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  1. Laughing crowd records Memphis couple’s heroin overdose without helping them

    http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/crowd-laughs-records-overdosing-memphis-couple-lies-ground-article-1.2818842

    Atomization at its best, courtesy of mobile device technology. People are so busy uploading photos of someone else’s embarrassing predicament to their Facebook wall that they can’t be arsed to give aid or comfort. A good beatdown or ten might help to realign such skewed “values”. Sick f#cks.

    One can only hope that these twisted sh!ts someday have a heart attack and get to watch people step over their prone body in order to line up for free sticks of chewing gum.

    • This is the logical progression of the policies the left has pushed since the 60s. When the schools stop teaching morals and religious values are turned into comedy routines and abortion and “assisted suicide” become legal human lives becomes cheap. The people watching and filming the deaths saw no difference between aborting a baby, helping a depressed person kill them selves and watching an overdose without trying ot prevent the deaths.

  2. Indian tyranny at its peak in held-Kashmir: Gen Raheel (tribune, Oct 6, 2016)
    http://tribune.com.pk/story/1194401/armed-forces-prepared-give-befitting-response-threats-general-raheel-sharif/

    “Army chief General Raheel Sharif said on Thursday that Indian tyranny in held-Kashmir had reached its peak.

    He made the remarks while addressing newly-passed PAF cadets at Risalpur. He called on the world to take notice of the situation.

    “India is distorting facts to hide its atrocities in Kashmir which have crossed all limits,” General Raheel said.

    Army chief also made it clear that any aggression from the enemy would not go unpunished as the armed forces are prepared to respond to entire spectrum of threats…”

  3. Not just Saudi Arabia, JASTA may haunt Pakistan too (tribune, Oct 6, 2016)
    http://tribune.com.pk/story/1194446/not-just-saudi-arabia-jasta-may-haunt-pakistan/

    “… Some conservatives have also mentioned Pakistan in the vein as Saudi Arabia. They believe Islamabad can be charged of backing terrorism under JASTA because Osama bin Laden was found living in the country. Pakistan may be least prepared for such fallout as Islamabad neither admitted hosting Osama nor launched any aggressive action against US troops conducting the operation to eliminate the world’s most wanted man. However, it may be best to hire a team of defense attorneys…”

  4. India says it foils attack on Kashmir base, kills three suspected militants (tribune, Oct 6, 2016)
    http://tribune.com.pk/story/1194343/india-says-foils-attack-kashmir-base-kills-three-suspected-militants/

    “Indian soldiers shot dead three suspected militants who tried to raid an army base in northern Kashmir on Thursday, police said, the latest in a wave of attacks that has raised tensions with neighbouring Pakistan.

    The three men were found in an orchard near the army base in Kupwara district near the Line of Control, the de facto border that divides the Himalayan region between India and Pakistan.

    Police superintendent Ghulam Jeelani said the attackers engaged in heavy firing with soldiers before they retreated from the base, the second to be attacked in days in northern Kashmir. The attack came as India and Pakistan exchanged more gunfire across the de facto border in Kashmir, despite a 2003 ceasefire, setting off panic among residents in border areas…”

  5. Saudi apache helicopters hit militias near Jazan (saudigazette, Oct 6, 2016)
    http://saudigazette.com.sa/saudi-arabia/saudi-apache-helicopters-hit-militias-near-jazan/

    “Saudi Arabia’s apache helicopters targeted militia in a border attack across Jazan and recorded direct hits, an Al Arabiya News correspondent reported.

    Saudi Arabia has been ramping up counter-attacks in recent days after militias launched several cross border rocket attacks.

    The apache attacks come after a Houthi rocket landed on Wednesday in Jazan and injured a Yemeni resident in al-Tawal village…”

  6. Teachers of vandalized Makkah school demand greater security (saudigazette, Oct 6, 2016)
    http://saudigazette.com.sa/saudi-arabia/teachers-vandalized-makkah-school-demand-greater-security/

    “MAKKAH — Teachers of a vandalized primary school in Makkah demanded more protection from the authorities.

    Makkah Education Affairs spokesman Talal Al-Raddadi said the teachers of Salma Bint Hamza Primary School in Al-Khaldiyah District asked the authorities to take additional measures to ensure their safety and security.

    The school met with opposition from members of the Burmese community living in the neighborhood after several non-Saudi teachers were replaced as part of a move to Saudize schools run by foreign communities.

    “The parents of the students who are mostly Burmese were not pleased with the Saudization plan,” said the school’s principal, Jawahir Howsawi.

    She said she also received threats from mothers of students who were not accepted into the school due to a lack of places.

    “The teachers demanded that the directorate post a security guard at the school,” he said.

    The teachers who reported constant harassment and threats on their way to school and back also demanded a police car be parked in front of the school all the time, said Al-Raddadi.

    Howsawi said the teachers had told her that if the threats continued they would not be able to report to work.

    The teachers also demanded solutions for the overcrowded classrooms at the school. The school currently has 420 students, while the capacity of the building is only 200 students.

    The teachers met with Director of Makkah Education Affairs Mohammad Al-Harthy on Sunday. “The director responded to the teachers saying all of their demands will be met. The directorate aims to fully support the schools that had their status rectified this academic year,” said Al-Raddadi.

    He also said the directorate is currently interviewing security guards to hire them for the school.

    “Teachers who will be absent from work will have to present a valid excuse.
    Otherwise, they will be penalized. The school recently hired 14 Saudi teachers to replace non-Saudi teachers,” said Al-Raddadi.

    He added that the directorate received reports from the teachers of teenagers blocking the school’s ventilation system and harassing them as they enter and leave the school.”

    • It’s all kind of strange.
      ‘Muslim Burmese’ – either obsolete usage or an oxymoron.

      The official name of the state they must be talking about is the Union of Myanmar. Buddhism is the state religion. If you have a problem with that, you can go to Bamian, Afghanistan. Or any of the many pristine Tardish hellholes where various ancient religions once flourished.

      So these are perhaps ‘Rohingyas’ – or ‘Bangladeshi squatters’ – or simply ‘Indian subcontinent displaced persons’. An impossibly massive, indigestible horde of primitive Mohammedans.

      Now they’ve become redundant in Saudi, marooned in Wahabi-land. Oh dear, what to do?

  7. EU launches new border force to stem migrant flow (france24, Oct 6, 2016)
    http://www.france24.com/en/20161006-eu-launches-new-border-force-stem-migrant-flow

    “The EU’s beefed-up version of its struggling border force goes into operation Thursday, as the squabbling bloc struggles to find a unified strategy to tackle its worst migration crisis since World War II.

    European Union officials were due to inaugurate the new task force at the Kapitan-Andreevo checkpoint on the Bulgarian-Turkish border, the main land frontier via which migrants try to enter the bloc to avoid the dangerous Mediterranean sea crossing.

    The European Border and Coast Guard Agency (EBCG) will have at the ready some 1,500 officers from 19 member states who can be swiftly mobilised in case of emergency such as a sudden rush of migrants.

    Brussels hopes the revamped agency will not just increase security, but also help heal the huge rifts that have emerged between western and eastern member states clashing over the EU’s refugee policies.

    The long-term goal is to lift the border controls inside the bloc and restore the passport-free Schengen Zone.

    A day before attending the launch, EU Migration Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos hailed the inauguration as a “historic moment” for Europe.

    The boosted force is an expansion of Frontex, founded in 2004 to help coordinate Europe-wide efforts to combat people smuggling and illegal migration…”

  8. Bomb blast kills at least 16 Turkish-backed rebels in northern Syria: monitors (reuters, Oct 6, 2016)
    http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-turkey-idUSKCN1260H4

    “A bomb blast in northern Syria near the border with Turkey killed at least 16 Turkish-backed rebel fighters and wounded others on Thursday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported.

    Two witnesses in the area separately told Reuters the blast killed at least 20 people and wounded many more.

