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Trump Orders Safe Zones in Syria (aawsat, Jan 26, 2017)
http://english.aawsat.com/2017/01/article55366297/trump-orders-safe-zones-syria
“Washington- U.S. President Donald Trump ordered on Wednesday the Pentagon and the State Department to come up with a plan to set up “safe zones” in Syria and to present it to the White House within 90 days, Reuters and AP reported.
The order would provide safe areas in Syria and in the surrounding region in which Syrian nationals displaced from their homeland can await firm settlement such as repatriation or potential third-country resettlement.
Reuters reported that creating “safe zones” is a move that could risk escalation of U.S. military involvement in Syria’s civil war.
The executive order also shows that Trump intends to stop accepting Syrian refugees and suspend the U.S. broader refugee program for 120 days…”
NATO should have done this when the Islamic invasion began, set up safe zones in their countries and move them into those zones.
Why Nato?
AUSTRIAN POLICE RAID HOMES IN SEARCH FOR ISLAMIC RADICALS (AP, Jan 26, 2017)
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_AUSTRIA_POLICE_RAIDS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2017-01-26-04-12-32
“Austria’s interior ministry says that police in the country’s two largest cities have conducted raids in their search for suspected Islamic radicals.
But ministry spokesman Karl-Heinz Grundboeck says that he will give details once Thursday’s sweeps are completed and evaluated.
He spoke after Austrian media reported police searches of homes in Vienna, the capital, and the southern city of Graz.
They come less than a week after police in Vienna detained a 17-year-old they describe as belonging to “radical Salafist” circles who they said has confessed to experimenting with building a bomb…”
French Frontrunner Rocked by Probe Handing Opening to Rivals
The French presidential campaign saw its first major scandal break on Wednesday when prosecutors opened a probe into front-runner Francois Fillon.
The national financial prosecutor started a preliminary criminal investigation into Fillon’s employment of his wife as a parliamentary aide starting in 1998. Satirical weekly Canard Enchaine reported a day earlier that Penelope Fillon collected a public salary totaling about 500,000 euros ($537,000) over multiple years without actually doing any work.
For 62-year-old Fillon, who pollsters have made the clear favorite since he won the Republicans’ nomination in November, the consequences are potentially far-reaching. The lifelong politician has vaunted his probity as one of his main qualifications for office.
In a statement on Wednesday evening, Fillon said the investigation will allow him to put an end to unfounded accusations and he wants to speak to prosecutors as soon as possible. Fillon’s spokesman said Thursday that Penelope’s work was mostly representing her husband in his rural constituency in Western France when he was at the National Assembly in Paris.
https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-01-26/french-frontrunner-rocked-by-probe-offering-opening-to-rivals
The Two “Islamophobias”
by Denis MacEoin
January 26, 2017 at 5:00 am
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/9588/two-islamophobias
If we had to choose one thing that has obstructed many Westerners from understanding modern Islam and undermined our ability to handle its excesses, it would be our perception of Islamophobia. How many times have fair and honest criticisms of one aspect or another of Islam, rebukes of behaviour, or literary and artistic expressions of Muhammad or other figures been loudly shouted down or banned on the grounds that such criticism was “Islamophobic”? In Europe, individuals have been arrested, tried and sentenced for “Islamophobic” utterances. As Judith Bergman recently commented, in Europe it is becoming a criminal offence to criticize Islam.
In 2011, Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff, for example, a former Austrian diplomat and teacher, was put on trial for “denigration of religious beliefs of a legally recognized religion [Islam],” found guilty twice, and ordered to pay a fine or face 60 days in jail. Some of her comments may have seemed extreme, but the court’s failure to engage with her historically accurate charge that Muhammad had sex with a nine-year-old girl and continued to have sex with her until she turned eighteen — its regarding the historical record as somehow defamatory — and the judge’s decision to punish her for saying something that can be found in Islamic sources, illustrates the betrayal of Western values of free speech. A charge of “Islamophobia” was enough to confine the freedoms that most Westerners take for granted.
Notice that he makes a definite distinction between anti-Muslim “hate speech” and legitimate criticism of Islam.
Radicalization in Public Schools
Why We are Concerned
by Maha Soliman
January 26, 2017 at 4:00 am
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/9786/radicalization-public-schools
On January 10, 2017, I attended the Peel District School Board’s meeting where recommendations for allowing Muslim students to write their own sermons (khutbah) for congregational Friday (Jumma) prayers in public schools were received. For more than 15 years, students were allowed to pray in the school but not in a congregational setting. In June 2016, the Jumma prayer was officially adopted but the students were only allowed to read from a list of pre-approved sermons.
Mississauga is one of three cities in the Peel region and the sixth largest city in Canada with high ethnic diversity and a population nearing one million. One of Mississauga’s calls to fame is that it is home to at least eight members of the “Toronto 18” — the first terrorist cell uncovered in 2006 and that aimed to create an Al-Qaida type of operation in Canada. Some of the 18 attended public schools: Saad Khalid, for example, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison for pleading guilty to a single count of acting “with the intention of causing an explosion or explosions that were likely to cause serious bodily harm or death or damage property”. He was known to have attended the Meadowvale Secondary School. There, he had started an Islamic Club and, in the lecture hall, had led Friday prayers, which he attended with fellow arrestees Fahim Ahmad and Zakaria Amara. If people like Khalid are the champions of organizing Jumaa prayers and Khutbah in their schools, it is no wonder that pre-scripted sermons were the way to protect public safety while allowing Muslim students still to practice their faith.
Austria arrests 14 on suspicion of belonging to Islamic State
Austrian police arrested 14 people on Thursday on suspicion of belonging to the militant group Islamic State following raids in Vienna and the southern city of Graz, prosecutors said.
Around 800 police officers took part in the raids, the Graz prosecutors’ office said in a statement, adding that the coordinated action had been planned for some time.
