According to Norwegian sources, this year’s recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize may be chosen as a rebuke to U.S. President Donald Trump. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) reportedly heads the list of potential prize winners.
In other news, Aarhus, Denmark’s second-largest city, has abolished its female-only swimming hours, which were utilized mainly by Muslim immigrants.
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Berkeley Receives $370 Million in Federal Funding, More Than Half Its Budget
UC Berkeley last year received $370 million in funding from the federal government, underlining the seriousness of President Trump’s threat to withdraw funding following leftist riots at the college yesterday.
The riots, which were a successful effort to prevent Breitbart Senior Editor MILO from speaking at the university, were condemned by President Donald Trump, who earlier threatened to take away the university’s federal funding.
“If U.C Berkeley does not allow free speech and practices violence on innocent people with a different point of view — NO FEDERAL FUNDS?,” Trump wrote.
If U.C. Berkeley does not allow free speech and practices violence on innocent people with a different point of view — NO FEDERAL FUNDS?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 2, 2017
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Billionaire Financier Soros Continues to Fund Anti-Trump Protests
Despite media representing protests against US President Donald Trump as grassroots spontaneous uprisings, there is actually a significant amount of money being spent on special interest groups to keep the disruptions happening.
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Breaking: Democrats Organizing Criminal Coup Against Trump
Soros Insider and Ex-Obama Official: Military Overthrow of Trump Admin May Be Necessary
Alex Jones breaks down growing calls from the establishment left for a military coup to be organized against President Donald Trump.
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Europe a ‘Launching Pad’ For ISIS Attack in US, Former CIA Official Says
Ineffective intelligence-sharing has allowed Islamic State (ISIS) jihadists to infiltrate Europe and establish a “launching pad” for attacks in the United States, a former CIA official said.
The absence of a cohesive information-sharing strategy among European intelligence agencies exposes the U.S. to a greater risk of terrorist attacks, former acting CIA director John McLaughlin told the Washington Free Beacon on Feb. 1.
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Last night, domestic terrorists on the UC Berkeley campus successfully barred conservative gay Jew Milo Yinnopoulos from expressing his opinion, after Antifa-incited riots closed down a speaking engagement. CNN — by the way, is in full propaganda damage control mode over this. Check out the CNN app notification popup:
And check out this headline:
Are you kidding me?
As fires raged and Trump supporters were assaulted with shovels and pepper spray by masked anarchists, the mayor of Berkeley, CA, Jesse Arreguin, allegedly ordered SWAT and campus police to stand down.
Here’s a picture from a redditor claiming to be 100 officers hanging out in the student union building while the violence was occurring (post):
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Hollywood Director Tweets Threat to Trump Supporters After Berkeley Riot
“This is just the beginning. When will all the fools who are still supporting Trump realize what is at stake?”
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Leftist Actress Calls for Military Overthrow of “Fascist” Donald Trump
Liberals demand military coup amid Berkeley violence
Far-left actress Sarah Silverman has called for the military to launch a coup to overthrow the “fascist” President Donald Trump and his “handlers” amid the violence at UC Berkeley.
Silverman called on her nearly 10 million Twitter followers to “wake up and join the resistance,” noting that “Once the military is w us fascists get overthrown. Mad king & his handlers go bye bye.”
In an attempt to put a loving face on her call for the military to overthrow the democratically-elected President of the United States, Silverman ended her message with four heart emojis.
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Man Accused of Killing Colorado Transit Officer Reportedly Self-Described ‘Radical Muslim’
Investigators in Colorado said Wednesday the murder of a transit officer was a targeted attack.
Sources told Fox 31 Denver that Joshua Cummings, who is accused of killing Scott Van Lanken in front of two women, describes himself as a “radical Muslim.” Law enforcement sources also told the station that police found jihadist materials inside a backpack at the time of his arrest.
The 37-year-old Cummings was arrested Tuesday night after the shooting near Union Station. Security camera footage helped track down the man.
Van Lanken, of Loveland, was armed and wearing a dark blue uniform similar to those worn by police at the time of his death. In case he was targeted because he was believed to be a police officer, police Chief Robert White said officers have been warned to remain vigilant.
According to police, Von Lanken was trying to help two women who were afraid they had missed the last light rail train when one of them said she saw a man with a swollen face and “weird looking eyes” walk up to the officer and say something to the effect of “Do what you are told” before she heard a gunshot. He ran away but police found Cummings hiding on the patio of a nearby loft apartment building with a 9mm handgun.
Cummings, who has ties to a variety of cities in Texas, most recently Austin, was charged with a misdemeanor over five years ago out of state, police Commander Barb Archer said. It’s not clear if he has a lawyer yet…
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Military Investigating Seals Unit Convoy Flying Trump Flag in Kentucky
The military convoy spotted near Louisville flying a large Trump campaign flag on the lead vehicle was tied to an East Coast Navy SEALs unit, and an inquiry has begun, a Naval Special Warfare Group spokesperson told media outlets.
The group of about eight Humvees was spotted Sunday by several other drivers or their passengers, who recorded the vehicles as they traveled north on Interstate 65. The large blue Trump flag drew attention as it was mounted on one of the vehicles. The images and videos were shared on social media.
“Defense Department and Navy regulations prescribe flags and pennants that may be displayed, as well as the manner of display,” Lt. Jacqui Maxwell, a spokeswoman for Naval Special Warfare Group 2, told ABC News. “The flag shown in the video was unauthorized.”
The Defense Department initially told the Herald-Leader that the vehicles didn’t belong to an active military unit…
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Reddit Bans Popular Alt-Right Communities Over Apparent Policy Violations
Reddit on Wednesday purged the website of two high-profile communities associated with the so-called alt-right, spurring cries of censorship from within the fringe conservative movement.
“This community has been banned,” reads a message that now appears upon attempt to visit either of the two “subreddits,” r/altright and r/alternativeright.
Regarding r/altright, the more popular of the pair, Reddit claimed the community was shuttered Wednesday for violating the website’s policy against “the proliferation of personal and confidential information,” according to the shutdown notice.
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Sarah Silverman Calls for Military to Overthrow President Trump
Sarah Silverman has called for a military coup against President Donald Trump.
