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“Nikolas Cruz: Troubled suspect had been expelled from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School” By Stephen Hobbs, Paula McMahon, Anne Geggis and Scott Travis
February 14, 2018
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/broward/parkland/florida-school-shooting/fl-school-shooting-cruz-20180214-story.html
February 14, 2018 (9h) Laguna Beach Antifa posted Nicholas Cruz wearing a Antifa shirt.
February 14, 2018 (3) “Stop spreading fake news.”
https://twitter.com/LagBeachAntifa7/status/963996642335690753
Now it gets weird.
Beverly Hills Antifa posts a video by Matt Musil.
“WTF this is Alexa Miednik, a Senior at Douglas HS who claims she saw and spoke to the suspect after shots were fired & believes there was someone else shooting.” Beverly Hills Antifa – 8:42 PM February 14, 2018
https://twitter.com/BevHillsAntifa2/status/963996966819528704
“#KHOU11 After shifting over from #ASTROS Camp to coverage of school shooting in Parkland, Forida, I talked with Alexa Miednik , a Senior at Douglas HS. She never saw a gun but she says she knows the alleged shooter…” Matt Musil – 7:05 Pm – 14 February 2018
https://twitter.com/KHOUSportsMatt/status/963972590258806785
“FAU pitcher, Stoneman Douglas alum Jake Miednik, family unhurt in school shooting” February 14, 2018
http://faufocus.blog.mypalmbeachpost.com/2018/02/14/fau-pitcher-stoneman-douglas-alum-jake-miednik-family-unhurt-after-school-shooting/
Jake Miednik – Twitter
https://twitter.com/JakeMiednik?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Ffaufocus.blog.mypalmbeachpost.com%2F2018%2F02%2F14%2Ffau-pitcher-stoneman-douglas-alum-jake-miednik-family-unhurt-after-school-shooting%2F
“We can’t let this go on. No more of our children can die’: Furious mother of Florida victim breaks down as she laments yet another school massacre and says ‘something has got to change”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5393839/Furious-mom-Florida-student-breaks-outside-school.html
Correct. Socialism has to be faced and dealt with. No more single moms with part time dads as with Islam and Marxism. Their radical off-spring have done more than enough killing while crying to a Fatherland in Heaven or a Motherland on Earth. Enough is enough. No more saintly bitches under bags or celebrating loose women. No more Welfare payments to them claiming their impregnators were not longer around while they humped their brothers. The Deserving and Undeserving Poor are easily discerned as those who are Deserving and Undeserving Victims.
And this violent reaction to authority in the youth will fade away. As if the neurosis of Flower Power, of virtue-giving for approval and affection, never existed.
You understand that moms? You are the problem. You were given a kid and you didn’t know how to handle it.
She wouldn’t say that if the boy was a muslim convert.
“We can’t let this go on. No more of our children can die’: Furious mother of Florida….”
Becomes:
“Nothing to do with Islam. Muslims must be protected from a huge backlash. More Diversity. We would not be attacked if we were more welcoming and got rid of poverty for all.
No more of our children will die”: Furious mother of Florida…
Fixing the world the same way from opposite directions of assault. Socialism or Islam. The Communists are on schedule.
“Helen Pasciolla, a retired neighbor who lives in the Cruz family’s former neighborhood in Parkland, told the New York Times that Cruz had regular behavioral problems. Pasciolla said their mother would sometimes call the police to come over and talk to Cruz.”
http://time.com/5159134/who-is-the-florida-shooter-parkland-nicolas-cruz/
And this single mother who used the police as returning absent fathers with a whip.. was his adoptive single mother. (State-funded abuse to enable abusers).
“Details are beginning to surface about Cruz, whose adoptive mother died in November from pneumonia”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5394229/Florida-high-school-shooting-plunges-city-mourning.html#comments
“We can’t let this go on. No more of our children can die’: Furious mother of Florida victim breaks down as she laments yet another school massacre and says ‘something has got to change””
“Barbara Kumbatovich told Newsday Thursday she met Nikolas Cruz and his brother, Zachary, only once, when they were 3 or 4 years old, after Linda and Roger Cruz moved from Farmingdale to Florida, where they adopted the pair.”
(So the State had not in this case given another child to a older broody single mother who did not need a man. My mistaken assumption). Linda was 50, but married.
“Records show Roger Cruz died in 2004…” Linda died “from an upper respiratory illness in November at age 68.”
Age 5, Nikolas entered a crucial phase of manhood without a father. No wrestling, camping, sports, role model for handling conflicts with objectivity, all the traits of the absent fathered.
“As he grew up, Nikolas developed emotional issues. He had been doing community service after getting into some sort of trouble, Kumbatovich said, though she could not elaborate.”
https://www.newsday.com/news/nation/florida-shooter-cruz-long-island-1.16781810
Violence without a cause. Every explanation from Trump to disease, except fatherlessness: this loss of inheretance claiming an identity of a collective one as their own.
“In the hours since, many have speculated that the boy may have fetal alcohol syndrome given his facial features – a low nasal bridge, small eyes and thin upper lip – and behavior.”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-5396665/Florida-shooter-19-fetal-alcohol-syndrome.html
A Florida mother shouts, “Ban alcohol!”
“The leader of a white nationalist militia says Florida school shooting suspect Nikolas Cruz was a member of his group and participated in paramilitary drills in Tallahassee.”
http://time.com/5160819/parkland-shooter-nikolas-cruz-was-a-member-of-white-supremacist-group/
These “Fatherland” groups. National Socialists. Fuhrer-Fascist-Fastidious. Virgin Mother worshippers and anti the rest of those meaningless whores. A hive of drones. Unconflicted through violence. If a jihadi group had been nearby, Nikolas would have joined them. Same message. All revolving around their Black Stone Vaginas of Mecca.
https://themuslimissue.wordpress.com/2013/12/07/hajr-al-aswad-the-holy-natural-black-stone-not-so-holy-after-all-but-burnt-black/
If he had submitted to his mother, he would have become her no.1 defender. He would be a vocal Feminist looking for opportunities through other women for mommy’s affection.
He would marry his wife, (who had affairs), and not her marry him. Announcing to the world the stronger sex.
Motherland.
If he love-hated his mother and removed his genitals to please her, he could then replace her and beat her in all things to show she was good at nothing. Even taking her man away from her. Neverland.
The fatherless.
A Florida woman shouts, “Remove all guns, knives, arm movements, books, pictures and free speech!”
Here we have another linguistic slight-of-hand by modern “objective” journalism. Wtf is a Nationalist Government? Is it the same as wet water or an airy sky? Or I guess one could argue that a non-nationalist government could be Canada’s self-proclaimed post-national form–that it is dedicated to the deconstruction of a particular nation state. Why have we not heard a single journalist ask Trudeau what post-national means?
Any pushback by any leader against any subversive leftist agenda (under the guise of philanthropic NGOs) is met by hysterical communist propaganda.
This must be why the Canadian government is now considering subsidizing print media. Talk about “bought and paid for…”.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hungary-soros-law/hungary-submits-anti-immigration-stop-soros-bill-to-parliament-idUSKCN1FY1JE
Nationalist Government – vs. Globalist Government?
Or is that too honest?
Firstly, there is hardly such a thing as conservative media in Canada beyond The Rebel, so let’s put that lie aside. Secondly, any person or business that volunteers itself to become a ward of the state cannot be trusted to seek the truth.
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2016/05/16/paul-godfreys-call-for-government-subsidies-to-newspapers-a-venerable-idea-walkom.html
Is Greece about to LOSE IT with Turkey? Tsipras issues rare WAR WARNING as tensions mount (express, Feb 15, 2018)
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/919309/Greece-Turkey-war-warning-threat-Tsipras-territory
“GREECE issued a warning to Turkey today saying it would NOT tolerate any challenge to its territorial integrity.
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said today Greece would not tolerate any move from Turkey after Turkish and Greek coastguard vessels collided close to disputed islets in the Aegean Sea.
He said: “Our message, now, tomorrow and always, is clear… Greece will not allow, accept or tolerate any challenge to its territorial integrity and its sovereign rights.”
“Greece is not a country which plays games,” Tsipras told an audience at the country’s shipping ministry.
The collision involving the two vessels occurred on Monday evening off Imia, known as Kardak in Turkish. Each side blamed the other for the incident.
Turkey and Greece, NATO allies, have been at odds over a host of issues from ethnically split Cyprus to sovereignty over airspace and overflights.
They came to the brink of war in 1996 in a sovereignty dispute over the islets, but tensions have eased since.
Noting that Greece’s eastern border is also that of the European Union, Tsipras said: “Challenges and aggressive rhetoric against the sovereign rights of an EU member state are against the EU in its entirety.”
Tensions between the two countries have been on the rise since a Greek court blocked the extradition of eight Turkish soldiers whom Ankara accuses of involvement in a failed coup against President Tayyip Erdogan in 2016.
Yesterday Turkish advisor to Erdogan said Greece was “like a fly picking a fight with a giant.”
The chief advisor told Turkey’s TRT channel that he is “in no doubt” that the US has a plan to make Greece attack Turkey while its military is engaged in Syria.
Turkey’s response, Yigit Bulut said, will be tough, adding that Greece is no match for Turkey’s might. It would be like a “fly picking a fight with a giant,” he said and warned that terrible consequences would follow for Greece…”
Police failing to record tens of thousands of crimes, inspection finds (independent, Feb 15, 2018)
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/police-failing-record-thousands-crimes-uk-inspection-thames-valley-yorkshire-durham-hmicfrs-a8210831.html
“Tens of thousands of crimes including rape and violence are not being recorded by police, an inspection has found.
Victims of domestic abuse are being put in danger by the failures according to Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services (HMICFRS), which demanded urgent action.
An inspection of three out of 43 police forces in England and Wales found both Thames Valley and North Yorkshire Police “inadequate”.
It estimated that both forces were failing to record around a fifth of crimes – amounting to 52,200 a year in Thames Valley and 9,200 in North Yorkshire.
They include alleged rapes, sexual offences, assaults and malicious communications.
Inspectors said failures by Thames Valley Police, which covers Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire, were preventing investigations from being carried out “increasing the potential risk of harm to victims”.
