Reader’s links, October 6, 2017

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  1. Saudi Arabia busts Daesh cell in Riyadh (gulfnews, Oct 6, 2017)
    http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/saudi-arabia/saudi-arabia-busts-daesh-cell-in-riyadh-1.2101378

    “Saudi Arabia said on Thursday it had dismantled a Daesh cell in the capital Riyadh, in connection with a plot to launch a suicide attack on the defence ministry.

    Two militants were killed and five others arrested in raids on three locations on Wednesday, an official source in the newly-created Presidency of State Security said in a statement on state-run television.

    Deadly bombing and shooting attacks have been mounted by Daesh militants against security forces in Saudi Arabia.

    Daesh has for years criticized the leadership of the Western-allied kingdom, the world’s top oil exporter.

    Thursday’s statement said a suicide bomber in the eastern Riyadh district of Al Rimal detonated his vest after security forces surrounded a house used to manufacture suicide vests and explosives…”

  2. Islamic State: Defeating the virtual caliphate (france24, Oct 6, 2017)
    http://www.france24.com/en/20171006-islamic-state-defeating-virtual-caliphate

    “The Islamic State group may soon be defeated in Iraq and Syria but a “virtual caliphate” could be harder to conquer, experts and officials have warned.

    The jihadist propaganda machine will continue to exist in hidden corners of the dark web, inciting sympathisers to action, they say.

    “Defeating ISIL on the physical battlefield is not enough,” General Joseph Votel, the top commander for US military forces in the Middle East, warned in a paper earlier this year.

    “Following even a decisive defeat in Iraq and Syria, ISIL will likely retreat to a virtual safe haven — a virtual caliphate — from which it will continue to coordinate and inspire external attacks as well as build a support base until the group has the capability to reclaim physical territory,” said Votel.

    He described this online network as “a distorted version of the historic Islamic caliphate: it is a stratified community of Muslims who are led by a caliph (currently Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi), aspire to participate in a state governed by sharia, and are located in the global territory of cyberspace.”

    The Islamic State group’s loss of almost all its territory in Iraq and in Syria has damaged its online communication efforts, following a boom in propaganda operations in 2014-2015.

    But it has not put an end to it completely.

    The IS “news agency” and propaganda machine Amaq continues to claim responsibility for attacks and incite further violence.

    Most recently, it claimed that Stephen Paddock, the gunman who massacred 58 people in Las Vegas on Sunday, was an IS “soldier” — an assertion met with widespread scepticism.

    One theory is that IS is seeking to keep up publicity efforts to maintain relevance with its sympathisers and continue to recruit support, even as it faces military defeat on the ground in Iraq and Syria.

    – ‘Censorship won’t work’ –

    Researcher Charlie Winter, who wrote a report on IS’s web presence for British think tank Quilliam, says the group will work to persuade followers that the idea of a caliphate is more important that its physical presence.

    “Censoring the internet is not going to work,” he told AFP.

    “Policy makers are focusing their attention on the wrong part of the internet, and that’s problematic given that it’s going to be a phenomenon to be dealt with in the next few years.

    “Terrorists are now hiding in the deep web using encryption.

    “There will always be a safe place for them on the internet regardless of what politicians like to say.”

    Under pressure from public authorities, internet providers and major online players are beginning to put in place measures and procedures to disrupt IS’s exploitation of the web.

    “But despite the increased vigilance of authorities and social networks the Islamic State has demonstrated significant resilience due to its flexibilty and ability to adapt when facing the suppression of online jihadist content,” according to French researchers Laurence Binder and Raphael Gluck.

    “It manages to still disseminate sufficiently to reach a pool of sympathisers and recruits.””

    • Islamic State: Defeating the virtual caliphate

      A distinction without a difference that involves facts not in evidence.

      All of Islam, Sunni or Shiite (etc.), merits only one response … I’ll let you guess.

      There is only one answer.

  3. UN blacklists Saudi coalition over child deaths in Yemen (france24, Oct 6, 2017)
    http://www.france24.com/en/20171006-un-blacklists-saudi-coalition-over-child-deaths-yemen

    “The Saudi Arabia-led coalition fighting in Yemen on Thursday was placed on a UN blacklist for killing and maiming children, drawing fresh calls from rights groups to step up pressure on Riyadh over the conflict.

    UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres decided to add the coalition to the annual list of shame while noting that it had taken some measures to improve the protection of children.

    “In Yemen, the actions of the coalition to restore legitimacy in Yemen objectively led to that party being listed for the killing and maiming of children,” said a report released along with the list as an annex…”

    • UN blacklists Saudi coalition over child deaths in Yemen

      “Child deaths!?!” Who gives a royal fecking shite? (Except those in the West?)

      When Islamic Arabs decide to devour their young, who are we to stop them?!?

      Are children worthy of life? OF COURSE! Are Arab youth justified in their death wish?

