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BREAKING: Massive explosion near British embassy rocks Afghan capital of Kabul (express, May 31, 2017)
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/811267/explosion-bomb-earthquake-kabul-Afghanistan-British-embassy-foreign-embassies-terror
“A MASSIVE explosion has rocked a number of foreign embassies in the Afghan capital of Kabul.
Foreign embassies in the capital are situated close to one another and initial reports suggest the blast came from that direction.
A witness described what he thought was an earthquake shaking the ground before the explosion.
It remains unclear whether there are any deaths or injuries caused by the blast.
More to follow…”
Col. West suspects inside coordination in Kabul bombing
Terror suspect ‘arrested trying to fly to Syria wanted to gun down Jewish football fans’ (express, May 31, 2017)
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/811240/terror-suspect-tottenham-hotspur-football-fans-arrest-isis-westminster-murder-Aweys-Faqey
“A TERROR suspect who was arrested on suspicion of wanting to join ISIS also wanted to carry out a deadly gun attack on Jewish Tottenham Hotspur, a court heard yesterday.
Aweys Faqey, 37, is accused of plotting to obtain automatic weapons and kill Jews in Stamford Hill, North London. He appeared in court under the Terrorism Act.
He was arrested at Stansted Airport last Tuesday, trying to board a flight to Istanbul, Turkey with four mobile phones and £841 in foreign currency.
He allegedly held online chat conversations with another terror suspect in Kenya who advised him to pretend to be an “infidel” tourist when traveling in Syria.
Thomas Halpin for the prosecution, said: “The investigation came alive during the search of a laptop in another terrorist investigation and the communication between the defendant and Abdirahman Hassan transpired.
“He is a Kenyan man who is currently in custody in Kenya awaiting trial for terrorist offences.
“In essence the communication between both men was that the defendant expressed a desire to go to Syria and fight jihad.”…”
New Jersey town must pay an Islamic group $3.25million after it was sued for refusing to allow it to build a mosque
Under the settlement, New Jersey’s Bernards Township will pay local Islamic Society of Basking Ridge $3.25million and allow it to build the mosque
Both the Islamic group and the Department of Justice sued the township in 2016
The town claimed it denied the permit over parking reasons, not discrimination
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4555558/Town-denied-mosque-permit-pay-Islamic-group-3-25M.html#ixzz4icsWN5az
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Of the settlement money, $1.75million will go towards attorneys’ fees and costs and the remaining $1.5million is for damages.
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The Justice Department also sued the town that year, alleging it treated the group differently than other religious groups.
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Township planners had concluded that because Friday afternoon was considered peak worship time, congregants would most likely be arriving straight from work and would each need a parking space.
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A similar lawsuit cost nearby Bridgewater Township almost $7.75million in a 2014 settlement.
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Earlier this month, on May 25, a Muslim group sued the city of Bayonne, New Jersey claiming its proposal to convert an abandoned warehouse into a mosque and community center was unfairly voted down amid a climate of hostility and religious intolerance.
(Interesting follow-the-money exercise…remember, the money spent on the defense side is not included in this report. What do you think each person’s share, in this township, of this settlement is? Does the average resident even know this is going on? How is it collected? Sales tax, property tax, taking it out of the infrastructure budget, trimming the school budget, drastically upping the penalty charged for all manner of traffic violations and other fines?)
Gold-backed block-chain currency sharia compliant. This is serious business that makes good sense. Watch out for it.
http://www.goldcore.com/us/gold-blog/sharia-gold-bitcoin-point-change-views/
Interesting, we will have to see how far this goes.
Russia launches missiles to crush ISIS in Palmyra with ‘all targets destroyed’ (express, May 31, 2017)
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/811274/Russia-ISIS-cruise-missiles-Islamic-State-Syria-Mediterranean-warship-submarine-daesh
“RUSSIA has launched cruise missiles from the Mediterranean Sea in a brutal strike on Islamic State (ISIS) targets near Palmyra, Syria.
The strike is believed to have rained down four cruise missiles on an ISIS target in the region where the vile terror fighters have held intermittent control.
The target was believed to be both military manpower and equipment as they cut off the unholy caliphate’s ability to wage war across Syria.
A spokesman for the country’s Ministry of Defence said: “[The ships] targeted an area east of Palmyra, where the militants’ heavy weaponry and manpower were located. The militants moved there from Raqqa. All targets have been destroyed.
“The terrorist convoy of 39 pickup trucks was detected and destroyed by the Air Force on its way to Palmyra.”
The Russian defence ministry has confirmed warnings were issued to US, Turkish and Israeli military forces in the region.
They added they had worked with partners to ensure the missile had only travelled through desolate areas.
The Kalibr cruise missiles were fired at the ISIS base by the Admiral Essen frigate and Krasnodar submarine…”
That’s it for Palmyra tourism. Forever.
Bombing in diplomatic area of Kabul kills 80, wounds scores (abcnews, May 31, 2017)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/blast-diplomatic-area-afghan-capital-kills-wounds-50-47737872
“A massive explosion rocked a highly secure diplomatic area of Kabul on Wednesday morning, killing 80 people and wounding as many as 350, an attack that left a scene of mayhem and destruction and sent a huge plume of smoke over the Afghan capital.
The target of the attack — which officials said was a suicide car bombing — was not immediately known, but Ismail Kawasi, spokesman of the public health ministry, said most of the casualties were civilians, including women and children…”
The Latest: BBC driver killed, 4 journalists hurt in Kabul (abcnews, May 31, 2017)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/latest-blast-kabul-diplomatic-kills-47738443
“The BBC says a driver for the broadcaster was killed and four of its journalists were injured in the massive car bombing in Kabul.
BBC World Service director Francesca Unsworth says Mohammed Nazir, who had worked for the BBC Afghan Service for four years, was killed as he was driving colleagues to work.
She says the four journalists have been treated at a hospital, and their injuries are not believed to be life-threatening.
Unsworth says the attack is “a devastating loss to the BBC and to Mohammed Nazir’s friends and family.
