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Yemen rebels stage show of force hours after missile attacks
Hundreds of thousands of Huthi rebel supporters flood the streets of Yemen’s capital to mark three years of war, hours after Riyadh said it had intercepted seven missiles fired from rebel territory.
South Africa – Hermanus land grabs: DA calls for “full force” from police as violence continues
The chaos in Hermanus has continued on throughout Monday afternoon. We have the latest details as well as reaction from the local DA government.
https://www.thesouthafrican.com/hermanus-land-grabs-rubber-bullets/
Hermanus ‘tense’ after land grab thwarted‚ police station fire
A satellite police station was partially burnt and there were reports of intimidation on Monday in a tense standoff after a thwarted attempt by members in the area to restore calm.
Overberg police commander Brigadier Donovan Heilbron confirmed that nobody had been injured in the fire.
Police reinforcements‚ dressed in riot gear and carrying shotguns‚ were deployed after an attempted land invasion over the weekend.
At least 25 people were arrested in the town on the southern Cape coast after scores of people marked out plots on vacant land.
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https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-africa/2018-03-26-hermanus-tense-after-land-grab-thwarted/
JW: Congress is Following Judicial Watch’s Lead on the Clinton Email Scandal
Mueller Special Counsel has SERIOUS Ethical & Constitutional Issues’ – JW President Tom Fitton
“Andy McCabe Ruined My Career” Former FBI Agent.
MISTAKE: Gun Control March Fails, Interest In NRA Memberships Sky RocketsOver this past weekend, thousands of activists marched in Washington D.C. demanding radical gun control measures and vilifying the NRA and Republicans. However, if Google search trends are any indication, the efforts of the activists maybe backfiring.
As the Daily Caller first noted, Google searches for the term “NRA membership” spiked during the March For Our Lives gun control rally.
Data for the search term “NRA membership” dating back to 2004 reveals that searches for the phrase spiked higher over the weekend than it did even in response to the gun control push and campaign against the NRA after Sandy Hook.
https://winningamericanow.com/2018/03/26/backfire-gun-control-march-fails-interest-in-the-nra-sky-rockets/
Full Censorship, YouTube’s Purge Of “Gun Videos” Begins
Published on March 23, 2018
YouTube, the video streaming and upload service owned by Google, is going after lawful gun owners and companies by taking down channels. The company argues videos of individuals shooting firearms violates terms of agreement and promotes violence.
This week, YouTube went after Florida based AR-15 manufacturer Spike’s Tactical and terminated their channel without warning.
But it turns out, Spike’s Tactical isn’t alone and a number of firearms companies and channels owned by Second Amendment enthusiasts have been banned.
https://winningamericanow.com/2018/03/23/full-censorship-youtubes-purge-of-gun-videos-begins/
WATCH: Gun Control Activist Gives Perfect Reason Not To Give Into Their Demands
“When they give us that inch, that bump stock ban, we will take a mile.”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/28654/watch-gun-control-activist-gives-perfect-reason-ryan-saavedra?utm_medium=email&utm_content=032618-news&utm_campaign=position2
That is the left in a nut shell, they expect you to give away part of our rights today so they can come back tomorrow to take more rights. From the tone of voice they are using they know they are losing the argument and if they don’t act now they will not be able to to anything for a long time.
When the left gets desperate they get violent, usually very violent.
Rapper Who Performed At ‘March For Our Lives’ Was Arrested Last Year For Carrying A Concealed Weapon
On Saturday, rapper Vic Mensa sang for the gun control crowd at the March for Our Lives in Washington, D.C. One seeming irony: not only has Mensa owned guns, but he was arrested last year in Beverly Hills, California, and booked on a felony count of carrying a concealed weapon.
Mensa had been pulled over in February 2017 for running a stop sign and having tinted windows. He told police he had a gun in his car and showed them his concealed carry permit, but according to police, the permit was from another state. He was released on $35,000 bail after spending one night in jail.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/28665/rapper-who-performed-march-our-lives-was-arrested-hank-berrien?utm_medium=email&utm_content=032618-news&utm_campaign=position3
David Hogg’s Next Crusade: Opposing Voter Identification Laws
Gun control isn’t the end for the Parkland student.
The March for Our Lives may have been the Parkland activist students’ magnum opus, but they are by no means done agitating for leftist policies. The only relevant legislation on the horizon, the STOP School Violence Act, passed without their support, and there are few gun regulations likely to pass.
So, at least one Parkland student is seeking to expand his policy agenda; David Hogg is battling voter ID laws.
That’s right: he may believe you should have photo identification in order to exercise your Second Amendment rights, but is iffy on whether you should have similar paperwork to cast a ballot.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/28648/david-hoggs-next-crusade-opposing-voter-emily-zanotti?utm_medium=email&utm_content=032618-news&utm_campaign=position5
That’s right kid, keep working on things the majority of people like, this will keep you from achieving anything.
Soros bot?
That is my guess, if you look at his face and listen to the tone of voice he is a witch burner who has found his excuse to run around being nasty.
If he is a Soros bot Soros needs to keep him on a shorter leash before he scares so many people he turns into a liability.
A fortune-teller would foresee a short life for this person.
In Crime-Ridden New Orleans, Opioid Deaths Outnumber Murders 4:1
(Kaiser Health News) There were more than four times the number of drug-related deaths in Jefferson Parish in 2017 than homicides.
There were 173 overdose deaths, according to the Jefferson Parish Coroner’s office, and 42 homicides in 2017.
A total of 139 of the overdose deaths were opioid/opiate related. Suicides are included in some of the overdose deaths reported last year.
https://headlinehealth.com/in-crime-ridden-new-orleans-opioid-deaths-outnumber-murders-41/
Trump Rebuilds U.S. Military
Restoring what Obama decimated and degraded.
March 26, 2018
Matthew Vadum
After eight long years of Barack Obama decimating the military, President Trump is proudly beginning the process of rebuilding the nation’s armed forces and defense capabilities.
As the president signed the omnibus spending bill Friday that avoided another partial government shutdown and funded the government through the end of the fiscal year Sept. 30, Defense Secretary James Mattis, hailed the measure as “the largest military budget in history, reversing many years of decline and unpredictable funding.”
At the White House Trump explained why such a spending boost was necessary as he reflected on the serious damage that the previous president did to national security and military preparedness.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/269708/trump-rebuilds-us-military-matthew-vadum
The Bolton Warning
Trump’s appointment sends a powerful message to dictators, globalists and appeasers.
March 26, 2018
Joseph Klein
As had been predicted for some time, Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster is leaving his post as President Trump’s national security adviser. Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton will replace General McMaster, effective as of April 9th.
