On Monday morning a teenage boy in Palm Beach stabbed one boy to death and critically wounded two other people, a mother and her son. The son was stabbed at least 32 times. After he was arrested, the young attacker told police that he had converted to Islam, and had committed his acts out of religious duty.
In other news, a French baker was fined €3,000 for keeping his bakery open seven days a week, even though French laws requires him to take at least one day off per week.
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Inflation ‘Correction’ Needed to End QE — Draghi
Risk from US protectionism
(ANSA) — Frankfurt, March 14 — A “correction” in inflation is needed to be able to end quantitative easing, European central Bank Governor Mario Draghi said Wednesday. He said “persistent and prudent” monetary policy was needed. All the jobs lost in the financial crisis have been recovered, Draghi added.
He also said there were “risks” from exchange rates and US protectionism.
Draghi added that interest rates will remain at current levels “well beyond” the end of QE.
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Italy Shows Biggest Drop in NPLs — EC
Down from 16.1% to 12.1% Q3
(ANSA) — Brussels, march 14 — Italy showed the biggest drop in non-performing loans in the EU in the third quarter of last year, falling from 16.1% of the total of Italian loans a year earlier to 12.1%, the European Commission said Wednesday.
Overall, in the EU, bad loans fell to 4.4% of the total of loans in the third quarter of 2017, the EC said.
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Med Countries All Suffer High Unemployment
2017 CNR report on area economies presented in Rome
ROME — The labor market for youths and women is homogenous across the Mediterranean area with high levels of unemployment, though for different reasons.
In countries on the northern shores of the Mediterranean, unemployment is due to market friction and stagnant economies, while on the southern ones — where economies have grown n recent years despite crises — it is due to demographic trends. Thid is the main focus of the 13th report on Mediterranean economies by the Italian national research center CNR’s Istituto di Studi sulle Società del Mediterraneo, presented in Rome during a conference entitled “The Mediterranean Area Amid Unemployment, Emigration and New Opportunities for Economic Development”. The document was curated by Eugenia Ferragina, who died tragically on the eve of the presentation. All the participants stressed her qualities as a researcher and as a person.
The report analyzes important phenomenon across the Mediterranean basin: the lasting economic crisis, deep demographic transformations, high youth unemployment, the ‘brain drain’, emigration from countries in southern Europe and a high level of migration inflows. The report said that the high youth unemployment is especially serious in Mediterranean countries, where the rate among those between age 15 and 25 is very high. In 2015, four countries of the region had youth unemployment over 45%: Bosnia-Herzegovina (66.9%), Libya (50%), Spain (49.4%) and Greece (49.2%).
“In all Mediterranean countries, youths still have greater difficulty to get access to the labor market,” underscored Salvatore Capasso, director of the Istituto di Studi sulle Società del Mediterraneo (CNR-ISSM), in presenting the report. “There are different reasons but the problems are seen everywhere” in the region, he added, stressing that for the future, there is a need for “three key things: water, food and energy security”, which are “the gateway for less unequal sustainable and robust development involving the most fragile sectors, of the young and women”. Integration of area countries “is important, and for Algeria it is a priority”, said Algerian ambassador to Italy Abdelhamid Senouci Bereksi, and the energy sector “could be the driving force”. Moroccan ambassador to Italy Hassan Abouyoub said that, in the Mediterranean, it is clear that there has been a “failure of shared development models”. It is necessary “to continue neighborhood policies to build an integrated economy”, underscored Spanish Consul General Senén Florensa i Palau.
In the Mediterranean, “multilateralism is an obligation and not a choice, since all the issues are cross-border ones,” said Enrico Granara, coordinator for multilateral affairs in the Euro-Mediterranean area of the Italian foreign ministry. In Europe, on the theme there is a lack of “large policies, with the means, action units and ideas” needed, said former PM Romano Prodi and now head of the Fondazione per la Collaborazione fra i Popoli. “I have suggested joint universities between the southern and northern shores, a Mediterranean bank, and especially wide-ranging policies like what we did with the east. No country from the southern shore will be an EU member, but close and strong political relations must be brought in,” he added. Other initiatives “are useful but unfortunately today the Mediterranean is a sea that separates us and does not unite us”, he said.
