The per-capita rate of gun violence in Sweden is significantly higher than it is in Norway or Denmark. Large cities in Sweden have more gun violence, and the average age of firearms offenders is younger. Except for those data points, researchers have no clue what has caused the surge in gun violence in Sweden.
In other news, angry audience members threw tomatoes at Chancellor Angela Merkel during a campaign rally in Heidelberg.
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Three states in the US are below 40% in terms of funding ratio: New Jersey, Kentucky and Illinois. And the funding ratio has deteriorated in 43 states. And the funding ratio deteriorated in each of the worst 15 states.
(Bloomberg) —The news continues to worsen for America’s public pensions and for the people who depend on them. The median funding ratio-the percentage of assets states have available for future payments to retirees-declined to 71.1 percent in 2016, from 74.5 percent in 2015 and 75.6 percent in 2014. Only six states and the District of Columbia have narrowed their funding gaps; New York did best, going from 90.6 percent to 94.5 percent. D.C. is now overfunded.
By contrast, New Jersey, Kentucky and Illinois continue to lose ground and now have only about one third of the money they need to pay retirement benefits. And three states had double-digit declines in their pension funding ratios in the past year: Colorado, Oregon and Minnesota-though some of this can be attributed to actuarial changes in the way pension liabilities are calculated.
We’ve ranked the states by the size of their funding gap. The lower the funding ratio, the more money the state has to come up with to meet its pension obligations.
Taxpayers will ultimately be called upon to honor the retirement benefits promised by Federal and State governments unless the retirement benefits can somehow be dialed-back.
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Chicago Reported Thousands More Votes Than Voters in 2016, GOP Official Says
The head of the Chicago Republican Party is claiming the city reported thousands more votes cast than voters in the 2016 election — sparking a battle with Chicago officials who call the allegations overblown.
First reported by the Chicago City Wire, the Chicago GOP filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the Chicago Board of Elections in January for a list of voters who had cast ballots in November. According to the party, the board responded with a list of 1,101,178 individuals, though its website reflects 1,115,664 votes cast.
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Clinton Blasts Bernie Sanders for Inspiring ‘Crooked Hillary’ Attacks
Hillary Clinton takes aim at former Democratic presidential rival Bernie Sanders in her soon-to-be-released campaign memoir, accusing him of “paving the way” for the relentless “Crooked Hillary” attacks she endured from Donald Trump in the general election.
According to excerpts that have surfaced online, Clinton accused Sanders of resorting to “innuendo and impugning my character” during the contentious primary because the Democratic socialist “couldn’t make” a policy argument against her.
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Elon Musk Thinks Artificial Intelligence Could Cause World War III
Renowned for his concerns over artificial intelligence and its potential negative impact on humanity, tech titan Elon Musk has made his most concerning comments yet surrounding AI. It could be the cause of World War 3.
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Former Bush Official: “All Trump Supporters Are Racists”
“If you don’t like it, f**k you”
Former George W. Bush Treasury official Bruce Bartlett has claimed that “all (100%) of Trump supporters are racists.”
Bartlett, who also served as a domestic policy advisor to Ronald Reagan, posted the message on his Facebook page.
“There is no longer any doubt — ALL (100%) of Trump supporters are racists. If you don’t like it, f*ck you,” he wrote.
Former Reagan/Bush advisor still appears to believe this is an argument. — pic.twitter.com/uG7coVZdAS
-— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) September 4, 2017
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Green Beret Warns: “Skepticism Will Vanish When the Power Suddenly Fails Across the United States”
It should be obvious, now, even to the most vocal and acetic naysayers that no matter how much they try to declare that nothing will happen regarding North Korea, they’re wrong. It is happening, as we speak, and the buildup reached a high octave with North Korea’s sixth nuclear detonation, one that experts are saying was between 100 to 120 kilotons. This detonation occurred in North Korea’s test facility on Sunday, and North Korean news stated that it was a hydrogen bomb. Here’s a Wall Street Journal article excerpt:
“In a televised statement, North Korea described the underground explosion, which triggered a large earthquake, as a “perfect success in the test of a hydrogen bomb for an ICBM.” Pyongyang said, “the creditability of the operation of the nuclear warhead is fully guaranteed.” The test came just hours after leader Kim Jong Un showed off what he described as a hydrogen bomb capable of being mounted on an intercontinental ballistic missile.”
Now, the Western Consumer Marketing/Euro Arrogance-Confidence News Networks and Politicos all decried North Korea’s capabilities for years. The news-twisters and politicos still only begrudgingly admit what recognized experts have been jumping up and down to warn the public about for years, namely this:
- That North Korea does indeed possess nuclear weapons
- North Korea does have ICBM’s capable of delivering a nuclear warhead
- North Korea possesses the technology and the ability to deploy an EMP (Electromagnetic Pulse) weapon
- Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missiles (SLBM’s) are in North Korea’s arsenal
Two satellites (Kwangmyongsang-3 and Kwangmyongsang-4) are currently orbiting the earth, and each satellite passes over the United States several times per day The possibility exists that the satellites are carrying/have been fitted with an EMP weapon
The central focus of North Korea’s strategic doctrine regarding nuclear war is geared toward an EMP strike
This is part of that article that shows how science and stupidity go together, as follows:
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Hurricane Harvey: Texas Governor Warns Bill Could be $180bn
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has said the bill for reconstruction after Hurricane Harvey could be as high as $180bn (£138bn). He said the damage was worse than that caused by Hurricane Katrina, which devastated New Orleans in 2005.
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Indian Man’s Parents Fly to Florida to Beat Son’s Wife for Being ‘Disobedient, ‘ Police Say
Florida police rescued an Indian woman Saturday who was beaten by her husband and his parents who traveled from India to help assist him with the assault. The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office said Silky Gaind, 33, called her parents in India to tell them of the abuse. They then called the authorities.
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Secret Hitler: A Game That Simulates Fascism’s Rise, Becomes a Hit
“It’s a board game,” he said, rolling his eyes.
More specifically, Secret Hitler is a social deduction game, one that has caught on quickly since it began to ship to players last summer. It’s like Mafia, or Werewolf, or other games in which players try to identify a traitor in their midst.
In this version, anywhere between five and 10 players are divided into two uneven teams: a larger team of liberals and a smaller team of fascists. (There are no antifa.) One player is chosen as Secret Hitler. The fascists, aware of their leader’s identity, work to install him by fooling the liberals, who are kept in the dark
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The Deep State: How They Got Their Power to Manipulate for Ultimate Control
While many in the United States firmly believe that the government just isn’t working, it is. But it’s only working for the powerful and rich elites in the government and the media who have a desire to cling to their oppressive control of others and the money many are willing to allow them to steal.
