Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said that he opposes his coalition partner Matteo Salvini on the issues of military conscription and mosques. Mr. Berlusconi is against the reintroduction of conscription, and said, “we cannot close the mosques.”
In other news, the name of the victim in the Melbourne ISIS-inspired stabbing has been released to the press: he is 56-year-old Roger Singaravelu, from India.
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Despite Stock Sell-Off, Few See Recession
Barbara Friedberg must be feeling pretty good right about now. Last October she made “10 Bold Stock Market Predictions for 2018,” and already she is scoring five out of 10.
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Antifa’s Handbook: A Primer on Violent Illiberalism
Keith Ellison, the deputy director of the Democratic National Committee and congressman from Minnesota, recently ignited a Twitter firestorm when he tweeted out a picture of Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook, a book, he declared, that would “strike fear in the heart of” Donald Trump. Upon reading Antifa, it’s easy to see why the tweet generated so much controversy.
Since its release last August, the handbook, by Dartmouth lecturer Mark Bray, has garnered attention as one of the few windows available into the mind of the newly prominent Antifa movement. Bray makes clear from the beginning that the book isn’t an attempt at a neutral rehashing of facts, but rather “is an unabashedly partisan call to arms” for the purpose of equipping activists “with the history and theory necessary to defeat the resurgent Far Right.” He articulates clearly the revolutionary ideology of the far left and defends using violence in its service, from street brawls to kidnappings to assassinations. For those who do not desire to see the world reborn in the flames of global anti-capitalist revolution, the popularity of The Anti-Fascist Handbook should prove alarming.
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Rich New Yorkers Try to Keep Homeless Out
Wealthy New Yorkers are furious that Mayor Bill de Blasio plans to open a homeless shelter in their ritzy Manhattan neighborhood.
Dozens of wealthy residents packed into a community meeting to voice their anger over the decision to move 150 homeless men into the former Park Savoy Hotel, NY1 reports. The residents are concerned that the move will increase crime and decrease property values in their neighborhood on “billionaires row.”
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Saudi Graduate at Al Qaeda Terror Training Camp Arrested in Oklahoma
On February 6, The New York Times published a chilling report on the arrest in Oklahoma of a foreign national who had attended an al Qaeda training camp. The defendant in this case is Naif Abdulaziz M. Alfallaj, a 34-year-old citizen of Saudi Arabia who has been residing in the U.S. since 2011. Allegedly he attended a terror training camp in Afghanistan in 2000 when four of the 9/11 hijacker/terrorists also attended training sessions at that very same camp.
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Big story in the Toronto Star today:
Trudeau to Facebook: Fix your fake news problem or face stricter regulations
They’re not even hiding it anymore, are they?
The Liberals just plain old want to censor news they don’t like. That’s all “fake news” means. What’s fake news to me is real news to you, and vice versa.
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Geert Wilders: Our Cabinet is Selling Out Our Country to Brussels and to Islam
Next month, on 21 March, there will be local elections in the Netherlands. The Freedom Party of Geert Wilders will participate in 30 municipalities.
Thursday, Wilders putted a campaign video on social media. He tells how Western Europe facilitates Islamisation and how his country’s cabinet does the same.
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Germany: Merkel Pays High Price for Fourth Term
“Merkel will govern…but her government will be under the heading ‘this will not be long.’ This refers to Merkel, and also to the fact that in many parts of the country there is the feeling that ‘this’ should not continue.” — Kurt Kister, Editor-in-Chief, Süddeutsche Zeitung.
“The CDU retains control of the beautiful-sounding, but in fact powerless, Ministry of Economy, the unpopular Ministry of Health, the crisis-prone Ministry of Defense and the shadowy existence of ministerial posts in the Chancellery, for education and agriculture. That is little for the strongest faction in the Bundestag.” — Editorial, Münchner Merkur.
“The CDU was transformed into Merkel’s own personal political party. On the way, though, the competition of political ideas—the policy conflicts that are the lifeblood of democracy and which provide voters with direction—was lost.” — René Pfister, head of the Berlin bureau, Der Spiegel.
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The Hungarian government has weighed in on the revelationsconcerning a plot by billionaire globalist George Soros to topple the British government and trigger another EU referendum.