      Well … yes. But it is still one of the most evil imaginable acts in all conception.

      All the same … who gives a damn among those of us that long for life?

      • During the Cold war the left set the rules so any civilian causalities can be blamed on which ever side they dislike. The side they like can do anything it wants and they will never say a thing. The Geneva Convention on the other hand says that if the fighters are hiding among the civilians any civilian deaths are their fault.

  4. Migrants find new back door to Britain: Group are pictured trying to jump aboard lorries arriving at quiet port 200 miles down the coast from Calais (dailymail, Oct 6, 2017)
    http://dailym.ai/2y43JFp

    “These are the migrants who have found a new way to get into Britain.

    Two hundred miles up the coast from the towering fences and high security at Calais, they have begun to gather outside the quiet port of Ouistreham in Normandy.

    And yesterday they were seen pouncing on lorries that were headed for the docks.

    The young Sudanese men waited until the truck – which was pulling a low-loader carrying new lorry cabs – stopped at a red light before making their move…”

  5. Nobel Peace Prize Goes to International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons

    The committee acknowledged as much in its statement, noting that “an international legal prohibition will not in itself eliminate a single nuclear weapon, and that so far neither the states that already have nuclear weapons nor their closest allies support the nuclear weapon ban treaty.”

    Stupid farking pieces of moronic shite. How much are these worthless apparatchiks paid to spew such idiotic crap?!?

    Fortunately, the Nobel Peace Prize was long ago stripped of all value after being awarded to Yazzole Arafat, Al Gore, and 0bama. It would take a quantum leap well beyond this trio of astoundingly unworthy scumsuckers for this once-meaningful award to be of any less value.

    Clearly, by awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to the “International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons”, it cannot become much more clear that terminal stupidity has no earthly bounds.

    More later.

  6. Explosive possessed by Stephen Paddock may have been used in NYC bombing

    An explosive compound like the one found in Las Vegas mass shooter Stephen Paddock’s car and home is believed to have been used last year in an alleged terrorist bombing in New York City.

    Authorities say they recovered an undisclosed amount of the compound known as Tannerite from Paddock’s home in Mesquite and 50 pounds from his car parked at Mandalay Bay, where he used high-powered firearms to mow down concertgoers at the adjacent Route 91 Harvest festival on Sunday.

    https://www.reviewjournal.com/local/the-strip/explosive-possessed-by-stephen-paddock-may-have-been-used-in-nyc-bombing/

  7. Vegas Shooter’s Girlfriend Says He Would Lie in Bed Moaning, Screaming

    by Julia Ainsley and Ken Dilanian

    WASHINGTON — Marilou Danley, the woman investigators hoped would provide key details into the motive behind her boyfriend’s deadly shooting attack, said she remembers him exhibiting symptoms such as lying in bed and moaning, according to two former FBI officials who have been briefed on the matter.

    “She said he would lie in bed, just moaning and screaming, ‘Oh, my God,'” one of the former officials said.

    The other former official said Danley spoke about Paddock displaying “mental health symptoms.”

    https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/las-vegas-shooting/vegas-shooter-s-girlfriend-says-he-would-lie-bed-moaning-n808156

  8. JUST THE START?Las Vegas massacre gunman was planning more attacks and car bombing spree, investigators fear… as it’s claimed ‘suicide’ may have been accidental

    Detectives believe Stephen Paddock planned to flee the scene of the attack alive after shooting hundreds of concert-goers

    DETECTIVES investigating why killer Stephen Paddock gunned down 58 concert-goers in Las Vegas believe he may have been planning further attacks – including a car bomb.

    Paddock shot more than 500 people during a nine-minute killing spree from the window of his 32nd floor room at the Mandalay Hotel on the Vegas strip on Sunday night.

    https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4625538/las-vegas-shooting-stephen-poddock-further-attacks-suicide-accident/

    • The attack in Law Vegas was pure evil and the idea of anyone carrying out another attack like this is very scary.

      Having said that the elitist attitude of the politicians who are talking about Bump Stocks is even scarier. They are showing their true thoughts when they say things like “The ordinary people have no business owing one”, “They say this legislation is a slippery slope that will lead to more gun control, God I hope so”. The attitude shown in both statements are scarier then the thought of another terror attack, they are the attitudes of the European Politicians who have removed the God Given Right of self defense from the Europeans and are now removing the right of Free Speech.

      In the US we have a written Constitution that is suppose to protect our rights but the history of the 20th Century shows that the big government types consider the Constitution to be suggestions that in their opinion are out dated and needs to be removed. This attitude and the way the European Politicians have stripped rights from people show that all of historic and written documents supposedly protecting the peoples rights are worthless if the people are disarmed and can’t defend themselves when the government oversteps its bounds. There are many who will say that modern weapons are so powerful that a successful rebellion can’t occur in the modern era. Well look at the events at the Bundy Ranch a few years ago, armed citizens stood up to the Federal Government when it tried to steal the ranch and saved it for the family. All of the trials that came out of that stand off and turned the people loose. This is what the Second Amendment is about, defending ourselves from human predators either free lance socialists (robbers) or government socialist trying to violate our rights.

