Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s tough stance against Turkey over the past few days evidently paid off at the polls: his party (the VVD) held the line against the PVV, Geert Wilders’ party. It looks like the PVV will get 18-19 seats versus about 31 for the VVD.
In other news, 42 Islamic organizations in the Indian state of Assam have issued a fatwa against a 16-year-old female Muslim singer named Nahid Afrin, whose public performances allegedly violate the tenets of sharia. Miss Afrin’s singing is popular on a musical reality show on television, and she is being warned by clerics that she will have to face the consequences if she continues to sing in public.
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“The Powers That be Have Looted Everything.” Greek Farmers Fight Riot Police With Shepherd Crooks
The economic and social disintegration of Greece used to be big news. However it’s largely been overshadowed by the migrant crisis, and the American media hardly reports on Greece anymore. If you’ve been out of the loop, allow me to get you caught up on the financial situation in that country, by giving two answers to the questions you’re probably thinking. Yes, the Greek government still sucks. And yes, the people of Greece are still really pissed off.
Believe it or not, riots are still a common occurrence in that country. In fact there was an incident last week in Athens, after the government tried to increase taxes and social security contributions. In response, over a thousand farmers from Crete, who used to be immune from these taxes, took a ferry to Athens and proceeded to riot outside of the agriculture ministry building.
This however wasn’t an ordinary riot, not even by Greek standards. The farmers fought the riot police with shepherd crooks.
Taxes are being hiked to satisfy inspectors who represent the international creditors who Greece’s debt. If the government can’t pay 7 billion euros by July, then the country will once again face the possibility of default. However, the farmers are determined to change their Leftist government’s mind about the tax hikes. One of the protesting farmers who spoke to The Guardian stated that “We want to have them take back everything they have encumbered us with. To us, it seems like the powers that be have looted everything.”
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by Srdja Trifkovic
We have seen coups of sorts in Washington before, not that anyone one calls them that. (Remember JFK, Nixon.) The one against Trump is of a different order of magnitude. It had been plotted by the Deep State even before he was inaugurated. Significant power nodes had always refused to acknowledge the legitimacy of this presidency, and they remain relentless. Regime media ceaselessly pump out false stories designed to smear the President and his team, the leaks have turned into a deluge, the courts usurp executive powers . . .
This is without precedent here, but Deep State perpetrators did it in Ukraine and elsewhere—and pronounced it marvelous. Why not do the same at home? The Constitution has been a near-dead letter for decades anyway, as witnessed by the blocking of the immigration order by the Ninth Circuit. The judges have blatantly substituted their ideological preferences for the constitutional and statutory authority of the president—the border-security equivalent of Roe and Obergefell. The message is that even in the areas most directly under legitimate executive authority (as opposed to presidential usurpation of Congress’s war power, with which the plotters are perfectly pleased) the judiciary has now said, “We rule here, not you.”
The only way to defeat this coup is to proceed with shock and awe. Trump needs to keep changing the narrative on his enemies so as to keep them off balance. This must include a vigorous campaign of legal prosecutions against and/or related to Hillary Clinton, John Podesta, the Clinton Foundation, Flynngate, etc. Doubling down on his populist domestic and foreign policies must be part of the countercoup, Russia included. Most self-described Republicans support Trump’s declared desire for constructive relations with Russia. This is a potentially winning policy, but he has to spell it out, arrange a quick meeting with Putin, brave the hysteria as he well knows how to do, and serenely go about dominating the national debate.
The most important motivation for die Putschisten in the Deep State is forestalling any rapprochement with Moscow. The mobs of useful idiots on the streets are motivated by disparate enthusiasms that all converge on a hatred of the identity and values of the traditional American nation. But the paymasters behind the disorders, notably George Soros, are concentrated like a laser on the Russophobic primary goal of the Deep Staters. There are open calls for a removal of Trump by the intel professionals, as our “last line of defense.” Thus do progressives reveal the undemocratic, even totalitarian, impulse at the core of their worldview. A rapprochement (better yet, an entente) with Russia is still possible. Moscow will still welcome it, even if it’s appalled by what we all have witnessed since January 20. Trump has to be willing to tell any officials who refuse to collaborate, “You’re fired!”…
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GOP Senators Ask Tillerson to Probe US Funding of Soros Groups Abroad
Republican senators are asking Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to investigate claims that U.S. taxpayer money is being used to back left-wing billionaire George Soros’ political meddling and similar efforts overseas.
A letter sent Tuesday asked for a probe into how U.S. funds are being used by agencies such as the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to back left-wing political groups in other countries.
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Obama Used British Spies To Tap Trump — Didn’t want his fingerprints on surveillance.
While President Obama has vehemently denied issuing direct orders to the Justice Department or other domestic agencies to monitor President Trump during the 2016 election campaign, it is common knowledge that the National Security Agency has the ability to access video and audio from any number of devices in real time. In fact, according to Edward Snowden and documented in the recently released Snowden motion picture, U.S. spy agencies can simply flip a switch to watch or listen in on anything going on in a particular room by turning on a particular device’s cameras and microphones.