The statement gave few details, but a spokesman said the people taken into custody, of whom three are women, included three Austrians with foreign roots, two Bosnians, two Macedonians and a Syrian. The nationalities of the other suspects were not immediately known.
“There was no acute danger” and no indications of a concrete attack, the spokesman said, adding that the detentions were not connected to the arrest of an Austrian teenager last week on suspicion of planning an Islamist attack in Vienna.
That suspect, a 17-year-old with Albanian roots, was arrested on Friday after tip-offs from unspecified foreign countries. Austria alerted Germany to a related suspect, a 21-year-old who was arrested in the western German city of Neuss on Saturday. A boy thought to be 12 has also been held in Austria.
German authorities have been on high alert since a Tunisian failed asylum seeker rammed a truck into a Christmas market in Berlin on Dec. 19, killing 12 people.
Police in Vienna have also been on heightened alert since Friday’s arrest and have increased patrols at transport hubs and other busy public places.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-austria-arrests-idUSKBN15A1IX
USA: NYC protesters oppose Trump’s planned ban on Muslim immigrants
Draft Order to Halt Syrian Refugee Processing
http://rebrn.com/re/b-b-b-but-trump-will-never-be-president-3113791/
Germany: Teenage girl convicted of attempted murder of police officer for IS
The Higher Regional Court in Celle convicted Safia S to six years in jail, in Celle, on Thursday. The defendant is accused of attempted murder of a police officer in Hanover on behalf of the Islamic State.
SOT, Jessica Lass, spokesperson of the Higher Regional Court of Celle (German): “The senate took it as proven that the defendant – in her actions in Hannover Main Station – wanted not only to injure the federal police officer but rather to kill him, in support of the Islamic State. The defendant was convicted for charges of aggravated battery, attempted murder and the support of a foreign terror organisation.”
SOT, Simon Henrichs, chief prosecutor (German): |In my opinion there were two characteristics of murder – insidiousness, base motives. Insidiousness because the defendant stabbed the victim when he turned his back on her, and base motives because she attacked the officer on the orders of the Islamic State, while rejecting our way of life here.”
SOT, Marco Burkhardt, lawyer of victim (German): “That’s why this trial is so significant. The fact that a German national with a migrant background from our cultural sphere was radicalised to the extent where she attacked a police officer as a representative of the state – it’s a phenomenon that is not yet solved. The so-called ‘generation Allah’ – young children with an Islamic background – is also a topic within psychological and sociological discourse. I think that a lot still lies ahead of us in that matter.”
SOT, Mutlu Gunal, lawyer of Safia S. (German): “In my opinion the verdict is too high. The actual failure is being neglected here. The police of Hanover, of Lower Saxony, actually failed, alongside with the prosecutor’s office in Hanover. This crime could have been prevented.”
Kellyanne Conway on Trump’s executive orders for building the wall
CBC – Syrians call Trump’s expected plan to ban refugees dangerous, stupid
Refugees from Aleppo, Damascus say U.S. president ‘shaming himself’ with draft order to keep them out
Mohamad Douba doesn’t want to offend, but the young Syrian figures that when responding to word the U.S. President may implement a ban on refugees from several Muslim countries, including Syria, being blunt is best.
“Can I say stupid? ‘Cause I find it stupid,” Douba says. “If I saw a human that needs my help being killed, tortured or whatever, I will help them.”
It would be easy to say he’s just 18, idealistic and naive, but Douba is dead serious and has lived more than most adults. “That kind of stuff makes you grow up faster. It doesn’t make you stay a teen and interested in what normally teens are interested in.”
Douba was on a 10-day trip to Turkey with his family about five years ago when they got a call that their city, Aleppo, was no longer safe. They became refugees overnight, and Istanbul has been home ever since. He’s now studying for his SATs, hoping to study psychology at university.
“It really breaks my heart when we look at history,” Douba said. “America was built by people who came from around the world. Trump knows it and everyone knows it.”
He was responding to reports from the New York Times and The Associated Press that Trump plans to use an executive order as early as today to block Syrian refugees from entering the U.S.
Gulnar Hajo shakes her head, eyes wide and bright. “Everything Trump says, I’m not surprised.”
She knows, though, his words have power. “It is dangerous,” she said. “What he says is dangerous.”
In an interview, she seemed immune to hatred, however, and she smiled as she said Syrians have already hit “the maximum” of the worst the world has to offer. They are now focused on life and living well.
Sanctuary
Life for Hajo and her husband Samir, who left Damascus three years ago, is found in art and the written word. They are publishers. She is an illustrator and her husband, an artist.
The couple has opened Pages Bookstore Cafe, a four-story sanctuary of sorts in Istanbul’s Fatih neighbourhood. It seems the antithesis of Trump’s rhetoric. George Orwell’s 1984 is a popular title.
“We offer the world another view of Syria,” she said. “Through Pages, we try to tell the world we are Syrian people, we are normal people. We have artists, authors, literature. We also offer world music and art.”
Every floor is welcoming and warm, open to everyone. Refugees can read books for free and borrow them for a small sum. There is free art therapy for Syrian children every week. The strumming of ouds on the top floor is the cafe’s soundtrack on this chilly Istanbul evening, coming from the music lessons — also free.
The young Syrian students have learned a mournful, philosophical Turkish folk song: “I’m on a long and narrow road. I’m going day and night. I don’t know what state I’m in, I’m going day and night. Day and night.”
The music seems meaningful to everyone here.
“You can’t actually define where you’re going to live for the next 10 years,” said Homam Rashid, 17, when asked about his future. “You can’t even define where you’re going to live for the next three days.”
But he isn’t slighted by Trump’s plans. “He is shaming himself, he’s shaming his country,” Rashid said with a shrug.
Still, no one here had plans to go to the U.S., and the fact Mohamad Douba’s grandmother is a U.S. citizen, makes the country no more welcoming.
“They’re afraid,” Douba said. “Everyone’s afraid.”
