Matteo Salvini, the leader of the Italian separatist party Lega Nord, was met by rioting antifas when he arrived in Naples to attend a rally. Police responded to the anarchist violence with water cannon, tear gas, and batons.
In other news, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu threatened to unleash another wave of migrants on Europe if the European Union does not accede to Turkish demands for visa-free travel in Europe.
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Boy Scout Leader Charged With Raping Teen Scout
Aaron Robertson, 28, who also serves as an auxiliary cop for the Olmsted Falls Police Department, was removed from all Scouting activities since his arrest this week, Fox8.com reported. He was also relieved of all policing duties.
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California Man Arrested on White House Grounds After Scaling Fence
A man from California carrying a backpack scaled a White House fence Friday night and was arrested on the South Lawn of the presidential residence, according to the U.S. Secret Service.
The suspect — identified by D.C. police as Jonathan Tran, 26 — was being charged and could make an initial appearance in D.C. Superior Court later on Saturday on a charge of unlawful entry.
A federal law enforcement official said the man arrested has no prior criminal record and had no previous history with the Secret Service. The official spoke on the condition of not being named to discuss background information about the suspect that is not usually made public by police. Tran is from the city of Milpitas, just outside of San Jose.
On Saturday, President Trump said the “Secret Service service did a fantastic job last night,” and he described the suspect as a “troubled person.”
The U.S. Secret Service said the breach occurred at 11:38 p.m. when the person managed to get over an outer-perimeter fence near the Treasury Building on East Executive Avenue. Uniformed members of the Secret Service arrested him on the South Lawn.
Authorities said the person was carrying a backpack that was searched. It did not contain any hazardous materials, the Secret Service statement said.
Further searches of the grounds turned up nothing suspicious, according to law enforcement authorities. Trump was in the White House at the time…
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Jeff Sessions Asks All Remaining Obama-Appointed U.S. Attorneys to Resign
In a move that will likely provoke further media, and pundit, fury despite it being a routine act that is concurrent with every change in administration, Attorney General Jeff Sessions has asked all remaining Obama-appointed U.S. Attorneys for their resignation.
Sarah Isgur Flores, Director of Public Affairs at the Department of Justice, released the following statement:
“As was the case in prior transitions, many of the United States Attorneys nominated by the previous administration already have left the Department of Justice. The Attorney General has now asked the remaining 46 presidentially appointed U.S. Attorneys to tender their resignations in order to ensure a uniform transition. Until the new U.S. Attorneys are confirmed, the dedicated career prosecutors in our U.S. Attorney’s Offices will continue the great work of the Department in investigating, prosecuting, and deterring the most violent offenders.”
Trump had previously asked the Obama-appointed U.S. attorney in Manhattan, Preet Bharara, to stay on. In addition, the Obama-appointed U.S. attorney in Alexandria, Virginia, Dana Boente, is currently serving as acting deputy attorney general, and Trump has nominated the Obama-appointed U.S. Attorney for Maryland, Rod Rosenstein, for the deputy attorney general, Politico adds.
However, as NBC adds, Preet Bharara is one of the Attorneys asked to resigns, suggesting that something may have changed in the amicable realtionship between Trump and Bharara in the past few months…
The bottom line, however, is that what Sessions has done, is considered standard operating procedure, and if anything Trump was late making the announcement. Sessions’request for the U.S. attorneys’resignations comes as he prepares to implement a series of significant policy shifts at the department, pushing for tougher prosecution of gun and drug offenses and parting company with the Obama administration’s embrace of more lenient sentences for some drug convicts.
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Nancy Pelosi: We Have a Right to Know What’s in Health Care Bill Before it Passes
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif) sent a letter Tuesday to Speaker Paul Ryan (R.-Wis.) demanding to know the contents of his American Health Care Act, or RyanCare, before it passes the House-a rich hark back to what she said when Congress was considering Obamacare seven years ago.
“We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it,” is what Pelosi said March 9, 2010 to the National Association of Counties.
