President Trump ordered precision air strikes against Syrian targets in retaliation for what Western intelligence agencies confirm was a chemical attack by the Assad regime. The USA worked jointly with Britain and France to conduct the strikes. The German government declined to participate.
In other news, a hard-left Antifa group has admitted responsibility for firebombing a Turkish mosque in the German city of Kassel.
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Facebook Backs Off Censoring of Popular Black Conservative Duo Diamond and Silk
Facebook could not have done more to help increase the popularity of Diamond and Silk, the two black women whose boisterous support for Donald Trump have made them an Internet sensation. As reported by Fox News April 10, the two women, whose real names are Lynnette Hardaway and Rochelle Richardson, had accused Facebook of discrimination and censorship after the social media site labeled them “unsafe to the community.”
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How the Federal Govt Proved the Coucil on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) Is a Front for Terrorism
(Washington, D.C.): Since its founding in 1993, the Council for American Islamic Relations (CAIR) has presented itself publicly as a benign Muslim American “civil rights organization.” From that time to this, however, the United States government has known that CAIR actually is an entity founded by the Muslim Brotherhood’s Palestinian franchise: Hamas, a group officially designated since 1994 as a terrorist organization.
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EU Demands Facebook’s Zuckerberg Testify Over Data Scandal in Brussels
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union is calling on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to testify at the legislature of the 28-nation bloc about the widening data privacy scandal at his company.
EU Justice Commissioner Vera Jourova had a phone exchange with Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and said on Friday that Zuckerberg should act on the Parliament’s invitation to come explain the situation.
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France: ‘Allah Hu Akbar’ Shouting Woman Threatens to Blow Herself up at Cannes Festival
A 27-year-old woman from Cannes was arrested this week outside the CanneSeries television festival after she yelled “Allah hu Akbar” and threatened to blow herself up.
The threat of terrorism took place at the Place de Gaulle in Cannes, within the vicinity of the Palais des Festivals where both the internationally renowned Cannes film festival and the TV festival take place, regional newspaper Nice-Matin reports.
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Germany: Watch: Alt-Left Antifa Admit to Turkish Mosque Firebombing
The alt-left extremist organisation Antifascist Action, or Antifa, has taken credit for the firebombing of a Turkish mosque in the German city of Kassel.
On the evening of March 25th, a group of several masked men armed with Molotov cocktails firebombed a mosque operated by the Turkish Islamic Cultural Centre. Through the far-left Indymedia website platform, members of “Antifa International” have taken credit for the attack, newspaper Hessische/Niedersächsische Allgemeine reports.
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Unable to digest its election defeat, Jobbik called on its members and supporters to participate in Saturday’s anti-government rally organized by supporters of the left-liberal parties with close cooperation with Soros funded NGOs.
There are rumors indicating that organizers invited trained German anarchists to take part in the protest and instigate street violence that ultimately may lead to chaos and a coup along the line of the Ukraine chain of events took place some years ago.
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Italy: Eight Arrested for Causing Turin Soccer Stampede
One woman killed, 1,500 injured after panic swept square
(ANSA) — Turin, April 13 — Turin police on Friday staged an operation to arrest eight people suspected of causing the panic that led to a deadly stampede among people watching the Champions League final between Juventus and Real Madrid that killed one woman and injured 1,500 in a Turin square last June, sources said. The arrested people are suspected of trying to commit robberies by using pepper spray, thus causing the panic that swept through the northern city’s Piazza San Carlo square as fans watched the match on a big screen, the sources said.
Police said those arrested are a group of young men between the ages of 18-20 from North African countries, five of whom have Italian citizenship.
The group conducted a series of robberies during large public events in northern Italy, the Netherlands, France, Germany and Belgium by using pepper spray, police said.
In Italy, these events included an Elisa concert in Turin in September 2017 and a Verona dance club in January 2018, in addition to the Turin soccer final, police said.
Police said four of the eight were present at the Turin soccer final, one of whom, Sohaib Bouimadaghen, an Italian citizen born in Ciriè in 1998 and Turin resident, confessed following his arrest Friday.
On Thursday a probe into responsibility in relation to the stampede ended and requests for indictments are set to be made, judicial sources said.
Mayor Chiara Appendino and the city’s police chief and prefect are among those probed. One of the charges against two of those arrested on Friday is injury resulting in death, with relation to victim Erika Pioletti.
