An explosion at a Metro station in Paris led to the evacuation of dozens of passengers, and at least eight people were injured. Officials said the incident was caused by an electrical problem, and had no connection with terrorism.
In other news, Senator Jeff Sessions was finally confirmed as Attorney General for the Trump administration.
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EU Faces Crisis as IMF Warns Greek Debts Are on ‘Explosive’ Path
The EU faces a looming crisis which could threaten the sustainability of the eurozone as the International Monetary Fund has warned Greece’s debts are on an “explosive” path, despite years of attempted austerity and economic reforms.
Global financiers at the IMF are increasingly unwilling to fund endless bailouts for the eurozone’s most troubled country, passing more of the burden onto the EU — at a time when Germany does not want to keep sending cash to Athens.
The assessment opens up a fresh split with Europe over how to handle Greece’s massive public debts, as the IMF called on Europe to provide “significant debt relief” to Greece — despite Greece’s EU creditors ruling out any further relief before the current rescue programme expires in 2018.
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Utah May Soon Dump Federal Reserve: “Put Trust Back in God and Gold, Rather Than Central Bank”
States fed up with the phony, manipulated central bank currencies are starting to move away from the failing system — and prepare to hedge themselves against the worst case scenarios of monetary collapse.
Though the Federal Reserve clearly dominates the U.S. and global economy, some U.S. states are making moves to reestablish real money, and shift away from the burdensome and oppressive central bank currency.
With the financial system so broadly manipulated by central bank printing — and the experiment over the past eight years of zero interest, unlimited — many leaders are looking for a safe haven and a guard against the downturn of weak spots of debt-based money printing as the default means of exchange.
Put more simply, Utah may soon lead the way of putting “trust” back in God and gold, rather than in God and the Federal Reserve.
A new law proposed in the House there would allow for a repository of physical gold, and encourage and facilitate official business of the State being conducted with funds backed by or drawn from the value of this stored wealth — a subtle move that is nonetheless revolutionary in scope.
According to the 10th Amendment Center:
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A Smokescreen for Bigotry: Disguising Anti-Muslim Bias With Land-Use Objections
Sewage lines, traffic patterns and zoning ordinances. Meet the instruments of bigotry in America today.
It’s happened three times in Virginia already, cases where development regulations and mundane municipal laws have been used to smokescreen surging Islamophobia.
And it’s something new, something that folks who have lived in these communities for decades have never experienced.
“I would never believe in my life that something like this would happen,” said Samer Shalaby, whose pointer-and-blueprints community meeting presentation went viral after audience members unleashed a bigoted, anti-Muslim shouting spree at him.
“Nobody, nobody, nobody wants your evil cult in this county,” a man who said he was a former Marine yelled at Shalaby that night in November 2015…
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Alleged 9/11 Plotter Blasts Obama in Letter From Guantanamo
The man who says he was the mastermind of the Sept. 11 terrorist attack seeks to justify the plot as a “natural reaction” to U.S. foreign policy in a blistering letter sent to then President Barack Obama from the Guantanamo prison.
Khalid Shaikh Mohammad, one of five Guantanamo prisoners facing trial by military commission for their alleged roles in the hijacking plot, also writes in the letter released Wednesday that it does not matter to him if he receives a life sentence or the death penalty from the tribunal.
“If your court sentences me to life in prison, I will be very happy to be alone in my cell to worship Allah the rest of my life and repent to him all my sins and misdeeds,” Mohammad wrote. “And if your court sentences me to death, I will be even happier to meet Allah and the prophets and see my best friends whom you killed unjustly all around the world and to see Sheikh Usama Bin Laden.”
Mohammad sought to send the letter in 2015.
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Army Preps for Urban Warfare in Megacities: “Mass Migration, Disaster and Inner-City Turmoil”
The current anger from the left, who are violently protesting against President Trump, is just one aspect
There will be war in the streets of America. Things have been engineered that way.
The scenarios are many, the issues are complex. The current anger from the left, who are violently protesting against President Trump, is just one aspect of it.
But the Pentagon and the U.S. national security structure is increasingly looking towards the shifting demographics around the globe — people have moved from rural areas, and shifted into cities. Where ever conflict stirs, there will be a need for military and SWAT response to the call. Entire cities will be locked down; door to door sweeps will often have violent ends.
Baghdad could be brought home to the streets of America, and the military already knows it.
The powers that be are deeply concerned about the unfolding situations with migrants, illegal immigrants, potential terrorists, political factions, violent protests, arson and riots.
Increasingly, they are training for and expecting a homegrown conflict that will call for them to restore order in a major cities — and even hunt down suspects block to block, like in the Boston Marathon bombing incident, while making some significant infringement of our civil liberties.
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Authoritarians at the Gate: How One High School is Ripping Its Community Apart
We strongly advise you to put down all sharp objects before reading the following…
Submitted by Mark Glennon via WirePoints.com,
Not since the Vietnam War have I seen as much strife and personal hostility within an otherwise friendly community.
Thank the administration of New Trier High School in north suburban Chicago. This story is about the madness on college campuses now being crammed down into a public high school. More importantly, it’s about an angry brawl now growing rapidly.
Oblivious to how identity politics have divided the country, the school is holding an attendance-mandatory All-School Seminar Day with the stated goal of “understanding today’s struggle for racial civil rights.”
That sounds fine, but the problem is that it serves no such goal. The agenda is brazenly and unquestionably one-sided, divisive, political and radically left. Understanding civil rights, as New Trier sees it, doesn’t mean challenging students to sort through competing ideas. It means force-fed dogma.
Results were entirely predictable. Conservative and moderate parents, including me, erupted over what we see as propaganda masquerading as education cloaked in the language of togetherness. We’ve publicly made a simple request: Add balance to the program by including topics and speakers to expose students to a fair range of ideas.
