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Bitcoin (block-chain)is a modern wonder of electronics and mathematics. I imagine it will be the way forward for the next reserve currency. The fact that it is intangible ruins it for me. Also the fact that it relies on electricity to exust is no good. Anyway for those not familiar here is a bit of background on the petrodollar.
https://cryptoinsider.21mil.com/war-on-petrodollar-through-bitcoin/
Just as an aside: The writer (and maybe the whole blog) is sponsored by an enemy government or pseudo-NGO.
Trash your cache and cookies between visits.
UN Watch uses the term, “GONGO” for Government operated Non-governmental organization.
https://www.jmbullion.com/1-oz-proof-silver-bitcoin-commemorative-round/
http://www.ocregister.com/2017/10/28/is-there-a-civilization-war-going-on/
I think he pretty much nails it.
As Pogo once said, “We have seen the enemy and he is us.”
Yes there is, one of several wars that is being fought.
Taliban claims US hostage in poor health, has ‘dangerous’ disease (abcnews, Oct 30, 2017)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/taliban-claims-us-hostage-poor-health-dangerous-disease/story?id=50806488
“The Taliban claimed that an American teacher being held hostage in Afghanistan for over a year has a “dangerous” disease and said it wouldn’t be held responsible if he dies…”
Roadside bomb kills soldier in northwestern Pakistan (abcnews, Oct 30, 2017)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/roadside-bomb-kills-soldier-northwestern-pakistan-50806604
“Pakistani intelligence officials say a roadside bombing has killed one paramilitary soldier and wounded another in the South Waziristan tribal region near the Afghan border.
Two officials said the bomb exploded on Monday when the two Frontier Corps members were bringing water containers on mules for their post in the region’s Tiarza area. A spokesman for a local Taliban faction claimed responsibility for the attack…”
Belgian authorities detain 4 in probe of 2015 train attack (abcnews, Oct 30, 2017)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/belgian-authorities-detain-probe-2015-train-attack-50807104
“Four people have been detained in Belgium in connection with a terrorism investigation into an attack two years ago on a Thalys express train to France that was foiled by three Americans.
The Federal Prosecutor’s Office said Monday that six houses in the Brussels area and in southern Belgium have been searched in the operation. An investigating judge was to decide later whether those taken in for questioning should remain in custody.
Authorities said no arms or explosives were found in the searches. In August 2015, a man on a Thalys train that had just crossed into France from Belgium tried to open fire with an assault rifle but was overpowered by three Americans, two of them off-duty U.S. military members.
French police termed it an Islamic extremist attack.”
Afghan official: Taliban kill 15 police in separate attacks (abcnews, Oct 30, 2017)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/afghan-official-taliban-kill-police-checkpoint-attack-50806595
“The Taliban have killed 15 police in two separate attacks on checkpoints in the east and south of the country, officials said Monday.
Arif Noori, spokesman for the governor of the eastern Ghazni province, said an attack on a checkpoint there killed nine police and wounded four others. He said seven insurgents were killed and five others were wounded in the battle, which lasted more than an hour.
Late Sunday, the Taliban attacked another checkpoint in the southern Zabul province, igniting clashes in which six police and eight insurgents were killed. Amir Jan Alokozai, a district administrative chief, said another eight police and 12 insurgents were wounded.
The Taliban claimed both attacks. The insurgents have launched a wave of attacks across the country against security forces this month that has killed more than 200 people.
In a third attack, in the northern Baghlan province, a sticky bomb attached to a military vehicle went off in a market, wounding 13 civilians, according to Zabihullah Shuja, spokesman for the provincial police chief. No one claimed the attack, which took place in the provincial capital, Puli Khomri.”
Egypt diocese says 3 churches closed over attack fears (abcnews, Oct 30, 2017)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/egypt-diocese-churches-closed-attack-fears-50808724
“Egyptian religious officials say authorities have shuttered three Coptic Christian churches over fears of attacks by Islamic militants.
The Minya Coptic Orthodox Diocese said authorities sealed off two churches in the southern province, citing harassment and attacks by fundamentalists. A third was closed due to fears of attacks. The statement was issued late Saturday.
Minya Governor Essam Badawi on Monday denied the churches were closed for security reasons, saying they were “unlicensed houses” that lacked the documentation needed to “perform religious rites.”
He confirmed, however, that 15 suspects were arrested over an attempted attack on one of the locations on Friday.
Coptic Christians make up about 10 percent of Egypt’s population. Islamic extremists have targeted them on a number of occasions in recent years.”
Saudi Chief of Staff: We are Determined to Establish Legitimacy All Over Yemen (aawsat, Oct 30, 2017)
https://aawsat.com/english/home/article/1068096/saudi-chief-staff-we-are-determined-establish-legitimacy-all-over-yemen
“Saudi Chief of Staff General Abdul Rahman al-Bunyan confirmed that Saudi-led coalition to support legitimacy in Yemen is determined to establish the legitimate government all over the territories and support it to secure naval passages and regional environment in the area.
He pointed out that coalition’s leadership will continue to support Yemen’s legitimacy and stop Houthis in Yemen, and end the Iranian expansion in the region. He explained that the coalition wants to protect naval navigation in the Red Sea and Mandeb Strait.
Speaking at the sidelines of a meeting in Riyadh of foreign ministers and military officials from the Saudi-led coalition involved in Yemen, including Egypt, Bahrain and the UAE, Bunyan said that the military intervention in Yemen coincided with the UN Resolution 2216 which obliges the Houthi militias to stop all their violent activity and retreat all their troops. He added that the resolution also asks Houthis to stop recruiting the children to be used in military operations which is a violations of humanitarian international laws…”
Coming soon: Security robots that patrol streets – or guard your home
WASHINGTON
The security guard of the future is an all-seeing robot, endowed with laser scanning, thermal imaging, 360-degree video and sensors for all kinds of signals.
Only, the future is now. Dozens of the self-propelled, wheeled robots are already on patrol in places like the Golden 1 Center arena in Sacramento, a residential development near Tampa, and at venues in Boston, Atlanta and Dallas.
They are cheaper than human beings, require no health insurance, never clamor for a raise and work 24 hours a day. They also sometimes do daffy things, like fall into fountains.
Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/article181343981.html#storylink=cpy
PHOTOS/VIDEO: Robots to work in 50 Wal-Marts, including several in Arkansas
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. customers in a few Arkansas stores will soon cross paths with robots roaming the aisles.
