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Foolish ISIS jihadis BLOW THEMSELVES UP after trying to plant bomb in defector’s house (express, Mar 6, 2017)
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/775403/ISIS-jihadi-blow-themselves-up-explosion-Iraq-trying-plant-bomb-house-Nineveh-Province
“THE Islamic State has obliterated two of its own militants in a huge explosion, after a plot to secure territory went horribly wrong…”
Pakistan says attack by militants kills 5 soldiers (bigstory, Mar 6, 2017)
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/d4f6b3658a7644158e25ac061aa6e3b7
“The Pakistani army says militants killed five soldiers when they attacked three military posts in a tribal region along the Afghan border.
An army statement Monday says that the troops repulsed the attackers, who had crossed overnight from Afghanistan.
It says 10 of the attackers were believed to have been killed.
No group has claimed responsibility. Pakistan has long been home to local and al-Qaida linked foreign militants.
Several Pakistani military offensives have dismantled the bases and infrastructure used by the militants in country’s tribal region, and Islamabad says some of the groups have shifted to sanctuaries across the border in Afghanistan.
The militants have shown capability that they can still launch large attacks, such as a string of suicide bombings last month that killed over 125.”
Abe says latest North Korean missile launch represents ‘new level of threat’
North Korea demonstrated its growing military capabilities with the launch of four ballistic missiles Monday, three of which fell into the Sea of Japan, in what Prime Minister Shinzo Abe characterized as “a new level of threat.”
Officials said the North fired the barrage at around 7:34 a.m. Japan time from near North Korea’s Donchang-ri long-range missile site.
The Defense Ministry said they flew about 1,000 km and reached a height of about 260 km, with three of the missiles falling within Japan’s exclusive economic zone, 300 km to 350 km west of the Oga Peninsula in Akita Prefecture. The fourth missile fell near the EEZ, which extends 200 nautical miles (370 km) from Japan’s coastline.
During Monday’s Upper House Budget Committee session, Abe condemned the provocation as “utterly intolerable” and noted the North’s accelerating technological advancements.
“(The test-firing) clearly shows that North Korea is now a new level of threat,” Abe said.
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/06/national/tokyo-says-north-korea-fired-three-four-missiles-came-japans-eez/#.WL1phH80aM8
Japan Moves to Highest Alert Level After North Korea Fires Missiles
Japan moved to the highest possible alert level after North Korea fired four ballistic missiles simultaneously into nearby waters, the latest provocation from Kim Jong Un’s regime.
Three of the missiles fell into Japan’s exclusive economic zone, with one dropping about 350 kilometers west of the nation’s northern Akita prefecture, government spokesman Yoshihide Suga told reporters after a meeting of Japan’s National Security Council. Authorities were still analyzing the type of missile launched, he said.
https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-03-05/north-korea-fires-what-may-be-intercontinental-missile-yonhap
Kremlin says seriously worried about North Korea missile drills
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Moscow is seriously worried about North Korea’s latest missile drills, which saw Pyongyang fire four ballistic missiles into the sea off Japan’s northwest, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday.
“Definitely, we are seriously worried – these are the sort of actions that lead to a rise in tension in the region and of course in this situation, traditionally, Moscow calls for restraint from all sides,” Peskov told a conference call with reporters.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/kremlin-says-seriously-worried-north-korea-missile-drills-095449065.html
Can the US shoot down North Korean missiles?
After North Korea test-fired its latest medium-range ballistic missile last month, the Pentagon responded with a bold boast: If the missile had targeted the United States, Japan, South Korea or any other ally, the U.S. would have blasted it out of the sky.
“We maintain abilities to be able to respond quickly and intercept missiles from North Korea if they do pose a threat to us or our allies,” said Navy Capt. Jeff Davis, a Pentagon spokesman.
That is no idle threat, insists Chris Johnson, spokesman for the Missile Defense Agency.
“We are absolutely confident in the system,” Johnson said. “Based on our history of testing, we are confident that the system would be able to defend the United States.”
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/can-the-us-shoot-down-north-korean-missiles/article/2616284
Terrified Mosul residents forced to strip at gunpoint to prove they aren’t carrying explosives as they flee fighting
206,000 people have fled the fighting between US-backed Iraqi forces and ISIS militants since the start of the offensive in October – and as many as 15,000 children in the last few days alone
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/terrified-mosul-residents-forced-strip-9971501
Fearing U.S. Withdrawal, Europe Considers Its Own Nuclear Deterrent
BERLIN — An idea, once unthinkable, is gaining attention in European policy circles: a European Union nuclear weapons program.
Under such a plan, France’s arsenal would be repurposed to protect the rest of Europe and would be put under a common European command, funding plan, defense doctrine, or some combination of the three. It would be enacted only if the Continent could no longer count on American protection.
Though no new countries would join the nuclear club under this scheme, it would amount to an unprecedented escalation in Europe’s collective military power and a drastic break with American leadership.
Analysts say that the talk, even if it never translates into action, demonstrates the growing sense in Europe that drastic steps may be necessary to protect the postwar order in the era of a Trump presidency, a resurgent Russia and the possibility of an alignment between the two.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/06/world/europe/european-union-nuclear-weapons.html
The ‘back door’: How Trump, Clapper, and Comey could all be right about ‘wiretapping’ Trump Tower
By J.E. Dyer March 6, 2017
After President Trump launched a firestorm with his tweets this weekend about the Obama administration “wiretapping” Trump Tower, officials who served in the Obama administration denied that it had happened.
Well, in a manner of speaking, they denied it. As Rick Moran suggests at PJ Media, FBI Director James Comey’s denial is a little odd. It is couched in the form of a request to the Department of Justice (Comey’s boss) to deny it. Moran postulates the following:
It’s an interesting way to look at it. But the end result it still this: Comey hasn’t issued a categorical denial. That’s the full-stop bottom line. Asking DOJ to issue a denial sounds like a denial, of course – but it also sounds like something that would have been better communicated in an interoffice memorandum, rather than via a public statement.
But there’s another possibility, and in my view, it’s a more likely one. It fits all the facts, just for starters. It’s this: NSA doesn’t need a FISA warrant to target the Russian banks – or any other foreign entity connected with those banks, or doing business in Trump Tower.
In fact, NSA is, as we know, sucking in trons from billions of online transactions worldwide every day. NSA can look at quite a bit in the Russian bank’s email or commercial server communications without getting a warrant. NSA can also review and make available the metadata for the related communications of U.S. persons without a warrant.
There are bases for recording voice communications as well, for which the rules govern what NSA stores and makes available to other agencies on similar principles, although the specific requirements are not the same as for textual communications. If the focus is narrowly on “phone calls,” as alluded to in Trump’s tweets, the analysis here would still apply.
The trove of IT data is stored for five years, out at that now-infamous complex in Utah, and available for retrieval. It’s only if the FBI, DEA, etc. – some entity with a lawful purpose for retrieving the data – wants to look at the message content of data relating to U.S. persons that a FISA warrant is supposed to be obtained.
So essentially, a picture emerges of the FBI being under the gun to make some rain against Trump, and coming up dry. Since the FBI wasn’t getting the job done, the leadership of the DOJ and intel community – Obama loyalists – wrote themselves a “FISA warrant” to get other agencies into the unminimized NSA database.
There would be a data trail on this. You’d just have to know where to look. If this is what the Trump administration has uncovered, it would mean (a) that Clapper is telling the truth with his denial about “wiretapping”; (b) James Comey has a reason to respond exactly as he has to the allegation (since he may not know what people on the Justice Department staff may have tried to do with NSA data); and (c) Trump is right. He was targeted by the intelligence apparatus operated by the Obama administration.
http://libertyunyielding.com/2017/03/06/back-door-trump-clapper-comey-right-wiretapping-trump-tower/
Richard: Be sure and click through and read the entire article and if you have time check out the articles that are mentioned and linked to. The scenario she laid out makes sense and explains what happened and why there is so little specific details in what is leaked.