Like President Trump himself, John Bolton is an iconoclast. He will bring a no-holds-barred attitude to his White House position as the president’s new national security adviser, taking on dictators, appeasers, globalists and bureaucrats alike.
Mr. Bolton indicated during an interview following the announcement of his appointment that, while he will not hold back from offering his candid opinions for the president’s consideration, he will also make sure that the president is presented with multiple viewpoints in helping him make key national security decisions. Moreover, he vowed to support whatever the president finally decides to do. Known as an infighter over the years against the foreign policy establishment bureaucracies, Mr. Bolton also said that part of his job will be “making sure the bureaucracies get the decision and implement it.” As reported by Foreign Policy, we can expect a “massive shake-up at the National Security Council, aiming to remove dozens of current White House officials, starting with holdovers from President Barack Obama’s administration.”
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/269704/bolton-warning-joseph-klein
The Coming Cultural Revolution
The utopian dream of human perfectibility demands conformity of thought and action.
March 26, 2018
Mark Tapson
The Chinese Cultural Revolution – a terrifying decade of totalitarian purging of everyone and everything that did not conform to Maoist ideology – ended in 1976. But everything old becomes new again, so welcome to the new Cultural Revolution which is not on the rise in China but instead is eroding the freedoms of the Western world.
The architects of the Chinese Cultural Revolution employed the ruthless tactics of totalitarianism everywhere: public humiliation, capricious imprisonment, hard labor, torture and execution, the seizure of private property, and in China’s case, the forcible displacement of much of the young urban population to rural regions where they and millions of others were starved to death. And just as Muslim supremacists strive to erase any pre-Islam cultural and historical artifacts in conquered territories, the Chinese revolutionaries attempted to wipe the slate clean of pre-Communist history as well, ransacking cultural and religious sites.
Certainly such abuses are not underway in the democratic West – yet. But a similar totalitarian impulse is on the move among the radical Left. In America and England, for example, historical relics and artifacts are being destroyed as college activists radicalized by the Marxist professors who dominate Humanities departments clamor for the removal of monuments to the “slave-owning” Founding Fathers, to “colonialist” giants like Cecil Rhodes, and to “mass murderers” like Winston Churchill.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/269699/coming-cultural-revolution-mark-tapson
Be sure and read the above article, the cultural revolution is coming to the US and Canada (has already start but it isn’t bad yet) and is running full force in some of the European nations. If the Europeans don’t raise up and fight back they will lose their nations and when those who do save their nations will in self defense liberate their neighboring nations but may not be in the mood to turn them back over to the people who wouldn’t fight for them.
She was amazed that in the US people could enjoy themselves at a parade without fear that something they might say could lead to job loss or punishment.
See p. 271 https://www.amazon.com/Red-Scarf-Girl-Cultural-Revolution/dp/0064462080 Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revo… (Paperback)by Ji-li Jiang
March Madness
Leftist-celebrity axis deploys students against the Second Amendment.
March 26, 2018
Lloyd Billingsley
“Hey hey, ho ho. The NRA has got to go!”
“What do we want? Gun control! When do we want it? Now!”
Those chants rang out on the March 14 National Walkout Day, one of many events in the wake of the massacre in Parkland, Florida. Whoopi Goldberg joined students in New York and Elizabeth Warren, Massachusetts Democrat, tweeted, “These kids are leading the charge against gun violence – and I’m proud to be here fighting alongside them.”
The soundtrack was similar this past weekend at the March for Our Lives rally in Washington, with an estimated 200,000 in attendance. Yolanda Renee King, the nine-year-old granddaughter of Martin Luther King, proclaimed her dream, “that this should be a gun-free world. Period.” Despite similar activism across the country, not all millennial students are marching to the same drumbeat.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/269706/march-madness-lloyd-billingsley
To anyone my age the chants are straight out of the war protests of the 60s, you know the ones the KGB organized. We weren’t suppose to know that they were being run by Moscow but it was an open secret.
Teenagers Make Great Progressive Shock Troops
What the “March for Our Lives” was really about.
March 26, 2018
Bruce Thornton
Last Saturday hundreds of thousands of high schoolers gathered across the country in a “March for Our Lives” rally. Organized and financed by anti-gun nuts and other left-wing outfits, and ornamented with Hollywood celebrities like George Clooney and Oprah Winfrey, the spectacle was filled with the emotional exhibitionism and juvenile policy recommendations one would expect from the most pampered and worst-educated cohort of young people in American history––the perfect shock troops for progressive propaganda.
Progressivism, like its totalitarian cousins, is an ideology of melodrama and moral exhibitionism. The complexity and mystery of a flawed human nature and its actions are reduced to Lenin’s simple analysis: “Who, whom.” In the fight between righteousness and evil, who will win, the oppressor or his victim? The revolutionary is strengthened by his perceived own moral superiority, his certainty that he on the side of history’s angels. After all, he is struggling for the brave new world: heaven on earth, the utopia of radical equality and social justice, and the final banishment of misery and oppression. In such a cosmic battle, who has time for critical thought or empirical evidence?
This leftist melodrama has always been attractive for the callow young, as the hinge-year 1968 showed. Teenagers are prone to grandiose self-regard, impulsive behavior, and a preference for feeling rather than thinking. They are attracted to sentimentalism and melodrama, the emotion that validates their inflated egos rather than the thought that challenges their exaggerated self-importance.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/269703/teenagers-make-great-progressive-shock-troops-bruce-thornton
They are the ones who are easily turned into witch burners, once convinced about the righteousness of their cause they will do anything to impose it on others.
Clooney and Oprah need a good strong dose of hemlock.
The Dan Bongino show
https://www.bongino.com/march-26-2018-ep-684-is-this-really-a-grassroots-movement/
Europe is heading for civil war
Towards the end she is getting very much into conspiracy theories
Government ‘Tolerance Tsar’ Labelled ‘Oreo’ by Labour Party-Linked Muslim Group (breitbart, Mar 26, 2018)
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/03/26/labour-party-linked-muslim-group-racist-attack-moderate-muslim/
“An “extremist” Muslim group that works with the Labour Party’s leadership has made a racist attack on a moderate Muslim advising the government on integration.
Leaders of Muslim Engagement and Development (MEND) labelled Sara Khan, the head of Theresa May’s Commission for Tackling Extremism, an “Oreo” – a biscuit which is brown on the outside but white in the middle.
The pejorative phrase is often used as a slur against people from ethnic minorities who support integration and oppose extremism, implying they are betraying the ethnic group they were born into.
According to a Channel 4 Dispatches investigation broadcast Monday night and previewed by The Times, a “senior member” of MEND was caught on camera using the racist term.
Furthermore, whilst sharing a platform with MEND at an event, the preacher Shakeel Begg insulted Muslims who support counterterrorism laws, calling them “house Muslims” in the undercover footage.