The Bentonville company said it will begin using autonomous devices in about 50 stores next month that are programmed to scan store shelves and identify things like out-of-stock items or products incorrectly priced or placed in the wrong spaces. Wal-Mart stores in Searcy, Sherwood and Pine Bluff will be among the first to introduce the robots beginning in early November, according to the company. A Wal-Mart store in Rogers will have a robot early next year.
The 50-store trial is an extension of a test first conducted in Pennsylvania as the retailer explores ways to use technology to improve its operations. John Crecelius, Wal-Mart U.S. vice president of central operations, said the expansion will give the company a chance to collect and analyze additional data as the robots take on tasks typically done by employees.
http://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2017/oct/26/robots-to-work-in-50-wal-marts-20171026/
The minimum wage laws strike again, they raise the price of labor so high automation is cheaper and more people are out of work. I think this is being done deliberately, they want everyone out of work and living on government charity. That way the left gets more votes.
1979 mail robots: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24aZauM6hRI
Pakistani Christian ‘Beaten for Car Poppy Display’ Warns ‘More and More Muslim Violence Is Coming Into Britain’ (breitbart, Oct 30, 2017)
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/10/30/pakistani-christian-beaten-poppy-display/
“A Pakistani Christian who said he was beaten unconscious by Muslims angered at poppies and a cross displayed in his car has warned that Islamic intolerance is on the rise in Britain.
“Tajamal Amar, who fled Pakistan after Muslims there shot him for refusing to convert to Islam, suffered a broken nose and lacerations to the head and body when he was assaulted outside a fast food outlet in Derbyshire on October 20th.
Reporting that he and his wife are “shunned” by the local community for their faith, the 46-year-old said the attack was triggered after Muslims took objection to a display of two large poppies and a cross in his car.
“Several times, local Pakistani people in Derby have taken offence from the fact that I am Christian,” he told the Daily Mail.
“On the day of my attack, the visible display of a cross in my car and two poppies just below the front bonnet triggered the violence against me.
“I know this, because for a few days before the attack the same men, glared at me after they noticed my Christian paraphernalia,” he added.
Following the assault, Mr. Amar said he no longer feels safe in Derby, where he warned that the “hard-line approach” to religion seen among some Muslims is “very dangerous for our society”.
“I fled from Pakistan to escape violence such as this, but more and more the same violence is coming into Britain.
“Freedom of religion should be the right of any British citizen but today I feel unsafe, even then nothing will stop me going to church,” he said.
A spokesman for Derbyshire Police said: “We were called to a report of an assault outside the Red Chilli restaurant, in Littleover, at around 8:45pm.
“He was hospitalised at the Royal Derby Hospital with a broken nose and we have not yet arrested anyone in connection with the assault.”…”
Supporters of Islamic Scholar Tariq Ramadan Say Sexual Assault Claims ‘Zionist Plot’ (breitbart, Oct 30, 2017)
http://www.breitbart.com/jerusalem/2017/10/30/supporters-islamic-scholar-tariq-ramadan-say-sexual-assault-claims-zionist-plot/
Totally total zionist unplot…
“Tariq Ramadan s’est littéralement jeté sur moi comme une bête sauvage”, témoigne Henda Ayari
Témoignage d’Henda Ayari, accusatrice de Tariq Ramadan
Friday sermon at a mosque in Roubaix, France
TARIQ RAMADAN : L’HISTOIRE SE RÉPÈTE
Tariq Ramadan accusé de viol : “J’étais au courant dès 2009”, dit Caroline Fourest
Tariq Ramadan : Renaud Dély dénonce les idiots utiles du Ramadanisme
Le Parisien – Tariq Ramadan accusé de viol : « Il m’a étranglée si fort que j’ai pensé que j’allais mourir »
Henda Ayari est la première femme à avoir porté plainte contre Tariq Ramadan. Elle accepte aujourd’hui de nous expliquer ce qui l’y a poussée.
Henda Ayari a déposé plainte contre Tariq Ramadan pour viol. Elle revient sur l’agression dont elle dit être victime et raconte son combat pour « être une femme respectable et respectée ».
Comment avez-vous rencontré Tariq Ramadan ?
C’était courant 2010, sur Facebook, je vivais une séparation très difficile avec mon mari, un salafiste. J’avais perdu la garde de mes trois enfants, j’étais seule, sans argent, sans logement, sans travail. Une assistante sociale m’a conseillé de retirer mon voile pour trouver du travail. J’ai suivi ses conseils. Mais je culpabilisais de ne plus porter le voile, de ne plus faire mes prières à l’heure. C’est une salariée administrative du site de Ramadan qui m’a d’abord contactée, puis lui-même. Il m’a apporté les réponses que je cherchais.
Pourquoi cela a-t-il dérapé?
En juillet 2011, j’ai retrouvé la garde de mes enfants. J’étais très fière de moi, je me sentais une femme libérée. J’ai posté une photo de moi sans voile, avec un peu de rouge à lèvres. Tariq Ramadan m’a rappelée à l’ordre, sur Facebook. « Ce n’est pas bien ce que vous faites », m’a-t-il dit. Il me reprochait d’être maquillée, d’avoir les cheveux détachés. « Vous cherchez à susciter le regard des hommes. C’est un péché. » Je me suis excusée, je culpabilisais. Ensuite, il est devenu plus intime dans la discussion. Ce n’était plus le savant mais l’homme qui parlait. Je pensais ne pas parler au vrai Ramadan. Pour me prouver que c’était bien lui, il s’est mis sur l’application Skype, filmé par sa webcam. J’étais émerveillée. Je le trouvais séduisant, beau. J’étais tellement flattée qu’il s’intéresse à moi. Il m’a demandé mon numéro et m’a proposé de nous voir quand il viendrait à Paris.
Quand et où a eu lieu ce rendez-vous ?
Fin mars 2012, dans un hôtel de l’est de Paris. Il m’avait demandé de venir en taxi, d’être la plus discrète possible pour éviter les équivoques. « On pourra discuter plus tranquillement », m’a-t-il confié.
Ce n’était pas neutre ?
