One of four mujahideen arrested recently in Mallorca was planning a massacre in a city center modeled after the vehicle-and-knife jihad attacks in London. Meanwhile, London is facing the possibility the jihadis may run down pedestrians using mopeds, which can get through the new barriers via gaps designed for bicycles.
In other news, a man went on a rampage with a knife in a market in Tunisia, wounding two German tourists.
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Face of the Venezuela Crisis: Helicopter Attacks, Alleged Coup and Clash of Powers
The political crisis in Venezuela intensified this week when President Nicolas Maduro warned of an alleged “American intervention,” a police helicopter attacked the country’s highest court with grenades and more young people died in protests against the government.
But beyond those headlines this week is a country on the brink of collapse.
The socialist country is dealing with triple-digit inflation, political turmoil, food and medicine shortages and worsening crime.
And the problems keep getting worse.
On Tuesday, Maduro asked for President Donald Trump to stop an alleged plot by his government and the “Venezuelan right” to give him a “coup.”
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Venezuela Selling Gold, Goldman Selling Venezuela Bonds?
Venezuela is nearly broke but still has a great deal of gold, which accounts for three quarters of its foreign reserves of just more than $10 billion.
A guest on Bloomberg Radio Friday morning suggested that Venezuela could be selling gold to pay for chemicals to dilute its domestic “heavy” oil for fuel. Meanwhile, Goldman Sachs Asset Management reportedly sold Venezuela bonds with a face value of at least $300 million to a small group of hedge funds in recent days, according to an anonymous source quoted by MarketWatch, which notes that the Goldman bond purchase in May drew harsh criticism from Venezuelan opposition leaders and others who think investors should not finance the authoritarian regime of President Nicolás Maduro. Food and necessities have been in short supply for an extended period, and anti-government protests have left more than 50 people dead this year.
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Stocks have been going up since 2009. What’s driving this, and how long can the bulls keep on running?
[…]So why aren’t stocks correcting? It turns out there are a few good reasons as to why stocks have rallied for so long.
Central Bank Support
By far the biggest reason for the prolonged rally, in spite of lukewarm GDP growth and sky-high valuations, is continuing money-printing by not just the Fed but by all global central banks.
Although most central banks do not buy stocks directly, they buy bonds, which in turn affects the stock market.
“The stock market is very expensive but doesn’t go down, because the bond market is even more expensive. Valuations are very high because bond yields are low. That’s the effect of central banks printing $200 billion per month in a period where there is no crisis,” said economist and author Daniel LaCalle. …
The only thing able to change investors’ perception about the future of earnings and the economy is a recession. “The structure of the stock market is terrible but the imbalances will only get corrected in a recession,” said Pal.
In fact, government bond yields are already at recession levels and have been for some time. “You look at the bond market and it comes to the opposite conclusion than stocks: ‘We are stuck in a low growth period, and we don’t get out,’“ said Snider.
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American “Fear of Sharia” Is Anything But “Silly”
[…]Hmm, a new problem seems to have sprung up: some disembodied entity at Google apparently decided, with a few swipes of a bear-paw, to censor all the contents from these historically accurate think-tank postings. What is Google trying to keep you from knowing? Material that would be more dangerous for you to know or more dangerous for you not to know? How considerate of Google to have made this decision for you! …
Rauf then proceeds to defend sharia against its detractors.
“Sharia is not about amputations and stoning,” he assured readers, again incorrectly.
Rauf continues: “…Within the history of Islam, they have rarely occurred.” A short search in google belies that.
“What Islamic law does prescribe,” he goes on, in a breathtaking example of taqiyya [obfuscation] and kitman [dissimulation] — which are both permitted[2] in Islam under certain circumstances, such as to defend Islam — “are the same do’s [sic] and don’ts of the Ten Commandments — the social imperatives most of us recognize whatever our religion.”
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CNN Producer on New O’Keefe Video: Voters Are ‘Stupid, ‘ Trump is ‘Crazy’
Conservative provocateur and Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe released a fourth secretly recorded video early Friday morning that shows a CNN associate producer calling American voters “stupid as s***” and saying Trump senior counselor Kellyanne Conway looks like “she got hit with a shovel.”
In a video released overnight by O’Keefe on Twitter, a Project Veritas reporter asked CNN associate producer Jimmy Carr, who doesn’t appear to know he’s being recorded, if it “would be fair to question the intellect of the American voter.”
“Oh, no. They’re stupid as s — -,” replied the CNN “New Day” associate producer.
Carr also spoke about President Trump, saying everyone inside the network recognizes “he’s just f***-ing crazy.”