Balance, that’s it. If the school is unwilling to add that balance, then the seminar should be cancelled or, at a minimum, attendance should be made optional. Those feeling that way put up a website linked here and have launched a petition drive linked here.
Reaction to the request for balance was also predictable. Program supporters took to social media saying critics want to censor out discussion about race, don’t care about civil rights, are bad parents for trying to shield their children and, of course, that we’re racist.
Sure we’re racist — as program supporters see things. Systemic, invisible racism is the core theme of the program. As one workshop description puts it, “Most systemic racism is invisible…often to both ‘sides’…until you know it’s there. Once you know it’s there, you can’t stop seeing it.” Our racism is so clear, in other words, that it should be taught as fact and not one of many viewpoints.
Hostility is growing much more intense and personal. Before we get to that, some background:
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Bill Shutting U.S. Education Department Introduced in Congress
Legislation to shut down the controversial and unconstitutional U.S. Department of Education was introduced in Congress this week by Representative Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), a leading constitutional conservative. The bill, H.R. 899, would help President Donald Trump follow through on his campaign statements suggesting a desire to abolish the department as well as theObama-backed “Common Core” school standards. The legislation was introduced on the same day U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos was confirmed by the Senate.
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ISIS Supported Sentenced to Prison in Muhammad Cartoon Attack
An American-born Muslim convert convicted of supporting the Islamic State terror group and helping to plot a 2015 attack on a Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest in Texas was sentenced Wednesday to 30 years behind bars.
Abdul Malik Abdul Kareem told the judge in Phoenix he “had nothing to do” with the attack. However, authorities said Kareem provided the cash that his two friends — Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi — used to open fire outside the anti-Islam event in Garland.
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‘Microaggression’ & ‘Safe Space’ Added to Merriam-Webster Dictionary
“This is a significant addition to our online dictionary, reflecting the breadth of English vocabulary…”
The terms “microagression” and “safe space” were added this week to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, the company has said.
According to a statement Tuesday, the new terms are joined by more than 1,000 other additions that reflect “the breadth of English vocabulary…”…
The terms, associated with modern progressives, have caused a backlash by both conservatives, classical liberals and some in academia.
In an article entitled, “The Coddling Of The American Mind,” writers for The Atlantic argue that the phenomenon is “disastrous for education and mental health.”
“This new climate is slowly being institutionalized, and is affecting what can be said in the classroom, even as a basis for discussion,” the article states. “During the 2014 — 15 school year, for instance, the deans and department chairs at the 10 University of California system schools were presented by administrators at faculty leader-training sessions with examples of microaggressions.”
“The list of offensive statements included: ‘America is the land of opportunity’ and ‘I believe the most qualified person should get the job.’“
[Comment: All part of the “Dumbing Down of America” agenda. Years ago I saw an interview with one of the billionaire’s kids (who was in university) — he laughed at the dictionaries regular folks use. He only used the 12 volume oxford dictionary from prior to 1920.]
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Obama Appointee Urges Coup Against President Trump, Then Lies, Whines About Blowback
After urging the violent ouster of President Trump, former senior Obama administration official Rosa Brooks is now whining about receiving the harsh criticism she so richly deserves.
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Senate Silences Sen. Liz Warren for Violating Chamber’s Decorum
She was forced to end her remarks because of her breach of Senate protocol
Massachusetts Democrat Sen. Elizabeth Warren received a stunning monition Tuesday evening from her fellow senators after she quoted from a letter that accused Attorney General-designate Sen. Jeff Sessions (R.-Ala.) of racism during his tenure as a federal prosecutor.
Warren may have thought she could skirt the rules if she quoted someone else speaking about Sessions, but instead she was forced to end her remarks because of her breach of Senate protocol.
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Sessions Confirmed as Attorney General After Contentious Debate
Sen. Jeff Sessions won confirmation Wednesday evening to become the next attorney general of the United States, capping a Senate fight so contentious that one of the nominee’s biggest critics was forced by majority Republicans to sit out the last leg of the debate.
The Senate narrowly approved the Alabama Republican’s nomination on a 52-47 vote, the latest in a series of confirmation votes that have been dragged out amid Democratic protests. One Democrat, Joe Manchin of West Virginia, joined Republicans in voting to confirm Sessions. Sessions himself voted present.
In his farewell address Wednesday evening, Sessions urged his erstwhile colleagues to get along better following days of bruising debate.
“We need latitude in our relationships,” Sessions said. “Denigrating people who disagree with us is not a healthy trend for our body.”
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‘Snowflakes’ Pose Real Threat, Author Warns
The left-wing students who riot on campus, declaring they are offended on behalf of their racial, religious or gender identity, have become a cliché already.
Americans around the country note that they seemingly spend more time destroying property than studying, and many, especially conservatives, smirk at the delicate, overly emotional students, derisively called “snowflakes.”
But what is an avalanche but a lot of “snowflakes” moving in the same direction, and Scott Greer, author of the new book “No Campus For White Men,” argues it is a dangerous mistake for conservatives to dismiss them.
After all, they’re winning.
“Identity politics really does work in the public sphere,” Greer told WND. “ They do see it as working. I think every time they see a success where they bring down a university president, or get people fired, or are able to intimidate and harass students in order to make them leave campus just because they support Donald Trump, that only emboldens them to keep using these tactics. And they will keep identifying by their racial or gender identity rather than appealing to logical argument and reason.”
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Tennessee College Free Speech Bill to be Named After Milo
A proposed Tennessee bill to protect freedom of speech on college campuses has been named “The Milo Bill,” after Breitbart Senior Editor MILO.
The bill, which has the full name of the “Tennessee Freedom of Speech on College Campus Bill,” but will be known more informally as The Milo Bill, is set to be officially filed after around two-years of development on Thursday. A press conference will follow.