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Florida Lets Students Sue Colleges for Stifling Their Speech Under New Law
Less than a month after student activists and a bipartisan group of lawmakers shut down a Florida bill that would outlaw “free speech zones” on public campuses, some provisions of the bill have become law anyway.
Republican Gov. Rick Scott signed a broad higher education bill (SB 4) Sunday that incorporated the dead bill’s provisions, notably its opening of all outdoor areas where “members of the campus community are commonly allowed” to free speech.
In addition to the ban on free speech zones, the new law lets students whose “expressive rights are violated” sue their public colleges for “declaratory and injunctive relief, reasonable court costs, and attorney fees” in state courts.
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A 17-year-old named Corey Johnson claimed his Muslim faith commanded him to fatally stab a 13-year-old boy during a sleepover and severely injured another 13-year-old along with his mother who was stabbed more than a dozen times.
Palm Beach Florida authorities said the attacker confessed to the killing, attempted killings, and the motive of Islamic Jihad. After killing one teen and stabbing two more people Johnson barricaded himself in a room when police arrived. He was taken into custody at about 8 a.m. by the city’s SWAT team.
According to local media “Interim Chief Clint Shannon said Jupiter police, Palm Beach County School District police and the FBI previously investigated Johnson for “alleged violent tendencies” that they received through “intelligence gathering” in the northern part of the county.” He recently dropped out of school…
Johnson, who police said recently withdrew from William T. Dwyer High School in Palm Beach Gardens, told authorities he woke up at about 4 a.m. Monday at his friend Kyle Bancroft’s home. He decided to kill Kyle’s mother, Elaine Simon; Kyle’s brother, Dane, 13; and Dane’s friend, Jovanni Sierra, 13, while they slept, he said.
Johnson and Kyle watched violent jihadist videos Sunday night, they said. Johnson stabbed Jovanni Sierra and slit his throat with a knife he had brought with him to the house.
Johnson said he read the Quran before going to the house. He turned to the Muslim holy book “to give him courage to carry out his intentions,” according to an arrest report.
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Police: Religious Beliefs Caused Teen to Stab Multiple People
One person stabbed to death in Palm Beach Gardens Monday morning
PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. — Palm Beach Gardens police have arrested a teenager in connection with a fatal stabbing in Ballenisles.
Corey Johnson, 17, faces charges of murder and two counts of attempted murder.
Palm Beach Gardens Police Chief Clint Shannon said Johnson and Jovanni Brand, 13, were guests Sunday night at Elaine Simon’s home in the 300-block of Sunset Bay Lane.
Johnson told police he bought a knife on Sunday and brought it to the home. He said around 4 a.m. Monday, when he realized everyone was asleep, he made the decision to kill Brand, Simon, and her son Dane Bancroft, 13.
Brand was pronounced dead at the scene. Monday was Brand’s birthday.
Simon suffered a dozen stab wounds. Her son Dane suffered 32 stab wounds.
They remain in the hospital.
Simon’s other teenage son was also home. He was not injured.
Police said Johnson told detectives he committed the crime because of his religious beliefs.
Shannon said Johnson recently converted to Islam and had been watching violent videos.
Johnson is being held at the juvenile detention center in West Palm Beach.
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Teen Radicalized by Islam Goes on Fatal Stabbing Spree; Nets Silent
News broke on March 13 that a Florida teen had been arrested, after stabbing to death his friend and attempting to kill his friend’s mother and another peer at a sleepover. The suspect confessed afterwards that he had recently converted to Islam and his beliefs motivated him to murder.
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770,000 People in UK Don’t Speak English, Govt Announces New Crackdown on Sharia Law
An estimated 770,000 people in the UK — almost 1.2 per cent of the population — cannot speak English, the government has admitted as it announces a new push to promote integration and reduce the power of Islamic sharia law.
Most, between 60 and 70 per cent, of those only able to speak foreign languages, are women of Pakistani and Bangladeshi origin, the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government revealed Wednesday.
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Belgium in Shock: Afghan Migrant Brutally Murders Young Mother and Her Children Find Her
A 27-year-old Belgian mother of two has been stabbed to death in her home in the Belgian city of Herentals. The woman had a new relationship with an Afghan man, who has been arrested while he was on the run.
