While I was away, three Americans held hostage in North Korea were set free, and President Trump was there to greet them at 3am when they arrived at the airport. Meanwhile, Mr. Trump announced June 12 as the date when he would hold a summit with Rocket Man in Singapore.
In other news, California has become the first state to mandate solar panels on new houses.
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California Becomes First State to Mandate Solar Panels on New Homes
California has become the first state in the nation to mandate solar panels for all new homes, in a move to cut greenhouse gas emissions that critics say will end up raising home prices in the already expensive market.
In a unanimous 5-0 vote Wednesday, the California Energy Commission approved the policy.
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Vox Day Exposes Jordan Peterson And The Left’s Plan To Take Control Of The Nationalist Movement:
Vox Day joins Alex Jones live via Skype to break down how Ben Shapiro and Jordan Peterson are puppets of the left, used to take control of the nationalist movement and destroy its potential.
That is the name of the video that InfoWars posted on May 7, 2018. It inspired the sort of responses that you can probably anticipate by now.
Vox is obviously jealous of Peterson and Shapiro’s success. He’s trying to be as relevant as they are.
So, about that relevance… The timing of the video was rather timely, and its title was rather prophetic, because the very next day, May 8, 2018, The New York Times posted an article entitled Meet the Renegades of the Intellectual Dark Web: An alliance of heretics is making an end run around the mainstream conversation. Should we be listening?
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A bystander hurled abuse at a US cop who allegedly shot dead Australian woman Justine Ruszczyk Damond when he appeared in court on Tuesday.
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Judge Won’t Drop Felony Charges Against Antifa Member, Says No Proof of ‘Witch Hunt’
A California judge declined to drop felony charges against a middle school teacher-turned-Antifa leader and two other activists despite lawyers claiming the charges were part of a “witch hunt” against the educator.
Yvette Felarca, 47, the leader and spokesperson for the anti-fascist group By Any Means Necessary and a middle school teacher in Berkeley, was accused of inciting and participating in a riot in 2016 between white nationalist groups and counter-protesters.
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KC Antifa Group Promises to ‘Fight Harder’ After Agitators Arrested in Clash With ‘The Pigs’
Five antifa radicals were arrested in Kansas City on May Day after they clashed with police in an incident the entire local media except for one blogger seems to have missed.
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Monica Lewinsky Says She Was Uninvited From Event on Social Change After Bill Clinton Said Yes
Monica Lewinsky tweeted Wednesday that she was invited — then uninvited — to a social change event after former President Bill Clinton decided to attend.
“dear world: please don’t invite me to an event (esp one about social change) and — then after i’ve accepted — uninvite me because bill clinton then decided to attend/was invited. it’s 2018,” she wrote.
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Muslim on ‘Jihad’ Sentenced to Life Without Parole For Murder of New Jersey Student
In the first paragraph of this online news arrticle: NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A former Seattle resident who admitted killing four people on a self-proclaimed “jihad” to avenge U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East received a life sentence without parole Tuesday for the 2014 ambush of a college student sitting in his car at a traffic light in New Jersey.
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Starbucks Becomes America’s Largest Public Restroom
Starbucks suddenly finds itself in the hospitality business in the wake of the embarrassing PR nightmare in which two black men were denied the use of a bathroom and later arrested by police while waiting for an associate in a Philadelphia location.
Now, thanks to a new policy announced by executive chairman Howard Schultz at the Atlantic Council on Thursday, any and all who wish to unburden themselves or simply take an invigorating sink shower at any of Starbucks’ nearly 27,000 locations — whether they are paying customers or not — can make use of Starbucks’ repenting facilities.
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WSJ: The FBI Hid a Mole in the Trump Campaign
On Wednesday we reported on an intense battle playing out between House Intel Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA), the Department of Justice, and the Mueller investigation concerning a cache of intelligence that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein refuses to hand over — a request he equated to “extortion.”
On Tuesday, the Washington Post reported that Nunes was denied access to the information on the grounds that it “could risk lives by potentially exposing the source, a U.S. citizen who has provided intelligence to the CIA and FBI.”
After the White House caved to Rosenstein and Nunes was barred from seeing the documents, it also emerged that this same intelligence had already been shared with Special Counsel Robert Mueller as part of his investigation into alleged Russian involvement in the 2016 US election.
On Wednesday afternoon, however, news emerged that Nunes and House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-SC) would receive a classified Thursday briefing at the DOJ on the documents. This is, to put it lightly, incredibly significant.
Why? Because it appears that the FBI may have had a mole embedded in the Trump campaign.
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Trudeau Aims for G7 to Pick Up Fight Against Extreme Nationalism
OTTAWA (AFP) — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau hopes the G7 will step up to fight extreme nationalism, and adopt concrete measures on the environment and women’s education in crisis zones when it meets in Canada next month, he told AFP in an exclusive interview.
“Many countries and many citizens are questioning the current system, as seen by the emergence of extreme nationalism or right-wing populism, or (voicing opposition) to anti-globalization,” Trudeau said.
“This must be at the center of the discussions we will have at the G7: how to reassure citizens about the future we are building together,” he added in his parliamentary office in Ottawa.
“It is important that we remain vigilant and keep this order, this peace, this stability, this predictability that has helped us to create everything we have today.”