But here, in Istanbul, in the tall green building called Pages, they don’t have to be.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-syria-refugees-pages-bookstore-1.3952836
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CBC – Farawan family | One year later
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CBC – One refugee family’s journey from Jordan to Canada
( 18 min )
What is dangerous and stupid is allowing unvetted and unlimited numbers of “refugees” from areas where active terror groups are recruiting and training. There are large numbers of terrorists infiltrating among the “refugees”. In the relatively near future we will see a lot of violence all around the world, violence caused by the Islamic invaders let in to countries for humanitarian reasons. When this happens the do-gooders who are pushing the idea of allowing in unlimited numbers of “refugees” will scream at the rational people who are trying to stop the violence.
The real question is why the CBC is giving so much oxygen to a teenage raghead preening in Turk-ville.
CQ -The Untold Story of the Bastille Day Attacker
Last July, France witnessed the creation of a new kind of mass murder when a man steered a giant cargo truck into a crowd and killed 86 people in the beach resort of Nice. The French government quickly announced that the killer was a jihadist inspired by the Islamic State. But as Scott Sayare discovered, the truth is a lot stranger.
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Lahouaiej Bouhlel was raised in Msaken, Tunisia, one of ten siblings. He was a volatile and unruly boy, hitting other children, breaking doors at home. He obsessed over his appearance, and began lifting weights as an adolescent. “ ‘I am ugly,’ ” he told a psychiatrist at 19, in 2004, according to a report in The New York Times. “I’ve got to build myself up.” The doctor prescribed an antidepressant, an anxiolytic, and Haldol, an antipsychotic often prescribed to treat schizophrenia and aggression. “There were the beginnings of a psychosis,” the psychiatrist told the Times. “He wasn’t someone who was living in the real world.”
[ so ... nothing to do with .... it's the pills ... ][…]
Perhaps the government’s bombast consoled the populace; at the very least, it surely flattered the human desire for purpose, suggesting that the 86 dead were not the victims of a crime without discernible meaning but, rather, martyrs in a struggle for good. Yet there is danger in this rhetoric, too. To endorse the notion of civilizational clash is to accept the premise upon which the Islamic State is fighting, legitimating the absurd claim that the group poses an existential threat to France and the West. France’s bluster is, in this sense, a victory for the Islamic State.
In the meantime, it is quite probable that the most constructive counterterror policy to come out of Lahouaiej Bouhlel’s attack had nothing at all to do with France’s international stature, or with jihadism, or even with the police and the intelligence services. In time for the July 14 festivities this summer, the city of Nice will have completed the installation of a guardrail along the length of the Promenade and bollards across the sidewalk, unobtrusive but sturdy enough to stop a truck.
http://www.gq.com/story/nice-france-bastille-day-attack-untold-story
The sooner Western Civilization re-accepts the 1400 year old truth that islam is a quasi religion actually a political agenda of hate & death the sooner we can move on to what must be done periodically. That is they must be decimated in a way that leaves them reeling for hundreds of years. Charles Martel knew that their savagery had to be met with equal savagery. It is only logical that a society/culture (using the words very loosely) that is built on a savage code (sharia) would not understand or respect civilized rules of engagement. So we must steel ourselves to meet the enemy on their own terms. That may well be against all our sensibilities but do you want sensibilities or do you want death or subjugation to the vile tenants of islam for yourself and your progeny?
Well said.
How ISIS-controlled drones like this are striking new fear within the U.S. military
In a new threat to the West, the Islamic State on Tuesday debuted on social media a commercially available drone dropping small bombs with pinpoint accuracy onto Iraqi targets in and around Mosul.
The new capability raises the specter that the Islamic State one day could attack urban areas from the air, not just on the ground. The U.S. military is alarmed by the terrorist army’s quick technological advances and is evaluating more than 20 systems to detect and destroy its drone air force. Other systems already have been rushed to the war.
The attacks were depicted in a lengthy Islamic State propaganda video showing its terrorists in intense street battles to hold the city of Mosul. Included is aerial footage of a Chinese Skywalker X8 drone, which is available on Amazon, striking clusters of Iraqi soldiers, tanks and buildings.
The video shows that the Islamic State can assemble, arm, launch and guide drones, and find specific targets. The explosions appear relatively small but deadly. Remote pilots were able to hit a tank turret and the dead center of a troop concentration.
Rep. Duncan Hunter, California Republican, said the drone video shows that the Islamic State has made a progression in delivering improvised explosive devices. The militants have gone from buried IEDs to vehicle-borne IEDS to airborne IEDS.
“In the end the IEDs are the terrorist’s artillery,” Mr. Hunter told The Washington Times. “This is not rocket science. This is a natural progression for IEDs. This isn’t crazy stuff that this is happening now. We should have seen this coming.
“Lets call it an ‘AIED,’ an airborne IED. Boom. I just made that up,” said the former Marine Corps officer.
Asked if the Islamic State could attack a U.S. city with multiple drones, Mr. Hunter said, “Of course.”
The Islamic State, also known as ISIS and ISIL, has been flying small commercially available drones for reconnaissance and propaganda video footage. Scattered reports say the terrorists have dropped grenades from drones.
Steven Stalinsky, executive director of the Middle East Media Research Institute, which captured the drone footage from an Islamic State internet channel, said this appears to be the first offensive drone able to carry bombs, albeit small ones.
If so, it further complicates the counterterrorism mission of protecting the public against the Islamic State’s ongoing campaign to attack civilian targets in the Middle East, Europe, the U.S. and elsewhere.
“Scary,” Mr. Stalinsky said. “I’m surprised there hasn’t been any attack in the West yet with drones. I guess there are technologies now and in production to deal with them the best possible way.”
Mr. Hunter, a member of the House Armed Services Committee, recently asked the Army to update him on what it is doing to defeat terrorist unmanned aerial vehicles. After a classified briefing on Tuesday, he said he is confident that the military in Iraq has deployed defenses that will defeat Islamic State drones.
