Greece is being overwhelmed by a new wave of migrants, this one coming across the land border from Turkish Thrace. In other Greek news, the government in Athens is under renewed pressure from the EU to reduce its debt and deal with the lack of investment.
In other news, a New Jersey man was sentenced to eight years in prison for plotting to join the Islamic State.
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Greek Crisis: Athens Issued Financial Warning as Tax and Unemployment Bite
GREECE has been warned must tackle the massive problems of high unemployment and low investment despite finally arriving on the finishing straight of its crippling debt crisis recovery.
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22 Police Cars Vandalized in Antifa Hotbed Portland on May Day
In Portland’s first reported May Day disruption, nearly two dozen police cars were vandalized in the northeast section of the city early Tuesday morning, police say.
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Death Penalty Won’t be Sought in Florida Airport Shooting
An Alaska man will not face the death penalty on charges of killing five people and wounding six in a shooting rampage at a Florida airport, authorities announced Tuesday.
Instead, Esteban Santiago agreed to plead guilty, serve a life sentence and give up all appeals rights under a plea deal between his attorneys and federal prosecutors that was announced in court. His actual guilty plea and sentencing would occur at a later date.
Santiago, 28, of Anchorage, Alaska, is charged in a 22-count indictment in the January 2017 shooting in a baggage claim area at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. Trial had been set to begin June 11.
U.S. District Judge Beth Bloom asked Santiago, dressed in a tan jail outfit and in chains, if he understood the agreement he was making.
“Yes, your honor,” he replied.
According to the indictment, Santiago flew on a one-way ticket from Alaska to Fort Lauderdale with a 9 mm handgun in a box he put in checked luggage. After landing he retrieved the weapon, loaded it in a bathroom and came out firing randomly until he exhausted his ammunition.
Since his arrest, Santiago has been treated at a Miami jail for schizophrenia but his lawyers say he is mentally fit for trial. He complained of mental problems before the shooting but was not barred from possessing a gun…
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Delingpole: Donald Trump Must Turn Down the Nobel Peace Prize
In the unlikely event that the Nobel prize committee ever agrees, I can think of two very tempting reasons why the Donald should accept. …
Still, though, despite all this I think Trump should turn down the Nobel Peace prize. Quite simply, it is damaged goods. No, worse than that, it is tainted beyond all redemption. …
No question, Donald Trump is worthy of the Nobel peace prize. But the Nobel peace prize is not worthy of the Donald.
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Eight Years in Prison for NJ Man’s Plot to Join ISIS
He planned to join ISIS, but he ended up in prison.
Samuel Rahamin Topaz, 24, admitted that he viewed videos of the execution of non-Muslims, saved money and planned to travel overseas to join the terrorist group ISIS, according to a release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
The Fort Lee man was sentenced Tuesday to eight years in prison after pleading guilty to one count of conspiring to provide services and personnel to ISIS, according to the release.
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Kanye West Seeks Restraining Order Against Rapper Who Called on Crips to “F**k” Him Up
Kanye West has responded to a former member of Snoop Dogg’s posse who encouraged violence against the rapper as a result of his support for Trump by seeking a restraining order against Daz Dillinger.
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The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) portrays itself as a U.S. civil rights organization. However, as numerous terrorist analysts and the U.S. government itself has noted, CAIR is an unindicted co-conspirator in the 2009 Holy Land Foundation (HLF) retrial—the largest terrorism financing case in the nation’s history. NBC, however, has treated the organization as a credible source on the subject of Islamic extremism.
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Soros-Linked Pac Drops $150k in Oregon Da Race, Obscures Funding Source
Yet another district attorney’s race has been turned on its head by a massive cash infusion from a political action committee (PAC) with ties to left-wing billionaire George Soros.
Oregon Law & Justice PAC spent $150,000 on direct mail and digital advertisements on behalf of progressive lawyer Max Wall between April 17 and April 23, campaign finance filings show. But it’s unclear whose money the PAC is spending.
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Two EPA Officials Stepping Down Amid Ethics Investrigation
In what is seen as another major blow to Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt, two officials have resigned from the agency.