The comedian posted in all-capital letters Wednesday night to her nearly 10 million followers to “wake up & join the resistance.”
She added, “Once the military is w us fascists get overthrown. Mad king & his handlers go bye bye.”
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Soros Insider Demands Military Overthrow Trump
A former Obama administration official, now linked to a Soros-funded foundation, has suggested Donald Trump be declared mentally unfit to hold office or overthrown in a military coup.
Rosa Brooks, who served as Counselor to the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy from 2009-2011 and as a senior adviser in the State Department, outlined four ways to remove President Donald Trump from office, most notably by having him declared mentally unfit for office or by launching a military coup.
Brooks now serves as the Schwartz senior fellow at New America, formerly the New America Foundation, a think-tank heavily funded by globalist billionaire George Soros. The Board of Directors of New America is currently chaired by Google CEO Eric Schmidt.
“Are we truly stuck with Donald Trump,” Brooks asked in her posting for Foreign Policy. “It depends. There are essentially four ways to get rid of a crummy president.”
Brooks went on to outline four ways to remove President Trump from office, including impeachment, declaring him mentally unfit for office, or b having the military overthrown him in a coup.
[Comment: “Propaganda tank” is more descriptive than “think tank”.]
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One more Marxist wins office in Texas… a trickle that must be stemmed before it becomes a tide.
In a surprisedown-ballot election victory, Austin Democratic Socialists of America member and Sanders campaign activist, Julie Ann Nitsch, won her runoff for Austin Community College Board of Trustees on December 13th, running as a Democrat.
[Comment: DSA is a subversive communsit organization that should be banned. Many are basically seditious traitors.]
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The foreign media are fascinated by the U.S. President’s war against the American press. A reporter for an Argentinian paper emailed me asking whether Donald J. Trump will attempt to do to the U.S. media what Latin American despots have done to opposition journalists in their own countries. The big difference is that we have a First Amendment that protects freedom of the press.
But that doesn’t mean that the Trump administration can’t recognize the nature of the press and take appropriate action. “The media here is the opposition party,” Trump adviser Stephen K. Bannon tells The New York Times. This is a matter of fact and not opinion. Surveys going back to the days of President Franklin D. Roosevelt show that the national media was allied with the Democratic Party. The WikiLeaks emails showed actual collusion between the major media and the Democratic Party. Trump is simply recognizing reality and acting accordingly.
Freedom of the press is guaranteed, but it does not and should not mean automatic physical access to the White House. Rumors of plans to move the White House press corps out of the White House itself and into another location should become reality. A bigger location would accommodate alternative sources of news and information.
By opening up the White House press briefings to alternative news and information outlets, Press Secretary Sean Spicer would be doing the American people a great public service.
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Trump Vows to Repeal Political Limits on Churches
Warning that religious freedom is “under threat,” President Donald Trump vowed Thursday to repeal the Johnson Amendment, an IRS rule barring pastors from endorsing candidates from the pulpit.”
“I will get rid of and totally destroy the Johnson Amendment and allow our representatives of faith to speak freely and without fear of retribution,” Trump said during remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast, a high-profile event bringing together faith leaders, politicians and dignitaries.
Trump made a similar pledge as a candidate but has not detailed how he plans to scrap the rule or how quickly he will proceed in doing do.
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Trump Repeats Need for Federal Intervention in Chicago
For the second time in a week, President Donald Trump expressed his dismay over the continuing and escalating gun violence in Chicago, and offered the same solution: federal assistance. At a White House conference celebrating Black History Month, Darrel Scott, senior pastor of New Revival Center in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, told the president that some of Chicago’s former gang leaders “reached out to me, because they’re associating me with you. They respect you. They believe in what you’re doing, and they want to have a sit-down about lowering [Chicago’s] body count.”
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Weiner Kiddie Porn Charges May be Coming
Judgment Day may be approaching for serial pervert former Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.).
Federal prosecutors are now considering whether to set child-pornography charges in motion against Weiner over sexually explicit communications he allegedly had with a 15-year-old female, the Wall Street Journal reports. The investigation, which got underway months ago after the Daily Mail reported Weiner sent raunchy photos and message to the teenager, is being handled by the FBI and the U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan. The former leftist congressman’s laptop computer and cellphone have been seized.
Weiner’s legal eagles have been trying to talk prosecutors out of moving forward with a criminal case. A conviction for making child pornography leads to a 15-year mandatory minimum prison term.
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Public Sector Has Become an Unsustainable Monster
When are our federal, provincial and municipal politicians going to acknowledge they’ve created a public-sector monster the private sector can’t afford?
A new study by the Fraser Institute reveals what a monster it’s become.
It says that in 2015, the last year for which statistics are available, the public sector workforce in Ontario, at 1.3 million employees, accounted for almost one in five workers (18.7%).
And if they want to our predator class will re-elect Wynne, and if not Wynne then some other stooge will be their figurehead. Whoever they feel is most electable while still allowing them to financially rape us with the abandon to which they’ve grown accustomed will be made Premier.
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A Tectonic Shift in the German Election
Meet the Man Who Will Challenge Merkel
With the surprise announcement that Martin Schulz, until recently the head of the European Parliament, will be the Social Democrats’ chancellor candidate this fall, the German political landscape has undergone a tectonic shift. Now Chancellor Angela Merkel must prepare for a real fight.
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Denmark: Aarhus Bans Popular Women-Only Swimming Session
The Aarhus City Council on Wednesday night voted overwhelmingly to scrap a nearly ten-year old gender-separated weekly programme at a public swimming hall.
The Gellerupbadet swimming hall in Denmark’s second largest city has offered a few hours of female-only swimming every Saturday for nearly ten years. The programme is primarily used by Muslim women from Gellerupparken, a housing estate where four out of five are from immigrant homes.
The council voted 26-5 to end the programme.
National government party Venstre was behind the move, saying that gender-separated swimming has no place in Denmark.
“Children and adults need to learn that it is completely natural to swim together regardless of religious belief. Therefore it is a disserve and not an integration initiative when special offers are made [to minorities, ed.],” the proposal read, according to TV2.
