A busload of South Korean tourists visiting Paris was robbed by a group of culture-enrichers. The incident is said to be part of the mass rioting of migrants that has been going on for several days. About forty tourists were robbed while a man threatened them with what appeared to be a broken bottle.
In other news, during his visit to Washington D.C., Canadian Prime Minister Justin “Baby Doc” Trudeau said that he would not lecture President Donald Trump on immigration, despite the two leaders’ policy differences.
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This Map Shows Where You’re Most Likely to be Unemployed in Sweden
For people born in Sweden, the unemployment rate is only 4.3 percent, but for those born abroad the rate shoots up to 22.1 percent. One explanation provided by the agency is that many people who have moved to Sweden in recent years lack an upper secondary school education, which puts them at a disadvantage when attempting to find a job.
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What Will Trump Do About the Central-Bank Cartel?
Trump could end global banking tyranny
The close cooperation and coordination among central banks under the Fed’s tutelage amounts to an international cartelization of central banking — paving the way toward a single world monetary policy run by a yet to be determined single world central bank. Such a development is, or course, in the very interest of those in favor of establishing a single world government.
How will President Donald J. Trump and his administration deal with the cartelization in central banking? Mr. Trump doesn’t seem to be an “internationalist,” seeking to build a new world order by political and military means. If that is so, he will sooner or later have to come to grips with the Fed’s policies — most notably with its liquidity swap agreements.
The Fed’s policy has made the world’s financial system addicted to ever greater amounts of US dollars, easily accessible and provided at fairly low interest rates. From this the US banks benefit greatly, while average Americans bear the brunt: they pay the price in terms of, for instance, boom and bust and an erosion of the purchasing power of the US dollar. What Trump Should Do
If the Trump administration really wishes to live up to its campaign promise “Make America great again,” there is no way of getting around addressing Fed policy. A first step in that direction is the idea to subject the US central bank to public scrutiny (“Audit the Fed”), bringing to public attention the scope of the Fed’s interventions into the world’s banking system.
Of course, the liquidity swap agreements in particular can be expected to be heavily defended by central bankers, bank representatives, big business lobbyists, and mainstream economists as being indispensable for financial system stability. And for sure, a sudden withdrawal from this practice would almost certainly deal a heavy blow to financial markets.
If push comes to shove, it could even make the worldwide credit pyramid, built on fiat money, come crashing down. However, the really important argument in this context is that the continuation of the practice of central bank cartelization will eventually result in a despotic regime: and that is a single world fiat currency regime.
Of course, change for the better doesn’t come from politics. It comes from better ideas. For it is ideas that determine human action. Whatever these ideas are and wherever they come from: They make humans act. For this reason the great Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises (1881 — 1973) advocates the idea of the “sound money principle” –
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Why Donald Trump Needs the Next Recession to Start as Quickly as Possible
A new recession is coming, and Donald Trump needs it to begin sooner rather than later. As I explained last week, most American voters tend to care about their pocketbooks more than anything else. If the next recession were to officially start during the first quarter of 2017, it would be very easy for Trump to blame it on Obama, and then he could portray himself as the one that pulled the U.S. economy out of recession in time for the 2020 election. But if the next recession does not begin until 2018 or 2019, everybody is going to blame it on Trump even if it is not his fault. In politics, who gets the blame for whatever goes wrong is often the most important thing, and if Trump wants to avoid blame for the next recession he needs for it to start as quickly as possible.
For most of 2016, the mainstream media was warning that a new recession was probably coming no matter who won the election. For one example, just check out this Bloomberg article.
And for once, the mainstream media was precisely correct. Barack Obama left us with an enormous economic mess, and it would take an economic miracle of unprecedented proportions to keep the U.S. economy from going into a recession at this point.
During the Obama years, the U.S. went on a debt binge unlike anything we have ever seen before.
[Comment: Comrade Obama was appointed to massively increase the debt of the USA. He did the job well for his bankster handlers. If the recession comes sooner, people will make the connection to Obama more easily.]
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California Governor Jerry Brown Asks President Trump for Help
On Friday, California Governor Jerry Brown sought federal help from President Trump by asking the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to declare “a major disaster” in California in light of the damage done by recent storms.
The East Bay Times reports: “Brown formally requested the declaration for the series of storms striking the state between Jan. 3 and Jan. 12.” He noted that “heavy rains, winds and snow, particularly in Northern California, left eight people dead and knocked out power to an estimated 1 million Californian homes and businesses.”
Brown’s request comes as Gov. Brown has challenged the Trump administration on climate change, immigration, Obamacare, and other issues.
