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  1. Migrant crisis: German town ‘running out of room’ (BBC, video, Sep 18, 2015)
    http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34286682

    “he BBC’s Jenny Hill reports from the town of Rosenheim in Germany, where giant tents are being constructed to accommodate asylum seekers. The European Union is giving Germany more money to help it cope with the unprecedented number of refugees….”

  2. Migrant crisis: Croatia closes border crossings with Serbia (BBC, Sep 18, 2015)
    http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34286432

    “Croatia has closed seven of its eight road border crossings with Serbia following a huge influx of migrants.

    Officials said they had no choice after more than 13,000 people entered the country since Hungary fenced off its border with Serbia earlier this week.

    Many have been taken by bus to reception centres but some say they plan to walk to neighbouring Slovenia.

    Huge numbers of people heading north from the Mediterranean have created a political crisis in the European Union.

    Croatian officials said roads leading to the border crossings had also been shut.

    The crossing on the main road linking Belgrade and Zagreb – at Bajakovo – appeared to be the only one left open…”

  3. Turkey-PKK conflict ‘escalating fast’ (BBC, video, Sep 18, 2015)
    http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34286683

    “The number of policemen and soldiers who have been killed in Turkey since a ceasefire with Kurdish militant group the PKK broke down in July, has now risen to more than 120. The Turkish military has been pounding PKK positions for the last few weeks, and recently imposed a curfew on the town of Cizre, after violence broke out. There are fears the country is returning to the armed conflict of the 1980s and 1990s that killed 40,000 people. Mark Lowen reports.”

  4. Two killed by Indian firing in Kashmir says Pakistan (BBC, Sep 18, 2015)
    http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-34287319

    “Two people have died in “unprovoked” firing from the Indian military in the disputed Kashmir region, says Pakistan.

    Pakistan’s military said the 13-year-old girl and 55-year-old man were killed late on Thursday in the Nakyal sector, near the Line of Control.

    It said Pakistani troops returned fire and shelling was continuing. There has been no official comment from India.

    Pakistan and India have overlapping territorial claims in Kashmir and have fought two wars over the region.

    In recent years violence has abated from its peak in the 1990s, but the causes of the insurgency are still far from resolved…”

  5. Gunmen attack Pakistan air force base in Peshawar (BBC, Sep 18, 2015)
    http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-34287385

    “Militants have killed at least 16 worshippers at a mosque inside an air force base in Peshawar, officials say. The gunmen stormed a guard post and then entered the Badaber air base and attacked a mosque at the site, Major General Asim Bajwa said. He said security forces killed 13 militants and were searching for the remaining gunmen. The Pakistani Taliban said they ordered the attack. Peshawar has frequently been targeted by militants…”

  6. Exclusive: In Niger, U.S. soldiers quietly help build wall against Boko Haram (reuters, Sep 18, 2015)
    http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/09/18/us-usa-niger-boko-haram-idUSKCN0RI0C020150918

    “Despite years of intimidation by the violent extremist group Boko Haram, the people of southeastern Niger’s Diffa region had never held a summit to confront the threat – perhaps with good reason.

    “One person could come here and kill us all!” Diffa’s prefect, Inoussa Saouna, told 75 village leaders assembled along with politicians and military commanders in the city’s pale blue-walled cultural center.

    That same early September day, a double suicide bombing that bore Boko Haram’s hallmarks killed 19 people in nearby Cameroon.

    The group, best known for its kidnapping of more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls in April 2014, has expanded from its base in northern Nigeria to threaten the region. It has menaced U.S. and European allies in west Africa, and leader Abubakar Shekau in March pledged its loyalty to Islamic State.

    The Diffa meeting was a modest success not just for its mutually suspicious tribes but for a small team of fewer than 20 U.S. Special Operations Forces conducting an experiment that is part of President Barack Obama’s new counter-terrorism strategy.

    The soldiers, who encouraged the meeting and helped provide a ring of security, do not go into combat, or even wear uniforms. They are quietly trying to help Niger build a wall against Boko Haram’s incursions and its recruitment of Diffa’s youth.

    A Reuters reporter was the first to visit the detachment, which is among about 1,000 U.S. Special Operations Forces deployed across Africa.

    In Chad, Nigeria, Niger and elsewhere, they are executing Obama’s relatively low-risk strategy of countering Islamic extremists by finding local partners willing to fight rather than deploying combat troops by the thousands.

    The new approach, which Obama announced in May 2014, is far from being a silver bullet for the United States in its global battle against Islamic militancy. The indirect strategy appears to be faltering in the Middle East, where the United States has found few reliable allies on the battlefield in Syria. In Iraq, U.S.-trained and -equipped forces evaporated last year in the face of Islamic State’s offensive.

    In Niger, there are signs of success against Boko Haram, although progress will likely be slow in a years-long effort, U.S., European and African officials say.

    “For the region, this is going to be a struggle that’s going to be with them for a long time, not just in Niger, but elsewhere,” said Army Col. Bob Wilson, commander of U.S. Special Operations Forces in north and west Africa.

    U.S. officials say they see predominantly Muslim Niger as worth helping. Relatively stable, but facing national and local elections in 2016, it is threatened by Boko Haram in Nigeria to the south, chaos in Libya to the north and an al Qaeda affiliate that operates in neighboring Algeria and Mali.

    The U.S. soldiers in Diffa described their mission as a sharp and welcome pivot from the Iraq and Afghan wars, where virtually all of them served. The U.S. military has not said how long their presence will last.

