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Jerome Corsi – twitter – train attack?
https://twitter.com/jerome_corsi/status/958932417787695104
Sorry about the post. I thought that Jerome Corsi was going to discuss the Train Attack. Delete pleaseee
The train-truck crash may have been a giant government screw up. But i can tell you it was not an attack.
“i can tell you it was not an attack”
You clearly haven’t been following what’s been taking place. This might be the biggest event in over 100 years.
How can you ignore what took place in Saudi Arabia. You think that was done on their own?
Too soon to make such an irrational statement as ‘i can tell you it was not an attack’
Please, do the probability calculation: less than 0.1% that this was a random event.
Without speculating who/what is behind this incident (the probability calculation of several of the most logical deductions/assumptions is much higher than the random probability), this statement borders on irresponsible.
Sorry for the harsh wording – just follow the math…
There where two trucks that hit the train one from the front and one in the rear.
You can believe what you want
Im out of here
there is also +200 all republican representatives on that train
NTSB should have stats on truck crashes with chartered trains. Quite a few eesulta pop up from a simple web search on Amtrak truck crash
I’m with you, this was an accident, no one with any knowledge of railroads would try to injure the passengers in this clumsy a way. The engine was damaged but none of the passenger cars were derailed (their wheels didn’t leave the track). The engine wasn’t seriously damaged, as I said no one with any knowledge of railroads would plan an attack like this one.
Also the train wasn’t going very fast when the accident occurred, you can tell that by the small amount of damage to the truck that the engine hit, and by the small amount of damage to the engine.
If you want to injure the passengers you have to put the passenger cars on the ground.
Also there were 3 people in the truck. The person on the passenger side was killed, as that is where the train struck. The other 2 people, centre and passenger side, are alive but there are varying degrees of very serious injury.
If this was a plot to kill the people in the truck it would be, well no, it wouldn’t be more believable cause you know, trains run on rails and trucks can go pretty much anywhere so it would be pretty hard to set up.
All of my retired police and special operator friends say that if they were setting up an accidental death a car, truck accident of any type would not be on the list of accidents to arrange. Despite what you see on TV and the Movies you can’t guarantee that the target would be injured, much less killed.
When in doubt ask the pros, if they will trust you enough to answer the question.
That is a 24 hour video.
Qanon already said it was something to do with a drone.
Maybe a drone killed the driver or disabled the truck.
Drone.
Re_read crumbs
Q
https://qcodefag.github.io/
Various ‘government organisations’ have the ability (this is not disputed) to access the electronics of most vehicles and either accelerate them or render the immobile at any point in time/space they desire.
This is why the British gov is seeking to mandate extensive electronics in each and every car sold/operated within the EU – so that it is 100% under gov surveillance, and full control to shut down and/or accelerate/shut down steering…soon, disabling these functions of any commercially sold vehicle will render it incapable of starting – so that rebels like you and I are not able to disable the gov ability to, at any time, take over the speed/steering of our vehicle from the driver without disabling the vehicle from being driven at all.
Welcome to THE nightmare!!!
Maybe we should tell them “NO” and explain why it is not OK….like in Italy or Sweden.
SOUTHERN EUROPE
Migrants in Italy will be taught they shouldn’t beat women when they say “NO” –
“Modena, the cooperative “Red Lion” had the fantastic idea to start a courtship course for migrants, teaching them how to behave with Italian women and how to react to a refusal. The “anti-racist” front in Italy is the same cooperative that has been aiding “refugees” and migrants for a long time and is proud supporters of multiculturalism.”
https://voiceofeurope.com/2018/01/migrants-italy-will-teached-shouldnt-hurt-women-say-no/
Sorry about that, posted in the wrong place. :O
From a Imam: “a avalanche of apostasy is coming”
Vicious attack from “southerner” on a wheelchair bound man –
Mario Zivkovic was brutally attacked in Frankfurt by two men, the police are looking for witnesses.
If that’s not despicable enough, how about stealing babies?
In Nuremberg the Negroes are already stealing babies:
In the Nuremberg pedestrian zone two men on Wednesday apparently wanted to take a baby out of a stroller. The police said one man held the mother while the other lifted the child out of the car.
According to the mother, the incident is said to have taken place around 2:00 pm in Karolinenstrasse at the level of a financial institution. According to the 33-year-old had just left the bank when she was suddenly arrested. Another man wanted to lift the child out of the stroller and said that he wanted to take it with him.
Witness intervenes
As a result, a still unknown witness verbally intervened in the events, so that both men fled towards the White Tower. Immediately after the incident became known, the police initiated extensive manhunt operations. So far they have unfortunately not been successful. The mother, who appears to be completely disturbed by this incident, was escorted to the Criminal Investigation Department. She remained unhurt, as did her child.
Witnesses wanted
Description of the first man: about 25 – 30 years old, about 190 cm tall, slim, dark complexion,
black short hair, eye catching gold chain around the neck, wearing red adidas jacket with lettering on the chest, spoke broken German
Description of the second man: about 40 years old, about 175 cm tall, strong build, darker
Complexion, short black hair, nothing known about clothing.
http://www.infranken.de/regional/nuernberg/nuernberger-fussgaengerzone-maenner-wollen-baby-aus-kinderwagen-stehlen-zeuge-greift-ein;art88523,3161146
Maybe we should tell them “NO” and explain why it is not OK….like in Italy or Sweden.
SOUTHERN EUROPE
Migrants in Italy will be taught they shouldn’t beat women when they say “NO” –
“Modena, the cooperative “Red Lion” had the fantastic idea to start a courtship course for migrants, teaching them how to behave with Italian women and how to react to a refusal. The “anti-racist” front in Italy is the same cooperative that has been aiding “refugees” and migrants for a long time and is proud supporters of multiculturalism.”
https://voiceofeurope.com/2018/01/migrants-italy-will-teached-shouldnt-hurt-women-say-no/
The “isolated incidents” are listed here daily:
https://twitter.com/Einzelfallinfos
https://gab.ai/Einzelfallinfos
The “isolated incidents” from Germany are listed here daily:
https://gab.ai/Einzelfallinfos
https://twitter.com/Einzelfallinfos
Armed police respond to ’28-year-old’ man SHOT in the NECK in Tottenham, London (express, Feb 1, 2018)
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/912915/UK-London-Tottenham-crime-armed-police-news-latest-Woodside-Gardens-A10-Bruce-Grove
“ARMED police rushed to the shooting of a 28-year-old man in London which caused the closure the A10 in Bruce Grove at the junction of Woodside Gardens, according to reports…”
Terrifying moment man pulls out a GUN on the dance floor as mass brawl erupts in Birmingham nightclub before reveller is slashed across the face (dailymail, Feb 1, 2018)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5336783/Mass-brawl-involving-gun-erupts-Birmingham-nightclub.htm
“This is the horrifying moment chaos erupted at a popular nightclub – shortly before a man was slashed in the face.
Dramatic footage reveals how a mass brawl – which saw a man pull out a gun – broke out inside Prisma nightclub in Birmingham in the early hours of Sunday morning.
In the 30-second clip, a roar of shouting and screaming can be heard as several men viciously brawl in the centre of the Bristol Street club’s dancefloor.
A woman yelled as one man appeared to pull out a gun from his pocket…”
Prisoner is found stabbed to death ‘in another inmate’s cell’ at Wormwood Scrubs jail (dailymail, Feb 1, 2018)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5336205/Prisoner-stabbed-death.html
“A prisoner has been stabbed to death at HMP Wormwood Scrubs, Scotland Yard has said.
