Reader’s links for September 9 – 2016

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  1. http://ktla.com/2016/09/08/usgs-reports-5-3-magnitude-explosion-in-north-korea/

    North Korea conducted a fifth nuclear test Friday, an official with the South Korean Defense Ministry told CNN.

    “We are currently analyzing whether it was a successful test,” the official said.

    Seismic activity, with a magnitude of 5.3, was detected around 9 a.m. local time near Punggye-ri, Kilju County, the same location as four other tests, the most recent of which was in January.

    A US official told CNN that it looked like a nuclear test but confirmation would be dependent on seismic readings, location of the seismic event and whether it can be matched to an underground test site.

  2. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/09/conditions-for-greeces-migrant-children-shocking-says-human-rights-watch

    Alarming numbers of migrant children in Greece are being detained in deplorable and depraved conditions , Human Rights Watch says.

    Unaccompanied minors – some as young as 14 – are being held in substandard and chaotic detention centres across the country in flagrant violation of international and Greek law, the group said in a report on Friday.

    “Children are being detained for weeks and months, and are being made to live in filthy, bug-and-vermin-infested cells, sometimes without mattresses or access to showers,” said Rebecca Riddell, who authored the report.

    The conditions are really shocking and often worse in police stations than detention centres
    Rebecca Riddell
    Speaking from New York, Riddell told the Guardian the 27-page investigation – entitled “Why are you keeping me here?”– documented indisputably that children were being held for prolonged periods in places where they had little access to basic care and services.

  3. http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/europes-border-crisis/russian-camerawoman-who-kicked-syrian-refugees-charged-n643916

    BUDAPEST, Hungary — The camerawoman who was filmed kicking and trying to trip migrants near the border with Serbia in September 2015 has been indicted for breaching the peace, Hungarian prosecutors said Wednesday.

    Petra Laszlo, who later apologized for her actions while also trying to justify them, was fired by the right-wing N1TV after footage of her actions went viral on social media.

    TV camerawoman Petra Laszlo tripping Osama Abdul Mohsen and his son, Zaid MARKO DJURICA / Reuters
    Laszlo said at the time that she panicked as refugees and migrants broke through police lines near her position and she felt under attack. She kicked a boy and a girl and later tried to trip a man carrying a boy.

  4. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/sep/08/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-napalm-girl-photo-vietnam-war

    orway’s largest newspaper has published a front-page open letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, lambasting the company’s decision to censor a historic photograph of the Vietnam war and calling on Zuckerberg to recognize and live up to his role as “the world’s most powerful editor”.

    Espen Egil Hansen, the editor-in-chief and CEO of Aftenposten, accused Zuckerberg of thoughtlessly “abusing your power” over the social media site that has become a lynchpin of the distribution of news and information around the world, writing, “I am upset, disappointed – well, in fact even afraid – of what you are about to do to a mainstay of our democratic society.”

    “I am worried that the world’s most important medium is limiting freedom instead of trying to extend it, and that this occasionally happens in an authoritarian way,” he added.

  5. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/refugee-crisis-denmark-schools-segregated-segregation-ethnicity-a7232101.html

    Nearly a year after the influx of migrants into Europe reached its peak, the repercussions can now be felt in thousands of classrooms across the continent as a new school year begins.

    Whereas most other schools are focused on assimilating migrant children, one Danish school in the city of Aarhus has decided to separate them. The idea has drawn criticism from human rights advocates who question the legality of segregating children based on their ethnicity.

    Many countries provide separate schooling for newcomers in efforts at quicker assimilation. In special “international classes” in Germany, for example, migrant and refugee children receive intensive language training in an attempt to move them into normal German classrooms as soon as possible.

  6. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-08/merkel-challenged-by-bavarian-call-to-favor-christian-refugees

    Bavaria’s ruling party urged Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government to give preference to Christian refugees, the latest salvo against her policy of declining to cap the number of asylum seekers allowed into Germany.
    A draft resolution prepared for a meeting of the Christian Social Union’s leadership says countries need to make choices about whom they admit. “It’s not the migrants who get to make that decision,” according to the draft obtained by Bloomberg. “Going forward, the rule must be to give preference to migrants from western Christian culture.”
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    The CSU, which is part of Merkel’s coalition at the national level and has a joint parliamentary caucus with her Christian Democratic Union, is home to the most prominent critics of her open-border stance. Bavarian premier Horst Seehofer, the party’s head, has blamed Merkel’s refugee policy for the rise of the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany, which beat the CDU in a state election for the first time last Sunday. Merkel signaled she’s sticking to her course in a speech to parliament on Wednesday.

    • If they were taking in nothing but Middle Eastern Christians there wouldn’t be a major crisis.

  7. A VERY dangerous and ignorant precedent has been set:

    http://fortune.com/2016/09/08/cjeu-hyperlinks-playboy/

    A Dutch website infringed copyright by posting links to copyright-infringing material, Europe’s top court has ruled.

    Thursday’s ruling by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) will be music to the ears of rights holders who are frustrated at the existence of sites that provides lists of links to pirated music and films but that do not host such material themselves.

    It could also have major implications for search engines such as Google GOOG -0.64% if they link to copyright-infringing services despite having been asked not to do so.

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    This particular case involved a website called GeenStijl (“No Style”) that repeatedly posted links to Playboy pictures of a Dutch TV presenter called Britt Dekker, even after Playboy’s Dutch publisher at the time told it to stop.

  8. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/isis-plot-attack-uk-foiled-arrests-thwart-significant-operation-west-london-terrorism-a7232671.html

    Counter terrorism detectives arrested two men in London on suspicion of “preparation of terrorist acts”, following a raid in west London.

    The men, aged 19 and 20, are thought to be involved in a plot to attack Britain but police have refused to comment on further details regarding the intended target.

