The German government is considering mandatory medical testing to determine whether asylum seekers who claim to be minors are in fact under 18. The German Medical Association objects to such tests, saying that they are unethical and invasive of medical privacy.
In other news, President Trump tweeted that he may decide to cut off American financial aid to “Palestine”.
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Abedin Forwarded State Passwords to Yahoo Before it Was Hacked by Foreign Agents
Huma Abedin forwarded sensitive State Department emails, including passwords to government systems, to her personal Yahoo email account before every single Yahoo account was hacked, a Daily Caller News Foundation analysis of emails released as part of a lawsuit brought by Judicial Watch shows.
Abedin, the top aide to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, used her insecure personal email provider to conduct sensitive work. This guarantees that an account with high-level correspondence in Clinton’s State Department was impacted by one or more of a series of breaches — at least one of which was perpetrated by a “state-sponsored actor.”
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Arrest Made After Teen Stabbed in Possible Road Rage Incident
MONTGOMERY Co., Va. (WSET) — The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office said a man has been arrested after they said he stabbed a teenager in a possible road range incident.
The sheriff’s office said Terence Allen Sayles, 36, of Radford was arrested Tuesday afternoon and charged with aggravated malicious wounding in connection with the stabbing on Tyler Road.
Officials said the 17-year-old victim is in stable condition and is expected to survive.
Sayles is being held in the Montgomery County Jail without bond.
No other information is being provided at this time.
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Baltimore’s 2017 Murder Rate Breaks Records, As 2 Fatal Shootings Kick Off 2018
The shrinking city of Baltimore, Maryland, has set a new record for per-capita homicides in 2017, with nearly 56 homicides per 100,000 people. There have already been at least two fatal shootings in 2018.
The year ended with a bang in Baltimore, as two fatal shootings brought the number of murders in the city to 343 in 2017, according to data from the Baltimore Sun.
The city set a record for homicides per-capita in 2017, with 55.8 killings per 100,000 people, according to the Sun. There were more murders in Baltimore than New York City, which has a population of more than 8.5 million. Over recent decades, the population of Baltimore has fallen to 614,664, roughly the same number of people that lived in the city a century ago, according to the latest available data from the US Census Bureau.
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CNN Correspondent: World Thinks That America Does Not Have a ‘Moral Leg to Stand on’
Saturday on CNN after reading a statement from the Iranian government on President Donald Trump’s tweet about the protests in Iran, network correspondent Arwa Damon said “a lot of nations” currently perceive the United States as not having a “moral leg to stand on.”
[Commet: Amercians are fed up with the anti-American garbage and lies from fakestream media. That is why fakenews ratings are tanking.]
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A wealthy backer of Democrat Hillary Clinton has been caught paying off women who would accuse Trump of sexual misconduct.
Susie Tompkins Buell, the founder of Esprit Clothing and a major Clinton campaign donor for many years, gave the money to celebrity lawyer Lisa Bloom who was working with a number of Trump accusers at the time, according to the New York Times’ bombshell report.
Since the report came out on Sunday (New Year’s Eve) many haven’t been able to react to the news just yet.
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Man Indicted on Murder Charges in Maryland Office Park Shooting
BEL AIR, Md. (AP) — A man accused of fatally shooting three co-workers and wounding three other people has been indicted in Maryland.
The Harford County State’s Attorney’s office says in a statement that 38-year-old Radee Prince was indicted Tuesday on three counts of first-degree murder, two counts of attempted first-degree murder, and firearm offenses.
Prosecutors say Prince fatally shot five co-workers at Advanced Granite Solutions in Harford County in Maryland on Oct. 18. Two co-workers were shot but survived. Authorities say he then drove to a used car lot in Wilmington, Delaware, and shot an acquaintance in the head. The acquaintance survived.
Prince remains in custody in Delaware awaiting trial for attempted murder there…
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Never Trumpers Check Their White Privilege
Neoconservative pundit Max Boot made a very important announcement last week: he’s checking his white privilege.
In a column for Foreign Policy, Boot said he reconsidered his past disdain for the concept of white male privilege, thanks in large part to the rise of Donald Trump.
