French President Emmanuel “Toy Boy” Macron has proposed that Islam in France be restructured in order to foster better integration and prevent radicalism. Mr. Macron said that the reorganization would promote “national cohesion”.
In other news, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that the Republic of Turkey must be viewed as a continuation of the Ottoman Empire.
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IMF Chief: Cryptocurrency Regulation is ‘Inevitable’
International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde says it’s only a matter of time before cryptocurrencies come under government regulation.”It’s inevitable,” she told CNNMoney emerging markets editor John Defterios. “It’s clearly a domain where we need international regulation and proper supervision.”
Digital currencies have largely operated in a regulatory vacuum since bitcoin’s debut in 2009. But governments and central banks are starting to pay closer attention, warning investors about potential scams.
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World War is Coming in the Fall of 2018
There are many reasons why war is coming soon; I will address just a few. First, the financial position of the US is that of ‘a camel waiting for the proverbial straw’. US indebtedness and fiscal imbalances, which can never be repaid, rest upon a foundation of imported capital, and are no longer sustainable. And if they were to continue, the cost of sustaining them would be borne by our trading partners, many of whom we are now discovering to be our enemies.
China has recently completed an alternative international settlement system which will allow nations to settle international payments outside of the US dollar and it is now operational. We are living in the final days of the ‘petro-dollar’ era. When the petro-dollar goes, the US will lose its seeming unlimited funding source for its trade deficit, through which we finance our fiscal deficit and our military budget. Without the ‘petro-dollar’ we won’t be able export our debt at near zero interest rates. America will then be confronted with a choice: either surrender its super power status and give up its subsidized standard of living, or go to war to defend it.
The World is at the Tipping Point
The world is at a tipping point by virtually every measure. We are now witnessing a global ecosystem collapse as the oceans, the birds, and the fish die. The so-called economic recovery was a cruel joke, papered over by trillion dollar deficits which created our now overextended financial bubbles. The political, moral and social bankruptcy of our country is absolute and it is not just America, but worldwide. Ours has become an empire of lies, and where ‘truth-tellers’ are guilty of treason.
The pseudo-science of climate change is one such example; in the light of truth, it is exposed as a total fraud. Global climate change has nothing to do with carbon emissions; correlation doesn’t prove causality. The scientific fact is that the whole solar system is being impacted by cosmic and gamma radiation from a neutron star 1,300 light years away in the vicinity of the Orion constellation. This radiation is heating the core of every planet and is also impacting our sun, which is now increasingly more unstable. This radiation is also heating the core of our planet, thereby weakening the earth’s magnetic field which allows greater amounts of solar radiation into our ecosystem, producing a positive feedback loop. The 20 trillion tons of methane gas frozen in the Arctic Circle have begun to melt and the outcome will be a cataclysm. [2] These changes are getting worse by the day and the governments of the world know all of this.
When you examine the history of the war propaganda inside Russia over the last four years, their development of new 5th generation weapons, alongside of their military preparations and current mobilizations, compared with the terrible lack of readiness on the part of US forces, the window of vulnerability is at or near its maximum. During the time of the ABM Treaty, Russia developed dual purpose anti-aircraft missiles which also serve as anti-ballistic missiles (ABM) and Russia has close to 12,000 such missiles. In the US, we have basically none, unless you count 100 or so outdated Nike interceptors from the 1960’s.
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Assange Mocks Newsweek Journalist Duped by Fake Twitter Account
Julian Assange has issued a savage rebuke to Newsweek journalist Michael Hayden for being duped by a fake Twitter account impersonating the Wikileaks founder.
Hayden had responded to a tweet supporting US president Donald Trump from Assange impersonator @TheRealJulian. The fake account wrote: “Keep doing what you’re doing Mr. President and know that the entire world is behind you!”
Despite the nature of the comment being completely out of character, Hayden took it at face value and he accused the Australian of being “one of those MAGA randos that rushes into Trump’s replies to kiss up”.
Assange responded with a filleting analysis of Hayden’s journalistic professionalism and accused him of amplifying a “black PR operation” against him.
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At American Universities, Democracy Dies in Enforced Silence
“Unfair” — that’s how The Washington Post editorial board characterized the Justice Department’s interest in Young America’s Foundation’s case against U.C. Berkeley. In reality, fairness and fair play are all conservative students are asking for from their school’s administrators.
What is unfair is Berkeley’s treatment of students who aren’t in lockstep with the university’s ideological line. Berkeley’s unwritten and unconstitutional “high-profile speaker policy” was applied exclusively to block conservative speakers hosted by conservative students. Berkeley’s subsequent unconstitutional “major events policy” was used solely in attempts to stifle conservative events.
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College Republicans’ Patriot Prayer Rally Disrupted by Counter-Protesters
Five people were arrested as fights broke out and at least one American flag was burned Saturday after a college Republican rally in Seattle drew counter-protesters.
College Republicans at the University of Washington had invited members of Patriot Prayer, a group in Vancouver, Wash., to speak in the university’s Red Square for a “freedom rally,” the Seattle Times reported.
The goals were to bring conservatives together and promote free-speech rights, College Republicans President Chevy Swanson told the Times. As the event got underway, supporters chanted “U-S-A!, U-S-A!,” and signs included one that read, “We died for liberty not socialism.”
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George W. Bush Says ‘There’s Pretty Clear Evidence’ Russia Meddled in 2016 US Election
Former President George W. Bush said on Thursday that “there’s pretty clear evidence that the Russians meddled” in the 2016 American presidential election.
While never mentioning President Donald Trump by name, Bush appeared to be pushing back on Trump’s decisions on immigration, as well as trying to have warmed relations with Russia.
“There’s pretty clear evidence that the Russians meddled,” Bush said at a talk in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates. “Whether they affected the outcome is another question.”
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Get Tough With Your Elected Officials and Your Pastors
The January 8, 2018 NEW AMERICAN article describing the Underbelly of the Intelligence Community that has been trying to impeach President Trump since his election reports even Congress is not safe from the Deep State intelligence machine’s illegal snooping…
Top Obama officials such as Attorney General Eric Holder were caught sending weapons to drug cartels as part of a phony Fast and Furious “investigation,” then blaming American gun rights on the carnage that use of the weapons caused.
In the name of fighting communism, the “intelligence community” literally armed, funded, and trained Osama bin Laden and other jihadists in Afghanistan who later became enemies of the U.S. And in the name of fighting terrorism, this practice of aiding and abetting jihadists has continued to the present day, and has even included support for terrorists led by Al-Qaeda. The article goes on to tell about an explosive 2012 document from the DIA exposing several stunning facts about what the Deep State was up to in Syria. For one, it shows the Deep state knew that the insurgency in Syria was being led by al-Qaeda— and that the administration was supporting that insurgency anyway. “The Salafist (extreme Islamist sect), the Muslim Brotherhood, and AQI (Al Qaeda in Iraq) are the major forces driving the insurgency in Syria,” admitted the report, dated August 12, 2012. It also admitted that “Western powers,” certainly including the Obama administration in power at the time, support that al-Qaeda-led opposition.
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If ‘Starman’ Isn’t Headed for the Asteroid Belt, Where’s That Dummy Going?
The Tesla Roadster and “Starman” dummy that SpaceX launched on its new Falcon Heavy rocket on Tuesday (Feb. 6) does not appear to be heading to the asteroid belt, despite what SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk said on Twitter Tuesday evening.
Rather, the data shows that the Roadster’s path will take it closer to Mars’ orbit than the asteroid belt.
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Obama’s DOJ and FBI Conspired to Knife America in the Heart
by Kelleigh Nelson
“The memo isn’t treasonous. It reveals a treasonous effort by the Democrats to use our intelligence agencies to rig an election and overturn the will of the voters.” — Daniel Greenfield
They wouldn’t have received a FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court) warrant without the dossier. The dossier was presented to the FISA court as if it was true. The court was not told that the Democrats actually paid for this. — Congressman Devin Nunes
What I want to know is why Rod Rosenstein, Bruce Ohr, his wife Nellie Ohr who worked for Fusion GPS, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, Zebley, Andrew McCabe, Comey, Dana Boente, Hillary, Brennan, Clapper, Yates, Loretta Lynch, et al., aren’t in handcuffs and being led away for conspiracy to commit treason. [Link]
If this was reversed and the Republicans had conspired against the Democrats to destroy a presidential candidate and then the presidency, they’d already be locked up and ready for the firing squad. Devin Nunes and a few others are carrying the water for the entire party, while the moderates lean with the Democrats.
Comey, Yates, McCabe, Rosenstein, and Boente allegedly signed (FISA) applications that were badly tainted. Rep. Jim Jordan noted, “FBI takes ‘salacious and unverified’ dossier to secret court to get secret warrant to spy on a fellow American, and FBI doesn’t tell the court that the DNC/Clinton campaign paid for that dossier. And they did that four times.”
And why is fired former FBI Director James Comey free when he leaked classified information to the NY Times, and get this…he is going to be teaching an ethical leadership course at the College of William and Mary next fall!
It is inconceivable that Strzok, who called Trump “an idiot,” was the lead investigator on both the Clinton and Trump cases, and we now know from Strzok’s text messages that he was instrumental in trying to destroy the Trump campaign and presidency. Strzok was the Chief of the Counterespionage Section during the FBI’s investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a personal email server. Why is he still an FBI agent?
