North Korea has launched another ballistic missile, once again sending it above the northern end of the Japanese island of Hokkaido to land in the Pacific Ocean. This latest rocket is believed to be an intermediate-range ballistic missile. Japan lodged a strong protest over the launch.
In other news, more and more migrants are crossing the Black Sea and attempting to land in Romania. More than 150 were “rescued” off the coast of Romania, bringing the total over the past month to almost 500.
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Swiss Super-Rich Want Slice of Cryptocurrency Boom
Who are the investors eager to bet on bitcoin, and what plans do they have for their newly minted digital assets?
“There is only one type of crypto investor — one who wishes they had bought more,” Bitcoin Suisse founder Niklas Nikolajsen told swissinfo.ch. The Zug-based exchange, brokerage and advisory service set up in 2013 has seen demand explode in the last 12 months.
“The majority of our clients are high net worth individuals [millionaires or billionaires],” said Nikolajsen. “They have discovered that crypto is a good investment to include in their portfolios. No other asset class has performed as well recently.”
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Why Sweden is Close to Becoming a Cashless Economy
Sweden is the most cashless society on the planet, with barely 1% of the value of all payments made using coins or notes last year. So how did the Nordic nation get so far ahead of the rest of us?
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Antifa Activists Say Violence is Necessary
Anti-fascist activists, or “antifa,” increasingly mobilized in the wake of President Trump’s election, are unapologetic about what they describe as the necessary use of violence to combat authoritarianism.
While both experts on the movement and activists within it emphasize that not everyone who participates in anti-fascist activism engages in violence, they say the use of force is intrinsic to their political philosophy.
“The justification [of the use of violence] is that Nazi ideology at its very core is founded on violence and on wielding power by any means,” said Mike Isaacson, one of the founders of Smash Racism D.C., an antifa organization in Washington.
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Apple’s New “FaceID” Could be a Powerful Mass Spying Tool
On Tuesday, Apple revealed their newest phone. The new line was anticipated by Apple users and is anothe cult favourite. But many are rightly skeptical of the “FaceID” feature.
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Benghazi Victim’s Mother Slams Clinton for Calling Attack Fallout ‘Political’
The mother of one of the victims of the 2012 Benghazi terror attack slammed Hillary Clinton on Wednesday for calling the criticism she faced in connection with the tragedy “political.”
“I don’t see how it was political in any way—it was Hillary’s baby from day one. She ordered all that stuff, and then she went to bed when [the attack] was going on,” said Pat Smith, the mother of U.S. Foreign Service Officer Sean Smith, who was killed along with Ambassador Christopher Stevens and Navy SEALs Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods.
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Climate Change Communists Snared by Their Own Lie
Lord Monckton reveals the mathematical errors of sellout scientists
Infowars reporter Millie Weaver interviews Lord Christopher Monckton about lies the mainstream media and sellout scientists have been spouting to brainwash the public that hurricanes Harvey and Irma are evidence for climate change.
Monckton discussed his soon-to-be published peer review paper exposing the faulty mathematics and errors of omission ‘climate change communists’ relying on for policy making.
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Criminal Justice Professor Justifies Antifa Violence and Jokes About Dead Cops
Mike Isaacson, a professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice and a co-founder of the Antifa organization Smash Racism D.C., promotes political violence. In a series of tweets, he also laughed at dead police officers.
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Establishment Shill Paul Ryan Downplays Breitbart Attacks
“I don’t even pay attention to what they do,” he added. “So to be honest with you, Erica, I don’t even know what they do, so I can’t answer your question because it doesn’t matter to me.”
Interestingly, Breitbart has become the standard bearer in news for the conservative and right-wing in America, so why would the Speaker not pay attention to their activity?
The answer is because news sites like Breitbart and Infowars consistently cover and expose not just what Republican politicians say, but also what they do.
Ryan has always sided with the establishment, as both Infowars and Breitbart have reported exhaustively.
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Habitable Titan? Cassini, Huygens Revealed Wonders of Saturn’s Biggest Moon
On Friday (Sept. 15), NASA’s Cassini mission will come to a dramatic end, burning up like a meteor high in Saturn’s atmosphere and concluding the spacecraft’s daring “Grand Finale.” This final goodbye was made possible a few days earlier on Sept. 11, when the veteran spacecraft was given a gravitational nudge by Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, during the probe’s final flyby.
Since arriving in the Saturnian system 13 years ago, Cassini has had an intimate relationship with Titan, studying its atmosphere and using the 3,200-mile-wide (5,150 kilometers) moon’s gravity to fine-tune its orbits. But this intimacy peaked on Jan. 14, 2005, when the European Space Agency’s robotic lander Huygens descended through the moon’s atmospheric haze and landed to become the first (and, so far, only) mission to touch down on a moon’s surface in the outer solar system.
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Hillary Clinton on Russian Meddling: ‘Probably Bigger Than Watergate’
Hillary Clinton said Wednesday that Russia’s meddling in the presidential election was “probably bigger than Watergate” and that the Kremlin ran “a highly sophisticated influence operation.”
“It’s probably bigger than Watergate, because it is about the future,” the former Democratic presidential candidate told Anderson Cooper on CNN. “We no longer are worried about spies dressed in black stealing information.
“They do it sitting in the offices of the Russian military intelligence and other related venues and they get into the core of our life now through the computer networks.”
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Now that nearly all of the negative reviews have been scrubbed, the “reviews”section for “What Happened” contains gems such as these…
Hillary Clinton’s new book entitled “What Happened” is the hottest selling book in America at this moment, and thanks to the deletion of approximately 800 one star reviews, the remaining reviews make it sound like it is a masterpiece.
As I write this article, “What Happened” currently has an average rating of 4.9 out of 5 stars on Amazon. Of course just like Clinton’s campaign, that rating is completely fraudulent, but if this really is Hillary’s “final chapter” I think that it is somehow appropriate that she goes out this way. The Clintons were frauds from the very beginning, and so a fake rating for a book full of lies about a campaign run by con artists is just par for the course.
Now that nearly all of the negative reviews have been scrubbed, the “reviews”section for “What Happened” contains gems such as these…
#1 An amazing book! Hillary Clinton dives into to the 2016 election, and finally we get to hear her side of the story. I have been a supporter of Hillary’s for years and this really is the most open I have heard her. I am so happy she finally got the opportunity to share her thoughts on the election, and our country as a whole, unmuted by the fear of losing.
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Major Disinformation Trend in 2017: Fascists Were the Good Guys?
Years ago in 2012, I published a thorough examination of disinformation tactics used by globalist institutions as well as government and political outfits to manipulate the public and undermine legitimate analysts working to expose particular truths of our social and economic conditions. If you have not read this article, titled Disinformation: How It Works, I highly recommend you do so now. It will act as a solid foundation for what I am about to discuss in this article. Without a basic understanding of how lies are utilized, you will be in no position to grasp the complexities of disinformation trends being implemented today.
Much of what I am about to discuss will probably not become apparent for much of the mainstream and portions of the liberty movement for many years to come. Sadly, the biggest lies are often the hardest to see until time and distance are achieved.
