The man who stabbed two people in the Mall of America in Minneapolis has been identified as Mahad Abdirahman, who was subdued by patrons of the Mall until police arrived. Mr. Abdirahman, a Somali, may have been slightly injured while he was being subdued. The motive for the crime is said to have been theft.
In other news, Venezuela was officially declared in default on its debt by the ratings agency Standard & Poore.
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Accused ISIS Recruiter Pleads Guilty to Fraud, Tax Charges
RALEIGH, N.C. — A Fayetteville man who the FBI says was a recruiter for Islamic State forces pleaded guilty Monday to federal fraud and tax charges.
Houcine Becher Ghoul, 43, pleaded guilty to lying on his application for U.S. citizenship and two counts of tax fraud. He faces up to 16 years in prison when he is sentenced in February.
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Cops Bust Armed Thief After Shoppers Stabbed at Mall of America
A would-be thief knifed two shoppers he tried to rob inside a Macy’s dressing room at Minnesota’s Mall of America, according to police.
The first victim walked in on Mahad Abdirahman pilfering his belongings in the men’s department Sunday evening, when the suspect pulled out a blade, cops said.
Bloomington Police Chief Jeff Potts said a family member rushed in to help and was stabbed during the struggle at the retail chain. Their injuries are not life-threatening.
The wounded victims managed to disarm Abdirahman and keep him down until police arrived for the arrest, within two minutes of the initial 911 call.
The Star Tribune reports one of the victims was stabbed repeatedly, while the other was pierced in the back…
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News Nanny: The Race to Censor Internet News
By Daniel Greenfield
How can you tell that Internet censorship is really taking off? Easy. It’s becoming a business model.
Steven Brill is raising $6 million to launch News Guard. This new service will rate news sites on their trustworthiness from green to red. Forget politically unbiased algorithms. The ratings will be conducted by “qualified, accountable human beings” from teams of “40 to 60 journalists.” Once upon a time, journalism meant original writing. Now it means deciding which original writing to censor. Can trust be monetized?
“Can trust be monetized?” The Street’s article on News Guard asks. But it isn’t really trust that’s being monetized. It’s censorship. It’s doing the dirty work that Google and Facebook don’t want to do…..
Not only does the roster of fact checkers lean to the left, but so do its notions of what’s true and false. For example, Snopes and Politifact both insist that General Pershing’s forces never buried the bodies of Muslim terrorists with pigs. But General Pershing specifically stated in his autobiography, “These Juramentado attacks were materially reduced in number by a practice that the Mohamedans held in abhorrence. The bodies were publicly buried in the same grave with a dead pig.” Politifact and Snopes are entitled to their incorrect opinions.
Both the New York Times and the Scientific American reported on it at the time. Despite that Snopes rated this widely accepted historical fact as “False” and Politifact marked it as “Pants on Fire.”
Snopes also recently marked a story that Christ Church in Virginia is removing a George Washington plaque as false even though the church publicly announced that it was doing so.
Politifact and Snopes are entitled to their incorrect opinions. The trouble is that they don’t extend the same privilege to those they disagree with. And Google and Facebook promote fake fact checks while burying sites that discuss actual historical facts. The big Internet companies don’t want to get involved in all these arguments. But nor are they willing to let their users decide for themselves anymore.
And so Net Nanny for news has become an actual business model. Instead of protecting children from pornography, News Nanny protects adults from news. And from views outside the left’s bubble.
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Belgium Will Sue Salah Abdeslam for 143,000 Euros
Belgium will sue Salah Abdeslam for a provisional amount of 143,000 euros.
He is the last surviving commando involved in the Paris attacks on the 13th of November 2015, which killed 130 people. RTL reported on the story on Saturday. This is damages and for injuries suffered by federal police officers during the rue du Dries shooting in Forest on the 15th of March 2016.
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Dutch Woman Convicted of Terrorism for Joining ISIS
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — A Dutch court sentenced a young woman to two years in prison Monday for traveling to Syria to join the Islamic State terror group in one of the first such cases in the Netherlands.
“The court considers it proven that she planned to prepare and promote terrorist activities,” the Rotterdam District Court said.
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France Marks Second Anniversary of Paris Attacks
PARIS — With flowers, music and a peace march, France paid tribute to the 130 people who were killed in a string of bombings and shootings two years ago.
President Emmanuel Macron paid homage to those who died at each of six sites targeted by Islamist terrorists on a balmy Friday evening, two years ago. He stood alongside Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo and former President Francois Hollande as the names of the victims were read out.