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The Indian Tribesmen Catching Giant Snakes in Florida
Every morning, two Indian tribesmen in T-shirts and long trousers, leave their dwellings in southern Florida and head into the Everglades to hunt for some of the world’s biggest snakes.
Masi Sadaiyan and Vadivel Gopal, members of the once-nomadic Irula tribe, are armed with crowbars and machetes. Wearing fleece jackets and baseball caps, they slash and wade their way through the largest subtropical wilderness in the world to hunt down Burmese pythons.
The non-native snakes — which escaped into the wild in Florida or were released as pets — pose the biggest threat to the small mammal population of the national park. They also eat birds, alligators and deer.
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The Left Hates You — Act Accordingly
They hate you.
Leftists don’t merely disagree with you. They don’t merely feel you are misguided. They don’t think you are merely wrong. They hate you. They want you enslaved and obedient, if not dead. Once you get that, everything that is happening now will make sense. And you will understand what you need to be ready to do.
You are normal, and therefore a heretic. You refuse to bow to their idols, to subscribe to their twisted catechisms, to praise their false gods. This is unforgivable. You must burn.
Crazy talk? Just ask them. Go ahead. Go on social media. Find a leftist — it’s easy. Just say something positive about America or Jesus and they’ll come swarming like locusts. Engage them and very quickly they will drop their masks and tell you what they really think. I know. I keep a rapidly expanding file of Twitter leftist death wish screenshots.
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Trump Proven Right: Media Spinning Terror Stories
President Donald Trump has been severely critical of the news media for doing what he called a poor job of covering instances of Islamic terrorism not only in the U.S. but around the world.
The White House released a list late Monday of 20 terrorist attacks “ executed or inspired” by ISIS, many of which Trump spokesman Sean Spicer said were not give sufficient coverage by the national media.
“You have seen what happened in Paris and Nice. All over Europe, it’s happening,” Trump told military leaders at the U.S. Central Command. “It’s gotten to a point where it’s not even being reported. And in many cases, the very, very dishonest press doesn’t want to report it. They have their reasons, and you understand that.”
One of the first news agencies to counter Trump’s allegations was the BBC, which on Tuesday ran a compilation of all its stories about the terrorist events on the administration’s list.
But as many terrorism experts told WND, it’s not the amount of coverage given to a specific event that counts but rather the type of coverage.
A classic example of that can be found by comparing and contrasting the coverage that two news agencies — WND and the BBC — gave to a brutal machete attack at the Nazareth Mediterranean Restaurant one year ago in February 2016 that left four patrons wounded, one critically.
In the BBC story, there is no mention of the words Islam, jihad, Muslim, refugee or immigrant. Every one of those words applied to the attacker, Mohamed Barry, who was a Muslim immigrant from the West African country of Guinea, as pointed out in the WND story.
“Trump is absolutely correct. The point is not that they ignore the stories, but they deliberately conceal and/or misrepresent the aspects of them that make it clear that they’re Islamic jihad attacks,” said Robert Spencer, editor of Jihad Watch.
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Trump Under Fire in Nordstrom Ivanka Row
Democrats have condemned President Donald Trump’s tweet attacking a clothing retailer after it dropped a fashion line owned by his daughter.
Mr Trump tweeted that “Ivanka has been treated so unfairly” by clothing retailer Nordstrom.
A Democratic senator called the post “inappropriate” and an ex-White House ethics tsar dubbed it “outrageous”.
Earlier this month Nordstrom became the fifth retailer to drop the Ivanka Trump clothing line, citing lack of sales.
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Man Charged After ‘Multiple Sexual Assaults’ At West Edmonton Mall Waterpark
A 39-year-old man has been charged in connection with several sexual assaults that occurred at the West Edmonton Mall World Waterpark over the weekend.
Police were called to the waterpark at around 10:30 p.m. Saturday.
Officers allege a man followed and inappropriately touched six teenage girls while they were swimming at the waterpark.
“It’s fairly shocking,” EPS spokesperson Scott Pattison said. “It’s involved and traumatized six individuals and their families.”
Pattison said all six girls were under the age of 16.
“The girls were very courageous in coming forward and talking to the lifeguard, that’s not always the case,” Pattison said…
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Ottawa Man on Terrorism Peace Bond Arrested for Violating Conditions
Less than two weeks after a judge imposed a terrorism peace bond on him, an Ottawa man is back in custody after allegedly violating the conditions he was supposed to obey.
The RCMP arrested Tevis Gonyou-McLean, 25, on Friday on charges he had broken his curfew on Nov. 1 and possessed a “computer with an enabled Internet connection” on Nov. 3.
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2017 Terror Forecast for US, Europe ‘Alarming, ‘ Says House Report
The U.S. and European terror forecast for 2017 ‘looks alarming,’ in part because of increased pressure on ISIS and other terror groups on their home turf, according to a monthly assessment by House lawmakers.
The House Homeland Security Committee’s February “Terror Threat Snapshot” report cited two homegrown terror attacks in January and officials predicted efforts to crush foreign terror groups, while laudable, could spur more attacks to American soil.
“At this rate, the forecast for 2017 looks alarming,” warns the report, citing an “unprecedented spike in the homegrown terror threat, primarily driven by the rise of ISIS.”
Officials predicted necessary efforts to crush foreign terror groups could actually spur more attacks on Western soil.
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Al-Nusra Linked Radical Islamists Raided in Germany and the UK
Raids in the UK and the North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) region of Germany have led to the arrests of two Islamist sympathisers who are said to have been aiding the al-Nusra Front in Syria.
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Belgium: Terrorism Watchdog Warns Against Influence of Salafist Ideology
The OCAD, the Belgian government body that analyses the terrorist threat, has issued a warning with regard to the increased influence of Salafism on imams and mosques in Belgium. The body concedes that Salafists form a small minority but insists that the development is a cause for concern.