As she mentions there is a paper trail and it should be followed, personally I think President Trumps has copies of the paperwork and is pushing for a Congressional investigation so they can find the paperwork instead of him presenting it and having it called forgeries. President Trump is determined to drain the swamp and is very upset over the illegal collection of data about him and his campaign.
Conway on Trump’s wiretapping claims: Double standard on anonymous sources
Kellyanne Conway Can’t Confirm If Donald trump Definitely Knows He Was Wiretapped
“Is Donald Trump LYING Again?” Jeanine Pirro Asks Corey Lewandowski
Byron York reacts to Clapper denying wiretap of Trump
“Trump CAN NOT Defeat Obama” Tucker Carlson On Fox and Friends
“Many people tried to take him down, 43 republicans, Hilary Clinton, they all lost to this man. Now Trump can’t beat Obama” said one of the host in Fox and Friends today.
President Donald Trump accused of the former President of the United States Barack Obama, for wiretapping him in the Trump tower just before the election victory!
Tucker Carlson on Fox and Friends discuss everything that you need to know about wiretapping and news from white house about Government spying on general public.
MSNBC – Mika Tearfully Tells Viewers of Trump: ‘If People out There Feel Nervous, We Do Too’
‘This is not funny, this is really bad’
President Trump’s wiretap tweets struck an emotional chord with MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinksi. The morning anchor fought back tears Monday morning as she told viewers that “we are all really nervous” about what the Trump Administration is going to do.
“This is not funny,” Brzezinski told her audience. “This is really bad. Just for the record, we are all really nervous. So if people out there feel nervous, we do too. We don’t think this is funny.”
The host also issued a direct appeal to Trump’s staff, asking them how they can look at themselves in the mirror.
“We are at a low point in American history and I don’t know how anybody can defend this president, even if it’s their job. Like you’ve got to have a job after this. You’ve got to look in the mirror after this. Sarah Huckabee or whoever is speaking out next. You have to look in the mirror and think about this country after this is over. You need to think of the end game here, because there isn’t one at the rate we are going.”
Moments later, Brzezinkski returned with another warning. “They are pushing a very dangerous agenda,” she said of the Trump Administration. “An extremely dangerous one.”
https://news.grabien.com/story-mika-tearfully-tells-viewers-trump-if-people-out-there-feel
This is Zbigniew Brzezinski’s daughter.
Zbig’s the old Jew-hater who was national security adviser under Jimmy Carter. You know, the mastermind behind the Iran Crisis. 0 claims him as “mentor” – rapprochement with Iran started before 0 was even elected. [Or put in place by the puppet-masters]
Brzezinski’s a conspiracy theorist’s fantasy: globalist- elite- Bilderberg- CFR- Trilateral Commission-
__He’s not a Jew, but there are plenty of self-hating Jews in that filthy pool.
Zbig’s son, Mark, was appointed U.S. ambassador to Sweden, by Obama 2011.
Mika, Zbig’s daughter, is an airhead.
She may be an air head but she is good at parroting what her puppet masters tells her to say. The entire radical left is pushing the line that President Trump is going to become dictator. Hopefully there will be time for the investigations to point to Obama and company before the world falls into chaos.
Maistrovoy and other Soviet dissidents have been saying our media have been using Stalin’s tactics without the threat of gulag. Uncle Joe would’ve been impressed.
Since most of our media are Stalinist’s to one degree or another they are probably doing this deliberately.
White House reacts to Trump’s wiretapping claims
Trey Gowdy DISCUSSES TRUMP’S OBAMA WIRETAP CLAIMS ON FOX NEWS: TRUMP IS FREE TO RELEASE EVIDENCE
NATIONAL REVIEW – Andrew C. McCarthy – The Obama Camp’s Disingenuous Denials on FISA Surveillance of Trump
President Trump’s early Saturday morning tweeting has exploded to the forefront an uncovered scandal I’ve been talking about since early January (including in this weekend’s column): The fact that the Obama Justice Department and the FBI investigated associates of Donald Trump, and likely Trump himself, in the heat of the presidential campaign.
To summarize, reporting indicates that, prior to June 2016, the Obama Justice Department and FBI considered a criminal investigation of Trump associates, and perhaps Trump himself, based on concerns about connections to Russian financial institutions. Preliminary poking around indicated that there was nothing criminal involved. Rather than shut the case down, though, the Obama Justice Department converted it into a national-security investigation under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). FISA allows the government, if it gets court permission, to conduct electronic surveillance (which could include wiretapping, monitoring of e-mail, and the like) against those it alleges are “agents of a foreign power.” FISA applications and the evidence garnered from them are classified – i.e., we would not know about any of this unless someone had leaked classified information to the media, a felony.
In June, the Obama Justice Department submitted an application that apparently “named” Trump in addition to some of his associates. As I have stressed, it is unclear whether “named” in this context indicates that Trump himself was cited as a person the Justice Department was alleging was a Russian agent whom it wanted to surveil. It could instead mean that Trump’s name was merely mentioned in an application that sought to conduct surveillance on other alleged Russian agents. President Trump’s tweets on Saturday claimed that “President Obama . . . tapp[ed] my phones[,]” which makes it more likely that Trump was targeted for surveillance, rather than merely mentioned in the application.
In any event, the FISA court reportedly turned down the Obama Justice Department’s request, which is notable: The FISA court is notoriously solicitous of government requests to conduct national-security surveillance (although, as I’ve noted over the years, the claim by many that it is a rubber-stamp is overblown).
Not taking no for an answer, the Obama Justice Department evidently returned to the FISA court in October 2016, the critical final weeks of the presidential campaign. This time, the Justice Department submitted a narrowly tailored application that did not mention Trump. The court apparently granted it, authorizing surveillance of some Trump associates. It is unknown whether that surveillance is still underway, but the New York Times has identified – again, based on illegal leaks of classified information – at least three of its targets: Paul Manafort (the former Trump campaign chairman who was ousted in August), and two others whose connection to the Trump campaign was loose at best, Manafort’s former political-consulting business partner Roger Stone, and investor Carter Page. The Times report (from mid-January) includes a lot of heavy breathing about potential ties between the Trump campaign and Russia; but it ultimately concedes that the government’s FISA investigation may have nothing to do with Trump, the campaign, or alleged Russian efforts to interfere in the U.S. election by hacking e-mail accounts.
Trump’s tweets on Saturday prompted some interesting “denials” from the Obama camp. These can be summarized in the statement put out by Obama spokesman Kevin Lewis:
A cardinal rule of the Obama Administration was that no White House official ever interfered with any independent investigation led by the Department of Justice. As part of that practice, neither President Obama nor any White House official ever ordered surveillance on any U.S. citizen. Any suggestion otherwise is simply false.
This seems disingenuous on several levels.
First, as Obama officials well know, under the FISA process, it is technically the FISA court that “orders” surveillance. And by statute, it is the Justice Department, not the White House, that represents the government in proceedings before the FISA court. So, the issue is not whether Obama or some member of his White House staff “ordered” surveillance of Trump and his associates. The issues are (a) whether the Obama Justice Department sought such surveillance authorization from the FISA court, and (b) whether,if the Justice Department did that, the White House was aware of or complicit in the decision to do so. Personally, given the explosive and controversial nature of the surveillance request we are talking about – an application to wiretap the presidential candidate of the opposition party, and some of his associates, during the heat of the presidential campaign, based on the allegation that the candidate and his associates were acting as Russian agents – it seems to me that there is less than zero chance that could have happened without consultation between the Justice Department and the White House.
Second, the business about never ordering surveillance against American citizens is nonsense. Obama had American citizens killed in drone operations. Obviously, that was not done in the U.S. or through the FISA process; it was done overseas, under the president’s commander-in-chief and statutory authority during wartime. But the notion that Obama would never have an American subject to surveillance is absurd.
