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As an immigrant who came here with less than $100 worth of both money and value of stuff in my suitcase – fuck you!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCHfH0WABTY
P.S. – I have NEVER found a band-aid of my (pale) skin colour and I used to get regularly beat up (as a kid) for being ‘too white’ and someone the Nazi’s would have assimillated while they would have killed the rest of my peers. Yeah – I got regularly beaten up for being ‘too white’…in cold war Europe (on the wrong side of the iron curtain).
There are a lot of poor whites in the US but the Dems ignore them.
“As an immigrant who came here with less than $100 worth of both money and value of stuff in my suitcase – fuck you!!!”
Dear Xanthippa,
You are exactly the sort of person that makes America great. Capisce?
Audio only, from last week:
Waking Up With Sam Harris #61 – The Power of Belief (with Lawrence Wright)
Published on Jan 18, 2017
In this episode of the Waking Up podcast, Sam Harris speaks with author Lawrence Wright about al-Qaeda & ISIS, Arab culture, 9/11 conspiracy theories, the migrant crisis in Europe, Scientology, parallels between L. Ron Hubbard and Donald Trump, the Satanic cult panic, and other topics.
If you need a teaser or are pressed for time, go directly to 32:29.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-OGgAArIBk
Lawrence Wright has lived in Egypt during the period when Nasser died and seems to be an expert in the pre-911 period.
His new book:
https://www.amazon.com/Terror-Years-al-Qaeda-Islamic-State/dp/0385352050/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1485151292&sr=8-1&keywords=the+terror+years
This is so true, only it doesn’t only apply to Lille. I travelled from Brussels to London on Eurostar without having to produce a passport at any time before, during or after the journey. I was appalled.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4146246/Terrorists-fast-train-Britain.html
BERLIN: Anti-Trump Feminists chant “Allahu Akbar” at “Women’s March” against Inauguration
http://dailycaller.com/2017/01/21/womens-march-organizer-recently-met-ex-hamas-operative-has-family-ties-to-terror-group/
FOOLS
http://www.elle.com/culture/career-politics/news/a42375/womens-march-organizer-linda-sarsour-is-under-attack/
Street Justice: The Women’s March
Judge Jeanine tries to reason with anti-Trump protesters
For the first time: Belgium returns terrorist immigrant to Iraq
Posted on January 23, 2017 14:30
This weekend an Iraqi migrant has involuntarily been sent back to his home country by the Belgian authorities, after the man was exposed as a sympathiser of Islamic State. The Sunni Islamic radical, who was not named, is also liaised with terror suspects in Germany.
According to the Gazet van Antwerpen, the forced repatriation is a first for Belgium. Secretary of State for Asylum and Migration Theo Francken of the N-VA party, today even claimed it was “something unique for Europe”. Belgium has witnessed Iraqi immigrants return to their country of origin before, but they were never forced to do so.
Negotiations on the expulsion of Muslim extremists have been dragging on for months. This September, the Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel had a meeting with his Iraqi counterpart Haider al-Abadi in the wake of a United Nations conference in New York City, where they discussed the situation concerning terrorist migrants. An Iraqi government delegation visited the migration authorities of Belgium to deliberate on the issue last week.
Brussels is planning to forcibly repatriate another 50 or even 70 Iraqis to their motherland. An agreement has already been reached on five of them, who will be sent back after serving their jail sentences in Belgian prisons. They are soon to be released and will then be deported to Baghdad. The Iraqi embassy has provided ‘laissez-passers’, which is a travel document enabling the expulsions. “We are still negotiating on the other cases,” said Francken.
https://gatestone.eu/byebye/
Canada Vancouver CBC -Bus driver sexually assaulted while driving on Lougheed Highway
A man is in custody after he allegedly sexually assaulted a bus driver while she was driving east along Lougheed Highway last week.
According to transit police the suspect, Mohammed Sahib, allegedly first harassed and then groped the driver between the legs.
The Coast Mountain driver fended off the suspect, pushed the alarm, and continued to the Production Way SkyTrain Station.
The suspect then left the bus and boarded the train. He was later apprehended at Moody Station.
Doug LePard, chief of the transit police, said the driver deserves credit for her presence of mind in an extremely difficult situation.
“By calmly alerting the communications centre and maintaining control of her multi-ton vehicle she ensured the safety of her passengers, pedestrians and other motorists,” he said.
Sahib, who is known to police, was also arrested on an existing warrant for theft under $500. He will next appear in Vancouver Provincial Court Jan. 30.