“Soros is funding groups that are working to overturn Brexit, to reverse a decision taken at the request of UK voters, and to possibly topple the democratically elected government of Theresa May in the process,” observed Dr Zoltán Kovács, the Hungarian Prime Minister’s Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy.
“Let that sink in for a moment.”
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Italy: Berlusconi Rejects Salvini Line on Military Service, Mosques
Ex-premier describes Salvini as ‘explosive’
(ANSA) — Rome, February 9 — Forza Italia leader and ex-premier Silvio Berlusconi said Friday that he disagreed with his coalition ally, League leader Matteo Salvini, on bringing back obligatory military service and closing mosques in Italy. “I’m against the return of conscription,” Berlusconi told Radio Capital.
“Salvini is explosive from time to time, but we cannot close the mosques”.
On Thursday Salvini said he doubted whether Islam was compatible with Italian values.
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Italy: Rightists: Leftists to March on Foibe Anniversary
‘We don’t want clashes’ says CasaPound leader
(ANSA) — Rome, February 9 — Some of Italy’s most extreme rightist and leftist groups are set to march amid fears of clashes Saturday, the day Italy remembers the ‘Foibe’ massacres of Italians by Tito’s partisans at the end of WWII.
One of the most closely watched cities will be Turin, where the far-right Forza Nuova and CasaPound groups said Friday they would march, defying a mayor’s call. At the same time, anti-Fascist and anticapitalist groups said they would march, at different times.
In Rome, CasaPound leader and premier candidate Simone Di Stefano said allowing extremist leftist marches on the Foibe anniversary was “fanning the flames” when tensions are already high over a racist shooting in Macerata.
“We don’t want clashes, on the contrary we want to tone things down and get to the (general election) vote (on March 4) in a calm way.
“The interior ministry must guarantee that”.
Extreme nationalism poses “extremely serious risks”, President Sergio Mattarella said Friday in a message for the Day of Memory on the Foibe Saturday.
“The massacres, the violence, the suffering of Giulian, Istrian, Fiuman and Dalmatian exiles cannot be forgotten, underplayed or removed,” said the head of State about the 1943-7 massacres in northeast Italy, some of which is now Croatia and Slovenia. “They are part, rightfully, of our national history and are an indelible chapter in it, which warns us on the extremely serious risks of extreme nationalism, ethnic hatred, and ideological violence erected into a system”.
Saturday is the National Day of Remembrance for the foibe, the deep mountain pits into which victims were thrown, sometimes alive and sometimes after being shot, and bound together with barbed wire.
Some 15,000 Italians living in the Istrian peninsula, in today’s Slovenia and Croatia, are believed to have died in the narrow mountain gorges used to execute perceived enemies of the Communist government of then-president Josef Tito.
Italians who had lived for centuries in the regions of Istria, Fiume and Dalmatia were attacked by Slovene and Croatian partisans, some in reprisal for Italian occupation of Istria during the war and others blamed for Fascist activities.
The killings creating long-lasting tensions in relations between Italy and the present republics of Croatia and Slovenia which were accused of dragging their feet over compensation for exiles.
The Foibe issue also split the Italian political world with leftwing parties accused of airbrushing the episode for years when only the right recalled the victims.
February 10 was set up as National Memorial Day of the Exiles and Foibe in 2004 to unite Italians in remembering the victims.
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Italy: Huge Business Behind Anti-Vaccines Movement — Lorenzin
Illogical fears being exploited says health minister
(ANSA) — Modena, February 9 — Health Minister Beatrice Lorenzin said Friday that vested interests were fueling growing opposition to vaccinations. “There’s a business behind everything, including the anti-vaccination movement,” Lorenzin told a meeting on vaccinations in Modena.
“Absolutely illogical fears are being exploited by interest groups, by all those who want to sell a medicine that does not exist”.
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Italy: 2 More Nigerians Quizzed in Pamela Murder
One nabbed in Macerata, other in Milan on way to Switzerland
(ANSA) — Macerata, February 9 — Two more Nigerian men are being questioned but have not been arrested in the death of 18-year-old Roman drug addict Pamela Mastropietro, in which two Nigerian pushers are already under investigation for complicity in homicide near Macerata, sources said Friday.
The results of the autopsy, in particular the way the body was dismembered, led police to the pair, as well as the two under investigation.