Mr. Begg has been found by the High Court to be an extremist and has appeared at MEND events numerous times. MEND says he is not a member and they do not endorse his views.
Despite their radical connection, MEND has trained police officers “about Islam”, advises local councils on policy, and many Labour MPs have long supported them. Last November, Jeremy Corbyn and others including Naz Shah MP spoke at the group’s launch of “Islamophobia awareness month”….”
Orbán: ‘Europe is Full’, Mass Migration a ‘Threat’ to Women’s Rights (breitbart, Mar 26, 2018)
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/03/26/orban-europe-full-migration-threat-womens-rights/
“Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has said that “Europe is full” and that following the gains of pro-sovereignty parties in recent elections, the EU can no longer “bury its head in the sand” over peoples’ rejection of mass migration.
The conservative Prime Minister told Kossuth Radio’s Sunday News listeners that he fundamentally rejected the migration proposals put forward at the EU Council summit last week “because the proposal presented by them focuses on and aims at the admission and distribution of immigrants”.
“Europe is full,” Prime Minister Orbán said.
“Its external borders must be defended, and migrants must not be brought in – they must be kept outside Europe.
“And if we defend the borders and there is no infiltration, then there will be nobody to distribute, and we can put this dispute behind us,” the ruling Fidesz party leader added.
Mr. Orbán also said he anticipated that following the passing of any pro-migrant legislation by the bloc would facilitate a rise in taxes by Brussels, with a significant portion being diverted to migrants.
He criticised not just the impacts on culture or national security that the institutionalisation of mass migration would have on the continent but the fiscal devastation it would have on countries – particularly those, such as Hungary, that have emerged from post-Communist political-economic structures in recent decades.
Western, more economically developed, European nations have already paid out billions for social programmes for the new arrivals.
Sweden, which took in the highest number of migrants per capita during the migrant crisis, may be forced to raise taxes and even the retirement age to pay for asylum seeker programmes. Germany’s entire budget surplus in 2016 went to migrant costs, with the federal government paying out €21.7 billion on migrants that year in total.
“Hungary would have to admit ten thousand migrants immediately,” the Hungarian premier told Kossuth Radio’s listeners. “According to the plan, the financial provision for each migrant would be 9 million forints. Hungary would be unable to withstand this: it would completely crush us.”
“It is unacceptable for tens of thousands of migrants to overwhelm a country… and destroy the economic results that it has finally achieved with such great effort.”
The Hungarian also called the “danger of terrorism” and crime associated with mass migration from the third world a threat to women, saying “women are endangered by it” and slammed the “censorship of news about migration, about terrorism, and about violence against women” in Western Europe.
“[The issue of migration] cannot be sidestepped: it is happening in spite of censorship – because there is indeed censorship.”
Noting how countries in the Union had made migration a major campaign issue in the past year, Orbán said that “pro migrant parties have clearly failed”.
“Despite the fact that the Western European elites want to marginalise and freeze out this question, it will forge its own path; because the nature of democracy is that sooner or later one must deal with those things which are most important to the people.
“And the most important thing for them is migration,” the Hungarian Prime Minister said, “and their economies are shaken by it. People want to talk about this.
“As a result of the Italian election, for the first time in Brussels, I feel that they’ve realised that they can no longer bury their heads in the sand.””
Pro-EU Sainsbury’s Justifies Purging ‘Easter’ From ‘Chocolate Egg’ Range (breitbart, Mar 26, 2018)
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/03/26/pro-eu-sainsburys-drop-easter-chocolate-egg-range/
“Pro-EU supermarket chain Sainsbury’s has opted to swap the term ‘Easter eggs’ for ‘Chocolate eggs’, telling customers this is a more accurate description of the product.
“In our local @sainsburys not a single Easter Egg [has] the word Easter on,” complained one Twitter user. “Just won’t buy them.”
A member of the supermarket’s social media team shot back, asserting that Sainsbury’s feels the term “Chocolate eggs” better describes “such products”, along with “their ingredients and contents”.
The statement triggered a public backlash, who felt the supermarket was commercialising a traditional holiday and erasing its Christian roots unacceptably.
“So why do you only sell them at Easter?” demanded one. “Surely a secular egg is for life not just blatant commercial exploitation.”
“Me and my family have all decided to switch to Morrisons for our EASTER EGGS this year,” commented another. “Achieves nothing, but we feel good about it,” they added sadly.
“What the hell is the matter with us?” despaired a third. “They’re Easter Eggs. That’s it. Not chocolate eggs. Easter eggs. What was the rationale that drove this decision to change their name?”
Sainsbury’s eventually deleted the offending tweet — but have since posted several more saying the same thing.
Curiously, they do describe their ‘Chocolate eggs’ as ‘Easter eggs’ on their website, and claim other items in their product line do use the word ‘Easter’….”
Swedish Preschools Recast Children’s Gender in Social Engineering Experiment (breitbart, Mar 26, 2018)
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/03/26/swedish-preschools-recast-childrens-gender-social-engineering-experiment/
“Following State regulations to counteract traditional gender roles, a number of Swedish preschools have begun experimenting in innovative ways to blur the differences between boys and girls.
The Swedish government has been committed to the deconstruction of gender for decades, and in 1998, added a requirement to its national curriculum that all preschools “counteract traditional gender roles and gender patterns” and encourage children to explore “outside the limitations of stereotyped gender roles.”
At preschools across the country, toddlers are addressed by gender-neutral pronouns, encouraged to play at games commonly associated with the other sex, and forced to overcome natural tendencies toward aggression or passivity, according to a March 24 article in the New York Times.
The State curriculum “urges teachers and principals to embrace their role as social engineers,” the Times article declares, despite the fact that the effect of this teaching method on children “is still unclear.”
At the Seafarer’s Preschool outside Stockholm, for instance, teachers remove gender-specific toys like cars and dolls and have the boys play kitchen while the girls are made to shout “No!”
In attempts to teach gender fluidity, teachers are told to treat the boys and girls alike in every way, with no exceptions, and even to curb behavior generally associated with their sex.
The school has its own “in-house gender expert,” who periodically reviews progress on “gender objectives” for the students, aimed at breaking down gender stereotypes received from families and society.
The teachers begin with the premise that there is no such thing as something that is “for boys” or “for girls” and they try to inculcate this gender neutrality in every schoolchild.
At the Seafarer’s Preschool, the male children’s natural tendency to boisterousness and physicality is intentionally counteracted and they are encouraged to be more passive and quiet, and to engage in activities such as painting. The girls, on the other hand, are denied their desire to be picked up and held, and are instead made to shout and assert themselves.