    READ MORE
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    Unarmed rural police ‘like sitting ducks’ in event of major UK terror attack
    The 19-year-old was arrested on suspicion of preparing terrorist acts, and the 20-year-old on suspicion of funding terrorism, failure to disclose information regarding a terrorist act and suspicion of preparing terrorist acts under a separate investigation by the South East Counter Terrorism Unit.

    A number of addresses in west and south west London were also searched by specialist officers, but police have made no further comment.

  9. http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Claims-of-injustice–racism_73298

    Despite a protest staged outside the Jamaican High Commission in London Tuesday, the British Government deported 42 Jamaicans amid claims that they were tricked and that the expulsions were unjust.

    The deportees, some carrying only one bag of personal possessions, arrived in Kingston on a chartered flight yesterday morning and were taken to Mobile Reserve, the police unit at Merrion Road, where they were processed before being released to anxious relatives.

    Most hid their faces on release, except for one irate middle-aged man. He accused the British authorities of “using racism and bullyism” to effect the deportations and blamed the Jamaican Government of being a “sell-out”.

    He said he was sent back to Jamaica over a “few bags of weed”, but argued that the British “rob and rape the world and no one is holding them responsible for that”.

  10. http://news.trust.org/item/20160908221057-sinpz/

    ABUJA, Sept 8 (Reuters) – Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has postponed elections in the southern state of Edo to Sept. 28 from Sept. 10 because of security threats, a government official said on Thursday.

    Soyebi Solomon, the national commissioner in charge of voters, education and publicity, said after a meeting with police and security agents that a delay “is necessary in view of threats of terrorists activities in Edo State and other states of the federation during the election.”

  11. What a silly bunny:
    http://www.panarmenian.net/eng/news/220390/

    PanARMENIAN.Net – President Francois Hollande said Thursday, September 8 that Islam could co-exist with secularism, warning that the anti-terror fight should not undermine French values, AFP reports.
    In a speech on terrorism and democracy in Paris he defended the country’s Muslim minority following a vitriolic debate on the banning of the Islamic burkini swimsuit.
    “Nothing in the idea of secularism opposes the practice of Islam in France, provided it respects the law,” Hollande said.

  12. http://edition.cnn.com/2016/09/08/europe/italy-supreme-court-masturbation/index.html?sr=twCNN090816italy-supreme-court-masturbation0927PMStoryLink&linkId=28538050

    (CNN)Italy’s highest court has ruled that masturbation in public is not a crime, as long as it is not conducted in the presence of minors.

    The decision came down from the Italian Supreme Court — La Corte di Cassazione — in the case of a 69-year-old man, identified only as “PL,” who was caught masturbating in Catania, a city on Sicily’s east coast.
    The man was convicted in May 2015 after he performed the act in front of students on the University of Catania campus, according to documents filed with Supreme Court. The man was sentenced to three months in prison and ordered to pay a fine of €3,200 (around $3,600).
    However, the defendant’s lawyer appealed the case to the country’s highest court, which ruled on the side of the accused in June but only just made its decision public. Judges ruled that public masturbation out of the presence of minors is no longer deemed criminal conduct due to a change in the law last year, which decriminalized the act.

  13. What, exactly, do they mean by ‘Italian’?

    http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Sports/Italian-fans-boo-Israeli-anthem-give-Nazi-salute-at-world-cup-qualifier-467197

    The Israel Football Association has complained to the Italian Football Federation after two Italian fans were thrown out of Monday’s 2018 World Cup qualifier between the national teams in Haifa for giving the Nazi salute during the Italian national anthem.

    Police chose to only remove the fans and didn’t arrest them. Italy supporters were also recorded booing during the Israeli national anthem ‘Hatikva’, with several others being seen taunting religious Jewish fans and spitting at them.

  14. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3780093/I-came-Jungle-looking-good-tear-gassed-photographer-beaten-robbed-mob-KATIE-HOPKINS-experiences-hand-terror-Calais-camp.html

    As migrants stormed the perimeter fence at the notorious Calais Jungle camp this afternoon, police surrounded the desperate mob and fired tear gas at MailOnline columnist Katie Hopkins.

    In the violent scenes that followed, MailOnline photographer Roland Hoskins was attacked by migrants and subjected to a vicious assault. Here is her story.

    Taki! Taki! Truck Truck! The cries went up, men shouting, running towards us. Hundreds of men, young men, running, running, towards the security fence that keeps the migrants penned inside the Jungle camp at Calais.

    The lorries at the port were backed up, one after the other. The truckers’ least favourite position as targets, sitting ducks – vulnerable to attack.

    Hundreds massed at the line of fences. Pulling at them, ripping at metal, desperate to get a head start on the police with their tear gas, dogs and guns.

  15. http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/international/2016-09-08/islamic-state-foreign-fighters-most-violent-towards-hostages-survivors-say/1615988

    Westerners fighting with the Islamic State militant group are more violent towards prisoners than most local guards, ex-captives say.

    Mohammed Emwazi, known as Jihadi John, was killed in a drone strike last year. (Credit: Reuters)
    Westerners fighting with the Islamic State (IS) militant group are more violent towards prisoners than most local guards, ex-captives say.

    French journalist Nicolas Henin was held hostage by IS for 10 months after being captured in Syria in 2013.

    “This mad enterprise of hostage taking was mostly [a] kind of revenge of Westerners against westerners … we were almost two dozen Western hostages held by mostly Western captors,” Henin told Lateline.

  16. http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&doc_id=18715

    PMW Bulletins
    Murderer of 6 is Fatah’s candidate for Hebron City Council
    by Nan Jacques Zilberdik
    Sept. 8, 2016

    Murderer of 6
    is Fatah’s candidate for Hebron City Council

    Nan Jacques Zilberdik

    In the approaching Palestinian local municipal elections, Fatah has chosen a special candidate to run for election to Hebron’s City Council: a convicted murderer.

