Linwood Michael Kaine, the son of Virginia senator, former Virginia governor, and Hillary Clinton’s former running mate Tim Kaine, was among those arrested in Minneapolis, Minnesota for disrupting a pro-Trump rally. No charges have been filed against young Master Kaine for his high-spirited youthful mischief.
In other youthful news, French police detained some 50 “youths” in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis for setting fires and throwing rocks and smoke bombs at police.
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If you didn’t know better, you might be tempted to think that “Space Available” was the hottest new retail chain in the entire country. As you will see below, it is being projected that about a third of all shopping malls in the United States will soon close, and we just recently learned that the number of “distressed retailers” is the highest that it has been since the last recession. Honestly, I don’t know how anyone can possibly believe that the U.S. economy is in “good shape” after looking at the retail industry. In my recent article about the ongoing “retail apocalypse” , I discussed the fact that Sears, J.C. Penney and Macy’s have all announced that they are closing dozens of stores in 2017, and you can find a pretty comprehensive list of 19 U.S. retailers that are “on the brink of bankruptcy” right here. Needless to say, quite a bloodbath is going on out there right now.
But I didn’t realize how truly horrific things were for the retail industry until I came across an article about mall closings on Time Magazine’s website…
About one-third of malls in the U.S. will shut their doors in the coming years, retail analyst Jan Kniffen told CNBC Thursday. His prediction comes in the wake of Macy’s reporting its worst consecutive same-store sales decline since the financial crisis.
Macy’s and its fellow retailers in American malls are challenged by an oversupply of retail space as customers migrate toward online shopping, as well as fast fashion retailers like H&M and off-price stores such as T.J. Maxx. As a result, about 400 of the country’s 1,100 enclosed malls will fail in the upcoming years. Of those that remain, he predicts that about 250 will thrive and the rest will continue to struggle.
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Are Australia’s Banks Going Bust in a Loud Boom? All of the Signs Point That Way!
As 2016 drew to a close, even as US bank stocks posted some of the biggest gains since Mr. Trump got elected, it seemed their counterparts down-under aren’t doing that well! All signs point to a huge weakening in Aussie bank stocks in 2017. But the bigger question is: Will we hear a loud boom as banks down under go bust?
There are ominous performance lags in Australia’s premier stock index, the S&P ASX/200 (AS51:IND), when compared to the iShares MSCI ACWI ex-US ETF (ACWX:US). If you plot the two over a graph and analyse performance over a 5-year period, you can clearly see that they are moving in harmony — not necessarily in convergence, but definitely in the same direction.
These lock-step moves indicated that there was a strong co-relationship between the two comparators. The equity market down under seemed to be working in tandem with most of the world. All was well until now!
A shorter term (1-year) view of these same two comparators reveals a whole new story, however. While the lock-step journey continued until around mid-December 2016, with the AS51:IND even outperforming the ACWX:US for a brief while; all that came to an abrupt end by mid-January 2017. There now appears a clear divergence, with the AS51:IND racking up a -26.88 differential as of the time of this writing.
The tight co-relation between the ASX and the rest of the world is clearly decoupling!
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Eurostat: Greece is the Only EU Country in Economic Recession
Greece was the only country in the European Union in economic recession over the fourth quarter of 2016.
The performance of the Greek economy over the past three months of 2016 are reflected in Eurostat’s chart with the data of the statistical principles adopted by other countries, which vividly exhibits the downward trajectory of GDP.
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February Jobs Numbers Explode, Blowing Past Economists’ Expectations
The ADP/Moody’s jobs report released on Wednesday showed job growth 50-percent ahead of Wall Street’s expectations: 298,000 jobs were created in February versus expectations of less than 200,000 by economists polled by the Wall Street Journal. The job growth was all across the spectrum, with construction and manufacturing sectors adding 106,000 new jobs.
The report, sponsored by ADP, a human resources management company with more than 400,000 business clients, and aided by Moody’s Analytics, was based on performance reported during the month to both entities.
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Greek Farmers Protesting Tax Hikes Fight Police in Athens
Greek farmers protesting against bailout-related income cuts are clashing with riot police outside the agriculture ministry in central Athens.
Protesters are angry at increases in their tax and social security contributions, part of the income and spending cuts Greece’s left-led government has implemented to meet bailout creditor-demanded budget targets.
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Greek Farmers Clash With Police in Athens During Reforms Protest
Greek farmers clashed with police in central Athens on Wednesday when a protest against tax and pension reforms mandated by the country’s multi-billion-euro bailout turned violent.
Waving shepherds crooks, about 1,300 farmers who had arrived in Athens from the island of Crete overnight headed to the agriculture ministry, which was sealed off by police buses.
Tempers flared after reports spread among the assembled crowd that officials had refused to see a delegation from the farmers, witnesses said.
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This Region of the World is Being Hit by the Worst Economic Collapse it Has Ever Experienced
The ninth largest economy in the entire world is currently experiencing “ its longest and deepest recession in recorded history” , and in a country right next door people are being encouraged to label their trash so that the thousands upon thousands of desperately hungry people that are digging through trash bins on the streets can find discarded food more easily. Of course the two nations that I am talking about are Brazil and Venezuela. The Brazilian economy was once the seventh largest on the globe, but after shrinking for eight consecutive quarters it has now fallen to ninth place. And in Venezuela the economic collapse has gotten so bad that more than 70 percent of the population lost weight last year due to a severe lack of food. Most of us living in the northern hemisphere don’ t think that anything like this could happen to us any time soon, but the truth is that trouble signs are already starting to erupt all around us. It is just a matter of time before the things currently happening in Brazil and Venezuela start happening here, but unfortunately most people are not heeding the warnings.
Just a few years ago, the Brazilian economy was absolutely roaring and it was being hailed as a model for the rest of the world to follow. But now Brazil’ s GDP has been imploding for two years in a row, and this downturn is being described as “ the worst recession in recorded history” for that South American nation…
Latin America’s largest economy Brazil has contracted by 3.6 percent in 2016, shrinking for the second year in a row; statistics agency IBGE said on Tuesday. It confirmed the country is facing its longest and deepest recession in recorded history.
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30 Arrested After Flash Mob Strikes Center City Philadelphia
At least 30 people were arrested after a flash mob of more than 100 teenagers wreaked havoc in Center City Philadelphia Monday evening. Police say the group gathered in the area of 15th and Market Streets around 5:30 p.m., and began fighting and running in and out of traffic with no regard for others.
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Is it predictive programming or mere coincidence that imagined movie plots have eerily foretold events before they manifested in reality?
– From the building of border walls and travel bans to economic collapse and martial law, here are 5 Dystopic Movies That Are Happening Right Now:
[Comment: Predictive programming. Used to “acclimatize” the public to the globalist dystopian future planned for the “serfs” that survive.]
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Antifa Pepper-Spray, Taze Trump Supporters at ‘March 4 Trump’ In St. Paul, Minnesota
Video shows two Trump supporters being sprayed with pepper-spray and one being hit with a tazer.
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Bail Reform: The Latest Target for Soros-Funded ‘Criminal Justice Reform’ Push
The so-called “bail reform movement” is part of the institutional left’s multi-pronged attack on America’s criminal justice system, and the progressive battle to do away with what they refer to as “money bail” is being fought across America, from Hawaii to New Jersey, from San Francisco to Baltimore—even as the Trump administration and Attorney General Jeff Sessions are fighting to restore the rule of law.
[Comment: Soros wants to reduce the legal costs that his funded thugs could face.]
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A mother-of-three liquor store owner was bludgeoned to death with a wine bottle at her store on Thursday, during a robbery carried out by a parolee.
Police were called to Char’s South Ave Wine and Liquor around 5pm and found owner Charlotte Lahr suffering from severe trauma to the upper body.
Police and firefighters tried to revive the mother-of-three at the scene but she died.
Parolee Kevin Quander, 59, was arrested the next day for her murder and for robbing the store.
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Big Layoffs Coming to Financially Struggling ESPN
Once a sports powerhouse, ESPN has gone from must-see-TV for millions of sports fans to a financial boondoggle for owner Disney with the network losing up to 10,000 subscribers a day, reports said last month.
“A floundering ESPN, with rising costs and declining viewership, continued to sink Disney’s DIS, +0.24% financial results during its fiscal first quarter,” MarketWatch.com reported.
With ESPN dragging on the company, Disney’s revenue fell 3 percent, and its profits sank 14 percent, the financial site reported.
As to ESPN itself, the network lost subscribers, found its average viewership crater, and experienced falling advertising rates even as its programming costs climbed. And this fall from grace continued even after Disney insisted that ESPN had reached its bottom after the previous quarter came to an end.
