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Daesh Fighters Repositioned From Syria, Iraq to Afghanistan – Official (sputniknews, Apr 24, 2018)
https://sputniknews.com/analysis/201804241063844341-daesh-syria-iraq-afghanistan/
“Mohammad Alam Ezadyar, the first deputy speaker of Afghanistan’s Upper House of Parliament told Sputnik about Kabul’s desire to hold a permanent seat in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the US military presence in the country, and shared his opinion on why terrorists are being repositioned from Syria and Iraq to Afghanistan.
Speaking about the presence of Daesh jihadists in Afghanistan, Ezadyar opined that this terrorist group is a large project of the world powers aimed at posing threats to neighboring countries.
“Currently, Daesh fighters are being repositioned from Syria and Iraq to Afghanistan in order to pose threats to Central Asia countries, the Caucasus and China. Our people and politicians believe it’s a strategic plan advocated by the world’s major powers. It’s said not only in Afghanistan but also abroad.”…”
What happens when police try to deport ONE (1) Syrian refugee in the city of Witzenhausen in Germany? A STREET RIOT!!!
Up to 60 people protested against the deportation of a 27-year-old Syrian on Monday night in the city of Witzenhausen in Hesse. After the man was arrested, the two patrol cars were surrounded and cyclists blocked the way, police said. One woman had even chained herself to the car. The officers could not leave and called for assistance. According to the police, during the evacuation of the street there were clashes between demonstrators and police, during which stones were thrown and pepper spray and truncheons were used. Several protesters were injured. According to police, police officers were injured as well as those taking part in the demonstration.
What happens when police try to deport ONE (1) Syrian refugee in the city of Witzenhausen in Germany? A STREET RIOT!!!
Cool beans.
DEPORT THEM ALL.
Greece in FLAMES: Migrant protests in Lesbos SPIRAL out of control – riot police deployed (express, Apr 24, 2018)
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/950253/greece-migrant-protests-migrants-lesbos-Patriotic-Movement
“PROTESTS in Greece spiralled out of control last night as migrants and ultra-nationalists clashed at a series of fiery protests and counter-protests on the island of Lesbos…
He said: “Now there are about 10,000 people in Lesbos who filed a request for asylum, whereas there are 27,000 residents in the city.
“Our island once again has become a hostage.
“For the last three years, Lesbos has been experiencing an unprecedented situation. It’s carrying a huge burden.”
Regarding ultra-nationalist protestor, he said: “If persons of extreme ideological beliefs took part in this reaction, it was to be expected.”…”
Greece in FLAMES: Migrant protests in Lesbos SPIRAL out of control – riot police deployed
Is there one single “immigrant” throughout the entire Mediterranean region that ever will be able to endure having the word “Lesbos” appear on his passport?!?
Bin Laden ex-bodyguard gets £1,000 a month because he might be tortured if he is sent home (express, Apr 24, 2018)
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/950394/bin-laden-bodyguard-payment-germany-Sami-A
“A FORMER bodyguard of mass killer Osama bin Laden is being supported to live free in Germany at a cost to taxpayers of over £1,000 per month. Although classified as dangerous and forced to report to police every day, authorities claim Sami A. cannot be sent back to his Tunisian homeland because the risk of torture would be too high.
He has already had his asylum application rejected by Germany and handed a deportation order.
But the 42-year-old, who travelled to Afghanistan in the late 1990s to become a bodyguard for the architect of the 9/11 attacks, continues to stay in Germany after a court ruled he could face torture if deported.
The state of North Rhine-Westphalia admitted it pays €1167,84 a month to him, his wife and their four children aged between four and 11.
The admission in the regional parliament came after a question was posed by the the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) party.
News of the financial support he receives caused an instant storm.
Eckhardt Rehberg of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s ruling CDU, the party’s budget chief, said: “The German asylum law is being shamelessly exploited here. We must finance a terrorist with tax money because we must not deport him? I have no understanding of these court rulings. ”
Since no other country has shown willingness to take in the Tunisian, it now seems he will remain in Germany indefinitely – even though security services still consider Sami A. to be a dangerous and central member of the Islamist scene in the country and have had him under observation since at least 2006.