Third, that brings us to a related point: FISA national-security investigations are not like criminal investigations. They are more like covert intelligence operations – which presidents personally sign off on. The intention is not to build a criminal case; it is to gather information about what foreign powers are up, particularly on U.S. soil. One of the points in FISA proceedings’ being classified is that they remain secret – the idea is not to prejudice an American citizen with publication of the fact that he has been subjected to surveillance even though he is not alleged to have engaged in criminal wrongdoing.
Consequently, there is nothing wrong, in principle, with a president’s ordering national-security surveillance of a potential foreign agent who may be helping a foreign power threaten American security and interests. That is one of the president’s main jobs – there would be something wrong if a president, who truly believed the nation was threatened by a foreign power, failed to take action. Prior to FISA’s enactment in 1978, courts had no formal role in the surveillance of foreign agents for national-security purposes – it was a unilateral executive-branch function. Beginning with the Carter administration during FISA’s enactment, it has been the position of presidential administrations of both parties that, despite the enactment of the FISA process, the president maintains inherent authority under Article II of the Constitution to order surveillance even in the absence of court authorization.
Of course, doing so is controversial, as President Bush learned after he directed the NSA to conduct warrantless wiretapping of suspected terrorists following the 9/11 attacks. Nevertheless, we should not allow the statements of Obama spokesmen to confuse us here. The Justice Department and FBI have two missions: (a) criminal law-enforcement and (b) national security. It would be scandalous (though probably not constitutional unconstitutional) for a president to interfere in the law-enforcement mission by ordering the Justice Department to prosecute someone outside its normal procedures. But it would not be inappropriate e–ven though civil libertarians would raise holy hell — for the president to direct warrantless surveillance against a target, even an American citizen, if the president truly believed that target was functioning as an agent of a foreign power threatening U.S. interests.
To be clear, there does not seem to be any evidence, at least that I know of, to suggest that any surveillance or requests to conduct surveillance against then-candidate Donald Trump was done outside the FISA process.
Nevertheless, whether done inside or outside the FISA process, it would be a scandal of Watergate dimension if a presidential administration sought to conduct, or did conduct, national-security surveillance against the presidential candidate of the opposition party. Unless there was some powerful evidence that the candidate was actually acting as an agent of a foreign power, such activity would amount to a pretextual use of national-security power for political purposes. That is the kind of abuse that led to Richard Nixon’s resignation in lieu of impeachment.
Moreover, it cannot be glossed over that, at the very time it appears the Obama Justice Department was seeking to surveil Trump and/or his associates on the pretext that they were Russian agents, the Obama Justice Department was also actively undermining and ultimately closing without charges the criminal investigation of Hillary Clinton despite significant evidence of felony misconduct that threatened national security.
This appears to be extraordinary, politically motivated abuse of presidential power.
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/445504/obama-camp-disingenuous-denials-fisa-surveillance-trump
Goodwin: Concerted effort from within gov’t to subvert Trump
FOX has been saying that the computer in Trump Tower that was talking to the Russian Banks was sending spam to them. Am I being paranoid or realistic to wonder who put that program into the computer? What is coming out shows prior planning and action to set up at least one person (Sessions) by the Obama Administration, was this another set up by them?
Fmr. FBI asst. director on wiretap claims: I warned Trump
zero hedge – Judicial Watch Sues CIA, DOJ For Intel Leak Records: “President Trump Is On To Something”
Judicial Watch announced today that it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the United States Department of Justice and the Department of the Treasury regarding records related to the investigation of retired United States Army Lieutenant General Michel Flynn’s communications with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak (Judicial Watch v. Central Intelligence Agency et al. (No.1:17-cv-00397)). (The National Security Agency refused to confirm or deny the existence of intelligence records about communications between Gen. Flynn and Amb Kislyak.)
Judicial Watch filed the lawsuit after the agencies failed to respond to a January 25, 2017, FOIA request seeking:
Any and all records regarding, concerning, or related to the investigation of retired Gen. Michael Flynn’s communications with Russian Ambassador to the United States Sergey Kislyak between October 1, 2016 and the present.
This request includes, but is not limited to, any and all related warrants, affidavits, declarations, or similar records regarding the aforementioned investigation.
For purposes of clarification, please find enclosed a CNN report regarding the investigation, which cites information that was provided to CNN by members of the Intelligence Community.
In its complaint Judicial Watch asks the court to order the agencies to search for all records responsive to its FOIA requests and demonstrate that they employed reasonable search methods; order the agencies to produce by a specific date all non-exempt records and a Vaughn index of all withheld records; and instruct the agencies to cease withholding all non-exempt records.
On January 23, 2017, the establishment shot itself in the foot as CNN reported that the government was investigating Flynn, former national security adviser to President Trump:
The calls were captured by routine US eavesdropping targeting the Russian diplomats, according to the intelligence and law enforcement officials. But the officials said some of the content of the conversation raised enough potential concerns that investigators are still looking into the discussions, amid a broader concern about Russian intelligence-gathering activities in the United States.
The officials all stressed that so far there has been no determination of any wrongdoing.
FBI and intelligence officials briefed members of the Obama White House team before President Barack Obama left office about the Flynn calls to the Russian ambassador, sources said.
“President Trump is on to something. The Obama-connected wiretapping and illegal leaks of classified material concerning President Trump and General Flynn are a scandal,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “Judicial Watch aims to get to the truth about these crimes and we hope the Trump administration stands with us in the fight for transparency.”
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-03-06/judicial-watch-sues-cia-doj-intel-leak-records-president-trump-something
excellent, Judicial Watch, you’re great!
zero hedge – Schumer Demands “Immediate” Probe Of Political Interference Into Trump-Russia Investigation
In what seems like yet another desperate act by the Democrats, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is now calling for an “immediate” investigation by the Justice Department’s independent watchdog into federal probes of communication between Donald Trump’s team and Russian officials during the 2016 campaign.[…]
more :
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-03-06/schumer-demands-immediate-justice-watchdog-probe-federal-trump-russia-probers
Associated Press: Wiretap Inquiry Results May Never Be Known
You could tell he is anti Trump.
CBC – Trump and Russia ( 12 min )
CANADA – Chrystia Freeland: Canadians Should Be ‘Prepared’ For Russian Efforts To Destabilize Political System
Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland says Canadians should be “prepared” for Russian attempts to destabilize the country’s political system like those directed at the United States.
At a press conference with Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan, where the government announced it isextending its training mission with Ukraine until 2019, Freeland was asked about a series of articles on pro-Russian websites alleging one of her grandparents was a Nazi sympathizer.
The Globe and Mail’s Robert Fife asked Freeland, who has been banned from entering Russia, if she saw this as a campaign by the Russians to “smear and discredit” her.[…]
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2017/03/06/chrystia-freeland-russia_n_15190474.html
Freeland says Canada not immune from Russian efforts to de-stabilize nation’s democracy
Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland confirmed Monday that Canada’s renewal of its Ukraine training mission through 2019 and answered questions about a Russian campaign to smear her reputation.
57 sec video
http://globalnews.ca/video/3290604/freeland-says-canada-not-immune-from-attacks-from-russia
She must be right. It’s exactly how I had it figured. We’ll see.
The “she” above is J.E.Dyer.
phew !
...I felt bad for at least 10 min.... thinking you meant that C F🙁Yikes! No-no!I will join Martin, I was getting worried as I watched the video.
Yeah J.E. spelled out the most likely scenario about what is happening, another thing to remember is the retired spooks who are saying that they are positive that President Trump has the evidence to back up his claims but wants Congress to bring it out and request criminal warrants.
One man said that when he read the tweets about the bugging he heard money and cards hitting the table. He said that Trump has joined the game and that the others should watch out. Tucker Carlson said that 43 Republicans couldn’t take down Trump, Hillary and her machine couldn’t take him down so don’t tell him that he can’t take down Obama. By the time the dust is settled I expect to see the Donald and most of his people standing and the people trying to destroy him running for some place where they won’t be send to the pen.
