A German court has ruled that municipalities must accept convicted migrant sex offenders, even if they are likely to offend again. The decision came about as a result of a suit filed by a locality that wanted to keep out a failed asylum seeker who had served three years in prison for sexual assault.
In other migration news, a group of 200 migrants attempted to storm the border of the Spanish enclave Ceuta in North Africa, but were kept back by officers of the Guardia Civil.
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Is Peter Thiel Trying to Break Up Google? This $300,000 Political Contribution Seems to Imply He Is…
Peter Thiel, the billionaire venture capitalist who backed President Trump (just before giving his presidency a “50% chance of ending in disaster”) and infamously helped Hulk Hogan bring down Gawker.com, has allegedly set his sights on a new target: Google. According to The Mercury News, suspicions about Thiel’s next pet project were raised after he recently contributed $300,000 to Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley just before he launched an antitrust lawsuit against the alleged search monopoly.
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NYU College Republicans Disinvite Anti-Sharia Speaker Over Fake ‘Hate’ Label
The Southern Poverty Law Center’s rankings of purported hate groups, such as the Alliance Defending Freedom and Family Research Council, are not especially popular among conservatives.
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Germany’s Jamaica Coalition Talks Enter Final Hours With Angela Merkel Confident Amid ‘Differences’
A deadline looms over preliminary coalition talks between the chancellor’s conservatives, the Greens and laissez-faire FDP. The talks have been quarrelsome, with migration and climate serving as major sticking points.
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ISIS Threaten Christmas Attack on the Pope With Dark Poster of Car Driving Toward the Vatican
Pope Francis is no stranger to threats, and the terror group ISIS has issued a chilling new warning against the head of the Catholic Church now that Christmas is fast approaching.
The pro-ISIS Wafa Media Foundation published the new poster showing a car attack, according to Mirror. The poster, which reads “Christmas blood,” depicted a masked jihadi driving a BMW straight towards St. Peter’s Basilica, where the Pope holds mass. Beside the masked driver is an assault rifle and a rucksack.
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Spain vs Assange: Ecuador Warned WikiLeaks Leader is Spreading Ideas ‘Contrary to Reality’
THE Spanish government has accused Wikileaks founder Julian Assange of spreading false messages as Madrid ministers battle to contain public opinion on Catalonia, it has been claimed.
Mr Assange, who is currently holed up in London’s Ecuadorian embassy, has shared multiple videos of protests in Barcelona along with messages of support to the people of Catalonia.
But Spanish officials have claimed he is spreading messages “contrary to reality” and are believed to have put pressure on Ecuadorian representatives to silence the outspoken hacktivist — claiming his comments are breaching his asylum status.
On the eve of the Catalonia referendum, Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno said: “We have asked him in a cordial way to stop commenting on Ecuador’s policy or on other countries’ policies because his asylum status does not allow him to do so.
“He is surpassing that condition.”
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Spain Crisis: Political Unrest in Catalonia Could Scupper Hopes of Madrid Growth
CHAOS is reigning in Catalonia throwing major doubts over the Spanish economic recovery.
While political unrest remains in the disputed region following the unofficial vote to leave, the area is now suffering from an economic fall-out from the political unrest.
Catalonia makes up a fifth of Spain’s GDP and has the highest regional number of business.
Madrid has already revised down Spain’s growth forecast for 2018 from 2.6 per cent to 2.3 per cent due to the referendum.
Daniel Lacalle, chief economist at fund manager Tresses, told The Financial Times: “Companies in Catalonia have frozen their investment decisions and hiring decisions due to the uncertainty.”
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The victim suffered bleeding on the brain
Police are hunting for up to a dozen men and women after a Polish man was left with a fractured skull in a vicious attack on a Tube station platform.
The victim is fighting for his life in hospital and has bleeding and swelling on the brain more than two days on from the Sunday morning attack at busy central London Underground station Oxford Circus.