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WhatsApp CEO, Co-Founder Jan Koum to Quit
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Jan Koum’s plan to exit comes after clashing with the parent company over WhatApp’s strategy and Facebook’s attempts to use its personal data and weaken its encryption, the Washington Post earlier reported, citing people familiar with the internal discussions.
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Drug Overdose Leading Cause of Death Among Men Under 40 in Finland — Report
Nearly 200 people died of a drug overdose in Finland in 2016, according to an EU drug monitoring agency. The data show that men are over-represented in deaths due to drug overdoses.
According to the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction EMCDDA, there were 194 cases of death due to drug overdose in 2016 — an increase of 28 cases on the previous year. The agency has based its findings on data provided by Statistics Finland.
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EU on the Brink: ‘Pandora’s Box’ Could Trigger Collapse of Bloc Over Its Punishment Plans
EUROPEAN UNION bosses could open a “Pandora’s box” of euroscepticism with their upcoming budget plans, which member states fear funds could be diverted from Eastern states to their southern neighbours.
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France: Paris Burns on May Day as Far-Left Protestors Petrol-Bomb McDonalds and Set Cars Alight
MAY DAY protests in Paris have spiralled out of control as hooded protestors hurled petrol bombs through the window of a McDonalds and set cars alight — with police making 200 arrests.
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German President Steinmeier Discusses Anti-Semitism With Shiite Muslim Leaders
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier asked the Shiite leaders what their communities were doing to fight hostility against Jews. The conversation took place amid fears of rising anti-Semitism in Germany.
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Italy Could Face New Elections as Leader of the Largest Party Wants to Get Back to the Polls
Anti-establishment 5-Star Movement (M5S) leader Luigi Di Maio on Monday urged anti-migrant Euroskeptic League leader Matteo Salvini to join with him in asking President Sergio Mattarella to call fresh elections in June.
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Netherlands: Public Prosecutor Says PVV Islam Video Does Not Incite Hatred or Discrimination
The public prosecution department will not take legal action about a video made by the anti-Islam PVV party ahead of the local elections because the contents are not against the law.
In total, 17 people have made a formal complaint about the video which was broadcast on the public television channels.
The video, which lasts 2.5 minutes, features the words ‘Islam is’ in red, followed by words and phrases such as violence, forced-marriage, terror, deadly, Jew-hater, gay-hater and ‘deadly’. The words drip blood as they appear on the screen.
The public prosecution department said in a statement that it did not consider the video incited hatred, discrimination or violence because it focused on Islam as a religion, not its followers.
Prime minister Mark Rutte was among those to criticise the video when it was first broadcast. ‘I think I represent the bulk of the population if I describe this video as tasteless,’ he said, but declined to comment further.
PVV leader Geert Wilders welcomed the public prosecutor’s decision, saying ‘the truth about Islam’ would be seen again during party political airtime.
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Outrage After Arabic Lesson Students in Swedish Schools Were Just Learning the Quran, Islamic Prayer
Two schools in Sweden have come under fire from school inspectorate authorities after it was revealed that migrant-background children being taught lessons in their native language were actually just learning the Quran.
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Right Wing Populist League Party Wins Big in Italian Regional Vote
ROME (AP) — Italy’s right-wing League party has a new regional election win, fueling its determination Monday to govern the entire country.
Final results on Monday showed the anti-migrant League’s candidate for governor, Massimiliano Federiga, capturing 57 percent of the votes cast Sunday for the center-right campaign alliance which backed him in the balloting in the northeast Friuli Venezia Giulia region. The victory expands the League’s solid dominance in Italy’s affluent north.
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Sectarian Killers Threaten UK Muslim Prison Chaplains With Murder
Muslim prison chaplains have warned their lives are in danger from sectarian radicals supporting a Sunni Muslim from Bradford who killed a member of the Ahmadiyya sect living in Scotland.
The religious leaders say killer Tanveer Ahmed has “put out a death warrant” on their heads and that there are radical Muslims living in English “ghettos” who are prepared to kill them, demanding more protection.
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UK Terror Police Arrest Man Travelling by Coach From France
UK counter-terror police arrested a man arriving into the country from France onboard a coach at Folkstone, on the south Kentish coast, Tuesday morning.
