A large crowd of football supporters gathered in London today to protest against terrorism and extremism. Attendance at the demo was estimated to be between 10,000 and 60,000.
In other news, a Scottish man may be facing prison time in Dubai for accidentally brushing up against another man in a bar.
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A Cashless Society Would Destroy Our Privacy and Freedom
Big data are propelling us towards a world where an individual’s purchasing power is determined by his or her demographics and online behaviour
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Dr. Seuss Museum Mural to be Replaced Amid Claims of a Racist Depiction
A Massachusetts museum dedicated to Dr. Seuss says it will replace a mural featuring a Chinese character from one of his books after three authors said they would boycott an event due to the “jarring racial stereotype.”
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Fire, Indict and Prosecute Political Hack Robert Mueller: Says Former Federal Prosecutor
A former prosecutor from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), who originally founded the top Washington, DC, government watchdog group Judicial Watch and who now heads Freedom Watch as its current General Counsel and Chairman, Larry Klayman, is taking on the nation’s Deep State leaders, including their latest circus ringmaster…
Former Det. Lieutenant Dave Margolin said, “I’ve never seen anything like this before: without one real shred for evidence, the Democrats were able — while being the minority in both houses of Congress and now controlling the Executive Branch [of government] — got to have a special prosecutor with more ties to the Democratic Party and the left than Barack Obama,” Margolin alleges.
“Mueller and his conflicted staff — which are Democrat/Clinton political campaign donors and supporters in large part — have illegally leaked grand jury information to harm President Trump, his family and former and present colleagues,” said Klayman.
“Special Counsel Mueller derives his authority and powers from the DOJ, as he was appointed by Deputy Attorney General (DAG) Rod Rosenstein — not coincidentally a closet Democrat and President Barack Obama’s former U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland,” according to Klayman.
The 66-year-old Klayman also has some choice words for Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Rosenstein. “They have failed and apparently refuse to properly police the illegal grand jury leaks and conflicts of interest of Mueller — putting their own personal, political and professional interests before all else — the job therefore fell upon Freedom Watch to file this complaint to represent the interests of the American people!”
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I Hate White People’: Teen Accused of Hate Crime Against Elderly Man in NYC
A teen was charged for assault after an alleged hate crime-related attack occurred Thursday on the New York City subway. According to the New York Post, an 18-year-old named Devon Ahmad attacked a 65-year-old white male after the two men shared an elevator. Ahmad reportedly said, “White people suck. I hate white people. White people are the source of my problems.” (RELATED: Crazy CNN Panelist Blames TRUMP For Kidnapped, Tortured White Man — ‘That Is Not A Hate Crime’ [VIDEO]) “He then proceeded to punch the victim in the face with a closed fist,” said NYPD spokeswoman Tiffany Phillips.
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New York Times reporter Rukmini Callimachi, who covers fanantics, says that ISIS have rarely claimed attacks that were not by either sympathisers or members
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Video footage of the Mandalay Bay’s exterior captured the morning after the massacre proves that three windows on the west face of the building were knocked out in addition to the two windows the media reported to be broken in the shooter’s suite and the adjacent room.
(INTELLIHUB) — Exclusive footage captured by Ruptly TV and uploaded to YouTube on Oct. 2 shows a detailed view of both the west, north, and east face of the Mandalay Bay, all of which have broken or missing windows.
According to the official story, the alleged shooter, Stephen Paddock, 64, fired out of a window located on the north wall of his suite, room 32-135, and out of a window on the east wall in the adjacent joined-room onto the crowd at the Route 91 music festival, killing 58 people. And yes, both of these windows were reported by the media to be broken. However, there may be more to the story than meets the eye.
In addition to the 2 broken windows on the north and east walls of the 32nd floor, 3 windows appear to be missing on the west wall.
[Comment: Read the comments. CrackSumm reports “Now we are finding that there is some documentation that is publicly available to support the allegation that Antifa is making good on its promise to start an American civil war. Further, seven full hours before I went on the air last Sunday evening, I was told by a source that Antifa had joined forces with MS-13 and ISIS. I produced a podcast about this affiliation. Now, it is clear that this association and planned actions are much further along than what I was told. ANTIFA IS BEHIND THE MASSACRE IN VEGAS. “.]
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MGM’s Jim Murren and George Soros Are Co-Conspirators in the Mandalay Bay Massacre
Does a CEO have a right to involve shareholders, employees or customers in his own personal and very radical politics? Jim Murren is affiliated with the darkest groups in America. Murren put MGM in business with an organization with ties to Islamic terrorism, namely, the Southern Poverty Law Center and its creation, Antifa.
Yes, you read the above paragraph correctly. I just got off the phone with an ex-CIA operative, whom I have known for several years and he told me that Murren and colleagues are deep into Antifa (George Soros and the Southern Poverty Law Center). I have another ex-CIA operative, Robert Steele, coming on my show on Sunday evening who will be exploring these links more fully. Now we are finding that there is some documentation that is publicly available to support the allegation that Antifa is making good on its promise to start an American civil war. Further, seven full hours before I went on the air last Sunday evening, I was told by a source that Antifa had joined forces with MS-13 and ISIS. I produced a podcast about this affiliation. Now, it is clear that this association and planned actions are much further along than what I was told. ANTIFA IS BEHIND THE MASSACRE IN VEGAS. And one man, that we can identify to date, knew what was coming and his actions with dumping his stock and his political affiliations make him the modern-day Peter Sutherland.
CEO Jim Murren has previouysly announced that his MGM company (and therefore) donations to extreme leftist groups, some contributed by controversial radical Marxist George Soros. Of course it is an established fact that when one identifies the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), we are talking hard core radicalism and GEORGE SOROS. SPLC lists Americans who have questioned or criticized radical Islam as hate groups in an America that has been turned upside down.
The following revelation will no doubt come out in a very public manner. Please consider the following:…
The association for the Vegas Massacre is George Soros-Antifa-MS-13-ISIS. And of course as we all know ISIS has repeatedly taken credit…
Ask yourself a question, why do you think Google is banning all videos that don’t promote the official Vegas narrative?
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Outrage as Nevada Professor Suggests Trump Deserves Blame for Las Vegas Massacre
A university professor in Las Vegas was filmed in class this week suggesting President Trump deserves some blame for the city’s shooting massacre because “all he’s done” is “encourage violence.”
“Right when he got elected, I told my classes, three semesters ago, that some of us won’t be affected by this presidency, but others are going to die,” University of Nevada, Las Vegas history professor Tessa Winkelmann said Thursday, according to video obtained by the Las Vegas Review-Journal. “Other people will die because of this. And we’ve seen this happen, right?”
