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Female Migrant Shelter Employees Facing Prison for Sex with ‘Refugee Children’ (breitbart, Jun 27, 2017)
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/06/27/female-migrant-home-workers-sex/
“Two women who worked at a home for so-called unaccompanied minors in Denmark have been charged with engaging in sexual relations with young migrants living at the accommodation.
Accused of having sex with 17-year-old migrants the women, aged 52 and 36, face up to four years in prison each for breaking a law which forbids employees working in various public institutions from having sexual relations with clients.
According to the prosecution, the older of the two women had sexual intercourse in her car with one of the migrants living at the now-disused Tullebølle Children’s Centre, on several occasions in January and February 2016.
The younger woman, who the prosecution wants barred from working with people under 18 years of age, is accused of having engaged in a month and a half long sexual relationship with a so-called unaccompanied minor from mid-May to the beginning of July last year.
In this period, the migrant centre worker and the “child refugee” were said to have had sexual intercourse a number of times, in a variety of locations including inside the 36-year-old’s home and in her car, according to the indictment.
The trials were supposed to begin last week and the week before but have been postponed for practical reasons until August and October this year…”
“In this period, the migrant centre worker and the “child refugee” were said to have had sexual intercourse a number of times, in a variety of locations including inside the 36-year-old’s home and in her car, according to the indictment.”
From “refugee” to “refu*kgee”.
State of ‘Collapse’: Italy Overwhelmed as 13,500 African Migrants Arrive in Past Two Days (breitbart, Jun 27, 2017)
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/06/27/italy-overwhelmed-as-13500-african-migrants-arrive-in-past-two-days/
“Italy’s migrant welcome centers are in a state of “collapse” as huge waves of African migrants take advantage of the temperate climate to make the crossing from Libya to the Italian peninsula.
On Tuesday, 8,500 African migrants are reaching Italian shores aboard 14 different ships, adding to the 5,000 who arrived on Monday. The massive arrivals have led local media as well as politicians to speak of an authentic immigrant “invasion” exceeding the country’s capacity of assimilation.
Officials reported on June 15 that more than 65,000 migrants had arrived since the beginning of the year, but that was prior to the latest influx. Figures for the year now stand at 73,380 migrants into Italy, or a rise of 14.42 percent over the same period in 2016, when then-record arrivals had reached 64,133.
The exodus from Libya to the Italian coast has continuing unabated with no visible action on the part of the Italian government or the European Union to halt it.
The illegal immigrants who reach the Libyan coast from all parts of Africa (most recently, from the West), embark in the Mediterranean on makeshift boats. The majority of these are picked up either by NGOs or humanitarian organizations or official Italian Coast Guard or naval vessels.
Despite their intention to travel up through Italy into northern Europe, the vast majority of migrants end up remaining in Italy, mostly because the northern borders with France, Switzerland and Austria are closely watched.
According to the Interior Ministry, the region that has taken in the most migrants is Lombardy (13 percent), followed by Lazio (9 percent), Campania (9 percent), Piedmont (8 percent), Veneto (8 percent), Emilia Romagna (8 percent), Tuscany (7 percent), Puglia (7 percent) and Sicily (7 percent).
“The government continues to show a worrying powerlessness in the face of a situation that becomes more and more dramatic every day,” said Paolo Romani, president of the senators of Forza Italy. Romani urged Italian prime minister Paolo Gentiloni to “safeguard national interests, even if necessary by blocking the access to Italian ports.”
Romani has also called on the UN Security Council to intervene, urging “shared strategies to stop the departures” from Libya, as well as a ban on NGOs whose shuttle service to Italy only serves to “aggravate the situation.”
Romani’s counterpart in the House, Forza Italia’s Renato Brunetta, has petitioned Italian Interior Minister Marco Minniti to block migrant ships heading to Italy and instead to request European Union (EU) Officials to have the vessels diverted to other Mediterranean ports.
The head of Italy’s Northern League party, Matteo Salvini, expressed his exasperation in a tweet to his followers, noting that Tuesday’s arrival of 8,500 illegal immigrants onto Italian soil was “fucking enough.”.