    The British-based Observatory said it was not clear if the blast near the Atmeh border crossing was from a suicide attack or a bomb placed in the area. There was no immediate claim of responsibility.

    It targeted rebels who have been backed by Ankara in its operation against both Islamic State and Kurdish militants further to the northeast, along a separate stretch of border…”

  9. Afghanistan gets aid, refugees get a ride back home from Europe (france24, Oct 6, 2016)
    http://leelajacinto.blogs.france24.com/article/2016/10/06/afghanistan-gets-aid-refugees-get-ride-back-home-europe

    “… A leaked EU “restricted” memo, which was posted on the Guardian website, detailed a negotiating strategy that was sickening in so many ways. Clearly the authors understood the root of the Afghan refugee crisis and the dangers of deportation. But with an eye no doubt to Europe’s rightward slide, they proceeded to nonetheless offer their bland Brussels band-aid to an open festering wound.

    “EU and Member States [sic] could offer increased support for the reintegration in Afghan society of irregular migrants accepting to return back home voluntarily. Basic support packages may also be developed for forced returnees…Particular care should be taken with respect to persons belonging to vulnerable categories,” notes the memo under the subhead, “Possible components of EU incentives package”.

    In other words, the EU was scheming not just for voluntary repatriations, but also for forced returns — including of vulnerable categories.

    How low can we fall?

    The leaked document gives a clear indication of the EU’s backroom arm-twisting ahead of the Brussels meeting. “The EU should stress that to reach the objective of the Brussels Conference to raise financial commitments…it is critical that substantial progress has been made in the negotiations with the Afghan Government on migration,” the memo noted….”

  10. Shots fired at planned centre for refugees in France (thelocal, Oct 6, 2016)
    https://www.thelocal.fr/20161006/shots-fired-at-planned-migrant-centre-in-france

    “A building in western France, set to house a number of migrants and refugees from Calais, was hit by gunfire on Wednesday night.

    French police were investigating on Wednesday after shots were fired at a building set to host refugees evicted from the squalid “Jungle” camp in Calais.

    The gunshots, fired on Tuesday night, hit the facade of a holiday camp building in Saint-Brevin-les-Pins, near the port of Saint Nazaire on the northwestern French coast, police told AFP.

    The building is being converted into a migrant hostel and is expecting to host 70 people evicted from the Jungle camp, which President Francois Hollande has vowed will be dismantled by the end of 2016.

    Between 7,000 and 10,000 people are living in the Jungle in grim conditions, hoping to stow away on lorries heading across the Channel to Britain from the northern port of Calais.

    No one has yet been arrested over the gunfire incident, which Saint-Brevin mayor Yannick Haury deplored as “unacceptable and irresponsible”…”

  11. Alleged Al-Shabaab Attack Leaves Six Dead in Kenya (sputniknews, Oct 6, 2016)
    https://sputniknews.com/africa/20161006/1046046162/shabaab-kenya-six.html

    “An attack in Kenya, purportedly carried out by al-Shabaab terrorists, left at least six people dead.

    MOSCOW (Sputnik) – At least six people were killed in an attack on a residential plot in the city of Mandera in Kenya, the governor of Mandera County Capt. Ali Roba announced.

    There were a total of 33 people at the plot at the time of the attack in the early hours of Thursday, according to Kenya’s The Standard newspaper. Twenty five of them have been rescued.

    According to The Standard, the attack was likely carried out by militants of the al-Qaeda affiliated al-Shabaab group…”

  12. Czech Republic Giving Doctors, Trainers to Iraq to Help Fight Daesh (sputniknews, Oct 6, 2016)
    https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20161006/1046045816/czech-doctors-trainers-daesh-iraq.html

    “Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka said that the Czech Republic will send a group of military trainers and medical specialists to Iraq as a form of support in the fight against Daesh.

    PRAGUE (Sputnik) – The Czech Republic will send a group of military trainers and medical specialists to Iraq as a form of support in the fight against Islamic State (ISIL, also known as Daesh) extremists, Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka said.

    “The Czech Republic will send to Iraq a team of surgeons and army trainers in support of the fight against ISIS.This is another form of our active participation in the fight against terrorism,” Sobotka wrote on Twitter.

    The decision was approved by the Czech government on Wednesday.

    The first medical specialists from the Czech Republic should arrive in Iraq in December…_

  13. Duterte’s popularity soars with Philippine crime war

    MANILA (AFP) –

    Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s popularity has soared during his first three months in office, an independent survey showed Thursday, in an apparent endorsement by Filipinos of his brutal war on crime.

    Defence ally the United States, the United Nations and the European Union have led global condemnation of Duterte’s unprecedented crime crackdown, which has left more than 3,000 people dead and raised fears of mass extrajudicial killings.

    However 76 percent of Filipinos polled by Social Weather Stations said they were “satisfied” with Duterte’s performance, with just 11 percent reporting being “dissatisfied” and the rest undecided.

    The Manila-based polling group surveyed 1,200 adults nationwide from September 24-27, asking them simply about Duterte’s performance as president without reference to the drug war.

    Duterte won the May elections in what was considered a landslide, but still with just 37.6 percent of the votes. In the Philippines, the presidential election is decided simply by whoever gets the most votes, and his nearest rival secured 22.6 percent.

    http://www.france24.com/en/20161006-dutertes-popularity-soars-with-philippine-crime-war-poll

  14. Thiel-Funded Seasteading Institute Cutting Deal For First Floating Commune Off French Polynesia

    Oakland nonprofit the Seasteading Institute, a group devoted to the development of floating colonies adrift from the oppressive moorings of society, has announced its dreams are closer than ever to reality. As soon as 2017, the institute hopes to break ground — er, ocean? — on its first seastead off the coast of French Polynesia in the South Pacific, Business Insider writes.

    “We look forward to working with French Polynesia to develop floating islands that will benefit our host country and our international community of seasteaders,” Randolph Hencken, the Seasteading Institute’s executive director, said according to a press release. “With numerous protected waters where we could station the first pilot platforms, French Polynesia offers many optimal locations for seasteading from an engineering point of view.”

    One motto from the Seasteading Institute, “Stop Arguing. Start Seasteading,” hints at its goals, which extend far beyond the technological — what if we built floating cities? — to the ideological — people can’t get along on land, so what about building those floating cities, huh? What about that? No, seasteading isn’t just an endeavor to get away from society, Hencken explains. It’s an endeavor to build it anew. “I somebody wants isolation, they can go buy a sailboat right now and be out at sea for months at a time,” Hencken tells Business Insider. To be separate from society, “Go be a hermit,” he says. Instead, “Seasteading is for people who want to engage in the marketplace of ideas, the marketplace of commerce, and the marketplace of government.”

    http://sfist.com/2016/10/05/peter_thiel_vies_for_supervillain_s.php

  15. Clinton Sought Pentagon, State Department Contracts for Chelsea’s Friend
    Pentagon think tank paid millions for reports on ‘warlike Americans,’ future Japan nuclear forces

    Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sought to arrange Pentagon and State Department consulting contracts for her daughter’s friend, prompting concerns of federal ethics rules violations.

    Clinton in 2009 arranged meetings between Jacqueline Newmyer Deal, a friend of Chelsea Clinton and head of the defense consulting group Long Term Strategy Group, with Pentagon officials that involved contracting discussions, according to emails from Clinton’s private server made public recently by the State Department. Clinton also tried to help Deal win a contract for consulting work with the State Department’s director of policy planning, according to the emails.

    Deal is a close friend of Chelsea Clinton, who is vice chair of the Clinton Foundation. Emails between the two were included among the thousands recovered from a private email server used by the secretary of state between 2009 and 2013. Chelsea Clinton has described Deal as her best friend. Both Clintons attended Deal’s 2011 wedding.