      Now to change subjects (slightly) I see no reason to own a bump stock or any full auto weapon, they use too much ammo which is expensive. Also full auto is of limited value in almost all situations. The first full auto weapons were designed to be used against massed shoulder to shoulder infantry attacks and to breakup horse cavalry attacks. Since then other uses have been found but in most instances full auto is of limited value. Having said that I get scared every time I hear any politician saying that the ordinary people can’t be trusted with any infantry weapon.

      Any government that fears an armed populace is out to oppress that populace, the danger from the evil people who will miss use the weapons pales con comparison to the danger from a government that is not help in check by an armed society. Government is like fire, when kept small and weak it is a good servant, allowed to grow big and stron and it is a harsh master.

  9. Denmark joins European nations in banning niqad, burka

    COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark will join other European countries banning full-face covering, including Islamic veils such as the niqab or burqa.

    Jakob Ellemann-Jensen of Denmark’s liberal party that leads a center-right governing coalition says a law proposal was not aimed at any religions or a ban of scarfs, turbans or kippa, the traditional Jewish skull cap.

    Ellemann-Jensen spoke Friday after a meeting in Parliament.

    A large majority of lawmakers, including the opposition Social Democrats — Denmark’s largest party— has said it would vote for such a law, popularly known as the “Burqa Ban.” The move is mostly seen as directed at the dress worn by some ultra-conservative Muslim women. Few Muslim women in Denmark wear full-face veils.

    No date for a formal vote was announced.

    Austria, France and Belgium have similar laws.

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/denmark-joins-european-nations-banning-niqad-burka-083940056.html

  10. Which American Cities Will File Bankruptcy Next?

    We harp on the massive, unsustainable, yet largely unnoticed, debt burdens of American cities, counties and states fairly regularly because, well, it’s a frightening issue if you spend just a little time to understand the math and ultimate consequences. Here is some of our recent posts on the topic:

    Luckily, for those looking to escape the trauma of being taxed into oblivion by their failing cities/counties/states, JP Morgan has provided a comprehensive guide on which municipalities haven’t the slightest hope of surviving their multi-decade debt binge and lavish public pension awards.

    If you live in any of the ‘red’ cities below, it just might be time to start looking for another home…

    http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-10-05/these-two-charts-depict-which-cities-will-file-bankruptcy-next

  11. Catalonia ‘civil war’ warning as independence declaration fears grow

    The EU’s budget commissioner has warned of the risk of “civil war” in Catalonia, as fears grew over a looming independence declaration and major banks prepared to relocate their headquarters.

    As another day passed with no sign of dialogue and pro-independence parties pushed for the declaration of a Catalan Republic as early as Monday, Gunther Oettinger, the budget commissioner, urged the two sides to talk.

    “The situation is very, very disturbing. A civil war is planned in the middle of Europe,” Mr Oettinger said in Munich.

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/10/05/catalonia-civil-war-warning-independence-declaration-fears-grow/

  12. U.S. Intelligence Sees China’s Military Expanding Bases Globally

    China’s first overseas military base in the small African country of Djibouti is “probably the first of many” the country intends to build around the world, which could bring its interests into conflict with the U.S., according to American intelligence officials.

    “China has the fastest-modernizing military in the world next to the United States,” according to insights provided Thursday by U.S. intelligence officials, who asked not to be identified discussing the information. That will create “new areas of intersection — and potentially conflicting — security interests between China and the United States and other countries abroad,” according to the officials.

    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-05/u-s-intelligence-sees-china-s-military-expanding-bases-globally

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  13. YouTube removes video advertising Colombian sex island holiday

    A Colombian company who released an erotic video advertising a four-day sex and drugs holiday on a private island have had the clip removed by YouTube.

    The film was produced to promote the Good Girls Company’s “sex island experience” which offers 30 men the chance to book a trip with 60 prostitutes available 24 hours a day.

    The island is off the coast of Cartagena, Colombia and the film begins by following one man’s journey from his flight to the island, explaining that airport transfers and boat transfers are included in the price.

    http://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/colombia-sex-island-holiday-youtube-video-advert-removed-good-girls-company-prostitutes-cartagena-a7986291.html

  14. Trump talks of ‘calm before the storm’ after military meeting

    President Donald Trump issued an unprompted, cryptic message Thursday after meeting with military officials at the White House, saying about the gathering, “Maybe it’s the calm before the storm.”