“That such a man is allowed to stay in Germany is a punch in the face to all anti-terror investigators…”
Bin Laden ex-bodyguard gets £1,000 a month because he might be tortured if he is sent home
Yet another example of the Silent Jihad™.
Imagine the trillions of dollars being strip-mined out of Western Civilization each and every year by this bunch of goat-humping wife beaters.
Women With Muslim Background Top Danish Abortion Statistics (sputniknews, Apr 24, 2018)
https://sputniknews.com/europe/201804241063850607-denmark-islam-abortion/
“Adverse social conditions and low education are believed to be the reasons behind the prevalence of abortions among women with roots in Muslim countries amid the overall trend toward fewer abortions.
Women with backgrounds from Iran, Lebanon, Iraq and Pakistan are among those who seek the most abortions, the Danish National Board of Health has indicated. Only women from the former Yugoslavia, many of whom come from areas with predominantly Muslim populations place higher in these statistics, Danish Radio reported.
Although abortion rates among immigrants have tended to decline over the years, second-generation immigrants tend to have twice as many abortions as ethnic Danish women in relative terms. Danish women, however, top the abortion statistics numerically.
According to Kassem Rachid, imam and the president of the Arab Assembly in the city of Aabenraa, was taken aback by the statistics, assuming that the high incidence of abortions among Muslim women may be due to the fact that some of them already have small children and do not want more at the moment. Another explanation may be problems in marriage.
“A third thing is that some Muslim women are not too devout and therefore don’t believe that abortion is illegal. Righteous Muslims are not allowed to have abortions,” Kassem Rachid stressed to the Kristeligt Dagblad daily, while pointing out that contraception is accepted…”
Women With Muslim Background Top Danish Abortion Statistics
“Adverse social conditions and low education are believed to be the reasons behind the prevalence of abortions among women with roots in Muslim countries amid the overall trend toward fewer abortions.”
How about because most Muslim men are dumber than a bag of hair? P’raps, once freed from their prison societies, Muslimas tend to swiftly purchase a clue about the mistake of making babies with wife-beating, terrorist wannabes. Might that have something to do with these mysterious statistics? Only time will tell.
EU to Cut Funds to Patriotic Nations, Allocate Cash on ‘Values’ Basis, Including Accepting Mass Migration (breibart, Apr 24, 2018)
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/04/24/eu-cut-funds-patriotic-nations-values/
Speak English: Australian Lawmakers Crack Down on Foreign-Language Signs (breitbart, Apr 24, 2018)
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/04/24/speak-english-australian-lawmakers-crack-foreign-language-signs/
“A local council in Sydney wants to reduce the use of foreign words on shopfront signs in an effort to standardize English language usage in public precincts…”
Pakistan arrests father, uncle in Italian’s ‘honor’ killing (abcnews, Apr 24, 2018)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/pakistan-arrests-father-uncle-italians-honor-killing-54685947
“Pakistani police say they have arrested the father and the uncle suspected in an “honor” killing of a 25-year-old Italian citizen, a woman of Pakistani origin who refused to marry the man they chose for her.
Police official Intisar Hussain says the two men were arrested early on Tuesday and charged with the killing of Sana Cheema in the city of Gujrat in Punjab province.
The Italian Foreign Ministry says it’s following the case through its embassy in Islamabad, which is gathering information from Pakistani authorities to define the circumstances of the case and offer any assistance that might be necessary.
Pakistani police say Cheema died on April 18 under mysterious circumstances. Her body will be exhumed this week to determine the exact cause of her death.”
Pakistan arrests father, uncle in Italian’s ‘honor’ killing
For whatever reason, the reporter neglects to mention if this unfortunate young woman was from Lahore.
2 Indian troops, rebel killed in Kashmir fighting (abcnews, Apr 24, 2018)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/indian-troops-rebel-killed-kashmir-fighting-54683723
“A soldier, a counterinsurgency police official and a rebel were killed in a gunfight on Tuesday in Indian-controlled Kashmir, police said, triggering anti-India protests and clashes.