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Belgium, Germany See String of ‘IS’-Linked Arrests
A Russian man and a Syrian man have been arrested in Germany on allegations of collaborating with the “Islamic State.” A series of raids led to 11 similar arrests in Belgium.
On Wednesday, authorities in the German city of Cologne announced that they had arrested a 19-year-old Russian national on allegations of training with “Islamic State” (IS) militants in Syria.
Federal prosecutors said the young man, whom they identified only as Suleym K, traveled to Syria via Turkey in late summer 2014 and returned to Turkey a few months later. He was detained on Tuesday and placed in preliminary detention while the government prepares to try him for membership in terrorist organization.
On the same day, a 31-year-old Syrian man was arrested in the rural northern region of Western Pomerania-Greifswald. He is accused of working at an IS checkpoint in Syria and having raped a woman who was trying to flee the conflict. The latter charge would constitute a war crime.
Eleven people were also arrested in Belgium as part of an anti-terrorism investigation, prosecutors said on Wednesday. According to authorities in Brussels, the suspects were detained in connection with an inquiry into the return of former fighters to Belgium.
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Brexit Victory! MPs Vote in Commons to Give Final Approval on Bill to Trigger Article 50
MPs tonight voted 494 to 122 in favour of approving the European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill, which will now proceed to the House of Lords.
Despite a Labour rebellion, which saw 52 MPs including 14 front-benchers ignore Jeremy Corbyn’s three-line whip, the bill passed by a clear 372 majority at 8.15pm this evening.
It followed an evening of disappointment and frustration for Westminster Europhiles, who saw several amendments rejected in a series of other votes.
Now the bill will progress to the House of Lords, where it is also expected to be approved, before Theresa May finally begins exit negotiations with the European Union itself.
Nigel Farage celebrated the result on Twitter, where he said: “I never thought I’d see the day where the House of Commons overwhelmingly voted for Britain to Leave the European Union.”
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European Union Supports ISIS, Claims Syrian President
SYRIAN President Bashar al-Assad tore into the European Union’s role to the Syrian civil war, claiming they had supported terrorists “from the beginning” of the bloody conflict.
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France: Dozens of Passengers Evacuated From Smoke-Filled Station After ‘Explosion on Paris Metro’
Dozens of passengers were tonight evacuated from a smoke-filled station after a ‘huge explosion’ rocked the Paris Metro.
Eight people were reportedly injured after a blaze ripped through the Place d’Italie station, which is in the south part of the city.
The incident raised alarm in the French capital, which is still on high alert following the Louvre machete attack last week.
Police officers surrounded the Place d’Italie station in Paris and a cordon was set up around it
A ‘huge explosion’ was tonight reported on the Paris Metro which resulted in dozens of commuters being evacuated from the station
The incident took place near the Place d’Italie station (main picture) which is in the south part of the city (inset)
Police and security officers surrounded the station and quickly set up a cordon.
A spokesman later confirmed that the fire was caused by a ‘technical fault’ and the incident was ‘not a terrorist attack’…
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France: Anti-Christian Attacks Rise 245 Percent
While racist, anti-Muslim, and anti-Semitic attacks have seen a huge fall since 2008, those on Christian places of worship more than doubled in this period of time, France’s interior ministry reported last week.
Having documented a record number of anti-Semitic and anti-Muslim attacks in 2015, Last year in Dülmen, following the arrival of well over a million migrants in Germany, local media said “not a day goes by” without attacks on Christian religious statues.
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Geert Wilders at Netherlands Elections — Freedom Party Makes Gains
GEERT WILDERS — dubbed the Dutch Trump — has become one of the most powerful forces in the Netherlands, “reshaping the politics of a country with a long tradition of tolerance and liberalism”, claims one expert.
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Germany: Allah-Shouting Muslim Disturbs Funeral Ceremony in Church
A MUSLIM man disturbed a funeral service in a church when he suddenly started to shout out “Allah” during a sermon, saying he wanted to share his message with the infidels.
The 33-year-old Muslim man, whose name was not been made public, suddenly went into the church in the town of Schnaittach in the German state of Bavaria.
He is said to have gone into the church saying: “I come in the name of the Prophet, to proclaim the message of Allah to the infidels.”
The incident happened on Wednesday and was only later made public by Pastor Wilfried Roemischer.
[Comment: Surprised the German authorities did not begin proceedings to prosecute the Pastor. /sarcasm]
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Germany: Police Hunt Thugs Who Threatened to Kill Nursery Kids ‘In the Name of Allah’
POLICE are hunting for the culprits that daubed a nursery in graffito threatening to kill the children “in the name of Allah”.
A vandal daubed a threatening message on the outside of a nursery school at night in the Bavarian city of Ingolstade, in two foot high letters.
The police were called by staff when they arrived for work at the centre on Luitpold Street.
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‘If We Could Export the Swedish Model, It Would be a Much Better World’
Even speaking about rising income inequality, Gurría told the press conference in Stockholm on Wednesday: “Everything in life is relative. If we could export the Swedish model all over the world, it would be a much better world.”
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In Norway, Everyone’s Tax Info is Just a Click Away
How much does my neighbour, my colleague, the leader of my country or his wife earn? In Norway, a champion of transparency, that information is available to all, just a few clicks away.
The fact that a billionaire could take over the White House without providing his tax returns, or that a French presidential election frontrunner could be rocked by revelations that he paid his family handsome sums for suspected phoney work, are inconceivable scenarios in this Scandinavian country.
“In Norway there’s a culture of openness on these issues, which makes it unlikely to get elected without being transparent about your tax situation and earnings,” the head of the Norwegian Tax Administration, Hans Christian Holte, told AFP.