    “We have the world’s great military leaders in this room,” Trump said to reporters after uttering his remark during a photo-op in the Cabinet Room of the White House.

    http://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/05/trump-calm-before-the-storm-243519

  15. Football’s decline has some high schools disbanding teams

    ELLICOTT CITY, Md. (AP) — On a cool and rainy afternoon during the first week of classes at Centennial High School in this well-to-do Baltimore suburb, about 50 members of the boys’ cross-country team sauntered across the parking lot for their after-school run.

    Meanwhile, about 30 kids in helmets and pads were going through drills on the pristine artificial turf field at the school’s hillside football stadium.

    “It used to be the other way around,” said Al Dodds, Centennial’s cross-country coach, who has 64 boys on his team this year. “Now, there’s a small turnout in football and cross-country is huge.”

    https://apnews.com/66e699491a3b478293620c1e5069dc9e/Football's-decline-has-some-high-schools-disbanding-teams

  16. Positive move: Trump reportedly to decertify Iran’s compliance with nuclear ‘deal’
    By J.E. Dyer October 5, 2017

    Last week, I wrote about a disclosure from IAEA chief Yukio Amano that definitively clarified the toothlessness of the 2015 “nuclear deal” with Iran.

    For one of the three components of a nuclear weapons program, Amano admitted that his agency doesn’t have a way of verifying Iran’s activities, and indeed is being discouraged by Russia from attempting any such verification.

    The component in question is developing a nuclear warhead. Specifically, the IAEA is unable to monitor Iran’s activities to develop a nuclear detonation device: i.e., the mechanism that would trigger a nuclear warhead upon delivery.

    For a “deal” that, in the words of the Obama administration, was supposed to “prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon,” this deficiency is certainly a – well, a deal-breaker. It makes no sense to monitor Iran’s uranium enrichment for 10 years, while ignoring completely the possibility that she is continuing work that appeared – as early as 2007 – to be related to detonating a warhead.

    This is especially true given that Iran has continued developing and testing ballistic missiles, in defiance of the JCPOA’s intent.

    http://libertyunyielding.com/2017/10/05/positive-move-trump-reportedly-decertify-irans-compliance-nuclear-deal/

  17. NSA breach involved worker’s home computer and Russian Kaspersky antivirus software
    By LU Staff October 5, 2017

    [A lot of sites are burying the lede on this. Yes, it was Russians behind it. But the NSA worker who took code home and stored it in the files on his own computer is the culprit who made it possible. Bad federal employee (a contractor, in this case. Again). Bad. – J.E.]

    Russian hackers managed to steal National Security Agency (NSA) data on how the U.S. hacks into foreign networks by making use of the Russian-made antivirus software Kaspersky.

    These Russian hackers, working on behalf of the Kremlin, stole code from the home computer of an NSA contractor after he took highly classified data back from NSA networks and stored it at his residence, The Wall Street Journal reports.

    Confirming worries about the vulnerabilities and potential backdoors inherent in the Russian-made antivirus software, these hackers obtained computer code used by the NSA for spying on foreign networks, which not only diminishes the ability of U.S. cyber espionage efforts, but also gives the Russian government a potent weapon to deploy against the U.S. and other countries.

    Investigators on the case believe that Russia became aware of NSA files through Kaspersky’s file scanning abilities, which may have detected the computer code as a virus. How that data then apparently came into the hands of Russian hackers is unknown, but it’s possible Kaspersky employees passed that virus signature information and files onto the Russian government. It’s also unknown why the NSA contractor, whose name is not publicly known, took highly classified data back to his home computer. Officials do not believe that the contractor had been working on behalf of a foreign government.

    http://libertyunyielding.com/2017/10/05/nsa-breach-involved-workers-home-computer-russian-kapersky-antivirus-software/

  18. Communist West Point cadet was reported for anti-U.S. statements, extreme insubordination IN 2015
    By Jeff Dunetz October 5, 2017

    [It’s well worth your time to read Jeff’s embedded incident report from a senior officer who interacted with Rapone in November 2015 and got nothing but extreme hostility and disrespect. What leaps out at a career veteran is how little was apparently done about this. You can’t have behavior like Rapone’s and also have unit cohesion, morale, and effectiveness. Also noteworthy (and mentioned by the reporting officer): the hair. That’s been leaping out at me every time I see him. – J.E.]

    West Point graduate, Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army Spenser Rapone, who outed himself a week ago as being pro-Colin Kaepernick, pro-Communist and a fan of Chelsea Manning, was reported as being insubordinate and expressing extreme anti-American views on social media. The sworn report was made in 2015 while Rapone still at West Point, but it did not delay his graduation.

    According to a scathing report obtained by The Daily Caller (embedded below) despite Spenser Rapone’s insubordination and extremist political views, the Academy’s administration saw fit to allow Rapone to graduate in 2016 and become an officer in the U.S. Army.

    http://libertyunyielding.com/2017/10/05/communist-west-point-cadet-reported-anti-u-s-statements-extreme-insubordination-2015/

    • This article and the one above it prove that Obama’s actions while in officer were designed to damage the US and if possible destroy us. We are reaping what he sowed and the reaping will continue for several decades.