They had “seriously concerns” over measures taken to protect victims, warning: “Domestic abuse often involves victims who are particularly vulnerable to further offences being committed against them.”
Forces in both Thames Valley and North Yorkshire are also failing to record some incidents of sexual offences, violence and rape.
North Yorkshire Police were found not to be properly recording or investigating some alleged rapes, including one that involved a victim suffering from mental illness who went on to be attacked again by the same man.
“The force is incorrectly cancelling some recorded rape, violence and sexual offences,” the report said.
“It must improve the extent to which it collects information regarding the effect of criminality on identifiable groups within communities; in particular, groups with identifiable protected characteristics like gender, sexuality or ethnicity.”
Inspectors said North Yorkshire Police was experiencing a “sharp rise in call volume” during the audit that left control room staff struggling to answer phones and giving less time to recording work..
HM Inspector of Constabulary Matt Parr said it was “simply inexcusable” for a fifth of crimes to go unrecorded.
“These crimes include serious and violent crimes such sexual offences, domestic abuse and rape,” he added. “The force is potentially depriving victims of the services and justice to which they are entitled.
“We identified flaws in the force’s crime-recording processes which mean that officers and staff often fail to make the right decisions at the earliest opportunity. “We found some confusion over who was responsible for recording crimes, as well as issues arising from the time pressures on officers and staff.”
Mr Parr said North Yorkshire Police had already introduced a new unit in its control room but needed to review its systems, supervision and training…”
Teenager, 17, is stabbed to death is 12th fatal knifing in London this year as victim who died four days ago is named (dailymail, Feb 15, 2018)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5395441/Boy-17-stabbed-death-12th-fatal-knife-victim.html
Where are the upset mothers now?
“We can’t let this go on. No more of our children can die -‘something has got to change”
Bishop urges congregations to go to mosque (christiantoday, Feb 15, 2018)
https://www.christiantoday.com/society/bishop-urges-congregations-to-go-to-mosque/125877.htm
“A Church of England bishop is urging Christians to visit their local mosque this weekend, saying it is an ‘important step’ in getting to know neighbours.
Toby Howarth, the bishop of Bradford, backed the annual Visit My Mosque day this Saturday, saying he planned to go to several mosques in Bradford along with other clergy and churchgoers…”
As the Imams are urging their submitters to go to Hindu Temples, Synagogues, Churches, Gurdwaras as so on to meet their equals.
The Queen, as Head of The Church of England, has a heck of explaining to do about her family.
(I’d better explain myself or some European is going to insult me again).
Yes I know the Queen of the UK is just a figurehead, as is their God – makebelieving He is the Father who will return to approve their feminised lives.
As an example, tell a People of Outrage that Muhammad lusted after his adopted son’s wife so she despised and divorced the dhimmi; and they’ll burn your house down and rape any female or minor coming out from it.
A group of men would have handled the truth with acknowledgement and reformed.
But Queen’s ‘Christian’ missionaries still put out a denial and enforce a blackout of information to prevent the “Hate Crime” of causing offense.
On her watch. An abdication without abdication. Making her Church the defender of all faiths.
“Its role is not to defend Anglicanism to the exclusion of other religions.
“Instead, the church has a duty to protect the free practice of all faiths in this country.”
A Female of Symbols vs a Female of Rage
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/uk/2012/feb/15/queen-says-church-misunderstood
Jihad and Prince Charles
http://gatesofvienna.net/2018/02/jihad-and-prince-charles/
…….
Why would a European want to offend you, personally, Perfect?
Maybe when something hits home, dead-center, the European is just free-floating rage. Everything’s a tangent to that.
You bring together ideas that made no sense to me for years. I knew something about religion, had friends who’d been in gulag, heard of sexual deviancy. The more I read, the more I understand.
Islam + Socialism + Sexsquirrelly are NOT intuitively self-evident to the most casual observer.
Say, someone’s infuriated by a particular tardish atrocity. He reads your comment that puts the Islamic barbarism into a context:
• socialist form of government.
• core interpersonal relationship – love and babies and family.
• variants of the above.
He may think it’s a non sequitur, flippancy that’s meant to be offensive. So he’s defending his anger – righteous anger toward an alien, totalitarian Islam.
It takes a while to see the intersections. Especially because they’re all unnatural, disgusting, and impossible to un-see.
“You bring together ideas that made no sense to me for years.”
“It takes a while to see the intersections. Especially because they’re all unnatural, disgusting, and impossible to un-see.”
And then we can see the blind leading the blind.
Top Egyptian Islamist referred to state security prosecutors (abcnews, Feb 15, 2018)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/top-egyptian-islamist-referred-state-security-prosecutors-53105857
“A senior Islamist leader detained over alleged links to Egypt’s outlawed Muslim Brotherhood group was referred to state security prosecutors for questioning on Thursday, according to security officials, in the latest move by authorities against critics ahead of next month’s presidential election.
Abdel-Monaem Abul Fetouh, 66, was arrested Wednesday night shortly after his return from a trip to London. He is the leader of the “Strong Egypt” party, whose deputy, Mohammed el-Kassas, was detained about a week ago, also over alleged links to the Brotherhood. At least five senior members of his party were released early Thursday, just hours after their detention over similar accusations.
The questioning of both men is part or a wider investigation into what authorities say is a plot to resurrect the Brotherhood as well as dealings with media outlets loyal to the group. The Muslim Brotherhood was outlawed and declared a terrorist organization shortly after the ouster by the military in 2013 of Mohammed Morsi, Egypt’s first freely elected president and a Brotherhood stalwart.
Their detention also points to a stepped up crackdown on dissent ahead of the March 26-28 vote that is virtually certain to be won by the incumbent, general-turned-president Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi. Standing between the president and another four years in office is an obscure politician and a supporter whose eleventh hour entry into the race spared the president and his government the deeper embarrassment of a one-candidate election…”
NATO to expand Iraq military training mission (abcnews, Feb 15, 2018)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/nato-launches-planning-expanded-iraq-military-training-53106339
More than 10,000 Afghan civilians killed or wounded last year, UN says (ahram, Feb 15, 2018)
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/2/9/291022/World/International/More-than-,-Afghan-civilians-killed-or-wounded-las.aspx
“More than 10,000 Afghan civilians were killed or wounded in violence last year, the United Nations said on Thursday, with militant bombings the main cause while air strikes by U.S. and government forces inflicted a rising toll.
U.S. President Donald Trump introduced a more aggressive U.S. strategy in Afghanistan in August including a surge in air strikes. The militants have responded with attacks in Kabul in the past few weeks, killing nearly 150 people.
The overall civilian toll last year of 3,438 killed and 7,015 wounded was 9 percent lower than the previous year. But the figures highlighted the high number of casualties caused by militant bombs, the United Nations said.
“Attacks where anti-government elements deliberately targeted civilians accounted for 27 per cent of the total civilian casualties … mainly from suicide and complex attacks,” the United Nations said in a statement…”
UN: Afghan civilian casualties decreased 9 percent in 2017 (abcnews, Feb 15, 2018)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/afghan-civilian-casualties-decreased-percent-2017-53101232
“The number of civilians killed and wounded in the war in Afghanistan declined last year, but the number of deaths from airstrikes was on the rise, according to a new United Nations report released on Thursday.
The total number of civilian casualties decreased by 9 percent in 2017, compared to 2016, the U.N. mission said in its annual report on the subject.
“The chilling statistics in this report provide credible data about the war’s impact, but the figures alone cannot capture the appalling human suffering inflicted on ordinary people, especially women and children,” said Tadamichi Yamamoto, the U.N. special representative for Afghanistan.
The 2017 Annual Report on the Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict in Afghanistan found that between Jan. 1 and Dec. 31, 2017, there were 10,453 civilian casualties — 3,438 deaths and 7,015 wounded.
That compares to a total 11,434 casualties for the same period in 2016, when there were 3,510 deaths and 7,924 wounded.
But the decline in total deaths was tempered by the report’s finding that the number of airstrikes conducted by international military forces and Afghan air forces increased significantly — and with it the number of airstrike-related deaths…”
6 African nations among the worst to be young in a war zone (abcnews, Feb 15, 2018)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/african-nations-worst-young-war-zone-53104188
“Six African nations are among the 10 worst in the world to be a child in a war zone, a new report says.
The Save the Children report released Thursday looks at factors including attacks on schools, child soldier recruitment, sexual violations, killings and lack of humanitarian access and is based on analysis by the Norway-based Peace Research Institute Oslo.
Syria tops the list followed by Afghanistan, Somalia, Yemen, Nigeria, South Sudan, Iraq, Congo, Sudan and Central African Republic.
Almost 360 million children worldwide, or one in six, live in affected areas, the report says. In addition, conflicts are grinding on longer than before.
“Crimes involving children are not lesser crimes and need to be pursued with the same vigor that we expect when war crimes are committed,” said Tirana Hassan, crisis response director with Amnesty International. “Concern and outrage are not enough.”
The new report comes just ahead of the Munich Security Conference, which brings together global leaders to discuss security policy.
Children living in conflict-torn countries like South Sudan, where civil war has entered its fifth year, say they’re traumatized…”
Doesn’t seem to be putting much of a dent into the population.
Just more and more dented and bent pathetic fragments of humanity.
Turkish group to press charges against German nationalist (abcnews, Feb 15, 2018)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/turkish-group-press-charges-german-nationalist-53105721
“The head of a leading Turkish immigrant group in Germany says he’s pressing charges against a politician from Germany’s nationalist party for insulting Turks as “camel drivers” and immigrants with dual passports as a “homeless mob we no longer want to have here.”
Gokay Sofuoglu told The Associated Press Thursday that the Turkish Community in Germany is preparing charges based on discrimination and incitement. Sofuoglu said: “It’s high time Germans realize the danger coming from the far-right.”
Andre Poggenburg,a regional leader of the anti-Muslim Alternative for Germany party, or AfD, made the comments in a speech Wednesday in Nentmannsdorf in Saxony.
Supporters shouted “deportation, deportation” as Poggenburg used vulgar expressions about Germany’s four-million-strong Turkish immigrant community.
The AfD was elected to Germany’s parliament for the first time in September.”