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Dutch Anti-Trump Protesters Turn on Wilders
Some 2,000 people gathered in The Hague to protest against US President Donald Trump, using the rally to register their disapproval for anti-EU politician Geert Wilders.
“No Trump, no Wilders, no hate,” said one sign.
Another said: “We have a dream: No walls, no Trump, no Wilders”.
The protest on Wednesday (1 February) just two blocks from the US embassy was nominally against Trump’s decision to bar entry to citizens of seven Muslim-majority states.
“How bad must the president be that even other countries are protesting too,” said one sign held up by a woman wearing a grey knit cap.
Many at this protest equated Trump’s election to the popularity of far-right MP Geert Wilders, whose Party for Freedom will become — according to polls — the biggest or second biggest after elections on 15 March.
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Dutch to Hand Count Votes Over Hacking Fears
All votes in next month’s Dutch election will be counted by hand to counter the threat of hacking, the government says.
It follows reports that software used to tally results at regional and national level may not be secure.
[Comment: Although I think that the recent allegations of Russian hacking of elections are not credible, I approve of the hand count. Electronic interference in the Dutch election could also go against Wilders. In the West, vote fraud usually comes from the Left.]
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Fillon Bid for French Presidency in Chaos as MPs Call on Him to Quit
French presidential candidate Francois Fillon attempted to fight back on Thursday as pressure mounted on him to quit the race with some lawmakers from his own side urging him to drop his scandal-tainted bid to save the conservatives from defeat.
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Finns Party Parliamentary Group Rebukes Own MP for Online Comment
The parliamentary group has issued MP Teuvo Hakkarainen with a reprimand concerning his anti-Islamic Facebook post from last summer. Hakkarainen says he accepts the scolding but will not desist from posting his thoughts online.
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France: Establishment’s Anti-FN Champion Collapses Into Scandal
Francois Fillon, the French establishment’s “secret weapon” they planned to use against the Front National’s Marine le Pen in the upcoming French presidential election, has seen his polling figures crash…
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Madrid, Catalonia Tensions Spike Over Independence
Catalonia’s separatist government hit out Thursday at reported plans by Madrid to close schools in the northeastern region and even take control of the police to stop a contested independence referendum.
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Nigel Farage: European Union Remains ‘Terrified’ Of Trump
NIGEL FARAGE has hit out at the EU once more as he accused the bloc of being “terrified” of Donald Trump due of his stance on “supranational organisations”.
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‘Ready to Go’: Czech President Zeman to Run for Second Presidential Term in 2018
Czech President Milos Zeman will participate in the next presidential elections in early 2018 seeking the second term, local media reported Tuesday, citing sources in president’s inner circle.
PRAGUE (Sputnik) — Zeman, 72, won the 2013 presidential election with 54.8 percent of votes and became the third president of the Czech Republic since it gained independence in 1993. According to the polls, Zeman remains the most popular politician in the country.
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Switzerland: Export Growth Increasingly Depends on Pharmaceuticals
Swiss exports hit a record CHF210 billion ($211 billion) last year and the pharmaceutical sector was one of the big drivers. However, this tremendous growth is largely down to higher prices for medicines, a trend that has been criticized by some circles.
While watchmakers, the machine-tool industry and tourism officials continue to struggle, the Swiss pharma industry appears to be leading the way, seemingly unaffected by the strong Swiss franc and global economic turbulence.
Despite a slowdown last year, the 250 pharma businesses that make up the sector in Switzerland boasted record figures, exporting over CHF80 billion worth of drugs and other products — a 15% increase compared to the previous year.
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Switzerland: Chocolate, Watches and Jihad
Swiss authorities are currently investigating 480 suspected jihadists in the country.
“Radical imams always preached in the An-Nur Mosque… Those responsible are fanatics. It is no coincidence that so many young people from Winterthur wanted to do jihad.” — Saïda Keller-Messahli, president of Forum for a Progressive Islam.
Switzerland is the answer to those who claim that Islamic terrorism is reserved for those countries that have participated in operations against ISIS or other Muslim terror organizations. Switzerland has done neither, yet its flag figured among sixty other enemy flags shown in an ISIS propaganda video.
“Huge sums of money from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait and Turkey are flowing to Switzerland… There is a whole network of radically-oriented mosques in Switzerland. The Muslim World League is behind it… The network is a hub for Salafists. The Swiss authorities make a big mistake of not looking into the mosques.” — Saïda Keller-Messahli.
There are around 70 Turkish mosques financed directly from Turkey through the Diyanet Foundation in Switzerland.
The Swiss government appears to give Qatar, one of the primary propagators of Wahhabi Salafism in the world today, extremely special treatment.
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The More Things Change: The George Soros of the Sixth Century B.C.
In a video published recently by Anonymous, the group declares that “the takedown of George Soros has begun.” While the hacktivists’ methods may be questionable, there is a reason Soros’s subterfuge deserves to be broadcast.
[Comment: Further down in the article, an interesting comparison is made between Soros and an ancient Greek tyrant.]
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A Bupa carer was caught on secret camera slamming a 77-year-old dementia patient’s head against a chair.
Betty Boylan’s relatives hid the device inside a television after they found unexplained bruising on the retired nurse when they visited her at the £1,000-a-month Perry Locks Care Home in Birmingham.
Within days of planting the camera, they recorded disturbing footage of carer Bina Begum, 49, lifting the great-grandmother by her head and throwing her back into her chair.
Speaking after Begum was sentenced, Betty’s relatives hit out at the sentence and said she should have been jailed.
Son-in-law Nigel Jarvis, 56, said: ‘We brought up the bruises and managers dismissed us and gave no explanation.
‘So I bought the camera and hid it in a gutted TV. Within four days we had the footage of Begum slamming her head into the chair.
‘I felt sick as a dog when I saw that. We went straight down there and called the police.’…
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UK: Child Sex Abuse Gang Who Exploited Girls in Sheffield and Rotherham Jailed for 81 Years
Six men involved in horrific sex attacks on girls as young as 12 in Sheffield and Rotherham have today been jailed for a total of 81 and a half years.
Two of the defendants screamed ‘Allahu Akbar!’ as they were led to the cells while one of the victims shouted ‘justice is served!’