Je ne me suis pas méfiée, j’étais en confiance, j’ai fait une erreur. C’était comme si j’allais voir un grand frère. J’étais sous son emprise, il m’a manipulée. Quand j’ai frappé à la porte, mon cœur battait. Il m’a accueillie avec un plateau de gâteaux orientaux et m’en a proposé, j’ai refusé. Quelques minutes plus tard, il m’a embrassée, et je me suis laissé faire, je n’ai pas honte de le dire. Puis il s’est littéralement jeté sur moi. Alors le conte de fée s’est transformé en cauchemar, le prince charmant en monstre. Il m’a étranglée très fort, si fort que j’ai pensé que j’allais mourir. Il m’a giflée, car je résistais. Il m’a violée. Je me suis sentie en extrême danger. Il m’a insultée : « j’étais venue pour ça, je méritais ça, je l’avais cherché ». Je n’avais qu’à porter le voile, sinon j’étais une prostituée.
Vous avez passé la nuit avec lui ?
Oui, mais malgré moi. Cela a été la pire nuit de ma vie. Le matin, il s’est douché et a glissé un billet dans mon sac pour le taxi. Mais je ne voulais pas de son argent, je n’étais pas une prostituée. Il a quitté la chambre avant moi et m’a demandé de partir après lui. Toujours pour la discrétion.
Avez-vous eu d’autres contacts avec lui ?
J’étais traumatisée, honteuse. Je culpabilisais. Je me sentais fautive d’être montée dans sa chambre. Il a cherché à rester en contact avec moi et m’a encore plus culpabilisée. Soi-disant, je ne savais pas m’occuper d’un homme. « Il va falloir apprendre », m’a-t-il dit. Je sortais du salafisme, je n’avais eu qu’un homme dans ma vie. Et encore, je n’avais eu des relations sexuelles avec lui que pour mettre au monde des enfants. Je voulais comprendre, revoir Tariq Ramadan pour comprendre. « Je vais m’occuper de toi », m’a-t-il déclaré. Je voulais lui montrer que j’étais une femme qui assurait. Nous avions des échanges sexuels épistolaires. Il voulait que je sois son esclave sexuel. « Tu viendras à Paris, je te donnerais de l’argent pour tes trajets. On pourra se voir tous les quinze jours. J’aime les filles qui ont du caractère, cela m’excite. Avec ma femme, il ne se passe plus rien, c’est comme une sœur. Je vais demander ta main à tes parents », m’a-t-il écrit, par exemple.
L’avez-vous revu ?
Non, jamais. On devait, mais comme j’ai refusé de lui envoyer une photo de moi dénudée, cela l’a énervé. On s’est insulté. Quand je lui ai fait part de ma volonté de porter plainte, il m’a menacée de représailles. J’étais sous son emprise mentale. Il disait avoir en sa possession des photos compromettantes. Il a menacé de s’en prendre à mes enfants. J’ai consacré un chapitre dans mon livre à cette histoire, mais j’ai remplacé le nom de Ramadan par un pseudo.
Pourquoi porter plainte aujourd’hui ?
C’est la campagne contre le harcèlement sexuel #BalanceTonPorc qui m’a poussée à dévoiler le nom de Ramadan. Je me suis dit : « Qu’est-ce que ces femmes ont de plus que moi ? Je dois aussi dénoncer ce qui m’est arrivé. » J’ai reçu beaucoup d’insultes et de menaces. Soi-disant je voulais faire du buzz. Franchement, j’aurais préféré faire du buzz avec des choses plus positives, être connue autrement. J’ai reçu aussi beaucoup de soutien. Ce qui me donne de la force.
A travers cette plainte contre Ramadan, certains vous reprochent d’attaquer l’islam…
Je me considère comme une femme musulmane. Et j’en suis fière. Une musulmane qui respecte les lois de la République. Je devrais me taire parce que Tariq Ramadan utilise l’islam pour assouvir ses pulsions sexuelles ? Non. Pour lui, soit vous êtes voilée, soit vous êtes violée. Il y a beaucoup de musulmans qui respectent les femmes et les droits à l’égalité entre hommes et femmes. Ce sont eux qu’il faut valoriser. Pas ceux qui instrumentalisent l’islam pour asservir les femmes. On peut porter une jupe et être une femme respectable et respectée.
+ HD copy of the video
http://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/tariq-ramadan-accuse-de-viol-henda-ayari-une-des-victimes-presumees-se-confie-30-10-2017-7362729.php
Russia’s Grain Exports to Saudi Arabia Grew by 22% (sputniknews, Oct 30, 2017)
https://sputniknews.com/business/201710301058656605-russia-grain-export-saudi-arabia/
“Russia is ramping up business ties with Saudi Arabia amid the recent strengthening of relations after King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud’s visit to Russia…”
Looks like Uncle Vlad and the Sand King have kissed and made up.
I’m impressed: Uncle Vlad was justified in his rage against the madrassa-jihadi fifth column on his turf, organized and funded by the Wahhabis. In 2014 they threatened Putin directly and explicitly. A man notorious for holding grudges.
They must’ve groveled convincingly and paid him well. Besides giving him a card against the increasingly uppity Twisted-Ragheads, it displays the new normal – that the USA is no longer the Strong Horse.
Maybe some of our allies will be less amenable to our leadership in international orgs. Say, the UN. That’ll give coalitions against us – like Russia + China – more leverage. They can use that to support their rogue pets without it costing them a dime.
The Art of the Deal.
It might also defuse tensions in general around the world, who knows? And we’re not necessarily enemies of all their “pets” at any given time. For example, the contrived “Rohingya Crisis”.
Muslim Bengali squatters are provoking mayhem in the classic Tardish quest for Lebensraum. We should be for Myanmar’s self-defense against the orchestrated brouhaha. It’s another “Palestinian” victim narrative in-the-making.
(Though U.S. foreign policy remains kinky-inconsistent, and we’re swamped with hypocritical platitudes, it’s important we keep the facts straight. We’re not postmodernists, at least not yet.)
China wants stability because of its heavy investments off the Bay of Bengal coast. It’s made subtle noises to the machine promoting “Palestine-2” – familiar organ-grinders: The Ayatollahs, The Turk, Globull-MB, Inc. – to cool it with the Rohingya-industry. Don’t mess with the current Buddhist government, it’s still precarious.
China intends to keep a low profile, expend as little moral capital as possible. It’s unclear what it’s worth to them here. These are sorta-allies, after all. But that’s a very fluid concept for Cyclops-China. Despite its pretensions and delusions, it’s an inexperienced player in today’s nosebleed-echelons of diplomacy.