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EU: More Censorship to “Protect” You
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European intelligence authorities have repeatedly stated that with the ongoing migration, Europe is “… importing Islamic extremism, Arab anti-Semitism, national and ethnic conflicts of other peoples, as well as a different understanding of society and law”.
These are all factors contributing to the current spikes not only in the terror threat to Europe, but also in the crime waves sweeping countries such as Sweden and Germany, including the surge in rapes.
Regardless of these facts, including that women can no longer exercise their freedom to walk in safety in many neighborhoods of European cities, the EU has staunchly refused to stop the influx of migrants. It is, therefore, difficult to take seriously in any way the European Commission’s claim that the security, offline and online, of EU citizens is a “top priority”. If that were true, why does not Europe simply close the borders? Stopping terrorists at the borders would be infinitely more efficient at reducing the terrorist threat than requiring tech companies to remove “Illegal online content”. Instead, the EU actually sues EU countries — Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic — who refuse to endanger their citizens by admitting the quota of migrants that the EU assigns for them.
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French Baker Fined $3,700 for Working Too Much
French authorities have fined a bread baker €3,000 ($3,700) for keeping his bakery open seven days a week, when the laws stipulate a mandatory day off.
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German Industry Wants UK in a Customs Union After Brexit
German firms ideally want the UK to stay in a customs union after Brexit, a powerful German industry group says. BDI said it would prefer a deep form of integration between Britain and the EU after Brexit. It had previously said the integrity of the single market for remaining European Union member states should be a priority.
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Hungary: More Resources for Counter-Terrorism
The Hungarian government has decided to allocate nearly 1.9 billion forints (EUR 6.1m) extra resources on implementing counter-terrorism measures this year, the official gazette Magyar Kozlony reported on Tuesday.
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Hungary Repatriates All Its Gold From London Fearing ‘Geopolitical Crisis’
The National Bank of Hungary is bringing back the country’s 100,000 ounces of gold from London, citing fears over a coming ‘geopolitical crisis’.
The total value of the 3 tons of gold amounts to 33 billion Hungarian forint ($130 million dollars).
According to Hungary’s central bank, the move was motivated by concern over future “geopolitical crises” and the fact that storing gold outside the country is increasingly being seen as too risky.
“Gold is not merely an investment product for central banks, but is a strategic tool that is conducive to confidence in the country both abroad and domestically,” the bank said in a press release, adding, “The time has come to bring home the gold reserves of the country.”
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Italy, Woman, 84, Dies After Street Beating 4 Months Ago
In Busto Arsizio
(ANSA) — Varese, march 13 — An 84-year-old woman died in hospital Tuesday after a senseless beating in the street in Busto Arsizio north of Milan four months ago.
Pensioner Argia Maria Calmosi was attacked on November 16 by 26-year-old Romanian Pardalian Caldarar along with her younger sister Wilma.
Calmosi died of a fractured skull.
Caldarar faces a possible murder charge.
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Italy: Norcia Quake Centre Impounded, Boeri, Mayor Probed
Not temporary but permanent say police
(ANSA) — Norcia, March 13 — A post-quake living centre in the quake-hit central Italian city of Norcia was impounded on Tuesday after investigators said it was permanent and not temporary in nature. The centre was designed by top architect Stefano Boeri. Boeri has been placed under investigation in the probe along with Norcia Mayor Nicola Alemanno.
“It’s a huge misunderstanding,” said Boeri.
“My conscience is clear,” he said, saying he was “without words” over the probe.
“I don’t know how they can say it is not temporary. It is easy to disassemble and completely reassemble, including the plant”.
Alemanno is already under investigation for another so-called ‘polyvalent’ centre.
Norcia was badly damaged by two quakes in August and October 2016.
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Italy: Freemason Clerics Out of Church — CEI
‘Undermine common good’ says Galantino
(ANSA) — Rome, March 14 — Priests and bishops who are Freemasons will be ejected from the Catholic Church, Italian Bishops Conference (CEI) Secretary-General Nunzio Galantino said Wednesday. He said the Church had always had the same stance on freemasonry: “everything that undermines the common good to the advantage of a few cannot be accepted”. Galantino said “shadowy powers” sometimes poisoned Italian political and social life and sometimes insinuated themselves into the ecclesiastical world.