ESPN’s crashing revenue coincides with its increasingly leftward political content, a drift so blatant that the network’s ombudsman felt pressured to address the network’s political content.
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Bringing Back Some Assets From Mexico to US — Marchionne
More ‘direct’ relations with industry under Trump
(ANSA) — Geneva, March 7 — Fiat Chrysler Automobiles will bring back “some assets” from Mexico to the United States in line with President Donald Trump’s wishes, FCA CEO Sergio Marchionne said Tuesday. “He will get this, but it’s something that concerns the American market and American employment,” he said. “You can learn something from Trump, perhaps with a different tone. You can have a more direct relationship with industry, more collaboration”. Marchionne said he didn’t want to express political views on Trump. One of Trump’s key peldges is to bring back American jobs from overseas.
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Conspiracy Theory Confirmed: Secret Docs Show Gov’t Covered Up Cell Phone Cancer Risks
After years hidden from the public, California Department of Public Health officials have finally released a draft document outlining health concerns stemming from cellphone radiation — including multiple cancers and infertility. “We have evidence of brain tumors and other head and neck tumors. We also have evidence of sperm damage in males, infertility in females,” explained Joel Moskowitz of U.C. Berkeley’s School of Public Health, who sued the state in 2016 under the California Public Records Act to obtain the information.
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Dan Gainor: WaPo’s Inserting Trump Into Every Section Reads ‘Like a Comic Book Against’ Him
While discussing news media bias, Dan Gainor, vice president of Business and Culture at the Media Research Center, told Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Monday, “In the Washington Post’s case, they jam Trump into every section, and it’s in a negative way.”
[Comment: The fifth estate is now the fifth column; its constant lies have now made it now a danger to the very existance of the USA.]
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It is bad enough that the government spies on its own people. It is equally bad that the CIA, through its incompetence, has opened the cyberdoor to anyone with the technological skills and connections to spy on anyone else.
The constant erosion of privacy at the hands of the government and corporations has annihilated the concept of a “right to privacy,” which is embedded in the rationale of the First, Third, Fourth, Ninth and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
It is becoming increasingly clear that we are sliding down the slippery slope toward totalitarianism, where private lives do not exist.
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Establishment Media Were Silent When Obama Adopted Defense Proposals From Pro-Soviet Think Tank
Amid the flurry of reports about the Trump administration and Russia — largely innuendo that has yielded no documented connections between the two sides — it may be instrumental to review the largely unknown history of how President Obama’s administration adopted defense budget recommendations co-authored by the Institute for Policy Studies, a radical organization known for its close associations with the Soviets during the Cold War.
In fact, throughout the Cold War, the Institute for Policy Studies, or IPS, was repeatedly accused of holding pro-Soviet positions that undermined U.S. national security and serving as a de facto Soviet propaganda institution.
Yet that same group co-authored and contributed to an annual report titled “Unified Security Budget for the United States,” an extensive yearly list of U.S. military defense spending recommendations compiled by progressive think tanks. The report seeks to re-balance the Defense Department to “strengthen our capacity to prevent and resolve conflict by non-military means,” according to one IPS description of the report.
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Every ‘Conspiracy Theorist’ In America Has Just Been Vindicated…
Yes, the government can use your phone, your computer and even potentially your television to spy on what you are doing inside your own home. On Tuesday, Wikileaks released thousands of documents that prove what virtually every “ conspiracy theorist” in America has been saying for years about government spying. And I don’ t even like to use the term “ conspiracy theorist” much, because the truth is that most “ conspiracy theorists” are simply citizen journalists that are attempting to expose things that the mainstream media doesn’ t want to talk about. And one of the things that the mainstream media has always been hesitant to address is the unconstitutional surveillance that U.S. intelligence agencies systematically conduct on their own citizens.
But now the mainstream media is being forced to talk about government surveillance because Wikileaks has just exposed it for all the world to see. According to Wikileaks, the CIA has been secretly running “ its ‘ own NSA’ with even less accountability and without publicly answering the question as to whether such a massive budgetary spend on duplicating the capacities of a rival agency could be justified” . It is known as the Central Intelligence Agency’ s Center for Cyber Intelligence, and it has produced “ more than a thousand hacking systems, trojans, viruses, and other ‘ weaponized’ malware” . In fact, the computer or phone that you are reading this article on may be infected with one of their programs right now.
The documents that were released by Wikileaks show that government spooks can remotely take control of Apple iPhones, Google Android phones, Microsoft Windows operating systems and Samsung smart televisions, and once in control of those devices they can use them to spy on their owners.
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FBI Prepares for New Hunt for Wikileaks’ Source
The FBI has begun preparing for a major mole hunt to determine how anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks got an alleged arsenal of hacking tools the CIA has used to spy on espionage targets, according to people familiar with the matter.
The leak rattled government and technology industry officials, who spent Tuesday scrambling to determine the accuracy and scope of the thousands of documents released by the group. They were also trying to assess the damage the revelations may cause, and what damage may come from future releases promised by WikiLeaks, these people said.
It was all a familiar scenario for a government that has repeatedly seen sensitive information compromised in recent years.
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George Soros Gave $246 Million to Partners of Women’s March
Behind the Women’s March on Washington and a Day Without a Woman is a rich man: liberal billionaire George Soros.
A report released Tuesday by the conservative Media Research Center found Mr. Soros and his Open Society Foundations contributed $246 million between 2010 and 2014 to 100 of the 544 groups listed as partners of the Women’s March.
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Here’s the List: More Than a Dozen Proven Victims of Obama’s Many Wiretaps
It is not unfounded that former President Obama would wire tap President Trump during the election process. This is because he has done this before. Here is a list of individuals who were wire tapped by the Obama Administration.
WikiLeaks released the following list on February 23rd (see link here) of Obama Administration wire taps:
- The US National Security Agency bugged a private climate change strategy meeting; between UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon and German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin;
- Obama bugged Chief of Staff of UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) for long term interception targetting his Swiss phone;
- Obama singled out the Director of the Rules Division of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Johann Human, and targetted his Swiss phone for long term interception;
- Obama stole sensitive Italian diplomatic cables detailing how Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu implored Italy’s Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to help patch up his relationship with US President Barack Obama, who was refusing to talk to Netanyahu;
- Obama intercepted top EU and Japanese trade ministers discussing their secret strategy and red lines to stop the US “extort[ing]” them at the WTO Doha arounds (the talks subsequently collapsed);
[…]
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Jurors Hear Recording of Alleged Al Qaeda Agent’s Terrorism Goals
Jurors in Brooklyn on Tuesday heard recordings of an Al Qaeda operative raving about his sick dreams of terrorism.
Prosecutors played a 2011 recording in which Ibrahim Suleiman Adnan Adam Harun told law enforcement about his aspirations for holy war, which started in elementary school.
The recording came months after Italian authorities arrested Harun on a refugee ship from Libya.
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NASA Wants to Launch a Giant Magnetic Field to Make Mars Habitable
NASA scientists have proposed a bold plan that could give Mars its atmosphere back and make the Red Planet habitable for future generations of human colonists.
By launching a giant magnetic shield into space to protect Mars from solar winds, the space agency says we could restore the Red Planet’s atmosphere, and terraform the Martian environment so that liquid water flows on the surface once again.
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New CNN Spy Video Reportedly Shows Heated Discussion Between Trump and Inner Circle in Oval Office
CNN has released a new video reportedly showing a heated discussion between President Trump and his closest aides in the Oval Office last Friday, just a few hours before the President said on Twitter that his predecessor Barack Obama was utilizing electronic surveillance to monitor the Trump campaign staff ahead of the election.
The spy video, likely recorded with a telephoto lens from a distance, shows President Trump, chief strategist Steve Bannon, Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, his son-in-law Jared Kushner, and his daughter Ivanka discussing the fall-out from accusations that Attorney General Jeff Sessions met with Russian officials.
According to Newmax founder and Trump confidante Christopher Ruddy, the video may show the very meeting Ruddy referenced when he said over the weekend that he had never seen the President “this p*ssed off.”
Though no audio is available, we have no doubt that investigative journalists at mainstream networks are feverishly contacting lip-reading experts to help translate the private Oval Office meeting.
As an interesting sidenote — and this may be because we’re not as net savvy as others out there — we do not recall a time that CNN or other alphabet networks ever released similar videos of private Oval Office meetings being held by their beloved President Barack Obama. A precursory Google search for the phrase “Obama Oval Office Video” shows scores of results of President Obama in approved Oval Office videos and walking outside of the Oval Office, but nothing as intimate as the video just released by CNN. Curiously, the aforementioned search query shows a result for Trump’s private oval office meeting.
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Oldest, Biggest Black Holes May Have Come From Enormous Stars
The earliest supermassive black holes may have been big to start with. If so, it would help explain the recent detection of such beasts within a billion years of the big bang.