German Turks to sue far right party over ‘camel drivers’ slur
The Turkish Community in Germany organisation said they would be taking action under hate speech laws
A Turkish group in Germany said Thursday it was taking legal action against a lawmaker of the far-right AfD who defamed the ethnic minority as “camel drivers”.
The latest controversy sparked by the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany party came as Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim was Thursday due to meet Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin on a visit meant to improve frayed relations.
The AfD – which entered Germany’s parliament with almost 13 percent of the vote last September – often makes headlines with hate speech before usually backing away from the most incendiary comments.
President Frank-Walter Steinmeier said he condemned extremist politicians who make “ruthlessness and hatred…their strategy”.
In the latest case, a lawmaker in the formerly communist eastern heartland of the party, Andre Poggenburg, Wednesday attacked the Turkish group for its criticism of German plans for a new “homeland” ministry.
He said Germany needed no advice on its culture and history from Turks who he said bore responsibility “for their own genocide”, the mass killings of Armenians in the World War I-era.
“Are they crazy?” he told several hundred mostly-male AfD supporters in Nentmannsdorf, a village near Dresden.
“These camel drivers should go back to where they belong, far beyond the Bosphorus, to their mud huts and multiple wives.”
Gokay Sofuoglu, chairman of the Turkish Community in Germany organisation, which represents the three-million-strong minority, said it would take legal action under hate speech laws.
“It’s high time Germans realize the danger coming from the far-right,” Sofuoglu told AP.
Poggenburg, the AfD leader in the state of Saxony-Anhalt, later defended his comments as “pointed political satire”.
He claimed the language was acceptable on Ash Wednesday when German politicians of all parties traditionally make gloves-off remarks about each other.
A regional politician of the far-left Die Linke party, Rico Gebhardt, said the comments evoked those of Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels and were “inexcusable and a shame for a civilised country”.
AfD national leader Joerg Meuthen said the racist comments “clearly went too far and should not have been made”.
The controversy follows public anger against another AfD member, Peter Boehringer of Bavaria state, after reports of a foul-worded group email in which he had allegedly defamed Merkel as a prostitute.
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/german-turks-sue-afd-camel-drivers-slur-109108804
Andre Poggenburg Politischer Aschermittwoch der AfD in Pirna / SOE / Sachsen
The above video has been removed for “hate speech”, here’s another copy:
VICE News –Camel Wrestling Is Real And We Went To See It In Turkey
It’s peak camel wrestling season in southwest Turkey, and cameleers in the region are traveling from town to town to have their camels compete in wrestling matches.
The Yoruk people, who are native to the region, have lived with camels for ages and consider them to be sacred. For generations, they’ve celebrated wrestling season, making a spectator sport out of their camels’ natural mating habits.
Camels are herd animals and it’s natural for the males to wrestle in order to establish dominance and mating rights.
This year, over 140 of Turkey’s elite wrestling camels competed at the 36th-annual camel wrestling competition in the town of Selçuk.
Typically held in the third week of January, the competition in Selçuk is generally known to be the most prestigious in the camel wrestling world – because it happens when camel’s are in peak heat, and generally attracts huge crowds from around the world, numbering in the tens’ of thousands.
You are wicked, Martin!
Turkey to US: remove Kurdish fighters from anti-IS force (abcnews, Feb 15, 2018)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/turkey-us-remove-kurdish-fighters-anti-force-53106389
“Turkey’s defense minister says he has asked his American counterpart that the United States end its support for Syrian Kurdish fighters and remove them from a U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, or SDF, that if fighting the Islamic State group in Syria.
Nurettin Canikli also says in comments televised live from Brussels on Thursday that he told U.S. Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis, that U.S. support for the Syrian Kurdish militia, known as YPG, has helped Kurdish rebels in Turkey “to grow and strengthen,” posing an increasingly “existential” threat to Turkey.
Canikli said he presented documents to Mattis proving “organic” links between the YPG and Kurdish rebels in Turkey.
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is due in Ankara later on Thursday to discuss growing tensions between the two NATO allies.”
Cyprus: no reunification talks while Turkey blocks oil rig (abcnews, Feb 15, 2018)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/cyprus-reunification-talks-turkey-blocks-oil-rig-53106647
“A Cypriot official says that talks to reunify the ethnically split island cannot resume as long as Turkey obstructs an offshore hydrocarbon search.
Turkish warships have been preventing a rig from carrying out exploratory drilling off Cyprus on behalf of Italian company Eni for almost a week, citing military maneuvers.
Cypriot government spokesman Nikos Christodoulides says the country’s president is ready to relaunch peace talks if Turkey’s stops its blockade. Christodoulides was speaking Thursday after United Nations Peacekeeping Force Chief Elizabeth Spehar met with Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades.
The spokesman said Anastasiades told the UN official to convey his readiness for a resumption of talks to breakaway Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci as long as “we no longer see such behavior” in areas where Cyprus has issued drilling licenses.”
Egyptian air force destroys ten 4×4 vehicles infiltrating border from Libya (ahram, Feb 15, 2018)
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/291040/Egypt/Politics-/Egyptian-air-force-destroys-ten-x-vehicles-infiltr.aspx
“The Egyptian air force has destroyed a group of vehicles attempting to infiltrate Egypt from Libya that were loaded with weapons, the military said on Thursday.
The raid by air force units was part of the military’s major anti-terrorism operation, Operation Sinai 2018, and followed intelligence suggesting that a group of “criminals” was planning to infiltrate Egypt via the country’s western border, the military said in a statement on its official Facebook page.
The forces “destroyed ten 4×4 vehicles loaded with weapons and ammunition,” the statement said.
Egypt last week launched a major operation, dubbed Sinai Operation 2018, involving land, naval and air forces, as well as the police and border guards, targeting “terrorist and criminal elements and organisations” in northern and central Sinai, as well as parts of the Nile Delta and the Western Desert.”
Turkey creates new ‘observation point’ in Syria’s Idlib (ahram, Feb 15, 2018)
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/2/8/291037/World/Region/Turkey-creates-new-observation-point-in-Syrias-Idl.aspx
“Turkish troops have set up a new “observation point” in the Syrian province of Idlib as part of efforts to reduce violence in the conflict, state media reported Thursday…”
Defense Secretary Mattis is Pushing NATO Allies to Increase Defense Spending
OAN Newsroom
UPDATED 12:42 PM PT — Wed. February 14, 2018
Defense Secretary James Mattis is pressuring NATO allies to invest more in military spending, accusing some members of not contributing enough in the fight against global terrorism.
Mattis met with European allies in Brussels, where he was expected to push them to deliver on their promise to increase defense spending.
http://www.oann.com/defense-secretary-mattis-is-pushing-nato-allies-to-increase-defense-spending/
Moscow says has evidence of Western meddling in Russian election
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Moscow has tangible evidence of “the destructive interference of some Western countries” in Russia’s domestic affairs ahead of a presidential election next month, a Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman told a briefing on Thursday.
Maria Zakharova said Moscow had warned European countries that “such activity should stop”.
“If is does not stop we will have to take tough counter-measures”, she said.
http://www.oann.com/moscow-says-has-evidence-of-western-meddling-in-russian-election/
Parkland, FL: A troubled teen becomes a high school shooter
By J.E. Dyer February 15, 2018
I hope people will take the time to learn what was going on with 19-year-old Nikolas De Jesus Cruz, a teenager with apparently difficult problems who killed at least 17 people in Parkland, Florida on Wednesday, and injured several more. He was arrested about an hour after the event on a local street near the school, and taken to a hospital with injuries.
As sick as it makes me to see such a terrible event, it makes me equally sick to see so many people marching off immediately to strike the same old political attitudes, as if what we’ve got here is a mechanical policy failure, and it’s all the fault of their political opponents.
There’s something to scratch everyone’s itch in this group of images from Cruz’s Instagram page, so here you go.
https://libertyunyielding.com/2018/02/15/parkland-fl-troubled-teen-becomes-high-school-shooter/
Oops: Bruce Ohr hid wife’s Fusion GPS payment from ethics officials
By LU Staff February 14, 2018
Bruce Ohr, the Department of Justice official who brought opposition research on President Donald Trump to the FBI, did not disclose that Fusion GPS, which performed that research at the Democratic National Committee’s behest, was paying his wife, and did not obtain a conflict of interest waiver from his superiors at the Justice Department, documents obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation show.
The omission may explain why Ohr was demoted from his post as associate deputy attorney general after the relationship between Fusion GPS and his wife emerged and Fusion founder Glenn Simpson acknowledged meeting with Ohr. Willfully falsifying government ethics forms can carry a penalty of jail time, if convicted.
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) hired Fusion GPS to gather and disseminate damning info about Trump, and they in turn paid Nellie Ohr, a former CIA employee with expertise in Russia, for an unknown role related to the “dossier.” Bruce Ohr then brought the information to the FBI, kicking off a probe and a media firestorm.
The DOJ used it to obtain a warrant to wiretap a Trump adviser, but didn’t disclose to the judge that the DNC and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s campaign had funded the research and that Ohr had a financial relationship with the firm that performed it — which could be, it turns out, because Ohr doesn’t appear to have told his supervisors. Some have suggested that the financial payments motivated Bruce Ohr to actively push the case.
https://libertyunyielding.com/2018/02/14/oops-bruce-ohr-hid-wifes-fusion-gps-payment-ethics-officials/
Taliban says Afghan War could continue for 100yrs with no result, calls on US to start peace talks (RT, Feb 15, 2018)
https://www.rt.com/usa/418860-taliban-us-afghanistan-peace-talks/
Russia inks huge energy deals with Saudi Arabia, challenging US dominance in Gulf region (RT, Feb 15, 2018)
https://www.rt.com/business/418852-russia-energy-deals-saudi-arabia/
“Hidden by the fog of the ongoing oil market volatility and the Turkish adventures in Syria, OPEC leader Saudi Arabia has been cementing its geopolitical position for years.
In Riyadh meetings this week between Saudi and Russian officials, major energy deals were sealed, changing the regional constellation dramatically. At the same time, the geopolitical shift of the century now starts to bear fruit.