Each year, the tax agency publishes key information on all taxpayers — including earnings, wealth, and tax payments — on its website.
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Italian Village Constructing Giant Marble Statue of Donald Trump
The mayor of Vagli di Sotto, Mario Puglia, plans to put a big, beautiful marble statue of the sitting U.S. president in the village’s Park of Honor and Dishonor. He thinks it will be a tremendous way to attract tourists from around the globe to the Tuscan town of less than 1,000 people.
“I’m not going to enter into a discussion over whether his actions are right or wrong,” Puglia told local Italian media. “But at the moment Trump is the only politician who is following through on his promises, doing what he said on the campaign trail.”
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Sweden: Teen, 15, Held After Janitor Shot in Malmö
A janitor who was shot while clearing snow from walkways in central Malmö was fighting for his life in hospital on Wednesday afternoon.
The man was shot on the Roskildegatan street north of Pildammsparken in the early hours of Wednesday. According to Malmö police he was a janitor who was there to spread salt on icy walkways.
“He was there to shovel snow and then he gets shot,” one of the man’s colleagues told regional newspaper Sydsvenskan, which reports he is in his fifties.
The man is not previously known to police. “What happened on the scene we don’t really know at the moment,” Malmö police chief Stefan Sintéus told the TT news agency.
Police seized several suspects, understood to be linked to gang violence, for questioning.
Later in the day they confirmed that one of them, a 15-year-old boy, had been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder.
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Swedish Police Officer Causes Controversy With Facebook Post
A Swedish police officer has caused controversy after he made a Facebook post claiming that the majority of the cases he deals with in a week come from people whose country of origin is not Sweden, leading to an internal police investigation of him, and even provoking Prime Minister Stefan Löfven to respond.
In the post, Peter Springare lists what he claims to be the countries of origin and names of those he dealt with while carrying out preliminary investigations of suspected crimes in Örebro, noting that what he posted “is not politically correct” but that he “doesn’t give a shit”.
“Suspected perpetrators: Ali Mohamad, Mahmod, Mohammed, Mohammed, Ali, again, again, again, Christoffer… what, is it true? Yes, a Swedish name sneaked its way in on the fringes of a drug related crime, Mohammed, Mahmod Ali, again and again,” Springare wrote.
A report has since been filed by police management accusing Springare of racial agitation (hets mot folkgrupp) and he is now subject to an internal investigation.
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Viking VIP: Grave Belonging to ‘Warrior of High Status’ Uncovered
About 1,000 years ago, Vikings dug a grave for a “warrior of high status” and buried him in a boat that was overflowing with grave goods, including a hefty sword and a broad-bladed ax, according to a new study.
The Viking warrior was buried in western Scotland’s Swordle Bay, far from his home in Scandinavia. But, the artifacts found in his grave are Scandinavian, Scottish and Irish in origin, the researchers found.
The rare finding provides insights into how the peoples of western Scotland lived and interacted during the 10th century, when this Viking was buried, the researchers said.
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The ultra-right mayor of a Hungarian village has banned Muslims from wearing traditional dress and issuing a call to prayer in what he describes as a ‘war against Muslim culture’.
In doing so, Laszlo Toroczkai said he hopes to attract other Christian Europeans who object to multiculturalism in their own countries to migrate to Ásotthalom on the Hungarian border with Serbia.
‘We primarily welcome people from western Europe — people who wouldn’t like to live in a multicultural society,’ Toroczkai told the BBC. ‘We wouldn’t like to attract Muslims to the village.’
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The last model to be built was towed to its new home at an aviation museum in Bristol, England that will open this summer.
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Trump Administration Set to Announce Support for a ‘Two State Solution’
Many had believed that the “ two state solution” would be “ dead” under a Trump administration, but that is turning out not to be the case at all. According to an Israeli news source, the Trump administration is about to publicly declare support for a “ two state solution” , and officials have reportedly been in contact with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’ s office regarding “ ideas to promote the two state solution.” This is extremely alarming, because I have previously written about how those that bless Israel will be blessed and those that curse Israel will be cursed. UN Security Council Resolution 2334 was a major step toward dividing the land of Israel, and when Barack Obama refused to veto that resolution in December he put the United States on the wrong side of that equation. In an article back in January, I listed 10 things that Trump could do to try to reverse the curse that Obama had brought on America, but instead it appears that Trump is also being seduced by the idea that a “ two state solution” will bring lasting peace to the Middle East.
According to Ynet News, the decision has already been made. It is going to be the position of the Trump administration that a “ two state solution” is needed in the Middle East, and there have already been discussions between Israeli officials and Trump administration officials about how to move the process forward…
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Foreign Powers Performing ‘Earthquake Tests’ Near Istanbul to Destroy Economy: Ankara Mayor
Recent earthquakes in the western province of Çanakkale could have been organized by dark external powers aiming to destroy Turkey’s economy with an “artificial earthquake” near Istanbul, Ankara Mayor Melih Gökçek has claimed.
“Today a serious earthquake occurred in Çanakkale. I have investigated and there is a ship conducting seismic research nearby. What this ship is researching and which country it belongs to should be resolved urgently. I worry about a potential earthquake that could occur artificially. This should definitely be investigated and announced to the public,” Gökçek tweeted.
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Six Red Cross Members Killed in Afghanistan
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has reportedly put its operations across Afghanistan “on hold.” The group said increasing insecurity has made it difficult to provide aid to many parts of the country.
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Why is China ‘Protecting’ The Pakistan-Based Jaish-e-Mohammad Militant Group?
China has blocked a US move to blacklist Jaish-e-Mohammad’s chief Masood Azhar at the UN. In a DW interview, Siegfried O Wolf explains why China is protecting the Pakistan-based militant group’s head.