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Italy: Woman Expelled After Contacting ISIS for Attack
22-year-old Egyptian ready for suicide mission
(ANSA) — Milan, November 13 — A 22-year-old Egyptian woman who allegedly contacted an ISIS member expressed her willingness to carry out a suicide attack in Italy has been expelled from the country via an order from Interior Minister Marco Minniti, sources said Monday. The woman, Fatma Ashraf Shawky Fahmy, had a legal permit to reside in Italy and lived in Milan, sources said. She was jobless and did not have a criminal record.
According to anti-terrorism police DIGOS, the woman contacted ISIS member Al Najjar Abdallah Hasanayn.
At first she asked about going to Syria to fight, but when this plan proved difficult, she said she was willing to conduct a suicide mission.
She did not receive an answer, investigative sources said.
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Italy: VatiLeaks Author Pens Book on ‘Choirboy Abuse’
Alleges multiple cases at San Pio X preseminary
(ANSA) — Rome, November 9 — Vatileaks author Gianluigi Nuzzi has written a new book on Vatican secrets, Peccato Originale (Original Sin) on alleged sexual abuse of choirboys.
Nuzzi, whose earlier tomes Your Holiness and Via Crucis saw him tried and acquitted in the Vatileaks 1 and 2 trials, reveals more alleged financial chicanery and background to the Manuela Orlandi disappearance.
But his main focus is on alleged sex abuse in the San Pio X preseminary, where dioceses send middle-school boys aspiring to become priests, who serve as choirboys in St Peter’s.
An ex-choirboy delivered a letter to Pope Francis in May, Nuzzi recounts.
But the first person to reveal abuses was Polish Kamil Tadeusz Jarzembowski, who entered the San Pio X at the age of 13, and in June 2014 sent various complaints to Church authorities.
He said he had witnessed at least 140 “sexual acts” on his underage roommate by an unidentified adult who later became a priest. The man had free access to the preseminary, was “well liked by various monsignori” and “able to exert a form of power and intimidation over the youngest seminarians”.
Kamil reported the alleged abuse to various high-ranking cardinals, Nuzzi says, but no action was taken.
He then turned to the Secretariat of State and the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which handles abuse cases, also without any results, except for being expelled from the seminary, Nuzzi says.
Kamil is quoted as saying “there’s only politics and power, with these people who say Mass in the morning and in the evening go to Mucca Assassina”, a well-known gay disco. Presenting the book, Nuzzi said he had sent a copy to the Vatican’s promoter of justice, Gian Pietro Milano. Nuzzi is the aurthor of four books in all.
His first, Vaticano SpA (Vatican Ltd), also delved into alleged financial wrongdoing.
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Italy News: Will Silvio Berlusconi Return to Power as Renzi Suffers in Polls?
NATIONAL elections are looming and Italy’s left seems bent on engineering its own defeat as Democratic Party (PD) leader Matteo Renzi continues to come under fire from potential allies.
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Soros Says He Wants to Pay More Taxes, But Prefers Ireland Where He Paid Less Than $1000
George Soros has joined a petition to scrap tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans. But the billionaire prefers Ireland, where his hedge fund paid just $962 in taxes in 2013, according to Bloomberg.
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Sweden’s Famous White Elk Could be Shot After Viral Fame
A rare white elk which became famous around the world could be shot after it charged at a woman, according to reports in Swedish media.
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Factory worker Munir Hassan Mohammed, 36, allegedly stockpiled bomb-making ingredients after bonding with qualified pharmacist Rowaida El-Hassan, 33, on SingleMuslim.com
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A Professor Says His Book Was Censored in Australia by the Chinese Government
A new book critical of the Chinese government’s influence in Australia won’t make it to shelves for the time being—because, says the author, of the Chinese government’s influence in Australia.
Clive Hamilton, professor of public ethics at Charles Sturt University, was set to publish his book, Silent Invasion: How China is Turning Australia into a Puppet State, in April 2018. But on Nov. 8 his publisher, Sydney-based Allen & Unwin, said it was concerned about a possible defamation suit and wanted to delay the book.
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Pauline Hanson has again refused to apologise for failing to denounce the ‘skinhead thugs’ who racially abused Sam Dastyari at a bar in Melbourne.
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Deadly Plague Could Mutate and Become Untreatable as it Spreads Globally
The pneumonic plague has already infected 2,000 in Madagascar and killed 143 in the country’s worst outbreak in 50 years. But health officials are now warning the deadly bacteria could mutate and become untreatable as it spreads across the globe.