The US right now is not a credible protector, the Dems and the Deep State are following through to further the Obama treachery and what friends we have left are uncertain how long the internal conflict will continue and don’t know who is going to win. Czar Vlad looks to be the strong horse for the moment so they are going to back him.
China is trying to maintain peace on its borders while it struggles to get its economy in some kind of order (they probably won’t manage this but want peace to see) plus they are suddenly worried about North Korea since the mountain that Kim tested his nucks under looks to be collapsing and China is the nation that will receive most of the fall out.
Now throw in the possibility of a plague pandemic. These are the next stage of the game of GO or Game of Thrones we are playing. The only good news is that they libs seem to be in trouble because of their actions during the election. In the long run freedom will win but in the short and possibly most of the medium term the we are going to be outnumbered.
Rash Of ‘Knockout’ Attacks Has Some New Yorkers Worried
October 27, 2017 11:29 PM
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — There were warnings Friday about a possible upsurge in knockout attacks in which people are sucker punched for no good reason.
Video of one such incident shows a woman being suddenly kicked and then punched by a man. She was knocked out cold on the ground, but rather than help her several people took out phones to take pictures.
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Nobody called the police.
It happened in Pittsburgh more than a month ago, and something similar happened in Brooklyn on Thursday night.
“As he went to tie up his dogs to confront these kids, the group distracted him from the front and then one came up behind him and hit him in the head,” a witness said.
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2017/10/27/knockout-game/
Love the comments on the CBS website. White people are “woke” as in regards to the true purpose of Democrat gun control and that the ‘Knockout’ attacks are as Blacks themselves describe them: “Polar bear hunting.”
They have it figured out, the left in their arrogance think the unarmed public will not be able to do anything to stop them. Things are going to get “interesting” over the next 12 to 18 months.
Warnings of ‘GLOBAL OUTBREAK’ of Black Death as PLAGUE continues to spread
HEALTH experts are warning there is “something different” about a new Black Death outbreak spreading across the world.
Some 1,300 cases of the pneumonic plague, which is transmitted by air, have now been confirmed.
An estimated 50 million lives were lost as a result of the Black Death epidemic of the 1300s.
And now the deadly disease has spread into more African countries after taking root in Madagascar.
Countries affected include South Africa, Mozambique, Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia, Comoros, the Seychelles, Mauritius and Reunion.
So far, the virus has killed 124 people and infected around 1,300, but scientists say this figure will definitely rise.
The World Health Organisation, which has been working with Madagascar’s Ministry of Health, has warned the risk of the epidemic spreading is “high”.
“Plague, though terrifying, is nothing new in Madagascar, where about 600 cases are reported annually,” the organisation said on its website.
But officials said while “health officials couldn’t explain it”, the plague is different this time.
A Crisis Emergency Committee has been established in response to the outbreak, which will “coordinate surveillance, contact tracing, case management, isolation and supplies” until it is contained.
Air Seychelles, one of Madagascar’s biggest airlines, stopped flying earlier in the month, in an effort to contain the spread and airports are screening passengers to avoid spread of the plague.
Schools and businesses have been closed, and large public gatherings have been cancelled.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/656128/Plague-outbreak-global-black-death-Madagascar-Africa-WHO-South-Kenya-Ethiopia-Seychelles
This is going to be hard to contain it has the potential to becoming a world with pandemic. With it having mutated into the airborne version with a rapid advancement from infection to death combined with air travel means it iw going to he hard to stop. Also how many terrorist groups are going to watch what is happening and decide bio weapons are the way to go to destroy the West.
Gowdy on Russia Probe: Democrats Failing to Help Republicans
Congressman Trey Gowdy is accusing democrats of failing to help republicans properly investigate Russian meddling.
The chairman of the House Oversight Committee said in an interview Sunday, democrats seem more interested in probing than investigating how Russia tried to disrupt the 2016 election.
“I wish the democrats would help a little more instead of reading the Moscow phone book during the witness interviews trying to see if Jared Kushner knows a guy named Igor. I wish they’d help, but that’s been my focus in 2017 is understanding that Russia tried to subvert our democracy.”
Gowdy also said Special Counsel Mueller should crack down on leaks after early reports of charges being filed.
http://www.oann.com/gowdy-on-russia-probe-democrats-failing-to-help-republicans/
Mueller or someone very close to him is the leaker.
French High Court Orders Removal of Cross Above Statue of Pope John Paul II
The French administrative court has ordered the removal of a cross from a monument to Saint John Paul II in a public square in the northwest of France, saying it violates the secular nature of the state.
Italian media noted the irony of the ruling, remarking that the cross-removal is not taking place “in Raqqa, the capital of the Islamic State in Syria, but in Brittany, in the heart of Western Europe.”
The Conseil d’Etat, France’s highest administrative court, ruled last week that the statue of the Polish Pope in Ploërmel, Brittany, could remain but the large cross above the monument must be eliminated.
“Since the cross is a religious sign or emblem within the meaning of Article 28 of the Law of 9 December 1905 and its installation by the municipality does not fall into any of the exceptions provided by this article, its presence in a public location is contrary to this law,” argued the French court…………
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/10/30/french-high-court-orders-removal-of-cross-above-statue-of-pope-john-paul-ii/
Dhimma of [sic] Dhimmi s [sic] a historical term referring to non-Muslim citizens of an Islamic state. The word literally means “protected person”. A person has to sign a Dhimma contract and pay Jizyah (levied by a Muslim State from its non-Muslim residents) to become eligible to be protected under Islamic Law.
As per a report by the Middle East Media Research Institute, dozens of Christians from Al-Qaryaten city signed a Dhimma contract to safeguard their lives and interests.
11 rules for Dhimmis:
Rule No.2. They may not show the cross or any of their books in the Muslims’ streets or markets, and may not use amplifiers when worshiping or during prayer.
No. 3. They may not make Muslims hear the reciting of their books or the sounds of church bells, which must be rung only inside their churches.
No. 5. They must not perform religious rituals in public.
No. 6. They must respect Muslims and not criticize their religion.
It is a pet peeve of mine how Muslims and leftists both use the words, “respect” and “fear” interchangeably.
I do indeed fear Islam and leftist thought. But I can never respect it, neither will I ever respect it. It is, contemptible.
Neither group respect any other religion or political philosophy but demand we respect them! How can anyone respect any person of value system that doesn’t respect them?
In 2012 UNESCO defined Rachel’s Tomb in Hebron as a mosque.
