The South African parliament voted to amend the country’s constitution to make it possible to confiscate land owned by white people without compensation. One supporter of the amendment is Julius Malema, the leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters. In 2016 Mr. Malema said, “We are not calling for the slaughter of white people — at least for now.”
In other news, three people have been arrested on manslaughter charges for Sunday’s explosion in the English city of Leicester that destroyed a building and killed five people.
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A Very Personal Opposition to Gun Control
As it happens I know two people — civilians — who have used guns to defend themselves against criminals; one was told, explicitly, by the police that it was only their having a handgun that prevented their assault and rape. So defensive gun uses are not fantasy. And this is certainly a practical argument on which to rest a case: after all, while there are the visible misuses, often missing from the debate is what is not seen, i.e., the defensive uses specifically, and deterrent effect generally.
It was, interestingly, one of my “Red Pill” experiencesthat shifted my perspective on guns; related to guns and self-defense, I wrote about it in my essay, The Leftist Sense of Self:…
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America Doesn’t Have a Gun Control Problem. We Have a White-People Problem
In America, white people are everywhere, and this ubiquity connects to perhaps our greatest irony: We (black people) are vastly outnumbered by them. They also own more land, earn and possess more money, and have all the guns. Most of the people making laws are white, as are most of the people enforcing them.
There are entire states you can drive through without seeing one of us, entire lives that can be led without ever having any meaningful interaction with us. We are surrounded, outnumbered, out-resourced and outgunned. Our entire existence here is a continual assault on our bodies.
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Antifa is Violently Threatening Norwegian Heavy Metal Bands Now
Over the past two weeks, noted radical leftist organization Antifa decided (rather arbitrarily) to impose its own interpretation and enforcement on what should and should not be consumed by American music fans. Norwegian black metal band, Taake, was set to perform a number of shows on its upcoming North American tour but ran into trouble as Antifa members reportedly threatened venues where Taake was performing. Antifa members also appear to have threatened concertgoers and individuals involved in the production of Taake’s shows.
Utilizing Twitter and Facebook (apparently NOT violating either’s terms of service), Antifa communicated its marching orders and public threats.
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Antifa Student Group Banned From Twitter After Inciting Violence
Twitter banned an Antifa student group after it said “bricks belong best thrown at pig heads,” according to a Wednesday report.
Watchdog group Far Left Watch noticed the Revolutionary Student Front at the University of Texas at Austin’s suspension after The Daily Caller News Foundation published two pieces regarding the comment inciting violence against police, as well as the group’s “self-defense” classes and its recruitment of those with mental illness.
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Arrest in Deadly Package Bomb Explosion
iStock/Thinkstock (NEW YORK) — The FBI and NYPD arrested a man in Brooklyn Wednesday in connection with a deadly package explosion in Queens last summer.
Victor Kingsley is charged with using a weapon of mass destruction in an attempt to kill a police officer who arrested him in 2014.
Instead the blast severely burned Gary Wray, the 73-year-old landlord of a Queens building who opened the canister-shaped package that had been left on the doorstep several days earlier. Wray died after several days in the hospital.
Kingsley allegedly built the explosive device as part of a broader effort to retaliate violently against several police officers who were part of an NYPD unit that had arrested him in January 2014.
Despite the eventual dismissal of that case, Kingsley methodically sought revenge against the officers, federal prosecutors said. He conducted internet searches and made telephone calls attempting to determine the locations of the officers’ residences, officials said. He also accumulated explosive device components via online purchases, which he had delivered to his house in Brooklyn, according to the criminal complaint.
Ultimately, Kingsley allegedly arranged for the explosive device to be placed outside of a residence in Springfield Gardens where mistakenly believed one of his target officers resided, prosecutors said. The building owner inadvertently detonated the device when he tried to open it, and died as a result of his injuries.
If convicted, Kingsley could face a maximum sentence of life in prison. He was taken to the hospital for a psych exam and is due in court Thursday.
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Chase Suspect Dies in Fiery Crash That Ended in Halls Bayou
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A police chase ended in a fiery crash that killed a driver after his car ended up in a north Houston bayou Tuesday night, police say.
Officials tell us the man was speeding when officers tried to pull him over on Parker Road around 11:30 p.m.
The driver allegedly refused to stop, leading police on a chase where he ran other vehicles off the road.
Authorities say he lost control and hit a side rail, causing the car to burst into flames.
The vehicle then went airborne into Halls Bayou…
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CNN Thinks That Socialism is Cool. My Grandparents From the USSR Would Disagree.
Alex Berezow,
It is frustrating to me that many Americans are ignorant of the crimes of socialist and communist movements.
The biggest misunderstanding is the notion that socialism (which is good) and communism (which is bad) are not the same thing. That might be true in theory, but it never quite works out that way in practice. It is impossible to separate socialism from communism because the former (an economic system) inevitably leads to the latter (a sociopolitical system). Why? Because centralized economic control only works if citizens have no rights.