President Donald Trump’s recent decision to pull the US out of the Iranian nuclear deal is expected to be front and center at the June 8-9 summit in La Malbaie of leaders of the world’s seven largest industrialized nations — Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States.
Global trade is also on the menu, as Canada, Mexico and the United States hold crunch talks to try to secure a new North American Free Trade Agreement, and Europe and Japan push back against US protectionist trade policies.
Still, Trudeau suggested that US President Donald Trump will not feel alone at the table, because the G7 summit will “seek consensus on security and economic issues.”
There will be “real robust discussion on how we can move forward together,” Trudeau promised.
– Gender equality –
Host Canada is planning to focus on gender equality at the summit, unveiling a G7 advisory council on the issue.
“Gender parity, the defense of women’s rights, the inclusion of LGBT and other minorities in society is not just a moral argument, it is an economic imperative,” Trudeau said.
The Canadian leader said he would encourage his G7 peers to tackle this issue in developing countries where “a lot of investment” is required, especially “in places of crisis, in refugee camps (where) education for girls is almost absent.”
“If, as a G7 nation, we can invest in the education of women and girls in crisis, we will reduce the impact of the crisis… and make sure not to lose a generation” and preserve the ability of “these women and girls to contribute to a better world,” he said.
– Ocean pollution –
Canada will also press for action to clean up the world’s oceans, as part of a larger environmental and climate agenda.
“This is one of the topics in which there is the most consensus in the G7 and around the world,” Trudeau said, adding that talks at the summit would broach sustainable fisheries, reduced plastic consumption and waste, and improved ocean data collection and science.
To face climate change and its corollary “extreme weather events,” Trudeau called for urgent preventative and adaptive measures, such as building “resilient infrastructure.”
Trudeau pointed to rising sea levels affecting coastal nations, and an increased frequency of hurricanes and floods.
Oceans protection is a global concern and the G7 must demonstrate “real leadership” in dealing with this difficult issue and “deliver tangible results,” Trudeau said.
“Canada has the world’s longest coastline, and oceans are extremely important to us, but we’re not alone and it’s an area where we can find a lot of common ground,” he added, noting “broad” support from governments and the private sector.
– Marijuana legalization push –
The G7 summit is taking place a few months before Canada is scheduled to legalize the recreational use of marijuana.
Canada’s government statistical agency has estimated the domestic market will be worth Can$5.7 billion ($4.5 billion US) based on last year’s consumption data.
Canadian producers are already positioning themselves to become world leaders in the sector.
Uruguay legalized pot five years ago and several US states have too. Trudeau said other nations are closely watching Canada’s move and may follow suit.
“There is a lot of interest from our allies in what we’re doing,” the prime minister said. “They recognize that Canada is being daring… and that the current regime (of prohibition) does not work.”
by Clément SABOURIN, Michel COMTE
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Belgian Imams Being Trained With Anti-Semitic, Radical Islamic Literature
Leaked documents from the Belgian Unit for Coordination and Threat Analysis (OCAM) have revealed that future Belgian Imams are being trained with materials containing radical Islamic policies including persecuting homosexuals engaging in armed jihad.
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‘Delusional Nightmares’ of United States of Europe Must End — Hungary’s Orban Blasts EU
THE European Union should give up the “delusional nightmares” of a United States of Europe, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said as he pledged to defend his nation’s Christian values and fight EU migrant settlement quotas.
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‘Disturbed’ Quran-Chanting, Knife Throwing Moroccan Male Arrested Outside French Police Station
Police officers in the 18th arrondissement of Paris arrested a 60-year-old Moroccan man who appeared in front of their police station armed with a knife, chanted verses from the Quran and had pictures of officers who worked at the station in his possession.
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Eleven Days Set Aside for Wilders Hate Speech Appeal
The court in The Hague will start the hate speech appeal against PVV leader Geert Wilders next week Thursday. Eleven days were set aside for the trial, which will be held in the high security court at Schiphol, RTL Nieuws reports.
Wilders is facing discrimination chargers over statements he made about Moroccans while campaigning in the Hague in 2014. Wilders said that The Hague should be a city with fewer problems and, if possible, fewer Moroccans. The PVV leader also asked a cafe full of his followers whether they want more or fewer Moroccans in The Hague and the Netherlands, to which they responded by chanting “fewer, fewer, fewer”. Wilders then said he would arrange that.
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Europe Faces Massive Wave of Freed Terror Convicts
PARIS (AP) — Over the next two years, terrorism convicts will walk free from European prisons by the dozens — more than 200 inmates who largely formed the first wave of jihadis streaming to Syria and Iraq, dreaming of an Islamic caliphate not yet established.
In all, about 12,000 Europeans left to fight with the Islamic State group and al-Qaida beginning in 2011; about a third of those are now believed to be back home, mostly living freely. Some are awaiting trial, but most never even faced serious charges due to insufficient evidence.
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France: Migrant Syrian ‘Jumped From Bushes to Attack Woman Before Attempting to Drown Her in River’
“Police in Strasbourg have arrested a 33-year-old migrant after he reportedly attacked a woman who was walking home and tried to drown her in the River Ill, local media reports.
The 35-year-old victim was walking home on one of the French city’s cycle paths on Friday night when a man with a knife reportedly jumped out from bushes near the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art.
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France: Thalys Train Attack Gunman Was ‘Unable to Kill’
Ayoub El-Khazzani has already admitted his role in a 2015 attack plot aimed at targeting Americans on a train travelling from Amsterdam to Paris.