One of the pair was found in Macerata and the other stopped in Milan while trying to reach Switzerland.
On Thursday sources in Macerata said after Mastropietro’s autopsy that a Nigerian pusher accused of complicity in her murder and dismemberment gave her an “extremely modest” dose of heroin.
Desmond Lucky is nonetheless suspected of giving the woman, who had been in a drug rehab centre near Macerata and had not been using for four months, a fatal dose.
Lucky is accused of complicity with another Nigerian pusher, Innocent Oseghale, in homicide, disposing of and disrespecting a body in the case of Mastropietro, whose remains were found in two suitcases at Pollenza outside Macerata.
It is has not been established if the young woman died of an overdose or was murdered, allegedly by Oseghale, in whose home bloodstained knives were found.
Prosecutors said Thursday the initial findings of an autopsy on Mastropietro had produced “no significant evidence” of how she had died.
But Italian media reported Friday the autopsy had shown she was hit on the head before being murdered.
The autopsy found that blood and urine were missing from the remains, which had been sliced up in an “apparently scientific” way.
Further lab tests will be made next week, prosecutors said.
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No Family Doctor for 14 Mn Italians in 5 Yrs — FIMMG
Effect of upcoming retirements
(ANSA) — Rome, February 9 — Silvestro Scotti, the secretary of the Italian Federation of General Practitioners (FIMMG), told ANSA on Friday that “in the next five to eight years 14 million citizens will be without” a family doctor due to retirements.
“It appears almost ridiculous to see that none of the political parties that aspire to govern the country are making proposals or commitments about territorial care,” Scotti added. FIMMG and the union of medical managers ANAAO said Friday that 45,000 GPs and hospital doctors are poised to retire in the next five years. The situation will get even worse over the next 10 years, they said, with a total of 80,676 doctors retiring by 2028. That total will be made up of 33,392 GPs and 47,284 hospital doctors, the two organisations said. They said Italy was facing a “haemorrhage” of medical professionals.
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Author and sociologist Frank Furedi claims globalist activists working for billionaire financier George Soros bragged about toppling governments at a private lunch.
A former professor of sociology at the University of Kent in Canterbury, Furedi recounted his experience with the globalist’s “missionaries” in an article for the Telegraph newspaper, having been prompted by the revelations about his efforts to bring down the British government and trigger another EU referendum.
“Soros believes that if the people voted the wrong way, he is entitled to thwart decisions made by them,” Furedi wrote.
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Soros & the £400k Question: What Constitutes ‘Foreign Interference’ In Democracy?
You’d have to have a real sense of humor failure not to laugh. The news that US billionaire Soros donated £400k to an anti-Brexit group came on the day that YouTube said they found no evidence of Russian interference in Brexit.
Repeat After Me (with robotic arm movements): “Unproven Russian involvement in Brexit — terrible! Impose more sanctions on Moscow! A £400k check from an American billionaire for an anti-Brexit campaigning group — that’s no problem; it’s helping our democracy!”
You don’t have to own a brand new £999 state-of-the art Hypocrisy Detector from Harrods, to pick up on the double standards. Just having a few functioning brain cells and thinking for yourself will do. For months in the UK we’ve been bombarded with Establishment-approved conspiracy theories — peddled in all the ‘best’ newspapers — that Russia somehow ‘fixed’ Brexit. Getting Britain to leave the EU was all part of a cunning plot by Vladimir Putin, aka Dr. Evil, to weaken Europe and the ‘free world.’
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UK: Huge Rise in Knifepoint Rapes, Fatal Stabbings, While Police Focus on “Hate Crime”
Crime figures released this week revealed that fatal stabbings in England and Wales are at the highest level since 2010-2011, while rapes at knifepoint rose by 23 per cent in the past year.
Data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) recorded 413 rapes involving a knife in the year to March, up from 334 the previous year, while in 2010-2011 the number stood at 258.
The statistics show fatal knife attacks also rose last year and revealed that while the number of female victims was the lowest in a decade, at 51, the number of males murdered in deadly knife attacks was the highest since 2009, standing at 164.