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Swiss Watchdog Group: Council on Foreign Relations Controls U.S. News Outlets
Largely unbeknownst to the general public, many media executives and top journalists of almost all major US news outlets have long been members of the influential Council on Foreign Relations (CFR).
Established in 1921 as a private, bipartisan organization to “awaken America to its worldwide responsibilities”, the CFR and its close to 5000 elite members have for decades shaped U.S. foreign policy and public discourse about it. As one Council member famously explained, the goal has indeed been to establish a global Empire, albeit a “benevolent” one.
Based on official membership rosters, the following illustration for the first time depicts the extensive media network of the CFR and its two main international affiliate organizations: the Bilderberg Group (covering mainly the U.S. and Europe) and the Trilateral Commission (covering North America, Europe and East Asia), both established by Council leaders to foster elite cooperation at the international level.
In a column entitled “Ruling Class Journalists”, former Washington Post senior editor and ombudsman Richard Harwood once described the Council and its members approvingly as “the nearest thing we have to a ruling establishment in the United States”
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The Trump administration wants to turn the International Space Station into a kind of orbiting real estate venture run not by the government, but by private industry.
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Businesses Levelled, Residents Displaced After Explosion at Mississauga Plaza
Three people have been sent to hospital following a massive explosion at a Mississauga plaza that levelled multiple businesses and shattered the windows of an apartment building across the street.
The blast occurred at around 7:30 a.m. at a commercial plaza in the area of Hurontario and Dundas streets.
When crews arrived, firefighters encountered heavy smoke, flames, and substantial debris.
Crews were able to rescue a man, woman, and child, who were found on the roof of the building. Paramedics say all three were taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Two people who were in the south side of the plaza at the time of the explosion were assessed by paramedics on scene but were not taken to hospital.
Mississauga Fire Chief Tim Beckett told reporters Sunday that at least one third of the businesses in the plaza have collapsed as a result of the explosion.
The windows of stores left standing were blown out and Beckett said tenants of an apartment building across the street have been evacuated due to structural concerns.
The plaza is located near Thomas L. Kennedy School Secondary School but it is unclear if the school sustained any damage as a result of the incident.
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“Give Foreigners the Vote in Brussels Elections”
The citizen’s initiative #1Bru1Vote has launched a petition to allow everybody living in Brussels to vote in regional elections and that includes non-Belgians. At present only Belgians can vote in regional elections and for them it is compulsory.
In 2004 lawmakers adopted legislation allowing everybody living in Belgium to vote in municipal elections, but non-Belgians are still disqualified from voting in regional elections. #1Bru1Vote hopes to change this, at least for non-Belgians living in Brussels. In Brussels the regional parliament and regional government have a big say in determining policy, but the 310,000 non-Belgians over 18 living here don’t get to vote.
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“I Won’t Butt Out” — Soros Slams UK Democracy’s “Fatal Error” On Brexit, Calls it “A Tragic Mistake”
Having been exposed as the funding behind “Best for Britain”‘s efforts to lobby British MPs to vote down the final Brexit deal — a move that could initiate another referendum or a general election — George Soros has put finger to keyboard and written an op-ed (in The UK’s Daily Mail), defending himself.
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Anti-Fascist Protesters Rally in Flashpoint Italian Town
Thousands of anti-fascist demonstrators rallied in the central Italian town of Macerata on Saturday a week after a far-right gunmen shot and wounded six Africans in a racially-motivated attack.
Gathered in the town centre on a freezing but sunny afternoon, the protesters turned out following a call by NGOs, anti-fascist organisations, unions and several leftwing political groups.
“If there’s unemployment, blame the government, not the migrants,” they chanted.
The town hit the headlines on February 3rd when Luca Traini, 28, allegedly carried out a two-hour shooting attack from his car in which he shot at around a dozen African migrants, wounding five men and a woman.
Speaking to investigators, he reportedly said it was in response to the murder of an 18-year-old Italian girl whose dismembered body was found in several suitcases, with police arresting a Nigerian drug dealer in connection with the case.
The shooting shocked Italy, where a general election is due in just three weeks’ time in which far-right parties are expected to make a strong showing.
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Antwerp Man Filmed Destroying 20 Mezuzahs, Harassing Jews
A 24-year-old refugee, believed to be Muslim, was briefly detained by Belgian police for anti-Semitic hate crimes, including the destruction of at least 20 mezuzahs in Antwerp, local Jews said.
In recent weeks, the same man was filmed in Antwerp destroying at least 20 mezuzahs, religious objects containing a parchment with biblical text inked on it that Jews affix to their door frames, and vandalizing the entrance doors of several Jewish institutions, Joods Actueel, the Jewish monthly reported Sunday.
He had also placed a Quran near a synagogue, and was filmed knocking off the hat of an Orthodox Jew on the street. He shouted at Jewish passersby: “This is our land, Palestine!” and: “We will show you!”
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Britain Should ‘Walk Away and See How EU Does Without the Money’
Britain should walk away and see how the EU does without the money, says an EU diplomat as cracks begin to open up in Brussels.
It comes after Barnier revealed his bizarre and unreasonable Brexit transition stance: He wants Britain to remain in the single market and customs union, accept ECJ rule and free movement of people and be subject to any new EU rules and regs without having a say in the making of those decisions.
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Donald Trump ‘Asks to Visit Churchill War Rooms During State Visit After Watching Darkest Hour’
Donald Trump has asked for a private tour of the Churchill War Rooms during a visit to London after being inspired by watching Darkest Hour.
Mr Trump reportedly asked Whitehall officials if he would be able to visit the underground bunker where Mr Churchill planned strategy during the Second World War.
A White House source told The Sunday Times that Mr Trump’s UK visit is scheduled for October 5-8.
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Early Neolithic Enclosure Found in England
The Guardian reports that a section of a 5,500-year-old causewayed enclosure, complete with encircling ditches and boundaries with gap entrances, has been uncovered at a quarry in southeast England. Wessex Archaeology researchers expect to find the rest of the oval-shaped monument intact. “So that will mean we’ve got a much better picture and an understanding of the site as a whole,” said fieldwork director John Powell. The bones of deer, foxes, cattle, pigs, and sheep or goats, and deliberately smashed, decorated pottery suggest the site was used as a ceremonial gathering place.
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Emmanuel Macron to Propose Reorganization of Islam in France
French President Emmanuel Macron wants to reorganize Islam in France to better integrate worship, fight fundamentalism and preserve “national cohesion.”
“We are working on the structuring [he used the word structuration] of Islam in France and also on how to explain it, which is extremely important,” Macron told the Journal du Dimanche in an interview Sunday.
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France’s Le Pen to Propose New Name for National Front
PARIS (Reuters) — French far-right National Front (FN) leader Marine Le Pen said on Sunday she planned to propose a new name for her party as part of a drive to turn it into a force ready to govern the country.
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French Carnival Under Fire Over ‘Blackface’ Night
A carnival in the northern French port of Dunkirk opened Sunday clouded by a controversy over the use of blackface after criticism from anti-racism campaigners.
The weeks-long event, usually attended by tens of thousands of people, sees locals dress up and parade through the streets in costumes, with some choosing to wear black make-up and clothing to resemble African tribal figures.
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French Mum, Ex-Partner Get 20 Years for 5-Year-Old’s Murder
A French appeal court on Sunday sentenced a mother and her ex-partner to 20 years for the brutal murder of her five-year-old daughter whose disappearance in 2013 shocked the country.
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George Soros Defends £400,000 Donation to Pro-EU Campaign
Billionaire investor George Soros has defended his decision to hand £400,000 to a campaign arguing against Brexit — and says he considers leaving the EU a “tragic mistake”.
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George Soros: I Won’t ‘Butt Out’ Of Brexit Politics
Financier George Soros has vowed not to “butt out” of supporting a campaign to keep the U.K. in the European Union because Brexit is a “tragic mistake.”
The Best for Britain campaign came under fire last week from newspaper articles in the Telegraph and Daily Mail for accepting £400,000 in funding from Soros’s Open Society Foundation. But Soros has hit back in a comment piece for the Mail on Sunday, citing his past as a refugee and his foundation’s work promoting democracy.
“I am a proud supporter of Best For Britain, a group that wants Britain to remain a member of the European Union. I consider Brexit a tragic mistake,” he wrote.
“Prior to Brexit, Britain enjoyed the best of all possible worlds: it was a member of the European Union without adopting the euro.”
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Germany: Merkel Calls for Younger Ministers in New Government
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has called for younger members of her party to fill ministerial positions in the new government.
“We need to ensure that not only the over-60s are considered but also younger people,” she told German TV.
She also defended “painful” concessions made to the the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) to clinch a coalition deal.
The deal followed months of wrangling after an inconclusive election.
However it still needs to be approved by the SPD’s 460,000 members, with the result due in March.
On Friday SPD leader Martin Schulz abandoned a plan to serve as foreign minister in the new government, saying he did not want debate about his role to jeopardise the new coalition.
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Greece: Racially Motivated Assaults Down, Pakistani Ambassador Says
Pakistani nationals living in Greece have seen a decline in racially motivated assaults recently, following a spike in such incidents, Pakistan’s ambassador in Athens, Khalid Usman Qaiser, told on an event hosted by the embassy on Monday to mark “Kashmir Solidarity Day.”