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The Islamic State tripled down on the Las Vegas massacre on Thursday.
The Islamic terrorist group claimed Stephen Paddock converted to Islam six months ago. So did Deep State and the FBI know he converted to Islam?
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Univ of Texas Psych Professor Threatens Student for Criticizing Islam
Eve Browning, chair of philosophy at the University of Texas at San Antonio, threatened a bisexual student with disciplinary action for his criticism of Islam.
During a meeting with then-graduate student Alfred MacDonald, Browning claimed that even though UTSA is a public university, he could be dismissed for his criticism of Islam.
MacDonald, who recently went public about the 2016 meeting via Facebook, was having an out-of-class conversation with another student when he said: “I don’t have a high opinion of Islam.”
“I was having an outside-of-class conversation with another graduate student about the religious leanings of philosophy professors. Specifically, I was curious if there would be any bias toward me if I took a religious philosophy course as an atheist,” he explains in his detailed recollection of the encounter with Browning. “I didn’t think there would be; I took a theology course at a Catholic university, and was openly atheist, and had zero pushback about this.”
“So I commented that I had a good opinion of Christian professors in this regard. The student I was talking to mentioned that she was Christian but that her fiance was Muslim,” he continued. “ I said ‘I don’t have a high opinion of Islam’, and mentioned the aspects you heard in the recording. I mentioned that I didn’t have anything against her fiance personally and that I was strictly talking about the religious beliefs themselves. I took this to mean that she wanted to talk about our personal lives, so I mentioned my fiancee and our leanings and we talked about what restaurants she’s worked at.”
MacDonald explains that, after the conversation with his fellow student, Browning called him into her office for a meeting, stating she was concerned about his behavior.
“Since she insisted that I meet her in person in light of this, I reasoned that her issue is probably not convenience or efficiency but concealment of at least some part of what she was going to talk about,” he explained via Facebook. “Therefore, as Texas is a one-party consent state, it was in my best interest to record whatever this was.”
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Vice President Mike Pence Leaves Colts-49ers Game After Players Kneel During Anthem
Vice President Mike Pence walked out on his home-state Indianapolis Colts Sunday when members of the opposing team kneeled for the national anthem, but a report that Colin Kaepernick, the player who started it all, will stand if given another shot in the NFL was quickly dialed back.
“I left today’s Colts game because @POTUS and I will not dignify any event that disrespects our soldiers, our Flag, or our National Anthem,” Pence tweeted.
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Calgary Police Lay Attempted Murder Charges in Unprovoked Stabbing of Mother and Young Son
Charges of attempted murder have been laid against a 20-year-old Calgary man after a mother and her six-year-old son were brutally stabbed Friday evening.
The ordeal began a little after 7 p.m. Friday evening when calls were help were heard coming from a residential green space near Berwick Dr. and Bearberry Cres. N.W.
There, witnesses found a man in his 20s repeatedly stabbing a woman and her young son, reportedly out for a walk at the time of the attack.
Summoned by numerous 911 calls, emergency crews arrived to find the pair suffering numerous stab wounds.
Stabilized at the scene and rushed to hospitals in critical condition, their conditions have since stabilized and they continue to recover.
Postmedia has learned the youngest victim, a six-year-old boy, was treated at Alberta Children’s Hospital for numerous stab wounds to his back.
Rushed to Foothills Medical Centre by EMS, the boy’s mother sustained serious stab wounds to her chest and upper body.
Police say witnesses reported seeing the suspect linger at the scene for a short while before fleeing, which they say aiding in their identification and arrest of the suspect.
“Additional intelligence that came forth from neighbours and witnesses suggesting an individual nearby might be responsible,” Staff Sgt. Asif Rashid told media Friday evening at the scene.
“A male was taken into custody without incident.”
That suspect is 20-year-old John Garang Luka Yag, charged Saturday with two counts of attempted murder.
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Ex-Deputy Education Minister, Jailed for Child Porn Charges, Out on Parole
***Warning: explicit language***
His prison sentence runs until May 28, 2018 but that could have been disgraced educator Benjamin Levin you saw walking around in Toronto.
The 65-year-old former Ontario deputy education minister and member of Premier Kathleen Wynne’s 2013 transition team was jailed in May 2015 for sickening and disturbing online child pornography activities.
Levin, it turns out, has been on parole for some time.
That was reported late last week by a group called Parents As First Educators (PAFE), who emailed supporters and posted details about Levin’s release on their Facebook site.
According to Parole Board of Canada documents the group obtained, Levin was granted day parole to a community-based residential facility in Aug. 2016 and full parole on Jan. 10 this year, some 18 months after being sentenced to a three-year prison term…
Levin, who was a world-renowned educator before his shocking fall from grace, was jailed in May 2015 for creating and possessing child pornography and counselling others to commit a sexual assault.
At the time, Justice Heather McArthur wrote that Levin had a “hidden, dark side” that he had kept the secret from his family and political friends.
That hidden side included visiting chat rooms “devoted to topics of incest and the sexual exploitation of children,” something he’d done for years.
[Comment: This is why the Ontario school “sex education” program looks like a “grooming” program.]
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After Losing Millions to Nigerian Scammers, A Bankrupt Boris Becker is Liquidating His Assets
Becker shot to fame when he won Wimbledon aged just 17 and went on to win a total of six Grand Slam titles, including a further two Wimbledon titles, two Australian Opens, and a US Open crown, before retiring in 1999 aged just 31 and moving into business. Alas, here the fairy tale ends, and according to claims in the German media, Boris Becker may have lost a substantial portion of his roughly ‚¬50 million fortune in part because of questionable investments in the Nigerian oil industry.
Yes, Becker fell pray to the infamous Nigerian scam.
Spiegel claimed that it has seen details of a single investment of “more than $10m” in Nigerian oil prepared for Becker by Forbes & Manhattan, a Canadian investment bank and a former associate of the tennis player. Furthermore, the world’s former top tennis player had extensive links outside the world of tennis that ranged from African leaders to Laxmi Mittal, the Indian steel billionaire, to John Mahama, the former president of Ghana, and was seen as some one who could facilitate business deals.
Whatever the details of Becker’s business dealings, they proved to be a total disaster, and in June, the former tennis idol was declared bankrupt in a London court after a private London bank claimed it was owed almost £10 million. During the bankruptcy proceedings, John Briggs, Becker’s lawyer, told the court: “He is not a sophisticated individual when it comes to finances.”
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Billionaire Investor Claims ‘Never Married’ In One of Britain’s Biggest Divorce Cases Ever
Lawyers for one billionaire financier who’s suing to stop his ex-wife from taking half of his assets have hit on a novel strategy for winning their case: Proving that the couple were never married in the first place.