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    A former Trump campaign official is making extraordinary claims he was leaked information from within the White House that Las Vegas massacre gunman Stephen Paddock made an ISIS propaganda tape and that authorities are refusing to reveal that the mass shooting was a terror attack.
    Former Massachusetts Trump campaign official James Brower posted a series of tweets last night claiming he was leaked information about Paddock being inspired by ISIS to carry out the mass shooting.
    “There is a video, this video will prove the motive. He had a secret digital profile that was uncovered over the last 24 hrs,” claims Brower.

    https://www.infowars.com/former-trump-campaign-official-claims-las-vegas-shooter-made-isis-tape/

  20. Turkey: Maduro and Erdogan meet in Ankara

    Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has met with his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara, on Friday.

    The two leaders are expected to discuss the deepening of bilateral relations through their participation in the second meeting of their joint “partnership commissions,” as well exchanging views on international issues.

  21. Afghanistan: Protesters in Kabul demand end of US ‘occupation’

    Marking the 16th anniversary of the US intervention in Afghanistan, the Solidarity Party organised a protest in Kabul, Friday.

    Hundreds of women and men took to the streets shouting slogans while holding anti-NATO and anti-US signs.

    One protester from the Solidary Party said that “we cannot bear occupation anymore. No occupied country has reached freedom and democracy; it’s only the power of people that can bring democracy, peace and freedom to our country.”

  22. Russia: Mass weddings take place in Grozny to mark the city’s 199th anniversary

    199 young couples took part in a mass wedding in the Chechen capital of Grozny, Thursday, coinciding with the 199th anniversary of the founding of Grozny.

  23. Court documents show that the California public school teacher arrested last week at the University of California, Berkeley, on suspicion of battery and resisting arrest has since 2009 racked up a list of fire-worthy offenses, including recruiting students to participate in protests facilitated by the militant left-wing group, By Any Means Necessary, and transporting students to protests without permission in her personal vehicle.

    http://archive.is/OFHPc#selection-403.0-403.434

  24. BREITBART – Swiss Government Admits It Does Not Know True Identities of 90 Per Cent of Asylum Seekers

    Swiss national councillor Simonetta Sommaruga has revealed that the problem of asylum seekers arriving into the country with no papers is so extensive the government does not know the true identities of nine out of 10 migrants.
    According to Sommaruga, between January 1, 2006, and December 31, 2016, Switzerland saw a total of 151,300 asylum seekers register in the country under false identities. The figures come after Swiss People’s Party politician Barbara Steinemann made the government concede that as many as 96 per cent of underage asylum seekers had no form of identification, Basler Zeitung reports.

    Sommaruga said that some of the blame falls under the fact that names in Arabic can be spelt differently making it look like there were multiple people whilst there was just one individual. Whilst she downplayed the idea of asylum seekers purposely using fake identities, there is nothing in Swiss law to prosecute or bring criminal charges against asylum seekers using fake names.

    When Steinman asked how many asylum seekers with fake identities had achieved asylum, Sommaruga said that only asylum seekers with confirmed identities received full asylum – though 60,573 were given temporary permits.

    In 2015, Switzerland saw 77 per cent of migrants arrive without papers and in 2016 the figure jumped to 81 per cent. When asked how many of the cases had been resolved and the migrants identified, Sommaruga said in 2015 only 4,091 were identified out of 39,523 and in 2016 only 2,706 migrants out of 27,207.

    Migrants, especially underage migrants, entering Europe without papers has become the norm in many countries. In Germany, an estimated 80 per cent of migrants have come into the country without identification, many claiming to be underage.

    Undercover journalist Abdullah Khan spent several months at migrant reception centres and said: “Many pose as minors travelling alone, because word has spread that they will qualify for more benefits. … To lie about their age, many people use false passports and other identity documents.”

    In order to better determine the identities of the migrants, the German government proposed seizing the mobile phones of the incoming asylum seekers in order to better determine who they were.

    http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/10/05/swiss-government-admits-not-know-true-identities-90-percent-asylum-seekers/

    • The figures come after Swiss People’s Party politician Barbara Steinemann made the government concede that as many as 96 per cent of underage asylum seekers had no form of identification, Basler Zeitung reports.

      Then how the fü¢k do they know that these dirtbags are “underage”?

      This is self-delusion on a colossal scale. No “form of identification”? Gather their biometric data (for future reference expulsions) and then slingshot these economic tourists the hell back to their Third World $hitholes.

  25. Was Las Vegas Shooter “Radicalized”?
    Jihadist? Antifa? Neo-Nazi? Sheriff drops a bombshell then runs away.
    October 6, 2017
    Matthew Vadum
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    Las Vegas authorities now acknowledge mass murderer Stephen Paddock may have been “radicalized” before his bloody rampage Sunday at the Route 91 Harvest Music Festival but they won’t say what species of radicalism the shooter may have embraced.

