The migration news from Europe continues to pour in. There are so many stories about the inflow of migrants and their ghastly deeds that it’s hard to summarize them. 1,300 more rescued migrants arrived in Sicily. A Norwegian ship rescued more than 500 migrants in the Med. A Moroccan migrant raped up to 230 women in Belgium in the space of two years. An 18-year-old Somali asylum seeker raped two elderly male pensioners in an old folks’ home in Germany, and also caused the death of a woman. And on and on and on…
In other news, both former President Obama and former national security chief Clapper deny that the Obama administration wiretapped Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.
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Economists May be Underestimating How Fast the Robots Are Coming
Economists may be underestimating the impact on labor markets of increasing automation and the rise of artificial intelligence, according to a post published on the Bank of England’s staff blog on Wednesday.
“The potential for simultaneous and rapid disruption, coupled with the breadth of human functions that AI might replicate, may have profound implications for labor markets,” BOE regional agents Mauricio Armellini and Tim Pike wrote in the Bank Underground post. “Economists should seriously consider the possibility that millions of people may be at risk of unemployment, should these technologies be widely adopted.”
Robots and intelligent machines threaten to replace workers in industries from finance to retail to haulage, with BOE Chief Economist Andrew Haldane estimating in 2015 that 15 million British jobs and 80 million in the U.S. could be lost to automation. Past periods of technological upheaval, such as the industrial revolution, may not be a useful guide as the pace of change was slower, giving society longer to mitigate the potential consequences of increasing job displacement and inequality, according to Armellini and Pike.
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Here’s How Long it Takes to Earn Your Breakfast Around the World
Residents of Abu Dhabi, Osaka and Zurich can earn enough in less than five minutes to buy their first meal of the day, according to the Bloomberg Global City Breakfast Index. Ghanaians in Accra need closer to an hour, and people in Caracas, where inflation is soaring, need almost nine hours.
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India’s Economy Shrugs Off Cash Crisis to Post 7% Growth
India’s cash crisis has taken a surprisingly small bite out of its economic growth.
The country’s gross domestic product grew by 7% in the quarter ended December, according to figures released by the government on Tuesday. That’s slower than the 7.4% expansion posted in the previous quarter, but a much better result than most analysts had forecast.
Economists had expected a sharp slowdown to result from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s abrupt decision to ban on all 500 and 1000 rupee notes — the two largest denominations — in early November. The shock move immediately took 86% of the country’s cash out circulation, hitting key sectors of the economy.
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Italy: Housing Market Registered Over 1 Million Sales in 2016
Third consecutive year of growth
(ANSA) — Rome, March 1 — Italy’s housing market continued its recovery in 2016 with over one million property sales registered last year, a 18.4% increase with respect to 2015, tax agency L’Agenzia delle Entrate said Wednesday. It was the third consecutive year of growth for the property market, which was hit badly by the economic crisis and had not hit the one-million-sales mark since 2011.
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“Go Back to Your Own Country” Washington Sikh Told Before Being Shot; Shooter at Large
The Police Department in Kent, Washington is investigating a Friday night shooting that left a man wounded as a possible hate crime. A Sikh man was shot in Washington state by an attacker who approached him in his driveway and yelled, “go back to your own country” according to police reports. The victim was wearing a turban at the time of the shooting.
The Friday night shooting which took place city of Kent about 15 miles (24 km) south of Seattle, has followed a number of other attacks on Sikhs in the United States over a period of more than a decade. Authorities say around 8 p.m., an armed individual walked up to a man working on his car in a driveway at a house off 108th Avenue SE. According to Reuters, hate crime-tracking groups say assailants have occasionally mistaken Sikhs for Muslims, who have also been victimized in religiously motivated crimes. The good news: the victim was released from hospital with no permanent injury, the Seattle Times reported.
The Sikh man was working on his car in the driveway of his home when he was shot in the arm, according to Seattle television station KIRO 7, which spoke to a woman who knows the victim and saw him after he was struck by the bullet. “Some comments were made to the effect of ‘get out of our country, go back to where you’re from,’ and our victim was then shot,” Kent Police Chief Ken Thomas said at a news conference. “To think that this could happen in our community was very surprising and extremely disappointing,” Thomas said. “This is the first incident of this magnitude that I am aware of in the city of Kent” the police chief added.
[Comment: Sikh religion started as a reaction to muslim invasions of India. Want to really inderstand Islam? Look at what Islam did to India. Google the records of how many millions of Hindus were murdered by muslims during the recurrent invasions. www.danielpipes.org/comments/172982 . In 1971 alone, 2mil Hindus were killed and 200,000 Hindu women raped: https://themuslimissue.wordpress.com/2014/08/04/in-1971-muslims-murdered-2-4-million-hindus-and-raped-200000-hindu-women/ . More on India’s experience: http://www.hinduwebsite.com/history/holocaust.asp ]
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Arrests Made After Some ‘March 4 Trump’ Rallies Turn Violent
Arrests were made in some spots across the U.S. as hundreds of people railed in support President Trump Saturday.
Police in Berkeley, Calif. said 10 people were arrested after Trump supporters and counter-protesters clashed during a rally that turned violent and left seven injured. None of the injured was hospitalized.
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Cotton ‘Sure’ Senate Intelligence Panel Will Address Trump Wiretapping Claim
Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton expressed Sunday that President Trump’s accusation that the Obama administration wiretapped Trump’s presidential campaign is certain to be included in the Senate Intelligence committee’s ongoing probe into Russia’s possible efforts to “undermine the U.S. political system.”
“We’ve already begun an inquiry on the intelligence committee into Russia’s efforts to undermine confidence in our political system,” Cotton, a Republican committee member, told “Fox News Sunday.” “That inquiry is going to be thorough, and we’re going to follow the facts wherever they lead us. And I’m sure that this matter will be a part of that inquiry.”
Cotton spoke one day after Trump said former President Obama ordered Trump Tower wiretapped and minutes after the White House called for congressional investigations into the matter.
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Could SpaceX Really Launch People Around the Moon Next Year?
A lot will have to go right for SpaceX to meet its ambitious moon-mission timetable, experts say. On Monday (Feb. 27), SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk announced that the company plans to launch two paying customers on a weeklong trip around the moon before the end of 2018.
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DeepStateGate: Democrats’ ‘Russian Hacking’ Conspiracy Theory Backfires
Democrats’ efforts to raise suspicions about alleged — and, thus far, imaginary — links between President Donald Trump’s campaign and the Russian government may have backfired spectacularly.
The spotlight is now on President Barack Obama and his administration’s alleged surveillance of the Trump campaign, as well as his aides’ reported efforts to spread damaging information about Trump throughout government agencies to facilitate later investigations and, possibly, leaks to the media.
On Sunday morning, the White House released a statement indicating that the president would ask the congressional committees investigating Russian hacking theories to add the question of “whether executive branch investigative powers were abused in 2016.”