    On Facebook, Fatah praised its candidate Tayseer Abu Sneineh and took pride in his participation in the murder of 6 Israelis in 1980:

    Posted text: “The number 2 candidate on the Fatah Movement list in the Hebron City Council elections – hero of the Daboya operation (i.e., Beit Hadassah terror attack, 6 murdered) Tayseer Abu Sneineh – one of the heroes of the Daboya operation on May 2, 1980.”

    Tayseer Abu Sneineh was one of four Palestinian terrorists who attacked a group of Israelis on May 2, 1980, in Hebron, near Beit Hadassah – the only building in Hebron in which Jews lived at the time. They murdered 6 Israeli young men and wounded 20. All four terrorists were sentenced to life in prison, but were released in various prisoner exchange deals in the 1980s.

  17. http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/09/08/migrants-hire-ukrainian-yachts-for-luxury-crossings-to-europe/

    LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Human smuggling gangs are increasingly hiring Ukrainian sailors to captain yachts and other boats for migrants willing to pay up to $8,000 for safe passage to Europe, Italian police said on Wednesday, after the arrest of two suspected traffickers.
    On Tuesday, Italian police arrested two Ukrainians accused of trying to smuggle 50 Pakistani men to Italy on a 12-meter sail boat, the latest incident involving professional Ukrainian sailors and a luxury vessel, a senior police official said.

    “It’s a growing phenomenon,” said the official, who declined to be named because he is not authorized to speak to journalists.

  18. https://pjmedia.com/homeland-security/2016/09/07/isis-magazine-to-jihadists-target-young-adults-engaged-in-sports-activities-in-the-park/

    A new ISIS magazine released by its propaganda wing in charge of foreign-language outreach advises jihadists to target teens playing sports after school or even flower sellers hawking blooms on the street.

    The first edition of the new magazine — Rumiyah, meaning Rome — was published in English, Turkish, German, French, Indonesian, Russian, Pashto and Uyghur. The name, of course, is symbolic of ISIS’ apocalyptic goal of the conquest of Rome.

    The design of the magazine is more simple than English-language Dabiq. It’s also much shorter: 38 pages compared to the 82 pages in the last issue of Dabiq.

    The new effort by ISIS’ Al-Hayat Media Center is likely an effort to reach broader audiences on a more frequent basis. The articles are similar to other ISIS material: heavily on Quranic verse yet not so much in a Western tone, like al-Qaeda’s Inspire magazine.

    In one article on the Muslim’s responsibility to shed the blood of the kafir [disbelievers], the writers stress that “Allah did not only command the ‘fighting’ of disbelievers, as if to say He only wants us to conduct frontline operations against them. Rather, He has also ordered that they be slain wherever they may be – on or off the battlefield.”

  19. https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/8889/palestinians-women-witches

    The offensive references to women, who are depicted as witches and demons in Palestinian school textbooks, should not come as a surprise. Recently, it was revealed here that several Palestinian lists contesting the October 8 local elections have replaced the names and photos of their female candidates with images of roses and pigeons.

    “This is completely unacceptable because it presents women as the cause for all disputes and evil in Palestinian society.” — Lubna Al-Ashkar of the Women’s Technical Affairs Committee.

    “This will create a negative image of women in the midst of our children — one that will be difficult to change in the future.” — Amal Khraisheh, chairwoman of the Palestinian Working Woman Society.

    • And Keynesian economic/banking practices, which are in fact the very beating heart of the tyrannical forces we fight, are not “off topic”.

      Ban the Fed.

      • I don’t know how much longer the worlds economy can continue to be fueled by printing press money. The national debt of the worlds governments are more then the total curreny in circulation and much more then the current stock of precious metals in the world. This latter includes the precious metals in private hands. This economic crisis/crash/major and I really mean MAJOR depression is going to change many things in this world including how people look at government and private industry.

  20. https://www.facebook.com/TheIronMikeTyson/videos/1258775250812790/?hc_ref=PAGES_TIMELINE
    In Sofia, Bulgaria a woman whose office is in a quarter where Arabs are now a majority is being blackmailed.
    She says to the man on the phone “that guy”(“the guy from yesterday, from the day before”) is there again. She says she’s waiting for the police to come, and the man is demanding money.
    “-Why ” – the man asks. “So that he doesn’t bother you?”
    -“I don’t know, he says there is some note.” (the woman has said to Nizamov she gets notes with demands for money, sent from some Syrian by different migrants).
    She has been robbed and attacked by migrants several times, and, in Nizamov’s words, she suspects the goal is that she closes her office and leaves the area, which is now being called “the little Beirut”, because there are so many Arabs. The quarter is near downtown Sofia.
    Acording to Nizamov, the woman has said to him that the migrants cause trouble to all Bulgarians in that quarter, so that they would leave and sell their property at low prices.
    (No subtitles).
    Nizamov sounds bit wacky, so I’m not translating everything he’s written, but he promises to post more soon, and he mentions some policeman in high position that allegedly gives resident permits to migrants in exchange for money and is connected to the Syrian that blackmails the woman; he also mentions some other cases of migrant violence.

  21. It’s alright for you! Fury as multi-millionaire UN bigwig says Calais wall is ‘inhumane’ (express, Sep 9, 2016)
    http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/708660/Calais-wall-UN-migration-Peter-Sutherland-migrant-refugee-UK-truckers

    “A UNITED Nations bigwig has been savaged as out of touch and elitist after describing Britain’s plans to build a wall at Calais as “inhumane”.

    Irish multi-millionaire Peter Sutherland, who advocates unlimited migration to Europe, provoked outrage by railing against the Government’s latest project to protect UK truckers from brutal migrant attacks.