“[I]t has become impossible for me to deny the reality of discrimination, harassment, even violence that people of color and women continue to experience in modern-day America from a power structure that remains for the most part in the hands of straight, white males. People like me, in other words,” Boot writes. “Whether I realize it or not, I have benefitted from my skin color and my gender — and those of a different gender or sexuality or skin color have suffered because of it.”
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New Hampshire: Despite No Permits, Mosque Opens for Worship in Single-Family Home
Keene’s first mosque opened to worshippers earlier this month, fulfilling a goal of local Muslims who for years have made do with temporary prayer spaces.
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New Jersey Teen Charged With Murdering Parents, Sister, Friend Minutes Before New Year
Police say a New Jersey teenager brutally murdered his parents, sister, and a visiting friend only minutes before the clock struck midnight to ring in the new year.
Prosecutors say that the suspect shot and killed his father, Steven Kologi, 44; his mother, Linda Kologi, 42; his sister, Brittany Kologi, 18; and visitor Mary Schultz, 70, on the night of December 31 at the Kologi home in Long Branch, New Jersey, ABC News reported:…
The teen, whose name has not been released, will be charged as an adult for this “terribly tragic incident,” the prosecutor added.
No motive for the mass murder has been released.
Neighbors reported that the suspect was a special needs individual who did not go to the same school as many local residents.
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‘Not Just Murder’ — Chicago Carjackings Surge to Highest Point in at Least a Decade
While already the murder capital of America, it appears law and order is really losing control as The Daily Caller’s Anders Hagstrom reports that Chicago residents suffered more carjackings in 2017 than in any other year since at least 2007, new statistics released by the Chicago Police Department (CPD) show.
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Off-Duty Officer Shoots, Kills Suspected Shoplifter Outside Academy Sports
GREENVILLE, NC (WITN) — Greenville police say an off-duty police officer shot and killed a suspected shoplifter outside a sporting goods store.
It happened around 3:30 p.m. in front of Academy Sports on Memorial Drive.
Police say their officer was shopping at the store when a person told him a man was allegedly shoplifting.
The officer confronted the 35-year-old man, identified himself and displayed his credentials. Police say at this point a struggle began and the man tried to attack the officer with a knife.
The officer was able to draw his weapon and shot the suspect who died at the scene, according to police.
The SBI has been called in to investigate the shooting.
“We are still gathering information about what happened and are cooperating with authorities as they investigate,” said an Academy Sports spokeswoman in a statement to WITN.
Names of the officer and the dead man have not yet been released.
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Sheriff: 17-Year-Old Stabbed at Virginia Rest Stop Along I-81
CHRISTIANSBURG, Va. (AP) — A teenage boy was stabbed and wounded at a Virginia rest stop along Interstate 81 in what authorities say could be a road rage incident.
The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release that deputies responded to Radford Travel Center in Christiansburg on Monday afternoon at 1:58 p.m. The 17-year-old was airlifted to Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital.
The teen was not identified. His condition has not been released.
Deputies are looking for a burgundy Honda CRV with Virginia “scenic” license plates, based on a witness statement. The sheriff’s office says the car was driven by a woman, and the suspect is a male passenger. The car had a pink car seat in the middle of the back seat.
The driver was a white female with dark hair and a gray hoodie.
The passenger and possible suspect was a heavy set black male with a thin mustache, wearing black track pants with a white stripe on the legs and a gray hoodie…
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The Stunning Truth Proving the FBI and DOJ Corruption Will Come Out
There’s a lot of people worried the sheer scale and totality of the FBI and DOJ corruption will be buried by the Swamp scum. I’m not one of them. As a ninja level cynic who has spent so much time investigating the deep weeds of DC corruption, this time I can see a difference.
The Bigger media voices will eventually catch up to the story. Right now the scale of the story is so large, and the consequences so damaging to the Republic, they are scared to call it out… but that won’t last too much longer. Unless they are genuinely all paid political operatives of the UniParty, by the end of this month the sunlight will be so intense their worries about losing invites to the best cocktail parties will be overcome by the enormity of the truth.
When the righteous march past the praetorian guard media carrying pitchforks, feathers and buckets of brutally obvious truth; yes, even the ‘CONservative’ professional media guardians will have to admit they can’t defend the protected class from this one. Their own need for relevance will mean they’ll eventually admit, the baby is damn ugly.
