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107 Replies to “Reader’s links for June 11 – 2017”

    • Wow. The money these guys are into as public servants should, alone, have them examined. How credible is this source, do you think Yucki? I haven’t yet read the 9-11 story linked in the article but you know how the ol’ radar kicks in with 9-11 conspiracy tales…like the jews did it…blah blah

  1. Four people have been killed in a shooting spree in the village of Kratovo, southeast of Moscow, where a man barricaded himself in his home and opened fire on by-passers. The gunman was killed as he tried to shoot his way out of the police cordon.
    After authorities surrounded the house, the suspect engaged law enforcement in a firefight, with the sounds of gunfire and grenade blasts echoing through the locality. Four officers sustained light injuries before police and the National Guard shot and killed the gunman, following the hours-long stand-off.

    https://www.rt.com/news/391813-shooter-moscow-grenade-storm/

  2. Christian church DESTROYED as Chinese police drag worshippers into street and beat them

    Violence broke out in Shanggiu in Henan province after 300 police officers and officials demolished the Shuangmiao Christian Church—which was under construction.

    Officers dragged out around 40 Christians with one worshipper comparing the brutal scenes to the Japanese invasion of China during the Second World War, according to charity China Aid.

    Eight Christians remain in custody following the incident amid a crackdown on churches by the communist regime.

    http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/814645/china-church-religion-crackdown-shuangmiao-henan

  3. South Bay man crashes drone, causes power outage, evacuation

    A man triggered a power outage in Mountain View Thursday night when he crashed his drone into a high-voltage wire and caused tens of thousands of dollars worth of damage, officials said.

    Police are now on the hunt for the man, who they say was flying the drone illegally. The power outage affected 1,600 people, according to the Mountain View Police Department.

    http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/South-Bay-man-crashes-drone-causes-power-outage-11209688.php

    (Ricahrd: Anyone want to bet this was an accident?)

    • Wonder if they got the idea from the 1991 Gulf War Tomahawk cruise missiles dumping spools of carbon fiber filaments onto power lines? The filaments vaporize into a conductive plasma and create an overload; maybe that was in turn inspired by large aluminized Mylar party balloons that did the same when caught by power lines.

      This means that the simplest means to bring down a power grid can be accomplished by a nitwit using a drone trailing conductive wires that can span the width of a large birds wings.

      • Personally I think this was a test run to see how the idea works, if I am right about it being a test run we will see more drones knocking out power lines.

  4. (Richard: I doubt that this is tru, so far I haven’t heard about any Trump followers being fake, I heard about most of Obama’s twitter followers being fake so this is probably projection. The fake news purveyors are the only ones running this story, looks like this is to be the next attack. After all the Russia collusion is falling apart so they have to have a new attack story.)

    The billionaire GOP patron behind Trump’s social media bot army

    A GOP donor who once had ties to IBM is the man behind the millions of Twitter bots President Trump counts on as followers who could be employed to target voters with misleading or fake news on social media.

    In order for it to work, the scheme relies on the quiet guidance of Robert Mercer, a reclusive Republican mega-donor and staunch Trump supporter, sources told the Daily News.

    Mercer, who during the campaign with help from his daughter Rebekah, played a below-the-radar — but integral — role in raising money for Trump and connected him with critical figures like Stephen Bannon.

    He’s a former computer scientist who, decades ago, helped build the technology at IBM that the computer giant would later use to create its Watson super-computer. He also helped other companies like Apple form the basis for its Siri platform.

    http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/billionaire-gop-patron-behind-trump-social-media-bot-army-article-1.3236933

  5. Germany Fears Huge Losses in Massive Tax Scandal

    Germany is suffering a 30 billion dollar loss from a major tax scandal uncovered by investigative journalists.

    Local media revealed on Thursday that an international group of bankers, lawyers, and stockbrokers tinkered with regulations to give banks and certain individuals huge tax breaks.

    Prosecutors reportedly turned a blind eye to many of the practices.

    Experts have been sounding the alarm for almost two decades, but their warnings were ignored.

    http://www.oann.com/germany-fears-huge-losses-in-massive-tax-scandal/

  6. Breaking Babel: Why Trump should keep tweeting whenever he wants
    By J.E. Dyer June 10, 2017

    There are things I presume to edit Trump on, such as his omission to date of an outline for understanding U.S. policy in Syria; that is, what U.S. interests and goals are. Obama never gave us such an outline, and Trump could accomplish more by ponying one up than he apparently thinks. Even in our compromised condition of national power, shaping everyone’s expectations is still a big power booster, and usually an obviator of at least some need for persuasion by armed force.

    I’d like to see Trump using all his voices, and making that strategically useful nod to the conventions of statesmen.

    But one thing I won’t criticize Trump for is his tweeting.