    “It’s a totally different approach to the problem set,” an American team sergeant said in an interview. The Special Operations soldiers cannot be identified by name under military ground rules.

    In Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States also works with local security forces and leaders – but has wielded thousands of combat troops, drone strikes and pricey aid projects.”

    • In Nigeria 0 helped replace a Christian president with a Mahoundian one. That’s his strategy in a nutshell.

      [Thanks for ‘Mahound’, Wrath. I feel like a plagiarist, but better without attribution than to incur fatwas on your head. (^.^) And thank-you for keeping hellhole news in the mix.]

  7. Immigrant deportation centre is ordered to make its food less British after inmates from more than EIGHTY countries complain about meals (dailymail, Sep 18, 2015)
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3238908/Removal-centre-ordered-make-food-British-illegal-immigrants-waiting-shipped-80-countries.html

    “Illegal immigrants from more than 80 countries have complained about being served food that is too British as they await deportation.

    Nearly three quarters of the 575 men housed at one removal centre – half of which have criminal convictions – told inspectors they were not happy with the food.

    Rather than traditional prison fare such as shepherd’s pie or fish and chips, the Verne Immigration Removal Centre in Dorset has now been told to serve up ‘more culturally diverse’ dishes in an effort to cater to the huge range of nationalities.

    The HM Chief Inspector of Prisons report published last month also said the English language menu should be printed in a range of dialects.

    The report reads: ‘The quality of food was adequate but it lacked cultural diversity – menus were not diverse enough to meet the needs of the population.’…”

  8. Is this the end of Isis? British special forces colonel claims devastating loss of land and troops thanks to air strikes and battles with Kurdish forces will lead to ‘house of cards’ falling down (dailymail, Sep 18, 2015)
    http://dailym.ai/1iBo4XV

    “British troops helping train Kurdish forces in Iraq believed the defeat of Islamic State is imminent, it was reported last night. A Special Forces Colonel claimed ISIS are ‘fragile’ and in a ‘poor position’ after suffering devastating losses of both land and militant fighters. The terror group has apparently been weakened thanks to the training Kurdish soldiers have received from the UK special forces and the continuing air strikes.

    ‘The reality is that there is a fragility,’ one British Colonel, who cannot be named, reportedly toldThe Sun’s David Willetts. ‘They are fragile and in a poor position and the day is coming when the house of cards will fall.’ Another British officer, Brigadier James Learmont, who is also based in the country, reportedly added: ‘The tide of the battle is turning against IS. That aura of invincibility is not there now.’

    He explained that people could finally see that ISIS were beatable and ‘it’s just a question of time’….”

  9. MI5 and police are watching more than 3,000 homegrown terror suspects willing to attack on British soil (dailymail, Sep 18, 2015)
    http://dailym.ai/1F6385k

    “More than 3,000 British Islamist extremists are being monitored by police and the security services, it was revealed today.

    The group of men and women, mainly in their teens, have been radicalised and are willing to launch a terror attack in the UK, sources have said.

    Hundreds may also have trained in Syria as ISIS fighters before returning to Britain.

    It came as the head of MI5 warned that the UK is facing an unprecedented terror threat with home-grown fanatics are ‘being radicalised to the point of violence within weeks’.

    Andrew Parker said the six plots foiled at home in the past year ‘is the highest number I can recall in my 32-year career, certainly the highest number since 9/11’.

    His agency has also helped to foil a further nine plots overseas while the Government is said to have a ‘kill list’ of British jihadis in Syria they want to assassinate.

    On the home-grown threat, Mr Parker warned: ‘Most of the people who try to become involved in terrorism in this country are people who are born and brought up here, have come through our education system and have nonetheless concluded that their home country, the country of their birth, is their enemy.’

    Security sources have said that more than 3,000 people are being watched because they are considered a threat to the UK.

    The NHS is helping root out extremists because experts believe a ‘significant’ number are suffering from mental health problems, The Times said today.

    These people are so vulnerable to grooming by other extremists that the NHS has staff who help identify ‘extremist behaviour’, according to the newspaper…”

  10. Netherlands – Rotterdam – Train evacuated in Rotterdam after terrorist suspect ‘locks himself in the toilet’ on carriage heading to Paris less than a month after Kalashnikov-wielding Islamist tried to carry out massacre

    Dutch police ordered all passengers off a train from Rotterdam to Paris
    Alarm raised this morning when terrorist suspect locked himself in toilet
    Comes less than a month after Ayoub El Kahzani, 26, was overpowered on the same Thalys service when he threatened fellow passengers with a gun

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3239656/Train-evacuated-Rotterdam-terrorist-suspect-locks-toilet-carriage-heading-Paris-month-Kalashnikov-wielding-Islamist-tried-carry-massacre.html

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    Armed police swarm arrest man who locked himself in train toilet and shouted “I’ve got a bomb”

    The suspect was thought to be armed and the siege comes less than a month after an alleged Islamist was overpowered by passengers on another train

    http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/armed-police-swarm-arrest-man-6466354

  11. USA: Dozens stand with Ahmed with solidarity prayer

    Dozens gathered at MacArthur High School in Irving, Thursday, to attend a public prayer in honour of Ahmed Mohammed, who had been detained by police during class earlier in the week.