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Hungary Wants to Stop Soros With New Legislative Package
According to the State Secretary for Government Communication the “Stop Soros” legislative package can be reinforced or tightened, but it certainly won’t be weakened.
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Irish Muslim Leader Backs Female Genital Mutilation
A leading Irish Muslim ‘scholar’ has said he supports mutilating the genitalia of young girls, describing the practice as “female circumcision”.
Ali Selim, a spokesman for the Islamic Cultural Centre of Ireland in Clonskeagh, claimed that female genital mutilation (FGM) was part of Islam because of a saying by his Prophet Muhammad.
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Italian Election: Anti-EU Lega Nord Leader Predicts Victory Over Former PM Berlusconi
THE leader of Italian right-wing party Lega Nord has predicted he will win more votes than coalition partner Silvio Berlusconi and become the next prime minister when Italy elects a new leader next month.
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New Thoughts on Ireland’s Book of Kells
According to a report in The Independent, Bernard Meehan of Trinity College, Dublin, has examined the Book of Kells, a 1,200-year-old illustrated copy of the four Christian Gospels, and offered new thoughts on its production. He thinks work on the four sections may not have begun at the same time, in Scotland, as had been previously thought. He says the handwriting of St. John’s Gospel, which was copied on the Scottish island of Iona, indicates it was made by a traditional scribe educated during the mid-eighth century.
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‘No More Missions for Germany’s Navy, ‘ Warns Armed Forces Ombudsman
Germany’s parliamentary commissioner for the armed forces has urged the navy to stop deploying frigates to NATO, EU and UN missions. Hans-Peter Bartels says the military simply doesn’t have enough ships.
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‘Oumuamua: ‘Space Cigar’s’ Tumble Hints at Violent Past
The space interloper ‘Oumuamua is spinning chaotically and will carry on doing so for more than a billion years. That is the conclusion of new Belfast research that has examined in detail the light bouncing off the cigar-shaped asteroid from outside our Solar System.
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Poland Waves Goodbye to Russian Gas After 74 Years
Russia’s oldest natural gas buyer is ready to break up after more than 74 years.
Poland, which relies on Kremlin-controlled Gazprom PJSC for about two-thirds of its gas, says diversification trumps potential price cuts it could leverage from building an import link to access Norwegian fuel. That comes after the eastern European nation in 2016 completed a liquefied natural gas terminal to diversify away from the Russian gas it’s been buying since 1944.
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Polish Feminists Silent About #EndFGM
February, 6th is the Internationa l Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) established by the United Nations, but can you read about it in the Polish media, or perhaps on the websites of Polish feminist organisations?
This cruel practice affects 200 million women around the World and there are 500,000 such cases in the European Union. It is widely spread in Africa, but also in Indonesia, usually practised by followers of Islam but also by Christians.
In the past the Muslim League in the Republic of Poland has been making false statements about this practice, writing in their magazine As Salam about the health benefits of children with so-called circumcision. However quoted research from the American periodical Podiatrists only concerned boys.
Also the position of Muslim lawyers on the prohibition to recommend such a practice has been presented. The most popular Muslim cleric Jusuf Al-Karadawi considered it a virtuous deed at the time. However, thanks to the ongoing campaign of non-governmental organisations, he changed his mind and decided that since this is not an act required by the Koran, and as the research has proven the procedure to be harmful for a woman, he classified it as forbidden.
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Possible Next PM of Italy Wants to Close Mosques and Says Islam is Incompatible With Italian Values
Leader of Italy’s eurosceptic party Lega, Matteo Salvini, heavily criticised Islam in an interview.
Salvini said that Islam sees women as inferior and is a law instead of a religion. As a law it is incompatible with Italian values, he said. Asked about mosques, Salvini said he could shut down illegal mosques.
Salvini could become Italy’s next Prime Minister as he takes part in a popular centre-right bloc in Italy’s elections. In several regions he already leads the polls and his support is growing.
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Riots Flop as Italy’s Far-Right Takes Election Fight to Facebook
Italian authorities braced for the worst Saturday, deploying riot police across the country in anticipation of far-right street fighters wreaking havoc on marches by anti-racists and anti-fascists. One expected flashpoint town even shut down public transport as it went into lockdown.
But then the far-right largely failed to show. Instead of taking to the streets, it took to Facebook.
Giorgia Meloni, leader of the Brothers of Italy party, broadcasted from the campaign trail via Facebook Live a handful of times during the weekend. In one video from Milan she pointed at discarded syringes, denouncing heroin dealers “who for the most part are illegal immigrants.” In another she visited a restaurateur who’d shot and killed a Romanian thief last year. He faces a relatively minor charge of excessive self-defense, according to Italian media.
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Romania: Industrial Turnover Up 11.7% in 2017
INS, most important increases in energy,mining and manufacturing
(ANSA) — BUCHAREST — Romania’s industrial turnover advanced 11.7 percent in 2017 y-oy, with the most important increases having been recorded in mining and quarrying and manufacturing, according to data with the National Institute of Statistics (INS) released on Friday, as Agerpres news agency reports.
Turnover increases by large industrial groups were recorded in the following sectors: energy (+ 22.5 percent), capital goods (+ 16.2 percent), intermediate goods (+ 10.2 percent), durables (+ 8.2 percent) and consumer goods (+ 5.5 percent).
The most important contributions to the 2017 industrial turnover were provided by mining and quarrying, with a 20.5-percent rise compared with 2016 and manufacturing (+ 11.5 percent).
According to INS, industrial turnover in December 2017 as against December 2016 increased by 11.4 percent as a result of increases in mining and quarrying (+ 44.3 percent) and manufacturing (+10.4 percent).
December against November 2017, industrial turnover declined 12.2 percent as a result a 13-percent drop in manufacturing.
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Spain Sounds Alarm Over ISIS Influx From Sahel
Spain is worried about security on its southern border due to the possible influx of Islamist fighters to West Africa’s Sahel region, Spain’s foreign minister told AFP.
“We’re concerned about the growing number of people affiliated with Daesh who, having been defeated in Iraq and Syria, are moving their activities to the Sahel and Libya. It’s practically at our border,” Alfonso Dastis said, using another name for the Islamic State group.
The vast, arid Sahel zone has in recent years become a breeding ground for jihadist groups — some linked to Al-Qaeda and IS — that European nations fear could pose a threat if left unchecked.
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Sweden Wants to Deport American Student While Giving Jihadis Housing and Benefits
American student Miranda Andersson, was told to leave Sweden after she didn’t have enough money in her bank account for a short period.
Andersson, who studies at the Uppsala University, transferred some money to her parents’ account in the United States for safe-keeping.
Therefor her balance dropped below the ($10,126), the amount foreign students should have in their bank account to get a residence permit.
The American student immediately returned the money to her Swedish bank account when she realised her error.
Andersson told The Local she feels “very frustrated” and said “It’s very aggravating to deal with school and everything going on at the same time. I wanted to study and get my degree and it feels that they don’t want me to do that.”
She added that she showed the authorities that she can support herself for the whole year, but according to Andersson they said “You can’t do that, you can’t just take money out and put it back in”.
Meanwhile for jihadists in Sweden it’s the opposite story. A “rehabilitation program” in the city of Lund wants to give former Isis fighters housing, employment and financial support.
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Turkish Expat Group Condemns Introduction of ‘Homeland Ministry’ In Germany
The Turkish Community in Germany has criticized the impending changing of the name of Germany’s Interior Ministry. The group’s leader has said that the term “homeland” would exclude people of foreign extraction.
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A prison chaplain who claims he was ousted from his role after he was accused of promoting ‘extreme’ Christian views by his Muslim boss has revealed inmates are being forced to convert to Islam for protection behind bars.
Paul Song said he had been hit by Muslim inmates at HMP Brixton and that he believed the ‘Christian faith is not equal’ in prison.
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Rampant knife crime threatens the “very existence” of the Notting Hill Carnival in Sadiq Khan’s London, said a judge sentencing two men for attacks at Europe’s biggest multicultural party.
Judge Angela Morris issued the warning as she jailed Jordan Clarke, 20, and Eddy Mombele, 24, for attacks on three schoolboys at the parade using a 12-inch ‘zombie’ knife.
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UK: Muslim on Terror Watchlist Gets Job at Heathrow Airport, Has Access to Runway
A terror suspect and sex offender with 17 aliases has reportedly been working at Britain’s busiest airport in an alarming security breach.
Career criminal Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamud is said to be on an official terror watchlist but reportedly had access to Heathrow’s runway.
Mohamud, 31, has a criminal record stretching back 11 years including robbery, assault, money laundering and threats to kill.
But airport bosses allegedly failed to carry out a full background check and he was handed a security pass and started work as a kitchen porter in a first-class lounge, according to the Sunday People.
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Why Are European Governments So Terrified of ‘Fake News’?
by Judith Bergman
When Swedish authorities representing a Swedish left-wing government and media announce a project to prevent “fake news” from “decisively influencing” the 2018 elections, this ought to set off loud alarm bells among Swedes. Who determines what constitutes “fake news” anyway? Is it not the very essence of “fake news” when a media outlet refuses to report mass sexual assaults, because the perpetrators happen to be foreigners from third world countries?