Grassley probes FBI’s ties to British spy who investigated Trump
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) has opened an inquiry into allegations the FBI worked with the British spy who authored a controversial opposition research dossier on President Trump during the 2016 election.
In a Monday letter to FBI Director James Comey, Grassley asked for records pertaining to any agreements the agency may have had with Christopher Steele. The MI6 agent wrote an explosive memo on behalf of Trump’s political enemies alleging that the Russians had compromising information on the president.
Comey briefed Trump on the existence of the memo in a private meeting in January.
Shortly after, several news organizations published the unverified allegations, which the White House denied.
In late February, The Washington Post reported that the FBI reached an agreement with Steele whereby the British spy would continue his investigation on behalf of the bureau.
“While Trump has derided the dossier as ‘fake news’ compiled by his political opponents, the FBI’s arrangement with Steele shows that the bureau considered him credible and found his information, while unproved, to be worthy of further investigation,” the Post reported at the time.
?Grassley is pushing back and demanding the FBI provide information pertaining to its use of the British spy, whose salacious allegations have infuriated Trump and his allies.
“The idea that the FBI and associates of the Clinton campaign would pay Mr. Steele to investigate the Republican nominee for President in the run-up to the election raises further questions about the FBI’s independence from politics, as well as the Obama administration’s use of law enforcement and intelligence agencies for political ends,” Grassley wrote.
“It is additionally troubling that the FBI reportedly agreed to such an arrangement given that, in January of 2017, then-Director Clapper issued a statement stating that ‘the [intelligence community] has not made any judgment that the information in this document is reliable, and we did not rely upon it in any way for our conclusions.’”
In his letter, Grassley asks for all records regarding Steele’s investigation, details of the agreement between the FBI and Steele, the FBI’s policies for using outside investigators, and whether the bureau has relied on any of the information Steele has provided in seeking warrants.
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/322553-grassley-probes-fbis-ties-to-british-spy-who-investigated-trump
and whether the bureau has relied on any of the information Steele has provided in seeking warrants.
very good point, info from him might be what eventually got them the FISA warrant.
Malzberg | Klayman Going to Court to get FISA Warrant Records
Judge Napolitano: For the first Time in Modern Era We Have President Who Is Adversary of Deep State
Lou Dobbs is rare and precious. My parents were big fans.
“We’re going to look hard on this”, Jason Chaffetz on Wiretapping, “Notorious on this stuff”
CBS – Rep. Chaffetz On Trump’s Unproven Wiretapping Accusation
Taps, collusion and chaos
The O’Reilly Factor’: Bill O’Reilly’s Talking Points 3/6; Plus reaction from Newt Gingrich
Ban the Koran in the Netherlands, says far-right leader Wilders
‘Islam…might be dressed up as a religion’ – Geert Wilders
Conway on new immigration executive order: Iraq no longer on the list
FRANCE – ‘Ultimate duty’ is to ensure France won’t choose Le Pen – Francois Hollande
FBI: 300 refugees probed as terrorists, ‘truly alarming’
In a bid to bolster President Trump’s new executive order suspending travelers from six nations into the U.S., federal law enforcement officials revealed that they are investigating 300 refugees for terrorist ties.
While U.S. officials would not provide details on the FBI investigations, they did say that they are refugees “who either infiltrated with hostile intent or radicalized” since coming into the United States.
To push his point, Trump even included two case studies in his newly revised executive order of refugees convicted of terrorism.
In a background briefing on the president’s new immigration suspension from Sudan, Syria, Iran, Libya, Somalia, and Yemen, one official said 300 cases is “truly an alarming number,” and added that it is sapping agencies probing the cases.
Apparently some of the refugees have been in the United States for several years, and even become naturalized citizens.
Those 300 are part of a larger group of 1,000 refugees who have been the subject of terrorism investigations by the FBI.
Trump’s new order stressed national security as the driver. “This emphasizes the national security threat,” said a Justice official.
Another official said that the six nations were picked not because they are Muslim-majority, but because they are either “failed states” or “state sponsors of terrorism.”
Critics of the president’s earlier executive order, sidelined by a federal appeals court, and the new version overplay the threat of terrorism.
But other reports show the threat, even going back to President Obama’s years. ABC News, for example, in 2013 that the U.S. may have let in dozens of terrorists.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/fbi-300-refugees-probed-as-terrorists-truly-alarming/article/2616536
The number of young people seduced by a radical discourse would increase in Molenbeek
According to the project manager against the radicalization of the municipality, recruiters are still working on the ground in Molenbeek.
The number of young people in Molenbeek who adhere to a radical discourse increases, said Monday the project manager against the radicalization of the municipality, Olivier Vanderhaegen, before the parliamentary commission of inquiry on terrorist attacks.
If fewer and fewer people leave for the Middle East to fight alongside the jihadists, this does not mean that the radicalization of some young people is receding, he said. The “targets” are changing: it is no longer a question of terrorist fighters abroad but of young people who have not learned how to get through the cracks. Very often, they are individuals who already belong to a criminal milieu: drug trafficking, smuggling, etc.
“The critical mass of young people who adhere to radical, uncomplicated discourses is increasing. They are all the time in conspiracy theory and provocation, “said Vanderhaegen.
Recruiters at work
Recruiters are still working on the ground in Molenbeek, according to him. Investigations are under way on this subject.
As for the idea of ??de-radicalization, it always seems to ask a lot of questions. The prison officers heard a few weeks ago had already been very skeptical about the possibility of de-radicalizing a person. “I do not know what it is. There are people who are known to never disengage from a radical Islam, but they can disengage from a violent process, “he said.
http://www.lesoir.be/1454459/article/actualite/belgique/2017-03-06/nombre-jeunes-seduits-par-un-discours-radical-augmenterait-molenbeek
(google translate)
https://news.grabien.com/story-mika-tearfully-tells-viewers-trump-if-people-out-there-feel
I found this “history of the Soviets” to be rather informing, especially around the 50 minute mark where the commentator stated that the “resistance” WANTED police inteference to violent protest…
Sound familiar?
You know, the link seems to be misleading. I’ll try to check it.
CBC – Teacher from private Islamic school in Mississauga charged with sexual assault
Teacher from Safa & Marwa Islamic School arrested on Friday following complaint to police
A teacher from a private Islamic school in Mississauga has been charged with sexual assault.
The 41-year-old teacher from Safa & Marwa Islamic School was arrested on Friday following a “complaint,” said Const. Rachel Gibbs.
Gibbs would not confirm who made the complaint to police. Nor would she say whether the alleged sexual assault involved a student at the school to protect the individual’s identity “because of the nature of the offences.”
Teacher no longer employed by school
Safa & Marwa Islamic School, located at 5550 McAdam Road, is a private elementary and secondary school that is not affiliated with the Peel District School Board or the Peel Catholic District School Board.
The school’s principal, Elham Abdel-hamid, released a statement on Sunday saying “allegations of sexual assault were leveled” against the teacher this week. The teacher was “immediately suspended.”
As a result of the charges, the statement continues, the teacher “is no longer an employee of Safa & Marwa Islamic School, effective immediately.”
Alleged sexual assault not on school property
“Please note that all allegations made against the teacher are regarding incidents that occurred outside of school hours and not on school property,” Abdel-hamid said in the statement.
Gibbs confirmed the alleged sexual assault didn’t happen at the school.
Support staff will be available on Monday to support students, according to the school’s statement.
“We have clear policies and procedures that ensure the safety of our students and provide a secure learning environment,” said Abdel-hamid.
Anyone with information is asked to call investigators at the 12 Division, Criminal Investigation Bureau (905) 453-2121, ext. 1233 or anonymously by calling Peel Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477).