So far, astronomers have not directly spotted supergiant stars in the early universe. But if they exist, the James Webb Space Telescope should be able to see them after its launch next year.
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Sen. Kaine’s Son Arrested at Trump Rally in Minnesota
The son of Hillary Clinton’s former running mate, Sen. Tim Kaine, was one of six arrested Saturday protesting a rally in support of President Trump at the Minnesota State Capitol.
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Secrecy has become a way of life, particularly for the stealthy operations of nuclear powers and a continuity of government system.
In preparing for all eventualities of defense, and attempting to stay one step ahead of every adversary, the U.S. government and governments around the world have become so secret, that entire cities and underground civilizations have been created without the knowledge of the public.
And some people still claim far-reaching conspiracies are impossible because they’d never be able to get so many people to keep their mouths shut.
If these are the ones we now know all about, take a guess what we don’t know about…
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WikiLeaks ‘Under Attack’: Julian Assange Press Conference Sabotaged by Cyber Strike
A WIKILEAKS press conference where Julian Assange is set to reveal its latest ‘Vault7 Year Zero’ documents is being rescheduled after it suffered a “cyber attack”, the whistleblowing organisation has claimed.
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WikiLeaks: CIA Uses ‘Stolen’ Malware to ‘Attribute’ Cyberattacks to Nations Like Russia
Documents released by WikiLeaks show that the CIA kept records of malware attacks supposedly stolen from outside agents, including the Russian government, used to “misdirect attribution” of hacking sources.
“The CIA’s hand crafted hacking techniques pose a problem for the agency,” WikiLeaks explains. “Each technique it has created forms a ‘fingerprint’ that can be used by forensic investigators to attribute multiple different attacks to the same entity.
That’s where the CIA’s UMBRAGE team comes in.
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WikiLeaks Claims 99 Percent of Vault 7 Not Yet Released
Less than one percent of WikiLeaks’ CIA files were released in yesterday’s document dump, the anti-secrecy organization claimed Wednesday.
WikiLeaks has already indicated that its cache of stolen CIA files, which the group is calling “Vault 7,” will be dripped out over a series of releases.
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You Can Tell What Leftists Are Doing by What They Accuse Conservatives of Doing
Liberals’ lies and slander are road map to their future plans
Suddenly the Democrats are coming out against their classic moves like cavorting with Russians to hack American elections and perjury, so who knows which of their foundational principles they will pull a 180 on and betray next: Climate scams? Free money for deadbeats? Jane Fonda?
But they don’t really mean it — hell, without perjury they could never testify to anything. If you want to know what the liberals are up to, just listen to the lies they are telling about conservatives. They used to be able to get away with it too, but thanks to the interwebs Al Gore invented between buffet deep dives and sweaty masseuse gropes, the political playing field for liberal liars is now covered in rakes.
Lying is what they do because that’s all they have left on the left. They have no foundational principles except power. Their entire ideology is transactional — it’s not based on ideas but on payoffs to Democrat sub-sets. Here’s some dough for the baby crunching industry! We’ll hassle some Christian bakers for the SJWs! Let’s put a bunch of cis-het males of pallor who don’t even listen to NPR out of work in West Tennetucky, or wherever they grow coal, to delight our global warming cultist pals!
But today the Democrats hold no levers of power, and they can’t dispense goodies anymore. All they can do now is howl, whine, and lie, and try to mobilize the parasites burrowed into the federal bureaucracy to undercut the will of normal Americans. They do this by falsely accusing us and those who represent us of doing exactly what they are doing and what they intend to do once Trump is ousted. Their goal is to seize power again and permanently disenfranchise us — and they are happy to take the risk of literally ripping the country apart.
The media is, of course, a willing and eager accomplice in this coordinated campaign of deception and slander. Notice how no one in the mainstream media pointed out how the Sessions perjury lie conveniently appeared simultaneously across the entire media just when the Democrats desperately needed to shift the narrative from their utter humiliation by Trump’s terrific joint address? The media hacks never mentioned it because they were part of it, the beat-boy skeletons to the David S. Pumpkins of progressivism. The left and its media’s problem, however, is that the new information reality means that they can start a controversy, but they can’t control it.
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Calgary MP Says Equality Questions Will ‘Keep Muslim Out’
Ontario Member of Parliament (MP) and Conservative Party of Canada leadership candidate Kellie Leitch has outraged a Calgary MP and with her latest insistence that immigrants should be given a values test before becoming Canadian citizens. In questions first posted on TheRebel.media and then reported by iPolitics.ca on Monday, Leitch says immigrants should be asked three questions:
Are men and woman equal, and entitled to equal protection under the law?
Is it ever OK to coerce or use violence against an individual or a group who disagrees with your views?
Do you recognize that to have a good life in Canada you will need to work hard to provide for yourself and your family, and that you can’t expect to have things you want given to you?
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4,000-Year-Old Pollen Reflects Scotland’s Ancient Landscape
BBC News reports that pollen from medicinal and flowering plants has been identified on a decorated beaker placed in a young woman’s grave some 4,100 years ago. Dubbed “Ava,” the woman’s remains were unearthed 30 years ago at Achavanich, a site known for its megalithic horseshoe-shaped structure.
“Of the pollen recovered the majority were from trees and shrubs including birch, pine—most likely Scots pine—hazel and alder,” said archaeologist Maya Hoole. Traces of heather, grasses, meadowsweet, and St. John’s wort were also found in the grave.
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A Traditional Neanderthal Home
Rising out of the English Channel on the island of Jersey is one of the longest-occupied Neanderthal sites in the world. “La Cotte de Saint Brelade is this mega-site, a massive, deeply ravined granite headland on the far corner of northwest Europe providing a record spanning more than 200,000 years,” says Matthew Pope, a geoarchaeologist at University College London.
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Adidas Profits Hit the Billion Mark
German sports goods maker Adidas has announced record profits for 2016, beating analysts’ expectations. The Bavaria-based company said net profit topped a billion euros for the first time in the firm’s history.
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Cyprus — Displaced People and Reunification of a Divided Island
Cyprus has been split on ethnic lines since 1974, when Turkish troops invaded the north of the island in response to a short-lived coup by Greek Cypriot militants seeking union with Greece.
In recent months Greek and Turkish Cypriots have been negotiating to try to end their decades-long conflict and have asked the United Nations to prepare for a new peace conference in early March.
A UN envoy is now urging both sides to seize an opportunity for peace, warning it could be years before such a chance arises again.
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Defiant Turkish FM Tells Germany Not to Lecture in Hamburg Speech
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu asked Berlin not to preach about democracy and human rights amid a mounting row sparked by German cities refusing to allow meetings aimed at gathering votes to extend the Turkish president’s powers.
“Please, don’t give us lessons in human rights and democracy,” the minister said, as he spoke to a crowd of some 200 Turkish government supporters gathered at the residence of their country’s consul in the northern city of Hamburg.
The comments came after German local authorities banned rallies that Turkish officials were due to address to raise support among expatriate voters for a referendum in April on boosting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s powers.
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Do You Feel a Draft? Sweden Brings Back Military Conscription
Imagine if President Trump, who has pledged to rebuild America’s military, announced tomorrow that the United States is reinstituting the military draft. Think there would be any opposition? That is just what another country has done: Sweden is introducing universal military conscription, and so far, no one is complaining.
The decision to require all 18-year-olds — men and women alike — to register for the military draft beginning next year is a direct result of Sweden’s increasing nervousness about Russia’s aggressive behavior in Ukraine, and lately, in and around the Baltic states.
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EU Military Headquarters is First Step in Defense Plan
Approval for a military headquarters in Brussels marks progress for efforts toward closer EU military coordination. But it is also a mere first step in an effort that has failed in the past.
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Female Genital Mutilation Cases Rise in UK, But No Prosecutions
Medical staff working in England’s National Health Service recorded close to 5,500 cases of female genital mutilation (FGM) in 2016, but no one has been successfully prosecuted since the practice was banned over 30 years ago.
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France: See What the Eiffel Tower’s Bulletproof Glass Wall Would Look Like
Paris’s most famous monument the Eiffel Tower is going to be partly surrounded by a bulletproof glass wall. Take a look at what it could look like.
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MARINE Le Pen has attacked the French government for losing control of the country after dozens of teenagers rampaged through north Paris suburbs in an unprecedented wave of riots.
Armed with iron bars, more than 50 youths ran riot through the Saint-Denis suburb, throwing stones at police cars as well as starting fires and setting off smoke bombs in three sixth form colleges.
The rampage forced teachers to lock themselves in their classrooms to escape the attacks. Local authorities have estimated the cost of the damage could be in the set taxpayers back more than £60,000 (€70,000).