Now he has claimed he was too much of a “psychological wreck” to kill anyone, according to an account he gave to a judge that has been seen by French media.
The story of how the gunman was tackled by passengers as the train sped through northern France has already been made into a Clint Eastwood film.
Two passengers on board were wounded.
But the 21 August 2015 attack, three months before the Paris attacks in which 130 people died, could have been far worse.
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Germany Deports Suspected Islamic State Extremist to Tunisia
BERLIN (AP) — German authorities have deported a suspected Islamic State member to Tunisia, days after Germany’s highest court rejected his appeal.
Hesse state Interior Minister Peter Beuth says the 37-year-old Tunisian, identified as Haikel S., was handed over to authorities in his homeland Wednesday.
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Hungarian PM: “The Era of Liberal Democracy is Over”
Hungary will continue to oppose mandatory migrant quotas, stand up for Europe’s Christian culture and fight to protect its borders, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said in his inaugural address to parliament on Thursday. The prime minister discussed sovereignty, demography and economy too in his speech.
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Islamophobia in Paris and London — How it Differs and Why
Islamophobia has increased in both Paris and London in recent years but anti-Islam behaviour shows itself very differently in the two capital cities, as this article from The Conversation explains.
Islamophobia in France and Britain has intensified in recent years, particularly in the wake of terrorist incidents, such as the 2015 Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris and the London Bridge attack.
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Italian Government Forecasts Demographic Plunge by 2065
The Italian Statistics Bureau (ISTAT) has released demographic forecasts for the country predicting a steadily declining population due to a birthrate well below replacement levels.
From 60.6 million in 2017, Italy’s population is expected to fall by more than ten percent over the next several decades to just 54.1 million in 2065, ISTAT stated in its May 2018 report. This drop will occur despite increased life expectancy, which is projected to grow by 5 years for both genders, reaching 86.1 years and 90.2 years, respectively for men and women (80.6 and 85 years in 2016), ISTAT said.
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Italian Anti-Terror Ops Target 14 in Suspected Network Backing Syrian Islamists
MILAN (AP) — Italian police have launched anti-terrorism operations across the country in the hunt for 14 suspects linked to a network supporting Islamic extremists in Syria.
Prosecutors said Thursday that police were exercising arrest warrants for four suspected militants, one Syrian and three Moroccans, in Sardinia; and elsewhere in the country for 10 Syrians suspected of money laundering and other financial crimes linked to terror financing.
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Just 18 Per Cent of Flemish Belgians Say Islam is Compatible With the West
Fewer than one in five Flemish Belgians consider Islamic values compatible with their own way of life, a survey has found, with many Muslim migrants saying Islam is more important than Belgian law.
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Muslims in Sweden Want “Allahu Akbar” Call to Prayer Broadcast Throughout the Country
Prominent Muslims in Sweden are now demanding that the Islamic call to prayer be broadcast throughout the country after it was allowed in the city of Växjö.
On Tuesday, Swedish police granted a mosque in the southern city of Vaxjo permission to broadcast the call to prayer, which commonly includes the refrain “Allahu Akbar,” over loudspeakers once a week.
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Paris: Pickpocket Gang Charged Over €3 Million Worth of Thefts at Tourist Sites
Members of a pickpocket gang who ran a human trafficking network that sent undocumented minors to pick pockets at tourist sites in Paris and other French cities have been charged in France.
Bosnian prosecutors on Thursday brought charges against eight people for running a human trafficking network that sent undocumented minors to pick pockets at tourist sites in Paris and other French cities.
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Poland’s Biggest Problem? Not Terrorism But the Crash of a Truck Filled With Liquid Chocolate
While Western Europe is facing daily terror threats, the situation is completely different in Poland. Not arrests of ISIS members or escalating migrant riots are dominating the news in the country, but the crash of a truck filled with liquid chocolate.
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Populist Italian Government is a Reality: Ex-Minister Warns EU to Prepare for Eurosceptics
ITALY is getting closer to the creation of an all-populist government as leaders of anti-EU Lega and eurosceptic Five Star Movement are pushing coalition talks forward avoid elections.
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Registration Open for Milo’s Lecture in Budapest, Hungary
The time and date of Milo Yiannopoulos’s lecture in Budapest have been made public on Thursday by the organiser, the Public Foundation for the Research on Central and Eastern European History and Society.
The British author and journalist was to speak at the foundation’s conference entitled The Future of Europe in January, but it was postponed due to the upcoming election campaign.
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Role of French National Hero Joan of Arc Could Soon be Played by a Muslim Woman
In an effort to celebrate diversity, the role of Joan of Arc was played by a black teen during Tuesday’s celebrations in the city of Orleans.
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Saudi-Financed Belgian Mosques Teach Hatred of Jews, Gays: Report
BRUSSELS (AFP) -Teaching manuals in Gulf Arab-financed mosques in Belgium promote anti-semitic stereotypes of Jews and call for the persecution of homosexuals, according to a leaked Belgian intelligence report.
The texts used in mosques including the Brussels Grand Mosque call for gays to be stoned to death or thrown off buildings and describe Jews as “evil”, the report by the OCAM national terrorism monitoring centre said.
The writings, which are used to train preachers and theology professors, were “inspired mainly by classical Islamic law from the Middle Ages,” OCAM said in a copy of the report obtained by AFP on Friday.