    The deadliest mass shooting in modern American history has been cravenly transformed into anti-American propaganda by the Left, as Democrat commentators race to ghoulishly disparage white men, gun rights and the NRA, Republicans, and President Trump, blaming them for what otherwise looks like a Muslim terrorist atrocity. Islamic State continues to claim responsibility for the massacre. The terrorist group also claims Paddock converted to Islam six months ago and refers to him by a nom de guerre, Abu Abdul Barr al-Amriki. In Las Vegas Wednesday FBI Special Agent in Charge Aaron Rouse said, “We have found no evidence to this point to indicate terrorism, but this is an ongoing investigation. We’re going to look at all avenues, not close any.”

    Paddock may have been “radicalized unbeknownst to us,” Clark County, Nevada, Sheriff Joe Lombardo said at a presser without elaborating. The reporters present for the statement did not bother to follow up. For much of the mainstream media, the fact that Paddock was a white male explained his violent rampage.

    http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/268069/was-las-vegas-shooter-radicalized-matthew-vadum

  26. France’s Islamic WWIII
    Afghanistan is safer than Paris.
    October 6, 2017
    Daniel Greenfield

    Interior Minister Gerard Collomb made it official. France is “in a state of war”.

    It’s not just rhetoric. Bombs turn up in a posh Parisian suburb. Two young women are butchered at a train station. And it’s just another week of an Islamic World War III being fought in France.

    From the November attacks in 2015 that killed 130 people and wounded another 400+, to the Bastille Day truck ramming attack last year that killed 86 and wounded 458, the war is real.

    French casualties in France are worse than in Afghanistan. The French lost 70 people to Islamic terrorist attacks in Afghanistan. And 239 to Islamic terrorist attacks in France.

    The French losses in Afghanistan were suffered in over a decade of deployment in one of the most dangerous Islamic areas in the world. The French losses in France were suffered in less than two years.

    There’s something very wrong when Afghanistan is safer than Paris.

    10,000 French soldiers were deployed in the streets of their own country in Operation Sentinelle after the Charlie Hebdo – Kosher supermarket attacks in 2015. Thousands of French soldiers are still patrolling, guarding and shooting in French cities which have become more dangerous than Afghanistan.

    http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/268052/frances-islamic-wwiii-daniel-greenfield

  27. The above article is a very important one, it shows in clear detail how the next phase of the Islamic Conquest has arrived. It remains to be seen how long before the French people start arming themselves and fighting back but it probably won’t be long.

  28. Bowe Bergdahl expected to plead guilty, avoid trial

    Washington — Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who was held captive by the Taliban for half a decade after abandoning his Afghanistan post, is expected to plead guilty to desertion and misbehavior before the enemy, two individuals with knowledge of the case said.

    Bergdahl’s decision to plead guilty rather than face trial marks another twist in an eight-year drama that caused the nation to wrestle with difficult questions of loyalty, negotiating with hostage takers and America’s commitment not to leave its troops behind. President Donald Trump has called Bergdahl a “no-good traitor” who “should have been executed.”

    The decision by the 31-year-old Idaho native leaves open whether he will return to captivity for years — this time in a U.S. prison — or receive a lesser sentence that reflects the time the Taliban held him under brutal conditions. He says he had been caged, kept in darkness, beaten and chained to a bed.

    Bergdahl could face up to five years on the desertion charge and a life sentence for misbehavior.

    Freed three years ago, Bergdahl had been scheduled for trial in late October. He had opted to let a judge rather than a military jury decide his fate, but a guilty plea later this month will spare the need for a trial.

    Sentencing will start on Oct. 23, according to the individuals with knowledge of the case. They weren’t authorized to discuss the case and demanded anonymity. During sentencing, U.S. troops who were seriously wounded searching for Bergdahl in Afghanistan are expected to testify, the individuals said.

    It was unclear whether prosecutors and Bergdahl’s defense team had reached any agreement ahead of sentencing about how severe a penalty prosecutors will recommend.

    An attorney for Bergdahl, Eugene Fidell, declined to comment on Friday. Maj. Justin Oshana, who is prosecuting the case, referred questions to the U.S. Army, which declined to discuss whether Bergdahl had agreed to plead guilty.

    “We continue to maintain careful respect for the military-judicial process, the rights of the accused and ensuring the case’s fairness and impartiality during this ongoing legal case,” said Paul Boyce, an Army spokesman.

    Bergdahl was a 23-year-old private first class in June 2009 when, after five months in Afghanistan, he disappeared from his remote infantry post near the Pakistan border, triggering a massive search operation.

    Videos soon emerged showing Bergdahl in captivity by the Taliban, who ruled Afghanistan in the years before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and harbored al-Qaida leaders including Osama bin Laden as they plotted against America. For years, the U.S. kept tabs on Bergdahl with drones, spies and satellites as behind-the-scenes negotiations played out in fits and starts.