Italy’s national anti-mafia and counterterrorism prosecutor, Franco Roberti, has acknowledged that this new wave of landings poses its own dangers, and constitutes “a threat to national security.”
Meanwhile, on Sunday 52 would-be West African emigrants were found dead in the desert area north of the river Niger, on the border with Libya, while 24 of their companions were rescued.
The prefect of the northern region of Bilma, Fatoumi Boudou, confirmed that a “group of about 70 people traveling from Agadez [Niger] to Libya aboard three vehicles had been abandoned in the desert without food or water” by traffickers.”
Paris’s aspiration to stage the Olympic Games in 2024 is under threat partly because of so-called ‘no go zones’ in the city where immigrants from Asia and Africa pester and abuse women.
https://heatst.com/world/paris-no-go-zones-where-immigrants-terrorize-women-threaten-its-2024-olympics-bid/
Olympics in 24, there is optimism.
To make it crystal clear: I support the right of people to choose to do – or not to do – business with anyone, for any reason. Voluntary exchange must be voluntary, anything else is tyranny.
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Germany: 210 Berlin cops dismissed from G20 after wild partying
Hamburg police spokesperson Timo Zill confirmed Tuesday that three Berlin police squads were sent home from the city due to misconduct during the preparations for the G20 summit.
SOT, Timo Zill, Hamburg police spokesperson (German): “Police forces from Berlin were accommodated in Bad Segeberg, they weren’t thus deployed to the G20. These forces haven’t shown appropriate behaviour in the night between Sunday and Monday. And so our Police Chief Hartmut Dudde decided to quit these Berlin police officials’ mission and send the immeadiately back to Berlin.”
SOT, Timo Zill, Hamburg police spokesperson (German): “Three police squads were involved, number of people, around 210 police.”
SOT, Timo Zill, Hamburg police spokesperson (German): “There was inappropriate behaviour. We have made it clear here that we expect a Hanseatic conduct. Now it is for the Berlin police to clarify the circumstances. If I interpret the signals from Berlin correctly it will be done comprehensively and then the Berlin police will surely make the right implications.
SOT, Timo Zill, Hamburg police spokesperson (German): “For the G20 summit this has actually no impact at all. The three police squads will go to Berlin on Wednesday. We have reshuffled our forces here, it means that one won’t see any changes. And so it has no impact on the G20 deployment.”
SOT, Timo Zill, Hamburg police spokesperson (German): “There is not in the least a common problem here. A lot before we already had thousands of police deployed here, directly with the G20, who have conducted themselves impeccably.”
Germany: Go hard or go home! Berlin police booted out of G20 after throwing huge party
Hamburg police have sent home several hundred Berlin police officers due to misconduct during the preparations for the G20 summit, a Berlin police spokesperson confirmed on Tuesday.
SOT, Thomas Neuendorf, Berlin police spokesperson (German): “The Hamburg police informed us that hundreds of forces did not behave properly there and therefore they sent them back to Berlin. In detail, the officials there are accused of peeing against the fence in their accommodation, having sexual intercourse in the open, and that there was a lot of noise and an excess consumption of alcohol. We are yet to verify all of this, and we will naturally listen to the officials, and if all is confirmed, there will be naturally further investigations and depending on the circumstances disciplinary actions.”
SOT, Thomas Neuendorf, Berlin police spokesperson (German): “It was planned that these forces will return here tomorrow. We will then as planned send other forces to Hamburg next week.”
H-Bomb Could Be Next Addition to North Korean Nuke Arsenal (sputniknews, Jun 27, 2017)
https://sputniknews.com/military/201706271055025466-h-bomb-north-korea-nuclear-arsenal/
“Pyongyang has demonstrated its ability to produce hydrogen-3, a radioactive isotope of hydrogen also known as tritium that’s “necessary for a hydrogen bomb to create fusion,” a Stanford University professor said Tuesday.
“The evidence is quite clear,” professor Siegfried Hecker told Yonhap News Agency on June 27, “that North Korea is able to produce tritium,” based on their experience making lithium-6, a central component for creating hydrogen-3. Since the North Korean military can create tritium, they have the “basic element” needed for thermonuclear weapons like the H-Bomb, Hecker said.