Media outlets continued to repeat that the story was based on “no evidence,” though the evidence was plain.
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In 2007, the U.S. attorney’s office seemed on track to charge Palm Beach billionaire Jeffrey Epstein in a sweeping indictment, accusing him of running a ring to pay underage girls for his sexual pleasure. But the office’s leader, Alex Acosta, retreated from what appeared to be a strong federal prosecution, bolstered with 40 female victims, and opted to let the state attorney charge Epstein in a streamlined prostitution case involving minors. The bruising negotiations between Acosta’s office and Epstein’s defense team ended with the U.S. attorney’s decision not to present the 53-page indictment to a federal grand jury.
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Former Bush AG Confirms “Trump Probably Right About Surveillance”
Following Obama’s quasi-denial, Clapper’s outright denial, and Mark Warner’ s “reckless” perspective on Trump’s ‘ wiretap’ accusations, none other than former George W. Bush Attorney General Michael Mukasey has come to the president’s defense, explaining that Trump is likely correct that there was surveillance on Trump Tower for intelligence purposes…
So — just to clarify — the entirety of America should be demanding a full investigation into Trump-Russian connections (on the basis of nothing more than conjecture) but President Trump’s demand for an investigation into an internal surveillance of an American citizen (himself) is “baseless” and “deeply disturbing.”
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They’re not quite the Mars rover, but these Earth-based robots provide a service of a different sort: delivery. London-based Starship Technologies, already piloting robot delivery services in the District of Columbia and Redwood City, California, and elsewhere across the globe, has now won that right in Virginia. Come this summer, the Old Dominion state will be the nation’s first to codify the rights of the so-called “electric personal delivery device.” Idaho, Florida, and other states are also mulling legislation similar to the robot package Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliff just signed.
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Loretta Lynch: Need More Marching, Blood, Death on Streets
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration’s former Attorney General Loretta Lynch has made an impassioned video plea for more marching, blood and death on the streets — a video that was later posted on the Facebook page of Senate Democrats as “words of inspiration.”
The video is less than a minute long and begins by stating that people are experiencing “great fear and uncertainty,” with the unstated implication it is due to Donald Trump’s takeover of the White House.
Without offering any specifics, Lynch goes on to say that “our rights” are “ being assailed, being trampled on and even being rolled back.”
But the strongest words come in a statement that seems to suggest the answer is street action that will inevitably turn bloody and deadly.
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The left-leaning mainstream media has spent the last 24 hours marginilizing yesterday’s Tweets from President Donald Trump indicating that the Obama administration was actively wire tapping phones in Trump Tower ahead of the November election. Jokes, insults and spin have been the order of the day as popular liberal mouthpieces have trashed the President, his staff and radio host Mark Levin who initially broke the story earlier in the week.
But no matter how much they spin, it is becoming crystal clear that President Obama’s administration did, in fact, involve themselves in electronic spying of Trump and his surrogates in an effort to link him to Russian influence.
Levin, who was referred to as a ‘hack’ on CNN this Saturday, was no die-hard supporter of Trump during the campaign season. As a Constitutional attorney, the radio host is often found making well documented arguments on his show. In an interview with Fox & Friends on Sunday, Levin hit back at those who deny any involvement into wire tapping of Trump’s staff by the Obama White House.
The evidence, as you’ll see in the video segments below, is simply undeniable and lays out a devastating case utilizing publicly available documents and investigations that prove without a shadow of a doubt that President Obama inserted himself into a free election in an effort to stifle and delegitimize Trump’s Presidential aspirations. Six federal agencies were involved, including FBI, CIA, NSA, DOJ, Treasury Department Financial Crimes Enforcement Network and the Director of National Intelligence:
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Middlebury College: Crazed Leftists Injure Professor After Charles Murray Speech
Charles Murray, co-author of The Bell Curve, didn’t exactly receive a warm welcome from the upstanding students of Middlebury College. The Daily Caller: American Enterprise Institute scholar Charles Murray and a Middlebury College professor were both assaulted by left-wing demonstrators Thursday night following a disrupted talk by the conservative researcher at the Vermont-based school. Murray was being escorted off university grounds by Middlebury professor Allison Stanger when the pair were greeted by an angry mob of around 30 demonstrators — some of whom were masked, the Vermont newsweekly Seven Days reported. Stanger suffered neck injuries during the mob’s assault after she had her hair pulled while trying to get Murray in his car. She’s now having to wearing a neck brace after the assault…
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Middlebury Students Shout Down Author
Middlebury College students shouted down Libertarian political scientist and author Charles Murray as he tried to deliver a speech Thursday afternoon.
“We need to foster a climate where we can listen and respect differences,” Dean of Students Baishakhi Taylor said in front of the lecture hall as hundreds of students and faculty members lined up outside. Some carried expletive-filled signs.
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President Trump went on a Tweet storm this morning, presumably because at some point in the last 24 hours he learned that his predecessor President Obama reportedly “wire tapped” the phone lines in Trump Tower during the 2016 election campaign.
In the process of tweeting, the President actually confirmed what many of us already know — we are being actively monitored by a domestic police state.
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Obama Says Trump Claim He Ordered Trump Tower Wiretapped is False
Former President Obama on Saturday denied President Trump’s accusation that Obama had Trump Tower phones tapped in the weeks before the November 2016 election.
“Neither President Obama nor any White House official ever ordered surveillance on any U.S. citizen. Any suggestion otherwise is simply false,” said Kevin Lewis, a spokesman for the former president.
Trump made the claim in a series of early Saturday morning tweets that included the suggestion that the alleged wiretapping was tantamount to “McCarthyism” and “Nixon/Watergate.”
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Scientists Store an Operating System, A Movie and a Computer Virus on DNA
Do you know — 1 Gram of DNA Can Store 1,000,000,000 Terabyte of Data for 1000 + Years. Just last year, Microsoft purchased 10 Million strands of synthetic DNA from San Francisco DNA synthesis startup called Twist Bioscience and collaborated with researchers from the University of Washington to focus on using DNA as a data storage medium. However, in the latest experiments, a pair of researchers from Columbia University and the New York Genome Center (NYGC) have come up with a new technique to store massive amounts of data on DNA, and the results are marvelous. The duo successfully stored 214 petabytes of data per gram of DNA, encoding a total number of six files, which include:
- A full computer operating system
- An 1895 French movie “Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat”
- A $50 Amazon gift card
- A computer virus
- A Pioneer plaque
- A 1948 study by information theorist Claude Shannon
The new research, which comes courtesy of Yaniv Erlich and Dina Zielinski, has been published in the journal Science.
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Trump Wire-Tap Claim Denied by Ex-Intelligence Chief Clapper
The director of national intelligence at the time of the US election has denied there was any wire-tapping of Donald Trump or his campaign.