Here’s how it works:
The technology is real, but according to legal scholars, would have been illegal to use on Donald Trump or his surrogates without a warrant or probable cause indicating links to terrorist organizations.
But while domestic spy agencies like the NSA and CIA can’t actively monitor a citizen on U.S. soil, there is a very convenient work-around that has been used for over a decade to accomplish this task without technically breaking the law.
According to three intelligence sources who spoke with Judge Napolitano, this is exactly what President Obama did to then-candidate Donald Trump.
Steve Watson of Infowars.com explains:
Three separate intelligence sources believe that former President Obama veered ‘outside the chain of command’ and employed British surveillance agents to conduct surveillance on Donald Trump’s team prior to the election, according to a legal analyst.
Judge Andrew Napolitano revealed on ‘Fox & Friends’this morning that the sources spilled the details to him as the controversial case continues to dominate headlines.
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Mattis Pulls Pentagon Pick Over Muslim Brotherhood Fears
(FOX NEWS) Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has withdrawn his nominee for the Pentagon’s top civilian job after opposition from lawmakers concerned about her close ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.
A senior official confirmed to Fox News that Mattis pulled the nomination of former Ambassador Anne Patterson to be undersecretary of defense for policy. The move was first reported by the Washington Post.
Patterson was U.S. ambassador to Egypt between 2011 and 2013, when that country’s president, Mohamed Morsi, was overthrown by the military. Critics opposed her selection by Mattis on the grounds that she was too accommodating to Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood during her tenure in Cairo.
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Mental Health of ‘El Chapo’ Declining Rapidly, Claims Legal Team
Lawyers representing Joaquín El Chapo Guzmán say the man once considered the world’s leading drug trafficker, who is now awaiting trial in New York, has lost all sense of time. The cause? Being held in isolation 23 hours a day in a prison cell with no windows or heating, which is damaging his mental health.
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New York Scraps Literacy Test for Teachers After it Weeds Out Minorities
Equality is under attack yet again — shut it down! AP News: New York state is poised to scrap a literacy test for people trying to become teachers, in part because an outsized percentage of black and Hispanic candidates were failing. The state Board of Regents on Monday is expected to adopt the recommendation of a task force to eliminate the exam, known as the Academic Literacy Skills Test. In a multiracial society, there will be inequality in group outcomes. It’s just a fact of life. And in a true meritocracy, we would be concerned with equality of opportunity, not equality of outcome. However, we do not live in a true meritocracy.
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The American people might just be in possession of the most hypocritical government on Earth. The United States talks a big game about freedom and democracy, but that’s never stopped our government from maintaining close ties to countries like Saudi Arabia and countless other vile regimes from the past.
But perhaps what’s most hypocritical, is how our government has supposedly been engaging in the so called “War or Terror” for years, when in fact we’ ve been funding and arming the terrorists. It’s our government that’s been funding radical Islam in Syria, and it’s our government that created the conditions in Iraq that led to the rise of ISIS. It could be argued that we further helped ISIS along by providing support for supposedly moderate rebels in Syria who fought alongside ISIS.
That’s why Senator Rand Paul and Rep. Tulsi Gabbard recently introduced a much needed piece of legislation titled the Stop Arming Terrorists Act. In a recent press release Gabbard explained the necessity of this legislation:…
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To Protect Climate Money, Obama Stashed it Where It’s Hard to Find
President Donald Trump will find the job of reining in spending on climate initiatives made harder by an Obama-era policy of dispersing billions of dollars in programs across dozens of agencies — in part so they couldn’t easily be cut.
There is no single list of those programs or their cost, because President Barack Obama sought to integrate climate programs into everything the federal government did. The goal was to get all agencies to take climate into account, and also make those programs hard to disentangle, according to former members of the administration. In some cases, the idea was to make climate programs hard for Republicans in Congress to even find.
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US Charges Russian Spies Over Yahoo Breach
Two Russian spies are among four individuals indicted by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) over a huge theft of Yahoo user accounts.
The members of the FSB, the Russian intelligence agency, conspired with criminal hackers, according to DOJ officials announcing the charges.
Previously, Yahoo said “state-sponsored” hackers were behind the 2014 breach affecting 500 million accounts.
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On Wednesday, March 15, 2017 the U.S. government once again hits its debt ceiling. In short, this means that until Congress raises the ceiling, the government will be unable to borrow more money. If you remember the last time this happened, there were weeks of posturing by Republicans and Democrats while some government services started shutting down. After much deliberation and negotiation the debt ceiling was eventually raised and collapse was avoided.
But this time around we may see a very different set of events play out. If it isn’t clear to you just yet, President Trump is under attack from all sides. Democrats, the media and even members of his own Party want to see him fail. But perhaps more importantly, it is the shadow operators known as “The Deep State” who may take this opportunity to lay the blame for decades of machinations at Trump’s feet.
These shadow forces have been at work manipulating everything from the global economy to the political affairs of sovereign nations.