    Government cronyism, or the use of senior positions to help family friends, is not illegal. However, the practice appears to violate federal ethics rules that prohibit partiality, or creating the appearance of conflicts of interest.

    http://freebeacon.com/national-security/clinton-sought-pentagon-state-department-contracts-chelseas-friend/

  16. Exclusive: Dozens of Afghan troops missing from military training in U.S.

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Forty-four Afghan troops visiting the United States for military training have gone missing in less than two years, presumably in an effort to live and work illegally in America, Pentagon officials said.

    Although the number of disappearances is relatively small — some 2,200 Afghan troops have received military training in the United States since 2007 — the incidents raise questions about security and screening procedures for the programs.

    They are also potentially embarrassing for U.S. President Barack Obama’s administration, which has spent billions of dollars training Afghan troops as Washington seeks to extricate itself from the costly, 15-year-old war. The disclosure could fuel criticism by supporters of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, who has accused the Obama administration of failing to properly vet immigrants from Muslim-majority countries and has pledged a much tougher stance if he wins.

    While other foreign troops on U.S. military training visits have sometimes run away, a U.S. defense official said that the frequency of Afghan troops going missing was concerning and “out of the ordinary.”

    http://www.oann.com/exclusive-dozens-of-afghan-troops-missing-from-military-training-in-u-s/

    • Add these to the people who are daily crossing the southern border and the picture looks much scarier

  17. Amid South China Sea uncertainty, Indonesia stages a show of force

    http://www.oann.com/amid-south-china-sea-uncertainty-indonesia-stages-a-show-of-force/

    RANAI, Indonesia (Reuters) – Indonesian warplanes on Thursday staged a large-scale exercise on the edge of South China Sea territory claimed by Beijing, a show of force that adds to regional uncertainty sparked by the Philippines’ sudden tilt away from the United States.

    President Joko Widodo watched from Ranai, capital of the Natuna Islands archipelago, with hundreds of military officials as about 70 jets carried out manoeuvres that included a dog fight and dropping bombs on targets off the coast.

    “The president has a policy that all the outer islands that are strategic will be strengthened, be it air, maritime or land,” Gatot Nurmantyo, commander of the Indonesian National Armed Forces, told reporters.

    “Our country needs to have an umbrella. From corner to corner, we have to safeguard it.”

    Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi told reporters in Ranai that the exercise was “routine”, but it was also Indonesia’s biggest so far and follows a move by Widodo in June to hold a cabinet meeting on board a warship off the Natuna islands.

    Indonesian officials described Widodo’s visit at that time as a strong message to Beijing following a spate of face-offs between Indonesia’s navy and Chinese fishing boats in the gas-rich southern end of the South China Sea.

    China, while not disputing Indonesia’s claims to the Natuna islands, has raised Indonesian anger by saying the two countries had “overlapping claims” to waters close to them, an area Indonesia calls the Natuna Sea.

    • Remember the alliance that is forming to oppose China, individually non of the nations are strong enough to stand up to China, together they are enough to make China think twice. Not necessarily back off but think twice before they move.

      World leaders are moving us towards a major war that will be larger then WWIII and the nations that have always fought to protect freedom are not only unprepared to fight the war we are all in internal struggles trying to decide if we are to remain free.

  18. Magyar TV:

    Security forces practicing counter terrorism. Hungary must be more determined than the terrorists.

    Serbian army trying to stop migrants at border.

    Russian ship arrived in an Italian port with 5000 migrants from various countries.

    (Given that Hungary seems to be entering a state of siege from EU and media leftists, the hijrah, and domestic subversive leftists, it increasingly resembles an Israel of different complexion. There’s even a possible lawsuit by Sweden now. The left truly is determined to destroy this little country. They need help in the form of a sympathetic new US president. There seems no longer to exist the right of DISASSOCIATION, for individuals or countries. You are branded, and convicted in one fell swoop.)

  19. Now for NEXIT? Dutch ‘turn to the right’ as eurosceptic Geert Wilders soars in polls (express, Oct 6, 2016)
    http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/717904/Nexit-Dutch-turn-right-euroscepticism-Geert-Wilders-Mark-Rutte

    “HOLLAND is set to make a “decisive turn to the right” in a move which could lead to it following Britain out of the European Union, a prominent Dutch commentator has said.

    Political expert Tom-Jan Meeus said euroscepticism is booming in the traditionally liberal country and predicted that right-wing candidate Geert Wilders could become its next leader.

    And he said that a huge amount will hinge on the outcome of the US Presidential election next month, with a vote for Donald Trump likely to embolden ultra conservatives in the Netherlands.

    Over the last 40 years Dutch politics has overwhelmingly followed a similar path of that of the US, with voters turning to the left or right in sync with those across the Atlantic.

    And Holland’s upcoming election, which will happen next spring, is being widely cast as a battle between two right-wing candidates taking place in the shadow of Mr Trump’s sensationalist campaign.

    Mr Wilders, whose anti-immigrant, anti-Islam party is topping the polls, will go up against the more centralist Conservative and current prime minister Mark Rutte.

    And as the contest intensifies Mr Meeus, a columnist at the Dutch paper NRC Handelsblad, predicted that both will turn to populist rhetoric in a bid to secure victory…”

  20. 44 Afghan troops vanish on training visits to USA amid security fears (express, Oct 6, 2016)
    http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/718346/Afghan-troops-vanish-training-visits-USA-security-fears

    “FORTY-FOUR Afghan troops visiting the United States for military training have gone missing in less than two years, presumably in an effort to live and work illegally in America, Pentagon officials said.

    Although the number of disappearances is relatively small – some 2,200 Afghan troops have received military training in the United States since 2007 – the incidents raise questions about security and screening procedures for the programmes.

    They are also potentially embarrassing for President Barack Obama’s administration, which has spent billions of dollars training Afghan troops as Washington seeks to extricate itself from the costly, 15-year-old war.

    The disclosure could fuel criticism by supporters of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, who has accused the Obama administration of failing to properly vet immigrants from Muslim-majority countries and has pledged a much tougher stance if he wins.

    While other foreign troops on U.S. military training visits have sometimes run away, a U.S. defence official said that the frequency of Afghan troops going missing was concerning and “out of the ordinary”…”

  21. Norway proposes to ban burka over fears of Islamic terror (express, Oct 6, 2016)
    http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/718332/Norway-burka-ban-islamic-terror-fears

    “NORWAY is drawing up plans to ban the burka from schools and universities amid increasing fears over acts of Islamic terrorism.

    The law is being pushed by the country’s right-wing government who said it was considering “national regulations prohibiting the full-face veil in schools and universities”.

    Education minister, Torbjorn Roe Isaksen said the ban would only apply to the full-face veil and not to headscarves including the hijab, chador and niqab.

    The move comes amid growing fears over Islamic terror attacks in Europe and heated debates over the use of the burka across the continent…”

  22. ‘Medieval’ Muslim stabbed care worker wife EIGHT TIMES because she looked after men (express, Oct 6, 2016)
    http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/718322/Medieval-Muslim-killed-care-worker-wife-stabbed-eight-times-looked-after-men-Imran-Khan

    “A DEVOUT Muslim has been accused of displaying “almost medieval” attitudes towards women after he murdered his wife simply because he disapproved of her looking after men in her role as a care assistant.

    Imran Khan, 38, had sent spouse Nasreen a series of text messages claiming she was contravening Islam and adding: “If you go to men’s houses and lie to me I get angry. If you play games I get angry.”

    Later he stabbed her to death with a kitchen knife in a frenzied attack during a furious row at the home they shared with their three children in Cheadle Hulme, Greater Manchester.

    He told police afterwards: “Never get an arranged marriage, bro.”

    Inquiries revealed in the run up last April’s killing, Khan had warned his wife: “It’s not halal for you to work with men.”

    Police also found a text message sent to 38-year old Mrs Khan from her husband saying: “I have told you 10 times there are three people whose prayers will not be accepted by Allah – a fleeing slave until he returns to his master, a woman whose husband is angry with her, until he is pleased with her, and a drunkard until he becomes conscious. If you don’t listen to me I get angry.”