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/bus-driver-sexually-assaulted-while-231042370.html
European bankers warn: Euro might fall
The Financial Times reported yesterday about European banks warning of the possibility of an imminent end of the Eurozone. Bankers in Davos are said to be ‘shocked‘ by Brexit and the election of Donald Trump. They no longer expect the status quo to hold:
https://gatestone.eu/euro-fall/
Sick moment thugs attack and choke man in Spanish subway before robbing him (express, Jan 23, 2017)
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/757761/thugs-attack-choke-man-spain-madrid-subway-train-station-robbery
“THIS is the shocking moment two men set upon an unsuspecting man as he entered a train station and violently mugged him…
They have not named the alleged attacker, but have confirmed he is a 21-year-old man from Morocco.
They are still searching for the second man and are appealing for anyone with any information to come forward to help…”
Hate preacher who ‘influenced’ Sousse terrorists given £123,000 in legal aid (express, Jan 23, 2017)
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/757768/Hate-preacher-Sousse-terrorists-legal-aid-Hani-al-Sibai
“HATE preacher Hani al-Sibai, who has been labelled a ‘key influencer’ behind the group said to have trained the Sousse terrorist, has been granted £123,000 in legal aid, it was revealed today.
Public money has been used to back al-Sibai’s fight to stay in the UK – despite being his links to the extremist Ansar al-Sharia movement.
It was this Islamic group which was said by authorities to have recruited and trained the killer in the Tunisia terror attack.
Seifeddine Rezgui shot and killed 38 tourists – including 30 Britons – as they soaked up the sun in Sousse on their June holidays.
Al-Sibai is also believed to be behind the radicalisation of Mohammed Emwazi or as he is better known, ISIS killer “Jihadi John”.
Despite already living in a £1million three-storey housing association home in West London, Al-Sibai, 55, is getting no to receive more handouts from the UK Government.
This time will not be the first time al-Sibai has faced deportation in the 23 years he has lived in Britain…”
Shock video: ‘Why you got a mask?’ Woman bangs car window of Muslim student wearing veil (express, Jan 23, 2017)
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/757590/woman-racist-attack-muslim-student-car-window-face-veil-niqab
“A MUSLIM couple were allegedly subject to a tirade of abuse and forced to seek refuge inside their car as a woman repeatedly banged on their windows and called the wife a “terrorist” for wearing a face veil.
Shocking video footage of the incident, which took place outside Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, has since been posted online and been viewed more than 1.3million times.
Ramzy Alamudi, who filmed the incident on his phone on Friday afternoon, said he was about to leave the campus to go a celebrate his wife completing her final exams before they were interrupted by a woman “staring at us viciously from a distance”.
According to Mr Alamudi, his wife waved to the woman, who is believed to be another student at the university, in an attempt to diffuse the situation.
However, it “turned the situation upside down”, prompting the woman to approach the vehicle and the couple to lock themselves inside their car….”
Just When You Thought ISIS Couldn’t Do Anything Worse
In the Al Hawija district of Iraq’s Kirkuk province, which ISIS has controlled since June 2014, ISIS has devised the most horrific forms of execution.
SIS cut out a man’s heart and ate it while he was still alive, as well as executing seven people it accused of spying for the regime with a bulldozer.
Sources in the Kirkuk province who requested anonymity spoke to Al Sumariya News on Sunday relating the latest horrors perpetrated by Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL).
“Islamic State [ISIS/ISIL] used a bulldozer to execute seven people that were charged with contacting government forces. The bulldozer ran them over while they were alive. Among the people who were executed were people who belonged to the Iraqi security forces,” the source said.
In a separate incident, the source told how “one ISIS fighter cut out a man’s heart and ate it while the man was still alive. The man was charged with contacting government forces. ISIS executed the prisoners at the air force base in Bakara near the Al Hawija district located 55 kilometers southwest of Kirkuk and took photos of it.”
Since gaining control of Al Hawija in June 2014, ISIS has executed dozens of residents of the district for various “crimes.” The most common offense is cooperating with Iraqi security forces.
https://www.clarionproject.org/news/just-when-you-thought-isis-couldnt-do-anything-worse
Should the US Leave the UN?
A bill to pull America out of the UN has been put before Congress. We look at the links between the UN and Islamism.
By Elliot Friedland
Mon, January 23, 2017
A bill to pull America out of the United Nations has been proposed. The American Sovereignty Restoration Act would completely remove the U.S. from the United Nations and pull out all U.S. funding for the body.
According to Snopes.com there have been efforts to pull the United States out of the UN since the UN was created in 1945. This bill has been put before the house every year for the last 20 years, but has languished in the House Foreign Affairs Committee and never made it to a vote.
But it is a good idea?
While there are other reasons to support or oppose the UN unrelated to the issue of Islamist extremism, Islamist regimes and their supporters have used the United Nations as a means of advancing their agendas and covering up their human rights violations.
We assess the pros and cons of the United Nations through the lens of tackling radical Islam.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/193
https://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/should-us-leave-un
If not now soon, the UN has survived well past the time when it was doing good and needs to be disbanded before it becomes an even greater source of evil.
