The native “Briton” who committed the jihad attack in London yesterday has been identified: his name is Khalid Masood, and he was 52 years old when he rammed his vehicle into pedestrians and stabbed a policeman. Authorities say the late mujahid was a “lone wolf” terrorist. Police immediately arrested eight people in Birmingham as part of the ongoing investigation into the attack.
In other news, around 250 would-be migrants are thought to have drowned in the Mediterranean when the two inflatable dinghies carrying them capsized.
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More than 3,500 retail stores are going to close all across America over the next few months as the worst retail downturn in U.S. history gets even deeper. Earlier this week, Sears shocked the world when it announced that there is “ substantial doubt” that the company will be able to “ continue as a going concern” much longer. In other words, Sears has announced that it is on the verge of imminent collapse. Meanwhile, Payless stunned the retail industry when it came out that they are preparing to file for bankruptcy. The “ retail apocalypse” that I have been warning about is greatly accelerating, and many believe that this is one of the early warning signs that the economic collapse that is already going on in other parts of the globe will soon reach U.S. shores.
I have repeatedly warned my readers that “ Sears is going to zero” , and now Sears is officially saying that it might actually happen. When you file official paperwork with the government that says there is “ substantial doubt” that the company will survive, that means that the end is very near…
The company that operates Sears, the department store chain that dominated retail for decades, warned Tuesday that it faces “ substantial doubt” about its ability to stay in business unless it can borrow more and tap cash from more of its assets.
“ Our historical operating results indicate substantial doubt exists related to the company’ s ability to continue as a going concern,” Sears Holdings said in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Sears Holdings operates both Sears and Kmart stores.
In the wake of that statement, the price of Sears stock dipped 13.69% to $7.85 a share.
Personally, I am going to miss Sears very much. But of course the truth is that they simply cannot continue operating as they have been.
For the quarter that ended on January 28th, Sears lost an astounding 607 million dollars…
The company said it lost $607 million, or $5.67 per diluted share, during the quarter that ended on Jan. 28. That compared with a loss of $580 million, or $5.44 per diluted share, a year earlier. It has posted a loss in all but two of the last 24 quarters, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence.
How in the world is it possible for a retailer to lose that amount of money in just three months?
As I have said before, if they had employees flushing dollar bills down the toilet 24 hours a day they still shouldn’ t have losses that big.
This week we also learned that Payless is heading for bankruptcy. According to Bloomberg, the chain is planning to imminently close at least 400 stores…
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Of course these are just two examples of a much broader phenomenon.
Never before in U.S. history have we seen such a dramatic wave of store closures. According to Business Insider, over 3,500 retail locations “ are expected to close in the next couple of months” …
Thousands of mall-based stores are shutting down in what’ s fast becoming one of the biggest waves of retail closures in decades.
More than 3,500 stores are expected to close in the next couple of months.
Once thriving shopping malls are rapidly being transformed into ghost towns. As I wrote about just recently, “ you might be tempted to think that ‘ Space Available’ was the hottest new retail chain in the entire country.”
The demise of Sears is going to be an absolute nightmare for many mall owners. Once “ anchor stores” start closing, it is usually only a matter of time before smaller stores start bailing out…
When an anchor store like Sears or Macy’ s closes, it often triggers a downward spiral in performance for shopping malls.
Not only do the malls lose the income and shopper traffic from that store’ s business, but the closure often triggers “ co-tenancy clauses” that allow the other mall tenants to terminate their leases or renegotiate the terms, typically with a period of lower rents, until another retailer moves into the anchor space.
Years ago I wrote of a time when we would see boarded-up storefronts all across America, and now it is happening.
Instead of asking which retailers are going to close, perhaps we should be asking which ones are going to survive this retail cataclysm.
In the past, you could always count on middle class U.S. consumers to save the day, but today the middle class is steadily shrinking and U.S. consumers are increasingly tapped out.
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By Dr. Ileana Johnson Paugh
Joe McCarthy, a WWII hero, belittled and vilified by Hollywood and the MSM alike, has been vindicated not just by the release of the Venona papers but, most recently, by the appalling and constant anti-American rhetoric and behavior of Hollywood. There were communists in Hollywood. Today actors and actresses are no longer shy about their communist views and affiliations, and want to make sure that Americans buy into their communist social engineering and perversions while they enjoy the spoils of celebrity capitalism.
In 1995, the NSA released translation of Soviet cables decrypted in the 1940s by the Venona Project. “Venona was a top-secret U.S. effort to gather and decrypt messages sent in the 1940s by agents of what is now called the KGB and the GRU, the Soviet military intelligence agency. The cables revealed the identities of numerous Americans who were spies for the Soviet Union, including those chronicled in NOVA’s “Secrets, Lies, and Atomic Spies.”
Overtly communist anarchists and pro-Islamic activists with a microphone in their hands attack the tax-paying middle class during organized protests that turn into riots, calling ordinary Americans names that cannot be repeated in polite company, not the least of which is “simpletons” and “delusional,” suffering of “cognitive dissonance” because most Americans refuse to believe their immigration lies and the anthropogenic global warming deception.
Hollywood and the MSM are hotbeds of Marxists, no longer hiding their hatred for the fly-over country, the millions of Americans they want to make irrelevant because they happen to love our country and disagree with their global communist agenda of re-engineering our lives in the image of their desired tyranny.