Asif Aziz, founder and chief executive officer of the real estate investment company Criterion Capital Ltd., says he was never married to Tagilde Aziz under English law, in a case that could be one of the largest divorce cases in UK history.
The lawsuit was filed in Asif’s hometown of London, according to Bloomberg.
In their rebuttal, lawyers for Tagilde — who shares four children with Aziz — argue that, while they were never legally married, Tagilde was “presented to the world” as Asif’s wife and is seeking a “fair share” of his wealth, which she values at 1.1 billion pounds ($1.3 billion).
Funds overseen by Criterion investments, Asif’s firm, have invested in the Trocadero entertainment complex in London’s Piccadilly Circus, according to its website, and its most recent accounts show its revenue in the year to March 31, 2016, was 4.3 million pounds.
Ultimately, the dispute will likely turn on whether Asif’s lawyers can prove that two ceremonies held in Malawai in 2002 and in Wimbledon in 1997 constituted legally binding weddings.
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Brother of Marseille Attacker Arrested in Italy: Police
Italian police said on Sunday they had arrested the brother of Anis Hannachi, the Tunisian man who killed two young women with a knife outside the Marseille train station a week ago in a suspected terrorist act.
An Italian anti-terrorism squad arrested 25-year-old Ahmed Hannachi in Ferrara, Italy, on Sunday evening on an international warrant issued by France, a police statement said.
On Oct. 1, Anis Hannachi shouted “Allahu Akbar” (God is greatest) as he killed the women, French police sources said.
Anis Hannachi was shot dead by a French soldier. The militant Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attack, but did not name the assailant.
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Catalonia Independence: Huge Spain Unity Rally in Barcelona
At least 350,000 people gathered in Barcelona, capital of Catalonia, for a rally against independence from Spain.
They waved Spanish and Catalan flags and carried banners saying “Together we are stronger” and “Catalonia is Spain”.
It was the largest such rally in Catalonia amid speculation that Catalan leaders will declare independence from Spain next week.
Spanish PM Mariano Rajoy has warned he would not rule out anything “within the law” to halt Catalonian independence.
Similar rallies were held across Spain on Saturday.
The final results from last week’s disputed referendum in the wealthy north-eastern region suggested 90% of the 2.3 million people who voted backed independence. Turnout was 43%.
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Denmark Government Announces Support for Burqa Ban
Government coalition parties the Liberal (Venstre) and Liberal Alliance parties have both announced their support for a public ban on garments that mask the face.
The announcements pave the way for the burqa and niqab to be outlawed in the Scandinavian country.
The stance by Liberal Alliance represents a shift in the party’s official line on the issue, while Venstre, the senior party in the government, had waited before the announcement of an official line with opinion divided amongst its MPs, reports broadcaster DR.
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Farage Tells Hillary Clinton ‘Stop Whining’ After She Demeans Brexit Voters
Failed U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has attacked Brexit voters, claiming they fell for a “horrible lie” and voted against “modern Britain” because of small-town concerns.
The former first lady also blamed her electoral loss on the e-mail scandal, alleged Russian influence, and host of other factors in an interview with The Sunday Times to promote her new book.
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France’s ‘Mama Jihad’ Jailed for 10 Years for Encouraging Jihadist Son
A Frenchwoman, nicknamed “Mama Jihad”, who tavelled to Syria three times to support her jihadist son was handed a 10-year jail sentence on Friday in the latest case against parents of Isis fighters. Christine Riviere, 51 was convicted of being part of a terrorist organization.
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France: Three Charged Over Makeshift Gas Canister Bomb in Paris
French prosecutors have charged three men in connection with a makeshift explosive device made of gas canisters placed inside an apartment block in western Paris, a judicial source told AFP on Saturday.
The three, identified as Amine A, his cousin Sami B, and Aymen B., were charged late Friday with “attempted murder in an organised group in connection with a terrorist enterprise” and placed in pre-trial detention, the source said.
All three were arrested on Monday evening, two days after the device was found in a block in the 16th arrondissement, one of the city’s most exclusive neighbourhoods.
In total, police found four gas cylinders — two of them in the hallway attached to a mobile phone which investigators believe was meant to be used as a detonator. The other two were on the pavement outside.
Amine A., 30, and Aymen B., 29, are both on the terror watchlist.
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Germany: Intercultural Education: The Future of Schooling
Teaching children to be aware and respectful of different cultures is more important than ever. Raising the next generation to navigate a culturally diverse world is the key to a more tolerant and integrated future.
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Greece: Athens Violence: Riot Police Clash With Anarchists
ANARCHISTS attacked police with petrol bombs and stones during violent clashes in the Greek capital of Athens.
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Ireland: An Post Release Che Guevara Inspired Stamp for 50th Anniversary
An Post have released a collectible stamp of Che Guevara in order to commemorate the 50th anniversary of his death in 1967.
The €1 stamp features the iconic image of the Marxist revolutionary which was created by Irish artist, Jim Fitzpatrick, a year after Guevara’s death.
Fitzpatrick was inspired to create the image after meeting Guevara in a bar in Co Clare when he was 16.
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Notorious British Female Jihadis ‘Recruiting White Muslim Women to Attack UK’
BRITISH jihadis Sally Jones and Samantha Lewthwaite have been creating an ‘army’ of white Muslim women to attack the UK, according to spies.
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The Trachilos tracksite deserves to be protected and the evidence should be debated by scientists.
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Polish Catholics Pray at Borders ‘To Save Country’
Thousands of Polish Catholics formed human chains on the country’s borders Saturday, begging God “to save Poland and the world” in an event many viewed as a spiritual weapon against the “Islamisation” of Europe.
Reciting “Rosary to the Borders”, they called to be protected from the dangers facing them. The episcopate insisted that it was a purely religious initiative.
The goal was to have as many prayer points as possible along Poland’s 3,511-kilometre (2,200-mile) border with Germany, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Russia and the Baltic Sea.
Fishing boats joined the event on the sea, while kayaks and sailboats formed chains on Polish rivers, local media said.
During a mass, broadcast live by the ultra-Catholic Radio Maryja, Krakow archbishop Marek Jedraszewski called on believers to pray “for the other European nations to make them understand it is necessary to return to Christian roots so that Europe would remain Europe.”
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Sibelius’ Finlandia Overwhelmingly Voted Most Beautiful Finnish Choral Music
This Saturday 20 choirs joined together in Jyväskylä to sing the 100 best works of choral music in Finland. An online poll of choir participants throughout the country determined that Finnish composer Jean Sibelius’ Finlandia was the country’s best piece for choirs, winning close to half of the total votes.