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Cyberattack Forces West Virginia Hospital to Scrap Computers
Petya attack forces Princeton Community Hospital to use paper records as it scraps, rebuilds computer network
Princeton Community Hospital in rural West Virginia will scrap and replace its entire computer network after being struck by the cyberattack paralyzing computers globally.
The cyberattack, known as Petya, froze the hospital’s electronic medical record system early Tuesday, leaving doctors unable to review patients’ medical history or transmit laboratory and pharmacy orders, said Rose Morgan, the hospital’s vice president of patient care services.
Officials were unable to restore services, and found there was no way to pay a ransom for the return of their system. So, after consulting with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and cybersecurity experts, officials made the decision to replace the system.
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Trump Needs to Expose China Helping Hillary in the US Election
China had more involvement in the election than Russia
Donald Trump must expose who really interfered with the 2016 Presidential election. Hillary Clinton and the Chinese.
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Jordan Peterson: Collectivism is Tyranny Under the Guise of Benevolence
[…]Despite the tyrannical nature of collectivism, people are fooled into following this system through its feigned benevolence, and through the system’s identification of “enemies” that its followers can struggle against.
The ideology of collectivism is built on a dysfunctional understanding of caring for others and on a narrow reinterpretation of history, according to Jordan Peterson, Canadian clinical psychologist and professor of psychology at the University of Toronto.
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“It’s Not Over!” Juncker Admits Eurosceptic Revolution Could Still Rise to Destroy EU
JEAN-CLAUDE Juncker today admitted that the eurosceptic surge which swept the continent last year is “not over” and could still threaten the very future of the EU project.
Sounding a rare note of realism the EU Commission chief conceded that the performance of defeated French populist Marine Le Pen showed there was still deep underlying dissatisfaction with the bloc.
And he warned eurocrats they needed to explain what Brussels does more clearly, saying their preference for technical jargon meant few people properly understood its actions.
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Bundestag Passes Law to Fine Social Media Companies for Not Deleting Hate Speech
German lawmakers have approved a controversial law that would impose high fines on social media companies like Facebook, Twitter or YouTube for failing to swiftly delete posts deemed to exhibit hate speech.
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Catalonia’s Regional Government Plans for Independence
Catalonian President Carles Puigdemont has set today as the deadline to establish structures and institutions for the region to operate as a state independent from Spain. The move comes ahead of an independence referendum scheduled for October 1.
Mr Puigdemont’s goal includes establishing an independent justice system and adopting Spain’s international treaties post-independence. While separatists won a non-binding plebiscite in 2014, polling shows the anti-independence camp with a narrow 4% lead ahead of October’s poll.
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France: The Holy War Behind Bars
Many young offenders are radicalized in French prisons, widely seen as hotbeds of Jihadism. The majority of the 9000 potentially violent Islamists estimated to be in France have spent time in overcrowded prisons.
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Germany Approves Bill to Fine Social Media Up to €50mn Over Online Hate Speech, Fake News
“Freedom of speech ends where criminal law begins,” Justice Minister Heiko Maas said
The German parliament has voted to fine social media networks up to €50 million ($56 million) if they fail to remove hateful content or fake news. The networks will be given 24 hours to block or delete any inappropriate content.
“Freedom of speech ends where criminal law begins,” Justice Minister Heiko Maas said, adding that the measure “end[s] the internet law of the jungle.”
[Comment: So globalist puppets decide speaking against their goals is criminal. How about making it a crime to encourage mass migration to balkanize your own country and replace the population…oh…wait.isn’t this covered by treason?]
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German Court: Sharia Police May Patrol Streets
by Robert Spencer
We have also seen Sharia vigilantes in Britain. In both Britain and Germany, authorities cracked down on them. But now a German court has allowed them to operate, and even if they’re ultimately stopped again, time is on their side. In a few years, they will be able to start up operations again, with non-Muslim authorities too weak and compromised to do anything to stop them.
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Germany Imposes €50 Million Fines on Social Media Firms That Don’t Delete Hate Speech
Germany’s parliament voted Friday to punish social media giants with fines of up to €50 million if they systematically fail to remove illegal hate speech.
Berlin took the measure, one of the toughest in the world, after a surge in racist and incendiary speech online, particularly since the arrival of around one million asylum-seekers since 2015.
Under German law, Holocaust denial, incitement of hatred, and racist and anti-Semitic speech are illegal.
But critics warned that the prohibitive fines would stifle legitimate free speech by prompting online giants like Twitter and Facebook to excessively delete and censor posts as a precaution.
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Germany Clamps Down on Foreign Election Rallies After Spat With Turkey
BERLIN (AP) — Germany is clamping down on election rallies by foreign officials following a spat with Turkey ahead of that country’s constitutional referendum.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Martin Schaefer says all embassies were informed Friday that they will have to apply for permission to stage political rallies addressing their citizens in Germany.