Three brothers — Tayab Dad, aged 34, of St Lawrence Road, Tinsley, Sheffield; Basharat Dad, 32, of Eldon Road, Eastwood, Rotherham and Nasar Dad, 36, of Cranworth Road, Eastwood, Rotherham — were among a group of men who abused two young girls in Eastwood, Rotherham, between 1999 and 2001.
Basharat Dad was jailed for 20 years after he was found guilty of six counts of rape, five counts of indecent assault and one count of false imprisonment.
Nasar Dad, was jailed for 14 and a half years after he was found guilty of rape, inciting indecency with a child and false imprisonment.
Tayab Dad was found guilty of one count of rape. He was jailed for 10 years.
Mohammed Sadiq, 40, of Oxley Grove, Rotherham and Matloob Hussain, 42, of The Yews, Doncaster Road, Rotherham, were each found guilty of one count of sexual intercourse with a girl under 13. They were jailed for 13 and years each
Amjad Ali, 36, of Broad Lane, Hodthorpe, Worksop, already pleaded guilty to one count of sexual intercourse with a girl under 13. He was jailed for 11 years…
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UK: Nottingham Asda Worker Quilty of Terrorist Charges
An Asda worker has been found guilty of trying to join a Islamist terrorist group in the Philippines.
Ryan Counsell, 28, a Muslim convert from Nottingham, had denied four charges, including having possession of an al-Qaeda bomb-making guide.
He planned to join Philippines-based terrorist group Abu Sayyaf, which is affiliated with so-called Islamic State (IS), Woolwich Crown Court heard.
He did not show any emotion as the jury returned its verdict.
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UK: Rotherham Sex Abusers Shout ‘Allah Akbar’ As Judge Jails Them
A WOMAN who was sexually exploited by a number of men in Rotherham from the age of 11 and made pregnant when she was 12 has watched as five of her abusers were given jail sentences of up to 20 years.
Six men were given sentences between 10 years and 20 years — and totalling more than 80 years — by a judge who heard details of how two young girls were groomed and sexually abused in the South Yorkshire town between 1999 and 2001.
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Syria and the Refugee Crisis: Canada Feigns Humanitarianism Yet Supports Barbarism
Recently, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wrote on Facebook and twitter,
To those fleeing persecution, terror and war, Canadians will welcome you, regardless of your faith … Diversity is our strength.
The rhetoric obscures the fact that whereas Canada seeks to present itself as a Saviour to refugees, the reality is that Canada’s criminal foreign policies are creating the refugees in the first place.
Canada and its allies have stuck a knife into Syria, and they are vainly trying to decapitate its leadership — using proxy terrorists — and as cover they are cleaning up the blood from the wounded target, and pretending that they are saviours.
No, accepting refugees is not the solution. Ending the war and the illegal sanctions are the answer.
A study by The Lancet titled “Syria: end sanctions and find a political solution to peace” indicates that by the end of 2014, the cost of illegal sanctions imposed on Syria stood at US $143.8 billion and that 80 per cent of the population was living in poverty.
Moreover, in “National Agenda for the Future of Syria”, Dr. Justine Walker explains that “the combined effect of comprehensive, unilateral sanctions, terrorist concerns and the ongoing security environment have created immense hurdles for those engaged in delivering immediate humanitarian aid and wider stabilization programmes.”
But of course Canada is currently interesting in destabilizing Syria rather than stabilizing Syria, so the “hurdles” mentioned by Walker are intentional. Canada’s publicly announced goal is to impose illegal “government change” on Syria, and to do so it is part of an orchestrated plan to “destabilize” Syria. Destabilization means “destroy”. Canada is actively trying to destroy Syria with its support for terrorists and its support for illegal sanctions.
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Turkish Violations Spike as Tension Over Aegean Grows
Greek-Turkish tensions were fueled further on Wednesday after Turkish fighter jets made 10 flights over an area that includes the islets of Imia and Kalolimnos, and 162 violations of Greek national air space.
The violations were seen as a response to the dropping of a wreath over Imia by Defense Minister Panos Kammenos, who flew there by helicopter on Wednesday morning to commemorate three Greek servicemen who were killed 21 years ago when their military chopper crashed at the height of the Imia crisis, which brought the two countries to the brink of war.
Speaking to reporters on Wednesday, Kammenos struck a defiant tone, saying that the Greek armed forces “are ready to deal with any provocation.”
In response to Kammenos’s visit to the Imia islets — whose status as Greek territory has been repeatedly disputed by Ankara — his Turkish counterpart Fikri Isik told Hurriyet Daily News that Turkey doesn’t want tension with Greece, but “won’t bow to fait accompli.”
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U.S. Struggling in Online Propaganda Fight Against ISIS
A U.S. military program dedicated to countering Islamic State propaganda disseminated across the internet is having little impact due to incompetent operators and inaccurate data, an Associated Press investigation has found.
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Haley Slams Russian Actions in Ukraine in First UN Security Council Speech
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley condemned what she called Russia’s “aggressive actions” in eastern Ukraine Thursday, as fighting between government troops and Moscow-backed separatist rebels continued for a fifth day.
“The dire situation in eastern Ukraine is one that demands clear and strong condemnation of Russian actions,” Haley said in her maiden remarks to the U.N. Security Council. “Until Russia and the separatists it supports respect Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, this crisis will continue.”
Haley warned Moscow that U.S. sanctions imposed after its annexation of Crimea will remain until the peninsula is returned to Ukraine. She added that it was “unfortunate” that she had to condemn Russia in her first Security Council appearance, saying “we do want to better our relations with Russia.”
At least 15 people have been reported killed since the fighting around the city of Avdiivka surged over the weekend.
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Poland Takes Russia to UN Court, Blaming Moscow for Plane Crash That Killed Late President
WARSAW, Poland — Poland’s government says it is taking Russia to the United Nations’ principal court over the continuing probe into the 2010 death of Poland’s president in a plane crash in Russia and Moscow’s refusal to turn over the wreckage.
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Putin Visits PM Orban to Talk Business With Eurosceptic Hungary
Vladimir Putin is paying a return visit to Budapest, a year after Viktor Orban’s trip to Moscow set the tone for enhanced bilateral cooperation. The two leaders, similarly unpopular in Brussels, are set to discuss current and prospective mutually lucrative trade deals.