    The fatcat former banking executive, who is the UN’s Special Representative for International Migration, described the migrant situation in Calais as a “humanitarian catastrophe” and said more fortifications were not the answer.

    And he argued that Europeans “recoiled in disgust” when US Presidential hopeful Donald Trump unveiled his plan to build a wall along the country’s southern border with Mexico to keep migrants out.

    But Mr Sutherland immediately came under fire for his remarks and was attacked for being part of a “globalist elite” which favours uncontrolled migration for its own economic reasons…”

  22. Burkas on the beat: Police planning to allow ISLAMIC UNIFORMS in ‘bid to boost diversity’ (express, Sep 9, 2016)
    http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/708964/Burka-hijab-West-Midlands-Police-uniform-ethnic-minority-recruits-diversity

    “A POLICE force could let Muslim officers wear burkas as it tries to improve diversity among its ranks.

    West Midlands Police chiefs would consider introducing the traditional Islamic dress to its Muslim female officers’ uniform if it boosted ethnic minority recruitment figures.

    Chief Constable David Thompson said he would potentially employ staff who wear the burka as he looks to increase black and minority ethnic (BME) officers from just nine per cent to around 30 per cent.

    The force has already approved hijab-wearing officers and allows Sikhs to replace their helmet with a turban.

    The hijab – a headscarf covering the head and neck but leaving the face clear – was approved after being requested by a number of Muslim women.

    Scotland Yard introduced it a decade ago in London and the hijab is now successfully integrated into several forces across the UK – most recently in Scotland.

    No serving officers wear the burka – which leaves just the eyes visible – but it is hoped the move would encourage more recruits from ethnic minorities.

    Mr Thompson said the force had taken on a small number of Muslim women who want to wear the hijab in its latest wave of recruits.

    And he said he would look at the possibility of employing officers who wear burkas – which cover the entirety of a woman’s body from head to toe – should the situation arise.

    He said: “We would need to consider our own rules and cultural sensitivity. Clearly we don’t have any barriers relating to the burka…”

  23. Evil men lured girl, 13, into hotel room before raping her and photographing the abuse (express, Sep 9, 2016)
    http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/708614/men-lured-girl-hotel-room-raping-photographing-abuse-bradford

    “A PAIR of sick sex beasts who lured a 13-year-old schoolgirl into a “vile and degrading” hotel room rape have both been caged for 14 years.

    Ismail Ali, and Naheem Uddin, both 26, abused the child after picking her up in their car as they cruised a city centre looking for a victim.

    The sickening rapists “behaved like animals” and ripped her jeans as they yanked them from her legs.

    They took photographs of their victim while they abused her then threw her shoes and knickers from the bedroom window before leaving.

    The teenager, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was left seriously distraught after her horrific ordeal.

    Uddin, a married father-of-three from Bradford, was this week convicted at Bradford Crown Court of rape, attempted rape and taking indecent photographs.

    Ali, a waiter also from Bradford, was found guilty of two rapes and possession of the indecent photographs which Uddin sent to his phone.

    Both men were cleared of kidnap and false imprisonment.

    The court heard the pair were roaming the streets of their hometown “looking for sex” when they spotted the vulnerable youngster and persuaded her go with them to the city’s Ibis Hotel with them on the evening of April 18.

    Jailing them for 14 years each, Judge David Hatton said: “On that night each of you was out to find sexual satisfaction and you did not care how you obtained it. You saw [the girl] and saw her as your opportunity.”…”

  24. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wwem-Wit6Rk

    Once again , fantastic debate featuring Eric Zemmour , this video needs english subtitles as soon as possible. If anyone could please post this vid on the vladtepes channel.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wwem-Wit6Rk

    In a nutshell , they ask the big question: “what now” ? (what can we do now that millions of muslims are living in France)…Needless to say , Zemmour’s answers are 180° opposite on the rest of the PC-media.

  25. Israeli military expects Islamic State attack on its southern border ‘within 6 months’

    Israel is bracing for an Islamic State (Isil) terror attack along its southern border with Egypt within the next six months, a senior Israeli military officer has warned.

    Wilayat Sinai, the jihadist group’s affiliate in the Sinai desert, has been stealing armored vehicles and anti-tank missiles from Egypt’s military and Israeli expects the weapons will soon be turned against its forces on the Egyptian border.

    The Israeli officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told The Telegraph that Wilayat Sinai had stolen at least one Egyptian M60 battle tank and had amassed a supply of Russian-made Kornet missiles, which can strike targets more than three miles away.

    “It could happen today, tomorrow, in a month but within the next six months we will come into an engagement with Wilayat Sinai,” the officer said. “In the next six months they will try to carry out an attack and try to do something against Israel.”

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/09/israeli-military-expects-islamic-state-attack-on-its-southern-bo/

  26. Austria

    A woman walking her dog was allegedly sexually assaulted by a group of underage Afghan migrants…The authorities decided on a summit to tackle growing problems with Afghan migrants in the city. One girl was allegedly groped in the toilet of a bar, while two young mothers pushing prams claimed to have been attacked in a park in broad daylight…we must request an immediate relocation of all underage migrants…no doubt be decided that asylum housing will be moved out of the city…In the city of Wels in the state of Upper Austria, migrants allegedly perpetrated multiple sex attacks at a local festival…now asylum centres around the city have imposed a curfew at night for all migrants

    http://www.thelocal.at/20160909/dog-walker-in-afghan-migrant-gang-sex-attack

  27. North Korea conducts fifth and largest nuclear test, drawing broad condemnation

    SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea conducted its fifth and biggest nuclear test on Friday and said it had mastered the ability to mount a warhead on a ballistic missile, ratcheting up a threat that its rivals and the United Nations have been powerless to contain.

    The blast, on the 68th anniversary of North Korea’s founding, was more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, according to some estimates, and drew condemnation from the United States as well as China, Pyongyang’s main ally.