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French Police Detain 50 Youths for Stoning Police Cars in Riot-Hit Neighbourhood
The prosecutor’s office for the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis said that some 50 young people have been detained for allegedly throwing stones at police cars, setting fires and lobbing smoke bombs into a school.
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German Intelligence Boss: Threat Level Remains High
Three months after the truck attack on a Berlin Christmas market, domestic intelligence officials say they can’t rule out further attacks. They add that there are other reasons to be concerned about security in Germany.
Maassen also said that he is concerned about developments in Turkey. “For a long time now, we’ve observed that the conflicts playing out in Turkey also affect the security situation in Germany,” he said, adding there is a danger that proxy conflicts could escalate between members of the Kurdish PKK and nationalistic or right-wing Turkish extremists.
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Germany: Schulz’s SPD Narrows Gap With Merkel’s Conservatives
The gap in support between German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and her Social Democratic Party (SPD) rivals is the closest it has been in six years, according to a poll published Wednesday.
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Representatives of Hungarian NGOs funded by George Soros, the billionaire financier and open borders campaigner, complain that proposals to increase financial transparency for foreign-funded groups constitute an “unprecedented attack” on “European values”.
The Hungarian government contends that “in a democracy, political representation comes through democratic legitimacy — elections — that should be void of foreign and nontransparent influencing”.
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‘Islamist Terrorist Attacks in Germany Possible Any Moment’ — German Intelligence Chief
A terrorist attack in Germany may occur “any moment,” as the number of Islamists on the loose keeps growing, the head of the German domestic intelligence service has warned.
“Islamist terrorist attacks in Germany may occur any time,” Hans-Georg Maassen, the president of the Federal Office for Protection of the Constitution (BfV), said in a statement on Wednesday.
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Italian Region Bans Women in Face Veils From Entering Hospitals
The northern region of Liguria on Tuesday announced plans to ban the Islamic face veil from hospitals and other public institutions, in a bid to “defend women’s freedom”.
Regional president Giovanni Toti, of the Forza Italia party, described the burqa as “the worst symbol of the oppression of women”. He defended the ban against accusations that it is discriminatory and possibly anti-constitutional.
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Italy: Gentiloni Presents 3.9 Bn Plan for Deprived Outskirts
500 mn right away for 24 projects
(ANSA) — Rome, March 6 — Premier Paolo Gentiloni on Monday presented a plan to invest 3.9 billion euros in deprived areas on the outskirts of Italian cities, including 500 million euros right away. “Today a 500-million-euro commitment was made for the best 24 projects in the periphery areas,” Gentiloni told a press conference.
“The commitment regards 120 interventions in total, so 95 more than those for today. The money is there.
“The CIPE (Interministerial Economic Planning Committee) has set aside another 800 million of the 1.6 billion needed and the other 800 million are part of the fund for infrastructure.
“In addition to the 2.1 billion, public and private funding will be added for a total of 3.9 billion”.
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Italy: Ex-Prosecutor Ingroia Probed for Misappropriation
For unduly receiving reimbursements for trips
(ANSA) — Palermo, March 7 — Former Palermo prosecutor Antonio Ingroia is under investigation for suspected misappropriation, judicial sources said Tuesday. Ingroia, now head of the Sicilia e-Servizi (Sicily and e-Services) company, was questioned this morning, they said.
He is suspected of unduly receiving a series of reimbursements for trips as head of the regional company. Ingroia is also being probed for the severance payment he got when he left the judiciary. Ingroia, 57, made an unsuccessful foray into politics at the head of a small leftist group after leaving the judiciary. A former head of a UN probe into Guatemala narco-trafficking, he has written for the Il Fatto Quotidiano newspaper. He also clashed with former president Giorgio Napolitano over wiretaps of conversations with former interior minister Nicola Mancino in a trial into alleged negotiations with the Mafia to stop an early 1990s bombing campaign.
He is currently writing a book about that trial, where the incriminated wiretaps were destroyed.
Ingroia was appointed head of Sicilia e-Servizi in July 2013, a month after making his farewell to the judiciary.
The agency is in charge of digitizing files.
The appointment comes on the heels of a controversy when he decided to run for office in December 2012.
After his disappointing foray into politics in February 2013 general elections, Ingroia clashed with the judiciary’s self-governing body, the Supreme Council of Magistrates (CSM), in April following its decision to appoint him as deputy prosecutor in Aosta.
The surrounding region, Val d’Aosta, is the only one in which Ingroia did not stand for elected office with his left-wing Civil Revolution party.
Ingroia said at the time the CSM’s decision to post him in Aosta was a ‘punishment’ for entering politics, and he later stepped down.
In June 2013 Ingroia said leaving his work as a prosecutor was a “much-suffered and difficult decision”, adding however that he could not continue to “suffer discrimination from politicians in the CSM”.
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Malta’s Azure Window Collapses Into the Sea
Malta’s famous Azure Window rock arch has collapsed into the sea after heavy storms. Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said the news was “heartbreaking”.
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Vanderbilt and “CIA intern” Anderson Cooper sat down with French presidential candidate (or as 60 Minutes calls her, “Donald Trump with a French accent”) Marine Le Pen to talk about why she is a xenophobic Putinbot.
This 60 Minutes interview was supposed to be the last nail in Le Pen’s coffin — – sort of like those politically-motivated police raids on her campaign headquarters.
But things did not go according to plan.
Despite Cooper bringing his A-game — a laundry list of gotcha-journalism and smears — Len Pen held her ground.
She was also considerate enough to use simple language to help Anderson and his American audience understand why they have no idea what they’re talking about
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Multi-Speed Europe is a Warning, EU Official Says
The possibility of a multi-speed Europe should not be an objective, but a warning to all of Europe, a senior EU official said on Tuesday (7 March) as EU leaders gather in Brussels to discuss which way the bloc should be headed after the UK leaves.
Germany, France, Italy and Spain have endorsed the idea of multi-speed Europe, in which some countries could forge ahead with deeper integration, even if others do not want to follow suit. A similar Benelux paper has been circulated at the Malta summit in early February.
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Neanderthal Tooth Plaque Hints at Meals — and Kisses
The Neanderthals of El Sidrón Cave in northern Spain lived hardscrabble lives. But before they died some 50,000 years ago, they dined on mushrooms, moss and pine nuts. One individual may even have used plants and moulds to treat his ailments. This intimate portrait is revealed in an analysis of DNA from the hardened tooth plaque of five Neanderthals.
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Pursuing Cold War Against Russia is Threat for Europe — Le Pen
French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen has branded the claims that Russia poses a threat to Europe “a big scam.” She believes that the real danger is “carrying out a Cold War against Russia and pushing Russia into China’s arms,” she said in a CBS interview.
During the interview, CBS host Anderson Cooper challenged Le Pen with questions such as, “You don’t believe Russia’s a threat for Europe?” while raising the familiar “Crimea invasion” argument against Moscow.
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Renzi-Gentiloni on Right Path Says Schaeuble
Italy creative and flexible
(ANSA) — Berlin, March 7 — German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaueble said Tuesday “Matteo Renzi’s reform path, taken forward by Paolo Gentiloni, is the right one”. He said he had “general concerns, but as far as Italy is concerned, it has an enormous dose of creativity and flexibility”. Schaeuble was answering a question on whether Italian political problems posed potential risks for Rome. Schaeuble added that he ‘did not understand” criticism of Germany’s trade surplus and said that Germany was not manipulating its currency, since the ECB was independent.
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Sweden World’s Best Country for Women: Ranking
Sweden is seen as the best place in the world for women, at least according to a new survey.
Sweden came top in the Best Countries For Women category, much thanks to its “progressive attitudes toward gender equality”, according to the report’s country profile.
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Sweden: Police at Rinkeby Riots Were “Not Properly Trained”
On the 20th of February, police reinforcements were called in following an arrest in the Stockholm suburb of Rinkeby after a group of individuals started throwing stones at the police. But according to the police’s own incident report, only two of the 14 police officers called in for reinforcement had done the special tactical training necessary for such an intervention.
In addition, they did not have the necessary protective gear on hand.
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Sweden: Boys Who Raped Fellow Pupil Were Allowed to Remain at School
Two boys raped another pupil and were found guilty in court. But only after criticism in the press did the local education authority decide to move the boys to another school.
The 14-year-old girl was raped in May last year, and in December, the 16-year old boy was convicted of rape of a minor and sentenced to pay damages to the girl. The other boy, 15 years old, was put in touch with the social services.
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The Muslim Brotherhood is creating a ‘parallel social structure’ in Sweden with the help of ‘political elites’ who foster a culture of silence, a damning government report has found.
The document claims that the Brotherhood is building a ‘parallel society’ within the Scandinavian country, which can help the Islamist group to achieve its ends.