It’s become “the mosque of Bilal ibn Rabah” -Mohammed’s first muezzin.
The dhimmis conceded that Jerusalem has no historic connection with the Jews. That’s what the nations in all their united majesty agreed. Fitting and proper.
Stick a fork in Europe.
Stick a fork in Western Civilization. We are entering a new Dark Age that will be very barbaric with high tech added. Right now we have a strong man who will defend the US as Commander in Chief, the big question is who will follow him and who will follow that person. We are going to need patriots who aren’t afraid to use force when necessary if we are to survive. Right now our weakness may be a blessing in disguise, the wanna be Emperors of the world will be facing Putin and Xi while we are rebuilding our strength. I wonder if Erdogan and Merkel have realized the how much they are going to miss the US as the sole super power?
Work resumes normally in Catalonia as Spain enforces direct rule
BARCELONA/MADRID (Reuters) – Work resumed normally in Catalonia and calm reigned on the streets on Monday despite calls for civil disobedience from secessionist politicians, in early signs the direct rule imposed to stop an independence bid from Spain was taking hold.
Although some public sector workers have yet to tell their new bosses whether they will accept orders, the lack of unrest came as a relief for financial markets, which rose.
Catalonia, a prosperous region with its own language and culture, triggered Spain’s biggest crisis for decades by holding an independence referendum on Oct. 1, which Spanish courts called illegal.
Spain’s Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy assumed direct control of the region on Friday, sacked its secessionist government and called a snap election for Dec. 21.
http://www.oann.com/spains-control-over-catalonia-to-be-tested-on-monday-as-work-resumes/
Videos: “Fiendish Alliance: Antifa Anarchists, Communists, Feminists, Islamists, Homosexualists Escalate Attacks on Catholic Church”
By William F. Jasper – October 27, 2017
https://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/faith-and-morals/item/27252-fiendish-alliance-antifa-anarchists-communists-feminists-islamists-homosexualists-escalate-attacks-on-catholic-church
U.S., South Korea, Japan urge North Korea to cease ‘irresponsible’ provocations
SEOUL (Reuters) – Senior defense officials from the United States, South Korea and Japan held trilateral talks and urged North Korea to walk away from its “destructive and reckless path” of weapons development, the U.S. military said in a statement.
Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff General Joseph Dunford hosted his South Korean and Japanese counterparts at the U.S. Pacific Command headquarters in Hawaii on Sunday to exchange views on North Korea’s recent long-range ballistic missile and nuclear tests.
“Together they called upon North Korea to refrain from irresponsible provocations that aggravate regional tensions, and to walk away from its destructive and reckless path of development,” the statement said.
http://www.oann.com/u-s-s-korea-japan-urge-n-korea-to-cease-irresponsible-provocations/
“HOUSE OF CARDS- Actor Anthony Rapp: Kevin Spacey Made A Sexual Advance Toward Me When I Was 14”
By True Pundit – October 29, 2017
http://truepundit.com/house-of-cards-actor-anthony-rapp-kevin-spacey-made-a-sexual-advance-toward-me-when-i-was-14/
Related: Warning Adult Content: “An Open Secret”
apan pledges to help Philippines rebuild Marawi
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan said on Monday it will help the Philippines rebuild conflict-torn southern Marawi city as well as other infrastructure in a deepening of ties to counter China’s regional influence.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made the pledges in a joint statement with Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte following talks in Tokyo.
Duterte on Oct 23 announced the end of five months of military operations in Marawi held by Islamic State rebels in a conflict that destroyed much of the city’s center and displaced some 300,000 people.
“The Government of Japan recognizes that rehabilitation and reconstruction of the City of Marawi and is extremely important,” the statement said.
http://www.oann.com/japan-pledges-to-help-philippines-rebuild-marawi/
An extraordinary timeline: DNC, Fusion, Hillary, Trump, Dossier, CrowdStrike, hirings, payments, and the 2016 primaries
By J.E. Dyer October 30, 2017
The timeline here cannot be considered a definitive data set on its own. It is undoubtedly incomplete, reflecting only what is publicly known at the moment. There is assuredly more we need to know.
But it does raise questions – chief among them why things were done as they were, and when they were.
The likelihood that the events were unrelated, or at least not understood and connected in the minds of at least a few people, is vanishingly small. The reason: high-profile lawyers at the Perkins Coie firm, who had represented the top Democratic clients involved for years, knew about each one of them, or were connected to someone who knew. It strains credulity to imagine that events involving the central actors in this drama unfolded without at least a handful of people being aware of everything that was going on.
The greatest debt for this timeline is to Chuck Ross at the Daily Caller. In the interest of brevity, I am not including all of his work, instead focusing on the period March through June 2016, and leaving out his commentary. Since his work on this is essential (including key links), I urge readers to review his entire timeline.
What I’ve done is insert additional events where they go in the timeline, and put my insertions in bold. The date entries I have added are underlined. Each of Chuck Ross’s original entries is marked with his name.
https://libertyunyielding.com/2017/10/30/extraordinary-timeline-dnc-fusion-hillary-trump-dossier-crowdstrike-hirings-payments-2016-primaries/
Richard: Pay close attention to this article, it is full of good information that at the moment no one is sure what the info means. We don’t know a lot about most of the info. This is one complicated mess and the fact that this info is coming out and getting close to high ranking Dems being proven to have committed crimes is why the Mueller investigation went public on the sealed indictments on Manafort and Papadopulous. Remember this may or may not be tied into the Uranium one deal which smells to high heaven of play for pay. Mueller was up to his neck in the Uranium one scandal and so were most of the people involved in this mess. WE don’t yet know how many of the people involved in these scandals committed crimes or what those crimes were. What we do know is that it is up to the new media to cover this crimes because the propaganda media isn’t going to touch them until they are forced to.
FBI’s focus on Paul Manafort has nothing to do with Russian collusion in the election
By LU Staff October 29, 2017
The FBI’s investigation into President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, is focused on several suspicious wire transfers he made four years before the presidential election, according to a Sunday report from Buzzfeed.
Manafort allegedly made 13 wire transfers from 2011 to 2012 that drew the attention of federal law enforcement officials, who were examining whether he was helping the Ukrainian regime launder millions it plundered through corrupt dealings. Much of the money was filtered through the U.S. before landing in various areas around the world, Buzzfeed’s report notes.