The 42-year-old male was detained around 0100 Tuesday morning as the coach from France arrived in Folkstone, Kent, reports KentLive.
The Metropolitan police said the Counter Terrorism Command had led the investigation which led to the man’s arrest, which was under section 5 of the Terrorism Act, and that the action was in connection with the war in Syria.
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UK: Husnain Rash, Accused of Encouraging Prince George Attack, Denies Terror
LONDON (AP) — An alleged supporter of the Islamic State group charged with sharing information about Prince George on social media has denied committing terrorism offenses.
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UK: May Day Protest: Anti-Capitalists Descend on London in March Against Brexit and Austerity
MAY Day anti-capitalist protesters wielding flares and communist flags have descended on London as part of a worldwide day of demonstrations against austerity and Brexit.
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UK: Video: What They’re Not Telling You About London’s Crime Wave
The real causes behind London’s violent crime wave are being hidden to protect politically correct myths.
London’s violent crime wave is happening for 5 reasons.
- Mass immigration
- Political correctness
- Emasculation of police
- Hopeless nihilistic youth
- Degenerate “drill rap” music
This is what they don’t want you to know.
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Full Text of Netanyahu on Iran Deal: ‘100,000 Files Right Here Prove They Lied’
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Well, tonight, I’m here to tell you one thing: Iran lied. Big time.
After signing the nuclear deal in 2015, Iran intensified its efforts to hide its secret nuclear files. In 2017, Iran moved its nuclear weapons files to a highly secret location in Tehran. This is the Shorabad District in southern Tehran. This is where they kept the atomic archives. Right here. Few Iranians knew where it was, very few, and also a few Israelis.
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Obama Bros. Speechless After Netanyahu Exposes Iran Deal Lies
The vaunted “echo chamber” that President Barack Obama’s aide Ben Rhodes created to sell the Iran deal was quiet on Monday, in the aftermath of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s revelations of new intelligence proving that Iran had lied to the world about its nuclear weapons program.
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Russia Wipes Out ‘ISIS Sleeper Cells’ With Killer Robot in World Cup Terror Crackdown
SHOCKING footage has emerged of Russian operations slaying jihadist “sleeper cells” and “underground units” ahead of the World Cup.
A total of 11 alleged terrorists were “liquidated” in the tinderbox Islamic region of Dagestan over several days.
In one incident Vladimir Putin’s law enforcement officers stormed a house where a special police “shooting robot” was used against the suspects, say sources.
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Exclusive: A Case of Pentagon-Financed Technology Undergirding Beijing’s Military
The Chinese regime’s fifth-generation fighters, state-of-the-art naval cruisers, and soon-to-be launched aircraft carriers are more deadly than they otherwise would be because they are equipped with advanced fiber-optic cable originally built for the Pentagon, according to a U.S. military intelligence officer.
The saga of this cable is part of a bigger story of how American military technology ends up with the Chinese regime’s military, an issue the Trump administration is seeking to address with sanctions and new legislation. …
“One of the biggest culprits in this whole scheme is President [Bill] Clinton, because he freely allowed China access to advanced military technology, like the W88 nuclear warhead. There were no restrictions,” he said. “The [CCP] gained 25 years of development by getting U.S. technology for free.” …
“Huawei and ZTE are cat’s paws for Chinese Communist Party domination, and we should treat them as such in every conceivable way.”
“The reality of China’s pervasive civil-military integration policies means that anything we sell to China will be evaluated for military exploitation. … Anything we sell China … should be evaluated on whether that technology could end up killing our troops.”
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Two of three teenagers arrested after a wild brawl between African youths and police in Melbourne’s western suburbs have faced court charged with offences including assault and resisting arrest.
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Middle Eastern man Bilal El Hassan, aged 37, who also goes by the name Dante Lamis (pictured), is on the run in Sydney, New South Wales over an alleged kidnapping and car crash.
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Venezuela in Freefall — Government’s ‘Lack of Everything’ Hits Oil Production
VENEZUELA’S oil production is in freefall amid mass resignations from the state run oil company as oil bosses warned “there is a lack of tools, there is a lack of everything” in the crisis hit nation.