They have “problematic content in terms of radicalism, xenophobia and anti-Semitism,” the OCAM report said.
Belgian lawmakers say they will discuss the report next week.
The report singled out Arabic-language religious training manuals in the Grand Mosque, which is near EU headquarters in Brussels.
The Belgian government said in March that it would terminate Saudi Arabia’s half-century old lease of the Grand Mosque over concerns it was promoting radicalism. It had been run by the Muslim World League.
The manuals call Jews a “corrupt, evil and treacherous people” and call for “war” on all people who do not follow Sunni Islam.
They also recommend “stoning” and “fire” as methods of killing gays, along with throwing them off “the highest building in the village”.
One manual says “the most important principle of jihad is to fight unbelievers and aggressors,” according to the report. “Armed jihad becomes an individual duty for every Muslim.”
OCAM said such manuals are widely available “thanks to the unlimited financial and technological means of the proselytising apparatus of Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states.”
The manuals, it added, were found not only in Belgium but also in neighbouring countries, both in hard copy and online.
The report comes from the work of the Belgian parliamentary committee investigating the suicide bombings that killed 32 people at Brussels airport and a metro station in March 2016, which were claimed by the Islamic State group.
OCAM director Paul Van Tigchelt will next Wednesday discuss the report with committee members behind closed doors, members of parliament told AFP.
“There is an urgency to be firmer and much clearer and close this scholarly institution,” centrist opposition lawmaker Georges Dallemagne said, referring to the Grand Mosque.
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‘Sisterhood in Jihad’: UK’s First All-Female Islamic State Cell Accused of London Plot
A pair of sisters and their mother are accused of plotting the UK’s first all-female Islamic State-inspired terror attack on London, spurred on by a fighter in Syria.
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Swedish Town That Approved a Mosque’s Calls to Prayer Had Previously Rejected Church Bells
As if the decision to allow a mosque in the southern Swedish town of Växjö to feature a call to prayer wasn’t controversial enough, it has now emerged that a Catholic church located just 1.5 kilometres from the mosque was denied a request to ring church bells.
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The End of Free Language Classes Will Push Foreign Professionals Out of Denmark: Di
If the government and the Danish People’s Party (DF) have their way, foreigners will have to pay 12,000 kroner (1,600 euros) to take Danish classes.
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Trump’s Iran Deal Reversal Increases Uncertainty for Austria’s Oberbank.
One of the few European banks to have a credit deal with Iran said on Wednesday lending had been thrown into further doubt by the US withdrawal from a landmark nuclear agreement.
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UK: As Violent Crime Soars, Sadiq Khan Vows to Fight Cheeseburgers
As violent crime continues to soar in London, Mayor Sadiq Khan went on air to take the fight to the real problem — cheeseburgers.
Yes, really.
During a series of appearance on morning television, Khan announced a proposal to ban junk food ads across the capital.
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UK: Govt Logs 1,200 Forced Marriage Cases in One Year, But ‘Full Scale’ Not Known
Nearly 1,200 forced marriage cases were logged by the government’s Forced Marriage Unit (FMU) last year, new data shows, with the body saying the number “may not reflect the full scale of the abuse.”
Of the 1,196 cases flagged 2017, more than one in four victims were younger than 18-years-old, and one in five were males, the FMU said in a report.
The document reveals that that, since 2012, the unit has logged between 1,200 and 1,400 cases each year, involving more than 90 foreign countries. In 2016, the FMU recorded over 1,400 victims, up from 1,200 in 2015, as reported by Breitbart London.
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UK: Police Warned Over Legality of Gang Crime Database Because Majority of Entries Are Black Males
Britain has been told to scrap its “racialised” war on youth violence after an investigation accused the nation of breaching human rights law with police use of an anti-gangs database featuring predominantly black, male suspects.
Amnesty International called on the government “to urgently review” the Metropolitan Police’s Gangs Matrix and set up a public enquiry after it found that black men constituted 78 per cent of 3,500 people registered on the monitoring database.
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UK: Tony Blair Pocketed Some £800,000 in Pension Despite Making a Fortune Outside Parliament
Tony Blair pocketed some £800,000 in pension from the taxpayer — before he turned 65 this week and officially became an OAP.
The former Prime Minister celebrated his birthday on Sunday and is now formally entitled to his state retirement payments.
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Iran Nuclear Deal ‘Should Never be Called Into Question’, Says Merkel
Germany, France and Britain will “do everything” to ensure that Iran remains in the landmark 2015 nuclear deal, Chancellor Angela Merkel vowed Wednesday, a day after the US pulled out of the accord.
“We will remain committed to this agreement and will do everything to ensure that Iran complies with the deal,” Merkel said, adding that Berlin had made the decision jointly with Paris and London.
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Kuwait: Fake Doctor Arrested; Fake Cop in Custody
Criminal detectives arrested an Egyptian man claiming to be a doctor, who had become well known for his ability to get sick leaves for government employees for KD 10 per day. A citizen met the head of criminal detectives Maj Gen Mohammad Al-Sharhan and told him many of her colleagues said whenever they want leave or to travel, they get sick leaves for KD 10 per day. She said she made an appointment with the man and gave him KD 20 for a two-day leave slip. Sharhan ordered investigations into the matter, and detectives discovered the man is an air-conditioning technician and not a doctor. Doctors who signed the sick leaves for him were not aware of him charging money for them.