[Comment: What a duplicitous woman.]
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NYT Lambastes Florida GOP for Shielding Citizens’ Right to Armed Self-Defense
Florida Republicans’ efforts to further shield citizens who use lethal force in self-defense is sending The New York Times into apoplexy.
Florida already has a Stand Your Ground law, which removes any requirement that a citizen attempt to flee a life or death attack before using lethal force to stop the aggression. To use the law in court, “defendants must prove at a pretrial hearing that they ‘reasonably believed’ that they were threatened with grave bodily harm.”
State GOP lawmakers want to take the law one step further, shielding the right to armed self-defense by putting the onus on the state and forcing “prosecutors to prove ‘beyond a reasonable doubt’ that a defendant’s claim to self-defense was not valid.”
The NYT already opposes Stand Your Ground and believes the “defects” of the law were seen in the example of George Zimmerman shooting Trayvon Martin in self-defense. The paper suggests the proposed changes to the law only make it “worse.”
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Windows 10 Tip: Turn Off File Explorer Advertising
While the Creators Update will include a number of important improvements to Windows 10, the escalation of File Explorer advertising isn’t one of them. Here’s how to turn it off.
Note: This tip is derived from the Windows 10 Field Guide, which is now being updated for the Windows 10 Creators Update. But this tip applies to the Anniversary Update as well.
I’ve led the charge against Microsoft’s advertising efforts in Windows, noting back in 2012 that the software giant cheapened Windows 8 with ads. Despite my warnings about a slippery slope — Microsoft would only escalate its in-box advertising down the road, I cautioned — Windows 10, sadly, was even worse. And now the Creators Update is coming, bringing with it yet another escalation of in-product advertising. Most notably, and most disturbingly, in File Explorer.
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German Police Attacked by Group of Young Muslims
Two police in the German city of Hamburg were attacked by a group of several Muslims while out on patrol after the Muslims claimed to have been “provoked” by the officers.
The group of Muslim men were finishing their prayers in a car park when the pair of officers arrived on the scene in Hamburg’s St. Georg district this week. According to the police, several residents on Gdansk street alerted the praying Muslims to the presence of the police who were on routine patrol. The situation soon escalated, and the men attacked the police, Die Welt reports.
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German Mall Shut Down After Receiving Tips of Imminent Attack
BERLIN — Police ordered a shopping mall in the western German city of Essen not to open Saturday after receiving credible tips of an imminent attack.
The shopping center and the adjacent parking lot stayed closed as about 100 police officers — many armed with machine pistols and bullet-proof vests — positioned themselves around the compound to prevent anyone from entering the mall. Several officers scoured the interior to bring out early morning cleaning staff.
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Girl Kidnapped by Syrian Father Returns to Italy
Houda Emma Kharat about to turn 7
(ANSA) — Rome, March 10 — A nearly seven-year-old girl kidnapped by her Syrian father five years ago is set to arrive in Milan on a flight from Istanbul to be reunited with her mother, the Italian foreign ministry said Friday. Houda Emma Kharat, who was taken to Aleppo by her father, is set to see her mother Alice Rossini for the first time since she was kidnapped when she was just over one year of age. Foreign Minister Angelino Alfano said Houda’s return was “made possible by the excellent collaboration” between Italy and Turkey. “The Turkish authorities, in fact, aware of the humanitarian value of the case, facilitated the arrival from Syria and the transit across Turkey of little Houda Emma.” He said “this evening Houda Emma will be re-embraced by her mother”. Alfano added: “Thank you, therefore, from the heart, to the Turkish authorities and all the structures of the Italian State, which made this embrace possible”.