While March 15th is the day we hit our debt ceiling, June 1st, 2017 is the real date to watch. That’s the day the Deep State may finally pull the trigger:…
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Your Cell Phone is Spying on You! 4 Ways to Block Your Cell Phone and Prevent Being Monitored
This piece is on the heels of an article released by RT News on 3/8/17, entitled “85% of World’s Smart Phones ‘Weaponized’ by CIA.” The article is a very disturbing report; however, it isn’t something that just “surfaced” out of the zone of unpredictability. The basis for the report stems from the recent WikiLeaks release of the CIA-documents and information that just occurred. Here is an excerpt from that article:
“Google’s Android operating system, used in 85 percent of the world’s smart phones, including Samsung and Sony, was found to have 24 ‘zero days’ — the code name used by the CIA to identify and exploit vulnerabilities for the purpose of secretly collecting data on individuals. The techniques allow the CIA to access data from social messaging platforms, including WhatsApp, Weibo and Clockman before encryption, according to WikiLeaks. Both audio and message data were vulnerable to the exploit through the CIA’s exploitation of gaps in the OS.”
Now mind you, Readers, this piece is not a “news article,” although this event was just reported on 3/8/17. The purpose of this article is to serve as a “wake-up” call, in case you haven’t taken the measures already outlined in previous articles to protect yourself from your own devices tracking, recording, and (essentially) “spying” upon you. You may research past articles on electronic security that you can do, and this piece is a “refresher” that will enable you to secure yourself… from your own equipment.
4 Ways to Block Your Cell Phone and Prevent Being Monitored:…
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A Canadian sex-toy maker has been accused of tracking data on the intimate habits of thousands of its customers. The Ottawa-based company, Standard Innovation, has agreed a collective payout up to a total of C$4m (£2.4m) for users in the US, where the lawsuit was filed.
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Science Teacher May be Disciplined for Urging Students be Informed of Vaccination Risks
In March 2015, science teacher Timothy Sullivan approached public health nurses administering vaccines to high school students at his school in Waterford, Ontario, Canada and asked whether they had appropriately informed the students about the potential risks of the shots they were giving. He noted that the teenagers were required to give informed consent and the nurses, therefore, had the obligation to make sure they were fully informed.
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Avalanche in Austria Kills Four Swiss Men
Four Swiss men were killed when their ski touring group was swept away by an avalanche in western Austria, police in the Tyrol region said on Wednesday.
Rescuers had used snow-drilling machines to try to rescue the fourth man in the remote area near the Jochgrubenkopf, a roughly 2,450-metre peak, but found him dead, buried ten metres deep in snow, Reuters reported.
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British Lord Compares Brexit Voters to “Hitler, Mussolini, And Stalin”, Rejects “People’s Will”
Addressing his peers moments before the House of Lords voted to accept the European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill, paving the way for Prime Minister Theresa May to trigger Article 50 by the end of the month, a Liberal Democrat Lord was jeered as he explained how anyone who voted for Brexit was akin to Hitler and that the people’s will should be ignored… because the lords know best…
Is it any wonder why anti-establishment parties are risingup when the unelected elite hold such views… and share them publicly.
[Comment: Globalist minion.]
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Controversy After German Town Gifted Giant Karl Marx Statue by China
The southwestern town of Trier — and birthplace of Karl Marx — has stirred up controversy after accepting a gift from China to commemorate the 200th birthday of the famed German philosopher.
May 5th 2018 will mark 200 years since Karl Marx was born in Trier, then under the Kingdom of Prussia. So to celebrate the town that gave birth to one of the world’s most influential minds, the Chinese government offered Trier a more than six-metre high Marx statue.
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Dutch PM Leads Ahead of Wilders in Dutch Election
Right-wing Dutch MP Geert Wilders has accused the country’s victorious Prime Minister Mark Rutte of treating his supporters like ‘semi Nazis’ after his party lost the General Election.
Rutte’s VVD party won with a predicted 32 seats in the 150-seat parliament, while Wilders’ populist PVV party is joint second with 19 seats, alongside the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) and the Democracy party (D66).
[Comment: On the bright side: Wilders’ party gained seats while Rutte’s party lost seats in parliament. Not a bad result.]
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Dutch PM, Merkel OK’d Refugee Quota With Turkey
(RT) German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte secretly agreed to accept hundreds of thousands of refugees from Turkey each year as part of an EU-Turkey deal but did not inform other EU leaders, a book by a German journalist says.
The two European leaders met with then Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu to discuss the details of the EU-Turkey refugee deal in private the night before the EU-Turkey summit in March 2016. The details of the secret trilateral meet where the deal was struck, has been revealed in a new book, ‘ Driven by Events: Merkel’s Refugee Policy,’ by Robin Alexander, a journalist with Die Welt.
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Dutch Election: Voters Go to the Polls in Key Test for Populists
Voters are going to the polls in the Netherlands in the first of three crucial eurozone elections this year.
The race is dominated by Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s centre-right VVD party and that of Geert Wilders, running on an anti-immigration platform.
Mr Rutte has said the election is an opportunity for voters to “beat the wrong sort of populism”.
Mr Wilders has pledged to take the Netherlands out of the EU, close all mosques and ban the Koran.