    Diplomats said the United Nations Security Council would discuss the test at a closed-door meeting on Friday, at the request of the United States, Japan and South Korea.

    Under 32-year-old dictator Kim Jong Un, North Korea has accelerated the development of its nuclear and missile programs, despite U.N. sanctions that were tightened in March and have further isolated the impoverished country.

    South Korean President Park Geun-hye, in Laos after a summit of Asian leaders, said Kim was showing “maniacal recklessness” in completely ignoring the world’s call to abandon his pursuit of nuclear weapons.

    U.S. President Barack Obama, aboard Air Force One on his way home from Laos, said the test would be met with “serious consequences”, and held talks with Park and with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, the White House said.

    https://ca.news.yahoo.com/north-korea-earthquake-believed-nuclear-test-010528159.html

    • North Korea’s Nuclear Blasts Keep Getting Stronger

      By MICHAEL FORSYTHESEPT. 9, 2016
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      North Korea said it conducted its fifth underground nuclear test on Friday. Since the first test, almost a decade ago, the size of the resulting earthquakes from the country’s test site have increased, indicating that the devices are becoming increasingly powerful.

      The device detonated on Friday looks to have had a force equivalent of 10 kilotons of TNT, according to the South’s Defense Ministry. In contrast, the last device tested by the North, in January, had a force equivalent of six kilotons of TNT, the South’s intelligence agency said. The aboveground Trinity Test in New Mexico in July 1945, which ushered in the nuclear age, had a yield of 20 kilotons.

      But power is not the only measure of a device’s lethality. The weapon must also have a way to be delivered. South Korean, American and Japanese officials want to determine whether the North Koreans are capable of building a miniaturized nuclear device that can be mounted on a ballistic missile and successfully detonated at a target hundreds, if not thousands, of miles from the launch site. In the past decade, South Korean and American experts have said that the North appears to be closer to achieving that goal.

      Here is a timeline of how North Korea built up the capability of its nuclear weapons. The earthquake magnitudes are from the United States Geological Survey, which differ from those measured by the South Korean authorities. They may also be slightly revised from numbers reported immediately after the events.

      http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/10/world/asia/north-korea-nuclear-weapons-tests.html?_r=0

      • North Korea’s bomb is more powerful, but worry is miniaturization

        SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea tested its most powerful nuclear device on Friday, but the more worrying aspect for its rivals was Pyongyang’s claim that it had advanced its ability to make a nuclear weapon, by miniaturizing and mounting a warhead on a missile.

        Its KCNA news agency said the test had used a nuclear warhead that had been “standardized to be able to be mounted on strategic ballistic rockets”.

        “The standardization of the nuclear warhead will enable the DPRK to produce at will and as many as it wants a variety of smaller, lighter and diversified nuclear warheads of higher strike power,” KCNA said, referring to the North’s formal name, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.

        There is little scientific evidence to verify that North Korea has perfected the science of creating a nuclear bomb small enough to fit on a ballistic missile and withstand the physics of atmospheric re-entry.

        But it may be getting closer.

        In April, a South Korean official said the North had accomplished miniaturization of a warhead, although the Pentagon said it did not necessarily share that assessment.

        In March, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met nuclear scientists working on miniaturization. He was photographed at the visit looking at a small, ball-like device KCNA said was a miniaturized nuclear warhead. He was also photographed inspecting a missile nosecone.

        https://www.yahoo.com/news/north-koreas-bomb-more-powerful-worry-miniaturization-101050915.html

  28. Pressure back’ on Greece as bailout falters

    Bratislava (AFP) – Eurogroup head Jeroen Dijsselbloem on Friday warned Athens to swiftly deliver on overdue reforms as its massive bailout programme fell off track.

    “The pressure is back on. We really need some progress. The summer is over, pack up the camping gear,” Dijsselbloem, who leads the group of 19 finance ministers from the eurozone, told reporters in Bratislava.

    Greece is struggling to deliver on fresh reforms that are needed to unlock a further 2.8 billion euros ($3 billion) in bailout loans and more crucially, launch negotiations on debt relief later in the year.

    Athens has committed to deliver on the refroms by the end of the month. They include the long delayed launch of a massive privatisation fund and reforms in the highly sensitive energy sector.

    The influential German Finance Minister, Wolfgang Schaeuble, said Greece still had a short period of time to get back in line on its 86 billion euro bailout programme, bitterly agreed in July 2015.

    “They have to do this until the end of September, so there is still time for Greece,” Schaeuble said.

    The eurozone ministers met in the Slovak capital as Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, an anti-austerity champion, hosted a mini-summit between the European Union’s seven Mediterranean states in Athens.

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/pressure-back-greece-bailout-falters-dijsselbloem-093111104.html

    • Add this to the info that JohnnyU posted above about the disruption in the supply chain caused by the South Korean shipping firm going bankrupt.

  29. LEPROSY HITS CALIFORNIA Primary school kids ‘struck down with Biblical flesh-rotting skin disease’

    Parents have refused to send their children to Indian Hills Elementary after receiving a letter warning of two possible cases

    TWO cases of leprosy could have broken out at a Californian primary school, parents have been warned.

    Parents have now refused to send their children to Indian Hills Elementary in Jurupa Valley after notes were sent home warning parents that two students “might” be sick with leprosy.

    https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/1748956/primary-school-kids-struck-down-with-biblical-flesh-rotting-skin-disease/

  30. CBS2 Exclusive: Teens Ambush Woman, Pull Gun In Violent Brooklyn Robbery

    NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) –Police are looking for a group of teens who have terrorized a Brooklyn neighborhood.

    As CBS2’s Valerie Castro exclusively reported Thursday night, surveillance video shows a group of teenage boys and girls working together to attack an unsuspecting woman walking alone.