The visit comes during tense times between the EU and Russia, which is facing an ongoing sanction regime coupled with an unprecedented NATO troop buildup on its borders. The global geopolitical situation is, according to Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto, however, way more favorable than during Putin’s previous visit to the country in 2015.
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Woman is Forced to Endure 26 Lashes in Indonesia
The woman clutched her head in her hands after being lashed with a cane after being found guilty of having sex outside of wedlock, which is against Sharia law in Aceh, Indonesia.
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New Arms Race: China Develops Its Naval Power, Launches Type 055 Destroyer. Analysis
This article confirms that China is involved in the new arms race. It is threatened by the U.S in the South China sea. China’ s response is the development of its naval capabilities.
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Last Man Hanged: 50 Years in Australia Without an Execution
Fifty years ago, Australia carried out its final execution amid a swirl of protest and political pressure. But as Jamie Duncan reports, capital punishment remains firmly in the nation’s consciousness despite the abolition of the death penalty.
Ronald Joseph Ryan was a robber with a long criminal record.
On 3 February 1967, Ryan was hanged for the murder of prison warder George Hodson as he escaped Pentridge Jail, in the Melbourne suburb of Coburg.
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Another Merkel U-Turn: Germany Starts Paying Asylum-Seekers Up to £1,000 to Go Home
GERMANY has started paying asylum-seekers up to £1,000 to voluntarily return to their home countries.
Berlin plans to allocate nearly £34million for people willing to take part in the StartHilfe Plus programme was launched this week by the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) in cooperation with the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
Under the scheme, any participant over 12-years-old will receive a £1,000 payment if they withdraw their application for asylum.
Rejected asylum-seekers who decide not to appeal the decision in court will get a £688 hand-out.
Families of more than four people will receive an extra £430 on top of the initial amount for each member. Children under 12 will also be entitled to an increased amount.
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At Border Patrol, Trump Lifts Morale That Was at an All-Time Low
“We are undermanned and there are revisions and renovations that need to be made in the infrastructure along the border,” says Chris Harris, a veteran Border Patrol agent and director of legislative and political affairs for the National Border Patrol Council.
Agents hope all that changes under President Donald Trump.
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Australia-U.S. Fake Refugee “Deal” In Doubt Once Again
U.S. President Donald Trump has announced that the previously agreed “deal” whereby America would absorb all the illegal invaders being held in the offshore Australian detention centers, is “dumb” — and that… he would now be studying it in detail.
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British-Bound Migrants ‘Returning to Calais at More Than 100 a Week’
BRITISH-bound migrants are returning to Calais at a rate of more than 100 a week, officials claimed last night.
Increasing numbers are making their way back to the besieged port town to try and sneak across the Channel on ferries.
A police source said an estimated 400 migrants were already living rough in the area with at least 15 more arriving each day.
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Experts: California Voter Registration System ‘Highly Susceptible’ To Fraud
Because of immigration policies protecting the Golden State’s 2.4 million illegal immigrants…
California’s voter registration system is “highly susceptible to being compromised,” because of immigration policies protecting the Golden State’s 2.4 million illegal immigrants, authorities have told Fox News.
The integrity of elections may be compromised by a lack of oversight of non-citizens registering and voting, said Hans von Spakovsky, manager of the Election Law Reform Initiative and senior legal fellow for the Institute for Constitutional Government at The Heritage Foundation.
“If you are talking about California, the state is apparently relying on the illegal alien to tell the state they shouldn’t be registered. There is still an honor system,” said von Spakovsky, co-author of the book “Who’s Counting? How Fraudsters and Bureaucrats Put Your Vote at Risk.”
The problem with California is there is no separate verification of citizenship on voter registration, said Charles Bell, Jr., a partner with California-based Bell, McAndrews & Hiltachk, LLP, a law firm that specializes in election law. Applicants can check a box affirming they are citizens, and this is not checked against any other government database such as federal immigration records.
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Germany: Refugee Who Groped Female Worker at Migrant Centre Released by Police
A REFUGEE who admitted sexually assaulting a female staff member at a migrant centre has been released.
German officers said the 28-year-old man harassed the woman, 56, on Tuesday morning at a centre in Viechtach, Bavaria.
He tried to kiss her against her will and grabbed her chest “several times”, according to shocking reports.
The migrant, who is Nigerian, only left her alone after a co-worker came to the woman’s defence.
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Germany Starts Paying Up to €1,200 to Asylum Seekers Who Go Back Home
Germany has launched a program for asylum-seekers that offers up to €1,200 (almost $1,300) to applicants who voluntarily decide to go back to their home countries.
The StartHilfe Plus program, initiated by the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) in cooperation with the International Organization for Migration (IOM), kicked off on Wednesday, the German Interior Ministry reported, according to DPA.
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Italy, Libya Reach Deal on Halting Migration Ahead of EU Summit
A day before European Union leaders meet to discuss closing off the illegal migrant route from Libya, Italy laid some of the groundwork Thursday by reaching a deal with the Libyan prime minister to try to stop migrants from setting out to cross the central Mediterranean.
Premier Paolo Gentiloni told reporters Thursday night after meeting Libyan Premier Fayez Serraj in Rome that the two sides signed a memo of understanding to step up cooperation and to fight migrant trafficking from Libyan shores.
A European Union summit scheduled for Friday in Malta on Friday is focused on finding ways to reduce the number of migrants leaving from Libya. Italy’s Coast Guard has coordinated the rescue in the Mediterranean near Libya of hundreds of thousands of migrants in the last few years.
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Make North America Great Again
Dear President Trump,
Mexico is a nation that needs bridges, not walls. Our geographic location makes us the link between North America and South America. If you carry out your plan, not only will Mexico lose investments and competitiveness, but the U.S. and Canada will be seriously affected in their trading activities. And in the end, it’s your consumers who will be to be the most affected. The world is watching.
Finally, I’d like to remind you, Trump, that the best “wall” to abolish migration and violence is to work toward social development and well-being for our people. Señor Trump: North America is one, and it can be as great as we want to make it.