James Clapper also told NBC that he knew of no court order to allow monitoring of Trump Tower in New York.
Mr Trump had accused President Barack Obama of ordering the wire-tap, but offered no evidence.
Mr Trump says an inquiry into alleged Russian interference should also probe potential abuse of executive power.
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“Ban Turkish Political Campaigns in Belgium”
The leader of the Flemish nationalist fraction (N-VA) in Federal Parliament, Peter De Roover, is urging fellow politicians to introduce a ban on political campaigns for Turkish leaders in Belgium. De Roover is responding positively to a request uttered by the Austrian Chancellor Christian Kern, who is pressing for a ban in the whole of the EU. “His suggestion deserves all our support”. This ban has already caused angry Turkish reactions abroad.
Kern wants a ban for the whole of the EU, to avoid that countries that already forbid Turkish election campaigns (such as the Netherlands and Germany) are being put under pressure by the Turkish authorities.
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Austria Calls for EU-Wide Ban on Turkish Campaign Events
Turkish politicians should be banned from political campaigning across the European Union, Austrian Chancellor Christian Kern said Sunday.
“A collective EU response to prevent such campaign events would make sense so that individual countries like Germany where appearances are forbidden don’t end up being pressured by Turkey,” Kern told German newspaper Welt am Sonntag.
Ankara is wooing voters among Germany’s three-million-strong population of Turkish origin — the largest outside Turkey — to support expanding President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s powers in an April 16 referendum.
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Catalan Legal Body Rules Against Regional Government Over Referendum
A top legal body in Catalonia ruled Friday that the region’s separatist government does not have the authority to call a referendum on independence.
Separatists in Catalonia have for years tried to win approval from Spain’s central government for an independence vote like Scotland’s 2014 referendum on independence from Britain, which resulted in a “no” vote.
The Catalan government is committed to holding a referendum with or without Madrid’s permission by September.
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China Getting a Foot in the Door in Belgium
The Chinese authorities have a tighter grasp on Belgian businesses than one would think, research by the daily De Tijd shows. 65 Belgian companies with Chinese shareholders were screened; 42 percent of these turned out to be controlled directly by the People’s Republic of China, mainly through state investment funds and holdings.
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Debate Rages in Sweden Over Muslim Brotherhood Report
A report commissioned by Sweden’s Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB) to look into the influence of the Islamist organization the Muslim Brotherhood in the country has sparked debate, with a number of researchers disputing the methodology used and conclusions reached.
The report suggests that the Muslim Brotherhood is secretly leading Islamists in building a parallel society in Sweden by infiltrating organizations and political parties in the country.
It also claims that there is an “established structure of values among the country’s political elite which stipulate how as a citizen you should approach ‘minorities’“.
But in a blog post signed by 22 Swedish researchers specializing in religious studies, the claims were labelled as “almost conspiracy-theory like”, and the study accused of ignoring previous research, lacking sources, and basing conclusions on personal views rather than evidence.
The idea that Islamists are secretly building a parallel society in Sweden is, according to the 22 researchers “a conclusion which goes against the collective research” in the field.
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Dutch Anti-Islamist Politician Geert Wilders Calls for Ban on Turkish Cabinet Visits
Far-right populist leader Geert Wilders has slammed a planned event in The Netherlands in support of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Wilders is hoping to come out on top in the country’s next general election.
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Electronic Energy Meters’ False Readings Almost Six Times Higher Than Actual Energy Consumption
Some electronic energy meters can give false readings that are up to 582% higher than actual energy consumption. This emerged from a study carried out by the University of Twente (UT), in collaboration with the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS). Professor Frank Leferink of the UT estimates that potentially inaccurate meters have been installed in the meter cabinets of at least 750,000 Dutch households. The is published in the scientific journal IEEE Electromagnetic Compatibility Magazine.
In the Netherlands, traditional energy meters (kWh) — the familiar energy meter with a rotating disc — are being increasingly replaced by electronic variants (which are also known as ‘static energy meters’). One well-known variant of the latter is the ‘smart meter’. The Dutch government wants smart meters in every household by 2020.
The meters were connected, via an electric switchboard, to a range of power-consuming appliances, such as energy saving light bulbs, heaters, LED bulbs and dimmers. The researchers then compared the actual consumption of the system with the electronic energy meter’s readings.
In the experiments (which were entirely reproducible), five of the nine meters gave readings that were much higher than the actual amount of power consumed. Indeed, in some setups, these were up to 582 percent higher. Conversely, two of the meters gave readings that were 30 percent lower than the actual amount of power consumed.
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Erdogan Likens Germany’s Blocking Rallies to Nazis
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan lashed out at Germany on Sunday for blocking rallies in support of him ahead of a vote on boosting his powers, likening the ban to “Nazi practices”.
Erdogan also said that, if he wanted to, he would go to Germany himself, but warned: “If you don’t let me in, or if you don’t let me speak, I will make the whole world rise up.”
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EU Leaders Meet in Versailles to Hash Out Bloc’s Future
Four top European leaders hold talks Monday on the future of the European Union, at a time when it faces multiple crises that are sparking doubts about its very existence.
Hosted by French President Francois Hollande at the iconic Versailles palace outside Paris, the dinner meeting that brings together German, Italian and Spanish leaders comes amid heated discussion about how to move forward the deeply troubled European Union in the face of Brexit, rising nationalism and an EU-skeptic Trump administration in Washington.
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Geert Wilders Brands Establishment as Weak as He Calls for Ban on Turkey’s Cabinet
GEERT Wilders resumed campaigning today as his Party for Freedom (PVV) continues to lead in the Dutch polls ahead of the upcoming election.
The PVV leader Geert Wilders branded mainstream politicians “weak” for allowing the “Islamo-fascist” officials from Turkey to campaign in the Netherlands.
In one of his first appearances since a security alert forced him to abandon campaigning, Wilders said establishment parties had been “copying” his anti-EU and anti-migrant policies.
The right-wing populist leader is hoping to become the next Dutch prime minister, with just ten days to go until election day.
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Germany: Berlin Politician Calls for Upgrading Security in Aftermath of Christmas Market Attack
Changes proposed by a Berlin politician include new criteria on who poses a security threat. Before the attacks in Paris, Brussels and Berlin, those with petty criminal records weren’t considered a security risk.
His comments come nearly three months after Anis Amri drove a truck through a crowded Christmas market killing 12 people and injuring dozens more.