He was one of two men who were attacked by a group of between eight to 12 people on the southbound Bakerloo line platform at around 11.15am on Sunday. The other man is recovering at home.
It is thought the group got into a fight with the two men, British Transport Police said.
Officers have now released pictures of 10 people they are hoping to trace who they hope could help with their investigation.
“This was an unprovoked attack on two men who were going about their travel,” Detective Inspector Gabriel Oresajo said on Tuesday…
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After a humiliating defeat in Syria and Iraq, thousands of European jihadis are set to return home. Western governments seem set to roll out the red-carpet for them as if they were heroes rather than turncoats.
The UK has launched an integration program, Operation Constrain, for its homecoming jihadis to provide them with assistance in finding a job and living a “normal” life.
Such theatrics, however, are not expected to deter determined terrorists, unless the authorities are equally determined with brutal honesty to see what is being said extremist mosques and seminaries and know their sources of funding.
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Russia Names the 9 US News Outlets it Will Retaliate Against
After hinting that retaliation was imminent, Russian lawmakers in the Duma — Russia’s lower house of Parliament — have approved a law that would require nine US news outlets to be labeled “foreign agents” in response to Washington’s decision to require Russia Today to register as a foreign agent last week, a decision that Moscow has slammed as hypocritical and infringing on free speech.
Reuters reports that Russia’s lower house of Parliament has approved the law — which allows Moscow to force foreign media to brand news they provide to Russians as the work of “foreign agents” and to disclose the source of their funding.
The law must now pass the upper house, which is likely to happen next week. Once President Vladimir Putin signs it, it will become law. The path to passage looks relatively straightforward, and it’s likely the bill will become a law.
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In his latest Sputnik radio interview Srdja Trifkovic assesses the significance of President Donald Trump’s five-nation tour of the Asia-Pacific region which lasted almost two weeks and ended with his departure from Manila on Tuesday afternoon, November 14.
(Video; The first Trifkovic segment starts at 2 minutes 20 seconds; verbatim translation from Serbian.)
The first question by the show’s presenter, defense analyst Miroslav Lazanski, concerned the significance of Trump’s brief meeting with Russia’s President Putin:
ST: The U.S. media spin was clear and simple: Putin has outfoxed Trump yet again. He has used his charm to make Trump accept his assurances that Russia was not involved in last year’s DNC hacking and election meddling, or at least to repeat Putin’s “sincere” denial of Moscow’s interference. Then, under intense pressure back home and attack from former intelligence chiefs, Trump had to express grudging agreement with the findings of those intelligence agencies which claimed otherwise. It is interesting, however, that—in the same breath—he pointed out that only three of the 17 intelligence agencies accepted the claim of Russia’s hacking.
In the long term it is more significant that, after an exceptionally cordial welcome in Beijing and an apparently successful visit—in the course of which Trump paid extraordinary compliments to Xi Jinping—he gave a speech in Da Nang in which he sharply criticized China. He did not single the country out by name, but it was clear who was the target of his attacks over dumping, currency manipulation and overvaluation, intellectual property theft, etc.—all of which was clearly aimed at China. And then, bafflingly, during the finale of the tour in Manila, Trump reverted to the words of praise for China and its leader, and expressions of hope for the future partnership. It is also very interesting that, wherever he went—even at the Asia-Pacific Summit—Trump pointedly used the term “Indo-Pacific Region,” or just Indo-Pacific, which is a novelty in the official geopolitical discourse of the United States.
Q: A bit of flirting with India?…
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A fundamentalist Muslim preacher from Sydney, Nassim Abdi, says Australia’s acceptance of homosexuality is encouraging sex with animals, paedophilia and incest.
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Madagascar Outbreak: It is ‘Inevitable’ the Plague Becomes Resistant to Drugs
The newest warning about the outbreak of the airborne pneumonic plague, or black death, in Madagascar has been released. Officials warn that it’s inevitable that this bacterial infection that’s infected over 2000 people will become resistant to antibiotics.