Trump’s former campaign manager has been the subject of multiple law enforcement investigations into Russian influence in the 2016 presidential election.
https://libertyunyielding.com/2017/10/29/fbis-focus-paul-manafort-nothing-russian-collusion-election/
Texas AG on Manafort indictment: Disturbed it leaked out
Can we use a word other than “leak”? That word has no agent. Someone spilled the beans, the bean did not leak by themselves.
good point.
Breaking: Ted Cruz Proposed A Bill Revoking Citizenship From Americans Who Joined Islamic State
http://americafastnews.com/breaking-ted-cruz-proposed-bill-revoking-citizenship-americans-joined-islamic-state/
French High Court Orders Removal of Cross Above Statue of Pope John Paul II
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/10/30/french-high-court-orders-removal-of-cross-above-statue-of-pope-john-paul-ii/
An attempt to sabotage a passenger aircraft as it lay parked in an airport hanger is being investigated by police.
According to local police in the northern town of Gällivare, the break-in was discovered at around 5.30am on Monday, before its morning flight.
Specialist officers have began examining the Nextjet plane to determine exactly what happened.
Nextjet’s morning flights from Gällivare to Karamfors and Stockholm were cancelled as a result of the incident.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5030889/Passenger-jet-sabotaged-off.html
A couple who survived the Las Vegas shooting died in a car crash just a half mile from their California home earlier this month, two weeks after the husband jumped onto his wife to shield her from the hail of bullets raining down on them during the Oct. 1 massacre.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/10/30/couple-that-survived-las-vegas-shooting-die-in-car-crash.html
P.S. If I were an insurance company, I’d not sell life insurance to any of the Las Vegas survivors…
Channel 4’s ‘Week as a Muslim’ sparks racism row
“I was disturbed at the lengths they went to turning a white woman into a Muslim” says journalist Radhika Sanghani as Channel 4’s documentary ‘My week as a Muslim’ sparks racism row.
My week as a Muslim 2017
( 44 min )
Algeria: Thousands-strong mob of “students” queues for visa to enter France
Yesterday, thousands of “students” mobbed the French Cultural Centre in Algiers, hoping to get a visa. The queue was for the first stage of the application process, which requires a French language exam to be passed. Some had waited all night.
https://diversitymachtfrei.wordpress.com/2017/10/30/algeria-thousands-strong-mob-of-students-queues-for-visa-to-enter-france/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBaGKBO1W1s
Discrimination Against White People: It’s Real
As real as the discrimination against black people was under segregation.
October 30, 2017
Daniel Greenfield
The release of an NPR poll in which a majority of white people (55%) answered that they face racial discrimination was treated with the media’s usual cocktail of condescension, disbelief and contempt.
But it’s not up for debate.
Racial discrimination against white people today is as real as the discrimination against black people was under segregation. We can talk about subjective experiences and do statistical correlations about differential outcomes until the cows come home. And that’s what most talk about racism is these days.
That and emotional outbursts, cries of, “Hands up, don’t shoot” and “I can’t breathe”.
But only one racial group in America is subject to a system of codes, regulations and laws discriminating against members of its race when it comes to employment and education.
Affirmative action is an inescapably real and racist as segregated water fountains.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/268256/discrimination-against-white-people-its-real-daniel-greenfield
for the LOLZ
Air traffic control audio from the night of the Las Vegas shooting reveals there were “active shooters on the runway”
http://archive.is/akxqj#selection-113.0-122.0
No idea what to believe on this, but all the survivors dying off is stranger than strange.
“Don’t Tell Me About Facts. I Don’t Need No Facts.”
The intellectual arrogance of suppressing campus speech.
October 30, 2017
Richard L. Cravatts
Seeming to give credence to Bertrand Russell’s observation that “The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts,” a student-written op-ed that ran in the September 25th issue of The Daily Princetonian argued that conservatives should not have the benefit of free speech, and do not even have the right to expect its protection because, given their ideological stance, “they are appealing to a right that does not exist” for them.
“In my belief,” student Ryan Born continued in this astounding piece of sophistry, “when conservative ideas are opposed, there is no right that is being infringed.” In fact, he seemed to be saying, the essential worthlessness of conservative ideology—as opposed to the virtue and fundamental truths embodied in progressive thought—means that instead of debating their ideological positions, conservatives should recognize the errors in their thinking and abandon their views. “Some ideas will already have been judged wanting,” Born wrote, and “Conservatives ought to question why some ideas are so stringently opposed and then adapt their arguments, instead of begging for ‘free speech.’”
Why? Because “conservatives are interested in being able to propose their ideas without any political opposition to their right to speech.”
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/268264/dont-tell-me-about-facts-i-dont-need-no-facts-richard-l-cravatts
Ridiculous New Ad Shows Confederate Flag-Toting Gillespie Chasing Minority Kids
http://ntknetwork.com/ridiculous-new-ad-shows-confederate-flag-toting-gillespie-chasing-minority-kids/?utm_source=r&utm_medium=organic
UN’s Special Ambassador of Tourism Called for Deporting Jews
October 30, 2017
Daniel Greenfield
The UN was just recovering from the controversial appointment of Zimbabwean dictator Mugabe as “goodwill ambassador” for health care despite destroying the life expectancy in his country. Now it managed to pick another winner.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/268262/uns-special-ambassador-tourism-called-deporting-daniel-greenfield
Sweden’s housing obligation to asylum seekers means other vulnerable groups go without: report (thelocal, Oct 30, 2017)
https://www.thelocal.se/20171030/swedens-housing-obligation-to-asylum-seekers-means-other-vulnerable-groups-go-without-report
“A new report by Sweden’s county administrative boards warns that vulnerable groups are struggling to find housing because homes are being allocated to asylum seekers. But the country’s housing minister insists that the real problem is municipalities not building enough.
In the report, which broadcaster SVT had access to, around 60 percent of Swedish
municipalities said they had experienced a ‘displacement effect’ – where other vulnerable groups had a difficult time finding a home because of the right to housing for asylum seekers.
“As a consequence, others who need housing go without. We are not obliged to supply housing for them,” Thed Carlsson, head of social services in Hässleholm municipality, told SVT.
According to him the groups impacted are students, young people, and also people who have had to stay longer at treatment homes and institutions because there is no housing available.
The situation may get worse, as Sweden’s municipalities and county councils estimate housing will need to be provided for around 100,000 people with residence permits over the next year.
Housing minister Peter Eriksson insists however that municipalities are attempting to shift the blame away from themselves.