If you want to be able to predict geopolitical and economic trends with any accuracy, you must first accept a couple of hard realities. First and foremost, the majority of cultural shifts and fiscal developments within our system are a product of social engineering by an organized collective of power elites. Second, you must understand that this collective is driven by the ideology of globalism — the pursuit of total centralization of financial and political control into the hands of a select few deemed as “superior” concertmasters or “maestros.” As globalist insider, CFR member and mentor to Bill Clinton, Carroll Quigley, openly admitted in his book Tragedy And Hope:
“The powers of financial capitalism had another far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent private meetings and conferences. The apex of the system was to be the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland, a private bank owned and controlled by the world’s central banks which were themselves private corporations. Each central bank … sought to dominate its government by its ability to control Treasury loans, to manipulate foreign exchanges, to influence the level of economic activity in the country, and to influence cooperative politicians by subsequent economic rewards in the business world.”
The philosophical basis for the globalist ideology is most clearly summarized in the principles of something called “Fabian Socialism,” a system founded in 1884 which promotes the subversive and deliberate manipulation of the masses towards total centralization, collectivism and population control through eugenics. Fabian Socialists prefer to carry out their strategies over a span of decades, turning a population against itself slowly, rather than trying to force changes to a system immediately and outright. Their symbol is a coat of arms depicting a wolf in sheep’s clothing, or in some cases a turtle (slow and steady wins the race?) with the words “When I strike I strike hard.”
Again, it is important to acknowledge that these people are NOT unified by loyalty to any one nation, culture, political party, mainstream religion or ethnic background. In fact, they will happily sacrifice any country or any group of people if it will get them closer to their goal.
They are not defenders of the free market as the idiots on the extreme left like to claim. In fact, they abhor any business model that is not dominated by a government and a bureaucracy designed to give them an unfair advantage through legislation. Anyone who thinks free markets are the cause of our economic ailments in the past decade has lost sight of the fact that we have not had anything even remotely resembling free markets for more than a century. The corporations leftists and common socialists constantly wail about could not exist without government charter and the legal loopholes surrounding limited liability. So please, socialist warriors, shut up about free markets. You have no idea what you are talking about.
The globalists are also not loyal acolytes of any particular theological tradition (at least not any that are clearly identified). Meaning, they are NOT organized around Judaism or even loyalty to Israel as is the common claim of the clowns that make up what some are now calling the “Alt-Right.” Globalists do not care about Jewish people or Jewish beliefs even though some of them are genetically Jewish.
While a minority of globalists are associated with the political extremist faction known as “Zionism,” Zionists are just another exploitable group to them, and their greater objective has nothing to do with the elevation of Israel. They will gladly fund Islamic extremist groups, for example, that desire and will willingly carry out the obliteration of Israel or the murder of Jewish people. They also exploit elements of the Israeli government to trigger chaos on the other side of the chess board.
Those who argue that all our ills are engineered by “the jeeeewwws!” or “the tribe” are poorly informed and have chosen an overly simplistic broad-brush explanation for a much more complex enemy they have no ability to fathom. They tend to cite “evidence” that is highly unverified and poorly sourced. They think the Rothschilds are the root of all globalism when the Rothschilds are just one element of a greater cabal. Ask them which globalist institutions actually argue for Jewish or Zionist supremacy and they won’t be able to produce evidence of any, unlike the numerous globalist institutions and champions that OPENLY argue for GLOBALISM even at the expense of Jews and the nation of Israel (i.e. Barack Obama’s consistent support of Islamic extremist groups and the Arab Spring). In fact, ask them for evidence that Jews or Zionists are the core of the globalist agenda and they will copy and paste the same list of perhaps two dozen Council on Foreign Relations members that are Jewish while ignoring the thousands of other members that are not.
They also tend to argue that the fascist movements of the past century were actually “doing battle with the globalist agenda” — i.e. they were the “good guys.” Sorry to break it to the “Alt-Right” crowd, but almost everything they believe is wrong.
I have noticed a disturbing trend within liberty movement and conservative circles; a kind of invasion, if you will. A minority of disinformation agents and useful idiots are operating within liberty outlets to push an ideological revolution oddly similar in tactics to those used by Soros funded groups overtaking the political left. It is my belief that while some globalist created movements are meant to provoke the left to zealotry and cultural Marxism, other globalist created movements are meant to provoke the right to zealotry and a misplaced adoration for fascism. Divide and conquer is the game here.
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Outrage as Well-Known Rapper ‘Lynches’ Small White Child in Music Video
Rapper XXXTentacion is under fire after releasing a disturbing music video featuring a Caucasian boy being lynched on a stage as an African-American boy looks on.
The video “Look At Me!” debuted on Tuesday and features imagery depicting police brutality, violent protests, and the 19-year-old Florida-based rapper placing a white child’s head in a noose on stage in front of a crowded theater and then hoisting him up into the air.
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San Diego Begins Bleaching Streets to Contain Outbreak of Hepatitis A
A Hepatitis A outbreak has killed 16 people in the southern California city of San Diego. In order to combat the disease, the city has literally begun spraying the streets with bleach.
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Several Soldiers Injured in Explosion at Fort Bragg, Officials Say
At least 15 soldiers were injured in an explosion at a during a training exercise on Fort Bragg in North Carolina on Thursday, officials said.
The soldiers are part of the U.S. Army’s Special Operations Command and were training on a range at the Army base.
Authorities said at least 15 soldiers were transported by medical helicopter to Womack Army Medical Center after an explosion on one of the training fields, WRAL reported.
“There are injuries but we don’t know extent,” Special Ops Command Lt Col Rob Bockholt told Fox News.
It was also not clear what caused the explosion.
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The ‘non-profit’ organization is stashing their money overseas
It was recently revealed that the Southern Poverty Law Center has 69 million dollars in offshore tax-havens.
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Students Who Shrouded Jefferson Statue Were ‘Desecrating’ Sacred Ground, Uv President Says
The University of Virginia’s president had harsh words for the students who wrapped the Thomas Jefferson monument in a black shroud and plastered it with “Black Lives Matter” signs on Tuesday.
In an email sent on Wednesday to alumni and friends of the college, Teresa Sullivan said the student protesters were “desecrating ground that many of us consider sacred.”
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Top Democrats Admit to Conducting Satanic Rituals/Murders
More proof the global elite are evil Satan worshippers
Alex Jones exposes how top Democrats, such as Sally Quinn and her husband, admit to conducting Satanic rituals to carry out covert murders against political enemies.
[Comment: Check out the videos at the end of the article.]
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Trump Blocks Chinese Takeover of US Chip Maker on National Security Grounds
US President Donald Trump on Wednesday blocked attempts by a Chinese state-owned firm to acquire an American semiconductor manufacturer on national security concerns, drawing a rebuke from Beijing.
The acquisition of Lattice Semiconductor Corporation, a publicly-traded Oregon company, by Chinese-owned Canyon Bridge Fund could endanger the US government’s use of sensitive products the company produces, the Treasury Department said in a statement.