If a little corner of the internet can lay out the raw data, and all of that data only points in one direction, yes, the total “they” (media, congress, and our President) all know this same stuff you have been reading. More importantly, as uncomfortable as admissions might be, they know it is real and they know what it means.
If we can put it together, so can they.
So too can Robert Mueller. He knows.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller knows how Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, Andrew Weissman, Jeannie Rhee, Aaron Zebley and all of the other participants got put on his team. He knows how, and he knows why. Mueller might not want to admit he knows, because that means accepting the scale corruption within his beloved institutions. It also means accepting his friends James Comey, Andrew McCabe, James Baker, Sally Yates and Loretta Lynch are corrupt political agents.
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‘White Genocide’ Professor Gets New Gig
A recently resigned communist professor announced Monday that he has become a visiting scholar at New York University’s Hemispheric Institute.
Politics professor George Ciccariello-Maher resigned from Drexel University at the end of 2017, claiming his situation had become untenable “after nearly a year of harassment by right-wing, white supremacist media outlets and internet mobs” and “death threats.”
“All I want for Christmas is white genocide,” tweeted the professor in December 2016, spawning several national headlines. Drexel University placedCiccariello-Maher on leave in October 2017 after the professor said that the Las Vegas massacre “is what happens when” white people “don’t get what they want.”
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Why Hillary Clinton Needs to Go to Prison in 2018
In the United States, nobody is supposed to be above the law, and that includes our elected officials.
If top politicians are permitted to break the law over and over again and get away with it, that sends an absolutely terrible message to everyone else in our society, and it threatens the legitimacy of our entire system of justice. Hillary Clinton has been caught red-handed mishandling classified documents, it appears that she greatly betrayed our nation during the Uranium One deal, evidence has emerged that she has committed gross violations of campaign finance law, and the very deep corruption at the Clinton Foundation is well known. Hillary Clinton needs to be prosecuted and sent to prison, and as a member of Congress I will do whatever I can to help make that happen.
Let’s start by discussing Hillary’s mishandling of classified documents. According to Fox News, there were classified documents among the 2,800 work-related emails on Anthony Weiner’s laptop that the State Department released on Friday, and this is fresh evidence that Hillary Clinton broke the law…
The State Department on Friday released a batch of work-related emails from the account of top Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin that were discovered by the FBI on a laptop belonging to Abedin’s estranged husband, Anthony Weiner, near the end of the 2016 presidential campaign.
At least four of the documents released Friday are marked “classified.”
As we have seen in so many other cases of this nature, it does not matter if Hillary Clinton intended to mishandle classified documents or not.
All that matters is that she did so, and we have very clear evidence that she did. As Bernard B. Kerik has pointed out, anyone else in the federal government that did what Clinton did would definitely be prosecuted…
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WikiLeaks Denies Russia as Source in Response to Head of John Podesta Think Tank
Wikileaks has once again denied that Russia was their source of leaked emails published during the 2016 election. In a Monday reply to Neera Tanden, former Hillary Clinton advisor and President of the Center for American Progress — a liberal think tank founded by John Podesta, the WikiLeaks Task Force tweeted “2. Russia was not @wikileaks source. Deal with it.”
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Facebook Faces German Cartel Office Probe on Exploiting User Data
Germany’s federal cartel office has warned Facebook about exploiting user data, and mooted sanctions if the internet giant does not change methods. Facebook has a two-thirds market share among social networks in Germany.
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France Left Shocked by ‘Savage’ New Year Attacks on Police
The French government has vowed a crackdown after separate attacks on French police officers over New Year, which which included a policewoman being repeatedly kicked and beaten in a “savage” assault that was filmed and posted on social media.
French political leaders have vowed justice and promised a crackdown after a shocking attack on a female police officer on New Year’s Eve was filmed and posted online.
The attack in the eastern Paris suburb of Champigny-sur-Marne saw the officer knocked to the ground before being repeatedly kicked and punched in the head and body (see video below).
President Emmanuel Macron called the crime a “cowardly and criminal lynching”, and vowed that those responsible would be caught and punished.
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France Makes Bold Move With Plan to Put Phones in Every Prison Cell
France plans to install landline phones in prison cells across the country in an ambitious bid to improve rehabilitation rates — and cut down on rampant mobile phone trafficking behind bars.