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Egypt Reports Successes in Sinai Operation Against Militants
Egypt’s military says it has destroyed dozens of targets, killed 16 militants and detained over 30 suspects as part of its latest security operation in the restive northern Sinai Peninsula, where Islamic militants are most active.
Militant attacks increased dramatically in Egypt since the military’s 2013 ouster of elected but divisive Islamist President Mohammed Morsi. Violence has been concentrated in north Sinai, but has also spread to the mainland.
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Ankara Warns Nicosia Over Hydrocarbon-Related Activities in Cyprus’s EEZ
The responsibility for any situation that could arise in the Cypriot exclusive economic zone (EEZ) will be a consequence of “the Greek Cypriot administration continuing its unilateral hydrocarbon-related activities in the Eastern Mediterranean,” the Turkish Foreign Ministry has warned.
“Despite all our warnings, the Greek Cypriot administration continues its unilateral hydrocarbon-related activities in the Eastern Mediterranean. It does so in disregard of the inalienable rights on natural resources of the Turkish Cypriot people, who are the co-owners of the island,” the ministry said in a statement.
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Iran’s Hassan Rouhani Calls for Unity on Revolution Anniversary
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has called for a “year of unity” as Iran marks the 39th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution. The celebrations come just weeks after protests calling for changes in government policy.
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Israel Warns Iran After Launching Major Raids in Syria
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu says his country will defend itself “against any attack” after carrying out what appear to be its largest strikes on sites in Syria in decades.
Israel launched raids against Iranian targets after saying it had intercepted an Iranian drone crossing the Syria-Israel border.
Iran denies the allegation.
During the offensive an Israeli F-16 fighter jet was shot down by Syria air defences, crashing in northern Israel.
Its pilots ejected from the plane and were taken to hospital.
It is believed to be the first time Israel has lost a jet in combat since 2006.
Mr Netanyahu warned that Israel’s policy to defend itself against “any attempt to harm our sovereignty” was “absolutely clear”.
“Iran brazenly violated Israel’s sovereignty,” he said, adding: “They dispatched an Iranian drone from Syrian territory into Israel… Israel holds Iran and its Syrian hosts responsible.”
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Syria: Nuncio in Damascus: With Collapse in Healthcare, Catholic Hospitals a Grace ‘Open to All’
The escalation of violence continues in different areas of Syria. Battles rage in Goutha east, Idlib and Hama; mortar shots on the capital. Card Zenari: Greatest number of victims from lack of healthcare not bombs. Half of clinics and “out of service”, 75% of the staff have fled. The testimony of the “open Hospitals” that treat poor Christians and Muslims “.
Damascus (AsiaNews) — Conflict in Syria has intensified once again in recent weeks “with bloody clashes in East Goutha “ [about 400 victims according to some sources] and “mortar launches on some central districts of Damascus”, causing several victims “including children “. Then there are “bitter clashes in Idlib”, which cause “dead and wounded every day” in the central province of Hama “and” in the north, in the Afrin area “where the Turkish offensive is taking place”. This is what Card. Mario Zenari, apostolic nuncio to Damascus, describes painting a picture that risks further aggravating an already dire health situation in the country. “It is now clear — underlines the cardinal — that more people die because of lack of hospital care and medicines, than from armed clashes or bombs”.
The latest official data available, provided by the World Health Organization (WHO), dates back to September 2017 and confirms the worsening of the situation. Because of the Syrian conflict, the apostolic nuncio continues, half of the public hospitals (111 in total) and of the patient assistance centers (1806 scattered throughout the territory) are “completely out of service, or operate in an incomplete or partial way”.
Zenari notes: “If the number of direct victims of the conflict [which broke out in March 2011] is about half a million, there are many more who have died due to the lack of health care”. The situation is close to collapse, also because [again according to WHO data] “two-thirds (about 75%) of healthcare personnel including doctors, hospital technicians and nurses left Syria. And this is an alarming picture “.
The apostolic nuncio in Damascus reminds us that war does not reap victims only through arms and armies in opposition to each other. It also causes deaths due to increasing poverty and increasingly harsh living conditions. “Before those who had a job could also benefit from healthcare assistance. Now the lack of work has also led to the a lack access to healthcare assistance and people are struggling to seek treatment”.
69% of Syrians, continues the cardinal, live in conditions of “extreme poverty”, so “if someone has a disease, from the flu to pneumonia, to cancer or other serious pathologies, they are forced to carry on without being able to seek treatment”.
Faced with the emergency, the Syrian Church — with the collaboration of the Holy See and the support of Pope Francis himself — decided to re-launch the services offered by the three Catholic hospitals in the country (two in Damascus and one in Aleppo) in the context of the project “Open Hospitals”.
Two years ago, visiting the three centers run by women’s religious institutes, the Cardinal recalled, “I was impressed that they were not working at full capacity. I saw empty beds, the surgeries that did not work, and this because of the high maintenance costs, from electricity to diesel, to machinery and equipment. “
The nunciature and the Pope therefore wanted to commit themselves to “re-launch these three Catholic hospitals”, guaranteeing “free access to those who cannot pay. A patient shows up in one of the facilities, the disease is assessed and their financial means verified. If poor, the doors are opened and all possible care is provided and this happens whether your name is Peter, or Mohammed. There are no differences [of religious faith] and everyone is welcomed “.
Precisely this openness to all the needy, without distinction, becomes a “great gesture” of “charity” in a context of conflict, violence and division, adds Card. Zenari. “A beautiful testimony of evangelization” he adds, even if often “it may seem only three drops in the desert”. “With this project — concludes the apostolic nuncio — we can not resolve the healthcare emergency, but we want to continue to be a sign of the charity of Pope Francis and the Church in Syria.” (DS)
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The US: From Ally to Security Threat for Turkey?
Relations between NATO allies the United States and Turkey are descending into a schizophrenic and dangerous spiral, with the potential to trigger a domino effect in the Middle East and beyond.
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Touting ‘Transformation’, French PM Seeks Investment in Dubai
France’s Prime Minister Edouard Philippe promised lower taxes and a business-friendly France at a global summit in Dubai on Sunday, seeking investment from the oil-rich Gulf region.
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Turkey and the US Are Now Foes
At the moment Turkey and the U.S. are two foes in conflict, rather than allies. The relationship between Ankara and Washington is going downhill, spiraling in a crisis of unprecedented intensity.
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Turkey Violates Greek Air Space More Than 30 Times in a Day
Four Turkish airplanes and one helicopter violated Greek national air space 36 times on Thursday in the northeastern, central and southeast Aegean.
The helicopter and the airplanes — two armed F-16 fighter jets flying in formation and two CN-235s — also violated the Athens Flight Information Region (FIR) four times.
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Turkey Ships Harass Drillship Off Cyprus Coast
Cyprus said on Saturday that it had an open line of communication with Italy after the Saipem 12000 drillship of energy giant ENI was reportedly forced to halt its course to Block 3 of the island’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) by Turkish warships.
Ankara claims that large part of Cyprus’s EEZ is part of its continental shelf and repeatedly warned Nicosia not take unilateral actions in the area.
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Turkish Republic is Continuation of Ottomans: President Erdogan
The Republic of Turkey is a continuation of the Ottoman Empire, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Feb. 10.
“The Republic of Turkey, just like our previous states that are a continuation of one another, is also a continuation of the Ottomans,” Erdogan said in remarks he made during a commemoration ceremony to mark the centenary of the death of Ottoman Sultan Abdulhamid II at the Yildiz Palace in Istanbul.
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US Finally Admits “No Evidence” Assad Used Sarin Gas
Secretary of Defense James Mattis stated on or about February 2nd, 2018 that the United States has “no evidence” that the Syrian government used the banned nerve agent Sarin against its own people in attacks in 2013 and 2017.
The most recent accusation provoked a massive Tomahawk strike ordered by President Trump that was quite provocative in the eyes of the Russian Federation and of course the Syrian government.
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Nigel Farage: Instead of Russian Collusion, Press Should Look Where George Soros’ Billions Are Going
Former United Kingdom Independence Party Leader Nigel Farage said the world need to keep a closer eye on the activities of billionaire investor and political activist George Soros.
Farage underlined that nothing Soros has done has been illegal, but that with the billions he has spread around the world for left-wing causes, “nation-state democracies” should be concerned.
“We all need to wake up to who George Soros is and how big his [Open Society Foundations] organization is,” Farage said of the 87-year-old.
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Russian Plane Crash Outside Moscow Leaves 71 Dead
A Russian airliner crashed minutes after takeoff from one of Moscow’s airports on Sunday, killing all 65 passengers and six crew members on board, officials said.
The plane was an An-148, a regional jet belonging to Saratov Airlines, that had taken off from Domodedovo Airport and was headed to Orsk about 1,000 miles southeast of Moscow, REN-TV reported.
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Russia Passenger Jet Crash: Plane Carrying 71 ‘Breaks Up’ In Moscow Sky — No Survivors
A RUSSIAN aircraft carrying 71 people has crashed just outside of Moscow “leaving no survivors” after it reportedly “exploded” just moments after take-off from the city’s Domodedovo international airport.