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Sudan President Bashir Defies ICC Arrest Warrant on Visit to Uganda, Signatory of the Treaty of Rome
Ever the defiant indicted war criminal President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan arrived in Uganda for a three day state visit. This despite Uganda being a signatory of the Treaty of Rome that founded the International Criminal Court implemented in 2002 and two outstanding International Criminal Court arrest warrants issued in 2009 and 2010 for his arrest. These warrants were based on indictments for committing war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity in Darfur in 2003 resulting in the deaths of 300,000 indigenous African people. The death toll in Sudan in Darfur and the conflict zones of the Nuba Mountains, South Kordofan and Blue Nile State is now estimated to be in excess of 600,000.
The Nigerian Prestige Times report noted the circumstances behind Bashir’s Uganda visit in defiance of the ICC indictments and arrest warrants:…
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Venezuela Declared in Default by S&P After Missing Bond Payments
Venezuela, one of the world’s riskiest credits, was declared in default by S&P Global Ratings after missing two interest payments on its debt.
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Diversity Visas Given to Terror States
Nearly 30,000 foreigners from state sponsors of terrorism have gotten visas since 2007 through the diversity visa lottery.
President Donald Trump wants Congress to end the program, which benefits foreigners from nations that don’t have high levels of immigration to the U.S. He increased his public pressure against the program after an Uzbek recipient of the diversity visa lottery allegedly killed eight in a recent terrorist attack in New York City.
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Italy: We Want Ius Soli But Without Creating Probs — Renzi
Won’t be bargaining chip for MDP deal, says PD leader
(ANSA) — Rome, November 13 — Democratic Party (PD) leader Matteo Renzi said Monday that the centre-left group remained committed to the ius soli bill to grant citizenship to the children of migrants born in Italy. But he added that it would only be passed if it did not caused a crisis for the government and would not be the bargaining chip for a deal for an alliance with the MDP. “We are not doing the ius soli bill to reach an agreement with the MDP. We are doing it because a right is a right, without exchanging it for a coalition agreement,” Renzi said, according to sources. “We’ll try to pass it, without causing problems for the ordered end of the parliamentary term, respecting what the government and the coalition want to to.
“We don’t think it’s an issue to do a deal one”.
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I am pretty sure the Somali did not want steal, he just wanted to take, what as supreme lord of the land belongs to him: whatever he wants, the dirty kufir should just hand it over. I am sure all muslim organization will be up in arms, to help their brethren.
“…Not steal but just take what belongs to him….”
Excellent distinction.
Swedes are quick to shoot a white elk for charging at someone who attempted to get close to it, while giving free housing and driver’s licenses to bestial Africans and Middle Easterners who traveled to Syria to cut off peoples heads and rape and torture innocents?
I suppose the color of the perpetrator has much to do with the relative decisions…
Daily ‘they hate us and want us dead’ reminder:
http://www.unz.com/isteve/i-may-be-in-the-minority-but-i-dont-want-opportunity-i-want-power
Affirmative Action dooms Sweden’s white elk. It’s only hope is gender re-assignment surgery with added complaints of Stockholm Syndrome!
Excellent point, Mr. Moon.
So much for, “we don’t negotiate with terrorists:”
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-11-14/bombshell-report-confirms-us-coalition-struck-deal-isis
That entire area should have been blanketed with napalm, then bombed until every piece of rubble bounced at least once.
The traitors who signed off on this deal should be sent Leavenworth to rot.
Not my idea, but too good not to share –
Scandinavians and NW Europeans are the human equivalent of dodo birds.
Daily nothing burger:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-11-13/steven-mnuchin-nobody-thinks-russia-had-impact-election
“Criticism of Islam is not a problem, but when it is used as a veil to conceal hatred towards Muslims, it is a problem,” explained Versi.
Duh…..
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/islamophobia-britain-s-latest-bigotry-blind-spot-says-baroness-warsi-report-launch-65452518
Runnymede proposed in its report that the government adopt their definition, the short version of which is: “Islamophobia is anti-Muslim racism”.
But no one fears Islam, it is fear of those that practice Islam, for the reasons that people do. Those that practice Islam are not a race, they are a sect, and so those that discriminate by sect, whether right or wrong, are being sectist, practicing sectism, or anti-sectism if you prefer. So if you turn it around this way, the “racists” are really “sectists”, and as the first to form discrimination based on sect are the actual sect themselves ( infidels are condemned for example) , then that sect is practicing sectism, or “racism” per the attempted definition in the article. So us “racists” are actually the “anti-racist” in this case. Feel good for it.
Classy vibrants working to enrich England:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5077413/Hunt-woman-wearing-headscarf-stole-poppy-tins.html