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Italy: No Prejudice Against Di Maio — Salvini
League leader says out to stay true to centre-right voters
(ANSA) — Rome, March 14 — Rightwing populist leader Matteo Salvini said Wednesday that he did not have any prejudices against anti-establishment 5-Star Movement (M5S) leader Luigi Di Maio.
Salvini said Wednesday that he was open to proposals on forming a new government while reiterating that the idea of teaming up with the Democratic Party (PD) was off the table. “I strongly feel the duty to stay true to the mandate of the 12 million people who chose the centre right and the almost six million who chose the League,” Salvini told the foreign press association in Rome.
“We are working to give a government to this country with a centre-right programme open to enrichment, contributions and proposals, but not turned on its head.
“It would be disrespectful to involve those who lost the election and, therefore, I say no to any government that has (outgoing Premier Paolo) Gentiloni, (Cabinet Secretary Maria Elena) Boschi and (Interior Minister Marco) Minniti at the centre”. Salvini’s League is the biggest party in the centre-right alliance that came first in the election, winning around 37% of the vote.
The anti-establishment 5-Star Movement (M5S) is the biggest single party in the new parliament after winning over 32% of the vote.
The centre-left PD, which led the three governments of the last parliamentary term, is reeling after getting under 20%.
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Italy’s Salvini at Press Conference: ‘EU Uses Left-Wingers to Sell Its Propaganda!’
Matteo Salvini took a swipe at Brussels as he accused the EU of “using journalists” to promote during a press conference in Strasbourg.
The leader of the Italian League party, who is in the run to form Italy’s new government after successful results in the Italian election, accused journalists interrupting him during a press conference of being “lefties” unhappy about the election results.
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Italy to Quit Euro? Matteo Salvini Announces Plan B to Get Country Out of Single Currency
Italian election 2018 winner Matteo Salvini revealed economic experts close to his Lega party are working to create a “Plan B” to get Italy out of the eurozone if the country’s demands for reform are not met.
The eurosceptic politician has long criticised Italy’s adoption of the euro, calling it a “wrong currency and a wrong choice” and claiming it has had a damaging impact on the already precarious Italian economy.
Mr Salvini said: “Our experts, who have also been elected to the Italian Parliament, are working on a ‘Plan B’ should Brussels say no to our requests.
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Milan Fast-Food Chain Says Italians Don’t Want to Work
‘Boyfriends on Sat, gym Wed, tired Sun’
(ANSA) — Milan, March 13 — A Milan fast-food chain has caused a flap by saying Italians don’t want to work.
Burgez said on Facebook “if you ask us why most cashiers are Filippino women, we’ll answer that Italian women have their boyfriends on Saturday, gym on a Wednesday and they’re tired on Sundays”.
“Italian girls, wake up! There’s work, but you’re not there for it,” was the title of the post.
Chain founder Simone Ciaruffoli said he would like to employ more Italian women but “they’re hard to find”. Burgez has been accused of racism and sexism on social media.
The Tirrenia shipping line recently boasted it only had Italian staff aboard, sparking racism charges.
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Populist MEPs Invite Lauren Southern to Speak at European Parliament in Protest of Recent UK Actions
Populist UK MEP Janice Atkinson of the Europe of Nations and Freedom (ENF) parliamentary group slammed the British government in a press conference at the European Parliament on Wednesday over the recent treatment of Canadian journalist and activist Lauren Southern.
Ms. Atkinson, who serves as a Vice-President of the ENF, a group which has included Dutch firebrand Geert Wilders, former French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen, Italian La Lega leader Matteo Salvini, and others, slammed the UK government for detaining and refusing entry to Ms. Southern under the UK terrorism act.
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Swedish Bulletproof Glass Manufacturer Receives ‘Record Order’ Amid Rising Gang Violence
A Swedish manufacturer in Skåne county, home of the heavily migrant populated city of Malmö, has announced a record multi-million Krona order for bulletproof glass which the company describes as used for protecting against terrorist attacks.
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Terrorist Threat Still Looms Over Europe, Europol Expert Warns
The threat of terrorism “has not diminished and still persists” in Europe, despite the loss of Islamic State territories in Syria and Iraq, according to the head of Europol’s Counter Terrorism Centre, Manuel Navarrete. EURACTIV’s partner Euroefe reports.