    A woman was targeted and attacked under the darkness of a tree on a Bushwick sidewalk.

    Police sources said it was a group of teens who terrorized their victim, and threatened her with a gun.

    “It’s disgusting, simply disgusting,” Evett Villafane said.

    Her network of surveillance cameras caught the mugging on Sept. 5 around 11:30 at night on Evergreen Avenue.

    The video shows a group of what appears to be teenagers, some walking, others riding bikes and scooters, make their way up the street.

    Another angle shows the teens hiding behind a white van. On the sidewalk, a young woman walks by alone, carrying a bag and looking down at her phone.

    http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2016/09/08/cbs2-exclusive-bushwick-robbery/

    • From the names the neighborhood is probably Hispanic and the puniks are probably gang members from Mexico or further south.

  31. Israeli UN Envoy: Jew-Hatred At ‘Highest Level of Our Lifetimes’

    TEL AVIV – Jew hatred and demonization of Israel are at “the highest level of our lifetimes,” Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations said at a high-level forum on anti-Semitism held on Wednesday at the UN’s headquarters in New York.

    “Over 1/3 of European Jews are afraid to wear a yarmulke or Star of David in public,” Danny Danon said. “More than half of French Jews have considered emigrating because they don’t feel safe living as Jews in France. Today we hear things about Jews and the Jewish people that we thought belonged to the pages of history. … Anti-Semitism is returning to everyday life without shame.”

    Danon also said that social media presents a “new kind of threat” in that anti-Semitism goes global very quickly.

    http://www.breitbart.com/jerusalem/2016/09/08/israeli-un-envoy-jew-hatred-at-all-time-high-anti-semitism-2-0-uses-internet-as-tool-for-hate/

  32. Iranian oil output stagnates for third month amid OPEC bargaining

    LONDON (Reuters) – Iran’s steep oil output growth has stalled in the past three months, new data showed, suggesting Tehran might be struggling to fulfill its plans to raise production to new highs while demanding to be excluded from any OPEC deals on supply curbs.

    Iran’s oil output soared to 3.64 million barrels per day in June from an average of 2.84 million bpd in 2015 following the easing of Western sanctions on Tehran in January, adding to a global crude glut which has slashed oil prices.

    But since June, output has stagnated and reached just 3.63 million bpd in August, according to fresh OPEC data based on secondary sources, which include consultants and industry media, and seen by Reuters. Iran also told OPEC it produced 3.63 million bpd in August, according to an OPEC source.

    Iran became the main stumbling block to an initiative by OPEC and non-OPEC Russia earlier this year to freeze output globally. Tehran said it needed to first regain market share lost while it was under sanctions.

    http://www.oann.com/exclusive-iranian-oil-output-stagnates-for-third-month-amid-opec-bargaining/

  33. Iraq gears up for late-year push to retake Mosul from Islamic State

    QAYYARA AIRBASE, Iraq (Reuters) – The U.S.-led war on Islamic State has depleted the group’s funds, leadership and foreign fighters, but the biggest battle yet is expected later this year in Iraq’s northern city of Mosul, where Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared his “caliphate” two years ago.

    The jihadist insurgents have lost more than half the territory they seized in Iraq and nearly as much in neighboring Syria, but still manage to control their twin capitals of Mosul and Raqqa, symbols of the state they sought to build at the heart of the Middle East.

    Military and humanitarian preparations are now in full swing to retake Mosul, the largest city under the ultra-hardline group’s control. American troops are establishing a logistics hub to the south, while the United Nations warns of the world’s most complex humanitarian operation this year.

    Iraq’s recapture over the summer of Qayyara airbase and surrounding areas along the Tigris river 60 km (nearly 40 miles) south of Mosul have set the stage for a big push on the city, which commanders say could start by late October.

    Whether Islamic State makes a final stand in Mosul or slips away to fight another day remains in question, but Baghdad expects a fierce battle and the international coalition backing it is preparing for one.

    http://www.oann.com/iraq-gears-up-for-late-year-push-to-retake-mosul-from-islamic-state/

  34. Three suspected female militants seized in France, policeman stabbed

    BOUSSY-SAINT-ANTOINE/PARIS (Reuters) – Three women arrested on Thursday in connection with a car laden with gas cylinders found abandoned near Paris’s Notre Dame cathedral were likely planning an imminent attack, French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said.

    The minister said one of the women had stabbed a police officer during the arrest before being shot and wounded. A source close to the investigation said the attacker was the missing 19-year-old daughter of the car’s owner.

    The discovery on Saturday night of the Peugeot 607 loaded with seven gas cylinders, six of them full, prompted a counter-terrorism investigation in a country where militants have killed more than 230 people in attacks since January, 2015.

    Police sources said no detonator had been found, though the vehicle also contained three jerry cans of diesel fuel, adding to concerns that there had been a plan to explode the car.

    “These three women aged 39, 23 and 19 had been radicalised, were fanatics and were in all likelihood preparing an imminent, violent act,” Cazeneuve said in a televised statement.

    Seven people have now been detained since Tuesday in connection with the investigation.

    http://www.oann.com/three-suspected-female-militants-seized-in-france-policeman-stabbed/

  35. Researchers name parasitic flatworm after Barack Obama

    The magazine Popular Science reported on Thursday that scientists at Auburn University have named a newly identified parasitic flatworm after President Barack Obama.

    The parasite’s official name is Baracktrema obamai. The genus species is a blood fluke found in the lungs of turtles in Malaysia. B. obamai is said to have a “long, thread-like body,” and to have shown up so far in two varieties of freshwater turtles.

    According to the article:

    The scientists found clusters of tens to hundreds of fluke eggs in the turtles’ lung alveoli, the tiny sacs where blood receives oxygen and gets rid of carbon dioxide. How these eggs get outside to hatch and infect new hosts isn’t clear, although making the turtles cough is probably involved.

