The rate of fatal violent crimes in Sweden has risen to a level that is the highest since records have been kept. The Swedish government’s criminal statistics bureau reports that the rape rate is also continuing to rise.
In other news, the Canadian right-wing activist Lauren Southern has been permanently banned from entering the UK.
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U.S. Fourth-Quarter Growth Revised Up to 2.9 Percent; Consumer Spending Surges
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. economic growth slowed less than previously estimated in the fourth quarter as the biggest gain in consumer spending in three years partially offset the drag from a jump in imports.
Gross domestic product expanded at a 2.9 percent annual rate in the final three months of 2017, instead of the previously reported 2.5 percent, the Commerce Department said in its third estimate for the quarter on Wednesday. That was a slight moderation from the third quarter’s brisk 3.2 percent pace.
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The FBI says a suspicious package that caused the temporarily closed a section of V Street NE at Bladensburg Road on Wednesday morning is connected to a series of packages containing explosive black powder sent to federal facilities in the Washington area.
Law enforcement agencies in the D.C. area have been on extra high alert after a collection of packages containing explosive black powder showed up at government facilities around the Washington area. Thanh Cong Phan was arrested Monday and charged with sending the 11 packages.
Officials on Tuesday cautioned that additional packages may have been sent to mail-processing facilities in the D.C. area and said they remain on alert.
In a tweet Wednesday, the FBI confirmed that one of the packages was discovered at a government mail facility in the 3300 block of V Street NE…
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Judicial Watch Sues for Records on Taxpayer-Funded Soros Projects Overseas
The conservative watchdog Judicial Watch has filed a lawsuit to try to obtain records from the State Department about the taxpayer-funded political activities of George Soros’s groups in Colombia and Romania.
The watchdog said it took the action because the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) failed to respond to its Freedom of Information Act requests last fall for records relating to contracts, grants and other “allocations/disbursements of funds” by Open Society Foundation offices in Romania and Colombia.
The watchdog is also seeking information about Soros’s activities in Macedonia and Albania.
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Ms Damond, 40, a former Sydneysider, was shot dead by Minneapolis police officer Mohamed Noor late on July 25 last year in an alley behind her home
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Texas Man Facing Weapons Charges After He Calls Police
TEWKSBURY — Police and the FBI are investigating the intentions of a 59-year-old Texas man who man was caught with a massive weapons cache in a Tewksbury hotel before he told investigators he was on a classified mission for a government agency he refused to name.
That man and his common law wife are now both being held without bail as they face over 40 criminal charges, a dangerousness hearing, and investigation by groups that include the Joint Terrorism Task Force.
Francho Bradley, of 4378 Ballymena Lane, Frisco, Texas, called police Sunday about 3:47 p.m. to report he believed someone was trying to break into his room at the Marriott Residence Inn, 1775 Andover St., according to Tewksbury police.
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Anti-Pipeline Protesters Import Antifa Style Tactics
On last night’s show, I reported on footage of Trans-Mountain pipeline protestors attacking an RCMP officer using Antifa style tactics.
The video, recorded by one of the green radicals, shows multiple protestors chasing-down a lone officer on a forest road with the intention of committing assault.
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Quebec Deputy Minister Gets Pushback After Questioning Place of Indigenous ‘Traditional Knowledge’
MONTREAL — The letter, sent last month from a Quebec environment official to one of his federal counterparts, does not seem all that inflammatory. The Quebec official notes that proposed federal legislation requiring that traditional Indigenous knowledge be taken into account when assessing environmental impacts permits a “very broad” definition of such knowledge. And, he adds, the bill should be clearer about how traditional knowledge is to be weighed against scientific data when deciding whether a project should proceed.
But when the letter recently became public, it provoked an outraged reaction from Quebec Indigenous leaders, an apology from two Quebec cabinet ministers and, this week, an accusation of racism from a University of Ottawa law professor.
In a letter published Monday in Le Devoir, Thomas Burelli and seven of his colleagues at the university said it was “offensive” of Quebec to attempt to favour science in a “hierarchy of knowledges.”
