George Soros’ Central European University is that much closer to shutting down after the Hungarian parliament passed a revision of the law on foreign-funded institutions. The rewritten law would impose stricter regulatory standards on CEU and dozens of other foreign-backed institutions.
In other news, 14 migrants were injured when their van crashed into a guardrail during a high-speed police chase in Belgium.
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EU Steps Up Efforts to Deal With $1.1 Trillion Bad-Debt Pile
European Union leaders are stepping up efforts to deal with the more than 1 trillion euros ($1.1 trillion) in non-performing debt weighing down the bloc’s lenders.
The Maltese government, which holds the rotating presidency of the EU, called for action to prevent the issue from threatening financial stability and hurting economic growth, according to a note that was circulated ahead of a finance ministers’ meeting in Valletta this week. Valdis Dombrovskis, the European commissioner in charge of financial services, said in a separate letter to the presidency that his office will help coordinate a European strategy on non-performing loans among the 28 member states.
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Food Prices Key in Turkey’s Skyrocketing Annual Inflation: Central Bank Report
The Central Bank has stated that the rise in food prices was the main factor behind the historic rise in annual inflation in March, adding that some increases were seen in furniture and home appliance prices despite “temporary tax cuts.”
Turkey’s annual inflation hit its highest in more than nine years in March, surging to 11.29 percent as the prices of food, transportation and alcohol all showed double-digit increases, official data showed on April 3.
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Italy: 18 Mn 63% Under 750 Euros — INPS
76.5% among women
(ANSA) — Rome, March 30 — Some 18.03 million Italians were drawing a pension at the start of 2017 and 63% of them were getting less than 750 euros a month, INPS social security and pensions agency said Thursday. The percentage of women getting less than 750 euros was 76.5%, INPS said. INPS, however,said that many pensioners were getting more than one pension or had other sources of income. Some 1.05 million new pensions were paid out in 2016, INPS said. It said more than half, 53%, were welfare payments.
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Italy: Inflation Down to 1.4% in March After 4 Straight Gains
From 1.6% in February
(ANSA) — Rome, March 31 — Italian inflation fell from 1.6% in February to 1.4% in March, ISTAT said in its preliminary estimates Friday.
The fall came after four straight rises, the statistics agency said.
ISTAT said the fall was largely due to the prices of fruit and vegetables.
Italy’s inflation ‘trolley’ of most frequently bought goods rose 2.3% in March compared to a February gain of 3.1%, ISTAT said.
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American Teen Pleads Guilty to ISIS-Inspired Pope Murder Plot
A New Jersey teen pleaded guilty on Monday to a plot allegedly inspired by Isis to kill Pope Francis during his 2015 visit to the United States.
The US Justice Department said Santos Colon, 15 years old at the time, sought to recruit a sniper to shoot the pope as he celebrated mass in Philadelphia on September 27, 2015. Colon also allegedly planned to set off explosives.
But the teen unwittingly recruited an undercover FBI agent for the job, and was arrested quietly 12 days before the event.
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Anti-Semitism at the ‘Jewish’ Forward
The most outrageous tissue of lies I have seen in my forty-five years as a journalist appeared yesterday on the website of The Forward, a once-great Jewish publication long since absorbed into the echo chamber of liberal propaganda.
The Forward trumpeted an exclusive: It claimed to have found a 2007 Hungarian television interview with Dr. Sebastian Gorka, now a national security adviser to President Trump, in which Gorka endorsed a militia then proposed by anti-Semitic political parties. Embedded in the “exclusive” story is a clip of Dr. Gorka speaking on Hungarian television full of jarring cuts and jumps, and ending strangely in mid-sentence. The Forward may style itself Jewish, but it learned its journalism from classic anti-Semitism.
In fact, as David Reaboi shows at RedState, the Forward’s clip edits out Gorka’s denunciation of the anti-Semitic parties for exploiting popular fears in order to advance their own agenda. Gorka explicitly says that it is the ultra-right parties that are behind the proposal, and that his party, the New Democratic Coalition, is not behind it.
How does black turn into white, day into night, democracy into tyranny, friendship with the Jewish people into anti-Semitism?
There is a name for this sort of propaganda, and it is The Big Lie: as Hitler’s mouthpiece Joseph Goebbels liked to say, if you tell a lie often enough, people will believe it. I denounced the Forward’s campaign of defamation against Dr. Gorka last month in this space. Yesterday’s lie denotes a new low point.
The events in question followed Hungary’s political crisis of 2006, when a feckless and corrupt Socialist government collapsed after its prime minister was caught on tape bragging about lying to the country. Ferenc Gyurcsány told his party this at a closed-door meeting:…
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Benghazi Liar Susan Rice’s Treachery Continues
By Daniel John Sobieski
Call it the tale of two National Security Advisers, Michael Flynn and Susan Rice. As much as Flynn has taken fire as being an architect of unspecified “collusion” with the Russians, Susan Rice has been like the iceberg that sank the Titanic — barely visible above water but dangerous enough to threaten the Trump administration’s ship of state.
As reported by Circa News, Rice, while serving as Obama’s National Security Adviser, requested the unmasking of the names of Team Trump officials mentioned in the so-called “incidental” surveillance of the Trump transition team:
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The Cassini mission launched in 1997 and spent seven years traveling to Saturn, arriving in 2004. Cassini is the first spacecraft to orbit Saturn, and has provided a treasure trove of data and images of the entire Saturnian system.
Now you can ride onboard the spacecraft throughout the entire mission (20 years) using “Eyes on Cassini” on your Mac or PC.
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Fort Hood Shooter Says He’s Going on ‘Hunger Strike’
Writing from his cell on death row at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan has declared he is going on a “99 pound hunger strike,” according to a letter reviewed by Fox News.
The former Army psychiatrist, who opened fire on unarmed fellow soldiers at Fort Hood, Texas, in November 2009, killed 13 people and injured 31 that day. Hasan was sentenced to death in 2013 and continues to declare himself an SoA, “soldier of Allah.”
Hasan stated in the handwritten letter that by going on a hunger strike, he will “reduce and then maintain a total body weight of 99 pounds” while protesting “America’s hatred for [Shariah] Laws.”
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Gregg Jarrett: Did Susan Rice Break the Law?
Rice denied leaking intelligence information about President Trump’s associates, yet she defended her requests to unmask the identities of U.S. citizens caught up in surveillance operations.
Whoever leaked Michael Flynn’s name or any other names collected incidentally during surveillance, committed multiple crimes because those names are classified information.
It is an understatement to say that Susan Rice lacks credibility. And this would not be the first time she conjured up a false narrative.
She infamously hustled the deception that a videotape triggered the Benghazi attack in September 2012. Later, when incriminating emails surfaced, she admitted the story was untrue.
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How Utah Keeps the American Dream Alive
I went to Utah precisely because it’s weird. More specifically, because economic data suggest that modest Salt Lake City, population 192,672, does something that the rest of us seem to be struggling with: It helps people move upward from poverty. I went to Utah in search of the American Dream.
Columnists don’t talk as much as they used to about the American Dream. They’re more likely to talk about things like income mobility, income inequality, the Gini coefficient — sanitary, clinical terms. These are easier to quantify than a dream, but also less satisfying. We want money, yes, but we hunger even more deeply for something else: for possibility. It matters to Americans that someone born poor can retire rich. That possibility increasingly seems slimmer and slimmer in most of the nation, but in Utah, it’s still achievable.
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A couple of lawmakers from South Carolina want to establish a network of self-sufficient communities in their state in preparation for “ societal collapse” . In the long-term, they hope to “ train and equip one million neighborhood leaders” that will be able to establish “ a fresh beginning for America” in the aftermath of the great crisis that is coming. State Representatives Josiah Magnuson and Jonathon Hill are both relatively young, they were both home-schooled, and each of their fathers are pastors. They are calling their dream the “ Virtue Solution Project” , and they are examples of a new breed of American politician that recognizes that the system is failing and that we desperately need to return to the values that this nation was founded upon.
In the short-term, Magnuson and Hill hope that the centers that they are establishing will enable communities to be able to survive the extraordinary challenges that are rapidly approaching. Like someone else you may know, Magnuson and Hill are warning of a great economic collapse, catastrophic natural disasters, geopolitical instability and a complete breakdown of society. When these things begin to unfold, their hope is that people will reach out to their neighbors and will work together to survive. The following comes from U.S. News & World Report…
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Is the F-35 a Trillion-Dollar Mistake?
Trump criticized the cost of America’s warplane of the future, but what he’s not saying is that it might be hackable and leave soldiers vulnerable.
While the Pentagon’s official line is that, after years of difficulties, the F-35 is meeting high expectations, skeptics both outside and within the military say it’s turning out to be a two-decades-in-the-making, trillion-dollar mistake.