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As a Political Crisis Unfolds in the Maldives, China and India Vie for Influence
As a political crisis plays out in the Maldives, a tug of war is taking place around it, with heavyweights China and India vying for strategic dominance in the picturesque Indian Ocean nation.
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Bangkok Protesters Demand End to Election Delays
Around 400 protesters have rallied in the Thai capital to call on the government to restore democracy and hold elections. The junta still hasn’t fulfilled its pledge to organize polls after seizing power four years ago.
Demonstrators gathered in front of Bangkok’s Democracy Monument on Saturday after the junta announced it would likely postpone the vote for a fifth time.
Thailand’s military leaders pledged to hold elections soon after they took control in a coup in May, 2014. Since then, a number of dates for the poll have been scheduled, and then postponed.
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Bangladesh: Dhaka Church Ransacked, Priest Beaten and Threatened With Death (Photos)
Canterbury St Augustine is one of Bangladesh’s oldest churches. Robbers broke into the building, tied up and beat the parish priest, Fr Pereira, ransacked the church, and broke open the offering boxes.
Dhaka (AsiaNews) — Early this morning a Catholic church in Dhaka was ransacked and its parish priest beaten and threatened with death if he refused to hand over money and other valuables to his attackers.
The Canterbury St Augustine Catholic Church is located in Tongi, an industrial north of Dhaka. At least five robbers were involved, three of them masked.
Around 4 am, the thieves broke into the church, which has no security guard or CCTV cameras. Fr Chanchal Hubert Pereira, the parish priest, was sleeping in the building at the time along with the gardener and the cook.
The priest said he heard noises from outside. The criminals then opened a window and pointed a gun at him. “They said they would kill me if I did not open the door. I was forced to let them in.”
Once inside, they waved their weapons to intimidate the clergyman, and slapped him in the face. “To save my life I had to give them money, about 35,000 takas (US$ 420), my mobile phone, and laptop computer”.
The thieves went into the church part of the building and ransacked it, messing up the vestments, liturgical books, and the altar. They broke three offering boxes and took the money.
“When I entered the Father’s room, I found him in tears and tied up,” said Bejoy Costa, the cook, speaking to AsiaNews. During the robbery, the lights were out, and so he could not see anything.
Bablu Peris, a member of the parish council, is “worried about the security of the church and the parish priest. We will arrange for video surveillance cameras and a night guard as soon as possible.”
Several local residents, Muslims and Christians, condemned the incident. Helel Uddin, head of the local police, visited the church and said that the authorities “will investigate the incident and hopefully arrest the robbers very soon.”
For Mohammod Sahidulla Sarkar, a former head of the Union Parishad (rural council), “It is a shameful act. A church is a sacred place. We are saddened at what happened.”
Hemanto Corraya, secretary general of Bangladesh Christian Association (BCA), wants “the police to arrest the robbers soon and ensure exemplary punishment”.
The Canterbury St Augustine Church is one of the oldest Catholic churches in Bangladesh. It was established in 1893 by the missionaries of the Holy Cross. Today it has 620 parishioners and two chapels.
Bangladesh is a predominantly Muslim country. Christians represent less than 0.3 per cent of the population (600,000, including 380,000 Catholics), out of a population of almost 163 million people.
Local sources report that every year churches and nun-run institutes are the victims of break-ins and robberies.
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Extremists’ use of religion and ethnicity has pushed Indonesians into opposing camps. Voters will elect local governments on 27 June this year, and choose a new president and parliament on 17 April 2019.
Jakarta (AsiaNews) — Indonesian society is increasingly polarised between moderates, moved by patriotic feelings based on pluralism, and extremists who promote “identity politics”.
The coming two years will be politically charged as the country gets ready for crucial polls that will determine its immediate future.
Local elections are scheduled for 27 June with voters called to choose 17 governors, 39 mayors and 115 regents across the country, including its four most populous provinces: West Java, East Java, Central Java, and North Sumatra.
On 17 April 2019, they will be able to renew parliament, the People’s Consultative Assembly, and elect a new president.
Both rounds of voting come at a time when Indonesia, the world’s most populous Islamic country, has seen its reputation for religious toleration come under closer scrutiny as a result of the rise of radical Islamic groups in the young democracy.
To counter the growing number of acts of violence and rising political-religious intolerance, people have turned to inter-faith dialogue and support for pluralism.
Some observers have called this shift the ‘Ahok effect’, named after the moniker of Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, the former governor of Jakarta, a Christian who was convicted of blasphemy in a politically motivated trial.
Identity politics, including those based on religion and ethnicity, have been politically useful for extremists. But in doing so they have divided the nation.
“Social segregation is intentionally designed and maintained with specific political objectives in mind,” said an expert working in the President’s Special Assistance Desk, speaking to AsiaNews.
The source claims that this trend, which shaped local elections in Jakarta in April 2017 won by Anies Baswedan and radical Islamist groups, is bound to intensify in the next elections.
“In last year’s Jakarta gubernatorial election, this kind of ‘identity politics’ worked very well, and has split modern Indonesian society into two distinct ‘political’ camps.”
Anies’ use of sectarian divisions and religion against his main rival, Ahok, an ethnic Chinese Christian who had been the frontrunner in the early stages of the election campaign, proved decisive.
The Indonesian Church has always been involved in initiatives and projects aimed at promoting and guaranteeing the national values of pluralism, expressed in the Pancasila philosophical and political platform.
The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Indonesia (KWI) has repeatedly stressed the importance of the role played by the Catholic Church in the process of national unity, and has urged Catholics to establish closer ties with other communities and religions and their leaders.
For instance, the Archdiocese of Jakarta has welcomed 2018 as “the Year of Unity”. The city’s archbishop, Mgr Ignatius Suharyo Hardjoatmodjo, noted that the diocese dedicated its four-year working plan (2016-2020) to the founding principles of the Indonesian State, namely ‘Amalkan Pancasila’, which means ‘putting the spirit of Pancasila into practice’.
Against the background of tensions that has engulfed the country, Catholics are showing a sense of responsibility and are not allowing themselves to be dragged into instrumental political controversies.
This is especially true in Jakarta, where the line adopted by the new administration has attracted criticism. In particular, many observers complain that Governor Anies Baswedan is trying to undo the good work of his predecessor, especially with respect to traffic and flood controls.
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Priest and Worshippers Hurt in Sword Attack in Indonesian Church
A priest and three other people were seriously injured when a man attacked a church congregation with a sword during Sunday mass in Indonesia.
About 100 people were at St Lidwina Church in Sleman, Yogyakarta province, when a man wielding a metre-long blade burst in and began lashing out at worshippers.
As the attacker slashed Christian imagery and a number of books and damaged a Virgin Mary statue, people used another door to escape.
Extremists have carried out a series of attacks against Christians and other minorities in the mainly Muslim country.
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Tajikistan: Two Thousand Mosques Converted Into Tearooms and Cultural Centres
The mosques had not been authorised by the authorities. The latter also write imams’ sermons, and require the former to renew their permits on a regular basis. The government is trying to fight foreign influence and fundamentalism, but for one expert, it is running the risk of favouring extremism.
Dushanbe (AsiaNews/Agencies) — Tajikistan’s Committee for Religious Affairs (CRA) last year converted what it claimed to be 2,000 illegal mosques into tearooms, barber shops, cultural centres, medical clinics, and kindergartens.
“We gave the owners of the mosques time to file [registration] documents, but they didn’t do it, so the sites were either reclaimed by the government or repurposed into social facilities,” said CRA chief Husein Shokirov at a conference on Monday.
According to the Committee, there are 3,900 mosques operating with proper permits in Tajikistan, including 370 so-called “cathedral mosques” of significant size.
Every year, hundreds of unregistered Islamic places of worship are forced to close. Last month alone, another 100 mosques were closed in the north of the country.
Under Tajik law, whilst the responsibility for building mosques lies with the public, ultimate control over the premises and what happens inside them is assumed by the government.
Imams are required to regularly renew paperwork to perform their duties, and sermons are written on their behalf by the authorities. The country’s security services have also set up video surveillance within and around mosques.
Clerics who decline to cooperate with the government are invariably ousted. Since 2014, imams receive civil servant salaries, about 800 som (US$ 90) a month. As of last month, they also have to declare all their sources of income.
In November, a law came into effect banning people from serving as imams if they were trained abroad. This is a very restrictive step because the country has only one Islamic institute.
About 90 per cent of the country’s 8.3 million population are Muslim, mostly following the moderate Hanafi school.
Religious life in the former Soviet Republic has come under closer supervision after many Tajiks joined Islamist groups in Syria and Iraq.
Wearing the Islamic veil has been banned in schools, and minors cannot attend mosques. Several students attending foreign Islamic schools have also been forced to come home.
Government religious repression has to be understood against the background of the country’s civil war in the 1990s in which an Islamic party played a major role.
However, the campaign against Islamic extremism in the country could turn against the authorities and produce the opposite effect, this according to Paul Globe, a specialist on ethnic and religious questions who writes for the Jamestown Foundation.
Many imams and ordinary Muslims could be driven underground, where they are more likely to be exposed to jihadi infiltrations from Afghanistan, home to many Afghan Islamists who are ethnic Tajiks.
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China Asks Malaysia to Deport 11 Uygurs Who Escaped Detention in Thailand
China has asked Malaysia to deport 11 ethnic Uygur Muslims who were part of a group that escaped from Thailand’s immigration detention centre, the Malaysian deputy premier said on Saturday.