The Trump administration has adopted an aggressive stance towards China on trade and national security matters, launching wide-ranging investigations into the national security ramifications of Beijing’s trade in aluminium and steel.
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Tucker Battles Writer Who Considers ‘Star-Spangled Banner’ A ‘Neo-Confederate Symbol’
Tucker Carlson debated a writer from Alternet DC who said the “Star-Spangled Banner’s” designation as our national anthem has its roots in neo-Confederate circles.
One day before the 203rd anniversary of Francis Scott Key penning the song while onboard a ship during the Battle of Baltimore, Key’s monument in the Charm City was defaced with the term “racist anthem.”
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Video: Reporter Kicked Out of Hillary Book Signing for Asking Questions
Laura Loomer asked Hillary some tough questions and got tossed out by secret service
Reporter Laura Loomer waited in line for 7 hours to have her copy of Hillary Clinton’s new book “What Happened” signed, but she was drug out of the event after asking some tough questions.
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Watch as Amazon Deletes Hundreds of One-Star Reviews of Hillary Clinton’s New Book
In what many have dubbed a flagrant intervention by Amazon itself to seemingly boost the rating of Hillary Clinton’s new book “What Happened”, the Telegraph first reported, and subsequently many others observed first hand, that Amazon has been monitoring and deleting 1-star reviews of Hillary Clinton’s new book “which was greeted with a torrent of criticism on the day it was released.”
Reviews of What Happened have been mixed, with some accusing Clinton of using it as an opportunity to blame others — such as former FBI head James Comey, Bernie Sanders, Vladimir Putin, social media and pretty much everything else — for her failure, rather than herself. Even The New York Times, which supported Clinton’s campaign, wrote that the book is “a score-settling jubilee”.
What is fascinating, is how few one-star reviews have remained on the website amid reports and screengrabs showing that reviewers used the space to criticise the former First Lady. One 1-star review, which remained on the website earlier today, read: “Read all the promotional excerpts, which combined come close to book length — pretty good novel. It is fiction, isn’t it? Surely, someone is playing a joke.” Another wrote “Picked this book up at Wal-Mart out of sheer morbid curiosity. Returned it, claiming I bought the wrong book”
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Islamic State Fighter Returns to Canada: ‘We All Do Things We Regret’
A man who travelled from Canada to Syria to join the Islamic State terror group and work for its “morality police” has returned to North America, saying “We all do things we regret”.
Canada initially passed a motion under the former Conservative government to strip the citizenship of known Islamic State fighters, but this was later overturned by Liberal leader Justin Trudeau. The move outraged many earlier this year, when it was revealed that Trudeau had granted citizenship to an Islamist who plotted a terror attack on Toronto.
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Man Hit With Machete, Shot in Back During Struggle With Thief
A man suffered machete injuries and a non-life-threatening gunshot wound to his back while fighting off a man breaking into his property in Red Deer, RCMP said Wednesday.
The 23-year-old victim surprised the assailant, who was armed with a machete and a small-calibre firearm, breaking into his garage and a struggle ensued around 12:15 p.m. Tuesday in the Anders neighbourhood, said Red Deer RCMP.
The attacker appeared to be in his early 20s and weighed about 150 pounds. He was described as having a sunken face, black hair that fell above his shoulders and was wearing a black hat, a blue turtleneck compression shirt under a black zip-up hoodie, baggy faded blue jeans and skate shoes.
RCMP were investigating whether the case was related to a shooting Monday afternoon in which a victim suffered non-life-threatening injuries after being shot with a small-calibre weapon in a downtown Red Deer alley.
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A Master’s Degree in Whitewashing Islam
The University of Oslo Rewards a Promising Apologist
by Bruce Bawer
In Norway, where the mainstream media systematically bury or whitewash news stories that might reflect badly on the nation’s misguided immigration policies, its failed integration policies, or on Islam, a handful of small but heavily trafficked websites serve a vital function: getting out information that is being suppressed and providing a forum for opinions that are being silenced.
Perhaps the most prominent of those websites is Document.no, founded in 2003 by Hans Rustad, who still serves as editor and publisher. It is an intelligent, serious, and responsible site, whose contributors tend to know more about the above-mentioned subjects — and to be better writers — than the staffers at the major Oslo newspapers. I have yet to read a bigoted word by a contributor to Document.no, and I routinely find the site to be more reliable on the facts than the state-owned TV and radio stations or any of the big private (but, in many cases, state-supported) dailies.
For countless Norwegian citizens, Document.no is essential reading. For the nation’s cultural elite, however, it is anathema — a major chink in an otherwise almost solid wall of pro-Islam propaganda.
So it is no surprise to learn, via Universitetsavisa, the student newspaper at the University of Oslo, that a Religious Studies student there, Royer Solheim, has written a master’s thesis on Document.no, in which he describes it as a locus of “hate rhetoric,” “Islamophobia,” and “conspiracy theories.” Nor is it a surprise that he was graded an A.
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Assange Promises to ‘Protect Catalonia From Censorship’
JULIAN Assange has offered his assistance in keeping the official Catalonia referendum website online, after Spanish judges ordered it to be blocked.
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Austria Rejects EU Bid for Euro Expansion
Austria’s government on Thursday rejected an European Union proposal to bring more member states into the eurozone, warning that such a move could lead to fresh economic crises like the one seen in Greece.
Chancellor Christian Kern, a Social Democrat, and Conservative Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz, both expressed reticence to back the euro expansion proposed by European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker in his State of the European Union address the previous day, Efe news reported.
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Belgium: Undocumented Migrants Occupy Brussels Hotel
On Wednesday evening sixty members of the collective for undocumented people La voix des sans-papiers occupied an empty hotel in the centre of Brussels. The occupation of Hotel Astrid passed without incident. The collective intends to contact the hotel’s owners and hopes to reach a settlement before the start of the winter.
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Bones’ Cut Marks Hint at Funeral Rites in Neolithic Ireland
COUNTY SLIGO, IRELAND—The Leitrim Observer reports that evidence for the dismemberment of the dead has been found on bones unearthed at the 5,300-year-old passage tomb complex at Carrowkeel by an international team of scientists led by Thomas Kador of University College London.
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Catalonia to Central Government Ahead of Referendum: No More Spending Reports
Finance Ministry plans to take direct control of invoice payments in response to latest secessionist challenge
The regional government in Catalonia has sent a letter to the Finance Ministry in Madrid stating that it will no longer send monthly reports detailing how it is spending public funds. The arrangement was in place so that the central government in Madrid could ensure that not a single euro of tax revenues is going toward the illegal referendum on independence for the northeastern Spanish region that the Catalan authorities are determined to hold on October 1.