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Italy: Soccer: Agnelli Ticket Contacts With ‘Ndrangheta Boss
Juve chairman denies FIGC prosecutor’s report
(ANSA) — Rome, March 7 — Juventus Chairman Andrea Agnelli had contacts with ‘Ndrangheta Calabrian mafia boss Rocco Dominello “to handle tickets and season tickets,” an Italian Soccer Federation (FIGC) prosecutor told the parliamentary anti-Mafia commission Tuesday. General Manager Beppe Marotta also had “occasional relations” with ultra milieux allegedly linked to ‘Ndrangheta bosses, prosecutor Giuseppe Pecoraro said. Pecoraro said he had received over 5,000 pages of evidence from Turin prosecutor Armando Spataro in a probe into alleged ‘Ndrangheta infiltration of Juve fan circles. Angelo Attaguile of the rightwing populist Northern League, co-chair of the ‘mafia and sport’ committee on the anti-mafia commission, said “we want to get to the bottom of this, unfortunately there are links between criminals and fans in soccer, managers have to avoid them for the transparency of the sport.” Attaguile said the panel’s action could not be influenced by “powers-that-be”.
Juve has denied all knowledge of the alleged links.
Responding to the report, Agnelli denied meeting Calabrian ‘Ndrangheta mafia bosses about tickets. “With respect for investigative and judicial bodies I stress that I never met mafia bosses,” Agnelli tweeted. “What I have read is false”.
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Italy: Naples Cancer Centre Chief Arrested
7 arrested, assets seized in Pascale equipment supply probe
(ANSA) — Naples, March 7 — The director of the Pascale Cancer Centre in Naples, Elia (RPT Elia, not Elio as previously reported) Abbondante, was arrested Tuesday in a probe into the supply of medical equipment at the institute, judicial sources said.
Abbondante, who is also the director-general of the ASL Naples Centre health authority, was placed under house arrest in his capacity as Pascale chief.
In all, seven people were placed under house arrest and had their assets seized in the probe into suspected corruption at the Pascale Foundation, judicial sources said.
In order to boost sales, police said, a scientific researcher, Marco Argenziano, allegedly gave 10,000 euros to chief surgeon Francesco Izzo to double orders of anti-cancer drug Nexavar in 2015.
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Italy: Leonardo Boosts Partnership With China’s Shanghai Zenisun
For AW119, AW169, AW139, AW189 helicopter models
(ANSA) — Rome, March 8 — Italian aerospace giant Leonardo (formerly Finmeccanica) and China’s Shanghai Zenisun on Wednesday they will strengthen their strategic cooperation in the Chinese civil helicopter market.
A statement said they would renew the existing Distributorship Agreement with Sino-US Intercontinental, part of Shanghai Zenisun, as the sole distributor in China (including Hong Kong and Macau) of Leonardo’s civil products. The statement said these include the AW119, AW169, AW139, AW189 helicopter models. “The parties will initiate joint efforts on local training and local completion center capability setup,” the statement said. “Through these initiatives Shanghai Zenisun is established as the preferred, leading strategic cooperation partner of Leonardo for civil helicopter sales in China.” “The presence of Leonardo in China grows stronger with more than 180 helicopters sold to Chinese customers to date for commercial and public services. 2016 has set a new record with more than 20 helicopters delivered to China. “The growing fleet is supported by an increased customer support presence, recently enhanced by the opening of a major warehouse facility in Shanghai.”
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Italy: Clashes Outside Salvini Newspaper Forum in Naples
‘Ready to govern Italy’ says League leader
(ANSA) — Naples, March 8 — Demonstrators and police clashed outside the offices of Naples newspaper Il Mattino Wednesday while anti-immigrant, anti-euro Northern League leader Matteo Salvini was inside addressing a forum.
The protesters shouted slogans against the formerly secessionist leader, who has turned his party into a nationwide one but still regularly gets barracked in southern Italy.
“I’m ready to challenge (ex-premier and likely future premiership candidate Matteo) Renzi (of the ruling centre-left Democratic Party) and govern Italy better from tomorrow,” Salvini told the forum.
He issued a message for Neapolitans: “Let’s get to know one another, let’s learn to respect each other”.
The demonstrators were from leftist and anarchist squats known as ‘social centres’ in Italy.