    I was thinking this over the last couple of weeks, listening to the talking heads wring their hands over Trump’s tweeting habits. Hey, the theme goes: maybe he’s not the anime villain we thought he was; the man might actually be a certified homo sapiens – not a pod person from outer space – but. If he’d just stop TWEETING. OMG with the tweeting. He’s killing his presidency. He’s got to stop. No mas! We can’t take it!

    http://libertyunyielding.com/2017/06/10/breaking-babel-trump-keep-tweeting-whenever-wants/

    • Another brilliant column by J.E. It explains the reason the Propaganda Media is so upset with Trumps Tweeting and why he should continue to tweet. As she points out we are living in an Orwellian world, although like Eeyore I think it is a mix of Orwell and Huxley the powers that be have worked hard and succeeded in taking over almost all of the news organization and the school systems. They are trying to force us into a one size fits all world where individual thoughts, actions and rights don’t exist. They want a consensus world where they decide what the consensus is, this is the exact opposite of what the Founding Fathers of the US wanted and what existed in all of the anglophone world for so long. Donald Trump with his Tweets is tearing large holes in the narrative and destroying the globalists hopes at the same time. earlier today I posted an article about Trumps followers on Twitter being bots ( http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/billionaire-gop-patron-behind-trump-social-media-bot-army-article-1.3236933 ), this new attack meme is designed to take away Trumps power to disrupt and with luck eventually destroy the narrative.

      We are living in a time that try men’s (and women’s) souls and are having to fight for out freedom. As long as we keep fighting we will eventually win so don’t get discouraged and quite the fight.

  7. Fire in Germany refugee shelter injures 37 (thelocal, Jun 11, 2017)
    https://www.thelocal.de/20170611/fire-in-germany-refugee-shelter-injures-37

    “A fire broke out in a refugee shelter in Germany overnight injuring 37 people, mainly due to smoke inhalation, police said on Sunday as they searched for the cause.

    Emergency services took 10 children and four adults to hospital after the blaze started around 2:30 am (0030 GMT) in the basement of the five-storey building in the northwestern city of Bremen.

    The fire brigade responded with 70 personnel and 27 vehicles, using ladders to rescue some inhabitants from the smoke-filled building through windows.

    Police said some 50 people had to be resettled in another shelter.

    The fire was thought to have started in a garbage bin in the cellar, for as yet unknown reasons, they said in a statement. Officers were interviewing witnesses.

    Germany, the EU’s most populous country, has taken in over one million asylum seekers since 2015, about half of them from war-torn Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.

    The influx has sparked both a large wave of volunteerism and an ugly anti-foreigner backlash that has seen a spate of hate crimes targeting migrants and refugees.”

    • Germany: 37 injured as blaze rips through migrant housing centre in Bremen

      A reported 37 people were injured, including 10 children, after a fire broke out at a migrant housing shelter in Bremen on Sunday morning. The fire started in the cellar of the building, but the police have yet to state whether the blaze was an accident or because of an arson attack.

      Around 70 firefighters and 27 emergency vehicles were deployed to tackle the blaze at the site, which housed a reported 100 migrants.

      Spokesperson for the Bremen Firefighter Department Matthias Jacobi stated that “the building is no longer inhabitable” and that “50 of the reported 76 inhabitants were moved to another accommodation.”

      An investigation is ongoing.

      Matthias Jacobi, Bremen Firefighter Department spokesperson (German): “A fire was reported in a five-storey residential building. On arrival, it turned out that in rubbish in the cellar had been burned. The fire department began their rescue operation. Six people were transported over the fire engine’s aerial ladder, three people over a scaling ladder and nine other people were evacuated from the fire escape on the top floor.”

      Matthias Jacobi, Bremen Firefighter Department spokesperson (German): “37 people injured on site, 14 of them had smoke poisoning, they were taken to the hospital.”

      Matthias Jacobi, Bremen Firefighter Department spokesperson (German): “The building is no longer habitable. 50 of the reported 76 inhabitants have been moved to other accommodation.”

  8. 1,068 PKK militants killed in last nine months in Turkey: Interior minister (hurriyetdailynews, Jun 11, 2017)
    http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/1068-pkk-militants-killed-in-last-nine-months-in-turkey-interior-minister-.aspx?pageID=238&nID=114181&NewsCatID=509

    “A total of 1,068 militants from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) have been killed in the last nine months, according to Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu.

    “Some 1,068 were killed, 27 were wounded, 369 were captured alive and 289 surrendered. These are the numbers of the last nine months,” Soylu said in a speech at the Malazgirt Gendarmerie Command in the eastern province of Mu? on June 10, adding that the numbers were the result of the “determination, ability and struggle presented by the security forces.”

    “Caution is also very significant. A total of 360 incidents were prevented in the last nine months. This is also an important number. This is the result of the success put forward by our security forces,” he also said.

    In his address to soldiers, Soylu said the country was going through a very significant period regarding the struggle against terror and that all security forces in the country were displaying a common understanding…”

  9. 18 suspects detained over alleged links to ISIL in Istanbul (hurriyetdailynews, Jun 11, 2017)
    http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/18-suspects-detained-over-alleged-links-to-isil-in-istanbul.aspx?pageID=238&nID=114182&NewsCatID=341

    “Some 18 people were detained in simultaneous raids around Istanbul over alleged links to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) on June 11, Do?an News Agency has reported.

    Anti-terrorism police raided 19 different addresses in 11 districts in Istanbul early on June 11 as part of an investigation into the jihadist group.

    The 18 suspects, who were alleged to have taken part in activities in ISIL in Syria and participated in clashes on behalf of the group, were detained by police and taken to a police station for testimony.

    Police also seized weapons, ammunition, documents and digital materials during the raids.

    One pump-rifle, 29 ball cartridges, 35 bullets and one pair of handcuffs were also seized by the police.

    Meanwhile, five ISIL suspects were caught while they were attempting to illegally enter Turkey from Syria through the southeastern province of Kilis on June 11, Do?an News agency has reported.