The Subjugation of France: Salafism on the Streets
A new collection of testimonials by civil servants, teachers, social workers, doctors, nurses, police and mayors show France in transformation.
By Leslie Shaw
Mon, January 23, 2017
In Les Territoires Perdus de la République (The Lost Territories of the Republic), a prophetic book edited by historian Georges Bensoussan published in 2002, a group of French school teachers described the wave of anti-Semitism, misogyny and Islamism that was sweeping through schools in the suburbs surrounding Paris.
The book was met with a deafening media silence.
Fifteen years later, Bensoussann has edited a follow-up: Une France Soumise (A Subjugated France), a collection of testimonials by over 70 civil servants, teachers, social workers, doctors, nurses, law enforcement officers and mayors.
The face of France has been transformed in the intervening years. What was a rippling wave back in 2002 has become a tsunami spreading out from the suburban zones that threatens to engulf the entire country.
Sharia law has arrived on street corners and village squares. The Islamists are progressing, not from the top down but from the bottom up. Their strategy is one of gradual and inexorable encroachment.
https://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/subjugation-france-salafism-streets
http://hurryupharry.org/2016/12/23/georges-bensoussan-faces-prosecution-for-anti-muslim-hate-speech/
headline should have been “prosecution by a group that does not like that he reported the results of a survey on antisemitism.”
5 Facts About Saudi Arabia’s Male Guardianship System
Saudi Arabia’s male guardianship system is the biggest factor keeping women from being able to live full lives.
Saudi Arabia’s male guardianship system is the biggest factor keeping women from being able to live full lives.
1 Every woman in Saudi Arabia must have a male guardian. A woman’s “guardian” is typically her father or, husband, but it can even be her brother or son. In order to travel abroad, marry and sometimes to work or access health care, a woman must have her guardian’s permission.
2 A Human Rights Watch report called the male-guardianship system in Saudi Arabia “the most significant impediment to realizing women’s rights in the country.”
3 What having a male guardian essentially means is that a woman in Saudi Arabia is never recognized by the Saudi government as full legal adults. She is treated as though she is a minor unable to make many important decisions in her life on her own.
http://www.clarionproject.org/news/5-facts-about-saudi-arabia%E2%80%99s-male-guardianship-system
Hayes details behind-the-scenes drama over Pompeo delay
Rule 1: Never trust a Democrat to keep a deal.
Rule 2: If you have any questions see Rule 1.
Trump: We can cut regulations by 75 percent
Turkey Approves New Powers For Erdogan
The legislation will first be put to a nationwide referendum this spring after parliament voted its approval.
Turkey’s parliament gave preliminary assent to sweeping constitutional amendments that would abolish the office of the prime minister and see Turkey’s president gain executive powers. The vote will be put to a nationwide referendum in the spring.
The amendments were passed 339 to 149. The vote required a three-fifths majority (330) before the legislation could be put to a referendum. [If the legislation had garnered a two-thirds (367), it would have become law straight away.]
One lawmaker handcuffed herself to the microphone in a last-ditch attempt to stop the bill from passing.
Prime Minister Binali Yilderim said the changes would create a “sole power that would be strong.”
In total, the parliament approved 18 separate amendments to the constitution which must now be ratified in a referendum slated to take place in April. However the country is still under a state of emergency since the attempted coup in mid-July.
“There is no possibility under a state of emergency for an effective public debate in the media about the changes that are being brought in,” Emma Sinclair-Webb, the Turkey Director of Human Rights Watch told AFP.
The official website of the presidency of Turkey lists President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s current powers powers here.
The new powers acquired by the presidency would be as follows:
https://www.clarionproject.org/news/turkey-approves-new-powers-erdogan
Nigel Farage: Trumps revolution is already taking place
With his people doing the counting the bill will be approved by the public, this will make him Caliph in all but name and it won’t be long before he disbands parliament saying that in this unsettled time they are a hindrance instead of a help. This is straight out of Hitlers play book, it took Hitler 6 years to consolidate power and start WWII, given what is now happening in the middle east it won’t take Erdogan that long.
Swedish politician resigns after suggesting someone should ‘shoot’ Trump (RT, Jan 23, 2017)
https://www.rt.com/news/374818-swedish-politician-shoot-trump/
“A municipal council member of a Swedish town called Kalmar has resigned due to a Facebook post he made asking if someone could “shoot” America’s new president, Donald Trump.
“I believed that Donald Trump would calm down after he became the president [of the US]. But how wrong I was! He exceeded my worst fears! Could anyone shoot him?” Swedish Social Democratic Party member Roland Peterson, a municipal official in Kalmar’s Soedermoere district, wrote on his Facebook page on Sunday, though he removed it an hour later.
Nonetheless, Peterson decided to step down as member of both his party and the Soedermoere Municipal Council and Planning Board after making the post, announcing his resignation on Monday morning.