    At Manchester Crown Court Khan, admitted murder and was jailed for life with a minimum requirement he serve 20 years…”

  23. A Muslim accused of terrorism when he allegedly tried to run over a man with his car and was heard shouting “Allahu Akbar” is said to have cried after his arrest, his mum says.

    …The incident happened one week ago on Thursday in the Austrian capital of Vienna, and took place just hours before a Muslim amok driver who killed three in the Austrian city of Graz was sentenced to life…

    …Some Austrian journalists and Balkan terrorism experts have said that the Graz attack was in fact an act of Islamic terrorism, which the Austrian authorities have allegedly covered up or were unwilling to investigate…

    https://www.thelocal.at/20161006/muslim-auto-attacker-cried-to-his-mum

  24. France: Le Pen says EU and US responsible for “chaos” in Syria

    Marine Le Pen, the leader of far-right French party Front National (FN), accused both the EU and the US for being responsible for causing “chaos” in the Syrian conflict, speaking at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, Thursday.

    “You did everything to make the Syrian government fall, by leading the country to a civil war”, she said to members of the EP and continued to say that the EP members were hiding themselves “by accusing Russia (…) of all the bad things.”

  25. Les recrues étrangères du groupe Etat islamique ont un niveau d’éducation plus élevé qu’attendu, indique une étude de la Banque mondiale publiée mercredi et réalisée à partir de données internes de l’organisation djihadiste, .

    «Nous avons trouvé que le groupe Etat islamique n’est pas allé chercher ses recrues étrangères parmi les pauvres et les moins bien formés, mais plutôt le contraire», constate la Banque mondiale dans ces travaux basés sur la fuite de données internes de l’EI portant sur 3803 recrues.

    Il s’agit d’informations concernant le pays de résidence, la nationalité, le niveau d’éducation ou encore les expériences précédentes dans le jihadisme et la connaissance de la charia, ont indiqué les auteurs de cette étude consacrée plus largement à la situation économique de la région MENA (Moyen-Orient et Afrique du Nord).

    «L’une des découvertes les plus importantes est que ces personnes sont loin d’être des illettrées», constate la Banque mondiale qui estime que ces données apportent «un éclairage» sur le profil des combattants de l’EI.

    La plupart ont une formation secondaire

    La plupart des recrues, pour la période de 2013 à 2014, «assurent avoir une formation secondaire. Une partie importante a poursuivi ses études jusqu’à l’université», précisent les chercheurs de l’institution internationale, qui fixent à 27,4 ans la moyenne d’âge des effectifs étrangers de l’EI.

    Selon les données, 43,3% ont effectué des études secondaires, 25,4% sont allés à l’université. Seulement 13,5% ne sont pas allés au-delà de l’école primaire et 1,3% s’est déclaré illettré, le reste (16,3%) n’ayant pas donné d’information sur leur formation.

    «Les recrues du groupe Etat islamique provenant d’Afrique, du sud et de l’est de l’Asie et du Moyen-Orient sont significativement plus éduquées que leurs compatriotes. La grande majorité affirme avoir eu un emploi avant de rejoindre l’organisation», explique la Banque mondiale.

    http://www.tdg.ch/monde/recrues-ei-eduquees-quattendu/story/17208619
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    “According to the data, 43.3% have completed secondary education, 25.4% went to college. Only 13.5% did not go beyond primary school and 1.3% say they are illiterate, the rest (16.3%) did not provide information on their training.”

    How strange, Muslims who are fighting and supporting ISIS were supposed to do that because they were illiterate or did not go to college.

  26. Russia: Year-long Syria campaign freed large part of country from terrorists – Shoigu

    Russia’s year-long military campaign in Syria has succeeded in stabilising the country and liberating a significant part of it from terrorists, said Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu in Moscow on Thursday.

    SOT, Sergei Shoigu, Russian Defence Minister (Russian): “It has been a year since our Armed Forces started to conduct combat missions in the Syrian Arab Republic. During this time we managed to stabilise the situation in the country, to liberate a significant part of its territory occupied by militants and international terrorists, to organise work of the Russia’s Centre for Reconciliation of opposing sides. During the operation, the Aerospace Forces targeted militants’ bases and their infrastructure, delivered humanitarian supplies to Syrian citizens and addressed other equally important tasks. We gained practical experience of firing with precision weapons of long range from surface of ships and submarines from the waters of the Caspian and the Mediterranean Seas. For the first time the strategic aircrafts have used new air-launched missiles X-101 with a range of up to 4,500 kilometres in a real combat situation. Many modern domestic samples of weapons have been tested in difficult conditions of desert terrain and generally demonstrated their reliability and efficiency. Currently manufactures of the military-industrial complex are creating promising weapons that will come into service in the near future. It is important to take into account the Syrian experience while developing new models as well as during the operation of the existing equipment.”

    • Russia: Zakharova challenges UK to provide evidence for ‘Russia war crimes’ accusations

      Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova gave a weekly press briefing in Moscow, on Thursday, where she criticised statements made by the UK’s Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson on Russia’s military involvement in Syria.

      SOT, Maria Zakharova, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson (Russian): “So far we see in the actions, of primarily Western countries, no concern for the humanitarian situation in Syria, but the desire to protect al-Nusra and affiliated forces and militant groups.”

      SOT, Maria Zakharova, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson (Russian): “One gets the impression that our Western partners forget that Nusra, or Jabhat Fateh al-Sham after their so-called ‘rebranding,’ ISIS, Jund al-Aqsa, Ahrar al-Sham, Jaysh al-Islam and other groups are the swollen Al-Qaeda which conducted terrible terror acts in the United States. Why don’t our American colleagues remember about that and why don’t they officially remind their citizens about that, one can only guess.”

      SOT, Maria Zakharova, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson (Russian): “If you directly accuse Russia, what stops you from providing relevant materials? Satellite data, geolocation, or any other material that can confirm your statements.”

      SOT, Maria Zakharova, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson (Russian): “We do not hear these accusations for the first time. There is no evidence, only a frontal attack. Of course we do understand that such statements made by London [UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office] are their choice. But the more unfounded statements you make, the more you lose control in the region, the more goes under the worst-case scenario and we hear these accusations.”

      • The U.N. envoy for Syria has urged al-Qaida-linked fighters in the rebel-held eastern parts of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo to leave the area.

        Staffan de Mistura also asked Russian and Syrian forces if they would immediately stop their “aerial bombing” of Aleppo, providing militants from the Fatah al-Sham Front group – formerly known as the Nusra Front, which has been linked to al-Qaida – leave the city.

        De Mistura said if the militants lay down their weapons “in dignity” and leave, he would “personally” accompany them out. He said the militant are in essence holding “hostage” roughly 275,000 people in Aleppo. The U.N. considers the Nusra Front a terrorist group.

        De Mistura says a maximum of 900 Nusra Front fighters would “need some guarantees” that they would be allowed safe passage to Idlib province. He spoke to reporters in Geneva on Thursday.

        The U.N. envoy for Syria says only an estimated 8,000 rebel fighters are holed up in the eastern parts of Aleppo amid a government offensive in this northern Syrian city – and that no more than 900 insurgents there are from the al-Qaida affiliate in Syria.

        Staffan de Mistura’s remarks underscore the brutality of the fighting in Aleppo, where a besieged population of 275,000 in the eastern, rebel-held part of the city, is in desperate need of aid.

        At a press conference in Geneva, de Mistira sharply revised downward his earlier estimate announced at the U.N. Security Council last month that more than half of all fighters in the northern city were from the al-Qaida-linked Fatah al-Sham Front, formerly known as the Nusra Front.

        The Russian-backed Syrian offensive on rebel-held parts of Aleppo has in part spurred the United States to suspend its cooperation with Russia in trying to achieve a cease-fire in Syria.