“Sweden is really the pioneer,” said Lann Hornscheidt, a professor of gender studies and linguistics at the Humboldt University’s Center for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies. “No other country has made such an effort to break down gender barriers among children.”
The godfather of Swedish gender-neutral preschools was a man named Ingemar Gens, who was hired by the town of Trodje as “equal opportunity expert” in 1996. Gens’ background was not in education, but in journalism, though he “dabbled” in gender theory and sought to break down the norm of Swedish masculinity.
Mr. Gens drafted a “compensatory gender strategy” that was initially adopted by two preschools. The strategy had teachers separate boys and girls for part of the day and coach them “in traits associated with the other gender.”
“Boys massaged each other’s feet. Girls were led in barefoot walks in the snow, and told to throw open the window and scream,” the Times reports.
Accused of indoctrinating the children, Gens readily admitted that he was, but insisted that all schools do in some way.
“They said we were indoctrinating the kids,” he said. “I say we’re always indoctrinating kids. Bringing them up is indoctrination.”
The original compensatory gender strategy evolved into a “gender neutral” approach to preschool education, whose aim was “muting differences” between boys and girls. This is the most common practice in Swedish preschools today.
In 2011, Swedish preschools introduced a new gender-neutral pronoun, “hen,” borrowed from Finnish, which has since spread throughout mainstream Swedish culture. It was formally adopted into the Swedish language and included in the Swedish dictionary in 2015.
Another gender-neutral school, the Egalia preschool in Stockholm, says its goal is to “free children from social expectations based on their sex.”
School administrators at Egalia have selected books for their curriculum that avoid traditional presentations of gender and parenting roles, such a classic fairy tales like Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella. They have replaced them with, for example, “a book about two giraffes who find an abandoned baby crocodile and adopt it.”
Although mainstream Swedish culture and the large political parties has generally accepted the goal of gender deconstruction, a few courageous opposition voices continue to make themselves heard, and some claim that many more people oppose the practice than is commonly believed.
One woman, Tanja Bergkvist, a mathematician and blogger, rails against “Sweden’s gender madness,” and claims that many Swedes are do not like what is going on but are afraid to come out publicly against the practice.
“They don’t want to be regarded as against equality,” she said. “Nobody wants to be against equality.”
Bergkvist says that the nation has an unhealthy obsession with gender, arguing that this “equality idea, it has become so absurd, it has become a really stupid industry.”
Another critic, Philip Hwang, Professor of Psychology at the University of Gothenburg, believes the schools’ attempts will ultimately be ineffective.
“I find it a bit funny—who do they think they are fooling?” he said.”
This is outright pathological…
TRY NOT TO CRINGE #2: March for our lives
Reactionary Activists “Shut It Down” Faith Goldy Silenced At Wilfred Laurier University
How Would A Civil War In The Modern United States Play Out?
Excellent. Really exceptional.
I especially liked it when the narrator observed how America’s “Red States” grow all of the food. This could be a very strong lever.
Remember, most large urban supermarkets only stock about 48 hour’s worth of food. The rest is held a central warehouse that serves all local outlets. If that warehouse is put out of commission, come mealtime, everything goes all pear-shaped for several thousand people.
All around, a persuasive and informative video.
EU ‘Helpless’ In Struggle Against Alarming Number of Homeless – Report’s Author (sputniknews, Mar 26, 2018)
https://sputniknews.com/analysis/201803261062906196-eu-homeless-germany-france-britain/
“French fund Abbé Pierre has published a report stating the alarming situation regarding the rising number of homeless in Europe. The worst situation is in Germany and the UK, where, over one year, the number of addresses from people who had become homeless increased by 150 and 169 percent respectively.
Sputnik spoke with one of the authors of the report, Sarah Coupechoux.
“The past year has once again revealed that there’s another Europe that’s poorly known and if anyone knows it exists they try to forget it when don’t look down at it. It’s a Europe of the homeless,” Coupechoux said.
According to the author, a total of 11 million out of 220 million European families are without housing. When compared to last year, the number of such families increased by 17% in France. In June 2017 there were 20,845 calls to the French hotline to provide night shelters for the homeless.
There are different methods for counting in different countries and, moreover, “there’s no unified data on the number of homeless in Europe. This social phenomenon isn’t controlled at the European level,” Coupechoux expalined.
In France those who called for a night shelter are counted. In other countries they also count those people who spend the night in homeless shelters, hotels or with their relatives or friends, the expert added.
“We’re told a lot about Germany as a country where there’s no unemployment, for example. But they’ve got a record poverty rate! The housing problem in Germany is so acute that it has become a political issue.”
According to Coupechoux, the problem has been solved only in Finland where it’s considered not as a social phenomenon but as a particular person’s problem that’s easy to solve. Between 2009 and 2016 the number of homeless in Finland dropped by 18%. But the government was also proactive: “they identified what population categories have the greatest risk of being on the street and started working with them. This refers to the young, people with household indebtedness. Assistance is provided to children, the work is carried out at prisons, hospitals etc. Accommodation has been built, wonderful parks have been made, homeless shelters turned into proper housing” – everything is in line with the «Housing First» principle when the pride of place goes to a permanent home.
“In France, there are years between the time a person lands on the street and the time when they receive social housing and often you have to start again as the person isn’t monitored in terms of medicine or being providing with assistance, etc.”
She called for the need of night shelters but alternating Interim Housing programs only “worsen the situation and don’t guarantee the right to shelter, privacy and integration into society.” Finland’s practices can be adopted by other European countries and France seems to be taking an interest in them, the expert said.
“In France, the program “Un chez soi d’abord” is being implemented experimentally. Such experiments have been implemented since 2005, especially, in the US.” Now we can “move on to the next step,” as the experiment has worked.
According to the report’s author, it’ll be more expensive to resolve the consequences of poor housing than urgent provisional measures to assist the homeless.
“Funding is being reduced. Not only in social assistance but in health care, emergency services, etc. And, of course, it refers to all of us because, first, we should help people in difficult situations and, second, because society does care how much money is being spent on the homeless assistance programs that work in France during the winter.”
The European Commission boasts that the economy has risen, but economic growth doesn’t interfere with the rise of inequality. We can still feel the echoes of the 2008 crisis and the rent increase only makes the situation worse: “The European Commission is happy about economic growth and that the economic situation may probably get better and the economy can recover from the 2008 crisis after so many difficult years… And what about the other Europe? What about those who are most vulnerable and those whose number is “only rising”?
“What we ask from the EU is to consider this phenomenon in its work. We can’t address the issue of urban construction or migration in isolation from the problem of the homeless… As it’s a case of the most helpless EU citizens,” she concluded.”