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Dam Evacuation Gridlock Reveals Californians’ Inability to Escape Crises
Golden State a megadisaster waiting to happen
Nearly 200,000 people remained under evacuation orders Monday as California authorities try to fix erosion of the emergency spillway at the nation’s tallest dam that could unleash uncontrolled flood waters if it fails.
About 150 miles northeast of San Francisco, Lake Oroville — one of California’s largest man-made lakes — had water levels so high that an emergency spillway was used Saturday for the first time in almost 50 years.
The evacuation was ordered Sunday afternoon after engineers spotted a hole on the concrete lip of the secondary spillway for the 770-foot-tall Oroville Dam and told authorities that it could fail within the hour.
Panicked and angry residents sat in bumper-to-bumper traffic hours after the evacuation order was given.
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Lance Armstrong Faces $100m Lawsuit Filed by US Government
The disgraced cyclist has paid out more than $10 million in damages after admitting to doping in 2013. Now a federal judge has cleared the way for the US government to pursue a $100 million lawsuit against Armstrong.
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Via Armstrong Economics:
“All of this is building to violence. Then the police will respond and then the outcries will be see — Trump is running a police state. This will only tear the country apart. Many of these protesters are not old enough to even vote. Their teachers allow them to cut class to protest against Trump. When asked what they are protesting about, they do not even understand the issues.
“This is like a rumor mill. By the time it gets to the 5th person, it is nothing like what was said. You have black students in high school repeating Trump said all blacks are ignorant. Others saying Iraq is not a terrorist nation because they never heard of that. Still others said people should come in and not even be checked. This is the mindset that is sweeping the nation and it is really scary. This is part of the cycle of civil unrest and indeed it looks like the computer is going to be right once again. This will be the BIGGEST spike in civil unrest in American history, It is already the biggest with regard to trying to block and overthrow the Trump Administration and Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and Chuck Schummer are all encouraging this violence. Nancy Pelosi says she cannot work with Trump at all and she is the head of the Democrats.
“This will ONLY end in bloodshed.”
Armstrong’s economic confidence model has been highly accurate for over thirty years, having predicted, among other things, the Savings and Loan crash of the late 1980’s to the very day, the collapse of Japanese stocks, and the destruction of the Russian economy.
[Comment: A result of psy-warfare on the American public — using globalist controlled mass media, globalist puppet politicians, and communist indoctrination centres (aka universities). Rabid left has been totally brainwashed and conditioned to respond only using the reptile part of their brain. More easily manipulated by globalist masters.]
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Officials Were Warned the Oroville Dam Emergency Spillway Wasn’t Safe. They Didn’t Listen.
In 2005, three environmental groups warned state and federal officials about what they believed was a problem with the Oroville Dam’s emergency spillway, which was at risk of collapsing over the weekend in California as recent storms caused the adjacent massive reservoir to swell.
Their concern, which seemed to have fallen on deaf ears: The emergency spillway is not really a spillway. Rather, it’s a 1,700-foot-long concrete weir that empties into a dirt hillside. That means in the event of severe flooding, water would erode that hillside and flood nearby communities, the groups said then.
That nearly happened Sunday, when a hole on the emergency spillway threatened to flood the surrounding area and prompted officials to evacuate thousands of residents who remained displaced as of Monday afternoon.
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Senate Confirms Trump’s Picks for Treasury, VA Secretaries
The Senate confirmed former Goldman Sachs financier Steven Mnuchin as President Donald Trump’s Treasury secretary Monday, despite objections by Democrats who charged that Mnuchin had made much of his fortune by foreclosing on struggling homeowners during the financial crisis.
Mnuchin was confirmed 53-47, with West Virginia Democrat Joe Manchin joining all 52 Republicans to vote in the affirmative.
Moments later, physician David Shulkin was unanimously confirmed as Secretary of Veterans Affairs. Mnuchin and Shulkin bring the total of confirmed members of Trump’s Cabinet to eight, joining the secretaries of State, Defense, Homeland Security, Health and Human Services and Transportation, as well as the Attorney General.
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Spillway at Tallest US Dam in California About to Collapse, Tens of Thousands Evacuate
Tens of thousands of people have been fleeing California towns downstream from the Oroville Dam after fears of an imminent collapse of its spillway prompted an evacuation order. Authorities are seeking to stem the breach with the help of helicopters.
“Immediate evacuation from the low levels of Oroville and areas downstream is ordered. This is NOT A Drill. This is NOT A Drill. This in NOT A Drill,” says the statement posted on the Butte County Sheriff’s Facebook page.
The statement refers to the Lake Oroville Dam, located 105 km (65 miles) north of Sacramento.
Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea said the evacuation orders affect 188,000 people, AP reports.