Then-Army Secretary Eric K. Fanning wrote Mr. Hunter on Jan. 18, noting that the jihadi drone threat is increasing.
“These advances present our adversaries with opportunities to quickly adjust and improve their tactics, and the Army must remain adaptive and agile to respond to the evolving threat,” Mr. Fanning said.
He said the Army was testing more than 20 government and industry systems “designed to detect, identify and electronically defeat” enemy drones.
Air Force Col. John Dorrian, chief U.S. military spokesman in Baghdad, told The Times: “I am aware that ISIL has used commercial-off-the-shelf UAVs to drop small explosive weapons. This capability is dangerous and has propaganda value, but it will not change the fact that the enemy is being defeated in both Iraq and Syria.”
Mr. Stalinsky, whose group monitors and analyzes jihadi communication traffic, said the Islamic State’s use of drones will continue to grow.
“They have been using drones for a few years, mainly for their films, but there has been a major increase in usage,” Mr. Stalinsky said. “All jihadi groups are using drones and studying how they work and how to avoid them. They are easily obtainable online, then can be modified. We have seen many drones used by ISIS that can be bought on Amazon.”
MEMRI issued a report Tuesday with the headline, “ISIS Video Shows Drones Dropping Bombs on Iraqi Soldiers, Documents Martyrdom Operations Carried Out by Fighters Including Teenagers, Doctors, Foreigners.”
The scenes are chilling. Young terrorists gather to select the next suicide bomber by random drawing. They then congratulate the winner, who mounts a reinforced IED-borne vehicle. A surveillance drone then follows the vehicle as it drives the streets of Mosul, finds a target and explodes.
One fighter says before his death, “My message to my brothers who are stationed in the front lines: Remain steadfast and resolute; Allah is with you. Present your severed limbs, bodies and blood, and sacrifice them to Allah. Do not be weakened; do not grieve, as you are superior.”
Two suicide bombers were identified as doctors.
Minutes after the Islamic State posted its video, its supporters and members took to social media to celebrate its drone skills in battle.
“The scientific technology and practical development demonstrated in the ranks of the Islamic State’s military cadres on a technical level will cause the offensive forces to stumble,” said a message on the secure messaging app Telegram, a favorite of jihadis. “The fact that there are drones with loads of explosives is in itself a source of anxiety and fear towards the opposite forces.”
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/jan/24/isis-drone-dropping-precision-bombs-alarms-us-mili/
USA: The end is nigh – Doomsday Clock moved to 2 ½ minutes to midnight
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Board moved the doomsday clock to two-and-a-half minutes to midnight, making it the closest it has been in 63 years, it was announced at a press conference in Washington DC on Thursday.
Chair of the Board of Sponsors, Lawrence Krauss, iterated the significance of the decision, stating that “the doomsday clock is closer to midnight than it’s ever been in the life of almost everyone in this room,” and added that “the last time it was closer was 63 years ago in 1953, after the then Soviet Union exploded its first hydrogen bomb, creating the modern arms race.”
He also expressed concerns about “the willingness of governments, including the current US administration, to ignore or discount some science, empirical evidence and considered expertise during their decision making process.”
Krauss called on Russia and the US to “refocus in the coming year on reducing existential risks,” and the “need to not embark on modernisation progammes which are extensive and destabilising.”
Created in 1947 in the wake of a global nuclear threat, the Doomsday Clock sits in the Bulletin’s offices at the University of Chicago.
Shrill screeching about climate change and outrage over a Potus who won’t – literally – buy into it doesn’t make for an accurate timepiece.
They try to bolster their cred by citing the number of Nobel Prize Winners surveyed. All they need now is an endorsement from Ahmed, the Clock-Faker.
New Austrian president issues warning on populism
CNN – Russian ‘ship of shame’ escorted home
MONTREAL – Adil Charkaoui goes on trial for alleged assault of guard at Collège de Maisonneuve
Controversial Imam and anti-Islamophobia activist Adil Charkaoui was on trial in municipal court Wednesday for allegedly assaulting a security guard last year at Collège de Maisonneuve.
Charkaoui, whose École des Compagnons once rented space at the CEGEP to give courses in Arabic and Quranic studies, was at his son’s soccer game in one of the gymnasiums when the incident occurred in February 2016.
Edid Joseph, the security guard on duty, filed a police complaint several days after the incident.
On Wednesday, Joseph, 29, testified that he had been told by his superior to pay particular attention to the gym that day, to make sure the people who had rented it were really there to play soccer.
But as soon as Joseph arrived, the group became aggressive toward him, he told the court, kicking a soccer ball toward his head as he stood in the doorway and yelling at him to get his “dirty mug” out of there.
He told the man who was kicking the ball at him “that he wasn’t a good shooter, he should try using his hands,” Joseph said, explaining that it was his way of defending himself.
Charkaoui then went right up to him and repeated that they didn’t need any security there. Then he started shoving Joseph with his shoulder, before grabbing his arm from a “combat position,” Joseph said.
“He said to me “what will you do if I don’t let go?”
“I told him he was assaulting an agent on duty, and he started laughing — the others started laughing too,” Joseph told the court.
Charkaoui then assaulted him, Joseph testified, by hitting him with the door of the gym as Joseph was on his way out.
Upon leaving the gym, Joseph called 911. Police arrived on the scene, but did not arrest Charkaoui until days later, after the incident had been reported in the media.
(One of the first reports, based on confidential sources, suggested erroneously that the group was in fact praying, not playing soccer.)
Under cross-examination, Charkaoui’s lawyer, Richard Dubé, asked Joseph why he didn’t mention the assault with the door, or the shoving with the shoulder, when he called 911 after the incident or when he explained what happened to the police that night.
“What I found so aggressive was him taking me by the arm,” Joseph responded. “I wasn’t making a statement … Some details may be missing.”
Dubé also asked him why he waited so long to file a complaint to police. Dubé pointed out that his written statement, which Joseph said he made spontaneously to two investigators at his girlfriend’s apartment, matched word for word what was in his report to the Collège de Maisonneuve, allegedly written four days earlier.