Burelli said in an interview Tuesday that the Feb. 6 letter from Quebec deputy minister Patrick Beauchesne reflects a “racism of intelligence. It is saying we think there is a form of intelligence that is superior, that of science. They are methods developed by the West and so they must take precedence over Indigenous knowledge.”…
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20,000 Chickens Killed in Fire at Norwegian Poultry Farm
A building housing chickens has burned to the ground in Finnøy in Norway’s Rogaland county, with 20,000 animals reported to have perished.
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70 Per Cent Rise in ‘Right Wing’ Referrals to Govt Anti-Extremism Programme in South-West England
Referrals to the government’s anti-extremism programme for “extreme right-wing views” in the South West of England rose by 69 per cent — overtaking Islamic extremism.
A favourite destination for holidaymakers, with its picturesque countryside, forests, and beaches, the most ethnically-white region in England saw the rise in “right-wing extremism” go up from 75 in 2015/16 to 127 in 2016/17, reports DevonLive.
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Anti-Terror Raids Across Italy, Suspected ISIS Militant Arrested
Anti-terrorism police carried out searches across Italy on Wednesday morning, arresting a man in Turin who is accused of plotting attacks for the violent Islamist group Isis.
The suspect, named by Ansa as 23-year-old Elmahdi Halili, was detained in the north-western city on suspicion of “participating in the terrorist association Islamic State [Isis]”.
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Claim: French Intelligence Agencies Do Not Have Manpower to Track Everyone on Terror Watchlists
A former French intelligence official has admitted that the country cannot keep track of every individual on the terror watchlist due to a lack of resources and manpower following revelations that the Trebes attacker had been on the list.
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Far-Right ‘Activist’ Who Claimed ‘Allah is Gay’ Gets Lifetime Ban From Coming to UK
A far-right ‘activist’ who handed out leaflets claiming ‘Allah is gay’ has reportedly been given a lifetime ban from the UK. Lauren Southern said the Home Office permanently banned her because she had been ‘caught distributing racist leaflets in Luton town centre’.
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France: Slain Hero Officer of Carcassonne Attack Given Posthumous Legion of Honour
PARIS (AP) — The slain hero of last week’s extremist attack in southern France is to be posthumously awarded the Legion of Honor by French President Emmanuel Macron.
France’s highest award will be bestowed on Col. Arnaud Beltrame Wednesday, a day of national homage to him comprising a procession from Paris’ Pantheon and a ceremony at Hotel des Invalides.
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Germany: Headmaster Tells Mother of Daughter Bullied by Muslims to Cover Her Up With a Hijab
A mother in Germany whose daughter was being bullied by Muslim students because she was blonde, Christian and didn’t wear a headscarf was told by the headmaster of a school in Frankfurt to cover her up with a hijab.
The mother of the student told BILD that her daughter was being bullied by Muslim girls to such a degree that she had to “take them out of school for protection.”
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Poland Signs ‘Historic Deal’ To Buy US Air Defence System for $4.75bn
Poland on Wednesday signed what officials described as a historic deal to buy an American Patriot air defence system for USD 4.75 billion.
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Sweden: Deadly Violence at Highest Level Since Records Began
Newly released crime statistics from the Swedish Crime Prevention Council (Brå) show the number of fatal acts of violence in 2017 to be the highest ever recorded by the agency, while the number of rapes has also continued to rise.
Brå released the crime statistics for 2017 this week through the organisation’s website and while the total number of crimes had remained largely the same, rapes and fatal violence had both increased.
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Swedish Government Pushes to Ban Anonymity on Social Media
The Swedish government is planning to put more pressure on tech giants Google, Facebook, and Twitter to end anonymity for ‘online trolls’ and those accused of posting hate speech.
Minister for Housing and Digitisation Peter Eriksson said that he and Justice Minister Morgan Johansson were working together to put even more pressure on the social media companies to deal with so-called hate speech online, Expressen reports.
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Tommy Robinson Removed From Twitter Without Reason
British journalist and video maker Tommy Robinson has been removed from Twitter. It is unclear whether he can return to the platform or not.
Caolan Robertson, a contact of Robinson, said this morning on Twitter that Tommy’s account has been removed and that no reason was given.
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UK: ‘A Glorious View Awaits’: Boris Hails One Year Countdown to ‘Unstoppable’ Brexit
BORIS Johnson has declared that Brexit has become “an unstoppable express” as an opinion poll shows that nearly two thirds of voters now want the EU referendum result to be honoured in full.