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TPP is Not Dead: It’s Now Called the Trade in Services Agreement
Think the ideas behind the Trans-Pacific Partnership or the so-called “free trade” regime are buried? Sadly, no. Definitely, no. Some of the countries involved in negotiating the TPP seeking to find ways to resurrect it in some new form — but that isn’t the most distressing news. What’s worse is the TPP remains alive in a new form with even worse rules. Meet the Trade In Services Agreement, even more secret than the Trans-Pacific Partnership. And more dangerous.
The Trade In Services Agreement (TISA), currently being negotiated among 50 countries, if passed would prohibit regulations on the financial industry, eliminate laws to safeguard online or digital privacy, render illegal any “buy local” rules at any level of government, effectively dismantle any public advantages to be derived from state-owned enterprises and eliminate net neutrality.
TISA negotiations began in April 2013 and have gone through 21 rounds. Silence has been the rule for these talks, and we only know what’s in it because of leaks, earlier ones published by WikiLeaks and now a new cache published by Bilaterals.org.
Earlier draft versions of TISA’s language would prohibit any restrictions on the size, expansion or entry of financial companies and a ban on new regulations, including a specific ban on any law that separates commercial and investment banking, such as the equivalent of the U.S. Glass-Steagall Act. It would also ban any restrictions on the transfer of any data collected, including across borders; place social security systems at risk of privatization or elimination; and put an end to Internet privacy and net neutrality. It hasn’t gotten any more acceptable.
TISA is the backup plan in case the TPP and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership don’t come to fruition. Perhaps fearful that the recent spotlight put on “free trade” deals might derail TISA as it derailed TPP, the governmental trade offices negotiating it have not announced the next negotiating date. The closest toward any meaningful information found was the Australian government’s bland statement that the “Parties agreed to reconvene in 2017.”
The cover story for why TISA is being negotiated is that it would uphold the right to hire the accountant or engineer of your choice, but in reality is intended to enable the financial industry and Internet companies to run roughshod over countries around the world. And while “liberalization” of professional services is being promoted, the definition of “services” is being expanded in order to stretch the category to encompass manufacturing. Deborah James of the Center for Economy and Policy Research laid out the breathtaking scope of this proposal:
[Comment: This is how globalists operate. Repackage their evil plans with a new name so public does not realize the old hated plan is still alive.]
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Trump, Bannon Said to Weigh Firing Mike Flynn Over Russian Phone Calls Scandal
Now we know why the administration has been so quiet about the fate of Flynn
Top White House aide and policy adviser, Stephen Miller, sidestepped repeated chances during Sunday news shows to publicly defend embattled National Security Adviser Michael Flynn following reports that he engaged in conversations with Russian diplomat(s) about U.S. sanctions before Trump’s inauguration.
The uncertainty came as Trump was dealing with North Korea’s apparent first missile launch of the year and his presidency, along with visits this week from the leaders of Israel and Canada.
Pressed repeatedly, Stephen Miller said it wasn’t up to him to say whether the president retains confidence in Flynn. “It’s not for me to tell you what’s in the president’s mind,” he said on NBC. “That’s a question for the president.”
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AWOL Toronto Police Officer Will Keep His Job
TORONTO — If only everyone had such understanding bosses: A Toronto traffic cop will keep his job despite going AWOL for almost four years after he was asked to take a breathalyzer test when he reported to duty allegedly smelling of alcohol.
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Black Lives Matter Co-Founder: White People Are Sub-Human
Unexpectedly, the co-founder of a racist hate group is a racist. The media has praised and promoted Black Lives Matter. The left vocally shouted down anyone who dared to say, All Lives Matter. It turned a blind eye to BLM’s deliberate harassment of white people, or, as the hate group called it “white spaces”. But ignoring BLM’s racism doesn’t make it go away.
A co-founder of Black Lives Matter Toronto argued that white people are “recessive genetic defects” and purportedly mused about how the race could be “wiped out,” according to a post on what appears to be her Facebook page.
She also faced controversy in the news for a tweet posted a year ago stating: “Plz Allah give me strength to not cuss/kill these men and white folks out here today.”
While these remarks alarmed many Canadians, they pale in comparison to a statement numerous sources forwarded to the Sun that Khogali appears to have posted on Facebook in late 2015.
“Whiteness is not humxness,” the statement begins. “infact, white skin is sub-humxn.” The post goes on to present a genetics-based argument centred on melanin and enzyme.
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BLM Leader Appears to Call Whites ‘Defects’
(TORONTO SUN) TORONTO — A co-founder of Black Lives Matter Toronto argued that white people are “recessive genetic defects” and purportedly mused about how the race could be “wiped out,” according to a post on what appears to be her Facebook page.