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How Nanotechnology is Going to Bring About a Strange New Age of Warfare
Normally in warfare, bigger is better. Most militaries are always looking for something that’ ll make a bigger impact. They want bigger warships, bigger tanks, and bigger explosions. Sometimes however, the littlest things can be the most dangerous. In fact, developments in nanotechnology may be about to usher in a new class of miniaturized weapons that shouldn’t be underestimated.
CNBC recently interviewed physicist and futurist Louis Del Monte on his new book “Nanoweapons: A Growing Threat to Humanity.” The future it paints sounds absolutely terrifying:
One unsettling prediction Del Monte’s made is that terrorists could get their hands on nanoweapons as early as the late 2020s through black market sources.
According to Del Monte, nanoweapons are much smaller than a strand of human hair and the insect-like nanobots could be programmed to perform various tasks, including injecting toxins into people or contaminating the water supply of a major city.
Another scenario he suggested the nanodrone could do in the future is fly into a room and drop a poison onto something, such as food, to presumably target a particular individual.
And Del Monte didn’t pull these ideas out of a hat. He’s not just guessing about what kinds of weapons nanotechnology could produce in the near future. He also cites reports from the Pentagon:
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LinkedIn Starts Piping Sales Data to Salesforce and Dynamics
Remember when Marc Benioff said Microsoft buying LinkedIn was dangerous?
LinkedIn has revealed a new version of its SaaSy Sales Navigator that pipes activities from the network into Salesforce.com.
Sales Navigator has been around for years and offers subscribers the chance to pursue their prey within the walled garden of the social network for suits.
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Massive Breach Threatens to Wipe Out 300 Million iPhones on April 7th Unless Apple Pays Ransom
It looks like the CIA isn’t the only organization capable of taking over your phone.
Hackers claiming to have compromised at least 300 million Apple account ID’s and passwords say they will initiate a complete wipe of iPhones and iClouds if the Cupertino, California based technology company doesn’t pay them a ransom.
The group, which goes by the name Turkish Crime Family, says Apple has until April 7th to come up with either $75,000 in BitCoin or $100,000 in iTunes gift cards.
According to Motherboard, the group posted a Youtube video proving they have compromised the credentials of millions of iCloud accounts, which could then be used to wipe an iPhone remotely and potentially locked users out of critical phone features.
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Microsoft Loves Linux So Much, Its OneDrive Web App Runs Like a Dog on Windows OS Rivals
Ever since Satya Nadella took over the reins at Microsoft, the Windows giant has been talking up how much it loves Linux — but it appears this hasn’t trickled down to its OneDrive team.
Plenty of Linux users are up in arms about the performance of the OneDrive web app. They say that when accessing Microsoft’s cloudy storage system in a browser on a non-Windows system — such as on Linux or ChromeOS — the service grinds to a barely usable crawl. But when they use a Windows machine on the same internet connection, speedy access resumes.
Crucially, when they change their browser’s user-agent string — a snippet of text the browser sends to websites describing itself — to Internet Explorer or Edge, magically their OneDrive access speeds up to normal on their non-Windows PCs.
In other words, Microsoft’s OneDrive web app slows down seemingly deliberately when it appears you’re using Linux or some other Windows rival. This has been going on for months, and complaints flared up again this week after netizens decided enough is enough.
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Potential ‘Smoking Gun’ Showing Obama Administration Spied on Trump Team, Source Says
Republican congressional investigators expect a potential “smoking gun” establishing that the Obama administration spied on the Trump transition team, and possibly the president-elect himself, will be produced to the House Intelligence Committee this week, a source told Fox News.
Classified intelligence showing incidental collection of Trump team communications, purportedly seen by committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., and described by him in vague terms at a bombshell Wednesday afternoon news conference, came from multiple sources, Capitol Hill sources told Fox News. The intelligence corroborated information about surveillance of the Trump team that was known to Nunes, sources said, even before President Trump accused his predecessor of having wiretappedhim in a series of now-infamous tweets posted on March 4.
The intelligence is said to leave no doubt the Obama administration, in its closing days, was using the cover of legitimate surveillance on foreign targets to spy on President-elect Trump, according to sources.
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Red Alert: The FBI is Now Investigating the Alternative Media for Exposing Hillary Clinton
In a stunning turn of events, the FBI is now apparently investigating multiple alternative news outlets for supposed Russian connections, according to deep state operatives who gave the information to McClatchy News in an obvious attempt to undermine the growing power of the anti-establishment media.
The report, completely sourced by globalist operatives, claims that federal investigators are examining (see making up out of thin air) whether “far-right” news sites played any role in the Russian cyber operation that some in the intelligence community claim widened the reach of news stories that favored Donald Trump.
According to the anonymous sources in the McClatchy report, operatives for Russia strategically timed computer commands or “bots” to flood social media with links to pro-Trump stories, including those that appeared on sites like Infowars and Breitbart…
Make no mistake, this is about scaring and possibly censoring news outlets that do not spread the establishment narrative in yet another attack on the free press in the wake of Donald Trump’s stunning election victory. (News outlets such as McClatchy are openly doing the dirty work for the deep state.)
Another key element of this attack is the fact that we now know that FBI director James Comey is absolutely 100% a globalist operative who is not only working directly against the president but also using the power of his position to target news outlets that are not on board with the 24/7 anti-Trump attacks seen throughout the mainstream media.
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Rogue Judges Emerge as Primary Threat to Presidency
At the forming of our Constitutional Republic, three “co-equal branches” of the federal government were not created or intended. Three “independent” branches were intended and created, with certain checks and balances put in place to ensure no branch could ever, through their independent enumerated powers, infringe upon the powers of the States or the People.
