Last week’s explosion on a ferryboat in the Mexican town of Playa del Carmen was caused by an explosive device, and not by mechanical problems, as was originally thought. Investigators discovered two similar devices in other ferries. The U.S. embassy has now issued a warning to American citizens in Mexico.
In other news, Tommy Robinson’s Twitter account was suspended after he tweeted about the fact that almost 90% of defendants convicted of “grooming” offenses have turned out to be Muslims.
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Jobless Claims Hit Lowest Level Since 1969
New claims for unemployment benefits fell to their lowest level since 1969 last week.
Economists had been expecting 226,000 new jobless claims, a rise over the previous week. Instead, claims unexpectedly fell by 10,000 to 210,000 in the week ending on February 24.
The more stable four week moving average of claims also declined, dropping by 5,000 to 220,500. That is also the lowest level in 49 years.
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Man Who Sent White Powder to Donald Trump Jr. Is a Far-Left Gun Control Advocate
The Massachusetts man charged with sending a threatening letter filled with white powder to Donald Trump Jr. that sent his wife to the hospital is a far-left gun control advocate who has supported numerous anti-Trump political causes.
24-year-old Daniel Frisiello was arrested after a federal investigation traced the unsigned letters to him as a result of Frisiello also ordering a “glitter bomb” for one of the intended recipients using his own name.
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Canadians’ Confidential Tax Info to be Shared With Police in Other Countries
Confidential information from Canadian taxpayers could be shared with police and authorities in dozens of countries around the world, under measures quietly included in Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s budget.
Confidential information from Canadian taxpayers could soon be shared with police and authorities in three dozen countries around the world, under measures included in Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s latest budget.
In an inconspicuous section tucked into a small 78-page annex to the budget, the government says it wants to give police and tax authorities new powers to fight tax evasion and advance international investigations into serious crimes, ranging from drug trafficking and money laundering to terrorism.
“The sharing of information internationally for the investigation, prosecution and suppression of serious criminal offences, both tax-related and non-tax-related, is vital to the global fight against serious crime and is consistent with the government’s commitments to address global tax evasion and improve the fairness of the tax system,” says the budget annex.
‘Buried’ in the budget
A civil liberties advocate accuses the government of using the budget to hide controversial changes.
“If you can get something buried in the budget that nobody knows about, sometimes you can get something passed without getting the kind of heat it deserves,” said Michael Bryant, executive director of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association and a former Ontario attorney general.
“Well, this deserves a lot of heat from the opposition and scrutiny from media…
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Brexit Secretary Threatens Not to Pay ‘Divorce Bill’ Unless EU Backs Down on Northern Ireland
The UK will refuse to pay the agreed so-called Brexit ‘divorce bill’ unless the European Union (EU) backs down on its attempt to force Northern Ireland to stay inside the bloc’s Customs Union.
The EU’s demands on Northern Ireland have been described as an attempt to “annex” the province by critical MPs and the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), who called it “constitutionally unacceptable” and potentially “catastrophic”.
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Britain is Not Alone: Economist Hails UK’s European Allies in Attack on ‘False’ EU Unity
A LEADING Hungarian economist has said that “Britain is not alone” and has strong allies in the EU member states as it implements Brexit.
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‘Bury the Filthy Disbeliever’: UK Islamic Radio Fined for Hate Speech
A Muslim radio station that broadcast a chant glorifying their “warlike” prophet Muhammad, and encouraged the beheading of “lowlifes” and murder of “filthy” non-Muslims, has been fined £2,000 by the regulator for “hate speech”.
Radio Dawn is transmitted in foreign languages in the Nottingham area and broadcast the offending ‘Nasheed’ — an Islamic chant set to music — in December 2016.
The station is run by the Karimia Institute, which was founded by Musharraf Hussain who was awarded an OBE in 2009 for “services to community relations”.
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French Far-Right Leader Marine Le Pen Charged Over ISIS Photos
PARIS (AP) — French prosecutors filed preliminary charges Thursday against Marine Le Pen for tweeting brutal images of Islamic State violence.
The prosecutor’s office in the Paris suburb of Nanterre said the charges were issued for “distribution of violent images.” If the case eventually reaches trial and she’s convicted, Le Pen could face up to three years in prison and a 75,000-euro ($90,000) fine.
Le Pen’s December 2015 tweets showed executions by IS extremists, including the killing of American reporter James Foley. She posted them in the wake of the November 2015 IS attacks on Paris, accusing the government of not doing enough to protect France.
