Suspicious packages were sent to four military bases in the Washington D.C. area (Fort Belvoir, Fort McNair, Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, and the hush-hush Dahlgren Naval Air Station) plus the CIA mail facility and the White House mail facility. All the packages were detected by special sensor equipment. One of the them contained explosive materials, but was safely neutralized.
In other news, federal police officers in Australia will be required to undergo Muslim sensitivity training.
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Multiple Suspicious Packages Sent to DC Area Military Installations
WASHINGTON (CNN) — The FBI has taken custody of multiple suspicious packages sent to military locations in the Washington, DC area, a law enforcement official said Monday. The official said two of the packages were sent to Fort Belvoir and Fort McNair.
At least one package, sent to the National Defense University at Fort McNair in Washington, DC, contained explosive material and was ultimately rendered safe. That package arrived at 8:30 a.m. ET and the building was evacuated immediately, according to Army spokesman Michael L. Howard.
“At 12:10 p.m., 52nd Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal from Fort Belvoir, VA, confirmed the package tested positive for black powder and residue,” Howard said in a statement. “The X-ray conducted indicates suspected GPS and an expedient fuse were attached. The package was rendered safe. No injuries are reported.”
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Testimony and court documents from the trial of Noor Salman — the widow of Pulse nightclub shooter Omar Mateen, reveals that Omar’s father — who sat right behind Hillary Clinton at an August, 2016 campaign rally, was an FBI informant for over a decade.
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Antifa Thugs Attack Peaceful Anti-Merkel Protesters in Kandel, Germany
Participants of a march against Merkel’s immigration policy in Kandel have been attacked by Antifa counterprotesters. On Saturday, the protest movement “Kandel is Everywhere” organised another demonstration in the city were a German teen girl was murdered by an Afghan migrant.
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Arrested Catalan Leader Puigdemont to be Brought Before Judge in Germany
BERLIN (AP) — Catalonia’s former president, Carles Puigdemont, is to be brought before a court in Germany to determine whether he stays in custody pending further decisions on extradition proceedings.
Prosecutors in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein wouldn’t say where Monday’s closed-doors hearing would take place. German news agency dpa said Puigdemont was taken to a prison in the town of Neumuenster Sunday, hours after his arrest on a European warrant as he entered Germany from Denmark.
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Blair Pushes for Second EU Referendum as Labour Moves to Block ‘No Deal’ Brexit
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair is demanding a second vote to reverse Brexit, as the Labour Party moves to block the possibility of walking away from the European Union (EU) with ‘no deal’.
Former party leader and erstwhile British Prime Minister Tony Blair will continue his push to block Brexit, demanding Parliament stop what he labelled a “fudge” on Britain’s deal with the bloc after Brexit.
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Dutch Officer to be Charged for Leaking MP’s Security Plans
Dutch prosecutors said Monday they will bring charges against a policeman accused of leaking information about the security surrounding controversial far-right MP Geert Wilders.
The surveillance officer is accused of “communicating confidential or operational police information six times with a third person (women/girlfriends),” said Frans Zonneveld, spokesman for the prosecution service.
He also “carried out searches in the police system for private purposes.”
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‘Europe Arrest Abuse is Key Reason for Brexit’ Assange Rages at Catalan Leader’s Arrest
Mr Assange, who has been holed-up in the Ecuadorean embassy in London for five years, drew a historical comparison between an event that took place in Nazi Germany and Mr Puigdemont arrest and said “In 1940 the elected president of Catalonia, Lluis Companys, was captured by the Gestapo, at the request of Spain, delivered to them and executed.
“Today, German police have arrested the elected president of Catalonia, Carles Puigdemont, at the request of Spain, to be extradited.”
He also took Britain’s side against the European Union while unleashing his anger on Twitter over the arrest — saying the European Arrest Warrant was one of the “key intellectual reasons” why people voted for Brexit.
WikiLeaks founder Mr Assange accused the European Union of turning to an “abusive instrument that requires no evidence” to “persecute” countries’ “opponents” such as Mr Puigdemont.
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France Terror Attack: Hard Left Politician Arrested Over Tweets ‘Defending Terrorism’
FRENCH far-left politician Stéphane Poussier was arrested on terrorism charges on Sunday over controversial tweets in which he hailed the death of a gendarme killed during a jihadist siege in southern France last week.