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German Political Leader Under Police Investigation Over Tweets About Muslim Rape Gangs
A member of the far right German political party AfD is being investigated over an incendiary New Year’s Eve tweet, that cast Muslims as violent and rapacious.
Beatrix von Storch, a member of the German parliament and deputy leader of Germany’s far-right AfD party, accused the Cologne police of pandering to “barbaric, gang-raping Muslim hordes of men” after the department sent out a celebratory tweet in Arabic to ring in the new year.
Von Storch’s twitter account was suspended for 12 hours Monday, saying her message violated their rules. She then posted the message to Facebook, where it was blocked.
The police are now investigating whether von Storch’s tweet constitutes “incitement to hatred,” a criminal charge under Germany’s hate speech laws, which were recently amended to impose fines on social media companies that do not remove “obviously illegal” content.
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Germany: Politicians Condemn New Year’s Eve Attacks on Police and Firefighters
After several attacks on police officers and fire brigades at the turn of the new year involving fireworks and bottles being thrown, politicians have warned that those responsible could face harsh penalties.
“Attacks on rescue workers — no matter when, where and by whom — are completely unacceptable,” Federal Justice Minister Heiko Maas wrote on Twitter.
Roland Wöller, Saxony’s minister of the interior, told Welt newspaper: “Whoever attacks rescue forces attacks our rule of law and democracy.”
After 2018 had been rung in on Monday, the Berlin fire brigade alone reported eight attacks on emergency services and 57 attacks on emergency vehicles. In one case, an ambulance crew had been threatened with firearms by several men.
In Leipzig, 40 to 50 people threw firecrackers, bottles and stones at police officers.
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Macron Vows to ‘Find, Punish’ Those Behind New Year’s Eve Attack on Police
The French government vowed a crackdown on urban violence Tuesday after shocking video footage emerged of a policewoman being beaten on New Year’s Eve.
She was one of two officers attacked by a crowd of youths after police were called to a party in the Paris suburb of Champigny-sur-Marne, in an assault President Emmanuel Macron called “a cowardly and criminal lynching”.
A third officer was beaten up Monday while trying to inspect a stolen scooter inside a sprawling housing estate in the suburb of Aulnay-sous-Bois.
More than a thousand cars were burned across France on New Year’s Eve, a ritual for youths living in deprived high-rise suburbs.
“This violent society cannot continue in the years to come. It must be stopped,” Interior Minister Gerard Collomb told Europe 1 radio on Tuesday, calling the attacks against police “unacceptable”…
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Over 1,000 Cars Torched Across France as New Year’s Eve Arrests Rise
France saw a jump in arrests on New Year’s Eve as well as an increase in the number of cars torched by vandals, a ritual among revellers in the country’s high-rise suburbs.
The number of vehicles set alight on the night of December 31st climbed from 935 a year ago to 1,031, while arrests rose from 456 to 510, the interior ministry said on Monday.
Violence also marred celebrations in the Paris suburb of Champigny-sur-Marne, where two police officers were attacked by a large group of people at a party.
Some 140,000 security and emergency forces were deployed across France on New Year’s Eve.
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Poland and Hungary Set to Reaffirm Stance Against Brussels
The prime ministers of Hungary and Poland will meet on Wednesday to reaffirm their joint stance against criticism from the European Union that their sweeping reforms run counter to the bloc’s core values and threaten the rule of law.
The trip to Budapest will be the first bilateral visit for new Polish prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki, highlighting the value that his right-wing populist government places on ties with like-minded Hungarian premier Viktor Orban — and underlining their refusal to back down in a growing confrontation with Brussels.
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Pope Francis is pushing an “anti-American” and “anti-American worldview” via “hysterical leftist agitprop,” said The Stream’s Senior Editor John Zmirak on Monday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight.
Zmirak made his comments during an interview with Breitbart News’s Senior Editors-at-Large Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak.
Describing the pope as “angry” and “not exceptionally bright,” Zmirak cast the pope’s politics as supportive of furthering global convergence of governance:
[Pope Francis] talks a good game about humility in discourse and openness, but that’s a bit like when Venezuela speaks about people’s democracy. It seems to be an empty slogan for a very angry, not exceptionally bright or subtle South American politician who happens to have found himself in a position with a huge bully pulpit which allows him to express an anti-American, anti-free market, really anti-Western worldview that seems to make a fetish out of poverty and loves the idea of global government overruling the wishes of voters.