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Conservative Artist Trolls Hollywood With Billboards Ahead of Oscars
A conservative artist that goes by the name of Sabo hijacked three billboards in Hollywood on Wednesday to put up signs calling out the industry’s sexual harassment scandals.
With a nod to the Oscar nominated film “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,” the artist erected three giant signs to cover the existing ads. The large red and black overlays went after people in the entertainment industry who allegedly knew and did nothing about the alleged sexual misconduct of Harvey Weinstein and others, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
“And the Oscar for biggest pedophile goes to…” a screenshot of one of the signs read.
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Feds Indict US-Israeli Man Responsible for 9% of All Anti-Semitic Acts in 2017
Federal prosecutors Wednesday charged a U.S.-Israeli dual citizen with hate crime and other offenses in connection with more than a hundred threats he allegedly phoned into Jewish community centers and organizations last year.
Michael Ron David Kadar, 19, was indicted in federal courts in Georgia, Florida and Washington, D.C. after an investigation into numerous threats against the community centers and high-profile Jewish organizations, including the Anti-Defamation League and Israeli embassy in Washington.
Prosecutors in Florida say Kadar, who is Jewish, made multiple calls involving bomb threats and active shooter threats to Jewish Community Centers throughout the state. The Florida indictment also charges Kadar with attempting to obstruct the free exercise of religion at the community centers.
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Hope Hicks Resigning as White House Communications Director
White House communications director Hope Hicks, one of the president’s longest and most loyal advisers dating back to the beginning of his presidential campaign, said Wednesday she is resigning from the administration to explore new opportunities.
“There are no words to adequately express my gratitude to President Trump,” Hicks said in a statement. “I wish the president and his administration the very best as he continues to lead our country.”
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Michael Moore: NRA is Worse Than ISIS
Left-wing documentary filmmaker Michael Moore took to Twitter on Friday and urged the media to compare the National Rifle Association (NRA) to the murderous terrorist group ISIS.
“The NRA is a terrorist organization,” Moore wrote in a tweet that went viral. “The media should speak of the NRA in the same way they do ISIS.”
“Total ISIS-inspired deaths in US = 79,” the Academy Award-winner wrote, adding, “Thanks to the NRA & the politicians they buy, we’ve had 1.2 MILLION American gun deaths since John Lennon was shot dead in NYC #NRAKillsKids.”
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Returning Jihadis From West Belong in Criminal Justice System, Not Counseling, Heritage Report Says
A new study says the best way to deal with the vexing problem of Islamic fighters from Western countries who return home is to get them into the criminal justice system, rather than counseling, and to jail those who deserve it.
“Western governments should hold fighters who joined Islamist foreign conflicts and then return to their home countries legally accountable for their actions under domestic or international law,” states a Heritage Foundation report, entitled “Foreign Fighters: The Rule of Law is the Best Response to Islamist Fighters from Western Countries,” which is due out later this week.
“Legal accountability — and, when appropriate, incapacitation — would send a much-needed signal to those who choose to join terrorists that future ‘foreign fighter’ travel is completely unacceptable,” the report said.
The challenge of how to deal with Islamist fighters returning to their Western homes has sparked contentious debate in recent years, particularly since ISIS has actively sought to stock its ranks with citizens of those nations.
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The Universe is Expanding Faster Than We Thought, Hubble Data Suggests
Recent Hubble Space Telescope findings suggest that the universe is expanding much faster than expected — and astronomers say the rules of physics may need to be rewritten in order to understand why.
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US Slaps Fresh Tariffs on Chinese Aluminium
The US says it will slap tougher tariffs on Chinese aluminium alloy after an investigation into the trade.
The Commerce Department said the metal was being sold below cost or with government subsidies — making it impossible for US producers to compete.
Beijing has expressed “strong dissatisfaction” with the step and said China would pursue its legal rights.
The decision came as China’s top economic advisor Liu He arrived in the US to discuss tensions over trade.
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Woman From Buffalo Pleaded Guilty to Supporting ISIS Through Twitter
A woman from Buffalo has admitted to sending threatening tweets to FBI employees and former military members on behalf of ISIS.
Timothy A. Garrison, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Buffalo, Mo., woman pleaded guilty in federal court today to using Twitter to transmit threatening communications against several persons, including two FBI employees and two former members of the military and their families, on behalf of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, also known as ISIS.
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YouTube Has Tapped Far-Left Group to Help Police Content, Report Says
YouTube has enlisted the far-left Southern Poverty Law Center to assist with policing content, according to The Daily Caller.
The law center, or SPLC, bills itself as a civil rights organization that is “dedicated to fighting hate and bigotry,” but was accused by Politico in 2017 of “overstepping its bounds.”
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‘Almost Too Dangerous to Go Out’: Severe Cold Continues in Southern Norway
Extremely cold conditions persist in Norway this week with temperatures under -30°C in many areas.