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Italy: Berlusconi Indicted for Ruby Ter
Along with four young women guests at bunga bunga parties
(ANSA) — Milan, March 26 — Former three-time permier and media magnate Silvio Berlusconi was indicted Monday in the so-called Ruby Ter case, for the second time. The centre-right Forza Italia (FI) leader was put on trial starting May 9 along with four young women who were guests at his alleged bunga bunga parties.
The charges against the five are corruption in judicial acts and false testimony.
Berlusconi is alleged to have paid the women to lie about the true nature of the parties, which he has always insisted were harmless, elegant soirees.
The trial is one of many stemming from the case of an underage alleged prostitute nicknamed Ruby.
Berlusconi was convicted of paying for sex with her but then acquitted on the grounds he did not know her age.
The ex-premier is already on trial in the main branch of the Ruby Ter case, with 23 other defendants.
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Italy: EU Showed it is ‘Nothing’ Over Catalonia — Salvini
Problems solved by talking not handcuffs says League leader
(ANSA) — Milan, March 26 — The European Union showed it is “nothing” in the independence dispute between Spain and Catalonia, anti-migrant Euroskeptic League leader Matteo Salvini said Monday. Commenting on the arrest of former Catalonia president Carles Puigdemont, Salvini said “the problems between Madrid and Barcelona will be solved by dialogue, not with handcuffs”.
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Italy: Man Nabbed for Molesting Girls
Brazilian, 35, ‘molested 2 girls in Monza, near Lecco’
(ANSA) — Monza, March 26 — A 35-year-old Brazilian national was arrested Monday on suspicion of sexually molesting two girls in northern Italy last week.
Police said Raul Rodriguez Da Silva, molested the girls at Monza and at Casatenovo near Lecco. Da Silva lives at Berbenno di Valtellina near Sondrio.
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Italy’s Mount Etna is Sliding Into the Mediterranean Sea
Scientists say that Mount Etna, Europe’s tallest volcano, is sliding into the Mediterranean Sea. This slide could have “devastating consequences,” the scientists have warned.
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Marine Le Pen Demands French Interior Minister’s Resignation Amid Trebes Attack
French National Front (FN) party leader Marine Le Pen required on Monday the resignation of French Interior Minister Gerard Collomb following Friday’s attacks in southern France.
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Russian ‘Diplomats’ Expelled Across European Union, United States
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States and more than a dozen European nations kicked out Russian diplomats on Monday and the Trump administration ordered Russia’s consulate in Seattle to close, as the West sought joint punishment for Moscow’s alleged role in poisoning an ex-spy in Britain.
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Swedish Pensioners Now Need to Sell Street Newspapers to Pay Their Bills
Pensioners in Sweden sell the street newspaper Factum in Gothenburg, Sweden’s Aftonbladet reports. Their pensions are so low that they are in need for extra income to pay their bills.
An Aftonbladet / Inizio’s survey shows that one in ten pensioners has a maximum of around 200 euros (2,000 kronor) left when the monthly rent is paid. The group consists of twice as many women than men.
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Swiss Example of Low Mass Shootings Despite Widespread Gun Ownership
The recent school shooting in Parkland, Florida, and other mass shooting in the past few years have prompted the usual outcries for more gun control from those who choose to disregard the Second Amendment. Among those clamoring for more restrictions on gun ownership were thousands of students who were manipulated into attending the “March for Our Lives” demonstrations in Washington, D.C., and other cities on March 24. Some observers have said that these demonstrations reminded them of National Socialist Adolf Hitler’s “Youth Parades,” a favorite propaganda gimmick of anti-gun Nazis.
Fortunately, the calls for more gun control have also inspired several reports in the media noting that Switzerland, despite having one of the highest rates of gun ownership in the world, has an overall murder rate near zero.
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UK: Another Grooming Gang: Abuse on ‘Massive Scale’, Men Drugged and Raped Girls in ‘Sh*g Wagon’
Seven men have been found guilty of grooming and raping underage girls aged 13 to 17, plying them with drink and drugs and abusing them at sex “parties” and in a van known as the “shag wagon”.