In November, a group of 25 Uygurs used blankets to climb out of their cells in southern Thailand in a daring predawn escape.
Southern Thailand and Malaysia share a common border which is easily penetrable.
It is the first time Kuala Lumpur has confirmed that it detained the escaped Uygurs after human rights groups and the United States urged the predominantly Muslim Southeast Asian country against sending the Uygurs back to China.
The Uygurs are a Muslim minority that rights and exile groups said they faced repression in northwestern China.
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China Defense Spending to Eclipse Rest of Asia Pacific by 2030
China has been spending more and more on modernizing its defense systems and technologies. So much so that its budget is set to surpass the rest of Asia Pacific combined by 2030.
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Gui Minhai: Chinese Press Attacks Sweden Over Bookseller
State media in China have accused Sweden of a movie-style plot to spirit away detained bookseller Gui Minhai, who has Swedish citizenship.
A Chinese tabloid condemned Sweden for trying to “demonstrate its diplomatic heroism by ‘saving the bookseller’“.
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Japan: 6 Accused of Smuggling Gold Bars in JAL Airplane Toilet
NAGOYA—Police have arrested six people in connection with an elaborate scheme to smuggle gold bars in an airplane toilet to avoid paying taxes.
Aichi prefectural police said Jan. 29 the six suspects are accused of violating the Customs Law for an attempted unauthorized import of gold bars, as well as attempting to dodge consumption tax payments.
However, police suspect a much wider ring could be involved in the operation, given the number of incidents last year in which gold bars were found hidden in airplane toilets.
The ringleader is believed to be Muhammed Rafieque Muhammed Rezane, 48, a Sri Lankan national who is president of a used car dealership in Nagoya’s Minato Ward.
Police did not reveal whether the six have admitted or denied the allegations…
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Kim’s Smiling Sister Exploits Trump-Moon Divide
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un deployed a new weapon at the Olympics to fight back against the Trump administration’s sanctions and threats of a preemptive strike against his nuclear program: His sister.
Kim Yo Jong shook hands with South Korean President Moon Jae-in, cheered enthusiastically for a unified Korean team, and displayed a sense of humor in weekend meetings. She also delivered a letter inviting Moon to a summit with her brother in Pyongyang, and asked him to play a “leading role” in reuniting the two Koreas after nearly seven decades.
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Media’s Olympic-Level North Korea Fawning is a Disgrace
American mainstream media outlets delivered plenty of propaganda on North Korea’s behalf this weekend. Somehow, as Kim Jong Un’s totalitarian regime continues to starve, torture and murder its own people—western news outlets are mesmerized by the dictatorship’s presence at the 2018 Winter Olympics.
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Afrikaans-Only Residences in Pretoria Ordered to Become More Racially Diverse
The Commission for the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Cultural‚ Religious and Linguistic Communities (CRL) has recommended that the admission committee of student residences in Pretoria, found to have discriminatory practices, be transformed to become racially diverse.
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How Decolonization Could Reshape South African Science
A generation of black scientists is gearing up to transform the research landscape.
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Sources: Corrupt Members of South African Police Force Facilitate Farm Attacks
We are less than 40 days into 2018.
Forty days, 41 farm attacks, and 5 murders on white farms.
This is South Africa.
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“It’s Madness” — ‘Mad Max’ Violence Soars on Venezuela’s Lawless Roads
Last summer, we highlighted the crisis in Venezuela had reached new depths as a gang of Mad-Max-like bikers chase down and attack a truck (with molotov cocktails) to steal its sugar payload…
And while we could not see how things could get worse… they have.
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A Tight Spot for the 34 Million Mexicans Living in Micro-Apartments
Mexico’s persistent housing crisis has pushed millions to find refuge in tiny shanty homes.
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Mass Exodus From ‘Mad Max Violence’ In Venezuela
Thousands flee across bridge to Colombia amid desperate hunger and soaring crime following economic crisis
Thousands of desperate Venezuelans are trying to enter Colombia in a bid to escape the hunger and soaring crime rate caused by the spiralling economic crisis.
Colombia — along with its neighbour Brazil — has sent extra soldiers to patrol their porous border with the country after officially taking in more than half a million migrants over the last six months of 2017.
The country is also tightening its border controls in a bid to stem the flow.
The dire economic conditions have led to lawlessness in parts of Venezuela’s capital Caracas, with truck drivers subjected to ‘Mad Max’ violence as looters target heavy goods vehicles carrying food.
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The Mexican Towns Where Even the Police Fear to Tread
With officers gunned down, abducted or run out of town, Chihuahua precincts are close to defeat
Práxedis and Guadalupe belong to the Valley of Juárez, a region surrounded by desert that was previously a prosperous cotton-growing area. But since the drug traffickers moved in more than 10 years ago, the territory has been a battleground for the Sinaloa and La Línea cartels smuggling drugs and people across the inhospitable gulf dividing this part of Mexico from the US.
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Venezuela’s Anti-Hate Law Provides Maduro With Another Tool to Intimidate the Press
In what journalists fear could be a taste of things to come, Venezuela’s new anti-hate law was enforced for the first time against a news organization on January 30, when Yndira Lugo, the editor of Diario Región, was called before government agents for questioning.
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Anti-Fascist Protesters Rally Against Racism in Italy
Protesters have gathered to denounce racism after an Italian man opened fire on African migrants in Macerata. Immigration has become one of the most important political issues in the run-up to parliamentary elections.
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Diversity Hiring Has Created Hundreds of Thousands of White Victims
I live in Toronto and work in banking. I have been out of work for the last year. Over the last 6 or 7 years, I have had only short-term contracts (under 4 months). I have been unemployed longer than I have been employed over those years. For those who might think that I need to get more qualifications, I will say that I already have the following credentials : a CFA, FRM, MBA. I am able to get ONLY $20/hr entry level contract jobs, which have nothing to do with my credentials. Might there be something else underlying my career failures?
I really have to question Trudeau’s obsession with Canada’s employment equity “problem” and the quest to create “Diversity” at the expense of white men like myself. And I really have to ask, is there a “problem”? From the employment equity reports I have seen, it seems Banking/Finance companies have done extremely well in addressing any under-representation of minorities in employment. In fact, visible minorities are over-represented. Unfortunately, in these reports, you will not see a single number about white or male representation or availability. So you cannot see from the reports if the success in minority employment is at the expense of lower employment of whites.
As for me, when I go for interviews, more often than not, I am speaking with Asian hiring managers and with employment agencies staffed by Asians. And from my experience, it seems etiquette and ethics are gone from the interview process. If I’m interviewed by a panel, managers will walk out of the interview without excusing themselves and forget about a polite call back if they’re not interested in hiring me. Even worse, I’ve learned not to count on managers answering my follow-up calls or e-mails. Simple courtesies just don’t happen. To me, the whole human resources “industry” has become very secretive. “Donotreply” e-mail addresses have replaced names and telephone numbers.
Networking, the so-called “salvation” of the unemployed, can be very ineffective. LinkedIn holds itself up as a great networking tool, but getting a response from anyone can be almost impossible.
Bank reports on diversity show everyone that the banks are not discriminating against visible minorities because of visible minority last names, as the media so often accuses them of doing…
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George W. Bush on Dreamers: ‘America’s Their Home’
Former President George W. Bush defended Dreamers during a speech in Abu Dhabi on Thursday, pressuring Congress to find a solution that allows young immigrants who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children to stay in America.
“America’s their home,” he said, according to the Associated Press. “They’ve got to get it fixed.”
Bush said immigrants fill the jobs American citizens are unwilling to do and thus should be welcomed to the country.
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“It’s too late for Germany”
In 2012 Rebecca Sommer founded the refugee aid association Arbeitsgruppe Flucht + Menschen-Rechte (AG F+M) [Working Group Asylum + Human Rights]. At the end of 2015, this artist, photographer and journalist and documentary maker applauded Angela Merkel’s decision to open German’s borders to the “refugees” who had been blocked in Hungary, despite the vacuum effect this would create. “At that time I wanted to help everyone and truly believed that all these people were fleeing hell and were in a state of complete distress,” the German activist explained in an article published by the conservative Polish weekly Do Rzeczy on 15 January, discussing how she woke up to reality. In 2015, her NGO had almost 300 volunteers who were giving German courses to the new arrivals.
UPDATE: Rebecca Sommer has responded to this article, claiming it is “fake news”, without specifying what she means by that. See this follow-up article (link)…
The sources are shown at the bottom where it says “Source”. The original article in French is here:
The relevant phrase in French is “Elle pense que pour l’Allemagne, c’est déja trop tard, et elle compte émigrer pour sa retraite.”
“She thinks it is already too late for Germany and she plans to emigrate for her retirement.”
— From the context, I assumed this meant emigrate to Poland. Are you saying she is planning to emigrate somewhere else? If so, fine, I will change the headline if that makes her happy and you or she provide clarification about where she is planning to emigrate to.
Still, the detail of where she plans to emigrate to is surely a triviality beside all the other things she says. Why make such a fuss over it?
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German Catholic Archbishop Condemns Migrant Violence Toward Christians
German Roman Catholic Archbishop Ludwig Schick has condemned the violence of Islamic extremist migrants toward Christians and Christian converts, saying that the “highest alertness” is required.
