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Yemen Houthis forcefully displace hundreds of civilians in village raids (memo, Feb 23, 2017)
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20170223-yemen-houthis-forcefully-displace-hundreds-of-civilians-in-village-raids/
“Hundreds of families have been displaced in Yemen’s besieged city of Taiz in the past two days after the Houthi rebels forced civilians out of their homes in the Belad Alwafi area. The exact number of people who have been displaced is unknown, but local estimates range from 200 to 700 civilians.
Using speakerphones, Houthi militia forces called for families to leave their homes as the siege intensifies within the villages of the area. A commander of the Taiz resistance movement told local media outlets days ago that the Belad Alwafi are has in fact been besieged for two months.
Mohammed Saad said that the humanitarian situation has worsened significantly as the Houthi rebels and allied militia forces loyal to former President Ali Abdullah Saleh have been trying to capture the are and the wider Jabal Habashy district, which is where Belad Alwafi is situated. They have been using hit and run attacks to scare civilians out and to induce instability to fully capture the area.
Those who refuse to leave their homes are being attacked, mainly by being shot at and the houses of civilians are being looted. Saad added that seven houses have been burnt down so far…”
4 richest Indonesians wealthier than poorest 100 million (abcnews, Feb 22, 2017)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/richest-indonesians-wealthier-poorest-100-million-45676730
“A report on inequality in Indonesia says its four richest men now have more wealth than 100 million of the country’s poorest people.
The report released Thursday by Oxfam said Indonesia, with a population of more than 250 million, has the sixth-worst inequality in the world. Within Asia, only Thailand is more unequal.
It blames “market fundamentalism” that has allowed the richest to capture most of the benefits of nearly two decades of strong economic growth, concentration of land ownership and pervasive gender inequality…”
3 Indian soldiers, Kashmir woman killed during rebel attack (abcnews, Feb 22, 2017)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/indian-soldiers-kashmir-woman-killed-rebel-attack-45676833
“Three Indian soldiers and a woman were killed after rebels ambushed soldiers in the disputed region of Kashmir, police said on Thursday.
Inspector-General Syed Javaid Mujtaba Gillani said the militants tossed grenades and sprayed bullets at soldiers after they were returning from a search operation in the southern Shopian area early Thursday.
Gillani said the attack triggered a brief exchange of gunfire and a stray bullet hit the 60-year-old woman while she was sleeping in her home.
Three soldiers, including two officers, were also injured in the attack…”
https://youtu.be/NoXGV4Vw-VA
MSM slip.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=67&v=XjGncq1jIDE
Muslim Call to Prayer “Allahu Akbar” at Times Square Trump Protest
Conservative activist James O’Keefe to release CNN tapes
Conservative activist James O’Keefe to release CNN tapes
[Associated Press]
Associated PressFebruary 23, 2017
FILE – In this May 26, 2010, file photo, James O’Keefe makes a statement after leaving the federal courthouse in New Orleans. O’Keefe has announced plans to release recordings on Feb. 23, 2017, that he said were made secretly inside CNN. (AP Photo/Bill Haber, File)
NEW YORK (AP) — Conservative activist James O’Keefe has announced plans to release recordings Thursday morning that he says were made secretly inside CNN.
O’Keefe tells the network in an interview that the media is a “huge target” of his and he’s targeting CNN specifically because it “has a very important role as an arbiter of news.”
The network has drawn the ire of President Donald Trump, who has repeatedly labeled it “fake news.”
A CNN spokeswoman didn’t immediately return a request for comment on O’Keefe’s announcement.
O’Keefe became well-known in 2009 after posing as a pimp in a video to embarrass community-organizing group ACORN. He has also made videos targeting National Public Radio and Planned Parenthood.
Some of his efforts have backfired. He was arrested and pleaded guilty in 2010 to entering the office of a Louisiana senator under false pretenses.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/conservative-activist-james-okeefe-release-cnn-tapes-115023325.html
North Korea Mocks China for ‘Dancing to U.S. Tune’
Pyongyang appears to have lashed out at Beijing in unusually pointed rhetoric
North Korea appeared to lash out at Beijing in a state-media commentary published on Thursday, in unusually pointed rhetoric from Pyongyang toward a powerful neighbor that it has long relied on for economic support.
The commentary, published by the state-controlled Korean Central News Agency, didn’t name China, but left little doubt about its target: “a neighboring country, which often claims itself to be a ‘friendly neighbor’.”
In particular, the article lambasted China for playing down North Korea’s nuclear capabilities, and for curbing foreign trade—an apparent reference to China’s statement over the weekend that it would suspend coal imports from North Korea for the rest of the year.
North Korea remains heavily reliant on its larger neighbor for trade, while China sees North Korea as a buffer against South Korea and Japan, both U.S. allies. But Beijing’s patience wore thin after Pyongyang conducted a series of nuclear and ballistic-missile tests last year, prompting China to back fresh United Nations sanctions in November that target North Korea’s coal exports.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/north-korea-mocks-china-for-dancing-to-u-s-tune-1487852124
Danish man who videoed himself burning the Quran charged with blasphemy
Case is first time Danish prosecutors have charged anyone with blasphemy in 46 years
A Danish man who posed a video of himself setting fire to the Quran on Facebook has been charged with blasphemy in the first such prosecution for 46 years.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/denmark-man-burned-quran-koran-video-blasphemy-facebook-islam-prosecuted-charged-46-years-a7594796.html
UMich students demand no-whites-allowed space to plot ‘social justice’ activism
A student activist group at the University of Michigan is demanding campus officials provide them with “a permanent designated space on central campus for Black students and students of color to organize and do social justice work.”
The demand is one of several lodged by “Students4Justice,” who this month ratcheted up campus demonstrations to pressure administrators to cave, complaining in a newly launched petition that President Mark Schlissel has snubbed their demands.