Beijing Sold Islamabad Sophisticated Missile Tech (sputniknews, Mar 26, 2018)
https://sputniknews.com/military/201803261062925055-Beijing-sold-islamabad-missile-tech/
“The Chinese Academy of Sciences recently announced the sale of ballistic missile tracking technology to Pakistan.
The equipment is touted as a sophisticated optical monitoring system capable of collecting useful data and glean better insight into ballistic missile tests. The South China Morning Post reported last week that the equipment would accelerate Islamabad’s development of multi-warhead ballistic missiles.
Particularly, the equipment includes cameras capable of tracking multiple warheads simultaneously, the Diplomat notes, which could be especially helpful for Pakistan’s first MIRV-capable missile. Multiple independently targetable reentry vehicle (MIRV) capability was recently tested on China’s DF-41 missile, which can carry up to ten warheads…”
Kosovo police expel Serb official amid surge in tensions (abcnews, Mar 26, 2018)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/kosovo-police-prevent-serb-officials-entry-54012006
“Kosovo police briefly detained and expelled a senior Serb official in a divided northern town as officers also fired tear gas and stun grenades at Serb protesters Monday — an incident that triggered an angry reaction from Serbia and inflamed tensions between the two bitter Balkan foes.
Video footage showed Kosovo policemen in black uniforms with machine guns and body armor leading a handcuffed man from inside a building toward an armored car. Video also showed a conference room inside the building in the Serb-dominated northern Kosovo town of Mitrovica with chairs and tables upended.
Marko Djuric, the chief Serb negotiator in European Union-led talks between Serbia and Kosovo, was detained for illegally entering Kosovo. The move sparked protests by Kosovo Serbs and the police responded by firing tear gas and stun grenades.
A doctor at a local hospital said 32 people were injured, including five seriously, though all were discharged later…”
The Latest: 32 injured, 5 seriously in Kosovo clashes (abcnews, Mar 26, 2018)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/latest-serbian-state-tv-kosovo-detains-serb-official-54018078
“A doctor in northern Kosovo says 32 people have been injured, including five seriously, during clashes with Kosovo police during the arrest of a senior Serbian government official.
Milan Ivanovic said Monday the injured have been treated in a local hospital in the divided town of Mitrovica and discharged.
Serbia’s president, Aleksandar Vucic, has said that Marko Djuric, government’s chief negotiator in EU-mediated talks on Kosovo, was beaten when arrested and will be examined in a Serbian hospital.
Kosovo authorities have said that Djuric was expelled from Kosovo after he was released from detention. They say Djuric was arrested earlier Monday for entering the country illegally.
Officials say Kosovo police have fired stun grenades and tear gas to disperse protesters in Mitrovica and arrest Djuric.”
Sure.
Welcome to the EU, guys!
“’39 Days’: David Hogg Wasn’t At The School At The Time Of The Shooting”
Weasel Zippers – Via CBS News – March 26, 2018
https://www.weaselzippers.us/379675-39-days-david-hogg-wasnt-at-the-school-during-the-shooting/
“Confrontation Between Lifeguard, Bodysurfer Caught On Camera In Redondo Beach Goes Viral” CBS Los Angeles – Published on August 7, 2017
White House adviser Jared Kushner’s brother attended the pro-gun control event March For Our Lives Saturday and donated $50,000 to the anti-gun movement.
Josh Kushner, the brother-in-law to Ivanka Trump, attended Saturday’s event in Washington, D.C., after reportedly donating $50,000 to the March for Our Lives organization in early March, WLTX 19 reported.
Kushner attended the march with his girlfriend, supermodel Karlie Kloss, and posted photos of the event on his Instagram page. In one of the photos Kushner posted, Kloss was holding a sign that said, “Load minds not guns.”
Along with posting photos to his Instagram, Kushner was also spotted in the large crowd with a lanyard on his neck which said “program.”
http://dailycaller.com/2018/03/26/jared-kushners-brother-march-for-our-lives/
Two protests that happened in Hamilton on Sunday caused a heavy police presence to be called in to the area of Victoria Park and Locke Street.
The first group walked along Locke Street as part of the Patriot Walk On Locke march, but a group called Hamilton Against Fascists organized a counter-protest, saying the group who organized the initial march are members of “far-right, anti-Muslim, fascist groups.”
“Today there is a number of far-right, anti-Muslim, fascist groups that are marching along Locke Street,” said Martin Rosso, organizer of Hamilton Against Fascists.
“We are here to establish that they can’t establish a foothold in Hamilton.”
READ MORE: Locke St. bracing for weekend protest, counter-protest
Hamilton Police said it was the first march that was the peaceful one.
“It was peaceful and very short in duration… it was small compared to what went on on Main Street,” said Deputy Chief Dan Kinsella of Hamilton Police Service, adding it was the counter protest that became the concern.
https://globalnews.ca/news/4104758/duel-protests-in-hamilton-bring-out-heavy-police-presence/
My favourite way of writing ‘Allah’:
http://i.magaimg.net/img/2ye7.png
That’s allah ta bacon!
I don’t need that much Cholesterol, I don’t need that much Cholesterol, if I say that long enough I can avoid buying it and making bacon and tomato sandwiches.
Rabbis have approved genetically cloned pig meat as kosher, even with milk. The culinary opportunities are limitless. Genetically cloned bread for Passover, genetically cloned shrimp, genetically cloned eye of newt, genetically cloned pterodactyl…
https://twitter.com/TheMossadIL/status/977931828207194112
……..
Ok, I bought vegan “bacon bits” last week. Sprinkled them on a tomato.
Just about the best flavored thing I’ve ever eaten.
The Orthodox Union website reported, “Everyone says that. Except people who’ve tried the real thing.”
“… I can avoid buying it and making bacon and tomato sandwiches.”
Do you have any idea of just how un-American that sounds?!?
While the BLT (Bacon, Lettuce & Tomato) sandwich was still but a twinkle in the eye of some Yankee entrepreneur, already hard at work for centuries ahead of time were a global team of little known and unsung heroes. Most of their names are lost in the sands of time…
In Central and South America, these culinary titans were perfecting the lineage of beefsteak tomatoes (cheeseburgers would never be the same without them). Even as their Northern neighbors were slowly grasping the hard-won knowledge of thin-sliced hickory smoked pork belly, others were mastering the time-honored art of cultivating perfectly crisp and crunchy, nutrient-free, iceberg lettuce.
All the while, legions of prescient millers and bakers around the world were tirelessly dedicating themselves centuries in advance to delivering the bleached wheat flour, carefully isolated baker’s yeast, and those proofing processes required for them to produce a yeasty white (i.e., “balloon”) bread that, in a flash of inspiration, food maven Julia Child cheerfully called, “Kleenex™”.