  12. One in five Syrians say Islamic State is a good thing, poll says

    ecent survey of 1,365 Syrians from all 14 governorates of the country found some surprising attitudes. Consider this: A fifth of those interviewed said the Islamic State — the brutal Islamist group known for its beheadings, that rules over large swaths of Syria and Iraq — is a positive influence on the country. And 82 percent said that they believe the Islamic State was created by the United States and its allies.

    The Syria survey was conducted by ORB International, a U.K.-based market research firm, from June 10 to July 2. The poll has a margin of error of +/-3 percentage points.

    The majority of Syrians interviewed said they believe that the situation is worsening, and only 21 percent said they preferred their life today than when Syria was fully controlled by Bashar al-Assad’s regime. Nearly half of Syrians surveyed said they opposed U.S.-coalition airstrikes, and nearly 80 percent said that the war has gotten worse because of the influx of foreign fighters. Yet there is also sense of hope: The majority of Syrians surveyed said a diplomatic solution was possible to end the war, and that Syrians can set aside their difference and live side by side again.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/09/15/one-in-five-syrians-say-islamic-state-is-a-good-thing-poll-says/

      • Excluding important minorities like the Druze, the plight of Syrian Arabs leaves me cold. Just can’t get worked up about the vicissitudes of alien tribes who’ve been arch-enemies of my tribe forever – at least since biblical times.

        They’re outstandingly repellent even within the generic mass of low-life Jew-haters. They’re heavily into primitive dichotomies – clean/dirty, human/demonic – and I can’t be bothered.

        Israel was finally able to impose quiet on that border, but no one has illusions about eventual neighborly relations. As opposed to Jordan or Egypt or Lebanon, Syria – at least some of its fragments – will remain implacable enemies of Israel and Jews no matter what it costs them.

        At least that’s my impression from Israelis who were born in the umma. More contemporary analysts aren’t optimistic either.

        I fail multi-culti - so sue me.

        • No matter who wins in Syria and Iraq Israel will have a deadly enemy on that border either Shiite or Sunni jihadists will control the border. The only good think is that Russia isn’t going to give up their only overseas navel base so they will prop up Assad to the bitter end. That front will soak up a lot of fighters from the Sunni side, although I doubt there will be open hostility between Russia and Iran until Iran thinks the end times have arrived.

          I love the way so many LSM types report on how the Iranian leaders believe in the Mahdi and want to bring him back and then write analysis that talk about how Iran is going to do things to extend the status quo for decades.

  13. Lee Smith:
    The Putin Solution: What Russia is up to in Syria.

    Just because the White House now has its deal with Iran virtually locked up hardly means that President Obama intends to “push back” against the Iranian axis, as administration officials argue. In fact, Obama will be just as keen, if not more so, to protect Iranian, and Russian, assets in Syria and throughout the region. That’s because the deal isn’t just about Tehran’s nuclear-weapons program. It’s also an instrument through which Obama envisions a broader regional realignment, a “new geopolitical equilibrium,” in which Tehran gets an upgrade, while America’s traditional allies, Israel, Saudi Arabia, et al., get downgraded. . . .

    Putin read the tea leaves and apparently concluded that no matter how much he and Obama disliked each other, they were in agreement on one big thing: the Middle East’s traditional security architecture is a problem. Putin doesn’t like it because it’s the legacy of an order in the region upheld by America. Obama sees it similarly—it costs the United States too much, and we need to minimize the American footprint in the region. As the White House has said, other stakeholders need to pitch in and do their share. So Moscow is stepping up. . . . The way the White House sees it, Putin is now doing the heavy lifting in the “new geopolitical equilibrium.”

    Of course, Putin doesn’t see it like that at all. Sure, Russia is proving again that it doesn’t abandon its allies as the Americans do, but in the end Putin probably doesn’t care that much about Assad, and he doesn’t care that much about Syria, either. It’s a pressure point on the energy-rich eastern Mediterranean that gives him more leverage on Europe. And the Syrian war is a perfect marketing tool—if the Europeans want their natural gas, they’d better pay up, or else they’ll get more refugees instead.

    http://www.weeklystandard.com/print/articles/putin-solution_1028504.html

    • Lee Smith writes in Tablet:
      THE DEGRADATION OF AMERICAN POLITICAL DISCOURSE
      Ann Coulter’s GOP debate comment about “f—ing Jews” should to be called out for what it is—hateful. But her rhetoric is just the tip of a swelling anti-Semitic iceberg.

      Ann Coulter went off the rails Wednesday night during the Republican presidential primary debate. Apparently angry that several of the candidates kept referring to Israel, Coulter tweeted: “How many f—ing Jews do these people think there are in the United States?”

      The response on social media was mixed. Some defended Coulter’s remarks—“America has interests that aren’t Israel’s interests,” one Coulter supporter tweeted under the hashtag #IStandWithAnn—while others sharply criticized her. It seems that for many, the issue wasn’t the idea she was apparently trying to convey—that the candidates seemed perhaps overly focused on Israel —but rather the particularly ugly and vicious modifier she attached to “Jews.” It seemed to indicate either some sort of meltdown, or a very dark and angry corner of her mind.

      Coulter has made questionable statements about Jews previously, in particular during a 2007 interview when she said that Christians “just want Jews to be perfected.” In fact, lots of Christian denominations have renounced replacement theology, or the belief that the followers of Christ have replaced the Jews as God’s chosen people. Thus, many Christians see the Jews not as a pool of potential converts but rather, in the words of Pope John Paul II, as “elder brothers.”