The Founders design intended to make Congress the most powerful branch of the Federal Government, with oversight of the other two branches, as the elected body closest to the people themselves. In fact, the original design made the House more powerful than the Senate, also as the congressional body closest to the people.
The task of the Executive Branch was merely to “execute” the laws of this land, that of the supreme law, the U.S. Constitution and all laws made in pursuance thereof, by Congress.
The limited power of the Judicial branch was simply to “interpret” (limited to translating legalese into plain English) and “enforce and uphold” the laws of this land, the U.S. Constitution supreme among them. Members of each branch take an oath to do exactly this and when they fail to do so, they are at a minimum, in violation of those oaths.
The Rogue Judges
For many years now, Americans have accepted the “British” custom of judges going rogue on the courts, acting in violation of their oaths, often subverting and undermining the laws of this land, none more so than the U.S. Constitution itself. Through unconstitutional British Common Law tactics of “making law from the bench by setting legal precedence,” rogue judges and lawyers have unconstitutionally elevated the power of the judicial branch to a level which now threatens the powers of the other two branches or eliminates their powers altogether.
Elected Representatives of the people in congress hold the power to check either of the other two branches and in the case of the “unelected” Judiciary, Thomas Jefferson explains why in his 1821 Autobiography;
[Comment: Highly recommended reading.]
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Over the years, many people have been shown that someday a giant earthquake will cause significant portions of California to fall into the ocean. But up until now, most scientists have disputed the idea that this could ever actually happen. Well, now all of that has changed. According to a brand new study, a megaquake along the west coast “ could plunge large parts of California into the sea almost instantly” . In fact, the researchers that conducted this study say that it is almost certain to happen eventually. Of course they probably don’ t believe that such an event is imminent or else they would be moving out of the state like so many other people are.
When I came across news stories about this brand new study I was absolutely astounded. Here is a short excerpt from one of them…
The Big One may be overdue to hit California, but scientists near LA have found a new risk for the area during a major earthquake.
They claim that if a major tremor hits the area, it could plunge large parts of California into the sea almost instantly.
The discovery was made after studying the Newport-Inglewood fault, which has long been believed to be one of Southern California’s danger zones.
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Special Report: House Intel Committee Admits NSA Spied on Trump
Intel committee chairman shocked by data collected about Trump
Alex Jones discusses today’s bombshell news from House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes that the Trump transition team was under surveillance in the final months of the Obama administration.
READ: House Intelligence Committee Chairman: Trump Transition Team Was Under Surveillance
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Democrat Congresswoman trolled for her continuous lying and ridiculous claims
Owen Shroyer dismantles the poor uneducated performance of Maxine Waters’ anti-trump rhetoric.
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WikiLeaks Releases “Nightskies 1.2”: Proof CIA Bugs “Factory Fresh” IPhones
The latest leaks from WikiLeaks’ Vault 7 is titled “Dark Matter” and claims that the CIA has been bugging “factory fresh” iPhones since at least 2008 through suppliers. The full documents are expected to be released after a 10 a.m. EDT “press briefing” that WikiLeaks promoted on its Twitter.
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Imams in Canadian mosques have been inciting the killing of “infidels”, primarily Jews, for years. This agitation appears to have had no visible impact on Canadian parliamentarians, evidently too busy with petitions and motions banning alleged “Islamophobia”.
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While World Leaders Contend With Islamic Terrorism, Trudeau Pushes Ban on Islamophobia
The day after the ISIS-admitted terrorist attack that rocked British Parliament on Wednesday and Canada is getting ready to pass M-103, in a back-door ban of “Islamophobia”.
As Desmond McGrath wrote in an open letter to M-103 author, MP Iqra Khalid: “No one — neither media, nor politicians — even bothered to ask whether there is a significant connection between the virulent Jew-hatred being preached in mosques and the disproportionately high occurrence of hate crimes against Jews. Instead, the entire Canadian parliament is preoccupied with banning “Islamophobia”.
Oh, how I wish the superb writer Katie Hopkins were here, instead of over there in Britain.
Read her piece here to understand why.
For the longest time now, Canada has been smugly shirking all duties when it comes to standing up to the evil known as Islamic terrorism.
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4th Victim Dies in London Terror Attack, Police Identify Suspect as UK Native Khalid Masood
The man police believe was responsible for Wednesday’s terrorist attack in London has been identified as Khalid Masood — a U.K. native with a number of criminal convictions.
Four people, including a police officer, were killed, and at least 28 others were injured in Wednesday’s attack, which authorities have declared a terrorist incident. The fourth victim was identified by as a 75-year-old man, who died from his injuries Thursday evening after he was pulled from life support.
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Belgium Attack: French-Tunisian Arrested After Driving a Car Into Shoppers in Antwerp
THE terror level in Belgium has been raised after a man drove towards crowds in a city centre in a car later found to have knives and weapons in the boot.
Police in Belgium have arrested a French man of Tunisian origin in the city of Antwerp after a chase near River Scheldt.
The driver has been named as 39-year-old Mohamed R.
He drove a car, reportedly registered in France, towards crowds forcing people to jump out of the way.
The car entered the main pedestrianised shopping street, De Meir, at high speed.
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Brexiteer Nigel Farage in Atlanta: To Save Europe, Destroy the EU
Cast as persona non grata to globalists everywhere, Brexit movement architect Nigel Farage sought to paint himself in a different light during a visit to Atlanta this week.