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UK: MP’s Son Shot Dead in Sadiq Khan’s Gun Free London — 10 Dead in 12 Days
The son of a Nigerian politician has been shot dead outside his home in London over the weekend, becoming the tenth murdered victim of the ‘gun free’ city’s violent crime wave in just 12 days.
Abraham Badru, 26, was a university graduate, charity volunteer, and recipient of a police bravery award as a teenager for rescuing a woman from a sex attack.
His father, Dolapo Badru, 62, is a member of the Nigerian House of Representatives, Nigerian’s equivalent to an MP in the House of Commons.
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Morocco Slams France’s Intelligence-Sharing Failure Over Dual Citizen Terror Killer
SALE, Morocco (AP) — The head of Morocco’s counterterrorism agency said Tuesday that France should have alerted his country about the extremist behavior of the French-Moroccan gunman who carried out a deadly supermarket attack in southern France.
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Caroline Glick: Ronald Lauder Turns on Israel
On Monday, a major American Jewish leader published a call to arms against Israel in the New York Times.
In an op-ed under the headline, “Israel’s self-inflicted wounds,” World Jewish Congress President Ronald Lauder warned that Israel is driving itself to the brink of disaster.
The implicit message of Lauder’s article is that President Donald Trump is too good to Israel. He needs to adopt a far cooler policy towards the immoral, undeserving Jewish state.
Lauder is no run-of-the-mill American Jewish leader. He has been in the spotlight for 30 years.
Lauder was an intimate friend of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for twenty years. The two men had a very public falling out a decade ago after an Israeli television station partially owned by Lauder broadcast a venomously hostile string of stories against Netanyahu.
Today, Lauder has an even more powerful friend: Donald Trump.
As a New York socialite and heir to the Estee Lauder cosmetics empire, over the years Lauder developed a close relationship with real estate magnate Trump. That friendship extended into the presidential race. And for the past 14 months, Lauder has had closer ties to the President than any other American Jewish leader.
When a man of Lauder’s stature writes Israel is “endangering the future of the country,” most people take his warning seriously.
So is he right? Is it time to man the barricades?
The good news is: no. Lauder’s warnings are no more than a collection of anti-Israel slanders…
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‘Having Female Terrorist Leaders is Proof of Gender Equality’
Having female terrorist leaders is proof of gender equality in Fatah, Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ secretary-general said.
At a recent ceremony at the El-Bireh High School for Girls, school principal Nida Abd Rabbo announced that promoting terrorist murderer Dalal Mughrabi as a role model to female students is an “educational responsibility,” the Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) reported.
Last week, Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, the official PA daily, wrote, “It’s [the Al-Yasser Cultural Forum’s] goal is to strengthen the affiliation with Palestine and its history, and to adhere to the Palestinian identity, because this is a great educational responsibility. The forum’s goal is also to return the glory to the fighting Palestinian girls and women such as Dalal Mughrabi and others who sacrificed their lives for Palestine, and also to provide information and knowledge to these female students during recesses…”
Dalal Mughrabi led the most lethal terror attack in Israel’s history, known as the Coastal Road massacre. In 1978, she and other Fatah terrorists hijacked a bus on Israel’s Coastal Highway, murdering 37 civilians, 12 of them children, and wounding over 70.
PA Education Chief Sabri Saidam and Fatah Movement Central Committee member Jamal Muhaisen were also present at the ceremony. PMW has documented that 5 PA schools are named after terrorist Dalal Mughrabi and dozens of other schools are named after other terrorist murderers.[…]
[How stupidly thanatoid does it have to get! and they want us to make ‘peace’ with this lot]
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The 18-year-old men were charged with stealing after allegedly entering tents at the site in Kurrawa Park, Broadbeach, early on Sunday.
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In the short clip uploaded to social media, a blonde woman shouts obscenities across the Metro Trains carriage in Melbourne, urging the victim to ‘go back to your own country’.
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Teachers at a Western Australian school where a young teenager was violently bashed and kicked in the head had no chance of stopping the attack, their union spokesman says.
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Ecuador Disconnects Julian Assange From the Internet
The government of Ecuador has cut off the Internet connection for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange inside its London embassy, saying that he was jeopardizing its relationships with other countries through his posts on social media.