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As Caravan Members Await Processing, Some Charged With Entering U.S. Illegally
Following the arrival of the caravan of more than 1,200 migrants from Central America at the border city of Tijuana on April 24, most of the refugee seekers waited on the Mexican side of the border after border inspectors said that the crossing facility did not have enough space to accommodate them.
Most of the migrants remained at a checkpoint between the United States and Mexico, waiting for their turn to apply for asylum. U.S. Customs and Border Protection said in an April 30 statement, “We reached capacity at the San Ysidro port of entry over the weekend, and were temporarily unable to bring additional persons traveling without appropriate entry documentation into the port of entry for processing. We began processing undocumented arrivals again [today].”
As most waited to enter the United States to begin the asylum process, however, the Department of Justice on April 30 filed complaints against 11 individuals believed to be members of the caravan, accusing them of illegally entering the United States.
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Border Patrol Agents Find Live Tiger Inside Abandoned Duffel Bag
US Border Patrol agents made a startling discovery Monday after three illegal immigrants abandoned their duffel bag before escaping back to Mexico.
Inside? A live tiger cub.
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An 11-year-old boy was brutally beaten by a group of teenagers in Berlin’s Neukölln migrant suburb, Poland’s Fakt24 reports. The boy was taken to hospital after an attack that, according to police, was racially motivated.
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Macron: Migrant Violence, Terror is Europe’s Fault, ‘Not Linked’ To Mass Immigration
“I am absolutely not naive. In our societies, we have a need for more security, more national security, especially for women,” Macron said, before stating: “I do not believe that these phenomena are linked to migration.”
“Why? Because it is not new and unfortunately we have had this problem for years not to say decades in my country”, he explained, telling students that “exactly the same debates” were taking place in France over national security during the country’s 2002 presidential election campaign. …
In 2009, France actually piloted a scheme in which CVs were anonymous, meaning they omitted information such as candidates’ names, ages, and addresses in a bid to “reduce the opportunity gap” between migrants and natives. However, the scheme was scrapped when the pilot resulted in fewer callbacks for minorities and candidates living in so-called ‘no-go’ zones.
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Migrant Says He ‘Accidentally’ Raped a Belgian Woman: “I Wasn’t Myself That Day”
Taoufik A. raped a Belgian woman during a burglary in the Belgian town of Kortrijk. He was finally caught, nearly five years after his horrible act, after an international DNA investigation, Belgian newspaper HLN reports.
The North African migrant raped the woman in her apartment in Kortrijk’s city centre. He put a knife to her throat and raped her on the kitchen table while her partner was working in their copy centre nearby.
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Return of the Migrant Crisis: Greece ‘Overwhelmed’ As Illegals Surge Across Turkish Land Border
Greece is being “overwhelmed” by illegal migrants surging across its land border with Turkey, with a local mayor warning the situation is “on the verge of spinning out of control”.
The country bore the brunt of the 2015 influx, which saw over 815,000 illegal migrants traverse the Aegean Sea in dangerous watercraft.
This figure was reduced to 30,000 in 2017 after the European Union persuaded the Turkish government to step up containment efforts following a multi-billion euro deal partly financed by the United Kingdom.
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Gustav Kasselstrand, the leader and founder of the new Alternative for Sweden (AfS) party, has attacked his country’s migration policy. Kasselstrand has serious plans to send migrants back who don’t integrate, Sweden’s Fria Tider reports.
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The Swedish government recently tweeted the “admission” that their Swedish meatballs were actually Turkish.
https://www.straitstimes.com/world/europe/swedish-meatballs-are-actually-turkish-says-sweden
By which of course they mean “we’ve always been Muslim”
I like Ikea’s meatballs, and sometimes eat them there or bring home the frozen ones. At least I know that, containing pork, they’re not halal!
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The new not white replacement Swedes
The Swedish Migration Board made a 15-minutes film in English entitled “Everyday life in Sweden” that would tell about life in new Sweden, also called Absurdistan, for newly arrived culture enrichters . The film shows small once idyllic communities and happy foreigners in spacious modern furnished apartments with everything paid by regularely tax-patyers. In one bedroom, there is a bed type luxury hotel even with a dressing table.
Cuck-Cuck!
https://youtu.be/EMCUgaoy8vc