Pioletti, 38, died at Turin’s Giovanni Bosco hospital two weeks after suffering a crush-induced heart attack in the stampede. Pioletti, from the northern city of Domodossola, had travelled to the city to watch the match with her boyfriend, a big Juventus fan. Another woman, who was out for a walk with her husband and was not in the area for the game, was left severely disabled by the stampede. Many of the people who were injured have given harrowing reports of being trampled on, or trampling on others. Juve lost the match 4-1 to Real Madrid.
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Polish MPs Pay Tribute to Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Fighters
Parliamentarians on Friday passed a motion paying tribute to Jewish fighters who took up arms against Poland’s German invaders in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising 75 years ago.
The Sejm, Poland’s lower house, said in the motion that the Jewish fighters had shown “the highest heroism and dedication in defence of the universal values of human freedom and dignity.”
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Turkish Children Dressed as Soldiers Play Martyrs in German Mosque
Germany is shocked by newly revealed footage from a mosque in Herford. Pictures and videos show young children parading in battle suits and dying as martyrs under the Turkish flag.
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A British actor perhaps best known for playing Emperor Palpatine, Darth Sidious in the American science fiction franchise Star Wars has been selected to play the role of Enoch Powell in a programme Saturday marking the 50th anniversary of Powell’s famous Birmingham speech.
The casting of supervillain star Ian McDiarmid, who previously played Powell in a 2017 play What Shadows, for the BBC Radio 4 production due to air Saturday evening comes as BBC editor Amol Rajan divulged the speech — which became most known for its Classical allusion to the prophecy of the Cumaean Sibyl of a civil war and the river Tiber frothing with much blood — would be “broken up” in the broadcast.
Originally billed as being the first time in history the 1968 speech on immigration and British society would be broadcast in full, it has now been revealed the speech is being broken up into segments, and in the words of Rajan: “…critiqued by voices from across the spectrum. Not just read out in a single go”.
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UK: Man on Bail for Sexually Assaulting Teen
Kidnapped, Raped, Trafficked for Sex 12-Year-Old Girl
Ibrahim Hussain, 35, was sentenced to 23 years’ imprisonment after abducting and raping a 12-year-old girl whom he then sold for sex to five other men who acted like “a pack of ravenous wolves”.
Bradford Crown Court heard that he had abducted the schoolgirl from Horton Park in July 2017 and took her to a flat in Bradford where he held her captive for two days and raped her three times, reports the Telegraph & Argus.
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Caroline Glick: Israel and Anne Frank’s Jewishness
On the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day, the New Israel Fund announced it signed a partnership agreement with Anne Frank Fonds, the foundation Anne Frank’s father, Otto Frank, established in 1963 to administer the profits from the sales of her diary.
Frank’s diary has sold more than 30 million copies in 60 languages since it was first published in 1947. Its sales and global reach make it the most famous book authored by a Jew aside from the Bible.
The New Israel Fund’s deal with the Anne Frank Foundation is a symbolic expression of the existential struggle being waged in the Jewish world today. That struggle pits the government of Israel against much of the American Jewish leadership. It pits Israel’s public against the justices of the Supreme Court. It pits IDF line soldiers and commanders against the General Staff.
The effective merger of the New Israel Fund with the Anne Frank Foundation is the latest chapter in the theft of Anne Frank’s legacy, which began in the 1950s…
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‘Crimes of a Monster: ‘ Trump Strikes Assad for Chemical Weapons Attack
President Donald Trump authorized military strikes on Syrian president Bashar Al-Assad’s regime Friday evening in conjunction with the British and French government.
In his announcement, Trump noted that precision strikes were targeting Assad’s chemical weapons facilities in retaliation for a Saturday attack on civilians. The U.S., Britain, and France reiterated in the days before the strike that they had confirmed the use of chemical weapons by Assad.
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Theresa May Blasts Assad and Launches Airstrikes in Syria
THERESA May has ordered military action in Syria as part of a co-ordinated attack with the US and France on the Assad regime to degrade its chemical weapons capability.
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A major police operation known as Strike Force Oilwell saw a squad of heavily-armed police raiding five homes in Auburn, in Sydney’s west on Thursday. Five people were arrested.
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Ibrahim Omerdic, 62, argued he was wrongfully convicted because he never finished the religious ceremony between the 14-year-old girl and the Rohingya asylum seeker at a Melbourne mosque.
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European Immigration: Nuns Out, Terrorists In
When the same Home Office that forbade Sister Ban even to enter the country discovered that the young male Iraqi was in Britain, he explained clearly that he had been trained by ISIS. He told the Home Office officials that the group had trained him to kill. The Home Office promptly found him a place to live and study, and treated him as the minor he said he was but most likely was not. He subsequently told a teacher that he had “a duty to hate Britain”.