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EU-Backed ‘Social Justice’ Group Behind Rise in Social Media Hate Speech Prosecutions
A Swedish online “social justice” group comprised of lawyers, former police officers, and other professionals are said to be behind the rise of prosecutions against Swedes for “hate speech” on social media platforms.
The group, which calls itself Näthatsgranskaren, Swedish for “Network Examiner,” gathers data on social media posts deemed to be breaking Sweden’s hate speech laws and reports them to police. Since the group began their actions a year ago, 77 hate speech cases have been brought against Swedish residents, broadcaster SVT reports.
So far, the group has identified 800 or so “hate posts” which they have reported to authorities, though of these only 13 per cent have been acted upon.
“We have developed a programme that searches for criminal networks on social media by searching for keywords, combinations of words, and phrases that can constitute criminal acts,” said the group’s project manager Tomas Åberg.
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Finland Plans ‘Arctic Corridor’ Linking China to Europe
If it happens, it will be the shortest, most direct route for goods between Asia and Europe ever.
Spurred by China’s massive Belt and Road Initiative, decision-makers in Finland and Norway are speeding up talks on a so-called Arctic Corridor.
Cargo ships from Asia will off-load in Kirkenes or elsewhere in northern Norway on the shores of the Arctic Ocean, saving thousands of nautical miles as compared to the route through the Suez Canal.
The ships would pick up European exports while goods from Asia would travel on rail through Finland, through a tunnel to Estonia and from there reach central Europe in record time.
Two vital and so far lacking components — some 500km of rails from Norway to Finland’s existing rails and a tunnel from Finland to Estonia — have frightened planners so far, but new prospects of Chinese funding are providing fresh impetus.
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French Judge Rules Brutal Murder of Jewish Woman in Paris Was Anti-Semitic
The brutal murder of an orthodox Jewish woman in France has been declared an anti-Semitic act, a legal source told AFP on Tuesday, after a campaign to draw attention to the crime.
When Sarah Halimi, 65, died last April in Paris, her family and Jewish groups blamed anti-Semitism.
Amid shouts of “Allah Akbar” (God is great), Koranic verses and insults, he beat Halimi before throwing her out of the window.
“I’ve killed the demon,” he allegedly shouted in Arabic.
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French Court Denies ‘Perverted Guru’ Tariq Ramadan Bail, Citing Re-Offending Risk
Muslim scholar Tariq Ramadan has been denied bail by a court of appeal after his arrest for rape, claiming that he is not only a flight risk but there is a possibility he may engage in the same type of behaviour he is indicted for.
Ramadan and his legal team have been attempting to get the Muslim scholar out of custody on bail for medical reasons after he was hospitalised for multiple sclerosis-related ailments earlier this month, French broadcaster RTL reports.
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Germany: Bochum Police Take Heat for Keeping Brutal Rape by Serial Offender Secret
Police in Bochum had to defend themselves against accusations of a cover up on Wednesday after they failed to report on a violent rape which took place in a city park.
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Germany Arrests Suspected Supporter of Extremist Nusra Front
BERLIN (AP) — German authorities have arrested a Syrian man on allegations he supported the extremist Nusra Front in his homeland.
Federal prosecutors said Wednesday the 33-year-old, identified only as Abdul Sattar A. I., was fighting for a paramilitary group associated with the Free Syrian Army when in April 2014, he organized the capture of Islamic State fighter Saleh A.
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Germany: Controversy After Charity Food Bank Only Allows Access to Citizens, Not Foreigners
BERLIN (AP) — A food bank in western Germany has gone ahead with plans to exclude any more foreigners from accessing its services, despite an uproar across the country but applause from the far-right.
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German Medical Board Raises Alarm Over Foreign Doctors After Mistakes Cost Patient Lives
Medical authorities in Germany have sounded the alarm over gaps in professional knowledge of doctors from outside of Europe, which they say threaten the quality of patient care.
The incompetence of foreign doctors has cost lives, according to the medical association of Westphalia-Lippe, because district authorities can only test foreign recruits’ language skills and are prevented from checking their professional capabilities.
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Here’s What We Know About Denmark’s ‘Ghetto Plan’
Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen announced in his New Year speech that his government intends to take measures to “end the existence of ghettos” completely. A first proposal of the government plan on underprivileged areas — defined by the Ministry of Transport and Housing as ‘ghettos’ — will be presented on Thursday.
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How Freedom of Speech is Dying in Merkel’s “Police State”
A worrying infringement on freedom of speech is taking place in Germany. Ever since NetzDG became the law, more and more people are getting censored online. More people on the right but oddly enough also satirical left wing magazines like Titanic.
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Italian Psychiatrist: Muslims Will Outbreed Europeans and Take Over the Continent
Alessandro Meluzzi is an Italian psychiatrist and criminologist, known for his politically incorrect views on migration.
In a radio interview, Meluzzi talks about the announcement of the Libyan coastguard that another million Muslim migrants will be coming to Europe. He says the “European civilisation, with its rights, freedom for women, for homosexuals… is at risk”.