Le Pen told BFM television Thursday “it’s clearly aimed at silencing me. Yet I will not be silenced”. Le Pen said she would consider a potential conviction as a “medal of patriotism and defense of the French people.”
The preliminary charges were made possible after the French parliament lifted her immunity from prosecution in the case late last year.
Lawyer Rodolphe Bosselut, representing Le Pen in the case, confirmed the charges but wouldn’t comment.
It’s one of multiple legal cases targeting Le Pen or the National Front.
In one high-profile investigation, she and the party have to respond to charges over the misuse of European funds. She denies wrongdoing.
Le Pen, who was a distant runner-up to Emmanuel Macron in last year’s presidential run-off, plans to propose a new name for the National Front at a congress later this month, in an apparent effort to distance it from past problems and stigma. The party could also end the honorary presidency of Le Pen’s father and National Front founder Jean-Marie Le Pen, as part of a protracted family feud.
Marine Le Pen’s French-first, Islam-skeptic nationalism resonated widely in the wake of Donald Trump’s election and Britain’s vote to leave the European Union.
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Germany: Islamist Supermarket Killer Gets Life in Prison
Hamburg Higher Regional Court sentenced 26-year-old Palestinian Ahmad Alhaw to life in prison on Thursday on charges of carrynig out a deadly knife attack in an Edeka supermarket.
Last month, the defendant was charged with murder and six counts of attempted murder as well as grievous bodily harm, to which he pleaded guilty.
Alhaw’s motives are not yet clear to the investigators. According to Hamburg’s Interior Senator Andy Grote, Islamist motives and ‘mental liability’ might have been at play.
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Italian Election 2018: Renzi Says Vote for Him is a Vote for ‘United States of Europe’
MATTEO Renzi has urged Italian supporters of anti-establishment 5 Star Movement’s (M5S) to remember they are “voting for government not fantasy football” when they head to the polls in the Italian elections 2018.
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Marine Le Pen Indicted by French Court for Highlighting Islamic State Abuses on Twitter
Former French presidential candidate and leader of the populist Front National Marine Le Pen has been indicted on charges of “dissemination of violent images” after she highlighted Islamic State abuses on Twitter in 2015.
Ms. Le Pen was indicted Thursday by a judge in Nanterre and could potentially face a penalty of up to three years in prison or a fine of up to 75,000 euros, L’Express reports.
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Merkel Admits ‘No-Go’ Zones Exist in Germany
Angela Merkel has admitted the existence of ‘no-go areas’, where outsiders are afraid to enter, in Germany — just months after Breitbart London editor in chief Raheem Kassam comprehensively documented their existence in his groundbreaking book.
In an interview with RTL earlier this week, the acting Chancellor also conceded that the huge influx of third world migrants who arrived after her decision to throw open the border in 2015 has “raised multiple questions”.
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The Mosque of Segrate located on the outskirts of Milan has called on Muslims to vote for the centre-left coalition and parties favourable to granting birthplace citizenship.
The Segrate mosque, also known as Masjid al-Rahmàn or Mosque of the Merciful, released a bulletin to followers urging them to vote for parties which support granting citizenship to anyone born within the borders of Italy, known as Jus Soli, Italian newspaper Il Giornale reports.
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Netherlands: Beheaded Doll at Amsterdam Mosque: Arrest Made in Hoofddorp
The police arrested a 35-year-old man from Hoofddorp on Wednesday in connection with a bloody, decapitated doll left at Emir Sultan Mosque in Amsterdam Noord in January.
Passersby found the doll in front of the mosque early on Thursday, January 18th and reported it to the police. The police immediately launched an investigation, which led them to the Hoofddorp man. “The suspect is known to be driven by ideological motives”, the police said. He has no previous violent crime incidents on his record, the police added.
The incident with the doll prompted interim Amsterdam mayor Jozias van Aartsen to raise concerns about minorities increasingly being targeted in Amsterdam.
He met with members of the Muslim community after the doll was found. “I can imagine the fear very well. They experience this as an attack. It was seen by mothers and especially children from the school in front of the mosque. It had a huge impact on their lives, it hit them emotionally. A mosque should be a safe home”, the mayor said in a city council debate on the incident.
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People Disgusted by Body Odour More Likely to be Right Wing
A study has found that the more a person is revolted by the smell of body odour and urine the more likely they are to be right wing and want to secure national borders.
Research conducted by the University of Stockholm, Sweden, also found that left-wingers were less revolted by bad personal hygiene, reports MailOnline.
Psychologists believe that it represents a deep-rooted “defence mechanism” against contagious diseases.