Outside the courtroom, Charkaoui told reporters to judge for themselves.
“The fact the statements are exactly the same is extremely worrisome in terms of the credibility of the investigation and the plaintiff,” Charkaoui said.
It was the security guard that was provoking the youths by placing himself in front of the goal, he said — he was trying to prevent the situation from escalating.
The youths continued to play for an hour and a half after the police left, Charkoaui added.
Charkaoui was asked whether he believed the guard would have filed a complaint were it not for his own notoriety.
Charkaoui, who has always denied any links to terrorism, spent six years in detention or under house arrest as a terror suspect before the Federal Court dropped his case in 2009. More recently, he was accused of radicalizing youths when it turned out at least two of the students who left Quebec in 2015, allegedly to join terrorist groups, had been in contact with him through the CEGEP or the Centre Communautaire islamique de l’est de Montréal, of which Charkaoui is president.
“The next day (after the incident) nothing happens,” Charkaoui responded. “Tuesday neither, but statements are made by the mayor and other politicians. Then the police called (the security guard) several times and went to see him so he would file a complaint.”
Charkaoui’s lawyer will present his defence March 9.
http://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/adil-charkaoui-goes-on-trial-for-assault-of-guard-at-college-de-maisonneuve
Law And Order Returns To The Border
President Trump begins fulfilling his promise in two historic executive orders.
January 26, 2017
Joseph Klein
President Donald Trump is doing something incredibly rare for a politician in Washington, D.C. He is keeping his word. Two of the most important of his campaign promises were to stem the flow of illegal immigrants into this country and to suspend the admission of “refugees” from countries prone to terrorism until a system of “extreme vetting” is put into place. On Tuesday night, President Trump tweeted out a teaser: “Big day planned on NATIONAL SECURITY tomorrow. Among many other things, we will build the wall!”
After eight long years of Obama administration policies that endangered the security of the American people, President Trump is placing Americans first — before illegal aliens and self-declared “refugees” from terrorist prone countries.
The president began fulfilling his promises on immigration by signing two executive orders on Wednesday at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), whose responsibilities include overseeing immigration and border security. Mr. Trump also took part in a ceremony installing his new Secretary of Homeland Security, retired Marine General John Kelly. In his remarks following the signing, President Trump emphasized that DHS is a “law enforcement agency.” He added that “beginning today, the United States gets back control of its borders.”
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/265593/law-and-order-returns-border-joseph-klein
Race Hatred At the DNC
They’ve learned nothing from the election results.
January 26, 2017
Matthew Vadum
White people concerned about their country need to shut their mouths and have their future dictated to them by radical racist left-wingers, was the apparently unanimous verdict of the angry Democrats seeking to chair their party’s governing body at a recent candidate forum.
As Washington, D.C. radio host Chris Plante quipped, “They haven’t been this upset since we took away their slaves.”
White Americans, Democrats say loud and clear, are the enemy.
It is part of the ongoing meltdown among Democrats apoplectic that Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton. It manifests itself in the indignant screaming we now hear every day from the mainstream media every time President Trump makes it clear he really does intend to fulfill his campaign promises.
It is a result of the accumulated intellectual detritus from the Sixties mixed in with the identity politics that took over American campuses in the Eighties. “Politics is downstream from culture,” my late friend Andrew Breitbart observed, and now the culture has thoroughly infected the body politic.
Democrats are doubling down on the anti-white racism and identity politics-driven lunacy that became the norm during the Obama years.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/265595/race-hatred-dnc-matthew-vadum
Europe’s Hate-America Brigade
Back in business.
January 26, 2017
Bruce Bawer
They’re back.
One of the pleasant things about the very best Dutch cafés is that most of them subscribe to a dozen or more newspapers from all over western Europe. It was thanks to this amenity that I became aware, soon after moving to Amsterdam from New York in the late 1990s, of the European media’s poisonous hatred for the United States. In the eyes of almost all European journalists, I discovered, America was a land of illiterates, cretins, racists, xenophobes, warmongers.
And that was under Bill Clinton. It got even worse under George W. Bush. To be sure, on the day after 9/11 a few editorialists took the “We Are All Americans” line, but others enjoyed the opportunity to spit at the victims of Ground Zero, declaring that America had asked for it. Swedish author Jan Guillou cheered the strike on “U.S. imperialism.” Norwegian author Gert Nygårdshaug sneered at somebody’s concern that the next target might be in Europe: Muslims, he explained, hate Americans, and with good reason; for Europeans, however, they had nothing but goodwill.
The Afghanistan war further intensified the European media’s anti-Americanism; and the Iraq war took it up yet another notch. Newspapers all over the continent accused Bush of terrorism, equated him with Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein (or said he was worse than either of them), derided him as a puppet of Israel, depicted Guantánamo as the ninth circle of hell, and called for an end to the Atlantic alliance. “It is not easy to know whom one should believe in this world of Bushmen and Saddamists,” wrote an editor at Norway’s Dagsavisen, “where the truth is for sale and friends can hardly be distinguished from enemies.”
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/265555/europes-hate-america-brigade-bruce-bawer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw9JhxnQv8g
Hamas Linked Islamist Linda Sarsour calls for implementing Sharia in the U.S
Fox News – Reverend resigns after Quran is read in Christian church
Spirited Debate: Reverend Dr. Gavin Ashenden discusses why he resigned after the Quran was read in a church service in England
Bana Alabed asks Trump to help Syrian children: ‘If you can, I will be your best friend’
Bana Alabed, the 7-year-old girl whose tweets about life in Aleppo touched hearts around the world, penned an open letter to President Trump beseeching him to do something to help children still suffering in Syria.
“I know you will be the President of America so can you please save the children and people of Syria? You must do something for the children of Syria because they are like your children and deserve peace like you,” she wrote. “If you promise you will do something for the children of Syria I am already your friend.”