He didn’t soften the incendiary language or back down from the contrarian views that the World Affairs Council of Atlanta promised would be on display at the breakfast event, but he said portrayals of his views by the media establishment don’t always reflect reality.
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Expert: Sweden is Not as Prepared as UK in Terrorist Attack Response
Peder Hyllengren, a terrorism researcher at the Swedish Defence University, says Sweden is not as prepared to respond quickly to an attack similar to the one in London on Wednesday.
“The Brits are in a class of their own,” Hyllengren told Radio Sweden. “The Swedish reaction would probably have been okay, but not as quick at the British is my guess.”
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German Press Told to Censor Religion, Ethnicity
(Associated Press) Germany’s media regulator has revised its code of conduct on reporting whether crime suspects belong to an ethnic or religious minority after complaints the previous guidance was unclear.
The German Press Council — a voluntary, industry-run body — says information about a person’s ethnicity shouldn’t be published “unless there is a justified public interest in doing so.”
The wording agreed Wednesday replaces previous guidance that said such details should only be published if there was a link between a person’s ethnicity or religion and the crime.
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Germany: Media Watchdog Instructs Press to Censor of Ethnicity and Religion in Crime Reports
Germany’s media regulator has revised its code of conduct on reporting whether crime suspects belong to an ethnic or religious minority after complaints the previous guidance was unclear.
The German Press Council — a voluntary, industry-run body — says information about a person’s ethnicity shouldn’t be published “unless there is a justified public interest in doing so.”
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German Press Rules on Mentioning Criminal’s Ethnicity Changed
The German Press Council on Wednesday eased slightly the rules about mentioning the religious or ethnic background of a criminal suspect.
The new text states that “the journalist should be careful when reporting on criminality that mentioning the suspect’s ethnic or religious identity does not lead to a general discrimination based on one individual’s actions.”
“In general ethnicity should not be mentioned unless there is a plausible public interest in doing so,” the new guideline continues.
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Italy: Grillo Wants Padoan to Report on ‘Renzi-Linked Appointments’
‘Disconcerted’ by ‘clashes’ says M5S
(ANSA) — Rome, March 20 — Anti-establishment 5-Star Movement (M5S) leader Beppe Grillo said Monday he wants Economy Minister Pier Carlo Padoan to report to parliament on a string of appointments at government-controlled companies this weekend in which the M5S and others claim former premier Matteo Renzi unduly had a hand.
A post on Grillo’s blog said the M5S was “disconcerted” by the appointments at flight control body ENAV, power company ENEL, fuels group ENI, aerospace giant Leonardo and Italian post office Poste Italiane.
It claimed there had been “clashes” between Paolo Gentiloni’s government and Renzi, who as former leader, and favourite to be re-elected head, of the ruling Democratic Party (PD) is seen as still pulling some of the strings of government.
Renzi supporters have denied he had a say over the appointments.
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Italy: Web Terror Proselytism Cell Smashed
Four arrests in Perugia, Milan and Germany
(ANSA) — Rome, March 23 — Italian police said Thursday they had arrested four people in breaking up a terror cell that was engaged in Web terror proselytism. Three Tunisians and a Moroccan, operating in Perugia, Milan and Germany, were arrested. The four “exalted holy war, martyrdom and jihad” with the aim of recruiting people to “radical Islam”, Perugia prosecutor Luigi De Ficchy told a press conference. “Their intention was to enter into the consciences of those with whom they were communicating, to induce them to change their lifestyles…and bring them onto a position of radical Islam and convince them to go to the places where ISIS is fighting”.
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Italy: ‘North African’ Arrested After Driving at Police, Stabbing Officer
A “North African” migrant has attempted to ram police with a car in a southern Italian town Wednesday, before attacking and injuring an officer with a knife.
Italian press said the attack in the Railway neighbourhood of Foggia “recalls the dynamics” of Wednesday’s attack in Westminster, London, which saw three people killed.
According to Repubblica, the “African citizen” failed to stop at a police checkpoint and ran over the foot of an officer. As he attempted to escape in his vehicle, he crashed into a parked lorry.
He then emerged from the immobilised car and launched a knife attack on officers, stabbing and wounding one in the hand. …
There was a third similar attack on Thursday in Antwerp, Belgium. A “French-Tunisian” man drove his car into a crowd on a busy shopping street, forcing pedestrians to jump out of the way. He was stopped by police before he could harm more people, and weapons including knives were found in his car.
[ See also: http://www.breitbart.com/tag/car-attack ]
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London Terror Attacker Named as Khalid Masood
Westminster ISIS attacker is named as UK born Khalid Masood — a 52 year old married father of three who was probed by MI5 ‘some years ago’ and had a string of convictions
The British-born jihadi who killed three and injured 29 in Westminster yesterday was a middle-aged criminal called Khalid Masood.
The 52-year-old ‘lone-wolf’ attacker, who was living in the Birmingham area, has a series of convictions for assault and other crimes but police insist there was no intelligence suggesting he was about to unleash a terror attack.
Kent-born Masood has never been convicted of terror offences, although Theresa May revealed this morning that he had been on MI5’s radar a number of years ago.
Masood was a married father-of-three, former English teacher and a religious convert who was into bodybuilding, according to Sky News.
A Scotland Yard spokesman said this afternoon: ‘Masood was also known by a number of aliases. He was not the subject of any current investigations and there was no prior intelligence about his intent to mount a terrorist attack.
‘However, he was known to police and has a range of previous convictions for assaults, including GBH, possession of offensive weapons and public order offences.