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/teacher-sex-assault-charges-1.4010805
Migrant shot by border police in Bulgaria
Border policemen stopped a suspicious car and requested the driver’s documents. Instead of showing them, he drove back. The policemen started chasing the car. The driver tried to push them out of the road, and this made them shoot first in the air, and then at the tires.
There were 7 Afghans in the car, and the one injured, in the trunk.
The trafficker was arrested.
http://btvnovinite.bg/article/kriminalno/granichni-policai-prostreljaha-migrant-kraj-dragoman.html
Greek police bust migrant trafficking network
An international network for trafficking of illegal migrants toward Europe has been busted by the Greek police. A total of 12 people have been nabbed during the operation and those have been taken to the Heraklion prosecution on Crete Island. The people have assisted in the transfer of 110 migrants with no IDs from the island to West and North European countries.
http://bnr.bg/en/post/100804109/b
‘I will make the world rise up!’ Turkish president’s astonising threat after Germany snub (express, Mar 6, 2017)
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/775584/President-Erdogan-Turkey-threatens-Europe-Germany-after-referendum-rally-ban
“TURKISH leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan has insisted he will lead the world to “rise up” against Germany as tensions between the two nations continue to escalate….”
Security guard and migrants shot and stabbed in mass brawl at refugee camp (express, Mar 6, 2017)
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/775722/security-guard-migrants-shot-stabbed-mass-brawl-refugee-camp-Dunkirk
“A SECURITY guard and four migrants were shot and stabbed after a mass brawl erupted in a refugee camp in the port town of Dunkirk…”
Le réseau de passeurs de la Linière brassait des centaines de milliers d’euros
Un réseau de six passeurs, actif dans le camp de migrants de la Linière, à Grande-Synthe, entre septembre et décembre, a été jugé vendredi. En peu de temps, l’entreprise de racket a permis d’engranger des sommes considérables
À la Linière, les passeurs ont noyauté le camp, y imposant leur loi, organisant le racket et engrangeant des sommes qui donnent le tournis.
L’affaire évoquée vendredi en comparution immédiate, où six passeurs kurdes étaient jugés, démontre une organisation bien rodée et juteuse. La tête du réseau local, Ali Mahdi, vit en Belgique et parle parfaitement français. Il tient sous ses ordres cinq lieutenants. Certains sont logés dans un camping à Marck, d’autres à la Linière. Leur rôle : regrouper les migrants, leur prendre l’argent, les acheminer sur les aires d’autoroute et les faire monter dans les camions, avec ou sans la complicité des chauffeurs.
Les véhicules sont fournis par Ali Mahdi. Il s’occupe aussi de recruter les chauffeurs routiers, qu’il faut rémunérer. Les aires d’embarquement sont variées : A 16, Somme, Belgique. Un passage est facturé en moyenne 5 000 € par personne. Un simple lieutenant peut empocher jusqu’à 10 000 € de commission en deux mois.
Ali Mahdi et un autre chef de réseau domicilié en Angleterre, sorte de banquier du trafic (il n’a pas été interpellé) ont brassé des centaines de milliers d’euros entre septembre et décembre, comme le montrent les écoutes téléphoniques. Une journée faste peut rapporter 20 000 €.
À la barre, à l’exception du dernier maillon de la chaîne, les passeurs ont reconnu leurs agissements, tout en les minimisant. Ali Mahdi a été condamné à cinq ans de prison ferme. Il est retourné en détention. Ses hommes de main ont écopé de trois ans de prison ferme. Ils sont eux aussi incarcérés. Le sixième homme a été relaxé. Il est retourné en prison pour honorer une condamnation dans une autre affaire de passeur jugée fin 2016.
http://www.lavoixdunord.fr/127810/article/2017-03-06/le-reseau-de-passeurs-de-la-liniere-brassait-des-centaines-de-milliers-d-euros
BREAKING: Iran fast-attack ships in STAND-OFF with British vessels in Strait of Hormuz (express, Mar 6, 2017)
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/775693/iran-attack-ships-us-british-navy-strait-of-hormuz-Iranian-Revolutionary-Guard-Corps
“IRANIAN attack ships have come threateningly close to British Royal Navy vessels, forcing them to change route to avoid a disastrous collision…”
Iranian boats in “unsafe” encounter with U.S. ship (cbsnews, Mar 6, 2017)
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-fast-boats-unsafe-encounter-usns-invincible-spy-ship-strait-of-hormuz/
“Iranian military vessels had a close encounter with a U.S. surveillance ship on Saturday in what U.S. officials tell CBS News was both an “unsafe” and “unprofessional” maneuver by the Iranians in the strategic Strait of Hormuz…”
Full text: Trump’s revised ban on travel from Muslim-majority countries (theguardian, Mar 6, 2017)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/mar/06/the-full-text-trump-revised-travel-ban
Obama’s Wiretaps?
Details of a Watergate-style conspiracy against Trump emerge.
President Donald Trump caused a media firestorm by claiming over the weekend that then-President Obama wire-tapped telephones at Trump Tower in Manhattan during the final leg of last year’s election campaign.
Seeing the writing on the wall, tainted FBI Director James Comey promptly and publicly urged the Department of Justice to reject Trump’s claims. Although it is an attempt at a cover-up, it is an admirably transparent one.
Now the outlines of a Watergate-like conspiracy are emerging in which a sitting Democrat president apparently used the apparatus of the state to spy on a Republican presidential candidate. Watergate differed in that President Nixon didn’t get involved in the plot against the Democratic National Committee until later as an accomplice after the fact. Here Obama likely masterminded, or oversaw someone like the diabolical Benghazi cover-up artist Ben Rhodes, masterminding the whole thing.
Throughout his agonizingly long presidency, Obama serially abused his powers as the nation’s Chief Executive to undermine his political opponents. It might be said that every day of his presidency he committed at least one impeachable offense.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/266016/obamas-wiretaps-matthew-vadum
Video: David Horowitz Discusses the Shadow Government with Lou Dobbs
Massive White Helmets Photo Cache Proves Hollywood Gave Oscar to Terrorist Group
https://clarityofsignal.com/2017/02/27/massive-white-helmets-photo-cache-proves-hollywood-gave-oscar-to-terrorist-group/
I’ve been screaming for weeks about this “White Helmet” gang. They’re supported by the MB and their fellow-travelers, notably Sen. John McCain.
Pity: The person writing the White Helmet report [linked w/in] can’t write worth a damn. But there’s solid info, so I might re-write and post it here.
Loretta Lynch Calls for MARCHING, BLOOD and even DEATH in Resistance to Trump in new Facebook Video
It doesn’t specifically call for violence but it can be taken that way, the BLM types will probably take it as a call for violence.
Germany’s Jihad on Freedom of Speech
by Vijeta Uniyal
March 6, 2017 at 4:30 am
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10013/germany-freedom-of-speech
Carnival in Germany is a time for some light-hearted fun, fancy costumes and political satire. This year, many German cities held traditional float parades on Rosenmontag, or Rose Monday, many of which depicted political themes. Images of U.S. President Donald Trump took centre stage in many float processions, in some instances with his decapitated head held up high by the Statue of Liberty, in the style of an ISIS beheading.
Other floats went after nationalist European leaders and right-wing parties. In Düsseldorf, President Trump was shown standing next to a blond Hitler, joined by France’s Marine Le Pen, and the Netherlands’ Geert Wilders.
Germany prides in its traditional Narrenfreiheit (“jesters’ freedom”) to mock the high and mighty. This year, Germany’s state-run Deutsche Welle news agency proudly proclaimed, “German jesters take on kings for 2017 Carnival.”
To those objecting to some of these violent depictions of President Trump, prominent German journalist Christian Thiels reminded the public that, “It’s called ‘freedom of satire’. You don’t have to like it or find it tasteful but it is part of free speech.”
In this very spirit of “freedom”, some residents of the sleepy German town of Bad Bergzabern thought they could mock Chancellor Angela Merkel and her refugee policy.