The fight has never been between the republicans and the democrats. As Americans choose sides, their rights and freedoms are sold to the highest bidder. According to Intellectual Takeout, the fight is between “us” and the deep state; not those on the right and those on the left. More and more often we are seeing bureaucrats, lobbyists, and elected officials of both parties circle the wagons in an effort to prevent any true reforms of the government. They constantly write laws they exclude themselves from, come up with inventive ways to tax us to our breaking point and destroy the healthcare system. And this is all by design.
According to Joost Meerloo in his seminal book The Rape of the Mind, the author discusses the psychology of brainwashing that’s allowing every American to succumb to tyranny right before their eyes and not only not realize it, but beg for more oppression. “The burning psychological question is whether man will eventually master his institutions so that these will serve him and not rule him,” said Meerloo in his discussion of the Deep State or the “administrative machine” published in 1956.
Meerlo describes the rise of the deep state as:
“… The development of a kind of bureaucratic absolutism is not limited, however, to totalitarian countries. A mild form of professional absolutism is evident in every country in the mediating class of civil servants who bridge the gap between man and his rulers. Such a bureaucracy may be used to help or to harm the citizens it should serve.
It is important to realize that a peculiar, silent form of battle goes on in all of the countries of the world — under every form of government — a battle between the common man and the government apparatus he himself has created. In many places we can see that this governing tool, which was originally meant to serve and assist man, has gradually obtained more power than it was intended to have… Governmental techniques are no different from any other psychological strategy; the deadening hold of regimentation can take mental possession of those dedicated to it, if they are not alert. And this is the intrinsic danger of the various agencies that mediate between the common man and his government. It is a tragic aspect of life that man has to place another fallible man between himself and the attainment of his highest ideals.” —The Rape of the Mind
Meerlo goes on to say that the power of simply being in government will corrupt:
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Trump Appoints Conservative Ex-Navy Flier to Run NASA
Leftists’ heads explode over skeptic of man-made climate change
The next head of NASA is likely to be an ex-Navy fighter pilot turned Republican congressman who believes strongly in space exploration but is skeptical about man-made climate change.
What’s not to like about Trump’s nomination of Rep. Jim Bridenstine (R-Oklahoma) for the job of NASA’s administrator?
Everything, if you’re a liberal.
[Comment: Perhaps NASA will get back to space as their number one priority, instead of touting islamic contributions to the history of science as Obama ordained NASA should do…]
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Video: MSNBC Laughs at Trump for Helping Flooding Victims
Hateful keyboard warriors chime in to mock President for loading supply trucks
Back from a Labor day break and facing a slow news day, MSNBC’s Morning Joe had to fill air time, and what better way to do it than to laugh at The President and mock him for helping out victims of the hurricane in Texas?
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Why is Sessions Allowing Obama Holdovers to Prosecute Bundys?
Two Bundy Ranch defendants to face third trial
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Recent developments have caused Trump supporters to ask why Attorney General Jeff Sessions is allowing Obama holdovers in the Department of Justice to continue prosecuting Bundy ranch cases, despite continuing set-backs.
On Thursday, Aug. 22, the Obama administration holdovers in the Department of Justice suffered a huge set-back in the trial of four defendants accused of various federal criminal charges over the 2014 Bundy ranch standoff ended with no convictions.
Two of the defendants were acquitted of all charges, while the remaining two defendants were acquitted of most charges.
With the “not guilty” verdict, the defendants Richard R. Lovelien and Stewart A. Stewart were acquitted of all charges, and released from federal prison in Nevada, after having been incarcerated without bail for some 18 months in federal prison awaiting trial.
The remaining two defendants, Eric Parker and Scott Drexler will be forced to endure yet a third trial, as the Obama administration holdover prosecutors decided to retry them yet a third trial on the remaining weapons charges on which no verdict was declared, reportedly because one of the 12 jurors in the second trial would not agree to a “not guilty” verdict.
In a move that has disappointed many of President Trump’s core base of conservative and libertarian supporters, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced in a speech in Las Vegas on July 11, 2017, that he would not take sides or intervene to end any of the federal prosecutions brought by the Obama Justice Department over the 2014 Bundy Ranch standoff…
As Roger Stone has pointed out, an underlying factor in the Bundy Ranch case is that former Democratic Party Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid wanted the Bundy Ranch land to install Chinese solar panels in a deal where the Chinese company seeking to build the solar panel plant had employed lawyer Rory Reid, the son of Sen. Reid, to be the primary representative for the U.S. corporation fronting the deal.
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Czech Man Appears in Lidl Shop With Large Greek Cross
Olomouc, North Moravia, Sept 4 (CTK) — A man dressed in clerical vestments and with a large Greek cross in his hands was shopping in the local Lidl supermarket on Monday in protest against the food chain having erased the cross from Orthodox churches on the Greek island of Santorini for its campaign “Greek week.”
The supermarket director called in the police, but no intervention was eventually needed.
“She told the policemen that a man in vestments and with a cross was walking around the supermarket,” town police spokesman Petr Cunderle told journalists.
She said with his unusual appearance the man had provoked fear, bothering the customers by addressing them and blessing the goods.
“No property was harmed and the incident ended by the man’s walking out,” Cunderle said.
The man said on his Facebook profile he resented the Lidl supermarket chain having deleted the cross from Orthodox churches on its marketing leaflets.
“I think this cannot be excused,” he said.
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Denmark: Kim Wall Was Killed by Submarine Hatch: Peter Hansen
Submarine owner Peter Madsen’s explanation of the events that caused the death of Kim Wall because public after Copenhagen City Court decided to open its door to procedures on Thursday.
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Denmark: Lego to Slash Eight Percent of Workforce After Sales Drop in US, Europe
Danish toy maker Lego, known for its iconic coloured plastic bricks, said on Tuesday that it would cut eight percent of its global workforce after a drop in sales in the US and Europe.