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As the Arab Spring started on Facebook and other social media, the Swedes are now joining ranks in support of the truth, which is finally coming out in full force. In just two days, more than 100,000 Swedes have joined a support group for the policeman Peter Springare, who on Friday revealed both names and nationalities of all suspects in the cases he had worked with that week. As expected, mostly immigrants.
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Asylum Seeker is Arrested After ‘Abusing Eighteen Women’ During a Two-Hour Train Journey in Germany
An asylum seeker has been detained after he allegedly launched a string of sex attacks on 18 women during a single two-hour train journey.
The 23-year-old migrant is suspected of groping the women on a suburban S-Bahn German train line between Munich and Herrsching on January 29.
The Eritrean-born attacker is said to have gone from one carriage to the next touching female passengers.
The sickening spree was exposed after two victims reported their ordeal to the police.
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Austria Demands New Military Force to Stop Migrants Using Balkan Route
AUSTRIA is calling for a new European military alliance to patrol the so-called Balkan Route used by migrants and refugees to illegally enter the country.
Defence minister Hans Peter Doskozil said strengthened security co-operation with countries along the route would help stem the flow of people and head off an escalation in the migrant crisis.
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Donald Trump Shares Poll Showing Majority Support of ‘Muslim Ban’
PRESIDENT Donald Trump has claimed his controversial “Muslim ban” is one of his most popular policies after citing a poll which showed overwhelming support for the executive order.
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Evangelicals Pleading, Pushing, And Promoting More Refugees From Middle East!
Many Evangelical leaders who beat the drums for more immigration, amnesty, and sanctuary cities are moral cripples who have sold out for payment, power, or position. Such religious leaders who are afraid to swim against the tide of public opinion and be labeled conservative or fundamentalist (gasp!) are moral cripples who are not aware of their limp and crooked walk.
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Facebook Blocks Links to Stories About Immigration as “Abusive”
Last night, the social media giant began blocking the sending of some links to the Daily Express website, particularly on articles relating to UKIP or migrant crime.
It would appear that Facebook’s cracking down on so-called “fake news” was nothing more than a ploy to block articles that don’t fit its narrative.
Last night, the social media giant began blocking the sending of some links to the Daily Express website, particularly on articles relating to UKIP or migrant crime.
[Comment: Elite globalists are now using social media to paint “reality”. Just like that general during the Iraq war, “There are no US tanks in Baghdad” he said, as the US tank rolled by behind him. At some point people will step outside and find they have been lied to….]
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Finland: Foster Homes Sought for Child Refugees
The Save the Children organization is seeking foster homes for unaccompanied refugee children who have been granted asylum in Finland. The EU-funded project will mark the first time that child refugees are placed in private homes in this country.
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France: Calais: Five Hotel Managers Arrested for ‘Smuggling Albanians to Britain’
Five hotel managers suspected of belonging to a network smuggling Albanian migrants into Britain were arrested Tuesday in a police operation in the French port city of Calais, a judicial source said.
“It is an investigation that has been underway for several weeks, concerning a network of Albanian smugglers which has been using four hotels in Calais,” Boulogne-sur-Mer prosecutor Pascal Marconville told AFP, confirming a report in the daily “La Voix du Nord”.
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Germany: Asylum Seeker Arrested After ‘Abusing Eighteen Women’ During Two-Hour Train Journey
Police traced man back to German migrant camp…
An asylum seeker has been detained after he allegedly launched a string of sex attacks on 18 women during a single two-hour train journey.
The 23-year-old migrant is suspected of groping the women on a suburban S-Bahn German train line between Munich and Herrsching on January 29.
The Eritrean-born attacker is said to have gone from one carriage to the next touching female passengers.
The sickening spree was exposed after two victims reported their ordeal to the police.
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Germany’s Muslim Demographic Future
Critics of Germany’s open-door immigration policy are warning that the recent surge in Germany’s Muslim population — which surpassed six million in 2016 for the first time — has already changed the face of the country forever.
The price for reversing Germany’s demographic decline appears to be the further Islamization of Germany under the guise of multiculturalism.
With a fertility rate of 1.6 births per woman, well below the replacement rate of 2.1, Germany will require a permanent influx of 300,000 migrants per year in order keep the current population level stable through the year 2060, according to the report.
“We are importing Islamic extremism, Arab anti-Semitism, national and ethnic conflicts of other peoples, as well as a different understanding of society and law. German security agencies are unable to deal with these imported security problems, and the resulting reactions from the German population.” — Leaked German intelligence document.
More than a decade ago historian Bernard Lewis warned that if current migration trends continue, Europe will be Islamic by the end of the 21st century. Germany’s political elites are at the vanguard of making that prediction come true.
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German Migration Agency Vows to Fingerprint All Refugees to Combat ‘Benefit Fraud’
In a bid to combat “benefit fraud” and the use of “cheat-identities,” Germany’s federal migration agency wants all regional outlets to fingerprint all asylum seekers, though it admits that they often lack the resources to achieve this, local media report.
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How Italy is Getting Asylum Seekers to Help Out in Their New Communities
As US President Donald Trump’s anti-Muslim decree fuels a tumultuous global debate, Italy is quietly experimenting with an integration project to better the lives of both asylum seekers and locals.
Snow falls thick and fast in Belluno, a town at the foot of the Dolomites, but a group of young men from across Africa works cheerfully to clean up the grounds of a military barrack that is to become a new cultural centre.
“It’s the first time I’ve seen the snow; I love it and I love this project,” Nawaz Tashawar, a 35-year-old from Pakistan, told AFP with a shy grin last week.
From Cameroon, the Ivory Coast, Niger, Nigeria and Senegal, they have been posted to this industrial heartland of 35,000 inhabitants near Venice, earning their keep by working without pay in parks, kitchens and schools.