Afghan officials say 80 people died and 350 were wounded in the attack…”
Australian girl on vacation killed in Baghdad car bomb blast (abcnews, May 31, 2017)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/australian-girl-vacation-killed-baghdad-car-bomb-blast-47736023
“The death of an Australian girl in a Baghdad bombing underscored why Australia was fighting Islamic State militants in the Middle East, the Australian foreign minister said Wednesday.
Zynab Al-Harbiya, 12, from Melbourne, went with her family to Baghdad to visit her sick grandfather when she was killed early Tuesday local time when a car bomb exploded outside a popular ice cream shop, Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said…”
Saudi Arabia: Blacklisting Terror Groups Raises Social Awareness on their Dangers (aawsat, May 31, 2017)
https://english.aawsat.com/n-al-rasheed/news-middle-east/saudi-arabia/saudi-arabia-blacklisting-terror-groups-raises-social-awareness-dangers
“Riyadh- Deputy Minister of Islamic Affairs in Saudi Arabia Dr. Tawfiq al-Sudairy confirmed that the kingdom’s strict intolerance and criminalization of terrorist organizations, including the Muslim Brotherhood, played a great part in raising community awareness.
Dangers presented by these terror organizations are now known well across the kingdom. Consequently, such groups have been gaining less sympathy in light of the decisive media and awareness campaigns promoting national unity against rifts that undermine peace and security in Saudi Arabia, said Sudairy.
The rate of extremist rhetoric used in Friday sermons has fallen drastically across Saudi Arabia over the last few years, he added.
By emboldening tolerance as a core Islamic value and norm to Arab societies, extensive efforts spent by responsible government authorities has aided in fighting extremism, explained Sudairy…”
Iraqi families fear reprisals against relatives forced to help ISIS (usatoday, May 31, 2017)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2017/05/31/iraq-islamic-state-isis-families-reprisals/102188924/
“As Iraqi forces near the liberation of Mosul from the Islamic State, thousands of families fear reprisals against relatives forced to serve on behalf of the militants.
USA TODAY spoke to several families who admitted that their husbands or sons were trained by the Islamic State, also known as ISIS, because of desperation or coercion.
Asia Khalaf, who stays with her two children in the Jeddah refugee camp about 60 miles southwest of here, said her now-arrested husband joined ISIS because he could not earn any money as a carpenter after the militants arrived. “Our children were often hungry,” Khalaf said.
Her husband trained with ISIS for a month, but the militants rarely gave him anything to do. “He mostly sat at home doing nothing,” Khalaf said. He was arrested in February by Iraqi militias after the family escaped from their village.
Wafa Abdullah, who is also in the Jeddah camp, said her teenage son was “brainwashed” by ISIS and then received training, though she swore he was not involved in any violent actions and eventually left ISIS to hide with different relatives. He is now under arrest by the Iraqi army.
Tens of thousands of civilians remain trapped in western Mosul, the last major stronghold in Iraq for ISIS, which stormed the country in 2014. Many residents who managed to flee said the militants use civilians as human shields and threaten torture or death for anyone who defies their orders.
Even so, calls are mounting for harsh punishment or forced displacement for family members with alleged or confirmed ties to the militant group, whether their cooperation was voluntary or coerced. Some Iraqis cite tribal law, in which families share a relative’s guilt.
“Even women and children of terrorists should be killed, or ISIS will come back,” said Wathban Rammah, head of the council of reunification of Mosul tribes. “We need to fully destroy ISIS and their families — the tribes should act on this.”
Nazhan Sakhar, leader of a south Mosul militia group, said only families that executed or surrendered their terrorist sons should be welcome. Others should be banished or confined to restricted areas…”
‘Shocked’ South Korea leader Moon orders probe into U.S. THAAD additions
SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korean President Moon Jae-in has ordered a probe after the Defence Ministry failed to inform him that four more launchers for the controversial U.S. THAAD anti-missile system had been brought into the country, his spokesman said on Tuesday.
The Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system battery was initially deployed in March in the southeastern region of Seongju with just two of its maximum load of six launchers to counter a growing North Korean missile threat.
During his successful campaign for the May 9 presidential election, Moon called for a parliamentary review of the system, whose deployment has also infuriated China, North Korea’s lone major ally.
“President Moon said it was very shocking” to hear the four additional launchers had been installed without being reported to the new government or to the public, presidential spokesman Yoon Young-chan told a media briefing.
Moon had campaigned on a more moderate approach to Pyongyang, calling for engagement even as the reclusive state pursues nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs in defiance of U.N. Security Council resolutions and threats of more sanctions.
http://www.oann.com/shocked-south-korea-leader-moon-orders-probe-into-u-s-thaad-additions/
Richartd: When you are reading this article remember Notes from Norseradish https://vladtepesblog.com/2017/05/29/notes-from-norseradish-a-tale-of-two-koreas/, The Chinese warning about not increasing the size and number of nations in the maneuvers shows their fear of an alliance of the far eastern nations. India’s reaction shows the true nature of China’s action and the fear China’s neighbors live with everyday. India is already a nuclear power but is partially surrounded by Chinese military bases.
India won’t include Australia in naval drills, fears China backlash
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India has rejected an Australian request to take part in joint naval exercises with the United States and Japan for fear of antagonizing China, which has warned against expanding the drills, navy officials and diplomats said.
Australia formally wrote to the Indian defense ministry in January asking if it could send naval ships to join the July wargames as an observer, in what military experts saw as a step toward eventual full participation.
Four officials from India, Australia and Japan told Reuters India blocked the proposal and suggested that Canberra send officers to watch the exercises in the Bay of Bengal from the decks of the three participating countries’ warships, instead.
New Delhi is worried that China will step up activities in the Indian Ocean where it is building infrastructure in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Pakistan, feeding India’s anxiety about being encircled, Indian military sources and diplomats said.
Indian navy officials say there have been at least six submarine deployments by China in the Indian Ocean since 2013 and that Chinese submarines have been docking in Sri Lanka and its long-time ally Pakistan.
http://www.oann.com/india-wont-include-australia-in-naval-drills-fears-china-backlash/
Half of Migrant Children Who Arrive in Sweden After Age Seven Fail School Year at Age 16 (breitbart, May 31, 2017)
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/05/31/migrant-children-sweden-performing-increasingly-worse-schools/
“Migrant children who come to Sweden after the age of seven are drastically falling in Swedish school standards since 1998 with only half being able to pass in 2014.