Last year the Institute of St Anselm (a Catholic training institute for priests and nuns, based in Kent) closed its doors because of problems it had getting the Home Office to grant visa applications for foreign students. One nun last year was apparently denied entry to the UK because she did not have a personal bank account.
So, those who flee ISIS are turned away, while those who are trained by ISIS are welcome.
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Germany: Three Syrian Asylum Seekers Held Over Alleged Extremist Links
BERLIN (AP) — Three Syrian men accused of membership in Islamic extremist groups have been arrested in Germany. One of them is believed to have tried to recruit people in Germany to fight in Syria’s civil war.
Police and prosecutors said the men, who entered Germany as asylum-seekers in 2015, were arrested Thursday in Saarlouis, near the French border. Authorities said Friday a refugee home employee tipped officials off after recognizing one suspect in a video that showed him in uniform with weapons.
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More Than Half of German Welfare Recipients Come From Migrant Backgrounds
A report from the German Federal Employment Agency (BA) has shown that more than half of the recipients of the Hartz IV welfare income benefit come from migrant backgrounds, with Syrians the largest group in the country.
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Nearly 500 Migrants Rescued From Central Mediterranean
Nearly 500 people have been rescued from the central Mediterranean, the Italian Coastguard has said.
The migrants were rescued in three separate operations on the sea the crossing between Libya and Italy.
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UK: Taxpayers to Pay £187K for Children of Illegal Migrants Facing Deportation
TAXPAYERS are forking out £300 a WEEK in benefits for the children of two illegal immigrants facing deportation. The handout has been promised for the next nine years, adding up to a total of £187,000.
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Gallup: Drop in U.S. Catholic Church Attendance Under Pope Francis Sharpest in Decades
Catholic church attendance in the United States fell by six percent between the pontificates of Pope Benedict XVI and Pope Francis, the sharpest drop in decades, a new Gallup poll has revealed.
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UK: Teachers Vote to Promote ‘Pro-Choice’ Abortion Information in Schools
Pupils need schools to “give them the facts” about their options for terminating pregnancies in order to counter “inaccurate” information from pro-life campaigns, according to a motion passed at a teachers’ conference.
Speaking at the National Education Union’s (ATL section) annual conference, teacher Helen Porter said pupils do not necessarily benefit from “a balanced and considered debate about abortion”, stating that “what they do need is teachers … who can give them the facts about what is legal and what is available” in terms of termination provision, reports the Times Educational Supplement.
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Elon Musk Worries That AI Research Will Create an ‘Immortal Dictator’
Imagine your least-favorite world leader. (Take as much time as you need.)
Now, imagine if that person wasn’t a human, but a network of millions of computers around the world. This digi-dictator has instant access to every scrap of recorded information about every person who’s ever lived. It can make millions of calculations in a fraction of a second, controls the world’s economy and weapons systems with godlike autonomy and — scariest of all — can never, ever die.
This unkillable digital dictator, according to Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk, is one of the darker scenarios awaiting humankind’s future if artificial-intelligence research continues without serious regulation.
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“President Trump ordered precision air strikes against Syrian targets in retaliation for what Western intelligence agencies confirm was a chemical attack by the Assad regime.”
What Western agencies confirm??? The entire well-oiled Western propaganda machine is working well. The narrow parameters and boundaries of this story has no deeper meaning and no further explanation is needed. After all, the newspeople have “reputable sources”, government and corporate spokespeople. No one has to worry their pretty little head about whether the sources really are trustworthy. It’s a wearisome and disgusting thing to behold, day after day, year after year. My disappointment in Trump in this matter has reached the same level as when it was revealed Obama was nothing more than a marionette. Trump it turns out is too.
“teacher Helen Porter said pupils do not necessarily benefit from “a balanced and considered debate about abortion”, stating that “what they do need is teachers … who can give them the facts about what is legal and what is available” in terms of termination provision, reports the Times Educational Supplement.”
…and – are they going to tell the girls that they might go crazy after an abortion? Not that I would be experienced in this kind of stuff, but I know a few horor stories that have one thing in common: A beautiful loving girl, who aborted a baby, and then fell into heavy depressions – and never recovered.
And I also know men, who would date such girls, and then being drunk in the pub they would drop bombs like “Ah well it was a mistake to date her. She aborted a baby of that other guy and it seems like it made her crazy, she’s crazy man, don’t you ever date a girl who had an abortion!”