However, “it takes much more than that to weaponize hydrogen bombs,” the nuclear scientist said. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has long made clear, however, his intention to develop a nuclear weapon regardless of pressures or sanctions from the international community.
Fusion combines hydrogen isotopes in a reaction that produces more energy, which causes other hydrogen atoms to merge; the process escalates by orders of magnitude. The earth’s sun is a natural fusion reactor, for example.
When Pyongyang was beating the war drums in March 2016, DPRK Today reported that Pyongyang had an H-Bomb “much bigger than the one developed by the Soviet Union.” If the warhead were attached to an intercontinental ballistic missile, North Korean officials threatened, it would “fall on Manhattan in New York City, [and] all the people would be killed there instantly.”
Hecker has estimated the DPRK’s nuclear warhead stockpile to stand at about 25, according to Yonhap, and he thinks the North Koreans can likely churn out about six to seven more each year.
Days after Moon Jae-in replaced South Korean President Park Geun-hye, Pyongyang tested a medium-range ballistic missile that US analysts said showed unprecedented progress in North Korea’s ballistic missile development.
“North Korea’s latest successful missile test represents a level of performance never seen before from a North Korean missile,” aerospace specialist John Schilling wrote for 38 North, a website maintained by the US-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.
Pyongyang isn’t naïve, Schilling noted, and thus might not test an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) publicly even if it were capable of carrying out such a test. Medium-range ballistic missile tests can be useful for developing the components that go into ICBM technology, the analyst said, noting “the possible testing of ICBM subsystems in this low-key manner may be a North Korean hedge.””
Oh Shit!! We are going to have to make a per-emptive strike in the relatively near future, we (The US and all of our allies in the Far East) can’t afford to wait until NK and China are ready for war, we are going to have to remove the North Korean threat and still stop the South Korean Army short of the border so China will have a buffer zone between the South and their border.The US will have to provide most of the air power and the missile defense but South Korea is going to have to provide most of the ground forces. Japan will probably provide air support and naval support. I don’t care what the libs are saying if we wait the causalities in South Korea will be much worse.
Pentagon Suggests US Will Keep Arming Kurds in Syria After Raqqa (sputniknews, Jun 27, 2017)
https://sputniknews.com/military/201706271055026851-mattis-says-us-arming-kurds/
“Noting that Kurdish YPG members fighting alongside US forces against Daesh were well-armed prior to joining the coalition, US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis responded to Ankara’s calls to take away their guns with an ambiguous “we’ll see.”
In suggesting that the US may continue to require the assistance of the Kurdish YPG in eliminating the threat posed by Daesh, Mattis inferred that the Pentagon would not take away arms provided for the recapture of Raqqa, even going so far as to say that new weapons could be provided to the Kurdish fighters — dashing the hopes of Turkish President Reccip Tayyip Erdogan.
Turkey, a NATO ally, claimed that US secretary of defense promised that Washington would take back armaments provided to the KPG once Daesh was defeated.
Erdogan’s administration has accused the YPG fighters — a favored US combat ally in the region — of supplying assistance and weaponry to the Kurdish PKK, an outlawed political faction in the southwest of Turkey that has long sought independence from Ankara, according to Reuters.
Mattis, in responding to questions as to whether the US would accede to Ankara’s demands, said, “We’ll do what we can.”
As to whether the Kurdish YPG faction would see their armaments diminished after the fight for Raqqa ended, Mattis again avoided a direct answer, stating instead: “Well, we’ll see.”
“It depends what the next mission is,” he added. “I mean, it’s not like the fight’s over when Raqqa’s over,” according to Reuters.
Mattis, in acknowledging the YPG to be essential to the US-led coalition’s victory over Daesh in the face of Ankara’s demands, will meet with Fikri Isik, the Turkish Minister of Defense, in Brussels on Thursday.
Mattis also implied that the US would continue to equip the YPG fighters in the near term.