The results come from a new study by the Swedish Expert Group on Public Finance (ESO) who say that test scores of children from migrant backgrounds have greatly deteriorated since 1998.
In 1998, around 70 per cent of migrant children passed grade nine – the last mandatory year of “secondary school”, signifying an important stage in Swedish pupils’ educational development. That number has gone down to only 50 per cent in 2014, according to Sweden’s Teacher’s Union paper Lärarnas Tidning.
The report claims that for migrant children who come to Sweden before the age of seven there is little change from the previous year’s results, but those who come after age seven are performing worse and worse.
Hans Grönqvist, associate professor of economics at Uppsala University and one of the authors of the report, said: “Those who have arrived in recent years have been considerably older on arrival, which means they have less time to achieve the objectives of the school.”
The authors of the study also say there are performance differences based on the geographical origin of the children, with African migrants performing the worst.
Another category of students who have struggled to meet the Swedish school requirements has been the ever increasing number of unaccompanied underage migrants. According to the figures, only 20 to 30 per cent of underage migrants meet the Swedish school standards in the subjects of Swedish, English, and mathematics.
Grönqvist explained why the unaccompanied asylum seekers performed so poorly saying: “These groups stand out in the sense that they have a very high average age at arrival in Sweden. Among the unaccompanied, the average age is just under twelve, while it is 8.5 years for the foreign-born group as a whole.”
The large influx of migrant children has also been seen as one of the reasons that Sweden has fallen in the international PISA scores which rank school systems in various countries. Of 34 countries surveyed, Sweden has dropped to 28th in mathematics, 27th in reading, and 27th in science.
The OECD wrote: “The gap between immigrants and native-born remains a challenge: almost one in two immigrant students (48%) perform below the baseline level in maths, compared with 22% for native-born students.”
In the heavily migrant-populated city of Malmo in southern Sweden, where 42 per cent of the population have foreign backgrounds, 17 per cent of the teachers in the city quit last year to move elsewhere. Many, including the teachers’ union, have said some schools have become dangerous for teachers due to widespread violence and criminality.”
Another WaPo scoop stalls: Kushner meeting with Russian ambassador wasn’t as described
By J.E. Dyer May 30, 2017
In our completely anonymous he-said-she-said scenario here, the most recent say-er has the credibility edge by a nose.
Last week, as noted in this piece, the Washington Post quoted anonymous sources as claiming that Jared Kushner met with Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislyak on 1 or 2 December, in Trump Tower, and proposed setting up a “back channel” for communication with the Trump transition team, using Russian facilities.
I continue to doubt the “back channel comms proposal” element of this story. The information is not being leaked in a credible manner – the anonymous sources don’t come off like people who directly know something specific from U.S. intelligence (which is how they say they got the info) – and the story itself is full of holes.
At most, it is to be accepted that Kushner met with Kislyak in Trump Tower and had a discussion with him, on topics it is perfectly legitimate for an incoming administration to cover. Other sources have corroborated the fact of the meeting.
Now Fox’s Catherine Herridge has gotten information from another anonymous source
http://libertyunyielding.com/2017/05/30/another-wapo-scoop-stalls-kushner-meeting-russian-ambassador-wasnt-described/
Turkey Acquits Two Brothers Over Sister’s ‘Honour Killing’ in Germany (breitbart, May 31, 2017)
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/05/31/turkey-acquits-two-brothers-sisters-honour-killing-germany/
“A Turkish court on Tuesday acquitted two Turkish men who were charged with aiding and abetting their younger brother in the 2005 shooting death of their sister in Germany.
Hatun Surucu, a 23-year-old divorced mother, was killed by three shots to the head in Berlin by her youngest brother in what prosecutors described as an “honor killing” meant to punish her for her Western lifestyle.
The shooter, her 20-year-old brother, was sentenced to 9 years and 3 months in prison in April 2006. Her two older brothers, Alpaslan and Mutlu Surucu, were acquitted due to lack of evidence.
A German court annulled the acquittals in 2007 but by that time the men had left for Turkey. Turkey, which does not extradite its citizens, agreed to put the brothers on trial in the country.
Prosecutors had demanded that the two be sentenced to between 15 and 20 years in prison each for allegedly helping their brother carry out the killing, according to the state-run Anadolu Agency.
But the court in Istanbul ruled that there was no “sufficient, certain and credibly concrete” evidence against the two and acquitted them…”
Six Arrested in France on Terror Charges Including Former Guantanamo Bay Inmate (breitbart, May 31, 2017)
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/05/31/six-arrested-france-terror-charges-including-former-guantanamo-bay-inmate/
“Six radical Islamists were arrested in Bordeaux and Ile-de-France Monday on suspicion that they helped other Islamists travel to Syria to fight for terror groups in the region.
The raids and subsequent arrests were carried out by the SDAT, a division of French police who specialise in counterterrorism operations. A total of four men and two women were arrested in the raids which took place in Bordeaux and the central region of Ile-de-France, newspaper L’Express reports.
The suspects, aged 27 to 48, were arrested on Monday night and the early hours of Tuesday morning. They are believed to have aided would-be jihadists with money and logistical help to get to Syria where the radical Islamists would receive training and fight for known terrorist groups.
The oldest of those arrested, according to sources, is a former inmate of the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Authorities in France have said that as of March earlier this year they estimate there to be at least 700 French nationals who are fighting with terror groups in the Middle East. Among that 700, around 300 are thought to be women…”
France: ‘Absolute Silence’ Surrounding Elderly Jewish Woman’s Murder by Islamist Migrant ‘Intolerable’ (breitbart, May 31, 2017)
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/05/31/france-absolute-silence-surrounding-elderly-jewish-woman-murder-islamist-migrant/
“The “absolute silence” from the government, prosecutors, and the media surrounding the “savage” murder of a 66-year-old Jewish woman by an Islamist migrant in Paris has angered and upset the city’s Jewish community.