Meluzzi concludes that (African) Muslims clearly have more children than Italians and looking at history, he thinks Europe will be “conquered” by Muslims by outbreeding the native population.
“As long as they’re a tiny minority, they enjoy our very own rights; then they conquer us using those same rights, and they’ll take over our laws and occupy”, Meluzzi said in the interview.
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Italian Election Latest: EU Under Threat as FDI Strike Up Alliance With Hungarian PM Orban
In a move designed to send a “strong message” to the European Union over where Italian loyalties lie, Giorgia Meloni visited Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban ahead of Sunday’s vote.
The pair discussed “the future of Italy” as well as illegal immigration and “defending the European identity from the risk of Islamisation”.
And in a swipe at EU powerhouses France and Germany, Mrs Meloni vowed Italy should focus on relations with the Visegrad group of Eastern European nations.
Mrs Meloni’s Brothers of Italy (FDI) party is part of the centre-right coalition which is widely tipped to have the best chance of forming a government after the Italian election on Sunday, March 4.
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Murdered Slovak Journalist Was ‘Investigating Italian Mafia’
Murdered Slovak journalist Jan Kuciak was about to publish an investigation alleging high-level political corruption linked to the Italian mafia, the news portal he worked for revealed on Wednesday, as the killing sparked calls for fresh anti-corruption protests in the small EU state.
Opposition politicians have demanded the interior minister and police chief step down, accusing them of failing to protect Kuciak when he filed criminal complaints after receiving threats.
Kuciak, 27, and his fiancee Martina Kusnirova were found shot dead on Sunday at his home in Velka Maca, a town to the east of Bratislava, raising concerns at home and abroad about media freedoms and the level of corruption in Slovakia.
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Pesticides Put Bees at Risk, European Watchdog Confirms
Most uses of insecticides known as neonicotinoids represent a risk to wild bees and honeybees, the European Food Safety Authority has confirmed.
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Record Number of Incidents With ‘Disturbed’ Persons in the Netherlands
Dutch police responded to a record number of 83,501 incidents involving “disturbed” persons last year, an increase of 12 percent compared to 2016. Between 2013 and 2016 the number of incidents involving disturbed persons increased by nearly 60 percent, according to figures the police released on Tuesday.
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Security Crisis; Hackers Invade German Government’s Data Network
Foreign hackers have invaded the data network of Germany’s federal government and security authorities, according to information obtained by the German Press Agency (DPA).
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Skull of ‘Oldest Dutchwoman’ Found Beneath the North Sea
Part of a prehistoric human skull and a bison bone decorated with a zigzag pattern — dubbed the world’s “oldest Dutchwoman” and “oldest Dutch artwork” — have been revealed by scientists in the Netherlands, in research that highlights a sunken treasure trove of human archaeology beneath the North Sea.
Dutch fishermen found the partial skull and decorated bone on separate occasions in recent years, in parts of the submerged lands that linked continental Europe and the British Isles until about 9,000 years ago.
Both finds date from the end of the last ice age, around 13,000 years ago, when most of the North Sea was a vast plain of dry land up to 260 feet (80 meters) above sea level — a region scientists call Doggerland after the shallow fishing grounds of Dogger Bank between the Netherlands and the U.K. The grounds were named after the medieval Dutch fishing boats called doggers.
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Slovak Media Collectively Publish Story by Murdered Journalist
At midnight, a majority of Slovak media published the final unfinished story by Jan Kuciak, an investigative journalist murdered last week. The story describes the infiltration of Italian businessmen allegedly linked with Calabrian mafia into Slovakia’s farm and energy businesses. At the time of his killing, Kuciak was investigating men considered by Italian police as extremely dangerous.
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‘Sweden Needs 600,000 New Homes by 2025, ‘ Top Housing Agency Says
Sweden, which for decades has been battling a housing crisis, needs to build 600,000 new homes by 2025 to sufficiently accommodate its growing population, the country’s top housing agency said on Wednesday.
In a new report from the National Board of Housing, Building and Planning (Boverket), Sweden needs to significantly ramp up its home construction in the next few years, or the country’s housing crisis risks worsening even more.
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These Are the Promises Italy’s Political Parties Have Made to Voters
Italy’s election will take place on March 4th — that much is certain. But with a new and untested electoral system, deep rifts in the ruling Democratic Party, and a possible comeback on the cards for one Silvio Berlusconi, anything could happen.
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UK Police Arrest 3 Men Over Blast That Killed 5 People
Three men have been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter after five people died in an explosion in Leicester, police have said.
Leicestershire Police have been investigating the cause of the blast, which happened at a Polish supermarket with two flats above it in Hinckley Road just after 7 p.m. (2 p.m. ET) on Sunday.
The suspects are all in their 30s and were arrested on Wednesday evening, police confirmed.