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Many Foreign Nationals Who Are Not Deported Commit More Crimes — Even Murder
At least 121 killings within a four-year span were carried out by convicted immigrants who were not deported, according to a 2015 U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee document recently reviewed by el Nuevo Herald.
Every year, federal immigration authorities release foreign nationals convicted of crimes — including murder — both because the U.S. Supreme Court has prohibited indefinite detention or because their countries refuse to take them back even after immigration judges have ordered deportation.
While the release of convicted immigrant criminals has been routine since the Supreme Court issued its landmark ruling 15 years ago, the practice is now in the national spotlight because President Donald Trump has made it imperative to deport immigrant convicts as quickly as possible lest they commit more crimes.
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Migrants in Limbo: Thousands Stranded in Camps Across Europe
Stranded on the edge of the EU, hundreds of migrants have found shelter at an abandoned warehouse in Belgrade.
Some 7,000 people found themselves stuck in Serbia after the EU closed its borders.
Lining up to receive warm meals from aid groups, they remain hopeful of one day reaching western Europe.
“We will try. We will try again and again,” says Abdul Safi from Afghanistan. “We will never give up, and we will request to all the European countries to open the border for us.”
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Migrants Charged With Molesting Girls in German Pool
Two asylum seekers have been charged with molesting five girls between the ages of 12 to 14 at a German swimming pool.
A local police report from the Ratzeburg force states the suspects were two ‘southern-looking’ men who molested them under the water.
The men are 23 and 34 years old and are said to be asylum seekers living in Bad Oldesloe in the northern state of Schleswig-Holstein.
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Operation Sovereign Borders: Over 900 Days Since Last Migrant Boat Reached Australia
It has been over 900 days since the last illegal migrant boat reached Australia, according to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, underlining the success of the Commonwealth’s uncompromising “stop the boats” policy.
“We have now gone over 900 days without a successful people smuggling venture coming to Australia”, he said. “That is a remarkable achievement and one on which we can never be complacent.
“We stand for security, for borders with integrity. Look around the world at the grief and the turmoil that you’ve seen through lax border protection … Australians must know that their government and their government alone determines who comes to Australia. That is their sovereign right. That is our sovereign right as a nation.”
Operation Sovereign Borders, introduced by former Prime Minister Tony Abbott in 2013, sees smuggler-boats intercepted at sea and migrants either returned to where they came from or taken to offshore processing centres. Migrants found to be legitimate asylum seekers have been settled in third countries at Australia’s expense.
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Starbucks Madrid Redubbed “Starburka”
All the Starbuck’s branches in Madrid have been redubbed “Starburka Refugees” in a mass sticker protest action against that company’s decision to employ 10,000 invaders pretending to be refugees-while unemployment in Spain is over 20 percent.
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Sweden Chaos as Officer Claims Migrants to Blame for Serious Crimes
A POLICE officer who claimed migrants were to blame for most serious crimes in his city in a seething Facebook rant has sparked a political storm.
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Trump Destroys Leftist Judges by Reading Law Word-for-Word
President Trump addressed a law enforcement conference in Washington D.C. where he expressed his shock and dismay at leftist judges blocking the border security policies set forth in his recent executive order.
Trump read language from the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 which clearly grants the President express powers to control the entry of non-citizens into the United States on virtually any basis, but specifically as a duty to protect the citizens from potentially dangerous groups of foreigners.
“Now we’re in an area that… they are interpreting things differently than probably 100% of the people in this room,” began Trump, referring to the judges involved in blocking his orders. “This was done for the security of our nation, the security of our citizens, so that people who come in who aren’t going to do us harm — and that’s why it was done.”
“It couldn’t have been written anymore precisely… A bad high school student could understand this,” continued
He proceeded to read from the U.S. Code on “Inadmissible Aliens” —
[Comment: How about impeaching the judge?]
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The Sad Decline and Fall of the Boy Scouts
On Feb. 16, 2002, Dr. James Dobson addressed approximately 3,500 people at the National Religious Broadcaster’s on the topic of his book, “Bringing Up Boys” : “The world into which children are born now has become a very dangerous place. It’s changed tremendously. … There is an attack on childhood. … I don’t think I can overstate it there are many people out there today who see in children an opportunity to change the culture. … They hate the Judeo-Christian value system. And children are the vulnerable ones. And if they can get control of children … they can change the whole culture in one generation. And there is now a tsunami coming our way … and boys especially are in the bull’s eye. They’re in the cross-hairs. … “
Dr. Dobson continued: “The National Education Association announced … every classroom of every school of every year is being taught homosexual propaganda. So they’re teaching them that bisexuality is normal and that homosexuality and heterosexuality are morally equivalent. … Of course, Christians can’t come in and counter that. … Can you imagine these children, 5-years old, sitting in a circle around the teacher who’s telling them about adult perverse behavior? And we’re not concerned about that? … 42 percent of the fourth-grade boys in this entire country can’t read, and yet, we’re going to teach them that? … “
Dr. Dobson concluded: “All these things are coming to your school. … There is a concerted effort to manipulate the minds of kids. … A stem cell is a cell in the human being … that in the very early stages of development it is undifferentiated. In other words, it’s not yet other kinds of tissue, but it can go any direction depending on the environment that it’s in. … Do you understand that children are the stem cells for the culture? The environment that you put them in is what they grow up to be. … I saw a video the other day of children in Afghanistan and they were teaching these children how they could slit the throats of Israelis. If you teach that to 6-year-old boys, you will have violent men when they grow up. That’s why there is this effort to control the minds of kids. It’s what’s behind the attack on the Boy Scouts.”
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UN Claims That LGBT Rights Are More Important Than Religious Rights
The United Nations envoy for gay rights has declared that when there is a clash between homosexual rights and religious liberty it must be recalled that “freedom of expression and religious freedom are not absolute rights and may be limited if necessary.”