The fighting began early Tuesday when militants attacked raiding government forces with gunfire in a forest in the southern Tral area, police said.
In the initial battle, a policeman and a soldier were killed.
Authorities rushed reinforcements of police and soldiers and cordoned off the area, sparking fierce exchange of gunfire in which a militant was killed, police said.
As news of the fighting spread, anti-India protests and clashes erupted in Tral town. Scores of youths, mainly students, hit roads while chanting slogans in favor of rebels and demanding an end of Indian rule over Kashmir. They pelted stones on patrol parties of police and paramilitary soldiers, who fired tear gas to quell the protests.
In recent years, Kashmiris, mainly youths, have displayed open solidarity with rebels and sought to protect them by engaging troops in street clashes during military operations…”
Afghan officials: Taliban attacks kill 11 troops, policemen (abcnews, Apr 24, 2018)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/afghan-official-taliban-attack-east-kills-policemen-54682033
“A new wave of Taliban attacks across Afghanistan killed at least 11 Afghan soldiers and policemen on Tuesday, officials said, the latest in a particularly deadly week of assaults by militants.
At least five soldiers were killed when their checkpoint was attacked by the Taliban in western Farah province, according to Mohammad Naser Mehri, the provincial governor’s spokesman.
Two soldiers were wounded in that attack, in the Bala Buluk district. Mehri said six Taliban fighters were killed and three others were wounded in the battle, which lasted several hours…”
The rise of Russia’s neo-Nazi football hooligans
For the past two decades the Russian state has encouraged groups of violent far-right fans. As the World Cup approaches, it is struggling to tame them. By Simon Parkin
The day that Denis Nikitin, a Russian neo-Nazi who claims he once kept a framed photograph of Joseph Goebbels in his bedroom, took part in his first street fight, his mother made him a packed lunch. During the past 12 years, the Moscow-based MMA fighter has become a rising star of the far right, after brawling his way up through the ranks of one of Russia’s top hooligan firms. But on that day, Nikitin says, he was like a schoolboy on his first field trip; his mother, who thought her 22-year-old son was going to watch a football match, filled his rucksack with food and warm clothes.
Nikitin took a six-hour bus ride to the match, but he had not bought a ticket. (His fellow hooligans joke that, in the past decade, he has been inside a football stadium fewer than five times.) Since his family had moved from Moscow to Germany a few years earlier, his interests had narrowed to far-right politics and violence. Nikitin’s local “team” was visiting Hamburg – a city whose left-wing supporters were a favourite target of the far-right Cologne hooligans. Nikitin’s hobbies just happened to intersect at football.
At around midnight, as two buses carrying Cologne’s supporters approached Hamburg, someone shouted: “They’re here.” Through the window, Nikitin saw around 30 Hamburg hooligans in front of the vehicle. It seemed odd – the 90-odd Cologne hooligans on the buses greatly outnumbered the men outside. It would not be a fair fight. Nikitin disembarked, ran to a nearby bush, and set his rucksack beneath the branches. Then he looked up. On the guardrail of an overlooking footbridge he saw a line of silhouettes – at least 70 men, to add to the 30 in front of the coaches. An ambush, then.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/apr/24/russia-neo-nazi-football-hooligans-world-cup
A neo-Marxist getting the ever-living snot beaten out of him by soccer hooligans?!?
Be still my beating heart…
The idea does make one sleep better.
“The day that Denis Nikitin, a Russian neo-Nazi who claims he once kept a framed photograph of Joseph Goebbels in his bedroom, took part in his first street fight, his mother made him a packed lunch.”
Mothers know best!
German Jewish leader advises against skullcaps in cities
BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s main Jewish leader says he would advise people visiting big cities against wearing Jewish skullcaps, following a street assault last week on two young men wearing them.
The attack in Berlin, in which a 19-year-old Syrian asylum-seeker is a suspect, added to growing concern in Germany about anti-Semitism.