“In Europe, we continue to be very vigilant. The threat is significant and takes many forms. We are talking about more than 20 incidents in 2017, from well-planned attacks such as in Barcelona and Manchester to less prepared ones”, Navarrete said in an interview at Europol’s headquarters in The Hague (Netherlands).
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UK: ‘Cruel’ African Father Used FGM to ‘Punish’ Daughter, UK Court Told
A “cruel” father arranged to have Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) inflicted on his daughter, nine, as a form of “punishment”, the Old Bailey has heard.
The West African origin 50-year-old father-of-four, who cannot be named, allegedly recruited someone to cut the girl with a razor blade at their home in south London between 2010 and 2013.
He is said to have overseen the abuse and “egg[ed] on” the person wielding the blade as the small girl begged for mercy.
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Jordan King Meets UAE FM, Stronger Ties Expected
Emirates to provide financial assistence. Talks on Syria, Yemen
AMMAN — King Abdullah of Jordan held a high profile meeting with UAE foreign minister Abdullah Bin Zayed which is expected to usher new era in economic and security ties between the two sides.
The UAE official has pledged his country’s desire to help pull Jordan out of its economic doldrums by providing badly needed financial assistance.
But observers say the kingdom is expected to show it was ready to follow footsteps of Saudi Arabia and UAE in several key security issues in the region, including ties to Qatar, the war in Yemen and involvement in Syria as well as the stance concerning peace talks between the Palestinians and Israel.
Observers said Jordan’s latest decision to suspend the free trade agreement with Turkey could be in line with a new policy by Jordan to become closer to views of Saudi and UAE.
“The timing of the cancellation, which is 24 hours before the UAE foreign minister arrived could not be a pure coincidence,’ said a diplomatic source.
Turkey has provided backing for Qatar in its spat with the two powerful gulf countries and is seen by the two nations as threat to their ambition in the region.
During the meeting, held at the al-Husainiah Palace, King Abdullah underscored the “long-standing and deep ties” between the two brotherly countries and voiced keenness to foster prospects of cooperation in various fields,’ said Petra news agency.
The meeting, continued over a lunch banquet, touched on the two-way high-level coordination and cooperation on Mideast regional crises, in an effort to realize peace, security and stability in the region and to serve pan-Arab issues.
King Abdullah expressed appreciation for UAE’s continued support to Jordan to help the Kingdom carry out its developmental ventures, said Petra.
The King, moreover, underlined the importance of expanding UAE’s investments in the Kingdom, noting the competitive privileges Jordan’s economy provides for investors in various vital sectors.
Discussions also tackled challenges and current crises in the Middle East and some Arab countries, as well as efforts to reach political solutions to them to bring about peace and security to the region.
On the Palestinian issue, King Abdullah emphasized that the next Arab summit would unify Arab stances supporting the Palestinian people in establishing their sovereign state with East Jerusalem as its capital.
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Leonardo in 3bn Qatar Copter Deal
28 military copters
(ANSA) — Rome, march 14 — Leonardo CEO Alessandro Profumo on Wednesday clinched a three-billion-euro deal to supply Qatar with 28 military helicopters. The NH 90 copters are made by the European consortium NH Industries. Leonardo is the prime contractor with a 32% share in the consortium.
Defence Minister Roberta Pinotti was present at the signing of the contract.
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Vladimir Putin beamed on stage at a political rally in annexed Crimea yesterday as his country issued dark threats of revenge against Britain over Theresa May’s pledge to expel 23 spies over the Salisbury nerve agent attack.
The Russian president bounced around apparently unconcerned by a day of dramatic developments in the chemical weapon poisoning of ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter — a subject he failed to mention in speeches.
Putin’s chilling performance came as Mrs May — with the backing of the UN — vowed a raft of punitive measures against Russia, a move the Kremlin branded ‘absolutely unacceptable’ as they warned: ‘Our response measures will not be long in coming.’
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Russian Presidential Elections — As Predictable as a Bad Movie Script
On March 18, the world will find out (yet again) that Russian President Vladimir Putin is elected for another presidential term, his fourth. According to polls, he is expected to win at least 70 percent of the vote.