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Infant Sentenced to Death by European Human Rights Court
Eugenicists order life support turned off, block travel for treatment
Ten-month-old Charlie Gard was sentenced to die by the European Court of Human Rights (EHCR), Tuesday, who ruled against potentially life-saving treatment for him.
The ECHR ordered that Gard’s life support be shut off and blocked him from travel to the U.S. for experimental treatment for which Gard’s parents raised over $1.7 million. Doctors diagnosed the infant boy with a rare mitochondrial disease, according to a report from Daily Mail. The court labeled the Gard’s appeal case “inadmissible” and upheld the previous decision of the U.K. High Court, saying their decision in Gard’s case was “final.”
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Jihadist Planned to Carry Out ‘Massacre’ In Mallorca
One of four suspected jihadists arrested in Mallorca this week planned to carry out an attack in the town of Inca, an investigating judge has said.
It is believed that the man — named as Moroccan Abdulkader Mahmoudi — was poised to carry out an attack using a knife to stab people, following the modus operandi of the recent London Bridge attacks in which 8 people were killed and more than 40 injured. In this way he intended to “realize his plan to become a martyr,” said Judge Santiago Pedraz.
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Lee Rigby’s Mother Claims Ministry of Defence Offered Little Help Because She Was ‘Only His Mother’
The mother of murdered soldier Lee Rigby has hit out at the Ministry of Defence, claiming it didn’t support her family.
Fusilier Rigby, 25, was stabbed to death outside the Royal Artillery Barracks in Woolwich, south London, in May 2013 while off duty.
Lyn Rigby, his mother, spoke to the Victoria Derbyshire show about the fourth anniversary of his death, when terrorist Salman Abedi detonated a suicide bomb, killing 22 people at the end of the Ariana Grande concert at the Manchester Arena.
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Marine Le Pen Charged Over EU Parliament Funding Scandal
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen was charged Friday over claims her party illegally claimed millions of euros from the European Parliament to pay for France-based staff.
Rodolphe Bosselut said Le Pen had been summoned by investigating magistrates in Paris and that they had, “as expected, charged her”, adding that she would appeal.
A judicial source told AFP she had been charged with breach of trust over the salaries paid to her chief of staff Catherine Griset and her bodyguard Thierry Legier and for complicity in breach of trust as FN leader.
If tried and convicted, Le Pen faces up to three years imprisonment and a fine of up to 375,000 euros ($425,000), although it is unlikely she would receive a custodial sentence.
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Sweden Mulls Stripping Passports to Fight Forced Marriage
Sweden may strip passports from relatives of girls deemed at risk of forced marriage or female genital mutilation. Justice Minister Morgan Johansson tells Radio Sweden why he thinks a tougher approach is needed.
Sweden has appointed the senior lawyer Mari Heidenborg to lead the enquiry, which will look at what Sweden can learn from the laws in the UK and Norway.
“With the legislation we’ve had so far, we have to trust the municipalities to act,” Johansson said. “Putting the state in a more active role means more effective prevention.”
Measures on the table include the UK’s Forced Marriage Protection Order, which can see relatives punished if a girl sent abroad for forced marriage is not returned to the UK.
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Terror Suspect Arrested in Mallorca Was Planning “Massacre” on the Island
Abdelkader Mahmoudi, one of the four jihadists arrested on Wednesday in Mallorca, was planning a knife attack on the island, in the main square of the town of Inca. After questioning Mahmoudi and the three other men arrested on Wednesday, High Court judge Santiago Pedraz has ordered the four to be held in custody.
After listening to telephone conversations as well as analyzing material confiscated by police, the judge has concluded that the four men are members of a group set up by Tarik Chadlioui, a Salafist imam who has recruited people to Jihadist cells and who has traveled from abroad to Mallorca repeatedly to build a terrorist structure.
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The Secret to Italy’s Successful Efforts in Battling Islamic Terrorism
As France, Belgium and the UK are pummeled by repeated deadly acts of Islamic terror, Italy has remained relatively unscathed, leading many to wonder aloud wherein lies the key to Italy’s successful counterterrorism efforts.
It certainly hasn’t been a lack of desire on the part of Muslim extremists to target Italy. In its propaganda literature, the Islamic State has declared open war on Rome and the Vatican, stating its intentions to destroy the capital of Christianity.
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UK: Londoners ‘At Risk From Terrorists on Mopeds’ After Barriers on Bridges Widened for Cyclists
London could be exposed to attacks from terrorists on mopeds after barriers on bridges were widened to make more space for cyclists, a former Scotland Yard officer has said.