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Spanish PM Won’t Rule Out Suspending Catalonia’s Autonomy
Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy says he won’t rule out suspending Catalonia’s regional autonomy if its leaders continue to threaten a declaration of independence.
“I don’t rule out anything,” Rajoy said in an interview with the daily newspaper El Pais Sunday when asked about applying the constitutional provision that allows the suspension.
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Sweden: ‘We Can’t Let Racists Re-Define Viking Culture’
When a Swedish neo-Nazi group staged a demonstration in the country’s second largest city last weekend, they were by far outnumbered by counter-demonstrators.
One of the groups which protested the march was Vikingar Mot Rasism (Vikings Against Racism), a network set up by Viking fans to challenge the use of Viking symbols by white nationalists.
“Viking enthusiasts get mistaken for racists and Nazis all the time, and we’re very uncomfortable with that. White nationalists don’t get to reinvent what Viking culture is,” says Solvej von Malmborg, an admin for the network’s Facebook group who was at the march.
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Sweden’s US-Style Airport Security Plans Criticised
Several authorities have criticised plans to introduce a new law that would provide for US security checks on United States-bound passengers at Stockholm’s Arlanda Airport.
The measures have been censured for being too expensive and lacking a sound legal footing, writes Svenska Dagbladet.
Several shortcomings exist in the government’s plans to implement the proposal, which would see armed US personnel carry out security checks at Arlanda, Swedish police said according to the newspaper.
Police legal advisors said American security at the Stockholm airport would require “some of the most far-reaching restrictions that can be made to a state’s sovereignty”.
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Sweden: Nobel Science Prize Voices Concern Over Lack of Female Laureates
With women making up just three per cent of Nobel science prize winners, prize organiser the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences wants to see more female nominees.
The figures speak for themselves: of the 587 Nobel prizes awarded for science since their introduction in 1901, only 18 have gone to women, (including two to Marie Curie). The last time there was a female winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics it was 1963.
In the past, the academy has put this down to a lag in scientific research being carried out and nominations of between 20 to 30 years. But today, with women better represented in scientific fields, this no longer provides an answer.
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“I have stopped believing in multiculturalism.”
by Soeren Kern
[…] Babis’s approach to the EU is pragmatic: “They give us money, so our membership is advantageous for us.” He does not want the Czech Republic to leave the EU, but he is opposed to the country joining the eurozone:
“No euro. I don’t want the euro. We don’t want the euro here. Everybody knows it’s bankrupt. It’s about our sovereignty. I want the Czech koruna, and an independent central bank. I don’t want another issue that Brussels would be meddling with.”
Babis has expressed opposition to mass migration: “I have stopped believing in successful integration and multiculturalism.” He has called on Merkel “to give up her political correctness and to begin to act” on securing European borders:
“In return for billions of euros, she should make sure that Greece and Turkey completely stop the arrival of refugees in Europe. Otherwise, it will be her fault what happens to the European population. Unfortunately, Mrs. Merkel refuses to see how serious the situation is in Germany and in other EU nations. Her attitude is really tragic.”
Babis blamed Merkel for the December 2016 jihadist attack on a Berlin Christmas market:
“Unfortunately, the migration policy is responsible for this dreadful act. It was she who let migrants enter Germany and the whole of Europe in uncontrolled waves, without papers, therefore without knowing who they really are. Germany is paying a high price for this policy. The solution is peace in Syria and the return of migrants to their homes. There is no place for them in Europe.”
Babis has rejected pressure from the European Commission, which has launched infringement procedures against the Czechs, Hungarians and Poles for refusing to comply with an EU plan to redistribute migrants. In August 2016, he tweeted:
“I will not accept refugee quotas for the Czech Republic. The situation has changed. We see how migrants react in Europe. There is a dictator in Turkey. We must react to the needs and fears of the citizens of our country. We must guarantee the security of Czech citizens. Even if we are punished by sanctions.”
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Thousands of football fans marched against extremism today at a protest attended by English Defence League founder Tommy Robinson.
The Football Lads Alliance (FLA) descended on London for a demonstration condemned by charity Stand up to Racism (SUTR) as well as Labour’s shadow home secretary Dianne Abbott.
FLA founder John Meighan said the event was organised to show concern at a ‘recent upsurge’ in UK terrorist attacks, according to the Evening Standard.
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UK: Massive Rally Closes London’s Park Lane — Football Fans Protest Against Terror Extremism
THOUSANDS of football fans descended on London today to protest against extremism after a spate of terror attacks in the UK.
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Why Catalonian Independence Terrifies the EU
For the power-brokers of Europe, Catalonian independence is not about one region’s right to self determination.
It tests the viability of a union of states who share a currency but see sharing financial resources as impossible to contemplate.
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Young Spaniards Worry They Might Have to Leave Catalonia
But some Catalan Spaniards saw the proposal as an attempt to erase their Spanish identity in the city, a sign of things to come, like Sunday’s vote for independence.
“This is the final crash,” Juan told me after watching Catalan President Carles Puigdemont’s post-referendum interview with the BBC, where he confirmed he would press on with independence. “I will have to leave Catalonia if it happens.”
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Two Ancient DNA Studies Provide New Insights Into Lives of Neanderthals and Paleolithic Humans
Two separate teams of researchers have used advanced DNA sequencing methods to analyze the 52,000-year-old remains of a Neanderthal woman from Vindija Cave in Croatia, and the 34,000-year-old remains of four anatomically modern humans from the Upper Paleolithic archaeological site of Sunghir. The findings are published in two papers in the journal Science.
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The Maritime Sector: An Opportunity for Development and Growth in the Mediterranean
With a total value of €520 million, the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) supports three labelled projects targeting the maritime transport, trade and logistics sectors.
Supported by the active involvement of its 43 Member States, the UfM is committed to building on the great potential of the Mediterranean maritime sector to facilitate trade, transport and mobility in the region, while placing people at the centre of its projects and initiatives.
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Libya Recovers Remains of 21 Beheaded Coptic Christians
“Islamic State” militants reportedly carried out the execution-style killings in early 2015. A detained IS militant who witnessed the mass murder clued in authorities to the site.
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Morocco ‘Mule Women’ In Back-Breaking Trade From Spain Enclave
Along the border between Spain’s North African enclave Ceuta and Morocco, thousands of women eke out a living lugging back-breaking loads of goods in an “organised trafficking” operation tolerated by officials.
Nicknamed “mule women” on the Spanish side of the frontier, the Moroccan women sometimes struggle under burdens heavier than their own body weight, risking their lives for the job.