Indeed, a Royal Society paper proposed in 2011 that disgust “evolved to motivate infectious disease avoidance”.
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Trump Nomination for Nobel Peace Prize
The Norwegian Nobel Institute said Wednesday it had filed a police report after receiving a seemingly fraudulent nomination for the US president.
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UK: Muslim Radio Station Fined for Broadcasting ‘Hate Speech’
Wait til they hear what’s preached in the mosques.
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Police are searching the home of the owner of a shop which was destroyed in a blast which killed five people as three men are held on suspicion of manslaughter.
Detectives have spent hours scouring the £135,000 property of Aram Kurd, 33, where he lives with his girlfriend Akvile Martinkute, 31,
The couple live in Leicester, five miles from the Polish supermarket Zabka, which was destroyed in the explosion.
A huge fireball tore through the shop and two-storey flat above causing the entire building to collapse, like a ‘pancake’.
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UK: Two Men Jailed Over Terrifying Mother and Baby Car-Jacking
TWO thugs have been jailed after carjacking a mother at knifepoint while her 13-month-old son was still inside. Zahid Mahmood, 20, and Usman Mahboob, 18, jumped inside the woman’s Ford Focus as she was about to strap her son in his baby seat.
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The controversial activist Tommy Robinson has been suspended from Twitter for quoting research which found that nearly 90 per cent of convicted grooming gang members in the UK are Muslim.
Mr. Robinson was suspended from the social media platform for 7 days for stating the findings of the Quilliam Foundation think tank, whose founder worked as an adviser to Prime Minister David Cameron on issues around Islam.
“90% of grooming gang convictions are Muslims,” Mr. Robinson wrote in a tweet on February 25th, rounding up the number identified by the Quilliam research, which found that 84 per cent of convicted groomers were Muslim in December last year.
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Facebook Finds No New Evidence Russia Influenced Brexit, MPs Demand They Look Harder
Facebook has told MPs conducting a “fake news inquiry” it has found no new evidence of a coordinated attempt by Russian-linked accounts to target voters in the Brexit campaign and influence the vote.
The revelations come after MPs in the Commons Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee ordered Facebook to try harder to reveal a Russian conspiracy.
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In his latest interview for the Iranian English-language TV network, live from their studio in Beirut, Srdja Trifkovic discusses the developments surrounding the Korean peninsula. [Watch interview here.]
Q: Foreign affairs editor of Chronicles magazine Srdja Trifkovic joins us via satellite from the Lebanese capital Beirut . . . First of all, what are your impressions of the comments by the South Korean president Moon Jae-in, with regards to lowering the threshold of talks with North Korea.
ST: It is interesting that he called both on the United States and North Korea to “lower the threshold.” In a way, the U.S. ally South Korea was acting as if it were keeping a somewhat equidistant position between Washington and Pyongyang. Of course in substance this is not the case, but the South Koreans have every reason to be extremely worried. Let me draw your attention to a remarkable statement by the Republican Senator James Risch of Idaho, at the Munich Security Conference the week before last. He said that if North Korea does not give up its nuclear program, President Trump has the option to wage a brief war of biblical proportions. He even said that it would be one of the most catastrophic events in the history of our civilization. There would be mass casualties, the like of which the world has never seen…
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Raban Alou, 20, from Sydney, has been jailed for 44 years for arming 15-year-old Farhad Jabar. Just weeks before the attack, Alou posted sick messages supporting recent ISIS attacks.
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The One Nation leader made the call on the offspring of terrorist dual nationals after the wife and child of a notorious Islamic State member returned to Australia from the Middle East last year.
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Man Gives ISIS Salute as Aussie Court Jails Him for 44 Years
SYDNEY — A man who supplied a radicalised teenager with a gun to shoot dead an Australian police employee made an ISIS salute as he was jailed for 44 years.
Raban Alou admitted obtaining and giving a handgun to 15-year-old Farhad Mohammad at a Sydney mosque in 2015.
The teenager then shot Mr Curtis Cheng in the back of the head outside the New South Wales (NSW) police headquarters.
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A radicalised Muslim follower who supplied the firearm used to kill police accountant Curtis Cheng in an act of terrorism in Sydney in 2015, has been sentenced to 44 years in jail.
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Explosion on a Tourist Ferry in Mexico Was Caused by an Explosive Device Investigators Say Now
MEXICO CITY (REUTERS) — A blast last month on a tourist ferry in the Mexican beach resort of Playa del Carmen was caused by “an explosive device” that injured passengers, including U.S. tourists, the U.S. embassy in Mexico said on Thursday.