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Denmark: King of the Hill: Elephants, Elegance and 170 Years of Carlsberg
Founder’s son Carl Jacobsen not only gave his name to the brewery, but also the four jumbos that flank its magnificent Valby-side entrance
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Dutch Mosques Receive Millions From Kuwait: Report
Over the past years charities from Kuwait donated some 10 million euros to Islamic institutions in the Netherlands, NRC reports based on a confidential overview of Kuwaiti gifts that the Gulf State provided to the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The gifts went to about 18 Islamic organizations in the Netherlands, including the controversial Al Fitrah mosque in Utrecht. Last year this mosque told the authorities that it has no financial ties with terrorist organizations in Kuwait. But the overview showed that in 2012 a new Al Fitrah mosque was funded by the Revival of Islamic Heritage Society, a Kuwait organization that is on the United States’ terrorist list, according to the newspaper.
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EU Executive to Raise Pressure on Poland on Wednesday: Sources
The European Commission will ask EU member states on Wednesday to take a stand on whether the Polish government is abusing democratic standards, three sources told Reuters, as the bloc steps up pressure on Warsaw.
Poland has been in a deepening dispute with Brussels and other European Union states over upholding the rule of law since the nationalist-minded, eurosceptic Law and Justice (PiS) party won power in late 2015.
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France: Parisians Feeling Increasingly Safe Despite Terror Threat
Despite the string of terror attacks in Paris since 2015, Parisians feel secure, according to the latest in-depth survey by the Paris region’s Urban Planning Institute.
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France to Start Using Armed Drones
France unveiled plans on Tuesday to start using armed drones, joining a growing number of countries worldwide to operate the deadly unmanned aircraft.
“I decided to begin the process of arming our intelligence and surveillance drones,” Defence Minister Florence Parly told a gathering of recruits and lawmakers in the southern port city of Toulon.
France currently operates a handful of unarmed Reaper drones as part of its presence monitoring jihadist groups in Africa’s Sahel region.
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Germany: Bavarian Smashes World Record by Carrying 70kg of Beer at Historic Festival
A Bavarian man broke the world record for carrying the largest number of beer jugs over 40 metres at a beer festival in Abensberg on Sunday. Hundreds of spectators cheered on 45-year-old tax inspector Oliver Strümpfel as he carried a total of 29 jugs, breaking his own world record.
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Germany Joins Brussels in Battle Against Poland
German Chancellor Angela Merkel criticised Poland’s governing Law and Justice (PiS) party, backing up the European Commission and increasing the likelihood of unprecedented EU action to punish Warsaw.
This is the latest twist in the long-running dispute over an overhaul of Poland’s judiciary and other steps taken by PiS which Brussels says undermine democracy in the largest ex-communist EU state.
As reported by the Reuters news agency, Poland risks a reprimand under procedures known as Article 7 that have never been used before and would deal a heavy blow to its prestige, deepen its isolation in the bloc and diminish its ability to influence EU policies.
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German Police Under Fire for Advising Women to ‘Jog in Pairs’ After Brutal Rape Incident
Police in Germany have been criticized after a spokesman urged women to “jog in pairs” following a brutal rape incident in Leipzig in which a woman jogging alone in a park was attacked by a man of “southern” appearance.
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German Elections: Nigel Farage to Campaign With Far-Right AfD Party
NIGEL Farage will campaign with Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) in Berlin as they seek to make electoral gains after rising to their highest ever poll ratings.
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Germany: Crowd Throws Tomatoes at Merkel
German Chancellor Angela Merkel was hit with a tomato Tuesday during a rally in the southern college town of Heidelberg, news agency Deutsche Presse Agentur reports.
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Gun Violence in Sweden Surpasses Neighboring Countries, Researchers Say
New research says Sweden sees more deadly shootings per capita than its closest European neighbors, and the low number of gun crimes solved by police here may be part of the reason why.
Sweden experiences four to five times more fatal shootings per capita than Norway and Germany, according to the ongoing research from Malmö University, Karolinska Hospital and Stockholm University.
The areas with the most shootings are Sweden’s major cities: Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö. The victims as well as the perpetrators also tend to be younger than those in other the countries.
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Open Arms: Finland Indulging Daesh Defectors With Increased Social Benefits
Like its Nordic neighbors, Finland has “exported” its fair share of jihadists to the Middle East, who are now returning “home” after a streak of Daesh defeats. To tackle this problem, Finnish officials are considering providing apartments and social services to Daesh returnees out of turn.
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Rare Malaria Death of Girl in Northern Italy Puzzles Doctors
A four-year-old Italian girl has died of cerebral malaria in northern Italy, a region free of the disease, in what doctors see as a very mysterious case.
Sofia Zago died in Brescia on Sunday night, after being rushed to hospital with a high fever on Saturday.
Italy is free of the Anopheles mosquito that carries cerebral malaria, the deadliest form of the blood disease. But after a scorching August, some fear that it might have reached Italy.
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Scotland: Edinburgh Student Who Ridiculed ISIS Online Investigated for Islamophobia
A law student has become subject of an investigation by his university after allegedly mocking Islamic State (formerly ISIL/ISIS) on social media and undermining minority students’ safety.
Robbie Travers, a third-year-law student at Edinburgh University, is being investigated after an official who carried out the preliminary investigation claimed he had committed a “hate crime.” No criminal investigation, however, has been opened by the police.
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Shapely Czech Venus Reveals Secrets
It is exactly one year ago when the Venus of Dolni Vestonice, a ceramic statuette of a naked woman believed to be 29,000 years old and considered one of the oldest artefacts of its kind in the world, went under a detailed scan in a special 3D microscope. Now historians from the Moravian Museum in Brno have presented the first scan results so far.
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by Bruce Bawer
On August 8, I wrote here in praise of Sylvi Listhaug, Norway’s Minister of Migration and Integration, who has criticized hijab in her country’s schools, warned that there are “wolves in sheep’s clothing” in Norway’s Muslim community, and complained about so-called asylum seekers who have been taken in by Norway but who vacation in the countries they supposedly fled from.
Recently, Listhaug visited Rinkeby, the Stockholm suburb that is internationally notorious for having become one of the worst of that nation’s large and ever-increasing number of no-go zones. Listhaug said that she was there to study the nightmarish stew of gang crime, welfare dependency, self-segregation, and Islam that has come to be known as “Swedish conditions.”
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Swedish Summer Festivals See Over 150 Sex Attacks 20 Rapes This Year
The summer festival season in Sweden is over for the year but reports claim that there were over 150 cases of sex attacks including 20 rapes at various festivals around the country.
There were a total of 150 sex assaults at the 20 festivals in Sweden in 2017 according to figures collected by the Swedish police. Many festivals saw a rise in attacks since last year with the Malmöfestivalen in Malmö seeing 30 attacks, up from 18 in 2016, Metro reports.