So far this year four porters have been trampled to death in crushes, and activists in both Morocco and Spain have repeatedly complained the work is “humiliating and degrading”.
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British Tourist Faces Jail in Dubai After Brushing Against Man in Bar
A British tourist is facing a three-year jail sentence in Dubai after putting his hand out in a bar to stop himself spilling his drink and touching a man’s hip, according to his representatives.
Campaign group Detained in Dubai said Jamie Harron, from Stirling, central Scotland, was arrested for public indecency. Harron is said to have since lost his job and has spent more than £30,000 in expenses and legal fees, having already been stuck in the country for three months.
Radha Stirling, the chief executive of Detained in Dubai, said: “It is quite outrageous that he has been held in the country for so long already. This is another example of how vulnerable tourists are to arrest and detention in Dubai and at how drawn out and disorganised legal proceedings are.”
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Iran Warns US Against Imposing New Sanctions and ‘Terror’ Designation
The warning comes as US President Trump is expected to announce his new Iran policy in the coming days. Trump campaigned last year against the international nuclear deal with Iran and has vowed to abandon it.
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ISIS Calls on Women to Fight and Launch Terror Attacks for First Time
‘Unprecedented’ change comes as group continues to lose territory in Syria and Iraq
Isis has called on women to take up arms as it continues to lose territory in Syria and Iraq, in an alarming development that could have global consequences.
In a new edition of its Arabic language newspaper, the terrorist group told female supporters it was an “obligation” for them to wage physical jihad.
“Today, in the context of the war against the Islamic State, it has become necessary for female Muslims to fulfil their duties on all fronts in supporting the mujahedeen in this battle,” the article said, adding that women should “prepare themselves to defend their religion by sacrificing themselves by Allah”.
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Islamic Republic of Iran Threatens Missile Strikes on US Bases
Iran warned the United States against designating its Revolutionary Guards Corp as a terrorist group and said U.S. regional military bases would be at risk if further sanctions were passed.
The warning came after the White House said on Friday that President Donald Trump would announce new US responses to Iran’s missile tests, support for “terrorism” and cyber operations as part of his new Iran strategy.
“As we’ve announced in the past, if America’s new law for sanctions is passed, this country will have to move their regional bases outside the 2,000 km range of Iran’s missiles,” Guards’ commander Mohammad Ali Jafari said, according to state media.
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Man in Dubai Court Over ‘Hip Touch’
A Scot, who is facing a three-year jail term in Dubai for putting his hand on a man in a bar, has appeared in court.
Jamie Harron, from Stirling, was summoned to a hearing on Sunday after he reportedly failed to attend a previous court date in the city.
The 27-year-old was arrested for public indecency following an incident at the Rock Bottom Bar in Dubai on 15 July.
Despite fears he would be rearrested, Mr Harron was freed but told to remain in the city for future court dates.
The electrician, who had been working in Afghanistan, was on a two-day stopover in the United Arab Emirates when the incident happened.
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Tehran Threatens US Bases as Trump Reshapes Iran Strategy
“If America’s new law for sanctions is passed, this country will have to move their regional bases outside the 2,000 km range of Iran’s missiles,” warns Revolutionary Guards Corps chief.
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The Iran Deal Isn’t Worth Saving
by John R. Bolton
[…] The ayatollahs have neither the desire nor the incentive to renegotiate even a comma of the agreement. Why should they, when it is entirely to their advantage? Both Resolution 2231 and the statement, for example, “call upon” Iran to forgo activity regarding “ballistic missiles designed to be capable of delivering nuclear weapons.” The U.N. secretary-general recently reported that Iran is violating this provision and implicitly lying about it. But the deal’s language allows Iran to claim solemnly that its missiles are not “designed” to carry nuclear warheads, an assertion whose verification would require polygraphs and psychologists, not weapons inspectors. This is one of many textual loopholes.
If the deal is vitiated, Tehran would not be freer than it is now to pursue nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles. Not only is the international compliance regime a far cry from Mr. Obama’s promised “anytime, anywhere” inspections, crucial language is vague and ambiguous. Mr. Obama’s negotiators crippled real international verification by pre-emptively surrendering on what were delicately termed “possible military dimensions” of Iran’s nuclear program.
Moreover, simple economic logic suggests that Tehran’s scientists are probably enjoying Pyongyang’s hospitality, well beyond the International Atomic Energy Agency’s limited capability to detect. Even U.S. intelligence could be in the dark if Iran is renting a uranium enrichment facility under a North Korean mountain. It is specious to assert that the North Korean nuclear crisis should lead to deferring action on the Iran deal. The conclusion should be precisely the opposite: Failure to act decisively on Iran now worsens the global proliferation threat.
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U.S. Halts Some Visa Services in Turkey, Citing Security Concerns
The U.S. Embassy in Ankara announced Sunday that it was suspending all non-immigrant visa services at diplomatic facilities across Turkey, in what appeared to be an act of retaliation after Turkey arrested an employee of the U.S. Consulate in Istanbul last week.
In a statement, the embassy said the move was aimed at limiting visitors to the U.S. mission while the United States “reassesses” Turkey’s commitment to the security of American personnel, an extraordinary admission that underscores the fraught ties between the onetime allies.
The decision follows the arrest last week of Metin Topuz, a Turkish employee of the U.S. Consulate in Istanbul, whom authorities here accused of espionage. The embassy said it was “deeply disturbed” by the arrest and called the allegations “wholly untrue.”
On Friday, U.S. Ambassador John Bass met with Turkish reporters in Ankara and said Topuz was being tried “through media outlets” rather than in a court of law.
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Pakistan: Sufi Mausoleum Attacked to Punish the Tradition of Music and Dance, Say Activists
The Rawadari Tehreek group condemns the attack on the Pir Rakhel Shah shrine, in Balochistan. Radicals are against ‘dhamal’, the whirling dance, because it provides an emotional outlet. For Sufi poet, “terrorism poses greater challenges to activists who cure the evils of society.”
Lahore (AsiaNews) — Christian activists and well-known Pakistani Sufi artists have condemned the attack against the Pir Rakesh Shah Sufi mausoleum, in Jhal Magsi, Balochistan province, which was claimed by the Islamic State group. The latest death toll stands at 31.
“Shrines are targeted because of popular dances and music,” said Samson Salamat, head of Rawadari Tehreek (Movement for Tolerance), who spoke to AsiaNews about the attack.
Sufism is a moderate trend within Islam that includes mystical practices (like music and dance). However, the latter are ostracised by extremists, who regard Sufis as heretics and an insult to Islam.
The “dhamal (ritual whirling) is performed by both men and women. It is popular with drums and allows performers to find an emotional outlet. Terrorists want to end this tradition.