“After my blunder on Facebook, there is a risk that I will become a burden for the Social Democrats in Kalmar. I do not want it, so I chose to leave all my posts,” Peterson wrote in a letter to his party members, as cited by the local Oestra Smaland newspaper.
Person’s post provoked an angry reaction from his party members and fellow councilors.
“It is good that he [Peterson] removed it [the post],” councilor Johan Persson told Oestra Smalan, adding that people should “never call for violence” regardless of their opinion of Donald Trump or other issues…”
Those commie bastards got scared quite quickly.
‘Act normal, or leave the country’: Dutch PM ups the ante ahead of general election (RT, Jan 23, 2017)
https://www.rt.com/news/374823-mark-rutte-netherlands-election/
“Prime Minister of the Netherlands Mark Rutte has taken out full-page ads in several newspapers urging those who are unhappy with the Dutch way of life to leave.
“If you live in a country where you get so annoyed with how we deal each other, you have a choice. Get out! You don’t have to be here!”the advertisement, addressed to all Netherlanders, read.
The ad was seen as a not-so-subtle attack on Rutte’s close rival Geert Wilders, notorious in Europe for his anti-immigrant and highly outspoken anti-Islamic stance which previously landed him in court.
Dutch general elections are due to take place on March 15 and are seen in the media as a showdown between former coalition allies Wilders, of the Dutch Freedom Party (PVV), and incumbent PM Rutte’s center-right People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD).
Even if Wilders’ party were to win, Rutte has ruled out the possibility of forming a coalition with the PVV…”
He says that to Geert but does nothing when the invaders destroy his country.
The Anti-Semite Who Organized the ‘Women’s March on Washington’
And the half-million lemmings who showed up in “solidarity.”
January 23, 2017
John Perazzo
It would be interesting to know how many of the useful idiots donning “pussy hats” at Saturday’s massive “Women’s March on Washington” had any idea—or even cared to know—who the principal organizers of the event were. The answer is undoubtedly close to zero, since the purpose of the entire charade—like all leftist charades—was merely to give the participants an opportunity to publicly signal their own moral superiority while smearing—as racists and fascists—anyone who doesn’t accept socialism, identity politics, and perpetual grievance mongering as the ultimate expressions of the American Dream. But for those who actually have an aversion to mindless indoctrination, the facts will be rather disturbing.
A leading organizer of the Women’s March was the Palestinian-American activist Linda Sarsour, executive director of the Arab American Association of New York. This group was founded shortly after 9/11—not to condemn the attacks, of course, but rather, to lament “the heightened sense of fear and the acts of blatant discrimination aimed at [the Muslim] community” in the racist wasteland known as America. On the premise that all government efforts to forestall additional terrorism constituted Nazi-like fascism, Sarsour and her organization played a central role in pressuring the New York Police Department to terminate its secret surveillance of the many Muslim groups and mosques suspected of promoting jihadism.
Sarsour is also a member of the Justice League NYC, which seeks to draw public attention to what it portrays as an epidemic of police brutality against African American civilians in New York City. The group’s constant drumbeat is the claim that the United States is awash in essentially the same ugly strain of racism as was prevalent in the days of slavery and Jim Crow.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/265552/anti-semite-who-organized-womens-march-washington-john-perazzo
weasel zippers -Muslim Brotherhood Goons Attend Anti-Trump “Women’s March” Protest…
http://www.weaselzippers.us/321187-muslim-brotherhood-goons-attends-anti-trump-womens-march/
That’s an eye-opener!
David Horowitz: Democratic Party Is Marching Off The Cliff
Freedom Center president joins Stuart Varney to discuss the Trump inauguration and his new book, “Big Agenda.”
January 23, 2017
Frontpagemag.com
The Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America’s Ominous Post-Election Statement
A “roadmap” to corroding our constitutionally protected values.
January 23, 2017
Philip Haney
The purpose of this article is to decipher the ominous, but heavily camouflaged language embedded within the English text of a recent scholarly document, published on the website of the Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America (AMJA), which is entitled Post-Election Statement: Principles and Roadmap(aka the Roadmap).
As a 40-year specialist in the Strategy & Tactics of the Global Islamic Movement (GIM) and founding member of the Department of Homeland Security Customs and Border Protection (retired), my intention is to ‘pull out the threads’ of references in the Shariah-compliant Roadmap that are derived from the Quran and Hadith (and other academic sources), so that the general public sees more clearly that the AMJA is more than a simple ‘home-grown’ American Islamic organization.
Other ‘threads’ (fundamental Islamic doctrines) that are tightly woven into the fabric of the AMJA Roadmap include explicit religious Obligations (Paragraph 3), the Shariah-authorized response to the Oppression of Islamic civil rights (Paragraph 6), Loyalty & Enmity (Paragraph 10), the doctrine of Unity & Brotherhood within the global Islamic community (Paragraph 10), and allusions to the Islamic Revival Movement (Paragraph 13).