The complete handwritten letter, which was written shortly before Trump’s inauguration, opens with Bana introducing herself as a girl who fled eastern Aleppo in December and is now finally enjoying peace in Turkey. She said that her Syrian school has been bombed and that several of her friends had died.
“I am very sad about them and wish they were with me because we would play together by (sic) right now. I could not play in Aleppo. It was a city of death,” Bana wrote.
Although she now lives in peace and attends a new school, she continued, millions of Syrian children are still suffering throughout Syria and need help.
Bana uploaded a picture of the full letter to Twitter on Wednesday, with a caption directed at Trump: “I beg you, can you do something for the children of Syria? If you can, I will be your best friend. Thank you.”
Bana’s mother, Fatemah Alabed, helped her launch and manage the Twitter account while they were still stranded in rebel-controlled eastern Aleppo. They gained hundreds of thousands of followers (362,000 as of Wednesday afternoon) while documenting the horrors of daily life in Syria.
Followers would see Bana’s routine as a regular 7-year-old — playing with her siblings, reading “Harry Potter” novels, etc. — repeatedly disrupted by bombardments and chaos of Syria’s civil war. For many, Bana became an international symbol for the toll that modern warfare takes on children, and her tweets were likened to Anne Frank’s diary entries while she was hiding from the Nazis during the Holocaust.
Trump has spoken out against the United States relocating more refugees in the United States. He is expected to sign executive orders Wednesday imposing a temporary ban on most refugees, as well as a suspension of visas for people from Syria and several other countries in the Middle East and Africa.
In a follow-up tweet, Bana told Trump “banning refugees is very bad.”
To @realdonaldtrump: Dear Trump, banning refugees is very bad. Ok, if it’s good, I have an idea for you. Make other countries peaceful.
Bana Alabed (@AlabedBana)
https://www.yahoo.com/news/bana-alabed-asks-trump-help-syrian-children-if-you-can-i-will-be-your-best-friend-200209008.html
UNICEF USA – Meet Bana – Syrian Child Refugee Stories
way too much mileage on this kid
HORRIFYING: Sick onlookers film and laugh as African migrant DROWNS in Venice Grand Canal (express, Jan 26, 2017)
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/759352/onlookers-film-and-abuse-African-migrant-drowning-Venice-Grand-Canal
“THIS is the sickening moment that onlookers in Venice laughed and made racist comments as they filmed an African refugee drowning in a canal…”
‘It could go on for 30 YEARS’ Terror expert warns fight against ISIS is FAR from over (express, Jan 26, 2017)
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/759355/ISIS-defeat-Daesh-fight-jihadis-French-expert
“THE war against the Islamic State could last another 30 years, and will only end once one side admits defeat, a French Islamologist has warned…”
reuters -Dutch justice minister resigns, weakening govt ahead of elections
A leading member of Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s cabinet resigned on Thursday, weakening the government ahead of a national election in March in which it is trailing in the polls.
Justice Minister Ard van der Steur unexpectedly told parliament he would step down amid a debate over the handling of information relating to a settlement prosecutors struck with a drug dealer in 2000.
The affair centres around a settlement with drug baron Cees Helman, who received a tax free payment of around 2 million euros as part of an agreement with prosecutors.
It resurfaced earlier this month following new allegations in a book that detailed an internal email that appeared to show Van der Steur had sought to conceal details of the scandal.
Van der Steur and Rutte had come under fire from opposition lawmakers who accuse them of withholding information and had been expected to call a motion of no confidence later in the debate. The minister took the rare step of resigning before the motion was submitted.
“I told the prime minister I would make a decision after the first round of the debate. I wanted to defend myself against unfounded and unfair accusations that are not based on facts. I will tender my resignation to his majesty the king,” Van der Steur said.
The departure of Van der Steur, who is also a member of Rutte’s conservative VVD party, was an unwelcome embarrassment 🙂 🙂 ahead of the March 15 election and could dent its popularity.
Rutte is trailing anti-Islam politician and Freedom Party leader Geert Wilders, who is leading public opinion polls.
Wilders called Rutte and Van der Steur liars who “consciously chose to conceal the facts.”
“It is … the latest incident with this failing prime minister and his bungling justice minister,” Wilders told the 150-seat lower house. “The sooner this cabinet of lies and deceit is gone, the better,” he said.
Wilders cited an opinion poll from Wednesday showing that more than two-thirds of respondents believed Rutte knew parliament had been misinformed.
The minister is the third member of Rutte’s liberal VVD party to resign over the scandal since 2015.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-netherlands-politics-resignation-idUKKBN15A2S2
Wilders to Rutte: Stop Deceiving the People
Denmark snubs EU as Government vows internal borders will REMAIN to halt migrant influx (express, Jan 26, 2017)
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/759351/Denmark-snubs-EU-internal-borders-remain-halt-migrant-influx
“INGER STØJBERG has followed through on her threat to keep Denmark’s borders closed until the EU takes control over the migrant crisis, as the temporary border control measures have been extended…”
‘No compromise’ Manuel Valls declares the burka is akin to the ‘enslavement’ of women (express, Jan 26, 2017)
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/759307/Manuel-Valls-burka-enslavement-women-French-presidential-candidate-Islam
“THE Islamic veil is akin to the “enslavement of women” while secularism is a “shield of steel” against radical Islam, Manuel Valls has said…”
Police chase suspected knifeman after stabbing at crisis-hit shopping centre in Sweden (express, Jan 26, 2017)
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/759295/Nordstan-Sweden-police-chase-suspect-alleged-stabbing-no-go-zone
“FOOTAGE of Swedish police chasing after a teenager suspected of having knifed another youth at a ‘no-go zone’ shopping centre has been released…”
Madeleine Albright and Big Bang actress ‘ready to join Muslim registry’ (BBC, Jan 26, 2017)
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38755947
“A former US Secretary of State and a Big Bang Theory actress have both vowed to register as Muslim if Donald Trump creates a database of Muslim Americans.