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by Guy Millière
Winston Churchill told Neville Chamberlain, “You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor, you will have war.” The same is true today.
Ten years ago, describing what he called “the last days of Europe,” the historian Walter Laqueur said that European civilization was dying and that only old monuments and museums would survive. His diagnosis was too optimistic. Old monuments and museums might well be blown up. Look nowhere else than what the black-hooded supporters of “Antifa” — an “anti-fascist” movement that is totally fascistic — are doing to statues in the United States.
Barcelona’s Sagrada Família Cathedral was spared only thanks to the clumsiness of a terrorist who did not know how to handle explosives. Other places may not be so fortunate.
The death of Europe will almost certainly be violent and painful: no one seems willing to stop it. Voters still could, but they will have to do it now, fast, before it is too late.
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UK ‘A Breeding Ground’ For Jihadist Terrorists, Warns Met Police Chief
Isolated communities, segregation and unregulated schooling in the UK are a “breeding ground” for extremism and future jihadists, a counter-terrorism police chief has warned.
Metropolitan Police Deputy Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu said there was a “definite problem” of second-generation Britons who became radicalised through the “very toxic combination” of isolation and extremist online content.
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Three members of an Asian sex gang who used mephedrone to turn abuse victims into addicts and forced them to have sex if they wanted more drugs were jailed for a total of 56 years today.
Seventeen men and one woman from Newcastle are being sentenced over the next three days for crimes including rape, sexual assault, inciting girls into prostitution and drug dealing.
Victims said in impact statements they were treated ‘like a piece of meat’ by their abusers, who they believed were friends, and one woman branded the gang ‘monsters’.
Mohammed Azram, 35, was jailed for 12 years for picking up abuse victms from Newcastle’s West End and rapist Jahangir Zaman, 45, who gave girls lines of M-Cat and demanded sex if they wanted more, was jailed for 29 years
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Why Sweden Has More Fatal Shootings Per Capita Than Norway and Germany
Sweden has in recent years seen a sharp increase in the number of shootings per capita, with research suggesting that the Scandinavian country is statistically on par with southern Italy and parts of Ireland.
In 2016, some 250 shootings (random, fatal and non-fatal) were registered by police in Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö. In 2014, that number came to 200, indicating that Sweden is experiencing a drastic rise in such incidents.
“We don’t really know why yet, but what we can see is that the increase comes as we also see a rise in gang-related crimes and a growing number of criminal networks,” Manne Gerell, a criminologist at Malmö University, told The Local, after Swedish public radio first wrote about new research he is involved in.
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Munich Olympics Terror Attack Haunts Israeli Widow
45 years after the terrorist attack at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, a permanent memorial will be unveiled at the Olympic Park. It commemorates the 11 Israeli athletes and a German police officer who were killed.
On September 5, 1972, Palestinian militants from the Black September group jumped over the fences at the Olympic Village, entered one of the apartments of the Israeli team and took 11 Israeli athletes hostage who were later killed in a botched rescue operation. The militants wanted the release of more than 200 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails.
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An Australian mother has disappeared after travelling to war-torn Iraq to recover her two kidnapped children.
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Buying and Selling Maids Online
Migrant labour in Gulf countries has long been a subject of controversy, and the system that regulates it has now spawned a black market for domestic servants who are bought and sold online.
In Saudi Arabia, as in many Gulf countries, workers from Asian and African countries can obtain visas under sponsorship system known as “kafala”. The system ties immigrants, who often work as live-in maids, to their employers for the duration of their stay.
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Iran Seeking to Boost Missile Program, Weapons Export, Defense Minister Says
Iran is aiming to boost its missile program and export weapons in an attempt to forge allies with neighboring countries, its new defense minister said.
Gen. Amir Atami, who was appointed Iran’s defense minister earlier this month, said in a speech on ISNA News Agency on Saturday the country seeks to arm neighboring allies “to prevent war and conflict,” according to AFP.
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Yemen War: Failure to Investigate Violations Shameful — UN
The UN human rights chief has described as “shameful” the reticence of the international community to investigate violations in the conflict in Yemen.
His comments came after the release of a report that said almost every rule of modern warfare was being flouted.
It found that civilians were targeted in air strikes, prohibited weapons used and children recruited as soldiers.
The UN says at least 5,144 civilians have been killed — a quarter of them children — since March 2015, when a Saudi-led coalition intervened in the war between President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi’s government and the rebel Houthi movement.
The conflict has also left 20.7 million people in need of some kind of humanitarian assistance, created the largest food security emergency in the world, and led to a cholera outbreak that is believed to have affected 600,000 people since April.
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A TEEN boy has opened fire in a Moscow school, leaving a female teacher and three pupils injured, cops say.
The schoolboy, 15, attacked the computer science teacher with an axe, shot her in the head with an air gun and threw firecrackers at his classmates, TASS reported.
Pupils reportedly jumped out of the second floor windows in a bid to escape the shooting, causing one 17-year-old schoolgirl to break her leg.
Two other pupils — a girl and boy — suffered fractures while trying to flee the gunman.
The teenage shooter was arrested at the school in Ivanteevka, northeast of Moscow in Russia, but his motives are not yet known.
Witnesses have told how the boy burst into the computer science room and yelled “I came here to die” before opening fire and hitting his teacher.
“There was shooting, explosions. He shot, and shouted that he came here to die,” a witness told Russian broadcaster RBC.
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Azerbaijan Sues French Reporters Who Called it ‘Dictatorship’
A court will today hear an unprecedented defamation lawsuit by Azerbaijan against two French journalists in a case that critics describe as an attempt by the ex-Soviet republic to “export its censorship to France.”
The case opens a day after a media investigation revealed that Azerbaijan has allegedly been using a a 2.8-billion-dollar slush fund to buy political influence in Europe and boost the country’s international image.
The lawsuit against the two television journalists has been slammed by the media watchdog Reporters Without Borders’ (RSF) as “an act of intimidation highlighting the Azerbaijani government’s contempt for free speech.”
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Azerbaijan ‘Operated Secret $3bn Secret Slush Fund’
Azerbaijan’s ruling elite operated a secret $2.8bn (£2.2bn) slush fund for two years to pay off European politicians and make luxury purchases, an investigation suggests.
The money was allegedly channelled through four UK-based opaque companies.
People said to have been paid include European politicians who adopted a favourable attitude to the government.