The man was found with a number of knife injuries on Wednesday afternoon at the prison in west London.
He was pronounced dead at the scene.
A Metropolitan Police spokesman said: ‘Police were called at 3.19pm on Wednesday January 31 to reports of a male with stab injuries at HMP Wormwood Scrubs.
A male was later pronounced dead at the scene.
‘No arrests have been made. Enquiries are ongoing.’…”
Two men are arrested on suspicion of people smuggling after nine ‘sea sick’ Albanian migrants were rescued from inflatable dinghy off the Kent coast as they tried to cross the Channel (dailymail, Feb 1, 2018)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5336265/RNLI-lifeboat-crew-save-NINE-sea-sick-Albanian-migrants.html
“Two men have been arrested on suspicion of people smuggling after nine migrants were rescued from a boat crossing the English Channel.
Eight men and one woman, who told Border Force officers they were Albanian, were rescued by lifeboat crews on Wednesday morning in the Dover Strait, 20 miles from Dungeness.
Two of the men have been arrested by the National Crime Agency and are being questioned.
Martin Grace, NCA senior investigating officer, said: ‘This incident demonstrates the dangers associated with attempts to cross the Channel in this manner, and it is extremely fortunate that all those on this vessel were able to be recovered safe and well.
‘An investigation is underway and we are working closely with Border Force and Immigration Enforcement.’
The other people on board are being dealt with by Border Force, the NCA said.
A search and rescue operation involving the Maritime and Coastguard Agency, the RNLI, Border Force and the NCA was launched after a small boat was spotted off the coast of East Sussex.
A rigid hull inflatable boat, carrying nine people, was eventually located and those on board taken by lifeboat to Eastbourne harbour.
It is understood the group had set sail from Boulogne in France on Tuesday night with gales in the English Channel reaching Force 6 to 7.
A Maritime and Coastguard Agency spokesman said: ‘There are casualties, but no fatalities. They have all been recovered. Everyone is accounted for and safe and well.
‘They are on a lifeboat and heading to port. They were recovered on a lifeboat. They are cold and a bit sea sick.’ …”
Extremists are ‘perverting’ education by using schools to narrow children’s horizons under the guise of religious belief, Ofsted chief warns (dailymail, Feb 1, 2018)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5337911/Extremists-using-schools-narrow-childrens-minds.html
“Religious extremists are using schools to ‘indoctrinate’ the mind of youngsters and narrow their horizons, the head of Ofsted has warned.
Strict parents and religious community leaders are using classrooms as a way of spreading their beliefs on the ‘impressionable’ minds of children, Amanda Spielman said.
Ofsted Inspectors are also increasingly coming across those who want to ‘actively pervert’ the purpose of education.
In a speech today, Ms Spielman will warn schools that they should not assume that the ‘most conservative voices’ of a particular faith group speak for everyone, and that they must not be afraid to ‘call out’ any practices that they feel could have a negative impact on young people.
She will also offer her support to the headteacher of a school that was forced to back down over plans to ban young pupils from wearing the hijab in class, saying school leaders have the right to set uniform rules ‘as they see fit’.
‘Freedom of belief in the private sphere is paramount, but in our schools it is our responsibility to tackle those who actively undermine fundamental British values or equalities law.
‘That doesn’t just mean Ofsted, but everyone involved in education. Rather than adopting a passive liberalism, that says ‘anything goes’ for fear of causing offence, schools leaders should be promoting a muscular liberalism,’ Ms Spielman will say.
The inspector will say that such freedoms promoted by schools hold ‘no truck for ideologies that seek to close minds or narrow opportunity’ and leaders will have to react.
‘Occasionally that will mean taking uncomfortable decisions or having tough conversations,’ she will say.
‘It means not assuming that the most conservative voices in a particular faith speak for everyone – imagine if people thought the Christian Institute were the sole voice of Anglicanism. And it means schools must not be afraid, to call out practices, whatever their justification, that limit young people’s experiences and learning in school.
‘In that regard schools must not, in their entirely correct goal of promoting tolerance, shy away from challenging fundamentalist practice where it appears in their schools or communities.
‘Similarly schools must not allow pressure from certain elements of school communities to dictate school policy, nor should we allow vocal parental minorities to pressure other parents and children to act or dress against their wishes. Giving way to the loudest voices is the opposite of tolerance.’
The chief inspector will also say that the schools’ watchdog will ‘always back heads who take decisions in their interests of their pupils’, as she offers her support to the head of St Stephen’s primary school in east London, which hit the headlines earlier this month after it emerged it planned to block pupils aged under eight from wearing the hijab in the classroom.
The school faced a severe backlash for the decision, which was later reversed.
Offering her support to St Stephen’s headteacher, Neena Lall, Ms Spielman will say: ‘School leaders must have the right to set school uniform policies in a way that they see fit, in order to promote cohesion.
‘It is a matter of deep regret that this outstanding school has been subject to a campaign of abuse by some elements within the community.
‘I want to be absolutely clear, Ofsted will always back heads who take tough decisions in the interests of their pupils.'”
Rohingya rebel group denies links to human, drug trafficking groups (asiancorrespondent, Feb 1, 2018)
https://asiancorrespondent.com/2018/02/rohingya-rebel-group-denies-links-human-drug-trafficking-groups/#6oqeRIZ1vorfM8EY.97
“THE armed rebel group fighting for the liberation of the Rohingya people has accused the Burmese military of hiring violent gangs to pose as its members to tarnish its “noble image.”
In a statement released Wednesday, the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) said the “Burmese terrorist government” had commissioned groups that were committing offences in their name. They also accused other independent armed groups of the same…”
Egyptian security sources: Dozens of officers recently joined Al-Qaeda-linked group (memo, Feb 1, 2018)
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20180201-egyptian-security-sources-dozens-of-officers-recently-joined-al-qaeda-linked-group/
“On Wednesday, Egyptian security sources reported that, dozens of officers joined Ansar Al-Islam during the past few months, an Al-Qaeda-linked organisation is led by former Special Forces officer Hisham Ashmawi.
In a report it published on Wednesday Reuters said that “former officers in the Egyptian Army pose an increasing security threat,” citing the ambush of Western Sahara, which targeted an Egyptian security force, killing and wounding dozens of officers in October 2017.
This attack was the first appearance of Ansar Al-Islam. According to Reuters, the group “is part of an unknown network that the Egyptian security forces accused of attempting to assassinate a former interior minister in 2013 and killing the Egyptian Attorney General in a car bomb two years later.”
Reuters quoted Intelligence officials as saying: “The secret network that Ansar Al-Islam is affiliated to represents a more difficult security challenge than the Sinai extremists. It consists of former army and police officers who use their counterterrorism training, reconnaissance and surveillance operations to attack security authorities in which they previously served.”
An Egyptian security source said that: “The elements in Western Sahara are more dangerous than those in Sinai because they have military experience. They are led by former officers who arm themselves with advanced weapons. They can easily move because of the geographical nature of the place, and easily come and flee to Libya. There are those who help them in the tribes on the borders, and they cooperate with arms traffickers to smuggle them across the desert routes.”
The security source added: “There is little information about them. Such groups cannot be eliminated overnight because they work on achieving a goal and then hide to regenerate their strength and reorganise their plans.”
An Egyptian state security officer (currently the National Security Agency) told Reuters that “they have become stronger because after every operation they settle down for a long time to include new numbers, new weapons and treat those who have been wounded. They only work on quality operations, so their members or their weapons cannot be drained.”