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Italy: Tiziano Renzi Questioned in Rome Over CONSIP
Ex-premier’s father probed for infleunce peddling
(ANSA) — Rome, March 3 — Tiziano Renzi, the father of ex-premier Matteo Renzi, was questioned in Rome by investigators on Friday in relation to a probe into alleged corruption at civil-service procurement agency CONSIP. Tiziano Renzi, who is under investigation for alleged influence peddling in the probe, denies any wrongdoing. L’Espresso magazine says in its issue to be published Sunday that CONSIP CEO Luigi Marroni told prosecutors that Renzi senior and former Berlusconi aide Denis Verdini — sentenced to nine years over a separate Florentine bank bankruptcy Thursday — “exerted pressure” on him over the commissioners for some tender competitions. Alfredo Romeo, a high-profile Campanian businessman, was arrested in the CONSIP probe this week and Sports Minister Luca Lotti is under investigation too.
The case has rocked the ruling Democratic Party (PD) ahead of primaries next month in which Matteo Renzi is standing to be re-elected head of the centre-left group.
The anti-establishment 5-Star Movement (M5S) has said that will table no-confidence motions against Lotti in the House and Senate. Lotti was Matteo Renzi’s cabinet secretary in the last government and was widely considered to be the ex-premier’s right-hand man.
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Italy: Fedeli is Highest Earner in Govt, Martina Lowest
Premier Gentiloni declared earnings of 109,607 euros
(ANSA) — Rome, March 3 — Education Minister Valeria Fedelio is the highest earner in Premier Paolo Gentiloni’s cabinet, according to 2016 tax returns released Friday. The minister declared taxable income of 180,921 euros. Second place went to Culture Minister Dario Franceschini, who earned 148,692 euros. The lowest earner in the government was Agriculture Minister Maurizio Martina, who declared taxable income of 46,750 euros. Economy Minister Pier Carlo Padoan was second-last with declared income of 49,958 euros. Gentiloni earned 109,607 euros.
The former foreign minister took over the helm of government in December when ex-premier Matteo Renzi quit after his Constitutional reform was rejected in a referendum.
Renzi declared earnings of 103,283 euros, almost 5,000 euros down on the 107.960 he declared for the previous year.
In 2016 5-Star Movement leader Beppe Grillo declared earnings of 71,957 euros. This is down from the 355,247 euros he declared the previous year. Last year Senate Speaker declared earnings of 340,563 euros, more than the double Lower House Speaker Laura Boldini’s income of 144,883 euros.
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London ‘Home to More Islamic Terrorists Than Anywhere Else in the UK’
London is home to more Islamic terrorists than anywhere else in the UK, a new study has revealed.
Since 1998, some 43 per cent of terrorists arrested for Islamism-related offences in the UK have come from the capital.
East London is home to 50 per cent of London-based offenders, who mostly came from the boroughs of Tower Hamlets, Newham and Waltham Forest.
The second most common region was the West Midlands where 18 per cent of offenders lived, and the bulk of these people came from Birmingham.
The study also revealed that the amount of all terrorism cases in the UK has almost tripled in the last five years, while Islamist-related offences have doubled between 2011 and 2015.
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‘No One Can Stop Me’ Standing in French Election, Says Fillon
Scandal-hit French conservative candidate François Fillon said Sunday “no one” could stop him standing in the presidential election despite calls from his own party to quit over an expenses scandal.
Asked if he would bow to calls from within his own Republicans party to withdraw, Fillon said: “My answer is ‘no’.”
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No One Can Prevent us From Meeting With Citizens, Turkish FM Çavusoglu Tells Germany, Netherlands
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavusoglu has said that neither Germany nor the Netherlands can prevent the Turkish officials from meeting with citizens.
“None of you can prevent us. We can go anywhere we want, we can meet our citizens and hold our meetings,” Çavusoglu said in an event in the Kas district of the southern province of Antalya on March 4, as he criticized both countries over “their understanding of democracy.”
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Sweden: Man Shot Dead in Car in Malmö
One man was killed and another seriously injured in a shooting incident in Malmö on Saturday night.
Police sources told news agency TT that no suspect has yet been arrested.
A second injured man was found in a nearby apartment. Both men were taken to hospital.
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Swedish Minister Does U-Turn on Comments About Sweden’s Sex Crimes
Sweden’s Integration Minister Ylva Johansson has done a U-turn after she told the BBC that the number of reports of sex crimes in Sweden was dropping.
During a recent interview with the BBC, the minister said “we can see that the level is going down, and going down, and going down.”
However, this isn’t the case. The latest stats actually show a 13 percent increase in reported sex crimes in Sweden in 2016, and a general increase over the last ten years (more on this later).
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Tight Deadline for Talks After Nationalist Surge in Northern Ireland
DUBLIN (Reuters) — Northern Irish leaders prepared on Saturday for three weeks of challenging talks to save their devolved government after a snap election that could have dramatic implications for the politics and constitutional status of the British province.
The pro-British Democratic Unionist Party narrowly remained the largest party after the closest-ever election for the provincial assembly. But surging Irish nationalists Sinn Fein came within one seat of their rivals to deny unionist politicians a majority for the first time since Ireland was partitioned in 1921.
Major policy differences between the sides risk paralyzing government, dividing communities and creating an unwelcome distraction for Prime Minister Theresa May as she prepares to launch Britain’s formal divorce proceedings from the European Union later this month.
Northern Ireland is the poorest region of the United Kingdom and potentially the one most economically exposed to Brexit, as its frontier with the Republic of Ireland is the UK’s only land border with the EU.
“The election yesterday was in many, many ways a watershed election. Clearly the notion of a permanent or a perpetual unionist majority has been demolished,” Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams told reporters in Belfast.
“We need to reflect on that and so do the leaders of unionism and so does everyone on this island,” he added, standing in front of a mural of Bobby Sands, a member of the militant Irish Republican Army (IRA) who died in a hunger strike in prison in 1981.
The two largest parties have three weeks to form a new power-sharing government to avoid a return to direct rule from London for the first time since 2007. Sinn Fein said it would make contact with the other parties on Sunday…
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Turkish Expats Told to Spy on Erdogan Critics in German Schools
Turkey’s government has reportedly called on teachers and parents in western Germany to spy on classes at German schools and report any criticism of president Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
The Turkish consulate in North Rhine-Westphalia even told attendees with Turkish roots at the “information events” that their children should film their teachers and pass on any proof to them, reported newspaper the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (WAZ) reported.
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A convicted terrorist who left his wife and young family to fight in the Philippines has blamed Brexit for his behaviour.
Ryan Counsell, 28, said he wished to escape the UK political climate and seek an “idyllic life” under Sharia law.
He was in the final stages of planning his trip to fight with terrorist group Abu Sayyaf when he was arrested last July, and later sentenced to eight years in prison.
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UK: Bristol Protest: Furious Demonstrations Hit City Centre Over Man Who Stuck Bacon to Mosque
DOZENS of far-right protestors have stormed the centre of Bristol demanding “justice” for a man who left bacon outside of a mosque, and then died in jail.
Kevin Crehan, 34, was jailed for 12 months for the offence after the stunt at the Jamia Mosque in Bristol on January 17.