      Coulter’s tweet also showed her to be oddly out of touch regarding American politics. The candidates talked about Israel not because they were pandering to the Jews, but because support for Israel resonates with the American public, especially with Republicans who see it as an embodiment of their own principles: faith in God, love of country, and a strong national defense. If Coulter has a problem with GOP candidates talking about Israel, she should take it up with the Republican base that Chris Christie, Marco Rubio, and Mike Huckabee were addressing.

      The fact is that Ann Coulter also admires Israel, as she’s made clear in the past. She’s not an anti-Semite any more than the editors of The New York Times are anti-Semitic just because they published an infographic tracking how Jewish Democratic lawmakers voted on the nuclear agreement with Iran. However, both the Times’ Jew-tracker (now taken down), and Coulter’s tweets are evidence of the degradation of American political discourse.

      The debate surrounding the Iran deal has legitimized the sort of hateful language and ideas normally associated with the white power right and the loony left, as well as Middle Eastern regimes. When Obama rationalized the supreme leader of Iran’s anti-Semitic rhetoric as a political instrument, or “an organizing tool,” the president unwittingly identified the place in an American context where anti-Semitic conceits were employed for the same purpose.

      Administration officials, including Obama himself, used dog-whistles to attack critics of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. In a similar fashion, a New York Times article virtually charged U.S. policymakers with dual loyalty when it complained they had sided with the Israeli prime minister against their own commander-in-chief. IS the White House and its political allies in the press anti-Semitic? No, they were simply using certain conceits as a political tool to keep everyone in line and threaten potential opponents. They didn’t really mean it—they just saw it as an organizing tool.

      American society, like all modern societies, is governed by a set of conventions and models established and enforced by its public elites, including policymakers and journalists, who identify those things that are to be prized and those that are to be detested. This is what coin of the realm means. If an issue is not denounced it and identified as hateful and instead proves useful then it may enter the mainstream of political discourse and risk becoming an organizing tool.

      Coulter’s ugly language is just evidence that it’s going to get worse. Insofar as the JCPOA is celebrated as Obama’s signature foreign policy initiative, we are celebrating an accommodation with a regime organized around anti-Semitism.

    • The US started refusing to our allies in the 70s when the far left took over the Democrat Party. On the 16th I posted this analysis by J.E. Dyer, it spells out why Russia is making its move http://libertyunyielding.com/2015/09/16/syria-you-know-this-isnt-about-assad-anymore-right/ Putin is working to ensure that the Russian Base in Syria is safe and to take over the US role in the Mideast to make Russia a major player on the worlds stage.

      Obama isn’t indifferent about what is going on in the Mideast he wants to divide it up between Iran and the Brotherhood.. He wants all non Moslem influence in the world destroyed.

        • She is a trained intel analyst that is why I trust her so much on the overseas situation, if you read the Clarion project articles you will note how the pros are all saying the same thing. And Obama has forced many of them out of the US employment thinking this would shut them up.

  14. Taliban storm Pakistan Air Force base, mosque in Peshawar; 33 dead

    Peshawar: A group of heavily armed gunmen associated with Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) attacked a Pakistani Air Force base in the northwestern city of Peshawar early on Friday. The attackers tried to force their way into the Badaber Air Base. The security forces in Pakistan responded quickly to the attack and killed at least 13 terrorists in the ensuing operation.

    Gunmen were wearing explosives-laden jackets and armed with hand-propelled grenades, mortars, AK-47 rifles, claims Bajwa.

    Thirteen terrorists were also killed by security forces, tweets Bajwa.

    16 people offering prayers at a mosque inside the air force camp were killed by the militants: Bajwa

    Pakistan military spokesman Major General Asim Bajwa confirms death of 16 people in the deadly attack in Peshawar.

    http://zeenews.india.com/live-updates/pakistan-air-force-base-attacked-latest-updates-1798793

    • You know they are desperate when Israel runs to Russia, they talked to them throughout the Cold War but never helped them because Russia trained the terrorists.

    • TOVARNIK, Croatia (AP) — Croatian Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic said Friday his nation is overwhelmed by a huge influx of migrants and will redirect people toward Hungary and Slovenia as they move north in hopes of reaching more prosperous European countries.

      It wasn’t immediately clear how Croatia’s move would solve the situation since both Hungary and Slovenia are taking steps to keep migrants out, deepening a crisis as people seek a route to refuge.

      Huge numbers of people have surged into Croatia after Hungary erected a barbed wire-fence on its border with Serbia and took other tough measures to stop them from using it as a gateway into Western Europe. Croatia represents a longer and more difficult route into Europe, but those fleeing violence in their homelands had little choice.

  15. 35 MILLION migrants heading to Europe, says Hungary as it builds second fence

    http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/606211/35-MILLION-migrants-Europe-Hungary-builds-second-fence

    The huge figure was revealed today by Hungary’s minister for foreign affairs and trade Peter Szijjártó.

    Speaking as the country begins work on its second fence to stop migrants heading across its border he predicted the current crisis will continue for years.

    Mr Szijjártó told Hungarian Times: “The name of the fence is ‘Temporary Security Border Fence’ but I think there is no question that in this case temporary means years.

    “It’s a self delusion to call this situation a migration crisis; it is a massive migration of nations, with inexhaustible reserves.

    “I don’t think that the analysis results, stating that 30-35 million people out there could possibly become migrants, would be an exaggeration.