According to two security sources, in the past few years, Ashmawi has launched a recruitment campaign that has currently started to bear fruit in terms of the number of the members who joined.
“Hundreds of members of the security forces have been dismissed from service in the past few months because of their political or religious affiliations,” Egyptian security officials said.
According to officials, the reasons for the officers’ dismissal included the refusal to arrest protesters in a protest, or publishing anti-government posts on social media websites.”
These are the young who were MB enthusiasts.
The political elders have been squashed, radicalised youth went mostly al-Q Salafist. Tough for el-Sisi to manage, what with strongholds in Libya, Western Sahara, and Africa.
They’re getting weapons via Libya – we have a certain responsibilty to help out there. Qatar, Turkey, and probably wealthy Gulf individuals continue to finance a mess distant from their own palaces.
Human rights group: Dozens of civilians facing death risk at hands of Haftar forces (memo, Feb 1, 2018)
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20180201-human-rights-group-dozens-of-civilians-facing-death-risk-at-hands-of-haftar-forces/
“On Wednesday, the Libyan Human Rights Solidarity organisation has warned that dozens of civilians are at risk of death at the hands of Khalifa Haftar’s forces…”
US allows Syrians to stay for another 18 months (memo, Feb 1, 2018)
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20180201-us-allows-syrians-to-stay-for-another-18-months/
“The Trump administration said on Wednesday it would allow some 7,000 Syrians to remain in the United States for at least another 18 months under protected status as civil war rages in their native country, according to Reuters…”
Lebanon calls for Turkey’s support for boosting security, infrastructure (memo, Feb 1, 2018)
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20180201-lebanon-calls-for-turkeys-support-for-boosting-security-infrastructure/
“The Lebanese Prime Minister, Saad Hariri, yesterday called on the Turkish government to support Lebanon on enhancing its security and to invest in the country’s infrastructure renovation.
“I’ve asked the Turkish government to support Lebanon in its two national priorities, including enhancing the capabilities of the army and the security forces, and developing the country’ infrastructure sector,” Hariri said on Twitter…”
Why not ask Iran directly?
– Oh, you are.
US State Department designates Hamas leader as terrorist (gulfnews, Feb 1, 2018)
http://gulfnews.com/news/mena/palestine/us-state-department-designates-hamas-leader-as-terrorist-1.2166556
“The US State Department said on Wednesday it had designated Esmail Haniyeh, leader of the Islamist Palestinian group Hamas, as a terrorist.
The State Department said in a statement that Haniyeh, along with two Islamist groups active in Egypt and one in the Palestinian territories, were listed as specially designated global terrorists.
It quoted Secretary of State Rex Tillerson as saying the designations “target key terrorist groups and leaders – including two sponsored and directed by Iran – who are threatening the stability of the Middle East, undermining the peace process, and attacking our allies Egypt and Israel.”…”
Are armed pro-government vigilantes rising in Turkey? (BBC, Feb 1, 2018)
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-42739541
“A new law in Turkey has sparked concern that pro-government vigilantes could commit acts of political violence without ever facing justice.
Now there are fears that it is also encouraging civilians to join militia groups to defend the country’s leaders, as the BBC’s Selin Girit reports…”
These groups are running rampant, making life miserable for religious minorities and people with a more Western orientation. Tentacles stretch to Euro-Turks.
Morality push may outlaw sex outside marriage in Indonesia (abcnews, Feb 1, 2018)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/revisions-indonesia-law-outlaw-sex-marriage-52753878
“Riding a tsunami of moral conservatism and anti-gay prejudice, Indonesia’s Islamic political parties appear on the cusp of a major victory: outlawing all sex outside marriage.
Revisions to Indonesia’s criminal code being considered by Parliament would allow prison sentences of up to five years for sex between unmarried people. Those changes would also criminalize gay sex, the bugbear of Indonesia’s Islamic and secular political parties…”
UN official says Rohingya crisis has ‘hallmarks of genocide’ (abcnews, Feb 1, 2018)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/official-rohingya-crisis-hallmarks-genocide-52759519
“The U.N. special envoy on human rights in Myanmar said Thursday that the Myanmar military’s violent operations against Rohingya Muslims bear “the hallmarks of a genocide.”
Yanghee Lee told reporters in Seoul, where she is based, that she couldn’t make a definitive declaration about genocide until a credible international tribunal or court had weighed the evidence, but “we are seeing signs and it is building up to that.”…”
Pakistani court disqualifies lawmaker for threatening judges (abcnews, Feb 1, 2018)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/pakistani-court-disqualifies-lawmaker-threatening-judges-52758394
“Pakistan’s Supreme Court has disqualified a lawmaker from the ruling party for five years after finding him guilty of threatening judges in a speech last year.
In Thursday’s decision, the court also sentenced Nehal Hashmi, of the Pakistan Muslim League, to one month in prison.
The decision came a day after Hashmi apologized over his May 2017 speech, in which he threatened judges for ordering a corruption probe against former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. In the speech, he said once the judges retire, “we will make your life and (the lives of) your family members miserable.”
In July 2017, the Supreme Court disqualified Sharif from office for concealing assets.
Since then, Sharif himself has castigated judges for ousting him from power, but has faced no legal action over his speeches.”
FSB kills ISIS terrorist planning attack during Russian presidential election (RT, Feb 1, 2018)
https://www.rt.com/news/417565-terrorist-attack-foiled-election/
“Russia’s FSB security agency has eliminated a terrorist suspect in the city of Nizhny Novgorod, who plotted a high-profile attack during the 2018 presidential election.
An FSB Special Forces team has foiled “the activities of an Islamic State [IS, formerly ISIS] member who planned a terrorist attack in Nizhny Novgorod,” the agency said in a statement on Thursday.
“According to the intelligence collected, the terrorist – a citizen of a neighboring state – was preparing the attack on the day of [the] Russian presidential election,” it added.
The suspect opened fire at the FSB team trying to apprehend him but was shot dead, according to law enforcement.
A high-power improvised explosive device as well as firearms and ammunition have been found at the terrorist’s location…”
Turkish Strikes Kill 49 PKK Militants in Northern Iraq – General Staff (sputniknews, Feb 1, 2018)
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201802011061253575-turkey-operation-afrin-iraq-pkk/
“A total of 49 members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), listed as a terrorist organization in Turkey, were killed in airstrikes carried out by the Turkish Air Force in northern Iraq, the Turkish General Staff said on Thursday.
“Forty nine terrorists were killed as a result of the Turkish Air Force’s airstrikes targeting the separatist terrorist organization’s [PKK] facilities in the northern Iraqi regions of region of Asos/Qandil, Zap, Avasin/Basyan and Hakurk on January 29,” the Armed Forces’ General Staff said in a statement seen by Sputnik.
Army’s statement provides details of the strikes carried out by Ankara on Monday, when Turkish jets hit eight targets in northern Iraq, destroying shelters, hideouts and arsenals, belonging to militants, who were allegedly preparing to attack border posts.
The airstrikes were conducted amid Ankara’s ongoing operation in Syrian Afrin, which is aimed at eliminating terrorists on the border with Syria, according to Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who later also clarified that Ankara can extend its third military advance in Syria all the way east to the border with Iraq in a bid to clear borders from militants…”
Pakistan extends Afghan refugees’ stay for only 60 days (reuters, Feb 1, 2018)
https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-pakistan-afghanistan-refugees/pakistan-extends-afghan-refugees-stay-for-only-60-days-idUKKBN1FL4P8?rpc=401&
“Pakistan’s government has extended the stay of Afghan refugees in the country for 60 days, a shorter-than-recommended time that revives fears Islamabad is preparing a forced return of hundreds of thousands to violence-plagued Afghanistan.