Friends of Crehan have labelled him a “loyal patriot” insisting his sentence was “outrageous”.
Around 100 supporters of Crehan, also known as Bunny, gathered outside Bristol Crown Court.
Police dogs and officers on horses worked to keep the crowd controlled as they shouted and leered at a country protest.
Counter ‘anti-fascist’ protesters claimed to have “pushed back” the group while police have attempted to separate the groups.
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Violence erupted in a city centre today after a far-right group and anti-fascists clashed with police following a protest over a man jailed for leaving bacon sandwiches outside a mosque.
Kevin Crehan, 34, was jailed for 12 months for being part of a group which left the meat by the door of the Jamia Mosque in Bristol on January 17, 2016 but he died in prison in December.
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UK: Smart Metres Said Customers Were Charged £33,000 for a Day
The Big Six provider has launched an investigation into the devices. One customer was told he was almost three million per cent over-budget. The average annual bill for a UK house is around £830.
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UK: Woman Forced Into Back of a Car With Her Toddler and Raped
The woman was with her toddler on the seafront near to the boating lake in Redcar between 11.30am and 12.30pm on Friday, March 3, when she was attacked.
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A panel of UN experts has accused Germany of discriminating against people of African descent and allowing widespread racial profiling by the government and security agencies.
The report came after police in Cologne were accused of racial profiling on New Year’s Eve, when a tweet from the force’s official account said North African men were being security screened, using the derogatory term “Nafri”.
UN researchers said they were “deeply concerned” about the situation, warning that laws against racial discrimination were not being enforced and black people’s lives were being marred by racism and negative stereotyping, as well as hate crime.
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Israel Moves Toward Decriminalizing Marijuana Use
The Israeli government has taken a step toward decriminalizing marijuana use.
Israeli media say Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Cabinet has approved a measure that would reduce penalties for possession of marijuana. If caught, smokers would pay a fine, instead of facing criminal charges.
Netanyahu said ahead of Sunday’s meeting that a “new enforcement policy” should be drawn up “cautiously and in a controlled manner.”
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France to Encourage Banks to Work With Iran: Minister
France wants to encourage the “normalisation” of banking relations with Iran to improve economic relations with the Islamic republic, French Economy Minister Michel Sapin said Saturday in Tehran.
“We can’t work on developing our economic relations if we don’t also normalise our banking relations,” he said after meeting his Iranian counterpart Ali Tayebnia.
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Report: Jump in Number of Jihadis Traveling From Germany to Iraq, Syria
A report has found that more than 900 extremists traveled to the Middle East from Germany. The revelation comes amid growing concern from German officials over domestic terrorism.
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Wave of ISIS Car Bombs Targets Iraqi Troops in West Mosul
Iraqi troops encountered the “heaviest” clashes yet with Islamic State group fighters Sunday in western Mosul since the start of the new push more than two weeks ago, according to a senior commander.
Maj. Gen. Haider al-Maturi of the Federal Police Commandos Division told The Associated Press that ISIS militants dispatched at least six suicide car bombs, which were all destroyed before reaching the troops. The militants, he said, are moving from house to house and deploying snipers.
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Russia: 1 Dead, 3 Detained in Operation Against ISIS Sleeper Cell
Russian authorities say one person has been killed and three others detained in an operation to break up a sleeper cell of the Islamic State in the country’s restive southern region of Dagestan.
The National Anti-terrorism Committee said the operation took place Sunday in the city of Derbent, on the Caspian Sea near the border with Azerbaijan.
Mainly Muslim Dagestan is the principal breeding ground for Islamic militants in Russia, and the regions sees regular attacks on Russian police and officials. Russia fought two separatist wars in the neighboring province of Chechnya after the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union.
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Kim Jong-Nam Killing: Malaysia Expels North Korean Ambassador
Malaysia has expelled North Korea’s ambassador after he criticised its investigation into the killing of the North Korean leader’s half-brother.
Kim Jong-nam, the half-brother of Kim Jong-un, died three weeks ago at a Kuala Lumpur airport.
Malaysia has not directly blamed North Korea for the attack, in which two women smeared the nerve agent VX on Mr Kim’s face. But there is widespread suspicion Pyongyang was responsible.
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Body of Beheaded German Hostage Found: Philippines
The Philippine military said on Sunday it had recovered the body of an elderly German hostage who was beheaded by Islamic militants last week.
The Abu Sayyaf, a kidnap-for-ransom network in the southern Philippines that has pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group, killed Jürgen Kantner, 70, after its demands for 30 million pesos ($600,000) were not met.
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China to Increase Military Spending by 7% in 2017
China says it will increase military spending by about 7% this year, just days after Donald Trump outlined a boost to the US defence budget.
The scheduled announcement was made ahead of the annual National People’s Congress (NPC) in Beijing.
China has been modernising its armed forces recently as its economy expands.
China’s announced defence budget remains smaller than that of the US. But many China observers argue the real figure could be much higher.
Earlier this week, US President Donald Trump said he was seeking to boost defence spending by 10% in his proposed budget for 2018.
China’s military build-up — and projection of naval power — has caused concerns in the region, where it has taken an increasingly assertive stance in territorial disputes.
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China: Human Rights Lawyers Live in Fear
In China, some 250 human rights lawyers have been imprisoned as part of President Xi Jinping’s crackdown on dissidents and critics. Among them are the husbands of Li Wenzu and Wang Qiaoling, who hope to draw international attention to their plight.
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South Korea Boosts Reward for Defectors From North to $860,000
The South Korean government is quadrupling the reward it pays defectors from the North who share information to $860,000 (£700,000).
Defectors can expect to receive the six-figure payout if they cross the border with intelligence that helps enhance South Korea’s security.
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South Korea Vows to Protect Firms Amid China Pressure Over Thaad
South Korea said it would ensure Korean companies don’t face unfair trade measures in China, pushing back against pressure from Beijing over its decision to deploy a U.S. missile shield on its soil.
The China National Tourism Administration verbally ordered local travel agencies to stop selling tour packages to South Korea starting March 15, the state-run Korea Tourism Organization said Friday. The Korea Economic Daily said Sunday, citing unidentified officials, that Chinese authorities suspended businesses of four Lotte Mart stores for a month for allegedly violating fire safety norms.
As North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un ratchets up tensions on the peninsula with missile launches and nuclear weapons tests, businesses in South Korea are facing the heat in China after Seoul decided to station the shield — known as Thaad — on land offered by conglomerate Lotte Group. China says the system would upset the military balance in the region and risk undermining its own security. The tensions are impacting financial markets.
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British Father of Two Shot Dead at Kenyan Ranch
A British man was shot dead in northern Kenya on Sunday at a private ranch in the Laikipia area, two of the man’s neighbors said, and a legislator warned that local politicians were stoking violence as elections approach.