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On the Chinese Communist Party’s Tactics for Stealing Western Military Technologies: Part 2 of 2
Strategy 3: Influencing Overseas High-Tech Talent Through the United Front
According to the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) mouthpiece newspaper People’s Daily, the United Front Work Department—a Party organ that engages in subversion, forming alliances and isolating enemies—held a meeting in May 2015 where they made clear that overseas Chinese students will be the United Front’s new focus and primary target for the CCP’s outreach, stating that it needed to train and “use” them.
One of the means whereby the United Front efforts targets overseas scholars is through the “Thousand Talents Program,” a recruitment campaign to attract those working in the science and technology fields. The CCP has poached talent from top universities, research institutes, and renowned firms, including Zhu Huilong from IBM’s Semiconductor Research and Development Center (SRDC); Chen Dongmin, former chief strategic officer of the U.S.-based semiconductor firm, MEMSIC; and Shen Jian, who was a researcher of magnetic nanomaterials at Oak Ridge National Laboratories—operated by the U.S. Department of Energy—and a professor at University of Tennessee, Knoxville. …
Strategy 4: Encouraging Cooperation With Foreign Companies
Another channel through which the CCP is able to acquire sensitive technologies is allowing Chinese and foreign businesses to work in partnership. According to The New York Times, two U.S. companies, Advanced Micro Devices and Hewlett Packard Enterprise, have formed partnerships with Chinese companies in the R&D of server chips, giving them access to their technology. Intel is partnered with a Chinese semiconductor firm to make high-end mobile phone chips. IBM has agreed to transfer some of its mainframe banking computer technology to its Chinese counterparts.
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On the Chinese Communist Party’s Tactics for Stealing Western Military Technologies: Part 1 of 2
Strategy 1: The Chinese regime supports domestic businesses in purchasing on a massive scale foreign high-tech firms
The CCP first tasted victory after it bought a British high-tech company in 2008. The deal later helped the CCP to make a key breakthrough in its aircraft carrier development. …
Strategy 2: Attract high-tech firms to invest in China
In the same FT editorial, Ross lambasted Beijing authorities for pressuring American firms operating in China to turn over proprietary technology in exchange for access to the Chinese market. U.S. companies are often forced to form joint ventures with domestic firms; limited to ownership of 50 percent or less; and required to transfer their technology “as part of product sale contracts,” Ross wrote.
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The train traveller was on Tuesday convicted over the bizarre incident on the 9.56am service from Port Kembla to Wollongong, south of Sydney, in December.
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Pedro Fernandes, 27, was sentenced to four years behind bars after an armed robbery at the Randwick Golf Club in Sydney’s eastern suburbs in 2012.
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Shannon, 32, was leaving a pub in the centre of Dandenong when he was allegedly bashed by six thugs of African appearance about 7.30pm on Thursday, leaving him with broken bones.
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Leanne Clare said the Brisbane District Court is seeing a ‘significant’ amount of violent refugees as she sentenced Hamad Ardadi Tuba for threatening to kill two students with a fake gun.
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Austrian Government Considers Overhaul of Asylum Laws After Recent Violent Migrant Attacks
Anti-mass migration Freedom Party (FPÖ) Federal Interior Minister Herbert Kickl has vowed to act after a number of violent attacks committed by migrants occurred on the streets of Vienna.
The Austrian Interior Minister said he would be looking to crack down on criminal asylum seekers in high crime areas and that police would increase the number of raids in the near future.
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Finnish Police Begin Week-Long Hunt for Illegal Immigrants
Police forces across Finland are carrying out a search for illegal immigrants in a six-day crackdown on aliens living in the country without permission, local media reports.
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German Population Has Grown by Two Million Since 2015 Due to Immigration
Despite a death rate higher than its birth rate, Germany managed to grow by two million people in two years due to high levels of immigration, statistics released on Tuesday showed.
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Hope New Govt Keep Cooperating on Migrants — EU
We will keep helping Italy — Avramopoulos
(ANSA) — Brussels, march 14 — European Migration Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos said Wednesday he hoped the next Italian government would keep cooperating with the EU over migrants, answering a question on the anti-migrant League’s criticism of EU migrant policy. “We will continue to help Italy,” Avramopoulos added, “whatever the political choice” in Italy is.