Yusra Khogali has faced increased scrutiny over the past year after BLM Toronto gained political influence following their disruption of the Toronto Pride parade and confrontations with Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne.
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Fed. Warns Ontario Government Against Politically Motivated Meddling in Electricity Sector That Does
The Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) is warning the Ontario government against politically motivated meddling in the electricity sector. Reports from multiple government sources indicate that the Ontario government is considering changing how the global adjustment is calculated, so that the cost is spread out more gradually over the coming years.
The same reports also indicate that the government is considering reforming programs that subsidize low income hydro consumers, so that the subsidies are provided by the tax base rather than by other hydro consumers…
“What the government needs to do is quit pursuing policies that raise household bills. They could scrap the Green Energy Act, cancel rather than suspend all new procurement, they could stop wasting money on conservation programs that drive rates up, and they could reverse the cap and trade tax that the Auditor General has warned will drive electricity bills up by 23 per cent over the next four years. These reports reveal that the government is more interested in optics than real solutions,” concluded Van Geyn.
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‘Erdoganophobia’ Exists in Europe, Turkey’s EU Minister Says
“Erdoganophobia” has existed in Europe for a long time, based on Islamophobia and xenophobia, Turkey’s European Union Minister Ömer Çelik said in an article published on Feb. 11.
“European diplomats are talking about constitutional reform in Turkey without knowing about the content of it,” Çelik told French newspaper Le Monde.
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Four of Iceland’s Main Volcanoes All Preparing for Eruption
According to geophysicist Páll Einarsson, four of Iceland’s volcanoes are showing increased amounts of activity in preparation for another eruption.
Katla is the most active that it’s ever been in four decades. “Katla has been unrestful since this autumn.”
The other volcanoes showing increased activity are Hekla, Grímsvötn and Bà ¡rðarbunga.
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France: Nonwhite Riots Over False “Police Rape”
Nonwhite invaders in France have continued to riot, burn down, and trash large parts of French cities in ongoing violence spurred by a claim that policemen anally assaulted an Arab with a truncheon-even though an official review has shown that the alleged assault never happened.
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France: Coachload of Korean Tourists Robbed in ‘Horror’ Attack Linked to Paris Riots
About forty South Korean tourists were robbed in Paris at the weekend when men climbed aboard their coach shouting threats.
Witness statements from the event, described by South Korea’s leading news agency Yonhap as “ten minutes of horror”, revealed that one of the intruders threatened tourists on the coach with an object “resembling a glass bottle”.
The coachload of tourists were driving back to their hotel in Saint-Denis at the time of the attack. The neighbourhood is in close proximity to areas of Paris affected by ongoing violence as anti-police protesters riot over the assault of a black youth worker who alleges he was anally raped with a truncheon while being arrested.
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France: Paris Suburbs: ‘It Feels Like the 2005 Riots Are Starting Again’
A police officer has linked the recent unrest in the Paris suburbs to the mass riots of 2005, when 6,000 were arrested after weeks of fierce rioting.
Sunday night saw around 50 violent protesters take to the streets of Argenteuil in the north western suburbs of Paris. Police arrested 11 protesters who vandalized bus shelters and torched cars.
Later in the night, far on the other side of town, protesters went on the rampage in Les Ulis, in the department of Essonne, to the south of Paris.
They attacked the local police station, torching three police cars, and threw Molotov cocktails, reported Le Parisien newspaper.
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France: Paris Erupts in Violence: Many Streets Are No-Go Zones as Five Suburbs in Flames
Five large areas have been reduced to no go areas for the past five nights as masked men cause mayhem on the streets.
Now there are fears the fall out from allegations of police brutality could spread all over the country as unrest in the city grows.
Residents have been on lockdown as armed police tried to tackle the rioters who have caused millions of pounds of damage.
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Imprisoned British Terrorist Inspires Jihadists, Media Ignores Ties to Intelligence
It’s said the authorities are worried some of Choudary’s cohorts will return from Syria to raise Wahhabi Salafist hell in Britain.
As usual, something important was not mentioned: the British intelligence “covenant of security” that has protected radical Islamists.
After Choudary was convicted of supporting the so-called Islamic State and was sent to prison last August, I wrote:
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Man Dressed as Hitler Arrested in Austria
In Braunau am Inn, Austria — the town of Adolf Hitler’s birth — there is concern the site may become a pilgrimage for Nazi sympathizers. Now, a man dressed as Hitler’s doppelgänger has been arrested under anti-Nazi laws.