Politician Madeleine Albright and Mayim Bialik said they “stand ready” to register, in defiance of the new President.
“I was raised Catholic, became Episcopalian & found out later my family was Jewish,” Ms Albright – the first woman to be named Secretary of State – tweeted on Wednesday.
“I stand ready to register as Muslim in #solidarity.” The tweet gained tens of thousands of likes.
Her comments come as rumours continue to circulate about an executive order which would announce extreme vetting, a refugee ban and a ban on arrivals from seven countries, said to include Syria, Yemen and Iraq…”
Will she as well act out as a Mahoundian? For example blowing herself up in a market square among women and children?
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/the_gist/1997/02/did_she_know.html
and http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/5071/coming-to-terms-with-madeleine-albright-revelations/ and
Prescient: (Feb. 10, 1997) “If Albright was so eager to dump her Czech roots and her Jewishness for money and power, how can we be sure that this Secretary of State won’t do the same with the American national interests? Or perhaps was that, in fact, the whole point and the main criterion for selecting her for the top foreign policy post?”
excellent point
Turkish anger as Greece rejects extradition of eight soldiers (express, Jan 26, 2017)
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38754821
“Turkey has reacted with anger after a Greek court ruled against extraditing eight Turkish soldiers accused of involvement in an attempted coup.
Turkey accused Greece of failing in the “fight against terrorism” and said the decision was “politically motivated”.
The eight men fled in a helicopter to Greece after last July’s coup attempt but say they were not involved.
Presiding judge Giorgos Sakkas said the men were unlikely to receive a fair trial in Turkey.
Turkey has demanded the three majors, three captains and two sergeant majors return to stand trial. The soldiers have argued their lives would be in danger…”
Pakistan bans TV host Aamir Liaquat Hussain over ‘hate speech’ (BBC, Jan 26, 2017)
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-38761742
“Pakistan’s media regulator has banned a high-profile television host after accusing him of hate speech that could put lives at risk.
Aamir Liaquat Hussain had accused five missing liberal activists and their supporters of blasphemy.
Such allegations can incite murder in Pakistan where blasphemy is a crime that can result in the death penalty…”
Somali Militants Kill Three CIA Spies (aitonline, Jan 26, 2017)
http://www.aitonline.tv/post-somali_militants_kill_three_cia_spies
“Somalia’s Islamist militant group al-Shabab has executed three men it accused of spying for the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and other intelligence agencies, the pro-al-Shabab website Somali Memo reports.
The three were killed in front of a large crowd in south-western town of Yaq-Barawe.
Abdullahi Damey Mohamed Nur, 36, was “found guilty of spying for the CIA, and earned a salary of $200 [£158] a month”, the website said.
An al-Shabab judge said Mohamed admitted helping the US target al-Shabab officials using drone strikes.
The judge also said Mohamed Iman Hassan, 42, was executed for spying for Kenya and earned a salary of $150.
Mohamed Sharif Ali, 21, was accused of helping Jubbaland regional administration to collect information on al-Shabab.
The al-Qaeda-linked group arrests people who do not agree with its ideology and accuses them of spying and are later killed.
In 2011, Muslim cleric Ahmed Ali Hussein was chained and shot dead after being accused of being a CIA spy and belonging to a sect opposed to the group.
The group is fighting to overthrow the UN-backed Somalia government and form its own version of an Islamic state.”
Talks of Grexit back on the table. EU in further disarray
Posted on January 26, 2017 15:00
How has Greece been doing lately? It was already known in 2015, most of the €240bn in bailouts went to banks that lent Greece funds before the crash, instead of the Greek people. And last year, Global banker Citigroup published its monthly report on global prospects in which it noted political uncertainty had returned to Greece.
The report also cast doubts over the sustainability of public debt and put the possibility of a Grexit back on the table. And this year, it seems Grexit talks are making a move back to the front page. Politico wrote today that the Grexit whispers have started again, with Athens, EU creditors, and the IMF deadlocked on the bailout talks.
There are heavy doubts on the stability of the Tsipras government and it’s capability to make sure it can raise money on capital markets on its own by mid-2018. The economy is still in shambles, with GDP estimates by the European Commission at -0,3 percent. The tourism industry performed well but reached its limits, and retail still is stagnating. Independent analyst Jens Bastian commented: “the Greek finance ministry’s estimate of 2.7 percent GDP growth for 2017 is not shared by many, neither in Greece nor by the creditor.” This pessimism is heard all over the country, from shopkeepers to high-end bankers, and disapproval of the government is resonated in dismal opinion polls.
https://gatestone.eu/talks-of-grexit/
EU
British GDP growth higher than expected. EU losing leverage
fter the various declarations of the pending “suffering” and”disaster“, so far the numbers on the consequences of Brexit are… rather good. Instead of, in Britain at least, the lights having to be turned off. With GDP showing:
Government officials, of course, welcomed the news. The British Finance Minister Philip Hammond said:
Russia proposes autonomous Kurdish regions in Syria, media (ansamed, Jan 26, 2017)
http://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/sections/politics/2017/01/26/russia-proposes-autonomous-kurdish-regions-in-syria-medi_c25bc9aa-afe1-48b9-b0cf-a6c1220afe85.html
“Russia is proposing recognising autonomy for Kurds in Syria and equality for Kurdish and Arabic in Kurdish areas according to a draft constitution allegedly presented at the recent Astana talks, Rbk reported on Thursday.
The proposed fundamental law also recognises “the right of all regions of the country to choose an official language, spoken by the majority of the population, in addition to the state language”, the on-line source said. In addition, under the draft proposal the national borders could only be modified by national referendum.
Separately, the pro-Kremlin Sputnik reported that the draft constitution proposes calling the country the “Syrian Republic” rather than the “Syrian Arab Republic” as at present, and guarantees the “cultural diversity of Syrian society”.