The clamor for a segregated space for students of color to organize social justice efforts comes even as the public university builds a $10 million center for black students in the center of campus.
In their demands, students explain why the new black student center is not enough, “because we want a space solely dedicated to community organizing and social justice work specifically for people of color.”
http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/31322/
China military says aware of U.S. carrier in South China Sea
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s defense ministry said on Thursday it was aware of the presence of a U.S. aircraft carrier strike group in the South China Sea and China respected freedom of navigation for all countries in the waters there.
The U.S. navy said the strike group, including the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier the USS Carl Vinson, began “routine operations” in the South China Sea on Saturday amid growing tension with China over control of the disputed waterway.
Defence ministry spokesman Ren Guoqiang said China had a “grasp” of the situation regarding the carrier group in the South China Sea.
“China hopes the U.S. earnestly respects the sovereignty and security concerns of countries in the region, and earnestly respects the efforts of countries in the region to maintain peace and stability in the South China Sea,” Ren told a regular monthly news briefing.
“Of course, we also respect freedom of navigation and overflight for all countries in the South China Sea in accordance with international law,” he added.
http://www.oann.com/china-military-says-aware-of-u-s-carrier-in-south-china-sea/
French police clash with youths at protest rally, arrest eight
PARIS (Reuters) – Hundreds of French high-school students staged an unauthorized anti-police rally on Thursday, blocking the entrances to a dozen schools in Paris in the latest in a series of protests over the alleged rape of a young black man with a police baton.
Police reported eight arrests after isolated skirmishes with youths who hurled objects and damaged property on the fringes of what otherwise appeared to have been a relatively peaceful demonstration.
The protest comes two months before a presidential election where far-right leader Marine Le Pen, leader of the anti-immigrant National Front party, is tipped to win the first round but lose the runoff vote that takes place on May 7.
The Paris school authority said more than 10 schools had been targeted by youths who piled up rubbish bins and other objects at the entrance gates. In one case, a deputy school director was injured when protesters hurled a fire extinguisher.
The protesters are angry over the alleged rape of the 22-year-old man during a Feb. 2 arrest in an area north of Paris where large numbers of immigrants live. The man, identified only as Theo, remains in hospital with injuries to his anus and head.
He has called for public calm and his family has said they have faith in the French justice system.
One of the banners carried at Thursday’s rally read “Revenge for Theo!”
http://www.oann.com/riot-police-confront-banned-anti-police-protest-in-paris/
Obama and the intel community’s ‘Leaks against Trump’ campaign
By J.E. Dyer February 23, 2017
I wrote a few days ago about the connection between the owner of the Washington Post – leak central for the so-called “deep state” campaign against the Trump administration – and the CIA.
In 2013, Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon, made two major moves at virtually the same time. He bid successfully for a $600 million cloud services contract with the CIA. And he bought the Washington Post. As highlighted in my earlier post, Barack Obama made a presidential appearance at an Amazon fulfillment center in the middle of those twin commercial dramas – a controversial event that political observers thought was odd at the time, due to the antagonism of labor advocates toward Amazon.
Political observers thought it was odd, perhaps. But tech-industry reporters could have explained the matter to them. It would have been no surprise to those who tracked developments in cloud computing. Amazon’s Web Services division, or AWS, gave Bezos half of his very big 2013 because 2013 came in the wake of a very fruitful 2012.
http://libertyunyielding.com/2017/02/23/obama-intel-communitys-leaks-trump-campaign/
Click through and read the rest of the article.
Richard: This article needs to be read several times to give you time to grasp all of the content and how dangerous the new rules for data distribution is, the new rules not only allow the unedited distribution of data on US citizens to other countries it allows the distribution of raw data on their own citizens to other governments. It also points out how Bezo’s is acquiring a monopoly on the cloud sorate of intel data and that some of that data seems to be making it sway to the Bezo’s owned Washingtonpost.
Obama DHS tried to hack Indiana’s election system while Mike Pence was governor
By LU Staff February 22, 2017
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials tried to hack Indiana’s state electoral system with at least 14,800 “scans” or hits between Nov. 1, 2016, to Dec. 16, 2016, The Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group has learned.
The attacks are the second confirmed IT scanning assault by DHS officials against states that resisted then-President Barack Obama’s attempt to increase federal involvement in state and local election systems by designating them as “critical infrastructure” for national security.
Members of the National Association of Secretaries of State voted Saturday at their winter meeting to oppose the designation. They are asking President Donald Trump to overturn it.
Former Indiana Gov. Mike Pence was also Trump’s vice presidential-elect during much of the period covered by the DHS scans of the Indiana system.
Indiana Secretary of State Connie Lawson, the incoming president of the association, told TheDCNF Tuesday, “We know that between November 1 and December 16 we were scanned with about 14,800 scans, nearly 15,000 different times.” The state’s IT team traced the intruder to a DHS computer’s IP address. The same DHS unit attempted 10 times in 2016 to hack into the Georgia electoral system.
Federal officials are barred under DHS rules from trying to penetrate a state system without the express approval of the state. Neither Georgia nor Indiana approved the DHS scanning attempts.
http://libertyunyielding.com/2017/02/22/obama-dhs-tried-hack-indianas-election-system-mike-pence-governor/
Google launches robo-tool to flag hate speech online
New York Times and other news media testing AI software that spots abusive comments
Google has launched an artificial intelligence tool that identifies abusive comments online, helping publishers respond to growing pressure to clamp down on hate speech.
Google’s freely available software, known as Perspective, is being tested by a range of news organisations, including The New York Times, The Guardian and The Economist, as a way to help simplify the jobs of humans reviewing comments on their stories.
“News organisations want to encourage engagement and discussion around their content, but find that sorting through millions of comments to find those that are trolling or abusive takes a lot of money, labour and time,” said Jared Cohen, president of Jigsaw, the Google social incubator that built the tool.