About 2.5 million Afghans live in Pakistan, home to the world’s second-largest refugee population.
For years, the refugees, some of whom have been living in Pakistan since the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, received longer-term extensions of up to a year of the Proof of Registration cards that give them legal status.
But recent tense relations between the neighbours has prompted concern that Pakistan might retaliate by pushing back Afghan refugees, particularly since official permission to stay was only extended for 30 days at the beginning of this year.
On Wednesday, Pakistan’s Ministry of States and Frontier Regions, which deals with the refugees, recommended a five-month extension in permission to stay.
But late that evening, the cabinet disregarded the recommendation and ordered a shorter extension…”
Hungary says could quit U.N. talks on migration pact (reuters, Feb 1, 2018)
https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-hungary-migrants-un/hungary-says-could-quit-u-n-talks-on-migration-pact-idUKKBN1FL4Q9?rpc=401&
“Hungary could quit talks on a United Nations pact on migration because its pro-migration tone threatened Hungary’s security interests, the foreign minister said on Thursday.
Hungary’s right-wing nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who seeks reelection for a third consecutive term in elections on April 8, has been one of the strongest opponents to the European Union’s migration policy since his government fenced off the country’s southern borders in 2015 to keep out migrants.
Orban has stepped up the anti-migrant campaign since last year, accusing U.S. financier George Soros of stoking illegal migration. Soros has strongly rejected an extended nationwide campaign against him as “distortions and lies” meant to create a false external enemy.
The government says illegal immigration threatens to undermine European stability and its harsh anti-migrant rhetoric has gone down well with voters.
Some analysts said the threat to quit the U.N. migration pact talks was part of Orban’s domestic political campaign aimed at mobilising voters. His ruling Fidesz party has a firm lead over the opposition in opinion polls.
“The U.N. wants to create a pact that encourages migration, we are of the opposite view, and if the first draft (of this pact) in February takes this line … the question is why we would have to take part in this debate?”, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto told M1 state television.
Szijjarto said migration posed a global challenge that was dangerous and must be stopped.
In December, the United States quit negotiations on the migration pact because, according to the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, a global approach to the issue was “simply not compatible with U.S. sovereignty.”
With a record 21.3 million refugees globally, the 193-member U.N. General Assembly adopted a political declaration in 2016, known as the New York Declaration, in which they agreed to spend two years negotiating the pact on safe, orderly and regular migration.
Formal negotiations are expected to start in February over the non-binding pact.
Peter Kreko, director of think tank Political Capital said the anti-UN comments were part of Orban’s domestic campaign, and fit into the narrative of his battles with Brussels over migration.
“It fits into the fight for sovereignty,” Kreko said.
According to a poll released on Thursday by institute Median, Fidesz’ election support dropped to 37 percent from 39 percent, while the strongest opposition party Jobbik gained 2 percentage points to 13 percent. Among decided voters, Fidesz had 53 percent support, down from 60 percent, while Jobbik had 18 percent.”
Morocco arrests seven Islamic State suspects – ministry (reuters, Feb 1, 2018)
https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-morocco-security/morocco-arrests-seven-islamic-state-suspects-ministry-idUKKBN1FL5AS?rpc=401&
“Moroccan authorities have arrested seven suspected Islamic State militants who had been planning attacks, the interior ministry said on Thursday.
The suspects had been active in a cell in the northern city of Tanger and northeastern city if Meknes and planned attacks, the ministry said in a statement, adding that arms and electronic devices had been seized.
No further details were immediately available.
Moroccan authorities say they have dismantled dozens of jihadist cells since 2002, including about 50 with alleged links to Islamic State.”
France to finance exports to Iran, aims to sidestep U.S. sanctions (reuters, Feb 1, 2018)
https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-iran-france-usa/france-to-finance-exports-to-iran-aims-to-sidestep-u-s-sanctions-idUKKBN1FL48U
“PARIS (Reuters) – France will start offering euro-denominated credits to Iranian buyers of its goods later this year, a move to bolster trade while keeping it outside the reach of U.S. sanctions, the head of state-owned investment bank Bpifrance said.
France and other European countries have been looking to increase trade with Iran since Paris, Washington and other world powers agreed in 2015 to lift many economic sanctions in exchange for controls on Iran’s nuclear program.
The plan is to offer dedicated, euro-denominated export guarantees to Iranian buyers of French goods and services. By structuring the financing through vehicles without any U.S. link, whether to the currency or otherwise, the aim is to avoid the extraterritorial reach of U.S. legislation.
The move could anger U.S. President Donald Trump, who has threatened to pull out of the Iran nuclear agreement reached by his predecessor Barack Obama. Washington has maintained some financial restrictions, leaving private banks – even those based outside the United States – wary of financing deals…”
Death to America! Death to Israel!
Yes, cuddle up with Iran.
Go directly to hell. Do not pass GO.Collect your 200-Euros in blood.
Iran: ‘The Iranian Nation has seen your crimes’ – Rouhani slams US
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani slammed the US for committing “crimes throughout history” during a speech in Sirjan, in the Kerman province on Thursday.
“Let no one in Washington think that they can decide for the great Iranian nation. The Iranian nation has seen your crimes throughout history”, said Rouhani. In addition, Rouhani strongly criticised the role of the United States in the Middle East, and seemingly blamed them for the instability in the region, “you invaded Afghanistan and Iraq and help ISIL and it is you who does not want security in the region.”
Go for it, Mogherini.
Just lap it up, Micron.
Kurds uneasy over US silence on Turkey’s Afrin assault (alaraby, Feb 1, 2018)
https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/news/2018/2/1/kurds-uneasy-over-us-silence-on-turkeys-afrin-assault
“The US needs to do more to halt Turkey’s offensive on Afrin, said Syria’s Kurdish militia Thursday, as Ankara intensifies its campaign against the Kurdish stronghold.
The Kurds’ alliance with the US – a key supporter in the fight against the Islamic State group – is a growing concern among the fighters. Washington finds itself in a tenuous position between their Kurdish allies and its relations with NATO ally Turkey.
Afrin holds particular significance and is seen as part of an existential fight. The enclave was one of the first Kurdish areas to rise up against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and is a base for senior fighters.
The campaign, which started 20 January, targets the US-backed People’s Protection Units (YPG), which is considered a terrorist group by Ankara. Turkish authorities say that utmost care is being taken to not harm civilians in the operation dubbed “Olive Branch”.
The UN has estimated that 15,000 have already been displaced in the offensive, and there are fears that a sustained military campaign could spark a “humanitarian tragedy” for civilians living on the Syrian-Turkish border.
“How can they stand by and watch?” Aldar Khalil, a senior Kurdish politician told AP of the US-led coalition against IS.
“They should meet their obligations towards this force that participated with them (in the fight against terrorism). We consider their unclear and indecisive positions as a source of concern.”
Kurdish officials have also criticised conflicting and confusing statements made by Washington officials in public, with some US comments being viewed as tacit support for the assault…”
FBI expresses ‘grave concerns’ over Republican memo’s accuracy
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The FBI said on Wednesday it had “grave concerns” about the accuracy of a top-secret House Intelligence Committee memo alleging anti-Trump bias within the Justice Department, challenging President Donald Trump’s pledge to release it.