The Algemeiner Journal reports the suspected killer, a 27-year-old Malian migrant with convictions for drug-dealing named Kada Traore, broke into an apartment neighbouring Dr. Sarah Halimi’s at 4:25 a.m., causing the terrified residents to take shelter in a closet.
Traore was heard reciting verses from the Quran before jumping a balcony and forcing his way into Dr. Halimi’s apartment, after which, according to the Algemeiner, “he beat the elderly lady savagely, her screams [prompting] neighbours to call the police”.
Three officers reached the apartment at 4:45 a.m. but, hearing Traore shouting “Allahu Akhbar!” and “Shaitan!” (Arabic for ‘Devil’) inside, they held back and called counter-terrorism police for support.
Support arrived 15 minutes later, according to reports, but by this time the pensioner had been thrown from her balcony. Traore managed to reenter the apartment of the victim’s neighbours at this point and resumed his prayers, and was not apprehended until 6:00 a.m.
The response to the murder from the government, prosecutors, and the media has caused much anger and hurt amongst Parisian Jews…”
Riyadh school shooting: Ex-teacher ‘kills two’ at international school in Saudi Arabia (express, May 31, 2017)
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/811411/saudi-arabia-gunman-shooting-kingdom-school-riyadh-us-embassy
“A GUNMAN has opened fire at a school in Saudi Arabia killing two teachers in an attack in Riyadh.
Residents have been warned to avoid the area surrounding Kingdom School in Riyadh.
It is thought the gunman is an Iraqi former teacher with local media reporting two teachers have been killed in the shooting.
There are currently no children at the school but admin staff were said to be in the building when the gunman opened fire.
It is unclear if the shooter is still on the scene with the US Embassy in the Saudi capital saying there is “an ongoing security incident” amid reports the gunman has fled the scene…”
SHOCK REPORT: UN claims Britain’s ‘Big Brother’ anti-terror strategy PROMOTES extremism (express, May 31, 2017)
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/811143/UN-terror-UK-promotes-terror-big-brother-extremism-report-anti-prevent-May
“THE United Nations has criticised the UK’s “Big Brother” anti-terrorism strategy, claiming it could fuel extremism rather than prevent it.
The UN penned a scathing review of the UK’s counter-terrorism strategy in a recent report, branding it “inherently flawed”.
Published just days before the country goes to the polls, it claims the culture of surveillance and suspicion could in fact promote terrorism rather than stamping it out.
The report was highly critical of many of the policies Prime Minister Theresa May championed in her previous role as home secretary.
The report, written by Maina Kiai, who was the UN’s Special Rapporteur on freedom of peaceful assembly until last month, was compiled before the deadly terror attack last week at Manchester Arena which left 22 people dead and more than 100 injured.
The report says: “Overall, it appears that Prevent is having the opposite of its intended effect: by dividing, stigmatising and alienating segments of the population. Prevent could end up promoting extremism, rather than countering it.
“The spectre of ‘Big Brother’ is so large, in fact, that some families are reportedly afraid of even discussing the negative effects of terrorism in their own homes, fearing that their children would talk about it at school and have their intentions misconstrued.”
In particular it singles out the Government’s Prevent strategy, which aims to stop vulnerable people from being radicalised.
The strategy relies on intelligence from schools, community and religious leaders to tip-off the authorities of anyone they fear is at risk.
It is one of the four elements of Contest, the Government’s counter-terrorism strategy.
The UN-backed report also criticised new measures brought in last year under the Investigatory Powers Act.
It called them “intrusive . . . bound to have a detrimental impact on the legitimate activities carried out by civil society and political activists”.
Mr Kiai also voiced concerns police may have used “International Mobile Subscriber Identity Catchers” to gather information from the phones of demonstrators at protests in in Birmingham, London, Leicester and Wales last year – violating their privacy.
The report warns of an “alarming” shift towards penalising peaceful protests and free expression, which he called a “national treasure”.
Police tactics, anti-terrorism legislation and curbs on charities and trade union were all warning signs, the report said.
The shocking report is to be debated at the UN Human Rights Council next month, and follows a similarly critical report on British policing Mr Kiai authored in 2013…”
Germany orders up to 100,000 asylum cases re-checked (abcnews, May 31, 2017)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/germany-orders-100000-asylum-cases-checked-47744436
“Germany’s top security official says he’s ordered the re-examination of up to 100,000 decisions granting asylum to migrants after uncovering mistakes in a smaller probe undertaken after a German soldier was able to pass himself off as a Syrian refugee in a bizarre far-right plot.
Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere told reporters Wednesday that checks of 2,000 applications revealed no other cases like that of Franco A., who managed to pass himself off as a Syrian refugee in 2015, get a place at a refugee home and receive state financial aid. Authorities allege he was part of a far-right plot to assassinate political figures and blame refugees.
But de Maiziere said other errors were uncovered and he’s ordered 80,000 to 100,000 decisions to be re-checked.”
5 Kenyan police officers killed in bombing, report says (abcnews, May 31, 2017)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/kenyan-police-officers-killed-bombing-report-47741783
“Five Kenyan police officers died Wednesday when their armored personnel vehicle ran over an improvised bomb in an attack by claimed by the al-Qaida-linked extremist group al-Shabab.
A police report seen by The Associated Press said the vehicle with the Rural Patrol Border Unit in Mangai in southern Kenya had been going to refuel when the bomb exploded.
Kenyan army personnel tried to rescue the officers and came under fire from suspected al-Shabab extremists, the report said.
Seven police officers were in the vehicle but only five bodies were found, the report said. Two officers could not be traced.
Al-Shabab claimed killing seven officers in the incident, according to the SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors extremist groups…”
Fleeing Tyranny or Bringing it with Them?
by Khadija Khanhttps://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10356/immigrants-tyranny
May 31, 2017 at 5:00 am
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10356/immigrants-tyranny
Terror attacks and other offshoots of Islamic extremism have created an atmosphere of mistrust between Europe’s natives and thousands of those who entered European countries to seek shelter.