Pope Francis’ “open borders” advocacy for the admission of economic migrants and ostensible refugees, said Zmirak, is solely targeted at America and Europe. The pope’s use of biblical anecdotes towards this end, he added, amounts to the use of “hysterical leftist agitprop”:
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Populist Leader Says German Censorship Law is ‘Direct Attack on Freedom of Speech’
The deputy leader of the Alternative for Germany party (AfD) has slammed Germany’s new censorship law, calling the measure a “direct attack” on free speech.
Beatrix von Storch had both her Twitter and Facebook accounts frozen on Jan. 1 for supposedly violating “hate speech” rules, after the political leader expressed her anger on social media at a New Year’s greeting issued in Arabic by the Cologne Police.
“What the hell is happening in this country? Why is an official police site tweeting in Arabic? Do you think it is to appease the barbaric, gang-raping hordes of Muslim men?” von Storch tweeted.
In an interview with Breitbart News on Tuesday, Ms. Von Storch recalled that more than a thousand women and girls were “victims of sexual violence and harassment by Muslim asylum-seekers and so-called refugees” during Cologne’s notorious New Year’s Eve celebrations in 2015.
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Sadiq’s London: Knife Crime, Gun Crime, Theft, Burglary, Rape, Homicide All Massively Up
Britain’s media celebrated in droves when London elected its first Muslim mayor, Sadiq Khan, in May 2016.
Now the cacophony caused by the “we’re not racist” backslapping has ended, the true implications of a Khan mayoralty are being realised.
In Britain’s capital over the past year, Khan presided over rises in knife crime, gun crime, theft, burglary, rape, homicide, and more. And not just by a little bit, either.
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Street Gang Beats up French Officers Over New Year’s Celebrations
A police woman and her captain were brutally beaten after responding to a call for help at a New Year’s party, leaving both with head injuries and badly bruised bodies.
Street thugs showed no qualms about beating an unnamed woman and her captain who had raced to break up a fight at a house in the Champigny-sur-Marne region of France, southeast of Paris according to Express. After some partygoers were denied entry, they began fighting in the streets and targeted the police officers who responded.
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Sweden: Government Wants to Limit Employers’ Requests for Criminal Records
The number of employers’ requests for jobseekers’ background checks have tripled over the past decade and the government now wants to limit this, citing privacy concerns.
In 2017, the police received 740,000 requests for background checks, an increase of 10,000 compared to the year before.
Many requests are in industries and fields where there are no legal requirements to demand such checks.
“I want to stop employers from habitually requesting sensitive information about employees — information that isn’t relevant for the job,” Employment Minister Ylva Johansson told Swedish Radio.
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Sweden: Apartments Evacuated After Explosion in Helsingborg
Apartments in Helsingborg, southern Sweden, were evacuated after an explosion in the early hours of Tuesday.
Police were called to the scene just before 1am. The blast happened in a communal area of the building.
“The damages to the property are so extensive that they have decided to evacuate those who live there,” police control room officer Mikael Lindh told the TT news agency early in the morning.
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The Afghan-born victim was told: ‘You’re in England not in f****** Bangladesh’
A taxi driver who has lived in Tunbridge Wells for 15 years is scared of returning to work after he was racially abused and threatened.
The 31 year old, who has asked not to be named, was parked in the taxi rank outside Tunbridge Wells train station last night (December 30) when a man launched a tirade of racist abuse over a £42 cab fare.
The self-employed driver, originally from Afghanistan, told Kent Live: “The man came up to me and said he was looking to go to Horsmonden, about 12 miles away, and I rounded the price to £42.
“Straight away he was asking me where I was born and then started getting very aggressive and shouting some horrible things.
“I tried to be as calm as possible and recorded some of it. He seemed to be with his girlfriend and I told him ‘shame on you, look at your girlfriend, you shouldn’t be talking like this in front of her’.
“The whole thing went on for about half an hour and I went straight home and couldn’t sleep at all, I’m so worried about working again tonight…
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UK: London Police No Longer Investigate Minor Crimes, Unless ‘Hate Crime’
London’s Metropolitan Police force will not bother to investigate crimes if officers are required to watch CCTV for more than 20 minutes or there is no footage available.
