils Over Bullfighting
Many people in India’s Tamil Nadu state have celebrated the return of traditional bull-taming contests after a court ban was overturned. But Dalits (formerly called untouchables) say they are still prevented from taking part in the sport, sometimes violently.
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Jakarta Vote: Indonesia Hardliners Call for Muslim Governor
Tens of thousands of Indonesians have gathered in Jakarta to urge people to vote for a Muslim candidate to be the capital city’s next governor.
The incumbent, Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, known as Ahok, is an ethnic Chinese Christian currently on trial after being accused of insulting Islam.
Despite the court case, Mr Purnama is still expected to win Wednesday’s vote.
The campaign against him has been led by Muslim hardliners, stoking fears of growing religious intolerance.
Supporters of several Islamic groups held posters with messages such as “I’d prefer if my leader is a Muslim” and “It is forbidden to pick an infidel leader”.
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North Korea Reportedly Test Fires Missile, Challenging US
North Korea launched a missile into its eastern sea on Sunday, according to the South Korean military. The U.S. military detected the test and is assessing the launch, a U.S.defense official told Reuters on Saturday.
U.S. President Donald Trump has been briefed on the missile launched by North Korea, and the White House is continuing to monitor the situation, a White House official said on Saturday according to Reuters.
“We are aware of the missile launch by North Korea. The President has been briefed and we are continuing to closelymonitor the situation,” the official said.
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EPA prepared new limits 1000s of times higher than even the Fukushima rainwater
Six years ago, an absolutely devastating tsunami caused a triple meltdown at Japan’ s Fukushima nuclear power facility. It was the worst environmental disaster in all of human history, and even though six years have passed since that time, nobody knows where the three melted cores are. Just recently, authorities believe that they spotted some melted fuel underneath reactor 2, but even from a distance the level of nuclear radiation that was detected was being described as “ unimaginable” . Essentially what we are talking about are three enormous “ dirty bombs” that are continuously emitting tremendous amounts of nuclear radiation into the air, water and soil. Some of the radioactive elements that are being released have half-lives that are measured in tens of thousands of years, and so the poisonous effect of these “ dirty bombs” could potentially be with us for generation after generation.
Personally, I don’ t know why the big mainstream news outlets in the U.S. are almost entirely ignoring Fukushima these days. Fox News did a story on the “ unimaginable” radiation at Fukushima just a few days ago, but that was about it.
To me, it is certainly newsworthy that nuclear radiation inside reactor 2 at Fukushima is at the highest level ever recorded…
What most people don’t understand is that the melted nuclear fuel under Fukushima is going to be with us for a very, very long time. Some of the fuel rods contained plutonium-239, and plutonium-239 has a half-life of approximately 24,000 years…
Do they think a one-meter hole magically appears in nuclear containment vessels due to random chance? No, it’s melting fuel rods, you morons. And some of that fuel is MOX fuel, which contains plutonium-239 that boasts a half life of 24,000 years. So sometime in the year 26000 A.D. the Fukushima nightmare will be HALF as toxic as it is right now. What a wonderful, progressive future to look forward to, eh?
Plutonium-239 is one of the most dangerous substances known to humanity. As nuclear expert Steven C. Jones once explained, it would not take much plutonium-239 to kill every man, woman and child on the entire planet…
Once nuclear material escapes from Fukushima, it literally gets distributed all over the planet.
That means that it is getting into our air, our water and our food supply.
And I find it extremely interesting that the EPA was moving to dramatically raise the “safe limits” on radioactivity in our drinking water right at the end of the Obama administration. The following comes from a Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility press release dated December 22, 2016…
“Following Japan’s Fukushima meltdown in 2011, EPA’s claims that no radioactivity could reach the U.S. at levels of concern were contradicted by its own rainwater measurements showing contamination from Fukushima throughout the U.S. well above Safe Drinking Water Act limits. In reaction, EPA prepared new limits 1000s of times higher than even the Fukushima rainwater because ‘EPA experienced major difficulties conveying to the public that the detected levels…were not of immediate concern for public health.’“
Why in the world would the EPA do that?
Here are some more of the details…
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More Whales Swim Aground in New Zealand, Bringing Total to 650
A new pod of 240 whales swam aground at a remote New Zealand beach on Saturday just hours after weary volunteers managed to refloat a different group of whales following an earlier mass stranding.
In total, more than 650 pilot whales have beached themselves along a 5 kilometer (3 mile) stretch of coastline over two days on Farewell Spit at the tip of the South Island. About 335 of the whales are dead, 220 remain stranded, and 100 are back at sea.
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IBM to Train 25 Million Africans for Free to Build Workforce
International Business Machines Corp. (IW 1000/36) is ramping up its digital-skills training program to accommodate as many as 25 million Africans in the next five years, looking toward building a future workforce on the continent.