A local non-political group showed up with a float showing Chancellor Merkel behind prison bars, with the caption: “This is how traitors end up.” It is German equivalent of the popular U.S election slogan used by many Trump supporters for former U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton: “Lock her up.”
A police complaint was filed the following day. The day after that, police rolled into action, and the State Attorney of Landau district opened an investigation against the subversive “miscreants.”
Russian hackers said to seek hush money from liberal U.S. groups
Read more at http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0317/russian_hackers_lib_groups.php3#qE41hB732ZqZtlIU.99
Russian hackers are targeting U.S. progressive groups in a new wave of attacks, scouring the organizations’ emails for embarrassing details and attempting to extract hush money, according to two people familiar with probes being conducted by the FBI and private security firms.
At least a dozen groups have faced extortion attempts since the U.S. presidential election, said the people, who provided broad outlines of the campaign. The ransom demands are accompanied by samples of sensitive data in the hackers’ possession.
In one case, a non-profit group and a prominent liberal donor discussed how to use grant money to cover some costs for anti-Trump protesters. The identities were not disclosed, and it’s unclear if the protesters were paid.
Read more at http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0317/russian_hackers_lib_groups.php3#qE41hB732ZqZtlIU.99
Marine Le Pen- New Joan of Arc?
Staff Threatened With Beheadings at Public School
The principal and his deputy at a public high school in Sydney were removed after officials feared they were radicalizing their students.
The principal and deputy principal at a public boys’ high school in Sydney, Australia were removed from their positions after Education Department officials feared the administrators were breeding radicalization in their students, reported The Daily Mail.
Non-Muslim staff at the Punchbowl Boys High School reported being threatened with beheading by Muslim students who declared they supported Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), among other verbal attacks. The majority of the student body is Muslim at the school.
None of the threats were reported to the police by the principal or his deputy.
Former Principal Chris Williams converted to Islam in 2014 and ran the school for the past two and a half years. He was described as having “actively hostile” relations with the police department and refused to allow police liaison officers access to the school during his tenure. Williams also refused to cooperate with a de-radicalization program.
https://www.clarionproject.org/news/staff-threatened-beheadings-public-school#
Farage: The EU is dying before our very eyes
CBC – Asylum seeker numbers on the rise
Austria: migrant crime increased by 54%
Posted on March 6, 2017 17:30
By Vincent van den Born
According to Austrian Kronen Zeitung, the crime statistics, published by the Ministry of the Interior on 6 March, present an overall unpleasant picture. Although police have been able to solve more crime than in any other year during the past decade, they still only manage to solve under 46%. Meanwhile, Interior Minister Wolfgang Sobotka reported that the number of reported crimes rose to 537.792, up 3,8% from last year. The newspaper calls the number of reported crimes in which asylum seekers are involved “particularly alarming” with a rise of 54%. Most offences were committed by Afghans, with 5072 of them suspected of a crime in 2016.
According to the criminal statistics, most complaints, 1622, were filed against perpetrators between 14 and 17 years of age. 1208 complaints were filed against migrants aged between 18 and 20. Besides Afghans, asylum seekers from Algeria, Morocco, Nigeria and Syria come into contact with the police, mostly committing petty theft (4684 cases), followed by cases involving bodily harm and drug related incidents.
Burglaries are less popular: the number of reported burglaries went down 16,4%, the lowest level in ten years. Most perpetrators in this category are foreign as well: Mostly Romanians, followed by Serbians, Georgians, Albanians and Croats. An increase (almost 7%) can be seen in crimes involving violence, with two out of three cases having a domestic background. According to the figures, foreigners, again play a major role, with most cases the result of disputes among migrants. Additionally, almost 2000 cases of minor bodily injuries were recorded. Knives, by the way, are most popular. Police were very successful in solving these cases though: according to Sobotka, an 83,9% rate of solved crimes is proof of great investigative work by the police.
https://gatestone.eu/migrant-crime-aus/
Germany: Syrian war criminal, complicit in murdering 36 men, was on €2400-a-month welfare
Posted on March 6, 2017 17:00
By Vincent van den Born
German media are reporting on Abdalfatah H.A., a 35-year-old Syrian who came to Germany in October 2015, bringing his pregnant wife and three children aged 3, 5 and 7. After an undoubtedly thorough vetting, the family was recognised as legitimately seeking asylum and would thus have received Hartz IV services, the German version of social benefits. In the case of this family, this is said to have amounted to up to €2400 a month.
On Wednesday evening, however, the Federal Prosecutor’s Office ordered his arrest in Düsseldorf. According to German magazine Der Spiegel, the arrest was made because Abdalfatah is accused of having belonged to “terror militia” Al-Nusra. Additionally, he is suspected of being involved in crimes against humanity. According to the charge, he participated with other members of his unit in the killing of 36 Syrian government workers in March 2013, executing a so-called Shariah death warrant.
The day before, in the region of Gießen, German police apprehended another suspect. Abdulrahman A.A., another 26-year-old Syrian ‘refugee’, 26-year-old, also being present at the killing in March 2013 and also belonging to Al-Nusra. According to the Federal Prosecutor, he managed the funds and vehicles of the troops and participated in several battles in Syria, as well as breaking German laws regarding arms. This would be in connection to a terrorist cell, destroyed in June 2016, which was planning an attack in Düsseldorf
https://gatestone.eu/syrian-war-criminal/
Sweden roundup: Another weekend of gang-rapes and sexual violence, police forensics so understaffed suspects walk free
Posted on March 6, 2017 14:30
By David Frankenhuis
Several Swedish women and girls have this weekend become the victim of gang rapes, rapes, and other forms of sexual violence. Increasingly, girls and women are publicly questioning the ‘normality’ of the harassment that for many of them seems to virtually have become a part of daily life.
Linköping: young woman stabbed, gang-raped
In Linköping, a 25-year-old woman was yesterday dragged away by two unknown men to a wooded area near the local university. She was subsequently stabbed, gang-raped, and robbed by the attackers, who have not been caught by police yet.
A passer-by found the crying victim, who was bleeding from cutting wounds. According to daily Aftonbladet, a similar sex attack recently took place in the same area in Linköping.
The woman managed to give a description of the assailants, but police are scarce with details. “We’re not presenting the information yet since it could negatively affect the investigation,” a law enforcement spokesman commented. The victim has been treated for her wounds in a hospital.
Stockholm: young woman raped near school
Stockholm police are investigating the rape, also committed last Sunday, of a woman in her early twenties near a school in the city centre, Expressen reports.
The authorities are secretive on details of the sex attack, that took place in the early morning hours on the schoolyard of King’s Gymnasium. Forensic detectives have sealed off the place and are looking for traces of the crime. No arrest has yet been made in the case, police have stated.
https://gatestone.eu/sweden-roundup/
BREITBART – Trump’s Executive Order Mandates Government Reports on Honor Killings Committed by Migrants
President Donald Trump’s executive order halting the importation of refugees from six terror-exporting countries also includes a section requiring the government to publicly release information on crimes committed by foreign nationals, including honor killings of women.
This lets the government “be more transparent with the American people and to implement more effectively policies and practices that serve the national interest,” the order states. Department of Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly and U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions must work together to provide the public with a report on foreign nationals charged with and convicted of terrorism-related offenses, including those who associate with or provide support to terrorist organizations.
The order also instructs the government to release information on honor-killings. The government will now track cases involving foreign-born individuals who commit “gender-based violence against women,” or honor killings. Honor killings are a brutal practice wherein Muslim males will murder or mutilate female family members accused of bringing shame and dishonor to their families and Islam. Like female genital mutilation, it is a practice that would not exist in the U.S. without mass immigration bringing its practitioners into U.S. communities.
“Cases of honor killings and/or violence in the U.S. are often unreported because of the shame it can cause to the victim and the victim’s family. Also, because victims are often young women, they may feel that reporting the crime to authorities will draw too much attention to the family committing the crime,” former U.S. government analyst Farhana Qazi explained to Fox News in November 2015.