“We’ll be recovering [weapons] during the battle, repairing them. When they don’t need certain things anymore, we’ll replace those with something they do need,” he said.”
AP Explains: Who is Salahuddin, rebel named terrorist by US? (abcnews, Jun 27, 2017)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/ap-explains-salahuddin-rebel-named-terrorist-us-48299698
“Hours before the United States designated Kashmir rebel leader Syed Salahuddin a global terrorist, he appeared in a video calling for strikes in the Himalayan territory in remembrance of another rebel leader whose killing by Indian forces last July triggered months of deadly protests.
The U.S. State Department’s announcement Monday coincided with an official visit by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Washington. It said Salahuddin “has committed, or poses a significant risk of committing, acts of terrorism.”
But to his vast Kashmiri following, Salahuddin, 71, is seen as a hero and his cause of ousting India from the mostly Muslim region is considered just.
Salahuddin is now based on the Pakistani side of the divided territory, where he leads Kashmir’s largest indigenous rebel group fighting Indian rule across a heavily militarized de-facto border.
The group, Hizbul Mujahideen, says the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir should be absorbed by Pakistan, reuniting the two sides as the single territory that existed before India and Pakistan gained independence in 1947.
A SIMMERING DISPUTE
The status of Kashmir has been a key dispute between India and Pakistan since the two split after the end of British colonial rule and each claimed the territory. They each control part of Kashmir and have fought two wars over their rival claims. Initially, the anti-India movement in the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir was largely peaceful, but after a series of political blunders, broken promises and a crackdown on dissent, Kashmiris launched a full-blown armed revolt in 1989.
Salahuddin is considered to have been instrumental in getting Kashmir to the point of rebellion.
Then known by his real name, Mohammed Yusuf Shah, Salahuddin and others helped political dissidents unite and contest state assembly elections in Indian-held Kashmir. The resulting Muslim United Front became a formidable force against the pro-India political elite, but still lost an election in 1987 that was widely criticized as rigged.
Salahuddin ran for an assembly seat, and lost, in the main city of Srinagar. He was dragged out of the ballot-counting hall and detained for months without charges, triggering a strong public backlash.
Young activists from the Muslim United Front began crossing over to Pakistan-controlled Kashmir, where they allegedly were armed and trained by the Pakistani military. Pakistan denies giving anything other than political and moral support to the insurgency…”
London Bridge terrorist got into UK using bogus identity (express, Jun 27, 2017)
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/822047/London-Bridge-terrorist-Rachid-Redouane-bogus-identity
“ONE of the three London Bridge terrorists slipped into Britain under an alias, an inquest heard today.
Rachid Redouane told Immigration Service officials he had a different name and also claimed he was five years younger than his real age.
The 30-year-old Moroccan was identified through his fingerprints after the mayhem on June 3 – although the prints initially showed up as belonging to someone else.
Redouane and his accomplices Khuram Butt, 27, and Youssef Zaghba, 22, stabbed eight people to death and maimed 48 in a van and knife rampage.
All three killers were shot dead by armed police, south London’s Southwark Coroners Court was told.
Inquests into the deaths of the murderers were opened today without the press or public being alerted.
The court was told that Redouane’s fingerprints, held by the Immigration Service, initially came back to someone called Rachid Elkhdar.
Det Chief Insp Simon Moring said: “A statement from his wife stated he used that name when he entered the country and his real name was Rachid Redouane.
“Subsequent fingerprint comparisons made against national identity documents held in Morocco confirmed the name Rachid Redouane.”
Coroner Dr Andrew Harris asked: “So the fingerprints matched both the alias and the name Rachid Redouane?”
Mr Moring replied: “His wife explained he entered the country essentially on false details.”…”
NC man who plotted to shoot hundreds of people and film it for distribution on ISIS sites receives a life sentence
Justin Nojan Sullivan, 21, of Morganton, North Carolina, was sentenced today to life in prison for attempting to commit an act of terrorism transcending national boundaries, in support of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS). Sullivan pleaded guilty to the charge on Nov. 29, 2016.