Fake cop in custody
A bedoon man was taken to Jleeb Al-Shuyiukh detectives for questioning for posing as a policeman. He was arrested in a mall wearing a police uniform. When a police foot patrol approached him, the suspect attempted to escape, but he was caught. He said he wears the uniform only for showing off. He claimed to have a car rental office in the mall, adding that he never goes out of the mall in uniform.
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There has been a “deafening silence” from most Western leaders about the Kurds suffering an illegal Turkish invasion, said Sandeep Gopalan, a law professor at Deakin University in Melbourne. The European chancelleries all abandoned the Kurds to their fate.
Just think, UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson tweeted, “Turkey is right to want to keep its borders secure”. The West gave the Turks a green light to massacre the Kurds.
Worse, as an appeal published by the New York Review of Books reminds us:
“the Turkish attack on Afrin was entirely unprovoked. In fact, Afrin was so peaceful for most of the Syrian war that it became a safe haven for tens of thousands of refugees — some of whom are now refugees for a second time. In the cantons they controlled, the Kurdish-led forces had established an oasis, unique in Syria, of local self-government, women’s rights, and secular rule”.
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It’s not a Western campaign to demonize the Russian Federation and its leadership.
It is simply the truth.
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reported this week asylum applications by Russian citizens in the United States hit a 24-year high in 2017, jumping nearly 40 percent from the previous year and continuing an upward march that began after Vladimir Putin began his second run as president in 2012.
I personally have met many Russian asylum-seekers who have started the process. The reasons are varied. Fears about their businesses being confiscated; being gay or HIV-positive; bad memories of political persecution; and refusing to pay bribes are among the reasons often cited.
The trend will only escalate as the Kremlin intensifies its crackdown on the internet and privacy. Private communications on encrypted apps have long been used by Russians to talk with others amongst themselves and with friends around the world. The Russian-developed app Telegram has been the favored instrument in recent years, famous for the strength of its privacy protocols. The recent ban of this popular tool has created quite an unexpected firestorm across Russia.
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It’s not just oppression and insecurity that are driving Russians away from their beloved homeland. Many are worried about getting a good education for their children, unencumbered by Kremlin propaganda. Many fear their personal savings are being stolen, or their businesses could be “appropriated” by false criminal charges, a favored tactic of abusive officials.
Some Russians are convinced the only way to save their country is to stay and fight. But too many just don’t have the stomach or bravery to take on the Kremlin and the state. So they just leave.
Mr. Putin has endeavored to diversify the Russian economy away from a reliance on oil and gas. He has had some fitful successes, but sooner or later, any promising Russian entrepreneur runs into a wall of state and oligarchic resistance. Someone more wealthy than you may want your idea, the business you have built, or other assets. So they take them. It’s that simple.
The one thing a vibrant market economy needs to produce real growth and entrepreneurship is the rule of law. Unfortunately, that does not exist in Russia. In Russia, might makes right and wealth equals power. Until this changes, no amount of funding or government support will change things.
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Americans Are Dying for China in Afghanistan
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The Chinese evidently see their role in Afghanistan as the “good cop” versus the U.S. role as “bad cop.” Like Pakistan, China seems to view the Taliban as the political opposition, not as a terrorist organization, and has offered itself as an intermediary to negotiate the departure of the U.S. and, thereby, be in a position to reap the economic and geopolitical benefits of Afghanistan as a client state of the China-Pakistan alliance.
In other words, Americans are doing the work that the Chinese will not do, but from which the Chinese can eventually benefit the most.
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Malaysia Election: Opposition Scores Historic Victory
Former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has scored a historic victory in the country’s general election, official results show.
The election commission said Mr Mahathir’s opposition alliance had won 115 seats, over the threshold of 112 seats needed to form a government.
Mr Mahathir, 92, defeated the governing Barisan Nasional coalition, which has been in power for more than 60 years.
He came out of retirement to take on his former protege, Najib Razak.
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Second Indian Teen Raped and Set on Fire
Girl raped, doused in kerosene and set alight
NEW DELHI: A 17-year-old Indian girl was fighting for her life yesterday after being raped, doused in kerosene and set alight, the second such case to shake the country this week as it reels from a series of brutal sexual assaults. The teenager was attacked on Friday-the same day a 16-year-old was raped and burned to death, also in the eastern state of Jharkhand. The two incidents have shone a spotlight on the treatment of rape in India, where authorities are facing renewed pressure to act on sexual crimes after the recent gang rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl.
The cases are some of the most high-profile since the 2012 rape and murder of a student on a New Delhi bus that triggered mass protests. “The girl has suffered 70 percent first-degree burns. There is a chance that she will survive,” Shailendra Barnwal, police superintendent of Pakur district said. The victim has been moved to a private hospital with specialist facilities for “proper treatment and recovery”, he said. Police have arrested a 19-year-old man who lives in the same neighbourhood as the victim. “He poured kerosene on the girl and set her on fire,” Barnwal said. Fifteen people have been detained in the case of the 16-year-old, who was torched to death in the state’s Chatra district.
The main suspect in that case is said to have been angered by a village council punishment of 100 sit-ups and a $750 fine for raping the girl. He attacked her parents before setting their house on fire with the teenager inside. Some 40,000 rape cases were reported in India in 2016, but campaigners though say the real number is higher, with victims wary of making complaints because of social stigma.