However, “dhamal does not harm anyone and does not violate any human rights,” Salamat said. “It combines pleasure and devotion. Such attacks undermine religious freedom.”
Yesterday’s attack is the second this year. In February another Islamic State militant blew himself up at the Sufi shrine in Lal Shahbaz Qalandar, in the city of Sehwan, Sindh.
Three days after that attack, Rawadari Tehreek activists performed the famous dance at the shrine to protest against the murder of 85 innocent people. “We did it to challenge the terrorists,” Salamat said.
“The philosophy of Sufism preaches love, harmony between religions, and sense of humanity,” said Baba Najmi, a Punjabi Sufi poet who has performed for the past 40 years.
“Killing innocent people is inhuman. We can’t do anything,” he lamented. “Only a change of heart can stop these terrorists who have lost touch with the earth, country, and religion.”
For Sufism, “Everyone deserves to be loved and cared for without distinction of belief. The government has its responsibilities. The current wave of terrorism poses greater challenges to activists who cure the evils of society. Our poetry bears witness to that mission.”
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“Pakistan needs to take several measures so that the credibility of its nuclear deterrence is assured. One, the massive deployment of artillery and short-range missiles (à la North Korea) as the first line of conventional deterrence and defense against an Indian Cold Start [i.e. a doctrine envisaging simultaneous mobilization of India’s armed forces] attack. This would deter Indian attack and also raise the nuclear threshold. Two, the multiplication of long— medium— and short-range nuclear-capable missiles to ensure the penetration of any ballistic missile defense systems that India deploys. Three, the continued production of fissile materials to provide warheads for the enlarged missile force.”
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‘Harvested Alive’ Documentary Inspires Texas a&M Students to Take Action
COLLEGE STATION, Texas—A showing of the award-winning documentary “Harvested Alive” at Texas A&M University on Sept. 28 left audience members wanting to spread the word about atrocities taking place in China.
The film tells the story of a 10-year-long investigation by the World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (WOIPFG) into the crimes of mass forced organ harvesting in China. …
The order to pillage the organs of Falun Gong practitioners came from the top down. The film quotes former Politburo member Bo Xilai as saying that then-Communist Party leader Jiang Zemin had “issued the order of live organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners.”
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Japan Fully Backs Trump on North Korea, Abe Says
President Donald Trump’s “all options on the table” stance regarding North Korea has the full support Japan’s government, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Sunday.
Abe’s remarks came during a televised debate among leaders of Japan’s major political parties. The nation’s voters will head to the polls Oct. 22 for parliamentary elections.
The Japanese leader said North Korea had failed to deliver on past promises to end its pursuit of nuclear technology made during “six-party” talks with Japan, China, the U.S., Russia and South Korea.
“They used the framework of the dialogue to earn time so that they could develop their nuclear technology,” Abe said. “As the result, their nuclear capability has reached to this level and we cannot afford being deceived by them again.”
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North Korea: Kim Jong-un Promotes Sister to Politburo
North Korea’s Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un has given his sister more power by promoting her to the nation’s top decision-making body.
Kim Yo-jong, the youngest daughter of late leader Kim Jong-il, will be replacing her aunt as a member of the Workers Party’s Politburo.
Ms Kim, 30, was referred to as a senior party official three years ago.
The Kim family has ruled North Korea since the country was established following the Second World War in 1948.
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Why Are Donkeys Facing Their ‘Biggest Ever Crisis’?
The world’s donkeys are facing a population crisis because of the huge demand for their skins in China, where they are used to make health foods and traditional medicine.
Donkey meat is also a popular food, but a huge drop in the number of Chinese donkeys and the fact they are slow to reproduce, has forced suppliers to look elsewhere.
Africa has been badly hit because the animals are such an important part of life for transport and farming — particularly in poorer communities.
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Concerns have been raised over new law proposed by the Turnbull government that would allow police to hold children as young as 10 without charge for up to two weeks on suspicion of a terrorism offence.
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Christian Charity Facing Banishment by Government Regulators
A Christian charity in New Zealand right now is fighting a battle more and more Christians may come to encounter as LGBT activists expand their influence around the globe — a government decision its belief in biblical marriage “cannot be determined to be for the public benefit.”
While Christian and conservative organizations in the United States faced harassment and targeting under the administration of Barack Obama, with deliberate delays in regulatory approval so they could operate, charities in New Zealand operate under a different legal structure.
There, they must be authorized by regulators, the government’s New Zealand Charities Board, or they simply are not allowed to operate. That is, without that approval they are not allowed to collect donations at all.
Officials at the Barnabas Fund, which works on behalf of persecuted Christians worldwide, explained when the first Charities Commission was set up in the United Kingdom, which was integral in establishing governments in New Zealand and Australia, in 1853, “its role was very simple — to ensure that when people gave money to a charity, that money was used for the purpose for which it was given.”
“In those days everyone understood what a charitable purpose was — it was things like helping the poor, caring for the sick or spreading the Gospel. In fact in the nineteenth century more than three-quarters of all charities had a specifically Christian foundation,” the report said.
“However, in the last two decades laws have been passed in Australia, NZ and the UK which require charities to prove they provide a ‘ public benefit.’ This has created a dangerous situation in all three countries where unelected individual civil servants at the charity regulator can effectively decide on their own what is/is not allowed to be a charity (and therefore allowed to collect donations).”
It’s the Family First NZ organization that has been fighting the attacks from the regulators.
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A Muslim imam from Queensland who is against shaking hands with women has described the awkward moment he mistakenly shook hands with a female Buddhist monk.
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Three Stabbed in Suspected Connected Inner Melbourne Attacks
THREE people have been left with stab wounds after what police suspect are connected attacks in inner Melbourne.
In the first of this morning’s incidents, three men were confronted by a group of others in Hoddle St, Collingwood.
One of the trio was stabbed and the other fled the scene.
Soon after, two men — believed to be the pair who fled Hoddle St — were again confronted in Victoria St, Richmond.
They suffered minor stab wounds.
Detectives have spoken to witnesses at the scene.
It is not yet clear what caused the outbreaks of violence.
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US Revokes Sanctions Despite Genocide in Sudan
by Lt. Gen. Abakar M. Abdallah, Jerome B. Gordon and Deborah P. Martin
October 6th, 2017, The State Department announced effective October 12th revocation of 20 years of economic sanctions against the regime of Sudan President Omar Ahmed Hassan al Bashir. The only redress offered was retention of Sudan on the State Department’s list of state sponsors of terrorism.