“As a result, many sites have shut down comments altogether. But they tell us that isn’t the solution they want.”
Currently, the software is available to a range of publications that are part of Google’s Digital News Initiative, including the BBC, the Financial Times, Les Echos and La Stampa, and theoretically to third-party social media platforms including YouTube, Twitter and Facebook.
“We are open to working with anyone from small developers to the biggest platforms on the internet. We all have a shared interest and benefit from healthy online discussions,” said CJ Adams, product manager at Jigsaw.
Perspective helps to filter abusive comments more quickly for human review. The algorithm was trained on hundreds of thousands of user comments that had been labelled as “toxic” by human reviewers, on sites such as Wikipedia and the New York Times.
It works by scoring online comments based on how similar they are to comments tagged as “toxic” or likely to make someone leave a conversation.
“All of us are familiar with increased toxicity around comments in online conversations,” Mr Cohen said. “People are leaving conversations because of this, and we want to empower publications to get those people back.”
The New York Times trial resulted in reviewers being able to check twice as many comments in the same amount of time, as the algorithm helped to narrow down the pool of possibilities.
“Their goal is to be able to [improve] review speed by 10x, so the project is ongoing,” said Lucas Dixon, Jigsaw’s chief research scientist.
Google is not the first to attempt to curb trolling online. Earlier this month, Twitter stepped up its efforts by making tweaks to hide abuse from its users, rather than remove content from the platform completely.
Its chief executive Jack Dorsey tweeted at the time that Twitter was measuring its progress against abuse on a daily basis.
In May, US tech groups including Google, Facebook, Twitter and Microsoft signed a “code of conduct” with Brussels that required them to “review the majority” of flagged hate speech within 24 hours, remove it if necessary and even develop “counter narratives” to confront the problem.
https://www.ft.com/content/8786cce8-f91e-11e6-bd4e-68d53499ed71
What’s hilarious is the biggest cheerleaders of suppressing comments on newspaper columns is the columnists themselves. The Chicago Tribune’s John Kass talked on the radio about how the “racists” were gotten rid when the Trib started suppressing comments, and Eric Zorn talked about how much better he felt when he no longer had to read comments on his columns. That’s why people have stopped caring about what newspapers print; they can dish it out but totally wimp out at return fire. No wonder the internet is the death of the MSM.
Journo-cowboys. Their hat is yellow.
Parents Demand an End to Islamic Teachings in Public School
Posted On 21 Feb 2017
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Parents in Chatham, New Jersey are demanding answers from the local board of education as it pertains to what their children are being taught in their 7th grade social studies class. According to Nancy Gayer and Libby Hilsenrath, their children are being given lessons about Islam that would never be acceptable if they were about Christianity.
In fact, Gayer said at a board meeting on Monday, her son was specifically chastised a few years ago when he gave a PowerPoint presentation that briefly mentioned his religious views. Gayer said he was told to stop “proselytizing” when he included a Bible quote in his slideslow. The teacher told him that a quote like that “belongs in Sunday School.”
Gayer and other parents asked the board to explain why that was off-limits, but it was perfectly fine for the teacher to have the students learn about the religious tenets of Islam.
“My sincere issue – according to policy 2270 – the board of education directs that no religious beliefs be promoted or disparaged,” Gayer said at the meeting. “I’m asking the board meet with the policy committee and eliminate the teaching of Islam and all other religions.”
Hilsenrath passed out materials being used in the classroom, which included a cartoon that made extraordinary statements about Islam.
http://patriotnewsdaily.com/parents-demand-an-end-to-islamic-teachings-in-public-school/
A Month of Islam and Multiculturalism in France: January 2017
by Soeren Kern
February 23, 2017 at 5:00 am
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/9978/islam-france-january
January 1. The Interior Ministry announced the most anticipated statistic of the year: a total of 945 cars and trucks were torched across France on New Year’s Eve, a 17.5% increase from the 804 vehicles burned during the annual ritual on the same holiday in 2015. Car burnings, commonplace in France, are often attributed to rival Muslim gangs that compete with each other for the media spotlight over which can cause the most destruction. An estimated 40,000 cars are torched in France every year.
anuary 2. Approximately 3.7 million crimes were reported in France in 2016, a 4% increase over 2015, according to Le Figaro. Seine-Saint-Denis, a Paris suburb which has one of the highest concentrations of Muslims in France, ranks as the most dangerous part of the country, with 18.2 attacks per 1,000 inhabitants. It is followed by Paris, with 15.7 attacks per 1,000 inhabitants and Bouches-du-Rhône with 11.5 attacks per 1,000 inhabitants.
January 2. The Criminal Court of Paris sentenced Nicolas Moreau, a 32-year-old French jihadist, to ten years in prison for fighting for the Islamic State. He is the brother of Flavien Moreau, the first French jihadist to be sentenced for such an offense upon his return from Syria in November 2014. Born in South Korea, adopted by a French family at the age of 4, Nicolas became a delinquent after the divorce of his adoptive parents. He converted to Islam in prison, where he spent five years. Nicolas said he fled the Islamic State after 17 months due to its “excesses.”
Protests against police violence continue in Paris
A new round of protests against police violence is taking place in Paris, on Thursday, February 23.