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‘Mars Base Camp’: Lockheed Fleshes Out Red Planet Space Station Plan
In 2028, a space station could be circling Mars, if a new concept comes to fruition. As a prelude to human expeditions to the planet’s surface, researchers aboard the proposed orbiting lab would aim to answer key questions about the complex world.
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Obama Adviser Susan Rice Denies Targeting Trump Team
A top adviser to former President Barack Obama has labelled reports that she ordered surveillance of Donald Trump’s campaign as “absolutely false”.
Former National Security Adviser Susan Rice flatly denied she or Mr Obama used intelligence for political purposes.
She was responding to reports alleging she sought to “unmask” any Trump officials who cropped up in foreign surveillance reports.
Ms Rice also rejected claims that she leaked information to US media.
She was pressed on MSNBC about whether she had exposed Mr Trump’s former National Security Adviser, Michael Flynn, who was forced to resign in February after misleading the White House about his conversations with the Russian ambassador.
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Police Arrests Are Plummeting Across California, Fueling Alarm and Questions
In 2013, something changed on the streets of Los Angeles. Police officers began making fewer arrests. The following year, the Los Angeles Police Department’s arrest numbers dipped even lower and continued to fall, dropping by 25% from 2013 to 2015.
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The Media is Ignoring the 500-Pound Surveillance Elephant in the Room
The Mainstream media is watching their Russia election-meddling narrative teeter on the brink of collapse. They’re holding their collective breath hoping it doesn’t topple over, like the world’s highest stakes game of Jenga.
Every week the Russia story crumbles a bit more. Whether it is the loss of credibility of Crowdstrike’s hacking report, or the revelation by WikiLeaks that the CIA can make a cyber attack look like it came from wherever they want, the leftist media can’t catch a break. The FBI and NSA have both testified that there is no evidence that there was any hacking of actual voting, and the WikiLeaks allegations throw doubt on Russia’s involvement in hacking the DNC or Podesta emails. Even if they did, the media and the Democrats still have yet to convince anyone that the emails are the reason that voters chose Trump in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin. Despite this, the media zealously chase after every angle of the story, mostly using “anonymous sources” and “individuals familiar with the investigation.”
Well, they chase almost every angle on the Russia story — except for the very real connections between the Clinton campaign and Russia.
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The Sun’s Got Waves — Like Earth’s Atmosphere
Most of the time, the sun and the Earth couldn’t be more different: One is a star, the other a planet; the sun is made of plasma and fuses hydrogen to helium, while the Earth is a solid body heated by radioactive decay (and the sun’s rays). But the two bodies’ atmospheres share something in common: A type of wave that undulates through Earth’s skies may have an analogue in the body of the sun, according to a new study.
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) and Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory (STEREO) mission, which included two spacecraft orbiting the sun, spotted a type of wave called a Rossby wave on the sun’s surface. This type of wave occurs in rotating fluids, such as atmospheres and oceans. The findings could help link several phenomena tied to the sun’s magnetic field, such as the source of sunspots, the length of time those spots last and the origin of the 11-year solar-activity cycle.
Rossby waves also occur in Earth’s atmosphere and oceans, and they help to dictate the planet’s weather, researchers said in a statement.
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The Truth About the ‘Wiretapping’ Is Coming Out
By John Dietrich
The progressives’ Penny Dreadful about Donald Trump being put in the White House by Vladimir Putin is beginning to unravel.
On March 2, Evelyn Farkas, a former deputy secretary of defense in the Obama administration, revealed on MSNBC that Obama officials were surveilling the Trump campaign. Farkas resigned from her government post in September 2015 to become the senior foreign policy advisor for presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Farkas stated:
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Trump: Infrastructure Funding Must be ‘Spent on Shovels, ‘ Not Social Programs
President Trump previewed the massive infrastructure package he hopes to get through Congress this year, telling a group of CEOs at the White House on Tuesday that he wants to see the $1 trillion in proposed funding directed only to construction projects.
“We’re going to be very strong that it has to be spent on shovels and not on other programs,” Trump said at the business town hall, arguing other attempted stimulus packages have been spent on social programs instead.
“If you have a job that you can’t start within 90 days, we’re not going to give you the money for it,” Trump said. “They have to be able to start within 90 days.”
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Two South Florida Men Guilty in Terrorism Sting
WEST PALM BEACH — Two South Florida men who authorities say had sought to join the Islamic State extremist group overseas have pleaded guilty in an FBI terrorism sting operation. A third man is set for trial in October.
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At Least 5,000 Restaurants in Italy Are Thought to be Mafia-Run
At least 5,000 restaurants across Italy are in the hands of the mafia, consumer group Coldiretti has warned.
Organized crime groups “have taken advantage of the economic crisis to infiltrate the legal economy in an increasingly vast and widespread manner,” Coldiretti said on Sunday.
Their warning followed a vast anti-mafia sting over the weekend, which uncovered links between popular tourist restaurants and organized crime groups.
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Bullfighter is Gored in the Face at Spain’s Biggest Arena
WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: Bullfighter Daniel Garcia Navarrete, 23, was pierced several times in Spain’s biggest arena, Las Ventas, in Madrid.
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Carnuntum’s “Entertainment District” Digitally Reconstructed
Wolfgang Neubauer, director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Archaeological Prospection and Virtual Archaeology (LBI ArchPro), has employed aerial photography, ground-penetrating radar systems, and magnetometers to study the Roman city of Carnuntum, according to a report in Live Science.
The city, located on the southern bank of the Danube River, was home to as many as 50,000 people in the second century A.D. The latest survey suggests there was a shop-lined boulevard leading to the city’s 13,000-seat amphitheater. Neubauer and his team compared what they found to similar buildings in other Roman cities, and concluded that the shops likely sold souvenirs and ready-to-eat food. “It gives us now a very clear story of a day at the amphitheater,” he said.
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Denmark’s Late Night Churches Try to Bring Back Worshippers
More and more Danish churches are trying to boost attendances by inviting congregations for night-time services.
More and more priests across the country are beginning to open the doors of their churches at night, according to a survey by Copenhagen Parish, which has mapped out the churches throughout the country offering after-dark worship.
Night churches can now be found in 25 different Danish towns, reports Danish news agency Ritzau.
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Eiffel Tower to Go Dark for St Petersburg Victims After Paris Mayor Comes Under Pressure
The mayor of Paris came under pressure to explain why the Eiffel Tower did not pay its usual respects to the victims of Monday’s terror attack in St Petersburg as it did for those killed in London, Orlando and Brussels. She then announced the Iron Lady would dim her lights on Tuesday night.
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EU to Cut Gas Dependency on Russia With Israel Pipeline
Israel and several EU nations have pledged to move forward with a Mediterranean gas project, aiming to pump natural gas from Israel to Europe through the longest undersea pipeline ever built.
The planned pipeline — stretching about 2,000 kilometers (1,248 miles) on the bed of the Mediterranean Sea — aims to link gas fields off the coasts of Israel and Cyprus with Greece and possibly Italy, at a cost of up to 6 billion euros ($6.4 billion).
After a meeting in Tel Aviv on Monday between energy ministers from Israel, Cyprus, Greece and Italy, European Climate and Energy Commissioner Miguel Arias Canete told reporters he believed the project would “meet all relevant requirements” to make a financial commitment possible.
Canete also noted that Cyprus and Israel were “very reliable” suppliers, and that their gas reserves could make a valuable contribution to the EU’s strategy to “diversify sources, routes and suppliers.”
Canete admitted it would help limit reliance on the Nord Stream pipeline via Russia, which he said “adds nothing to the security of supply.”
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France Election: Le Pen and Macron Clash Over Europe in TV Debate
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen was attacked from all sides over Europe as presidential candidates went head to head in the second live TV debate.
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Germany: Merkel Dismisses Allies’ Calls for ‘Islam Law’
The German government has rejected calls from within the Christian Democratic Union party for a law to regulate the practices of Islam. CDU lawmakers have stoked the migration debate ahead of this year’s election.
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Germany: Police Hunt for Suspected Rapist Near Bonn
German police has published a facial composite sketch of a rape suspect who attacked a couple who had set up camp in a park near Bonn. The alleged rapist threatened his victims in “broken English,” authorities say.
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EU citizens who lived in the UK years ago should be allowed to return after Brexit and given access to the benefits system, Brussels will demand.
In a move that will frustrate Downing Street’s bid to reduce migrant numbers, officials will say EU migrants who potentially left decades earlier could retain the right to set up home in Britain.
Ministers have privately conceded that the 3million EU citizens currently in the UK may be offered concessions in a bid to protect the fate of British expats living elsewhere in Europe.