        In a BBC interview last week, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that 50 percent of opposition fighters in Aleppo were from Nusra Front, “as confirmed by the United Nations,” according to a transcript posted on Russian diplomatic websites.

        http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/ML_SYRIA_THE_LATEST?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2016-10-06-08-32-20

        • …only an estimated 8,000 rebel fighters are holed up… and that no more than 900 insurgents there are from the al-Qaida affiliate in Syria…

          Nope, no safe passage. You’ve got to kill them. All of them.

          If Israel had not allowed Arafat to evacuate Lebanon to Tunesia, the PLO would’ve been history. Other murderous swine would’ve materialized, but you don’t give them a head-wind and you certainly don’t give them a story.

          Ceasefire is bs. Putin is doing a Grozny on Aleppo. There’s no other way to finish urban guerilla warfare like this. Israel should’ve blasted Gaza to dust.

          Instead three people in Sderot were murdered yesterday.

          • That is the only way to do it, the left and their useful idiot followers are (at least the followers) worried about the number of people who will be killed in Aleppo, what they ignore is the much higher number of dead you will have it you don’t finish the fight. The Arabic culture looks at mercy as a weakness and will continue to fight harder when it is shown. Show them that you are as ruthless as they are and there is a much better chance for peace.

            • These diddling “diplomatic solutions” can’t be translated into Tardish. No such thing exists in Islam.

              It’s the dealer’s hand – you can bet the elites bleating “humanitarian” bs are perfectly aware of that. All this cynical finagling is eyewash.

              They’ve got their hidey-holes, you betcha.

              • There are suppose to be a lot of islands in various locations that are being quietly fortified and have been for a couple of years. They make fun of the prepers but are quietly building “vaction” homes that are isolated and protected.

    • RT – ‘S-300, S-400 air defenses in place’: Russian MoD warns US-led coalition not to strike Syrian army

      Russia’s Defense Ministry has cautioned the US-led coalition of carrying out airstrikes on Syrian army positions, adding in Syria there are numerous S-300 and S-400 air defense systems up and running.

      Russia currently has S-400 and S-300 air-defense systems deployed to protect its troops stationed at the Tartus naval supply base and the Khmeimim airbase. The radius of the weapons reach may be “a surprise” to all unidentified flying objects, Russian Defense Ministry spokesperson General Igor Konashenkov said.

      According to the Russian Defense Ministry, any airstrike or missile hitting targets in territory controlled by the Syrian government would put Russian personnel in danger.

      The defense official said that members of the Russian Reconciliation Center in Syria are working “on the ground” delivering aid and communicating with a large number of communities in Syria.

      “Therefore, any missile or air strikes on the territory controlled by the Syrian government will create a clear threat to Russian servicemen.”

      “Russian air defense system crews are unlikely to have time to determine in a ‘straight line’ the exact flight paths of missiles and then who the warheads belong to. And all the illusions of amateurs about the existence of ‘invisible’ jets will face a disappointing reality,” Konashenkov added.

      He also noted that Syria itself has S-200 as well as BUK systems, and their technical capabilities have been updated over the past year.

      The Russian Defense Ministry’s statement came in response to what it called “leaks” in the Western media alleging that Washington is considering launching airstrikes against Syrian government forces.

      “Of particular concern is information that the initiators of such provocations are representatives of the CIA and the Pentagon, who in September reported to the [US] President on the alleged controllability of ‘opposition’ fighters, but today are lobbying for ‘kinetic’ scenarios in Syria,” he said.

      He cautioned Washington to conduct a “thorough calculation of the possible consequences of such plans.”

      US-led coalition jets bombed positions of the Syrian government forces on September 17, resulting in the deaths of 83 servicemen. Washington said the airstrike was a mistake, however Damascus claimed the incident was a “blatant aggression.”

      The relocation of the S-300 system in order to protect Russian ships and the naval base in Syria was confirmed by Russian defense officials on October 4. Konashenkov assured that the S-300 is a “purely defensive system and poses no threat.” Russia also has S-400 missile defense systems at Khmeimim base that were placed there after Turkey downed a Russian SU-24 jet in November of 2015.

      https://www.rt.com/news/361800-russia-syria-usa-aistrikes/

    • CANADA -Stéphane Dion condemns Russia over escalating fighting in Syria

      Dion joins the U.S. in denouncing the country’s role in escalating the violence and suffering of civilians, particularly in Aleppo.

      OTTAWA—Foreign Affairs Minister Stéphane Dion has joined the United States in condemning Russia over the escalating fighting in Syria and failed efforts to end the war in that country.

      Dion said in a statement Monday night that Russia’s actions on the ground over the past months “call into question” its commitment to peace and its ability to control what he called the “appalling actions of the Syrian regime.”

      His statement came after Washington suspended diplomatic contacts with Moscow over the war in Syria after Russian President Vladimir Putin put on hold a deal with the U.S. on disposing weapons-grade plutonium.

      Dion, however, stopped short of suspending contacts. He said only that Canada recently called in Russia’s representative to express “grave concern” for the Syrian regime and the role Russian operations are playing in escalating the violence and suffering of civilians, particularly in Aleppo.

      “Russia and the Syrian regime are failing to discriminate between terrorist targets and the civilian population,” said Dion.

      “Canada denounces the atrocious and ongoing attacks targeting medical facilities in Syria,” said Dion, adding that attacks like the one last weekend on Dr. Hasan Al-Araj Hospital “perpetuate suffering and death” and do not help end a crisis he said has lasted far too long.

      “Canada will continue to work closely with our partners and bilaterally to hold Russia and the Syrian regime to account. The path of dangerous belligerence will not succeed.”

      The Obama administration said it decided to cut off discussions on Syria because Russia had not lived up to the terms of last month’s agreement to restore a tattered ceasefire and ensure sustained deliveries of humanitarian aid to besieged cities, such as Aleppo, which has been under bombardment from Russian and Syrian forces.

      The Russian Foreign Ministry said the U.S. has “done all it could to destroy the atmosphere encouraging co-operation.” It cited U.S. sanctions on Moscow over its annexation of the Crimea region of Ukraine and NATO’s deployment of forces near Russian borders.

      U.S. officials said despite the suspension of talks with Russia, they would continue to work for a truce and aid deliveries to Syria in other gatherings, including the International Syria Support Group, a collection of nations, including Russia.

      Dion said Canada supports the U.S. and the other members of the group “in their tireless efforts to reduce the violence in Syria.”

      Russia intervened on behalf of its close ally Syria on Sept. 30 last year, joining President Bashar Assad’s bombardment of both anti-Assad rebel groups and militant groups such as Daesh, also known as ISIS or ISIL, and Fatah al-Sham Front, an Al Qaeda spinoff. Russia is interested in propping up Assad in part because Russia’s only naval facility outside the former Soviet Union is on the Syrian coast.

      Also Monday, the UN Security Council began negotiations on a draft resolution seeking an immediate truce in Aleppo and calling for an end to all military flights over the Syrian city. But Russia immediately rejected any grounding of aircraft and questioned whether a resolution at this time would actually produce any results.

      https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2016/10/04/stphane-dion-condemns-russia-over-escalating-fighting-in-syria.html

  27. Air France denies ‘extremist staff sabotaged planes’

    France’s national carrier Air France has been forced to condemn media reports that claimed radicalized staff had tried to sabotage planes and had scrawled “Allahu Akbar” on dozens of aircraft.

    Airline chiefs hit back after a report in the satirical weekly Canard Enchainé newspaper…..
    [ ..... it features investigative journalism and leaks from sources inside the French government, the French political world and the French business world, as well as many jokes and humorous cartoons. ]
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Canard_encha%C3%AEn%C3%A9

    …… claiming that French intelligence staff had raised the alarm following a series of incidents involving Air France passenger planes at Charles de Gaulle airport.

    The most worrying were claims that radicalized staff had interfered with communication between the cockpit and the engines on several aircraft.