Sincerely, Vicente Fox, former president of Mexico
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Mexican President Was Funded by the Juarez Cartel and That’s Why He is Against the Trump Border Plan
In the wake of the announcement of President Trump’s new border security measures, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto has cancelled his planned visit to the United States and expected meeting with the new president.
The security measures released on Wednesday are designed to not only stop the tide of illegal immigration but also to interfere with the cash flow of the notoriously vicious Mexican drug cartels which just so happen to have most likely financed the political campaign of Enrique Pena Nieto!
That’s right, the politician being praised for “standing up” to Donald Trump was likely funded by the very cartels Trump is directly attacking. Shockingly, this fact has been almost universally blacked out by the corporate media.
In March 2016, the independent news outlet Aristegui Noticias released a highly detailed in-depth investigation into the dealings between top Juarez Cartel officials and Mexico’s Revolutionary Institutional Party (PRI) during the 2012 political campaign that resulted in the victory of Enrique Pena Nieto.
The bombshell revelations came in a three part series that revealed that high level members of the Juarez Cartel, using a company called Monex, financed thousand of cash cards that were in turn handed out by the PRI during the campaign.
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Nobel Watcher Says This Year’s Peace Prize Could be Rebuke to Trump
As activists seethe over Donald Trump’s first days in the White House, some experts say this year’s Nobel Peace Prize may prove to be an emphatic call on the president to respect human rights.
As the final day to submit nominations for the award passed on Wednesday, some of the names believed to be on the secret list bore the hallmarks of Trump’s opponents — though the US president himself was also nominated.
Kristian Berg Harpviken of the Peace Research Institute of Oslo, who has followed the peace prize process closely for years, put the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) at the top of his list of possible winners.
The group, nearly a century old, made headlines — and received a record amount of donations — this week after presenting a legal challenge to Trump’s immigration decree that temporarily blocks nationals from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the US.
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Soros-Funded Catholics Mobilize Against Trump Immigration Order
Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good, an organization that was founded by former Clinton campaign chair John Podesta and has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from left-wing financier George Soros, is waging a public campaign against President Trump’s executive orders suspending entry from seven terror-prone countries.
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Spiegel: Germany Sends 30 Guards to Greece’s Northern Border
Germany is to send 30 policemen to guard Greece’s northern border in fear that the country would be flooded by migrants who will try to cross to northern Europe, a Spiegel report says.
The report which is posted in the web edition of the German magazine says that Berlin is worried that a new influx of migrants might appear coming from the Turkish shores. The migrants would be likely to gather again at Greece’s border with Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) and try to cross further north to Europe.
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Starbucks Starts Hiring Vets Amid Migrant Blowback
Company could finally buckle over politicalization of company
In response to the public backlash against its new plans to hire thousands of Muslim migrants, Starbucks announced it would speed up its previously stated goal of hiring 10,000 veterans by 2018.
“Starbucks has hired 8,800 veterans and military spouses toward a five year goal to reach 10,000 by 2018,” reads the statement released on its website days after the backlash.
CEO Howard Schultz announced on Sunday that the coffee chain plans to hire 10,000 migrants over the next five years, just days after President Trump issued an executive order putting a four-month pause on allowing refugees into the U.S. and barring travelers from seven terrorist-linked countries in the Middle East.
“We will neither stand by, nor stand silent, as the uncertainty around the new administration’s actions grows with each passing day,” Shultz stated.
Backlash erupted against the coffee company on social media, with the #BoycottStarbucks hashtag sweeping Twitter and dozens of users posting pictures of themselves deleting the Starbucks app from their phones.
Starbucks stock also began to tumble, dropping 3 points in just two days after Shultz’s announcement.
[Comment: Get a coffee press, good quality beans, and learn to boil water.]
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Sweden Sounds the Alarm: Major Flaws in Asylum Investigations
The Swedish Migration Board promises to “focus on working with quality issues,” after an audit reveals that half of the asylum seekers are not properly investigated.
Last year the Swedish Migration Board decided on over 100,000 asylum cases and has recruited many new employees, which is given as an explanation for the dangerous lack of quality regarding investigations of the applicants.
In half of the asylum cases from last year, audited by the Swedish Migration Board, there are shortcomings in the investigation. The agency’s legal chief explains the reason with that many of the employees are “young and enthusiastic,” reports SR.
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Sweden Changes Its Language for Immigrants
The Swedes believe that changing the language will help immigrants find jobs, and that they will start flocking to the unemployment office now that they can speak freely, with an accent.
The state-owned staffing company Lernia, on January 31 launched a new Swedish language standard to bring people with poor Swedish skills into the labor market, reports Östran.
The idea behind changing the official Swedish, is so that immigrants more easily can enter the labor market. The plan is also that companies and organizations should start using the new Swedish standard, with an accent, as a voice on their answering machines and voice services, writes Östran.
– National Swedish has been a standard for how people should speak, so-called “flawless Swedish”, but for us linguists nothing is right or wrong, says Mikael Parkvall, a linguist who helped Lernia to develop the new Swedish standard.
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Texas: Gov. Abbott Bans Funds for Sanctuary Cities; Senate Bill to Demand Compliance With Ice
Texas Republicans — from the governor’s office to the state senate — are at work to eliminate sanctuary cities in the Lone Star State. During his State of the State address on January 31, Governor Greg Abbott included banning sanctuary cities among four emergency items he wants to see put into effect in his state. (Sanctuary cities are those that have adopted a policy of not cooperating with federal immigration officials by sharing information about illegal aliens whom they have detained for other offenses, or holding such aliens so federal officers can pick them up and deport them.)
Abbott tweeted on January 31: “I’m declaring banning sanctuary cities in #Texas an emergency item. #TXSotS”
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Trump’s First Executive Order Guts IRS Enforcement “Frees Middle Class of ObamaCare Penalties”
The shock wave is still reverberating.
President Trump is off with a bang, and Americans — for or against — are still processing his bold moves during his first days in office.
While most of the media attention is currently centered around protests and anger at Trump’s “Muslim ban,” and attempts to curb immigration, the policy that might hit closest to home and affect individual American’s wallets is still the first executive order issued by Trump on day one — written in attempt to strip the IRS’s ability to enforce penalties against households who don’t buy individual exchanges in Obamacare.