    Gendarmerie forces who were patrolling along the Syrian border noticed five suspects while they were trying to infiltrate Turkey. Following a search, the gendarmerie determined that the suspects were alleged ISIL militants.

    The five were detained before being brought to the Provincial Gendarmerie Command in Kilis.”

  10. Jordan shoots dead five approaching its borders from Syria (ahram, Jun 11, 2017)
    http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/2/8/270717/World/Region/Jordan-shoots-dead-five-approaching-its-borders-fr.aspx

    “Jordan’s army said on Sunday its border guards killed five people who were approaching its frontier from Tanf, a Syrian desert town where U.S. special forces training rebels are based.

    The town has been a flashpoint in recent weeks as militias backed by Iran have tried to get near the U.S. garrison, prompting U.S. coalition jets to strike back.

    The Jordanian army said it destroyed a car and two motorbikes in the incident.”

  11. Top Taliban leaders among 77 killed during operations in Imam Sahib of Kunduz (khaama, Jun 11, 2017)
    http://www.khaama.com/top-taliban-leaders-among-77-killed-during-operations-in-imam-sahib-of-kunduz-02912

    “Several top leaders of the Taliban group were killed during the ongoing clearance operations in Imam Sahib district of Kunduz province, the commander of the 209th Shaheen Corps of the Afghan National Army Gen. Amanullah Mubin said.

    Speaking during a press conference, Gen. Mubin said the operations for the elimination of the militants from Imam Sahib district kicked off a week ago and since then at least 77 insurgents have been killed.

    Gen. Mubin further added that several senior Taliban leaders including Qari Atiqullah, Qari Qudrullah, Gul Wali, Mullah Abdul Rahim, and Shafiqullah were among those killed.

    He said at least 110 Taliban insurgents were also wounded during the operations and at least 19 hideouts of the group were destroyed.

    According to Gen. Mubin, at least eleven vehicles belonging to the Taliban insurgents were also destroyed during the operations while a clinic was also damaged.

    Kunduz is among the relatively volatile provinces in northern Afghanistan where the Taliban insurgents are actively operating in its various districts and often carry out insurgency activities.

    The operations in Imam Sahib district was launched soon after the Taliban insurgents launched a coordinated attack with an aim to capture its control.”

    • Something tells me that (unlike Bush 2.0) Trump won’t have any problem launching more cruise missiles if these Taliban idjits cluster up at the funerals of their senior leaders.

      Does anybody remember this supreme bit of idiocy?

      Military Declined to Bomb Group of Taliban at Funeral

      Bush 2.0 can rot in hell for giving America’s enemies the kid glove treatment. Rules of Engagement be damned. If over a hundred people that want to kill US troops congregate in one spot, make those coordinates Ground Zero for a MOAB.

  12. Australia to build new prison to isolate militants in counter-terrorism drive (asiancorrespondent, Jun 11, 2017)
    https://asiancorrespondent.com/2017/06/australia-build-first-prison-isolate-militants-counter-terrorism-drive/#MVPgSLwMvRfBQJML.97

    “AUSTRALIA is to build its first prison aimed at isolating militants and stopping the spread of radical beliefs through the prison system as part of efforts to eliminate terrorism, the premier of New South Wales state said on Sunday.

    The unit will be within a maximum-security prison and have capacity for 54 inmates, who will be isolated and intensely monitored, said the state’s Premier Gladys Berejiklian

    “We’ll be giving $47 million over the next three years to have the extra capacity to isolate those prisoners who are likely to try a spread radicalisation through the prison network,” Berejiklian told reporters.

    There are 33 people within the New South Wales’ prison system who have been jailed for terrorist offences, the state government said.

    Australia has seen a series of “lone wolf” Islamist-inspired attacks recently, prompting a review of police tactics and the powers of state and federal authorities.

    “We’re a government taking nothing to chance, we’ll be making sure we continue to have the toughest position in the nation in relation to reducing and eliminating terrorism activity,” Berejiklian said.

    Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull last week signalled a drive to reform parole laws, including a ban on parole for violent offenders with links to militancy, following a deadly siege claimed by the Islamic State group on Monday.

    Police shot dead gunman Yacqub Khayre, who was on parole for a violent home invasion, in the city of Melbourne after he killed a man in an apartment block and held a woman hostage for several hours.

    Turnbull and Attorney-General George Brandis both launched stinging criticism of state governments, which are responsible for parole laws, after the Melbourne attack.

    Australia passed laws last year allowing the indefinite detention of anyone convicted of terror-related offences if authorities believed that person posed a threat after their release.

    On Thursday, police in New South Wales were granted the authority to shoot suspects in terrorist-related incidents even if the attacker does not pose an imminent threat.

    Currently, police have to wait until a suspect demonstrates an imminent threat to others.

    The change comes after questions were raised about the police strategy of “contain and negotiate” in hostage situations.

    A coroner said last month police had failed to act quickly enough to tackle a 2014 siege in a Sydney cafe. Three people including the hostage-taker were killed in the incident, Australia’s most deadly violence inspired by Islamist militants.”

  13. Netherlands: State TV edits Theresa May’s London speech to remove references to Islam

    The first priority after every jihad terror attack: make sure that no one has any negative thoughts about Islam.

    It’s incredible that even the dhimmi appeaser May’s supine speech was too much for the taxpayer-funded Dutch media.