In a recent public consultation, the UN’s newly appointed “independent expert” on the defense of LGTB rights, Vitit Muntarbhorn, said that negative moral judgments on homosexual activity were a recent phenomenon, stemming from “colonial law.”
“More recently, in colonial law, or remnants of colonial law, gays were criminalized, are criminalized, even though beforehand they were not criminalized,” he claimed during the Jan. 25 conference.
When challenged about the clash between LGBT rights and religious freedom by Henk Jan van Schothorst of the Transatlantic Christian Council, Muntarbhorn said that religious freedom is not absolute and must yield to homosexual rights…
The independent expert also emphasized the role of education so children can be “born and bred from a young age” with the right attitudes toward sexual orientation and identity, a practice that some have denounced as indoctrination or even “gender ideology” or “ideological colonization.”…
Editor’s Note: The following is an excellent comment from a related article at Katehon.
This is a typical case of liberal globalist “Cultural-Marxism” agenda pushed forward in the UN. Donald Trump as he became the US president has ordered to take down the so favored by the globalist “LGBT-Rights” and “Climate control” sections from the white house official web page. However the globalist continue their campaign of lobbying LGBT-totalitarianism in the UN. Their agenda has two main goals. Destroying traditional values and replacing them with liberal depravity as well as insuring the decline of traditional family values and gender roles to achieve the artificial decline in world population, which can be called genocide.
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The last ‘News Feed’ item concerning the influence of LGBT or just plain homosexuality and by others who use derogatory epithets to describe those who have always been part of humanity, but have always and until the Globalist promotion of this minority group as something special, remained in the background as to their sexual preferences, and as is such accepted practise and in a free and open society, should always be a private matter and of no concern to the general public.
It has been the unelected ‘United Nations’ and its unelected proxies throughout the West who have promoted homosexuality and the many other kinds of beyond normal sexual practises that has purposely been taken out of the private bedroom and into the public arena in a political endeavour to promote what the majority of average citizens have no intention of accepting.
With Trumps’s counter revolution now in progress against such an underhandedness that has been ongoing for at least the last five decades, I believe his decision to not repeal the LGBT anti-discrimination law will in effect save many of those who choose to identify as such much harm from the growing animosity to decades of forced acceptance for something that many consider not natural, and hopefully to an eventual realization that their fraudulent cause is now lost.
Vitit Muntarbhorn is of course talking out of his fundament; prejudice against homosexuals is least prevalent in the secularised West.
Not sure about “forced acceptance”, Nemesis; maybe it depends how accepting one is in the first place.
During the mid 1960s, I was in my late teens and had a very good friend, and who, as the saying went then, was as camp as a row of tents. His sexual preference was never a barrier in our relationship and his own views were never pushed onto either myself or the rest of our group and vice versa.
His circumstance was accepted as just the way it is, however, LGBT people have politicized a sexual orientation so that it is now used as a political and social wedge that promotes homosexuality as a normal and natural human state when anyone who can be honest with themselves knows that is not the case.
Acceptance of a person for who they are is generally based on a person’s character and not what they get up to in their own bedroom. However, being made to conform to outlandish requests, such as marriage ‘equality’ from a minority that likes to push its agenda onto those who do not share them is in effect, bullying to gain a position, but as if that aspect is not bad enough, to then have special laws in place to protect the bullies from those who may other wise treat them with the contempt they deserve, is being forced to accept a social position that will never settle with the majority.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-manchester-38909352
Another Pakistani “grooming” (read gang rape as encouraged by Mohammed in Hadith) gang. The number of such Pakistani grooming gangs in the UK is mind blowing. To say this has nothing to do with the teachings these beasts are brought up with is to ignore very strong statistical evidence that there is something in their religion that is encouraging such behavior
They found out very quickly that they could do what they like with western women, almost with impunity.
That said, just today England (gasp!) retracted the citizenship of several ‘groomers’ and ‘says’ it will deport them!
Re “Snowflakes pose a real problem” of course they do, and will continue to do as long as there is effectively NO punishment.
Funny, how quickly all protests stopped at Kent State…
The peaceful protest at Kent State was against Nixon’s illegal extension of the Vietnam war into Cambodia. Also bystanders were killed.
Mmmmm, I know. But the way I see it what happened then, with needless vandalism, hatred, and rocks being thrown at cops and guardsmen, is EXACTLY what’s happening today. Well, where’s the difference? Oh they always have a ‘reason’.
Today it’s worse, as racism rears it’s ubiquitous head, and the real enemy-moslems-keep pouring into our countries; Prez Trump sees them for what they are, but some ‘learned judges’ are still sitting around the campfire singing kumbaya. Sad.
“It has been over 900 days since the last illegal migrant boat reached Australia, according to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, underlining the success of the Commonwealth’s uncompromising “stop the boats” policy.”
It has been successful, no denying that. And it shows up the stupidity of Europe leaders for not adopting a similar policy when the first boats pushed off from Libya.
In fact the Australian government continues to post advertisements on the internet, some in Arabic explaining the policy and that migrants will end up in some mosquito ridden detention camp in Papua New Guinea with no chance of over reaching Australia. So you want to give your hard earned saving to some people smuggler and risk that? Australia has beaten the people smugglers with a tough no compromise policy and clever advertising campaign to reach the potential migrants and scare them off. Europe should do likewise.
I agree Europe should, but I see no European govt. making any attempt to do so, indeed, the Italian navy is still going gung-ho to rescue the trash–and yes, I do mean trash.
Africa could even be labelled a ‘failed continent’, and these so-called refugees are the people who couldn’t/didn’t make it there. Yet Merkel and Mogherini are still spouting that the refugees are brilliant people with degrees, doctors, engineers etc., in fact they are savages, and nothing but trouble, as I know from personal observations in Norway and England.