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Dozens of masked protesters engaged in running battles with the police in the southern Italian city of Naples, outside a rally by the anti-immigration Lega Nord politician Matteo Salvini.
Police unleashed water cannon and tear gas on protesters, who launched projectiles and flares.
The heart of Italy’s third-biggest city was covered in thick smoke, as police used batons to fend off the rioters, who themselves had improvised clubs, and threw bins and other street objects at the law enforcement officers in a series of anarchic clashes, as the protesters retreated and rushed the cordons again and again.
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Report: Young People in Poland ‘Predominantly Support Radical Right’
“Anti-establishment” parties which lie on the ‘radical right’ of the political spectrum enjoy the most support amongst young people in Poland, new research has found.
Conducted by the Institute of Public Affairs and pollster Kantar Public, the survey found Polish youths are significantly more likely to describe themselves as right wing than left wing. According to the data, 68 per cent of 15-24-year-olds described their political views as conservative while 30 per cent said they were on the left.
According to the survey, young Poles are increasingly rejecting mainstream parties with the Eurosceptic, anti-mass migration parties like Kukiz’15 and Freedom attracting by far the most support from respondents.
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Second Explosion Rocks Sweden in 24 Hours, Suspected Bomb
A specialist bomb squad has been scrambled to the Swedish city of Gothenburg after an explosion, just 24 hours after a suspected car bomb rocked Stockholm.
The incident occurred in the stairwell of an apartment block just after 10 pm on Friday evening, Göteborgs-Posten reports.
“I thought it was another country that has come to attack. I thought it was a war…” saidone witness.
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Turkey’s President Erdogan Savages Dutch as ‘Nazi Remnants’ Amid Rotterdam Rally Row
TURKISH President Recep Tayyip Erdogan attacked the Dutch as being “Nazi remnants and facsists” as tensions heightened following the cancellation of a Rotterdam rally.
His comments come after the Dutch government withdrew it permission to allow a plane carrying Turkish foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu to land in Holland.
Mr Cavusoglu was originally scheduled to speak at a rally in support of a Yes vote in Turkey’s upcoming referendum, which would give Mr Erdogan greatly increased powers. But the rally was banned for security reasons, according to Rotterdam’s mayor.
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A 53-year-old chef has been jailed for having sex with a 13-year-old and proposing to marry her and run away with her to Pakistan.
Akhtar Hussain was infatuated with the girl, proposing to her on one knee and saying he would leave his wife and three children to be with her.
Hussain had sex with the girl, who came to the UK from Poland, in a room he rented last July.
He was arrested after the child was reported missing from home.
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UK: Man, 53, Had Sex With Girl, 13, And Offered to Leave His Wife and Children to Marry Her
A MAN aged 53 has been jailed for four and a half years for having sex with a 13-year-old girl.
Akhtar Hussain was infatuated with the child, proposing to her on one knee and saying he would leave his family and take her to Pakistan, Bradford Crown Court heard… The court heard that the girl was medically examined, and had an injury consistent with sexual activity a few days earlier. Traces of Hussain’s semen were found in her knickers.
Hussain made a statement denying any sexual contact with the girl, telling the police: “No more questions; dirty questions. She is like my granddaughter.”
Mrs Beckett said a significant aggravating feature of the case was the 40 year age disparity between Hussain and the girl.
[Comment: Upon reading the details of this case, in which the perpetrator was found guilty of “sexual activity with a child” in a British court and was sent to jail, one cannot help but recall William Montgomery Watt’s account of Mohammad’s so-called ‘marriage’ to Aisha. Quote: “The sources do not comment directly on her tender years, though they describe how she went on playing with her toys, and how Muhammad entered into the spirit of her games. ‘What are these,’ he would say, and she would answer, ‘Solomon’s horses.’ This relationship between a man of fifty-three and a girl of ten must have been a strange one, more like father and daughter than husband and wife.”]
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UK: Tariq Syed, Of Little Horton, Gets 13 Years for “Defiling” Victim Before Offering Family £15,000
A 64-YEAR-OLD man who drove a barely teenage girl to an isolated wooded area and “defiled” her has been jailed for 13 years.