His Freedom Party (PVV) had been leading in opinion polls but they have since suggested his support may be slipping.
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Dutch PM Rutte Beats Anti-Islam Leader Wilders, Exit Poll Says
The Netherlands’ main exit poll suggests Prime Minister Mark Rutte easily defeated anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders in Wednesday’s Dutch parliamentary election, which was seen as a litmus test for populism in Europe.
The Ipsos exit poll suggests Rutte’s party won 31 seats in the 150-place legislature, 12 more than Wilders’ party, which shared second place with two other parties.
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Eurosceptic Joins Finland Leadership Race as Anti-EU Feeling Spreads
FINLAND has moved a step closer to a European Union (EU) exit as the leadership campaign for its most eurosceptic party increasingly focuses on Brussels.
Both front-runners for the leadership of The Finns, the second biggest party in northern European state, have now come out in favour of leaving the bloc — as well as possibly the euro.
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Germany Eyes ‘Hate’ Fines for Social-Media Sites
BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s justice minister is proposing fines of up to 50 million euros ($53 million) for social networking sites that fail to swiftly remove illegal content, such as hate speech or defamatory “fake news.”
The plan proposed Tuesday marks a further step in Germany’s attempt to impose its strict domestic laws against incitement on the free-wheeling world of online chatter.
Justice Minister Heiko Maas, a member of the center-left Social Democratic Party, said social media companies had already taken voluntary steps to crack down on hate crimes that have resulted in improvements.
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Huge Cache of Weapons Destined for Terrorist Groups Seized in Spain
Spain’s national police have seized more than 10,000 firearms and 400 shells and grenades in raids in the northern part of the country, authorities announced Tuesday.
Police said that the arms were destined for gangs and terrorist groups, according to published reports.
The firearms included assault rifles, machine guns, pistols and revolvers.
Assisting in the operation, which was conducted in January as part of a crackdown on firearms trafficking, were counter-terror police from Madrid, Bilbao, Valencia and Gerona.
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Italy: Florence Mayor Talks New Mosques and Veil Ban in Historic Meeting
Florence’s 30,000-strong Muslim community will soon have a new place of worship, the city’s mayor promised on Tuesday evening.
Dario Nardella spoke about possible locations for the new mosque during a meeting at the city’s Islamic Centre; the first time a mayor of the city had visited a place of worship.
He also spoke about workplace bans on Islamic head-coverings and the importance of the Italian constitution at the meeting, which was organized following a historic pact on ‘Italian Islam’ signed last month. As part of the pledge, the country’s Muslim community promised to “reject all forms of violence and terrorism”, with prayers in mosques to be held in Italian.
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Le Pen: Russia Could Become a French Trading Partner on a “Par With the US”
LONDON — The leader of France’s far-right Front National party, Marine Le Pen, said that she would increase trade links with Russia if she won this year’s election.
Le Pen said: “Russia is not a threat to France — why should I be hostile to Russia?,” according to a report in The Telegraph citing an interview organised by LBC.
She added that Russia could become a trading partner “on a par with the US.”
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Leopards Might Have Walked Alongside Neanderthals
Leopards may have roamed across Italy alongside Neanderthals, a new study finds.
Scientists analyzed an ancient, well-preserved bone discovered by amateur scientist Renato Bandera in the summer of 2014 and donated to the Paleoanthropological Museum of Po in San Daniele Po, Italy. The gray-brown fossil was the slender right shinbone of a leopard, and was found along the right bank of the Po River in northern Italy, near the harbor entrance of the city of Cremona. [In Photos: Rare and Beautiful Amur Leopards]
The region where this bone was discovered is well-known for its fossils. Other bones from this site have suggested that the area was once home to straight-tusked elephants, steppe bison, woolly mammoths, giant deer, rhinos and elk. However, fossils of carnivores such as bears, wolves, hyenas, foxes — and now, leopards — are very rare.
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Lost in Translation: Swedish Prosecutors Explain Bizarre Delay in Assange Investigation
A hold-up translating a key document is delaying a decision by Swedish prosecutors over whether to continue their investigation of WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange on allegations of sexual assault.
The Swedish prosecutors said they would make a decision when they receive a full translation of the interview conducted with Assange at the Ecuadorian Embassy in November.
The prosecutors received the report from Ecuadorian authorities on January 5, and said that it is “almost completed.”
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Naples Police Uncover Mafia Links to University, Museum, And Crematorium
Italian police detained dozens of politicians and businessmen around Naples on Wednesday in a swoop that revealed the local mafia has got its tentacles into archaeology and the crematorium business.
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Nigel Farage: Revolution Against Global Governance
GLOBAL politics will see monumental changes as the revolution against global governance will continue across Europe, Nigel Farage has declared
The former Ukip leader urged people to not underestimate the effects of the upcoming elections across the continent in 2017 and 2018, as anti-establishment parties are growing in popularity.
Mr Farage added the election in France could have the same effect on global politics, as the Brexit vote and Donald Trump’s historical victory over Hillary Clinton in the US presidential race in November.