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Croatia-Slovenia: Maritime Border Dispute Continues
Zagreb reports ‘attack’ by Foreign Minister Ljubljana
(ANSA) — ZAGREB — In an interview released to local media this morning, Croatia’s Foreign Minister Marija Pejcinovic Buric harshly criticised her Slovenian counterpart Karl Erjavec, saying that his behavior in relation to the dispute over the maritime border in northern Adriatic Sea, was “aggressive and naughty”. “I think it’s time to say openly that Erjavec is not in favour of dialogue”, Buric added, explaining that the accusations against Croatia expressed by Slovenian Foreign Minister in the past weeks “have gone too far”. Erjavec has said repeatedly that Zagreb, by refusing to accept the arbitration judgement on the border in the Piran Bay, Gulf of Trieste, issued last June, does not respect international law. Therefore, he announced that Slovenia could appeal to international tribunals and insinuated that his country could in the future put a veto on Croatia’s accession to the Schengen area. According to Zagreb, the whole arbitration process was irremediably compromised by Ljubljana’s illegitimate pressures on the judges and therefore considers it to be non-binding.
“Despite all the problems that remani to be solved, Zagreb is open to discussions on all issues”, Buric said. “Anyway, even Slovenia should be interested in Croatia’s accession to Schengen — he added — and this is the issue of EU external borders, and not the internal ones between individual member states.
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Denmark to Propose Changes to Schengen to Enable Extended Border Control
Denmark is hoping to change the rules of the Schengen agreement to allow border control to continue.
Denmark’s exemption from the Schengen open borders agreement expires on November 12th.
But instead of opening the borders, governments in several EU countries want EU rules to be change to enable extension of the measure for up to four years.
Immigration minister Inger Støjberg, along with counterparts from Germany, Austria, France and non-EU member Norway will propose the rule change at a meeting for justice and interior minister of EU member states in Brussels on Thursday, reports broadcaster DR.
Under current rules, Schengen countries can implement temporary border control for up to six months.
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EU Countries Cool on Juncker’s Ideas
Member states reacted coolly to European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker’s ambitious ideas outlined in his state of the union address on Wednesday (13 September).
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Facebook has tightened its rules on who can make money from advertising on its network, responding to criticism that it is too simple for providers of fake news and sensational headlines to cash in.
The world’s largest social network implemented the new standards with immediate effect to make it clearer which publishers can earn money on Facebook and with what content.
The new standards coincided with an appearance by Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg in Germany, one of Facebook’s toughest critics on hate speech and safeguarding privacy.
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FM Soini: Finland Did Not Pay Ransom for Release of Aid Worker Kidnapped in Afghanistan
Finland’s Foreign Minister Timo Soini confirmed on Thursday that the Finnish aid worker who was kidnapped in Afghanistan in May has been freed. Soini said Finland did not pay a ransom for the woman’s release, saying that doing so would encourage others to carry out more kidnappings.
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Germany Opposed to Rapid Expansion of Passport-Free Schengen Area
German Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière on Thursday said he was opposed to the rapid admission of EU countries like Romania or Bulgaria to the Schengen area without border controls.
Though he said he shares EU Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker’s views, “honestly speaking, it’s still a rather long way,” de Maizière said in Brussels.
On Wednesday, Juncker held his annual State of the Union speech in which he expressed his vision for the EU’s future to the European Parliament in Strasbourg. He called for the abolition of border controls between all the countries included in the EU.
The 1985 Schengen Agreement, which led to the creation of Europe’s Schengen area, abolished permanent border checks and was signed by five of the ten members states at the time.
Of the current 28 EU countries, the UK, Ireland, Cyprus and the relatively new members Bulgaria, Romania and Croatia have been left outside of these borders; the Schengen area is comprised of 22 EU countries.
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German Nationalist Party on Track to Enter Parliament
Resentment growing over Merkel’s decision to open borders
A nationalist party that wants Germany to close its borders to migrants, give up the euro and end sanctions against Russia is predicted to enter parliament for the first time, propelled by voters’ anger at Chancellor Angela Merkel’s decision to admit over a million refugees since 2015.
Alternative for Germany, or AfD, is forecast to take between 8 and 11 percent of the vote on Sept. 24, giving it dozens of lawmakers in the national parliament. Some polls even project that it could even place third behind Merkel’s party and the center-left Social Democrats.
If the predictions are correct, it would be the first time in 60 years that a party to the right of Merkel’s conservative Union bloc has attracted enough votes to enter the Bundestag.
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Half of Dutch Municipalities Do Nothing to Prevent Radicalization: Justice Inspectorate
In half of the municipalities in the Netherlands, nothing is being done to prevent radicalization and jihadism, according to a study by the Security and Justice Inspectorate. Small and medium-sized municipalities in particular ignore this task, RTL Nieuws reports.
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Hungary’s Orban Sets Soros as Main Campaign Theme, Origo Says
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban told lawmakers from his Fidesz party that fighting against what he sees as the agenda of billionaire financier George Soros will be the key campaign theme ahead of next year’s general elections, a news website reported.
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Italy Will be Hungary’s Third Largest Business Partner in 2017
Projected trade turnover of 10 billion euros
(ANSA) — TRIESTE — In 2017 Italy will be Hungary’s third largest business partner, after Germany and Austria, the Italian ambassador in Hungary Massimo Rustico said on Tuesday according to Hungary Today. The projected trade turnover reaches 10 billion euros, ambassador Rustico told a press conference held on the first Italian business day in the city of Debrecen.
Hungarian exports to Italy totalled 4.5 billion euros in 2016 and imports from Italy were 4 billion euros. The Italian companies in Hungary are around 2,500.
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Italy: EU Court Says Stop GMOs Only if Health Risk
Sentence on Italian ban on cultivation in 2013
(ANSA) — Rome, September 13 — The European Court of Justice said on Wednesday that member States cannot adopt emergency measures to ban the cultivation of GMO crops, as Italy did in 2013, unless there is evidence it could constitute a serious risk to human health, animal health or the environment. A directive approved in 2015 gave member States the ability to ban the sowing of GMOs even if they are allowed at the EU level.
Italy is one of 17 States that took up this option.
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Juncker: ‘We Need a Fully-Fledged’ EU Army by 2025
Jean-Claude Juncker, the president of the European Commission, has called for the European Union (EU) to rapidly push ahead with the creation of an EU army.
In his ‘State of the Union’ address to the European Parliament Wednesday morning, the boss of the EU’s unelected executive branch confirmed that the EU will create a “European Defence Union” by 2025.
“And I want us to dedicate further efforts to defence matters,” he said. “A new European Defence Fund is in the offing. As is a Permanent Structured Cooperation in the area of defence.
“By 2025 we need a fully-fledged European Defence Union. We need it. And NATO wants it,” he claimed.
Before last year’s referendum on the UK’s membership of the EU, many prominent anti-Brexit voices dismissed the idea of an EU army.
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Le Pen Calls for Tightened Security During 2024 Olympics in Paris
French right-wing National Front party Marine Le Pen pointed to the lack the personnel and efficiency in France’s security, urging officials to treat this issue more seriously during 2024 Summer Olympic Games in Paris.
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No-Confidence Motion Against Sweden’s Defence Minister Collapses as Two Opposition Parties Back Out
Two of the four parties in Sweden’s centre-right Alliance coalition have announced that they will not back a no-confidence motion the same group threatened to bring forward against Defence Minister Peter Hultqvist, arguing that new information had changed the situation.