Why is the AMJA Roadmap even important? Could a scholarly article written by the leaders of a harmless-sounding American Islamic organization possibly have a corrosive influence on our Constitutionally protected values of Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness?
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/265549/assembly-muslim-jurists-americas-ominous-post-philip-haney
Trump Sued for Allegedly Violating Constitution
Let me get this straight, he is being sued because in the past he had business dealings with foreign government? Having been a businessman is suppose to disqualify him from holding office?
A leftwing loon is filing a nuisance law suit which any rational Judge would throw out, we will have to wait and see if the Judge accepting the suit is rational or not.
The Amazon newspaper–published as the Washington Post–has been discussing this issue since the election. Here’s a perspicacious comment, ” Bill Clinton was recompensed personally by the UAE government for two $500, 000 speeches he gave while Hillary was SoS. ”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2016/11/21/the-emoluments-clause-is-donald-trump-violating-its-letter-or-spirit/?commentID=washingtonpost.com/ECHO/item/40b5e933-5372-4f95-95f0-9d8156142fa5&outputType=comment&utm_term=.f4f7c6e1bb61
If I understood correctly Trump has stated that all profits from his overseas businesses will be given to the US Treasury. Trump will not profit from his overseas concerns while Pres. but, will allow those businesses to stay in place.
I think what the Dems want is the dissolution of all overseas Trump interests and, quite frankly, will not stop the smearing until they get what they want.
During the Bush admin. Chaney was constantly vilified regarding Halliburton. The truth was that Cheney had divested himself of all Halliburton interests when gaining office with the exception of a small scholarship fund which he placed in a blind trust. It didn’t matter. The media kept pulling that thread like a kid that can’t leave a wiggly tooth alone until it became part of the narrative.
Hopefully, being the outspoken person that Trump is, he will state his arrangements with his overseas businesses to the press corps and dare them to report it accurately.
Obama’s Peace Partner Iran Caught Attempting To Import Nuclear Missile System Components
by Geoffrey Grider
Ukrainian authorities have confirmed that they seized a shipment of missile system components bound for Iran, according to official statements that could put the Islamic Republic in violation of international bans on such behavior.
The State Border Guard Service of Ukraine, or DPSU, announced late last week that it had seized at least 17 boxes filled with missile components bound for Iran, according to IHS Jane’s.
“The DPSU said that, during an inspection of the aircraft on 19 January, its personnel had found 17 boxes with no accompanying documents, which the aircraft’s crew said contained an aircraft repair kit,” according to the report. “Three boxes contained components that were believed to be for a Fagot anti-tank guided missile system, the rest contained aircraft parts.”
Iran successfully test-fires long-range S200 surface-to-air missile:
Days after this finding, the DPSU said that it had confirmed the missile components were destined for Iran’s Fagot system.
Michael Rubin, a former Pentagon adviser and expert on rogue regimes, said that Iran has been illicitly moving such weapons for quite some time.
“This isn’t the first time Iran has gotten caught red handed smuggling weapons with false manifests, for example, in 2010 in Nigeria,” Rubin said. “The question is how often does Iran get away with such smuggling and for what purpose? After all, if the weaponry is legal, there’s no reason for lying. If it’s not, Iran is violating international agreements. Either way, only fools and secretaries of state would trust Iran to uphold its agreements.” source
http://www.nowtheendbegins.com/obamas-peace-partner-iran-caught-attempting-import-nuclear-missile-system-components/
RT- FRANCE – Right-wing, Trump’s US & Putin’s Russia: Former French PM Valls names ‘enemies of state’
reuters – The battle for France’s left down to final two
Trump signs executive order withdrawing US from TPP trade deal (france24, Jan 23, 2017)
http://www.france24.com/en/20170123-usa-trump-sign-orders-nafta-tpp-report-immigration-border-security-canada-mexico
“President Donald Trump moved Monday to pull the United States out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, making good on a pledge to scrap a deal he denounced as a “job killer” and a “rape” of US interests…”
Dresden bans protest against anti-Islam movement over snowball fight fears (thelocal, Jan 23, 2017)
https://www.thelocal.de/20170123/dresden-bans-anti-pegida-protest-over-snowball-fight-fears
“Dresden authorities have banned a protest in the eastern city over fears that a snowball fight could break out…”
Russia Receives Daesh Coordinates in Al-Bab From US (sputniknews, Jan 23, 2017)
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201701231049927674-russia-us-daesh-coordinates/
“Russia has received coordinates of Daesh targets in Al-Bab, Aleppo Province, from the US via the ‘direct line,’ the Russian Defense Minsitry said Monday.