Josef Schuster, the head of Germany’s Central Council of Jews, told broadcaster Radioeins Tuesday that wearing a skullcap is right in principle, but that he was advising individuals “against showing themselves openly with a kippa in a big-city setting in Germany, and wear a baseball cap or something else to cover their head instead.”
Schuster suggested three years ago that Jews shouldn’t wear skullcaps in areas with large Muslim populations. But he stressed there’s increasing anti-Semitic sentiment among non-migrants.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/german-jewish-leader-advises-against-skullcaps-cities-105417065.html
German Jewish leader advises against skullcaps in cities
Welcome to the face of evil.
Schuster is a piece of piss.
Anyone who refuses to protect someone wearing the kippa is a sack of shite.
You can take the Jew out of the ghetto, but you can’t take the ghetto out of some Jews.
Fixed on technicalities of observance, he misses the point. It’s the crouching and whining that are chillul hashem – desacration of G-d’s name.
feh.We’re Joshua! King David! Maccabees! Haganah!
Sayeret Matkal!
‘Bin Laden bodyguard’ on German welfare
A Tunisian man who once allegedly protected Osama Bin Laden has lived in Germany since 1997 and gets €1,168 (£1,022) a month in welfare payments.
The figure was revealed by a regional government, after the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) asked about the man, known as Sami A.
German media have not reported the man’s full name for privacy reasons.
He denies jihadist links. Deportation to Tunisia was ruled out because of fears that he could be tortured there.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-43878237
Trump’s revenge: U.S. oil floods Europe, hurting OPEC and Russia
[Reuters]
By Olga Yagova and Libby George
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MOSCOW/LONDON (Reuters) – As OPEC’s efforts to balance the oil market bear fruit, U.S. producers are reaping the benefits – and flooding Europe with a record amount of crude.
Russia paired with the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries last year in cutting oil output jointly by 1.8 million barrels per day (bpd), a deal they say has largely rebalanced the market and one that has helped elevate benchmark Brent prices close to four-year highs.
Now, the relatively high prices brought about by that pact, coupled with surging U.S. output, are making it harder to sell Russian, Nigerian and other oil grades in Europe, traders said.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trumps-revenge-u-oil-floods-europe-hurting-opec-082847496–finance.html
“Russia paired with the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries last year in cutting oil output jointly by 1.8 million barrels per day (bpd), a deal they say has largely rebalanced the market and one that has helped elevate benchmark Brent prices close to four-year highs.”
And a “fü¢k-you-very-much” to you too, Putin and OPEC. What a pair!
Colombia’s Migrant Crisis Worsens With Venezuela Nearing ‘Implosion’
The flow of migrants fleeing Venezuela’s collapsing economy is increasing every day, putting a strain on Colombia’s health and education systems and its jobs market, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said.
“Venezuela is on the verge of imploding,” Santos told Bloomberg TV Monday. “What we hope is that this implosion will be peaceful and not violent, because otherwise we will have a tremendous avalanche of more Venezuelans coming to Colombia.”
The migrant crisis is probably the biggest challenge facing Colombia at the moment, Santos said. Venezuelans are currently crossing the border into Colombia at the rate of more than 100,000 per month, according to data from the immigration authority, with many more arriving illegally.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-23/colombia-s-migrant-crisis-worsens-as-venezuela-nears-implosion
“The flow of migrants fleeing Venezuela’s collapsing economy is increasing every day, putting a strain on Colombia’s health and education systems and its jobs market, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said.”
Is it just me or is there some slight degree of irony that a strain is being put on “Colombia’s health and education systems and its jobs market”? After all, aren’t we talking about one of the world’s premier exporters of contraband substances that have specific negative medical and economic effects?
Does anyone mind if I laugh and point?
The thing I find the most interesting is that this may be the first instance of a communist state forgetting to deny the right of exit on its people. Its like Chavez was too lazy or stupid to actually read about communism, what it is and how to implement it.
You HAVE to FORCE people to the system or else everyone just leaves when the food system collapses. Like it did.
At least when the place is empty, the intrepid among us can go to a beautiful country and set up a real republic.
I would love to update the US constitution with some clear cut definitions to safeguard a free state.