  16. Germany Says Europe in Danger as Countries Spar Over Refugees

    http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-09-18/overwhelmed-croatia-shuts-border-as-hungary-plans-longer-fence

    Croatia and Hungary sparred over the handling of migrants as Germany warned that Europe is at risk unless countries pull together to tackle the region’s worst refugee crisis since World War II.

    “Europe is in danger of destroying itself, much more than through the Greek crisis,” German Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel said in Berlin. “If people think that Europe is only something that people join when they get money, but ignore when they are asked to take responsibility for something, then no one is interested in Europe.”

    Many countries are increasingly pursuing a go-it-alone strategy. Croatia on Friday began busing migrants to the Hungarian border and shut crossings with Serbia after more than 14,000 refugees streamed in. That prompted a response from Hungary that it was breaking off communications with officials in Zagreb and extending a fence on its frontier with that country. Slovenia, meantime, halted rail links with its Balkan neighbor.

  17. Munich faces collision of refugees and Oktoberfest

    http://news.yahoo.com/germany-braces-collision-refugees-oktoberfest-091757908.html

    Munich (Germany) (AFP) – Ursula Stellenberger, a 70-year-old Munich native, has been joining the annual giant Oktoberfest beer party for more than half a century but says this year’s edition is unlikely to resemble any other.

    The largest influx of refugees seen in decades in Germany has run smack into what Munich calls the world’s biggest popular festival, starting Saturday, creating a massive headache for security forces and leaving some locals nervous about an uncomfortable culture clash.

    Sipping a lager in a beer garden opposite the sprawling Wiesn grounds of the Oktoberfest, Stellenberger says she is “proud” of her hometown for welcoming war-weary Syrians and Iraqis with an outpouring of donations and hospitality.

    • From what I remember of Germany if this clash is real the Moslems are making a big mistake, the Germans love their beer.

        • The problem is the way the LSM has spent so many decades indoctrinating the people to believe and obey the leftist leaders while distrusting the ones who want to preserve the west and civilization.

  18. Three ISIS Drones Have Been Destroyed in Iraq, Syria

    http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/three-isis-drones-have-been-destroyed-iraq-syria_1032670.html

    The latest official report of a drone in the possession of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) is tucked in an August 3rd press release from U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), the overseers of the air campaign in Syria and Iraq against the terrorist organization.

    The reference is included in a list of targets from the previous day near the Iraqi town of Ramadi: “[T]hree airstrikes struck an ISIL tactical unit and destroyed an ISIL motorcycle, an ISIL drone, four ISIL vehicles and an ISIL resupply truck.”

    A CENTCOM spokesperson told THE WEEKLY STANDARD that the “remotely piloted aircraft ‘RPA’ was destroyed on the ground,” but that the coalition was unable to confirm whether or not the drone had been armed.

    This drone destroyed in Iraq in August was the third ISIL drone targeted to date by Operation Inherent Resolve and the most recent hit since June. The only ISIS drone destroyed so far in Syria was located near Raqqah and was targeted on June 26th. CENTCOM reported that “five airstrikes struck three ISIL tactical units, destroying five ISIL excavators, an ISIL vehicle and an ISIL remotely piloted aircraft.”

  19. Israel ramps up security in Jerusalem’s Old City

    https://ca.news.yahoo.com/israel-ramps-security-jerusalems-old-city-100804334.html

    JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel deployed hundreds of extra police around the Old City of Jerusalem on Friday after Palestinian leaders called for a ‘day of rage’ to protest at new Israeli security measures.

    Around 800 extra police were posted in the heart of the city and adjacent Arab neighborhoods, where tensions have been high for the past week, following violent clashes at al-Aqsa Mosque and stone-throwing attacks by Palestinians against Israeli cars.

    The focus of tension is the compound housing al-Aqsa and the Dome of the Rock, one of the holiest places in Islam. Jews refer to the area as Temple Mount, where an ancient Jewish temple once stood. It is the most sacred place in Judaism.

  20. Police gird for Temple Mount violence Friday as unrest persists
    Men under 40 will be barred from compound; PM tells UN’s Ban Palestinian rioters aim to break status quo; rocks, firebombs thrown and bus set on fire Thursday night

    http://www.timesofisrael.com/police-gird-for-temple-mount-violence-friday-as-unrest-persists/

    Police officials said they would limit Muslim access to the Temple Mount Friday morning as the capital geared up for possible violence after a week that saw several heavy clashes atop the holy site.

    Police said they would prohibit the entry of men under 40 to the compound after receiving intelligence reports indicating “young Arabs” planned to disrupt the peace during Muslim Friday prayers at the site, a spokesperson said.

    Women at all ages will be allowed on the esplanade, known as Haram al-Sharif to Muslims.

  21. Israeli bus catches fire in east Jerusalem attack

    http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Israeli-bus-ablaze-after-Molotov-cocktail-attack-none-injured-416515

    A number of Palestinian youths are suspected in an arson attack on an Israeli bus after they allegedly threw stones and a Molotov cocktail at the vehicle Thursday evening in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Ras el-Amoud.

    According to reports, the bus initially came under attack when the vehicle was pelted with stones, forcing the Arab bus driver to abandon the bus and look for police assistance. Once the bus driver returned with the authorities, they discovered the bus on fire.

    Firefighters said the blaze was under control and no one was hurt in the incident.

    In a separate incident earlier on Thursday, a bus driver sustained light injuries in a stone throwing attack that damaged the windshield of his vehicle near the Palestinian village of Hizma, according to police reports.