Assange has been living in the embassy there since 2012, when he took refuge because of allegations from Sweden of sex crimes, including rape. He has feared that if he appeared in Sweden he would face extradition to the U.S., where he could be put on trial for the WikiLeaks leak of a massive trove of documents.
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“Asian” Rapists in the UK? We Can’t Fix Problems We Can’t Even Talk About Honestly
In this excerpt from her March 27 speech to the David Horowitz Freedom Center, Katie Hopkins explains that the UK mainstream media use euphemisms like “local communities” or “Asian” to obscure the true identity of Muslim migrants who sexually assault women and girls.
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The ABC has been forced to remove a Facebook page for a channel aimed at Australian primary school children after a video about white privilege was bombarded with angry comments.
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Migrant ‘Baby Boom’ Causes Highest Birth Rate in Germany in 40 Years
The influx of migrants has had significant effects on Germany’s birth rates. In 2016 there was a 7 per cent surge in new-borns, the country’s Federal Statistics Office reported on Wednesday.
In the year 2016, a total number of 792,131 children were born in Germany. Compared with 2015’s total of 737,575 new-borns, the number had increased by 7 per cent in a single year.
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People Fleeing Western Europe Because of Muslim Migration
One is a Christian migrant who returned to Syria because he found Austria more dangerous. Another is a Croatian man who grew up in Sweden but recently moved to Poland with his wife and kids, saying he doesn’t “recognise the country [he] grew up in anymore.” Yet another, also a part of what has been called the “Swedish Diaspora,” is a woman who moved to Hungary because, she says, “There is no safety at all” in Sweden. They’re all part of the secondary migration caused by Muslim migration.
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Population Authority: Half of the Asylum Seekers Can Stay if We Deport the Rest
The Population Authority plans to deport only single, male, working-age asylum seekers, and hopes to give some type of permanent status to African women and children migrants, according to Population Immigration and Borders Authority director Shlomo Mor-Yosef.This is a departure from previous statements from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that women and children asylum seekers are not slated for deportation “at this stage” but could be in the future.
“We can be more generous with the people who stay if we send the people out that we can send out,” Mor-Yosef told The Times of Israel. “We need to do a trade-off. We can give the women and children status, if we send out the single men. The families can stay.”
Mor-Yosef estimated that approximately half of the 38,000 asylum seekers in Israel fit the profile of unmarried male asylum seekers of working age and should be deported.
“We think that about 80 percent [of the African migrants in Israel] are economic migrants and 20% are true refugees,” Mor-Yosef said. “If you look at the profile of the community here, most are men of working age. Generally when you see a refugee population it’s more women and children.”…
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Holy Cross Theology Professor Says Jesus Was a ‘Drag King’ With ‘Queer Desires’
The theology program at the Jesuit-run College of the Holy Cross has taken on a new tone ever since the school appointed a gender-obsessed Chair of New Testament Studies who claims Jesus was a “drag king,” a new article contends.
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Muslims Fight Australia For Separate Country
I don’t know the original production date but it was posted to youtube on April 16, 2017.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTCDp77Cbvo
If they ever were to receive one it would be a third world heck-hole (like the rest of the OIC) within 5 years, which would somehow be Australia’s fault
Swedish government Social Services together with Swedish Migration Services published a Guide:
“Information to You who is married to a child.”
But flashback from the public forced them to recall it.
Link to recall (Swedish): http://www.socialstyrelsen.se/nyheter/2018/socialstyrelsendrartillbakamaterialombarnsomargifta
Link to blogger reporting it (Finnish): https://pt-media.org/2018/03/29/ruotsin-sosiaalihallitus-julkaisi-esitteen-miehille-jotka-ovat-aviossa-lasten-kanssa/
How nice: the account of Robinson was deleted, and the records of the Ukrainian woman, which illuminates the activity of Islamists against Russia, are not.
https://twitter.com/joaska_?lang=ru
“The theology program at the Jesuit-run College of the Holy Cross has taken on a new tone ever since the school appointed a gender-obsessed Chair of New Testament Studies who claims Jesus was a “drag king,” a new article contends.”
He obviously works in the service of Cthulhu. Many do, nowadays…
I had to look up Cthuldu, notwithstanding being a fan of HP Lovecraft; thanks for educating me, vera!