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Hungary Approves Stricter Terms for Soros-Founded University (1)
Bill modifies rules regulating 28 foreign institutions
(ANSA) — BUDAPEST — Lawmakers from Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s Fidesz party on Tuesday approved a draft education bill that critics say targets a university founded by billionaire philanthropist George Soros, AP reported.
The bill modifies rules regulating the 28 foreign universities in Hungary. Central European University said parts of the bill directly target it, and could force it to close.
Orban, a former Soros scholarship recipient, has been increasingly criticalof the Hungarian-born philanthropist, accusing him of wanting to influenceHungarian politics.
He said last week that CEU was “cheating” because it did not have a campus in its country of origin and because it issued diplomas recognized both in Hungary and the United States, giving it an undue advantage over local institutions. The CEU is accredited in New York state but does not have a U.S. campus.
The U.S. State Department as well as hundreds of academics and universitieshave expressed support for CEU, founded in 1991. It currently enrolls 1,400 students from 108 countries.
Zoltan Balog, whose ministry oversees education, appeared to link CEU to the non-governmental organizations supported by Soros in Hungary. Speaking atthe start of the debate in parliament, he described them as “faux-civic, agent organizations” seeking to hinder the democratically-elected Hungarian government. Balog said Hungary’s government was ready to negotiate with theU.S. government on an agreement about the university.
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Hungary: Law Passed Against Soros University
Hungarian lawmakers have fast-tracked into law controls that could close Budapest’s Central European University. Its philanthropist founder George Soros faces subversion claims from Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
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Hungary Approves Stricter Terms for Soros-Founded University (2)
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Lawmakers from Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s Fidesz party on Tuesday approved an education bill that critics say targets a university founded by billionaire American philanthropist George Soros.
The move prompted thousands to protest outside the Central European University’s campus in Budapest, and drew swift criticism from the top U.S. diplomat in Hungary’s capital.
The bill modifies rules regulating the 28 foreign universities in Hungary. CEU says parts of the bill directly target it, and could force it to close.
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Islamist Given Life Sentence for Trying to Bomb Bonn Train Station
A German court Monday sentenced to life in prison an Islamist militant who plotted a failed bomb attack at a railway station, and handed jail terms to three other extremists.
Marco Gäbel, 29, a German citizen, planted a home-made pipe bomb in a sports bag at the main train station of Bonn, the capital of the former West Germany, in December 2012.
The bomb failed to go off, but its discovery sparked a major terrorism alert that caused travel chaos at the station two weeks before Christmas.
Gäbel and the three others were also found guilty of forming a terrorist organisation and of plotting to shoot dead the leader of anti-immigrant group Pro-NRW in North Rhine-Westphalia state in March 2013.
The four militants were furious after the right-wing fringe group had staged an anti-Islamic street protest and displayed caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed outside a local mosque.
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Italian Tax Gap in Line With EU Average of 110 Bn
Ranges from 108 bn in 2012 to 111.6 in 2014
(ANSA) — Rome, March 29 — Enrico Giovannini, the head of a committee on theunderground economy and tax evasion, said Wednesday that Italy’s tax gap was in line with the European Union average of 110 billion euros.
The tax gap is the difference between the amount of tax due and the amount collected.
Giovannini reported to parliament that the tax gap ranged from 108 billion euros in 2012 to 111.6 billion in 2014.
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Italy: Naples Mayor Blasts Governor De Luca Over Off-Air Remarks
De Magistris says comments show real nature of Campania chief
(ANSA) — Naples, March 31 — Naples Mayor Luigi de Magistris on Friday blasted Campania Governor Vincenzo De Luca over comments picked up off-air by a local media organization in which the regional head was critical of the first citizen.
In the comments recorded by OmniNapoli, De Luca talks to Democratic Party (PD) lawmaker Leonardo Impegno about a conversation he said he had with Naples’ new police chief Antonio De Iesu.
De Luca reported De Iesu as saying that de Magistris has changed littlein the city and administered it “like a madman”.
“De Luca’s words are unequivocal,” said de Magistris, a former magistrate.
“There is the confession, the proof in that video.
“Finally is it clear who carries out an institutional role in the city with seriousness and dignity and who behaves otherwise”.
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Italy: BoI ‘Resolution’ Fund Ends 2016 2.56 Bn in the Red
After sale of 4 banks
(ANSA) — Rome, March 31 — The Bank of Italy’s resolution fund for banks ended 2016 2.59 billion euros in the red, the BoI said Friday. The fund, whichis separate from the BoI itself and financed by Italian banks, was hit by the sale of four rescued banks — Banca Etruria, Banca Marche, CariFe and CariChieti — which devalued its stocks by 1.4 billion, and by a one-billion-euo payment for the recapitalisation of bridging entities, the BoI said. Thefour banks were rescued by the government and new healthy versions have now been set up. When they went to the wall they left many bondholders holding worthless paper, and one small investor killed himself.
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‘Keep Calm’ Over Gibraltar, EU’s Brexit Negotiator Tells Britain
The EU’s Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier urged Britain on Tuesday to “keep calm and negotiate” after a row broke out over the fate of the rocky outcrop of Gibraltar.
Britain reacted angrily after the European Union said last week that Spain should have a veto on extending any trade deal to Gibraltar after the British leave the bloc.
“Keep calm and negotiate,” France’s Barnier said, in English, to reporters in Luxembourg when asked what he would say to London to reassure them on the issue.
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Londonistan: 423 New Mosques; 500 Closed Churches
by Giulio Meotti
British multiculturalists are feeding Islamic fundamentalism. Muslims do not need to become the majority in the UK; they just need gradually to Islamize the most important cities. The change is already taking place.
British personalities keep opening the door to introducing Islamic sharia law. One of the leading British judges, Sir James Munby, said that Christianity no longer influences the courts and these must be multicultural, which means more Islamic. Rowan Williams, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, and Chief Justice Lord Phillips, also suggested that the English law should “incorporate” elements of sharia law.
British universities are also advancing Islamic law. The academic guidelines, “External speakers in higher education institutions”, provide that “orthodox religious groups” may separate men and women during events. At the Queen Mary University of London, women have had to use a separate entrance and were forced to sit in a room without being able to ask questions or raise their hands, just as in Riyadh or Tehran.
“London is more Islamic than many Muslim countries put together”, according to Maulana Syed Raza Rizvi, one of the Islamic preachers who now lead “Londonistan”, as the journalist Melanie Phillips has called the English capital. No, Rizvi is not a right-wing extremist. Wole Soyinka, a Nobel Laureate for Literature, was less generous; he called the UK “a cesspit for Islamists”.
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NATO Boss Urges Germany to Spend More on Its Military
NATO head Jens Stoltenberg urged Germany Tuesday to spend more on defence, touching on a sore point in German politics that has also inflamed relations with the United States.
“For me it’s decisive that the US and Germany agree that we have to invest more in our security,” the former Norwegian prime minister told German business daily Handelsblatt.
Increasing defence budgets “isn’t about making the US happy,” he went on.
“It’s about Europe’s security. Europe is much closer to the crises and threats than the US, closer to Russia, closer to Syria and Iraq.”
A long-simmering row over NATO spending exploded into the open with the election of US President Donald Trump, who complains that allies are taking advantage of American protection.
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Norway Sentences ISIS Recruiter to Nine Years in Prison
A Norwegian court on Tuesday sentenced an Islamist to nine years in prison for recruiting a jihadist candidate who wanted to join the Islamic State (Isis) group.
An Oslo court also found Ubaydullah Hussain, a 31-year-old Norwegian citizen, guilty of pledging allegiance to Isis, financially supporting the group, providing its supporters with equipment and attempting to pervert the course of justice.
The trial was Norway’s first over recruitment of potential jihadists to fight for Isis, listed as a terror organisation by the United Nations.
In 2015, Hussain prepared Simen Andreassen, a Muslim convert who’s now 20, to go to fight in Syria.
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Norway: Islamist Sentenced to ‘Historic’ Jail Term
UPDATED: The Oslo City Court sentenced one of Norway’s most high-profile Islamists, Ubaydullah Hussain, to nine years in prison on Tuesday for having been a member of the terror organization ISIL and recruiting others to join it. Legal experts called the sentence “historic” because it’s the first to address illegal participation in a terrorist organization, and sets an important precedent.
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Outrage as Muslim Students ‘Bully Jewish Classmate Out of Berlin School’
The Central Council of Jews in Germany has described bullying allegations at the Friedenauer Gemeinschaftsschule in Berlin as “anti-Semitism of the ugliest form.”
After a 14-year-old British Jewish boy switched schools in Berlin claiming he had been violently bullied by Muslim classmates, pressure is growing on the government to react.
The teenager’s parents told the Jewish Chronicle in late March that they had taken him out of the Friedenauer Gemeinschaftsschule in Schöneberg and sent him to an international school instead.