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China’s ‘Betrayal’ — BRICS Leaders Slam Pakistan-Based Jihadi Groups
The BRICS nations have expressed concern about Pakistan-based militant groups like LeT and the Haqqani Network. It is a diplomatic defeat for Islamabad, which heavily depends on Beijing’s support amid a global isolation.
But after Trump’s censure, Xi Jinping’s China, too, expressed its worry about the jihadi groups that many experts say are Pakistan’s proxies in the region.
“We, in this regard, express concern about the security situation in the region and violence caused by the Taliban, ‘Islamic State’(IS)…, al Qaeda and its affiliates, including the Eastern Turkistan Islamic Movement, the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, the Haqqani Network, Lashkar-e-Taiba, Jaish-e-Mohammad, TTP and Hizb ut-Tahrir,” the BRICS leaders said in a joint declaration.
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Myanmar Conflict: Rohingya Refugee Surge Hits Bangladesh
The number of Rohingya refugees crossing from Myanmar into Bangladesh has surged, the UN says, with more than 35,000 new arrivals identified in the last 24 hours.
More than 123,000 Rohingya are now said to have fled violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine state since 25 August.
The conflict was triggered by an attack by Rohingya militants on police posts.
This sparked a military counter-offensive that has forced a flood of Rohingya civilians from their villages.
The Rohingya are a stateless mostly Muslim ethnic minority who have faced persecution in Myanmar (also called Burma).
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Myanmar: Muslims Murder Dozens of Hindus
Eight-year-old Muni is one of the sole survivors in her Hindu family, after eight of her relatives were reportedly killed by Muslim militants one week ago in Kha Mauk Seik village, some 40 miles from downtown Maungdaw, in northern Rakhine State.
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China: Beijing’s Well-to-Do Angry as Housing Law Forces Them to Mingle With Poorer Neighbours
A ban on partitions within communities means some wealthy homeowners are having to share their exclusive facilities with their less affluent neighbours
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How Much Leverage Does China Have Over North Korea?
The People’s Republic of China, a country averse to binding, treaty-based commitments, has always enjoyed a particular relationship with its small, north-eastern neighbour.
North Korea is the only country with which China has a legally binding mutual aid and co-operation treaty, signed in July 1961.
North Korea devotes 25% of its GDP (gross domestic product) to military activity. The oil stocks there would last a few months. And that would give it time to embark on the devastating assault southwards that everyone fears, into the highly populated regions of South Korea.
It would be a suicidal mission, but as the world knows from plenty of other examples, handling those with suicide on their minds is the greatest challenge.
Nor would North Korea be compliant in other areas as it collapsed. Refugees would swarm across the border into China. A vacuum would appear. China would be faced with its worst nightmare — a space which the US and its allies might try to occupy.
For all its seeming points of leverage and influence, therefore, the most remarkable thing about China and North Korea is the ways in which, at a time when the rest of the world is agonising over how to deal with a renascent, confident, powerful-looking China, this narrative is so brutally undermined by the ways in which its small, impoverished neighbour almost daily exposes its impotence.
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In China’s Richest Province, A Yawning Gap Exists Between the Haves and the Have-Nots
The coexistence of great wealth and abject poverty in Guangdong shows why narrowing the income gap is a priority of China’s leadership
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North Korea Mountain Used as Nuclear Test Site at Risk of Collapsing, Chinese Scientist Says
A mountain in North Korea believed to have served as the site of five of the rogue regime’s nuclear tests — including Sunday’s supposed hydrogen bomb explosion — is at risk of collapsing and leaking radiation into the region, a Chinese scientist said Monday.
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North Korea Nuclear Crisis: Putin Calls Sanctions Useless
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said pursuing further sanctions against North Korea is “useless”, saying “they’d rather eat grass than give up their nuclear programme”.
The US said on Monday it would table a new UN resolution on tougher sanctions in the wake of the latest test of a nuclear bomb by the North on Sunday.
Mr Putin also said that the ramping up of “military hysteria” could lead to global catastrophe.
He said diplomacy was the only answer.
China, the North’s main ally, has also called for a return to negotiations.
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Trump OKs ‘Substantially Increased’ Sales of US Military Equipment to South Korea, Japan
President Trump announced early Tuesday that he would allow Japan and South Korea to buy a “substantially increased” amount of sophisticated U.S. military equipment in the wake of the latest threat out of North Korea.
“I am allowing Japan & South Korea to buy a substantially increased amount of highly sophisticated military equipment from the United States,” Trump tweeted Tuesday.
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World War 3? The United States and North Korea Stand on the Brink of a Nuclear War
After North Korea successfully tested a hydrogen bomb on Sunday, U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis warned that the United States is more than capable of “the total annihilation of a country”. Unfortunately, the North Koreans may have already gotten to the point where they are capable of the same thing. Just a handful of North Korean nukes could kill millions of people and render the largest cities in South Korea or Japan completely uninhabitable, and so a nuclear war with the North Koreans should be avoided at all costs. Sadly, global events seem to be relentlessly pulling us in that direction.
According to the U.S. Geological Survey, a magnitude-6.3 earthquake was registered in North Korea at the same time that the North Koreans claim that they conducted a “perfect” test of a hydrogen bomb. This test was reportedly 10 times more powerful than North Korea’s last nuclear test, and the North Koreans are also claiming that this bomb was small enough to be fitted on an inter-continental ballistic missile.
North Korea should have never been allowed to get to this point. But the Clinton, Bush and Obama administrations just kept kicking the can down the road year after year, and now we are facing a crisis with no good solution. Because it is absolutely unthinkable for us to allow North Korea to have an entire fleet of nuclear missiles capable of hitting targets in the United States, but it is also absolutely unthinkable to start a war in which potentially tens of millions of people could die.
North Korea is honeycombed with very deep underground tunnels. Even if we knew exactly how many nukes North Korea has, and even if we knew where they all were, there is still no possible way that we could get them all with a first strike.
But even if we could, North Korea is entirely capable of killing millions in South Korea and Japan with chemical, biological and conventional weapons. Before he left the White House, Steven Bannon had the following to say about the situation that we are facing on the Korean peninsula…
“Until somebody solves the part of the equation that shows me that ten million people in Seoul don’t die in the first 30 minutes from conventional weapons, I don’t know what you’re talking about, there’s no military solution here, they got us,” Bannon told the American Prospect.
In this case, Bannon is exactly correct, and any members of Congress that would suggest differently are simply lying to you.
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Xi and Modi Mend Ties After Border Standoff
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping have held their first bilateral meeting since a border standoff.