Anti-terror barriers on London bridges were fitted to stop cars ploughing into pedestrians after vehicles were used as weapons in three attacks in London, as well as in other European cities.
But David Videcette, who was in the Met’s counter-terror unit for six years until 2010, said the Government and other bodies need to be more “forward-thinking” when implementing such measures.
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Tourists Stabbed as Knifeman Goes on Rampage in Tunisia Market
Two female tourists were slashed during the incident, which occurred in the town of Nabeul near Hammamet.
The victims are a German mother and her daughter, according to a spokesperson for Tunisia’s tourism and interior ministries.
He said the mother was slightly injured and treated at the scene.
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Caroline Glick: Who Cares About Jewish Unity?
There are four important aspects to the government’s decisions on Sunday relating to egalitarian prayer at the Western Wall and the conversion bill. The first is that by and large, the headlines of the stories distort rather than explain what the government decided.
The second is the nature of the American Jewish community’s response to the government’s moves.
The third important aspect of the story is what the government’s decisions tell us about how the government perceive Israel’s relations with the American Jewish community.
Finally, the aftershocks of the decisions tell us something important about the prospects for Jewish unity today.
To the first issue. From the headlines in the newspapers, it is easy to assume that the government just struck a blow at egalitarian prayer at the Western Wall plaza and changed for the worse the status of non-Orthodox conversions in Israel. But neither is the case.
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Sigmar Gabriel has justified a new law restricting foreign political campaigning in Germany. It came after another row with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, but Gabriel said Germany wasn’t targeting Turkey.
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ISIS Revenue Falls 80 Percent as Militants Lose Ground in Iraq, Syria
ISIS has seen its income drop by 80 percent in two years as it loses territory and the oil and tax revenue that comes with it, according to a study of its finances.
The self-declared caliphate has seen average monthly income plunge from $81 million in the second quarter of 2015 to just $16 million in the same period this year, according to IHS Markit, a global data monitoring company that provides analysis to businesses and governments.
The report comes as Iraq declared the terror group “had fallen” after government forces recaptured a key mosque in the former ISIS stronghold of Mosul.
In Syria, rebel forces have advanced into the outskirts of ISIS-held Raqqa while government forces backed by U.S.-led airstrikes are threatening to dislodge its positions near Deir al-Zour.
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Qatar Crisis: Businesses Caught in Crossfire as Dispute Hits Companies
INTERNATIONAL businesses are being caught in the crossfire of Qatar’s dispute with its Arab neighbours as it delays shipments, lengthens travel times and prompts contingency plans in case the crisis deepens.
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Violence Against Women: Some Inconvenient Data for the Corrupt UN
The United Nations panels lovingly practice hypocrisy all the time. In 2016, a UN debate revolved around the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), which voted to blame Israel for Palestinian domestic violence. This year’s show was hardly different in the content of nonsense. The executive director of UN Watch, Hillel Neuer, asked Dubravka Simonovic, UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women, at a session on June 12: “Ms. Simonovic, in other words, what you are saying is as follows: ‘When Palestinian men beat their wives, it’s Israel’s fault.’“
At first glance it sounds like dark humor, but it is not. Not just one but two reports presented before the UNHRC by Simonovic argue that Israel is to blame for Palestinian violence against women, through “a clear linkage between the prolonged occupation and violence”.
Where, Neuer asked Simonovic, is the data? There is data, but not the kind that Simonovic would prefer to believe exists.
According to the Global Gender Gap Index of the World Economic Forum, there is not a single overwhelmingly Muslim nation in the best 50 scoring list of countries. In contrast, the last (worst) rankings of the index, from 128th to 144th, are without exception overwhelmingly Muslim countries, including Turkey at the 130th place. Turkey’s case is important to note, as the increasing supremacy of Islamist politics in daily life in the country has boosted patriarchal behavior and worsened gender equality since 2002, when President (then Prime Minister) Recep Tayyip Erdogan came to power. In other words Turkey, the 17th biggest economy in the world, is the 15th-last country in terms of gender equality.
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Genies (or jinn, as they are better known in the Arabic world) are supernatural beings with roots in ancient Mesopotamian legends. Jinn, however, are not the lamp-dwelling, wish-granting benevolent servants that Westerners know from popular culture.
In contrast to Western versions of jinn, in the Arab world they are not known for their “Aladdin”-like wish-granting — though they can be commanded to perform tasks by wizards, for example, or someone who wears the magical Ring of Solomon.
Jinn are sometimes blamed for unexplained minor health scares, accidents and misfortune. For example, in 2000, teachers at an all-girls school in the Saudi Arabian city of Jeddah began having mysterious fits and seizures. Though doctors attributed that incident to mass hysteria (a mild and harmless form of social contagion and psychological suggestion), many believed that jinn haunted the school and were to blame for the attack.