France: Police use tear gas at protest against police brutality in Paris
France: Police use pepper spray as students blockade school over rape of black man
Riot police used tear gas against demonstrators, as dozens of high school students and their supporters tried to block the entrance to the Lycee Voltaire secondary school in Paris on Thursday,
France: Multiple protesters arrested after anti-police brutality riots in Paris
fdesouche – La famille de Théo au coeur d’une enquête financière : 678 000 euros de subventions
http://www.fdesouche.com/825901-la-famille-de-theo-au-coeur-dune-enquete-financiere-678-000-euros-de-subventions
Le Parisien – La famille de Théo est au coeur d’une enquête financière pour abus de confiance et escroquerie. Les interrogations portent sur une somme de 678 000 euros.
http://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/la-famille-de-theo-au-coeur-d-une-enquete-financiere-23-02-2017-6705981.php
Corrupt State of Affairs at the International Federation of Journalists?
by Tamar Sternthal
February 23, 2017 at 4:00 am
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/9963/international-federation-of-journalists
“The journalist shall be aware of the danger of discrimination being furthered by the media, and shall do the utmost to avoid facilitating such discrimination based on, among other things, race, sex, sexual orientation, language, religion, political or other opinions, and national or social origins,” declares the Declaration of Principles of the International Federation of Journalists, the world’s largest organization of journalists that represents 600,000 journalists in 140 countries.
One might imagine, then, that this organization that defends press freedom, truth and equality, would vigorously counter a boycott by the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate of Israeli journalists, especially in a discriminatory campaign that endangers Israelis covering the West Bank by sending the message to Palestinian officials and journalists that the Israeli reporters are not welcome there.
That presumably should be the position of an organization which says it “promotes international action to defend press freedom and social justice,” but it is not. Far from condemning the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate’s boycott targeting Israelis, the International Federation of Journalists has come to the defense of Nasser Abu Baker, chairman of the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate and the key prosecutor of the discriminatory campaign against Israelis. In fact, Abu Baker, who has threatened Palestinian officials who dare to speak with Israeli journalists, sits on the International Federation of Journalists’ executive committee.
Germany: Wachpolizei recruits undertake 12-week training for guarding refugee centres
Police students who enrolled in a short training programme called ‘Wachpolizei’ were seen training at a police academy in Bautzen, Thursday, to help local authorities handle the refugee crisis.
The future members of the Wachpolizei, which in Saxony will total 550 personnel by 2020, get a 12-week training programme. At the end of the scheme they will be able to help police in monitoring refugee centres. For normal police officers in the German state, training takes three years.
Members of the Wachpolizei are trained in self-defence, shooting and they also gain knowledge of the law. One of their main duties is guarding refugee centres.
SOT, Stefan Walther, Saxon police spokesperson (German): “As a reaction to the situation in which the Saxon police found themselves during the refugee crisis of 2015, the lawmaker decided on a law on Wachpolizei [a subdivision of police], and thus reintroduced the Saxon Wachpolizei. Since 2016, we are training colleagues, who are employed in the police.”
SOT, Stefan Walther, spokesperson of Saxon police (German): “550 job positions for the Wachpolizei were created, with the aim to completely fill those positions within the timeframe of the law. Until 2020 we will train up to 100 colleagues four times a year. These members of the Wachpolizei are employed for two years, with the possibility to be taken into the official police training programme after one year.”
Dutch anti-Islam leader Geert Wilders cancels events due to security leak
Dutch anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders, who is leading polls ahead of next month’s election, said on Wednesday he had canceled all public campaign events after an agent involved in his security team was suspended.
The secret service said on Tuesday an agent of a Moroccan background had been suspended on suspicion of leaking details to a criminal organization.
On Wednesday, newspaper Algemeen Dagblad reported that the man’s brother, also a police officer, had leaked information about murder inquiries and had been accused of rape and been dismissed. Police were not immediately available for comment.
There is no suggestion the cases had anything to do with Wilders or his team.
Secret service chief Erik Akerboom said on Tuesday that neither Wilders nor any of the other people the team protects, including the Dutch royal family, had ever been in danger as a result of the leaks.
Wilders, who promises to close mosques and crack down on “Moroccan scum”, said he would await the conclusions of the investigation into the corruption allegations before appearing in public again.
“My god, I had no idea,” tweeted Wilders, who has been living under 24-hour protection since the 2004 murder by an Islamist militant of film-maker and Islam-critic Theo van Gogh. “How much more is there I don’t know.”
The protection officer had been responsible for scouting out locations that protected politicians were due to visit. The officer has been was granted provisional release pending trial.
Wilders’ party leads in opinion polls for the March 15 vote with 17 percent, a whisker ahead of the pro-business Liberals of Prime Minister Mark Rutte, who has closed the gap by matching some of Wilders’ anti-immigration rhetoric and received a boost from a surging economy.
Wilders rarely appears in public, but makes occasional exceptions for campaigning events, such as touring a farmers’ market near Rotterdam on Saturday.
His campaign details are available on his website and he had been scheduled to appear on Saturday in the fishing village of Volendam, a stronghold of his Party For Freedom.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-netherlands-election-wilders-idUSKBN1621MV
NOS Journaal-marokkaanse agent en Wilders beveiliger blijkt verrader,werkt voor jihadisten
Napolitano: We have spying everywhere, all the time
Gorka: To win a war, you must be truthful about the enemy
Dem (and ex-CIA): Spy plot against Trump is out of control
Democrat and former CIA ops officer Bryan Dean Wright gives Tucker his insight on the intel leaks that have disrupted the Trump administration
Nigel Farage: Political correctness is put above public safety in Sweden
Nigel Farage warns Sweden’s crisis is being ‘COVERED UP’ by ‘POLITICALLY CORRECT’ media (express, Feb 23, 2017)
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/771303/Nigel-Farage-Sweden-crisis-covered-up-politically-correct-media
“NIGEL FARAGE tore into the Swedish media as he blamed them for being too “politically correct” over its coverage of crime in the country.
A recent report showed Swedish police were struggling to cope with crime in over 50 areas of the country.
Chaos unfolded in a predominately immigrant suburb of Stockholm earlier this week.
The unrest, in the Rinkeby suburb, saw officers shooting at a mob of rioters who threw rocks at police on Monday night.
Cars were also torched days after Donald Trump claimed Sweden was in crisis as a result of its liberal refugee policy.