    “NOS edits the video of Theresa May to cut out ‘extremist Islam,’ translated from ” NOS geeft toe in de video van Theresa May ‘extremistische islam’ eruit geknipt te hebben,” by Lars Benthin, De Dagelijkse Standaard, June 6, 2017 (thanks to Marco):

    Yes, children, its is not credible anymore. NOS “deplores” its inaccurate reporting of Theresa May’s speech about the extremist Islamic influence on the attacks in Manchester. The NOS had cut the part about “extremist Islam” from the speech. There have been a lot of responses.

    The NOS claims, after its “regret,” that it should indeed have reported the speech correctly, but from the context it turned out that it had to do with Islam. There could be no doubt about the stance of the state television. “The NOS does not pursue an agenda with the journalistic choices we make. We try to hide nothing and exaggerate nothing; our policy is to name things by name.”…

    Hat tip: Jihad Watch

  14. ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ‘killed in Syrian air strike’: Unverified reports (alalam, Jun 11,2017)
    http://en.alalam.ir/news/1981656

    “Reports from Syria suggest the leader of ISIS Abu Bkr al-Baghdadi was killed in an air strike on Saturday.

    Mirror — The leader of ISIS has been killed in an air strike in Syria, according to unverified reports in Syrian state media.

    Claims suggest the leader of ISIS Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was killed in an air strike on Saturday.
    Heavy artillery was dropped across the ISIS stronghold of Raqqa throughout the day, with footage online posted by ISIS news agency Amaq revealing the devastation caused.

    The ISIS leader has a £20million bounty on his head because his hate-filled sermons inspired suicide attacks across Europe. There have been previous reports of al-Baghdadi’s death, which turned out to be untrue.”

  15. Identitarians Raise Over 65,000 Euros to Track NGOs in the Mediterranean (breitbart, Jun 11, 2017)
    http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/06/11/identitarians-raise-65000-euros-track-ngos-mediterranean/

    “The hipster-right Identitarian youth movement has raised over 65,000 euros to track and disrupt pro-migrant NGOs who rescue migrants in the Mediterranean and bring them to Europe.

    The project, named “Defend Europe”, is the brainchild of the Identitarian youth movement who started in France as Generation Identitaire and have expanded throughout Europe to Austria, Germany, Italy, and other countries during the migrant crisis.

    Breitbart London spoke to co-leader of the Austrian movement Martin Sellner, one of the most recognisable members of the movement. He said the money raised would go towards hiring a ship that would track and disrupt pro-migrant NGO vessels using what he described as “Greenpeace style” tactics.

    The group gave a brief preview of their tactics last month when they hired a small boat and attempted to disrupt the ship Aquarius which belongs to the NGO SOS Mediterranee, as it left port in Sicily to head toward Libya where it would then look for migrants to rescue…”

    • Good, the active measures of the resistance are starting. This combined with the man in Germany who attacked the two men harassing his daughter say that Europe isn’t finished, They have just begun to fight.

  16. Luis Gutierrez Whines: Breitbart News Coverage of Illegal Immigrants, Muslim Refugees Too Harsh (breitbart, Jun 10, 2017)
    http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2017/06/10/luis-gutierrez-whines-breitbart-news-coverage-illegal-immigrants-muslim-refugees-harsh/

    “Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) whined about Breitbart News’ coverage of illegal immigrants and Muslim refugees during his recent commencement address at Cambridge College.

    “Breitbart and Fox News didn’t invent their opinions on Mexicans and Central Americans or Muslims,” he claimed the day after the London Bridge terror attacks. “They’re just recycling them.”

    He told Cambridge College’s graduates, “I say lift the Muslim ban and tell the Supreme Court to say it’s unconstitutional and un-American.”

    Gutierrez called President Donald Trump an “unqualified game show host” and said he saw “in our country great hope and great enthusiasm for resistance against Trump’s America and what it stands for.”…”

  17. Germany to test face recognition software to target terrorist suspects (RT, Jun 11, 2017)
    https://www.rt.com/news/391840-germany-face-recognition-terrorists/

    “Germany will start testing facial recognition software at a Berlin train station this summer to help police track down and identify terrorist suspects, criminal offenders, and other security threats.
    The software will initially be tested with volunteers at Berlin’s Suedkreuz Station. If the new system proves effective, its use will not be limited to railway stations, Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said.

    “We already have video surveillance in train stations,” Maiziere said on Saturday in an interview with German Tagesspiegel newspaper.

    “We are not able, however, to put a picture of a terrorist on the run into software that would alert us when he appears somewhere at a station,” de Maiziere said. “If this software proves to be reliable, it should also be used for serious crimes in other public places equipped with surveillance cameras.”

    The chances are low that the facial recognition software will run into legal obstacles, the Tagesspiegel report said, as it is primarily designed to target terrorist suspects and would not infringe on the rights of others.

    Security authorities should also be allowed to access encrypted messages in services like WhatsApp, the minister said.

    “We want messenger services to have an end-to-end encryption so that the communication of people not involved in an investigation is undisturbed and secure,” de Maiziere said. “However, as with an SMS, security authorities need access to facilities under certain conditions.”…”

  18. TRAITOR!

    Qatar, in regional crisis, hires former US attorney general

    DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Qatar has paid $2.5 million to the law firm of a former attorney general under U.S. President George W. Bush to audit its efforts at stopping terrorism funding, a matter at the heart of the Gulf diplomatic crisis that erupted last week.