“It’s an incorrect description. Municipalities have a housing security responsibility to ensure that everyone has a home. Most are attended to in the right way,” he told news agency TT.
According to him there is a problem with some municipalities and public housing companies not building to a degree that would provide an excess of housing for the coming years:
“The housing shortage cannot be solved with a quick fix. It will take time to resolve the shortage that has been building up for 20 years”.”
Pakistan bride accidentally poisons 13 family members in failed bid to kill husband (telegraph, Oct 30, 2017)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/10/30/pakistan-bride-accidentally-poisons-13-family-members-failed/
“Pakistani woman has been arrested after a plot to murder her husband with a poisoned glass of milk led to the death of 13 family members.
The woman’s mother-in-law used the tainted milk to make lassi, according to police, after her husband refused the glass. A total of 27 people, including several children, suffered poisoning from the yoghurt-based drink.
Police in Muzaffargarh, a city in south Punjab, say that Asiya concocted the plot to “avenge” being married against her wishes two months ago.
After an earlier attempt to flee to her parent’s home was foiled, she was provided with poison by her alleged lover, said a Muzaffargarh district police officer, Nazim Ali.
But the plot went awry when Amjad, Asiya’s husband, did not drink the glass of milk she handed to him, Mr Ali said. Instead, her mother-in-law poured the poisoned substance into a vat kept by the family, and drew from it the next day to make lassi and butter.
Initially, it was claimed that a lizard had fallen into the milk, poisoning it. But according to police, Asiya confessed her role while in custody.
Although Pakistan recently strengthened laws designed to prevent child marriage and forced conversion, there is little legal remedy for women who reject a partner chosen for them by their family.
Pakistan accounted for the highest number of forced marriages reported to the UK’s Forced Marriage Unit in 2016. Some 612 of the 1400 cases involved women from the south Asian country brought over to Britain.
Cases of poisoning are common in Punjab, where last month a newly-married couple were poisoned for unknown reasons by the family of the bride.”
Tony Podesta stepping down from lobbying giant amid Mueller probe
http://archive.is/3ntgi#selection-2785.0-2785.65
Context: Manafort is charged for activities he undertook while working for the Podesta Group.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal court in Washington is barring President Donald Trump from changing the government’s policy on military service by transgender people.
http://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/DC-court-bars-Trump-from-reversing-transgender-12317392.php
Courts don’t make laws; Congress does.
Only when you follow the Constitution, the Dems haven’t been doing that for several decades.
China Breaks Up Plot to Kill Kim Jong Un’s Nephew, Report Says
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:bGOVL1yNZ_sJ:https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-30/china-breaks-up-plot-to-kill-kim-jong-un-s-nephew-report-says+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=opera
Question: is this the heir-apparent that would inherit North Korea if China decides to enact a regime change there?
Former Trump Campaign Manager Manafort Indicted in Russia Probe
Furious Trump tweets ‘NO COLLUSION’ and washes his hands of campaign chairman Paul Manafort after Mueller indicts lobbyist on $75 million money-laundering charge and accuses him of conspiring against the U.S.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5031419/Paul-Manafort-Rick-Gates-told-SURRENDER.html#ixzz4x0x31PuI
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An angry Donald Trump washed his hands of his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort on Monday morning, hours after the veteran lobbyist was charged with conspiring against the United States and money-laundering on a gigantic scale.
‘Sorry, but this is years ago, before Paul Manafort was part of the Trump campaign,’ Trump tweeted after the charges were unsealed. ‘But why aren’t Crooked Hillary & the Dems the focus?????’
‘Also, there is NO COLLUSION!’ he insisted.
Manafort and his onetime business partner and protege Rick Gates surrendered to federal authorities early on Monday as the first charges from the probe of possible Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election were unsealed.
The pair appeared at FBI headquarters to be processed and left on their own recognizance after just a few hours. Manafort was scheduled to appear in a preliminary hearing before U.S. Magistrate Judge Deborah Robinson at 1:30 p.m.
The surrender was followed by a dramatic announcement that one of Trump’s campaign foreign policy advisers, George Papadopoulos, had pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his contact with Russians who promised ‘dirt’ on Hillary Clinton and ‘thousands’ of her emails.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5031419/Paul-Manafort-Rick-Gates-told-SURRENDER.html#ixzz4x0xJkCJY
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Islamophobia is a systemic problem in Canada: expert
People are not born hating Muslims. Yet polls reveal nearly half of Canadians have negative opinions of Islam and Muslims, suggesting a systemic problem.
That’s one of the key points Ayesha Chaudhry, associate professor of Islamic studies and gender studies at UBC, made during her recent testimony before the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage on motion 103, or M-103. The motion aims to combat Islamophobia and other forms of systemic racism and religious discrimination.
In this Q&A, Chaudhry discusses the issue of Islamophobia in Canada, M-103 and what governments can do to address religious discrimination.
What is M-103, and why is it important right now?
M-103 was tabled by MP Iqra Khalid in December 2016, shortly before the murder of six Muslims in a Quebec mosque. The killer, Alexandre Bissonnette, who is a white male and a white supremacist was radicalized on the internet, walked into the mosque and shot worshipers in prayer. This mass shooting in a place of worship occurred in the context of heightened Islamophobic rhetoric by politicians against Islam and Muslims, which gained momentum in the 2015 federal elections and was ramped up further this year by Kellie Leitch in her bid for leadership of the Conservative Party. The shooting also took place in the context of an alarming increase in hate crimes against Muslims, as well as generally negative sentiments against Muslims and Islam.
M-103 is therefore timely and necessary, and responds to an alarming rise in Islamophobia, which threatens the democratic foundations of Canada. Between 2012 and 2015, hate crimes against Muslims in Canada have increased a shocking 253 per cent. M-103 aims to collect data and study multiple forms of systemic racism and religious discrimination, and since Muslims are increasingly the targets of hate crimes in Canada, M-103 aims to study the causes and manifestations of Canadian Islamophobia. It seeks to strengthen our democratic institutions by ridding of them of systemic racism, and it will foster safe spaces for Muslims to have internal, self-critical conversations that are impossible for communities that feel under attack.
You testified on M-103 in the House of Commons last month. What were the key points in your testimony?