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Cuban Exiles Recount ‘Sonic’ Torture
A group of Cuban exiles and former political prisoners gathered on Capitol Hill Wednesday to recount human rights abuses that they and their relatives suffered at the hands of the Fidel Castro regime.
In a hearing organized by Freedom House and the Justice Cuba International Commission, survivors told gripping stories about friends and family who were imprisoned, tortured and killed for resisting communist rule in Havana.
The tales of two former political prisoners stood out among the heart-wrenching accounts of abuses, if only for their parallels to the strange, unexplained sonic attacks inflicted upon U.S. diplomats in Havana last year. Ernesto Diaz Rodriguez and Luis Zuniga, anti-Castro dissidents who were sent to hideous regime prisons, said they were repeatedly subjected to “ultra-sonic” torture over more than 20 years in confinement.
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Russia Gives Venezuela a Hand and Restructures Us$3.15bn Debt Over a 10-Year Period
Russia and Venezuela signed a debt restructuring deal on Wednesday allowing Caracas to make “minimal” payments to Moscow in the next six years to help it meet obligations to other creditors, the Russian Finance Ministry said. Under the deal, Venezuela will pay Russia back a total of US$3.15 billion over a 10-year period, the ministry said.
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Venezuela Ruled in Default by Trade Group After Bond Payment Delays
CARACAS (Reuters) — Venezuela’s cash-strapped leftist government has defaulted on sovereign debt and bonds issued by state oil firm PDVSA after failing to make timely payments, a New York-based derivatives group ruled on Thursday.
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Asylum Applications in Austria Down 43 Percent This Year
The Austrian Interior Ministry has reported that the number of asylum applications in the country has gone down by 43 per cent as the government has become more focused on border security and increasing deportations.
In 2016, the government recorded 37,256 from January to October but that number has decreased to 21,130 applications so far this year. This year’s asylum application numbers are likely to be well under the 35,000 asylum limit which was passed by the previous Austrian government last year, Kronen Zeitung reports.
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Crimes Reach Record High in Sweden Years After Refugee Crisis — Report
The number of such crimes as sexual assault or mugging has reached its highest level in Sweden over more than a decade, a governmental survey says. The major increase in the crime rates comes in the years following the refugee crisis.
The number of Swedes who fell victims of some or all types of crime that are collectively defined as “crimes against individuals,” has sharply increased over the last two years, the National Security Survey (NTU) conducted by the Swedish Crime Prevention Council (Bra) says. Crimes against individuals involve assault, threats, sexual offenses, mugging, fraud and harassment under the Bra classification.
According to the survey, 15.6 percent of the Swedish population were subjected to some or all of these types of crime in 2016, which is more than two percent higher than in the previous year. The Bra, which is a Swedish government agency that acts as a research center under the Justice Ministry, notes that crime rate concerning these types of offenses remained relatively stable between 2005 and 2014 and stood at 11-13 percent.
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‘Davos Man’: Mass Muslim Migration Make Europe More Secure
Third world migrants have ‘greatly helped’ economies in Europe, and can help prevent violent extremism, according to World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Agenda Council on Migration chairman Dr. Khalid Koser MBE.
Speaking with Refugees Deeply, the executive director of the Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund (GCERF) said extremism and terrorism are “absolutely… a homegrown issue” that has nothing to do with immigration.
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Germany: Court Rules Districts Must House Sex Offender Migrants
A German court has ruled that municipalities must accept migrants convicted of sex offences who have been sent to them even if they are at risk of reoffending.
The case was brought by the Hassloch municipality in the Bad Dürkheim district in Rhineland-Palatinate after 20,000 citizens signed a petition to prevent the relocation of a failed asylum seeker who had served three years in prison for sex offences.
The Higher Administrative Court of Rhineland-Palatinate in Koblenz rejected the petition saying that the relocation did not break any laws, broadcaster NTV reports.
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Migrant Crisis: Chaos as 200 Try to Storm Spanish Border Fence to Break Into EU
A GROUP of 200 immigrants has tried to storm Spain’s north African enclave of Ceuta from Morocco in a bid to get to Europe.