Their meeting at the Brics summit in China’s port city of Xiamen came just days after the two countries resolved the three-month border dispute.
According to Chinese state media, Mr Xi told Mr Modi that “healthy, stable” China-India ties were necessary.
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Neil Erikson, anti-Islam activist charged over a graphic mock beheading in regional Victoria, is promising a stunt outside a Melbourne courthouse despite facing six months in jail.
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A photographer who captured a series of images of a woman wearing a blue burqa in locations across Australia has spoken about the inspiration behind his work.
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Amani Al-Khatahtbeh, a hijab-wearing editor of an American Muslim website, has controversially compared honour killings in Islamic countries with domestic violence in Australia.
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Why Australian Universities Have Upset Chinese Students
In four prominent cases in recent months, Chinese students at Australian universities have complained about teaching materials being incorrect or insulting to China.
The incidents have gained increasing attention in both nations, especially in the media, and forced apologies or statements from the universities.
In the most recent case, a lecturer upset Chinese international students by listing Taiwan and Hong Kong as countries in course and test materials. One classroom confrontation was recorded and shared online.
It has generated discussion in Australia about whether Chinese students are undermining freedom of expression on campuses — and whether the Chinese embassy has been involved in exerting pressure on universities. Chinese authorities and media outlets have dismissed such a concern as “smear”.
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Burundi Committed Crimes Against Humanity — UN
UN investigators say there is strong evidence that crimes against humanity have been committed in Burundi.
Their report details killings, torture and rape, which they say have been committed largely by government forces — but also by opposition groups.
Burundi’s ambassador to the UN said the report was part of an “international conspiracy” against the country.
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Israel Missed Capture of Nazi Doctor Josef Mengele Twice, Documents Reveal
Israel’s vaunted Mossad missed at least two chances to capture Nazi fugitive Dr Josef Mengele, who sent hundreds of thousands of Jews to their death at Auschwitz, a former agent said Tuesday.
Rafi Eitan, who commanded the audacious capture in 1960 of top Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Argentina, said that during the hunt he and his team discovered Mengele’s hideout.
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Aid Group Pushes for Enquiry Into Suspected Migrant Deaths Near Morocco
A medical aid group on Monday called for an independent enquiry into the suspected deaths of seven African women in the waters between Morocco and Spain, a route increasingly used by migrants trying to reach Europe.
Doctors of the World Spain said in a statement that The women were from the Democratic Republic of Congo and Guinea, Doctors of the World Spain said in a statement citing information from the migrant aid association Walking Borders.
“The exact circumstances of their deaths must be clarified,” Doctors of the World said. According to witness accounts, the women may have been onboard a makeshift boat that arrived near the beaches of the Spanish enclave of Melilla in northern Morocco on August 31 carrying more than 40 people.
A Spanish coastguard spokesman confirmed that a dingy carrying 46 migrants had been spotted near Melilla last Thursday.
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Dozens of Asylum Seeker Protesters Cross Finnish Border to Sweden
Some 55 asylum seekers who took part in a protest against Finland’s asylum policies at the northern border crossing town of Tornio have left the country by walking across the border en masse from Finland to Sweden on Tuesday afternoon, according to police in Finnish Lapland.
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Europe Facing Decades-Long “Bloody Fight” With Jihadists, Warns Nigel Farage
Civil war in Europe now inevitable due to Islamic invasion
British statesman Nigel Farage has conceded that Europeans have crossed a tipping point and are now facing a battle against jihadists that could go on for decades, despite countless forewarnings about border security and immigration trends issued by nationalists like him.
In an interview with Westmonster, Farage was asked how he feels about the unfolding crisis of Islamic terrorism in the UK and Europe, knowing that he has attempted for many years to avert the looming catastrophe while being constantly defamed and slandered by the global elite, EU internationalists, and mainstream media alike.
“No one said sorry, not one — the legions who lined up to say that I was racist, neo-fascist — no one has apologized.” Farage said. “Surely, decent people would admit they were wrong.”
“To be honest, even my most pessimistic view of what was going to happen here has been far exceeded by truth and reality.”
“I think we are in a very bad place. I think we are in for decades of a very difficult and literally bloody fight, and I believe we have brought it all upon ourselves,” he assessed.
[Comment: Should this happen, citizens need to keep in mind those who intentionally engineered this situation.]
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EU chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier has hailed mass immigration to Europe as essential to “human progress”, and as early as 2004 was demanding that “racism” and anonymity be wiped from the internet.
Though representing so-called ‘centre-right’ politics, the veteran Eurocrat — who has served in several French cabinet positions as well as at European level — has consistently denounced borders and argued that every EU nation be obliged to welcome huge numbers of migrants from the third world.
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Finland: Watch: Riot Gear-Wearing Police Break Up Deportation Protest in Jyväskylä
Police in central Finland clashed with a large group of protesters on Monday afternoon as officers began the deportation process of a young Afghan family housed at the Salmiranta asylum seeker reception centre in Jyväskylä. Police had planned on removing the family from the facility at about noon, but it took nearly seven hours and dozens of riot gear-clad officers using pepper spray and brute force to ward off the growing crowd of protesters.
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Germany: Police Tell Women Not to Run Alone After Migrant Rapes Jogger in Park
Authorities now directly capitulating to Islamic modesty culture
Police in Leipzig have told women not to run alone after a jogger was raped by a migrant in one of the city’s parks.
A woman in her 50s was attacked and dragged to the ground as she was running in Rosental park on Friday morning. The culprit was described as a “southerner,” the politically correct term used in Germany to mean Muslim or Arab.
“During the assault he kicked and punched the women so hard in her face that she had to undergo emergency surgery after she was found,” reports the Local.
Authorities responded to the incident by stating, “It would be better if women jogged in pairs, or at the least that they make sure that there is always someone else around.”
“When they run past someone, joggers should always look back to make sure they are not about to be attacked,” a spokesperson for the Leipzig Police said.
The Mayor of Leipzig criticized the police, saying that more cops on the streets was the answer. The notion of scaling back an immigration policy that invites in people from a culture which spawned something literally called “the rape game” wasn’t part of the discussion.
The advice that women should not go out in public alone is of course a form of submission to Islamic cultural modesty codes that dictate women should be chaperoned every time they leave the house.
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German Freiburg Murder: Migrant Posed as 16 in Asylum Bid
An asylum seeker accused of raping and murdering a student in Germany has told a court he posed as a minor to improve his immigration chances in 2015.
Hussein K says he is from Afghanistan — but has no ID to prove it. For privacy reasons his full name was not given.