In July, the Alliance announced it would launch a motion of no confidence against three government ministers over a data leak that made top secret police databases available to foreign IT workers. Swedish PM Stefan Löfven responded with a cabinet reshuffle that removed two of the ministers targeted by the motion — then Infrastructure Minister Anna Johansson and Interior Minister Anders Ygeman — but left the third, Defence Minister Hultqvist untouched.
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Norwegian Family Arrested for Suspected Attempted Murder of Woman
Six people have been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after an 18-year-old women suffered serious injuries near Oslo on Tuesday.
All six are related to the injured woman and some of them are minors, reports NRK.
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Paris: Police Thwart Jihad Mass Murder Plot Against Gay Nightclub
Interior Minister Gérard Collomb on Tuesday said during a hearing at the French National Assembly that authorities uncovered the plot on Aug. 22. BFM TV, a French television station, reported Collomb told lawmakers the plot targeted “Parisian nightclubs and gay establishments in particular.”
Collomb did not name the specific nightclubs that had been targeted. He told lawmakers that authorities have thwarted 12 terrorist plots in France since the beginning of the year.
“This is what Daesh wants: To divide the national community and ensure that in our country there are clashes among the French people,” said Collomb, referring to the so-called Islamic State as BFM TV reported. “This is a trap that we must not fall for.”
France has been under a state of emergency since a series of terrorist attacks at the Bataclan concert hall and other locations throughout Paris on Nov. 13, 2015, left more than 100 people dead.
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Paris 2024 Olympics: A ‘Victory for France’, Says Macron
President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday hailed the decision to award the 2024 Olympics to Paris as a ‘victory for France’.
Macron said after the International Olympic Committee vote in Lima that rubber-stamped the historic double award of the 2024 Games to Paris and the 2028 Olympics to Los Angeles that “the whole country must get behind” the event.
Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo, who was in Peru for the vote, tweeted: “Historic. A hundred years after 1924 we are bringing the Games back to Paris.”
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Police in Italy Fight Back Against Theft of Art From Churches
Most of the works of art were stolen from churches in southern Italy and some are nearly 500 years old.
Italian police have recovered more than 100 works of religious art following investigations into 24 specific cases of theft from churches and religious institutions in central and southern Italy. The artwork retrieved has an estimated value of more than €7 million.
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Scotland: Robbie Travers on Campus Censorship: Ignoring Orwell at Their Peril
Robbie Travers, a 21-year-old law student, is being investigated by the University of Edinburgh for claims he committed a “hate crime”.
As we detailed previoustly, sharing a comment on his Facebook page — in response to the U.S. Air Force dropping a massive ordinance air blast (or MOAB, “Mother Of All Bombs) on a network of ISIS tunnels in Afghanistan in April — Travers said:
“Excellent news that the US administration and Trump ordered an accurate strike on an ISIS network of tunnels in Afghanistan. I’m glad we could bring these barbarians a step closer to collecting their 72 virgins.”
A complaint with the University was filed by a second-year history student that alleged Travers’ comment “put minority students at risk and in a state of panic” while also breaching the student code of conduct — with Edinburgh Uni even going so far as to open a probe over Traver’s plainly horrific comment obviously directed toward terrorists!
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Sir James Dyson Expects No Brexit Deal
Leave campaigner Sir James Dyson expects the UK to leave the EU with no deal, and trade to default to World Trade Organization rules and tariffs.
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Spain Prosecutors Threaten to Arrest Pro-Referendum Mayors in Catalonia
Spain’s state prosecutor on Wednesday ordered a criminal probe of Catalan mayors who cooperate with an October 1st independence referendum deemed illegal by Madrid and threatened to arrest those who do not comply.
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Sweden: Rape Cases Put on Ice by Police in Favour of Murder Investigations
Reports of rape are going unsolved in Sweden as officers place a greater focus on cases of murder and attempted murder, reports Swedish Television.
Police say they are forced to deprioritize sexual offenses, even when there is a named suspect, due to a shortage of resource and manpower. Instead crimes such as murders are given top priority.
“It is difficult to explain why rape cases pile up, but the other crimes are considered even more serious. It is a no-win situation we have to choose from,” Torgny Söderberg, head of the police’s investigation unit in Stockholm, told Swedish Television.
There are several reasons why this happens, according to Söderberg. In some cases, investigators working on sexual offenses are redirected to work on other cases, and sometimes investigators must drop what they are doing to focus on crimes of murder or attempted murder.
One of the cases cited by SVT concerns a 12-year-old girl in Stenungsund who had been raped by an older man. Even though the police had the name of the suspect, the case was held on file for six weeks without action.
Another involves ten men suspected of a gang rape in Botkyrka south of Stockholm which happened last August but serious investigations only began this summer due to a lack of resources.
Last year, 20,300 sexual offenses were reported, an increase of 12 percent compared to 2015. The reported rape rates increased by 13 percent during the same period to 6,720, according to statistics published by the National Crime Prevention Council (brå).
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Sweden: Sharp Rise in Suspected Cases of Terrorism Financing Reported to Police
During the first half of 2017, banks and other companies reported 279 cases of suspected terrorism financing, three times more than they reported during the same period the year prior.
In 2014, companies filed a total of 27 cases of suspected terrorism financing; last year, that number swelled to 298.
Angelica Wallmark, head of section at the Swedish Financial Intelligence Unit of the Swedish National Police Board, believes that the number of reports has risen, in part because companies are more aware of the phenomenon.
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Sweden Escapes Worst of Storm Battering Europe
The deadly storm, which claimed three lives in Germany and wreaked havoc in much of northern Europe including the United Kingdom and the Netherlands left Sweden comparatively unharmed.
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Sweden: Suspected Child Sex Offender Caught Thanks to Alert Train Attendant
A 40-year-old man is suspected of child sex offences after he was seized at a train station in Landskrona in the company of a tearful seven-year-old boy, thanks to train staff who called the police.
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Terror Arrests in Britain Surge 68 Per Cent in 2017 to Record High
The number of terrorism-related arrests in Britain has surged almost 70 per cent to a new record high, as the country’s security services grapple an unprecedented threat.
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UK Terrorism Arrests Soar to Record Level After Attacks This Year
LONDON (Reuters) — The number of people arrested in Britain on suspicion of terrorism offences rocketed by 68 percent in the last year to the highest figure on record during a period when the country suffered four deadly attacks, figures showed on Thursday.
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Video: Animated Genitals Spread Chlamydia Awareness in Sweden
A new public information film from a Swedish country stars anthropomorphic genitals in the main roles.
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Decades After Alcohol Ban, Iran Admits it Has a Problem
In recent years, Iran, where alcohol has been illegal since the 1979 revolution and is taboo for devout Muslims, has taken the first step and admitted that, like most other nations, it has an alcohol problem.
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Iraq Holding Hundreds of Foreign ISIS Women Near Mosul
Iraqi officials say more than 500 foreign women affiliated with the Islamic State group are being held in a prison near Mosul.
An investigations officer says 531 non-Iraqi women were separated from a larger group of women and children detainees because of their close ties to IS and “are being investigated” until further instructions come from Baghdad.