‘His first conviction was in November 1983 for criminal damage and his last conviction was in December 2003 for possession of a knife. He has not been convicted for any terrorism offences.’
Masood stabbed PC Keith Palmer to death with two knives outside parliament after killing mother-of-two Aysha Frade and US tourist Kurt Cochran as he ploughed along a crowded pavement on Westminster Bridge…
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London Attack: Seven Held After Westminster Attack
The Westminster attacker was British-born and known to the police and intelligence services, the prime minister has revealed.
In a statement to the Commons, Theresa May said he had been investigated some years ago over violent extremism but had been a “peripheral figure”.
“He was not part of the current intelligence picture,” she said.
Eight arrests have been made following the attack on Wednesday that left four dead.
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London Rampage: 8 Detained on Suspicion of Preparing Terror Attacks
The eight people arrested after lone attacker Khalid Masood killed four people outside of the British parliament are suspected of preparing terrorist attacks, London police said on Thursday. In a statement, Scotland Yard officials they were still searching properties in Wales, the central city of Birmingham and east London.
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London Terror Attack: ISIS Claims Responsibility for Deadly Rampage Outside Parliament Building
The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the terror attack that left four people dead, including the assailant and a police officer, outside of London’s Parliament building on Wednesday, according to the Amaq media agency.
“The perpetrator of the attacks yesterday in front of the British Parliament in London is an Islamic State soldier and he carried out the operation in response to calls to target citizens of the coalition,” the Amaq statement said.
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Man Arrested in Belgium After Car Chase is French National, Weapons Found in Car: Prosecutors
Belgian prosecutors say a man who attempted to drive at high speed into a shopping district in the Belgian city of Antwerp on Thursday was a French national living in France with knives and other weapons in his car, according to Reuters.
French President Francois Hollande also said that the driver of the car appears to be a French national.
Authorities in Belgium raised security in the port of Antwerp after a suspicious car ran a red light and was stopped at the docks.
Belgium’s Prime Minister Charles Michel on Thursday said authorities were “closely monitoring” developments in Antwerp, adding, “we remain vigilant. Our security services have done excellent work.”
The events happened the day after the nation held remembrance services for the Brussels attacks, which killed 32 people on March 22, 2016.
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Man Held for ‘Driving at Crowd’ In Antwerp, Belgium
A French national of North African origin has been arrested in the Belgian city of Antwerp on suspicion of driving at a crowd, officials say.
A car was driven “at high speed” on De Meir, the northern city’s main shopping street, before it was intercepted. There were no reports of any injuries.
Knives, a non-lethal gun and some unidentifiable liquid were found in the car, prosecutors say.
Belgian PM Charles Michel praised the authorities for an “outstanding job”.
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Poland Stance on EU ‘Problematic’ — Alfano
But continuing to work on unity
(ANSA)- Rome, March 23 — Foreign Minister Angelino Alfano said Thursday that “after the re-election of (Donald) Tusk it seems to me that Poland has a problematic attitude towards the EU”, commenting on Polish Premier Beata Szydlo’s threat to not sign the Rome Treaties declaration unless four priorities demanded by Warsaw are respected. “In these hours we are working for unity and unanimity,” said Alfano, voicing the hope that the Rome summit “will be a good occasion for all to recall the peace, prosperity and freedom of these decades and at the same time identify a new mission for Europe”. But European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said he was “optimistic” Warsaw would sign the Rome Declaration along with the other 26 EU members.
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Poland Vows to Veto Plan for EU Future Unless it Includes More Power Back From Brussels
STORM clouds are already gathering over the European Union’s planned 60th birthday celebrations after Poland said it would veto any plan for the bloc’s future which does not include repatriation of powers from Brussels.
Warsaw continued its recent bitter war of words with eurocrats as it threatened to veto the proposed Rome Declaration, which is meant to pave the way forward for the project after Brexit.
Prime minister Beata Szyd?o said she would not hesitate to vote down the document if it does not match Poland’s priorities as her country takes an increasingly hard line towards European integration.
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Police Dismantle Suspected Terror Cell in Italy
Italy on Thursday dismantled a terror cell which spread jihadist ideology over social media, the national police force said.
The group of four had shared thousands of posts, photos, and videos in support of extremist ideologies, and expressed praise for terror attacks claimed by Isis.
The suspects, who were based in Milan and Perugia in central Italy, have been charged for incitement to murder and using an electronic network for terrorist purposes.
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Pound Sterling Jumps to One Month High After UK Retail Data Sales Surge
Stronger-than-expected retail sales data helped push sterling to a one-month high against the dollar on Thursday.
According to figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), sales volumes grew by 1.4 per cent in February, well ahead of the 0.4 per cent growth the City consensus had anticipated.
Sterling jumped to $1.2528 on the news, its highest since late February and was still trading above $1.25 at market closing time in London.
“The concerns about the UK economy are overdone,” Nick Gartside, international chief investment officer for fixed income at JPMorgan Asset Management, told Reuters.
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Two schoolboys were hospitalised with ‘significant’ burns after chemicals were thrown in their faces in a ‘random attack’.
The 12-year-olds, from Aberdeen, were walking from one house to another when the ‘despicable’ assault happened at about 8pm last night.
A picture of victim Shane Flower’s horrific facial injuries was shared by his sister Gemma Florence.
Ms Florence told MailOnline that both Shane and his friend are still in hospital.