Maria L was 19 when she was raped and murdered last October in Freiburg, south-west Germany. Her body was found in a river; she had been strangled.
The case fuelled heated opposition to Germany’s welcome for asylum seekers.
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Greek authorities say that 103 migrants picked up off a crippled yacht are being taken to port on the southern island of Crete.
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Italy’s Alarm at ‘Second-Chance’ Migrants
Four mayors in the northern Italian province of Friuli-Venezia Giulia have appealed for help in dealing with an influx of migrants who have been rejected for asylum in northern Europe.
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Manfred Weber Urges EU to Support Hungary to Block Millions of Migrants
A SENIOR European politician has urged the European Commission to support Hungary to secure its borders against a deluge of millions of refugees.
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Dozens of Manus Island refugees say a $70 million compensation settlement for their imprisonment is not high enough, or they want a trial to expose the detention centre’s conditions.
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Migrants are seen getting off a Singapore-flagged tanker in Iraklio Tuesday after they were rescued from a 25-meter wooden boat off the eastern coast of Crete. A distress call by one of the passengers to the European 112 hotline prompted a search-and-rescue operation early Tuesday. The Rhino’s crew helped the troubled boat’s 103 passengers on board after a Frontex aircraft located the vessel. Authorities said the migrants will be temporarily accommodated in a facility at the port.
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Report: Population Explosion in Africa Will Fule Ongoing Migrant Crisis
A new analysis by the Austrian armed forces warns that Europe should be cautious about celebrating the slowdown of migrationfrom Africa saying the numbers could be much higher in the near future.
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Special Task Force Hunts 60 Al Qaeda Fighters Who Entered Germany as Asylum Seekers
GERMANY has formed a special task force to hunt down a unit of 60 bloodthirsty Al-Qaeda linked fighters who entered the country posing as asylum seekers.
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Tech Execs Slam Trump Administration’s Decision to End DACA
Tech executives ranging from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to Google CEO Sundar Pichai have slammed the White House’s decision to end DACA, an immigration policy founded by the Obama administration in 2012.
The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy allows certain illegal immigrants who have entered the U.S. as minors to receive a renewable two-year period of deferred action from deportation and eligibility for a work permit.
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Trial Opens for Migrant Accused of Raping, Murdering German Medical Student Maria Ladenburger
Germany (AP) — A district court in Germany has opened a trial against a migrant accused of raping and killing a 19-year-old female medical student in the southwestern city of Freiburg last year, in a case that fueled a nationwide debate about the country’s migration policy.
The trial started Tuesday for asylum-seeker Hussein K. in Freiburg.
The victim vanished in mid-October on her way home in Freiburg. Her body was found in a river. The suspect was linked to the crime through DNA evidence and video footage from near the scene.
The suspect arrived in Germany in 2015 without identity papers. He told authorities he was 17 and came from Afghanistan, but two studies commissioned by prosecutors indicated he was at least 22 at the time of the crime.
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Trump Administration Ends DACA, With 6-Month Delay
The Trump administration on Tuesday announced the “orderly wind down” of the Obama-era program that gave a deportation reprieve to illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children — putting pressure on Congress to come up with a replacement.
“I do not favor punishing children, most of whom are now adults, for the actions of their parents. But we must also recognize that we are a nation of opportunity because we are a nation of laws,” President Trump said, in a lengthy written statement explaining the decision.
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Two Years Since Germany Opened Its Borders to Refugees: A Chronology
When hundreds of thousands of refugees made their way into Europe in August and September 2015, German Chancellor Angela Merkel decided to engage in an open-door policy towards the newcomers. What’s happened since then?
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What Migrants Face on Lesbos — And Why it’s Getting Worse
Asylum-seekers stranded on the Greek island of Lesbos can expect things to deteriorate even more: Numerous NGOs that provide health, legal and other services are preparing to pull out or have already left.
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On the Growing, Intentional Uselessness of Google Search Results
New Google LogoAs most people are aware, Google search results are constantly changing and evolving. In the past couple of years, there has been a conscious and very deliberate shift — and not just by Google — to go from showing you what you want to see to showing you what they want you to see. Be it social network integrations (Google+, Facebook connections, twitter feeds, etc), local results, results based off of previous queries (at least this one is in an attempt to show you “relevant” information), and more. This is all old news and has been hashed to death (and to no avail).
But in the past week or so, I’ve personally picked up on a rather annoying and dramatic uptick in incidences of Google’s penchant for — much like a three year old — understanding perfectly-well what it is that you want and pointedly doing anything but that.
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Myanmar Leading the Way!!!
http://voxday.blogspot.com/2017/09/reconquista-in-myanmar.html
Sadly, the Burmese may be getting exploited by the US Deep State and Saudi Wahhabist filth:
http://www.moonofalabama.org/2017/09/the-rohingya-of-myanmar-pawns-in-an-anglo-chinese-proxy-war-fought-by-saudi-jihadists.html
“Denmark: King of the Hill: Elephants, Elegance and 170 Years of Carlsberg”
They also used to brew the fabulous “Elephant Beer”. May still do, tho’ I haven seen it in well over 30 years. Also the pokey Carlsberg 69, originally brewed for Winston Churchill.
Known as “Carlsberg Special” in the UK; still available, now 8% alcohol (slightly reduced last year).
But Europeans see what threats exist. They see that life is not even slightly normal. They see policemen and soldiers in the streets, proliferating security checks, strict controls at the entrance of theaters and shops. They see insecurity everywhere. They are told just to ignore the source of the threats, but they know the source. They claim they are not afraid. Thousands in Barcelona shouted, “No tinc por” (“We are not afraid”). In fact, they are scared to death.
An excellent article! Who does Islam consider it’s greatest enemy? Christianity. Who does the Left consider its greatest enemy? Christianity. Who do the Illuminati globalists consider their worst enemy? Christianity.
Is there a message here? Is any one taking note?
It might be because Christianity is about freeing slaves, healing the sick, and feeding the poor… If everybody done that who would need a socialist state, or a mosque to feed him?
It’s more about personal responsibility brought about by individual liberty as is generally practised within Christianity. Christianity also encourages the doing of good deeds to all of Mankind, not just those who happen to be a member of any particular ‘belief club’ such as in Islam.
Only the West has been able to embrace such freedom and it is only the West that is now being destroyed because of that freedom which is a huge speed bump on the road to the New World Order.