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Turkey Has Stepped Up Spying in Germany, Says Berlin
Amid ongoing diplomatic unrest, German intelligence has reported an increase in Turkish spying in Germany. Turkey’s Foreign Minister meanwhile has said Berlin “must decide whether Germany is a friend or not.”
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UK: ‘I Have Tuberculosis in My Brain’
Johnny Islam, 29, is from Leyton in east London. Although having TB in the brain is rare, the disease itself is not.
Once deadly in the Victorian era — when it was known as the white plague — it is often assumed that tuberculosis has long since been eradicated.
But there are so many cases in London that the city is known as the TB capital of Western Europe.
The most recent data on infection rates show parts of London still have higher rates of TB than in some developing countries, such as Iraq, Libya and even Yemen.
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By Anne Marie Waters
These problems are not going to go away, they will only get worse unless firm and unapologetic action is taken. If UKIP won’t do this, someone will, and UKIP could simply fade away; seen as out of touch and too afraid to challenge the orthodoxy of the Left-dominated media, it could become irrelevant. For the sake of the country we love, we shouldn’t allow this to happen.
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Watch: Police and Journalists Attacked During Swedish School Riot
Eleven “youths” have been arrested after a riot broke out at a school in Sweden that saw both police and TV journalists attacked with rocks by an angry mob.
The riot occurred at the Alléskolan school in the town of Hallsberg on Monday afternoon. According to police, glass bottles and rocks were thrown at them, as well as at journalists. Officers say they have arrested 11 young men in connection with the riots and said they have no idea what started the conflict which escalated rapidly, Swedish broadcaster SVT reports.
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Watch: The Azure Window is Lost and Gone Forever
The Azure Window has collapsed and it is not just the top part which has fallen off — even the stacks have gone.
Roger Chessell, a Xaghra resident, was at Dwejra when the window collapsed at about 9.40am, having gone to take pictures of the storm.
“There was a big raging sea beneath the window,” he told the Times of Malta.
“Suddenly, the arch collapsed into the sea with a loud whoomph, throwing up a huge spray. By the time the spray had faded, the stack had gone too.”
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What You Need to Know About Swedish Military Service and Dual Citizenship
Let’s get the bad news out of the way first: being a dual national doesn’t mean you automatically have special exemption from military service. If you’re a Swedish national in the applicable age bracket living in Sweden, dual nationality or otherwise, then you’re eligible.
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Women Stage ‘Pussyhat Knit-in’ In Swiss Capital
On International Women’s Day, several hundred people gathered in front of Switzerland’s parliament square to show solidarity with international movements and some — including parliamentarians — knitted pink “Pussyhats”.
The participants called for social and economic security for women, fair wages and decent working conditions. They also demanded a better balance between family and work. Members of an alliance called “We can’t keep quiet” were also present. The alliance is made up of women, migrant, and LGBT organisations, as well as trade unions.
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Flashback — Dan Bongino Where Was President Obama During the Benghazi Attack
BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA, in his own words: “I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.” The quote comes from page 261 of the paperback edition of “The Audacity of Hope.
Change has come to the USA. Welcome to the Bizarre and Surreal World of fundamental change brought to you by the president…
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How Turkey is Using Germany to Whip Up Nationalism at Home
Turkish politicians are using a spate of cancelled rallies in Germany to stir up nationalist feeling ahead of next month’s referendum on boosting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s powers, analysts say.
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Iran Arrests Two Catholics in New Wave of Brutality Against Christians
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) arrested two Christians — a mother and her son — in late February as part of a brutal crackdown on Catholicism in the country’s West Azerbaijan Province.
The family’s bibles and literature on Christian theology were also seized during the draconian raid, according to a March 5 report on the website of the Iranian Christian News Agency, Mohabat.
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ISIS Honcho Al-Baghdadi May Have Escaped Mosul and Gone Into Hiding, Officials Say
The man who called the shots for the Islamic State in Iraq for years may have escaped Mosul in a desperate bid to stay alive, U.S. and Iraqi officials reportedly said Wednesday.
Noting that official communications from terror leaders have gone silent as the U.S.-backed Iraqi military pushes deeper into Mosul, the officials told Reuters Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi could very well be hiding in the desert somewhere. Still, they’ve said pinpointing his exact location could be near impossible.
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by Daniel Pipes
“We’re in dire straits.” So spoke Jordan’s King Abdullah a half-year ago. A just-completed week of intensive travels and discussions throughout Jordan finds no one disagreeing with that assessment. Jordan may no longer be hyper-vulnerable and under siege, as it was in decades past; but it does face possibly unprecedented problems.
Jordan has muddled through many crises, it may do so again, but the concatenation of current dangers pose an extraordinary challenge to Jordan and its many well-wishers. Will King Abdullah cope with those “dire straits”?
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Middle East Strategic Issues Facing the Trump Administration: An Interview With Dr. Walid Phares
by Jerry Gordon and Mike Bates
Dr. Walid Phares was the Middle East and Foreign Affairs consultant to the Trump Campaign and national security and foreign policy expert at FoxNews. Among his extensive published noteworthy works are the acclaimed best selling 2006 book, Future Jihad: Terrorist Strategies against America and the 2014 The Lost Spring: US Policy: in the Middle East and Catastrophes to Avoid. He is currently under consideration by the Trump Administration for a possible post at the US State Department. We were afforded an opportunity to interview him on a wide range of Middle East issues facing the Trump Administration on Northwest Florida’s Talk Radio 1330amWEBY. The program aired February 20, 2017.
Among Middle East policy issues addressed by Dr. Phares during the interview were…
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Saudi Arabia’s King Calls for ‘Moderate Islam’ But is it Practised There?
SAUDI ARABIA’S King Salman bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud kicked off his month-long Asia tour by arriving in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia with a 1,500-strong entourage including 10 ministers.
So far, the octogenarian monarch has raised eyebrows by flying in 14-tonne “golden” escalator, bulletproof limousines and 460 tonnes of luggage.
Since Feb 26, the king has also visited Indonesia and Brunei. He is also due to visit Japan and China.
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The Yazidi Kidnapped by is: ‘I Had to Pretend to be a Muslim to Survive’
Two Yazidi teenagers reveal how they were held in a so-called Islamic State military camp and trained to kill.
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by Srdja Trifkovic
On March 2, standing on board the USS Gerald R. Ford—the most expensive warship ever built—President Donald Trump touted his $54 billion military spending increase. A disproportionate part of that immense sum (more than the total defence budget of Russia at $45 billion, or India at $53 billion) would go to the Navy, eventually increasing its current 275-ship fleet to 350 vessels of all types and sizes. Trump said these warships would be used to “project American power in distant lands.”
The first problem with Trump’s stated intent to have a twelve-carrier navy “we need”—capable of “facing any threat”—is that he has not defined this formidable force’s mission. Without a clear statement of strategic doctrine, the “need” and the “threat” are but amorphous rhetorical devices. It is unclear what need would a 350-ship Navy with 12 carrier groups achieve that has been out of reach of its 270 ships and ten carriers. If the objective is simply to enhance global hegemony (“primacy”) and to be able to intervene in distant lands at will, then President Trump intends to follow his four immediate predecessors in the bid to maintain full-spectrum dominance. This would be a radical and regrettable departure from his campaign pledge to shake the rust off America’s foreign policy and to base it on the rational principle of national interest.
The second problem is that an additional $54 billion in defence spending for FY 2018 may not be enough to cover the shipbuilding program and to provide for adequate maintenance of the existing fleet, which has been overused for decades. Since the late 1990’s the Navy has kept a hundred ships continuously at sea, and each of them is deployed for at least six months at a time. This has created immense maintenance and reliability problems. Additional funds would be better used to properly maintain and upgrade the existing 270-ship Navy, and to reduce such extensive, world-wide deployments. That brings us back to the core issue of mission and strategic doctrine, however: what is the “need,” how to define “threats,” and how to match goals and capabilities. The strategic failures in Afghanistan and Iraq were never due to the shortage of ships. By contrast, Russia was able to turn the tide in Syria with a few dozen planes and minimal naval deployment…
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Turkey Shuts Down US Aid Group Mercy Corps as Relations With Washington Deteriorate
The increasingly authoritarian and thin-skinned government of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was presumably well aware already of that impact, in what has become a fragmented and increasingly tense vortex of conflict.
Indeed, Erdogan’s government may well have been making a different point by sidelining one of the most important U.S.-based institutions in the explosive region—just as the U.S. itself has been increasingly sidelined in the diplomatic conversation now ongoing among Russia, Turkey and the Assad regime about how to end Syria’s brutal civil war.