A security alert posted on the embassy’s website warned American citizens to exercise caution and said Mexican authorities continued to investigate the blast.
Two more explosive devices were found attached to another ferry on the island of Cozumel on Thursday, local media reported, saying marine troops had secured the scene.
The Ministry of the Marina did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The Quintana Roo state prosecutors office said federal agents were investigating the cases.
The federal attorney general’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment…
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German Primary School With 99% Migrants Now Needs Security Guards Against Explosion of Violence
Berlin’s Spreewald primary school has decided to hire guards for its children and personnel, after more than 30 violent incidents took place in the past year.
At the school, that has a 99% migrant population, teachers and children are attacked frequently. The school environment is now so aggressive that security guards need to be present from 7:30 am until 4 pm to maintain order.
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Italians are set to elect a new government on Sunday with anti-mass migration and Eurosceptic parties dominating the polls in an election that could shake the European Union to its foundations.
The Italian national election has the potential to send a wave through Europe not seen since the Brexit vote in 2016. The migration crisis, which has flooded Italy with hundreds of thousands of illegal migrants, along with EU rules preventing bank bailouts and soaring migrant crime and unemployment, has fueled the growth of populism and the collapse of the political establishment.
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‘Migrant’ Most Commonly Used Word in Italian Newspaper Headlines in 2017
An analysis of the most frequently used words in front-page headlines of Italian newspapers for 2017 reveals that Europe’s migrant crisis is still front and center in citizens’ minds as national elections approach.
A comprehensive study of Italy’s headlines by L’Osservatorio di Pavia research institute shows that not only is “migrant” the most frequently recurring word in article titles of 2017, but that six out of ten of the most repeated words relate directly to the immigration question.
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Syrian Asylum Seekers on Trial for Terror in Germany
BERLIN (AP) — Two Syrians have gone on trial in Berlin on allegations they fought with Islamic extremist organizations in their home country.
Abdulmalk A., 31, and Anas Ibrahim A.S., 26, who came to Germany as refugees in 2015, went on trial Thursday in Berlin state court on charges of membership in a terrorist organization. Their last names were withheld in line with privacy laws.
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Voluntary Repatriation: 10,000 Migrants Joined German Subsidised Deportation Scheme in 2017
Since February of last year, the German Federal government has allowed failed asylum seekers to voluntarily return to their countries and receive cash incentives with 10,000 migrants taking part in the scheme.
The programme, called Jump-Start Plus was introduced last year by Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière, along with an additional supplement for housing which expires this month. A total of 10,000 migrants signed up along with 1,260 who qualified for the bonus housing benefit, Bayerische Rundfunk reports.
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A bit of Russian routine.
In Adygea, the stepfather-migrant raped his 12-year-old stepdaughter. The crime was revealed when the girl was seven months pregnant. The girl’s mother brought her to the hospital with complaints of pain in her stomach. However, the ultrasound revealed that the sixth grader is pregnant and the term is already quite long and the abortion is too late. Then the girl told that she was raped by her stepfather from Tajikistan. And then the man forced the schoolgirl to keep silent about what had happened, threatening to punish her mother. The man was able to prove guilt after the birth of the child. The DNA test proved that the girl gave birth to a daughter from her stepfather
http://ng72.ru/news/view/02-03-2018-shestiklassnica-rodila-doch-ot-svoego-otchima-migranta
PRO MORTEM
https://youtu.be/iERLyAxddVE
“A mosque should be a safe home”, said the mayor of Amsterdam.
Memo to the mayor:
“The mosques are our barracks” – Recep Tayyip Erdogan
“Out of the mosques wars should proceed” – Ayatollah Khomeini
The mosque is: a court, a school, where death sentences are pronounced, a storage place for arms – Sam Solomon, former professor of Sharia law
“Police seize weapons in mosque raid” (Finsbury Park) – Telegraph
“War Grade Arsenal of Weapons Confiscated at Mosque in Germany” – gellerreport.com
“France close down 3 mosques – 334 war grade weapons found” – speisa.com
“Massive Weapons Arsenal Found Stashed in Lebanese Mosque” – theblaze.com
and so on…..
Raif Badawi was flogged in front of the al-Jafali mosque in Jeddah after Friday prayers on January 9, 2015. That mosque was no safe home for him or any of the other prisoners who have been subjected to the sting of Saudi justice there in front of braying crowds. Is it possible that that mosque forgets to preach the message of a merciful Allah on flogging Fridays? Perhaps Amsterdam’s mayor could issue the imams there a reminder.