Archbishop Schick made his remarks after a new report released by the German government showed that 100 Christians including a convert who was murdered were victims of religiously-motived violence last year, Die Welt reports.
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Italian Police Arrest Two More Immigrants for Murder and Dismemberment of Teenage Girl
Italian police have arrested two more Nigerian immigrants in their investigation into the brutal murder of Pamela Mastropietro, the Roman 18-year-old whose dismembered remains were found inside two suitcases outside Macerata in central Italy earlier this month.
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Many believe the days of slavery in Europe are long gone. But modern-day slavery is a growing problem. Especially in Britain where forced servitude is on the rise. In Cornwall, three men have been arrested on suspicion of enslaving migrants.
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Migrant Ghettos Will Become ‘A Nuclear Bomb in the Future’ A Top EU Official Warns
A top European Union official has warned that migrant ghettos could become a ‘nuclear bomb’ of unrest and has urged the European Union to tackle the problem.
The EU has a war chest of £310 billion to spend by 2020 on its so-called cohesion policy as it tries to reduce inequality across the union.
European Commissioner for regional policy Corina Cretu says that the money is crucial to stop the segregation of migrants in harsh and dangerous ghettos.
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Only 16 Pct of Asylum Seekers Can be Sent Back to Turkey
Just 16 percent of asylum seekers who undertook the journey to Greece can be returned to Turkey under Greek law and European directives, Maria Stavropoulou, the former head of the Greek asylum service, has told Kathimerini.
“Most people who land on the islands come from countries with high recognition rates such as Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.”
According to a March 2016 deal signed by the EU and Turkey to stem the flow of migrants in the Aegean, Turkey would receive up to 6 billion euros in aid, visa-free travel to Europe for Turkish citizens and renewed EU accession talks in return for agreeing to take back those who cross over to Greece.
A total of 1,800 Turkish nationals applied for asylum in Greece in 2017.
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Refugees Vote on German Coalition: ‘A Big Step for Integration’
Syrian refugee Abdulrahman Abbasi is a member of the SPD party and therefore gets to vote on Germany’s coalition agreement. He told DW why he thinks it is right that he has the vote even though he is not a citizen.
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Singapore: Marriages of Convenience up by 23.3 Per Cent in 2017
Last year, 53 people were convicted in connection with marriages of convenience. Singapore’s constitution severely restricts access to citizenship. The city-state’s passport is the most powerful in the world. For the first time, an Asian country outranks European nations.
Singapore (AsiaNews/Agencies) — The rising number of marriages of convenience is starting to worry Singapore authorities.
Fifty-three people were convicted of offences related to marriages of convenience in 2017 — a 23.3 per cent spike from the year before, the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) said in its annual statistics report.
One particular case last year takes centre stage in the report because it led to the arrest of 12 people. More specifically, when officers looked at a suspected sham marriage between a Singaporean man and his Vietnamese wife, they found five other such couples.
These couples all involved Singaporean men and Vietnamese women. The men, aged between 24 and 57, entered into marriage for money, whilst the women, aged between 23 and 34, wanted to prolong their stay in Singapore.
Ten were sentenced to jail terms ranging from six to 18 months, whilst court proceedings are ongoing for the remaining two.
Singapore’s constitution severely restricts access to citizenship by foreigners, and naturalisation is not guaranteed.
Immigrants aged 21 and over who are gainfully employed can only become citizens if they are already “Permanent Residents” or have been married to a Singaporean citizen for at least two years.
Obtaining citizenship allows people to apply for a Singapore passport, now deemed “the most powerful” in the world. It guarantees visa-free access to 159 countries.
Last year, diplomatic agreements with Paraguay enshrined Singapore’s rise, the first Asian country in history to outrank European countries.
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A viral video campaign showing the realities of the journey from Africa to Europe is to be launched by the Home Office to discourage more migrants from travelling to the UK.
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High School Science Fair Project Questioning African American Intelligence Sparks Outrage
Students, parents and staff at C.K. McClatchy High School are upset over a science fair project by a student in its elite magnet program that questioned whether certain races of people lack the intelligence to handle the program’s academically challenging coursework.
Some of those outraged by the racially charged project say it points to a larger problem: the lack of ethnic diversity in the school’s elite HISP program.
The project that started the controversy was titled “Race and IQ.” It raised the hypothesis: “If the average IQs of blacks, Southeast Asians, and Hispanics are lower than the average IQs of non-Hispanic whites and Northeast Asians, then the racial disproportionality in (HISP) is justified.”
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Mister Gay Belgium Subject of Homophobic Attack
Jaimie Deblieck from Roeselare elected as Mister Gay Belgium in 2017 has been mugged. Attackers inflicted several blows and stamped the young man onto the ground while shouting abuse.
“I was attacked from behind. They stamped me and pushed me to the growd. They abused me with the words ‘f***ing gay’.
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Wrecking Civilization, Piece by Piece
Do you ever get the impression that the people in charge of various things are purposely dismantling Western Civilization, piece by piece? I mean, aside from the fact that they’ve been shouting this intention from the housetops ever since the 1930s.
Two current societal re-engineering projects spring to mind.
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Global Warming vs. Solar Cooling: The Showdown Begins in 2020
The sun may be dimming, temporarily. Don’t panic; Earth is not going to freeze over. But will the resulting cooling put a dent in the global warming trend?
A periodic solar event called a “grand minimum” could overtake the sun perhaps as soon as 2020 and lasting through 2070, resulting in diminished magnetism, infrequent sunspot production and less ultraviolet (UV) radiation reaching Earth — all bringing a cooler period to the planet that may span 50 years.
The last grand-minimum event — a disruption of the sun’s 11-year cycle of variable sunspot activity — happened in the mid-17th century. Known as the Maunder Minimum, it occurred between 1645 and 1715, during a longer span of time when parts of the world became so cold that the period was called the Little Ice Age, which lasted from about 1300 to 1850.
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Is Social Media Causing Childhood Depression?
Rangan Chatterjee is a GP and says he has seen plenty of evidence of the link between mental ill-health in youngsters and their use of social media.
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Study: Viruses Are Circulating in Earth’s Atmosphere — and Falling From It
Viruses fall back to Earth via dust storms and precipitation, according to new research published in the International Society for Microbial Ecology Journal.
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The 11 Cities Most Likely to Run Out of Drinking Water — Like Cape Town
Cape Town is in the unenviable situation of being the first major city in the modern era to face the threat of running out of drinking water.
Over one billion people lack access to water and another 2.7 billion find it scarce for at least one month of the year. A 2014 survey of the world’s 500 largest cities estimates that one in four are in a situation of “water stress”.
According to UN-endorsed projections, global demand for fresh water will exceed supply by 40% in 2030, thanks to a combination of climate change, human action and population growth.
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Who Killed More: Hitler, Stalin, Or Mao?
In these pages nearly seven years ago, Timothy Snyder asked the provocative question: Who killed more, Hitler or Stalin? As useful as that exercise in moral rigor was, some think the question itself might have been slightly off. Instead, it should have included a third tyrant of the twentieth century, Chairman Mao. And not just that, but that Mao should have been the hands-down winner, with his ledger easily trumping the European dictators’.
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Toy boy. That’s funny. He “won” the election at the last minute because the vote counters decided it would be so.
Am I wrong, or has nearly every single war since nearly the beginning of history been started by the French, and then lost? I know, Napoleon was betrayed by the English, as was Joan of Arc, as was America in South East Asia.
Question: What country has had more “revolutions” than France? Has any?
As to the last link in this newsfeed: America has killed more than innocent people than any country, ever. Since 1973 when Rowe V Wade was passed; America has killed 60 million ++++ innocents through abortion. Imagine what America would look like today if that had not happened.
Macron tries to make EuroIslam…
An earlier comment of mine comes to mind:
“The Globalists want to keep Islam for sure. If you think about it, it is the perfect control for the masses. While Christianity lost its teeth as societal control (it was not as aggressive to begin with as Islam), the cult of Islam stayed unchanged and their members just as happily beating to pulp anybody from their own group, who accidentally born with more brains than them… for 1400 years, without any change. For the Globalists this is an extra advantage, they will not need to keep an expensive and dangerous army or police force. (dangerous because they can bite their master’s hand and took over). Islam is cheap, reliable for the new “consumer” society. The technology will be maintained by the new progressive leftist cast… Purple-haired, safe-space loving, multi-gendered wussy transvestites will be kept in line with some muslim muscle, while muslims will be held back with remote controlled drones and other advanced weaponry. Dissenters from either group will be at the mercy of the others, with no possibility to mount any cooperation across the society. This will be the “bright new world” in the style of the Hunger Games and Elysium.”
Islam is largely self-policing. The elite can publicly go through the motions of being good Muslims and they can charge the true believers with functioning as religious police and that will be plenty to maintain control.
Muslims and islam tend to exploit and abuse their own disadvantaged believers as well as us disadvantaged nonbelievers.
Without massive nonmuslim aid or aid from the Western world, Muslim and Islam would most probably not be such a big nuisance to our world.
Muslims are deviously making use of gullible nonmuslims to further their obsession to dominate the world with more Islamic nonsense.