Belief in the fire spirits is also common among elected officials in the Middle East.
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What Might be Missing in the Muslim World?
[…]
Islamic obscurantism and opposition to rational thought do not just harm Muslims; they cross all boundaries, geographical and intellectual. The belief that the Qur’an, shari’a law, or prophetic traditions override science and reason — or that shaykhs, imams, mullahs, and other religious authorities in Egypt’s al-Azhar University, or in Saudi Arabia, or in Iran or elsewhere, are superior in their knowledge and wisdom to scientists, university professors or elected politicians, merely because they are experts in Islamic theology and law — all guarantee that Islam will remain fixed in its classical stance that all innovation (bid’a) is heresy and that heresy leads to hellfire. And that affects all of us, deeply.
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Bangladesh Cafe Attack One Year on: ‘Dhaka Continues to Downplay Jihadist Threat’
On July 1, 2016, an IS-claimed attack on a Dhaka cafe killed 29 people, including 18 foreigners. Expert Siegfried O. Wolf tells DW that Bangladeshi authorities continue to downplay the severity of the jihadist threat.
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Bangladesh Café Attack Remembered on First Anniversary
On 1 July 2016, 20 people were killed when gunmen stormed the Holey Artisan Bakery in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
The café was popular with expats and wealthy locals, and many of the dead were foreigners.
One year later, those who escaped are still haunted by the memory.
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Myanmar to Block Visas for UN Delegation
The government led by Aung San Suu Kyi has said it will block a UN mission to investigate abuses against Rohingya Muslims. Security services have been accused of crimes akin to ethnic cleansing.
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China Condemns US Sanctions Over ‘North Korea Funding’
China has reacted angrily to a US decision to impose sanctions on a Chinese bank accused of laundering North Korean money.
A foreign ministry spokesman urged the US to “stop wrongful actions” to avoid harming co-operation.
The US announced the move, as well as sanctions on a Chinese shipping company and two Chinese nationals, on Thursday.
It said the blacklisting was aimed at cutting funds to North Korea’s weapons programmes.
“We will follow the money and cut off the money,” Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin told a news conference.
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‘Era of Patience is Over’ Trump Issues Stern Warning to North Korea
PRESIDENT Donald Trump has called for allies of the US to join together as the ‘era of strategic patience’ over North Korea’s brutal regime comes to an end.
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Hong Kong Activists Released After Handover Protest
Hong Kong police have released several activists detained for staging a protest ahead of the territory’s handover anniversary.
The city is holding a series of lavish events to mark 20 years since it was handed back to China by Britain.
Chinese President Xi Jinping is in Hong Kong and inspected troops at a local garrison on Friday morning. He is expected to attend a banquet later.
Security is tight with large protests planned amid a tense political climate.
On Wednesday, pro-democracy activists including student leader Joshua Wong and legislator Nathan Law surrounded and climbed into a golden sculpture of a bauhinia flower, Hong Kong’s emblem.
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The burqa-wearing wife of a convicted terrorist recruiter and her family will have to cough up $250,000 in legal costs after losing a court battle.
The NSW District Court has ruled Moutia Elzahed, her husband and teenage sons must pay $95,000 to the Federal Police and more than $150,000 to NSW police.
Friday’s ruling comes after Ms Elzahed lost her bid to sue both agencies last December over claims of assault during a counter-terrorism raid on her Revesby home.
She claimed she was punched and handcuffed in an ‘aggressive and hurtful manner’ when police stormed her south-western Sydney home that September…
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A prominent Islamic public speaker has revealed she was ‘traumatised’ into silence after sparking controversy with an Anzac Day Facebook post.
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The Sydney home where notorious gangland figure Hamad Assaad was gunned down in cold blood is set to hit the market for the cool price of $1.1 million.
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Pair Arrested in Counter-Terrorism Raids in Three Western Sydney Locations
TWO Sydney teenagers arrested over allegations of drug and weapon supply had “clear links” to terror suspects, police say.
The two 18-year-olds were arrested in Auburn last night and charged with 17 offences each, including unlawfully selling firearms, supplying pistols and supplying prohibited drugs.
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Two Teens With ‘Links to Known Terrorists’ Arrested in Raids — as Police Seize Six Weapons
Counter-terrorism police have arrested two teenagers with supplying firearms and drugs offences following a major operation in Sydney’s west.
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Dutch Police Release Statistics on Asylum Seeker Crime
The biggest Dutch daily, De Telegraaf, tried to obtain criminality rates among asylum seekers through a FOI request.
The National Dutch Police denied they kept numbers on asylum seeker and migrant crime.