White House Will Sustain Maximum Pressure Campaign on North Korea
OAN Newsroom
The White House is remaining cautiously optimistic on North Korea, but says it will continue its maximum pressure campaign on the rogue regime.
During Monday’s press briefing, Sarah Sanders said although Pyongyang is showing positive signs of moving toward denuclearization, no sanctions will be lifted until concrete action is made.
http://www.oann.com/white-house-will-sustain-maximum-pressure-campaign-on-north-korea/
“During Monday’s press briefing, Sarah Sanders said although Pyongyang is showing positive signs of moving toward denuclearization, no sanctions will be lifted until concrete action is made.”
All around the world, random assorted people are growing brains! What gives?
Local tensions flare up before Lebanese election
April 24, 2018
By Dahlia Nehme
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Incidents of political violence including an assault on one candidate and an attack on the office of another are casting a shadow over Lebanon’s first general election in nine years.
The May 6 vote will take place using a complicated new electoral law. It is not expected to cause major changes to the government or its policies. Analysts expect Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri will head the next cabinet.
But the law has made the outcome less predictable in some places. This has sharpened local rivalries and is encouraging parties to campaign extra hard.
http://www.oann.com/local-tensions-flare-up-before-lebanese-election/
The question we’re left with, after Nunes revelation devastates entire ‘Russia’ narrative
By J.E. Dyer April 24, 2018
On Sunday, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) revealed something from his review of long-withheld FBI documents: that there was no communications intelligence behind the launch of the “Trump-Russia” investigation in July 2016.
Nunes referred to it as “official intelligence,” and he clearly meant by that “government-collected intelligence.” His reference to the “Five Eyes” intelligence partnership of the U.S. and the UK Commonwealth clarifies that what he’s talking about is communications intelligence.
Nunes put it this way:
https://libertyunyielding.com/2018/04/24/question-left-nunes-revelation-devastates-entire-russia-narrative/
As she points out the release of the documents used to start the investigation and justify the warrants show that there was never a criminal reals for the investigations and there was never a national security reason for the investigations. This leaves partisan politics as the only reason for the investigations. Yes you read that right the Obama administration (probably at his orders) weaponized the US intelligence and internal police organizations to try and fix the election so Hillary would win. This attack on the rule of law was committed with malaise aforethought to ensure that the next President didn’t use Executive Orders to dismantle the communist programs that Obama started by Executive Orders.
The next step in this continuing scandal is to gather enough evidence to ensure that all of the people in on the criminal conspiracy (no matter who or what office they held) are arrested tried and punished for their crimes. If it is decided (as many on both sides of the aisle are pushing) that former Presidents and Presidential Candidates shouldn’t be prosecuted the precedent will have been set that liberal Democrat Presidents and Presidential Candidates are above the law and there will be more and more crimes committed to ensure their elections. If we are to remain a nations of laws and not people we have to prosecute all members of the conspiracy.
In private, Trump aide George Papadopoulos denies collusion
By LU Staff April 23, 2018
More than six months have passed since former Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI and began cooperating with special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation. In that span, speculation has swirled about whether Papadopoulos holds the keys to collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian government.
Democrats, including California Rep. Adam Schiff, routinely cite Papadopoulos as a possible Trump campaign conduit to Russia, and his Oct. 5 guilty plea and subsequent cooperation with Mueller has fueled speculation that he has provided damaging information about the Trump campaign’s activities.
Papadopoulos, an energy consultant who lives in Chicago, has not spoken publicly about the case against him. But two sources familiar with his thinking say that he has privately denied that he was involved in any collusion scheme. Sources say he has also downplayed the significance of conversations that he had in London with two separate diplomats in which Hillary Clinton’s emails were allegedly discussed.
https://libertyunyielding.com/2018/04/23/private-trump-aide-george-papadopoulos-denies-collusion/
Toronto killer profile:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-canada-van-driver/toronto-van-suspect-a-withdrawn-figure-with-special-needs-idUSKBN1HV08I
CBC – Alek Minassian: What we know about the van attack suspect
Developing an app that locates available parking spaces?!?