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Sweden’s Food Would Only Last a Week in an Emergency, Experts Warn
Sweden’s food reserves are so low they would only last a week in the case of a national emergency, experts have warned.
The most recent episode of public broadcaster SVT’s ‘Agenda’ show looked into Sweden’s preparedness for crisis situations, and in particular how food supplies would cope in the case of war or power failure.
And according to volunteer organization the Civil Defence Association (Civilförsvarsförbundet), which assists Swedish authorities in crisis situations, Sweden’s import-heavy supermarkets would struggle to cope for more than a week.
“Sweden has no food contingency. The level of self-sufficiency is low. Around 50 percent of what we consume is bought in from the EU, or imported from other countries outside the EU,” Civilförsvarsförbundet chairperson Sven Lindgren told The Local.
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Sweden: Minister Visits Malmö as Shootings Continue
Sweden’s interior minister, Anders Ygeman, visited Malmö on Monday, just a day after another man was shot dead in the southern Swedish city.
A 23-year-old man died in hospital after being shot outside a restaurant on the central Möllevången square at 6.40pm on Sunday. The man was known to police, with a series of previous convictions.
He is the latest person killed in a spate of gun violence in Malmö this year. On January 3rd a 22-year-old man was shot dead in the Fosie district, just a week before a 16-year-old boy was killed in Rosengård.
A janitor who was shot last week while clearing walkways from snow remains in hospital with life-threatening injuries.
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The teen attacker today admitted killing an American tourist and wounding five others during a stabbing spree in Central London
CHILLING CCTV footage has emerged showing the Russell Square killer walking calmly down the street with a knife in his hands in the midst of his stabbing spree.
Zakaria Bulhan can be seen pacing up and down brandishing the blade during the attack which saw an American tourist killed and several others wounded…
He told doctors “it was not the real me” and he “felt dreadful” about what he had done.
Bulhan said: “I kept running, the voices started changing. They manipulated me, they were cunning voices…I can’t remember and I don’t want to.
“I attacked the people because of the voices. It was like something took control of me.”
[Comment: Court rules he had a “psychotic episode”. Manslaughter with diminished responsibility. I’m surprised he did not claim he was 14.]
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Israeli Ministers Endorse Noise Pollution Bill Said to ‘Mute Muslim Call to Prayer’
Controversial bill which critics say targets Muslim worshippers is due to be put before members of the Knesset
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As Repression Deepens, Turkish Artists and Intellectuals Fear the Worst
After last year’s failed coup, Turkey’s massive crackdown on civil society is entering its eighth month. Here’s why artists and intellectuals feel the latest wave of sackings in the country go one step further.
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Istanbul Nightclub Attacker Asks to be Given Death Penalty: Report
An Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militant who attacked a famous nightclub at the heart of Istanbul has reportedly asked to be given a death sentence in his testimony.
Uzbek-origin Abdulkadir Masharipov, who killed 39 people and wounded 65 others, said that “it would be good if he was given capital punishment,” daily Sabah reported on Feb. 13.
During his testimony, Masharipov said he was a member of ISIL but had not participated in any attacks by the jihadist organization before the Reina attack.
“I wanted to stage the attack on Christians in order to exact revenge on them for their acts committed all over the world. My aim was to kill Christians. Abu Cihad, who is in Syria, told me to carry out the attack in Taksim, saying ‘Christians are gathering in Taksim,’“ Masharipov said, adding that he could not stage the attack in Taksim due to strict security measures.
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Russian Video Raises Alarm: New is Damage in Syria’s Palmyra
Russia on Monday released footage from one of its drones in Syria, revealing for the first time the latest destruction to the ruins of historic Palmyra since it was recaptured by Islamic State militants, as Syrian government forces pushed ahead on the ground in a new offensive to take the city back.
Syrian troops have advanced close to within 20 kilometers (12 miles) of the UNESCO heritage site for which Palmyra is famous and which has already suffered massive destruction at the hands of the Islamic State group.
The drone footage, released in Moscow, showed IS militants have badly damaged the facade of the Roman-era theater and the Tetrapylon — a set of four monuments with four columns each at the center of the colonnaded road leading to the theater.
The video appears to show that only two of the 16 columns remain standing.
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Sweden Defends Officials Wearing Headscarves in Iran
The Swedish government has defended its decision to have its officials wear headscarves during a trip to Iran, saying that failing to do so would have broken the law.
Trade Minister Ann Linde led a business team last week and faced criticism for wearing a headscarf, or hijab.
Sweden says it has the world’s first “feminist government”.
A prominent Iranian women’s rights activist and Swedish politicians have criticised the decision.
“It is ruinous to what is called a feminist foreign policy” said Liberal party chief Jan Bjorklund, who said Iran oppressed women through legislation.