  22. Macedonia cracks down on flow of migrants under emergency decree

    http://www.oann.com/overwhelmed-macedonia-holds-up-migrants-in-dusty-no-mans-land/

    GEVGELIJA, Macedonia (Reuters) – Macedonia moved to cut off the flow of migrants pouring over its southern border with Greece on Thursday, deploying riot police in armored vehicles and calling out the army under a state of emergency.

    Authorities said official border crossings remained open, but that they would “reduce illegal border entry to a minimum”.

    A Reuters reporter near the border town of Gevgelija said a column of riot police armed with tear gas and armored vehicles had shut off passage for several thousand people now stranded in no-man’s land.

  23. China ‘extremely concerned’ by proposed U.S. challenge to claims

    http://www.oann.com/china-says-extremely-concerned-by-u-s-comments-on-south-china-sea/

    BEIJING (Reuters) – China said on Friday it was “extremely concerned” about a suggestion from a top U.S. commander that U.S. ships and aircraft should challenge China’s claims in the South China Sea by patrolling close to artificial islands it has built.

    China’s increasingly assertive action to back up its sovereignty claims in the South China Sea have included land reclamation and the construction of ports and air facilities on several reefs in the Spratly Islands.

    The work has rattled China’s neighbors, in particular U.S. ally the Philippines, and raised concern in the United States.

    China says it has irrefutable sovereignty over the Spratly Islands and no hostile intent.

  24. Japan bills to expand military role near enactment despite protests

    http://www.oann.com/japan-ruling-bloc-makes-final-push-on-security-bills-despite-protests/

    TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s parliament drew near on Friday to enacting contentious defense legislation that could ease the constraints of the pacifist constitution to let troops fight overseas for the first time since World War Two, despite public protests and delaying tactics by the opposition.

    Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says the policy shift, which would mark the biggest change in defense policy since the creation of Japan’s post-war military in 1954, is vital to meet new challenges such as from a rising China.

    But the bills have sparked massive protests from ordinary citizens and others who say they violate the pacifist constitution and could ensnare Japan in U.S.-led conflicts after 70 years of post-war peace. Abe’s ratings have also taken a hit.

    Japan’s ally the United States has welcomed the shift but China, where bitter memories of Japan’s wartime aggression run deep, has repeatedly expressed concern about the legislation.

  25. .
    MailOnline reporter buys Syrian papers being sold to ISIS fighters sneaking into Europe hidden among refugees
    Reporter bought $2,000 Syrian passport, ID card and driving licence in Turkey under the name of a real man who was killed in the conflict
    Forger boasted that ISIS fighters are using documents to travel to Europe to start terror sleeper cells or live under false name free of past crimes
    Also being used by economic migrants from other countries exploiting generosity of Europe to Syrian refugees
    The blank documents are genuine, having been stolen from government offices by militias fighting regime of Bashar Al-Assad

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3235320/PASSPORT-TERROR-MailOnline-reporter-buys-Syrian-papers-sold-ISIS-fighters-sneaking-Europe-hidden-refugees.html#ixzz3m6mzEpLy

  26. Obama Talks Tough on Chinese Islands, Then Runs Away
    In public, Obama Inc. sounds tough

    http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/260168/obama-talks-tough-chinese-islands-then-runs-away-daniel-greenfield

    The Obama administration has restricted the U.S. Pacific Command from sending ships and aircraft within 12 miles of disputed Chinese-built islands in the South China Sea, bolstering Beijing’s illegal claims over the vital seaway, Pentagon leaders revealed to Congress on Thursday.

    “The administration has continued to restrict our Navy ships from operating within 12 nautical miles of China’s reclaimed islands,” Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Sen. John McCain (R., Ariz.) said in opening remarks criticizing the failure to guarantee safe passage for international commercial ships in Asia.

    “This is a dangerous mistake that grants de facto recognition of China’s man-made sovereignty claims,” he said.

    McCain, however, noted that the U.S. restrictions on close-in island military flights and ship visits were continuing despite the provocative dispatch of five Chinese warships in an unprecedented deployment to waters within 12 miles of Alaska’s Aleutian Islands—at the same time President Obama was concluding a recent visit to the state earlier this month.

    A visibly angered McCain told Shear the best way to assert that international waters around the islands do not belong to China would be for American ships to make 12-mile passages by the disputed islands. “And we haven’t done that since 2012. I don’t find that acceptable, Mr. Secretary,” he said.

    Adm. Harry Harris, commander of the U.S. Pacific Command, was asked if he is authorized to order ships to travel within 12 miles of any of the man-made islands and answered, no. Harris also said no U.S. surveillance aircraft have flown directly over any of the islands.

    • All of his cowardly actions are causing the dictators of the world to think they can do what they want and the US will never resist, the last time we had a President that acted anywhere as bad as Obama does he was followed by the man that won the Cold War. The President that follows Obama is going to have to fight a very hot war.

  27. Canada Doubles Down on Fighting Terrorism w/Social Workers
    Cops and guns can’t prevent terrorism. Only social workers can.

    Just because you do something stupid that doesn’t work, doesn’t mean you should stop.

    We all know that cops and guns can’t prevent terrorism. Only social workers can.

    In a first for Canada, Calgary police will launch a terrorism intervention program Tuesday morning aimed at pulling youth away from radicalization.

    “We really are trying to focus on the behaviours that cause someone to be involved in an extremist view,” Insp. Mike Bossley said in an exclusive interview.

    Reading the Koran? Attending a mosque?