According to information contained in court documents, starting no later than September 2014, Sullivan sought out and downloaded violent ISIS attacks on the Internet, such as beheadings, and collected them on his laptop computer. Court records indicate that Sullivan openly expressed support for ISIS in his home and destroyed religious items that belonged to his parents.
As Sullivan previously admitted in plea related documents filed with the court and at his plea hearing, beginning no later than June 7, 2015, Sullivan conspired with Junaid Hussain, an ISIS member responsible for online recruitment and providing directions and inspiration for terrorist plots in Western countries, to plan mass shooting attacks in North Carolina and Virginia. Sullivan discussed those plans on social media with an undercover FBI employee (UCE), who Sullivan attempted to recruit to join in such attacks.
Court documents indicate that Sullivan told the UCE via social media that it was better to remain in the U.S. to support ISIS than to travel. Sullivan suggested that the UCE obtain weapons and told the UCE that he was planning to buy a semi-automatic AR-15 rifle at an upcoming gun show in Hickory, North Carolina. On or about June 20, 2015, Sullivan attempted to purchase hollow point ammunition to be used with the weapon(s) he intended to purchase.
According to court records, Sullivan had researched on the Internet how to manufacture firearm silencers and asked the UCE to build functional silencers that they could use to carry out the planned attacks. Court records show that Sullivan told the UCE he planned to carry out his attack in the following few days at a concert, bar or club, where he believed as many as 1,000 people would be killed using the assault rifle and silencer.
Filed documents indicate that over the course of Sullivan’s communications with Junaid Hussain, Hussain had asked Sullivan to make a video of his planned terrorist attack, to which Sullivan had agreed.
On or about June 19, 2015, the silencer, which was built according to Sullivan’s instructions, was delivered to him at his home in North Carolina, where Sullivan’s mother opened the package. Sullivan took the silencer from his mother and hid it in a crawl space under his house. When Sullivan’s parents questioned him about the silencer, Sullivan, believing that his parents would interfere with his plans to carry out an attack, offered to compensate the UCE to kill them.
Sullivan previously admitted that he took substantial steps towards carrying out terrorist attacks in North Carolina and Virginia by: (1) recruiting the UCE; (2) obtaining a silencer from the UCE; (3) procuring the money that would have enabled him to purchase the AR-15; (4) trying to obtain a specific type of ammunition that he believed would be the most “deadly”; (5) identifying separate gun shows where he and the UCE could purchase AR-15s; and (6) obtained a coupon for the gun shows he planned for himself and the UCE to attend on June 20 or 21, 2015.
http://breaking911.com/nc-man-plotted-shoot-hundreds-people-film-distribution-isis-sites-receives-life-sentence/
Teacher wins €7,000 compensation after rejection for wearing headscarf (thelocal, Jun 27, 2017)
https://www.thelocal.de/20170627/teacher-wins-7000-compensation-after-rejection-for-wearing-headscarf
“The state of Berlin has been ordered to pay a Muslim teacher €6,900 after it rejected her job application on the grounds that she wore a head scarf.
The Berlin labour court ordered the state to pay the woman the equivalent of two months’ salary. A second case of a teacher whom the state rejected because of her head scarf is also currently being considered by the court.
Both women had applied for positions at Berlin schools, but were told during job interviews that they would not be permitted to wear head scarves at work. According to the state of Berlin’s neutrality law, state employees are not allowed to display religious symbols while in their place of employment.
This is not the first time that a Muslim teacher has won compensation from the capital’s education authorities in a dispute over the conservative religious head wear.
In February the Berlin labour court awarded a teacher €8,680 for the same reason. The court agreed with the woman’s argument that rejecting her on the basis of her headscarf constituted religious discrimination. But the court said at the time that its ruling was on an individual case and did not have wider legal implications.”
Two arrested in Swiss anti-terror operation (thelocal, Jun 27, 2017)
https://www.thelocal.ch/20170627/two-arrested-in-swiss-anti-terrorism-police-operation
“Swiss police arrested two people in a counter-terror operation in the Vaud canton, national media reported on Monday.
The pair were stopped in a shopping centre car park at 3pm on Saturday afternoon, according to a report in 20 Minutes.