Yet according to De Telegraaf, Amsterdam police collects data on the request of the mayor and a “Migration and Foreigners crime” taskforce employs analysts to discover if migrants are more likely to commit crimes.
The police later retracted their initial statement to De Telegraaf saying the numbers did exist although they were unable to release them due to “the importance of current investigations”.
Now after a long tussle the Dutch daily has finally managed to obtain the data.
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H.R. 60 Would Allow Illegal Aliens to Serve in the Military
As a military veteran, I understand that having people in the military who may or may not have full allegiance to the country, and only enlisted because it may be a path for them to become an instant citizen, does not improve our military, enhance military preparedness, or improve our readiness as a nation to defend itself against enemies. In fact, it may potentially allow enemies of our great nation to infiltrate with more ease into our military. H.R. 60 is yet another bill designed to use the military as a laboratory for normalizing leftist schemes, which in this case would normalize amnesty for illegal immigration and essentially codify Obama’s unlawful executive amnesty.
The bill would enable illegal immigrants who enter the United States Armed Forces to be pardoned for violating immigration law, give them full military benefits, grant them without any questions lawful permanent resident status in the U.S., and give them a simple little path to take for instant citizenship. If enacted, this policy would provide citizenship within a few months to unlawful immigrant children of every foreign nation, including those countries that promote and fund Islamic terrorism, and including people who may have connections to south-of-the-border gangs or drug cartels.
Not only was the bill introduced by a republican, but of the more than 200 co-sponsors, 100 of them are House Republicans. The intent of the politicians pushing this thing is to add this very bad piece of legislation to The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which is the United States federal law that specifies the budget and expenditures of the United States Department of Defense, and is already loaded with some very draconian provisions.
H.R. 60 is bad for America, grants back-door amnesty, and does not improve the military — and in reality could be very dangerous for our armed forces. Conservatives need to be loud about this one, and do what they can to influence our legislators to remove their names from the co-sponsor list, or if they are not co-sponsors, to do what they can to stop this deadly bill in its tracks.
[Comment: Another RINO puppet of the globalists. Globalists have been worried that the US military won’t shoot their own citizens when the civil war 2.0 breaks out. Their solution — stuff the military with illegals such as MS13 members who won’t hesitate to shoot Americans.]
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‘Help us’ Italy Hits Out at EU and Threatens to Close Ports as Migrant Crisis Continues
Furious officials have threatened to close its ports to aid groups rescuing migrants off Libya’s coast as it struggles to cope with the highest rate of rescues this year.
Italy has taken in more than 410,000 migrants who have arrived since 2014 — with an estimated 12,000 arriving in the last 48 hours alone.
The country has looked for assistance from the rest of the bloc, which Italy claims has “turned its back”.
Italy’s EU representative, Maurizio Massari, warned in a letter to the EU that the situation had become “unsustainable”.
He said: “Italy has reached saturation point.”
EU officials attempted to calm the tension. EU Commissioner Dimítris Avramopoulos said “Italy deserves our support and our understanding.
“When they say that the situation is no longer viable, Italy is right.”
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Illegalophilia and Islamophilia
by Daniel Greenfield
When Nabra Hassanen was killed by Darwin Martinez Torres, the media rushed to blame Islamophobia and Trump. The truth was simpler. It was the left’s own Illegalophilia that killed the Muslim teenager.
Torres, an illegal alien from El Salvador, had no interest in Hassanen’s religion. He got into an altercation with her friends. Hassanen happened to be the one he caught when her friends left her behind.
The murder happened in Fairfax County.
Earlier this year, Fairfax County Chief of Police Ed Roessler had assured illegal aliens that they had nothing to worry about. The police were not going to do anything about them until they killed someone.
“We’re not targeting someone on the street that we may or may not know is here unlawfully,” Deputy County Executive David Rohrer soothed.
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Last Year Saw Record Migration and Those Migrants Won’t be Leaving
“This calls for a rethinking of both domestic policies and international cooperation.”
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) say last year a total of five million migrants flowed into industrialised countries — and those countries should be prepared for the migrants to stay.
The organisation said the total number of migrants who came to its list of 35 industrial countries in 2016 was around five million, up from 2015’s figure of 4.7 million. The OECD added they do not expect many — if any — of the migrants to return to their countries of origin in the near future, France24 reports.
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OECD: Last Year Saw Record Migration and Those Migrants Won’t be Leaving
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) say last year a total of five million migrants flowed into industrialised countries — and those countries should be prepared for the migrants to stay.
The organisation said the total number of migrants who came to its list of 35 industrial countries in 2016 was around five million, up from 2015’s figure of 4.7 million. The OECD added they do not expect many — if any — of the migrants to return to their countries of origin in the near future, France24 reports.