    The project, called ReDirect, will target young people who are vulnerable to radicalization with social services, in an effort to draw them away from the lure of terrorism.

    That sounds like it’s more likely to drive them to terrorism.

  28. Sarah Silverman: Comedians Need to be More Politically Correct
    “You have to listen to the college-aged, because they lead the revolution”

    http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/260157/sarah-silverman-comedians-need-be-more-politically-daniel-greenfield

    The only thing worse than actual comedians being lectured on political correctness by a talentless hack… is that the talentless hack is Sarah Silverman whose only skill is being offensive. Without that, she wouldn’t have a career. Sarah Silverman doesn’t tell jokes. She offends people and hopes they confuse that with being funny.

    Jerry Seinfeld set off a bit of a firestorm earlier this year when he said he had stopped performing comedy at colleges because the students were generally too “politically correct.” It is a message that has been echoed by everyone from Chris Rock and Jay Leno to Bill Maher and Colin Quinn. But comedian Sarah Silverman has a different view.

    “I do think it’s important, as a comedian, as a human, to change with the times.” Silverman added, “I think it’s a sign of being old if you’re put off by that.”

    “It’s not hard to change with the times, and I think it’s important,” she continued. “And when you have new information and when you become more aware of the world around you, you can change.”

    A lecture on how important it is to change with the times from Sarah “I Love Chinks” Silverman? If Jerry Seinfeld can’t operate under those rules, Sarah Silverman wouldn’t have a single joke left to tell.

  29. Putin’s Gambit, Obama’s Puzzlement

    http://freedomsback.com/charles-krauthammer/putins-gambit-obamas-puzzlement/?utm_source=bh&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=5277206

    Kerry and Obama are serially surprised because they cannot fathom the hard men in the Kremlin. Yet Putin’s objectives in Syria are blindingly obvious:

    1. To assert Russia’s influence in the Middle East and make it the dominant outside power. Putin’s highest ambition is to avenge and reverse Russia’s humiliating loss of superpower status a quarter-century ago. Understanding this does not come easily to an American president who for seven years has been assiduously curating America’s decline abroad.

    2. To sustain Russia’s major and long-standing Arab ally. Ever since Anwar Sadat kicked the Soviets out of Egypt in 1972, Syria’s Assads have been Russia’s principal asset in the Middle East.

    3. To expand the reach of Russia’s own military. It has a naval base at Tartus, its only such outside of Russia. It has an airfield near Latakia, now being expanded with an infusion of battle tanks, armored personnel carriers, howitzers and housing for 1,500 — strongly suggesting ground forces to follow.

    4. To push out the Americans. For Putin, geopolitics is a zero-sum game: Russia up, America down. He is demonstrating whom you can rely on in this very tough neighborhood. Obama has given short shrift to the Kurds, shafted America’s allies with the Iran deal and abandoned the Anbar Sunnis who helped us win the surge. Meanwhile, Putin risks putting Russian boots on the ground to rescue his Syrian allies.

    Obama says Bashar al-Assad has to go, draws a red line on chemical weapons — and does nothing. Russia acts on behalf of a desperate ally. Whom do you want in your corner?

    5. To re-legitimize post-Crimea Russia by making it indispensable in Syria. It’s a neat two-cushion shot. At the U.N. next week, Putin will offer Russia as a core member of a new anti-Islamic State coalition. Obama’s Potemkin war — with its phantom local troops (our $500 million training program has yielded five fighters so far) and flaccid air campaign — is flailing badly. What Putin is proposing is that Russia, Iran and Hezbollah spearhead the anti-jihadist fight.

  30. The Greek Coast Guard and customs intercepted an aid container for “refugees” (who are almost all male and of fighting age) that was filled with weapons and ammunition.

    It appears that this was only reported on by local Greek news and has not been covered anywhere else. Hmm, I wonder why.

    As the container, loaded on the freighter ship Haddad 1, a Bolivian-registered vessel, arrived in Heraklion, Crete, one of Greece’s largest island, a very popular resort island for sunbathing tourists, and currently temporary home to numerous refugees and migrants, customs inspected the cargo.

    Among aid intended for refugees, they found an arsenal of weapons and ammunition, mainly rifles and shotguns. They also found bulletproof vests, which indicate that the intended users expected a gunfight.

    • Greek Coast Guard intercepts aid container full of weapons, firearms, likely intended for Muslim refugees

      http://www.dcclothesline.com/2015/09/11/greek-coast-guard-intercepts-aid-container-full-of-weapons-firearms-likely-intended-for-muslim-refugees/

      SOUTHERN ISLE OF CRETE, GREECE (INTELLIHUB) — A large vessel with a crew of 7, containing various supplies, weapons, and firearms, likely in an effort to aid Muslim refugees, was intercepted by Greek authorities.

      The vessel “Haddad 1? was intercepted by the Coast Guard on Aug. 29 after making its way from Turkey.

      The ship was reported to have been loaded with numerous undocumented arms and supplies.

      As of yet it’s unknown if the weapons were supplied by the CIA backed group ISIS.

      Additional Sources:

      ISIS Weapons In Europe? Greek Coast Guard Seizes Islamic State Ship Smuggling Ammunition — IB Times

      Featured image main page via jessuatwork/YouTube

      Intellihub News is a leading independent news agency covering a wide range of issues including globalism, the increasing police state, and the control of media by a small number of corrupt corporations.