She said: ‘It looks like Shane took the brunt of the attack. The photo was taken yesterday and it looks a lot worse today. It is very swollen.
‘His vision seems okay at the moment. Doctors checked the PH levels in his eye and it’s still very high so they are bit worried.
‘He is not confrontational at all so it seems to be a very random attack.’
Shane was at the bottom of his road when he and his friend were attacked outside a bookmakers. Two suspects, described as ‘youths in dark clothes’, are being hunted by police.
Ms Florence, 25, added: They both managed to run back. Shane immediately got in the shower and washed his face, which it seemed was the right thing to do.
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Shaken Politicians: Weapons Are Flowing Into Sweden
Danish politicians are shaken over the amounts of weapons smuggled into Sweden. Now they want to help the Swedes to put an end to it.
Over 600 seized weapons.
That is the status when police in Malmö count up the weapons seized in 2016. Most of the illegal weapons used by criminals in the Swedish metropolis, come across the Öresund Bridge from Denmark.
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Soros-Funded Charities Targeted by Trump-Inspired Crackdown in Eastern Europe
When his government lost a lawsuit in the European Court of Human Rights last week over its detention and expulsion of two migrants from Bangladesh, Hungary’s rightwing prime minister blamed the usual suspect: a billionaire in New York.
“It is a collusion of human traffickers, Brussels bureaucrats and the organizations that work in Hungary financed by foreign money,” Viktor Orban told public radio on Friday.
“Let’s call a spade a spade: George Soros finances them.”
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Stabbings During Swedish Brawl Leave One Dead and Two Injured
A young man has died and two others have suffered serious knife injuries in a brawl which took place in Borås, western Sweden. The altercation happened at 9.30pm on Wednesday in the Hässleholmen area of the town, where around 15 people were involved in a fight and several stabbings occurred.
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Terror in Europe: Ruling Liberal Elite to Blame
The latest terrorist attack in London-and many other similar incidents-is the fault of the ruling liberal elite, which has deliberately pushed mass Third World immigration, while at the same time waging wars in the Middle East on behalf of Israel, which has further incited the already volatile Muslim element of the nonwhite invasion.
The London attack-now definitely linked to a radicalized Muslim cell based in that city and in the city of Birmingham-has perplexed liberal and conservatives alike, because none of them understand or accept the reality of race, and its direct relationship between culture, morals, values, norms, and behavior.
These race-deniers sincerely believe that anyone, from anywhere, will become “British” just because they live in Britain, wear European clothes, and speak English. This “blank slate” mentality lies at the very heart of modern liberalism-the belief that culture and civilization is merely an outer trapping created by “society” which can be transplanted onto anybody, no matter what their racial origin or genetic makeup.
The reality is however, that “society” does not form the individual. It is the individual, or groups of individuals, who form the society.
“Society” is therefore a reflection of the people inside that community-and not the other way around. If “society” is “First World” (a euphemism for white European), then it is only so because the majority of individuals within that society are Europeans.
Once the majority of individuals within that society stop being Europeans, then that society will stop being “First World” and will then reflect the racial origins of the majority of its new inhabitants.
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Theresa May Says ‘Islamist’ Westminster Attack ‘Not Islamic’
The Prime Minister has said the “Islamist” attack on Parliament was not “Islamic” and Islam is a “great faith”.
Taking on the role of a theologian, Theresa May insisted: “It is wrong to describe this as Islamic terrorism. It is Islamist terrorism. It is a perversion of a great faith.”
Speaking in Parliament, she also said the attack showed “the importance of all of our faiths working together, and recognising the values that we share”.
Adding: “This act of terror was not an act of faith. It was a perversion; a warped ideology, which leads to an act of terrorism like that and it will not prevail.”
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With the play “Jihadisten,” visitors to the Gothenburg City Theatre may now get a more nuanced picture of the Swedish IS terrorists who are traveling to Iraq and Syria to participate in the ongoing war. …
But the play is also about the broader context of the terrorists, reports Swedish Television, SVT, which has interviewed Johan Gry, the screenwriter and director.
– The goal is to humanise the terrorist, so to speak, and to dare to do it. Daring to ensure that the terrorist is a human being, he says, and continues to clarify his point.
– Because if we do not dare do that, then we dehumanize this person the same way as they dehumanize their victims, and if we can not understand or try to understand this person, we will not do anything about the basic problems.
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‘We Can’t Lower Our Guard’: Italy Ups Security in Crowded Areas After London Attack
Security measures are being ramped up in Italy, particularly the capital which on Saturday will host heads of state from across the world, following Wednesday’s attack in London.
“We don’t have the possibility of lowering our guard,” said Foreign Minister Angelino Alfano, speaking to news agency Ansa after a US anti-Isis summit.
Meanwhile, Interior Minister Marco Minniti said Italy planned to strengthen controls in crowded areas, following an extraordinary meeting of the country’s anti-terror analysis committee (CASA) on Thursday morning.
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ISIS’ Next Steps After Mosul Fight
But what will be the broader repercussions of Mosul’s liberation for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, more widely recognized as ISIS)? As mentioned in a previous OpsLens article, ISIS will revert back to its roots.
On the tactical level, ISIS will have to devolve into an insurgency, leaving civilians extraordinarily vulnerable. They will increase suicide bombings on soft targets. They will attack pilgrims, funeral processions, the government, and infrastructure in an attempt to remain relevant.
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France’s Le Pen to Visit Moscow on Friday
French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen will visit Russia on Friday, a country whose leader she admires and which has been at the center of allegations of interference in the French election campaign via media outlets.