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Poll: Trump Uniquely Unpopular in Sweden
Eighty per cent of Swedes dislike US president Donald Trump and only 10 percent like him, according to a new survey carried out by the Novus polling company and commissioned by Swedish Radio.
The survey, carried out in early March among a random sample of over 1,000 Swedes, asked respondents to place Trump on a scale from “strongly dislike” to “strongly like”.
The outcome of the poll is uniquely negative, Sören Holberg, a political scientist at the University of Gothenburg, suggested. He told Swedish Radio that previous polls measuring Swedes’ attitudes to foreign leaders have not turned out such pessimistic results.
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Scotland Leaving EU No Matter What — PM
The prime minister has claimed that Scotland will be leaving the European Union regardless of whether or not it votes for independence.
Speaking during an exchange with the SNP’s Angus Robertson, Theresa May also warned against “constitutional game-playing”.
Mr Robertson had accused Mrs May of breaking promises to secure a UK-wide agreement on Brexit.
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Sweden: Three Men Charged Over Uppsala ‘Facebook Rape Video’
Three men are to face trial in Sweden in connection with the alleged rape of a woman in an Uppsala apartment which was live streamed on Facebook.
The men were arrested in January after police were alerted to a suspected ongoing sexual assault by witnesses, who reported seeing it live in a closed Facebook group.
Two of the men, a 20-year-old Afghan national and an 18-year-old also from Afghanistan, are charged with rape. The third man, a 24-year-old Swedish citizen, has been charged with failing to reveal rape. He is also charged with defamation, over the filming and live-streaming of the incident. All three deny the charges.
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Swiss Monitor 500 People for Online Jihadist Propaganda
Last year the Federal Intelligence Service (FIS) identified almost 500 people accused of spreading jihadist propaganda online, according to a report published on Tuesday. A national plan to fight radicalisation in Switzerland is currently being finalised.
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Switzerland: Rifle Association Up in Arms About EU Gun Law
The gun lobbying groups in Switzerland have protested against a regulation by the European Union parliament to tighten gun ownership rules.
On Tuesday, the EU parliament approved proposals to restrict gun ownership, notably by introducing tighter controls, reducing the number of cartridges for semi-automatic rifles to ten, and setting up an arms register.
Switzerland is not a member of the EU, but it is subject to these new rules as a member of the 26 single-border Schengen group countriesexternal link.
The Swiss rifle association (Swiss Shooting) said it would force a referendum — collecting at least 50,000 signatures — if parliament approved a government proposal to adopt the European rules.
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Switzerland: Post Office to Start Drone Tests in Lugano
Drones will be used this month to start delivering laboratory samples such as urine tests between two hospitals in canton Ticino as part of tests carried out by Swiss Post. The national post office hopes the service will be fully operational next year.
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Ten Percent of Norwegian Children Live in Low Income Homes
The number of children living in families classed as ‘low income’ reached a level of one on ten in 2015, according to Statistics Norway. Children from immigrant backgrounds make up over half of those in the group classified as growing up under conditions of ‘persistently low income’.
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UK: Police: Bristol Was ‘Hours Away’ From Islamist Suicide Attack
A Bristol shopping centre was “just hours away” from a major terrorist suicide bombing, police have revealed.
There was “no doubt about it that an atrocity would have taken place” if police did not intervene and arrested 19-year-old Andrew Ibrahim in 2008, Detective Chief Inspector Matt Iddon said.
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UK: Sgt Blackman Cleared of Murdering Taliban Fighter
His wife Claire grinned and there were loud gasps and then cheers from his family, ex-Marines and other supporters as Court of Appeal judges quashed Alexander Blackman’s conviction.
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What to Watch for as the Dutch Go to the Polls
Dutch citizens will vote today for a new government in one of the most-watched elections in years.
While polls have tilted towards PM Rutte’s VVD Party in recent days, the euroskeptic leader of the Freedom Party, Geert Wilders, looks set to gain the most seats but the necessary coalition will be anything but clean (since World War II, it’s taken an average of 72 days to form a government).
[Comment: Expect massive fraud from globalist backed parties. They will do anyhting to suppress populism and ram their NWO vision down the public’s throat.]
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Why Do Swiss Workers Hardly Ever Go on Strike?
No one downs tools less often than workers in Switzerland and Austria, according to an international comparison of strikes.
Between 2006 and 2015, an average of only two work days were lost per 1,000 workers per year in both Alpine countries, reported the Institute of Economic and Social Research (WSI) on Wednesday. Low rates were also recorded in Sweden (five), Poland (six) and the United States (seven).
France was the most strike-prone country analysed, with 123 days lost per 1,000 workers in the private sector alone, pipping Denmark by one day.
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Wind Turbines ‘As Big as the Eiffel Tower’ To be Tested in Denmark
Wind power in Denmark is set to go even larger after politicians agreed to extend test centres for wind turbines. The giant wind turbines will be built when existing test centres in Jutland are extended. Minister for Climate and Energy Lars Christian Lilleholt told news agency Ritzau that he welcomed the development.