But a few hours after the rare public rebuke by the top U.S. law enforcement agency, a Trump administration official said the memo was likely to be released on Thursday.
“The FBI was provided a limited opportunity to review this memo the day before the committee voted to release it,” the FBI said in a statement. “As expressed during our initial review, we have grave concerns about material omissions of fact that fundamentally impact the memo’s accuracy.”
The FBI declined to say if Director Christopher Wray, who viewed the memo during the weekend, approved the statement. Trump named Wray to head the Federal Bureau of Investigation after firing Director James Comey last May.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-memo/fbi-expresses-grave-concerns-over-republican-memos-accuracy-idUSKBN1FK25P
Richard: The sewer rats strike back, if the memo weren’t very accurate McCabe wouldn’t be on terminal leave. Remember that his actions speak much louder then the words of the FBI spokesman.
Schiff Claims House Intel Republicans ‘Secretly Altered’ Spy Memo
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California Rep. Adam Schiff claimed Wednesday that Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee altered a controversial surveillance memo after the panel voted earlier this week to release the document to the public.
In a letter to California Rep. Devin Nunes, the chairman of the committee, Schiff claimed that Democrats discovered on Wednesday that the classified four-page memo had been “secretly altered” prior to being sent to the White House for review.
“After reviewing both versions, it is clear that the Majority made material changes to the version it sent to the White House, which Committee members were never apprised of, never had the opportunity to review, and never approved,” Schiff wrote.
The Intelligence Committee voted along party lines on Monday to release the memo, which alleges that the FBI and Justice Department misled a federal judge in order to obtain a surveillance warrant in order to spy on Trump associates.
http://dailycaller.com/2018/01/31/adam-schiff-devin-nunes-fisa-memo-fbi/
Byron York: As memo fight rages, critics ask: All this over Carter Page?
As expected, there is a desperate last-minute fight going on over the release of the House Intelligence Committee “FISA abuse” memo. In a statement Wednesday, the FBI expressed “grave concern” over the memo, saying it contained “material omissions of fact that fundamentally impact the memo’s accuracy.”
Committee Chairman Devin Nunes hit back, at first accusing the FBI of making material omissions of its own by withholding information from Congress in the long fight over Trump-Russia documents. Later, Nunes specifically denied the “material omissions” charge, saying, “The memo contains all the relevant facts on FISA abuse.”
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/byron-york-as-memo-fight-rages-critics-ask-all-this-over-carter-page/article/2647777
KURDISH, TURKEY SUPPORTERS CLASH AT UTRECHT STATION; POLICE RESPOND (nltimes, Feb 1, 2018)
https://nltimes.nl/2018/02/01/kurdish-turkey-supporters-clash-utrecht-station-police-respond
“A protest at Utrecht Centraal on Wednesday evening turned into a confrontation between Kurdish people protesting against Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan and counter-protesters. The police intervened and dispersed the protesters, NU.nl reports.
A group of around 70 protesters gathered in the station hall to protest against Turkey invading Syria two weeks ago to expel Kurds from a safe ‘no-go zone’. The protesters carried banners and shouted slogans like “Erdogan murderer!”, according to the newspaper. Some 40 counter protesters arrived and the atmosphere quickly turned grim.
Police officers immediately intervened when the confrontation threatened to turn physical, a spokesperson for the police said to NU.nl. Police dogs and officers on horses were used to separate the two groups. The police also ordered the station’s door on the Jaarbeurs side to remain closed for some time, to keep the protesters outside.
The demonstrators were taken to more quiet locations in the city. No one was injured. One person was arrested for refusing to identify himself.
The police were only informed about the demonstration at the last minute. According to RTV Utrecht, the municipality was also unaware of the protest. At least the counter-demonstrators did not register their protest.”
Rep. Maxine Waters calls for a parental advisory when Trump appears on TV
Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., who appeared on BET Wednesday to lambast President Trump’s State of the Union Address, called for a parental advisory each time the president appears on television.
“Whenever he appears on TV there should be a disclaimer that says ‘This may be may not be acceptable for children,’” she said.
Waters recorded a pre-taped response to Trump’s address, which was broadcast on attorney and political commentator Angela Rye’s BET special.
“One speech cannot and does not make Donald Trump presidential. He’s not presidential and he never will be presidential. He claims that’s bringing people together but make no mistake, he is a dangerous, unprincipled, divisive, and shameful racist,” Waters said.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/02/01/rep-maxine-waters-calls-for-parental-advisory-when-trump-appears-on-tv.html
MAXINE WATERS: Russia is out to get me!
Maxine Waters now sees a Russian behind every mailbox and lamp post.
During an anti-Trump tirade at an urban housing event, the California congresswoman went on a stem winder about Russia and the Kremlin’s alleged love for the American president.
At one point, the paranoid Waters declared Trump has committed “obstruction of justice,” and made the case for impeachment, also citing “possible collusion” with Russia.
http://www.theamericanmirror.com/maxine-waters-russia-get/
FBI Officials Knew of New Clinton Emails Weeks Before Alerting Congress
Andrew McCabe learned of thousands of emails found on Anthony Weiner’s laptop at least a month before alerting lawmakers
Top FBI officials were aware for at least a month before alerting Congress that emails potentially related to an investigation of Hillary Clinton had emerged during a key stretch of the 2016 presidential campaign, according to text messages reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.
FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe had learned about the thousands of emails by Sept. 28, 2016, and Director James Comey informed Congress about them on Oct. 28, 11 days before the presidential election, the messages show. Mr. Comey later said nothing in the new emails had changed the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s decision that Mrs. Clinton had committed no prosecutable offenses.
That lag is one focus of an investigation by the Justice Department’s inspector general, or in-house watchdog, into a variety of FBI actions in advance of the 2016 election, according to people familiar with the matter. Mr. McCabe stepped down this week, and FBI Director Christopher Wray in a note to bureau employees announcing Mr. McCabe’s departure also said he wouldn’t comment on the inspector-general probe. The Washington Post first reported the inspector general’s interest in the time lag.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/fbi-officials-delayed-telling-congress-of-clinton-emails-discovered-before-2016-election-1517450265
Mueller Zeros In on Story Put Together About Trump Tower Meeting
WASHINGTON — Aboard Air Force One on a flight home from Europe last July, President Trump and his advisers raced to cobble together a news release about a mysterious meeting at Trump Tower the previous summer between Russians and top Trump campaign officials. Rather than acknowledge the meeting’s intended purpose — to obtain political dirt about Hillary Clinton from the Russian government — the statement instead described the meeting as being about an obscure Russian adoption policy.
The statement, released in response to questions from The New York Times about the meeting, has become a focus of the inquiry by Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election. Prosecutors working for Mr. Mueller in recent months have questioned numerous White House officials about how the release came together — and about how directly Mr. Trump oversaw the process. Mr. Mueller’s team recently notified Mr. Trump’s lawyers that the Air Force One statement is one of about a dozen subjects that prosecutors want to discuss in a face-to-face interview of Mr. Trump that is still being negotiated.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/31/us/politics/trump-russia-hope-hicks-mueller.html
The State of the Union stats don’t lie: Americans are turning against Trump-hating celebrities and buying into the President’s American dream – THAT’S a nightmare for Democrats
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5334815/American-people-turning-against-Trump-hating-celebrities.html#ixzz55rsmQYNP
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The stats don’t lie.