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Iraq: At Least 60 Die in Twin Attacks Near Nasiriya
At least 60 people have been killed in two attacks in southern Iraq, police and health officials say.
A suicide bomber detonated a vest and gunmen opened fire inside a restaurant near Nasiriya, capital of Dhiqar province, security sources said.
Soon afterwards, a car bomb exploded at a nearby checkpoint.
So-called Islamic State said it carried out the attacks. Shia Muslim pilgrims including Iranians were killed by the suspected militants.
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NATO Went ‘Crazy’ Over Russia Deal, Says Erdogan
Turkey on Wednesday dismissed NATO allies’ concerns over its plans to buy a missile defence system from Russia, and said it will continue to take the security measures it sees fit.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said his country opted for Russia’s S-400 air defence system because Western companies offered no viable alternative.
However, NATO officials have expressed unease over its purchase of missiles incompatible with alliance systems.
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Qatar ‘Uses $38bn to Support Economy’ During Gulf Crisis
Qatar has used $38bn (£29bn) to support its economy during a dispute with other Arab states, a rating agency says.
The trade, tourism and banking sectors have been worst hit by the restrictions put in place since June by Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Bahrain, according to Moody’s.
It estimates that about $30bn has flowed out of Qatar’s banking system and expects further withdrawals.
Qatar’s neighbours say they cut it off over its alleged support for terrorism.
It denies supporting extremist groups and says the crisis is politically motivated.
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Saudi Arabia and Allies Lash at Qatar for Calling Iran “Honorable” At Arab League Meeting
Representatives of the countries in the Saudi-led bloc boycotting Qatar fumed when Qatar’s state minister for foreign affairs Soltan bin Saad Al-Muraikhi, speaking at a meeting of the foreign ministers of the Arab League, called Iran an “honorable state.” “This must be a joke,” said the Saudi ambassador to Egypt, Ahmad Al-Qattan, accusing Iran of scheming and maintaining spy networks against the Gulf states. Egyptian FM Sameh Shoukry said that the Qatari envoy was “out of line” and accused the country of financing terrorism. The session at the summit, held in Cairo on September 12, deteriorated into a shouting match, caught live on TV. The excerpts presented were broadcast by the Egyptian ON TV and Nile News TV.
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Turkish President Erdogan Vows to Give New Weapons to Military
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has pledged to provide the military with a range of new weapons in the anti-terror fight, signaling the production of more indigenous guns and criticizing a main opposition deputy over recent remarks on the issue.
“We will do whatever is necessary to keep this state alive. We will do this with armed drones and with tanks and cannons. We will do it by equipping our security forces with all necessary weapons,” Erdogan said on Sept. 13, speaking at a meeting of his ruling Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) mayors in the capital Ankara.
He also slammed a reaction from NATO allies over Ankara’s recent decision to purchase S-400 missile systems from Russia, stating that there had “gone crazy” over the deal.
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Kaspersky: Russia Responds to US Ban on Software
A US government decision to stop using software from Kaspersky Lab undermines fair competition, said Russia.
The Kremlin statement came in response to a 90-day deadline given to US federal agencies to remove the security software.
The US Department of Homeland Security said it was concerned about ties between company officials and the Russian intelligence services.
Kaspersky Lab has repeatedly denied that it has ties to the Kremlin.
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Russia Gripped by Hoax Bomb Threats, Thousands Evacuated
For days, a wave of anonymous hoax bomb threats has been sweeping through cities across Russia. The telephone calls have led to the evacuation of tens of thousands. But the reason for the threats remains a mystery.
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India: Carbon Dating Reveals Earliest Origins of Zero Symbol
Carbon dating shows an ancient Indian manuscript has the earliest recorded origin of the zero symbol.
The Bakhshali manuscript is now believed to date from the 3rd or 4th Century, making it hundreds of years older than previously thought.
It means the document, held in Oxford, has an earlier zero symbol than a temple in Gwailor, India.
The finding is of “vital importance” to the history of mathematics, Richard Ovenden from Bodleian Libraries said.
The zero symbol evolved from a dot used in ancient India and can be seen throughout the Bakhshali manuscript.
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India Launches First Bullet Train Project
Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has launched work to build India’s first high-speed train in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state of Gujarat.
Mostly funded by a $17bn (£12.78bn) loan from Japan, the bullet train will run between Ahmedabad city and Mumbai.
When the service starts operating in five years’ time, the 500km (310-mile) journey time is expected to be cut to three hours from the current eight.
Mr Abe is making a two-day visit to India, a close ally of Japan.
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Rohingya Crisis: Meeting Myanmar’s Hardline Buddhist Monks
There is no support or sympathy for the Rohingya among most of the population.
One of the most telling encounters I had was with the security spokesman of Ms Suu Kyi’s party in Mandalay. Myint Aung Mo believes Buddhists in Rakhine are the true victims.
“What I want to say is our Myanmar Rakhine have been attacked by terrorists in Rakhine state. I want to emphasise our ethnic group. I don’t know about Muslims. I am only concerned about our ethnic Buddhists. This is what I want to say.”
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Rohingya Crisis: European MPs Call on Myanmar to Halt Violence
European lawmakers urged Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi to “condemn unequivocally” the attacks on Rohingya Muslims. Pressure has been growing over the crisis that has seen about 400,000 people flee to Bangladesh.
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86 Hindus killed, 200 families flee Myanmar due to ARSA Jihadist attacks on them.
Manoj Anand | AsianAgeOnLine | Guwahati | Sept 13, 2017:: In the ongoing onslaught against Rohingya in Myanmar, at least 86 Hindus have lost their lives while over 200 Hindu families are reported to have fled to the forest areas to escape the onslaught of Burmese Army and Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army.
This is what the migrant who managed to cross over to Bangladesh from Myanmar told local television reporters on Tuesday.
Claiming that houses of Hindu residents were also set on fire by the Army, the migrants are now taking shelter in Cox Bazar area of Bangladesh said that hundreds of innocent people have been killed in trouble-torn Rakhine state of Myanmar.
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China to Launch New GPS Rival Satellites ‘Accurate to Within Millimetres’, Website Says
Beidou-3 craft may be put in orbit later this month, according to aerospace website, with operators confirming launch coming ‘soon’
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Washington will release the results of an investigation into alleged Chinese intellectual property theft before a Sino—US summit in Beijing so both sides can reset bilateral trade with “a whole series of negotiations”, former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon told the South China Morning Post.
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Japan: North Korea Threat to Sink Japan is ‘Outrageous’
Japan’s top government spokesman has called a North Korean threat to sink Japan with a nuclear bomb extremely provocative and outrageous.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga (yo-SHEE’-hee-deh SOO’-gah) said Thursday that the statement distributed by North Korea’s state news service “significantly escalates tensions in the region.”
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North Korea Resuming Work at Nuke Test Site: Report
North Korea has reportedly resumed work at its underground nuclear testing site, according to defense analysts, in a brazen act of defiance against the latest U.N. sanctions.