    And the paper also claimed that around 40 planes were daubed with the words “Allahu Akbar”, which means “God is the Greatest” in Arabic, on their fuel caps.

    The discovery of one of these tags led to one pilot refusing to take off, the paper claimed.

    The newspaper also alleged that a member of ground staff refused to help guide a plane on the tarmac because the pilot was a woman.

    The reports were picked up by several other French news sites, but prompted Air France to dismiss the story as “false information” and “unfounded rumours”.

    “No malicious act on a commercial Air France flight has ever been confirmed or even identified,” said the company.

    Air France sources told L’Express newspaper that the “Allahu Akbar” tags were written on to aircraft during stopovers in North African countries and not Paris.

    A source at the airline also told L’Express there had been no major incident, only “marginal incidents linked to behavioural problems.”

    The airline also described the story about the male member of staff refusing to guide a female pilot as an “urban legend”.

    The question of security among Air France workers and Paris airport staff is however not new.
    Story continues below…

    Following the November terror attacks in Paris some 73 security badges were withdrawn from staff deemed to be a danger, although not only for reasons of radicalization.

    https://www.thelocal.fr/20161006/air-france-blasts-reports-radicals-sabotaged-its-planes

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    euronews – Air France condemns ‘sabotage attempts’ reports

  28. Amazon under fire for selling ‘sexy Saudi burka’ costume and ‘Arab’ costume featuring male model ‘browned’ up with shoe polish (dailymail, Oct 6, 2016)
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3824915/Amazon-fire-selling-sexy-Saudi-burka-costume-Arab-costume-featuring-male-model-browned-shoe-polish.html

    “Amazon has sparked outrage after selling ‘racist’ and Islamaphobic costumes modelled by ‘blacked-up’ men for Halloween.

    The online retail giant offered male customers the chance to dress up in an ‘Arab’ tunic and headdress, with a ‘Palestine’ scarf, which was modelled by a white man covered in what looks like face paint.

    While ladies could opt for a ‘sexy Saudi burka Islamic costume’, advertised as being ‘made from a lovely soft stretch material’ and complete with a face veil.

    Customers were left fuming at the offensive outfits and branded them ‘racist’.
    One user left a one-star rating and wrote: ‘You’re all disgusting racists. My culture is not your costume.’

    Another commented: ‘A person’s culture is NOT a fancy dress costume.’

    Whereas another user took the item for sale very personally, commenting: ‘Whoever you are fear Allah. It’s not a joke.’

    Amazon UK responded to the offensive garments and have now removed the ‘sexy Burka’ costume.

    A spokesman for the online store said: ‘All Marketplace sellers must follow our selling guidelines and those who don’t will be subject to action including potential removal of their account.
    ‘The product in question is no longer available.'”

  29. British Islamists helped by TEACHERS’ union undermine UK counter-terror scheme, study says (express, Oct 6, 2016)
    http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/718357/British-Islamists-teachers-union-undermine-UK-counter-terror-Prevent

    “ISLAMIC extremist groups have been helped by Britain’s teachers’ and students’ unions to actively undermine the Government’s counter-terrorism programme, a new report has found.

    An organised campaign led by extremists has been using false claims and misleading arguments to scaremonger about the Prevent counter-extremism strategy, a policy paper from cross-party think tank the Henry Jackson Society (HJS) found.

    The groups have been claiming Prevent only targets Muslims, which has had a damaging effect as it has gained footholds in schools, universities, local councils and politics, the report released today says.

    Prevent was developed as part of Britain’s counter-terrorism policy to “respond to the ideological challenge of terrorism” and to “prevent people from being drawn into terrorism”.

    Public sector staff are taught to understand radicalisation and to recognise those vulnerable to it, with processes for staff to report concerns about vulnerable individuals.

    Once concerns have been raised, the programme works to provide personalised support to those at risk of being radicalised.

    The report found the anti-Prevent campaign was not just reserved for extremist groups, as they had coordinated with public sector activists including the National Union of Teachers (NUT) working with the Muslim Engagement and Development (MEND) group and the National Union of Students’ (NUT) to campaign against Prevent.

    Controversial advocacy group CAGE, which has worked with Guantanamo Bay detainee Moazzam Begg, also campaigned alongside the NUT, MEND and the NUT.

    CAGE has been accused by the HJS of infiltrating universities and schools to organise academic criticism of Prevent.

    Rupert Sutton, research fellow at the HJS and author of the report, said: “Identifying those at risk of radicalisation, and ensuring they receive the support necessary to prevent them from becoming involved in violent extremism, is one of the most important policy challenges this country faces.

    “Despite this, a determined and well-organised campaign to undermine these efforts has developed in recent years.

    “Drawing on extremist narratives and spreading divisive fabrications, it is vital that this campaign faces greater challenge from government if the public is to successfully engage with Prevent.”

    The think tank has called on the Government to work hard to “challenge the dissemination of inaccurate stories about Prevent”.

    They have urged the Home Office, which is responsible for counter-terrorism, to publicise cases where Prevent intervention has been beneficial and provide greater support for practitioners to help them correct misinformation.

    Express(.)co(.)uk has contacted the Home Office for a comment.”

  30. SPAIN – Migrants flee detention centre in Spain after staging ‘mutiny’

    Spanish police said on Thursday they were searching for 26 migrants who escaped from a detention centre after a “mutiny” in which five officers were injured.

    Some 70 foreigners without residence permits who were being held in the Sangonera la Verde centre near the southeastern city of Murcia managed to escape on Wednesday evening.

    “One of the foreigners first pretended to be ill, and when the ambulance came to take him away, the others rose up in mutiny,” a police spokeswoman told AFP.

    “More than half of the foreigners who fled have been returned to the centre. Twenty-eight are still missing.”

    During the revolt, men “grabbed fire extinguishers and various items to throw them,” the spokeswoman said, adding that five police officers were slightly injured.

    Associations and academics have regularly denounced prison-like conditions in Spain’s seven immigration detention centres – some of which have overcrowded rooms, dirty restrooms and little in the way of social services or translators.

    The centres are meant for people who have come to Spain without a residence permit and are in the process of being deported.

    According to Spain’s SUP police union, this is not the first such incident to hit the Sangonera la Verde centre.

    In August, ten men escaped after a “similar altercation,” it said in a statement, calling for the “immediate closure of the centre”, which it said lacked personnel and posed a security risk.

    https://www.thelocal.es/20161006/migrants-flee-spanish-detention-centre-after-mutiny

  31. Is Bernie Sanders Crazy, Blind, or Evil?
    October 6, 2016 By Kent Kellar 0 Comments

    I live-tweeted last night’s debate between the Governor Mike Pence and Senator Tim Kaine.

    As the debate closed, I summed up my reaction with two tweets, one of which sadly observed that Donald Trump does not share Ronald Reagan’s belief in smaller government and more freedom.

    And because I’m fair and balanced, I also reminded people that Hillary Clinton is no Bill Clinton. Indeed, I pointed out that her vote rating in the Senate was almost identical to Bernie Sanders’.

    That doesn’t mean Bernie and Hillary are identical.

    I’ve remarked many times that he wants America to become Greece at 90 miles per hour while she seems content for the country to become Greece at 55 miles per hour.

    http://conservativerepublicannews.com/2016/10/06/is-bernie-sanders-crazy-blind-or-evil/?utm_source=161006CRNDBEZBAT1&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=161006CRNDBEZBAT1

    But, in practice, they were almost always on the same side when it came time to cast votes on the floor of the Senate.

    In any case, my tweet obviously touched a nerve since there were a bunch of (mostly incoherent) responses. And I also got this reaction from a law professor at the University of Baltimore.

  32. reuters – TURKEY – ‘Motorbike bomb’ blast in Istanbul wounds 10: governor

    A bomb attached to a motorbike exploded near a police station in southwest Istanbul on Thursday wounding 10 people, the provincial governor said.