    The inventive among us will no doubt find a way to relate the “coughing turtles” concept to the 2016 presidential campaign.

    http://libertyunyielding.com/2016/09/08/researchers-name-parasitic-flatworm-barack-obama/

  36. The myth of the Republican/ Democrat ‘switch’ on civil rights

    In an attempt to break the Democrats’ near monopoly on the black vote, Donald Trump last week visited a black church in Detroit and held a roundtable meeting with black civic leaders in Philadelphia. But it was his remarks in Everett, Wash., that really got Democrats’ knickers in a bunch. “It is the Democratic Party that is the party of slavery, the party of Jim Crow and the party of opposition,” said Trump.

    Democrats can’t deny these historical truths so they try to render them irrelevant by resorting to the Great Switch hypothesis. Yes, they will admit, the Democrats used to be a bunch of racist dirtbags, but the parties have “switched,” so please don’t bring it up.

    To be sure, there was a “switch” in American politics but it occurred within the Democratic Party. For the great majority of its history, the Democrats were a white grievance party that discriminated against blacks, but from the 1960s onward they despised and scapegoated whites instead. Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose. Today they offer blacks preference — a commodity that Republicans, most of whom still believe that people should be treated without regard to race, can’t compete with. Judging by voting patterns, blacks appear to like preference quite a bit. Whites who don’t like being treated as second-class citizens are labeled “racists”and treated as the ideological heirs of Jim Crow.

    That’s not of course how Democrats tell the story. According to their childishly simple version, white southerners were, are, and ever shall be racist. If you want to know which party pushes a racist agenda just take note of which party white southerners prefer. The South has traditionally voted as a bloc (the “solid South”) because it has always been animated by racism – or so the legend goes.

    http://libertyunyielding.com/2016/09/08/myth-republicandemocrat-switch-civil-rights/

  37. News site cherry-picks data to slime cops

    A “Right on Crime” advocate has blasted a left-leaning news site for fuzzing numbers and stirring the racial pot over officer-involved shootings in the Lone Star State.

    The Texas Tribune admits that statistics in its “Unholstered” report are incomplete and potentially biased.

    “Behind bottom-line figures are individual interactions,” says the report, “the outcomes of which boil down to what’s inside the head of a police officer at a very specific moment in time when they’re confronted with an unpredictable situation.”

    Randy Petersen, researcher for the Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Right on Crime initiative, said the Tribune “cherry-picked data to be provocative.”

    The report asserted that 41% of Texas police shootings involved “black individuals” while noting that African Americans made up 14% of population in the 36 cities studied between 2010 and 2015.

    Petersen called the 14% figure misleading because 47% of the 656 shootings occurred in Dallas and Houston, whose black populations exceed 25%.

    The Tribune went on to declare that “unarmed people shot at by police were far more likely to belong to a racial or ethnic minority group.” The report identified 109 shootings, in which 47 involved unarmed blacks.

    http://libertyunyielding.com/2016/09/08/news-site-cherry-picks-data-slime-cops/

  38. From the very beginning, Clinton Foundation deceived IRS on tax exemption

    Clinton Foundation officials repeatedly skirted or ignored federal laws and regulations while converting the non-profit from its tax-exempt purpose of building a presidential library in Little Rock, Ark., into a $2 billion global machine selling political influence and access on an unprecedented scale, according to documents reviewed by The Daily Caller News Foundation.

    Non-profit foundations are required by the IRS to conduct activities that support the officially approved tax-exempt purpose for which the federal agency allows them to offer donors the ability to deduct contributions. Officials must report annually via the IRS Tax Form 990 to show their non-profit’s compliance with its exempt purpose.

    During the foundation’s first six full years of existence from 1998 to 2004 the tight-knit circle of Clinton insiders continuously misrepresented in annual tax filings the non-profit’s activities and compliance with its exempt purpose.

    In the IRS’s 1997 determination letter granting exemption, the federal tax agency instructed foundation officials that to retain the prized exempt status they must inform the government if you “change your sources of support, your purposes, character or method of operation … so we can consider the effect of the change on your exempt status and foundation status.”

    The Clinton Foundation did not comply.

    On the foundation’s first annual Form 990, filed in 1998, officials described the non-profit’s exempt purpose as “to design, construct and initially endow a presidential archival deposit.” That description was taken directly from the first sentence of the foundation’s application for tax-exempt status. The rest of the application’s description referred only to the library and related projects

    http://libertyunyielding.com/2016/09/08/beginning-clinton-foundation-deceived-irs-tax-exemption/

  39. EEOC chills constitutionally-protected speech in Gadsden Flag harassment ruling

    Conservative and libertarian think tanks have been known to distribute lapel pins that display the Gadsden flag, reading “Don’t Tread on Me.” The flag has also been used by the U.S. military, in patriotic displays, by Second Amendment supporters, and others. But such free expression is now under siege from Obama’s appointees at the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

    “Wearing ‘Don’t Tread on Me’ insignia could be punishable racial harassment” in the eyes of the EEOC, notes UCLA Law Professor Eugene Volokh. On June 3, the EEOC reversed the U.S. Postal Service’s dismissal of a Tea Party-hating black employee’s racial harassment complaint alleging that “a coworker (C1) repeatedly wore a cap to work with an insignia of the Gadsden Flag, which depicts a coiled rattlesnake and the phrase ‘Don’t Tread on Me.’” It ruled “that the Complainant’s claim must be investigated to determine the specific context in which C1 displayed the symbol in the workplace.”

    http://libertyunyielding.com/2016/09/08/eeoc-chills-constitutionally-protected-speech-gadsden-flag-harassment-ruling/

      • A lot of people are having that reaction, eventually the pressure will build to the point that things turn violent. Given the way people are feeling any violence will spread like a wildfire.