Here’s the language of the order:
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Trump’s Next Executive Order Leaked: “Eliminate the Welfare Magnet Driving Illegal Immigration”
The Washington Post reports that The Trump administration is considering a plan to weed out would-be immigrants who are likely to require public assistance, as well as to deport — when possible — immigrants already living in the United States who depend on taxpayer help, according to a draft executive order obtained by The Washington Post.
A second draft order under consideration calls for a substantial shake up in the system through which the United States administers immigrant and nonimmigrant visas overall, with the aim of tightly controlling who enters the country, and who can enter the workforce, and to reduce the social services burden on U.S. taxpayers.
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Two With Terrorism Ties Applied for Asylum in Iceland
Two individuals who sought international protection in Iceland in 2015 and 2016 turned out to have connections to terrorist organizations, according to a new report on the threat of terrorism, published by the analytical division of the National Commissioner of the Icelandic Police, RÚV reports.
The two men have left the country, and no further information will be provided about them, or about how or when they were deported, police say.
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US-Australia Refugee Deal: Trump in ‘Worst Call’ With Turnbull
A phone call between US President Donald Trump and Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull has called into question a refugee resettlement deal.
The Washington Post reported Mr Trump called the conversation “the worst by far” of his calls with world leaders that day, and cut it short.
Mr Trump later tweeted that he would “study this dumb deal”.
Struck with the Obama administration, it would see up to 1,250 asylum seekers to Australia resettled in the US.
Australia has controversially refused to accept the refugees — most of whom are men from Iran, Afghanistan and Iraq — and instead holds them in offshore detention centres on the Pacific nations of Nauru and Papua New Guinea.
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What We’ve Always Wanted: Courage
If you think the media is amplifying dissent now, just wait until deportations start. Whether that entails the removal of just a couple million truly bad apples or many more here illegally, you haven’t seen anything yet. Prepare yourselves for staged videos and cherry-picked articles depicting the most heart-tugging scenes imaginable to sway those of weak mind. The inaugural stage has barely been torn down and already rabid leftists are calling for assassination, impeachment, and all-out chaos in our streets. When the new American president begins removing the future Democratic voter base in large numbers, you will see the worst the media and cultural left have to offer.
Since leftist ideas are losing badly, the American victim class has no choice but to strive for as much cultural, racial, and ethnic division as possible. In order to either create a mid-term tidal wave (unlikely) or defeat President Trump in 2020, they will need to make racial, ethnic, and religious relations even worse than they are now. That is why Islam is suddenly a race, unrestricted entry to America is a fundamental human right, and men and women sent to represent Middle America gathering together for a photo represents the height of bigotry. In spite of the tantrums, at least 57% of Americans support last week’s restrictions (only 33% oppose, with 10% “undecided”), meaning that a vast majority of non-coastal America is thrilled with the progress so far and will feel the same way about actions on illegal immigration.
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When Trump Fired Sally Yates, He Fired a Traitor
Yes, Sally Yates is a traitor — one in a long line of liberal traitors.
That sounds like strong language, but what else should we call government officials who rule by fiat, replacing the laws passed by the people’s representatives and the Constitution with their own personal preferences?
Her own words say she refused to defend Donald Trump’s executive order because she doesn’t think it is “right,” not because it is unconstitutional or illegal.
Isn’t a government where individuals impose their will on the people tyrannical? If so, then what Yates did is a soft-power revolution aimed at denying the people their right to decide how they are to be ruled. Yates wants a tyranny where she and her ilk tell us deplorables how we are to live and what we are to believe.
Of course, Sally is following a long established liberal tradition of tyranny.
The people of California overwhelmingly approved Prop. 8, which preserved the definition of marriage. Yet the liberal governor and attorney general refused to defend the people’s vote because they simply didn’t like it. Strangely, even though a huge majority of blacks voted for Prop 8, the liberals’ refusal to defend it wasn’t deemed racist.
Obama’s Justice Department stopped enforcing Bill Clinton’s Defense of Marriage Act because it didn’t agree with the liberal lawyers’ personal morality. Once again, even though blacks disproportionately reject the idea of gay marriage, no one called Obama a racist.
The liberal Supreme Court discovering new rights for criminals, deciding that pornography is protected speech but the 10 Commandments aren’t, deciding that killing one’s unborn child is a right, and redefining marriage are all examples of tyrants imposing their will on the people through the guise of legal interpretation.
Then there are the sanctuary cities that declare that illegal immigrants who are criminals who prey on Americans will be protected.
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Who Knew There Were So Many Homophobic, Racist Xenophobes at Berkeley
The birthplace of the free speech movement has become its graveyard.
Hundreds of liberals rioted at the University of California Berkeley Wednesday night — burning stores, throwing Molotov cocktails and clashing with police.
The rampaging mob forced the university to shut down an event featuring gay conservative firebrand and Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos.
“I’m outraged that Milo has been given a platform at UC Berkeley, and there should be no place for him here,” visiting assistant art professor Samara Haplerin told the Daily Californian. “He should be scared that people aren’t going to stand for this.”
Ironically, Milo had planned to deliver remarks defending free speech.
“One thing we do know for sure: the Left is absolutely terrified of free speech and will do literally anything to shut it down,” he wrote on Facebook.
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Could Wormholes Really Work? Probably Not
By Paul Sutter, Astrophysicist
Ah, wormholes. The intergalactic shortcut. A tunnel through space-time that allows intrepid travelers to hop from star system to star system without ever coming close to the speed of light.
Wormholes are a workhorse of sci-fi interstellar civilizations in books and on the screen because they solve the annoying problem of “Well, if we stuck to known physics, 99.99999 percent of the story would be as fascinating as watching people sleep.”
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Red Planet Eruptions: Volcanoes Rocked Mars for at Least 2 Billion Years
Volcanoes erupted on Mars for nearly half of the planet’s history, a new study suggests.
A team of scientists determined that a Mars meteorite known as Northwest Africa (NWA) 7635 cooled and solidified 2.4 billion years ago — about 2 billion years earlier than other, similar Red Planet rocks from the same “volcanic center.”