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A mobile phone worker who called himself ‘Captain the illiterate’ who collected bomb-making ‘recipes’ and plotted to ‘kill smart people’ has been jailed for seven years.
Mohammed Kamal Hussain, 28, from Whitechapel, east London, also created a Facebook profile where he encouraged others to join ISIS.
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UK: Leicester Explosion: Police Make Three Manslaughter Arrests
Three men have been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter over a fatal explosion in Leicester.
Five people, including three members of the same family, are believed to have died when a flat and shop were destroyed on Sunday.
The three, all in their 30s, come from East Anglia, the North West and East Midlands, Leicestershire Police said.
While police have not released more details, they stressed there was no evidence the blast was terror related…
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A presenter for the Islamic conservative Akit TV has resigned from his post and is facing criminal charges after speaking about “killing civilians” in secular neighborhoods of Istanbul.
“It is unacceptable and unexplainable. This is openly psychotic. A prosecutor’s office has initiated a criminal investigation into this individual who has made these comments. It is a provocation,” ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) spokesperson Mahir Ünal said on Feb. 28.
Referring to claims the Turkish military was killing civilians in its “Operation Olive Branch” in the northwestern Syrian district of Afrin, Keser on Feb. 27 said: “If we [Turks] were to kill civilians, we would have started in Cihangir, Nisantasi and Etiler, wouldn’t we?”
“There are many traitors. There is the Turkish Parliament, too,” he added.
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Why Turkey Wants to Invade the Greek Islands
Turkish propagandists also have been twisting facts to try to portray Greece as the aggressor.
Although Turkey knows that the islands are legally and historically Greek, Turkish authorities want to occupy and Turkify them, presumably to further the campaign of annihilating the Greeks, as they did in Anatolia from 1914 to 1923 and after.
Any attack against Greece should be treated as an attack against the West.
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Iranian women protesting the compulsory headscarf by taking off their hijab in public could be facing up to a decade in jail for ‘inciting prostitution’, police has warned.
Authorities in Iran are desperately trying to stem the growing protests across the country against the dress code enforced on women since the Islamic revolution of 1979.
More than 35 women have been arrested in the capital Tehran alone in the past two months, with several reportedly subjected to torture while in custody.
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New Threat to EU: Austrian Leader Meets Putin and Orders Brussels to ‘Reverse Relations’
Sebastian Kurz flew to Moscow to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin during his first foreign visit outside the continent with a demand which threatens EU unity over the Russia situation.
Both countries traditionally have close ties and the new centre-right coalition is considered to be friendly to Russia.
The meeting focused on strengthening bilateral trade and energy relations and Russia’s relationship with the bloc.
Ahead of the meeting, Mr Kurz said he aimed to address the conflicts in Ukraine and Syria.
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Wilders Under Fire From MH17 Relatives Over Russia Trip
PVV leader Geert Wilders has been criticised by relatives of the people killed in the MH17 disaster for cosying up to Russia. In particular, they have condemned his visit to the Russian Duma and his tweet showing off a badge featuring the Dutch and Russian flags. ‘Emphasising his friendship with Russia is inappropriate for an MP,’ the Vliegramp MH17 foundation said in a statement. They have called on the PVV leader to apologise for his actions, arguing that he is ignoring the fact that Russia was involved in the shooting down of the passenger plane.
Wilders is on a multi-day trip to Russia and has met the deputy foreign affairs minister among others. In another tweet from Moscow Wilders called for an end to what he called Russiaphobia. ‘Stop Russia phobia. It is time for realpolitik. Partnership instead of enemies.’
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‘Burmese Bin Laden’: Facebook Removes Page of Buddhist Monk After Racist Rant
The notorious firebrand Buddhist monk Ashin Wirathu, also known as the “Burmese bin Laden,” has been kicked off Facebook for violating its community standards.
Wirathu, who has used social media to disseminate anti-Muslim hate speech and racist comments, was kicked off the platform in January. A Facebook spokesman told Agence France-Press that the page violated its standards, prompting the social network to take action.
In an email to Fox News, a Facebook spokesperson said: “Our Community Standards prohibit organizations and people dedicated to promoting hatred and violence against others based on their protected characteristics. If a person consistently shares content promoting hate, we may take a range of actions such as temporarily suspending their ability to post and ultimately, removal of their account.”
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Christians Flogged in Indonesia for Playing Game Considered Anti-Islamic
Two Christians were flogged in public for taking part in what is considered an anti-Islamic children’s entertainment game in Indonesia.
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Infamous Pakistani Cleric Keeps ‘Martyr’ Bin Laden Library, Vows Worldwide Sharia
Maulana Mohammad Abdul Aziz is considered one of the most dangerous, yet influential, men in Pakistan.
And while his movements in the country are restricted by the government, the 57-year-old former head cleric of Islamabad’s oldest mosque — Lal Masjid, better known as the Red Mosque — is still allowed to inspire new generations with his radical rhetoric.