Commercial satellite imagery has helped identify multiple landslides at the Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site near Mt. Mantap, the analysts say in a new report published on 38 North, a website devoted to news out of North Korea.
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North Korea: How Real is Seoul’s Assassination Threat?
Reports that South Korea, in the wake of North Korea’s dramatic 3 September test of a massive thermonuclear bomb, has approved plans to establish a special forces unit to assassinate Kim Jong-un appear to signal a sharp change of direction in the foreign policy of South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in.
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North Korea Fires Ballistic Missile Over Japanese Airspace Again
WASHINGTON — North Korea on Friday fired a ballistic missile that flew over Japanese airspace before crashing into the Pacific Ocean, South Korean and U.S. military officials said.
The ballistic missile was launched at 6:57 a.m. Friday Seoul time (5:57 p.m. Thursday ET) from the Sunan area of Pyongyang. It flew in an eastern direction around 2,300 miles and passed over Japanese airspace, a South Korean military official said.
The launch comes weeks after North Korea in late August fired a missile that traveled over Japanese airspace.
Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said in a televised address that the single missile launched Friday flew over Hokkaido. There were no reports of any objects falling in Japanese territory or any other damage, Suga said.
“We as a nation simply cannot accept these repeated provocative acts [by] North Korea, and we have lodged our firm protest and while communicating the strong anger from the Japanese public. We expressed our condemnation using the strongest of terms,” Suga said. He said the missile landed around 1,242 miles east of Cape Erimo.
U.S. Pacific Command also confirmed the launch and said it believed the missile was an intermediate-range ballistic missile…
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Philippines Approves US$7 Billion for First Subway to Help Solve Manila’s Traffic Chaos
An inter-agency panel chaired by Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has approved four major infrastructure projects worth 386.3 billion pesos (US$7.59 billion), including bridges, roads and the country’s first subway.
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What Would China Do if North Korea and the United States Go to War?
Singapore’s ambassador at large Bilahari Kausikan gives his views on the North Korean nuclear crisis, the rise of China and the potential for conflict between Beijing and New Delhi
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What Attracts Japanese Women to ‘Islamic State’?
Reports from Iraq suggest that as many as five Japanese are among those detained after the fall of an “Islamic State” stronghold near Mosul. Why did they leave safe and peaceful Japan to live in a war zone?
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Pauline Hanson has suggested a plebiscite on whether to ban the burqa as she labelled Australia “pathetic” for giving up its values to allow the Muslim garment.
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Venezuela’s ‘Plan Rabbit’ Encounters ‘Cultural Problem’
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has devised a “rabbit plan” to counter the economic war he says is being waged against his government by “imperialist forces”.
The president urged crisis-hit Venezuelans to breed rabbits and eat them as a source of animal protein.
Venezuela is facing record levels of child malnutrition amid persistent food shortages.
An opposition politician said the plan was “a bad joke”.
Venezuela, which has the biggest proven oil reserves in the world, has historically relied heavily on imports for everything from food to basic staples.
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Coulter: ‘If We’re Not Getting a Wall, I’d Prefer President Pence’
President Donald Trump on Thursday said he is working with Democratic leaders on a plan to protect illegal immigrant “Dreamers,” and he said he won’t insist on funding the border wall as part of it.
“The wall will come later,” Trump said as he departed the White House to travel to Florida to survey the Hurricane Irma recovery efforts. “We’re right now renovating large sections of wall, massive sections, making it brand new. We’re doing a lot of renovations. We’re building four different samples of the wall to see which one we’re going to choose, and the wall is going to be built. It’ll be funded a little bit later.”
Some Republican lawmakers expressed dismay at Trump working with Democrats on immigration and apparently putting one of his signature campaign promises on the back burner.
Trump was also strongly criticized by Ann Coulter, who was one of the most vocal supporters of his presidential campaign.
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Exclusive: Libyan Smuggler Says Human Trafficking Will Continue Despite Italian Deal
Correspondents for The Local Italy spoke to a people smuggler in southern Libya who said Italy’s plans to pay people not to engage in human trafficking are working. But he expects the lull to be temporary.
Ahmed *Essa’s business, like any other, operates under the basic principles of supply and demand. A 28-year-old Libyan from the minority Toubou ethnic group, Essa smuggles desperate migrants fleeing violence and poverty from Niger to the southern Libyan city of Sabha.
This is the first leg on a commonly-used route toward the Libyan coast, which will enable Essa’s “African brothers” to get closer to their dream destinations in Europe.
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Germany: Four Asylum Seekers Arrested After 56-Year-Old is Gang Raped
Four asylum seekers have been arrested by police in Dessau, Germany after being suspected of gang raping a 56-year-old woman on the grounds of a former vocational school last month.
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Global Study: Immigration a ‘Major’ Concern Across 25 Countries, Majority Doubt ‘Refugee’ Claims
A survey of 25 nations has revealed that countries with higher levels of immigration are changing their attitudes towards it fastest.
In every single nation surveyed a plurality thought that immigration had had a negative effect. An average of 48 per cent said there are too many immigrants in their countries, against 21 per cent who believe there are not.
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How Some Migrants Are Switching to Romania in Their Bid for Europe
Migrants have seemingly changed tack in their bid to reach Europe, it’s emerged.
More than 150 people — mainly from Iran and Iraq — crossed the Black Sea from Turkey and were rescued at Midia on Romania’s eastern flank on Tuesday.
It’s part of a new trend over the last month that has seen around 470 migrants arrive in the EU country.
It comes as EU chief Jean-Claude Juncker called for Romania to be part of the Schengen Area, potentially making it easier for migrants to move westwards once in Europe.
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Juncker Pays Tribute to Italy for Saving EU Honor in Migrant Crisis
State of the Union address, stopping scandal migrants in Libya
(ANSAmed) — BRUSSELS, SEPTEMBER 13 — EU Commission President Jean Claude Juncker on Wednesday in his State of the Union address said “I cannot talk about immigration without paying tribute to Italy for its generosity. Italy has saved Europe’s honor in the Mediterranean”.
“We must put an end to hosting conditions in Libya with the utmost urgency”, he continued, describing them as “scandalous” and adding he was “horrified” by them, stressing that the EU has a “common responsibility” in this. “Europe is not a fortress, it is and will remain a continent of solidarity for those who need refuge”, he added: “At the end of the month, the European Commission will outline a number of proposals on repatriations, solidarity with Africa and the opening of legal pathways”. “We must considerably intensify our efforts and our actions on the repatriation” of migrants who have no right to stay in the EU. “Only in this way will Europe be able to prove its solidarity towards refugees that really need it”.
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Merkel Slams Hungary’s Migrant Stance as ‘Unacceptable’
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has slammed Hungary’s decision to continue to refuse to take in redistributed migrants and has left the possibility of Hungary leaving the European Union on the table.
The German Chancellor made her remarks this week in response to the Hungarian government which said it would not respect the decision of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) made last week, Die Zeit reports.
The ECJ rejected an appeal from the Hungarians and Slovakians who said the forced redistribution of migrants required the consent of member states and their people.