The family had picked the school, which has many pupils from Turkey and the Arab world, after they had read that it was a model multicultural high school.
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Over 1,400 Exhumed From Slovenia Mass Grave
Victims executed without trial for collaborating with Nazis
(ANSA) — TRIESTE — The remains of 1,420 victims have been exhumed in Slovenia from Huda Jama, a post-WWII communist mass execution site in an abandoned mine near Celje, the Slovenian state commission for covered-up mass gravesaid, adding that over 600 such sites have been found in Slovenia. The remains of 778 alleged Nazi collaborators from Huda Jama, which was discoveredin march 2009, have been buried at the Dobrava memorial cemetery near Maribor. The bones of the remaining victims are expected to be buried at Dobrava too, after samplings for Dna analysis. The state commission does not knowhow many people were buried at Huda Jama, with estimates ranging around 2,500-5,000 bodies. Experts say most of the victims were Croats and Slovenes who had been executed for collaborating with the Nazis, often without trial.
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Pining for Cleaner Air in the Norwegian Fjords
Following two years of trials of the world’s first electric car ferry, named Ampere, ferry operators are busy making the transition from diesel to comply with new government requirements for all new ferry licensees to deliver zero- or low-emission alternatives.
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Richard Littlejohn: Stop Smearing Brexit Voters as Haters
RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: Remainers would have us believe there has been an upsurge of racist violence against migrants by white working-class voters after the attack on an asylum seeker in Croydon.
No one could disagree with Croydon MP Gavin Barwell when he describes the gang of savages who attacked a teenage asylum seeker in South London as ‘cowardly and despicable scum’…
The Remain camp would have us believe there has been an upsurge of racist violence against migrants by white working-class voters.
But check out the CCTV pictures of two of the suspects police in Croydon published yesterday. They don’t exactly fit the profile of knuckle-scraping white supremacists.
One is black, the other appears to be mixed race. Yet the Left always maintain racism is something committed exclusively by whites against ethnic minorities.
Given that some of those in the frame seem to be from immigrant backgrounds themselves, would Abbott care to revise her conclusions about the motivation behind this attack? The 17-year old Kurdish Iranian suffered horrific injuries in the attack near this bus stop, including a fractured skull and a blood clot on the brain (pictured, the scene of the assault) +4
The 17-year old Kurdish Iranian suffered horrific injuries in the attack near this bus stop, including a fractured skull and a blood clot on the brain (pictured, the scene of the assault)
There are undoubted tensions between different races who have made their homes in Britain — not just whites versus the rest.
The open borders policies of the past 15 years have fostered bitter resentment between settled immigrants and more recent arrivals — something the political elite simply refuse to accept.
They would rather concentrate on the alleged ‘backlash’ by ignorant whites against foreigners to reinforce the myth that the Leave vote was driven purely by racism and bigotry.
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Romania is Planning to Buy 20 F-16 Fighters From U.S.
Defense Minister Les: we need to strengthen our fleet
(ANSA) — TRIESTE — Romania is looking to buy 20 more F-16 fighters in orderto increase the size of its fleet, according IHS Jane’s. “My intention is to finalize this year the decision to have another 20 F-16 fighters. The Romanian Air Force has nine now and there will be 12 by the end of the year, but we need more to strengthen our air force capability. As a matter of principle Romania intends to buy these 20 F-16 fighters from the United States. All further details will be announced” in due course, Defense Minister Beniamin Les told the parliament in Bucharest on Monday. The Romanian government decided to use 2% of GDP for defense in 2017. The parliament and the Supreme defense council have approved the decision.
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Soros-Funded University Closer to Shutting Down After Hungary Approves New Rules
George Soros’ university in his home-country is on the verge of shutdown, after Hungarian Parliament approved a piece of legislation on Tuesday that would tighten regulations on foreign universities—this, as the latest move to reduce free expression and liberalism in Hungary.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, whose party has the commanding majority of parliament, amended the bill on Monday to tighten deadlines for the universities, like Soros’ Central European University to meet these new regulations. Tuesday, Orban pushed that bill through to the president’s desk.
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Spain’s Top Court Blocks Catalan Plan to Fund Secession Vote
MADRID — Spain’s Constitutional Court has provisionally blocked plans by the Catalan regional government to finance an independence referendum this year, following a legal challenge by the Spanish government.
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Spar Austria: 13.8bn Turnover (Up 4,8%)
Operating in north-eastern Italy, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia
(ANSA) — UDINE — Spar Austria Group — which includes Aspiag Service, along with Spar organizations in Austria, Slovenia, Croatia and Hungary — continues to grow. In 2016 it recorded an overall 13.80bn turnover, that is up 4.8% over the previous year. This growth was highlighted today by the CEO of Aspiag Service (dealer for Despar, Eurospar and Interspar in Northeast Italyand Emilia Romagna), Arcangelo Francesco Montalvo, who presented in Udine today the first 2016 financial statements.
“The solidity of the European network we belong to is an additional guarantee for our future — said the president of Spar Austria Rudolf Staudinger -and will help us face the challenges of the coming years, beginning with the growth of our presence in Emilia Romagna”. Starting on January 1, 2017,Montalvo cooperates with President Rudolf Staudinger and the other two CEOs, Harald Antley and Paul Klotz.
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Sweden: Employees Line Up to Get Microchip Implants
STOCKHOLM (AP) — The syringe slides in between the thumb and index finger. Then, with a click, a microchip is injected in the employee’s hand. Another “cyborg” is created.
What could pass for a dystopian vision of the workplace is almost routine at the Swedish startup hub Epicenter. The company offers to implant its workers and startup members with microchips the size of grains of rice that function as swipe cards: to open doors, operate printers, or buy smoothies with a wave of the hand.
The injections have become so popular that workers at Epicenter hold parties for those willing to get implanted.
[Comment: Parties!? Wow. Orwell is rolling over in his grave.]
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Sweden: Two Arrested in Connection With Murder of Malmö Teen
Two men have been arrested suspected of being complicit in the murder of a 16-year-old boy who was shot and killed in Malmö last January.
The same two men had been arrested last week suspected of being involved in a different murder of a 23-year-old man in the same city, newspaper Sydsvenskan reports. It had previously been speculated that there is a link between the two murders.
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Swedish PM Condemns Gender Segregated School Bus
A Muslim school in Sweden has defended itself after some of its pupils were separated by gender on a school bus, with the prime minister condemning it as ‘despicable’.
As part of a documentary, Swedish broadcaster TV4 filmed secret footage of the privately-run Al-Azhar Primary School in a Stockholm suburb where boys are seen entering a bus from the front and girls from the back.
Aged between six and ten, the pupils take the school bus in the mornings and evenings to go to and from school in the neighbourhood of Vällingby, north-west of Stockholm.
“I think this is despicable. This doesn’t belong in Sweden,” Prime Minister Stefan Löfven told reporters in Stockholm.
“We take the bus together here, regardless if you’re a girl or a boy, woman or a man.”
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Switzerland Closes 3 Passes, Foreign Minister Calls Envoy
Border passes closed at night
(ANSA) — Rome, April 4 — The Italian foreign ministry on Tuesday urgently summoned Swiss Ambassador Giancarlo Kessler over the night-time closure of three border passes, as well as on statements that accompanied the Swiss decision, the foreign ministry said in a statement. Kessler, the statement said, stressed that it was a temporary and experimental measure, which will soon be reviewed in the framework of further improvement in the collaborationbetween security forces in light of the accord in force between the policeof the two countries. On the Italian side, a request was reiterated to overcome as soon as possible control procedures of the criminal records that are only applied to Italian transborder workers. As is recognised by the Swiss side, they represent a violation of an accord on free circulation. The ambassador assured that on the Swiss side they are working to end such procedures, introducing euro-compatible measures if needed.
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Tensions Flare as Greece Tells Turkey it is Ready to Answer Any Provocation
Fears of tensions mounting in the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean Seas reignited after the Turkish president raised the prospect of a referendum on accession talks with the EU and the Greek defence minister said the country was ready for any provocation.
Relations between Ankara and European capitals have worsened before the highly charged vote on 16 April on expanding the powers of the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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Three People Detained After Shooting at North Denmark Supermarket
Two people were injured during a shooting incident on Sunday evening, according to North Jutland Police.
The shooting happened in a parking lot in front of a supermarket in Aalborg, reports TV2 Nord.
The two injured people have been arrested and the identity of the third arrested person is unclear, according to the report.
One person is said to have turned themselves in at Aalborg University hospital with a shooting injury to the leg.
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UK: 423 New Mosques, 500 Closed Churches in London
(BREITBART) The Gatestone Institute reports Sunday on the striking rate of closures of churches in the United Kingdom’s capital city, a trend mirrored elsewhere in Europe, and the blooming number of mosques that have been established in their stead.