The United States has provided coordinates of the terrorists’ targets in the city of Al-Bab in Aleppo province for Russian airstrikes. After the reconaissance check, Russia and two coalition jets have conducted joint airstrikes on the Daesh targets in the region…”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/01/22/queens-chaplain-resigns-cathedral-koran-reading-row-saying-has/
http://archbishopcranmer.com/gavin-ashenden-resigns-chaplain-queen/
German Interior Minister de Maiziere promises new system against terrorism (DW, Jan 23, 2017)
http://www.dw.com/en/german-interior-minister-de-maiziere-promises-new-system-against-terrorism/a-37233957
“A new threat assessment system is intended to track potential terrorists and increase cooperation between authorities. Security has come into focus since the Berlin Christmas market attack.
In an interview with German weekly “Bild am Sonntag,” German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said there would be better communication between the police and the judiciary with a new computer system.
The system, called “Radar,” was jointly created by the University of Zurich and the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA). The system will assess the potential threat of Islamist terrorists as moderate, conspicuous or high-risk. De Maiziere told “Bild am Sonntag” that “the federal and state authorities also need better arguments against the judiciary when they apply for measures.” De Maiziere added that the new system would be a “crucial building block.”
The states will be familiarized with the system by the end of June, and it will be implemented by states with more potential threats.
The “Radar” system is one of many potential improvements to German security measures, including tougher action against those who faked their identity and tougher surveillance of potential terrorists. Anis Amri, the main suspect behind the terrorist attack on a Berlin Christmas market attack in December, used multiple identities before the attack…”
Have to love those potentially moderate terrorists! lol
CIA Documents Show Gaddafi Attempted to Assassinate King Hassan II (moroccoworldnews, Jan 23, 2017)
https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2017/01/206371/cia-documents-show-gaddafi-attempted-assassinate-king-hassan-ii/
“Recently declassified CIA documents have revealed an assassination plot against King Hassan II. The shadowy figure behind the plot was none other than former Libyan Muammar Gaddafi.
Recently released declassified CIA documents are offering Moroccans a rare glimpse into the complex relationship between Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi and Morocco’s King Hassan II…”
Five soldiers killed by militants in Sinai: Egyptian military (ahram, Jan 23, 2017)
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/256684/Egypt/Politics-/Five-soldiers-killed-by-militants-in-Sinai-Egyptia.aspx
“Five army personnel were killed late Sunday in a terrorist attack in Sinai, a brief army spokesman statement posted on his official Facebook page read.
“[The martyred] were killed by the hands of treacherous takfirists, who are the enemy of the nation and religion,” the statement added.
No further details were given on the location or details of the attack.
Egypt’s army and police forces have been waging a war over the past three years against an Islamist militant insurgency in North Sinai; hundreds of security personnel and many militants have been killed in the violence.”
Turkey seeks to rebuild Syrian cities after clearing of ISIL (hurriyetdailynews, Jan 23, 2017)
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/turkey-seeks-to-rebuild-syrian-cities-after-clearing-of-isil.aspx?pageID=238&nID=108889&NewsCatID=352
“Turkey will start reconstructing infrastructures in the area between Jarablus and al-Rai in northern Syria, which has been cleared of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) as part of Turkey’s ongoing Euphrates Shield operation.
An area covering 2,000 square kilometers along Turkey’s southern border with Syria was cleared of ISIL in the first months of the Euphrates Shield operation.
Some locals, who fled their homes due to ISIL threat, have already returned to the region. Turkey aims to create a safe area for more locals to return to their hometowns after the region is rebuilt.
Turkey will send civilian officials, including teachers, doctors, nurses, highway workers and rescue teams from its Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD), to the region in order to revive life there, Turkish sources said.
These include the construction of infrastructure systems, opening bakeries, providing fresh water and education, and repairing damaged buildings like schools and hospitals…”
First destroy them, then take over… So this is what the fuzz was all about.
Over 266,000 Pakistanis deported from 133 countries in three years (tribune, Jan 23, 2017)
http://tribune.com.pk/story/1304469/around-266412-pakistanis-deported-last-three-years/
“Around 266,412 Pakistanis were deported from different countries during the last three years (2014 to 2016), Ministry of Interior’s data said.
They were deported from a total of 133 countries majority of which were from Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Iran…”
Saudi Arabia deporting scads of Pakistanis as undesirables… puhleese!!!
This is like the USSR ejecting thousands of STASI agents for being a political liability.
Who’s fooling fecking whom?!?
The Magic Kingdom is merely demonstrating just how unbelievably deep their hypocrisy runs. In this particular case, it relates to their well-documented financing of international terrorism (e.g., bankrolling Pakistani jihadist madrassas) even as they, mysteriously and abruptly, back away from such vile atrocities once the threat level—astonishingly enouh—manages to somehow include the House of Saud.