The UK’s largest force will also drop investigations into thousands of lower-level offences and ignore certain crimes such as vandalism, vehicle crime, and fuel theft if damages do not exceed £50.
The new “crime assessment policy” was uncovered after a Freedom of Information requestby The Times, and comes a time of increasing budgetary pressures and falling police numbers.
However, according to the policy, employed by the force since September, other crimes, including so-called “hate crime” and serious crimes such a homicides and sexual assaults, must always be investigated.
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UK: London’s Met Police Won’t Investigate Minor Crime, Only ‘Hate Crime’
London’s Metropolitan Police force will not bother to investigate crimes if officers are required to watch CCTV for more than 20 minutes or there is no footage available.
The UK’s largest force will also drop investigations into thousands of lower-level offences and ignore certain crimes such as vandalism, vehicle crime, and fuel theft if damages do not exceed £50.
The new “crime assessment policy” was uncovered after a Freedom of Information request by The Times, and comes a time of increasing budgetary pressures and falling police numbers.
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What’s Behind the Famous French Tradition of Torching Cars?
Burning cars is something of a tradition in France, albeit a much hated one by authorities and car owners, and it appears to be on the rise again.
Every New Year’s Eve nervous car owners across France cross their fingers in the hope they can start the New Year with their vehicle intact.
That’s because of a longstanding French tradition that sees youths in certain parts of cities torching scores of cars.
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Egypt Extends State of Emergency for Three Months
Egypt is extending its state of emergency, first imposed following bomb attacks on two churches in April last year. An Islamist insurgency in Sinai has increasingly crept into other parts of Egypt, including Cairo.
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Trump Mulls Cutting Off Aid to Palestinians, Says They’re ‘No Longer Willing to Talk Peace’
President Trump threatened to cut off aid to the Palestinian Authority Tuesday, saying that organization was “no longer willing to talk peace.”
In a pair of tweets, Trump complained that “we pay the Palestinians HUNDRED OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS a year and get no appreciation or respect. They don’t even want to negotiate a long overdue … peace treaty with Israel.”
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US President Donald Trump Threatens to Cut Aid to Palestinians
US President Donald Trump has tweeted the US may withhold aid money to the Palestinian Authority because it is “no longer willing to talk peace.” The US move comes after recognizing Jerusalem as the Israeli capital.
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Iran Protests: US Brands Tehran’s Accusations ‘Nonsense’
The US has branded as “complete nonsense” Iran’s accusation that its enemies have been behind a wave of violent protests sweeping the country.
Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had made the accusation in his first comments on the protests.
US envoy to the UN Nikki Haley said the protests were “spontaneous”, adding that the US planned to call an emergency UN meeting on the situation.
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China Defends Pak After Trump Tweet, Talks of “Outstanding Contribution”
Donald Trump had on Monday accused Pakistan of “lies and deceit” and of fooling US leaders while sheltering terrorists.
Today China, on expected lines, praised Pakistan’s counter terrorism record.
“Pakistan has made enormous efforts and sacrifice for the fight against terrorism and has made very outstanding contribution to the global cause of counter terrorism. The international community should acknowledge that,” Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said here when asked about Trump’s criticism of Pakistan.
He said China is glad to see Pakistan engaging in international cooperation, including counter terrorism, on the basis of mutual respect so as to contribute to regional peace and stability.
“China and Pakistan are all weather partners. We stand ready to promote and deepen our all-round cooperation so as to bring benefits to the two sides,” Mr Geng said.
China is currently investing heavily in Pakistan as part of the USD 50 billion China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) over which India has raised objections as it passes through Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.
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Pakistan Summons US Ambassador to Explain Donald Trump Tweet
The Pakistani government has summoned US ambassador David Hale to the nation’s foreign office after US President Trump said the state was protecting terrorists. In a tweet, Trump accused Islamabad of “lies & deceit.”
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Trump Publicly Insulted Pakistan. What Was the Point?
Certainly, the new tweet appeared unlikely to yield a useful result. Pakistanis across the political spectrum condemned Mr. Trump; the government of Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi protested, with some justification, that U.S. payments had merely reimbursed Pakistan for expenses incurred in supporting the war against terrorism — and that the country had itself suffered tens of thousands of casualties in that battle.