Russia has directly offered to invest in the upcoming Aramco IPO, supporting the efforts of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) to diversify the economy of the kingdom. During the meetings, not only new Saudi investment deals in Russia were sealed, but also the commitment of several Russian investment parties in the Aramco IPO…”
Saudi Arabia: Novak, King Salman talk energy cooperation in Riyadh
Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak met with King of Saudi Arabia Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud to discuss strengthening of bilateral ties in the oil market, on the sidelines of the IEA-IEF-OPEC Symposium on Energy Outlooks, in Riyadh, Wednesday.
SOT, Alexander Novak, Russian Energy Minister (Russian): “The future, of course, will be influenced by the digitalisation, robotisation and artificial intelligence. All that is actively being adopted, also in the energy sector. Of course, this will greatly change both supply and demand. We have said today that the share of hydrocarbon raw materials will still remain, but the important role of gas will grow along with the share of renewable sources, which will grow as well.”
Turkish Prime Minister Says Turkey ‘Will Fight’ U.S. If Necessary, After Erdogan Threatens ‘Ottoman Slap’ (breitbart, Feb 15, 2018)
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/02/15/turkey-fight-us-erdogan-threatens-ottoman-slap/
“Turkey’s prime minister has warned his country “will fight” the United States if it stands in the way of its anti-Kurdish operations, shortly before U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is due to meet with the country’s president.
Binali Y?ld?r?m, who serves as prime minister under President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an, told Deutsche Welle that the U.S. is violating its NATO obligations by fighting alongside the “terrorists” of the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) against the Islamic State.
“We have a problem with the YPG,” he said. “But if the United States begins warring against us by the side of the YPG, we will fight them as well.”
The warning follows Erdo?an threatening that U.S. forces would receive an “Ottoman slap” if they came into conflict with the Turkish forces which have invaded Syria — a reference to the Turk-led Ottoman Empire which once conquered much of the Middle East and Europe, including Cyprus, Greece, Serbia, and Hungary…”
Iraqi Refugee Ran ‘Factory’ Producing Hundreds of Fake Claims Against British Troops (breitbart, Feb 15, 2018)
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/02/15/iraqi-refugee-factory-fake-claims-british-troops/
“An Iraqi refugee has revealed how he helped run a “factory” of false and fictitious complaints and claims for compensation against British servicemen who fought in the country.
Whistleblower Basim Al-Sadoon, 37, had an office in Basra, Iraq, and is thought to have helped arrange hundreds of fake abuse claims against the UK forces.
He told The Sun the scam was a “racket”, adding: “It was like a claims factory and it didn’t matter if the claims were true or false.”
The former fraudster discussed how clients sourced fake paperwork and complained about individual soldiers who were not even present at alleged incidents.
Bragging about connections in Iraq, he explained how a large number of his 300 clients invented allegations for money. “Word spread and they would come to me. It was all about money – people exaggerating sometimes what they see.”
“People were bringing papers randomly, there was no specific standards to accept cases,” he continued.
“Okay, you have a story and a little papers [sic] from any military camp. Also, you can get papers from Red Cross office in Basra fraudulently. You can collect some case elements. After that you start your story.
“If you have an old spot on your body from old torture, you can use it as well as evidence against MoD.
“If you get a slap in the face, you can say it was a stick or a gun. If you have been jailed for 24 hours you’ll say they put me in a very bad place, I have psychiatric problems.
“In Iraq, it’s easy to get doctors’ papers backing claims. Doctors for cash can give you many reports. Claims were exaggerated to make money.”
Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson responded this week by saying he was “repulsed” by the refugee’s confession.
“Hundreds of brave and innocent British heroes suffered great pain at the hands of this sick get-rich-quick scam,” he blasted. “I’m repulsed by these vile revelations… and those responsible should be held to account.”…”
Six Stabbed in Northern Paris as Acts of Violence Escalate Across France (breitbart, Feb 15, 2018)
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/02/15/six-stabbed-northern-paris-random-acts-violence-escalate-france/
“Six people were stabbed in a single attack in northern Paris this week as reports claim that the number of random attacks across the country number as many as 777 per day.
The stabbing attack took place in the heavily-migrant populated 18th arrondissement of the French capital and saw a drunken man attack people around him at random, causing panic, Le Parisien reports.
The attacks started at around 11:20 pm on Tuesday. Police arrested the drunken man hours later at 1:15 am thanks to CCTV cameras in the area. The man was found hidden in the doorway of a building with his clothes soaked in blood.
Of the six people stabbed, five of the victims were rushed to a nearby local hospital while the sixth victim was able to escape injury due to the thick clothing he was wearing.
The neighbourhood where the stabbings occurred became infamous for migrant violence in 2016 when the nearby Stalingrad metro station, the former site of a large makeshift migrant camp, erupted into riots described as being like a “war zone”.
Women who live in the area have also complained of constant harassment by migrant men with some saying that refuse to walk alone in the area at night.
Random acts of violence, known in France as violences gratuites, are on the rise nationwide with some estimating there to be 777 violent acts not motivated by other factors, like robbery, per day.
Christophe Soullez, the director of the National Observatory of Delinquency and Criminal Responses (ONDRP), claimed that young people in France are now “less tolerant of remarks and show some impatience. They accept less authority. They are more impulsive, and they act out quicker.”
Those kinds of attitudes were present over the New Year’s celebrations in the “Sensitive Urban Area” of Champigny-sur-Marne when a policewoman was brutally attacked by a gang of young men. The incident, which was filmed, saw the youth’s knock the officer to the ground and kick her in the head.”
“We can’t let this go on – something has got to change”
It will change when the Europeans start fighting back and kick the invaders out of their countries.
Italian Criminologist Says Ruthless Nigerian Mafia Is ‘Colonizing Italy’ (breitbart, Feb 15, 2018)
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/02/15/italian-criminologist-says-ruthless-nigerian-mafia-is-colonizing-italy/
“The recent murder and dismemberment of a teenage Italian girl is clearly the work of the Nigerian mafia, says a leading Italian criminologist, which has recently reached Italy and is quickly expanding.
“The Nigerian Mafia, the most ruthless mafia in the world, killed Pamela [Mastropietro]. Its sects are colonizing Italy and stealing business from the traditional mafia families,” said Alessandro Meluzzi, a prominent criminologist, surgeon and psychiatrist in a television interview this week.
“What we have seen in the case of Pamela are the same methods the Nigerian mafia systematically employs in Nigeria and elsewhere,” Meluzzi said. “It is a routine to cut victims into pieces and, in some cases, to eat parts of their bodies.”
The dismembered corpse of 18-year-old Pamela Mastropietro was found earlier this month in two suitcases, but was missing her neck, heart and genitals. The body had been deboned and washed in bleach.
Three Nigerian immigrants have been arrested in connection with the murder, which took place in the central Italian city of Macerata. Shortly after the murder, Italian police arrested Innocent Oseghale, a 29-year-old Nigerian man, and afterward discovered blood-stained clothes, large kitchen knives, a cleaver, and other items belonging to the murdered woman in the man’s apartment. Later two more suspected accomplices were also arrested.
Meluzzi said he was not surprised that the young woman’s heart was missing.
“Child soldiers in Sierra Leone ate human hearts as a rite of passage in order to gain courage,” Meluzzi said. “In the Nigerian mafia, ritual cannibalism, is not an exception, but a rule. These are normal things for them, but here nobody talks about it, out of fear of being called racist. We should get used to these things: this is just the tip of an iceberg destined to grow larger.”
He hearts is considered “the choicest part, which animists believe infuses courage and long life, and is considered a sort of tonic,” he said.
As Breitbart News has reported, a startling percentage of female Nigerian migrants into Italy wind up as prostitutes, whether by choice of coercion, and become virtual slaves of the Nigerian mafia.
Currently, some 80 percent of Nigerian girls and women migrating to Italy end up in prostitution, a form of sexual slavery from which the girls and women have no recourse. Roughly half of the prostitutes working in Italy are Nigerians.
Nigerian traffickers have exploited Europe’s migrant crisis to shuttle girls across the Mediterranean to Italy to force into prostitution. From 2014-2016, more than 12,000 Nigerian girls and young women arrived in Italy, and of these, some 9,400 wound up as sex workers.
A large percentage of the young Nigerian women are recruited in Benin City, Nigeria’s “capital of illegal migration,” where local mafias coordinate the trafficking.”
Dem PAC gives 3% of funds raised to candidates
By Ben Bowles February 14, 2018
You don’t need a crystal ball to forecast the future for Krystal Ball, a former MSNBC host and Democratic nominee for the U.S. Congress from Virginia. Ball’s political ambitions and career as a liberal media personality are about to take a turn for the worst.
A political action committee run by Ball has given candidates less than 3% of the money raised, with the bulk of it going to Ball’s favorite charity: the Me, Myself, and I Fund.
According to its website, the People’s House Project‘s mission is “to recruit and nurture a different sort of candidate. The candidates we support are deeply connected to and representative of their districts, have first-person experience with the problems faced by mid-income and working-class families, and are from walks of life not well represented in Congress.”
But according to the Washington Examiner:
‘European Politicians Won’t Accept Western World Is at War’: Czech Security Analyst (breitbart, Feb 15, 2018)
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/02/15/european-politicians-wont-accept-western-world-war-security-analyst/
“A military analyst has criticised EU leaders for failing to accept that “the Western world is at war” and warned that Europe will see worse terror attacks committed by Islamic extremists.
“Most politicians do not want to admit that the Western world is at war and should act accordingly… Policy responses are, in most cases, inadequate,” Lukáš Visingr told Czech news channel ?T24.
Mr. Visginr added that the recent period of calm – following the spate of Islamic extremist-inspired terror attacks that included the London Bridge, Manchester, Champs Elysees, Paris, and Barcelona attacks during the summer of 2017 – should not be taken as permanent.
“Informants warn that there are hundreds and thousands of well-trained jihadists in Europe who are ready to carry out attacks,” he said, noting that these Islamic State militants are returning from war zones in the Middle East after facing military defeat.
The security specialist also observed that terror attacks hitherto have mostly been carried out by “keen amateurs; they were not people who had special training from ‘professional’ terrorists like the Islamic State”.
“When this new generation [of returning, trained Islamic State militants] begins attacking, I think that we are in for much worse things.”
“I am convinced that there will be large-scale Islamic extremist attacks in Europe,” Visginr warned.