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Ahok Trial: The Blasphemy Case Testing Indonesian Identity
Millions of Indonesians are set to elect local leaders, but the focus is on the capital Jakarta, where the city’s first non-Muslim governor is fighting not only for re-election but to stay out of jail.
As the BBC’s Rebecca Henschke reports, his blasphemy trial is being seen as a test of Indonesia’s religious tolerance.
“Jail the governor now!” cries a group of female students outside the Jakarta court where Basuki Tjahaja Purnama is on trial.
They are wearing brightly-coloured headscarves and stand out in a sea of white-robed men yelling “hang the blasphemer”.
“He insulted Islam. Not just Islam in Indonesia but around the world. I could never do anything radical like kill him or make a bomb, but I must do something and that’s why I am here,” says one protester.
Mr Purnama, known widely as Ahok, angered many after he referenced a Koranic verse while on the campaign trail last September.
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At Least 13 Dead in Bombing at Protest Rally in Pakistan, Police Say
At least 13 people were killed and 58 others wounded Monday after a large bomb exploded at a protest rally in eastern Pakistan, an attack for which a Taliban faction claimed responsibility.
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‘Indonesia is on the Brink of Disaster’
Indonesia’s upcoming regional elections have been overshadowed by Muslim mass protests against the candidacy of Jakarta’s Christian governor Ahok. The country is on a dangerous course, says Berthold Damshäuser.
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Pakistan Capital Bans Valentine’s Day
A court in Pakistan has banned public celebrations of Valentine’s Day in the capital, Islamabad, on the grounds that it is not part of Muslim culture.
The Islamabad High Court’s order prohibits all Valentine’s Day festivities in government offices and public spaces with immediate effect.
It also directs the media not to promote or cover Valentine’s events.
The orders were a response to a private petition which argued that Valentine’s Day was contrary to Islamic teaching.
According to the Dawn newspaper, the petition argued that the festival promoted immorality, nudity and indecency under the cover of spreading love.
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Ex-US Ambassador to South Korea: Conflict With North Korea Has to be on the Table
Pyongyang has announced that it ‘successfully’ test-fired a ballistic missile into the Sea of Japan. The US cannot rule out military conflict with North Korea, a former US envoy to Seoul has told DW’s Brent Goff.
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Japan PM Shinzo Abe’s Diplomatic Hole in One With Trump
Shinzo Abe’s golf diplomacy in Florida charts a path for foreign leaders with the Trump administration: use strategic patience and reap rewards (though remember, you could always end up in the sand traps).
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and US President Donald Trump held a press conference at the Mar-a-Lago club on Saturday.
Abe spoke in Japanese, condemning North Koreans for firing a ballistic missile. He stood in a ballroom at the president’s club, a room set up quickly for the event. It was decorated with two sets of US and Japanese flags, and a dance track from a nearby wedding party was playing softly in the background.
In the diplomatic realm, the Japanese are known for their attention to detail and understated manner — and for their discretion.
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North Korea’s Latest Missile Likely Traveled Farther Than Any Other, Pentagon Reports
The ballistic missile that North Korea claimed it successfully test-fired over the weekend “probably” traveled farther than any other missile launched by the rogue nation, a Pentagon spokesman told reporters on Monday.
The launch represented a “clear grave threat to our national security,” Capt. Jeff Davis said.
The missile traveled roughly 300 miles into the Sea of Japan but did not enter Japanese waters. It was launched on a “high trajectory” traveling for 14 minutes before splashing down, one U.S. official told Fox News.
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‘Round Them Up and Get Them Out’: Pauline Hanson Calls for Deportation of African Gang Members
PAULINE Hanson has called for African gang members to be deported following the latest incident of violence in Melbourne at the weekend.
A gang of up to 40 youths of African appearance stormed the family-friendly festival Summersault, in Melbourne’s west on Saturday night, kicking and punching some festival goers and stealing wallets, bags and phones
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Donald Trump is the Least of Latin America’s Worries
Socialist regimes greatest threat to Latin American prosperity
The anti-Trump paranoia put forward by Latin American intellectuals and policy figures is nothing more than a smokescreen that diverts attention from the corruption of the political class in that region which is the principal culprit behind its squalid state. This scapegoating is part of a victimhood complex perpetuated by Marxists and their social democratic cousins in which the region’s underdevelopment is blamed on “Yankee Imperialism.” However, when one peels back the onion a bit, a different picture emerges.
For decades, Latin America has engaged in outdated mercantilist policies, dabbled in radical socialist experiments à la Cuba and Venezuela, or IMF reforms (revealed to be socialist half-measures when one takes a deeper look). The results have ranged from disastrous to mediocre and have left a lot to be desired. This can’t be blamed solely on the United States.