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Macedonia: 127mln IPA Funds Approved for Railway to Bulgaria
Allocation to finance roads and technical assistance projects
(ANSA) — SKOPJE — The recise Sector Operational Programme for Transport 2014-2020, within IPA programme, has been approved, through which 127.2 million euro are allocated to Macedonia. Of these, 108.1 million is from IPA II programme, while 19.1 million are approved from the Macedonian budget. The funds are intended for projects in railway, roads and technical assistance. According to Mia press agency, 71.5 million are allocated in sector railways and will be used for construction of part of third phase of the railway line to Bulgaria, section Kriva Palanka, Deve Bair border crossing, Ministry of Transport and Communications told. Macedonian government is strongly committed to implementation of capital projects and reforms in the transport sector that will accelerate the economic growth in the country, Ministry of Transport and Communications said in a press release.
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Attack Against Benghazi Mosque, 1 Dead and 55 Injured
With car bomb or backpack with explosive
CAIRO — A dynamite attack has been carried out against a mosque in Benghazi, Libya’s second-largest city, which caused 1 death and 55 injured, according to two local media outlets on Friday.
“A car bomb exploded near the mosque of Abu Huraia”, wrote the website Al Wasat, quoting the television ‘Libya Roha Al Watan”. The website of the broadcaster Libya’s Channel spoke about a “backpack with explosives”. Al Wasat, after referring to “dead and wounded” according to the television’s sources, subsequently reported “dozens of wounded” being treated at a hospital.
Libya’s Channel on Twitter also reported of “40 injured being treated at the Al Galla hospital and at Benghazi’s medical center”.
Jihadists and the forces of general Khalifa Haftar have been fighting to gain control of the city for over three years before Haftar announced that his troops has retaken it last July.
On January 23, two car bombs exploded outside a mosque, killing at least 34 people, including children, and injuring 90 others.
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Egypt: Al Gomhuria: 45 Compete for High-Speed, Monorail Plans
Ministers to announce winners by end of February
CAIRO — A total of 45 “consortiums and international companies” are competing to “execute and fund” two Egyptian railway projects for a “high-speed train between Ain Sokhna and El Alamein El-Gedida” and the “monorail of the new administrative capital”, Egyptian daily Al Gomhuria reported on Friday, quoting an inter-ministerial committee that is set to announce the winners “before the end of February”.
The list includes 23 candidates for the high-speed train between the Red Sea and the Mediterranean and 22 for the monorail project connecting the western suburbs of Cairo “6th of October City” and Sheikh Zayed City” and “Nasr City”, said the newspaper, referring to a western district where the new administrative capital is being set up.
The “first phase” of the monorail connection consists of 35km, has 10 stations and will serve one million passengers a day. Once the connection is completed, there will be 22 stations, said Al Gomhuria. The newspaper said that the committee managing the two tenders includes the ministries of construction and of transport.
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Concert Organized in Rome for Gaza Children
By the organization Amici Mezza Luna Rossa
(ANSAmed) — ROME, FEBRUARY 9 — Italian NGO Amici della Mezza Luna Rossa Palestinese is organizing a concert to raise funds for children in Gaza.
The concert is scheduled at 6 pm on Friday, February 16, at the Valdensian University in Rome.
Proceeds will go to the creation of the Fares Odeh Center which will provide psychological support to children.
The evening will include a musical performance with piano players Emanuele Cacioppo and Francesco Piccolo and a reading of Palestinian poems.
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The Bangladeshi national stabbed the 56-year-old man at his Callistemon Rise home in Mill Park, southeast Melbourne on Friday afternoon and was charged with engaging in a terrorist act.
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Dedicated family man Roger Singaravelu, 56, was allegedly stabbed in his sleep about 4.25pm Friday at his home in Mill Park, northeast Melbourne.
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Violent Somali Rapist Told Teenage Victim She Couldn’t be a Virgin ‘Because She’s White’
A Somali national has been jailed after he held a sharp piece of wood to a teenage girl’s throat as he raped her.
Ahmed Abdoule said the girl could not be a virgin “because she was white”, and told her “my country would love you” following the attack, was given an 11-year sentence at Hull Crown Court the Hull Daily Mail reports.
Reports have not indicated how long Abdoule will actually spend in prison and the court has not responded to a request for information, but if the sentence follows the standard formula he will likely be released after roughly 5 years.