The defence analyst then hit back at the news presenter’s criticism that to profile Europe’s growing Muslim population is unfair and “nonsense”.
“I do not think it’s nonsense,” Visginr said. “The fact is that the Muslim community, although many of its members do not have a radical inclination, is a community from which the threat is coming.”
A similar assessment was made this month by defence analysts Jane’s Terrorism and Insurgency Centre (JTIC) in a report that said the terror threat will increase in 2018 as foreign jihadists return to Europe with advanced knowledge learnt whilst fighting with Islamic State in Syria and Iraq.
“Foreign fighters returning to Europe will provide critical skills that will help an increasing number of operational Islamist networks conduct more complex attacks,” writes the report’s author, Otso Iho.
“These skills include the construction of viable IEDs – learned in Iraq and Syria where the Islamic State (Isil) has produced IEDs on an industrial scale – expertise in assault weapons, and the use of new weapons types or technologies such as drones.”
In October 2017, the Soufan Center’s report, titled “Beyond the Caliphate, Foreign Fighters and the Threat of Returnees”, found that at least 5,600 individuals from 33 countries who travelled to support the Islamic State have now returned to their countries of origin, many of which are in the West.”
FACT CHECKING THE NEW ISLAMOPHOBIA INFLATION HOAX REPORT (frontpagemag, Feb 13, 2018)
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/269277/fact-checking-new-islamophobia-inflation-hoax-daniel-greenfield
“Islamophobia hoaxes never die, they become statistics.
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical left and Islamic terrorism.
Yasmin Seweid, a Muslim college student, claimed that Trump supporters had tried to tear off her hijab on the New York City subway and shouted, “Look it’s a f______ terrorist” and “Go back to your country”.
“The president-elect just promotes this stuff and is very anti-Muslim, very Islamophobic, and he’s just condoning it,” she complained.
It was all a lie.
Yasmin was charged with filing a false police report on December 2016. On September 2017, she pleaded guilty to falsely reporting an incident and disorderly conduct.
An Islamophobia hoax doesn’t get any more discredited than the Seweid case. But Islamophobia hoaxes never die. They’re rolled into hate crime statistics and reports even when they are completely false.
“Reported anti-Muslim hate incidents, rhetoric rose in year after election, report finds,” NBC News claims. Like The Nation, Think Progress and a variety of other sites, it’s touting a report by South Asian Americans Leading Together or SAALT.
The SAALT report, “Communities on Fire,” fits into an annual media tradition. Every year, fake statistics are used to inflate the Islamophobia threat. And the media reports every year that Islamophobia is getting worse. The statistical gimmicks of Islamophobia inflation vary from the clever to the terrible.
The Southern Poverty Law Center hit a new low when it claimed that the “number of anti-Muslim hate groups increased almost three-fold in 2016” by counting 45 chapters of Act for America as separate organizations after counting them as one in 2015. Another report documented a 66% increase when 6 cases increased to 10. But the SAALT report’s listing of discredited hoaxes is even more outrageous.
Even though the report was issued now, its list of incidents includes the Seweid case. “Three drunk white men repeatedly screamed ‘Donald Trump!’ and hurled anti-Islam slurs at a Muslim Baruch College student, Yasmin Seweid, before trying to rip her hijab off on an East Side subway.”
And that’s far from the only hoax on the SAALT list.
In Lafayette, LA, its report claims, “Two men knocked a young Muslim student wearing hijab to the ground with something metal and verbally assaulted her with obscenities before making off with her wallet and hijab.”
The Muslim student claimed that she had been attacked by Trump supporters. She was charged with filing a false police report. “She made up the entire story about being attacked, about her hijab being taken. There was no truth to any of it,” the Lafayette Police Department spokesman said.
In Ann Arbor, MI, the SAALT report claims, “A man approached a Muslim student and threatened to set her on fire with a lighter unless she removed her hijab.”
That story was also a hoax.
“Following a thorough investigation, detectives have determined the incident in question did not occur,” the Ann Arbor Police Department stated.
These weren’t just hoaxes. They were hoaxes from over a year ago. And SAALT still included them.
“An anti-Muslim message was spray painted on a residence hall on the Beloit College campus,” the report claims.
The student confessed to having vandalized his own door with anti-Muslim graffiti. He was arrested and charged with criminal damage.
“Two men confronted a San Diego State University student wearing hijab in a parking structure, made comments about President-elect Donald Trump and the Muslim community, and then took her purse and backpack. The men also took the student’s car keys and ran off,” the SAALT report claims.
The car turned out not to be stolen. No evidence of the attack was found and the student refused to cooperate with police.
Incidents like these, which were reported after Trump’s victory, play a crucial role in SAALT’s efforts to connect the supposed rise in Islamophobic attacks to him. The SAALT report mentions Trump nearly 200 times. It claims that, “One in five perpetrators of hate violence incidents referenced President Trump, a Trump policy, or a Trump campaign slogan.” But quite a few of those Trump “incidents” were hoaxes.
The SAALT report lists violence that happened to Muslims without any evidence that it was motivated by their religion. It lists the drive by shooting of Mohamed Abdulkadir in Ohio, and the robbery and fatal beating of Ali Khan even though they appear to be ordinary crimes.
In Milwaukee, “A perpetrator beat a woman leaving morning prayers and pulled off her hijab,” the SAALT report claims. “She then pushed her to the ground, repeatedly stomped on her head, and took out a knife and slashed her clothing.”
The police report however quoted the victim as saying that she didn’t think it was a hate crime, that the man had not tried to take her hijab, but that the assault had to do with her lesbian daughter.
The SAALT report lists arson at the Islamic Center of Ypsilanti. But the police ruled that out as a hate crime. A Detroit mosque whose vandalism was also listed by SAALT was trashed by an African-American thief when he couldn’t find anything to steal.
The SAALT report lists the shooting of a 16-year-old Muslim in Ohio. The Muslim teenager claimed that his attacker had shouted racial slurs at him, but the attacker, Denzal Johnson, is African-American and his girlfriend appeared to be Muslim. Denzal’s religion is unknown.
The SAALT report claims that “Black Muslim girl, Nabra Hassanen” was killed after she and her group had “been at a late-night event at the All Dulles Area Muslim Society and were headed back to the mosque after a trip to a fast-food restaurant.” Nabra Hassanen wasn’t black and she was killed by an illegal alien gang member from El Salvador who got into a fight with her friends. There’s never been any evidence that her killer was motivated by her religion. And he was not charged with a hate crime.
Sometimes SAALT’s spin is deliberately dishonest. For example, it claims that, “a Somali Muslim woman, Rahma Warsame, who intervened to protect another Muslim woman from harassment by a white male perpetrator was beaten unconscious, resulting in facial fractures and the loss of several teeth. The attacker screamed, ‘You all will be shipped back to Africa’ prior to beating her.”
Rahma Warsame had actually gotten into a fight with Samantha Morales, a Latino woman. Morales claimed that a Somali woman had hit a little boy with a shoe. According to the police, another member of the Warsame family, had tased Morales. The only white male in the story is Morales’ boyfriend. The police couldn’t decide what really happened.
The SAALT report tries to attribute violent attacks on Muslims to “white supremacists”, but many of its more violent incidents are actually the work of African-American and Latino attackers. The Victoria mosque fire was set by a mentally unstable Latino man. The Islamic Center of Eastside fire was set by a schizophrenic African-American homeless man who may have previously tried to pray in the mosque and had smashed a window at NikeTown. Not exactly your typical Trump supporter.
A number of the acts in the SAALT report were actually committed by mentally unstable homeless people with a violent history. But SAALT has its own curious definition of white supremacist.
According to the report, Act for America 9/11 commemoration illustrated a growth in white supremacist Islamophobia. But Act for America was founded by Brigitte Gabriel, a Lebanese Arab immigrant.
The SAALT report not only includes hoaxes, but it attacks civil rights groups and defends hate groups.
The SAALT report lists the Freedom Center’s campaign against hate groups. “Palestinian rights activists at California universities were targeted with posters calling them terrorists.” The posters called out SJP and other hate groups that have expressed support for terrorists.
Many of the activists who were called out in these Freedom Center campaigns weren’t even Muslims.
The first name on the poster that SAALT is complaining about is that of Daniel Alvarez. The second name is Mohammed Hammad who was investigated by terrorism officials and the FBI for posting violent threats. These included, “I think about killing a lot/and some of you are usually the targets of my daydreams.” Instead of condemning Hammad’s threats, SAALT instead attacks the Freedom Center.
The SAALT report leaves out key pieces of information that might provide alternative explanations.
It mentions that Vibert White, was “forced to resign” from the University of Central Florida and sued the college. It neglects to mention that he had been arrested three times on domestic violence charges involving two ex-wives. It mentions the vandalism at the Ahram Halal Market in Maine, but not that a few weeks earlier its owners had been charged with fraud.
The multiple hoaxes that never happened and other incidents that were not hate crimes ought to be enough to raise serious questions about the credibility of the SAALT report. Unfortunately the media unthinkingly passes along Islamophobia inflation reports without ever fact checking them.
The SAALT report and the media stories about it exist to push the narrative is that President Trump is causing anti-Muslim violence. And the narrative is too good to bother checking the facts.
And that not only destroys the media’s own credibility, but hurts the people it claims to be trying to protect. When hoaxes, ordinary crimes and attacks by mentally ill homeless people are all treated the same way, then even real attacks will be drowned out by the torrent of fake incidents.”
Pakistan asks Trump to help fund border fence with Afghanistan (theguardian, Feb 15, 2018)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/15/pakistan-asks-trump-to-help-fund-border-fence-with-afghanistan
“Pakistan is building a fence along its border with Afghanistan, and it wants Donald Trump to pay for it – or at least some of it.
The 1,800-mile barrier being constructed will help end “the prolonged agony” of the Afghan war and reduce terrorism inside Pakistan, said Nasir Khan Janjua, the national security adviser to Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, the prime minister.
Janjua said that Pakistan would like the US president to pay for the barrier – or at least the Afghan side – arguing that the $532m (£378m) price tag will be a lot cheaper than the $45bn annual estimated cost of the Afghan war.