The situation is turning the Europeans against their own governments and against those advocating help for the war-torn migrants who have been arriving.
Europeans are turning hostile towards the idea of freedom and peaceful coexistence; they have apparently been seeing newcomers as seeking exceptions to the rules and culture of West.
In an unprecedented shift in policy after public fury about security, the German government decided to shut down the mosque where the terrorist who rammed a truck into a shopping market in Berlin, Anis Amri, was radicalized before hecommitted the crime.
The mosque and Islamic center at Fussilet 33 in Berlin had apparently also been radicalizing a number of other youths by convincing them to commit terror attacks in Europe and to join the terror group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
The authorities had the mosque under surveillance for a time but did not make a move before 12 innocent civilians were butchered by Amri on December 19, 2016, while leaving around 50 others injured.
The police and counter terror authorities also conducted raids in 60 different German cities and searched around 190 mosques to target kingpins of another group called “The True Religion”.
Europeans appear to be seeking an alternative way to control this social disruption.
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10356/immigrants-tyranny
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(Richard: this is a must read the article backups what Norseradish and I have been saying and tells about the chemical weapon threat from NORK
Analysts Sound New Alarms on North Korea Missile Threat
by Peter Huessy
May 31, 2017 at 4:30 am
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10432/north-korea-missile-threat
North Korea just conducted its seventh missile test launch so far this year. No one should expect this activity to cease, and no one should be surprised by North Korea’s progressively more advanced weapons capabilities, analysts said at a recent Mitchell Institute forum on Capitol Hill, hosted by the author.
“During Kim Jung Un’s five years in power he has done twice, perhaps three times, as many launches of missiles as his father did in 18 years,” said Bruce Klingner, a senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation.
The North Korean dictator is not showing any signs of slowing down, and he is determined to push forward the country’s program to enhance the medium and long-range missiles and nuclear warheads that now threaten the United States and its allies.
Klingner estimates that North Korea has 16 to 20 nuclear weapons. “And then, of course, the question or the debate is how far along they are,” he said. “I think it is pretty clear they’ve weaponized and miniaturized the warhead, that right now the Nodong medium-range ballistic missile is already nuclear capable.” This means U.S. allies Japan and South Korea are under a nuclear threat today, he stressed. “It is not theoretical, it is not several years in the future as some analysts or experts will tell you.”
The threats posed by North Korea are wide ranging, Klingner noted. “They’ve got, we estimate, 5,000 tons of chemical warfare agents.” And it has a sophisticated army of cyber warriors. “They are, perhaps, in the top five or top three countries in the world for cyber attack capabilities.”
“Back in the late 1980s and early 1990s,” Bosco further explained, “North Korea began its program to develop nuclear weapons. China provided the necessary startup technology through the A.Q. Khan network in Pakistan….Today China accounts for 90% of North Korean trade with the outside world. Let’s face it, China keeps the Kim regime afloat, alive and well, and capable of continuing to invest in advancing it’s nuclear and missile programs.” Bosco said. “There is significant evidence that it directly facilitates the ongoing nuclear and missile programs through China’s banking system and the use of Chinese ports and airports for the trans-shipment of prohibited North Korean parts and technologies.”
Bosco further said that Defense Secretary Leon Panetta had told the Senate Intelligence Committee in 2012 that China was irrefutably providing advanced technology for North Korea’s ballistic missile program.
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10432/north-korea-missile-threat
UK: The Lessons of Manchester
by Robbie Travers
May 31, 2017 at 4:00 am
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10436/manchester-lessons
Here we are again. According to the analysis of the newly elected Mayor of Manchester, Andy Burnham, the Manchester suicide bomber “was a terrorist, not a Muslim” — despite all evidence to the contrary. After yet another mass casualty terrorist attack, elected leaders seems unable to attribute any of these attacks to the supremacist ideology that caused it: radical Islam.
At what point does an individual cease to be a Muslim and start to become a terrorist? Is there a definitive moment? Why can an individual not be a Muslim and a terrorist. Especially if that individual says he is?
Or is this just a racism of lowered expectations?
Refusing to name the problem also takes power away from Muslim reformers who are seeking to remove violence and bigotry from Islam, as well as other religious demands under which they would prefer not live — such as the lack of free speech, lack of separation of powers, subjugation of women and death penalty for apostasy.
Also, how come no one makes a distinction between religion and violence with any other faith? During the Inquisition, no one would ever claim that Torquemada was not a Christian. Why should this distinction apply only to radical Islam?
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10436/manchester-lessons
We Wuzn’t Kangz, END of Germany & Canada + Honour Enrichment
Black Pigeon Speaks
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Germany: Violent clashes as students block Afghan classmate’s deportation
Clashes between police and students broke out at vocational school at Berliner Platz in Nuremberg, Wednesday after students blocked one of their fellow pupils, a 20 year old Afghan asylum seeker, from being deported.
The school students surrounded the police car containing the student due for deportation to block his departure. The demonstration turned violent with police using tear gas and batons against the students, some were arrested.
A deportation of Afghan asylum seekers from Germany was planned on the same day, spurring protests around the country, but was cancelled following the detonation of a car bomb in Kabul killing some 80 people and injuring hundreds.
Germany postpones deportation of Afghan asylum seekers after Kabul attack (thelocal, May 31, 2017)
https://www.thelocal.de/20170531/germany-postpones-deportation-of-asylum-seekers-after-kabul-attack
“Germany said on Wednesday it had postponed a scheduled deportation flight of rejected Afghan asylum seekers after a Kabul truck bomb attack killed 80 and wounded hundreds.
A government source said the charter flight was scrapped because diplomatic and consular staff, “so shortly after the attack, have more important things to do than to deal with organisational matters”.