Naturally, it’s easy to find demons abroad, rather than looking at oneself in the mirror and identifying the true causes of your country’s economic problems.
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US Government Sanctions Venezuelan Vice President for Drug Trafficking
The Trump administration has slapped sanctions on Venezuela’s new Vice President El Aissami, placing him on its narcotics “kingpin” list. El Aissami is the most senior Venezuelan official to be targeted by the US.
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Canadian PM Trudeau Says He Won’t ‘Lecture’ Trump on US Immigration Policy
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau took the high ground Monday in Washington when asked about his country’s refugee policy compared to President Trump’s, saying he doesn’t “lecture” other countries.
“I’m not going to lecture another country on how they govern,” Trudeau said at a White House press conference, when he and Trump were asked about their disparate immigration policies.
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Germany’s Migrant Rape Crisis: January 2017
Tolerating a “rape culture” to sustain a politically correct stance on mass migration
by Soeren Kern
“As a refugee, it is difficult to find a girlfriend.” — Asif M., a 26-year-old asylum seeker from Pakistan, in court on charges he raped one woman and attempted to rape five others.
The actual number of migrant-related sex crimes in Germany is at least two or three times higher than the official number. Only 10% of the sex crimes committed in Germany appear in the official statistics. — André Schulz, head of the Criminal Police Association.
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by Steve Sailer
Nobody seems to know exactly how fast France, the cultural heartland of the West over the past millennium, is being demographically transformed. But I have found a way to estimate the percentage of babies being born in France who are of non-European ancestry.
And the results are astonishing.
Some young Americans who went to Paris last year told me they were stunned by how non-European the famous city has become. Like an increasing number of tourists, they found the inundation of Africans and Middle Easterners to be depressing.
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Migration Warning: Expert Warns 50 Million Muslims Are Willing to Back Violence and Terror
Dutch Professor Ruud Koopmans warned the EU today to block the entry of any refugees whose identity cannot be categorically confirmed.
Prof Koopmans, who is the Director of the Research Unit Migration, Integration, Transnationalisation at the Berlin Social Sciences Centre, said that of the 1 billion adult Muslims in the world, “half of them are attached to an arch-conservative Islam which places little worth on the rights of women, homosexuals, and people of other faiths”.
In an interview with a German news website he claimed that of these 500 million conservative Muslims, at least — and probably more — than 50 million are willing to sanction violence.
The migration researcher stressed that not every one of them was ready to exert violence directly.
But he added: “They support the radicals, they encourage them and provide them shelter or simply keep their mouths shut when they observe radicalisation”.
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A migration expert warns that there are more than 50 million Muslims willing to accept violence and support those who carry out terror attacks to defend their religion.
Professor Ruud Koopmans of the Netherlands warned the EU on Monday to block the entry of any refugees whose identity cannot be categorically confirmed.
Koopmans said that of the 1billion adult Muslims in the world, ‘half of them are attached to an arch-conservative Islam which places little worth on the rights of women, homosexuals, and people of other faiths’.
The migration researcher stressed that not every one of them was ready to exert violence directly
Professor Ruud Koopmans of the Netherlands warned the EU on Monday that at least 50million Muslims were willing to sanction violence and support those who carry out terror attacks to defend their religion.
In an interview with a German news website he claimed that of these 500million conservative Muslims, at least — and probably more — than 50million are willing to sanction violence.
The migration researcher stressed that not every one of them was ready to exert violence directly.
But he added: ‘They support the radicals, they encourage them and provide them shelter or simply keep their mouths shut when they observe radicalization.’
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Refugees Flee US on Foot, Seek Safety in Canada
Canada has seen a surge of refugees crossing into the country illegally from the US. Advocates say the number will rise as fears grow over President Donald Trump’s policies. Jillian Kestler-D’Amours reports from Toronto.
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Saudi Arabia ‘Deports 40,000 Pakistani Workers Over Terror Fears’
Thousands of foreign national workers allegedly expelled from country over visa violations and security concerns, as protests over unpaid wages continue
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Margaret Atwood says rise of Trump has made The Handmaid’s Tale popular again
Atwood told Reuters during an interview at Cuba’s international book fair: “When it first came out it was viewed as being farfetched. However when I wrote it I was making sure I wasn’t putting anything into it that human beings had not already done somewhere at sometime.
“You are seeing a bubbling up of it now. It’s back to 17th century puritan values of New England at that time in which women were pretty low on the hierarchy.”