A spokesman for the National Front leader confirmed the trip to Moscow after Russian news agencies reported an invitation from Leonid Slutsky, head of the parliamentary foreign affairs committee, to meet Russian lawmakers.
“I confirm the visit to Moscow”, said a Le Pen spokesman by text message. He did not respond when asked whether she would meet President Vladimir Putin.
Last year Le Pen, one of the frontrunners in France’s presidential election, said she, U.S. President Donald Trump and Putin “would be good for world peace” and she has taken a foreign policy line strongly supportive of Moscow.
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According to a high-level Russian source with ties to the military (named in the podcast below), Russia not only possesses a devastating secret weapon against the United States; they’ve already apparently put it in place off the East Coast shoreline.
The existence of this secret weapon — which could unleash a massive radioactive tidal wave that devastates cities along the East Coast — has been covered by the BBC in this article:
The Kremlin says secret plans for a Russian long-range nuclear torpedo — called “Status-6” — should not have appeared on Russian TV news. The leak happened during a report on state-run Channel One about President Vladimir Putin meeting military chiefs in the city of Sochi.
One general was seen studying a diagram of the “devastating” torpedo system. Launched by a submarine, it would create “wide areas of radioactive contamination”, the document says.
The “oceanic multi-purpose Status-6 system” is designed to “destroy important economic installations of the enemy in coastal areas and cause guaranteed devastating damage to the country’s territory by creating wide areas of radioactive contamination, rendering them unusable for military, economic or other activity for a long time”, the document says. Nuclear Moles: Warhead-carrying underwater drones that can be timed to unleash massive, radioactive tidal waves of destruction The weapon is known as a “nuclear mole,” and it’s an underwater drone that carries a nuclear warhead, then burrows into the seabed floor off the coast of the target country. Once buried into the sea floor, these nuclear weapons can be remotely detonated to cause a massive tidal wave that would wipe out coastal cities in minutes.
I have estimated that a series of these weapons could be detonated in a timed sequence that multiplies the amplitude of the tidal wave, causing a much larger and more devastating wave than any single weapon by itself.
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Viewpoint: Life in the Land of ‘Candle Princesses’
Fair skin is more of a beauty ideal than darker skin across Asia — in Malaysia fair-skinned women are known as “candle princesses”. Writer Eris Choo shares a frank account of growing up in a society with rigid beauty ideals.
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Why Sangin’s Fall to the Taliban Matters
The Taliban’s capture of the strategically-located Sangin, once considered the deadliest battlefield for US and British troops in Afghanistan, will increase the group’s mobility in the north of the province and give it control of an important supply line with the provincial capital Lashkar Gah
The Taliban has already captured a few of the 14 districts of Helmand, which borders Pakistan. According to some estimates, the insurgent group now controls more than half of the province, which produces the bulk of Afghanistan’s lucrative opium crop.
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US, 13 Other Nations Demand Venezuela Hold Elections Soon
WASHINGTON — The United States and group of 13 nations across the Americas on Thursday called on Venezuela’s government to hold elections and immediately free political prisoners, setting up a potential diplomatic showdown with President Nicolas Maduro’s socialist administration.
The statement comes as the head of the Organization of American States is pushing to expel Maduro’s government from the Washington-based group for breaking the country’s democratic order.
The 14 nations, including Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Colombia and Argentina, said they see expulsion as a last resort and instead urged dialogue to resolve Venezuela’s entrenched economic and political problems.
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250 Migrants Feared Dead in the Mediterranean After Two Empty Dinghies Found Off Libyan Coast
Around 250 African migrants are feared to have drowned in the Mediterranean after a rescue boat found two partially submerged rubber dinghies off Libya. Spanish charity Proactiva Open Arms recovered five floating corpses close to the dinghies, 15 miles off the Libyan coast.
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Maverick federal MP Bob Katter has renewed his call for a Middle Eastern and North African migration ban following the London terrorist attacks.
The grandson of a Lebanese migrant wants to stop people between Greece and India from moving to Australia and has backed One Nation leader Pauline Hanson’s call to ban Muslim migration.
But he proposes to make exceptions for persecuted Jews, Sikhs and Christians from Muslim-majority nations.
‘It’s that Islamic terrorism of the Middle East and North Africa and as far as I’m concerned any right they ever have to come to this country has been lost,’ Mr Katter told Sky News on Thursday night.
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Austria Min Says Won’t Take Refugees From Italy
As long as there is illegal, uncontrolled immigration
(ANSA) — Rome, March 23 — Austrian Defence Minister Hans Peter Doskozil said Thursday Austria would not take in refugees from Italy. “As long as there is illegal and uncontrolled immigration, and Austria is strongly hit, there can be no further legal away for asylum seekers,” he told the APA news agency. There were Con 36,000 asylum applications in Austria in 2016 compared to Italy’s 120,000 or so, making Austria doubly affected compared to Italy if population size is taken into account.
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Austria Will Double the Amount it Pays Refugees Who Volunteer to Leave
Austria said on Wednesday it would double the amount of money paid to migrants who voluntarily return home, as part of a campaign to speed up the repatriation of around 50,000 asylum seekers.
They would be offered $1,000 ($1,080) instead of 500 euros, Interior Minister Wolfgang Sobotka said.
The scheme, run in collaboration with pro-refugee groups, is primarily aimed at “those who are not likely to be granted the right to long-term residence”, he told a press conference in Vienna.
