Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signed an agreement with the United Nations refugee agency to resettle more than 16,000 African migrants from Israel to Canada, Germany, and Italy. However, hours after agreeing to the deal, Mr. Netanyahu rescinded it. The deal would have compelled Israel to give an equal number of migrants permanent residence.
In other news, the Greek coast guard rescued dozens of migrants off the coast of the island of Samos after the refugees’ vessel encountered rough seas.
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Baltimore Man Funded by ISIS Gets 20 Years
BALTIMORE — It was July 2015 when the FBI, scrambling to contain a surge in Islamic State propaganda, first visited an Egyptian-American newspaper deliveryman in Maryland.
Agents needed to ask Mohamed Elshinawy why his phone number had surfaced in an investigation involving ISIS extremists, and how he came to receive a $1,000 Western Union transaction from Egypt.
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Black Students Occupy Building, Demand Campus Police Disarm
Howard University students entered their fourth day of a protest Monday in which they occupied an administrative building and demanded campus police disarm.
The Washington, D.C., students initiated the protest March 29 after the school fired employee Tyrone Hankerson, Jr., who allegedly stole $429,000 in financial aid money. But not all of the demands directly align with resource allocation transparency.
“We demand the immediate disarming of campus police officers and the formation of a Police Oversight Committee controlled by students, faculty, staff, and off-campus community representatives,” The Concerned Students of HU Resist wrote in a letter that has been shared over 2,500 times on Twitter.
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Is This the Beginning of the End of Facebook?
Facebook can’t seem to shake off one major blow before another comes along. The past few weeks have seen the social media giant shaken, rattled, and exposed for the way the company handles users’ data and conducts business. Now, with the market responding to that news with investors dumping stocks, both users and investors launching lawsuits, governments calling for regulation and hefty fines, and users abandoning the platform, Facebook may be in very real danger of going the way of the dodo.
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Teens Prefer Snorting Condoms to Eating Tide Pods
Teenagers have moved on to snorting condoms rather than eating tide pods, according to a Fox News Monday report.
Just when you thought it could not get worse, teenagers decided to amp up the “Tide Pod Challenge” by trying out the “Condom Challenge:” sticking a condom up their nostrils, inhaling it then pulling it out from their throats, Fox News reported. This bizarre challenge is nothing new; the earliest recording of a person snorting a condom was back in 2007. However, the challenge went viral on social media in 2018.
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The Demands of Antifa and the Original Fascists Have a Lot in Common
A ghastly phantom has descended upon America: the specter of anti-capitalism. Young people march behind the socialist bandwagon and some activists block free speech as members of a group called “Antifa”.
This “anti-fascist” movement engages in militant protests and does not shrink from using violence. As a part of the extreme left, the members of the “antifa-movement” are self-proclaimed “anti-capitalists” and declared “enemies of the right”. They call themselves “anti-fascist”, when, in fact, more than any other ideology, fascism characterizes their own movement.
Yet what is fascism and what is the content of this ideology?
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Brussels is planning a crackdown on social media companies accused of “fake news” in the wake of a so-called scandal in which Facebook was allegedly used to help populist campaigns.
According to the Financial Times, the European Commission has warned that Eurosceptic “disinformation” threatens to “subvert our democracy” after it was claimed the harvested data of social media users helped boost Brexit and Donald Trump’s presidential campaign via targeted messaging.
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French Overwhelmingly Back Deporting Terror Suspects, Banning Radical Islam
A significant majority of French now support banning the radical Salafist sect of Islam, and the government reinstating the national state of emergency, as the nation reels from another deadly radical Islamic terror attack in March.
The new poll taken days after four were killed by a self-proclaimed member of the Islamic State killed four in southern France found the French public overwhelmingly backing a significant crackdown on radical Islam and deportations that could impact tens of thousands of people.
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Germany: Four Syrians Held for Molotov Attack on Mosque
Four Syrians have been arrested in Germany on suspicion of attempted murder and arson for their alleged roles in a Molotov cocktail attack on a mosque frequented by Turkish Muslims, police said on Thursday.
The attack in the southern city of Ulm on March 19 caused only material damage and the eight people inside the building at the time were unharmed, local police said in a joint statement with Stuttgart prosecutors.
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Hungary: PM Viktor Orban Sprinkled His Granddaughter at Easter Monday
The video shows Prime Minister Viktor Orban sprinkling his granddaughter at Easter Monday following the age old Hungarian tradition. He recited a short sprinkling rhyme and as a result, he received an Easter egg from his granddaughter.
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ISIS terrorists have ‘raised the bar’ in the technology they have been using to threaten attacks on Britain, top security experts have warned.
Analysts for the UK’s spy headquarters GCHQ say that the terror group has become a ‘very advanced adversary’ in its war against the West.
Two operatives working for the top secret government site have revealed that intelligence agencies have to continue to adapt their techniques to stay one step ahead of the fanatics.