At a briefing in Miranshah, the main town in North Waziristan – one of the semi-autonomous Federally Administered Tribal Areas – Pakistani officials laid out a timetable for construction of the 10ft wire fence running the length of the porous border with Afganistan.
In a bunker at the headquarters of the army’s 7th Infantry Division, Col Wasi Uddin said 11,136 border posts and 443 forts are being installed on the Pakistani side – seven times more than on the Afghan side.
Uddin said Pakistan planned to complete the fence by 2019, apart from a section in the extreme north of the country. The border will be fitted with underground movement sensors and a network of CCTV cameras, Uddin said.
“We will know exactly who is entering and or exiting at every crossing point,” he said.
The plan is part of an effort to show that Pakistan has a plan to ease the Afghan crisis – rather than simply rejecting Trump’s preferred outcome of a military defeat of the Afghan Taliban.
“The Muslim world is in turmoil and what has been bothering it most has been the instability of Afghanistan for the last 16 years,” Janjua said.
Janjua, a retired three-star army general, said that Pakistan is still willing to cooperate on intelligence with the Americans…”
European Officials: Apologists for Arab-Islamic Repression, Terrorism
by Giulio Meotti
February 15, 2018 at 5:00 am
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/11778/european-officials-repression-terrorism
Federica Mogherini has been busy in recent weeks, appeasing one repressive regime after another. Mogherini, the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, began with Iran. “Mogherini was mute on the popular uprising in Iran,” wrote Eli Lake at Bloomberg.
Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom, who was proud to lead “the first feminist government in the world”, merely tweeted that she was “following” the demonstrations in Iran. UN Watch condemned her for being silent. A year ago, Swedish Trade Minister Ann Linde and ten other female members of the Swedish government marched in front of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani wearing hijabs. While real Iranian girls were marching to protest the mandatory hijab, Ann Linde was retweeting about laws against climate change during the severest days of Iranian repression in the streets.
All the European officials have been not only mute about the Iranian attacks on their own people. They have also been missing “a robust defense of Western values”, now under attack in Iran: freedom of expression, freedom of assembly, freedom of the individual, separation of religion and state, judicial process — all principles Iran’s mullahs have battered in their fight against their own people.
Giulio Meotti – yes! – keeps his “Most Depressing Journalist” title!
The two Eurofunctionaries I most despise:
=> Federica Mogherini
=> Margot Wallstrom
Turkey’s “Peace Operations”
by Uzay Bulut
February 15, 2018 at 4:30 am
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/11870/turkey-peace-operations
On January 20, Turkey launched a military offensive against the U.S.-backed Kurdish forces in the Afrin district of northern Syria. Ironically code-named “Operation Olive Branch,” the offensive was proudly described by Turkish Parliament Speaker Ismail Kahraman as “jihad,” a holy war, without which “there can be no progress.”
Parroting this sentiment, both pro- and anti-government mainstream media outlets in Turkey endorsed the Afrin invasion, using similar jihadist slogans. One newspaper that did not do so was the Turkish Cypriot daily newspaper Afrika, which headlined its coverage of the offensive by comparing it to Turkey’s 1974 invasion of Cyprus, which it called a “peace operation.”
In a column criticizing Turkey’s invasions in the region, the owner and editor of Afrika, ?ener Levent, wrote:
Western Feminists: Hijab Hypocrisy
by Khadija Khan
February 15, 2018 at 4:00 am
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/11881/feminists-hijab
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February 1 marked World Hijab Day, an annual expression of solidarity with “millions of Muslim women who choose to wear the hijab and live a life of modesty.” Less than two weeks earlier, on January 20, a Women’s March was held — with rallies across the United States — to re-enact the protests of the previous year against the election of President Donald Trump.
Bizarrely, Western feminists devoting their energy to supporting the right of Muslim women to wear the Islamic headscarf and highlighting the “MeToo” and “Time’s Up” movements against sexual harassment, have been ignoring the genuine plight of their counterparts in the Islamic Republic of Iran and elsewhere in the Middle East, Asia and the Indian Subcontinent.
Vida Movahed, for instance, age 31, publicly removed her hijab and placed it on a stick in the streets of Tehran. For this act of freedom-seeking defiance, she was arrested and sent to prison.
The courage of women such as Movahed — who, alongside men, was protesting the ayatollah-led regime — emboldened other women in Iran to discard their hijabs and demand their rights as women and as individuals.
The same day as activists, fighting tyrannical regimes, were burning hijabs in solidarity with Iranian and other suppressed women across the world, the British Foreign Office was handing out hijabs.
VICE NEWS –The Third Industrial Revolution: A Radical New Sharing Economy
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Jeremy Rifkin is an economist and social theorist and the author of 20 books
The exponential exhaustion of natural resources, declining productivity, slow growth, rising unemployment, and steep inequality, forces us to rethink our economic models. Where do we go from here? In this feature-length documentary, social and economic theorist Jeremy Rifkin lays out a road map to usher in a new economic system.
A Third Industrial Revolution is unfolding with the convergence of three pivotal technologies: an ultra-fast 5G communication internet, a renewable energy internet, and a driverless mobility internet, all connected to the Internet of Things embedded across society and the environment.
This 21st century smart digital infrastructure is giving rise to a radical new sharing economy that is transforming the way we manage, power and move economic life. But with climate change now ravaging the planet, it needs to happen fast. Change of this magnitude requires political will and a profound ideological shift.
Rivkind will be toward the front of the defendants’ box at Nuremberg-2. No firing squad. Hanged by the neck till dead. (Then drive a stake through his heart.)
Don’t forget to put garlic in his mouth.
RT – Russia: First-hand account of repentant Russian escapee on life inside IS
As the joint forces of the international coalition close in on so called Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, Russian citizen Yury Balakshin tells the story of his escape from the notorious Muslim organisation in Saratov, Wednesday.
Attention Everyone: Referencing Our English Heritage is Now Racist
Posted On 13 Feb 2018
By : shawn
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We really shouldn’t be surprised anymore when the left bashes us over the head with their ever-expanding definition of racism, but they get us every time. It’s because their complaints are so ridiculous, outrageous, and just plain stupid that it seems unfathomable that we could be talking about actual, living, breathing, thinking human beings. Then, of course, we remember that the left’s entire mission in life is to divide America into 14,000 little subgroups and that we can’t take seriously everything that comes out of their blogosphere. Sometimes they mean it, sometimes they’re just trolling. The problem is, we’re not even sure THEY know which is which anymore.
The latest adventure in “Surprise, That’s Racist Now!” comes to us courtesy of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who has already dealt with these freaks for most of his Washington life. In a speech before the National Sheriffs’ Association on Monday, Sessions called the country’s sheriffs “a critical part of the Anglo-American heritage of law enforcement.”
Well, you would have thought he said these sheriffs were “our only hope to keep the Darkies in line” from the way the left-wing media exploded in outrage. From the Washington Post to Vox to The Hill, every columnist with access to a keyboard had something to say about the “obviously” racist remark. The NAACP went so far as to draft a press release saying that Sessions’ “latest racially-tinged comments” should be enough to give “all people reason to worry.”
http://unfilteredpatriot.com/attention-everyone-referencing-our-english-heritage-is-now-racist/
reuters –Muslim leader urges Macron not to meddle too much in French Islam
PARIS (Reuters) – A leading representative of French Muslims urged Emmanuel Macron not to meddle in the organization of France’s second-largest religion, days after the president said he would try to redefine relations between Islam and the state.
The rebuke came from the leader of an organization set up 15 years ago in a bid to defuse concern about radical preachers and foster a more homegrown form of Islam that would fit better with France’s traditional separation of church and state affairs.
“Everyone must stick to their role,” Ahmet Ogras, president of the French Council of the Muslim Faith (CFCM), told Reuters in an interview.
“The Muslim faith is a religion and, as such, takes care of its own household affairs. The last thing you want is the state to act as guardian,” said Ogras, a Frenchman of Turkish descent who has led the CFCM since mid-2017.
Macron, elected last May after a runoff victory over far-right leader Marine Le Pen, said in a Feb. 11 newspaper interview he planned to revisit the way Islam was overseen.
“What I’d like to get done in the first half of 2018 is set down markers on the entire way in which Islam is organized in France,” he told the Journal du Dimanche. The priority would be to “bring back what secularism is all about”.
Traditionally Catholic France is home to the largest Jewish and Muslim communities in Europe, with the latter estimated at five million out of a population of 67 million.
The official rule is strict separation between religion and state, with the former considered a strictly private matter. The rule that has been used to justify bans on the wearing of Muslim veils by public service employees as well as any wearing of fully concealing head-to-toe veils in public places.
Macron has been under pressure to deal firmly with radical preachers and mosques since a wave of attacks in which Islamist militants killed more than 230 people in France since 2015.
Emergency search-and-arrest powers introduced in the wake of the November 2015 attacks that killed 130 people in Paris have since been made permanent under tougher security legislation. Several mosques have been shut and imams expelled.
Macron’s declarations in the Feb. 11 newspaper interview suggest he is considering a profound reorganization of the way in which the Islam faith is funded and its preachers schooled.
Back in 2003, Nicolas Sarkozy, interior minister at the time and president from 2007 to 2012, engineered an agreement among the country’s main Islamic groups to create the CFCM.
The idea was to have a council to speak for Muslims similar to the way the French Bishops’ Conference speaks for Catholics or the Consistory speaks for Jews.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-islam/muslim-leader-urges-macron-not-to-meddle-too-much-in-french-islam-idUSKCN1FY2HM
RT-Paris suburb becomes ground zero in France’s struggle with radical Islam
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Once branded a “no-go” zone by authorities, the Paris suburb of Trappes has become a recruiting ground for Islamic State – and ground zero in France’s struggle to integrate Muslims into its staunchly secular state.
According to French intelligence, 67 people from Trappes have joined the ranks of Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIL/ISIS), while other radicalized residents have carried out attacks inside France.
It’s safe to say that Trappes, which is situated 30km southwest of Paris, is not your typical French suburb.
“You won’t see any non-halal butcher shops. There are, I think at the moment, over 1500 prayer rooms and five mosques. If you look at people on the street, you won’t see couples holding hands. You’ll see that women are dressed in strict Islamic dress,” Dr. Leslie Shaw, President of the Forum on Islamic Radicalism and Management, told RT.