“We don’t see Pakistan anymore our destination, we will come out as a force to establish Islamic rule over the entire world,” Aziz told Fox News last week in a telephone interiew, from his Islamabad compound known as Jamia Hafsa, a seminary school that boasts around 1500 girls and 2000 boys. “You will see the change within 10 years — if you stay alive.”
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Council Discusses Space Threats and Opportunities Posed by China
A discussion of China at the latest National Space Council meeting took a more nuanced view of the country than is typical in such conversations, seeing the rising space power as a competitor and adversary but also a potential partner.
A panel discussion on national security space at the Council’s Feb. 21 meeting at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center focused primarily on the growing capabilities of, and the growing threat posed by, China’s space efforts, including the development of counterspace capabilities that could disrupt American space systems in the event of a conflict.
“Russia and China are each developing counterspace capabilities to use during a potential future conflict with the United States to reduce U.S. and allied advantage and effectiveness, eroding our information advantage,” said Susan Gordon, principal deputy director of national intelligence.
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Vietnam’s Tech Innovation Renaissance
The Vietnam government has made an effort in recent years to bring back Vietnamese people who have gone overseas to study and work.
This has resulted in creating a vibrant tech entrepreneur scene, where many start-ups are focusing on solving everyday problems.
The country’s young and highly-literate population is providing a big boost to making Ho Chi Minh City one of Asia’s Silicon Valleys.
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We May Have Already Found Signs of Alien Microbes on Enceladus
Microbes that produce methane may already be living on Enceladus, a moon of Saturn which is tipped to host life because it boasts a liquid water ocean beneath a crust of solid ice, and strange atmospheric plumes of water. That’s the implication of research showing that an earthbound organism which also produces methane can happily survive in conditions known to exist on Enceladus, from observations by the Cassini space probe before its mission ended last year.
Isolated from deep sea vents almost 1000 metres deep in the Okinawa Trough off Japan, Methanothermococcus okinawensis was subjected to gruelling physical and chemical conditions found on Enceladus for more than five years.
This microbe, called a methanogenic archaeon, survives without oxygen by combining hydrogen and carbon dioxide — both observed in Enceladus’s atmosphere — to make the energy it needs, emitting methane as a waste product. Cassini detected traces of methane in Enceladus’s plumes, and there’s a chance that some of it may have come from this kind of microbe.
“The conditions we mimicked in the lab are as close as possible to those inferred from Cassini on Enceladus,” says Simon Rittmann at the University of Vienna in Austria, who led the investigations.
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NT child protection case managers underwent mandatory training in 2014 after it was revealed some staff members had turned a blind eye to relationships between young girls and much older men.
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Signal Detected From ‘Cosmic Dawn’
Scientists say they have observed a signature on the sky from the very first stars to shine in the Universe.
They did it with the aid of a small radio telescope in the Australian outback that was tuned to detect the earliest ever evidence for hydrogen.
This hydrogen was in a state that could only be explained if it had been touched by the intense light of stars.
The team puts the time of this interaction at a mere 180 million years after the Big Bang.
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Land Expropriation Without Compensation Passes in Parly
JOHANNESBURG — The National Assembly has given the go-ahead for section 25 of the Constitution to be amended to give effect to government policy of expropriating land without compensation.
In a heated debate in the National Assembly, MPs from South Africa’s governing African National Congress (ANC) and its biggets political foes, the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), were on the same page, as were some other smaller parties.
“Today, let it be the day of black unity in the name of Robert Sobukwe,” EFF leader Julius Malema said, opening the debate on the day, forty years ago, that Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) founder Robert Sobukwe died.
“We don’t seek revenge. We don’t wish for their suffering. All our people ever wanted was their land to which their dignity is rooted,” said Malema.
Malema rejected notions that it would be unconstitutional to amend the Constitution.
“All of us must come together and say enough is enough. Our people must get the land. We offer the ANC our six percent to amend the Constitution.those who don’t agree will continue to ridicule our struggle, because they don’t know the pain of losing land.”
Cabinet Minister Gugile Nkwinti reminded MPs that a recent land audit showed that whites, despite being the smallest population group in the country, owned over 70 percent of the land. Coloureds owned 15 percent of the land, Indians five percent and black Africans, by far the majority, only four percent.
African People’s Convention MP Themba Godi welcomed the way MP handled themselves during the debate, saying they were “sowing the seeds for black solidarity”.
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Nigeria Orders ‘All Schools’ Defended in Boko Haram Region
The office of Nigeria’s president says police and civil defense forces are ordered to defend all schools in “liberated areas” of the northeast to avoid further attacks on schools by Boko Haram extremists.
Many in Africa’s most populous country are outraged by the kidnapping of 110 girls in a Feb. 19 attack on a school in Dapchi town. It reminded many of the Chibok mass abduction of 276 schoolgirls in 2014.
President Muhammadu Buhari’s office says leaders of police and civil defense forces are ordered to coordinate with the military and governors of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states to “ensure deployment of personnel to all schools.”