The U.S. tech giant plans to make an initial investment of 945 million rand (US$70 million) to roll out the training initiative in South Africa, a country where 31% of 15-to-24 year-olds are unemployed, according to Statistics South Africa.
At the same time, the program will be started at IBM’s offices in Nigeria, Kenya, Morocco and Egypt, enabling an expansion of the project across the rest of the continent.
“Africa will have the largest workforce by 2040 and IBM wants to lay the foundation blocks to build a digital workforce,’’ Juan Pablo Napoli, head of IBM Skills Academy, said by phone from Dubai.
“We will be providing a free cloud-based learning platform able to train people from basic computer skills to high-end app development.”
The move may help bring and keep digital jobs in Africa instead of losing them to India, said Hamilton Ratshefola, IBM’s country manager for South Africa. As many as 50,000 such jobs are currently farmed out from Africa, predominantly to India, Ratshefola said.
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Brazilian Police in Espirito Santo Refuse to End Strike Amid Violent Chaos
Military police in southeastern Brazil have rejected a return-to-work agreement aimed at ending a strike. Brazil’s laws prohibit police from striking so family members have blockaded barracks to prevent them working.
The police union said Saturday that 137 people had been murdered in the state since last Saturday, a six-fold increase of the average homicide rate in 2016. Most of the violence centered in the poor regions of metropolitan Vitoria, the state capital, and state security agents said that most of the murders appear to be related to the drug trade or other crimes.
But Vitoria streets were calm on Saturday as thousands more soldiers and elite federal police arrived to bolster the initial deployment of 1,200 soldiers.
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Brazil: The Remains of the Rio Olympics
Less than a year after the games of Rio 2016, the glamour is gone. Olympic venues are abandoned, bills are left unpaid. The hosts owe creditors over 40 million dollars and it is unclear where the money is supposed to come from.
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Ageing Europe Needs Immigration: EU Foreign Affairs Chief
With its ageing population, Europe needs immigration and can only resolve the migrant crisis through cooperation and not by “closing its doors,” EU foreign affairs chief Federica Mogherini said Wednesday.
“I believe Europeans should understand that we need immigration for our economies,” as the continent’s population ages, Mogherini said, opening a Europe-Africa meeting on migration in the Maltese capital.
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Bounty Hunters Chasing Immigrants on Horses, A 110-Mile Razor Fence and Bans on New Mosques…
[…]ANDREW MALONE reports from the EU country whose brutal crackdown on Muslim migrants makes Trump look liberal
His team of bounty hunters have caught hundreds of immigrants trying to make it into Hungary, on the way to neighbouring Austria and beyond, on the so-called Balkan smuggling route. The man’s name is Laszlo Toroczkai, a charismatic 45-year-old mayor who has made it his life’s work to prevent what he calls the destruction of his country.
Disturbingly, his views are increasingly being echoed by his compatriots.
Mayor Toroczkai is in charge of a small Hungarian town called Asotthalom, on the border with Serbia — a nation still outside the EU — which was pitched into the centre of the refugee crisis in 2015, when thousands of immigrants started pouring across the unprotected border each day.
The crisis erupted after Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor, announced to the world that Europe would welcome refugees, prompting more than one million to head to Germany alone, while hundreds of thousands of others made for Britain, France and Italy.
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Germany in Chaos: Reports of Series of Arsons While Refugee Centre Also Goes Up in Flames
MIGRANTS have been accused of starting a series of fires across Germany in a series of destructive arson attacks.
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Germany’s Angela Merkel Calls for Faster Deportations of Rejected Tunisian Asylum Seekers
The chancellor said in her weekly video podcast that she would push the Tunisian prime minister to help speed up deportations. She referenced the case of the Tunisian terrorist Anis Amri.
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Half of New Homes Built in Britain the Next Five Years Will Go to Migrants
Almost half of new homes built in the next five years will go to migrants, government figures have revealed.
Soaring immigration means that Britain will need to accommodate as many as 243,000 new households each year for the next 22 years, the Department for Communities and Local Government has said.
It is been estimated that an extra 5.3 million new properties could be needed to meet the growth in population, and an extra 2.4 million of the new homes will be needed for migrants alone.
This means that one new home needs to be built every five minutes to house Britain’s burgeoning migrant population.
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Irish Police: Eight People Deported to the UK in Border Operation
An operation against illegal immigration into the Republic of Ireland has led to eight people being deported to the UK.
Irish police carried out the operation last Monday near the border at County Louth.
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Italy Sets Up Fast-Track Asylum Courts for Migrants
The Italian government on Friday created 14 fast-track asylum appeal courts in a bid to speed up decisions on deporting migrants with no right to stay in the country.
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Migrant ‘Stabbed Girlfriend 30 Times and Beheaded Her During Ritual Killing’ In Germany
A REFUGEE who has been accused of stabbed his girlfriend 30 times, beheading her corpse and then decorating her dead body during a horrific ritual killing in Germany.