Stefano Scarpetta, OECD Director for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs, wrote in the report that countries “should focus on helping refugees who are likely to stay in the host country settle and integrate in the labour market and society”.
“This calls for a rethinking of both domestic policies and international cooperation,” he said.
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One in Ten of British Population Are Foreign Citizens, Doubles in 12 Years
Nearly one-tenth of people living in the United Kingdom are foreign citizens, according to new figures from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
There were a record 5.95 million foreign citizens living in the United Kingdom in 2016, the latest year for which figures are available, according to the intergovernmental organisation.
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Police Use Drones and Dogs to Stop Migrants Crossing Border on Riviera Between Italy and France
Drones and dogs are being used to hunt down migrants trying to slip across the border from Italy into France, as police play a cat and mouse game with asylum seekers desperate to reach northern Europe.
Hundreds of migrants, most of them African, have been stuck in the Italian border town of Ventimiglia for months, their dreams of reaching France, Scandinavia and the UK thwarted by the closure of the French frontier.
In the past few days, many have tried to cross from Italy into France at night, trekking along woodland paths that were once used by smugglers of contraband goods during the Second World War.
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Terror Channel Report: Moral Equivalence is a Crock
by John Derbyshire
[…]Moral equivalence is a crock. On the one side, here you have people whose ancestors have lived for centuries in the same country, who resent foreigners coming in by the hundreds of thousands, taking over their towns and demanding that the natives accommodate their customs and religion. On the other side, you have those foreigners.
The two things are not equivalent. With no respect at all to Piers Morgan, the problem here is not some generalized “hate,” equally immoral among both people who are having their country taken away and the people who are taking it. The problem is insane levels of mass Muslim settlement.
Britain never needed Muslims and it was criminally foolish of the Brits to allow Muslim settlement in such numbers.
As we say out here on the Alt Right: That’s what separate countries are for.
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Champagne Corks Pop in Berlin, As Activists Celebrate Gay Marriage Victory
Gay and lesbian activists waving rainbow flags cheered in joyful celebration Friday as Germany’s parliament legalised same-sex marriage, a victory in a decades-old rights struggle.
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German Lawmakers Approve Same-Sex Marriage in Landmark Vote
23rd country to legalize same-sex marriage…
Germany’s parliament backed the legalization of same-sex marriage on Friday in a historic vote hailed by gay activists and leftist parties but criticized by some in Chancellor Angela Merkel’s ruling conservative bloc and by the Catholic Church.
The move brings Germany into line with many other European nations including France, Britain and Spain and follows Merkel’s surprise decision this week to allow her lawmakers to follow their own conscience rather than the party line on the issue. Merkel, daughter of a Protestant pastor, voted against the bill.
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Seven Planned Parenthood Abortion Facilities Permanently Close Today
Locations in New Jersey, Iowa, California…
Seven Planned Parenthood facilities, six of which conducted medication abortions, are set to permanently close today in three states.
Planned Parenthood officials noted that the closures were primarily an attempt to remain solvent amid fears that Medicaid reimbursements would be halted by Congress.
“It isn’t very often we see seven Planned Parenthood facilities close in one day. This may have set some kind of record. It is great news for women and their babies who will no longer be preyed upon for profit by Planned Parenthood in these communities,” said Troy Newman, President of Operation Rescue. “Many Planned Parenthood facilities survive only on on government funding. There are so many other reputable providers of legitimate healthcare for women out there. Even if every Planned Parenthood was shut down, no one would have to due without proper medical care. We should not be funding Planned Parenthood with our tax dollars.”
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The West: Too Tired to Defend Freedom?
[…]Muslim supremacists slaughter French Jews? Instead of defending them as a post-Holocaust treasure, our liberals scapegoat Israel’s security policies, as did the European Union’s former foreign minister, Catherine Ashton.
Muslims supremacists submit their own women to burqas and niqabs and home-confinement? Instead of protecting equality, our liberals defend the veils as symbols of “cultural diversity”.
Muslim supremacists murder gays in Orlando? Instead of being proud of an open society, defending it from Islamic jihadists, and accepting the freedom to be homosexual as a positive difference between the West and Islam, our liberals make it a case for “Love wins” and “Hate will not divide us”.
A year after the massacre at the Pulse gay nightclub, the mainstream media constructed a new narrative, as if murdering 49 gay people were not the product of ISIS, but of “hate”. That is why the question is repeatedly asked: “Why did this happen?”
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And how it’s used as a tool of social engineering
We are being indoctrinated to accept ugliness as a form of beauty.