Thus did the Western World enter an ultimately fortuitous collision course with the BLT—along with hypertension, naughty LDL (Low Density Lipid) cholesterol—and a host of other health concerns that only a pair of triple deckers, a six pack and a big basket of some hot-steaming French fries can put a dent in.
Few in the entire world were more capable than America when it came to evolving a combination sandwich and coronary thrombosis, all in one!
Just for you, Richard. A recipe happily stolen from The Souper Salad Factory back in the days of Silicon Valley’s gritty prime:
Category: Film Directors’ Sandwich Specials
Title: Francis Xavier Bushman Special
• Dark Rye Bread
• Both Slices Smeared with Herbed Cream Cheese (Rondele)
• Slices of Heirloom Beefsteak Tomato
• Hickory or Apple-wood smoked bacon (Beef bacon works)
• Alfalfa or other piquant micro-greens
• (Optional: Light schmear of high-octane Mayonnaise)
As a devout BLT and Triple Decker devotee (extra bacon!), the above (despite being relatively healthy to consume) rates a consistent 9 out-of- 10 points. Sounds like weird hippy crap, tastes like nectar. Find out for yourself…
OBAMA “GUIDANCE” ON SCHOOL DISCIPLINE TO BE REVOKED
At the New York Post, Paul Sperry reports that the Trump administration’s Departments of Education and Justice will revoke the Obama administration’s infamous “guidance” on race quotas in school discipline:
Federal Education Department officials told the Post the guidance, known as the “2014 Dear Colleague letter,” will be rescinded this year, but only after drafting another rule to replace it. The substitute guidance will make it clear that the government will no longer rely on the disputed legal theory known as “disparate impact,” which Obama investigators used to threaten school districts with discrimination charges.
“Just withdrawing the letter without replacing it with another letter interpreting disparate impact more narrowly would do little” to convince school officials to change their discipline policies back, a senior department official said.
Putting out a new rule requires publicly inviting people from both sides to offer input, the official added, and the process will likely delay the repeal until July.
He and other sources say Attorney General Jeff Sessions is on board the decision to scrap the Obama rule.
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/03/obama-guidance-on-school-discipline-to-be-revoked.php
Two women wearing head coverings panhandle on the side of the highway. Another woman with a headscarf asks for spare change from passersby on a downtown street. Still another begs at the crossroads at the heart of Toronto, Dundas Square.
It is how these women are appealing for money that sets them apart from the many others trying to survive on Toronto’s streets: they say they are refugees.
It’s a claim that pulls on the heartstrings of many Canadians, especially those who have opened their homes and communities to Syrian refugees. More than 50,000 Syrian refugees have arrived in Canada since 2015. They are among the thousands of refugees from across the globe who come to this country every year.
Passersby who saw the women asking for help wanted to know: What brought them to our streets, and have some refugees slipped through the city’s social safety net? We hit the road in search of answers and understanding, and we spoke to several woman who described themselves as refugees panhandling across the GTA.
We first spoke with one woman outside of the old Maple Leaf Gardens at Carlton and Church streets. She said she was Bosnian, has three kids and had been here three months. Two women panhandling in Ajax told us they were Bosnian, though one first told us she was Syrian.
http://toronto.citynews.ca/2018/03/26/panhandlers-calling-themselves-refugees-appear-on-gta-streets/
TL;DR: They are Romanian Gypsies
http://news.bbc.co.uk/panorama/hi/front_page/newsid_9618000/9618038.stm Panorama traced the family of one child beggar back to Romania (2011)
A Dearborn man has avoided prison after he pleaded guilty to charges of stealing from customer lockers at Lifetime Fitness in Canton.
Ali Sami Hammoud, 54, was placed on probation for 18 months when he was sentenced Friday by Wayne County Circuit Judge Dana Hathaway.
“We’re very pleased with the outcome,” defense attorney William Amadeo said. “(Probation) was our goal and we got it.”
Hammoud’s sentencing came after he earlier pleaded guilty to one count each of larceny in a building and stealing a financial transaction device, or credit card. Authorities dismissed two identical charges.
Hammoud, a father of 11 children, could have faced five years in prison if he had gone to trial and been convicted, rather than accepting a plea deal.
https://www.hometownlife.com/story/news/local/plymouth/2018/03/26/father-11-gets-probation-gym-locker-thefts/454038002/
“Hammoud, a father of 11 children, could have faced five years in prison if he had gone to trial and been convicted, rather than accepting a plea deal.”
Actually, he was hoping for prison time just to get some peace and quiet.
Rapper Vic Mensa performed for Saturday’s student march for gun control, coined the March for Our Lives, although he was arrested last year on a concealed handgun charge.
Mensa was arrested in Beverly Hills after being found with a concealed handgun without a California concealed carry license.
On March 7, 2017, TMZ reported, “[Mensa] was stopped in Beverly Hills … for running a stop sign and having tinted windows … according to law enforcement sources. We’re told he informed cops he had a gun in his car and showed them his concealed carry permit. The problem is … cops say the permit is for another state.”
http://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/2018/03/26/rapper-performed-gun-control-march-arrested-last-year-concealed-handgun-charge/
“Rapper Vic Mensa performed for Saturday’s student march for gun control, coined the March for Our Lives, although he was arrested last year on a concealed handgun charge.”
Gun control for thee but not for me.
At least 53 people have died in a fire that tore through a shopping and entertainment complex in the Siberian coal-mining city of Kemerovo.
As many as 41 children may be among the victims, officials say, and more than 10 are listed as missing.
The blaze started on an upper floor of the Winter Cherry complex while many of the victims were at the cinema.
Video posted on social media showed people jumping from windows to escape the flames on Sunday.
http://www.desertsun.co.uk/blog/7000/
Attorneys for Noor Salman, the wife of Pulse nightclub killer Omar Mateen, moved to dismiss the charges or declare a mistrial on Sunday night after the prosecution revealed on Saturday that Mateen’s father, Seddique Mateen, worked as an FBI informant from 2005 through the summer of 2016.
According to defense lawyers, Assistant U.S. Attorney Sara Sweeney sent them an email on Saturday night that revealed Seddique Mateen was a confidential FBI source and is also under investigation for suspicious money transfers to Turkey and Afghanistan, based on documents that were discovered in his home on the day of the nightclub massacre. Noor Salman’s trial had already been in progress for a week when this disclosure was made.
“It is apparent from the Government’s belated disclosure that Ms. Salman has been defending a case without a complete set of facts and evidence that the Government was required to disclose,” the defense attorneys declared.
http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2018/03/26/father-pulse-nightclub-killer-omar-mateen-fbi-informant/
In a big victory for America and our ally Israel, and a fitting tribute to an American soldier, one of the most heinous misuses of U.S. tax dollars ever has come to an end.