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Italy: Nigerian Migrants Stripped of Hospitality Near Venice
Must leave Conetta centre
(ANSA) — Venice, March 13 — Twelve Nigerian migrants involved in protests and tension at a migrant centre near Venice recently have been stripped of their right to official hospitality in Italy.
The dozen men will have to leave the former military base at Conetta, although they will keep their status as asylum seekers.
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Swedish Woman Charged for Saying Immigration Leads to a ‘Goldfish Level IQ’
A 65-year-old woman from Jönköping is now charged with hate against a group of people since she wrote that immigration will lead to a lower IQ level in Sweden, Friatider reports.
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UK: Raped Daughter Was ‘Forced Into Islamic Marriage for Money and Visa’: Judge
A woman who suffered severe head injury from a past violent rape was ‘married off’ by her father for money in a deal to improve the husband’s UK immigration prospects, a judge has ruled.
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Jordan Peterson on Corporate Virtue Signalling
Clinical psychologist, author, professor and easy-on-the-eye cultural critic, Jordan B. Peterson, took a break from his sold out speaking tour to chat with Miranda Devine.
He had some sage words of advice for the likes of Qantas, Telstra, PWC, KPMG et al.
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Professor Notes Men Are Taller Than Women on Average, SJWs Storm Out Angrily
Ten days ago I wrote about a panel discussion that took place at Portland State University on the topic of intersectionality as a religion. That panel was actually a follow-up of sorts to another event at the school featuring ex-Google engineer James Damore. I knew about the earlier event but, until yesterday, I hadn’t seen this amazing moment that took place during that discussion. At the mention of a simple anatomical fact (men are on average taller than women) a group of SJW’s got up and stormed out, apparently damaging the sound system on the way to the lobby.
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A Super-Earth Around a Red Star Could be Wet and Wild
Astronomers have zeroed in on a new up-and-coming candidate in the search for a planet beyond our solar system that might be able to sustain life.
Three so-called “super-Earths” have been spotted around the red dwarf star K2-155, around 200 light-years away. The outermost planet, K2-155d, is 1.6 times the size of Earth near the star’s habitable zone and could be a watery planet, which is always a good sign when it comes to possibly harboring life.
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Regarding the Palm Beach throat slitting story, there’s a couple of things that the media are not giving appropriate attention to. The involvement – once again – of psychotropic drugs and the malfeasance – once again – of both local and federal law enforcement. These issues will be downplayed as will the obvious connection with Islam. And since a knife and not a gun was used to commit this crime, this whole story will just fall off of page one into a black hole.
https://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/crime–law/latest-boy-stabbed-times-saved-his-mom-from-attacker-father-says/KpK0Zce03epnCeNqMzxJDL/
“Kyle said that Johnson [the perp] had not taken his anti-depression medication for a week before the attack took place.”
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/03/14/muslim-teen-watched-jihadi-videos-read-koran-for-courage-before-florida-sleepover-stabbings-cops-say.html
“A Florida teenager — who had previously been investigated for “alleged violent tendencies”…
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Jupiter Police, Palm Beach County School District police and the FBI previously received “intelligence gathering” on Johnson that prompted an investigation into his “alleged violent tendencies,” the Palm Beach Post reported.
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The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office received information prior to the stabbings that Johnson reached out to ISIS online and expressed his desire to join the terror group.
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Law enforcement officials at the time investigated Johnson by tracking his social media accounts and movements and interviewing his family. The teen was also being investigated for several threats that prompted evacuations at a British school in October 2016.”
There is absolutely no acknowledgement from the elite that Islam is an ideology that corrupts the minds of our impressionable youth and unstable characters of all ages.
Time after time we see terrorist attacks committed by converts to Islam.
The ideology itself needs to be outlawed.
The people ,the adherents, who infect others with this pernicious creed need to be interned and deported .Certainly the borders should be closed to them.
Islam attracts those without a conscience who wish to give full rein to their evil impulses .
It is an ideology which glorifies raping little non-Muslim girls and forcing Muslim girls into marriage with adult men and torturing and murdering non Muslims of all ages.