The Congolese migrant had been seeking asylum in Berlin when he is alleged to have carried out the bloody attack.
The man, identified only as Yve M, is accused of using a knife to stab his girlfriend 30 times before beheading her corpse.
He then cut off her left arm and the little finger on her right hand before decorating her body.
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Report: 72 Convicted of Terrorism From ‘Trump 7’ Mostly Muslim Countries
Since 9/11, 72 individuals from the seven mostly Muslim countries covered by President Trump’s “extreme vetting” executive order have been convicted of terrorism, bolstering the administration’s immigration ban.
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Study Proves Judges Wrong — 72 Convicted Terrorists Have Come From Travel-Ban Countries
At least 72 convicted terrorists since 9/11 have come from the seven countries affected by the Trump administration’s travel ban, according to a new study by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), which reviewed information compiled by a Senate subcommittee in 2016.
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Child Sacrifice: Experts Claim Newborns Can be Killed
This is the slippery slope of eugenics, euthanasia and mass murder by government
Oxford University’s so-called “ethicists” say that newborn babies are not “actual person”, but “potential persons”.
And Planned Parenthood’s President, Cecile Richards, is urging women to embrace their abortions and boast proudly of them as the next step to liberation.
This is the slippery slope of eugenics, euthanasia and mass murder by government.
It’s also why Neil Gorsuch’s appointment to the Supreme Court is so desperately needed.
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‘Science Guy’to Target ‘Religious Leaders’ In Netflix Show
(Newsbusters) For years, the liberal media have given Bill Nye a platform to rant about his liberal views and now Netflix will give him an entire show.
Nye, “The Science Guy,” is one of the media’s favorite global warming alarmists. He will star in a new Netflix show called Bill Nye Saves the World which will debut in the Spring of 2017.
Variety’s TV Editor Laura Prudom reported that the show will attempt to refute religious leaders and politicians who espouse “anti-scientific claims.” Nye told Variety each episode will take on “complex scientific issues facing us today” such as “vaccinations, genetically modified foods and climate change.”
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Data Mining Reveals the Rise if ISIS Propaganda on Twitter
Twitter has closed 25,000 accounts that supported the terrorist organisation ISIS. An analysis of these tweets shows how ISIS emerged with a message of extreme violence.
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Lovely. Now Someone’s Ported IoT-Menacing Mirai to Windows Boxes
Malware can spread to gizmos and gadgets after slipping into internal systems
The Mirai malware that hijacked hundreds of thousands of IoT gadgets, routers and other devices is now capable of infecting Windows systems.
The software nasty, discovered in August 2016, broke into heaps of insecure Linux-powered gizmos worldwide before running distributed denial of service attacks, most notably against DNS provider Dyn. Many household names relied on Dyn’s servers to prop up their websites and online services; these big brands effectively became unreachable to consumers for hours at a time during the now infamous attack last October.
Many of the commandeered devices were personal digital video recorders, webcams, and the like. The malware spread by scanning the internet for machines with open ports and then using default or hardcoded passwords to log in and take over.
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I bet they were Roma from eastern Slovakia being brought to the UK by a coach company. Travelled once and the whole coach was full of Roma travelling to Slovakia… It is a very good business for them. Pakistanis get married to them abd can stay in the UK… Then they abuse the Gypsie girls…
Thanks for the thought. I thought it a bit strange.
Oxford’s ethicists claiming new born babies aren’t babies as a Georgetown don defends Islamic slavery and rape?
Oh, man.
“I believe Europeans should understand that we need immigration for our economies,” as the continent’s population ages, Mogherini said, opening a Europe-Africa meeting on migration in the Maltese capital.”
OK, so the 2015 open doors in Europe to migrants was not a humanitarian action but a economic necessity? The story keeps changing from EU officials, but is anyone still listening to them?
Nah not really. Who believes them anyway.
Gullible Europeans.
And what exactly does Ms. Mogherini think these invaders are going to do for the European economy?
From my perspective all they do is leech off the tax system, rather than pay into it.
There is no compelling, essential economic reason for growth … EXCEPT when you are running a welfare Ponzi scheme; and we all know how those end.
>> “Almost half of new homes [in Britain] built in the next five years will go to migrants, government figures have revealed … It is been estimated that an extra 5.3 million new properties could be needed to meet the growth in population”
Aren’t the “refugees welcome” types usually the same folks who belly-ache about the environment? Of course, they are very adept at holding contradictory values and double standards, without feeling the least bit of cognitive and emotional discomfort.
How will these new homes be financed, and who will bear that burden? You’re more likely to see more crowding into existing structures than to see an expansion in the stock of spaces.
…and the situation in Jakarta shows us the problem with Islam in a nutshell – the true believers think the answer, for themselves and everyone else, is always MORE Islam.
It’s even worse that the current leader is a Chinese Christian minority…those are the hard-working, relatively upstanding folks that make parts of Indonesia seem fairly well-organized and modern.