Reporting on the change in religious observation in London, the Gatestone Institute writes:
“London is more Islamic than many Muslim countries put together”, according to Maulana Syed Raza Rizvi, one of the Islamic preachers who now lead “Londonistan”, as the journalist Melanie Phillips has called the English capital. No, Rizvi is not a right-wing extremist. Wole Soyinka, a Nobel Laureate for Literature, was less generous; he called the UK “a cesspit for Islamists.”
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UK: Theresa May Criticises Cadbury Over Easter Egg Hunt
Theresa May has described the decision to drop the word Easter from the name of Cadbury and National Trust egg hunts as “absolutely ridiculous”.
Her comments come after the Archbishop of York said calling the event the Cadbury Egg Hunt was like “spitting on the grave” of the firm’s Christian founder, John Cadbury.
But Cadbury said Easter was referred to on much of its packaging and marketing.
The National Trust also denied it was downplaying the significance of Easter.
It said there were more than 13,000 references to Easter on its website and that it runs a programme of activities to mark the event.
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Volkswagen Fixed Half of UK Cars Hit by Dieselgate
1,2 mln cars affected by diesel emissions scandal in Britain
(ANSA) — TRIESTE — Volkswagen said it has fixed fewer than half of the 1.2 million cars affected by the diesel emissions scandal in Britain, 18 monthsafter the revelations came to light, Reuters reported.
“We have implemented the technical measures in more than 540,000 UK vehicles”, brand’s managing director Paul Willis told British lawmakers in a letter. VW has not set a firm deadline to complete the work but hopes to have most of it done by the autumn, Reuters said.
Willis also denied that any of the changes made had negatively affected theperformance of vehicles. “The technical measures have been rigorously tested and the relevant authorities have confirmed that there is no adverse impact on the vehicles’ Mpg, Co2 emissions, engine output, maximum torque and noise emissions”, he said.
Volkswagen admitted to using software to cheat diesel emission tests in theUS, but has refused to do so in Europe.
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Yle: Secret Orders for Media Coverage of Chinese Presidential Visit to Finland
As Chinese President Xi Xinping arrives in Finland for a state visit on Tuesday, Yle’s correspondent in Beijing revealed a set of detailed guidelines issued by the Chinese government for reporting on the trip. As Mika Mäkeläinen reports, Chinese media have dubbed such decrees “Ministry of Truth instructions”.
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IMF Urges Albania to Reform Its Tax Regime
The latest Article IV report: taxation system “inefficient”
(ANSA) — TRIESTE — The International Monetary Fund (IMF) urges Albania to reform its tax regime, according to Tax News.
The IMF said in its latest Article IV consultation for the country that theAlbanian authorities must secure parliamentary approval to bring about thenecessary improvements to the country’s tax system. The report defines Albanian tax administration as “inefficient” and the development of a new property tax system has been delayed until now. The report notes that tax revenues, particularly value-added tax revenues, have been impacted by lower-than-expected oil prices and consumption and by inflation.
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Nightclub Shuttered in Tunisia After Berlin DJ Remixes Muslim Call to Prayer
British DJ Dax J has apologized for his use of the religious song in a set at the Orbit Festival in Tunisia. He received over 200 death threats and his actions have been condemned by the Tunisian government.
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47,155 Arrests in Turkey Since Failed Coup
In total 113,260 people detained
(ANSAmed) — ISTANBUL, APRIL 3 — In total 47,155 people have been arrested in Turkey since the failed coup of July 15, 2016 on suspicion of links with the alleged coup plotter Fethullah Gulen, Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu has said. The number includes 10,732 police agencts, 7,634 soldiers (of whom 168 generals), 2,575 magistrates, 26,177 civilians and 208 local administrators.
A further 863 suspects are on the run.
Overall, 113,260 people have been detained since the putsch attempt.
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At Least 100 Dead in Suspected Chemical Attack in Syria, Hospital Reportedly Hit
A suspected chemical attack in a rebel-held Syrian town killed 100 people and injured 400 others, a medical relief group said, and some medics treating the wounded were later struck by rubble when an aircraft reportedly bombed a hospital.
A hospital in Syria’s northern Idlib province was hit soon after the area was bombarded with a suspected chemical agent, an AFP correspondent reported.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said there were 11 children among the dead. The Syrian medical relief group UOSSM reported that the overall death toll had been elevated to 100, according to Reuters.
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Erdogan Promises More War in Syria
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s rhetoric is at times, oddly honest, sometimes blatantly so. At other times, when he attempts to be more analytical, it is as deceptive as his political and geo-political manoeuvring.
Last year, Erdogan gave an speech in which he declared his unambiguous intentions to capture former territories of the Ottoman Empire, specifically parts of the legal territory of Syria and Iraq.
Now, he has said that his illegal invasion and occupation of Syria is not over; it are merely changing names.
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ISIS Boss Al-Baghdadi Reportedly Escaped Capture by Minutes
The world’s most wanted man, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, avoided capture by Iraqi special forces “by minutes” after escaping through a trapdoor, it has been revealed.
The ISIS leader, who has a $33 million bounty on his head, narrowly escaped being captured by the Iraqis in 2013, according to a new documentary.
Al-Baghdadi is said to have abandoned his fighters and gone into hiding as Iraqi forces continued to make inroads into Mosul, the caliphate the declared in the city’s central mosque in 2014.
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Russian-Turkish Ties: It’s Complicated
Turkey’s relationship with Russia has been under strain since the country downed a Russian jet in 2015. At the time, Moscow responded with a ban on imports of Turkish goods and an embargo on charter holidays to Turkey. Now Russian agricultural imports to Turkey are in the spotlight.
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Saudi Campaigners Protest Over the Right to Drive
Women campaigners in Saudi Arabia are filming themselves walking silently in the street in an attempt to claim the right to drive. The online campaign is a protest against restrictions, which prevent women from doing everyday things unless they are in the presence of a male guardian.
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Syria ‘Chemical Attack’ Down to Assad, US Says
The White House says it is “confident” Bashar al-Assad’s government was behind an apparent chemical attack that killed at least 58 people in north-west Syria.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that strikes on Khan Sheikhoun by Syrian government or Russian jets had caused many people to choke.
Later, aircraft fired rockets at local clinics treating survivors, medics and activists said.
Syria’s army denied the government had used any such weapons.
In a statement, President Donald Trump condemned what he called “these heinous actions” by the Bashar al-Assad regime.
He was joined in his condemnation by the UK, United Nations and France, among others.
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Turkey: Main Opposition Leader Challenges AKP, MHP Leaders to TV Debate on Charter Changes
Main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kiliçdaroglu has challenged the leaders of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the opposition Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) to a debate on TV on the constitutional amendments that will be voted in an upcoming referendum on April 16.
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Russia, Belarus Repair Ties in Wake of Protests
Russia and Belarus have moved toward a rapprochement after a series of disputes between the traditional allies. It comes as both countries have cracked down on rare street protests.
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St Petersburg Metro Bomb Victims Identified
The first victims of the St Petersburg metro explosion have been named, as investigators continue to piece together the identity of the attacker.
Monday’s blast between two stations killed 14 people and injured almost 50.
Investigators say it may have been a suicide bomb set off by a Kyrgyzstan-born man, Akbarzhon Jalilov.
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St. Petersburg Subway Blast: Killer May Have Met Accomplices in Moscow
The man believed to have launched the suicide bombing on a subway train in St. Petersburg, Russia, killing 13 other people, visited his home country of Kyrgyzstan a month ago and may have met with accomplices in Moscow on his way back, Russian media reported Tuesday.
Akbardzhon Dzhalilov, 22, was named as the killer by Russia’s Investigative Committee. Detectives said they also found his DNA on a bag holding a second bomb in a nearby subway station — which crews defused before it could explode.
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Why Russia Gave Up Alaska, America’s Gateway to the Arctic
One hundred and fifty years ago, on March 30, 1867, U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward and Russian envoy Baron Edouard de Stoeckl signed the Treaty of Cession. With a stroke of a pen, Tsar Alexander II had ceded Alaska, his country’s last remaining foothold in North America, to the United States for US$7.2 million.
That sum, amounting to just $113 million in today’s dollars, brought to an end Russia’s 125-year odyssey in Alaska and its expansion across the treacherous Bering Sea, which at one point extended the Russian Empire as far south as Fort Ross, California, 90 miles from San Francisco Bay.
Today Alaska is one of the richest U.S. states thanks to its abundance of natural resources, such as petroleum, gold and fish, as well as its vast expanse of pristine wilderness and strategic location as a window on Russia and gateway to the Arctic.