The systemic nature of Islamophobia threatens the very foundations of our democracy, which requires full participation from citizens who ought to be treated fairly through laws and institutions. Numerous polls suggest that there is pervasive bias against Muslims, such that half of all Canadians say they distrust Muslims, assign them collective blame, believe that they do not share “Canadian” values, and find Muslims “unacceptable” for their children to marry. In light of these numbers, we should expect bias against and hatred of Muslims to be found at all levels of society. That is what it means for a problem to be systemic, and I impressed on the committee that Islamophobia is not a matter of individual ignorance, but bias ingrained in and perpetuated by our institutions. To ensure the proper functioning of our democracy, the government must respond to the ugly, shameful, and, most importantly, systemic reality of Islamophobia in Canada.
What concrete actions can be taken to combat Islamophobia, systemic racism and religious discrimination?
The first step is to recognize the widespread nature of systemic racism, religious discrimination, and Islamophobia. The second step is to admit our own complicity in the production and maintenance of systemic racism, religious discrimination, and Islamophobia. We participate in and benefit from institutions that are built on the hatred and demonization of others, and we must work to ensure that those institutions are free from bias and hate. Canadians at all levels of society must recognize and divest from privileges that disadvantage others, whether that privilege is racial, gendered, economic, heteronormative, religious, or something else. Our government officials should take a leading role in impressing upon citizens that we will only defeat systemic racism, religious discrimination, and Islamophobia when we understand that whenever we as individuals or as institutions privilege any one group over another, then we as a society lose.
https://news.ubc.ca/2017/10/30/islamophobia-is-a-systemic-problem-in-canada-expert/
To listen to Ayesha Chaudhry’s testimony before the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage, click here.
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From /pol (only a screenshot):
https://i.redd.it/r6gtxda3m0vz.png
It connects the dots on the Russia investigation.
Trump statement on release of Benghazi planner:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DNaSI5cX4AA7FGO.jpg:large
Report: Obama paid nearly $1 million to law firm that hired Fusion GPS to compile anti-Trump dossier
Did former President Barack Obama’s campaign organization, Obama for America, play a role in the creation of the so-called anti-Trump dossier made by Fusion GPS? A new report suggests it may have.
What did the report say?
According to an extensive report from The Federalist, OFA paid nearly $1 million to the same law firm, Perkins Coie, that funneled money to Fusion GPS, the opposition research organization that made the dossier at the request of Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee.
http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/10/29/report-obama-paid-nearly-1-million-to-law-firm-that-hired-fusion-gps-to-compile-anti-trump-dossier/
FBI Bombshell: Far-Left U.S. Radicals Colluding With ISIS
Home > World > Germany > FBI Bombshell: Far-Left U.S. Radicals Colluding With ISIS
A new book by a former editor in chief of The New York Times Magazine and best-selling author reveals for the first time an FBI field report about the collusion between American anti-Trump radicals and foreign ISIS/al-Qaeda operatives.
In his latest book, All Out War: The Plot to Destroy Trump, set to be released today, Edward Klein reveals to the public findings from an FBI investigation into the shocking ties between far-left radicals in America and Islamist extremists.
The FBI report was delivered to Acting Director Andrew McCabe on July 11, 2017. While certain names have been redacted, Klein reveals how the FBI followed a group of Americans anarchists/radicals who traveled to Germany to join their German counterpart Antifaschistische Aktion to protest Trump’s attendance at a meeting of G20 leaders and central bank governors.
Evidence gathered from a variety of intelligence sources showed the Americans took part in the violence there. “There is also evidence of meetings between these individuals and associates of ISIS…Making some sort of common cause with Americans who are determined to commit violence against the U.S. makes them potentially very useful to radical Islam,” writes Klein based on the report.
https://clarionproject.org/fbi-bombshell-far-left-u-s-radicals-colluding-isis/
Mauro: Kurdish State Is Inevitable
Home > World > Iraq > Mauro: Kurdish State Is Inevitable
By Clarion Project Monday, October 30, 2017
video at site
https://clarionproject.org/mauro-kurdish-state-is-inevitable/
Turkey: Erdogan’s Stalinist Purge
by Giulio Meotti
October 30, 2017 at 5:00 am
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/11092/turkey-erdogan-purge
End of August, Madrid: At the Turkish government’s request through Interpol, Spanish police arrested a famous Turkish writer, Dogan Akhanli, who was on vacation in Spain. A few days earlier, in Barcelona, Spanish authorities had arrested the Turkish writer, Hamza Yalcin, a reporter for the left-wing newspaper Odak. Meanwhile, in Turkey, another writer, Ahmet Altan was on trial. Turkish authorities prevented yet another Turkish novelist, Asli Erdogan, from flying to Europe to receive the Erich Maria Remarque Peace Prize in the German city of Osnabrück.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Turkey has already made headlines for jailing dozens of journalists in a round-up that has transformed Turkey into “the world’s biggest prison for reporters”. Perhaps even more objectionable is Turkey’s persecution of novelists who do not even take part in the political debate. They are hated by Erdogan’s Islamist government simply for conveying Western ideas and fighting for freedom of speech. What is happening in Turkey is even more urgent than what is happening in Iran and Saudi Arabia, two other Islamic countries that persecute and jail writers: Turkey is, at least rhetorically, a democracy as well as the Islamic world’s purported bridge to Europe.
Outrage as ISIS jihadis to go to the ‘front of the queues for council houses and jobs’ (express, Oct 30, 2017)
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/873214/isis-extremists-council-homes-jobs-operation-constrain
“COUNTER-TERRORISM experts have described Government proposals to re-intergrate extremists back into British society with offers of council homes and jobs as “mistaken” and tantamount to bribery.
Leaked plans for a scheme called Operation Constrain suggest putting returning jihadis at the front of the queue for social housing, and helping them into education or employment.
The project would reportedly target up to 20,000 extremists known to MI5, while Britons returning from former Islamic State strongholds in Syria would also be eligible.
The nationwide programme is due to start next year, the Mail on Sunday reported.
Whitehall said the scheme was part of the government’s commitment to “respond to the evolving threat in the most effective way we can”.
But former counter terrorism advisor Col Richard Kemp told the Telegraph: “I think it’s very much mistaken policy.
“When you look at the profile of many of the people who have been involved in terrorist attacks in the UK, or travelled overseas, they do not come from deprived backgrounds.
“If someone is inclined to be an extremist, you are not going to bribe them into not being a terrorist.”
Terrorism expert Professor Anthony Glees told the Mail: “You can’t bribe people not to be terrorists.”…”