The order requires the government to release its inaugural report by September 2017, close to the sixteenth anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks committed by Islamic foreign nationals admitted to the U.S. on various visas. Reports shall be issued every six months from then on.
The transparency will likely increase the broad support Trump’s immigration policies enjoy. Typically, the government conceals or refuses to collect immigration-related statistics that reveal troubling consequences of mass immigration policies. A Feb. 8 Morning Consult poll found 55 percent of voters supported Trump’s executive order, including 82 percent of Republicans. Another McLaughlin & Associates poll release Feb. 8 found 57 percent support for a halt of refugee settlement to implement better screening procedures. A Rasmussen Reports poll released on Feb. 2 found 52 percent of voters favored a freeze on all refugee resettlement until the government could better screen out terrorists, including 57 percent of young voters.
A 2015 report detailing honor killings can be read here.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/03/06/trumps-executive-order-mandates-government-reports-on-honor-killings-committed-by-migrants/
Austrian Foreign Minister: “Build refugee centres outside of the EU” “Political Islam has no place in Europe”
Posted on March 6, 2017 11:00
By Vincent van den Born
In an interview with both German secretary for Finance Jens Spahn and Austrian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sebastian Kurz in the German magazine, Bild am Sonntag, both men were hitting hard. EU politics, Islam, politics and culture all got their fair share of attention. When asked what it means to be a conservative, Kurz points out that the classic political handles – left-wing, right-wing, conservative, liberal – have lost their meaning, and have become fluid. Spahn, in reply, lashes out at third-wave feminism:
When asked if Angela Merkel’s refugee politics were ‘conservative’, it is Kurz’s time to criticise modern politics:
African migrants needed in Europe to help ‘ageing population’, says EU ambassador (express, Mar 6, 2017)
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/775756/African-migrants-needed-in-Europe-ageing-population-Michel-Arrion
“AFRICANS migrating to Europe could rescue nations from problems associated with its “ageing population”, a European Union (EU) ambassador to Nigeria has claimed.
Legal channels allowing men and women from the continent to travel to the EU should be welcomed as a “good” thing and be opened up, Michel Arrion said.
Ambassador Arrion said Europe “must support properly-regulated immigration from Africa”.
The head of the EU’s delegation to Nigeria followed up his comments, taking about the rapid birth rate in West Africa.
Tweets from Dr Joe Abah, director general at the country’s Bureau of Public Service Reforms, revealed the comments on social media.
“There were more babies born in Nigeria in 2016 than in the entire European Union put together,” Mr Abah reported him as saying.
His claims appear to row back on statements made in 2016 when he called on Nigerian nurses to return to their homeland after studying in Europe.
Mr Arrion also admitted Nigerians are often being smuggled into the EU.
“Nigerian nationals are the most numerous among non-European victims of trafficking in human beings and they are also the most numerous among traffickers,” he said in 2016.
In 2015, Mr Arrion said the EU needed migration – and legal channels should be made easier.
He said the continent needs “fresh blood”.
Speaking at a conference on migration policy in Abuja, he said: “Migration is good. We [Europe] like migration as long as it is legal. We need migration for various reasons. Movement of factors of production is a good thing and labour moving freely is a very good thing.
“In Europe and in other western countries, we have this specific issue of aging population. So we need fresh blood in our countries.”…”
No, they’re wrong. Median IQ differential is +/-30 points. That’s either importing a slave class or mass murder. Or both, sequentially.
The only “fresh blood” these EU functionaries should see is their own, splashed on the ground before their eyes.
My first thought was, What an Idiot. Yours is much better.
The Turkish party in Bulgaria buying the votes of Turks with food
(there is a parliamentary election campaign at the moment)
http://bnr.bg/en/post/100803915/criminologists-intercept-400-food-packages-with-the-logo-of-a-political-party
(the name of the party is not mentioned here, but it is well known the party is DOST, the second Turkish party that was created because the other one’s leader was not obedient enough to Erdogan; one of the persons involved said the money came from Turkey)
About DOST: http://www.novinite.com/articles/179120/Turkey%27s+Labour+Minister+Calls+on+Bulgarian+Turk+Expats+to+Vote+DOST
US deploys force in Manbij as ‘visible sign of deterrence’ – Pentagon (RT, Mar 6, 2017)
https://www.rt.com/usa/379639-us-deploys-force-in-manbij/
“A small number of US troops were sent to the northern Syrian town of Manbij to deter conflict between the US-backed Kurdish forces and Turkey-backed rebels, the Pentagon has confirmed. Syrian troops have also moved into the area to serve as a buffer.
US troops were first spotted in Manbij on Saturday, following the reports of a deal between the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces and the Syrian government to hand over some 20 villages in a zone between Manbij and Al-Bab, recently taken by Turkish-backed forces.
“They are certainly aware of where we are, and we are aware of where they are. There is no intention between the two of there being any conflict against any party other than ISIS [Islamic State],” Pentagon spokesman Captain Jeff Davis told reporters, referring to the US and Syrian forces…”
The Western media myth of two battles: ‘Aleppo is falling, Mosul liberated’ (RT, Mar 6, 2017)
https://www.rt.com/op-edge/379616-aleppo-mosul-iraq-syria-media/
Ex-Militants Who Fought Syrian Army in Aleppo Join Pro-Assad Forces (sputniknews, Mar 6, 2017)
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201703061051320490-syria-ex-militants-join-assad-forces/
“Militants who fought against the Syrian army in Aleppo and later were pardoned by the government explained why they have switched their loyalties from working with terrorists to serving the Syrian army…”
‘We reject the headscarf’: Austrian politicians blast Islamic leaders’ recommendations to women (RT, Mar 6, 2017)
https://www.rt.com/news/379651-austrian-politicians-reject-headscarf/
“Austrian government officials have sharply criticized a recommendation by the Islamic Religious Community in Austria (IGGO) that Muslim women start wearing a headscarf from the onset of puberty, describing it as an attack on integration and women’s freedom.
“As an integration minister, I have to say clearly: we reject an obligation to [wear] the headscarf,” Sebastian Kurz, the Austrian Minister for Foreign Affairs and Integration, told the daily newspaper Österreich on Sunday. “I urge the IGGO to say whether the recommendation will remain on their website.”
“Such a position is an attack on the freedom and self-determination of women. I reject [headscarves] deeply,” added Secretary of State Muna Duzdar, who is of Palestinian origin and describes herself as a non-practicing Muslim.
“It is unacceptable that women and girls are restricted in their freedom and men want to dictate to them how to live and how to dress.”
Heinz-Christian Strache, leader of the far-right Freedom Party, took the opportunity to blast both Islamic tenets and Austria’s secular law alike.
“Both the Islamic law and the proposed integration law are toothless,” said Strache, as quoted by the Austria Press Agency.
“The current debate around the headscarf bid published recently by IGGO on its website shows the lines between the alleged integration efforts of the federal government and the intentions of the representatives of the Islamic faith community who refuse to integrate.”.
The criticism comes in response to a ruling made by the IGGO’s Advisory Council in February. “For female Muslims coming to the age of puberty, the covering of the body, with the exception of the face, the hands, and the feet of some lawyers, is a religious command, and thus part of the practice of faith,” Mufti Mustafa Mullaoglu said in a fatwa, or religious announcement.
However, the ruling also “advocates and underscores the personal freedom of the individual woman to choose different views in her religious practice” and states that “women and men who do not adhere to the religious attitudes cannot be devalued by others.” The ruling also encourages Muslim women to abide by “local tradition” and avoid wearing the full-face veil.
Representatives of the IGGO have responded that the mufti only made a recommendation and that the final choice rests with the woman, decrying what it called political interference in religious matters.
Austria has recently passed a law banning full-face veils in courts, schools and other “public places” as part of an “integration law” in February. The controversial legislation has sparked heated debates and protest marches, as opponents see it as a “sexist” and “anti-Muslim” measure, which violates women’s and general human rights.