The Spanish Federal Police, the Guardia Civil, reported that the immigrants tried to run through the border fence at Tarsal in northern Morocco at 6am this morning.
Moroccan security forces managed to stop the immigrants before they breached the border.
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Iranian refugee Behzad Bashiri could cost Australian taxpayers millions to keep detained after his country refused to accept him back unless he volunteers to leave Australia.
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What’s in Our Schools Will Shock You
by Karen Schoen
While everyone focuses on college, let’s focus on the real problem, K-12. Every coup d’etat has roots in school. The progressive/communist/globalists/socialist (POGS) agenda calls for rewriting history. The children must be indoctrinated. The children must be coerced. The children must be trained to give up individual choice. They must think the same, get the same grades and have the same future outcome. One problem… if everyone is the same, what makes individuals different? The only identifier left is visual. RACE becomes the tool of choice. Children trained in social justice (which is Anti-American) become racist adults, dividing people into groups demanding results from those groups.
Racism MUST BE LEARNED. Racism is trained in school through psychological manipulation using technology. There are 400 data points that are monitored, re-monitored, analyzed, re-analyzed, reconfigured constantly making inferences to nudge and then monitor reactions. We see this happing now as males are being coached to take classes to remove those horrid masculine traits. I can just imagine what horrible actions these men will be responsible for in the future as they lose their self esteem and have to ‘prove’ their existence in some manner.
A dumb populace is mandated deliberately because POGS follow Lenin, ““Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.” — Vladimir Lenin. It is no surprise why students favor socialism. THAT IS WHAT THEY ARE TAUGHT.
Why the children? Once children are indoctrinated, “Group Think” takes over and going against the crowd is intolerable. Actually anyone not a believer is evil and should not be tolerated. If I said NFL, you should understand why continuing this communist education will destroy America. America’s children ARE BEING TAUGHT TO HATE AMERICA. “American social engineers have systematically gone about destroying the intellect of millions of American children for the purpose of leading the American people into a socialist world government controlled by behavioral and social scientists…..” Charlotte Iserbyt, The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America.
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Don’t know if this has been linked on GoV yet. Just in case it hasn’t:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-11-16/europe-we-can-believe
The Brits have video of the Tube Attack but censor that….along with everything else a Big Lie will cover, including years of grooming gangs and besotted alcoholism. London is dying.
“UK: Police Hunt 12 People After Polish Man Left Fighting for Life and With Fractured Skull in Oxford Circus Tube Attack.”
Hmm…interesting mugshots there and no surprise really; the only question is, “Home grown or recently imported?”
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-11-16/europe-we-can-believe
Ha, Ron beat me with the link 🙂 .
Here is one on Es Satty, at best it shows how hard it is to profile… through to failings… and leaving open possibility of some kind of complicity
https://elpais.com/elpais/2017/11/17/inenglish/1510919065_871426.html
“A German court has ruled that municipalities must accept convicted migrant sex offenders, even if they are likely to offend again. The decision came about as a result of a suit filed by a locality that wanted to keep out a failed asylum seeker who had served three years in prison for sexual assault.”
This is an example, one of many, of the consequences of the branches of government ignoring the legal constraints on their prerogatives. It’s also, I think, an example of the susceptibility of modern bureaucratic society to specialized moral cretins who excel at self-advancement, but lack any other virtues. A divided Congress (Parliament) has little defense against kritarch judges. In a homogeneous society with common values, such a judge would be quickly removed.
A thoughtful take on the Chinese future:
http://thermidormag.com/i-for-one-welcome-our-han-overlords/
This is why the concept of draining the swamp is so important – the US is finished if all the competing oligarchic factions cannot be brought to heel or outright crushed.
Where is AFD after election? , why they do quite? Merkel don’t allow to have voice?, I tough it was the third biggest party in Bundestag!!, what is going on ?, why this Islamic Greens have rights to decide now , !!.