Margaret, you’re in Cuba you idiot, they persecute homosexuals there, and the closest thing to the Handmaid’s Tale ever coming true is to be found within Islam about which you maintain a willful, guilty silence.
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During times of war between countries, hatred has always had its way to one degree or another. Many people from the U.S. and other allied countries hated Germany and Japan during WWII. The converse was true as well. During the current war against radical Islam, it is clear we are hated, and many of us return that toward the ideas of jihad. That’s not surprising.
What is surprising has been the hatred, and the degree of it, from the left-leaning leaders and citizenry of our own country toward their own domestic political and social opponents. That’s we. What is hated is quite countable: Christianity. Class, wealth, and accomplishment. Conservatives. The GOP. America as founded. These all have been targets of left-wing hate. But now it’s also the average U.S. citizen who does not walk in lockstep with the left — and finally, any person, even those who lean left, who does not 100% agree with the new Inquisition.
Our universities have been filled with professors for decades that have exhibited hatred toward traditional Christianity. Constant references to how uptight, hypocritical, stupid, and just plain wrong Christians can be have been a staple in their classes for years. It’s been a mark of TV sitcoms, as well as movies, for the same amount of time. The crowning achievement of this campaign is the new discovery that 65% of Democrats believe, against all evidence, that Christianity is more violent and filled with hate than Islam…
Hatred of Americas founding principles was pushed early on by Howard Zinn, the loony Marxist who now controls the narrative of our history books. His writings were filled with partial truths, half-truths, and outright lies about American history. He cleverly inserted himself into the lexicon of hate in the attempt to help the global communist revolution come to America. He has become the most widely read historian today — and has taught an entire generation, and an entire party, to hate their own country.
In the book 1984, there is a scene describing group hatred as mandated by the regime: “A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge hammer, seemed to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current, turning one even against one’s will into a grimacing, screaming lunatic. And yet the rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blowlamp.”
George Orwell showed the world that hatred is an emotion purposefully used to control people. Besides the daily “two minutes hate,” there was an annual “hate week” in the fictional world of 1984. In our very real world, we have witnessed a huge jump in the amount of time for these hate-fests. Since November 8, we have perhaps witnessed the most intense three-month period of hatred in my life — a nonstop drumbeat of negativity toward Trump and his supporters from the entire left.
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Walk of Shame: Sweden’s “First Feminist Government” Don Hijabs in Iran
n a statement that has gone viral on Twitter and Facebook, UN Watch, a non-governmental human rights NGO in Geneva, expressed disappointment that Sweden’ s self-declared “ first feminist government in the world” sacrificed its principles and betrayed the rights of Iranian women as Trade Minister Ann Linde and other female members walked before Iranian President Rouhani on Saturday wearing Hijabs, Chadors, and long coats, in deference to Iran’ s oppressive and unjust modesty laws which make the Hijab compulsory — despite Stockholm’ s promise to promote “ a gender equality perspective” internationally, and to adopt a “ feminist foreign policy” in which “ equality between women and men is a fundamental aim.”
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Islamophobia is Fuelling Terrorism, Says UN Chief
(AFP) RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — “Islamophobia” in parts of the world is fuelling terrorism, the head of the United Nations said on a visit to Saudi Arabia Sunday, as anti-immigrant sentiment rises in some countries.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres made the comment to reporters after talks with Saudi King Salman, Crown Prince and Interior Minister Mohammed bin Nayef, and Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
Because the murderous supremacist cult of Islam has nothing to with it.
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‘Islamophobia is Fuelling Terrorism, Says UN Chief.’ No, the Qu’ran, Islam’s military manual is fueling terrorism. Watch for the antics of Antonio Guterres as UN Secretary General in trying to fulfill the Globalist agenda.
Defund and withdraw from the United Nations now.
It looks like the dam is overflowing. Sooner or later Europe or Canada is going to be nuked? No?
** Ahok, angered many after he referenced a Koranic verse while on the campaign trail **
First, note that this “transgression” is beyond trivial, even though it establishes the principle that filthy kuffar lips may not even form words in the Kiran.
Second, note that in this Muslim-majority nation that the influence of any so-called “moderate Muslims” is precisely zero. The nutcase version of Islam holds sway, which is to say that Islam, in all its 21st-century glory, rules. This Christian gentleman will be lucky not to be killed.
Organisation linked to the United Nations gives the Swedish delegation’s hijab carrieing in Iran scathing criticism.
A Swedish-called “feminist” delegation that visited Iran but left everything what feminism stands for at home in Sweden by wearing hjjabs and thus aligning themselves in the patriarchal Iranian women oppressive stage.
Sweden now get criticized for this by an organization linked to the United Nations and the visit has created headlines around the world
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