The bombing in Kabul’s diplomatic quarter killed an Afghan guard at the German embassy and wounded two embassy staff, one of them German, the other one Afghan…”
List of CNN advertisers to boycott in wake of disgusting #kathygriffin tweet
You want to hit Griffin a bit more? Contact Ticketmaster and Macmillen (book publisher) and demand they disavow her. Call Turner Broadcasting (parent company) here: 404–827–1700 and CNN here: 404–827–1500.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DBGjhD8XsAMpOOl.jpg:large
After many complaints from we the people, Kathy Griffin’s show at the Route 66 Casino in Albuquerque, NM on July 22nd has been CANCELLED! Please join in the movement and call all of the below theaters and register your complaint and request cancellations of Kathy Griffin’s upcoming shows asap! Thank you! Here are the theaters’ phone numbers:
The Uptown Theatre, Napa – 707-259-0123
Sunset Center – 831-620-2048
St George Theater – 718-442-2900
State Theater NJ – 732-246-7469
Bergen Performing Arts Center – 201-227-1030
Link to list of upcoming shows as a reference:
https://frontrowtickets.com/Kathy-Griffin-tickets.aspx
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One should not mess around with the nation of Kek.
What goes around comes around. Stand with Sean and Seth!
The petition to get her arrested here:
http://conservativefighters.com/kathy-griffin-petition/
It now has over 65,000 signatures and needs 100,000 and it has only been up for a few hours. Let’s get the word out! This should be a slam dunk of Griffen right into the the slammer! #MAGA #PRAISEKEK
Praise KeK!
COVFEFE!
MAGA!
Yo Donkeyman,
this is VERY interesting. Just think, accountable goverments world wide!
(OK, it’ll never happen-but I can dream eh?)
How Blockchain Can Change The World
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A Soapbox Made of Corpses
Seven men are sentenced to death for raping a 10-year-old disabled boy in Kuwait and threatening to leak footage of the sick assault on social media
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4558882/Kuwait-court-condemns-7-death-raping-disabled-boy.html
Should have paid a trafficker to go Austria.
“An Iraqi refugee who raped a 10-year-old boy at a swimming pool has had his conviction overturned because a court didn’t prove he realised the boy was saying no.
The rapist, identified as Amir A, 20, violently sexually assaulted the boy in the changing room of Theresienbad pool in Austria claiming it was a ‘sexual emergency’ because he had not had sex for four months.”
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3860168/amp/Iraqi-refugee-raped-10-year-old-boy-Theresienbad-swimming-pool-sexual-emergency-conviction-overturned-Austrian-court-didn-t-prove-realised-boy-saying-no-incident-Austria-December-2015.html
Homosexuals go to Brazil
Pedophiles to Thailand
Muslims just take of their fill
In a fatherless Socialist Motherland.
“Drip-Drip” Genocide: Muslim Persecution of Christians
The slow-motion genocide Christians experience in Muslim nations.
The Islamic State is at it again. More stories of atrocities against Christians continued to surface. In one, a Christian man, Meghrik, said the bus in which he was riding in Syria was stopped at what turned out to be an ISIS checkpoint. Three men dressed in black entered and began checking all the passengers’ identification papers. “Are you a Christian?” they asked him. “No,” he said. He explained that he was raised by Christian parents and his family name was Christian, but that he was not. “You’re lying,” the fighter said. “Your name says you’re a Christian. Come with me.” He was taken to an ISIS-judge who “concluded that he was a Christian” and said “You’re sentenced to death.” Thereafter Meghrik was severely whipped and tortured. At one point he was thrown in a hole in the ground and surrounded by an execution squad prepared to fire. After 10 days of this treatment and for unknown reasons—Meghrik cites a miracle and is now a devout Christian—he was released. ortud offers to convert to Islaole to be executed, orture and offers to convert to Islam–which A man dressed all in black en
While much of the world acknowledges that the Islamic State is engaged in acts of genocide against religious minorities such as Christians and Yazidis, in other Muslim states, such as Pakistan, Christians and other non-Muslim minorities are experiencing a “drip-drip genocide”, said the noted author, journalist and Pakistani politician Farahnaz Ispahani :”Right before the partition of India and Pakistan, we had a very healthy balance of religions other than Islam. Hindus, Sikhs, Christians, Zoroastrians. [Now] Pakistan goes from 23 per cent [non-Muslim], which is almost a quarter of its population, to three per cent today. I call it a ‘drip drip genocide’, because it’s the most dangerous kind of wiping out of religious communities…. It doesn’t happen in one day. It doesn’t happen over a few months. Little by little by little, laws and institutions and bureaucracies and penal codes, textbooks that malign other communities, until you come to the point of having this sort of jihadi culture that is running rampant.”
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/266851/drip-drip-genocide-muslim-persecution-christians-raymond-ibrahim
To attack the soul, use Sharia
Attack the mind, Socialism sphere
Attack the body, gender-fluid queer
These three-in-one the Christians cheer.
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/9716/christian-clergy-islam
“A robot priest that delivers blessings in five languages and beams light from its hands has been unveiled as part of an exhibition to mark the anniversary of the start of the Reformation, a Europe-wide religious, political and cultural upheaval sparked when Luther nailed his 95 theses to a church door in the town.
Half a millennium later, the robot, called BlessU-2, is intended to trigger debate about the future of the church and the potential of artificial intelligence.”
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/30/robot-priest-blessu-2-germany-reformation-exhibition
Aside from the debate about which has more artificial intelligence, the machine or the congregation, there is this fortune-cookie device dishing out positive affirmations like coins from a one-arm bandit.
The Zam Zam’ water dispenser is due to be installed alongside.
There’s no Christian in this mix.
This is almost shahada-ripe.
That is a good observation yucki.
Once the well has been poisoned Islam will look the lesser evil.
Pope: Egyptian Christians Killed After Refusing to Renounce Faith
Is realism about the jihad threat dawning in the Catholic Church?
Islamic jihadists have always insisted that they’re fighting a religious war, while the entire intelligentsia of the Western world has lined up to insist that they aren’t, and are actually fighting for quite different motives: economic deprivation, racism, a quest for personal glory, a lack of opportunity, and the like. But now honest analysis of the religious motivation of jihad terrorism has gotten a boost from the unlikeliest of sources: Pope Francis.
On Monday, Muslims murdered 30 Christians who were riding in a bus to a monastery, and in speaking to pilgrims in St. Peter’s Square, Francis said: “The victims, amongst which were also children, were killed after having refused to renounce their Christian faith.” He called the victims “these courageous witnesses, these martyrs,” and asked God to “convert the hearts of the terrorists.”