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Austria Doubles Cash Offer for Migrants to Leave Country
As part of a campaign to speed up the repatriation of around 50,000 asylum seekers, Vienna said it would double the amount of money paid to migrants who voluntarily return home.
They would be paid €1,000 ($1,080) to leave the country instead of the €500 previously offered.
Austria’s Interior Minister Wolfgang Sobotka said the plan is primarily targeting “those who are not likely to be granted the right to long-term residence.”
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EU Envoy: Three Million Migrants Waiting to Cross Into Greece
European Commissioner for Migration Dimitris Avramopoulos on Thursday underlined the need to safeguard a deal between Brussels and Ankara to curb human smuggling in the Aegean, noting that some 3 million refugees were in Turkey waiting to cross into Greece in a bid to reach Western and Northern Europe.
Reception centers on the islands of the eastern Aegean, the first point of arrival for most migrants arriving in Greece from Turkey, are already overcrowded. A woman and a child were injured in clashes between Afghan and Algerian migrants on Chios on Wednesday night.
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Italy Steps up Investigation Into Charity-Funded Migrant Rescue Boats
An Italian prosecutor has stepped up his investigation into charity-funded migrant rescue boats in the Mediterranean after claims they are acting as a de-facto taxi service for people traffickers.
Vessels chartered by private organizations are in the spotlight amid accusations they not only encourage traffickers to set migrants out to sea by sailing as close to Libyan waters as possible, but also come to the rescue when the smugglers call.
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California Lawmakers Want to Reduce the Punishment for Not Revealing HIV Status to Sex Partners
This week, Democratic lawmakers in California proposed a piece of legislation that flies in the face of common sense and morality. In other words, it was a typical week for legislators in the Golden State.
State Senator Scott Wiener proposed a bill that would reduce the punishment for people who knowingly spread HIV, from a felony to a misdemeanor. Currently, the law states that if someone who knows that they have HIV tries to have unprotected sex and doesn’t notify their partner of their condition, then they can be charged with a felony and face up to 7 years in prison. If the bill passes, they’ ll get a slap on the wrist instead.
The same downgrade in crime level would apply to people who donate blood or semen without telling the blood or semen bank that they have acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, or AIDS, or have tested positive for human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, the precursor to AIDS.
“HIV-related stigma is one of our main obstacles to reducing and ultimately eliminating infections,” Wiener said. “When you criminalize HIV or stigmatize people who have HIV it encourages people not to get tested, to stay in the shadows, not to be open about their status, not to seek treatment.”
Of course this argument doesn’t make any sense. HIV hasn’t been criminalized. Only trying to have sex without disclosing one’s HIV status is a crime, and for good reason. It’s an incurable disease that can kill without lifelong treatment. How could knowingly spreading that around not be considered a serious crime? And how would the fact that this is a crime make certain people nervous about getting tested? Is it because they don’t want the legal and moral responsibility that this knowledge would carry? That doesn’t really hold water either, because even if someone doesn’t want the legal responsibility that comes with knowing that they have HIV, they’re still going to want to know so that they can get life-saving medical treatment.
The lawmakers who back this bill point out that HIV is no longer a death sentence because of modern medical treatments, so it should no longer be a felony for someone who’s HIV positive to not alert their sex partners. However, HIV is still quite dangerous. Thousands of people in America still die from it every year.
They also argue that with proper treatment, HIV isn’t nearly as transmissible as it used to be. However, studies show that even with antiretroviral treatments, the risk is still there. Until there is a cure for this disease, it should absolutely remain illegal to have unprotected sex with someone without telling them if you’re HIV positive. Even if the risk of infection was minimal, failing to disclose your HIV status is wildly irresponsible.
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This is hilarious! Payless is filing for bankruptcy!
Many people in North America apparently have no idea why that is humorous; I’ve been in several Payless stores and told the employees why, only to be met with blank stares.
If you buy a pair of shoes, but don’t pay, the store makes no money–how can they avoid bankruptcy? –Still I got blank stares.
“Look, “Payless”, one word, means you don’t pay!”
“Oh no, it means you pay less”
“Then the store should have been called “Pay Less”. They still didn’t get it, I kid you not.
I blame the Internet. The requirement for email addresses and websites to have no gaps has spread everywhere, eg London’s South Bank Centre is now the “Southbank” Centre. Shouldn’t computers be designed around us rather than vice versa?
A quiet in depth interview, with much information, showing Tommy’s wide range and depth of understanding about islam and muslims in the UK.
Tommy Robinson Interview on Westminster Terror Attack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G54TKESUoLU
32mins.42 secs.
Half an hour, but much to reflect on, even if we know a fair bit about islam.
Just putting the truth about islam out there.
“Two types of people,
those who have been affected by islam,
those who are going to be affected by islam;
then you wake up knowing……
It is a whole new ball game …. and it is here”.
Knowledge is power, when put into action.
Many thanks to Tommy Robinson and Baron & Dymphna.
So the “lone wolf” had 8 friends – all, no doubt, “lone wolves” themselves!
So lone wolves travel in packs. Who knew?!
The MET should atend some classes on Logic
I think the MET are probably very well informed, as are we, (thanks to GoV!)
the tragic thing is the MSM just will not inform people properly. Where they used to be reasonably neutral, they now put a political slant on everything–a leftist slant, i.e. migrant friendly, but as we know the vast majority of migrants are moslems who never tire of informing us we are the enemy, and therefore, so are they. So it follows, the MSM is actually our enemy–no wonder the people are so uninformed.