Safety concerns
The country is already agonizing over the brutal attack on an eight-year-old in Jammu and Kashmir state, where eight Hindus have been accused over the Muslim girl’s abduction, repeated rape and killing. Hindu activists have staged angry protests claiming that the police inquiry was biased. The Supreme Court yesterday ruled the flashpoint trial should be moved away from Jammu, a Hindu-majority region of the Muslim-dominated state, to Pathankot in neighboring Punjab state…
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Family of US Detainee Freed From North Korea: ‘Mostly We Thank God’
Family members of Tony Kim, one of three Americans reportedly released from North Korea after Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s visit, are thanking God and President Trump for his release, over one year after he was detained.
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Trump to Meet North Korea’s Kim on June 12 — But Will the Two Agree to Anything of Significance?
President Trump on May 10 announced the date and location of his previously announced meeting with North Korea’s Kim Jong-un (shown on right) in a tweet:
The highly anticipated meeting between Kim Jong Un and myself will take place in Singapore on June 12th. We will both try to make it a very special moment for World Peace!
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The two-year-old girl tested positive for gonorrhoea after the incident in Tennant Creek earlier this year.
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Somali Woman ‘With 11 Husbands’ Stoned to Death by Al-Shabab
A woman has been stoned to death in Somalia after a court run by al-Shabab convicted her of having several husbands, the militant group says.
Shukri Abdullahi Warsame was accused of marrying 11 times, without divorcing her previous husbands.
She was buried neck-deep and pelted to death with stones by al-Shabab fighters, say residents of the southern Sablale town.
Al-Shabab practises a strict interpretation of Sharia law.
The militant group controls large swathes of Somalia and often conducts raids and attacks in its attempt to overthrow the central government based in the capital, Mogadishu.
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Sarah Palin Speaks Out for Julian Assange After Ecuadorian Embassy Cuts Off Phone Calls, Guests
Julian Assange has been denied phone calls and visitors to the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where he and his cat share a 215-square-foot room.
The decision was made amid ongoing talks between the UK and Ecuador to decide the fate of the WikiLeaks founder, according to Foreign Minister Maria Fernanda Espinosa.
“He still has no access to the Internet and communications. There is a dialogue, there is a will and an interest to move forward in the solution of that matter,” said Espinosa, according to El Tiempo.
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A Month of Islam and Multiculturalism in Germany: April 2018
April 1. Senior German officials, including Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, always quick to outdo each other with good wishes for Islamic festivals, failed to greet Germans for Easter, the most important Christian festival. By contrast, Aiman Mazyek, the head of the Central Council of Muslims in Germany, did offer Easter greetings: “I wish you all peaceful and relaxing holidays. Happy Easter to the Christians, a happy ‘Passover’ to the Jews and a few contemplative days to the non-believers. #Variety makes you strong.”
April 2. German churches were sheltering 611 illegal migrants at the end of March, up from 530 at the end of December 2017. Many churches in Germany provide refuge for refugees who face deportation or fear social and psychological hardships. German authorities tolerate church asylum, although there is no legal basis for it, according to the newsmagazine, Focus. …
April 11. One of Germany’s leading economists, Hans-Werner Sinn, warned that the migrant crisis could end up costing German taxpayers more than one trillion euros:
“The cost to the taxpayer could also be higher. So far, there are about 1.5 million migrants who have come to Germany since 2015. And no: They are not dentists, lawyers and nuclear scientists, but mostly underqualified immigrants, who have arrived in the promised land — one flowing with milk and honey and where the standard of living without employment is higher than in many countries of origin with employment.” …
April 28. Felix Klein, the German government’s newly appointed special envoy to Jewish community, said he was not surprised that Jews are leaving Germany: “It is quite understandable that those who are scared for the safety of their children would consider leaving Germany,” he said. “I hear this from my own Jewish friends. But we must do everything to avoid that.” Klein also said that anti-Semitism in Germany is being fueled by mass migration from the Muslim world: “There is a tendency — anti-Semitic sentiment is more openly expressed. Anti-Semitism among Muslims and the extreme right and left existed before. But it is being expressed more unashamedly. Yes, the situation has become worse.”
April 30. A study by Mediendienst Integration, an information service focused on immigration, found that demand for Islam courses in German schools far outstrips supply. Around 54,000 students at 800 schools across the country currently receive Islam religion lessons, although number of Muslim children aged six to 18 at German schools is now believed to be around 750,000 to 800,000.
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Almost 4,000 Refugees and Migrants Stormed Into Greece in April Alone — Migrant Crisis Far From Over
A month ago we informed our readers of the unprecedented waves of refugees, that were seen at the Iranian-Turkish border. We stated that all these peoples’ destination would be Europe.
In the same month, our warning became reality. The Greek news website protothema, reported that a massive new wave of refugees crossed the land borders between Greece and Turkey.
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Thwang Za Lian, 24, and Kapling Hlawnceu, 21, found the woman under a Werribee footbridge in Melbourne’s southwest in August 2017. The men are Christian refugees who can’t return to Myanmar.
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Austria: Ex-Refugee Helper: They Demanded Name-Brand Goods and a House in Vienna
The retired Austrian teacher Franz Schmalwieser wanted to do something good at the height of the refugee crisis in 2015. He was interviewed by Wochenblick about his work with refugees and he now sharply criticises the “asylum industry”.