    In May 2014, he was handed over to U.S. special forces in a swap for five Taliban detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison, fueling an emotional U.S. debate about whether Bergdahl was a hero or a deserter.

    As critics questioned whether the trade was worth it, President Barack Obama stood with Bergdahl’s parents in the White House Rose Garden and defended the swap. The United States does not “leave our men or women in uniform behind,” Obama declared, regardless of how Bergdahl came to be captured. The Taliban detainees were sent to Qatar.

    “Whatever those circumstances may turn out to be, we still get an American soldier back if he’s held in captivity,” Obama said. “Period. Full stop.”

    Trump, as a presidential candidate, was unforgiving of Bergdahl, who has been assigned to desk duty at a Texas Army base pending the outcome of his case. At campaign events, Trump declared that Bergdahl “would have been shot” in another era, even pantomiming the pulling of the trigger.

    “We’re tired of Sgt. Bergdahl, who’s a traitor, a no-good traitor, who should have been executed,” Trump said at a Las Vegas rally in 2015.

    Bergdahl’s guilty plea will follow several pretrial rulings against him that had complicated his defense. Army Col. Jeffery R. Nance, the judge, decided in June that testimony from troops wounded as they searched for him would be allowed during sentencing, a decision that strengthened prosecutors’ leverage to pursue stiffer punishment.

    Some of Bergdahl’s fellow soldiers want him held responsible for any harm suffered by those who went looking for him. The judge ruled a Navy SEAL and an Army National Guard sergeant wouldn’t have found themselves in separate firefights if they hadn’t been searching.

    The defense separately argued Trump’s scathing criticism unfairly swayed the case. The judge ruled otherwise. Nance wrote in February that Trump’s comments were “disturbing and disappointing” but didn’t constitute unlawful command influence by the soon-to-be commander in chief.

    Bergdahl’s lawyers also contended that misbehavior before the enemy, the more serious charge, was legally inappropriate and too severe. They were rebuffed again. The judge said a soldier who leaves his post alone and without authorization should know he could face punishment. The misbehavior charge has rarely been used in recent decades, though there were hundreds of cases during World War II.

    Defense attorneys don’t dispute that Bergdahl walked off his base without authorization. Bergdahl himself told a general during a preliminary investigation that he left intending to cause alarm and draw attention to what he saw as problems with his unit. An Army Sanity Board Evaluation concluded he suffered from schizotypal personality disorder.

    The defense team has argued that Bergdahl can’t be held responsible for a long chain of events that included decisions by others about how to retrieve him that were far beyond his control.

    http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/nation/2017/10/06/bowe-bergdahl/106364118/

  29. ‘Islam Is Further to the Right Than the Entire Populist Party,’ Says Leftist Filmmaker (breitbart, Oct 5, 2017)
    http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/10/06/german-filmmaker-islam-right-entire-populist-party/

    “German filmmaker and critic of Islam Samuel Schirmbeck has claimed that intellectuals in the West are totally uncritical of Islam and that the religion is further to the right than the populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party could ever be.

    Mr. Schirmbeck, who is a former correspondent for German state broadcaster ARD in North Africa, claims that one of Western Europe’s biggest problems is an intellectual class unwilling to face the realities of Islam. Calling himself a leftist, Schirmbeck said that “The logical consequence of being on the left is to criticise Islam,” in an interview with Die Welt.

    “I am on the left, and I am averse to Islam because Islam is more right than the whole AfD,” he said and claimed that the rise of the AfD was due to the fact they were the only ones speaking out against Islam.

    Describing the AfD, he said the party’s “leadership is dangerous and criticises Islam in a way that insults the Muslim as a human being, which still gives the fundamentalists an impetus”.

    When asked why he chose to criticise Islam in his new book, The Islamic Crusade and the Guiltless West: Why We Need a Self-Confident Criticism of Islam, rather than just Islamism (the political movement), he said: “Islamism is inherent part of Islam, which is why I consider this strict separation of Islam and Islamism a deliberate public deception.”

    “We should take it seriously when Yahya Staquf, President of the largest Muslim Union of Indonesia, the largest Muslim country, asks of the political leaders of Europe: always saying that Islam has nothing to do with Islamism is an incredibly dangerous game, and you will regret the consequences,” he added.

    Schirmbeck also slammed the alt-left extremist group Antifa, saying he is a target of violent attack because they consider him to be right wing.

    “There is still this overpowered Third World Romanticism, this image of the noble non-capitalist, whose misery is primarily the fault of the Europeans. It is an unconscious omnipotence fantasy in the left that we have all the destinies of this world in our hands,” he said.

    “In this perspective, Islam is the religion of the oppressed and an ally against capitalism,” he noted.