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Italy: Islamic Centre Leader Arrested After Training Students to Become Jihadists
An Islamic cultural centre leader in the Italian city of Foggia was arrested this week after allegations of ties to the Islamic State terror group and accusations he had been radicalising children with pro-Islamic State propaganda.
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UK Elections Watchdog Under Fire After 40% of Board Members Display Anti-Brexit Bias
Almost half of the Electoral Commission has been urged to resign after an investigation found that members of the board responsible for ensuring the integrity of elections had made anti-Brexit statements.
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Thugs used metal barriers as weapons as they scrapped outside a shisha lounge hours before drive-by gunmen showered it in bullets.
Shocking footage shows more than a dozen men outside Arabian Nites — a Turkish restaurant in Digbeth in Birmingham.
The CCTV footage captures the moment violence erupted between two groups and security guards in high-visibility jackets.
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UK: Teachers’ Union Says Questioning Hijab is ‘Islamophobia’ And ‘Racism’
The National Union of Teachers (NUT) has accused the chief of school inspectors of “Islamophobia” after she suggested veiled infants should be asked about why they feel the need to cover at such a young age.
Earlier this year, Ofsted boss Amanda Spielman also argued that in the same way school leaders would ban under-eights wearing lipstick and high heels to class, they could also ban the hijab and face veil, which sexualises young girls.
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A government minister has admitted that more than £20 million of British aid money is being spent on schools in Palestine that teach children about jihad and martyrdom.
A report by the Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education reveals that the Palestinian Authority school curriculum ‘utilizes a variety of tools to convince children—mostly boys—to risk their lives and die as martyrs’.
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DRAMATIC footage shows FSB raids on a suspected Russian terror group just two-and-a-half months before the start of the World Cup.
The large “sleeper cell” was broken up by Vladimir Putin’s security service in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk.
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The car door was kicked in while the driver was sitting inside at an intersection in Newcastle, north of Sydney, however the driver recorded the whole incident.
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The Economist: Mauricio Macri Fights Argentina’s Tradition of Handouts for Votes
Just off Leonardo da Vinci Avenue, a long street of modest shops and foul-smelling gutters in the district of La Matanza outside Buenos Aires, stands La Juanita, a co-operative. Founded by unemployed workers in 2001, it occupies a former school.
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Dozens of Migrants Rescued Off Greek Island
ATHENS, Greece — Greek authorities say dozens of migrants who sent out a distress call while off the coast of the eastern Aegean island of Samos have been rescued and their boat is being towed to land.
The coast guard said Monday that the boat, carrying 58 people, was located north of Samos in rough seas and was being towed to the island by a vessel from the European border agency Frontex.
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Germany: 1 Dead and 17 Injured After Syrian Refugee Sets Building Alight and Blocks the Exit
A 32-year-old Syrian has set an apartment block alight in the German town of Leipzig. The man will be charged with arson and murder, Germany’s Bild newspaper reports.
The refugee set fire to the apartment block in the early hours of Good Friday. As a result one person died, 17 were injured and several house pets died in the fire as well.
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Hungary’s Prime Minister: We Must Avoid Becoming an Immigrant Country
“If we make even one step towards becoming an immigrant country, there’s no going back”, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban warned in Echo TV’s Bayer Show programme on Sunday. Orban warned of the “background forces” behind the opposition parties, who would dictate to them if they win.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that he would be suspending an already-signed agreement reached to resettle thousands of African refugees to Western countries.
Netanyahu’s office put out a statement earlier on Monday, announcing it had reached a 5-year agreement with the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) to move 16,250 migrants and refugees to Western countries, which included Canada, Germany, and Italy. In exchange, Israel would give “temporary residence” to an equal number of migrants in Israel.
Germany’s embassy in Israel told Israeli-daily Haaretz that they had not received a request by the UN or the Israeli government and Italy’s foreign ministry issued a similar statement to a national newspaper.
And hours after announcing the deal, Netanyahu took to Facebook to announce he was was “suspending the implementation of the agreement.”
Netanyahu added that would “reexamine” the agreement with “representatives” from neighborhoods in south Tel Aviv, which is home to many migrants and asylum seekers, frustrating the local Israeli population.
Reports indicate that the UNHCR plan angered Netanyahu’s coalition partners, which led the prime minister to suspend the deal…
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Netanyahu: 16,250 Migrants to Resettle in ‘Developed Countries’
Thousands of African migrants in Israel will be resettled in “developed” Western countries under a new agreement reached with the UN refugee agency, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday.”This agreement will allow for the departure from Israel of 16,250 migrants to developed countries like Canada or Germany or Italy,” Netanyahu said, without elaborating.
He made the announcement in televised remarks after the government said it had scrapped a controversial plan to deport African migrants and replaced it with a new one that would see thousands sent to Western countries.
Netanyahu said the earlier plan to deport migrants to Rwanda and Uganda was no longer feasible.