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1 Terrorist Killed in Lucknow Encounter: Know About ISIS Terrorism in India
A suspected terrorist believed to be part of a group that was planning a major terror attack in Uttar Pradesh was killed early Wednesday morning after nearly 12 hours of anti-terror operation in Lucknow. According to police sources, the target of the operation was a house in Haji Ali Colony in Thakurganj, on the outskirts of Lucknow. The standoff began early Tuesday evening, hours after at least ten people were injured in a blast on the Ujjain Express.
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‘93% of Pakistani Women Experience Sexual Violence’
Pakistan is among those countries where 70% women and girls experience physical or sexual violence in their lifetime by their intimate partners and 93% women experience some form of sexual violence in public places in their lifetime.
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India: Young Girl Killed as Human Sacrifice to ‘Cure’ Paralyzed Man
As I’ve written elsewhere, human sacrifice is a unique form of cultural enrichment — one sorely lacking in the stuffy, overly-scientific West.
BBC:
Police told BBC Hindi that the child was killed on the instructions of a “sorcerer” to “cure” a paralysed man.
The man’s brother and sister have been arrested on charges of abducting and murdering the girl.
The alleged sorcerer told them it was the only way to undo “black magic” affecting their sibling, police said.
A 17-year-old boy has also been arrested for helping to abduct the girl, police said.
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ISIS Gunmen Dressed as Doctors Kill at Least 30 at Afghan Hospital
Gunmen wearing white lab coats stormed a military hospital in Afghanistan’s capital on Wednesday, killing at least 30 people and wounding dozens in an attack claimed by the Islamic State group.
The attack on the 400-bed military facility, located near two civilian hospitals in Kabul’s heavily-guarded diplomatic quarter, set off clashes with security forces that lasted several hours.
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Kim Jong-Nam Death: Mystery Video of Son Emerges
A video has emerged of the son of Kim Jong-nam, the murdered half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
In the short and censored clip, the man says: “My name is Kim Han-sol, from North Korea, part of the Kim family.”
His father was killed in Kuala Lumpur airport on 13 February by attackers who smeared his face with VX nerve agent.
In an extraordinary move on Tuesday, North Korea banned Malaysians in the country from leaving, citing security reasons.
Malaysia called this an “abhorrent act” which was “in total disregard of all international law and diplomatic norms”, then did the same thing for North Koreans in Malaysia.
Both countries have already expelled each other’s ambassadors.
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Why ‘More Than a Million Traders’ Are Boycotting Coca-Cola and Pepsi in India
Trade organizations in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu are boycotting Coca-Cola and Pepsi amid concerns the two companies are using excessive amounts of water to produce their products. The Guardian reports that “[m]ore than a million traders in India” are now boycotting the drinks.
“These foreign companies are using up scarce water resources of the state,” said K Mohan, secretary of the Vanigar Sangam, one of the associations supporting the boycott, the Guardian reported. These concerns are particularly relevant amid low rainfall rates during the region’s last monsoon. In January “the state’s interim chief minister O Panneerselvam declared the state ‘drought-hit’ and asked the central government for funds to help farmers.”
As the English-language Indian outlet, Daily News and Analysis, reported, “The state has been facing its worst-ever drought in recent decades with over 200 farmers reportedly committing suicide due to multiple crop failure.”
Vikrama Raja, president of Vanigar Sangam, echoed a similar sentiment, singling out Pepsi and Coca-Cola for their role in the dilemma. “[Foreign companies] are exploiting the state’s water bodies to manufacture aerated drinks while farmers were facing severe drought,” he said.
Amit Srivastava, director of the India Resource Center, a non-government organization, further elaborated on these concerns. According to the Guardian, the India Resource Center “estimates that it takes 1.9 litres of water to make one small bottle of Coca-Cola.”
Srivastava “says demand for sugar from fizzy drinks companies is also hugely problematic in India.”
“Sugarcane is a water-guzzling crop. It is the wrong crop for India,” he said, adding that “According to our research Coca-Cola is the number one buyer of sugarcane in India and Pepsi is number three. If you take into account the water used for sugarcane, then we’re using 400 litres of water to make a bottle of Cola.”
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As North Korea Missile Threat Grows, Japan Lawmakers Argue for First Strike Options
Rattled by North Korean military advances, influential Japanese lawmakers are pushing harder for Japan to develop the ability to strike preemptively at the missile facilities of its nuclear-armed neighbor.
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China Calls for Stop to North Korea Missile Tests and US-South Korean Military Drills
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi says this could prevent a “head-on collision” amid growing tension. Meanwhile, the UN Security Council condemned Pyongyang’s latest launches, promising further measures.
Amid growing tension in the Korean peninsula, China proposed on Wednesday that North Korea could suspend its nuclear and missile activities in exchange for a halt of the military drills held by the US and South Korea. This could be a first step to prevent a “head-on collision,” Foreign Minister Wang Yi said.
“The two sides are like two accelerating trains coming toward each other with neither side willing to give way,” Wang told reporters. “Our priority now is to flash the red light and apply the brakes on both trains.”
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THAAD Deployment Threat Stokes US Tensions With Beijing, Moscow
The U.S. decision to send equipment needed to set up a controversial missile defense system in South Korea is likely to add to tensions with Beijing and Moscow, countries that have spoken out in the past about deploying the system.
China said Tuesday it would take measures against the U.S. missile system deployed in South Korea, and that the U.S. and Seoul would bear the consequences.
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Thousands Cross From Myanmar to China Amid Border Violence
Clashes between Myanmar military and ethnic Chinese rebels in the Kokang region have created a situation of panic among border residents. The fighting jeopardizes a nationwide peace process.
Myanmar is currently facing numerous spots of unrest caused by ethnic rebels, with an alliance of militias, including the Kokang, carrying out attacks in the northeast, and a new insurgency by Muslim Rohingyas gaining momentum in the state of Rakhine. Many of the minorities complain of discrimination or even oppression, and are seeking greater autonomy.
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‘Fake Doctor’ Worked in Australia for 11 Years
A man who allegedly masqueraded as a doctor in Australian hospitals for over a decade is believed to have left the country, authorities have said.
Shyam Acharya is accused of stealing a doctor’s name and qualifications in India before moving to Australia.
He used the credentials to work in local hospitals between 2003 and 2014, New South Wales (NSW) Health said. He also became an Australian citizen.
He is facing a fine of up to A$30,000 (£18,600; $18,700) but is likely to have left Australia, said NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard on Wednesday.
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Sydney Doctor Sharif Fattah Accused of Sexually Assaulting Female Patients Granted Bail
Another seven women have come forward with allegations they were sexually assaulted by Sydney GP Sharif Fattah, a court has heard.
Fattah, 60, was arrested at his Camden medical practice on Tuesday over allegations he assaulted three female patients during medical consultations.
Detectives charged the Bangladesh-born New Zealand national with eight counts of sexual assault and six counts of indecent assault.
Police prosecutor Leonard Kerr told a bail hearing at Campbelltown Local Court another seven women had come forward with complaints against Fattah.
The court heard three women had already made statements alleging Fattah assaulted them, and another four were waiting to speak to police.
Mr Kerr opposed bail, arguing Fattah was in a “position of trust” when the alleged offences took place and there was a risk he could access the victims’ contact details.
But Fattah’s barrister Alexander Terracini told the court it could be up to two years before his client’s matter went to trial and that he should be released on bail.
“He is willing to not attend upon any hospital or healthcare clinic — full stop,” Mr Terracini told the court.
“That means he will have no access to any of his files.
“That is, he is proposing not to be a doctor while this matter is on foot.”
Fattah was granted bail on the condition he stop practicing medicine and not contact any of his current or former patients…
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Don’t Forget Ethiopia Starvation Risk, Says German NGO
The Menschen für Menschen charity has said 5.7 million Ethiopians could die of a lack of food. Part of the problem is that other countries are faring even worse and thus getting most of the publicity.
The German NGO Menschen für Menschen (People for People), however, is worried that the situation in Ethiopia could deteriorate if Ethiopians’ needs are drowned out by news reports of even more acute food shortages in Somalia, South Sudan and northern Kenya.
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Jacob Zuma Calls for Confiscation of White Land Without Compensation
President Jacob Zuma has called on parliament to change South Africa’s constitution to allow the expropriation of white owned land without compensation.
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Max Hastings: Is This the End of the White Man in Africa?
The murder of 60-year-old Tristan Voorspuy will horrify every white in East Africa and the thousands of tourists who took holidays with him and his wife Cindy at the 24,000 acre Sosian Game Ranch he co-owned.
What is happening in Kenya follows the grim pattern set in Zimbabwe by the monstrous Robert Mugabe, 93-year-old tyrant and mass murderer.
Now in South Africa, President Jacob Zuma is threatening the same policy, seeking to assuage the demands of an exploding population by appeasing land-grabbers, and appearing indifferent to the increasingly frequent murders of white landowners.