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South Africa: National Assembly Adopts Motion on Land Expropriation Without Compensation
Cape Town — The National Assembly on Tuesday set in motion a process to amend the Constitution so as to allow for the expropriation of land without compensation.
The motion, brought by the EFF leader Julius Malema, was adopted with a vote of 241 in support, and 83 against.
Opening the debate on his motion, Malema said: “The time for reconciliation is over. Now is the time for justice.”
He said they did not seek revenge on white people, but a restoration of black people’s dignity, which was deeply rooted in the land.
Gugile Nkwinti, who was minister of rural affairs and land reform until Monday evening (now minister of water affairs), said: “The ANC unequivocally supports the principle of land expropriation without compensation.”
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South Africa Votes to Seize White-Owned Land Without Compensation
South Africa’s parliament voted Tuesday to move forward with an amendment to the country’s constitution that would allow the government to seize and redistribute white-owned land without compensation.
The motion was brought by the radical Marxist Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party and was widely supported by the ruling African National Congress, which controls almost two-thirds of the parliament. The measure passed by a vote of 241 to 83, reports Reuters.
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South Africa’s constitution is now likely to be amended to allow for the confiscation of white-owned land without compensation.
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Atacama’s Lessons About Life on Mars
Even in the driest places on Earth there is life eking out an existence, it seems.
Scientists have examined the soils in those parts of the Atacama desert that may not see any rains for decades.
Still, the team led from the Technical University of Berlin, Germany, found evidence of microbes that have adapted to the extreme conditions.
These hardy organisms are of interest because they may serve as a template for how life could survive on Mars.
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Remains of ‘Maya Underworld’ Found in World’s Longest Submerged Cave
But archaeologist Guillermo de Anda thinks the discovery of the narrow passageway is just the start of stunning findings inside the system now collectively known as Sac Actun. The long expanse of caverns is not only a natural wonder but also a time capsule that stretches back to the last ice age. While exploring the caves, de Anda’s team has counted nearly 200 spots with archaeological remains, including Maya altars, ancient human bones and the fossils of extinct animals. They even found the bones of what may be a once-unknown human.
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Avramopoulos Calls for ‘Common Global Understanding’ on Managing Migrant Flows
European Commissioner for Migration and Home Affairs Dimitris Avramopoulos has called for a “common global understanding on how to manage flows of migrants and refugees worldwide.”
His comments were made in Brussels Tuesday during an interparliamentary committee meeting on the UN global compacts on refugees and migrants and the role of national parliaments. The compacts are set to be adopted by the end of the year.
“It is a unique opportunity to develop a broader common understanding on how to humanly and efficiently manage migration together, now and in the long term,” Avramopoulos said, adding that was not a national or European responsibility, “but a global one.”
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Danish Government: Double Punishments in Largely Migrant ‘Ghetto’ Areas
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark’s center-right government wants to double the punishment for crimes like vandalism and theft committed in areas with larger number of immigrants and higher unemployment, in an attempt to eliminate so-called “parallel societies” by 2030.
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Feds Provide Almost $2 Billion in Subsidies to Hire Alien Grads Rather Than U.S. Grads
The Optional Practical Training (OPT) program, in which the American government pays American employers to discriminate against American workers has grown rapidly in recent years, and during FY 2017 it used nearly $2 billion swiped from trust funds for the elderly to favor 240,000 alien college grads over an equal number of U.S.-resident grads.
It is hard to believe, but true; employers of foreign students who have a degree from a U.S. institution are given an 8.25 percent tax break if they hire an alien, rather than a U.S. college grad with the same skills, and paid at the same salary, as we described in some detail in a recent posting.
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Italian Populist Leader Slams Pro-Migrant Bishop: ‘The Gospel Doesn’t Say to Welcome Everyone’
Populist leader of the Lega party Matteo Salvini struck back at a pro-migrant bishop who attacked him for swearing an oath of loyalty to the Italian people on a bible, saying “in my Italy, immigration has rules”.
Salvini promised to swear his oath of office on a bible last Saturday at a rally in Milan which drew the ire of Roman Catholic archbishop Gian Carlo Perego, also known as the “bishop of migrants”, Il Giornale reports.
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Oops! 100,000 Non-Citizens Registered to Vote in Pennsylvania
J. Christian Adams, a former federal prosecutor, through his work with the Public Interest Legal Foundation, is leading an effort to expose the extent of aliens voting in federal elections. For unexplained reasons, the officials are stonewalling release of official data. It appears that they have evidence already that should alarm everyone concerned with election integrity. This had far more influence than any Russian ads on Facebook.
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Soros-Funded NGO Providing Guidebooks to Illegal Migrants
Illegal migrants are being provided with guidebooks published by a George Soros front group, Hungary’s chief security advisor has told state media.
According to György Bakondi, an unnamed German civil society organization (NGO) has been supplying literature to migrants that instructs them on the best methods and pathways for reaching European soil, as well as directions how to deceive authorities and elude border security systems.