    The blast occurred in the Yenibosna neighborhood, several kilometers from Istanbul Ataturk Airport, the country’s largest. Television footage showed damaged vehicles, shattered glass and broken windows in the residential area.

    Governor Vasip Sahin said all of the wounded were civilians and that investigations into who might be responsible were ongoing. There were no immediate claims of responsibility on Thursday.

    Kurdish, leftist and Islamic State militants have all carried out bomb attacks across Turkey in the past.

    http://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-blast-idUSKCN1261DX

  33. Bill Clinton Rapes Women!

    While campaigning for Hillary Clinton in Canton, Ohio, Bill Clinton was interrupted by a woman holding up a sing that read, “Bill Clinton A Rapist.”

    “Bill Clinton has harmed woman, and he’s raped woman,” the female protester shouted before being escorted out by security.

    Clinton responded, “I love it when people come into my rallies, and it’s a dead giveaway when they don’t want to have a conversation because they know they’ll lose the conversation.”
    Read more at http://americanactionnews.com/articles/bill-clinton-rapes-women#H7sUTqlh0RKD6SHC.99

  34. Germany Imports Child Marriage

    German authorities are debating the contours of a new law that would crack down on child marriages after it emerged that some 1,500 underage brides are now living in the country.

    The married minors are among the more than one million migrants from Africa, Asia and the Middle East who entered Germany in 2015.

    The German Interior Ministry, responding to a Freedom of Information Act request, recently revealed that 1,475 married children are known to be living in Germany as of July 31, 2016 — including 361 children who are under the age of 14.

    Most of the married children are from Syria (664), Afghanistan (157) and Iraq (100). Nearly 80% (1,152) are girls. The true number of child marriages in Germany is believed to be much higher than the official statistics suggest because many are being concealed.

    German law currently allows minors aged 16 or over to get married if their partner is of legal age and the parents or guardians consent. Germany does not recognize marriages contracted abroad if a partner is under 14, but German family courts have discretion to determine the validity of marriages concluded abroad by minors who are 14 or older.

    https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/9078/germany-child-marriage

  35. From Greek tragedy to American therapy

    By Victor Davis Hanson

    Published Oct. 6, 2016
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    The Greeks gave us tragedy — the idea that life is never fair. Terrible stuff for no reason tragically falls on good people. Life’s choices are sometimes only between the bad and the far worse.

    In the plays of the ancient dramatists Aeschylus and Sophocles, heroism and nobility only arise out of tragedies.

    The tragic hero refuses to blame the gods for his terrible fate. Instead, a Prometheus, Ajax or Oedipus prefers to fight against the odds. He thereby establishes a code of honor, even as defeat looms.

    In contrast, modern Americans gave the world therapy.

    Life must always be fair. If not, something or someone must be blamed. All good people deserve only a good life — or else.

    A nation of victims soon becomes collectively paralyzed in fear of offending someone. Pay down the $20 trillion debt? Reform the unsustainable Social Security system? Ask the 47 percent of the population that pays no income tax to at least pay some?

    Nope. Victims would allege that such belt-tightening is unfair and impossible — and hurtful to boot. So we do nothing as the rendezvous with financial collapse gets ever closer.

    Read more at http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1016/hanson100616.php3#qZucisCvFUIkMZjA.99

  36. video- AFGHANISTAN – Manba ul Jihad Studio releases video entitled ‘True Men’

    Manba ul Jihad Studio, part of the Multimedia Branch of Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan’s Cultural Commission, presents a brilliant new video release entitled ‘True Men’.

    This video with a total run-time of 19 minutes is made up of footage from a Training Camp of Islamic Emirate and alongside contains speeches of noble scholars pointing to importance of training for Jihad in Islam.

    on this page :

    https://archive.org/details/MoaskarEnglishFinal

      • Makes me sick.
        How much “infidel” blood wasted in that infinite sink?

        Russians dying for 10 years, wasn’t it? Western Coalition? Our own vets continue to commit suicide.
        Now these goat-fiddlers are preying upon baby Germans in public swimming pools. Skipping out of facilities in the USA to do who-knows-what?

        • Makes me wish I was younger, I turned 70 last month and with the weather changing everyday may back is feeling everyday of those 70 years.

          • Oh, happy birthday! “70 is the new 40.”

            I read that in Drudge. A quote from 70-year-old actress, Susan Sarandon. She looked good, but when she got on to intimate things, I figured she’s gone soft in the head.

  37. What We’ll Do About Putin’s Growing Nuclear Threats

    Here’s a news flash that ought to feature prominently in tonight’s vice presidential debate: Vladimir Putin’s Russia has withdrawn from an agreement governing the disposal of plutonium usable in nuclear weapons. Even more ominous is its stated justification for doing so.

    The Kremlin blamed “a fundamental change of the circumstances and the emergence of a threat to strategic stability as a result of unfriendly actions by the United States towards Russia.” That sure sounds like it’s laying the groundwork for conflict.

    Unfortunately, Dr. Mark Schneider, one of America’s preeminent authorities on nuclear threats, has just determined that Putin is also modernizing and expanding his strategic nuclear forces in ways that will likely violate the seriously flawed New START Treaty negotiated by President Obama and his former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

    A long-overdue debate about restoring our deterrent must begin tonight.
    Share this:

    http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/2016/10/04/what-well-do-about-putins-growing-nuclear-threats/

    • Great!
      Still as I live less than a mile as the crow flies for the houses of parliament, I should be vapourised in the nuclear war.
      Cold comfort I know, but at least I won’t have to try to survive the aftermath…….

      • There’s also this, from 2012, that tickled my fancy: Russia working on electromagnetic radiation guns

        WHILE many believed it to be an April Fool’s Day joke, Vladimir Putin has confirmed Russia has been testing mind-bending psychotronic guns that can effectively turn people into zombies.

        The futuristic weapons – which attack their victims’ central nervous system – are being developed by scientists and could be used against Russia’s enemies and even its own dissidents by the end of the decade.

        Mr Putin has described the guns, which use electromagnetic radiation like that found in microwave ovens, as entirely new instruments for achieving political and strategic goals.

        Plans to introduce the super-weapons were announced by Russian defence minister Anatoly Serdyukov.

        While the technology has been around for some time, MrTsyganok said the guns were recently tested for crowd control purposes.

        “When it was used for dispersing a crowd and it was focused on a man, his body temperature went up immediately as if he was thrown into a hot frying pan,” Mr Tsyganok said.

        “Still, we know very little about this weapon and even special forces guys can hardly cope with it,” he said.

        Research into electromagnetic weapons has been carried out in the US and Russia since the ’50s but it appears Putin has stolen a march on the US.

        Precise details have not been revealed but previous research has shown that low-frequency waves or beams can affect brain cells, alter psychological states and make it possible to transmit suggestions and commands directly into someone’s thoughts.

        Mr Putin said the technology is comparable in effect to nuclear weapons but “more acceptable in terms of political and military ideology”.

        Mr Serdyukov said the weaponry based on new physics principles – direct-energy weapons, geophysical weapons, wave-energy weapons, genetic weapons and psychotronic weapons – were part of the state arms procurement program for 2011-2020.

        Maybe there will be a reason to purchase that zombie safe house, after all.

        Last year Texan Austin Fleming’s created the Vagabond Mobile Safe House Device, which incorporates potable water filtration, tracking devices and photovoltaic cells into a handy and stylish leather backpack.

        The whole things flips out armadillo-style in under three minutes and is covered in reflective coating to confuse drooling marauders.

        The design won the 2011 Architects Southwest Zombie Safe House competition.

        http://www.heraldsun.com.au/technology/science/russia-working-on-electromagnetic-radiation-guns/story-fn5iztw3-1226317396841

        • The US has had the microwave cannon for a decade or better, they are useful for disbursing crowds but the government(s) in the US are afraid of lawsuits if they are used. I don’t know what we are doing in developing low freq weapons they are also (from our view point) plagued by the possibility of permanent damage.