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Somalia: 110 Dead From Hunger in Past 48 Hours in Drought
Somalia’s prime minister says 110 people have died from hunger in the past 48 hours in a single region as a severe drought threatens millions of people across the country.
It was the first drought-related death toll announced by Somalia’s government since it declared a national disaster on Tuesday. The United Nations estimates that 5 million people in this Horn of Africa nation need aid, amid warnings of a full-blown famine.
Somalia was one of four regions singled out by the U.N. secretary-general last month in a $4.4 billion aid appeal to avert catastrophic hunger and famine, along with northeast Nigeria, South Sudan and Yemen. All are connected by a thread of violent conflict, the U.N. chief said.
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South Africa: President Demands “Black Unity” Against Whites
South African president Jacob Zuma has called for “black unity” against whites in order to force whites off land in that country during 2017.
Making the call-to loud applause-during a speech last Friday in the parliament building in Cape Town (a physical building built during the era of white rule), Zuma called for support of a constitutional amendment to allow land expropriation without compensation.
constitutional amendment of that extent would require a two-thirds majority in the parliament, something that would only be achievable by an alliance between the ANC and the viciously anti-white “Economic Freedom Fighters” (EFF) party, led by former ANC youth leader Julius Malema.
“We need to accept the reality that those who are in Parliament, where laws are made, particularly the black parties, should unite because we need a two-thirds majority to effect changes in the Constitution,” said Zuma.
Zuma made the call to “black unity” during the annual address to the “National House of Traditional Leaders”-a collection of tribal chiefs and “traditional” local leaders.
It is not the first time that Zuma has made this call. In 2014 and 2016 he announced changes to the land restitution system which re-opened the process (which originally had an expiration date by when claims had to be submitted), and called on the “traditional leaders” to make claims “on behalf of their communities.”
[Comment: There is no future for whites in S.Africa.]
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South African president Jacob Zuma has called on lawmakers to help seize white-owned land without compensation — to establish ‘pre-colonial’ patterns.
But he has been warned that the measure would trigger a racial war in a country historically blighted by racial tensions.
Zuma’s comments echo those of his rival Julius Malema, who said earlier this week: ‘So, we are saying black people, all of us must unite so that we can change the constitution so that we can expropriate land without compensation.
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South Africa: Zulu King on Farm Murders, Racism and Sona
King Goodwill Zwelithini said the ongoing killings of white farmers should not only be condemned by the white community, but should be the concern of the entire nation.
Delivering his speech at the official opening of the KwaZulu-Natal legislature in Pietermaritzburg on Tuesday, the king also challenged the rest of South Africa to speak out against racism instead of making it only the problem of those who were being discriminated against.
He said social cohesion and reconciliation, the country’s two nation-building projects, had failed because people saw themselves as belonging to a group instead of being part of South Africa.
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Mexican Company Faked the Building of 100,000 Homes: SEC
The eyes in the sky proved that these homes were literally too good to be true, authorities say.
Desarrolladora Homex, once one of Mexico’s leading homebuilders, committed “massive fraud” by faking the construction and sale of 100,000 homes, according to an SEC complaint made public on Friday.
Authorities used high-resolution satellite images to uncover the scheme, which they say inflated Homex’s sales by more than $3 billion over three years.
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“Hundreds” Of Invaders Have Crossed Into Canada
The number of Third World fake asylum seekers-who know they have no chance of convincing the Trump administration that they are genuine-illegally entering Canada has now reached “hundreds,” according to official records.
The invaders come from countries as diverse as Syria, Yemen, Turkey, and Sudan, according to the United Nations Refugee Agency’s (UNHCR) spokesman in Canada, Jean-Nicolas Beuze.
He added that it was “too soon to know whether the cross-border flow of people is an uptick or signals a longer trend.”
The UNHCR led a mission, coordinated with the border police and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, to the border at Lacolle, 45 miles south of Montreal, where entire invader families have been crossing the border illegally.
The invaders are taking advantage of a loophole in the law which says that anyone in Canada can apply for “asylum” as long as there is no record of them officially having crossed any border point.
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1,300 Rescued Refugees Arrive in Italy’s Sicily
About 1,300 refugees have arrived in the island of Sicily on rescue ships over the weekend after crossing the Mediterranean, Italian authorities say.
Italy’s Coast Guard said on Sunday that another 500 refugees were expected to arrive in the next couple of days, after being picked up from flimsy boats off the coast of Libya.
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Austrian FM Calls for Refugee Centers Outside of EU Borders
Austrian foreign minister Sebastian Kurz has argued his case for the opening of refugee centers outside the borders of the European Union suggesting Georgia and the Western Balkans as possible locations.
“We need refugee centers outside the EU, which are operated together with the UNHCR [UN Refugee agency]”, Kurz said in an interview with the German Bild newspaper. He was joined by Jens Spahn, a member of Germany’s ruling party, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU).
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Belgian Police: Moroccan Migrant Raped Up to 230 Women Since 2015
A serial rapist from Morocco — who also robbed and drugged his victims — could have assaulted as many as 230 people since 2015, Belgian investigators say.
The revelation about the 36-year-old migrant, who La Dernière Heure reports has been in prison for the last five months serving time for crimes including rape, assault, embezzlement, theft, and breach of trust, was made by Belgian police last week.
As the count of known victims of the Moroccan rose from 19 to 22, police disclosed the man known to the press as Fouad K. had contact with 230 women in 11 months based on his mobile phone records. The rapist used internet profiles to lure women to meet up with him, and investigators are appealing for other victims to come forward.
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Canada Has No Immediate Plans to Deter People From Crossing Border Illegally
Canada will not tighten security at its border to deter people crossing illegally from the U.S. because the numbers are not big enough to raise concerns, an official said Saturday.
Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale said the issue has not increased to a point where officials will be required to hamper the flow of goods and people moving across the world’s longest undefended border, Reuters reported.
Many people leaving the U.S. for Canada are doing so because of the political rhetoric of the Trump administration, immigration advocates say.
Many cross illegally, braving snow and frigid cold in a dash for asylum.
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Chinese Delegate Claims ‘Illegal’ African Migrants Pose Dangers to City and Resident
As US President Donald Trump’s plan to arrest and deport illegal immigrants ignites fierce debate in his home country, an advisor to the Chinese government claims China should tighten its own policies on African immigrants, who he branded the cause of many safety concerns, news portal Youth.cn reported.
Pan Qinglin, a delegate of Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) from Tianjin, said Africans had taken advantage of loopholes in China’s immigration policies and the country’s traditional friendship with African nations to trick Chinese border officials and enter China. He said this was especially so in the economic powerhouse of southern China’s Guangdong province, where tens of thousands of migrants from Africa seek business and lifestyle opportunities.