Apart from the ban on Islamic face veils, the “integration law” includes mandatory attendance at German language lessons and “value courses” for all refugees and migrants arriving in Austria. Those who refuse to do so would see their social benefits cut.”
BREITBART – Claim: European Union Considers Plan to Take Over French, British Nuclear Weapons For EU Defence
Discussions are ongoing at high levels within the European Union (EU) to assume command of the nuclear weapons possessed by member states for the purpose of common European defence, according to claims published by The New York Times (NYT).
While even organising a combined European defence based on conventional forces — ships, troops, and aircraft — has proven more than the EU is politically capable of and has been a major contributing factor to the impending departure of the United Kingdom from the bloc, the claims are that a common nuclear defence system have at least been considered.
Reporting the comments of proponents of the plan, which the NYT concedes are in a “minority” in proposing the “once unthinkable” scheme, the paper quotes German and Polish politicians, but not lawmakers from France and Britain, nations that actually have the weapons. German Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party foreign policy spokesman Roderich Kiesewetter is one of those voices, and is reported by the NYT to have said, “My idea is to build on the existing weapons in Great Britain and France”, but admits with the UK leaving the Union it would mean they wouldn’t take part in his plans.
Potential developments of the theoretical discussions could see French nuclear warheads distributed across Europe, with Germany contributing to the cost of the programme, and a central European nuclear command centre established for the EU.
However, France, the only other nuclear power in Europe after the UK’s departure, would also likely be reticent to see control over their ultimate guarantor of national security signed over to Brussels. Bruno Tertrais of the Foundation for Strategic Research, who reportedly remarked of the plans, “In other times I would have told you don’t bother, there’s no story here”, was speaking out now because of European concern over the potential changing attitude towards the NATO alliance of U.S. President Donald J. Trump.
Mr. Tertrais said of the French that they would insist on keeping hold of “the final decision to use nuclear weapons”, making the scheme difficult if not impossible.
Renewed thinking about the scheme, according to a report along similar lines in the Economist on Thursday, was apparently triggered by the victory of President Trump last year, following his calls for NATO alliance members to meet the defence spending targets they had agreed to as recently as 2014 at the Wales summit.
Despite the ‘Wales Declaration on the Transatlantic Bond’ signed by member nations binding them to spend two per cent of GDP, only a handful of nations, including the United States, United Kingdom, and Poland, actually do so. Others including Germany — ironically, one of the nations most seriously concerned about a withdrawal of U.S. support for a military alliance and have consistently failed to pay into according to their treaty obligations — fail to meet the target.
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/03/06/european-union-considers-plan-take-french-british-nuclear-weapons-eu-defence/
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Mass brawl breaks out in Sweden – police find AK47 assault rifle (express, Mar 6, 2017)
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/775793/mass-brawl-sweden-fittja-stockholm-police-find-ak45-assault-rifle
“A MASS brawl broke out in Sweden as officers found an AK47 assault rifle.
Around 15 people clashed in Fittja, to the south of Stockholm, in a huge fight broken up by police.
Officers found an AK47 assault rifle on a footbridge near the brawl.
Local media say police shut down the metro station to passengers and stopped trains running through the station as they searched the area.
It is thought two men and a gang of 15 youngsters were at the centre of the fighting.
One witness told Aftonbladet the mob chased away two men before the duo came back armed with a gun.
As officers rushed to the scene following reports of a gang fight, witnesses said the two men dumped the rifle and fled the scene.
Towe Hägg, from Stockholm Police, said the force has launched an investigation.
Is is unclear if anyone was injured in the clash that took place at around 7.40pm local time.
No arrests have been made in the Swedish capital.
Police remained at the scene questioning passersby for nearly two hours after the fight…”
Asylum seekers should not be able to choose the EU nation they apply in: Swedish MEP (thelocal, Mar 6, 2017)
http://www.thelocal.se/20170306/asylum-seekers-should-not-be-able-to-choose-the-eu-nation-they-apply-in-swedish-mep
“Asylum seekers should not have the right to choose the EU nation in which they make their application, a Swedish MEP in charge of reforming the European Union’s asylum policy has proposed.
MEP Cecilia Wikström from Sweden’s Liberals has been tasked with steering reforms of the Dublin Regulation through the European Parliament by finding proposals which will be backed by a majority. The regulation covers which EU country is responsible for processing an asylum seeker…”
Denmark to give seven million kroner to catch Syrian war criminals (thelocal, Mar 6, 2017)
http://www.thelocal.dk/20170306/denmark-to-donate-7-million-kroner-to-catch-syrian-war-criminals
“The Danish foreign ministry has announced that it is to provide over seven million Danish kroner ($1 million) to a UN team collecting evidence of war crimes in Syria.
In a statement, the ministry said that it would be contributing 7.65 million kroner ($1.01 million) to a new UN team that aims to ensure prosecution of human rights abuses, war crimes and crimes against humanity carried out during the now six-year-old Syrian conflict…”
Switzerland extradites member of Algerian rebel group to France (thelocal, Mar 6, 2017)
http://www.thelocal.ch/20170306/switzerland-extradites-member-of-algerian-rebel-group-to-france
“Switzerland on Monday extradited a former member of the Algerian rebel Armed Islamic Group to France, where he has been wanted since September, Swiss authorities said…”
Egypt condemns terrorist attack in Mali that killed 12 (ahram, Mar 6, 2017)
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/259432/Egypt/Politics-/Egypt-condemns-terrorist-attack-in-Mali-that-kille.aspx
“Egypt condemned on Monday a terrorist attack on a military base in Mali that killed 12 soldiers, according to a statement bythe Egyptian foreign ministry.
The attack on Sunday targeted the base near the border with Burkina Faso.
No group has claimed its responsibility for the attack so far but suspicion fell on a group from Burkina Faso known as Ansaroul Islam, which is linked to extremist groups in northern Mali.
The Egyptian foreign ministry’s spokesman Ahmed Abu Zeid presented Egypt’s condolences to the families of the victims, adding that Egypt’s government and people stood with the government and people of Mali against terrorism.”
EU minister calls for common policy against ‘rising racism’ in Europe (hurriyetdailynews, Mar 6, 2017)
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/eu-minister-calls-for-common-policy-against-rising-racism-in-europe-.aspx?pageID=238&nID=110512&NewsCatID=510
“A common policy should be developed against increasing racism in Europe, immigrant hostility, Islamophobic and anti-Semitic politics, Turkey’s EU Minister Ömer Çelik said March 6 on his official Twitter account.
He said a common policy should also be developed for the search of missing immigrant children in Germany and in many European cities, noting that a similar incident was seen recently in Paris.
He stressed that some European politicians were displaying anti-Turkey sentiments.
“Some European politicians who oppose Turkey say they should produce ‘common policy’ in Europe against Turkey,” he said in a tweet.
“A common policy should be developed against municipalities that show unruly attitudes towards immigrants,” he added.
“Democrats of the entire world should discuss these issues in order to protect main issues,” he said.
Çelik stressed that common policies should be implemented against racists and governments that have isolated migrants fleeing oppression…”
Pakistan claims India’s tallest flag an instrument for ‘espionage’ (tribune, Mar 6, 2017)
https://tribune.com.pk/story/1347753/pakistan-claims-indias-tallest-flag-instrument-espionage/
“Pakistan has raised concerns over India’s tallest ever flag being as an instrument for ‘espionage’, according to The Independent.
The flag, which can be seen in Lahore, was erected at the Attari border and is 110 metres high.
This has prompted Islamabad to accuse New Dehli of violating international treaties.
Pakistan lodged a complaint to the Border Security Force and has raised suspicions that hidden cameras may be installed on the flag pole for spying purposes.
The country has asked New Delhi to move the flag at a further distance so it is no longer visible from Lahore, according to India Times…”