As in, these scummy Saudi b@stards love ISIS to little teeny-weensy bits right up and until the very moment when it’s time to actually crawl into bed together. Go figure…
Am I the only one who will find it impossible to repress fits of almost-hysterical sniggering when the bomb-vests start detonating in Riyadh, Mecca, and Medina?!?
~echo, echo~
no, you're not the only one1,500 US soldiers to be deployed to Afghanistan (khaama, Jan 23, 2017)
http://www.khaama.com/1500-us-soldiers-to-be-deployed-to-afghanistan-02727
“The United States will deploy at least 1,500 soldiers from the Ready First Brigade to Afghanistan, it has been reported.
The soldiers will serve for a period of 9 months as part of the advise, assist, and train mission to help the Afghan army and police.
With 300 already deployed to Afghanistan, the deployment of the remaining soldiers will start this month with the brigade expected to take up the mission in mid-February.
“For many soldiers, it will be their first deployment,” Strong, from Syracuse, N.Y. told The Stars and Stripes newspaper. “They are very excited. Honestly, it is what a lot join the military for – to serve and defend the nation.”
Before their deployment to Afghanistan, the soldiers have gone on three rotations to combat training centers during that time – to the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, Calif., in June 2015 and October-November 2016 and to the Joint Readiness Training Center at Fort Polk, La., in January 2016.
The brigade and its battalions also did extensive gated train-ups leading up to all of those rotations.
“As in any train-up, you’ve been training and you’ve been training, and it gets to the point where you are ready to go and do what you’ve been training so hard to do,” Strong said.”
Chef Kamrul Islam:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/01/23/diner-hospitalised-head-chef-throws-bowl-hot-chilli-powder-eyes/
ISIS leader al-Baghdadi ‘critically injured’ in MIGHTY air strike after ‘advisers killed’ (express, Jan 24, 2017)
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/757981/ISIS-leader-Abu-Bakr-al-Baghdadi-critically-injured-air-strike-Iraq-US-Pentagon-Trump
ISLAMIC State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been “critically injured” in an air strike, according to reports.
The monstrous leader is said to have been wounded during a bombing raid in Al-Ba’aj, Northern Iraq, although US defence officials said they have “no validation” or “further information” on the alleged attack.
After a £20million ($25 million) bounty was put on his head, Baghdadi was said to have gone “underground” before the end of last year, as his jihadi’s lost swathes of Mosul to Iraqi forces.
Sleeping underground in a suicide vest, the Iraqi leader was said to have become increasingly paranoid, ordering executions whilst under attack from Iraqi and Peshmerga troops.
Shortly after, conflicting unofficial reports claiming the leader was badly wounded or killed of a similar nature emerged, US Pentagon spokesman, Peter Cook, said: “We do think Baghdadi is alive and is still leading ISIL [ISIS] and we are obviously doing everything we can to track his movements.”
In December, US defence officials said the leader is becoming increasingly isolated as he was facing difficulties finding “advisers and confidants to speak with” because they have died.
Amid conflicting reports of the leader’s health, another ISIS leader whose role was to execute women, has been killed.
Abu Abdel Rahmen, from Saudi Arabia, was killed by an unknown gunmen in Iraq last week.
A source told the International Business Times: “The unknown gunmen shot at Abu Abdel Rahman, ISIS’ senior commander, in al-Aksari region in the centre of Mosul city, and he was killed right on the spot.”
British and US forces were said to have collaborated, in early January, to capture the leader who is a “dead man walking”.
Speaking to the Daily Star Sunday, an unnamed defence source said: “The head of IS is now a priority target. That means the SAS will be using all of their experience and skill to track him down.
“He is a dead man walking, it’s just a matter of time. He’s going to be killed by ground troops or taken out in an air strike or drone strike.”
It is not clear if Baghdadi is still in the besieged city, where he initiated the terror network in 2014.”
Avoid Libya; Death penalty awaits you there – Nigeria warns migrants (vanguardngr, Jan 23, 2017)
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/01/avoid-libya-death-penalty-awaits-nigeria-warns-migrants/
“Nigeria has advised migrants to avoid Libya where penalty for illegal migration attracts death penalty.
The office of the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora made the appeal on Sunday.
Mrs. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, the SSA to the President on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora, is appalled that in spite of the mistreatment and killings of blacks Nigerian migrants still use Libya.
“I hereby appeal again to Nigerian migrants to avoid Libya as penalty for illegal migration to Libya, when caught, is usually a death sentence.’’…”
Now, that sounds like a plan!
Paris mosque to remain closed amid claims it became a ‘breeding ground for ISIS jihadists’ (express, Jan 23, 2017)
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/757936/paris-mosque-remain-closed-claims-became-breeding-ground-for-isis-jihadists
“A PARIS mosque is to remain closed after judges ruled it had become a “hotbed of violent jihadist ideology” where religious leaders and jihadists gathered to “preach jihad”.