Within minutes of President Donald Trump’s first State of the Union speech, CBS News revealed their YouGov poll approval ratings on it.
Unsurprisingly, 97% of Republican speech watchers liked it.
More surprisingly, 72% of Independents liked it.
Staggeringly, 43% of Democrats liked it.
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“Michelle Obama reveals what was inside the blue Tiffany box she received from Melania Trump on Inauguration Day” Breaking911 – January 31, 2018
http://breaking911.com/michelle-obama-reveals-inside-blue-tiffany-box-received-melania-trump-inauguration-day/
“Raw Video: Obama Arrives at the White House”
Bearing Gifts @ 1:10
AP – Pub. on January 20, 2009
New Mexico bill would force students to apply to college
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico’s high school juniors would be required to apply to at least one college or show they have committed to other post-high school plans as part of a new high school graduation requirement being pushed by two state lawmakers.
The proposal is scheduled for its first legislative hearing on Thursday. If it eventually becomes law, New Mexico would be the first state to require post-high school plans of students, said Jennifer Zinth, who is the director of high school and STEM research at the Education Commission of the States, a Denver-based group that tracks education policy.
The bill sponsored by Rep. Nate Gentry, a Republican, and Daniel Ivey-Soto, a Democrat, would make it mandatory for public school juniors to apply to at least one two- or four-year college. Exceptions would be made for students who can prove they have committed to military service, a vocational program, or work upon graduation in an apprenticeship or internship. Parents and school guidance counselors would have to approve of the students’ plans.
The measure was drafted with the aim of reversing declines in college enrollment across the state, which fell nearly 14 percent from 155,065 enrolled students in 2010 to 133,830 in 2016.
http://www.kob.com/politics-news/new-mexico-legislature-politics-post-high-school-plan-bill/4766980/
But will they be able to READ?
Probably not.
Sharia marriage should be recognised in British law, review commissioned by Theresa May concludes (telegraph, Feb 1, 2018)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2018/02/01/sharia-councils-should-not-banned-could-forced-underground-review/
“Sharia marriage should be recognised under British law, a review commissioned by Theresa May has concluded.
The landmark report by Professor Mona Siddiqui also called for Sharia councils to be regulated by the Government and warned that banning the religious bodies could force them “underground”.
Announcing its findings today the report found that couples should be forced to register their Islamic marriage in a civil ceremony and fines should be imposed if they do not.
There is no current obligation to do so, meaning couples who want to divorce must do so in a Sharia court, where the marriage is recognised.
The Marriage Act would have to be changed in order to enforce the recommendation, which is being considered by the Home Office…”
French students occupy university floor demanding amnesty to all migrants (RT, Feb 1, 2018)
https://www.rt.com/news/417550-paris-university-migrants-occupation/
“Students at the University of Paris occupied a campus building Tuesday, calling on the government to support and grant asylum to all migrants regardless of their reasons for coming to France.
Describing themselves as the Migrant Support Committee, the students issued a statement calling for “papers for all” and an end to the distinction between “economic migrants” and “political refugees.”
The university building was occupied after students held a general assembly to discuss possible plans of action, according to the Immigrant Information and Support Group (GISTI), a French organization which aids foreigners in France.
Participants who posted information about the demonstration on Twitter claimed that at least one whole floor of the university building was occupied by approximately 200 students.
“For years, thousands of exiles have been abused by the authorities and forced to live on the streets,” GISTI wrote on its website. The immigrant advocacy group, which has been highly critical of French president Emmanuel Macron’s migrant policy, said the country’s “so-called reception centers” for migrants actually serves as “sorting centers” and are the “first step” towards the mass expulsion of migrants from France.
In a letter published online, French academics, teachers and researchers also expressed solidarity with undocumented students. Further demonstrations in front of the Ministry of Higher Education had been planned for Wednesday.”
7,000 Daesh Militants, Thousands of ‘Reservists’ Acting in Afghanistan – Moscow (sputniknews, Feb 1, 2018)
https://sputniknews.com/asia/201802011061266328-daesh-militants-reservists-afghanistan/
“Almost 7,000 militants and several thousand “reservists” of Daesh terrorist group (banned in Russia) are currently operating in Afghanistan, Russian Special Presidential Envoy for Afghanistan and the Foreign Ministry’s Director of the Second Asian Department Zamir Kabulov said Thursday…”
German Parliament Extends Moratorium on Refugee Family Reunification (sputniknews, Feb 1, 2018)
https://sputniknews.com/europe/201802011061264409-germany-family-reunification-moratorium/
“German lawmakers voted on Thursday in favor of a draft bill to keep until July 31 the moratorium on family reunification for migrants entitled to subsidiary protection in Germany.
During the session, aired by the Phoenix TV station, the parliament also rejected draft bills submitted by opposition parties. The Free Democratic Party proposed to extend the moratorium on reunification for two more years, while the parliamentary group of the Alternative for Germany political party suggested depriving refugees of the right to family reunification. The Left and The Greens parties demanded complete removal of the restriction…”
FIVE FBI Members Went to White House and REVISED House Intel FISA Memo
Was the collusion to influence the election in the FBI, not Russia?
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, (R-Ga.), on the potential fallout if the FISA memo is released.
Gingrich: Rogue FBI would be a threat to every American
FBI is threatening Trump: Chris Farrell
Trump must release the full memo to the public: Sebastian Gorka
the gateway pundit – Major Garrett: Memo Will be Sent Back to House Intel Committee Friday with Redactions From WH – Committee to Release on its Timetable
Rumors were swirling the FISA memo would be released Thursday, now sources are saying maybe Friday. That is if the House Intel Committee releases it Friday says CBS’s Major Garrett.
CBS’s Major Garrett tweeted, “Administration officials tell me #GOPMemo will be sent back to House Intelligence Committee on Friday with redactions from the #WH based on internal consultations w @FBI & other agencies. WH will not “release” memo but send it back to committee for it to release on its timetable”
https://twitter.com/MajorCBS/status/959094920656113664
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/02/major-garrett-memo-will-sent-back-house-intel-committee-redactions-wh-committee-release-timetable/
CNN – Trump sees Nunes memo as way to discredit Russia investigation
President Donald Trump continues to tell his associates he believed the highly controversial Republican memo alleging the FBI abused its surveillance tools could help discredit the Russia investigation, multiple sources familiar with White House discussions said.
euronews – FBI expresses ‘grave concerns’ over secret memo Trump plans to release
BREITBART – Donald Trump Has Read Controversial FBI Intelligence Memo; Plans to Release on Friday
A White House official confirmed to reporters that President Donald Trump has read the House Intelligence Committee FISA memo after the committee voted to release it to the public.
Reporters questioned the president after Democrats protested the release of the memo, but neither he nor his chief of staff John Kelly would respond to questions about whether the White House would allow its public release.
Trump is currently in West Virginia to deliver a scheduled speech to a meeting of House and Senate Republicans.
A Fox News report cites sources that say Trump will declassify the memo on Friday, despite a few technical edits made by House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer responded by demanding Speaker Paul Ryan remove Nunes as chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, accusing him of “dangerous partisanship.”
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/02/01/donald-trump-read-controversial-fbi-intelligence-memo-plans-release-friday/
the daily caller – Trump Approves Release Of FISA Memo
President Donald Trump has approved the release of a classified memo compiled by House Republicans on the intelligence committee, clearing the way for its release Friday, multiple outlets report.