And I know one girl, best in her class, most beautiful, straight A student, two university degrees – who had an abortion when she was 30 or so. She lost her husband, and her soul that day, doesn’t work anymore, doesn’t talk, she just kind of carries on breathing unintersted in life.
Are they gonna tell the girls these stories as well?
German special services are investigating more than 400 cases of extremism in the Bundeswehr. This is reported by the Ministry of Defense of Germany.
So, last year 289 cases of manifestation of right-wing radicalism were recorded, and since the beginning of this, 23. The rest were identified until 2017.
Among the noted cases – the Nazi salute “Heil, Hitler!”, The image of swastika soldiers and listening to music with right-wing radical content, as well as racist statements.
https://n-w.tv/specsluzhby-rassleduyut-bolee-400-sluchaev/
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Attack with a knife, kill and rape – aliens, and extremists turn out to be Germans.
The weak men who control dioceses and Catholic colleges are spineless critters.
That’s far too narrow a statement.
Few “practicing” Catholics actually follow the teachings of the religion beyond the “Don’t” rules, which are ultimately Jewish. While that does establish a social order where there’s an individual chance for survival in a group setting, it’s not exactly the “Christian” message.
The Christian message is stuff like the “Works of Mercy” and the “Beatitudes.”
Know anyone who has “visited the imprisoned” recently? And, I don’t mean to preach, but to let them know there are thoughtful people in the outside world — after all, some people in jail are innocent.
…”The Christian message is stuff like the “Works of Mercy” and the “Beatitudes.”
You are [a person whose knowledge seems insufficient],who has no clue about Catholicism and Christianity..
Can you elaborate on this ?
I finished Catholic College and i never spotted “spineless critters.”…
Your comment regarding Catholics is offensive
The Mufti of Chechnya declared about the rights to Jerusalem
During an official visit to Palestine, the Mufti of Chechnya, adviser to the head of the republic Salah Mezhiev, said that Jerusalem belongs to Muslims.
https://www.kavkazr.com/a/29167447.html
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I wonder why Moslems of Chechnya make such bold statements?
They are Moslem, and Allah gave thewholeworld to be their -just that.
The only thing this tells me is that Trump is just another Saudi stooge like all the leaders of the west.
No proves of the ‘gas’ attack were given by any government. President Macron said he had proves but failed to say what were those.
Some should tell presidente Trump that most 70% of Syrians support their govenment because it is better than the one tried by the’insurgents’ of Sunni faith. Al Qaeda, Isis and friends did a lotof killing, enslaving just to controll the whole population by terror.
I do not like the Assad dictatorship, any dictatorship, but the alternativ is worst. Besides politics Syrians were free. Please check with local Christian Churches and their diaspora.
The Assads have always been secular. Under them, religious and ethnic minorities were protected, and women are comparatively emancipated, by the standards of the region. Education and medical services are/were among the best in the Middle East. Certainly, the regime brooks no political dissent, and can be brutal and repressive in its suppression thereof, but in this, Syria is no worse than the various Kingdoms and Sheikdoms of the Arabian Gulf whose equally nasty leaders are feted and fawned-over by the West.
Caroline Glick: Israel and Anne Frank’s Jewishness
http://carolineglick.com/israel-and-anne-franks-jewishness/
Well worth reading. Apparently SJWs airbrushed much the Jewishness out of the screen and play versions of The Diary of Ann Frank long ago. They have now taken over the monies from the sale of the book through some merger? SJWs in Israel are trying to do the same with the holocaust???
“Guided by playwright and Stalinist Lillian Hellman, Anne’s father chose intellectuals from America’s Jewish far-left elite to adapt her diary for stage and screen. For these intellectuals, Jewish particularism and Jewish nationhood were completely unacceptable. Playwrights Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich purged the screen and stage version of Anne’s diary of all Jewishness and transformed the Holocaust into a tale of universal persecution”
““Anne says, ‘We’re not the only Jews that’ve had to suffer. Right down through the ages, there have been Jews and they’ve had to suffer.’
The offending line was edited to say, “We’re not the only people that’ve had to suffer. Sometimes one race… sometimes another.”
“In other words, as far as the IDF’s Education Corps is concerned, the Holocaust was not caused by the German people’s thousand-year history of Jew-hatred and demonology. The Nazis’ weren’t elected because their antisemitism resonated with the German public. Rather, they rose to power because Germany lacked effective checks on its executive branch.”