Meanwhile, official statements on Syria focused on the plan announced by new US President Donald Trump to create “safety zones” for those fleeing conflict. “The important thing is that this does not make things worse for refugees, all possible consequences need to be calculated,” said Dmitri Peskov, spokesman for Vladimir Putin. “The American partners did not consult with Russia” on this matter, he added.
On Wednesday Trump told Abc News that allowing millions of refugees from Syria and the Middle East into Europe had been a big mistake.
“I don’t want the same thing to happen here,” he said….”
Migrants: ‘EU to ask Trump for equal division refugees’ (ansamed, Jan 26, 2017)
http://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/sections/politics/2017/01/26/migrants-eu-to-demand-equal-division-refugees_10b408a0-3d3f-4525-b03e-47673bb217a4.html
“European Commission spokesperson, Margaritis Shinas, said Thursday that ”the leaders of the European Union, Tusk as well as Juncker that represent it at the G20 and G8, have constantly asked world partners for the management of refugees not to fall only on Europe’s shoulders.
”The EU has done much to confront the crisis of refugees but our leaders will continue to engage with world leaders for a more equal division of the burden of one of the most important phenomena worldwide – the crisis of refugees”, said Shinas, replying to a question on the announcement that President Donald Trump will halt the arrival of refugees in the US, including Syrians.”
Top judge calls for control on probes, measures for terror (ansa, Jan 26, 2017)
http://www.ansa.it/english/news/2017/01/26/top-judge-calls-for-control-on-probes-measures-for-terror_e7bf4290-c0b6-4540-b763-eaa4187c058f.html
“The top judge at Italy’s supreme Cassation Court said greater control was needed on investigations, called for strong measures to combat terrorism and urged parliament to pass legislation on children and same-sex couples Cassation Court First President Giovanni Canzio endorsed tighter control on investigations carried out by prosecutors, criticizing them as too long and at the center of too much attention from the media. “The proposal to open some, significant windows of jurisdictional control on investigations should be considered, rather than providing for hierarchical or disciplinary initiatives,” Canzio told a ceremony to open the judicial year. He also criticized probes as “already too long” and slammed the “distortions” of trials under too much media attention, fostered by the “marked self-involvement” of some prosecutors.
Canzio said “adequate policing and prevention measures” are necessary to fight the “terrible threat” posed by international terrorism. He also urged for improved coordination of investigations at an international level with the creation of a European prosecution office and an “effective repressive system” that could compare terrorist acts to crimes against humanity. He argued that improved conditions in prisons also help prevent radicalization.
Canzio said remanding the solution of ethical-social issues exclusively to courts “is not the preferable path”, calling for clear and explicit legislation on the issue of adoption and having children by same-sex couples. A civil unions law approved last year explicitly forbids partners in a civil union, including same-sex couples, from entering into adoptions. However, it also says that “current adoption norms remain applicable”, giving courts leeway to allow stepchild adoptions on a case-by-case basis. Magistrates’ union ANM boycotted Thursday’s ceremony with its head Piercamillo Davigo accusing the government of wanting to “decide who can be a judge and who can’t,”. “This is not allowed by international Constitutions and conventions,” he said, calling it an attempt to undermine judicial independence “that has no precedent in Italian history”.
Justice Minister Andrea Orlando, meanwhile, said a criminal-justice reform up for discussion in the Senate is “not deferrable”.”
Afghan nation will never forget Indian nation’s cooperation: Atmar (khaama, Jan 26, 2017)
http://www.khaama.com/afghan-nation-will-never-forget-indian-nations-cooperation-atmar-02739
“The Afghan nation will never forget the aid and cooperation delivered by the Indian people and government, Afghan National Security Adviser (NSA) Mohammad Hanif Atmar said Thursday.
In his statement released on the occasion of the Republic Day in India, Atmar said “On this auspicious occasion and important day, let me convey my best wishes and happiest moments for the government and people of India.”
Atmar further added “This day reminds us our strong commitment for an evergreen friendship, cooperation, countering terrorism and getting rid of extremism.”
“It makes us remember the hardships and sorrows the Great Mahatma Gandhi has tolerated for the sovereignty of this great nation,” he said, adding that “We all have to follow him, for peace, for prosperity, for the welfare of our people and for the harmony of whole mankind.”
According to Atmar “Afghanistan and India for centuries have very strong relations. We have shared historical, cultural, political and social values.”
“The people and government of Afghanistan will never forget the aids and cooperation of Indian Nation and Government in different sectors,” Atmar added.
He also said “We are really thankful for all this and we will firmly stand united and committed against our enemies.”
India has remained one of the key donors for the reconstruction of Afghanistan following the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001.
Since 2002, the Government of India has committed USD 2 billion dollars to the socio-economic rebuilding of the Afghan state and society in accordance with the development priorities of the Government and the people of Afghanistan.”
Pakistan will be jumping two meters high… lol
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John Moody: Journalists can’t be activists at the same time
Trump admin fires top State Dept officials
http://www.forbes.com/sites/kalevleetaru/2017/01/25/what-the-rogue-epa-nps-and-nasa-twitter-accounts-teach-us-about-the-future-of-social/#3952b8185dc0
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/12/21/officials-plead-guilty-in-new-york-voter-fraud-case.html
A total of four Democratic officials and political operatives have now pleaded guilty to voter fraud-related felony charges in an alleged scheme to steal a New York election.
The latest guilty pleas expose the ease with which political insiders can apparently manipulate the electoral system and throw an election their way, by the forging of signatures of unsuspecting voters that are then cast as real votes.
“The phrase they use is: ‘making sure they vote the right way,'” said a source close to the case, which is unfolding in Troy, N.Y. “It is not a Democratic or Republican thing. … It is criminal.”
Former Troy Democratic City Clerk William McInerney, Democratic Councilman John Brown, and Democratic political operatives Anthony Renna and Anthony DeFiglio have entered guilty pleas in the case, in which numerous signatures were allegedly forged on absentee ballots in the 2009 Working Families Party primary, the political party that was associated with the now-defunct community group, ACORN.