The State Council – France’s highest administrative court – ruled the controversial Paris mosque is to remain closed until the end of the state of emergency in July.
This is the second time in less than three months that the mosque’s leaders attempt to reopen the prayer hall; and the second time that their plea is dismissed.
The Al Rawda mosque, a prayer hall located in Stains, an impoverished and multi-ethnic suburb north of Paris, was shut down by former interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve in November following a crackdown on religious extremists.
The mosque, which first opened its doors in 2013, attracted more than 600 worshippers for Friday prayers.
Mr Cazeneuve, who has since been appointed as France’s prime minister, said in November that the mosque has been closed because its imam “openly defended terrorism and promoted an ideology of hate”.
The imam was immediately fired and replaced with a more soft-spoken preacher, and the mosque’s leaders – the owners of a local Franco-Egyptian cultural centre – launched an anti-radicalisation website to counter jihadist propaganda in a gesture of “good faith”.
But State Council judges said it was “too soon” to know whether radical worshippers had been “smoked out,” and said that the mosque should remained closed.
In its ruling, the supreme court added that there were “three” mosques in Stains, and that local Muslims would have no trouble finding an “alternative” place of worship.
More than 20 radical mosques and prayer halls have been closed since France declared a national state of emergency – which gives police greater search-and-arrest powers – in November 2015, less than 48 hours after 130 people were killed by ISIS terrorists in Paris.”
TALIBAN SLAUGHTER: Sick terror group claims to have killed more than 17,500 people in 2016
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/757944/Taliban-claims-killed-17500-people-2016-Afghanistan-Army
“THE Taliban claims to have killed more than 17,500 people opposed to their sick ideals in 2016 at a casualty rate of just six jihadis for every 100 enemies.
Al-Saraya, the Afghanistan terror group’s affiliated media organisation, has released a graphic saying Taliban fighters carried out 9,153 small and large attacks against so-called enemy forces last year.
They claim to have killed 17,805 fighters in the 12-month period, with the majority being part of the 350,000-strong Afghan National Security Force because they are being “used as a shield for the Americans”, the Taliban claims.
While the global focus in 2016 was on Islamic State (ISIS), the Taliban has been continuing its attempt to take over Afghanistan, causing concern for NATO and its members who pulled most of their troops out in 2014.
The Taliban report says 266 “foreign invaders” were killed and another 135 were injured during Taliban attacks, while 17,539 Afghan army, police, intelligence and Arbakis – the ancient tribal security forces – were killed.
They claim for every 100 enemy personnel killed only six “Mujahideen” – or jihadis – were “martyred” or injured.
In a bid to show the Taliban is still a strong force within Afghanistan, they claimed the low death rate was because the enemy was on the run.
The report says: “The enemy was demoralised, terrified and confused on the battlefields and did not have any support of the people.
“On the other hand the Mujahideen fought with the high moral of Jihad, crushed large enemy forces with small numbers, shook the feet beneath them with martyr and insider attacks and the Mujahideen of firm faith were blessed with the Divine help from Allah.”
Their figures cannot be independently verified but of the 500 UK troops still in Afghanistan since the majority were withdrawn in 2014, none were killed last year, the Ministry of Defence confirmed.
Troops remain there to train the Afghan army so they can defend themselves from the Taliban and al-Qaeda as well as the added factor of Islamic State (ISIS) which has been creeping into Afghanistan from Syria…”
245 people arrested in joint operation in Europe against arms trafficking
Two hundred and forty-five persons detained, 421 house searches, 556 arms handled, and 33,748 ammunition. It is the balance made public Monday by Europol of the so-called ‘Bosphorus operation’, carried out jointly by Bulgaria, Greece, Belgium, Holland, Poland, Cyprus, Finland, Sweden, Spain and the United Kingdom.
All of these states have investigated the acquisition and possession of Turkish-made firearms throughout Bulgaria. Police action has also made it possible to sequester mufflers, tools to convert unused weapons into active ones, stun guns, marijuana plantations, telescopic sights, grenades, pepper sprays, specialized publications and even 234 old coins.
Specifically, 46 people have been arrested in Spain, intervening in four workshops that converted unused and blunt weapons into lethal instruments and produced ammunition. In Greece, authorities have detained 100 people and intervened 101 weapons and 5,537 ammunition.
As Europol itself points out in a statement, blasting guns, also known as ‘alarm guns’, have become very popular among criminals, significantly increasing their presence in arms trafficking and police seizures.
The European police corps highlights several factors that would explain this popularity: its conversion into lethal weapons is very simple and also reversible; Are made in metal and are very reliable when using real ammunition; Are relatively cheap and easy to get, and most models are made in the image and likeness of real firearms.
http://www.elmundo.es/internacional/2017/01/23/5885e36ee2704e2e3d8b45ec.html
(there are also articles in Breitbart and WaPo but this one in Spanish is more detailed)
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