US Rep James P. McGovern, co-chairman of the bi-partisan Congressional Human Rights Commission released a statement condemning the Trump Administration decision. He said:…
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Admirers Honor ‘Che’ Guevara 50 Years After His Death
It’s been 50 years since Cuban revolutionary hero Ernesto “Che” Guevara was captured and killed in Bolivia, and the village where he was killed and the nearby town where he was buried have become shrines to a sort of socialist saint.
Thousands of activists and sympathizers from many countries poured into La Higuera and Vallegrande this week for ceremonies to commemorate Guevara led by the country’s leftist president, Evo Morales. He laid flowers at a bust of the fallen guerrilla in the village of La Higuera on Sunday.
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Cubans Remember Che Guevara 50 Years After His Death
Several thousand people have attended a ceremony in the Cuban city of Santa Clara to remember the revolutionary icon Ernesto “Che” Guevara, 50 years after his capture and death.
Among crowds at his statue and mausoleum was his old friend, Cuban President Raúl Castro.
Many more watched at home on state TV as President Castro laid a white rose on Guevara’s tomb.
The revolutionary still divides opinion as much today as he did in life.
For five decades his name has adorned every corner of Cuba, from banknotes to billboards, his image one of the most recognisable in Latin America.
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Italian, Swiss Journalists Among 3 Detained in Venezuela
A Venezuelan journalists association says the country’s National Guard has detained three journalists who were reporting on a prison. They include an Italian and a Swiss citizen.
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22 Rohingya Muslims Posing as Refugees Arrested in Bangladesh for Alleged Role in Massacre of Hindus
Amid a raging debate over the deportation of Rohingyas from India, Times Now’s exclusive investigation has revealed why Centre has taken the stand it has.
22 Rohingya Muslims, who were posing as refugees, have been arrested in Bangladesh, Times Now has learnt. The 22 people are allegedly linked to the massacre of Rohingya Hindus in Myanmar.
The same forces are believed to have attacked Bangladeshi forces earlier and Pakistan’s deep state is believed to have trained this group of 22 Rohingyas.
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After Sea Voyage, Migrants Risk Lives on Freight Train to Germany
“Maybe the migrant jumped off the train to evade checks in Austria and had no time to put his shoe on,” said Rainer Scharf, a police spokesman at the small southern German station of Raubling, where a team of officers had arrived to inspect freight train carriages.
A little further down under another container, flattened water bottles and biscuit packaging suggested that at least one other migrant was on the train.
Such finds are becoming alarmingly common as freight trains gain popularity with migrants seeking to reach northern Europe.
Many of these mostly sub-Saharan African or north African migrants have arrived in Europe by sea, boarding rickety vessels to cross the Mediterranean from Libya to reach Italy.
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Germany: Refugee Issue Looms as Merkel Starts Coalition Talks
Two weeks after winning German elections with a reduced majority, Chancellor Angela Merkel takes a first step Sunday on a rocky road towards forming a government by trying to get her own conservative house in order.
Her meeting from 1000 GMT with Bavarian sister party CSU kicks off weeks of exploratory coalition talks involving four parties, which will fight for ministerial posts and issues from EU relations to climate policy.
The trickiest questions centre on refugees after Merkel allowed in more than one million asylum seekers in the past two years — the decision that drove the shock rise of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD).
CSU leader Horst Seehofer, a harsh critic of Merkel’s open-door policy, has revived his calls to cap refugee numbers at 200,000 a year — a demand Merkel has consistently rejected as unconstitutional.
Seehofer is in no mood to budge after his party too took a drubbing and lost many votes to the AfD, which ran on populist slogans such as “Stop Islamisation”.
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Greek Police Arrest 8 Smugglers Who Brought in 49 Migrants
Greek police say they have arrested eight migrant traffickers who smuggled 49 migrants through Greece’s land border with Turkey.
The arrests of the traffickers, six Bulgarians, a Syrian and a Pakistani, were made Saturday in northeastern Greece, most close to the border.
The biggest case involved two Bulgarians who had stashed 17 Syrians in a crypt inside a tourist bus.
In two other cases, police chased down two vehicles to arrest four Bulgarian smugglers. In one, a lone driver carried five Pakistanis, three Syrians and three Somalis in a van. In the other, a Bulgarian driver and two accomplices crashed a bus carrying 10 migrants from Syria, Pakistan and Bangladesh into a railing. No one was hurt.
Such incidents occur almost daily, although police say they increase during weekends.
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Merkel Agrees to Refugee Compromise
German Chancellor Angela Merkel reportedly reached a deal with coalition partners Sunday to set a new migrant policy for the next few years.
Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) is about to form a new government with its sister party the Christian Social Union (CSU), the Green party and the liberal Free Democrats (FDP). The main obstacle has been to find a shared migrant policy, but the coalition reportedly agreed to accept 200,000 people per year after an eight-hour meeting, according to newspaper Die Welt.
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Migrants Threaten Swedish Migration Board Employees With Rape, Violence
In the first nine months of 2017, the Swedish migration board has reported 2,875 serious incidents against their staff including threats of rape and assault, and threats to set fire to their offices.
Particularly worrying for the female employees of the migration board, which handles all the country’s asylum claims, has been the number of sexual harassment incidents from migrants. So far, there have been 15 cases of sexual harassment including one in which a migrant threatened to rape a female employee, Aftonbladet reports.
Maria Johansson, working environment specialist at the Swedish Migration Board, said the incidents “can be anything including an inappropriate comment related to a sexual act. This is not a common problem with us, but it is serious when it happens.”
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The African Refugees Waiting for Rescue on Italy’s Mediterranean Coast
Waiting wasn’t a misery the Africans expected on Europe’s shore. At least a hundred of the migrants felt so desperate that they tried to swim to France.
They had traveled several thousand miles, from countries across Africa, to reach this crowded beach. They had longed to arrive, and now, there was nothing to do but wait.
Since the previous summer, they had tried to cross a border checkpoint that was, until recently, non-existent and unmanned. They were bound for France, but also Germany and England. They dreamt of jobs and of relatives who would take them in and let them share a room and a meal.
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Book: A Queer Thing Happened to America: And What a Long, Strange Trip it’s Been (Hardcover)
Forty years ago, few people said they knew anyone who was homosexual; now one sees portrayals on nearly every TV show. What’s happened? The explanation is in “A Queer Thing Happened to America.”
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Christian Pastor Appeals His Victory Over LGBT Activists
A Christian minister who won the dismissal of a case filed against him by a Ugandan homosexual-rights group now is asking an appeals court to strike from the record a venomous diatribe the judge unleashed on his beliefs.
WND reported in June when Judge Michael Ponsor granted American pastor Scott Lively a summary judgment in a lawsuit brought by the group Sexual Minorities Uganda, also known as SMUG.