“I Won’t Butt Out” — Soros Slams UK Democracy’s “Fatal Error” On Brexit, Calls it “A Tragic Mistake”
I don’t know how it goes elsewhere but the Czech Republic is currently being bombarded by newspaper articles and internet trolls claiming things like:
You don’t vote on your treatment when you go to ‘expert doctor’, so you shouldn’t vote in referendums either, because you are no ‘expert politician’
It just goes on and on, people are stupid and incapable of good democratic decisions, and we better give the power to the experts, they will save us for sure…
“Russia over the last four years, their development of new 5th generation weapons, alongside of their military preparations and current mobilizations, compared with the terrible lack of readiness on the part of US forces, the window of vulnerability is at or near its maximum.”
I am kinda worried for America because as they say, pride comes before the fall, and when I see American military men speak its like listening to Alexander the Great, Napoleon, or Caesar – “we are the best and there is none beside us”. That is actually my main reason of worry for America, because God has his way with prideful people. And truth be told: Fighting drone wars in middle east is not real military conflict! It seems more like America is playing a secretive Judge, Jurry, and Executioner game, abusing its superior first world technology on third world peoples.
…fighting weak enemies…
Therefore, America might find itself unprepared for real war, where you actually need whole squadrons of supersonic jets, divisions, legions, thousands of tanks and artillery. And the navy.
But it is a long known fact, that military attacks are performed in such a way to ‘guarantee’ victory.
BTW – It is interesting to check why the Germans attacked France and Britain and how did they come to the final conclusion to attack: They simply calculated how many years it’s gonna take for France, Russia and Britain to get their fighter aircraft up to the “Luftwaffe speed”. They came to the conclusion that France and Britain would be competitive against the Luftwaffe at about 1942-43, so they decided “we must attack now, for it will be much harder in few years time, when also the other powers will have superior aircraft just like our Messerschmitt 109!”
Have not you heard how the Americans bombed the elite Russian PMC the other day? This is very interesting, the situation turns into a hot phase. Now they will beat Putin’s oligarchs, humiliate the sports team and the swing of the country will begin. I think that it will not be the “babies” of Navalny.
I think they will inflame the Muslim factor. This is very good – the earlier, the better.
You have nothing to fear. These scum keep all their money and families in the West. They’d rather kill us all, to please their Anglo-Saxon masters.
Shoigu, the Minister of Defense – a monkey with false epaulettes.
its getting hard to understand you, was it something Shoigu said? That the anglo saxon masters would like to kill Russians?
Speaking of Shoigu, I meant his unprofessionalism. He did not serve in the army, but put on epaulettes as a circus monkey.
I very much love the writer Vonnegut, and quite agree with him that, in addition to political goals, wars are aimed at destroying the civilian population. Many in Russia think that they want to destroy us. Someone is waving banners in a patriotic frenzy, but not all.
You will not like this video. But unfortunately it reflects the opinion of many. And also the fact that the Kremlin is in collusion with those who want to kill us.
Putin is putting us under attack. There is also no hope for the current opposition – these are the same pigs that are fighting for a place by the trough.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2M_HEj6Smc
The 109 had a short range, like the Spitfire, but the Brits were fighting over home territory, so downed pilots not killed were quickly back in the fray.
More generally, the Luftwaffe was regarded as an extension of the Wermacht, so had only medium range bombers which could reach British targets only from France, Belgium or Norway. The RAF could bomb Berlin from the UK in 1940; not successfully or accurately, but they (and later the Americans) got better. No wonder that in “1984”, Orwell called Britain “Airstrip One”.
Yes, short range, but superior speed and altitude. If Britain didn’t manage to get Spitfires at the right time, the RAF would be doomed, because 109’s would pick one British aircraft after another just like they did in Poland or France.
I think that Spitfire is a better aircraft, but that the Mercedes in 109 was a better engine than the Merlin, so that made 109’s and Spitfires roughly equal. But 109 was still faster and would fly higher, and so Spitfires would come much worse off should the Brits have no radar. Because as they say, speed is the king of aerial battles 🙂
Contrary to popular believe it was not the Spitfire that saved the day for the Brits. At the start of The Battle of Brittain the Spitfire was just coming online. Fighter Command had a few hundred at best. The mainstay of F.C. was the Hawker Hurricane who was a good match for the ME 109 because the 109 was underdeveloped at the time.
Another element often overlooked is the fact that the Luftwaffe sustained heavy casualties in The Battle over Holland in May 1940.
Unlike the rest of the Dutch defences the AA batalions were well equiped and trained and had the use of sophisticated aquisition and targeting systems of partly Dutch and partly German design.
In those four days of fighting they managed to blow about a thousand German planes out of the sky.
A thousand planes the Germans would need badly during The Battle of Brittain.
If the Germans would have had those extra thousand planes the Brits would have lost.
The Luftwaffe also lost around 1,300 ‘planes in the invasion of France.
Once George W. Bush has confirmed “Russian meddling in elections”, one may be sure there was no such thing.
Obama’s DOJ and FBI Conspired to Knife America in the Heart
Hmm!…H-R Clinton, Rod Rosenstein, Bruce Ohr, his wife Nellie Ohr who worked for Fusion GPS, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, Zebley, Andrew McCabe, Comey, Dana Boente, Brennan, Clapper, Yates, Loretta Lynch, Holder, Mueller et al…what is the common thread I wonder?
Henry VI, Part 2, Act IV, Scene 2
…JACK CADE. Valiant I am.
SMITH [aside]. A must needs; for beggary is valiant.
JACK CADE. I am able to endure much.
DICK [aside]. No question of that; for I have seen him whipp’d three market-days together.
JACK CADE. I fear neither sword nor fire.
SMITH [aside]. He need not fear the sword; for his coat is of proof.
DICK [aside]. But methinks he should stand in fear of fire, being burnt i’ th’hand for stealing of sheep.
JACK CADE. Be brave, then; for your captain is brave, and vows reformation. There shall be in England seven half-penny loaves sold for a penny: the three-hoop’d pot shall have ten hoops; and I will make it felony to drink small beer: all the realm shall be in common; and in Cheapside shall my palfrey go to grass: and when I am king,- as king I will be,-
ALL. God save your majesty!
JACK CADE. I thank you, good people:- there shall be no money; all shall eat and drink on my score; and I will apparel them all in one livery, that they may agree like brothers, and worship me their lord.
DICK. The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.
…and where be Trump in this, I ask, and who shall gainsay him now?
“Merit” hiring gone forever in Canada and the USA. Same with college admissions. The target: White Men. You’re essentially imprisoned without the government or crooked institutions incurring the costs of the jailing. You’ve become dead white men walking in Toronto where half the population was born outside Canada.
Time to go to the streets boyos or keep having the internationalist maniacs, like Boy Trudeau on the Left kicking sand in your face. Man up or be gone!
You are absolutely right. I see incompetency on a daily basis, as “diversity’ trumpled meritocracy long ago.
Re: US and Canadian College admissions, especially the ‘graduate’ programs – are nothing more, but a way for rich foreigners to send their kids overseas and gain access to the host countries, because those kids stay here and never go back after graduation. International students pay at least 3 times more than the fees for locals, so the College administrations absolutely love that scheme. Of course, at least financially, they would prefer foreign “students”, instead of the home-grown ones.
Corruption in all places, this is what became of the West. Everything is for sale… what a disgusting state of affairs have we reached!
In south east Asia too, one can see incompetency, bullying, exploitative, abusive incidence in inferior, oppressive work environment being very prevalent. It is like no matter how good one is, if without connection or money, one can easily get bullied, abused or pushed out of a job.
I think oftentimes those Muslims migrants turned radicals because they are unable to accept that their Islamic civilization/culture is much more inferior than Western civilization. That is why one see their obsession in taking over Western civilization with mosques, etc. Furthermore, they were brought up to see us/others as inferior and be hateful towards others/us nonbelievers. Therefore, it is not surprising, that many of them displayed radical tendencies in their quest to dominate the world with an oppressive ideology such as Islam.
“In other news, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that the Republic of Turkey must be viewed as a continuation of the Ottoman Empire.”
It’s really only a matter of time before Erdy crowns himself Caliph.
or SoCal-iph. 🙂
Sadly Mr. Macron is ‘dead wrong’, if the pious and faithful followers of the teachings of the Prophet have not changed in the past 1400+ yrs. , there is little chance they will ever change at all.
I’m very excited about the promising legislation regarding personal pronoun preference coming to the rescue of beleaguered transgenders. Canadians will either address each other by the personal pronoun of choice of the addressee, or find themselves in hot water with law enforcement. Chronic use of other than preferred pronouns will result in asset forfeiture or prison or both, exactly as it should.
My preferred personal pronoun is Mein Fuhrer! and I’ll sic the police upon any recalcitrant scofflaw in noncompliance.
Ottoman Empire (Turkey), Islamic Republic (Iran), Russian Empire (KGB Republic), Gee! Just how close are we to the events that are foretold in Ezekiel chapters 37-39?
Some commentary on the parting salvo of filth from Comrade Zero:
http://www.thinkinghousewife.com/wp/2018/02/the-obama-portraits/
http://www.unz.com/isteve/why-does-official-obama-presidential-portrait-have-six-fingers-on-his-left-hand/
One day, when this is all over, I pray this can be scrubbed from the historical record.