The idea that Muslims must first invite non-Muslims to convert to Islam and then only kill them if they refuse is not a twisted, hijacked version of Islam; on the contrary, it is based upon Muhammad’s instructions as recorded in a canonical hadith. Muhammad is depicted as saying: “Fight against those who disbelieve in Allah. Make a holy war…When you meet your enemies who are polytheists, invite them to three courses of action. If they respond to any one of these you also accept it and withhold yourself from doing them any harm. Invite them to (accept) Islam; if they respond to you, accept it from them and desist from fighting against them…. If they refuse to accept Islam, demand from them the Jizya. If they agree to pay, accept it from them and hold off your hands. If they refuse to pay the tax, seek Allah’s help and fight them. (Sahih Muslim 4294)
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/266861/pope-egyptian-christians-killed-after-refusing-robert-spencer
Overpopulation Hoax
Why does it persist?
May 31, 2017
Walter Williams
In 1798, Thomas Malthus wrote “An Essay on the Principle of Population.” He predicted that mankind’s birthrate would outstrip our ability to grow food and would lead to mass starvation. Malthus’ wrong predictions did not deter Stanford University professor Paul Ehrlich from making a similar prediction. In his 1968 best-seller, “The Population Bomb,” which has sold more than 2 million copies, Ehrlich warned: “The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s and 1980s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now.” This hoax resulted in billions of dollars being spent to fight overpopulation.
According to the standard understanding of the term, human overpopulation occurs when the ecological footprint of a human population in a specific geographical location exceeds the carrying capacity of the place occupied by that group. Let’s look at one aspect of that description — namely, population density. Let’s put you, the reader, to a test. See whether you can tell which country is richer and which is poorer just by knowing two countries’ population density.
North Korea’s population density is 518 people per square mile, whereas South Korea’s is more than double that, at 1,261 people per square mile. Hong Kong’s population density is 16,444, whereas Somalia’s is 36. Congo has 75 people per square mile, whereas Singapore has 18,513. Looking at the gross domestic products of these countries, one would have to be a lunatic to believe that smaller population density leads to greater riches. Here are some GDP data expressed in millions of U.S. dollars: North Korea ($17,396), South Korea ($1,411,246), Hong Kong ($320,668), Somalia ($5,707), Congo ($41,615) and Singapore ($296,967).
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/266863/overpopulation-hoax-walter-williams
Watch this on an empty stomach:
Immigration by the Numbers — Off the Charts
http://breaking911.com/breaking-news-white-house-placed-lockdown-2/
911 news – WhiteHouse on lockdown. Reason unknown.
House Intelligence Panel Subpoenas Susan Rice, John Brennan, and Samantha Power in Unmasking Scandal
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/870028563797467136
FBI, CIA and NSA served with subpoenas in unmasking probe
Portland GOP Chair Explains Why They’re Considering Using a ‘Security Force’ to Protect Free Speech
It’s been quite a week here in Portland. First, there was the tragic murder of two men attempting to protect two girls, one of whom was a Muslim, from a knife-wielding maniac who was screaming insane white supremacist and ethnic slurs. In response, Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler pleaded with federal authorities to revoke the permit for a pro-Trump, pro-free speech rally (it’s in a federal park, so the city has no jurisdiction to revoke the permit).
Now, in response to this latest episode of the city’s failure to protect the First Amendment rights of those with which the city disagrees (see, for instance, the riots that were allowed to rage uncontrolled after Trump was elected, and the threats to the Multnomah County GOP that got an entire parade canceled), the chair of the Multnomah County Republican Party responded in an interview by saying that if Portland would not guarantee security for Republican Party attendees at public events — events in which they’ve participated peacefully for years — that they would consider bringing in Oath Keepers and the Three Percenters group to handle security. The liberal world exploded at that musing from the chair, as the media descended to describe these groups as “paramilitary white supremacist anti-government hate groups” (using the Southern Poverty Law Center’s definition).
https://pjmedia.com/trending/2017/05/31/portland-gop-chair-says-theyre-considering-using-a-security-force-to-protect-free-speech/
(Richard: If this passes it won’t be long before financial advisors leave Illinonis for a state with a more rational government,)
Illinois Seeks 20 Percent ‘Privilege Tax’ on Financial Advice
The word “privilege” is starting to cause a visceral reaction in me. Class warfare is alive and well, legalizing theft is an increasingly popular idea, and criminalizing expertise is called “progressive.”
The state of Illinois is considering a whopping 20 percent “privilege tax” on financial advice:
https://pjmedia.com/trending/2017/05/31/illinois-seeks-20-percent-privilege-tax-on-financial-advice/
France’s anti-terror measures are curbing human rights, blasts Amnesty International (thelocal, May 31, 2017)
https://www.thelocal.fr/20170531/amnesty-international-says-frances-anti-terrorism-measures-are-restricting-human-rights
“Strict anti-terrorism measures brought in by France following jihadist attacks have been used to curb legitimate protests, the human rights group Amnesty International has said…”
Sweden won’t suspend deportations of Afghan asylum seekers (thelocal, May 31, 2017)
https://www.thelocal.se/20170531/campaigners-urge-sweden-to-stop-deportations-of-afghan-asylum-seekers-kabul-attack
“Refugee campaigners called on authorities to stop deportations after at least 80 people were killed in a bomb attack in Kabul a day after Sweden returned a group of failed asylum seekers to Afghanistan.
Germany said on Wednesday it had postponed a scheduled deportation flight of rejected Afghan asylum seekers after a Kabul truck bomb attack killed 80 and wounded hundreds. The bombing killed an Afghan guard at the German embassy and wounded two embassy staff, one of them German, the other one Afghan.
“In the next few days, there will be no return trips to Afghanistan,” said an interior ministry spokesman, insisting however that deportations would continue after that…”
Moroccan Member of Parliament Implicated in Illegal Immigration (moroccoworldnews, May 31, 2017)
https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2017/05/218277/moroccan-member-parliament-implicated-illegal-immigration/
“A Moroccan parliamentarian has been linked to the illegal of 27 sub-Saharan migrants into Melilla on May 17.