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Macedonia gave the world Alexander the Great, who, legend has it, wept because he could find no more lands to conquer. Now, George Soros, the left-wing billionaire who also wants to rule the world, is meddling with events that could plunge Macedonia into chaos or civil war, and escalate U.S. tensions with Russia.
Locked between Greece, Kosovo and Albania — and friendly with none of them — Macedonia is an ethnic patchwork of languages, religions and loyalties. Last year, elections left the nationalist ruling party weakened politically. A group of opposition parties that represent the country’s largely-Muslim Albanian minority put together a fragile coalition that could have let them form a new government.
President Gjorge Ivanov, a member of the nationalist party, refused to accept the opposition coalition, claiming they were puppets of the Albanian government next door. Protesters from both sides spilled into the streets of the capital, Skopje, setting the stage for potential conflict.
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New Thoughts on the Sahara Desert
The International Business Times reports that David Wright of Seoul National University thinks that Neolithic cattle herders may have contributed to the desertification of the Sahara as they spread west from the Nile River some 8,000 years ago. Cattle grazing and the loss of vegetation may have been enough to tip the balance from the green pastures of 6,000 years ago to the spread of scrub vegetation, changing atmospheric conditions, and less frequent monsoon rains.
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Caroline Glick: Making the PLO Great Again
US President Donald Trump is losing his focus. If he doesn’t get it back soon, he will fail to make America great again or safe again in the Middle East.
After holding out for a month, last week Trump indicated he is adopting his predecessors’ obsession with empowering the PLO .
This is a strategic error.
There are many actors and conflicts in the Middle East that challenge and threaten US national interests and US national security. Iran’s rise as a nuclear power and regional hegemon; the war in Syria; Turkey’s abandonment of the West; and Russia’s regional power play all pose major threats to US power, security and interests. The Muslim Brotherhood, Islamic State, Hamas and other Sunni jihadist movements all threaten the US, Europe and the US’s Sunni allies in the region in a manner that is strategically significant to America.
None of these issues, none of these actors and none of these threats are in any way related to or caused by the PLO and its interminable, European-supported hybrid terror and political war against Israel. None of these pressing concerns will be advanced by a US embrace of the PLO or a renewed obsession with empowering the PLO and its mafia-terrorist bosses…
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Indonesia and the Islamic State Threat
As Islamic State (ISIS) loses territory in its base, northern Iraq and eastern Syria, fresh concerns about returning foreign fighters have mounted in Southeast Asia. In December 2015, the Soufan Group estimated that some 900 Southeast Asian fighters, with a majority from Indonesia, had traveled to Syria and Iraq to join the fight. Official estimates from Southeast Asian intelligence agencies placed the number between 1,200-1,800. While it is difficult to estimate precisely how many fighters from the region are currently participating, the Straits Times reported most recently that some 392 Indonesians are believed to be fighting for ISIS in Syria. Malaysians have also been seen in ISIS videos, but they are believed to constitute a distinct second to Indonesian fighters.
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Music is Anti-Sharia — 42 Islamist Orgs Issue Fatwa Against 16 Yrs Muslim Girl Singer in Assam
42 Islamic orgs issue Fatwa against teenage singer Nahid Afrin who performed songs against ISIS. Not a single arrested by BJP Govt in Assam.
Upendra Bharti | HENB | Guwahati | March 15, 2017:: As many as 42 Muslim clerics from different Muslim organisations and Islamic seminaries in Assam have issued a fatwa against a teenage girl singer asking her to refrain from performing in public or be ready to face consequences.
The singer, identified as Nahid Afrin (16), now studying in 10th standard, was a runner-up in the 2015 edition of musical reality TV show Indian Idol Junior, and had recently performed songs targeting terrorism, including dreaded terror group Islamic State.
The clerics have announced to boycott the programmes of the singer at Sonai Bibi College at Udali in Hojai District of Assam. The fatwa comes just days ahead of her scheduled live event on March 25. Afrin is slated to perform in the town on March 25.
It is not entirely clear whether it is her performance or her take against terrorism that has invited the ire of the clerics. Reports suggest that the venue of the event was in the vicinity of a mosque and a graveyard, prompting clerics to say they will stop her from performing here and other places as well…
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Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has said that blasphemy is an ‘unpardonable sin’ and ordered authorities concerned to nab those responsible for posting such content on social media.
“Law enforcers should search for the people spreading blasphemous material and prosecute them under the law,” a statement quoted him as saying on Tuesday.
The prime minister also ordered stringent measures to be taken to stop blasphemous content from making rounds on social media.
“Love for Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) is the most valued asset for the believers,” he said, directing authorities to nab those involved in disseminating blasphemous material.
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Chinese Mountain Observatory to Probe Cosmic-Ray Origins
The massive project will intercept gamma-ray showers in an unexplored energy band.
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ANC MP: “Bury [White] SA Farmers Alive”
According to a statement issued by the minority rights activist group AfriForum, the outburst was made by ANC MP Mduduzi Manana during a parliamentary sitting on farm murders.