The US President’s remarks were criticised by Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven – who called on the Republican to “verify information before we spread”.
However, Mr Farage reignited the row as he accused publishers in the country of trying “hoodwink” the public.
He told Fox News: “There is now an established agreed convention amongst all the Swedish broadcasters and newspapers that they do not ever give the identity, religion or nationality of those who perpetrate crime.
“These things are just listed as crime statistics, whether I’m talking about rape, murder or whether it’s just outright looting and rioting.
“Frankly what is going on in Sweden is in their efforts to be politically correct they’re not being factually correct they’re trying to hoodwink Sweden and the rest of the world.” …”
AFP- The Islamic State group
CBC – Islamophobia and asylum seekers
The At Issue panel discusses the division and debate surrounding an anti-Islamophobia motion in Parliament and the influx of asylum seekers into Canada
CBC News – Two non-Muslim women wear hijabs for 30 days
CBC – Sunday Scrum: Islamophobia motion triggers hate mail
CBC – NCCM Rep. discusses anti-Islamophobia parliamentary motion
National Council of Canadian Muslims
Not exactually counter jihad,
but the fight for reason is on many fronts chaps.
James O’Keefe offers $10,000 awards for evidence of ‘media malfeasance’
Conservative sleuth James O’Keefe is ramping up his effort to take down the mainstream media by enlisting the help of ordinary citizens to go undercover and expose wrongdoing in newsrooms around the country.
The Project Veritas leader announced he will give $10,000 to anyone who brings him evidence of “corruption, malfeasance and wrongdoing” in the press.
“If you have hidden audio recordings, videotapes or documents inside of a newsroom or media institution, and the material is good enough, I will pay you $10,000,” Mr. O’Keefe says in the video set to be released on Thursday.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/feb/23/james-okeefe-project-veritas-leader-offers-10000-a/
Intelligence Community Leaking
Saboteurs set on bringing down a president.
Saboteurs in the U.S. intelligence community posing as patriots have been working hard to drive President Donald Trump from the White House.
Former National Security Agency intelligence analyst and former War College professor John R. Schindler bragged on Twitter last week about the spy-led plot his friends are conducting against the president.
“Now we go nuclear,” he tweeted. “IC [intelligence community] war [is] going to new levels. Just got an [email from] senior IC friend, it began: ‘He will die in jail.’”
“US intelligence is not the problem here,” Schindler added. “The President’s collusion with Russian intelligence is. Many details, but the essence is simple.”
In a column Feb. 12, Schindler cited wild, unproven, conspiratorial theories about Trump’s ties to Russia to justify his comrades’ seditious push to remove Trump from power.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/265886/intelligence-community-leaking-matthew-vadum
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/265893/mcmaster-pick-score-one-swamp-robert-spencer
The McMaster Pick: Score One for the Swamp?
NSA pick McMaster told the National Defense University that “the Islamic State is not Islamic.”
February 23, 2017
Robert Spencer
President Trump has confirmed that retired Lt. General H.R. McMaster is his new choice to be his National Security Adviser. There have been indications that the Republican establishment has been trying to co-opt Trump and keep him from effecting the sweeping reform that he has promised, and this appointment could indicate that at least for the moment, these forces have gained the upper hand.
A source that has asked to remain anonymous for fear of reprisals has informed me that he was present in August 2014 when McMaster was the featured speaker for the President’s Lecture Series at National Defense University in Washington, D.C. McMaster addressed an assembly of all the students in the colleges of the university, including the National War College, the College of International Security Affairs (CISA), the Dwight D. Eisenhower School for National Security and Resource Strategy (formerly the Industrial College of the Armed Forces), and the others.
No transcript or video is publicly available, but there was a large crowd, and multiple witnesses.
In his address, McMaster said flatly: “The Islamic State is not Islamic.”
He’s just plain awful. The pits.
PragerU Live: Raymond Ibrahim (2/17/17)
Voice of America Penetrated by Iranian Regime?
http://punchingbagpost.com/voice-of-america-penetrated-by-iranian-regime
http://punchingbagpost.com/voice-of-america-even-our-propaganda-has-become-propaganda/
This article is a follow-up on a piece I wrote last December. You can read the original story here.
A group of nearly 100 Iranian dissidents from numerous backgrounds have come together to ask Congress to look into the Iranian ruling regime’s disturbing influence on the taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) news network.
VOA, which encompasses Radio Free Asia and Radio Free Europe, was founded in 1942 to spread news to counteract Japanese and Nazi propaganda. The network has since evolved into a more traditional news source, and has a long reputation of unbiased reporting and maintaining America values.
This is no longer the case. During the election, VOA spouted the same liberal nonsense we saw from CNN, The New York Times, multiple polling sources, and others.
VOA featured numerous anti-Trump speakers who portrayed newly appointed AG Jeff Sessions and Trump adviser Steve Bannon as “racists,” claimed Trump supporters were unable to see a female in a position of leadership, and insisted that Trump would deliver Syria to Russia.
In December, The Washington Times lambasted VOA as “terminally ill” and claimed it has been transformed into the “Voice of Tehran.”
Yeah, this perversion of VoA was reported on Israeli sites. Some took it as a tragedy – VoA was treasured behind the Iron Curtain, they took risks to listen, pass info on to others.
Now I get better info via Israel and Bulgaria.
Egyptian army confronts ISIS terrorists just MILES from Brit holiday hotspot (express, Feb 23, 2017)
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/771236/Egypt-army-tackle-Sinai-ISIS-terrorist-Sharm-el-Sheik
“THE EGYPTIAN military have battled ISIS fighters operating in Sinai peninsula, where the British holiday hotspot of Sharm el-Sheikh is located.
The raids ended in the arrest of eight terrorists by government security forces in central Sinai’s Jabal Hilal mountains around 100 miles from the Sharm el-Sheikh resort on the Red Sea.