    John Ashcroft personally will lead his Washington-based firm’s efforts “to evaluate, verify and as necessary, strengthen the client’s anti-money laundering and counterterrorism financing” compliance and potentially lobby lawmakers and the media, according to documents filed to the U.S. Justice Department.

    Qatar hiring Ashcroft, who was attorney general during the Sept. 11 attacks and then helped push through the Patriot Act, appeared aimed at appeasing Washington as several Gulf nations try to isolate it. Officials in Qatar, home to a major U.S. military base, and Ashcroft’s firm did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

    NR Note: Don’t let this treasonous turd back into the country.

  19. CERN Just Fast-Tracked Plans to Build a Particle Collider Three Times as Big as The LHC

    The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) still has plenty of good work left to do in the field of particle acceleration, but scientists are already starting work on its replacement, set to be three times as big as the (already huge) original.

    Development on the LHC’s replacement is expected to take decades, which is why experts are keen to get started now. The aim is to put together a machine that’s some seven times more powerful than the hardware we have today.

    More than 500 scientists from across the world have been putting their heads together in Berlin, Germany this week to figure out what LHC 2.0 – or the Future Circular Collider (FCC) – might look like.

    Where the LHC’s looping tunnel stretches for 27 kilometres (nearly 17 miles), the FCC’s circuit would measure between 80-100 kilometres (50-62 miles), and it’ll be located just down the road from its predecessor on the France-Switzerland border.

    With double-strength magnets installed, the plan is to have the next machine able to smash particle beams together with a strength of up to 100 tera electron Volts – about the same level of particle acceleration that you would get from 10 million lightning strikes.

    That extra energy would potentially enable researchers to see hidden particles even heavier than the Higgs boson, a particle underpinning our most fundamental understanding of the laws of nature that the LHC found evidence for in 2012. (more at link)

    NR Note: America’s abandonment of the Superconducting Super Collider was a crime against our nation’s scientific community and, generally, a concession that this US politicians are dumber than a sack full of hammers. These are the largest, most complicated machines on earth and this is the sort of “Big Science” that can lead to fundamental discoveries which alter our understanding of physics and, ultimately, reality. From the link:

    If all had gone according to plan, the gargantuan U.S. high-energy physics project would have already found the Higgs particle, having solidly won the competition with its European competitor. Peter Higgs, in fact, might have collected his physics Nobel a few years earlier.

    The Superconducting Super Collider (SSC) that would have graced the rolling prairies of Texas would have boasted energy 20 times larger than any accelerator ever constructed and might have been revealing whatever surprises that lay beyond the Higgs, allowing the U.S. to retain dominance in high-energy physics. Except the story didn’t play out according to script. Twenty years ago, on October 21, 1993, Congress officially killed the project, leaving behind more than vacant tunnel in the Texas earth…

    • Dems politicians always say, “Why spend money on science when we can spend it on welfare to buy votes”? Never mind that money on scientific research always returns to the government 1000 fold because of new industries from the discoveries of the research. After all votes are more important then making the economy grow and making the country stronger.

      • After all votes are more important then making the economy grow and making the country stronger.

        Just like how Wall Street insists that short-term profits totally outweigh deep industrial research which will not pay off for another decade or two. Anyone who accepts this should investigate IBM’s role with respect to inventing the rigid disk drive.

  20. Gunmen kill 2 police in Pakistan (abcnews, Jun 11, 2017)
    http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/gunmen-kill-police-pakistan-47965139

    “Police say gunmen have shot and killed two officers and wounded two other people in a hit-and-run attack in southwestern Pakistan.

    Police spokesman Shazada Farhat says two attackers on a motorcycle opened fire Sunday on a police post in Quetta, killing one officer on the spot and wounding two others before fleeing. He says one officer died on the way to hospital while the other is in critical condition. Farhat says a bystander was also wounded.

    No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack.

    Southwestern Baluchistan province, bordering Afghanistan and Iran, is the scene of low-level insurgency by Baluch separatists. Islamic militants have also claimed attacks there.”

  21. US-backed Syrian fighters seize parts of IS ‘capital’ Raqqa (abcnews, Jun 11, 2017)
    http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/us-backed-syrian-fighters-seize-parts-capital-raqqa-47966053

    “A U.S.-backed Syrian opposition force said Sunday it has captured a northwestern neighborhood of the Islamic State group’s de-facto capital of Raqqa the second district to fall in their hands in days after the group launched a wide offensive to gain control of the extremists’ de facto capital.

    The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces said its fighters captured the neighborhood of Romaniah after two days of fighting that left 12 IS gunmen dead, including a commander known as Abu Khattab al-Tunsi.

    The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said SDF fighters now control Romaniah and the eastern neighborhood of Mashlab. The fighters have also entered Raqqa’s western neighborhood of Sabahiya and the industrial district in the east.

    Raqqa was among the first cities captured by IS, in January 2014, and has been the home of some of the group’s most prominent leaders. The battle for the city is expected to be extended and bloody, and could mark a major turning point in the war against the extremists.

    IS has been fortifying its positions in Raqqa for months, setting up barriers and hanging sheets of cloth over main streets to provide cover from warplanes. A belt of land mines and militant checkpoints circle the city.

    SDF fighters began their offensive on the city of Raqqa on June 6 under the cover of airstrikes by the U.S.-led coalition.