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Austria: Syrian Granted Asylum Despite Being Convicted of Selling Drugs to Children
An 18-year-old Syrian was granted asylum in Austria by the country’s asylum authority despite the migrant being on trial for selling hard drugs to young girls at the time of the decision.
The Syrian, along with two other Syrian asylum seekers, one being his twin brother, were on trial for selling meth to young girls in the city of Linz when the 18-year-old had his asylum claim approved, Kronen Zeitung reports.
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Coast Guard, Frontex, Rescue 102 Migrants Near Lesvos
Greek coast guard and Frontex vessels rescued 102 migrants and refugees off the coast of Lesvos on Wednesday, in two separate incidents.
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Denmark: Concern After Police ‘Admit Concealing Migrant Shopping Centre Rape’ From Public
Danish people are expressing concern after police admitted they chose not to inform the public about a rape and attempted rape of two 14-year-old girls, allegedly carried out by Afghan migrants at a shopping centre in Esbjerg.
News of the attacks, which prompted a “storm” of telephone calls to authorities from worried parents, would not have come to people’s attention had the media not followed up a tip-off about the incident, notes JydskeVestkysten.
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EU Tells Italy ‘Priority is to Help Migrants’, Blasts ‘Deplorable’ Anti-Trafficking Crackdown
The European Commission has slammed Italian efforts to clamp down on open borders NGOs ferrying people to Europe as “deplorable”, insisting the nation should prioritise ‘helping migrants’.
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France: 87-Year-Old Woman Raped for 2 Hours by Newly Arrived Moroccan Migrant
Culprit tried to claim assault was consensual
An 87-year-old French woman was brutally raped for two hours in Lyon by a Moroccan migrant who later tried to claim the assault was consensual.
The woman was trapped inside her home on Pierre Audry Street as the burglar carried out the despicable attack before stealing a ring on the night of April 22.
He was quickly apprehended by police as a result of DNA left at the scene. The migrant was known to authorities, having already carried out several violent burglaries in the area.
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Germany Announces Family Reunification for Radical Islamic Extremists in ‘Exceptional Cases’
The German federal grand coalition government has passed a new migrant family reunification law that among other provisions could see Islamic extremists able to bring their families to Germany in “exceptional cases.”
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Lesbos: Europe’s Migrant Barrier Nears Breaking Point
LESBOS, Greece (AP) — At the heart of Moria, an overcrowded refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos, is a dark rectangular building ringed with police guards and coils of razor wire. Taking photographs of it is prohibited.
It’s here that thousands of migrants are interviewed by asylum officers — and ultimately informed whether they will ever be allowed to leave the island.
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Mayor Khan Works With European Commission to Launch Pro-Mass Migration Brexit Campaign
London Mayor Sadiq Khan has launched a new initiative, allegedly directly supported by the European Union (EU), which frames Brexit as harmful, as well as a cause of “division” and anti-migrant sentiment.
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Merkel Cabinet Agrees Law Change to Let All Refugees Bring Families to Germany
The German government agreed on Wednesday to a change in the law which allows refugees with “subsidiary protection” to start bringing their families to Germany. But the law still limits how many can arrive each month.
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National Guard Supports Border Patrol’s Apprehension of 1,600 Illegal Migrants
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced May 9 that its officers have apprehended 1,600 people attempting to illegally enter the country from Mexico since April 15. The CBP said the deployment of National Guard troops to the southwest border to support its efforts was a significant factor in these successful apprehensions.
While National Guard troops are not actively involved in arresting illegal border crossers, by performing backup duties such as monitoring radio communications, they free up a greater number of CBP agents, thus allowing the federal officers to apprehend a larger number of illegals.
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Poll Finds Immigration and Terror Top Issues for People Across Europe
The top two issues facing the European Union (EU), according to voters in Britain, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Sweden, Finland, Poland, and Lithuania, are immigration and terrorism.
The only nation where another issue occupied one of the top two spots, according to a new YouGov poll, was Italy, where they were immigration and unemployment.
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Sweden: Afghan Migrant Who Raped 16-Year-Old Girl Gets Just Two Months Jail
An Afghan migrant who gang raped a 16-year-old girl with another “refugee” in Sweden was sentenced to just 2 months in jail.
The girl’s ordeal began when she invited two Afghan migrants to her home in Lomma while her parents were out shopping having met them via a friend.
As soon as they arrived at the house, the migrants began attacking her as the girl tried to fight them off. She frantically texted her parents, begging, “Come home now. Quickly. Before he rapes !!!! I mean it,” and “Hurry!!! I’m fainting!!”
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Sweden to Reconsider Not Studying Relation Between Migration and Crime Following ‘High Demand’
The Swedish criminal statistics agency Brå has announced it will be considering an in-depth study on the relationship between immigration and crime claiming there has been a recent surge in demand for data on the subject.
The agency made the announcement this week saying that the recent political climate has made them reconsider publishing data on the relationship between migration and crime for the first time in over a decade.
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Swedish Police Called Out to One Asylum House 150 Times in 18 Months
Police in the Swedish city of Halmstad say they have been called to a single asylum home in the city around 150 times in the last year and a half for incidents including drug offences and assaults.