YJCMTSU! He sure cleared up a few spots all on his own. What was his G5 mobile app going to be called, “Smart Alek”?
Far more importantly, dear Eeyore, please accept my condolences and intense outrage over what has transpired in Toronto.
All of this is a tragic learning process wherein—one atrocity after another—Westerners will finally understand the need to inform Islam of the Error of its Ways™. Whether this is done in a conventional or unconventional manner is entirely up to our world’s Muslim population.
They had just better hurry up like hell because the monster raving jihadist loonies in their ranks are Nuke-Magnets™ (you saw it here first).
At the cost of so much blood and treasure (e.g., TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS PER YEAR) there will arrive the time where a permanent cessation of this problem becomes more attractive than any further prolongation of these otherwise interminable hostilities.
It is only a matter of time and whether the West is idiotic enough to permit any more proliferation of WMDs in Islamic (and rogue) nations. Let’s face it, Pakistan and Iran combined could never assemble a deliverable nuclear arsenal of sufficient throw weight to annihilate the West without experiencing utter devastation after the very first detonation.
Just like the Cold War became an almost strictly techno-economic issue, this new “Conflict of Civilizations” will become a Resource Control (e.g., Energy, Food, Water) dispute. Things will not have to go nuclear for matters to become exceptionally ugly.
CBC – Non-violent arrest of van attack suspect praised
Hi, Eeyore and readers of Vladtepesblog,
‘A lot of the Swiss rental market is about having personal connections’
https://www.thelocal.ch/20180424/a-lot-of-the-swiss-rental-market-is-about-having-personal-connections
Thank You.
Gunmen kill 15 at Nigeria church, including 2 priests (wapo, Apr 24, 2018)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/africa/gunmen-kill-15-at-nigeria-church-including-2-priests/2018/04/24/33f9d04e-47d7-11e8-8082-105a446d19b8_story.html
“Officials in Nigeria say gunmen have killed 15 people in an early-morning attack on a Catholic church, including two priests.
The attack took place in Ayar-Mbalom, a community in Benue state.
Terver Akase, a media aide to the Benue state governor, says the attackers also burned down 50 houses.
President Muhammadu Buhari in a statement calls the violation of a place of worship “vile, evil and satanic” and an attempt to stoke religious conflict.
Benue state in central Nigeria has seen a series of attacks in recent weeks, many linked to a long-running dispute between farmers and herdsmen.
A few days ago 10 people were killed by alleged herdsmen in the state.”
Three suicide attacks rock Quetta, killing six police (reuters, Apr 24, 2018)
https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-pakistan-blast/three-suicide-attacks-rock-quetta-killing-six-police-idUKKBN1HV1W7?rpc=401&
“Three suicide bombers attacked Pakistani police and paramilitary soldiers in the southwestern city of Quetta on Tuesday, killing six police and wounding 15 members of the security forces, officials said.
One bomber detonated his explosives near a police truck, provincial police chief Moazzam Jah Ansari said. Seven police officers were wounded in that attack.
“It is a suicide attack, and we have a confirmation that six of our police officials are dead,” Ansari told Reuters.
Half an hour earlier, two suicide bombers tried to attack a paramilitary checkpoint on the city’s outskirts, but troops deployed there engaged them, a paramilitary officer said.
He said the troops had opened fire at the attackers, who detonated their explosives, wounding eight soldiers. Both the suicide bombers died, he said on condition of anonymity because the army was due to issue an official statement.
No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attacks…”
Blocking Illegal Migrants In The French Alps
French Muslims blast anti-Semitism letter as attack on Islam
PARIS (AFP) –
A French manifesto calling for certain passages of the Koran to be removed on the grounds of rising anti-Semitism sparked anger Monday from Muslims who said their religion was being unfairly “put on trial”.
The open letter published Sunday in the Parisien newspaper blamed “Islamist radicalisation” for what it said was “quiet ethnic purging” in the Paris region, with abuse forcing Jewish families to move out.