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Hungry North Korean Soldiers Are Being Given Leave to Find Food, Report Says
Soldiers in North Korea’s army are being given months off at a time to scrounge around fields to find food, according to a new report that describes the dire state of the reclusive country’s food rations.
A photo purportedly showing North Korean soldiers rummaging through a corn field was published recently on Daily NK, a Seoul-based website that covers the North through a network of informants.
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AfD Politician ‘Censored’ Under New German Hate Speech Law for Anti-Muslim Tweet
Beatrix von Storch, a leading figure in the Alternative for Germany party, is one of the first hit by new hate speech laws on social media. Critics say the legislation opens the way for censorship by internet companies.
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German doctors have criticised a proposal to impose mandatory age checks on young asylum seekers who claim to be under 18.
The German Medial Association said the tests are unethical and ‘an invasion of personal well-being’, local media reports.
The critique comes after a young asylum seeker stabbed a teenage girl to death. His age has now been questioned.
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German AfD MPs Under Fire for Anti-Muslim New Year’s Eve Messages
Two German far-right politicians are being investigated by police over anti-Muslim messages on New Year’s Eve.
Beatrix von Storch, deputy leader of the AfD party, had her Twitter account temporarily suspended on Monday after posting an inflammatory message.
She accused Cologne police of appeasing “barbaric, gang-raping Muslim hordes of men” after they tweeted a new-year message in Arabic.
Another politician is being investigated after supporting her.
Alice Weidel, one of the party’s leaders, wrote on Facebook that authorities were submitting to “imported, marauding, groping, abusive, knife-stabbing migrant mobs”.
Police say both women may be guilty of incitement to hatred. If so, they could face fines or a prison sentence.
Twitter and Facebook have deleted the posts.
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Israel Gives African Migrants 3 Months to Leave or Face Jail
Israel is notifying thousands of Africans who entered the country illegally that they have three months to leave or face incarceration.
The Population and Immigration Authority called this week on migrants from Sudan and Eritrea to leave “to their country or to a third country,” meaning Rwanda or Uganda. Those who leave by the end of March will be given $3,500, along with airfare and other incentives.
The Hotline for Migrant Workers, an advocacy group, condemned the move Tuesday, saying expulsions “put the refugees’ lives in danger.”
Thousands of Africans entered Israel before it erected a fence along its border with Egypt. Many say they fled conflict and persecution and seek refugee status. Israel calls them “infiltrators” and says they are mostly economic migrants whose numbers threaten its Jewish character.
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Men From “Syria or Afghanistan” Arrested in German New Year’s Eve Sex Attacks
Over a dozen arrests were made for New Year’s Eve sex attacks in Germany as women were groped in Berlin and Cologne by “predominantly young men from Syria or Afghanistan,” despite “safety areas” set up to curb sexual offenses. Meanwhile, thugs in France torched nearly 1,000 cars and brutally kicked a French policewoman in the head as other thugs filmed the attack and uploaded it to the internet.
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Pope Francis: Opponents of Mass Migration Sow ‘Violence, Racial Discrimination and Xenophobia’
In his new message for the World Day of Peace, Pope Francis has denounced those who question the wisdom of mass migration, accusing them of demagoguery and promoting xenophobia.
Those who decry “the risks posed to national security or the high cost of welcoming new arrivals,” are guilty of “demeaning the human dignity due to all as sons and daughters of God,” Francis said in the New Year’s message.
To resort to such “rhetoric,” the Pope continued, people “are sowing violence, racial discrimination and xenophobia, which are matters of great concern for all those concerned for the safety of every human being.”
The Catholic Church celebrates the World Day of Peace each year on New Year’s day, when it also commemorates the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God. In his annual message for the Day of Peace, the Pope opted once again to underscore the plight of migrants and refugees, as he has on several occasions recently.
[Comment: Comrade Francis is a globalist puppet and tool of the elite.]
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Steps to Prevent Illegal Migrants From Entering Israel 100% Effective in 2017
Not one migrant entered Israel illegally in 2017, according to figures from the Border Crossings, Population and Immigration Administration. The figures mark a turning point in the fight against illegal immigration in the country.