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US Human Rights Commission Co-Chair Jim McGovern Accuses Sudan Regime of Fostering Genocidal Jihad
by Lt. Gen Abakar M. Abdallah, Deborah Martin and Jerry Gordon
Massachusetts Democratic US Representative Jim McGovern, co-chair of the US House of Representatives Bi-partisan Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission accused the Bashir regime for renewal of jihad and denial of humanitarian aid in a recent meeting with the Speaker of the Sudan Parliament and a delegation in Washington.
He issued a press statement on February 28, 2017 seeking to rescind the lifting of sanctions by the Obama Administration, virtually on the cusp of leaving office in January 2017, by submitting new legislation overturning the former President’s actions. All while US charge d’affaire in Khartoum Stephen Koutsis suggested in a statement on March 3, 2017 that the Bashir Regime stands ready to provide humanitarian aid to the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North ( SPLM-N), despite the regime breaking a string of more than 13 cease fires in 2016 and 2017, including one just after President Obama lifted the sanctions. Moreover, the SPLM-N has evidence that the Bashir regime has poisoned food shipments. The Sudan Tribune reported that the SPLM-N “declined the proposal insisting on the need to transport 20% of the humanitarian aid directly from the Ethiopian border town of Asosa to the rebel areas.”…
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Mexico Criticizes Walls at UN Rights Council
Walls represent extremism and intolerance and Mexico will not accept them, the Undersecretary for Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights told the United Nations Human Rights Council this week.
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75 Migrants Arrive on Greek Islands in Past 48 Hours
A total of 75 migrants and refugees have arrived on Greece’s eastern Aegean islands in the past 48 hours, authorities said.
Thirteen arrivals were recorded on Lesvos, 21 on Chios and 41 on Samos, authorities said.
A total of 8,780 asylum-seekers are currently stranded on the islands, according to official data Wednesday.
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After Decades in America, The Newly Deported Return to a Mexico They Barely Recognize
The deportees stepped off their flight from El Paso looking bewildered — 135 men who had left families and jobs behind after being swept up in the Trump administration’s mounting effort to send millions of undocumented immigrants back to their economically fraught homeland.
As they filed into Mexico City International Airport recently, government employees handed them free ham-and-cheese sandwiches, Mexican ID cards and information directing them to social services in the capital.
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EU Chief Admits Over 10,000 Child Migrants Are Missing
EUROPEAN authorities have lost track of over 10,000 refugee children who fled war torn countries and arrived on the doorsteps of the EU, an MEP has admitted.
Swedish Liberal MEP Cecilia Wikström told a press conference at the European Commission today that at least 9,000 children were missing from Germany and another thousand from Sweden.
But worryingly, she said that the number is probably even higher as authorities have no clue where the children have gone, who may have taken them, or what is being done to them.
It has stoked fears that the children could be exploited by human traffickers or radicalised by Muslim extremists.
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Europe’s Trend: Austria, Once Open, Now Shows Migrants Door
VIENNA (AP) — 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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Exclusive: Hungary’s Border Walls Pay for Themselves Through Savings on Illegal Migrants
The Hungarian government’s decision to rapidly construct strong border fences along their frontiers has had a positive financial effect, achieving substantial savings on the cost of illegal immigration.
Zoltán Kovács, official spokesman for Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, told Hungarian media last week that “the monies spent on border protection are very obviously being recouped”.
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Illegal Alien Allegedly Beheads Mother in North Carolina
An 18-year-old man who beheaded his mother in a small North Carolina town on Monday is an illegal alien, The Daily Caller has learned.
Oliver Mauricio Funes Machado was taken into custody after police say he decapitated his 35-year-old mother, Yesenia Funes Beatriz Machado, in their home in Franklin County.
Machado, a Honduran national, was found holding a large butcher knife in one hand and his mother’s head in the other.
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‘It Violates Hungary’s Duty’ Fury as Viktor Orban Forces Migrants to Pay for Their Own Detention
HUNGARY is rounding up asylum seekers, detaining them and deporting them to Siberia because the country’s prime minister thinks they are keeping his country “under siege”.
Viktor Orban, who has recently commissioned a new task force of “border hunters” to capture illegal migrants, wants any asylum seeker who passed through a safe country en route to Hungary to be shipped back there as soon as possible.
Migrants will be kept in converted shipping containers and will have to pay for their own detention.
The law states that any asylum seekers, including families with children and unaccompanied older than 14-years-old to be jailed.
They will have just three days to appeal against their deportation.
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Reactions to the ECJ Decision on Asylum Law in EU
Uproar has greeted the European Court of Justice’s decision on asylum law in Europe. Last year, more than 5,000 people drowned in the Mediterranean en route to Europe.
The decision has been handed down, but one question remains. “How can someone who is guaranteed international protection reach a European border?” Eugenio Ambrosi, director of the Brussels regional office of the International Organization for Migration, wants to know. Existing law only applies when a person arrives on EU soil. “This is a loophole that only the union can close,” Ambrosi said.
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Spain Rejects EU Petition to Extend Holding Periods for Illegal Immigrants
For now at least, Spain is ignoring a petition by Brussels to increase the period that illegal immigrants can be held at detention centers. The current 60-day holding time will not be changed to six months — extendable to 18 months — at any of the country’s centers, said José Antonio Nieto, the secretary of state for security, on Tuesday.
“This says a lot about how we feel people arriving in our country should be treated,” said Nieto.
The statement came shortly after the European Union announced plans to accelerate migrant returns. According to Eurostat, the European statistics bureau, the EU only returns 36% of migrants with deportation orders due to loopholes and inefficiencies in the system.
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Sweden’s Awkward Attempts to Whitewash Its Public Image Backfire
Following a series of rants by US President Donald Trump on immigration, Sweden, which is arguably one of the world’s most migrant-friendly countries, has been on the back foot defending its policy. And some of these efforts did not fare too well.
Swedish Social Democrat Integration Minister Ylva Johansson made an embarrassing U-turn after being accused of peddling “fake news,” the Swedish tabloid newspaper Aftonbladet reported.
After former UKIP leader Nigel Farage branded Sweden’s third-largest and “most multicultural” city of Malmö “the rape capital of Europe,” Johansson’s efforts to defend her homeland flopped bitterly, as she falsely claimed sex attacks to be “going down, and going down and going down.”
Her comment, however, had a severe backlash, as Johansson was subsequently accused of airing “fake news” by fellow members of parliament and experts alike, including senior Concervative MP Elisabeth Svantesson. Criminologists and ordinary users armed with statistics flocked to social media to point out the Minister’s blatant mistake. In 2016 alone, a 13 percent increase in sex crimes was reported together with a steep general upward trend over the last decade. In some places, such as the city of Uppsala, sexual violence has risen 60 percent last year alone, Swedish news outlet Nyheter Idagreported.
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Sweden: All Eyes on Malmo, But Not Because of Trump
Scandinavia’s most diverse city has taken in record numbers of immigrants fleeing conflict, but its startup culture, lifestyle and food scene also makes it magnet for expats.
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Sweden: Court Orders Teens Who Raped Boy to be Deported
Five teenagers convicted of raping a boy in Uppsala are to be deported, an appeals court has ruled, partially overturning a previous verdict which said they should stay in Sweden.
The teens, aged 16-17, forced the younger boy into a wooded area in the Gottsunda district of Uppsala in October last year and then gang-raped and beat him at knife-point.
In December, Uppsala District Court sentenced four of them to one year and three months in a closed facility for juvenile offenders, and the fifth one, aged 16, to one year and one month.
However, it refused the prosecutor’s request to also send them back to Afghanistan after they had served their punishment, given their age and the security situation in the country.
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Sweden: Police Forced to Free People Waiting to be Deported
Police are releasing people who have been detained ahead of deportation because there is simply not enough space to hold them at the Migration Agency’s detention centres. This has happened twelve times so far this year, reports Swedish Radio.
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The Latest: Greek Coast Guard Rescues 113 Migrants in Ionian
Greece’s coast guard says 113 migrants have been rescued from a boat that ran into trouble in rough seas in the Ionian off the western coast of Greece.
The migrants were found sailing 32 nautical miles (36 miles; 59 kilometers) west of the islands of Paxos and were picked up by a nearby cargo ship, the coast guard said.
[Comment: The article has additional reports related to the European migrant crisis.]
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Why Do Muslims Seek Refuge in the Non-Muslim West?
The question is a crucial one since it is one of the main political subjects in Europe, which is about to stage a number of national elections.
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It is time for our society to acknowledge a sad truth: America is currently fighting its second Civil War.