Speaking at a press conference alongside Interior Minister Aryeh Deri, Netanyahu stressed that “legal constraints as well as political difficulties on the part of [Uganda and Rwanda]” led to the cancellation of previous deportation policies.
Under the agreement, which Netanyahu said was “the best possible,” the asylum seekers who remain in Israel will be dispersed in areas across the country outside of south Tel Aviv, where a majority of them currently reside. Netanyahu vowed to prioritize rehabilitating the neighborhoods of south Tel Aviv, alongside implementing the international agreement.
He said that his policies over the years, including the construction of a fence along the Egyptian border, had prevented an outcome in which close to a million migrants would inundate Israel and “endanger its Jewish and democratic nature.”
According to the agreement, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees will work to find homes in Western countries for at least 16,250 of the asylum seekers in Israel, while Israel will agree to give temporary status to the remainder — estimated at around 18,000. The status of this latter group will be reevaluated after five years….
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UK: ‘Predatory’ Romanian Migrant Raped Homeless Woman in Front of Passersby
A Romanian migrant was sentenced to six years’ imprisonment for robbing and then raping a vulnerable homeless woman on a bench in full view of shoppers.
Constantin Turbinca, 42, went on a drinking binge after arguing with his wife on the telephone over how much money he was sending back to Romania for her and their children on the day of the attack.
Then in the early evening, the father of three walked through Gloucester shopping centre and robbed a homeless woman of her bag as she lay on a bench in an unconscious state from drugs and alcohol, reports GloucesterLive.
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UK: Migrant Drug Dealer Robs, Ties Up, Beats Student With Baseball Bat
Polish drug dealer Witold Kowalski, 27, was jailed for eight years after subjecting a student to a violent attack and robbery at his university accommodation in the coastal resort town of Bournemouth.
Bournemouth Crown Court heard that Kowalski had tied up 19-year-old Tsz Fung with cable ties and then robbed him of watches, a laptop, and a computer hard drive before beating the student over the head with a baseball bat, reports the Bournemouth Daily Echo.
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“They Loathe Christians”: Google Refuses to Recognize Easter
Doodle commemorates Islamic & Hindu holidays but not Christian festival
UPDATE: Google claims, “We don’t have Doodles for religious holidays.”
This is totally false.
Google had a doodle for the Hindu ‘Holi’ religious festival one month ago.
Here it is on their own website.
Why is Google lying about this?
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Funny news from Turkmenistan
The Turkmen customs stopped passing light hair colors and means for melioration and discoloration, correspondents of the “Chronicle of Turkmenistan” reported.
Also import of materials for eyelashes and nails extensions is forbidden.
This provoked a 50% rise in the price of still available in the country products for women.
In addition, since April, from the shelves of stores intend to eliminate the remnants of clarifying agents for hair, gels for nails and other similar products.
Recall that, starting in March, women who work in state institutions and organizations of the capital have been banned from painting and nails, eyelashes, discoloration of hair and gold jewelry.
https://www.hronikatm.com/2018/04/posle-zapreta-osvetlyat-volosyi-na-turkmenskoy-tamozhne-ne-propuskayut-kraski-dlya-volos/
…”the Greek coast guard rescued dozens of migrants off the coast of the island of Samos after the refugees’ vessel encountered rough seas “…
I visited Greece last year..
This “refuge” business is a scam..
For a Greek politic “shysters” ,”refuges” become a lucrative enterprise and source to make money on the expenses of EU…https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/09/how-greece-fumbled-refugee-crisis
The scam is fueled by longest serving EU Commissioner Avramopulos and his deputy patsi Christos Stylianides in charge of Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management in EC
The same story with southern Italy
British Taxpayers Gave £20m to Palestinian Schools Which Teach Children That Martyrdom and Jihad Are ‘The Most Important Meanings in Life’
Now I wonder what was taught in Hitlerjugend?
“Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signed an agreement with the United Nations refugee agency to resettle more than 16,000 African migrants from Israel to Canada, Germany, and Italy.”
However, hours after agreeing to the deal, Mr. Netanyahu rescinded it. The deal would have compelled Israel to give an equal number of migrants permanent residence.
Sounds like Trump and Netanyahu have a lot in common.
What gives the UN and Israel the right to form an agreement to dump third world parasites in my country?
That would be your lovely prime minister…if you’re talking about Canada. The man is a menace.
People may be familiar with the hard love ” gag laws ” introduced by the right, but here is the left competing in its own subtrefugal manner, very orwellian in approach :
https://politica.elpais.com/politica/2018/04/03/actualidad/1522769049_750606.html
The new law they are proposing is to ” remove ( internet) content which goes against the constitutional right to freely communicate or receive true information by any means of communication ”
Now if that is not a ministry of truth, I don’t know…and it is all wrapped up in human rights talk etc… along with having the means to identify “offenders”.
It looks like the politicians have found a shared page, all we have to do is listen to get it right .
Right ?