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Italy: ‘Honour to Traini’ Banner Put up Near Macerata
‘No Fascist resurgence’ says mayor
(ANSA) — Macerata, February 9 — A banner honouring Luca Traini, a far-rightist who shot and wounded six African migrants in Macerata last Saturday, was found in a village near the Marche city on Friday. The banner reading “Honour to Luca Traini” was draped overnight on the former aqueduct at Morrovalle. Mayor Stefano Montemarani had it taken down as soon as he heard the news at around eight o’clock in the morning. He said he believed it was not put up by local people, because “in Morrovalle there is no Fascist resurgence”. But the first citizen described the episode as “worrying”. It is not the first banner honouring Traini to be put up. One was unfurled Tuesday night on Rome’s Milvian Bridge.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_crime
Wikipedia is a rather superficial resource, but from this article it can be concluded that the notion of “Hate crime” began to massively be introduced in Europe from 1998 to 2003.
In Russia, the notorious “Russian Article 282” was also introduced in 2003.
http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/arguendi/47553507/1742718/1742718_original.jpg
(Article 282 – prohibits being Russian)
It is strange that the ex-premier of Italy failed to see that closing the mosques would stop a toxic ideology such as Islam exploding in Europe.
Either he is ignorant or afraid of those explosive Islamic savages or just doesn’t care for our future wellbeing.
Compilation in Russian of two French sources.
Euroislam: a project of European elites?
The EU report on discrimination against Muslims and the letter “dhimmi”, Commissioner Timmermans.
Recently, it became known that there was a report “Eurislam” (Euroislam), with a budget of 623 million euros, fully dedicated to research in the humanities, in order to “help” EU member states to properly integrate immigrant populations, especially Muslims.
In September 2017, the European Agency for Fundamental Rights published a report on discrimination, from which the Muslim minority suffers in Europe.
As expected, the report commissioned from Brussels says that Muslims are eager to integrate into the societies in which they live, but that there is still a lot to do with indigenous peoples in order to put an end to discrimination against the followers of Muhammad.
Even more striking than this report was the letter of Frans Timmermans addressed to the Muslims of Europe, in which he assures them that the EU is a friend to them, in the face of the discrimination that they are subject to in the member states of the EU.
https://spiderlog.livejournal.com/696042.html
http://www.bvoltaire.com/eurislam-le-projet-des-elites-europeennes/
https://les2temoinsdelapocalypse.info/eurislam-le-projet-europeen/
Meanwhile, Muslims are getting richer and even more inhumane as they used all sorts of tactics to discriminate against us nonbeliever and and at the same time denied us nonbelievers equal opportunity to discriminate against them.
It is quite obvious Muslims intention is to take over and not to integrate.
Muslims are known to be one of the most selfish and inhumane species and they deserve nothing from us. After all, they gave us nothing and have caused so much harm to humanity and to our world.
If you read their articles and posts on social networks, then humanity would not have survived without them. And they attribute to themselves the merits of the remnants of the civilization of Alexander the Great. For example: the invention of the alphabet, the merits of Ibn Sina and Omar Khayyam, and then in the next post, calling them kuffars. Especially they like to adhere to the glory of Khayyam illiterate Tajik janitors – everyone considers themselves to be his descendants.
Italians resisting the invasion of their lands? ‘Bout time.
One of the best expositions of Islam in a few words. Islam is a set of law using religion to impose its law.
As such Islam is not protected, but must actually be fought as much as any foreighn power desiring to wrest the land and life from the People. Thus Islam in all its political forms must be rejected uprooted and relocated to the lands it already owns, along with the persons who uphold Islam.
Some here will be aware of the charity Barnabas Aid, which helps Christian victims of religious persecution, mainly in Islamic countries; I was introduced to them by “Gates” contributor and commentator Peter, from Thailand.
They have just taken the unusual step of sending out a brochure detailing legal actions and official pronouncements against Christians in the UK, with a petition calling on the British government to introduce new legislation guaranteeing freedom of religious expression: http://www.OurReligiousFreedom.org. Although not a believer, I’m happy to sign, and I hope all Brits here will do the same.
Totally biased lib coverage of a small town in Michigan that tries to limit ownership to practicing Christians:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/feb/09/christians-only-town-bay-view-michigan