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Migrant Rape Attacks Up 91 Per Cent in Bavaria This Year
The number of rape attacks in the German region of Bavaria has increased by 48 per cent, and the number attributable to migrants has increased by 91 per cent.
Bavaria has seen a drastic rise in the number of rapes since 2016, with 685 cases being reported to police from January to July of this year — up 48 per cent.
Migrants accounted for 126 rapes in the same period, almost double the number of 2016, making migrants responsible for almost one in every five cases of rape, German newspaper Bild reports.
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Number of Migrants Arriving in Spain Soars: Minister
The number of migrants arriving in Spain so far this year has soared more than 88 percent from the same period in 2016, Interior Minister Juan Ignacio Zoido said on Tuesday.
Speaking in a parliamentary commission on internal affairs, he added that the number of people merely attempting to get to the Spanish overseas territory of Ceuta in northern Morocco had dramatically increased.
Up until Monday, 15,473 migrants had entered Spain illegally by sea and over land, he said.
Of the 11,162 people who arrived by sea, some 11,000 were rescued by coastguards from rickety boats in which they were crossing the Mediterranean between Morocco and Spain.
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Spain to Spend Big at Borders Tightening Defences to Stop Migrants
Spain’s interior minister has announced plans to spend €12million fortifying border fences at its north African enclaves after a surge in migrant arrivals.
Juan Ignacio Zoido unveiled the plans to boost border security at Melilla and Ceuta during a parliamentary commission this week when he revealed that migrant arrivals had soared by 88 percent this year.
Zoido said that this year had seen a rise in co-ordinated attempts to break through the six-metre-high double fences topped with razor-wire that line Europe’s only land borders with Africa.
So far this year, some 9,000 migrants — mostly from sub-saharan Africa — had attempted to force their way into the Spanish territory compared to 613 in the same period in 2016, he said.
“There is a constant trickle of people attempting to break through Ceuta’s fence,” he said insisting that the current fence was proving insufficient .
The double fence in Ceuta, which was first built in 1999 and increased in height from three to six metres (10 to 20 feet) in 2005, “doesn’t fulfil the purpose for which it was once built”, he said.
“The migrants use tools such as clubs, metal cutters or hooks to break doors in the border fence and cut or climb over the fences,” he said.
The Spanish government will spent some €12 million ($14.4 million) during the course of next year to boost security at the border fence between Morocco and Ceuta.
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Supreme Court Allows Broad Trump Refugee Ban
Justices granted request from Trump administration to block federal appeals court decision allowing up to 24,000 additional refugees…
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed President Donald Trump to broadly implement a ban on refugees entering the country from around the world.
The justices granted a request from the Trump administration to block a federal appeals court decision that, according to the Justice Department, would have allowed up to 24,000 additional refugees to enter the United States than would otherwise have been eligible.
The Supreme Court ruling gives Trump a partial victory as the high court prepares for a key October hearing on the constitutionality of Trump’s controversial executive order, which banned travelers from six Muslim-majority countries and limited refugee admissions.
[Comment: 9th circus should be abolished and justices impeached.]
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French University Introduces Gender-Neutral Toilets in Nationwide First
The University of Tours in central-west France has become the first in the country to offer gender-neutral toilets, in an effort to make transgender students feel more comfortable.
As well as the new toilets, the university has also announced that starting from this year, it will recognize transgender students’ preferred names on their student ID cards, university email addresses, and on class registers.
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Sweden’s ‘Man-Free’ Festival Now Has a Name
New details have been revealed about the “man-free” festival proposed by a Swedish comedian in response to reported sexual assaults at concerts as an attempt to crowdfund the event picks up pace.
Emma Knyckare first suggested the concept on Twitter in July in response to reported sexual offences at the Bråvalla festival in Norrköping. The positive reaction prompted her to consider making the event happen.
The concept of a gender-segregated festival is not one that is universally popular, but Knyckare defends the idea as necessary:
“All men are not rapists, but almost all rapes are carried out by men. We want to create a free space, a cool festival where women can be without feeling worried. A festival is not the solution, but a reaction to the problem. The goal with the festival is that there shouldn’t need to be separatist events.”
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Sweden’s ‘Man-Free’ Festival Now Has a Name:
“All men are not rapists, but almost all rapes are carried out by men. We want to create a free space, a cool festival where women can be without feeling worried.”
Wow, that sounds like a right-winger justifying a Muslim Ban!
Jean-Claude Juncker, the president of the European Commission, has called for the European Union (EU) to rapidly push ahead with the creation of an EU army.
“A stronger European army in a militarised European Union, with a stronger and perhaps more aggressive foreign policy, too.” (a warning to the Visegrad 4!)
An EU army= a German-led army. Back to 1939, if not 1914. This century is shaping up for an Apocalypse. Globalists armed, Islam rampant, antifas on the streets, bucket bombs on trains and all the populations do is wring our hands , light candles and have our votes ignored by the political swamps in GB and USA – the former bastions of freedom.
Time for a new Crusade against Islam, Political Correctness and Cabal Globalism, with a spirit of the Polish Winged Hussars who beat off the Turks at the Gates of Vienna!
Islamic terrorists return to the West – and get a free pass.
‘A man who travelled from Canada to Syria to join the Islamic State terror group and work for its “morality police” has returned to North America, saying “We all do things we regret”.
Can anyone think of a more insane idea? These people have committed terrible crimes, for which they’d be locked up for life in the West. Many have them recorded on their cell phones – as was discovered by police when the Muslim invasion began in 2015.
Whether they regret their crimes or not is irrelevant. They cannot be prosecuted under Western national law. They are not big enough fish to be pursued by the International Court of Justice.
The most appropriate punishment is that they be forced to remain in the hell-holes they chose to go to.
When will the EU Marxists “rescue” a half million Muslims who invaded Burma and bring them all to Paris? I bet they’ll luv Paris in the Springtime.
“… how did the Nordic [Swedish] nation get so far ahead of the rest of us?”
— Hat tip: Fjordman
Do you honestly mean to suggest that Sweden’s descent into ultimately Orwellian levels of unprecedented government surveillance translates as some sort of definable “progress”?
Thank goodness, dear Fjordman, that you are (entirely and) predictably immune to such pathetically ironic and sardonic accusations as mine.
Permit me to suggest that characteristic self-loathing, endemic Cultural Marxism, and (willfully) uncontrolled suicidal virtue signaling—of the sort which currently pervades Europe as a whole—is the major player in this Grand Guignol.
Please accept this monstrous filk:
An Odious Ode to Islam
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s unlimed outhouse?
Thou art smellier and less convivial:
Rough rapes do shake the darling buds of Germany,
And an “immigrant’s” lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot their sexual emergency shines,
And often is his cold predation undimmed,
And every fair White lass sometimes cannot decline,
By chance, or Islam’s vicious course untrimmed:
But thy Islamic predation shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that jihad thou ow’st,
Nor shall death brag thou wander’st from his shade,
When harsh eternal retribution thou sow’st,
So long as White men can breathe, or eyes perceive,
So long lives this Western anthem that enlivens we.
“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” (Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18)
Warmest personal regards,
NorseRadish