    The IS-linked Aamaq news agency said the city was subjected to intense airstrikes and shelling by the SDF and the U.S.-led coalition releasing a video that showed wide destruction in one of the neighborhoods. The video also showed severely wounded men and children being rushed to hospitals.

    In southern Syria, Jordan said its border guards have killed five suspected infiltrators approaching the kingdom’s border from Syria in a pickup truck and two motorcycles.

    The military said in a statement that the incident took place near the spot where Jordan, Syria and Iraq meet.

    Jordan has been on alert for possible infiltrations by IS extremists who seized territories in Syria and Iraq in 2014. In recent months, Jordan expressed concern that U.S.-backed offensives against IS will push some of the militants closer to the kingdom’s border.

    The army said nine vehicles approached Jordan from Syria in the past three days, and border guards opened fire to hold them back. The army says that in the latest incident, troops fired on a pickup truck and two motorcycles, killing five.”

  22. >strong>Richard: If anyone has nay doubts that the US has sunk to Third World politics look at the way the Dems are weaponizing the law against the entire Trump family. I hope they have real good secutity teams because physical attacks aren’t too far away.
    New York attorney general opens investigation Eric Trump Foundation
    By LU Staff June 11, 2017

    New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is examining allegations of self dealing by the Eric Trump Foundation made in a report that appeared in the June 29 issue of Forbes.

    “I can confirm that our office is looking into issues at the Eric Trump Foundation raised by the Forbes report,” said Eric Soufer, the attorney general’s director of communications, according to Politico.

    The report lays out a case against the foundation, alleging that it funneled money to the Trump Organization through charity golf outings. The golf events, which are held annually at the Trump Golf Course in Westchester, N.Y., have raised millions for St. Jude’s Children Hospital.

    The magazine also accuses Eric Trump of lying when he told Forbes that the charity has access to all of the Trump Organization’s assets free of charge. The report indicates the Trump Organization actually received some part of more than $1.2 million that has no documented recipients past the Trump Organization.

    http://libertyunyielding.com/2017/06/11/new-york-attorney-general-opens-investigation-eric-trump-foundation/

  23. Joe Biden’s niece dodges jail in $100,000 credit card scam

    The wild-child niece of former Veep Joe Biden stole more than $100,000 in a credit card scam — and quietly cut a plea deal in Manhattan court that spares her any jail time, The Post has learned.

    Using a borrowed credit card, the blonde Caroline Biden set up an unauthorized customer account at Bigelow Pharmacy on Sixth Avenue in Greenwich Village, and racked up the six-figure bill over the course of a year, according to a criminal complaint that does not name the victim card owner.

    http://nypost.com/2017/06/09/joe-bidens-niece-dodges-jail-after-100k-credit-card-scam/

    • Caroline Biden set up an unauthorized customer account at Bigelow Pharmacy

      Anyone want to bet that her illegal purchases only involved aspirin?

      [crickets]

      • That is what other people have ask me, and probably how she is going to pay back the money.

  24. Intellectual crisis? Hardly. Study reveals Clinton voters aren’t as smart as they thought
    By LU Staff June 10, 2017

    College-educated supporters of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton blame uneducated, “deplorable” voters for the election of President Donald Trump, but new research shows that institutions of higher learning are teaching people to vote, not necessarily to think critically.

    The argument many pundits on the left push is that Clinton voters supported the former secretary of state because most of them have at least a college degree and thus are more adept at thinking critically. These voters’ enlightened state brought on through years of lectures, exams, and papers at our nation’s colleges and universities guided them to support Clinton and eschew, if not downright dismiss, Trump.

    Look no further than the Boston Globe’s headline from Nov. 9, 2016, titled “Donald Trump won. Let the uneducated have their fun,” or Foreign Policy’s headline “Trump Won Because Voters Are Ignorant. Literally.” on November 10, 2016, as evidence of the dominant narrative pushed following the Trump’s victory.

    The Wall Street Journal reviewed the results of a little-known test used to measure student’s improvements in their critical thinking skills over the course of their tenure in college. The test is called the “Collegiate Learning Assessment Plus.” After reviewing the results from over 200 colleges and universities in the U.S. from 2013 to 2016, the Journal found some rather depressing statistics.

    http://libertyunyielding.com/2017/06/10/intellectual-crisis-hardly-study-reveals-clinton-voters-arent-smart-thought/

  25. Car Smashes Into Wall at Amsterdam Central Station, Five Injured (VIDEO)

    Reports coming out Amsterdam show that EIGHT are injured and two are hospitalized in critical condition after a card crashed into a wall at Amsterdam Central Station.

    (Dutch police claims the perp “became unwell”, then “accidentally” rammed his car into the crowd. Right…)

    http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/06/breaking-car-smashes-wall-amsterdam-central-station-five-injured-video/

  26. MOROCCO – Protesters flood streets of Rabat in solidarity with Rif

    Thousands of people took to the streets of Rabat Sunday demanding that authorities release the leaders of a protest movement that has rocked Morocco’s neglected northern Rif region for months.

    The demonstrators marched along Mohamed VI avenue in downtown Rabat in a procession nearly a kilometre (less than a mile) long, chanting “Free the prisoners!”, an AFP correspondent said.

    An interior ministry source said between 12,000 and 15,000 people took part in Sunday’s protest which was organised by several organisations including Morocco’s most popular Islamist group.