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Cardinal Pell is Just 1 of Over 8,000 Priests Accused of Pedophilia
How long will the Catholic church cover up for sexual predators
In 2013, the new Pope, Pope Francis, said that about 2% of the priests were pedophiles.
That would have been about 8,000, yet 2 years ago, when David Knight interviewed adults with SNAP (a US-based network of survivors of clerical abuse) who had been childhood victims of pedophile priests, the Pope had done nothing about it even though he was in Philadelphia hypocritically promoting the “World Meeting of Families”.
Today, the 3rd highest ranking Catholic Cardinal George Pell was charged with sex abuse — after being charged with multiple times from multiple complainants.
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The Danger of Political Labels
How critical theory and Marx’s ideology have ended discussion and debate
During the same event, Michael Walsh, author of “The Devil’s Pleasure Palace: The Cult of Critical Theory and the Subversion of the West,” explained the concept further. He believes that only by looking at what was behind critical theory can we understand its attacks on freedom of speech, freedom of belief, and our values as a nation.
Walsh said that most people, religious or not, believe there are some absolute truths based on the human condition, and that we have developed a code of morals based on this recognition. “That is now under attack.”
“What the Frankfurt School tried to do through the mechanism of critical theory, was to undermine your belief in reason,” Walsh said. “They erected a devil’s pleasure palace of illusion to give you the sense that what you previously had believed is no longer true and no longer operable.”
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Yes, Islamic Terrorism Really is Islamic
by Robert Spencer
It is a symptom of the denial and willful ignorance that blankets the present age that this book even had to be written, and that Ibn Warraq, a historian and social theorist of preeminent insight and wisdom, should have had to devote his considerable talents to it.
Nonetheless, we can be grateful that he has given us The Islam in Islamic Terrorism: The Importance of Beliefs, Ideas, and Ideology, as this book is breathtakingly comprehensive despite its quite manageable length, and is, quite simply, irrefutable. If there remains in the world anyone who holds that Islam is a Religion of Peace and yet has sufficient intellectual honesty and acumen to consider these arguments on their merits, this is the book to give.
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I think that running people over with mopeds is a much lesser risk than with cars or trucks. The likelihood of “only” injuring pedestrians, followed by injury/death of the driver is much higher than with larger vehicles.
As a result, the terrorists will still use cars/trucks, but find another place to run people over.
Meaning that in terms of protecting the immediate area from vehicular attacks, that method probably works.
Not that it solves the bigger problem, which isn’t about vehicles.
In the light of some passing “news” elsewhere (likely to be viewed by some that visit here), let me post this as a public service:
Wikipedia has a whole list of search engines, and even Yahoo has a search page:
https://search.yahoo.com/
I think people need to get their butts out (of you know where) before the west implodes. We have to think about what is right and what is just and how we can achieve that. I would give a lot for a peaceful world, but it don’t look like we will achieve that anytime soon as far as I can see. We will have to kill a lot of muslims to impress on them that they are NOT in charge of the world.
P.S. Robert Spencer is a bona fide expert on Islam so you might want to listen or read him. Otherwise you are walking blindly around your neighorhood without recognizing reality.
P.S.
This is an American website and the language is English. There is no point in posting stuff in a foreign language that very people understand.
Just a suggestion, of course.
Angela Merkel, the daughter of a Protestant pastor, and daughter of Jewish mother! `
Where will her priorities lie? …/ if she focusses on the future ?
“Luxury Home Where Gangland Figure Hamad Assaad Was Brutally Gunned Down Hits the Market for $1.1million — and it Even Has a Swimming Pool”
Is there some way that it can be redecorated with bacon, ham, and pork?
Pell? Alex J. should know any Catholic pedophiles are eitehr in jail or dead. That awful period ended by 1995. Now, protestant ministers and Jewish orthodox rabbinical pedophiles are the problem. Why won’t Jones admit this in 2017?
FYI: There were 25 new allegations made by minors during the 2015-2016 year against current clergy members of the Catholic Church. But only two were substantiated. That means of the 52,238 priests and deacons, .004 percent had a substantiated charge made against them.
If you know of any other institution in the United States, secular or religious, which has a better record than the Catholic Church today when it comes to the sexual abuse of minors by adult employees, please advise.
One has to wonder just at what point the citizens of Europe will say “enough” and stop electing leaders that are leading us to our own demise. Yes, our leaders will erect truck proof cement blocks where each attack happens, but why should we accept this as life in Europe now? Shouldn’t it have been a massive wake up call for the Swedish when the chief of police was literally asking for help to control these hordes. I believe that in the not too distant future many of the indigenous Europeans will make the very difficult decision not to have any children for fear of what kind of Europe their offspring will inhabit, thus rapidly accelerating the extinction of white people.