But in his written opinion, the judge, known as an advocate for LGBT activism, attacked Lively and his Christian beliefs, calling them “ detestable,” “despicable,” “ludicrous,” “abhorrent” and “bizarre.”
Now, Lively is challenging the judge’s use of a court ruling — one that concluded the court had no authority to rule in the case — to smear the pastor’s character and his Christian beliefs.
Lively’s legal advocates, Liberty Counsel, also said Posner purported to conclude, without legal or factual analysis, that Lively’s Christian beliefs and pro-family ministry violated “international law.” In addition, the judge claimed Lively’s talks on homosexuality in Uganda “aided and abetted” crimes purportedly committed by people Lively has never met…
Liberty Counsel said the judge “correctly found that Lively ‘supplied no financial backing, directed no physical violence, hired no employees and he provided no supplies or other material support’to alleged ‘ crimes against humanity’ allegedly committed by various people in Uganda.”
“However, due to the judge’s known support for the LGBT agenda, he improperly littered his order with a prolonged tirade against Lively, badly distorting Lively’s Christian views and ministry, and insulting him with such unbecoming epithets as ‘ crackpot bigot,’“ Liberty Counsel explained.
The judge claimed “without even a pretense of legal or factual analysis” that those Christian beliefs violated international law.
So Liberty Counsel now is asking the appeals court to “strike” Ponsor’s “ prejudicial and unnecessary statements.”
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France: Feminist Academics Protest ‘Racist’ Law Against Street Harassment
A group of feminist academics have rallied against plans to make street harassment illegal in France, on the grounds that new laws could “stigmatise” men with migrant backgrounds.
“It is well known that racialised young men from the working classes already suffer more than other people from police violence and oppression,” assert the academics, in a letter opposing equality minister Marlène Schiappa’s announcement that MPs are working on legislation to reduce street harassment.
“It would be enough to train the perpetrators on the ground to change their behaviour,” write the 15 signatories, stating: “Creating a new offence will only strengthen the repression and control of men in disadvantaged groups.”
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A university professor in Las Vegas was filmed in class this week suggesting President Trump deserves some blame for the city’s shooting massacre because “all he’s done” is “encourage violence.
=> Is it just me or are they so controlled and used and abused, that if someone tells them ‘jump’, they jump? even if Trump encouraged violence, are the people being encouraged irresponsible [epithets] who do as they are told?
about a year ago, a drunk white trash in London killed a Czech business proffessional with a chain saying: ‘look what you made me do!’
are we really heading into a society where all the blame is external?
look what you made me do!
Trump made me do it!
He encouraged my violence!
I’m innocent ya know… Just like the German soldiers in Stalingrad were innocent. Hitler made them do it!
sorry, but personal irresponsibility seems to be behind it all…
The woman that you gave me, she gave me the fruit…
“The woman that you gave me, she gave me the fruit…”
The serpent said….
no, it was the man who said it. he shifted the blame, became irresponsible, and thus caused all that trouble…
Because the man wasn’t deceived, but the woman was!
‘Yea hath God said thou shall not eat of the tree?’
Of what were there German soldiers at Stalingrad guilty? Was there something else that those troops did other than play a role in a horrific military contest?
they were guilty of attacking a foreign country, don’t you think?
I don’t deny they been played. But were they Christians, they would have known better than to follow a man to their own peril. The same goes for the Red Army.
In fact, it could be said that Hitler and Stalin perpetrated a genocide against Christians, but the ‘Christians’ went along with it and thus the war and death.
Live by the sword, die by the sword… Dont follow a man but God.
There is some very compelling evidence to suggest that the Soviets were about to invade Nazi Germany and that the Germans only beat the Russians to it by two weeks – it was that close!
the Merkelite coalition reportedly agreed to accept 200,000 people per year
why o’ why do you tax your own citizens out of existence just to support millions of foreigners?
200,000 a year? any mention of the family reunification laws?
one society living on paychecks from another society: the paying society can’t effort babies, because they have to pay for the other babies… what can go wrong?
200,000 a year -> 2 MILLION in a decade + chain migration of ‘relatives’. Our ‘leaders’ are criminals. All to try keep the unsustainable Ponzi Scheme of the socialist welfare state and central planning governments going.
I agree! 200,000 a year including the family reunification can climb up to a million a year just like that.
It is criminal, because nobody wants it – except for the corrupt politicians and their wealthy Saudi corrupters…
+ of course a few stupid ‘refugee welcome’ types. But I doubt Merkel is one of them.
** the coalition reportedly agreed to accept 200,000 people per year **
It seems the CSU and CDU are not acquainted with the Indian concept of the zero. More primitives and enemies on the way!
“Failure to act decisively on Iran now worsens the global proliferation threat.” There has already been a failure to act against the country most responsible for nuclear proliferation – Pakistan.
It was Pakistan that was responsible for providing North Korea with centrifuges and with procedures for enrichment which Abdul Quadir Khan originally stole from his European employers. Pakistan also provided Iran with centrifuges in 2003 which tells me that the Iranians already have a nuclear capability and the international community has covered it up.
Pakistan has misrepresented itself as a western ally when really it has been anything but, building a vast nuclear arsenal with US aid money while selling the technology to countries hostile to the west.
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“There is no way better than war to change societie’s outlook.”
A must see!
James Corbett – Echoes of WWI: China, the US and the Next “Great” War
https://youtu.be/1dsEHS-VJ1Q
OpenmindconferenceDK
22 sep. 2017
In the early 20th century, the world’s dominant superpower looked warily on the rise of a competitor to its supremacy. The machinations of the British to contain the rise of Germany led inexorably to the First World War.
Once again in the early 21st century, the world’s dominant superpower is looking warily on the rise of a competitor. Will the American Empire’s machinations to contain the rise of China lead to the Third World War? Or is the American/Chinese conflict another engineered cold war to keep the world in a state of static tension? James Corbett will explore these issues at the Open Mind Conference 2017.
James Corbett has been living and working in Japan since 2004. He started The Corbett Report website in 2007 as an outlet for independent critical analysis of politics, society, history and economics. Since then, he has written, recorded and edited thousands of hours of audio and video media for the website, including a podcast and several regular online video series. He produces video reports for GRTV and is the lead editorial writer for The International Forecaster, the weekly e-newsletter created by the late Bob Chapman.
The Corbett Report is an independent, listener-supported alternative news source. It operates on the principle of open source intelligence and provides podcasts, interviews, articles and videos about breaking news and important issues from 9/11 Truth and false flag terror to the Big Brother police state, eugenics and geopolitics