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African Envoys: India Attacks on Nigerians ‘Racial’
Envoys from African nations in the Indian capital, Delhi, have condemned the handling of recent attacks on Nigerian students in the city.
In a statement, the African Heads of Mission said the attacks were “xenophobic and racial”.
Indian authorities had failed to “sufficiently condemn” the attacks or take “visible deterring measures”, the envoys added.
The students were attacked last month in Greater Noida, close to Delhi.
Five Nigerian students were attacked by crowds, while another was beaten by a mob inside a shopping mall.
The violence was prompted by the death of a local teenager due to a drug overdose. His parents blame Nigerian students for giving him the drugs.
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Bride Kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan
A young Kyrgyz woman campaigns against bride kidnapping, an arcane tradition in Kyrgyzstan. Each year, thousands of young women are kidnapped and forced to marry. Damira shows a way out.
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Singaporean Imam Questioned Over Anti-Semitic Comments
In Singapore, racism is not dealt with kid gloves; this was proven by the authorities after an imam, who spoke against Jews and Christians, was required to report to the local synagogue and apologize profusely.
Representatives of all religions in the country arrived Sunday at the Magen Avot Synagogue of Rabbi Mordechai Abergel, the island’s chief rabbi, to hear a Muslim imam apologizing for anti-Semitic remarks. The court handed down his sentence on Monday: a $4,000 fine.
For a month now the affair has been stirring up the small yet influential republic. It began in February, after a video clip showing the Muslim Imam Nullah Muhammad Abdul Jamil, praying and saying, “Allah will help us against the Jews and the Christians.” The video soon became viral….
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Ancient Chinese Tomb-Sweeping Festival Goes Hi-Tech
Millions of ethnic Chinese people will be paying their respects to dead ancestors this week, as they observe the ancient Qing Ming festival.
The centuries-old festival, also known as “tomb sweeping day”, is traditionally observed by sprucing up loved ones’ graves and making offerings to their spirits.
But in recent years, it has taken on a more hi-tech style for some people.
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As Chinese Honour Dead Ancestors, Illegal Practise of Ghost Marriages Still Lingers
Villagers are willing to pay hundreds of thousands of yuan for a female corpse to bury alongside an unmarried deceased male, Xinhua reports
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China Installs Surveillance Cameras in Churches to Spy on Christians
In its latest move to harass its growing Christian community, China’s communist government has begun a campaign of installing surveillance cameras in Christian churches of the Zhejiang province.
The government will now know exactly who is attending services and with what regularity, as well as being able to monitor everything that is said from the pulpit.
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China’s Young Locked Out of Beijing’s Property Market
If you’re young, Chinese and living in Beijing, you’re probably locked out of the property market.
Demand for property in China’s top cities is so red hot, some couples are even undergoing fake divorces in order to buy additional homes.
China’s central bank has tried to clamp down on rising prices but that has done little to allay the woes of young workers who earn low wages.
The BBC’s Stephen McDonell reports on one of the world’s most unaffordable property markets.
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Chinese Engineer ‘Marries’ Robot After Failing to Find a Human Wife
A Chinese engineer has “married” a robot he created after failing to find a human spouse.
Zheng Jiajia, 31, an artificial intelligence expert who designs and creates robots in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, created the “female” robot at the end of last year, the Qianjiang Evening News reported.
The robot, which he named Yingying, can identify Chinese characters and images and even say a few simple words, the report said.
Zheng “married” his creation in a simple ceremony on Friday, according to the report.
Yingying wore a black suit on the day and “her” head was covered with a red scarf during the ceremony, a traditional Chinese wedding ritual.
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‘Electronic Skin’ To Monitor Your Health
Researchers in Japan have developed “electronic skin” with an organic circuit that can be worn on the human body. It is 10 times thinner than a skin cell and lighter than a feather.
It has many potential uses including monitoring your health, it could be worn as an electronic tattoo or in the future generate a television picture on your hand.
Prof Takao Someya of Tokyo University explained to BBC Click’s Dan Simmons how it works.
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Foreigners in Japan Face Major Discrimination, Language Not the Problem — Poll
About 25 percent of foreigners in Japan failed to get jobs, while nearly 40 percent who were looking for accommodation were turned down, according to the latest study commissioned by the Japanese Justice Ministry.
The poll, released on Friday, is the first ever such survey in Japan. It was carried out by the Center for Human Rights Education and Training in November and December last year, and comes as Tokyo gears up for the 2020 Olympics and the number of foreign employees sharply increases.
The number of foreign residents in Japan now constitutes about 2.3 million — or 2 percent of the population — and a record 20 million foreign tourists visited in 2016.
There were 18,500 foreign residents contacted by the pollsters, and 4,252 of them participated. Over 50 percent of them were Chinese and Korean, and more than 40 percent had lived in Japan for over 10 years, the Japan Times reported.
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In ‘China’s Jerusalem’, ‘Anti-Terror Cameras’ The New Cross for Churches to Bear
Christians and government officials have come to blows over demands that churches in a city known as “China’s Jerusalem” install surveillance cameras for “anti-terrorism and security purposes”. The Zhejiang government issued the orders to churches in Wenzhou late last year and began implementing them before the Lunar New Year holiday in January.
Wenzhou’s surveillance camera drive comes amid tighter controls on religious activities across the country.
Last week, the far western region of Xinjiang — home to more than 10 million mostly Muslim Uygurs — passed new rules targeting what it called religious extremism. The rules, which took effect on Saturday, prohibit such “manifestations of extremism” as wearing veils or “abnormal” beards, refusing to watch state television or listen to state radio, or preventing children from receiving “national education”, according to the official news website News.ts.cn.
Under the rules, special task forces to curb extremism would be set up by regional, prefectural and county governments and local leaders would be evaluated annually on their achievements on the matter.
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Pink Star Diamond Sets New World Record in Hong Kong
A rare diamond known as the Pink Star has been sold in Hong Kong for more than $71m (£57m), setting a new world record for any gemstone at auction.
The oval-shaped 59.6 carat stone was bought after just five minutes’ bidding at Sotheby’s, reports said.
Bidding for the gem, which was found by De Beers at a mine in Africa in 1999 and cut over a period of two years, began at $56m.
Sotheby’s said the buyer was Hong Kong jewellery retailer Chow Tai Fook Jewellery.
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Why Trump’s First War is Probably Going to be a Conflict With North Korea
By now most people are completely desensitized to stories involving North Korea. One can only hear about so many blustering threats, missile launches, and state sanctioned executions, before those incidents are no longer surprising. Over the years we’ve seen it all, and most folks don’t really pay much attention to what’s going on in the Hermit Kingdom. That’s unfortunate, because they’re not paying attention as the Trump administration inches towards war with North Korea.
The first definite sign that the current administration was going to take a different approach to North Korea, was when Secretary of State Rex Tillerson stated emphatically last month that “all options are on the table.”
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Brazil Asks Its Diplomats Help Increase Weapons Exports
Brazil has asked its diplomats to help increase exports of weapons made in the South American country as it suffers through one of the country’s worst economic crises in decades. The nation is among the world’s largest light arms dealers.
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Busload of Germans Robbed Near Mayan Ruins in Mexico
A busload of German tourists heading to Mayan ruins in Mexico have been robbed on a back road, according to prosecutors in Chiapas state. Seven armed men seized cash and valuables from the 28 visitors.
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Ruperta, The Starving Elephant Who’s Come to Symbolize Venezuela’s Crisis
Images of extremely thin animal on social networks prompt outpouring of sympathy and outrage
An African elephant called Ruperta has become a powerful symbol of Venezuela’s worsening crisis. Photographs of the extremely thin 45-year-old female alone in her pen at Caricuao Zoo, in the west of the capital, Caracas, have been posted on social networks, prompting calls for action.
Venezuela is mired in one of the worst economic crises in Latin America as a result of the fall in oil prices, corruption, a drought that has hit electricity supplies and government policies. There are long-standing food and medicine shortages and the country has one of the highest inflation levels in the world.
A recent government decision to strip the Venezuela National Assembly of its lawmaking powers and transfer those powers to the Supreme Court of Justice was widely criticized internationally.
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Venezuela Security Forces Battle Anti-Maduro Protestors
Venezuelan security forces quelled masked protesters with tear gas, water cannons and pepper spray in Caracas on Tuesday after blocking an opposition rally against socialist President Nicolas Maduro.
The clashes began after authorities closed subway stations, set up checkpoints and cordoned off a square where opponents had planned their latest protest against autocratic government and a crippling economic crisis.
In cat-and-mouse skirmishes on backstreets and highways around the capital, youths built barricades, burned trash and hurled rocks and bottles at soldiers and police. Various opposition leaders organized roadblocks.