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Cultural Enrichment: MS-13 Savages Sacrifice Teenage Girl to Appease Demon
When liberals list the benefits of multiculturalism, they always seem to overlook “human sacrifice”. The Daily Mail: Two illegal immigrant gang members from El Salvador who had a Satanic shrine in their Houston apartment are suspects in the killing of one teenager and the kidnapping of another, authorities said. Gang leader Miguel Angel Alvarez-Flores, 22, who also goes by ‘Diabolico,’ and 18-year-old Diego Alexan Hernandez-Rivera appeared in Houston court Wednesday on charges of aggravated kidnapping and murder. The MS-13 gang members laughed, smiled and waved in court. As if having a ruling elite involved in weird rituals isn’t enough, we now have to worry about illegal aliens appeasing spirits of the underworld with teenage girls.
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Europe’s Trend: Austria, Once Open, Now Shows Migrants Door
Austria was among the first countries in Europe to put out the welcome mat when waves of people fleeing war and poverty reached the continent. Now, its focus is showing them the door.
Parliament is set to pass a law stripping pocket money, food and shelter from those denied asylum, potentially leaving them on the street. The interior minister proudly touts figures showing Austria as the European Union’s per-capita leader in expelling those rejected.
Austrian courts are toughening up too. On Thursday, eight Iraqi men were sent to prison for up to 13 years for the gang rape of a German woman on New Year’s Eve more than a year ago.
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Germany: Somali Asylum Seeker Accused of Raping Helpless Pensioners and Killing an Elderly Woman
An 18-year-old Somali asylum seeker is said to have sexually abused two elderly men in a retirement home and attacking the wife of one of the men leading to her death. He will now go to trial.
The Somali is said to have entered a retirement home in the town of Neuenhaus at around 3 am on 22 October of last year by sneaking in through an unlocked door. He is accused of then proceeding to sexually abuse two elderly men and beating an 87-year-old woman, Neue Osnabrück Zeitung reports.
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Globalist Media Launches Project to ‘Show Human Side’ Of Mass Migration
Four globalist newspapers have teamed up to work on an 18 month project they hope will “show the human side” of mass migration to Europe.
Each of the four European newspapers, one each from France, Germany, the UK and Spain, will follow a group of migrants in their respective countries seeking to answer questions including: “Will Europe change them or will they change Europe?” Le Monde has reported.
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Italy: ‘Too Many Foreigners’ In Public Housing: Florence Mayor
The leftist mayor of Florence, Dario Nardella, on Saturday called for measures to limit the number of foreigners in Italy’s public housing, warning against becoming like the heavily immigrant suburbs in France.
Nardella said he was not calling for an “Italians first” housing policy like the anti-immigrant Northern League would — a move he said would foment hatred.
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Norwegian Ship Rescues 503 Migrants From Med
A Norwegian ship has rescued 503 people from the Mediterranean Sea in eight operations since Thursday.
The Norwegian Police Service says the Siem Pilot arrived Sunday in the Sicilian port of Catania with 503 migrants on board. A seriously ill 16-year-old boy died being helped on board, police said.
The agency said the migrants — 358 men, 29 women and 116 children, including babies -sailed from Libya last week in rubber dinghies and wooden boats. It said many of them were injured, some with gunshot wounds, burn injuries and head wounds.
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‘Refugees’ Reject Free Norwegian Apartments, Demand Houses
Modum, a small municipality in the south of Norway, is faced with an uprising of Syrian asylum seekers, who are angered by the community’s decision to house them for free in moderately sized student flats.
In order to voice their protest against this ‘grave injustice’, the six Arab men involved in the revolt have recently rejected the apartments by refusing to sign contracts allowing them to reside in the flats, with total floor areas of up to 20 square meters.
The Syrians, who claim te have fled the war in their homeland, are between 20 and 33 years of age. Abdulhadi Alkhalaf is one of the complainants. In Syria, the 31-year-old was working as a lawyer, and now he’s claiming “moral rights“, Document reports using Bygdeposten as a source.
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Report: Germany Planned to Close Border at Height of 2015 Refugee Crisis
As thousands of refugees walked to Germany in September 2015, Merkel’s government was ready to close the border, a report has found. The plan was stopped at the last minute only because no one wanted the responsibility.
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Sweden: Crime Soars as Young Migrants Mug Pensioners for Drugs Money
With sexual assault cases up more than 60 per cent in just one year, and ‘unaccompanied minors’ mugging pensioners to pay for hard drugs, police in Uppsala admit crime in the city has reached new levels.
“These are challenges like we’ve never seen before”, said Uppsala police commissioner Daniel Larsson, quoted in a press release on the force’s website which states the city has “a brand new street scene […] today compared to just a few years ago.”
Between summer 2015 and summer 2016 the city also saw a 60 per cent rise in muggings, and police reported that officers feel they are facing a “harsher climate and reduced respect for their profession” while out on patrol.
Drugs are one of the key factors driving the crime wave in Uppsala, according to the city’s police, with sales of illicit substances including heroin taking place out in the open.
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Switzerland: Rise in Families Taking in Asylum Seekers
A project to house asylum seekers and refugees with Swiss families has been deemed a success, with 234 people living with host families and 22 cantons taking part — up from just four two years ago.
The first people were housed under the Guest Families scheme, run by the Swiss Refugee Council (SRC), in March 2015. Two years later 234 people are living in host families, according to a survey of cantons done by the SonntagsBlick.
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by Paulina Neuding
But no-go zones cannot simply be dismissed as a myth. Gordon Grattidge, chairman of a Swedish ambulance trade union, explained to me that no-go zones are a reality for paramedics in Sweden. There are areas where first responders can’t enter without police escort. Grattidge’s assessment is that ambulances are forced to retreat from such areas on a weekly basis.
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‘They Attack Cars & Personnel’: Swedish Ambulance Boss Calls for Protection in Migrant ‘No Go Zones’
The president of Sweden’s ambulance union has called for enhanced security for his personnel when working in so-called “no-go zones,” saying first responders need “special” military-grade equipment to withstand the dangers of the primarily migrant-populated areas.
Despite “dangerous situations” being nothing of extraordinary for ambulance workers, there are now areas in Sweden where even they “don’t want to be in,” head of the Swedish Ambulance Association ALARM, Gordon Grattidge told Swedish DGS TV.
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UK: Sadiq Khan Boasts of 1.5 Million New People to Capital as He Reveals Shock ‘London Plan’
During an event in Surrey, the Mayor of London, 46, was challenged by a member of the public to come clean over his plans to make the over populated city’s air cleaner.
But in his response he has admitted for the first time that the UK’s capital will see an influx of as many as another 1.5 million people.
More than five million people have moved to Britain in 10 years with immigration figures showing that more than 66 million people live in the country.
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A major new study has revealed terror attacks in the UK have more than tripled in the last five years.