The document allegedly contains proof that some of the top officials in the Obama-era national security establishment abused their authority to obtain surveillance warrants on members of the Trump 2016 campaign. House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes assembled the memo with fellow Intel committee members and staff based on classified information turned over by the FBI and the DOJ.
NEW: President expected this morning to approve release of controversial Nunes memo challenging origins of Russia investigation. Also: White House agreed to FBI requests for redactions. w/the great @carolleonnig and @nakashimae: https://t.co/C1zsjGzawh — Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) February 1, 2018
The memo will be released with some technical redactions requested by the FBI, which continues to object to the document’s release. House rules dictate that the legislature can vote to declassify material in the public interest stipulating the president must approve its release within 5 days.
After the president’s approval the memo will be transferred back to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence who will then publicly release it. Trump reviewed the memo after the committee voted to declassify the memo Monday. Administration officials insisted the memo was undergoing a thorough national security review before any decision on its release.
“As expressed during our initial review, we have grave concerns about material omissions of fact that fundamentally impact the memo’s accuracy,” the bureau said in a rare public statement Wednesday.
http://dailycaller.com/2018/02/01/when-will-trump-release-fisa-memo/
CBS -FBI director prepared to issue rebuttal if Nunes memo released, Fran Townsend says
FBI director Christopher Wray is prepared to issue a rebuttal if the White House releases Rep. Devin Nunes’s classified memo alleging inappropriate surveillance of the Trump campaign by the FBI and Justice Department, according to CBS News senior national security analyst Fran Townsend. The FBI issued a statement Wednesday that they have “grave concerns” about the memo and the “material omissions of fact that fundamentally impact the memo’s accuracy.”
Townsend, who served as homeland security adviser to President George W. Bush, told “CBS This Morning” she believes the FBI is worried about both the accuracy of the memo’s contents and what it may reveal about their sources and methods.
“I think we have to remember the Nunes memo is an advocacy piece. It’s not a fact piece. This is Chairman Nunes’ summary of what he believes the abuses are. For that reason, it’s one-sided,” Townsend said.
Townsend, who spent 13 years at the Justice Department, said it’s simply “not possible” for one partisan actor to push through a FISA warrant or to obtain one based on a single piece of evidence.
“There’s multiple internal reviews in the FBI, there’s a legal review at the Justice Department, it goes to the attorney general, or in this case, the deputy who reviews it and then it goes to an independent federal judge who looks at it. No FISA warrant relies on a single piece of evidence. So if the allegation from Chairman Nunes is that they relied solely on the Steele dossier, that’s not possible. It never happens,” she said.
Earlier this week, FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe stepped down amid mounting pressure from the FBI director.
Townsend also addressed a Washington Post report about an internal Justice Department probe focusing on McCabe’s slow handling of a batch of Hillary Clinton’s emails uncovered in the late stages of the 2016 campaign.
“My understanding here from sources inside the FBI was initially they believe there might have been as many as 6,000 e-mails some of which may have been classified and there would have had to been an entire process to review that,” Townsend said. “I think we shouldn’t attribute malice where it might have just been bureaucratic caution.”
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fbi-director-prepared-to-issue-rebuttal-if-nunes-memo-released-fran-townsend/
BREAKING: ‘Huge explosion’ in Ankara, Turkey near parliament buildings (express, Feb 1, 2018)
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/913284/ankara-explosion-turkey-parliament-buildings-cukurambar
“AT LEAST one huge explosion has been reported in Ankara, Turkey, near the capital city’s parliament buildings.
Witnesses reported hearing at least one blast in the Çukurambar region of the city.
Photos taken at the scene show smoke rising in the air and badly damaged buildings.
One resident said on Twitter: “I can confirm I just heard the most enormous explosion in #Ankara. No idea what.”
Ambulances have been rushed to the scene.
The cause of the explosion has not yet been confirmed.
Turkey has been hit by several terror attacks in recent months as well as an unsuccesful but bloody military coup in 2016.
Ankara’s parliament building was bombed during the July 2016 attempted putsch.
This is a breaking story, more to follow…”
ITALY –Missing woman’s body found in 2 suitcases
ANSA) – Macerata, January 31 – The dismembered body of an 18-year-old woman who left a drug rehab centre Monday was found Wednesday in two suitcases dumped in the countryside outside Pollenza near Macerata in Marche.
The body was identified as that of Rome-born Pamela Mastropietro, who voluntarily left the rehab centre at nearby Corridonia on January 29. Carabinieri said they had obtained CCTV footage shot by the security cameras of two firms in the area where the suitcases were found.
Police have also interviewed people living there.
The dogs at a nearby villa were said to have barked incessantly starting at 11 o’clock last night, prompting police to think that was when the suitcases were dumped.
The suitcases were spotted by a passerby in a ditch not far from the gate of a small villa in Via Dell’Industria. The man, thinking it was a case of drugs or a robbery haul, called the police.
The whole area was immediately cordoned off by police and Carabinieri have been combing the countryside around it for clues, police said.
The suitcases may have been thrown into the ditch from a passing car, police said.[…]
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Man arrested for grisly suitcase murder
ROME – Innocent Oseghale, a Nigerian national living in the city of Macerata, has been arrested in connection with the grisly murder of 18-year-old Pamela Mastropietro, whose remains were found in two suitcases.
Mastropietro’s body had been cut into pieces, placed within two suitcases and dumped in the countryside near to the town of Pollenza, about 10 kilometres outside of Macerata.
Carbinieri announced that they had recovered two crucial bits of evidence from a search of Oseghale’s house: bloodstained clothing belonging to the victim and a receipt from a nearby pharmacy detailing the victim’s purchase of a syringe.
Investigators were led to Oseghale after a tip-off from a foreign citizen who reported having seen the Nigerian with two suitcases in the early hours of the morning near to the spot where they were discovered.
Oseghale was interrogated overnight but investigators refused to rule out the involvement of other figures. The Provincial Commander of the Carabinieri for Macerata, Michele Roberti, told ANSA that “we are not excluding that points of the investigation might emerge that lead to the involvement of other people.”
Mastropietro had voluntarily checked herself out of a drug rehabilitation clinic in nearby Corridonia on Jan 29. CCTV footage used by investigators established that she had been alive until at least the late morning of the following day, when she was last seen in Via Spalato, the same street that Oseghale lives on.
Violence against women remains a substantial problem in Italy. In 2017, women accounted for 37 per cent of the total victims of murders in the country, a rise of 13 per cent in the past 10 years.
In Nov 2017 police began their latest campaign to tackle the issue, but concerns remain over the number of women who report crimes and pursue their claims in the courts.
http://www.italianinsider.it/?q=node/6362
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Nigerian accused over dismembered teen
(ANSA) – Macerata, February 1 – Nigerian national Innocent Oseghale has been detained in relation to the murder of Pamela Mastropietro, an 18-year-old whose dismembered body was found Wednesday in two suitcases dumped in the countryside outside Pollenza near Macerata in Marche, sources said Thursday. Carabinieri forensic police found bloodstained clothes belonging to the victim and other blood traces at the suspect’s home, sources said.
They also found a receipt from a nearby pharmacy where the victim had bought a syringe, they added.
The woman had voluntarily left a drug rehab centre at nearby Corridonia on January 29.
Oseghale has a record for drugs offences, police said.
He was pinned down by CCTV footage of the area where the suitcases were dumped, and by a foreign national who said he saw him carrying the suitcases there.