Soldiers captured scores of weapons and explosives as they destroyed at least 33 facilities for manufacturing “improved explosive devices”.
Footage released by the army shows armoured vehicles storming through the desert, with troops searching caves as they for the grotesque terror network’s hideouts.
Pictures shows weapons, money and bomb-making materials alongside terrorists who have had their faces covered and hands tied while soldiers aim their guns at them…”
Migrant ‘who killed EU official’s daughter’ to be tried as adult after claiming he was 17 (express, Feb 23, 2017)
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/771385/germany-afghan-migrant-adult-rape-murder-eu-official-daughter
“AN AFGHAN asylum seeker accused of the rape and murder of a medical student in Germany will be charged as an adult.
It comes as after a month-long investigation into his age confirmed he was at least 22 years old when he committed the crime – not 17, as he had claimed…”
Ex-Guantanamo Bay prisoners could give back MILLIONS if they break compensation deals (express, Feb 23, 2017)
http://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/771389/ex-guantanamo-bay-prisoners-compensation-deals-government
“THE Government will try to get back compensation from ex-Guantanamo Bay prisoners if they breach deals struck as a condition of being paid, a minister insisted today.
Security minister Ben Wallace was heckled and jeered by Labour MPs in the House of Commons as he refused to confirm reports that Manchester-born Ronald Fiddler, who changed his name to Jamal al-Harith when he converted to Islam, was paid £1million compensation for his two years in the US military jail in Cuba.
Having been freed in 2004, al-Harith is said to have gone to Syria to join so-called Islamic State in 2014….
Refusing to give details, Mr Wallace told MPs it was “long-standing policy of successive governments not to comment on intelligence matters”.
The compensation deals were also covered by to “legally binding confidentiality agreement” so he could not confirm if any individual received payment.
He also declined to say if the security services knew the current whereabouts of three others released from Guanatanmo Bay with al-Harith in 2004.
Conservative MP Philip Davis protested: “I hope those who celebrated the release from Guantanamo Bay of Jamal al-Harith will reflect on what he’s done since being released.
“Is the Government exploring any options to recover compensation paid to people from Guantanamo Bay?
“The taxpayers have been ripped off, terrorists have prospered from their appalling activities and the public is rightly disgusted by it, and they want to know what the Government is trying to do to rectify that.”
Mr Wallace replied: “You make a valid point. I will go from here and make sure that where we have legally binding agreements that they are correctly monitored and where there is a breach, we shall recover any monies we can.”
Tory former minister Andrew Murrison said the public would be concerned if any compensation money went to fund terrorism…”
Morocco is blackmailing EU using migrants as leverage
Posted on February 23, 2017 19:00
By Vincent van den Born
On 22 February, France 24 reported that Morocco uses the migrant crisis as leverage in a trade dispute with the EU. More than 850 migrants are said to have breached the border with Spanish held Ceuta from Morocco. Located just South of Gibraltar, Ceuta was conquered by the Portuguese in the 15th century, before deciding to remain in the Spanish Empire in the 17th century. It is one of two Spanish cities on the Mediterranean Coast, the other one being Melilla. Consequently, it is one of two land borders between Europe and Africa, making the city a focal point for migrants seeking to gain entrance.
Around 500 migrants stormed the guarded and fenced 8-kilometre border on Friday, in the largest successful incursion in more than a decade, followed on Monday by another successful attempt by 356 migrants. On New Year’s Day, more than 1.000 migrants tried to jump the double fence separating Morocco and Ceuta, but were repelled, with 5 Spanish, and 50 Moroccan border guards injured, including the loss of an eye. Ceuta officials are now faced with more than 1.400 migrants to be questioned. Housing has become a problem, and more tents have been requested.
This latest attempt might have been successful due to Moroccan sabotage, after threats made by the Moroccan agricultural ministry after a ruling on a free trade agreement with the EU did not go Morocco’s way. The Court of Justice of the European Union found that:
https://gatestone.eu/morocco-leverage-eu/
Sweden: Arab men live stream sexual assault on Facebook. Again
Posted on February 23, 2017 16:00
By David Frankenhuis
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Live streamed footage of a young woman being sexually harassed in the Swedish capital of Stockholm has become part of an abhorrent ‘PR campaign’ that was launched on a closed Facebook group run by Tunisian men. The perpetrators appear to be showing the video in order to encourage other Tunisians living in Europe to pay a visit to the city.
Adam, a Tunisian man who saw parts of the attack taking place online, informed libertarian-conservative magazine Fria Tider on the existence of the Facebook group. The page has some 60,000 members and specifically aims at enlisting “Tunisians living in Europe,” according to a statement made by the website administrators.
On the night of January 26, the live broadcast of the group started as Adam was logged into Facebook. The footage shows two Tunisian men leaving a kebab restaurant in central Stockholm, at the end of a night out. When the Arabs fail in getting the attention of a cab they decide on stealing a bike instead.
Soon after, viewers could witness the men sexually assaulting a woman in an empty street. During the ordeal, the victim shouts “Stop filming,” while the migrants grope her, pull her hair, and tear off her clothes. One of the men also tries raping the woman, who is about 25 years of age, when the cell phone footage ends.
Adam was shocked by the video but nevertheless managed to film parts of it on his own phone as evidence, even posting 8 seconds of the ordeal on his Facebook page after blurring the victim. “I will submit the rest of the video to police,” he says.
After studying many of the online comments accompanying the attack, Adam paints a grim picture of the Muslim Arab mentality. He says that many of them think it is perfectly fine to harass girls and women. “Some viewers even thought it was awesome,” he discovered. After posting parts of the footage on his Facebook page, Adam received online death threats from other Tunisians.