Tariq Syed threatened his 13-year-old victim to ensure her silence before offering her mother £15,000 for the family to return to their native Romania.
Judge David Hatton QC said Syed had groomed and “terrified” his victim during the ordeal, which took place in September 2014… The jury heard that Syed’s semen was found on the inside of the girl’s school trousers after the incident, and Dr Mark Dale said forensic results were “in-keeping with the view he had engaged in some kind of sexual activity” with her.
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‘The Land of Sleeper Cells’: Why ISIS Experts Warn Against Travel to Turkey This Summer
TEMPTING prices, sunshine beaches and alluring exchange rates will see Britons booking in their thousands to travel to Turkey this summer — something terror experts are claiming would be a MASSIVE mistake.
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Outrage After Man Brands Aussie Politician a ‘B****’ In Arabic While Smiling Next to Her
An Egyptian man who wanted to “prank” an Australian politician delivered a shocking abusive rant in Arabic while posing with a smile next to her.
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Bulgaria: Armed Vigilantes Patrol Turkish Border to Keep Migrants Out of Europe
ARMED and masked Bulgarian vigilantes are patrolling the Turkish border in an effort to keep migrants from crossing into Europe.
Disguised in camouflage and balaclavas, and equipped with long knives, bayonets and hatchets, the paramilitary troops hunt down refugees and migrant in Strandzha Massif, a forested mountain range, Bulgaria, on the Turkish border.
Patches on their uniforms — a coat of arms displaying a snarling wolf’s head framed by Cyrillic text — declare they are members of the Bulgarian National Movement Shipka, abbreviated as “BNO Shipka”.
The group are led by Vladimir Rusev, a former colonel who claims he fought in Chechnya as a volunteer alongside Russians.
Speaking to NBC News, the 58-year-old claims BNO Shipka have as many as 50,000 members in their ranks, however, this figure is unverifiable.
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EU to Force Countries to Receive Refugees/Migrants
All EU countries should be forced to accept refugees, suggests the Swedish EU parliamentarian Cecilia Wikström in her report on the future refugee situation, now to be negotiated within the EU.
– — It is impossible when there are three, four, five countries in the EU that take responsibility, and the other 24 do nothing at all or very little, says Cecilia Wikström to Swedish Radio.
She is the European Parliament’s negotiator on the so-called Dublin agreement, which determines which country in the EU to examine an asylum application. The agreement will now be revised after Angela Merkel made it obsolete.
The European Commission’s proposal means that each country is assigned a reference value, a refugee quota, based on the country’s GDP and population growth.
After the quota is filled, the redeployment of asylum seekers will be triggered automatically.
The European Commission has also proposed that countries that refuse to accept refugees will be punished with a fine of EUR 250,000 per applicant.
[Comment: The proles are waking up…so globalists put the pedal to the metal in their population replacement plan.]
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Increasingly Violent Migrants Attacking Border Guards With Iron Bars, Spanish Minister Says
Attempts by migrants to break through the border into the Spanish exclaves of Ceuta and Melilla are becoming increasingly violent, the country’s security minister has warned.
José Antonio Nieto said attempts to cross the border fence at Ceuta had become “more dangerous and violent” in recent months, with migrants not only using sticks but even iron bars and wire cutters to attack border guards.
The Interior Ministry revealed 3,144 immigrants had illegally entered Spain so far this year, half of them by crossing into Ceuta and Melilla, which have the European Union’s only land border with Africa.
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Norwegian Police Prepare for Swedish Crime Wave
As pointed out many, many, many times, the Swedish immigration policy does not only affect Sweden. It may eventually affect all of Europe, as Swedish citizens are free to travel wherever they like, whatever background they have. Your next Swedish neighbour, or ‘tourist,’ is therefore not necessarily named Göran and eats surströmming, but he has a Swedish passport. And that should worry you, considering the terrible job the Swedish Migration Board does when checking who they let stay. And if it is a verified actual ISIS terrorist, he is not put in jail, but offered job, housing and help. Help!