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‘We Are Ready’: EU Nightmare Matteo Salvini Tipped for Italian PM
This month’s election ended in a hung parliament, leaving the country’s parties considering various options to overcome the impasse as President Sergio Mattarella prepares to start formal negotiations next week.
Eurosceptic Mr Salvini announced today he was ready to talk to the anti-establishment Five Star Movement (M5S) about forming a government after the two sides joined forces to elect parliamentary speakers at the weekend.
Saturday’s vote, which saw a 5-Star politician take charge of the lower chamber while a centre-right veteran became head of the upper house Senate, raised speculation the two blocs might move on and try to forge a coalition.
And an increasingly confident Mr Salvini declared on Facebook: “The next PM can only be decided by the centre-right, the coalition that has won the most votes and that even yesterday showed solidarity, intelligence and respect to voters.
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Turkey’s Islamist Erdogan: EU Membership Remains ‘Strategic Goal’
SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Monday that membership in the European Union remains a “strategic goal” for his country despite the uneasy relationship with the 28-member bloc.
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UK: Exposed: Muslim Kids as Young as Two Back From Syria, Obsessed With Guns and Anti-Western Hate
British children as young as two have been taken to war zones, becoming obsessed with guns and “shooting people”, and indoctrinated into terrorist ideology and hating the West, court papers show.
The disturbed Muslim children, some radicalised in the UK and others returning from Syria and Iraq, were exposed in an investigation into the secretive family courts by The Sunday Times.
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European Parliament Deputy: Nord Stream 2 Will Increase Europe’s Dependence on Russian Gas
Gas has become not just energy, but a strategic weapon, that’s why the Nord Stream-2 project cannot be considered as a purely economic issue, as expressed by European Parliament Deputy, Elmar Brok, during the panel discussion “Ukraine: In the Grip of a Crisis?”, Ukrinform reports.
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by Srdja Trifkovic
Russia’s presidential election on March 18 passed without great excitement, since Putin’s victory was never in doubt. He won 77 percent of the vote, with just over two-thirds of eligible voters taking part. While a few reported irregularities have received extensive publicity in the Western media, this result fairly accurately reflects the country’s current mood.
In Russia elections are impacted by foreign and security issues to a much greater extent than in the U.S. Putin’s numbers were helped by Britain’s unprecedented anti-Russian campaign following the poisoning of former double agent Sergei Skripal in Salisbury on March 4. The government in London promptly accused the Russian government and Putin personally of ordering the attack. A week before the election it expelled 23 Russian diplomats, and Moscow retaliated by ordering out the same number of Britons. Most ordinary Russians believe—not without reason—that they are subjected to serious external challenges, and that the incumbent is better equipped to deal with them than any likely alternative.
As for the Salisbury case, ordinary Russians make the common sense argument that had the authorities intended to kill Skripal as an example to other potential traitors, they could have done so during his four years in Russian jail 2006-2010. Those with security background insist that Russia (and the USSR before 1991) has never targeted an exchanged spy, that intelligence services on both sides would be loath to jeopardize the institution of swaps; and that there was no motive to kill Skripal almost eight years after the swap and three months before the 2018 FIFA World Cup which Russia is due to host in June and July. It seems clear that had a military grade nerve gas been used (and Britain has refused to provide any samples thus far), Skripal and his daughter would have died instantly. Finally, false flag operation is a distinct possibility: the gas allegedly used (“Novichok”) is actually a family of nerve agents which has been known for decades and could have been produced by several other countries.
The second factor favoring Putin’s victory was Russia’s improving economic situation. The mix of Western sanctions imposed in 2014 and the fall of crude oil prices (from $108 per barrel in September 2013 to under $30 in February 2016) caused a two-year period of stagflation, but Russia’s economy started growing again in 2017. It is no longer dependent on foreign liquidity, exchange rates are stable, the fiscal deficit is under 2% percent of GDP, and inflation of 4% is at an all-time low. Putin’s major domestic challenge will be to direct more private investment into manufacturing, and especially import substitution ventures. At the moment, Russia’s share of investment in GDP is only 20%, less than one-half of China’s 43%. On current form the country may be able to catch up with the global growth rate of three percent, but not before 2021.