“You couldn’t really consider Trappes as a traditional French town anymore. It’s a little bit like a state within a state,” he added.
Although it is a breeding ground for jihadists, where hardline Salafism and Wahhabism are widely practiced, Trappes has remained largely immune to French laws designed to clamp down on religious extremism and preserve the country’s secular traditions. Some women in Trappes openly defy a French law passed eight years ago that bans full-veil coverings. However, police have been reluctant to intervene since residents rioted in 2013, when officers tried to ID a woman who was fully covered.
“It’s a very, very fragile situation. The government doesn’t want to provoke urban riots which would quickly spread like wildfire all over France,” noted Dr. Shaw. “It’s only a matter of time before we have another attack. The basic problem is the ideology that’s driving this. And this goes much deeper than terrorist cells, [or] planning and executing attacks.”
But Trappes may not be the only town in France where radical Islam has planted roots. Last year, a poll of French high school students found that 32 percent of Muslim students believe Islamic doctrine is superior to scientific fact. In 2016, a similar poll found that 68 percent believe French law is subordinate to Islamic law.
On Monday, French President Emmanuel Macron announced that his government would implement new reforms to address “the problematic ties between Islam and the French Republic.”
https://www.rt.com/news/418840-traapes-france-radical-islam/
Imagine my shock.
Plano Mayor Calls on Councilman to Resign Over Facebook Post on Islam
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Councilman Tom Harrison posts apology late Wednesday, does not address mayor’s call to resign
Tuesday night, a short video featuring school scenes and girls in hijabs with the words “Share if you think Trump should ban Islam in American schools” was shared by Plano City Councilman Tom Harrison’s Facebook page.
The video stayed on the page for most of the day Wednesday, even as Plano Mayor Harry LaRosiliere says he and the city manager tried to reach the councilman for an explanation.
“I waited to hopefully see some type of retraction that his account was hacked,” LaRosiliere said. “I’m not sure why that was there, but that didn’t happen.”
At a press conference Wednesday afternoon, LaRosiliere publicly called on Harrison to resign.
“Mr. Harrison’s position indicates that he is unfit to represent this richly diverse city. This conduct is inconsistent with the values of the city of Plano,” LaRosiliere said.
LaRosiliere said Harrison had not previously expressed any views about Islam to the mayor or during official city meetings.
Harrison was elected to the city council in 2015 for a four-year term. His Facebook page shows consistent posts about city business and his views on city issues.
NBC 5 tried to reach Harrison Wednesday afternoon by calling his city phone and emailing his city email account. A reporter left a voicemail on his mobile phone, a note on his door at home and sent him a Facebook message. NBC 5 reached his adult son by phone who said his dad was in doctors’ appointments and the message would be passed on.
Later Wednesday afternoon, the Facebook post was taken down, and by Wednesday evening Harrison posted an apology but did not address the mayor’s call for him to resign.
The video shared on Harrison’s page was from a Facebook group called “Joined Hands Across America for Trump.” The video doesn’t specify what is meant by banning Islam from schools, whether that means banning world religion lessons, prayer or Muslim students.
“I’m a mom, I’m a city of Plano resident, I’m also a Muslim, so the post kind of struck a chord in many ways for me,” said Suzanne, who declined to give her last name publicly.
She said a friend sent her a screenshot of the post early Wednesday morning. It upset her enough to begin emailing the city and then make the trip to city hall to hear directly from the mayor.
“When it comes to public servants voicing their opinions in the public sphere that can easily be accessed by everyone — children and adults alike — I think that bears with it some kind of responsibility,” Suzanne said.
Imam Omar Suleiman, of Faith Forward Dallas and an Irving resident, said the sharing of the video on Facebook is concerning coming from a public official.
“When an entire group of people are targeted either by a teacher or an elected official, then those people are unfit to educate or to lead,” Suleiman said. “I think that’s what the post is really all about.”
He says if Harrison does not resign, he expects the community will continue to look for political consequences for the post.
“We’re going to stage protests, we’re going to continue to mobilize to make sure that the councilman is replaced,” Suleiman said.
Nafis Pathan, of the Islamic Association of Collin County, says his community has been active with the city of Plano and that he was disappointed in Harrison but pleased with the mayor’s response.
“I hope the city councilman understands the consequences and accepts the demand from Mayor Harry [LaRosiliere],” Pathan said.
Some in the Muslim community say they plan to attend Thursday’s planned State of the City, where typically citizens can meet with the city council.
Harrison would be up for election next year unless he resigns or enough signatures are gathered to force a recall election. The city requires at least 30 percent of the number of votes cast in the municipal election the official won to trigger a recall election. In Harrison’s election, a city spokesman said 9,301 votes were cast in the 2015 municipal election, and a recall petition would require 2,791 signatures.
Harrison’s full apology follows:
“I want to sincerely apologize to the Plano Muslim Community for the unintentional hurt I caused by reposting something on my personal Facebook page that wrongfully implied I am anti-Muslim. My intent on inputting this on my personal Facebook page was to emphasize that Christianity is not the only religion being targeted for exclusion in our public school. It was not meant as a personal attack against the Islamic faith. As a Christian, it is my belief that all should be free to worship as they choose, but we live in a time where any practice of religious expression in public schools is rarely tolerated. My hope is that due to the rightful negative response to my post, that it will spark a renewed discussion about all religions and their place in our public schools. My other regret is that my personal action has reflected poorly on the City of Plano. My action was personal in nature, but I should have remembered this past Monday night’s Council discussion …. none of us are ever truly off duty. None of us are perfect, and we will all be judged one day by the highest authority. Until then, I ask for forgiveness within the community and acceptance of my sincere apology.”
https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Plano-Mayor-Calls-on-Councilman-to-Resign-Over-Facebook-Post-on-Islam-474104453.html
https://www.facebook.com/301323893660710/videos/400782970381468/
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Trump’s travel ban is unconstitutional religious discrimination, US court rules (theguardian, Feb 15, 2018)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/feb/15/trump-travel-ban-unconstitutional-appeals-court-ruling-virginia
“Donald Trump’s latest travel ban on travelers from six predominantly Muslim countries is unconstitutional because it discriminates against people based on their religion, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday
In a 9-4 vote, the 4th US circuit court of appeals in Richmond, Virginia, said it examined statements made by Trump and other administration officials, as well as the ban itself, and concluded that it is “unconstitutionally tainted with animus toward Islam”.
The court upheld a ruling by a federal judge in Maryland who issued an injunction barring enforcement of the ban against people from Chad, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria and Yemen who have bona fide relationships with people in the US.
The US supreme court has already agreed to hear the travel ban case in April. In December, the high court said the ban could be fully enforced while appeals made their way through the courts.
“On a fundamental level, the proclamation second-guesses our nation’s dedication to religious freedom and tolerance,” the chief justice Roger Gregory wrote for the court in the majority opinion.
Trump has said the ban is a legitimate measure to protect national security.
The ruling was the second time the 4th circuit has rejected a travel ban. In May, the court cited Trump’s remarks on Muslim travelers while rejecting an earlier version of the ban, finding it “drips with religious intolerance, animus and discrimination”….”
When Susie Met Comey
A mysterious email raises questions about the Deep State’s designs for the incoming Trump administration.
February 15, 2018
Lloyd Billingsley
January 20, 2017, was inauguration day for president Donald Trump and last day on the job for national security advisor Susan Rice. At 12:15 p.m. that day, Rice sent herself an email about a January 5 meeting with POTUS 44, FBI boss James Comey, deputy attorney general Sally Yates, and vice president Joe Biden.
In this meeting, Rice wrote, “The president stressed that he is not asking about, initiating or instructing anything from a law enforcement perspective. He reiterated that our law enforcement team needs to proceed as it normally would by the book.” From a national security perspective, however, the president “said he wants to be sure that, as we engage with the incoming team, we are mindful to ascertain if there is any reason that we cannot share information fully as it relates to Russia.”
Senators Lindsey Graham and Charles Grassley, among others, found the email highly unusual. Former White House counsel Kathryn Ruemmler countered that Rice was simply “memorializing an important discussion for the record.” The discussion did not involve the Steele dossier and “any insinuation that Ambassador Rice’s actions in this matter were inappropriate is yet another attempt to distract and deflect from the importance of the ongoing investigations into Russian meddling in America’s democracy.” Others offered a different explanation for Rice’s eleventh-hour message.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/269331/when-susie-met-comey-lloyd-billingsley
Florida’s High School Spree-Killing – as Democrat Fundraising Opportunity
Another tragedy the Left won’t let go to waste.
February 15, 2018
Matthew Vadum
After a disturbed former student shot and killed at least 17 people yesterday afternoon at a Miami-area high school, the gun-grabbing Left demanded even more regulation of firearms, which, despite constitutional protections, are already the most heavily regulated consumer good in America.
President Trump expressed sympathy for the victims. “My prayers and condolences to the families of the victims of the terrible Florida shooting. No child, teacher or anyone else should ever feel unsafe in an American school,” Trump tweeted.
Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) described the attack as “absolutely pure evil.”
The Valentine’s Day massacre took place at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. At least 14 people have been hospitalized.
The alleged spree killer is Nikolas Cruz, 19, who had previously been a student at that high school but was expelled because of a fight. After using what was described as an AR-15-style rifle on those in the facility, Cruz walked out of the school with other students and was briefly at large before he was captured by law enforcement, Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel (D) told reporters. Cruz was reportedly in the school’s Junior ROTC program and was apprehended wearing an ROTC shirt.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/269334/floridas-high-school-spree-killing-democrat-matthew-vadum
25 Disturbing Facts About Refugee Resettlements from Somalia
How terror arrives on American shores.
February 15, 2018
Leo Hohmann
Of the 11 countries included in President Trump’s refugee ban, one stands out — Somalia.
That ban expired two weeks ago and the U.S. has begun accepting refugees again from Somalia and 10 other high-risk nations.
Although Trump promises “extreme vetting,” many Muslim refugees come as children and become radicalized years later.