I don’t know – if you say “Only the West has been able to embrace such freedom”, then I have to disagree, because all of the middle east was once a Christian liberal free and prosperous beyond “The West’s” imagination.
So – what is happening in the west today, has already happened in the east yesterday, including all of the liberalism, feminism, communism, transgenderism… eventualy morphing into rigid Islam.
Well, you didn’t mention any history prior to the Christian era in your comment, only the period covering Christianity which is what I responded to.
Merkel the Idiot: “If we made a mistake, then it wasn’t in taking in people, but rather that we didn’t pay attention to the fact that people in Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey and Syria didn’t have enough to eat, weren’t getting an education and put themselves into the hands of people smugglers,” Merkel said in defense of her decision to open doors to migrants in 2015.
Tomatoes or grenades? What does she deserve? It’s encouraging to know there are some sane Germans, despite most evidence to the contrary. No doubt their faces have been recorded and in due time, they will be sent to the re-education camps, coming soon, for those who despise Islam.
Well the tomatoes are probably more easily available at this time for the partly frustrated and still hopeful for political change German who can see what Merkel is doing to Germany. But, given a bit more time, and the partly frustrated German will become a fully blown Patriot who will be seeking out those hand grenades.
“As much as I wish for good relations with Poland – they are our neighbour and I will always strive for this given the importance of our ties — we can’t simply keep our mouth shut in order to keep the peace,” Merkel said in Berlin.’
Merkel needs to have her mouth shut till Hell freezes over.
I dare say Poland hasn’t forgotten September 1, 1939 and is preparing accordingly.
Well said. The Poles and Hungarians are the only nations protecting their patrimony from the likes of Frau Merkel, an alumna of Karl Marx University, Leipzig.
I see the EU Court has now ruled against the V4 Nations. Seems that Merkel will now have to become a little more forceful in her actions if she is to enforce EU fascism.
a thing I do not understand is why the V 4 states were not smart enough to pretend to accept the ruling, knowing well that those refugees would not spend more than 2 days in those countries without the expected welfare benefits and receiving a decent police spanking for uncouth behavior in the offices or in public.
Would you accept an Islamic Trojan Horse simply on the hope that those inside the horse would not find your country suitable?
In Islam it matters not what the non-Muslim country is or how it may not cater to the invading Muslim, what matters is that the Muslim who has ‘migrated’ to such a country will inevitably turn that country into part of the worldwide Ummah.
From 2018 school year there will be in Every High School or College one militarized class..Those who choose this class will have preference and financial state support for further study or first pick for job in state Institutions or Administration..
Proposed project already outrun wildest expectation and new proposition join by Ministry of Education and Ministry of Defense is 2 classes in Every school…
Kuwait is the first Gulf State to give Netherlands an overview of its gifts and donations to institutions in the country. The overview shows the amounts Kuwait donated between 2007 and 2015. The Tweede Kamer – the lower house of Dutch parliament – was informed about the confidential report in July, according to the newspaper. Several investigative services are now investigating the money flows, NRC reported.
The Tweedledum and Tweedledee house will do what? Arab money has been funding the proliferation of mosques which have sprung up like boils all over the West SINCE 9/11!
Perhaps the Tweedles can read Homer to discover WHY!
The Deep State: So the question is, how do we combat the deep state and get our freedom back?
Thank you for this great article and the book it is based on.
Trump is trying to cut the size of bureaucracy by demanding that for every new regulation, two must go.
Every regulation ought to have a ‘sunset clause’ so the onus would be on showing why it ought to remain after a period of time. Permanency for bureaucrats should be abolished. So the incoming President can fire all the last President’s appointees. Cut funding them!
A revolution in the education curriculum – to teach the importance of self-sufficiency and the stifling degradation of dependency on government hand-outs. Don’t take poor, under-educated immigrants who will depend on welfare and who do not wish to speak English, do not believe in the Constitution and despise Christianity as well as the atheist West.
Term limits for all political appointees, so they can’t make a career of living off the taxpayer and swindling us at the same time. Term limits for all judges. Mandatory prosecution for politicians and bureaucrats who break the law. If Hillary and her ilk can get away with murder, the State loses the trust of the people it exists to serve.
As none of this is likely to happen, we are in for a rough time and probably need this book:
Sheep No More: The Art of Awareness and Attack Survival Paperback – December 12, 2017 by Jonathan T. Gilliam (Author), Sean Hannity (Foreword)
Everyone talks of the danger of the USA being hit by an EMP strike, but does America have the capacity themselves? Is there even a delivery system for this sort of weapon?
I think you’ll find that if North Korea comes under attack from U.S. Forces, there will be some new weaponry used that many are not aware of that has the ability to zero in on and destroy very small targets, such as individual buildings or humans, while causing almost no collateral damage at all.
“I think you’ll find that if North Korea comes under attack from U.S. Forces, there will be some new weaponry used that many are not aware of that has the ability to zero in on and destroy very small targets, such as individual buildings or humans, while causing almost no collateral damage at all.”
Drat it all! You’re harshing my (warmongering) mellow. If America is obliged to jump through every last one of Red China’s North Korean hoops, then let’s go all Medieval and set an example pour encourager les autres.
Well, one needs to tread softly but authoritively and decisively, when dealing with rogue nations that have been set up to undermine the West’s champion.
But Secret Hitler benefited from another, unforeseen trend: a significant surge in interest in fascism around the 2016 election, which also saw brisk sales of dystopian literary classics and a rejuvenated discussion of the movement that brought leaders like Hitler and Mussolini to power.
Hitler, as much as Lenin and Stalin has inspired the Left. What they all have in common is the limitless desire for externalizing change. The Left is never content to live in a stable, democratic community of shared values. Apart from losing power because they have nothing of significance to say, it is far too boring for them.
Change for its own sake is what they are about. It is the only quality which gives meaning to their rejection of a personal morality. They are ‘moral’ by virtue of smashing up other people who disagree with them – as they would like to smash Trump, but are forced to make do for now by pummeling his supporters.
Hitler demonstrated that violence is a necessity to establish Utopia, just as the Communists did – and do! And so we have antifa – the new Hitlerians.
Remember, colonialism is okay when China does it:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-09-06/china-loans-guinea-20-billion-exchange-minerals
As I have mentioned elsewhere, while talking with a woman from Kenya, I asked her whether—after another several years of exposure to Communist Chinese expansionism—native Africans might find themselves yearning for the “good-old-days” of European colonialism.
Her unblinking answer was: “You had better believe it!”
See the 2015 article: China and Africa: the Honeymoon is Over