Both suspects, a man and a woman, are accused of supporting or participating in a criminal organization, a spokesperson for the Swiss Public Prosecutor’s Office said.
The spokesperson did not confirm which organization the two are suspected of supporting, but said they are thought to have “contravened the federal law prohibiting the Al-Qaeda and Isis groups and related organizations”.
Saturday’s arrest comes just days after a man was arrested in Geneva on suspicion of supporting terrorist groups.
The Geneva man was reportedly suspected of being a key figure in the recruitment of jihadists on Swiss soil and was sought by Swiss police for at least two years…”
British woman under ‘house arrest’ in Italy over unpaid Dubai debt (middleeasteye, Jun 27, 2017)
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uae-debt-interpol-detention-717174062
“A British woman has been detained in Italy over an outstanding debt of almost $17,000 owed to a Dubai bank.
Italian authorities questioned the woman, who has declined to be identified, last week after being notified of an Interpol ‘red notice’ by the UAE, which referred to her failure to honour an eight-year-old security cheque.
According to the NGO Detained in Dubai, the woman was held in custody without access to water, food or toilet facilities for one day and was then transferred to a local detention facility in Rome.
After being granted bail by an Italian court, she was placed under “house arrest” in a hotel which she is paying for out of her own pocket.
Italy now must decide whether to charge her, which could eventually lead to extradition and then potentially imprisonment.
“This case represents yet another example of Interpol abuse,” said Radha Stirling, founder and CEO of Detained in Dubai.
“Anyone who has UAE debt could be subject to an Interpol notice.”
Interpol ‘red notices’ are put out by the organisation either at its own initiative or following requests from Interpol member states to alert others that an individual’s arrest is sought.
Debt, however, is not regarded as a criminal offence in the vast majority of member nations…”
Sanders: Russell Vought’s Expression of His Christian Beliefs a Way of Saying ‘Islam Is a Second-Class Religion’
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) on Sunday criticized White House deputy budget director nominee Russell Vought’s expression of his religious beliefs, doubling down on his controversial questioning of Vought in a Senate committee hearing.
Sanders affirmed the Constitution’s protection of religious liberty on CNN’s “State of the Union” before he castigated Vought’s religious expression.
The Vermont senator characterized Vought’s Christian beliefs as a way to “essentially say ‘Islam is a second-class religion.'” The comment came days after Vought said on June 7 that “all individuals are made in the image of God and are worthy of dignity and respect, regardless of their religious beliefs.”
Vought, President Donald Trump’s nominee for deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget, and Sanders clashed during the former’s confirmation hearing earlier this month. The Vermont senator brought up a January 2016 post in which Vought called Islam a “deficient theology.” Vought said the statement was not “Islamophobic,” adding, “I’m a Christian, and I believe in a Christian set of principles based on my faith.”
Sanders said Sunday that he refuses to back down from his criticism because it is “a time when we are dealing with Islamophobia in this country.”
http://freebeacon.com/issues/sanders-russell-voughts-expression-christian-beliefs-way-saying-islam-second-class-religion/
In his world Christians are allowed to have any belief they want as long as they don’t speak about them or try to live according to them. His actions show that despite his statements about accepting there is no religious test in the US he considers Christians to be second class citizens who should be barred form doing much beyond collecting garbage.
Judge blocks US attempt to send Iraqi Christians back to face perils of ISIS
Supporters of the detained Chaldean Christians outside a court in Detroit, Michigan.Reuters
A US federal district judge has intervened to block the deportation of over 100 Iraqi Christians who were arrested earlier month in Michigan.
The 114 mostly Chaldean believers were rounded up because they had some kind of criminal record, according to authorities. But their lawyers claim it’s unfair to send them back to Iraq, where the US government has acknowledged a genocide against Christians is taking place.
The American Civil Liberties Union had been fighting the case on behalf of the Christians and now judge Mark Goldsmith has put a temporary halt to their deportation. He ordered a two week delay, after which he will rule again.
http://christianconservativedaily.com/judge-blocks-us-attempt-to-send-iraqi-christians-back-to-face-perils-of-isis/