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14 Migrants Hurt After Belgium Car Chase
BRUSSELS (AFP) — Fourteen migrants were injured on Tuesday when a van crashed into a highway safety barrier during a police car chase in Belgium, prosecutors said.
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Amidst Turkish-German Row, Increased Focus on Ankara’s Teachers
For decades, Turkey has been sending teachers to Germany to teach Turkish to the children of immigrants. But now, many are questioning whether they’re spreading Turkish government propaganda. Naomi Conrad reports.
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Border Wall ‘Critical’ For Reducing Crime, Former Agents Testify
Border enforcement veterans told lawmakers Tuesday that fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border has been “absolutely critical” in reducing violence, drug-smuggling and illegal entry — in testimony boosting President Trump’s call for a Texas-to-California wall.
Ronald Colburn, former Border Patrol deputy chief, and David Aguilar, former acting commissioner of Customs and Border Protection, testified to the Senate Homeland Security Committee about their experiences in the Bush administration when the first fencing was implemented.
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EU Accuses Migrant Helper Charities of Leaving Boats for Smugglers to Use in Mediterranean
The European Union border agency Frontex has accused NGOs of leaving migrant boats for smugglers to recover while the head of one NGO has defended against accusations of cooperation between them and the smugglers.
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EU to Give Turkey More Money: Tusk in Desperate Bid to Keep Illegal Migrant Routes Closed
EMERGENCY funding has been raked together by the European Union over fears the deal with Turkey could fail — and millions of migrants surge through to Europe.
The multi-billions euro one-for-one migrant deal between Brussels and Ankara is teetering on the edge of destruction as politicians on both sides continue to feud.
Turkey, which borders Syria, is currently home to 3m migrants — which president Recept Tayyip Erdogan has threatened to release to the continent.
European Council President Donald Tusk insisted on Tuesday he is determined to stick to the deal.
But, he revealed contingency plans are now being arranged.
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EU Ultimatum: Brussels Tells Poland & Hungary to ‘Accept More Migrants or Leave the Bloc’
Both countries have ignored EU proposals to relocate 160,000 migrants and the rest of the bloc is set to take action to ensure they share the burden.
Poland has ignored criticism from the European Commission over its handling of the migrant crisis and last week Beata Szydlo, the country’s prime minister, criticised EU plans for a “two-speed” Europe which would allow more powerful members to develop faster than their poorer neighbours.
Meanwhile, Hungary has pushed back against the centralisation of powers in Brussels and eurosceptic leader Viktor Orban called for the country’s borders to be closed during the height of the 2015 migrant crisis.
The two countries will now have to decide if they are willing to maintain their anti-migrant rhetoric if it puts their EU membership under threat, a diplomatic source told the Times.
The source said: “They will have to make a choice: are they in the European system or not? You cannot blackmail the EU, unity has a price.”…
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European Union Tells Hungary and Poland to Accept Mass Migration or Leave
the continent “needs six million migrants”, the European Commissioner for Migration Dimitris Avramopoulos said last month
France and Germany, along with a host of up to 21 other countries, are set to demand Hungary and Poland either accept migrants under the quota system or leave the European Union (EU).
The two nations have ignored Brussels’ insistence that they take migrants presently residing in great numbers in Italy and Greece. Public opinion in Hungary and Poland is also strongly against being forced to accept thousands of migrants from non-European cultures.
Poland’s conservative Law and Justice Party (Prawo i SprawiedliwoÅ›c — PiS) swept to victory in 2015, partly due to voter anger over the previous government agreeing to take migrants under the quota system.
In Hungary, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has been a vocal opponent of the scheme from its conception, asserting that forcing member countries to take a compulsory quota of migrants is unlawful and will “spread terrorism around Europe”.
Later this year, the two countries will be given an ultimatum and have to decide whether they are willing to maintain an anti-mass migration stances if it puts their membership of the EU at threat, a senior diplomatic source from one of the bloc’s six founding member states told The Times…
Breitbart London reported that the European Union is to open asylum processing centres in west Africa and countries on the southern shore of the Mediterranean because the continent “needs six million migrants”, the European Commissioner for Migration Dimitris Avramopoulos said last month.
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EU-Turkey Deal Fails to Stop Refugee Flow
A year after the EU-Turkey Deal came into force, thousands of refugees remain stranded in Greece. The most desperate try to reach Europe by any means. Marianna Karakoulaki and Dimitris Tosidis report from Thessaloniki.
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Hundreds of Turkish Officials and Families Seek Asylum in Germany
More than 250 Turkish diplomats, government employees and their family members have filed for political asylum in Germany, Berlin said Monday, amid a bitter row between the two NATO allies.
Germany’s interior ministry said 151 of the asylum applications came from Turks holding diplomatic passports while the other 111 were from people with passports issued to other government employees and their dependants.
The wave of requests for safe haven follows last July’s failed coup against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and a subsequent crackdown, which has seen more than 100,000 people arrested or dismissed from their posts over alleged links to the plotters or to Kurdish militants.
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Hundreds Protest Afghan Deportations in Helsinki
Hundreds of demonstrators gathered in downtown Helsinki to protest the forced return of Afghan asylum seekers on Tuesday afternoon. The city protest followed spontaneous protests on Monday night opposing the Finnish government’s policy of returning rejected asylum seekers.
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Italy Has Reached an Agreement With Libya Aimed at Curbing Migration
The Italian government said on Sunday that dozens of rival tribes in southern Libya had agreed to cooperate on securing the country’s borders in an effort to curb the influx of migrants trying to reach Europe.
Italy’s interior ministry said the 60 tribal leaders — notably the Tuareg of the southwest, the Toubou of the southeast, and the Arab tribe of Awlad Suleiman — had reached the 12-point deal after 72 hours of secret talks in Rome.
A representative from Libya’s UN-backed Government of National Accord, which is based in Tripoli and controls western Libya, was also present.
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Italy Summons Swiss Ambassador Over Closed Borders
The Italian foreign ministry has summoned the Swiss ambassador to Rome for urgent talks after Switzerland closed three minor border crossings at night in an apparent crime-fighting measure.
Switzerland, unlike Italy, is not a member of the European Union but has signed up to the passport-free Schengen zone and free movement of persons accords. During the Tuesday meeting, Italian authorities said the border closings violated Europe’s free-circulation norms.
Local Italian mayors had protested the closures as penalizing Italians who cross the border for work or other legitimate reasons.
Italy said on Tuesday that it had again urged the Swiss ambassador to stop local officials from carrying out criminal record background checks on Italian cross-border workers. Around 62,000 Italians travel every day to work in the Swiss Italian-speaking region of Ticino. One quarter of the canton’s workforce (27.1%) is made up of commuters from Italy.
The region is also a busy crossing point for migrants from southern Europe wanting to travel further north. Last year the Swiss authorities caught some 33,844 illegal immigrants entering canton Ticino from Italy.
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For the past week I have been too busy to post. If the English-language press keeps up with events in France, then you must know that the push to make Emmanuel Macron the next president is accelerating dramatically as political luminaries rally to his side. Including former Prime minister Manuel Valls.
While the MSM press spares no effort to promote, however discretely, Macron’s image, the patriots are experiencing genuine fear of a Macron victory. Despite the popularity of Marine Le Pen, an energized Macron is appealing to the immigrants as did François Hollande five years ago. What worked then, could very well work again.
There are all kinds of rumors regarding this election, but I prefer not to waste time on articles that aren’t reliable. Remember, Saturday was April Fool’s and the French are very talented at creating completely plausible, yet totally false, tales of political intrigue.
The following from Jacques Guillemain, writing at Riposte Laïque, recounts the appearance in Marseille on Saturday April 1 of Emmanuel Macron. But this is no joke. Macron pulls out the standardized ode to multiculturalism, his voice rising in pitch until the final “I see Frenchmen!” that blows the crowd away:
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Migrants Rescue Operation is More About an EU Cultural Dream, Says Leo McKinstry
THE European Union likes to trumpet its commitment to peace and prosperity but in truth it is a vast engine of destruction.
Its ideological obsession with open borders, free movement and cultural diversity is tearing apart the very fabric of European civilisation.
Now a new crisis is developing over the influx of illegal immigrants who have come from North Africa via the central Mediterranean.
Last year, no fewer than 181,436 people reached Italy along the sea routes from the Libyan Coast and the Italian Interior Ministry expects the number to rise to at least 250,000 this year.
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Somali Asylum Seeker Accused of Killing Woman and Raping Disabled Elderly Men
A Somali asylum seeker has been charged with raping two disabled men and murdering the wife of one of the victims in Germany last year.
The unnamed 18-year-old is accused of breaking into a care home in the town of Neuenhaus in October and raping a paralysed 59-year-old man.