    • More than 17,000 migrants have entered Croatia, of which more than 3,000 have crossed into Hungary since it sealed border with Serbia – @Reuters

      Hungary blasts Croatia’s migrant policy as ‘unacceptable’

      Hungary and Croatia appeared to be on a diplomatic collision course Friday over migrant policy, with a Hungarian government spokesman calling Croatia’s sudden decision to redirect the latest flood of refugees toward Hungary and Slovenia “totally unacceptable.”

      Croatia closed seven of eight roads crossing the border with Serbia on Friday, arguing that it had no choice as more than 14,000 migrants streamed into the country in the last two days. Later in the day, 19 buses packed with migrants traveled from Croatia to Hungary, where they were then put on another bus to go to registration points, the Associated Press reported.

      Meanwhile, Hungary began building a new fence on the border with Croatia, and Slovenia shut down rail service to Croatia and was sending migrants back there, AP reported.

      Croatian Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic said his country’s capacities were full and the authorities could no longer register migrants in accordance with EU rules. “What else can we do? You are welcome in Croatia and you can pass through Croatia. But, go on. Not because we don’t like you but because this is not your final destination,” Milanovic said.

      Croatian Interior Minister Ranko Ostojic called on the migrants to find another route of travel or to remain in refugee centers in Serbia, Macedonia and Greece. “Don’t come here anymore,” he said, according to the AP. “This is not the road to Europe.”

      In Hungary, Zoltan Kovacs, the government spokesman, told the AP it was “totally unacceptable for a European country to not respect European rules just because it was unprepared,” predicting Croatia would be “set back by many years” in its efforts to join the EU’s Schengen zone of passport-free travel.

      Croatia’s “system collapsed in a single day. Hungary has been holding its own for the ninth consecutive month,” he added.

      Croatia came into the spotlight this week in the ongoing migrant crisis after Hungary closed its border with Serbia with a razor-wire fence and sprayed tear gas to keep the migrants from crossing.

      Croatia, which offers one of only a handful of land routes to Germany that bypasses Hungary, has become an alternate route for those fleeing such nations as Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan to make the 1,000-mile-plus trek to Germany and other European Union nations.

      The U.N. refugee agency warned Friday that time is running out to stem the migrant crisis. “The crisis is growing and being pushed from one country to another without solution,” UNHCR spokesperson Adrian Edwards told a press briefing in Geneva.

      The agency said more than 442,440 refugees and migrants have crossed the Mediterranean to Europe so far this year and 2,921 have died trying. About 4,000 people are arriving daily on Greek islands, typically the first stop on the long journey.

      With roads into Croatia closed, many migrants have resorted to crossing fields to enter the nation, a dangerous path littered with mines left over from the Balkan wars.

      Croatian President Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic called on the army to be on alert and act if needed to protect the border from the migrants, after chaos erupted Thursday along the Serbian border in a rush to get on the few available buses and trains, AP reported.

      Meanwhile, Germany is considering reforming its asylum codes to cut back on benefits that may attract many migrants and refugees, The Washington Post reported. Germany is struggling to deal with a flood of refugees and 800,000 asylum applications, according to the Post.

      Activists say conditions at a refugee registration center in the southeast German city of Passau became untenable overnight Friday. A volunteer who helped migrants arriving in the Bavarian city told the Associated Press that more than 2,000 people were crammed into two large halls, with no medics or interpreters on site.

      A spokesman for Germany’s federal police that run the site says some 4,000 migrants came across the border from Austria on Thursday.

      http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2015/09/18/europe-migrants-croatia/72383644/

      John Kerry: refugee crisis a ‘human catastrophe’

  31. Since part of the worlds problem is economic here is a simple economic lesson.

    How to Solve the Economic Crisis in Less Than An Hour

    Read more at http://affluentinvestor.com/2015/09/how-to-solve-the-economic-crisis-in-less-than-an-hour/#JwJwMWcAH2jakl1i.99

    Once again there are fears about the economy. But the problem is not getting better. It is getting worse.

    The solution, however, is found in this simple classroom experiment. Get an even number of kids on each side of the room. One side has money, a limited amount. Say $10. The other side has goods to sell. Say 10 apples. Now, tell the kids to ‘clear the market’ – that is, all apples must be sold at maximum price. When that completes, ask the students to give you the average price for apples in today’s classroom market. The answer should be $1 each. (Yes, I know this assumes all the money is spent on the apples and none of it is withheld for other purposes.)

    Now start again, but this time, give the money people $20 instead of $10. Same rule: clear the market at maximum price. What is the new average? $2 per apple. In other words, the ‘price’ of apples has gone up. Or, you could say, the value of money has gone down.

    One more time now. But this time there are $10 available with which to buy, but 20 apples available for sale. When the market is cleared, the average price is now 50 cents per apple. That is, the ‘price’ of apples has gone down. Or you could say, the value of money has gone up.

    Since no one wants the ‘price’ of their assets to go down, the economic problem will remain unsolved. No one wants to admit that price is merely a ratio between available money on the one hand and available goods on the other. And people are only better off economically speaking, when prices of all goods and services go down.

    But a classroom of 10-year old kids could figure this out and the solution to our economic crisis in less than an hour. An economist with a Ph.D. from an accredited university, however, or an elected politician, is unlikely to ever figure this out.

    Maybe we’re expecting the wrong people to fix the problem

    Read more at http://affluentinvestor.com/2015/09/how-to-solve-the-economic-crisis-in-less-than-an-hour/#JwJwMWcAH2jakl1i.99