After a series of high-profile attacks on Jews, Muslim leaders contacted by AFP acknowledged that anti-Semitism was a problem in France.
But they charged that the nearly 300 signatories, who included ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy and former prime minister Manuel Valls, were blaming a whole religion for the actions of an extremist minority.
“The only thing we can agree on is that we must all unite against anti-Semitism,” said Ahmet Ogras, head of the French Council of the Muslim Faith umbrella group.
Dalil Boubakeur, rector of the Grand Mosque of Paris, said the manifesto “subjected French Muslims and French Islam to an unbelievable and unfair trial”.
“It creates a clear risk of pitching religious communities against one another,” he said in a statement.
The manifesto calls for verses of the Koran calling for the “murder and punishment of Jews, Christians and disbelievers” to be removed on the grounds that they are “obsolete”.
But Tareq Oubrou, imam of the Grand Mosque of the southern city of the Bordeaux, pointed out that Islam was not the only religion whose ancient holy texts contain anachronistic passages.
“Any number of holy texts are violent, even the Gospel,” Oubrou said, adding that the signatories, who also included celebrities like actor Gerard Depardieu, had misinterpreted the Koran.
The writer Pascal Bruckner, among those who signed the letter, told France Inter radio it had not been intended “to stigmatise but to spur on the goodwill of reformist Muslims”.
The letter said that since 2006, “11 Jews have been assassinated — and some tortured — by radical Islamists because they were Jewish”.
The latest attack rocked France last month when two perpetrators stabbed an 85-year-old Jewish woman 11 times before setting her body on fire, in a crime treated as anti-Semitic.
Officially, the number of anti-Semitic crimes fell in France in 2017 for a third year running, according to the interior ministry, down seven percent.
But Jews are the target of about a third of France’s recorded hate crimes despite making up only about 0.7 percent of the population.
The half-a-million-plus Jewish community is the largest in Europe but has been hit by a wave of emigration to Israel in the past two decades, partly due to anti-Semitism in immigrant neighbourhoods.
http://www.france24.com/en/20180423-french-muslims-blast-anti-semitism-letter-attack-islam
30 imams pledge to fight radicalization
Thirty Imams of France today rejected the “disastrous” thesis that the Quran would call for murder, as evoked in a recent manifesto against anti-Semitism, while committing to fight the radicalization of a youth tempted to commit crimes. “in the name of Islam”.
“We call (…) the rest of our fellow citizens, especially intellectuals and politicians, to be more discerning,” writes the collective of imams in a column published in the newspaper Le Monde. The idea that the Koran itself calls for murder is “an unheard-of violence,” the imams write. “That would suggest that the Muslim can be peaceful only if he moves away from his religion,” add the signatories, denouncing a “harmful ignorance” and counter productiveness.
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Their text responds to a manifesto “against the new anti-Semitism” published Sunday in another newspaper, Le Parisien, which invited Muslim religious authorities to expurgate the Koran verses that would call for the killing of non-Muslims. Signed by 300 personalities, including former President Nicolas Sarkozy and singer Charles Aznavour, the manifesto pointed to the “radicalization Islamist” and denounced a “low-level ethnic cleansing” which would be the victim of the Jewish community in the Paris region.
This text was published when the murder in March of a Jewish octogenarian, Mireille Knoll, in her apartment in Paris raised a stir in the Jewish community, which represents about 0.7% of the French population.
http://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/2018/04/24/97001-20180424FILWWW00159-30-imams-s-engagent-a-combattre-la-radicalisation.php
30 imams pledge to fight radicalization
Too bad that taqiyya and kitman make such vows utterly worthless.
By allowing itself the disgracefully deceitful artifice of taqiyya, Islam irrevocably condemns all Muslims to ideological, religious, and philosophical irrelevance.
What worth is there in the word of someone who is religiously sanctioned to lie whenever it is to their benefit? Difficult as it might be, let’s not even go into all of the rapey, stabby, ‘splody, shooty, crushy, and crashy shite, emkay?
At some point in the near future, this world will come to realize the implications of one ideology giving itself the liberty of betraying everyone else at will (and with full impunity).