    The tolerated but unrecognised Al-Adl Wal Ihsane (Justice and Charity) organisation put the number of demonstrators in what it hailed as “a historic march” at one million.

    Over the past two weeks authorities in the North African country have arrested dozens of people in a crackdown on Al-Hirak Al-Shaabi or “Popular Movement” protests in the Rif port of Al-Hoceima.

    Eighty-six people have been referred to the prosecution, among them 30 who have been charged with offences including “undermining internal security”, and have been incarcerated.

    Among them is Al-Hirak leader Nasser Zefzafi, who was among the first to be arrested on May 29.

    On Sunday, many marchers held up portraits of Zefzafi, and his father also briefly joined the protest alongside families of other arrested activists.

    The demonstrators also waved the flags of the Amazigh, Morocco’s Berber community.

    The mainly Berber Rif region has been rocked by social unrest since the gruesome death of a fishmonger in Al-Hoceima last October.

    Mouhcine Fikri, 31, was crushed to death in a rubbish truck as he tried to prevent the destruction of swordfish which had been confiscated after being caught out of season.

    Calls for justice snowballed into a wider social movement led by Al-Hirak demanding development, an end to corruption and jobs for the Rif.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-4592958/Morocco-detains-four-Rif-protests-persist.html

    Led by Islamists, thousands of Moroccans rally in support of northern protests

    Thousands of Moroccans led by an Islamist movement rallied in the capital Rabat on Sunday in a massive show of support for protests against corruption and official abuses in a northern region that have tested authorities for weeks.

    Chanting against “ruling mafia” and carrying portraits of detained activists, protesters packed Rabat’s Bab El Hed area and marched toward the parliament, with most from the Adl Wal Ihsan (Justice and Spirituality) Islamist movement.

    Political unrest is rare in the North African kingdom but protests around northern city Al-Hoceima since October have been the largest since the 2011 “Arab Spring”-inspired rallies that prompted the king to cede some powers.

    The participation of Justice and Spirituality is significant. A major player in the 2011 protests, the movement is banned from formal politics, but is the only opposition group able to mobilize on a massive scale.

    “We came out to protest about the social reality in Morocco,” said Lamia, a school teacher who came from the northern city of Tetouan to the Rabat rally. “We’re here in solidarity with Al-Hoceima, to demand dignity.”

    Police estimated the rally was more than 10,000 strong, though Justice and Spirituality said it was much larger. It was the most significant political rally in Rabat since the 2011 unrest and smaller leftist groups and labor unions, as well as some parliamentary opposition parties, also participated.

    Some chanted slogans, including: “Your corruption is starting to stink.”

    The northern protests erupted in October in Al-Hoceima after fishmonger Mouhcine Fikri was crushed inside a garbage truck while trying to salvage his fish that had been confiscated by police.

    Fikri’s death has become a symbol for frustrations about official abuses and revived the spirit of the February 20 movement that led pro-democracy rallies in 2011 and prompted King Mohammed VI to carry out constitutional reforms.

    Some of the anger in the Al-Hoceima protests has been directed at “Makhzen”, the royal governing establishment, but the unrest has not been aimed at the king. Morocco has a deeply rooted monarchy, the Muslim world’s longest-serving dynasty.

    But tensions in Al-Hoceima and the Rif region, long a hotbed of anti-government dissent, have been rising since the arrest of the protest movement’s leader Nasser Zefzafi on charges of threatening national security.

    The unrest is testing nerves in a kingdom that presents itself as a model for stability and gradual reform, as well as a safe haven for foreign investment in a region affected by militant violence.

    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-morocco-protests-idUSKBN1920X8

  27. UK Against Hate Manchester, BBC say 700 at the rally, I think Diane Abbott was counting

  28. UK: Muslims gift thousands of roses to Londoners in solidarity with victims of attacks

    British Muslims handed out thousands of roses to passers-by on London Bridge on Sunday, as part of a campaign called ‘1000 Roses London’, to show solidarity with victims of recent terror attacks.

    Event organiser Zakia Bassou and her friends gave out over 3,000 roses, only a week after the London Bridge and Borough Market terror attack.

    Bassou hoped to spread a message of unity, saying, “We are determined, in defiance of all of those who would have our communities divided, we are determined to promote good community and interfaith relations and really not let London Bridge fall down or any bridge upon which the communities of this city are based.”

    Members of the public donated far more money than Bassou and her friends initially expected, meaning that the could hand out 3050 roses instead of the originally planned 1000.

    • UK: Muslims gift thousands of roses to Londoners in solidarity with victims of attacks

      Let me know when UK Muslims phone up the authorities with thousands of terrorist tips. Like all the Teddy bears and sympathy cards, those flowers don’t do shite.

    • The only major problems being that his claws were sharp but his paws were flat. Other than that the damage was minor, especially for a Cubs fan.

  29. Libya: Hundreds flood Ghat’s streets to celebrate Gaddafi’s son release from prison

    Hundreds of people flooded the streets of Ghat, on Saturday night, to celebrate the release of Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, a son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, after spending five years in prison.

    Footage shows numerous honking cars driving through Ghat’s streets, with people hanging out of the vehicles, cheering. Other Gaddafi supporters were seen waving the green flags of the ‘Great Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya’, the state declared by the former Libyan leader.

    British-educated Saif al-Islam is a prominent member of Gaddafi’s remaining family.