An important issue facing Putin, which is discussed privately but with vigor in Moscow’s salons, concerns succession. His term will expire in 2024, by which time he will be 71. Short of changing the constitution, which Putin insists will not happen, he will leave the presidency that year. My contacts think that he would need to start grooming a successor not later than 2020, possibly by having him (yes, it will be a man) succeed prime minister Medvedev—who is generally considered weak and devoid of power basez—in order to ensure smooth transition four years later.
One sub-theory is that Putin may move to a largely ceremonial position, such as chairman of the State Duma, which would be used as a vehicle to continue exerting influence even after leaving office. Such reconfiguration of power structure would not be unprecedented. It would be somewhat comparable to “first deputy prime minister” Deng Xiaoping’s paramount role in the decade prior to his final retirement in 1989, even though he was neither China’s president, nor prime minister, nor CCP secretary-general. A more direct approach, which I consider less likely, is known as “Putin-for-ever model.” It would entail reinventing the State Council—a rather peripheral advisory institution established by Putin in the early days of his tenure in 2000—into an executive body with wide-ranging powers, and with the former president at its helm.
Rumors and leaks notwithstanding, there is no candidate on the horizon. The problem of succession has been a regular feature of Russia’s political system for centuries. When the first Tsar of all Russians, Ivan IV Vasilyevish (“the Terrible”) died in 1584, the title passed to his unfit middle son Fyodor. This marked the beginning of the “times of trouble,” which lasted for three decades. Peter the Great made a similar mistake, and when he died in 1725 the Empire was ridden for years by conspiracies and coups. Fast-forward to more recent times: Stalin’s death in March 1953 produced a ruthless and bloody power struggle, part-Shakespeare, part-Mario Puzo. By contrast, Putin’s smooth takeover after Yeltsin in 2000 indicated the importance of having the successor groomed and accepted as legitimate by the powers-that-be.
Externally, Putin’s primary immediate challenge is posed by the paranoid, hysterical quality to the discourse on Russia and all things Russian in today’s America, Britain, and (somewhat less insanely) on the Continent. It appears that the Anglosphere establishment has abdicated reason and common decency in favor of raw hate and fear-mongering. We have not seen anything like it before, even in the darkest days of the Cold War…
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Australian Federal Police officers will undergo ‘Muslim sensitivity training’ to better understand Islam. The program aims to help the agency combat religious extremism and prevent radicalisation.
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“Supply and Demand” in Mass Migration
A Conversation with former Czech President Vaclav Klaus
Vaclav Klaus is a Czech economist and politician who served as the second President of the Czech Republic from 2003 to 2013. He also served as the second and last Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, federal subject of the Czech and Slovak Federative Republic, from July 1992 until the dissolution of Czechoslovakia in January 1993, and as the first Prime Minister of the newly-independent Czech Republic from 1993 to 1998. He is known for his euroscepticism, denial of man-caused global warming, opposition to mass immigration, and support of free market capitalism.
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Dad Who Lost His Son to Illegal Immigrant Blames California, The Media and Democrats
Drew Rosenberg was a young aspiring lawyer living in San Fransisco back in 2010, but his life was tragically cut short by an illegal immigrant.
Roberto Galo of Honduras was in the United States illegally and had already been stopped by police for driving down a one-way road in the wrong direction before he killed Rosenberg. He later failed to produce valid identification, but was released after being charged.
Then in 2010, he struck Drew with his car while Drew was riding his motorcycle in California. Galo then repeatedly ran over his body in an attempt to flee the scene.
Galo only spent 43 days in jail for the killing, and was allowed to continue living in the United States for two more years, until he was finally deported in 2013. Drew’s father Don has now become an advocate for fighting sanctuary city laws and spoke with The Daily Caller News Foundation about his thoughts on illegal immigration.
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Germany: Woman Fighting for Life After Syrian Asylum Seeker Children Follow Her Home and Stab Her
The 24-year-old woman underwent an emergency operation after the attack but is still in a critical condition today. According to German news organisation North German Broadcasting Corporation (NDR), she is in a medically-induced coma.
Police said she and a friend were in a supermarket on Saturday night in the small town of Burgwedel near Hanover, Germany, when she got into an argument with two Syrians aged 13 and 14.
Things calmed down and they left the store. But they crossed paths half an hour later, this time with a 17-year-old boy with the two children.