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Copenhagen and Malmö Looking to Co-Host LGBT Kingpins
The Øresund Region could very well become a hotspot for the global LGBT community in 2021, attracting hundreds of thousands of people.
That’s because Copenhagen and Malmö have applied to co-host two of the biggest events within the LGBT community: WorldPride and EuroGames.
“The right to love or know whoever you want to is a right that Sweden and Denmark were early to protect,” Nils Karlsson, a local politician for Miljöpartiet de Gröna in Malmö, told News Øresund.
“Nothing feels more natural than a WorldPride being arranged by two cities that have stood out as being LGBT-friendly and progressive.”
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Gender-Bending Berkeley Murder Suspect Wants to be Referred to as ‘They’
Pablo Gomez, Jr., a left-wing Berkeley student activist arrested in January for allegedly stabbing a popular French elementary school teacher to death, and severely injuring another woman, insists on being referred to as “they.”
Gomez’s preference to be called “they” and “them” as opposed to “he” has been “sucked up into the debate over gender identity,” according to the Associated Press.
[Comment: Why not “legion” ?]
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Government Official Who Claims She Was ‘Purged’ For Being White Awarded $136,000
A former Hale County, AL administrator who claimed she was one of several employees “purged” from her place of work in 2013 for being white was been awarded $136,000 by a federal jury this Monday.
Tricia Galbreath was awarded the sum on claims over breach of contract, wrongful termination, and due process. However, Senior US District Court Judge Callie Granade dismissed her claim that she was fired on racial and age discrimination.
In the period following his election to office, Crawford and the Commission “began a systemic purging of white employees,” the federal magistrate ruled in September 2015. “Each of these county employees was replaced by an African-American. Galbreath’s and the then-County Attorney’s replacements were also younger than them.”
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Marvel Comics Exec Claims Focus on ‘Diversity’ Behind Falling Sales
A senior executive at Marvel Comics has claimed that the company’s recent focus on creating diverse superheroes is a driving factor behind its declining comic book sales, arguing that loyal customers “were turning their noses up” at their efforts.
Speaking at the Marvel retailer summit this week, David Gabriel, Marvel’s vice president of sales, said the company had heard that people “didn’t want” any more diverse characters.
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Sweden: Stockholm Suburb to Get ‘Feminist Urban Planning’ Redesign
A Stockholm suburb is to become the first place in Sweden designed with feminist urban planning in mind, as a housing firm attempts to redress the gender balance in the area’s centre through renovation.
Housing company Svenska Bostäder (SB) have redesigned the centre of Husby in the north-west of Stockholm with a “feminist, equality-based” perspective in mind. SB’s social sustainability coordinator in the district, Nurcan Gültekin, explained to The Local exactly what that means:
“With that we mean that we need to get more women into the public spaces. It’s above all about having an equal public space where everyone, both men and women, feel welcome.”
Husby is one of 15 places the Swedish police described as “particularly vulnerable” in a 2015 report, and was one of the areas where riots broke out in the Swedish capital in 2013.
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Universities of yesteryear gave us doctors and lawyers; today they’re giving us feminist, pro-communist, social-justice warriors with majors in social media. What?!
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Citizen Scientists Spot Candidates for Planet Nine
A crowdsourced science project to find the hypothetical new world has turned up four curious candidates
The existence of Planet Nine was first seriously proposed in 2014 by astronomers Scott Sheppard and Chadwick Trujillo, who noted that the newfound body 2012 VP113, the dwarf planet Sedna and several other objects far beyond Pluto share distinct orbital characteristics. This coincidence could be explained by a giant, unseen “perturber” lurking in the solar system’s outer reaches and tugging on the objects, Sheppard and Trujillo said.
Astronomers Konstantin Batygin and Mike Brown bolstered this hypothesis in January 2016, finding evidence that this putative perturber (which they dubbed Planet Nine) may be sculpting the orbits of additional distant objects.
Batygin and Brown calculated that Planet Nine — if it exists — is likely about 10 times more massive than Earth and orbits the sun on a highly elliptical path that takes it up to 1,000 astronomical units (AU) from the sun. (One AU is the average Earth-sun distance — about 93 million miles, or 150 million kilometers.)
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The Bittersweet Story of Vanilla
Today, less than 1 percent of vanilla flavoring comes from the vanilla flower. Is that a good thing?
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So what is the (Soros) liberal squealing is all about?
In Hungary based on regulations, international schools can only hand out non-Hungarian diploma, if the school has registered and working school in that other country. In 2004 the liberal-socialist government provided a loophole for CEU the Soros “university” by overlooking this requirement. Now the Hungarian Parliament is to close that loophole and make it properly enforced they changed the law to must have such schools campus in the other country (this case USA, New York state) and such schools should only be able to work if there is a state level contract between the sovereign states. (So the other country is aware that a school hands out diplomas in the name of their country). So that is why the screaming is about and calling “everybody fascist and literally hitler” come from the Soros camp. By the way there is 3 other US schools (Universities) operating in Hungary (and many other foreign schools) and none of them had problems because they are, – you guessed it -, real schools! By the way the CEU (Central European University) has 6 months to clear up his missteps and open a campus in the USA and have the proper state level contract/permission. (Of course that would cost a lot of money for Soros, hence the squealing…)
Two men have been arrested suspected of being complicit in the murder of a 16-year-old boy who was shot and killed in Malmö last January.
Last Thursday meanwhile, seven men were arrested in connection with the murder of a 23-year-old on the city’s Ramels väg road.
Gosh, these Swedes are turning violent! Or could it be that the press there is denying their citizens the right to know explicitly and for sure who is committing murder and mayhem in their country?
The two injured people have been arrested and the identity of the third arrested person is unclear, according to the report.
One person is said to have turned themselves in at Aalborg University hospital with a shooting injury to the leg.
And in Denmark, it’s “people” or “person”. In addition to national origin, we’re left, if we so wish, to speculate about the gender of the miscreants. No doubt frisky Danish girls up to their mischief again, playing with guns.
Ah, there is nothing like a frisky Danish dame. They’re always winning the prize for “happiest” country, though imho Oz has long since passed them.
I looove Denmark’s indefatigable Queen though – she’s enough to make anyone want one for their own country. Margrethe II is a woman of many accomplishments and has been outspoken about the harm immigration has done to her realm.
She embroidered a beautiful altar hanging – an impedium – for a chapel in Germany, and went there to present it a few months back. IIRC, it was in honor of some aspect of Luther’s life and featured a white rose. I so much wanted to do a post about her embroidery which took up the better part of the winter, and her visit to Germany but the two shallow reporters (from a German MSM outlet whose name escapes me) could only focus on the ashtray at the table where she was sitting. The empty ashtray. Their interview consisted of breathless questions about her smoking habits and was she going to stop. She gave some royal response that was the equivalent of “Heck NO!”
I was unable to find any report of substance on her lovely work and her gesture.
If Hungary can rid itself of the Soros pest, so can we! He hates the Christ-based Western civilization.
Totally agree with you sir.
Ideally someone could kidnap him and hand him over to the Russians
Who I believe have an arrest warrant out for him.
He is known to finance left wing, Christian hating, NGOs in Europe and the USA and yet seems untouchable.
Perhaps Obama’s disastrous double tenure as President of the US
Could finally be analysed as SOROS certainly had even more influence
On global geopolitics during this time.
Hopefully Hungry will stay resolute and not yield to the EU blackmail,
National sovereignty far outweighs any funding from the EU which
Always comes with strings attached.
He hates humanism, too. Someone mentioned that Russia has an arrest warrant for him. At one time, so did France. And if the UK had the testosteronal equipment, they would have done the same. Soros cynically and deliberately manipulated the banks in England, leaving many pensioners without any funds.
Soros is embodied evil. With belief in no one beyond himself, he has said on more than one occasion that he wished he were God and could be immortal. It is only a phalanx of security guards that keeps him vertical and breathing.
The WorldPride LGBT event hosted in Malmo. What could possibly go wrong?
The celebrations will be joyful completed with the ritual of the mass burning of cars.
Stoning of fire engines, ambulances, and police vehicles is optional
But highly recommend if you really wish to immerse yourself
In the Swedish multiculturalist experience.
Seriously?! Oh no. This is going to be a train wreck.
“George Soros’ university in his home-country is on the verge of shutdown”
Nice to see the Toadman holding a losing hand for once.
Dymphna, SOROS is getting very old and a recent picture I saw of him indicates that he will soon meet his Maker. We can only pray that it’s sooner rather than later. The man is the embodiment of evil. I have read enough Hungarian history to know just how evil he is but of course I can’t remember the exact details anymore. Too bad, in a way. . . but that’s the price I pay for getting older and older. Nevertheless, he committed heinous crimes in Hungary but somehow managed to get here and enrich himself.