    According to authorities in Germany, the radical Islamic scene, known as Salafism, continues to grow rapidly in the country. Last year, the government revealed that the number of Salafists had increased by around 100 per cent in only three years.

    Earlier this year, former Vice-Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel called for a ban on Salafist mosques across the country and the AfD have made similar proposals. As a result of their policies, the AfD managed to come in third in this year’s national election as the two largest establishment parties saw their worst results since the Second World War.”

  30. ‘You have one hour or it will BLOW’ Square evacuated by police after dramatic bomb threat (express, Oct 6, 2017)
    http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/863269/Strasbourg-evacuated-France-lockdown-Lafayette-Kl-ber-bomb-scare-armed-police

    “POLICE have evacuated a busy city square after a terrifying bomb threat warning of an imminent blast was reportedly phoned in.

    It is believed the bomb scare was sparked by a call threatening news agency AFP, with the caller saying: “You have an hour, otherwise it’s going to blow.”

    Agence France Presse immediately warned the national police who evacuated the building where AFP is located and also several businesses including the Fnac shopping centre in Place Kléber.

    Images surfacing on Twitter show people scrambling out of the city centre in Strasbourg, France- which is also the formal seat of the European Parliament.

    And police have cordoned off the scene – with locals being advised to avoid the areas of Kléber and Lafayette…”

  31. French men who hanged severed pig’s head on mosque door handed suspended prison sentences (express, Oct 6, 2017)
    http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/863281/French-men-hanged-severed-pig-head-on-mosque-door-suspended-prison-sentences

    “TWO men have been given suspended prison sentences and were heavily fined by a French court for hanging a bloodied pig’s head on the door of a local mosque in July.

    The two unnamed men, aged 20 and 22, were handed suspended sentences of three months and six months respectively after they were found guilty of “inciting hatred on religious grounds”, an offence which carries a maximum penalty of five years.

    The pair have also been ordered to pay the two plaintiffs – mosque officials and the Collective Against Islamophobia in France (CCIF) – 2,000 euros (£1,794) in damages each.

    They will also have to pay €1,000 (£895) to cover the plaintiffs’ legal fees.

    The men, who are from Pont-de-Beauvoisin, a small town in southwest France, near Lyon, told judges that they deeply regretted offending the local Muslim community, adding that the decision to hang the severed pig’s head on the door of their local prayer hall had been nothing more than a “bad joke” and that they had been “under the influence of alcohol”…”

  32. Libyan force seizes control of migrant smuggling hub (abcnews, Oct 6, 2017)
    http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/libyan-force-seizes-control-migrant-smuggling-hub-50325055

    “A Libyan armed group on Friday claimed victory over Italian-backed militias paid to stem the flow of migrants to Europe from the coastal city of Sabratha, a major launch pad for the perilous voyage across the Mediterranean.

    The Anti-ISIS Operations Room, created last year to clear Sabratha of Islamic State militants, said in a statement that they and their allies have taken control of the city from the Martyr Anas al-Dabashi (better known as al-Ammu’s) and Brigade 48 militias. The weeks-long battle killed dozens and displaced thousands of families.

    The Sabratha Municipal Council confirmed the city’s capture and congratulated the AIOR on its victory…”

  33. Hawaii files motion seeking to challenge third travel ban (abcnews, Oct 6, 2017)
    http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/hawaii-filed-motion-seeking-challenge-travel-ban-50331239

    “Lawyers representing Hawaii in the state’s long-running fight against Trump administration travel bans have filed a motion asking a judge to let them challenge the latest version of the policy.

    Hawaii filed the motion Friday asking a federal judge for permission to file an amended lawsuit targeting the third travel ban.

    The latest travel ban removes Sudan from the list of affected countries and adds Chad and North Korea, along with several officials from the government of Venezuela. It’s scheduled to take effect Oct. 18.

    State Attorney General Doug Chin said the new ban still discriminates on the basis of nationality, exceeds the president’s legal authority and seeks to implement his Muslim ban.

    Chin has been challenging President Donald Trump on travel bans since February, after Trump sought to bar new visas for people from seven mostly Muslim countries.”

  34. Australian plans for child terror detentions cause backlash (BBC, Oct 6, 2017)
    http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-41527517

    “Unicef Australia has expressed concern at proposals that could see children as young as 10 held for two weeks without charge under new terror legislation.

    They insist that a “clear distinction” is necessary between children and adults in the legal system.
    A minister said the plans were needed because so-called Islamic State “specialises in recruiting children”.

    But opposition politicians and charities have expressed their concern that minors are included in the plans.

    “Unicef Australia is concerned that the proposal could risk situations where children could be arbitrarily detained,” director of communication Jennifer Tierney said.

    “Children should only ever be subject to detention as a measure of last resort and for the shortest appropriate time.

    “We urge Australian governments to consider the vulnerabilities of children and ensure strict safeguards for their rights and wellbeing in all circumstances.”…”