Mastropietro is believed to have been killed on the morning of January 30, police said.
http://www.ansa.it/english/news/general_news/2018/02/01/nigerian-accused-over-dismembered-teen-3_91d59409-4c19-4f33-90a0-309b4ae66880.html
Backstory on ‘Dossier No. 2’ is even weirder than on Dossier No. 1
By J.E. Dyer February 1, 2018
There’s strange, and then there’s uber-bizarre OUT THERE. The latter is what we seem to have in the case of the second dossier reportedly handed to the FBI by Christopher Steele – but compiled by a longtime associate of Hillary Clinton’s.
We’ve probably heard already everything we need to know about the antecedents of this second dossier. We just didn’t know at the time – back in the first half of 2017 – that the tale we were hearing then culminated, as I suspect it did, in “documentation” being presented to the FBI as a “dossier” on Trump, or at least on some associates that may include Paul Manafort and Rex Tillerson.
The original reporting on what appears to underlie this second dossier came from Buzzfeed (March 2017), Politico (January 2017), and Daily Caller (March 2017). All of the journalists reporting at the time were skeptical of the substance of the tale, given who was involved in retailing it. One of the individuals tangentially named has a link to Mr. Cody Shearer, who, as is invariably the case, has his own “big-league” links to Hillary and Bill Clinton.
This second dossier is now said by the Guardian to be the work of Cody Shearer. Notably, it also emerged last week that the Senate is looking for information from the Democratic National Committee on any contacts it had with Cody Shearer in 2016 or 2017.
We encountered Shearer, even before January 2018 and the “second dossier,” in tracing the tale from 2017, which included painting Paul Manafort as a Russian agent of influence, and which suggested that Rex Tillerson was placed in the Trump administration as a Russian agent of influence. (This last is absurd, I know, but hang in there. It gets even more surreal.)
https://libertyunyielding.com/2018/02/01/backstory-dossier-no-2-even-weirder-dossier-no-1/
Party of civility reacts predictably to news of fatal GOP train accident
By Ben Bowles February 1, 2018
The party of tolerance and compassion was in rare form again yesterday following reports that a train carrying Republican lawmakers en route to a West Virginia retreat had collided with a truck, killing one.
Following the lead of kindhearted liberals who had tweeted out their regrets that “more Republicans weren’t shot” in the baseball field shooting in June that seriously wounded Republican Majority Whip Steve Scalise, CNN “talking head” Jonathan Tasini tweeted Wednesday that “God is working hard today to clean up the stink”:
https://libertyunyielding.com/2018/02/01/party-civility-reacts-predictably-news-fatal-gop-train-accident/
DACA recipients hilariously furious that Trump described American citizens as ‘dreamers’
By LU Staff February 1, 2018
One of the more memorable lines from President Donald Trump’s first State of the Union speech was a simple defense of his nationalist-oriented approach to immigration policy.
“Americans are dreamers, too,” he said, demanding that any deal to legalize the beneficiaries of the soon-to-expire Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) amnesty prioritize the safety and economic opportunity of American citizens. The four-word quip was an instant favorite among Republicans and immigration hawks.
Many DACA recipients, on the other hand, hated it.
DACA beneficiaries — commonly known as “Dreamers” — watching the address from California were generally indignant that Trump would deign to associate illegal immigration with crime, violence, and economic harm against native-born Americans. But, as the San Diego Union-Tribune reports, some were particularly apoplectic over Trump’s “dreamers, too” line.
“Oh no, he did not!” 29-year-old DACA recipient Fernanda Madrigal was quoted as saying. “Stop taking our message!”
https://libertyunyielding.com/2018/02/01/daca-recipients-hilariously-furious-trump-described-american-citizens-dreamers-sotu/
Russia Collusion and the Trump Dossier
Germany: Mayor seeks to prevent further refugees distribution to Freiberg
In a town hall meeting in Freiberg on Thursday, the mayor Sven Kruger and other council members met to discuss legal measures to prevent further refugees being sent to their town.
Following the moves of other German cities, the town of Freiberg decided to take legal steps against the county of Middle Saxony, and the state of Saxony, to avoid the further distribution of refugees and asylum seekers. Krueger and his fellow council officials want to achieve an immigration stop to their town for two years and to demand a more just distribution within the state of Saxony.
VICE -This Is What Life Is Like Under Sharia Law
Hypnosis Experitment – Through the eyes of a refugee – a project by Amnesty International
This film project documents an extraordinary project in which five people from the Netherlands and Belgium were brought into a state of hypnosis, so they could gain deeper insight into the journey of a Syrian refugee. Under the guidance of a professional hypnotherapist, the participants experienced the journey of 29-year-old Marwa, from Syria, as she made her way to safety to the Netherlands.
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Six migrants SHOT in Calais brawl after food handouts turn violent (express, Feb 1, 2018)
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/913395/Calais-shooting-violence-migrants-Emmanuel-Macron-brawl
“AT LEAST four Calais migrants are fighting for life after being shot when two rival groups clashed in a two-hour running battle after food was handed out at the French port today, police said.
Gunshots rang out as a group of Eritreans brawled with Afghans on the northern French coast.
Four people were critically injured in the shooting, including one who was blasted in the head, with another two also suffering bullet wounds.
A further 12 were left injured as the violence raged in front of stunned drivers and onlookers.
Some were said to be suffering from head injuries after being attacked with metal poles.
Police said they had to intervene to protect the Afghan migrants after they were “threatened by 200 migrants of Eritrean nationality”.
Authorities said there were two fights, one of which is thought to have lasted for around two hours.
Witnesses claimed some of those taking part were wielding clubs and iron bars.
A further clash took place on a nearby industrial estate as fighting brought chaos to the area.
French Interior Minister Gerard Collomb today said he would travel to Calais to review the situation following what he called today’s “serious incidents”….”
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Democrats’ Hatred of Trump Is Going to Bring Them Down
Reflections on the State of the Union.
February 1, 2018
David Horowitz
Donald Trump’s State of the Union address was perfectly pitched for the political moment. He spoke to and for the American people – for all Americans of whatever race, color or creed. He spoke for the poorest and most vulnerable among us, who are the chief victims of the Democrats’ determination to welcome millions upon millions of illegal aliens, who are mainly low wage laborers and who include predatory criminals, to pour into our country; to defy federal law with their “sanctuary” states and cities, and to effectively declare our border and immigration policies null and void. Trump did not use the word “sedition” to describe the law-breaking and Constitution-negating actions of his Democratic predecessor or the Democrats assembled in the chamber of the House. He provided instead an opening to them to abandon their “resistance” – resistance to the expressed will of the American voting public which has led to a relentless sabotage of the democratic process. In sum, he offered a hand to his Democratic haters, and they slapped it away.
When Trump summarized the successes of his first year in office, he emphasized how the prosperity of his first twelve months impacted the lives and hopes of ordinary Americans, wage laborers and others whom the eight years of the Obama presidency had left behind. In doing so he exposed the Democrats in the most dramatic way imaginable. Under his policies, he boasted, black and Hispanic unemployment are record lows. As he said this and the Republican side of the house rose to its feet in applause the TV camera panned to the morose members of the Democrats’ Black Caucus, sitting on their hands and showing America that the last thing they care about is their black constituents. What they care about is their hatred for Trump, and about not disturbing the biggest lie of the political season: that the White House is the headquarters of a “white supremacy” movement intent on keeping black Americans down and making them suffer.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/269190/democrats-hatred-trump-going-bring-them-down-david-horowitz