        • OT-
          Oops- sunset is getting early- candles & wine await.
          — Sabbath- is it ok to wish you, ‘Shabat Shalom’?
          However you say it, I do.
          ~~ (*u*)

          • Yes it is alright to do that, have a safe and happy sabbath.

            Wish my meds would let me have some wine.

  40. UK – Police may let Muslims wear BURKA as uniform in effort to boost diversity

    Senior officers at West Midlands Police revealed they would discuss allowing the traditional Islamic dress to become part of Muslim female officers’ uniform

    Police have said they may let Muslim officers wear the Burka as they seek to boost diversity in the force.

    Senior officers at West Midlands Police revealed they would discuss allowing the traditional Islamic dress to become part of Muslim female officers’ uniform at a recent meeting.

    Chief Constable, David Thompson, said he would look into employing officers who wear the burka as he looks to increase black and minority ethnic (BME) officers in the region to 30 per cent.

    Speaking after the meeting last Thursday, the senior officer said: “We would need to consider our own rules and cultural sensitivity.

    “Clearly we don’t have any barriers relating to the burka.

    “As it stands we have not had any approaches from potential recruits asking to wear the burka, but if such an approach was made it is something we would have to consider.”

    The force has already approved hijab-wearing officers and currently allows Sikhs to replace their helmet with a turban.

    The hijab – a headscarf covering the head and neck but leaving the face clear – was approved after being requested by a number of Muslim women.

    The Metropolitan Police introduced it a decade ago and the hijab is now successfully integrated into several forces across the UK – most recently in Scotland.

    Currently no serving officers wear the burka – a dress that covers the entirety of a woman’s face and body, leaving just the eyes visible – but it is hoped the move would encourage more BME recruits.

    West Midlands Police are currently trying to increase BME staff from just nine per cent to 30 per cent.

    The force announced its latest recruitment drive last week, and so far more than 6,000 people have applied for just 1,100 positions.

    http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/police-muslims-wear-burka-uniform-8798237

    • This lose of respect is something that is going to haunt the FBI, it will take decades for them to regain that respect.

  41. DAILY MAIL – GERMANY – Nearly 200 sexual offences have been carried out on migrants by fellow refugees in asylum centres in just one German state alone in six months, politician reveals

    The attacks have taken place in asylum centres in North Rhine-Westphalia
    They inlcude sexual harassment, sexual coercion, assault and child abuse
    Politicians have blamed poor accommodation for migrants for the figures
    North Rhine-Westphalia is the German state to take in the most migrants

    Almost 200 sex attacks have been carried out by migrants on fellow refugees in German asylum centres in just six months, a politician has revealed.

    More than 179 sexual assaults have been reported in the past six months in the reception centres in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia alone.

    The details relating to the sex attacks were released after Pirate Party state politician Simone Brand asked questions in the state parliament in Dusseldorf.

    This prompted state interior minister Ralf Jaeger to reveal that 178 cases were recorded in which criminal charges were brought in the first six months of the year.

    The details include 80 cases of sexual harassment, five cases of exhibitionism, 42 cases of sexual coercion and assault, 25 cases of child abuse and 26 ‘other offences against an individual’s sexual self-determination’.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3780047/Nearly-200-sexual-offences-carried-migrants-fellow-refugees-asylum-centres-just-one-German-state-six-months-politician-reveals.html

  42. State Dept.: U.S. Should ‘Rehabilitate’ and ‘Reintegrate’ Foreign Fighters Back into Society

    The director of the Office of Countering Violent Extremism at the State Department outlined some of the department’s strategic planning Wednesday to counter “violent extremism.”

    Irfan Saeed praised Denmark’s strategy of rehabilitating and reintegrating foreign extremist fighters into society, asking, “What happens when they come back? You have to be able to rehabilitate them and then re-integrate them back into society.”

    Speaking at a National Academy of Sciences’ panel on “Ideologically Motivated Violence,” Saeed described rehabilitation and integration as a strategy area of focus for the State Department.

    “We’ve seen a large number of individuals travel overseas to foreign conflict zones, places like Iraq and Syria, Somalia, Pakistan, Afghanistan,” Saeed said. “So what happens when they come back? You have to be able to rehabilitate them and then re-integrate them back into society.”

    He cited the program in Aurhus, Denmark, “where they’ve really struggled with this issue, but they’ve come up with a comprehensive way to try to rehabilitate these individuals once they come back and then reintegrate them into society.”

    Saeed discussed other strategies to counter violent extremism during the panel including intervention which he described as “something as simple as offers or alternatives to prosecution.”

    “It’s one thing to throw everybody in jail and figure it out later,” he said, but officials “understand that we can’t arrest our way out of this problem.”

    He also emphasized the importance of “strategic messaging,” arguing that “we figure if we can put some good messages on the internet, we can stop radicalization violence.”

    He cited the work of the State Department’s new Global Engagement Center, which is charged with “coordinating U.S. counterterrorism messaging to foreign audiences” and was established by Executive Order in March.

    http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/lauretta-brown/state-dept-director-countering-violent-extremism-us-should-rehabilitate

    more :

    https://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/2016/09/09/state-dept-wants-to-welcome-muslim-terrorists-home/

  43. SEALS Forced to Abort Hostage Rescue Mission While Obama Vacationed

    A group of Navy SEALS were forced to return from a hostage rescue mission in Afghanistan after President Barack Obama failed to approve their operation while he was on vacation on Martha’s Vineyard.

    According to sources speaking to Ami Newswire, the special operations force traveled swiftly to recover two hostages, but were ordered to stand down because Obama did not have time to approve the mission.

    Obama approved the mission a day later, but when the special forces team returned, the hostages had been moved just four hours earlier, according to the report.

    http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2016/09/09/seals-forced-abort-hostage-rescue-mission-obama-vacationed/