In fact, with the obvious and enormous exception of attitudes toward slavery, Americans are more divided morally, ideologically and politically today than they were during the Civil War. For that reason, just as the Great War came to be known as World War I once there was World War II, the Civil War will become known as the First Civil War when more Americans come to regard the current battle as the Second Civil War.
This Second Civil War, fortunately, differs in another critically important way: It has thus far been largely nonviolent. But given increasing left-wing violence, such as riots, the taking over of college presidents’ offices and the illegal occupation of state capitols, nonviolence is not guaranteed to be a permanent characteristic of the Second Civil War.
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BBC Presenter Given Warning After Saying Transgender People Can Never be ‘Real Women’
The BBC has given a warning to one of its veteran feminist presenters after she said men who have gender reassignment surgery can never be “real women”.
Dame Jenni Murray, who presents Radio 4’s Women’s Hour, said that male-to-female transsexuals had grown up with all the privileges of being men and therefore did not know what it was truly like to be a woman.
On Monday, bosses at the corporation said they had reminded her she must remain “impartial” on controversial issues.
In an article for the Sunday Times Magazine, Dame Jenni also said many men who transition to being women model themselves on a male view of what femininity is.
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Is the Left Trying to Start a Civil War?
An army of subversives is attempting to undermine the Trump administration from within the government, and at the same time a whole host of prominent leftist leaders are fueling the flames of hate against Trump and are promoting riots, civil uprisings and in some cases even violence. And of course the mainstream media is a more than willing accomplice, because pretty much everyone that works in the mainstream media absolutely hates Donald Trump. On a fundamental level, the United States is more divided today than it has been in any of our lifetimes, and the radical left is treating the presidency of Donald Trump as if it was the end of the world. We are seeing terms such as “Nazi” , “racist” and “dictator” thrown around very casually, but people need to understand that words really matter. When subversives on the left use such inflammatory language, there is a very real danger that they could actually spark a violent insurrection against the United States government.
Just think about this for a moment. If a “Nazi” had really become the president of the United States, what would the appropriate response be?
When the left calls Donald Trump and his supporters “Nazis” and “racists” , they are suggesting that people should act accordingly, and that is extremely dangerous.
Yesterday, I wrote about how the “deep state” is attempting to destroy the Trump administration from the inside, but meanwhile others are trying to spark an uprising from the outside.
[Comment: REcommended reading. Yes, left is trying to start a civil. Plus they would not hesistate to call on Communist Chinese, islamists or UN troops to quell the “rebels” (aka patriots, consitution lovers, etc) ]
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The real purpose of engineered diversity was to disintegrate the American nation to the point where it can no longer self-govern itself along the lines of self-determination.
As the plots of the Democrat Party’s operatives and their useful idiots to impede the functioning of the Executive Branch of the U.S. government unravel before our eyes, it becomes more and more obvious what has been the real purpose of engineered diversity that was being imposed on our country for last five decades.
It was not to alleviate social discontent among America’s minorities in the aftermath of race riots and other unrests in mid-1960s. It was not to promote harmonious coexistence of different races in the U.S. It was not to ensure a more equitable distribution of wealth and power among country various racial and ethnic groups. It was not to make up for past injustice, both real and alleged, done to the previously under-represented minorities.
The real purpose of engineered diversity was to disintegrate the American nation to the point where it can no longer self-govern itself along the lines of self-determination as prescribed in the Declaration of Independence. Multitudes of spies on behalf of alien ethnies and their hostile to America masters, who have infested our governments and their bureaucracies, sabotage any meaningful effort to resist submission of the majority of mainstream Americans to the transnational ruling clique. They will keep doing their termite job until the power structures of our Constitutional Republic break down and this great nation that we and our ancestors have built and defended collapses.
Barrack Obama and his administration were the fruits of that engineered diversity and they fulfilled its real purpose. During Obama’s reign, our country was pushed on the road from sovereignty, exceptionalism, and world domination towards submission, mediocrity, and second-rate importance.
[Comment: Recommended reading.]
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Why These Swedish Trade Union Bosses Wore Pink Pussyhats for Gender Equality
A Swedish builders’ union has been both praised and criticized after its all-male board donned ‘pussy hats’ and posed for a picture in support of gender equality.
The board of directors of the trade union Byggnads, which represents workers in the construction industry, caused a stir on social media in Sweden on Wednesday after they posted a picture of themselves wearing pussyhats — the pink, knitted symbol of women’s rights made world-famous in marches all over the world.
“We know we’re going to have to endure some jibes, mainly from other men, because we are standing here in our pink, home-knitted hats. But to us it is an act of solidarity.”
“We ARE a bunch of white, middle-aged men. But at least we’re wearing pink hats.”
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59 Impressive Things Artificial Intelligence Can Do Today
2050.
That’s the year in which artificial intelligence will be able to perform any intellectual task a human can perform, according to one survey of experts at a recent AI conference. Anything and everything any person has ever done in all of history?-?all of it doable, by 2050, by intelligent machines.
But what can AI do today? How close are we to that all-powerful machine intelligence? I wanted to know, but couldn’t find a list of AI’s achievements to date. So I decided to write one.
What follows is an attempt at that list. It’s not comprehensive, but it contains links to some of the most impressive feats of machine intelligence around.
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Magnetic Hard Drives Go Atomic
Chop a magnet in two, and it becomes two smaller magnets. Slice again to make four. But the smaller magnets get, the more unstable they become; their magnetic fields tend to flip polarity from one moment to the next. Now, however, physicists have managed to create a stable magnet from a single atom.
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BBC Presenter Given Warning After Saying Transgender People Can Never be ‘Real Women’
For a moment there I thought someone at BBC has some sense in their heads, until I found out it wasn’t about the fact that boys have XY and girls XX.
Transgender people cannot change their genetic makeup. It is either XX or XY. Gender reassignment surgery won’t change the DNA.
Of course you can cheat your heart and mind through drugs or brainwashing, but did I mention you cannot cheat your DNA?
Gotta say Baron, this is the biggest ‘News Feed’ I have seen on this site for some time. Wow!, it must have kept you really busy. And the only real bright spot that sticks out in all of it, IMHO of course, is one Donald J. Trump.
That’s because it was two days’ worth — the power outage the night before kept me from posting.
“The ADP/Moody’s jobs report released on Wednesday showed job growth 50-percent ahead of Wall Street’s expectations: 298,000 jobs were created in February versus expectations of less than 200,000 by economists polled by the Wall Street Journal.”
Economists and other pundits have convinced themselves Trumps economic plans won’t work. They are being proved wrong. One of things about more people being hired is it’s a vote of confidence in the economy and the future from those in business. Business confidence is difficult to measure, surveys don’t accurately reflect it. It’s a feeling really, when people sense an Administration is opening the way for success, cutting bureaucratic hurdles, reducing taxes, it gives the job makers confidence to invest in growth assets, which includes more staff.
In my humble opinion-
-Any person complicit in an act of “female ‘circumcision'” should be shot, his or her assets confiscated to the benefit of the victim.
-Any so-called “‘honor’ killing” should carry a strong hate-crime enhancement and a mandatory/no-recourse death sentence.
Just return the entire family/extended family of the victim to their own barbaric countries and their will be no need to interfere in these “cultural” practices.
We in the West continually are responding to the manifestations of islamic dysfunction instead of eradicating it at it’s roots. Keep them out in the first place and overpopulation and barbarity will keep the overall numbers pruned to a manageable size.
Bravo.
We endeavor to parse the intricacies of FGM, honor killings, vigilante killing for apostasy, beheadings of wives, Muslim insistence on dominance of shariah in Mayberry, terror attacks, subjugation of women, taqiyya, the subversion of CAIR, Muslim allegiance to infidel powers, polygamy, blasphemy (spherical earth, constitutional government, laws of physics), no-go zones, rape, use of public swimming holes as latrines, and theocracy to name few things off the top of my head.
Infidel scholars, pundits, officials, and addle-brained surrender monkeys stroke their chins and endeavor to clarify or obfuscate the finest points of Islam explored earnestly over the centuries by the ulema. Is an infidel on the same level as dead bodies and excrement, or may infidels be treated as second-class beings somewhat higher on the scale than dogs if sufficiently submissive as dhimmitude?
Fascinating questions to be sure.
But the initial – and only – question in all of this is simply, always and forever: Why are they even in any Western nations when they will never contribute anything honorable or useful to them?
. . .submissive as dhimmis
OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT TRUMP FROM SWEDEN
Publiced 8 mars 2017,
Dear President Trump, On behalf of the Swedish peoples’ media, we thank you for speaking the truth in regards to the existential crisis of our country. Though your comments were brief, you, nonetheless, spoke more truthfully than our own establishment leaders have in decades.
read more:
http://nyadagbladet.se/kultur/open-letter-president-trump-sweden/
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