The finding indicates that Mars hosts some of the longest-lived volcanoes in the solar system, study team members said.
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Use Stars’ Own Light to Park Tiny Spacecraft at an Exoplanet
It’s all very well dreaming up technologies that will let us travel quickly to other star systems, but how do we apply the brakes on arrival?
Rene Heller of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research and independent space researcher Michael Hippke now have an answer: we can slow down a solar sail-powered craft using the stars themselves.
The nearest star system, Alpha Centauri, is over four light years away. Chemical propulsion technologies are too heavy to be practical — they would take 100,000 years to get there.
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Does anyone other than the ‘righteous’ Left still take the Nobel Peace Prize seriously?
I hope Trump cancels that refugee ‘deal’ with Australia – P.M.Turnbull went ahead with this deal after Trump had won the presidency knowing full well Trump’s view of undocumented Muslims. Turnbull is a conniving sniveler and bad news for this country.
I wonder how long it will be before the Greeks and the Turks are at each others throats once again.
Poor Milo, hit in triplicate with all the things the Left really hate but pretend to be tolerant of and to which they cannot help in exposing themselves by taking part in such hate filled actions. I guess being gay, conservative and a Jew, brings all the paid for hypocrites and useful idiots out of the woodwork.
My money is on Obama scoring a second Peace Prize.
Psst! There’s a typo in this title: “UK: Nottingham Asda Worker Quilty of Terrorist Charges”
I would like to see a terror charge quilt, though. I’m not usually one for modernist art, but I’d go see this museum exhibit!
Trump’s “warning” re “settlements” and announcement of commitment to “two-state-solution” (as the “ultimate deal”!) looks like a broken campaign promise to me:
http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Politics-And-Diplomacy/Trump-warns-Israel-Stop-announcing-new-settlements-480446
http://www.breitbart.com/jerusalem/2017/02/02/settlements-fake-news-trump-opposes-israel/
See Breitbart’s take on this: more positive.
Soros funding a faux Catholic group and Dolan sits like a bump on a log? EVIL.
“As fires raged and Trump supporters were assaulted with shovels and pepper spray by masked anarchists, the mayor of Berkeley, CA, Jesse Arreguin, allegedly ordered SWAT and campus police to stand down.”
Watch the videos. It’s quite clear the Police were doing nothing to stop the violence and property damage caused by the anarchists. How many did they arrest?
There was also looting. (surprise!)
“Waaal, we gotta have stuff, maaaan!” I expect an end to this BS soon, but señor Don has after all only been in power a couple of weeks.
While the idea behind changing the official Swedish so that immigrants more easily can enter the labor market, is, of course, laudable, this is far too feint to bear a real impact.
What would absolutely work perfectly would be to round up all the ethnic Swedes and have them lobotomized to a nice uniform IQ of 70.
In the interest of fairness, it is the least they should do.
Perhaps a little off topic… but perhaps not…
This article appeared today, in the Toronto Sun:
More than 300 foreign terrorists, spies and criminals who pose a risk to Canada’s national security tried to sneak into Canada last year, according to a report quietly released by the federal government on Monday.
It outlines all visa applications rejected between November 2015 and December 2016, and the grounds for refusal.
There were 310 cases where an individual was found inadmissible under Section 34 of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA) — the section dealing with national security concerns.
Among these 310 were seven individuals rejected for “engaging in terrorism,” nine for “engaging in an act of espionage or subversion,” and 13 for “subversion by force” against any government.
Another 79 were found to be a member of an organization that engages in terrorism or espionage, 26 to be a “danger to the security of Canada,” and 48 were stopped for having committed a war crime or crimes against humanity.
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In total, there were 1.4 million visa applications rejected by the Canadian government. The most common reason was that a person was not truthful in the information they supplied.
The immigration report was released in response to an Order Paper question tabled by Conservative MP Tom Kmiec, and was exclusively given to the Toronto Sun by the True North Initiative, a Canadian think tank focused on immigration and security reform.
The report does not reveal the country of origin or nationality of those rejected, so it is unknown where the 310 individuals rejected on terrorism and national security grounds came from.
Obviously, the report only outlines instances where the government was successful in stopping an individual with security red flags from entering Canada.
It is therefore unknown how many individuals were able to thwart Canada’s screening and vetting system, and enter the country undetected.
Canadian security officials have repeatedly warned the federal government about its security screening.
In 2011, the federal government was forced to release a “Most Wanted List” after it was discovered that at least 30 war criminals and terrorists were on the loose in Canada.
This new report, showing that Canada continues to be a destination for terrorists and war criminals, was released just days after U.S. President Donald Trump issued a sweeping executive order on immigration security.
Among other directives, Trump ordered the U.S. government to stop processing all refugee applications and to block for three months all immigration and visitor visas from seven countries struggling with large Islamist terrorist insurgencies.
Trump also ordered an overhaul of the security and vetting process, in order to stop the flow of terrorists entering the United States.
The Canadian report suggests Canada is also dealing with a large, possibly coordinated effort by terrorist organizations to enter our country.
Security experts have long warned that Islamist groups see Canada as a soft target, and view our immigration process as a source of weakness.
A 2014 report from the Washington D.C.-based Center for a Secure Free Society noted that, “known state sponsors of terrorism, namely Iran and Syria, along with terror-proxies like Lebanese Hezbollah, are … exploit(ing) the weaknesses within the refugee and migration process in Canada.”
That report highlighted 19 Iranian nationals who made refugee claims in Canada between 2008 and 2013, but were rejected on national security grounds.
We have long been aware that terrorists and serious criminals attempt to manipulate our immigration and refugee system in Canada. We now have a better idea of the scale of this threat.
The Rape Of Sweden
Ingrid Carlqvist and Stefan Molyneux
Publiced 1 feb. 2017
https://youtu.be/FluvpeD6lhQ
In the midst of the European Migrant Crisis, Sweden is on the verge of societal collapse under the weight of mass immigration. Ingrid Carlqvist joins Stefan Molyneux to discuss the current state of Sweden, the shocking Facebook livestream rape case, demoralization of the Swedish people, being faced with a true rape culture, next years Swedish elections and what the future looks like for the Swedish people.
It’s awesome for the Muslims.