While a member of the white Freedom Front Plus party, Dr. Pieter Groenewald, was addressing the parliament on the topic of the ongoing genocide, Manana shouted: “Bury them alive!”
“This is proof that the utterances of political leaders could lead to violence and murders and also that the issue of farm murders is of little importance to the ANC,” Ian Cameron, the Head of Community Safety at AfriForum, said.
“Certain members of the ANC were chatting during the debate and not listening nor partaking at all,” he added, saying that “should the current state of affairs in South Africa continue, a genocide would likely take place.”
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Venezuela Threatens to Expropriate Bakers That Don’t Obey New Bread Regulations
According to Roman poet Juvenal, people hope for just two things: bread and circuses.
While there is no word on the circus, Venezuela’s beleaguered government is demanding that bakers at least give the people bread.
The socialist government of President Nicolás Maduro threatened earlier this week to expropriate bakeries in Caracas that fail to adhere to new regulations aimed at tackling widespread bread shortages.
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Danish Minister Celebrates 50th Immigration Curb With Cake Post
DENMARK’S immigration minister sparked a social media storm after she posted a picture of herself with a cake on Facebook to celebrate her 50th immigration curb.
Inger Støjberg has repeatedly voiced demand for tighter restrictions on immigration since themigrant crisis started in 2015.
One of the measures included implementing internal border controls despite being a member of the Schengen Zone.
Traditionally, the agreement allows citizens of member countries to travel freely without passport checks to other nations within the area.
Taking a dig at the European Union, which decides whether or not member nations can impose temporary border controls for up to two years, Ms Støjberg also vowed in October 2016 the restrictions would remain until Brussels bigwig can make the continent safe again.
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Danish People’s Party: Dual Citizenship Was a Mistake
The government’s decision to permit dual citizenship in Denmark was a mistake, according to right-wing party Dansk Folkeparti (DF).
DF leader Kristian Thulesen Dahl pointed to the current diplomatic crisis between Turkey and the Netherlands and contended that it was a problem that Turks in Denmark, the Netherlands and Germany felt the need to get involved with developments in Turkey.
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EU/UN Proves Afghan “Asylum” Hoax
Conclusive proof that all Afghans claiming “asylum” in Europe and elsewhere are perpetrating a massive confidence trick and are not genuine refugees has come with the news that the United Nations and the European Union have together launched a $20 million (‚¬18m) project to help “returnees” settle in after going back to Afghanistan.
The plan, announced on the website of the U.N.’s International Organization for Migration (IOM), will run for a four-year period with funding from the European Commission’ s Directorate-General for International Cooperation and Development (DG DEVCO).
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France to Close Another Sprawling Migrant Camp on North Coast
France announced on Wednesday that security forces would start dismantling another huge migrant camp on its northern coast near the port of Dunkirk “as soon as possible” after clashes at the site.
The population of the Grande-Synthe camp has swelled to about 1,400 to 1,500 people since the destruction last October of the squalid “Jungle” camp near Calais, about 40 kilometres (25 miles) away.
“It’s no longer just a question of re-establishing public order” in the camp, Interior Minister Bruno Le Roux told a hearing at the French Senate.
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France to Close Grande-Synthe Migrant Camp ‘As Soon as Possible’
France said Wednesday that security forces would start dismantling another migrant camp on its northern coast near the port of Dunkirk “as soon as possible” after clashes at the site.
The population of the Grande-Synthe camp has swelled to about 1,400 to 1,500 people since the destruction last October of the squalid “Jungle” camp near Calais, about 40 kilometres (25 miles) away.
“It’s no longer just a question of re-establishing public order” in the camp, Interior Minister Bruno Le Roux told a hearing at the French Senate.
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Germany: Neo-Nazi Group Jailed for Terror Attack Plans Against Refugees
A court on Wednesday sentenced members of a neo-Nazi group to up to five years in prison for forming a “terror organisation” that planned to attack a home for asylum seekers.
The four — three men and a 24-year-old woman identified as Denise Vanessa G. — were arrested in May 2015, two days before they planned to strike at the migrant shelter in the eastern state of Saxony.
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As it now turns out, Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán was right about a “secret deal” all along.
As they embark on a bizarre social engineering project on a continental scale, members of Germany’s political class evidently do not see the need to consult even their own electorates. Instead, they apparently believe in creating irreversible facts on the ground, and giving voting rights to migrants permanently residing in Germany.
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NGOs Reveal New Deadly Migrant Route to Europe
A NEW treacherous migration route to Europe that is just as deadly as the others has opened, according to NGO bosses.
Illegal migrants are now setting off from Sudan, heading to Egypt and sailing from Alexandria port.
Alganesh Fessaha, an Eritrean woman who supports African refugees and the fight against trafficking, told Italian news agency Ansa the route could explode.
She said: “All the attention is focused on Libya, but the new route for migrants is the one that goes from Sudan to Egypt.
“A route where four boats have already sank with hundreds of people on board in 2015, and a fifth one with 350 more people has gone missing.”
The founder and president of the NGO Ghandi which has set out to protect women and children in Africa and Europe is taking on the issue of migration to Europe.