According to the administration’s figures, 4,012 illegal residents — 3,332 of them citizens of African countries — voluntarily left Israel in 2017.
Over the past year, 1,682 asylum requests were submitted by Eritrean nationals, 868 were submitted by Sudanese nationals, 7,170 were submitted by Ukrainian nationals and 1,350 were submitted by Georgian nationals.
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Syrian Grandmother Defies Perils to Cross Aegean at Age 110
How far can a desire to see a loved one take us? Laila Saleh was so desperate to see the granddaughters she helped raise that she didn’t think twice about following the rest of her family out of northern Syria, despite being 110 years old. Her yearning to see Nisrin and Berivan, who had fled Kobani for Europe three years ago and now live in Germany after being granted asylum, bolstered her determination.
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37 Things White People Need to Stop Ruining in 2018
And the United States of America.
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Iceland Becomes the First Country in the World to Make it Illegal to Pay Men More Than Women
Iceland has become the first country in the world to enforce equal pay between men and women.
The legislation, which took effect on January 1 2018, means larger firms will have to prove their male staff are not paid more than their female employees of face fines.
Companies with 25 members of staff and over are obliged to obtain government certification of their equal-pay policies or face being slapped with financial penalties.
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And the good news continues into 2018. A very Happy New Year to all! Sorry, haven’t been to the site for some time but now have the time to do so.
Sincerely
John Reinders
A more balanced review of the Pope’s message should include: “Leaders have a clear responsibility towards their own communities, whose legitimate rights and harmonious development they must ensure, lest they become like the rash builder who miscalculated and failed to complete the tower he had begun to construct. Why so many refugees and migrants?
As he looked to the Great Jubilee marking the passage of two thousand years since the proclamation of peace by the angels in Bethlehem, Saint John Paul II pointed to the increased numbers of displaced persons as one of the consequences of the “endless and horrifying sequence of wars, conflicts, genocides and ethnic cleansings”
Barack and Hillary destroyed Iraq (with the process initiated by “W’s” lies), as well as Syria and Libya. Then, they split Ukraine in half on purpose to encroach on Russia.
The Pope’s full comments boil down to: Be kind to strangers…within your means!!
Most who object to his FULL message are anti-Catholic bigots, choosing snippets to excite hate. […]
Pope Francis has a long history of making leftist statements. It is incorrect to assume that those who disagree are anti-Catholic. Maybe some of us miss The Good German Shepherd who was his predecessor.
What a wonderful name for Benedict. Thank you.
Mass migration is overwhelmingly parasitic and has nothing to do with war. The Pope is being spectacularly dishonest in omitting this fact and plain vicious in saying that opponents of immigration — immigration that means nothing less than destruction of the white homelands — have no legitimate basis for their position.
Not to put too fine a point on it but violence, racial discrimination and xenophobia are what these invaders bring WITH them. Western elites avoid stating any of this and consequently embrace a reality-denying hatred of the essence of the West. But that is another story.
The Pope could have done something useful by calling for the U.S., its NATO vassals, the E.U. atrocity, Israel, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar to cease forthwith their arrogant meddling in the affairs of other people and their constant military adventures and provocation of Russia. He could also have called for aiding legitimate refugees in place, dealing with the pathologies! of Muslim states, and the misguided, open-ended Western aid and economic policies in Africa. But he did not.
I think that was a vile, dishonest, useless message for the World Day of Peace. You are correct that we should consider context but we should also consider substance.
This all savages lying about the age , man who is around 25-30 claiming Hevus 15-18 , how stupid and naive can German officials can be !!, This madness is just frightening and outrageous..
It is obvious you are “frightened and outraged”, Yogi. But it would serve you well to understand why German policies are not “naive”. Stupid? Yes. But they have a goal in mind; they’re globalists caught up in the dead-end “multicultural” cult. The elites don’t have to worry about their own skins, and they don’t ever worry about average Germans.
Harness the energy of your outrage in service to studying the aims of the globalist, one-world, no-borders folks (from Soros to Pope Francis) to grasp their aims. It is because of them – and they infest all Western countries to some extent – that populist, right-wing political parties and individuals have arisen in response to this clear threat.
If you study current trends, you’ll come to see what military historians call the “threat matrix”.
If you want a way to fight back…well that depends on where you live.