“This is damaging, dangerous, and could have major internal security repercussions,” Bakondi said. “The mass illegal immigration we are facing is not spontaneous, but is being managed in an organized manner.”
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Spain Urged to Create Equality Watchdog to Tackle Racism Against Roma and Refugees
Spain has been told to create an independent equality body to adopt anti-discrimination legislation and improve integration and education of Roma and migrant children.
The Council of Europe Anti-racism Commission (ECRI) urged Spanish authorities to combat segregation and early school drop-out among Roma children and to do
In a report published Tuesday it also highlighted that prejudice exists in particular against Muslims, Roma and LGBT people and that many cases of hate speech or hate crime are not reported to the police.
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Sweden: Migrant Boy Rapes Man at Gunpoint
A 17-year-old boy has been arrested for raping a man. The raid took place earlier this month in southern Sweden.
“A 17-year-old boy has been arrested for raping a 37-year-old man. After the rape, the boy robbed the man for money. Both crimes happened while the 17-year-old had a firearm aimed at the man,” Sydsvenskan writes.
The evidence in the case is so strong that the judge chose to detain the boy.
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UK: Illegal Immigrant Jailed for Life After Raping Pregnant Woman at Knife Point
Afghan national Aryan Rashidi, who entered the UK on a lorry illegally, held a knife to his victim’s throat during the shocking attack in the early hours of October 5, 2016.
Rashidi preyed on the pregnant woman in order to take a risk to “fulfill his sexual needs”, Leeds Crown Court heard.
The court was also told he had tried to commit a sex attack on another victim in June 2016 as she slept in bed with her husband with their baby in a cot in the same room.
The court heard both victims have been left deeply traumatised and have had to move as they no longer felt safe in their homes.
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UK Police Arrest 3 Men Over Blast That Killed 5 People
Since when was ‘Aram Kurd’ (the owner; his house is currently being searched!) a Polish name?
Curiouser and curiouser, cried Alice.
And Plod are still claiming there is no terrorist connection.
In Russia there is a monstrous substitution of the basic concepts.
It’s very difficult for me to express my thoughts in English, but I’ll try.
Русский (russkiy)- Russian – belonging to the Russian nation
Россиянин (rossiyanin) – Russian – the one who lives in Russia
For you it is almost one word. And now let’s read the latest news:
The names of 25 Russian women released from captivity in Iraq became known
https://ria.ru/society/20180301/1515491736.html
Mostly listed are Chechen, Ingush, Tatar and Central Asian names.
Russian women ask Iraqi authorities for condescension for their daughters
https://ria.ru/world/20180228/1515462293.html
Next followed by “full pain” stories from Dagestan and Tatar women.
Not only that we do not have a homeland and a capital (which was seized by Caucasians and migrants), even our nationality was stolen.
Which homeland and capital, Elena?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzx96OdigpE
Thanks. I don’t read cyrillic, but that looks like Moscow; pretty appalling.
http://www.friatider.se/postade-sk-mtbild-om-islam-p-facebook-nu-riskerar-hon-f-ngelse
Crime of hatred in Sweden
Do you think that in these conditions it is possible to change something? It remains only to go to the partisans.
“We are not calling for the slaughter of white people — at least for now.”
“…at least for now.”
That’s comforting.
I think he lied and I think “they” heard him:
https://littlenotesfromparis.blogspot.com.au/2018/02/white-genocide-in-south-africa.html
I would like to see EU countries, in particular the UK,
Holland and Germany grant immediate, priority asylum
To all fleeing white farmers and their families.
They have something to offer, unlike most of the third
World, economic, illegal, third world asylum seekers
Who have been received with such largesse.
So much for the Rainbow Nation, Mandela was a false
Prophet, once he was out of the way reverse apartheid
Swung into action, you think Zimbabwe is a basket
Case, just wait and see what a dust bowl SA will be
In a decade.
Foreign investment will dry up apart from China, who
Will extract their pound of flesh, taking no nonsense
From these amateur, socialist African politicians.
Meanwhile comments from European Governments on
“The no need to slaughter them yet” comment, ZILCH.
But in reality the slaughter has already started as
Isolated white farmers and families are already being
Tortured and murdered with impunity, making their
Profession one of the most dangerous in the world
Imagine if a European politician had made a similar
Comment about a minority in their country? He would
Be removed on the spot, check or even jailed for a hate
Crime.
Obviously racism doesn’t apply if you are Caucasian
According to our shamefully, ethnomasachistc, self
Loathing, hypocritical European Heads of States.
South Africa: Failed State 2.0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNctnK1LUwQ
Petition for White South African to have the right to return to Europe if they want to…
https://www.change.org/p/jean-claude-juncker-allow-all-white-south-africans-the-right-to-return-to-europe
I could read the writing on the wall 25 years back, from 10,000 miles away. Were the whites in SA unable to decode their future?