The trio confronted the woman and continued the argument which escalated.
Focus.de claims the woman tried to diffuse the situation, but a fight broke out and she was stabbed.
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We, Hungarians, have once again received a message from the European Union about our obligations regarding mass immigration. A clear instruction this time came from Frank Engel on the report on fundamental rights in the European Union Morvai writes.
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Orban: ‘Europe is Full’, Mass Migration a ‘Threat’ To Women’s Rights
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has said that “Europe is full” and that following the gains of pro-sovereignty parties in recent elections, the EU can no longer “bury its head in the sand” over peoples’ rejection of mass migration.
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Sweden Votes to Stop Recognising Child Marriage Despite Resistance From Government Parties
The Swedish parliament has voted to stop recognising child marriages despite parties from the governing coalition, including the Social Democrats, seeking some exemptions.
The new decree will mean that Sweden will no longer validate child marriages of migrants who get married in countries where the practice is tolerated, newspaper Aftonbladet reports.
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Swedish Preschools Recast Children’s Gender in Social Engineering Experiment
Following State regulations to counteract traditional gender roles, a number of Swedish preschools have begun experimenting in innovative ways to blur the differences between boys and girls.
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The article on Russia does not correspond to internal reality. On the one hand, everything is not so scary, but on the other – everything is much worse. The economic situation has improved ONLY for the oligarchs. People have become much poorer.
Putin is supported mainly by the siloviki (security officials) and the older generation sitting near the televisions. The active population is angry with the authorities, but the “manual” opposition is also not credible. People perfectly understand that only “political prostitutes” and provocateurs can rise up. The threat of the Muslim factor is hushed up. I keep track of what they write on social networks. A lot of notes on the fact of the tragedy in Kemerovo: Muslims must worry about the Syrian children, and let the children of Kafir burn in the fire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wahfqC9vtD0
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I connected with Identity Evropa. I found them arrogant to the point that they humiliated me. Therefore I kissed them goodbye, very quickly. [redacted incivility]
I can accept the interviews and the very selective process of membership. This is where it stops. They can keep their heads in the cloud.
More fissioning and fractioning. “Group identity” as a political movement is harmful to the body politic as a whole.
I am a white woman but that ain’t my *identity* for heaven’s sake.
For another view, see Dr. Tolli’s view.
https://gatesofvienna.net/2018/03/gates-of-vienna-news-feed-3-26-2018/#comment-506187
“We fight for a vision of the world that is both traditional and Faustian, that allies enrootment and disinstallation, the citizen’s freedom and imperial service to the community-as-a-people, passionate creativity and critical reason, an unshakable loyalty and an adventurous curiosity.”
From https://www.identityevropa.com.
Hmm … I am probably too simplistic to understand and too dumb and hesitant to join and …
Gee. “Ally enrootmen and disinstallation”.
Dealing with the challenges and dangers of nowadays probably requires a tad more than flashy manifesto(s).
I could not find the article on the English sources.
The article only links to Arabic.
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia began to spread the ideology of Wahhabism at the insistence of Western partners. “With the goal of countering the expansion of the Soviet Union’s influence on Muslim regions. Now we are going to return everything back, “cites Al-Jazeera Crown Prince referring to the report of the Washington Post. “Until 1979, when radical Islam began to spread in the kingdom, women used to drive cars and operate cinemas, and my generation fell prey to this ideology,” said Ben Salman in an interview with the American television channel CBS.
https://www.islamnews.ru/news-korolevstvosvorachivaetvahhabitskijproekt-naslednyjprinc/
https://arabi21.com/story/1081311/%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%86-%D8%B3%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86-%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%B4%D9%81-%D8%A3%D8%B3%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%A8-%D9%86%D8%B4%D8%B1-%D8%A8%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%87-%D9%84%D9%80-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%88%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D9%81%D9%8A-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85
Please, complete the comment.
The Mufti of Tatarstan suggests recognizing Wahhabism as an extremist trend, and prohibiting Wahhabi organizations.
“We must ban this ideology, it is misanthropic.
He noted that we often struggle with the consequences of the fact that Wahhabism is a legitimate ideology.
http://www.interfax-religion.ru/?act=news&div=69519