The shocking report also reveals that Islamist-related offences have doubled in the last five years, while the rate of beheadings and stabbings has increased eleven-fold.
London and Birmingham have been identified as housing the most offenders, with East London home to half of London-based offenders (22 per cent overall), the most common boroughs being Tower Hamlets, Newham and Waltham Forest.
The study identifies all Islamism-inspired terrorism convictions and suicide attacks in the UK between 1998 and 2015.
The 1,000-page report, published by the Hannah Stuart and the Henry Jackson Society, says Islamism-inspired terrorism remains the principal terrorism threat to both the United Kingdom and British interests overseas.
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Watch. Hungarian Inmates Build Second Anti-Immigrant Fence Along Serbian Border
Called a ‘smart fence’ because of an array of sensors — motion detectors, night vision cameras and heat detectors — attached to it to detect anyone approaching, the new border defence barrier being built in Hungary is state-of-the-art. It is reportedly also electrified, in order to shock those who touch it. To expedite the building of the barrier, Hungary has ordered prisoners to assist with erecting the barricade.
The building of the fence starts after Hungary has decided to extend the state of national emergency for another six months in view of the dangers presented by the 800,000 people stuck in the Balkans, unable to return to Turkey. Measures also include limiting the freedom of movement of migrants and strengthening the border with the above-mentioned second fence.
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Who Will Build Trump’s Long-Promised Border Wall?
A fence won’t do; it has to be a wall: As of Monday, firms can bid on the huge project. Even though its benefits are disputed and its contract volume unsure, there is much interest in building the US border wall.
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Human Cloning a Step Closer After UK Scientists Create Artificial Embryos
Human life could soon be replicated in a laboratory after scientists at the University of Cambridge successfully created artificial mouse embryos.
Scientists developed a mouse embryo structure using stem cells grown in the lab. The cells grew into primitive embryos that had identical internal structures to those that emerge during normal development in the womb.
The purpose of the research is to gain deeper insight into an embryo’s development just prior to implantation.
It marks a significant step forward, as previous attempts to grow embryo-like structures using only embryonic stem cells have only had limited success.
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The Shift: From Liberal-Conservative to Globalist-Nationalist
It’s true that we in the West are undergoing a political reorganization. The past two years have seen an explosion of nationalist political parties and personalities. The terms “liberal” and “conservative,” in the popular context, are beginning to lose relevance. What’s replacing them isn’t so much party difference, but class.
The lines of separation between the elites and provincials has never been clearer. On big, nation-defining issues — trade agreements, wars, transnational partnerships, necessary credentials for high office — the divide cuts evenly. Those moneyed, cloistered, and comfortable welcome globalization and all its attendant benefits. Those who aren’t so well off don’t.
But class separation doesn’t get to the heart of the difference between one end of the widening gulf and the other. The nationalist-globalist frame stems from something different, something more epistemological.
Politics really comes down to a value judgement: how does society best organize its collective life?
For nationalists, love of country, its inhabitants, and its unique character guides law-making. Government is formed solely for the benefit of citizens. High-minded psalms to the brotherhood of man have little place in policy.
The globalists are devoted to the biggest community on Earth: worldwide humanity. To the globally minded activist, there is no difference between the man next door and the man in a hut in Cambodia. Each is due equal consideration when it comes to the law.
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3-D Printing: Competition for Manufacturers
They are at the forefront of industry and will radically change manufacturing: 3-D printers. Replacement parts will no longer be sent through complicated and expensive logistics chains. Instead, they will be produced on-site with 3-D.
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Viruses are infectious, tiny and nasty. But are they alive?
Not really, although it depends on what your definition of “alive” is, two infectious disease doctors told Live Science.
Living beings, such as plants and animals, contain cellular machinery that allows them to self-replicate. In contrast, viruses are free forms of DNA or RNA that can’t replicate on their own.
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Dying Woolly Mammoths Were in ‘Genetic Meltdown’
Isolated on an island in the Arctic Ocean, not only were woolly mammoths the last of a dying species but they were also swamped with ‘bad genes’ that are likely to have stripped their sense of smell and saddled them with translucent coats.
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Martian Meanders and Scroll-Bars
This is a portion of an inverted fluvial channel in the region of Aeolis/Zephyria Plana, at the Martian equator.
Scroll-bars are series of ridges that result from the continuous lateral migration of a meander. On Earth, they are more common in mature rivers. The presence of scroll bars suggests that the water flow in this channel may have been sustained for a relatively long time.
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Scientists Think They’ve Found the Oldest Fossil Ever
The controversial claim suggests that microbes lived on Earth half a billion years earlier than thought
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The West Submits to Blasphemy Laws
by Judith Bergman
“Now that Islamophobia has been condemned, this is not the end, but rather the beginning…” — Muslim Brotherhood affiliate Samer Majzoub, Canadian Muslim Forum.
The motion still does not offer any definition or any statistics to support its claim that “Islamophobia” is a problem in Canada.
However, it should hardly shock anyone that the first motion condemning Islamophobia has so swiftly been followed up by a new motion demanding concrete government measures.
The West is submitting to blasphemy laws. Denmark, for example, has apparently decided that now is the time to invoke a dusty, old blasphemy provision. Denmark still has a provision in the penal code against blasphemy, but until now, it has only been used three times. The last time was nearly half a century ago, in 1971. Denmark’s Attorney General has nevertheless just charged a man for burning a Quran.
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Why the Octopus Lost Its Shell
The ancestors of octopuses and squid once sported hard shells, but when did they lose their “mobile homes” and become agile, soft-bodied swimmers? A new study finds that this change may have occurred during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.
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South Africa the most prosperous country within Africa is finished under Zuma. The history of South Africa is a real eye opener that exposes the hysterical Left’s propaganda and dishonest drive to dismantle Aparthied, the only workable solution for a country that had been inundated throughout the country’s history with Africans from everywhere else except South Africa.
Look it up, and then realize the absolute lying and underhandedness that was used by governments around the world in attacking a once prosperous country in order to uphold their ‘moral superiority’.
Obama and Clapper are lying!
It wouldn’t be the first time.
THE MAGAZINE: From the March 13 Issue
The Truth About Sweden
by PAULINA NEUDING
As Saul Bellow said, ‘A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep’
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Firemen extinguish a burning car on the third straight night of riots by immigrant youths around Stockholm, May 21, 2013.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/the-truth-about-sweden/article/2007071
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WHEN SOCIAL JUSTICE LEADS TO CENSORSHIP
https://youtu.be/Mo2PIkMysJQ
Oh good, they’re doing a media project about the human side of mass migration! I look forward to the interviews with all the child rape victims, women who are afraid to go out in public, people who have been beaten and robbed, families mourning murdered loved ones, police who are overwhelmed with their resources spread too thin, and educators who can no longer effectively teach children because of the language barrier and PC mandates. …Right?
Yeah, right!