There can be no justification for facilitating its spread.
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Illegal alien shows how American she is by waving an enormous Mexican flag to celebrate her appointment to a California state job.
Errrr, forgot the link:
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/03/15/california-appoints-illegal-alien-state-office/
The French baker would do well to take his day of rest instead of filling his pockets with an extra day’s coin. There will come a day soon enough when, having created an expectation of shops open 7 days a week, it will be the norm. Then a supermarket will challenge his prices with lower ones and he’ll be driven out of business. This is what has happened in Australia where many ‘tourist zones’ now trade almost 24/7 and local stores close down by the week. Meanwhile, the poor workers in the supermarkets sometimes go weeks without sharing a day off with family. Rampant capitalism? Yes and no. This has all been achieved with the complicity of trade unions which have given up protecting workers’ rights for what they can make out of protection rackets, agreeing to lower wages for their members in return for not calling strikes on building sites, bullying young shop workers into joining the union, and cornering almost the entire Australian workers’ superannuation market and workplace injury law companies. A couple of Labor prime ministers ago, Julia Gillard was an alumni of international socialist law firm Slater and Gordon.
There’s nothing inherently wrong with having stores open seven days a week. That offers more employment to people who might not otherwise find jobs. I worked weekends and holidays in a large university pediatric hospital. Because it wasn’t a work schedule anyone really wanted – except those such as I, with no job experience – I was paid more than I would have made for an identical weekday job. I also gained valuable experience I wouldn’t have had otherwise.
This wasn’t a union thing, no avowed socialists in the U.S. back then.
Our local supermarket workers all have less than full-time jobs now. They’re usually looking for more hours when possible. Ever notice how many young people work in grocery markets? It’s a good place to be if you’re in school, or just starting out.
I agree – nothing inherently wrong with it. It’s just one of those things that has unintended consequences, I’m afraid. And there’s a big difference between 7 days a week in a hospital – it has to stay open! – and seven days a week in a supermarket to fill the pockets of Woolworths shareholders. Aren’t they making enough money out of the thousands of the pubs and liquor stores they own in addition to their supermarkets in Australia? (But remember to heed the government admonishments to ‘drink responsibly’.) Or the hundreds of thousands of poker machines they own in those pubs? (But remember to ‘gamble responsibly’). Do they care a jot for the home delivery drivers they pay bottom dollar on zero-hour contracts to race from one location to the next, enslaved to clocking in the barcodes on goods to a delivery schedule tracked to the second by GPS on routes timed on empty roads with all green lights?
That’s the reality of 7 day trading in Australia. I’ve done the driving when times were harder, and who knows I might do it again. I just lost another mom and pop web maintenance client (an organic fruit and veg home delivery company) after they went broke thanks to Coles and Woolies. I wonder what the people saying ‘Yeah mate, if you could just lug me 80 kilos of groceries all the way into me kitchen and did you bring me cartons of ciggies?’ are going to say when the big 2 supermarket chains have finally strangled all the competition and jack the prices up? Meanwhile, many Australians working in the retail sector – young people included – now bemoan 7 day a week trading and how it stretches out and out until you’re scanning groceries at 9pm on a Sunday and you haven’t seen your parents or even your boyfriend/girlfriend/spouse for weeks because your shifts never match up.
Sorry for venting, Dymphna, but it gets me steamed up. There was a reason why we used to have a day of rest! Harumpph!
A belated endorsement, Mick. I worked mostly in retail; in my last paid job (1995-2010) I was on an old contract which meant I couldn’t be compelled to work Sundays or bank holidays, and had to be paid double time if I did. When I did I would watch the shoppers trooping in on a Sunday, and wonder how many of these teachers, civil servants, etc would be available at weekends if I wanted to avail myself of their services (of course they had stronger unions than we did).
Six days a week should have been long enough for people to shop, even in pre-internet days.
PS I know Germany gets a bad press here, often for good reasons, but last I heard, most of their shops (other than in airports etc) closed on Sundays. On the other hand, the really essential service, ie public transport, runs through Christmas; here in the UK, there are almost no trains for two days, and no buses on Xmas day.
Some good news at least:
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/932448/worst-law-scottish-history-Holyrood-sectarian-football-crackdown-SNP