For years, the “pay for slay” program used American aid money to subsidize terrorists at war with Israel. The Palestinian Authority (PA) utilized hundreds of millions of free U.S. tax dollars as it recruited and rewarded new jihadists to murder Americans and Israelis.
The American people should not be paying for terrorism. We’ve been aggressively calling on Congress to end this atrocious program for years. Now with the passage of the Taylor Force Act, they finally have.
The Taylor Force Act was included in the omnibus spending bill that just recently passed the House and the Senate and was signed into law by the President. The legislation cuts off all U.S. taxpayer funding to the PA until it stops funneling money to terrorists through its “pay for slay” program.
http://archive.is/dNPFY#selection-1705.0-1729.297
Newly-revealed text messages between anti-Trump FBI agents show that the agents talked about former FBI Director James Comey intervening in the 2016 presidential election.
The texts between Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, two high-level FBI agents, appear to show they were discussing and laughing about Comey getting involved in the election just days after the FBI opened a counterintelligence investigation spying on members of the Trump campaign.
New July 2016 texts between Peter Strzok and Lisa Page show a troubling reference to former FBI Director James Comey potentially intervening in the 2016 election
— Mark Meadows (@RepMarkMeadows) March 25, 2018
Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) highlighted that the text from Lisa Page to Peter Strzok on July 28, 2016, said “Ha. First line made me smile.” The text cited an article where the first line in the article was “Potentially unpleasant news for Jim Comey: We need you to intervene in the 2016 election again.”
https://archive.fo/bTr01#selection-445.0-487.300
This story is important not because of who the attacker is, but because of whom they chose to employ as a security guard:
A 66 year old.
Who is also a paraplegic.
This level of progressive dystopia should not be possible!
http://dailycaller.com/2018/03/26/michael-bennett-taken-into-custody/
I assume that this woman is a volunteer usher, and not a security guard.
French authorities said Monday that two men arrested for the brutal killing in Paris of an 85-year-old Jewish woman, Holocaust survivor Mireille Knoll, would be charged with an anti-Semitic murder.
The Paris prosecutor’s office said the two suspects have been put in custody. It said it was asking investigating judges to charge the pair with premeditated murder of a vulnerable person for anti-Semitic motives.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/french-charge-two-with-anti-semitic-murder-of-85-year-old-holocaust-survivor/
“French authorities said Monday that two men arrested for the brutal killing in Paris of an 85-year-old Jewish woman, Holocaust survivor Mireille Knoll, would be charged with an anti-Semitic murder.”
Crikey. You survive the death camps and Nazi occupation only to die at the hands of semi-literate cretins imported specifically to finish Hitler’s handiwork.
It’s times like this where I would almost be willing to become religious if it assured that this pair would have an eternity in hell waiting for them. Where are all the SJWs protesting about this “racist” hate crime?
Trouble in Kosovo
PewDiePie redpilling GenZ on Count Dankula. Please keep in mind he is speaking to a specific audience, in a way they can relate to. Cue to 6:33:
SPAIN – SEMANA SANTA 2018 – MALAGA
Saudi Arabia sacks teachers for ‘Muslim Brotherhood affiliation’ (memo, Mar 26, 2018)
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20180326-saudi-arabia-sacks-teachers-for-muslim-brotherhood-affiliation/
“Saudi Arabia has sacked teachers and education board member who it says have been affected by the Muslim Brotherhood ideology, the New Khaleej reported yesterday.
Security and intelligence agencies worked together to pinpoint those targeted, the spokesman for the Ministry of Education Mubarak Al-Ossaimi said.
The move comes as part of Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman’s orders to fight “extremist ideologies” in the Kingdom, Al-Ossaimi continued.
The Muslim Brotherhood was declared a terrorist organisation in Saudi Arabia in May 2014.
Schools and universities in the Kingdom have also been instructed to host meetings to warn against the Muslim Brotherhood’s ideology, while school books and teacher training will be altered to incorporate this new agenda.”
This is an enemy website, just so ya know.“This is an enemy website, just so ya know.”
So (yucki) … is the article a call-to-arms against MbS (Mohammad bin Salman), or merely a pretty-little front for toeing the party line? Window dressing or just MB subterfuge? Floor wax or dessert topping? Only
their hairdresserMossad knows for sure!Yet, once again, we have a splendid example of why taqiyya so thoroughly (and irredeemably) damns Islam. To try and believe anything Islamic is to immediately enter a Hall of Mirrors that will bend and invert every last hint of objective reality in the pursuit of Islamic obscurantism.
It is both a fool’s errand and an equally hopeless task for Infidels to try and sort out Muslim beliefs or ideological priorities. As many others here at VTB have bravely noted (from Matthew 7:15-20 NKJV) “You will know them by their fruits.”
As in … “please stop watching their lips move and start noticing what happens all around these people (i.e., death, suicide, terrorism, rape, child abuse, misogyny, FGM, no-go zones, sharia courts, slavery”, and every last worst vestige of prehistoric “culture”.
This is what makes the situation so bleak. Muslims are the only ones who can untangle this Islamic mare’s nest of knowing hypocrisy and contradiction. Simultaneously, Muslims are the last ones that can be trusted to honestly perform this onerous task.
It’s why The Big Red Button™ looms so prominently in Islam’s future. Few other modern appurtenances have anywhere near the allure or the straight-forward sensibility when it comes to sorting out what awaits
NOTE: Wouldn’t it be great (although just ever-so-slightly-over-the-top) if Trump’s Oval Office desktop included a single yuge, crimson red, industrial actuator grade mushroom-head button mounted on a Mil-Spec drab green military weatherproof enclosure. No labeling, only medium-level internal illumination, no prominent location near the Hotline, blah, blah, blah … maybe something like this (but a lot simpler).
After all, why keep spending trillions of dollars each and every year for almost two decades in an unsuccessful attempt to incapacitate several dozen different (intentionally vague) “alphabet soup” terrorist enterprises when a vast and near-permanent reduction in hostilities could be obtained within 72 hours or less? Remember, it’s not our fault that so many people chose the losing side side in this .
Like Norvell B. De Atkine’s magnum opus, “Why Arabs Lose Wars”, the next linked piece is a short but absolute must-read article.
Like it or not, this question of preemptive strikes is slowly moving up the strategy queue in military minds throughout the West, Russia, and East Asia. (See: From 2008, “Pre-emptive nuclear strike a key option, Nato told“.)
It is some sort of slightly heartening evidence that The Continent possesses minds which are still firing on most of their cylinders. I doubt the piece would (or could) even be published according to modern (i.e., 2018) editorial “standards”.