“The attackers want to show that they live in Stockholm and that life is cool here. Many Tunisians are defending these rapists and it looks like as if I hate Tunisians because I expose them. I consider their actions a serious crime, but they see it as something normal.”
One of the men in the clip has previously been convicted of other violent assaults, Fria Tider could independently verify, while the second is an illegal immigrant who has been hiding from the Swedish authorities since 2014. “He’s trying to meet women here and convince them to marry him so that he can stay in Sweden,” says Adam.
Adam claims to have informed Stockholm authorities on the attack, but a police spokesman denied having any knowledge of the incident.
It’s the second time in one month migrants in Sweden live stream a sexual assault to Facebook. And probably not the last.
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‘No hiding from language police’ Trevor Phillips ‘branded racist’ for Obama policy comment (express, Feb 23, 2017)
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/771220/Trevor-Phillips-racism-sexism-diversity-political-correctness-gone-mad-channel-4
“FORMER Equality and Human Rights Commission chairman Trevor Phillips said he knew political correctness had gone mad they day he was accused of racism.
Mr Phillips warned that while Britain is crying out for frank discussion on issues such as race and sexuality, debate is being closed down because those who find offence in everything are to quick to cry racism or sexism.
He presents his case in a programme on Channel 4 tonight when he argues that members of Britain’s so-called political and cultural elite seem unable to speak plainly about things that concern many citizens.
He told the Daily Mail: “A few weeks ago, I observed that Barack Obama’s iconic status as the first African-American US President should not obscure his mixed political record.
“For that, I was accused by one Radio 4 commentator of peddling a ‘racist narrative’.
“As a black man and former chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, you might think I would be surprised to face a charge of racism — but I was not.”
Mr Phillips said 40 years ago “identity” politics was about trying to end discrimination and led to revolutionary legislation on gender, disability and race.
But he said the recognition of diversity has now grown into a “cancerous cultural tyranny that blocks open debate”.
He said: “There is no hiding place from the language police, even if you belong to a ‘vulnerable’ group.
“Ten years ago, I suggested Notting Hill Carnival had become an international event and outgrown its roots in the West Indian community — hardly a deeply provocative observation.
“In response, the then Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, opined I had become so Right-wing I really belonged in the British National Party.”
Mr Phillips said hypersensitivity about offending minorities has also stopped Britain having a grown-up debate about migration.
He said: “Last week, Tony Blair, in his speech on Brexit, said ‘immigration is the issue’. Whatever you think of him, most polls show he was right about that.
“Yet since last June, most politicians have tried to pretend the Brexit vote had little to do with the cultural impact of immigration.
“The Right fear sounding like racists; the Left won’t discuss it because their celebration of multiculturalism as a blessing makes them seem metropolitan elitists.
“And when conventional politicians try to tackle the issue, they make a hash of it.””
https://gatestone.eu/sweden-crime-prof/
Swedish professor confirms: “Migrants fiercely overrepresented in crime”
Posted on February 23, 2017 13:30
By Vincent van den Born
n February 22 the Estonian based Swedish language website Fria Tider published its opinion on a recent interview by Swedish National Broadcaster SVT. In this interview, Swedish police officer Peter Springare was, unexpectedly, backed up by criminologist Leif GW Persson. Repeating earlier statements, Springare said that:
To this, Persson replied that he had made the same observation, and
Dutch immigrant party: ‘Doctors let migrant patients die sooner’
Posted on February 23, 2017 12:00
By Benjamin de Wolf
Dutch immigrant party DENK has been in the news a lot lately; A Dutch newspaper found out they are using ‘internet trolls’ with fake accounts on Twitter and Facebook, and that they have imams, paid for by the Turkish government, inciting Muslims to vote for DENK. And now they’re in the news again, with a new angle to lure immigrants into their electorate. DENK frontrunner Tunahan Kuzu stated that:
https://gatestone.eu/denk-doctors/
There it is again. Lurky Turkey.
Steve Bannon says media ‘always wrong’ about Trump, president ‘maniacally focused’ on agenda (abcnews, Feb 23, 2017)
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/steve-bannon-media-wrong-trump/story?id=45691100
“Donald Trump’s chief strategist, Steve Bannon, pounced on the media during the Conservative Political Action Conference Thursday, repeating his attack that the press is the “opposition party” that is “always wrong” about the administration.
“I think if you look at, you know, the opposition party,” said Bannon, referring to the media, during his appearance at the conference with White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus. “How they portrayed the campaign, how they portrayed the transition and how they’re portraying the administration — it’s always wrong.”
Bannon, who once was the head of the conservative outlet Breitbart News, took issue with descriptions of the White House as “chaotic,” “disorganized” and “unprofessional,” saying that the same terms were used against the ultimately-victorious campaign. Now, with Trump as president, both Bannon and Priebus made the argument that he is following through on his promises, despite distractions…”
Steve Bannon, Reince Priebus Interview at CPAC 2017 | ABC News
Krauthammer: Bannon showed he was brains of operation
I agree. Bannon’s brilliant. Such a rare talent threatens the Demonrats.
I’ve got a sweet spot for Krauthammer. He was raised Orthodox, went to McGill when Montreal was a very ugly place.
He and Bibi go way back. Together with Caroline Glick, they pulled a million people into Washington in 36 hours to challenge the State Dept (and media perspective) on the Second Israel-Lebanon War.
I’d never seen so many serious, fit young men talking to their lapels. All-star cast included Ron Lauder and Natan Sharansky.
Pentagon review of ISIS strategy will lay out options to accelerate fight (abcnews, Feb 23, 2017)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/pentagon-review-isis-strategy-lay-options-accelerate-fight/story?id=45692629
“The Pentagon is expected to deliver a review of its ISIS strategy to the White House early next week that will include new recommendations for how to defeat the group.
On Jan. 28, President Trump issued an executive order that gave Defense Secretary James Mattis 30 days to develop the review.