          The microwave cannon was used in Iraq for a while but don’t remember reading about it for a long time so the left probably got it pulled from active use.

  38. Huma Abedin, Architect of MidEast Disasters?

    This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.

    Of all Barack Obama’s disastrous legacies, the Middle East being bequeathed to his successor may be the most problematic. His undermining of Israel, help in toppling friendly governments, empowering of Iran and embrace of Islamic supremacists of the Muslim Brotherhood have inflamed the region. They have also contributed to the mass migration threatening the same in Europe.

    As Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton was intimately involved in these decisions. Ditto her most influential advisor: Brotherhood-tied Huma Abedin.

    Daily Caller’s Richard Pollock reveals just-released Abedin emails showing her contemptuously discouraging ex-President Bill Clinton from addressing the pro-Israel group, AIPAC.

    As Huma is universally expected to have a top job in a Hillary Clinton administration, we need to know: What role did she play in the disasters to date – and will her Islamist lineage lead to more, and worse, in the future?

    This is Frank Gaffney.

  39. Yuriy RUBTSOV | 05.10.2016 | WORLD
    Why Deterring ‘Unprecedentedly Terrible Nuclear Attacks’Is Now on the Pentagon’s Agenda

    Speaking at Minot Air Force Base (North Dakota) on Monday, US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter accused Russia of «nuclear saber-rattling» and argued that even though the Cold War is long over, the US Army still needs nuclear weapons to deter Russia and other potential aggressors from thinking they could get away with a nuclear attack.

    However, knowing it would be difficult to sell the image of «Russian aggressors» as suicidal, (everything will burn in a global nuclear war, including those who started it), the head of the Pentagon was quick to say that people should probably not expect a global conflict. «Today», he stated, «it’s a sobering fact that the most likely use of nuclear weapons is not the massive nuclear exchange of the classic Cold War-type, but rather the unwise resort to smaller but still unprecedentedly terrible attacks, for example, by Russia or North Korea».

    The manner in which Ashton Carter frightened his audience could be considered a banal attempt to get even more money to modernise America’s nuclear weapons and their means of delivery. It seems that the $108 billion he mentioned, which will be used for this purpose over the next five years, is not enough for the Pentagon.

    Carter’s speech in North Dakota was not limited to this, however. The head of the Pentagon also expressed attitudes of a political-military and international legal nature.

    I would like to ask: what has Russia done, exactly, to justify the US Defense Secretary’s allegation that Moscow is preparing «unprecedentedly terrible attacks» involving the use of nuclear weapons? Has it issued the kind of threats that have made the world more volatile, perhaps? Or abandoned its international obligations? Or is it following America’s example and deploying nuclear weapons outside of its borders?

    We can assume that our negative responses to all these questions are neither here nor there to Mr. Carter, but there is an expert who responds in the same vein that Carter cannot disregard so easily, and that is one of his predecessors at the US Department of Defense, former US Defense Secretary William Perry. When asked by journalists how much more volatile the world has become in recent years, Perry replied: «Fundamentally nothing has changed… The number of weapons are sufficient to destroy, obliterate all of civilization… It doesn’t take that many. We still have more than 1,000 nuclear weapons on alert ready to go».

    In other words, neither Russia’s position as a nuclear power nor the status of America’s nuclear capabilities gives grounds for warmongering and the rapid modernisation of strategic nuclear forces (nuclear deterrents). In this regard, William Perry has unwittingly disarmed his successor.

    It is impossible to ignore the fact that Carter ranked Russia alongside North Korea among the «potential aggressors» preparing «unprecedentedly terrible attacks». He is willing to admit that Russia and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea are very different countries, but they are seemingly distinguished by the fact that both are prepared to resort to a nuclear attack «to try to coerce a conventionally superior opponent to back off or abandon an ally during a crisis».

    It is characteristic that, in unison with Carter, Theresa May also pointed to Russia and North Korea as potential threats in her first parliamentary speech as UK Prime Minister, when she justified the need to modernise the UK’s nuclear arsenal.

    If Pyongyang is aspiring to become a fully-fledged member of the nuclear club in violation of UN sanctions, carrying out nuclear weapons testing, and stating its willingness to launch a nuclear strike against US and South Korean armed forces in the event of provocation in the Asia-Pacific Region, then how is any of this similar to Russia’s actions? It’s not. Yet the head of the Pentagon has brought Russia and North Korea together as nuclear threats and has undoubtedly made this sound significant. One must assume that Moscow is drawing conclusions from this.

    There is another side to Ashton Carter naming Russia and North Korea as the main nuclear threats, however. While Russia, China, North Korea and Iran were identified in the US National Military Strategy, updated last year, as «revisionist states» that need to be countered, Iran and China have now (take note!) disappeared from the traditional group of ‘global villains’. Why Iran – following the closure of Iran’s nuclear dossier and the lifting of international sanctions – is understandable. But China? Or is it that against the backdrop of the «Russian danger», the US does not regard China’s nuclear weapons as a threat?

    Hardly. It is simply that with such a curious selection of targets, Carter is aiming to divide Beijing and Moscow, which hold similar, and in some cases identical, positions on a number of key issues of strategic stability and the strengthening of the nuclear deterrent regime.

    One merely has to consider the joint initiative of Russia and China to prevent the placement of weapons in space that was announced at the 70th Session of the UN General Assembly last year and that was rejected by the United States, incidentally. According to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who spoke at the ongoing 71st Session of the UN General Assembly, «the start of substantial negotiations on… the Russian-Chinese draft Treaty on the Non-Deployment of Weapons in Space could end the impasse over the key component of the multilateral disarmament mechanism – the Disarmament Conference».

    Ashton Carter’s lengthy speech at the military base in North Dakota did not contain a single concrete fact that would implicate Russia in attempts to undermine strategic stability, but the United States is undertaking such attempts. One need only think of America’s plans to deploy additional modernised nuclear weapons – ‘general-purpose’ B61-12 bombs – in Europe. There will be plenty of these US bombs in the Old World – estimates range from 250 to 400. And the fact that these new bombs are «more ethical», as the Pentagon puts it, i.e. they have a smaller yield, only exacerbates the situation. A smaller yield, but greater accuracy. This may suggest that they are going to be used against military targets, including in densely-populated areas.

    Finally, the US is planning to give the right of control over the use of these nuclear weapons systems to its European allies and is already training military pilots in Poland and the Baltic States how to use the nuclear weapons. This is a direct violation of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, as recently emphasised by Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov.

    By accusing Russia, without evidence, of intending to depart from the «long-established rules of using nuclear weapons» (to quote Carter’s speech once again), the US is using this accusation as a cover for its own actions, which are undermining the nuclear non-proliferation regime.

    • I will disagree with the author on a few points:

      1) We need to modernize our nuclear deterrent as quickly as we can, not doing so is a sign of weakness in an increasingly dangerous world.

      2) We need to rebuild our nuclear arsenal to the levels we had when President Reagan left office. In a world where anti-missile defenses are growing rapidly keeping the number of your nuclear weapons static is insanity.

      3) I will agree that the massive Cold War type nuclear exchange is unlikely, but unlikely doesn’t meant it is impossible or that it won’t happen. Through most of my life the idea that a US President would work to damage the US was unlikely but it has occurred.

  40. https://behavioralpolicy.org/article/belonging-nowhere-marginalization-radicalization-risk-among-muslim-immigrants/ March 2016 [Press the down arrow to read.]
    This research was supported by the Science and Technology Directorate of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security through Study of Terrorism and Behavior Grant 2012-ST-61-CS0001 made to the National Consortium on the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START). The views and conclusions contained in this article are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as necessarily representing the official policies, either expressed or implied, of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security or START. This research was also funded by an Anneliese Maier Research Award from the Humboldt Foundation and Office of Naval Research Grant 019183-001 awarded to Michele Gelfand. We also thank Arie Kruglanski and the START research group at the University of Maryland for their input throughout the research process.