So, as predicted long ago, that the increasing crime in Sweden would eventually run over the borders, is now about to happen. It was inevitable.
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Revealed: Just One in Five Foreign Rapists in Sweden Are Ever Deported to Their Home Countries
Shocking official statistics from Sweden have revealed only 13 percent of foreigners found guilty of raping children are being deported to their home countries.
The foreign nationals tried and convicted of some of the most horrific crimes imaginable are being allowed to stay in the country.
Government figures from 2010 to 2014 reveal even rapists who aren’t registered as Swedish residents are not being kicked out of the country.
It comes just months after five Afghan teenagers were convicted of gang-raping a boy in Sweden — but none of them will be deported because their homeland is ‘too dangerous’.
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Saudi UN Chief Compares Hungary to Nazis for Controlling Their Border
Attacking European politicians who he accused of failing to show migrants a sufficiently warm welcome, the United Nations (UN) human rights chief compared the rhetoric of Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán to that of Nazi Germany.
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Sweden: No New Police Station in Rinkeby — No One Dares Build it
There will be no new police station in the troubled immigrant suburb of Rinkeby in the Swedish capital of Stockholm. Not right now anyway. The reason: no construction company dares to build it.
Rinkeby has been in the news several times recently. It was the scene of riots just after Trump had raised concerns about Sweden, and also the place of numerous attacks on journalists, including the 60 Minutes crew from Australia.
The old police station in Rinkeby was closed in the spring of 2014, but already a year later a decision was made to build a new station for a total of 240 police officers.
The new station was suppose to open in the summer, but it will not, reports Swedish Television. In fact there have not been any bids to build it at all. Construction companies do not dare take the job because they are afraid of immigrant-related violence in Rinkeby.
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Truck Drivers Still Under Threat From Calais Migrants
Three months after the notorious ‘Jungle’ Calais migrant camp was cleared, there has been a surge in the number of migrants gathering in the area in the hope of illegally entering the UK.
The changing situation has led to the closure of a lorry rest area near the coast due to the number of migrants attempting to break into vehicles parked up in them.
Sanef, the French motorway operator, has confirmed one stop on the A16 and a further three on the A26 will stay closed until at least the end of June, The Times reports.
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Trump’s Wall is Already Paid For
Critics of the border wall proposed by President Trump have said the cost is prohibitive under current budget and economic conditions, that no way is Mexico going to pay for it, and shifting funds away from the TSA, Coast Guard, and FEMA are counterproductive in terms of national security.
These criticisms ignore the costs to the U.S. in terms other than money — increased crime, overtaxed law enforcement, the drain on public resources such as education, medical care, etc., and the driving down of real wages through an endless supply of cheap labor.
In fact, thanks in large part to the mere threat of the wall, the sudden enforcement of existing law, and the stripping of funding from sanctuary cities by President Trump, illegal immigration has plummeted by 40 percent in February, a trend that if continued will reduce the costs and burdens of illegal immigration to the point that the benefits of enhanced border security, including the wall, will be more than paid for. As the New York Post noted:
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Turkey Threatens to Lift Migrant Blockade to Europe
The Turkish Foreign Minister has said that his country is prepared to once again allow migrants passage into Europe if Turks are not permitted to travel in the European Union (EU) without visas.
Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told CNN Turk television Saturday that the EU’s failure to uphold its part of the agreement entered into last March jeopardized Turkey’s will to keep migrants from crossing through Turkey into Greece.
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UK Aid Funding ‘Squalid’ Libyan Migrant Camps
Millions of pounds of British aid is being spent to send migrants to “squalid” camps in Libya where they are regularly abused by guards, a watchdog has said.
Britain is currently sending £5 million of aid to Libya as part of a package designed to tackle the migrant crisis in the Mediterranean, with £4 million dedicated to detention centres among other initiatives.
However, The Times reports that the Independent Commission for Aid Impact has condemned conditions at those centres.