“We’re on track to deliver it on time,” Pentagon spokesman Capt. Jeff Davis told reporters Tuesday, adding that any public rollout would only occur after the report was reviewed privately by the president.
The new recommendations from the Pentagon were done in consultation with other departments, the intelligence community, and military commanders on the ground and at the Pentagon, according to Davis.
“This is going to be a comprehensive whole of government plan that’s going to address not only the core ISIS in Iraq and Syria issue, but it’s going to address the other areas where ISIS has sprung up,” Davis said. “And it will include all manner of things, diplomacy, and information, intelligence.”…”
On trial: 9 Iraqi gang-rapists can’t be deported from Austria
Posted on February 23, 2017 10:00
By David Frankenhuis
In the Austrian capital of Vienna, nine Iraqi men are now on trial for kidnapping and gang-raping a 28-year-old German woman nearly 14 months ago, on New Year’s Eve 2016. The suspects, between 23 and 47 years of age, are all relatives. They entered Austria as asylum seekers.
The migrants may face 15 years in jail for their crimes. After serving their sentences, they cannot be deported to Iraq since that country has reintroduced the death penalty in 2004, Kronen Zeitung reports today.
Only one of the Arabs has confessed to the rape charges. Some of the other migrants have admitted to having ‘sex’ with the victim, named Julia, but deny any claims of coercion in the ordeal lasting more than two hours.
They even dared to state in court that “the woman had initiated all of it,” which is rather flippant considering the fact that Julia was carried away from a restaurant by four of the men to an apartment several miles away, after being plied with drinks that possibly were spiked.
In the apartment, 5 male relatives of the men were waiting. All of the wives and daughters had been sent away in advance in order to create some ‘privacy’. One of the Iraqis later told police:
https://gatestone.eu/gang-rape-deportation/
Extremists attack Niger military patrol, kill 15 soldiers (abcnews, Feb 23, 2017)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/extremists-attack-niger-military-patrol-kill-15-soldiers-45694653
“A spokesman for Niger’s military says at least 15 soldiers have been killed in an attack by Islamic extremists on a patrol near the country’s border with Mali.
Colonel Abdoul Aziz Toure said Thursday that the attack near the village of Interzawane in the Tillaberi region on Wednesday also wounded 19 other soldiers. He says the military is pursuing the attackers.
The attack follows an agreement earlier this month among the presidents of five countries in Africa’s vast Sahel region, including Niger, to set up a joint counterterrorism force.
The countries in the regional G5 group — Mali, Niger, Mauritania, Burkina Faso and Chad — have been targeted in many high-profile attacks by numerous extremist groups, including Boko Haram and others that have been linked to al-Qaida.”
French far-right presidential hopeful gives Trump gold star (abcnews, Feb 23, 2017)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/french-presidential-hopeful-trump-gold-star-45694578
“French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen has nothing but praise for U.S. President Donald Trump because she thinks his actions so far are good for France.
Le Pen, who is leading in the latest opinion polls ahead of the spring election, told The Associated Press on Thursday that “my only framework is what is in the interest of France.”
She credited Trump with a series of accomplishments, including “the promotion of a form of intelligent protectionism, of economic patriotism.”
Le Pen says “I only have reason to rejoice” in Trump’s success and that “there is no international fallout” so far from his presidency.”
The Latest: Hungary to erect second fence to deter migrants (abcnews, Feb 23, 2017)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/latest-hungary-erect-fence-deter-migrants-45687532
“The Hungarian government says it start building a new fence on the border with Serbia in the spring because of the risk that large numbers of migrants may try to enter the country.
Janos Lazar, Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s chief of staff, said Thursday that work on the second barrier will start as soon as weather conditions allow.
Lazar said the government would spend some 38 billion forints ($130.7 million) on erecting the new fence and to set up shipping containers in transit zones at the Serbian border.
Asylum-seekers will be forced to wait there while their requests for protection are reviewed by Hungarian officials.
The stricter measures for refugees have been strongly criticized by human rights advocates. Amnesty International says the government is “demonizing” asylum-seekers…”
Over 1,000 migrants rescued in 48 hours from Mediterranean (abcnews, Feb 23, 2017)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/1000-migrants-rescued-48-hours-mediterranean-45686515
“More than 1,000 migrants have been rescued in the Mediterranean Sea during several operations since Wednesday, and many more are expected to attempt the perilous journey as winter ends.
Rescuers found 332 people on Thursday in three separate rubber boats traveling north of the Libyan coast, according to Proactiva Open Arms, the nonprofit that operates the Golfo Azzurro rescue vessel.
The first boat was located 25 miles offshore. It carried 99 people, including two pregnant women and some passengers with burn injuries, Proactiva spokeswoman Laura Lanuza said.
The nonprofit group found two more boats in the afternoon and rescued all 233 people onboard. The Golfo Azzurro was escorting them to a port in Sicily.
In a separate operation, Italy’s coast guard said that some of the 730 migrants rescued during seven different operations Wednesday were brought ashore Thursday…”
Danish government ally convicted of defamation (abcnews, Feb 23, 2017)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/danish-government-ally-convicted-defamation-45684333
“A Danish appeals court has upheld a defamation ruling and a 10,000-krone ($1,417) fine given to a populist party that supports Denmark’s center-right government.
The Eastern High Court said the Danish People’s Party should also pay 1,000 kroner ($142) to each of the 15 people who had sued it over a May 2013 newspaper advertisement listing 685 people about to be naturalized.
The full-page ad claimed the list contained one, unidentified person who was “endangering Denmark’s security,” because the country’s security service had that person on its radar. The plaintiffs claimed they all came under suspicion as that person.
Deputy party leader Soeren Espersen said they were considering appealing Thursday’s ruling.
Twice a year, Denmark’s Parliament votes to naturalize people and their names are posted online alongside other law proposals.”