    After his father’s killing, he attempted to flee to Niger but was captured by a rebel group in November 2011. Despite his release, he is still on the wanted list by the International Criminal Court for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity. His current location is unknown.

  30. When a society pushes this type of degeneracy on a child, it’s time for a reset.

    • If true liberals fail in our task to reclaim classical civilization, the muslims will take care of this issue in a particularly pornographic and painful way.

      • Imagining that scenario means the rest of us will be also taken care of as well.

    • This kids parents, teachers and everyone that supports him should be punished, I just can’t think of anything harsh enough.

      • I just can’t think of anything harsh enough.

        What about the punishment those three juvenile (oral and anal) rapists of that mentally handicapped five year-old in Twin Falls, Idaho deserved?

        Are compound fractures sufficient? Face the question squarely.

        • They are kids, evil kids but it is possible that with the proper upbringing they can be saved. OK so they are going to stay with the evil parents but I am still against killing kids. Yes I know they are going to grow up and commit more acts like that but I can’t help but oppose killing kids, it is the way I was raised.

          I will object but only verbally.

  31. Syrian refugee students sexually groping Canadian girls and uttering death threats

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    London’s muslim Mayor Sadiq Khan truly does not know his place and has spoken many times as if he speaks for the U.K.

    He did this when he announced the UK should not roll out the red carpet for American President Donald Trump.

    It turns, however, that Khan’s threat to keep Trump away has been quickly debunked by the Queen of England herself.

    She has declared she will be meeting with President Trump whether the delusional muslim mayor of London likes it or not.

    http://truthfeed.com/queen-of-england-humiliated-londons-muslim-mayor-over-trump-visit/80284

  33. A Hennepin County judge issued an emergency protection order for a man who helped Minneapolis police uncover an arsenal of guns and bomb-making devices during a routine arrest.

    The restraining order was filed this week against Majid Al Rifahe, who was arrested with his brother, Abdullah Al Rifahe, about 5 p.m. May 11 after the men threatened a passerby who confronted them for littering. Inside the men’s car, officers found a hand grenade, handgun, assault rifles and magazines and a large quantity of ammunition, according to a criminal complaint against the brothers. They also found cellphones, computers and electronics equipment, including drone parts.

    http://www.startribune.com/man-who-helped-police-uncover-gun-and-bomb-making-device-arsenal-seeks-protection/425799803/

  34. France: Islamic Antisemitism, French Silence

    by Guy Millière
    June 11, 2017 at 5:00 am

    https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10513/france-islamic-antisemitism

    Paris, April 4, 2017, 4:00 am. A Malian Muslim named Kobili Traore breaks into the apartment of one of his neighbors, Sarah Halimi. He knows she is a Jew. In the past, He has repeatedly uttered anti-Semitic insults at her. Halimi and her family had filed complaints and asked the police to intervene. Each time, the police respond that Traore has not committed a criminal act, and that they did not want to be accused of anti-Muslim prejudice.

    That day, Traore decides to go from words to deeds. He beats Halimi violently. He tortures her. She screams. Neighbors call the police. This time the police do something — but not enough.

    When they arrive at Halimi’s door, they hear Traore shouting Allahu Akbar, and shaytan (“demon”). In a jarring breach of duty, they decide to run away. They walk out of the building and call for reinforcements.

    The reinforcements arrive more than an hour later, at 5:30 am. It is too late. Halimi had been thrown out the window by Traore a few minutes earlier. She is dead. Her body lies on the sidewalk three floors below. It is clearly an anti-Semitic murder committed by a Muslim who invoked the name of Allah.

    • All believing Jews in Europe need to leave ASAP, non believing Jews who are not supporting the treasonous governments need to leave. The others who are useful idiots your deaths at the hands of the Islamic Invaders will raise the average intelligence of the human race.

    • Twelve injured including six police as ‘Molotov cocktail is thrown into a restaurant’ in Paris

      There was no immediate indication as to who was responsiblefor tonight’s attack.

      Seine-Saint-Denis has been the site of numerous disturbances in recent years, including terrorist incidents and rioting.

      There is no indication that this incident is linked to terrorism.

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      • There is no indication that this incident is linked to terrorism.

        I wonder how foolish the police feel when making these statements?

  35. Islamization of Europe: Erdogan’s New Muslim Political Network

    by Yves Mamou
    June 11, 2017 at 1:00 am

    https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10509/france-islamic-party

    One newcomer arose in the political spectrum: a Muslim party, the Parti Egalité Justice (“Equality and Justice Party”; PEJ). What is notable is that PEJ is an element of a network of political parties built by Trukey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Justice and Development Party (AKP), to influence each country of Europe, and to influence Europe through its Muslim population.
    PEJ: A Pro-Erdogan Party in France

    The PEJ was created in 2015 in Strasbourg, the de facto capital of eastern France, on the border with Germany. PEJ has already approved 68 candidates — not enough to cover the whole territory but enough to compete efficiently in districts where Turkish and Muslim populations are strongly represented. French citizens of Turkish origin are estimated to represent 600,000 people in France, out of a Muslim population estimated at 5-15 million, but official statistics do not exist.

    Another Muslim party, “Français et Musulmans” (“French and Muslims”), is also quietly preparing to erupt on the political scene of the French legislative elections. “Français et Musulmans” originates from L’Union des Organisations Islamiques de France (UOIF) which has been rebaptized “Muslims of France”. “Français et Musulmans” is the French branch of Muslim Brotherhood.