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Canada’s Catholic bishops have slammed Justin Trudeau and his Liberals for their $650 million commitment to increase global access to abortion as “a reprehensible example of Western cultural imperialism” that “exploits women.”
And they castigated the Catholic prime minister for a “policy and vision” that is in “conflict” with the Catholic Church’s teaching “to defend and protect human life from conception to natural death.”
[Comment: Canadian taxpayers paying for providing abortion services in countries around the world. Part of the globalist population reduction agenda…]
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** with migrants not only using sticks but even iron bars and wire cutters to attack border guards. **
Helpful advice to Spanish government: Have border guards use deadly force against invaders who attack them.
The invaders laugh at your genteel, civilized restraint, at your cowardice, at your subservience.
Your last paragraph which describes the dhimmi, is so sad that it makes me want to cry. There seems to be no rule of law in many European countries now and that they will end up descending into anarchy and chaos. At that point, the strong horse Islam will take over. It’s a horrifying scenario but I don’t see any glimmer of light at the end of the hijra tunnel.
There’s a device in horror shows where the young boy and girl hear a noise in the basement of a haunted house. Every fiber of your being screams to them, “Don’t go into the basement!” But, they always do.
With the Western Treason Class you want to scream at them, “Do something!” But, they stand there immobile. I have a special appreciation for Merkel’s ability to obfuscate and utter platitudes.
Sam Francis’s concept of anarcho-tyranny is at play here too. The state refuses to enforce the most basic laws relating to personal security and protection of property, but relentlessly pursues citizens who criticize the ruling elite.
Muslims are still a minority in Western countries and concentrated in the cities. Once the central power is discredited and rejected I think citizens will self organize and take care of business but the cost will be much higher than it need be.
I’m all for civilised restraint WHEN POSSIBLE.
If the numbers of “migrants” were small (i.e., a few hundred/year Europe-wide), I’d be the first saying that they should be treated gently.
When the potential numbers are a continent-changing hundreds of millions, there is no choice but to escalate if necessary. That could even mean using deadly force at the outset in some cases.
It’s a matter of survival.
More of the “migrants” will also survive this way, because they’ll understand earlier on not to try the journey.
The Muslim attitude is “We’re here to stay and we’re going to upend your own country and take over.”
We can accept that or we can make sure that they are not here any more. They can leave unmolested but they must leave. Anything less than removal is demographic suicide.
They chose to create this impossible situation. They and the traitors in our midst. This is all a catastrophe. Our traitors have known exactly what they are doing and spread utter nonsense in place of simple common sense.
“The group of Muslim men were finishing their prayers in a car park when the pair of officers arrived on the scene in Hamburg’s St. Georg district this week. According to the police, several residents on Gdansk street alerted the praying Muslims to the presence of the police who were on routine patrol. The situation soon escalated, and the men attacked the police”
A don’t think I have ever heard of a Baptist prayer meeting ending with a brawl with Police. Yet for muslims, their religious practices seem to motivate attacks on Kuffar. It’s noticeable most trouble in muslim areas occurs after Friday Prayers, where the Imam has whipped them up into a frenzy. Ah, the religion of peace.
The bishops, comfortable in their sinecures, peep up every several years…and then do nothing to correct a parishioner like Jr. Trudeau…or his old man. They exude weakness in defense of Christianity, eh?
It is because they no longer believe what they used to preach that they defer to what should be obvious to them as the wrong stance to be taking.
The Roman Church no longer sows the real seeds of Christianity among its followers.
Wow, it seems like the young people of Poland are on the right track! If only every country’s youth was so forward thinking.
Euro-sceptic and nationalist parties in Europe get support from young people. I’ve been wondering why that is the case. These are my thoughts:
The parents and grand parents of todays’s young people in Eastern Europe lived under Communism. The older generations raised their sons and daughters: do not fall for the false song of socialism, and internationalism.