During a routine check for hashish, a policeman discovered 27 illegal immigrants hidden in a lorry rented under the name of a Moroccan member of parliament.
Spanish newspaper El Español reported that two vehicles were rented under the name of one of the Popular Movement’s politicians in the Nador region. It has also been revealed that the migrants would have entered the lorry in the gravel quarry owned by the politician’s family…”
Four army personnel killed during anti-terrorist campaign in Egypt’s Western Desert: Army (ahram, May 31, 2017)
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/269964/Egypt/Politics-/Four-army-personnel-killed-during-antiterrorist-ca.aspx
“Three army officers and a soldier were killed on Wednesday during an army operation against militants in the Western Desert’s Bahariya Oasis, the military said.
The attack took place as troops were carrying out a raid against terrorists in the region after air forces conducted reconnaissance in the area, the army said in a statement on Wednesday.
The military personnel were killed after “an explosives belt belonging to terrorists blew up while land troops were combing the area,” the army statement said.
During the operation, army forces destroyed two 4×4 vehicles carrying terrorists…”
U.S.-led coalition strike kills founder of Islamic State media outlet: brother (reuters, May 31, 2017)
http://www.reuters.com/article/uk-mideast-crisis-syria-islamicstate-idUSKBN18R36F
“An air strike by the U.S.-led coalition has killed the founder of the Islamic State propaganda media outlet Amaq in the eastern Syrian province of Deir al-Zor, his brother said in a Facebook post on Wednesday.
Reuters could not independently confirm whether he had been killed. There was no immediate comment from the United States-led coalition against Islamic State…”
Senior Saudi lobbyist in US threatens Emir of Qatar (memo, May 31, 2017)
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20170531-senior-saudi-lobbyist-in-us-threatens-emir-of-qatar/
“The founder and president of the Saudi American Public Relations Committee has warned that the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani, faces the same fate as ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi if he insists on aligning his country with Iran against Saudi Arabia.
“To the Emir of Qatar,” Salman Al-Ansari wrote on Twitter. “About your alignment with Iran’s extreme government and insulting the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques [the Saudi monarch]. I remind you that Mohamed Morsi did the same and was isolated and imprisoned.”
Ansari’s threat comes a week after unknown parties hacked into the official Qatari News Agency (QNA) and posted fabricated statements attributed to the emir in which he made hostile statements against Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries…”
UN: Yemen is facing total collapse (memo, May 31, 2017)
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20170531-un-yemen-is-facing-total-collapse/
“The UN’s top humanitarian coordinator Stephen O’Brien has told the UN Security Council that Yemen is facing “total social, economic and institutional collapse” and that “urgent action is required”…”
Orcriyya:
https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/6eiue7/orciyya_the_orcish_doctrine_of_deception/
Tucker: Hillary wears tinfoil hat with conspiracy theories
Steyn: Hillary just can’t accept she lost to Trump
CANADA – ‘What the duck?!’: Cost of giant rubber duck that’s coming to Brockville under fire
A giant rubber duck coming to Brockville this summer as part of the Ontario government’s celebrations of Canada’s 150th anniversary has taxpayers taking a bath, says a provincial politician.
Ontario PC MPP Vic Fedeli said the $200,000 duck tour – more than half of it covered by Ontario – is a sure sign of a government with “messed up” priorities.
“I cannot imagine what the rubber duck’s connection is to the 150th,” Fedeli said. “They’re laying off frontline health-care workers right across Ontario … They can’t find money for alternative level of care beds, but they can find $200,000 for some kind of a duck promo?”
To Florentijn Hofman, the Dutch artist who inspired the creation of a world famous – some might say pointless – 30,000-pound rubber ducky, the giant toy highlights earth’s “global bathtubs.”
The 61-foot floating duck will be coming to Brockville as part the city’s Rails to Trails festival from August 10-13. With stops also planned in Toronto, Midland, Amherstburg and Sault Ste. Marie to celebrate Canada’s 150th birthday on July 1, the giant duck tour of Ontario is expected to cost about $200,000, according to Ontario 150 co-producer Lea Parrell. Brockville, for its part, received $50,000 in Celebrate Ontario grants to stage the festival and that money came on top of $70,000 previously announced from Ontario 150 funding.
Of that cost, 90 per cent is covered by grants, with the largest share from the Ontario Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sport, he told Postmedia. Parrell added the province didn’t cover all of the duck-related expenses.
Tourism, Culture and Sport Minister Eleanor McMahon cautioned against focusing too much on the duck, because she thinks it is much ado about nothing.
In describing his work, Hofman once told reporters: “It means we’re living on one planet.”
To others, though, it represents government waste — and further confirmation that Premier Kathleen Wynne’s Liberals are living in an alternate universe.
Tourism ministry spokesman Jeff Costen denied any funding was specifically for the inflatable duck, arguing the funding is more of an investment, with every dollar estimated to trigger about $20 in visitor spending.
“We’ve been aware of this duck for a few years,” Parrell told Postmedia, “Tourists and children love it and it’s been all over but it has never been to Canada before.”
He added: “People can’t wait for this duck to come.”
The early returns suggest otherwise.
“Ontarians are paying $1 billion a month in debt interest payments alone, but the Wynne govt has $200k for a giant floating duck,” tweeted Aaron Wudrick, the federal director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.
Another Twitter user asked: “What on earth does a giant floating duck have to do with Canada’s 150th.”
Ryan Fraser (@fraserrc) added sarcastically, “When I think of Ontario’s 150th birthday, a big rubber duck definitely comes to my mind.”
This isn’t the first time funding for this year’s celebration has been scrutinized.
Queen’s Park also came under fire earlier this year after it was revealed the Ontario government spent $30,000 on a logo some deemed boring and basic.
http://www.recorder.ca/2017/05/30/what-the-duck-mpp-balks-at-cost-of-giant-rubber-duck-that-will-come-to-brockville
islamic state video – SYRIA – HOMS
https://archive.org/details/ahlulbathl_2017
Different film-maker, different tone altogether.