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Why Sweden Doesn’t Keep Stats on Ethnicity and Crime
The subject of immigration is an increasingly charged one, yet much of the discussion is founded on guesswork. To the ire of some, and the agreement of others, Sweden does not collect statistical data on the ethnic background of criminals. The Local’s Sweden in Focus series looks at why that is the case, and whether it’s likely to change soon.
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Course Critiques ‘Superficiality’ of ‘Dominant White Culture’
The University of Colorado-Colorado Springs is offering students three graduate academic credits to implement an 11-part “Witnessing Whiteness” workshop series in their home communities.
The curricula for the class is open source, and as such, all course materials are available online. One worksheet, for instance, encourages students to convene attendees for a group discussion centered around the “transformation of white culture overall.”
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George Soros Funding PAC Targeting Battleground State Voters
Far-left billionaire George Soros is funding a political action committee consisting of anti-Trump organizations.
According to a report published Thursday, Soros has donated three million dollars to the ‘Win Justice’ PAC, which is a voting initiative created by groups like Planned Parenthood.
The committee is targeting young voters in battleground states who tend to support liberal candidates
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Rulers, ‘Foolers, ‘ and Shooters: They’re Closing the Cage in Plain Sight
A picture that has been around awhile depicts Homo sapiens society at its finest…as it truly is. There are four “tiers,” so to speak, with the politicians, royalty, and rulers occupying the uppermost level, followed by the clergymen and religious swamis on tier two, and then the gendarmes/police/soldiers on tier three. The bottom tier is occupied by the people, supporting the other three tiers upon their back. The caption is “We rule you [Leaders], we fool you [Religious Heads], we shoot you [the “Enforcer” class].
These “tiers” are to be found in every nation, among every people and tongue. It is not a new concept: these three levels of nabobs have existed ever since man formed social communities that encompassed more than the nuclear family.
The difference between the past and now: for the first time, these tiers will soon be interconnected regardless of location and mutually supportive of one another to obtain global totalitarian rule…
There is one “biggie” that must be “taken care of” before all this control can be finalized: They must first confiscate all firearms.
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The Truth About Virtue Signalling
Ever wondered why self-loathing losers adopt left-wing politics?
Wonder no more.
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UK Proposes Six Year Prison Sentences for Online Posts Against Religion, Transgender
People promoting “hostility” towards a religion or the transgendered online could get much harsher sentences, of up to six years in jail, especial if they have a large online audience according to new proposals.
The Sentencing Council for England and Wales has drafted changes to public order offences, including anyone perceived as targeting online a “protected characteristics” including “race; sex; disability; age; sexual orientation; religion or belief; pregnancy and maternity; and gender reassignment.”
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Merkel Cabinet Agrees Law Change to Let All Refugees Bring Families to Germany. Told you so. She speaks tough before the elections, and can’t have enough of this good stuff: genocide of the German people. It is obvious that these settlers are displacing the German people. It is genocide, our genocide.
I wonder when the asylum applications from aboriginal Germans will start pouring in to the U.S.
No way.if they re-elected merkel they diserve merkel.
Not welcomed in USA
You got this very wrong. Germans cannot have referendum because Hitler used them. They cannot make babies because a single refugee gets more money than a German policeman. It is our genocide, and all we’re doing about it is write online behind pseudonyms. If this is the price that globalists will have to pay, they will give us this.
Elections in West in general, but especially in Germany, are notoriously skewed. Cannot reproach Germans on anything whatsoever. Terror reigns supreme in Germany. Even in France, for stating the obvious, they gave to a public figure 5,000 euros fine, suspended. So that he is silenced, and serves as an example for the others. The system has been set up fine against us. In Germany it is as bad as it can possibly get.
Of the Russians and Germans, first-class state slaves were made.
Originally, the Wikipedia article “Inner emigration” was only in German, Russian and Belarusian. Later, other articles were added. The Russian article is the most extensive.
But, I’m afraid, now this situation, that we are already “in the Inner emigration” will not sit out.
Sad times for Europe! Nothing short of the Biblical Rapture or Civil War is going to reverse the damage done by Merkel, Soros, Obama and the Globalists!
America has a national housing shortage. President Trump has been turning the open borders spicket to a lower stream of influx. However, federal judges keep opening up the spickets to full volume, third world invasion. Ludicrous & non-sustainable! Globalists want to destroy national sovereignty & rule of law for their “one world” dystopia. Afterwards, they can inventory and control everything in the West…including humans, food, resources, currency, etc.
Seems like the monsters who pull the strings want to provoke an outburst of “xenophobia” in Germany in order to finally revoke Germans’ right to any sort of national mentality. Just like the Swedes officially rejected their history and declared that a Swede is… any person with a Swedish passport. Wonder if animals with Swedish veterinary passports for travel abroad fall into this definition? In fact, they may be far more worthy Swedes than passportised Somalis or Pakistanis?
It appears that Ms. Merkel is following the orders of her Globalist Masters to the last detail.
I wonder when the asylum applications from aboriginal Germans will start pouring in to the U.S.
Not only professionals and wealthy citizens flee from Russia.
From Russia, Putin’s escorts run, who robbed the country under his cover.
Typical BBC obfuscation: “Al-Shabab practises a strict interpretation of Sharia law”.
There is no “non-strict” “interpretation” of the Islamic punishment of stoning to death: stoning to death is stoning to death.
Al-Shabab practises a strict APPLICATION of Sharia law.
The BBC employs many muslims.