Young people in Western Europe support Euro-secptic and nationalist parties too, see for example this:
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/05/05/front-national-now-top-choice-french-youth/
Yes I agree. From all my travels and conversations in Central Europe (3 trips in 2 years), I found that the young people have a multitude of stories bequeathed to them by their parents and grandparents that have inoculated them from the disease of socialism/marxism – like the young man who had a perfect score on his medical exams but then had 50% taken off that score because he didn’t belong to the communist party – many stories that that.
In Budapest, Hungary, one of the best museums I’ve ever been to is the House of Terror. It’s a huge old mansion that the Nazis used as their place of “business” and interrogation/torture. When the Soviets came, they moved right in and took over the house for their “business.”
PM Viktor Orban had the building turned it into a museum so the Hungarian young people could understand what these totalitarian systems meant for their country and its citizens’ freedoms. Central and Eastern Europe have not forgotten their history.
If Cecilia Wikström likes so much the illegal immigrants ,let her take them into her home and so she will taste a bit of what are suffering from,the other poor Swedish women.
But she is talking from her safe quarters,the stupid woman.
** Dozens of masked protesters engaged in running battles with the police in the southern Italian city of Naples **
The local italian police confronted the street thugs somewhat effectively but as with all European street violence the authorities only deal with it reactively at times and places chosen by leftists. No AntiFa or other thug who appears masked is punished for that. Presumably, because no country or the EU has criminalized that. Never mind that. Why is every thug within 100 feet of where the police were being attacked not in jail now? No. European goverments only act defensively and never with appropriate force.
Merkel, Supreme Mistress of the Fog, utters platitudes about “European values” which apparently involve governments being remarkably phlegmatic about street violence, especially if the protestors’anguished cries of “racism, xenophobia” reach official ears.
Certain types of street violence are clearly consistent with European values and feeble efforts to deal with it are clear evidence that it is condoned by government. We know this because we know how governments can be remarkably energetic when THEIR interests are threatened. Individual citizens who exercise free speech to object to immigration or Islamification are identified with ease and persecuted, threatened even with loss of their children. But who the AntiFa and other leftist street scum are is a great mystery to European governments.
One never reads of campaigns to root out thugs as an object lesson. 400 German police raided some leftist squat when one or two of their own were attacked outside. The Constitution must be defended!! Oh, yes. Now we see the Energizer Bunny swing into action.
It’s clear that Europe is in the grip of leftist authoritarianism. Ultra-left street gangs contended for power in Weimar Germany, only now ultra-left thugs in the street are government auxilliaries.
The supreme political sin to the E.U. itself is “nationalism” but million and millions of deaths have now led to a situation where the European democracies defend nothing that is European and embrace all that is anti-democratic.
On what any Western European government bases its claim to legitimacy is a complete mystery to me.
“On what any Western European government bases its claim to legitimacy is a complete mystery to me.”
They have the guns. That is the only basis for government ‘legitimacy’. We pretend it is otherwise, but it is not.
Quite so. The picture circulated about 10 years ago when Flip de Winters was arrested in Brussels. You can see the policeman’s grip on his testicles, quite gratuitous pain and humiliation as the well-dressed political leader was offering no resistance.
A symbol of modern Western European governments.
I agree. Power does indeed come from the barrel of a gun. Merkel, and other idiots may keep on mumbling about ‘European values…’ but hopefully it’s starting to percolate into western brains after decades of ‘European values and dialogue’ have only got Europe further down the road to islamic rule, that we are actually far past that stage.
It will be interesting to see what the Turkish Caliph decides to do next, since he will be in effect attacking other NATO countries if he turns the rabble free on Europe, not to mention where that will leave the nice Mr Stoltenberg….
In the past two weeks, Sweden, Germany, France, Netherlands, and Italy have had riots and protests by antifa and the religion of peace.
I wish some graphic artist/web person would come up with an interactive map that could be updated each week to show the location of these events.
If we had any decent newspapers left, they would investigate and connect these dots. Thank goodness for Vlad Tepes and Gates of Vienna and PoliticalIslam.