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Can Scientists Save us From a World Without Chocolate?
Researchers are finding new ways of producing food inside test tubes — but will it taste the same?
A world without chocolate. Such is the apocalyptic future described by some observers of climate change. But scientists are racing to find solutions, and the good news is that laboratory-made chocolate is already at the prototype stage.
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Enceladus’ South Pole is Warm Under the Frost
Over the past decade, the international Cassini mission has revealed intense activity at the southern pole of Saturn’s icy moon, Enceladus, with warm fractures venting water-rich jets that hint at an underground sea. A new study, based on microwave observations of this region, shows that the moon is warmer than expected just a few metres below its icy surface. This suggests that heat is produced over a broad area in this polar region and transported under the crust, and that Enceladus’ reservoir of liquid water might be lurking only a few kilometres beneath.
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Obesity Crisis: Is This the Food That is Making US All Fat?
It’s not only in our home cooking, oil is also an ingredient in most of the items we buy from the supermarket.
In fact, vegetable oil, specifically soy bean oil and palm oil, are two of the eight ingredients, alongside wheat, rice, maize, sugar, barley and potato, that are now estimated to provide a staggering 85% of the world’s calories.
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As I write, 90 per cent of the Dutch vote has been counted. PVV has 20 seats, a gain of 5. VVD has lost 8 and is on 33. PvdA is all but wiped out. And yet the mainstream media is all full of how Rutte has beaten Wilders. Well, yes, VVD came first (after belatedly standing up the Turkish government) and PVV second, and the result is disappointing to VVD supporters who had been led by earlier polls to hope for better. But I don’t think this is the time to say that so-called ‘populism’ is dead.
Thank you Salome, that saves me looking up the latest results. Very encouraging for Wilders!
No. The New World Order is a tyranny that must be defeated.
Why is Trump allowing unelected Federal judges to bring dishonor to his executive orders on immigration when they have no legal standing under the Constitution to do so?
Judges are to advise on the legality of Presidential Orders, not dishonor them by applying their own interpretation of such orders. So what really is at play here, and why would a sitting President who knows the Constitution backwards put up with this kind of illegal behaviour from those whom could only be described as presenting actions that undermine the authority of the President of the United States?
The judges are behaving the way they are because they are daring Trump to act against them. They know how this would look to current US public perception.
Sadly, perception is reality in the US, and the fact that the Constitution and US Federal Law both permit the President a strong hand in dealing with immigration.
Trump is also 100% that you don’t have a nation if you don’t have borders. Or, as I like to put it, “If everyone is a US citizen no one is a US citizen.”
Trump has not exhibited any understanding of basic constitutional issues and has succeeded mightily by dint of visceral patriotism, business experience, graciousness, and independence, which appeal to voters.
Impeachment of judges needs to be as common as snow in winter and crab grass in summer. The Treason Class has treated this constitutional protection as something to be approached only while wearing a hazmat suit with bomb-proof Jockey shorts.
Trump very much gets the value of taking his case to the people. He needs advisers who have the requisite constitutional understanding. I think he could sell impeachment of arrogant, subversive, out-of-control judges with ease.
…experience, aggressiveness. ..
What will be the next country to be looted after Greece falls? Italy, Portugal, Ireland?
Sgt Blackman’s murder conviction overturned! This man should now walk free regardless of any new charges for time served. There are no adequate words within the English language that can describe how I feel about those who decided to crucify this fine soldier and who, lacking in their own personal metel chose to label a Hero as a Murderer to cover their own inadequacies!
I’m disappointed in the Netherlands. What is it going to take for them to wake up?
Well that’s what pot smoking does to you! They had their chance–and blew it. I thought they would. No sympathy.
I hope better from the French, though traditionally….
And then there are the Brits?
Or is USA the only country where patriots still reside?
It still looks like the lesson of the horrors that the third world invasion of Europe brings has yet to sink in to the phsychology of the populace of the Netherlands.
The Turkeys would appear to still be voting for Christmas?
The skulls appear too thick to absorb facts in front of the nose.
True. There’s all the time in the world to deal with immigration/ invasion catastrophe when it becomes serious.
The Christian Democrats have more seats because they started to talk like Wilders.
Mark rutte looks like a circus
Regarding the immigration ban:
I actually laughed out loud when I heard the Gov of Hawaii say that the ban would upset the tourist trade!
Does anyone actually think that other than a small handful of exceptionally wealthy robber barons from Somalia or Yemen will have their vacation plans disrupted?
This is sick and getting sicker.
I could almost understand when the Gov of WA objected because it would cut into the full pay students at his universities. But, Hawaii? I have a son that lives in Hawaii and it is one hell of a haul to get there from NY let alone Yemen, Lybia, Somalia and Sudan.
If I were Trump I would disregard the stay and tell all of them he will see them at the SC.
** Russia’s regional power play **
What Russian power play?
Russia is helping a long-time ally resist a regional power play by the US – a dishonest, unconstitutional war on Syria for reasons that are complete nonsense.
In a just world, Sgt. Blackman would be paid reparations by the UK government.