From the link:
That was some ten years ago. To the best of my recollection, things have not gotten any better since that time. Most evidence points towards the situation having become even more pro-Islamic since 2008.
This brings us to an uncomfortable conclusion about how whatever sort of a large-magnitude “dislocation” that’s in the offing is something that Syria is only an opening act for. Yemen, Iraq, and Syria are just setting the stage for something of much larger dimensions that must primly be screened from public view but kept in plain sight to confuse the Great Unwashed
Either Islam preempts any further need for answers from those Big Three (by genuinely rehabilitating itself), or from somewhere within this nuclear Triad will emerge a brick wall that intercepts jihad, dawa, hejira, along with all of the other and irritating background noise that trails behind Muslims like a skein of used toilet paper stuck to the heel of their collective shoe.
At present (in the MME), only MbS demonstrates even the slightest awareness of this rather obvious and unavoidable fact. It is a probable reason why the House of Saud is not pursuing any active role in the current, “Let’s Make a Caliphate” tussle and, instead, adopting an infinitely more sober attitude about Iran and Turkey—namely, “let’s you and him fight” [hat tip: Baron Bodissey].
I sincerely wish that there was some much less kinetic way for this situation to attain functional resolution. Our global marketplace deserves far better and everyone outside of Erdogwan’s inner-squirtle of geysering Lawrencian fantasy phreaks deserves to be spared these endless seasons of television drama.
A most delicious Milo video – a professor of rhetorics runs away from debating Milo:
Terror threat: How does France track 20,000 potentially dangerous extremists (thelocal, Mar 26, 2018)
https://www.thelocal.fr/20180326/how-does-france-track-20000-potential-terror-threats
“The latest attack in France by a gunman who was known to be a potential threat has led to renewed focus on how the country keeps track of thousands of suspected Islamist extremists.
France’s interior ministry compiles something known as the “S file” (the “S” stands for security) which contains anyone suspected of being a radical, including potentially dangerous leftist and far-right activists.
There is also a separate list, the File for the Prevention of Terrorist Radicalisation (FSPRT), for people judged to be terror threats.
Radouane Lakdim, the gunman involved in last Friday’s shooting spree in the southern French towns of Carcassonne and Trebes, was listed in the S File in May 2014 and the FSPRT in September 2015.
How many are flagged as a threat?
A total of 19,745 were listed in the FSPRT as of February 20.
The file includes people who represent varying degrees of threat, from someone who is reported by his boss for not shaking hands with women to a minor who has recently converted to Islam.
But there are more serious cases of people in contact with members of the Islamic State (IS) group, or others who have left for or wanted to travel to areas controlled by IS in Iraq or Syria.
Once listed, a person will remain on the list for five years but might not be actively monitored. The file also contains records of potential links between suspects.
It updates gradually, as cases are reported by the security services or via calls to the toll-free tipline that launched in April 2014
Who is on it?
Most suspects are from four regions in France: the region around Paris known as the Ile-de-France, the area around Lyon known as Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes in the east, the southern Languedoc-Roussillon-Midi-Pyrenees region and the Provence-Alpes-Cote d’Azur in the southeast.
People from most socio-professional categories appear in the files, but the majority are young men from the suburbs around French cities where low-income immigrant communities, many from Muslim countries, are concentrated.
The problem for French security services is that most of the attackers in France over the previous four years had not been flagged by the security services.
“You have to remember that this is just the tip of the iceberg,” said Jean-Charles Brisard, president of the Center for Terrorism Analysis (CAT).
“Since 2014, 60 percent of the attacks in France were carried out by people who weren’t in the file. The files are good, but even they don’t show the full scale of homegrown threats.”
How are suspects tracked?
French security services manage the list of suspected extremists. Individuals on it are ranked by descending threat level.
The names at the high end of the spectrum are put under closer surveillance and brought in for questioning at the slightest suggestion they might be considering action.
But security experts have warned for years that France does not have the resources needed to put all of its suspected jihadists under round-the-clock surveillance. Following one suspect full-time can take around 20 police officers, experts say.
Investigators therefore depend on phone or internet interceptions to keep track of the highest risks.
“It keeps me up at night,” an anti-terrorist officer told AFP, “not having the right people at the top of the list and getting surprised by a kid we misjudged.”
What’s the solution?
The question of how France can keep tabs on the thousands of individuals flagged up as Fiche S has not seem to have been resolved since France’s recent spate of terror attacks began in January 2015, despite being raised after each attack.
While some on the far right call for them to be expelled, others on the right, notably leader of the Republicans party Laurent Wauquiez has demanded internment.
Some right wing MPs have called a Guantanamo Bay-style prison to be opened on a French island to house all radicalized individuals.
Others accept that French intelligence services simply don’t have the resources to be able to keep tabs on all radicalized individuals.
“We do not have enough police to be able to follow each of radicalized individual because there are much more serious cases that take priority,” said centrist senator Nathalie Goulet.
France’s intelligence services helped thwart 20 attacks in 2017 and two other planned atrocities this year.
But just like his predecessors President Emmanuel Macron is under pressure to respond.”
Terror threat: How does France track 20,000 potentially dangerous extremists?
They don’t.
Any questions?
(I’m sorry if that doesn’t make any of you Parisians feel much better.)
The way you “track 20,000 potentially dangerous extremists” is by dumping them straight back into their countries of origin and then keeping an exceptionally vigilant eye out for when a single one of these scumbags gets within light-seconds of your national borders.
The only alternative is simply dumping the body parts … wherever.
1) Read General Giaps autobiography, he ran the war for North Viet Nam and he says the US won the war on the ground but that the Propaganda media and the war protesters caused the politicians to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
2) Look at what happened at the Bundy ranch, the US was defeated there and in the court by both Jury nullification and by a Judge who believed in Justice.
3) From what I hear at the VA roughly 2/3rds to 3/4ths of the soldiers on active duty and in the Reserve would join the rebellion, the figures would be higher in the Guard. I don’t know about the police in the big cities but the small towns and county Sheriffs and their Deputies in the rural counties would join the rebellion at a rate of close to 100%. Now lets talk about the vets, we are all trained personnel of varying ages, we can if necessary call back close to 80% of our training (more in the younger people who haven’t been out that long). You are talking about 250,000 to 300,000 military personal going up against 600,000 to 750,000 military personal who took all of their equipment (small arms, machine guns, artillery, tanks, plans etc) with them when they joined the rebellion. Add in about 90% or better of the 100 million gun owners in the US, of varying levels of skill and training. of that 100 million probably 25 million or better are the military vets of varying age (there are 30 million of us but I am willing to say that not all of us own firearms or will support the rebellion. Not all just most own guns and will support the rebellion.)
Which side do you think would win?