Somali crime rivals Somali terrorism as a major problem, and the two clearly blur into one another. The problem is leaking from Minnesota into South Dakota — as Lutheran Social Services has resettled more than 4,500 Somalis in Sioux Falls. Many of the Somalis have migrated from Sioux Falls to the city of Aberdeen in search of work at Demkota Ranch Co.’s beef-packing plant.
South Dakota State Senator and GOP congressional candidate Neal Tapio is leading perhaps the nation’s most aggressive effort to expose the danger and fraud of refugee resettlements. Tapio has introduced several bills that seek to rein in high-risk resettlements in his state.
“While many people see compassion to serve the less fortunate, the truth is the Somali community has not been able to assimilate and has proven to be a major terror threat in the United States,” Tapio said.
Consider the following 25 incidents that should raise red flags about refugee resettlement from this perpetually war-torn country:
[1] The Somali man who knifed two men in November at the Mall of America was not involved in an attempt to steal clothing – a false narrative put out by Bloomington police – but was actually carrying out jihad. He admitted it in a detailed statement to the court. Mahad Abdiraham said he went to the mall that day to “answer the call for jihad.”
[2] A Somali refugee who had just arrived in Aberdeen for a meatpacking job was convicted last year of trying to sexually assault a wheelchair-bound woman at a group home. Liban Mohamed, 39, found the vulnerable woman sitting outside the home and he was caught reaching up between her legs.
[3] Also in Aberdeen, Abdirhman Noor, 24, shot at two men outside the Foxridge Apartments, wounding one critically. Noor, who came to the U.S. as a child refugee, was charged with attempted murder and released on $50,000 bail. He never showed up for his March 2017 court hearing and remains at large.
[4] A 73-year-old Meals on Wheels volunteer was dropping off meals at a homeless shelter in Shelburne, Vermont, when she was attacked by 32-year-old Somali migrant Abukar Ibrahim with a machete in early January 2018. She sustained multiple injuries including a severe leg wound.
[5] Tnuza Jamal Hassan, a 19-year-old woman from either Somalia or Ethiopia (Minneapolis police wouldn’t release her status), was arraigned last month on charges of first-degree arson after she allegedly set fires on the campus of St. Catherine University. Hassan told police she “wanted the school to burn to the ground” and that her intent was to “hurt people,” according to charges filed in Ramsey County District Court. Hassan told police she had written a letter to her roommates containing “radical ideas about supporting Muslims and bringing back the caliphate.” The prosecution further alleges “[s]he told the police and fire investigators ‘You guys are lucky I don’t know how to build a bomb because I would have done that,’” the Star-Tribune reported.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/269289/25-disturbing-facts-about-refugee-resettlements-leo-hohmann
Ted Cruz Warns America That Senate Amnesty Bill Will Put Democrats In Control of DC Forever
Justin Trudeau “it’s time” PeopleKind
Inanimate Objects Don’t Shoot People, Criminals Do
February 15, 2018
Daniel Greenfield
Guns don’t kill people. Hammers don’t jump off the shelf and smash heads. Knives don’t leap of their own accords into chests.
People do these things. Bad people. Criminals.
The Democrats have simultaneously become the party of criminals, advocating euphemisms such as “sentencing reform”, engaging in mass pardons of criminals and restorations of voting rights, dismantling key tools for fighting gang violence, such as stop and frisk, while inveighing against the inanimate objects with which the violence is committed.
That’s followed by lectures about how anyone in the pay of the inanimate object lobby has “blood on their hands”.
But somehow the left that screeches that we must let every terrorist into America never has blood on their hands when they run down people in the street. That’s probably the fault of the car lobby.
Inanimate objects don’t commit crimes. Criminals do.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/269339/inanimate-objects-dont-shoot-people-criminals-do-daniel-greenfield
‘Sadistic sociopath’: Leaked chats reveal Assange’s extreme disdain for Hillary Clinton (RT, Feb 15, 2018)
https://www.rt.com/usa/418944-wikileaks-assange-clinton-twitter/
“WikiLeaks has never concealed its feelings about Hillary Clinton, but leaked chats obtained by The Intercept provide more insight into what its founder Julian Assange apparently thought about her during the run-up to the election.
The tweets are said to have been sent in a direct group message between Assange and around 10 of WikiLeaks’ most loyal supporters on Twitter. The group is described as a “low security channel for some very long term and reliable supporters,”according to the news outlet.
In the autumn of 2015, when the idea of Donald Trump becoming the next US president was still deemed highly unlikely by most political pundits, the iconic whistleblower spoke candidly about Clinton and his preference for a GOP victory. “We believe it would be much better for GOP to win,” he reportedly wrote. “Dems+Media+liberals woudl (sic) then form a block to reign in their worst qualities.” A couple minutes later, he apparently called the Democratic candidate a “bright, well connected, sadistic sociopath.”
However, Assange’s preference for a GOP win didn’t seem to come from his loyalty to America’s conservatives. In fact, he apparently admitted that Republicans would “generate a lot oposition (sic), including through dumb moves.”
However, he also noted that “Hillary will do the same thing, but co-opt the liberal opposition and the GOP opposition.” Assange went on to conclude that Hillary “has greater freedom to start wars than the GOP and has the will to do so.”
A few months later, after Super Tuesday, Assange lambasted the idea of Clinton in the White House “with her bloodlutt (sic) and amitions (sic) of empire with hawkish liberal-interventionist appointees like [Anne-Marie] Slaughter and digital expansionists such as Google integrated into the power structure. Then the republicans (sic) and trump (sic) in opposition constantly saying she’s weak and not invading enough.”
Around the same time, after Bernie Sanders suffered major losses to Clinton in the Democratic primary, Assange wrote: “Perhaps Hillary will have a stroke.”
He also said that her “role in the war in Libya is what should bring her down, however, the GOP is too close to others who have benefited to exploit this, it seems. That Hillary helped to sew the foundation for ISIS against pentagon generals (sic) advice seems huge. But the GOP resolutely ignores it. Hillary has so muc hslime (sic) on her shirt it is now hard to make dirt stick.”
The archive, which was obtained by The Intercept, spans from May 2015 to November 2017 and includes 11,000 messages. More than 10 percent of them were written from the WikiLeaks account. The Intercept has made the assumption that the WikiLeaks account was controlled by Assange, stating that such an assumption is “widely understood” and noting that he refers to himself “in the third person majestic plural, as he often does.”
Assange also reportedly addressed Russia in some of his messages, stating that Moscow was “absolutely terrified,” that its foreign presence was apparently under threat from the US. But the chats also suggested that Moscow had “minor imperialistic goals in its near abroad.”
Following the Intercept’s article, Assange took to Twitter to dismiss the claims, stating that the WikiLeaks Twitter account has always been run by rotating staff. Assange has also noted that while the Intercept used messages from late October 2016, he had no Internet access back then, a fact that is widely known.
The WikiLeaks co-founder also empathized the long-time rivalry between his organization and the Intercept. Assange posted a link to an article, highlighting FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds’ allegations that the Intercept was formed by eBay owner Pierre Omidyar, as a way to drive WikiLeaks out of the secrets-revealing business, take “ownership” of Edward Snowden’s leaks and ultimately create a “honey trap” for whistleblowers.
The private Twitter group was set up in mid-2015 by a former supporter and volunteer at WikiLeaks, who goes by the name “Hazelpress.” That person – whose real name remains unknown – is the same person that leaked the messages after news broke that WikiLeaks had secretly corresponded with Donald Trump Jr. during the election, reportedly urging his father to reject the results as “rigged” if he lost, and requesting that he use his connections to make Assange the Australian ambassador.
“At this point, considering the power exercised by WikiLeaks, [disclosing] literally anything Assange says is in the public interest,” Hazelpress told The Intercept. He added that Assange’s political position during the election is fair game, as WikiLeaks “purports to be a neutral transparency organization.”
WikiLeaks and Clinton have never been friends, particularly after the whistleblowing website published internal Democratic National Committee (DNC) emails in June, as well as the emails of Clinton’s campaign boss John Podesta in October. WikiLeaks also published more than 30,000 emails and email attachments that were sent to and from Clinton’s private email server while she served as secretary of state. Those emails were made public by the Department of State, following a Freedom of Information Act request.
Clinton and the Democratic Party turned to Russia as a scapegoat following the publication of DNC emails. However, both Moscow and Assange have denied that Russia was involved in any way.”
Viral video of screeching child on 8-hour flight
Passengers deal with a screaming child for an eight-hour flight from Germany to New Jersey. One passenger documented the ordeal and now the video is going viral.
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AUGUST 2017 – Bad flights gone wrong : child screams and runs through an 8 hour flight from Germany to Newark
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SHOCK CLAIM: U.N. Aid Workers Have Committed ‘60,000 Rapes’ In The Last Decade
Former senior official says ‘predatory abusers’ took jobs as aid workers for access to vulnerable women and children
In a shocking report out this week, a former U.N. official accuses the agency of harboring hundreds, if not thousands, of criminals in its foreign service, and claims that U.N. aid workers have committed more than 60,000 rapes and sexual assaults over the course of the last decade.
The Times of London reports that Andrew MacLeod, the former “chief of operations at the U.N.’s Emergency Co-ordination Centre” told U.N. officials last month that “he estimated that 60,000 rapes had been carried out by UN staff in the past decade, with 3,300 paedophiles working in the organisation and its agencies.”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/27188/shock-claim-un-aid-workers-have-committed-60000-emily-zanotti
DNC #2’s Ties to Nation of Islam Just Got Way Worse
Keith Ellison Attended Multiple Meetings With Farrakhan While In Congress
Democratic Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison, the deputy chair of the Democratic National Committee, has attended multiple meetings with Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan while in Congress, The Daily Caller has learned.
Ellison’s past ties to Farrakhan are well known: he admitted to The Washington Post during his first congressional campaign in 2006 that he worked with the Nation of Islam for approximately 18 months ahead of Farrakhan’s 1995 Million Man March. Since he ran for Congress, Ellison has repeatedly promised the public that he left Farrakhan in the past.
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Ellison attended at least three meetings where Farrakhan was present — including a private visit to Farrakhan’s hotel room — according to photos and videos reviewed by TheDC and Farrakhan’s own statements.
http://dailycaller.com/2018/02/13/keith-ellison-louis-farrakhan-nation-of-islam/