What happens after that is anybody’s guess. I just hope it does not involve nuclear weapons. Open just one little can of sunshine and everything goes all pear-shaped. The worst part is how that’s precisely what Islam is demanding. Them and all their deathy, killy, murdery, jihadi bullsh!te.
Muslims had damn well better figure out some way of resolving this self-destructiveness of theirs or they will face up to consequences far more severe than those of their long-ago (now nonexistent) neighbors.
Tommy Meets: UKIP Leader Gerard Batten
( 45 min )
Mark Levin: The Democrats are prepared to drag this country down (April 23 2018)
Mark Levin: Lawyer for CNN and NY Times prompted disclosure of Sean Hannity’s name in Cohen case
Mark Levin: Obama must have known about what was detailed in the Nunes memo… (February 05 2018)
April 24, 2018: Ep. 705 The Plot Thickens as the Dems Run Out of Options
https://www.bongino.com/april-24-2018-ep-705-the-plot-thickens-as-the-dems-run-out-of-options/
Do Illegal Immigrants Really Pay “$10 Billion” A Year In Taxes?
Are illegal immigrant laborers putting money into the pot just like the rest of us? That’s what a number of pundits on the left have claimed, usually with a figure in the range of $10-12 billion a year.
PolitiFact rated the statement “Undocumented immigrants pay $12 billion of taxes every single year” from María Teresa Kumar of “Vote Latina” true – even though the “$12 billion” figure was based off of payroll taxes, half of which is paid by the employer. On the other hand, her estimate didn’t include state and local taxes.
A 2016 study by the non-partisan Institute on Taxation & Economic Policy, undocumented immigrants paid $11.64 billion in state and local taxes in 2013.
So there appears to be some truth to the claim, but first let’s answer the lingering question of how the heck illegal immigrants are paying taxes in the first place.
https://www.bongino.com/do-illegal-immigrants-really-pay-10-billion-a-year-in-taxes/
Do Illegal Immigrants Really Pay “$10 Billion” A Year In Taxes?
Who fü¢king cares? They send a lot of their earnings to other countries and regularly demonstrate a steadfast refusal to assimilate. Really big hint, that departing capital isn’t much use to anyone except Western Union.
Let me know when ordinary Americans no longer have to finance ESL (English as a Second Language) classes in public schools and pay taxes to print driver’s license tests in SEVENTEEN DIFFERENT FLAMING LANGUAGES!
Byron York: Is ‘can’t prove untrue’ new standard in Trump probe?
When a political figure is accused of wrongdoing, a conversation begins among journalists, commentators, and public officials. Are the charges true? Can the accusers prove it?
That’s the way it normally works. But now, in the case of the Trump dossier – the allegations compiled by a former British spy hired by the Clinton campaign to gather dirt on presidential candidate Donald Trump – the generally accepted standard of justice has been turned on its head. Now, the question is: Can the accused prove the charges false? Increasingly, the president’s critics argue that the dossier is legitimate because it has not been proven untrue.
It’s an argument heard at the highest levels of government, academics, and media.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/byron-york-is-cant-prove-untrue-new-standard-in-trump-probe
Another nail in the coffin of rule of law – presumption of guilt (only for class enemies, of course).
Maybe we’ll roll back to “Trial by Ordeal” to prove our innocence.
- Memo: Practice fire-walking, consult witch doctor.That is what I thought, we can be pretty sure that no matter which side wins this fight the rule of law is damaged, maybe fatally damaged.
Is ‘can’t prove untrue’ new standard in Trump probe?
How do you prove a negative?!? This is one of the most ancient (and unprovable) philosophical conundrums of all time.
There is no way to do so and even the slightest pretense of doing so involves inductive reasoning or just plain blind faith. Both of which are some of the very worst methodologies there are when it comes to critical analysis.
Trump being subjected to this sort of warped “logic” is emblematic of the overall Kali Yuga (i.e., Hindu cycle of philosophical inversion) currently defining our psychological environment. How to flip the West’s “mental landscape”—away from its current superficial, materialism (both physical and spiritual)—back to its more productive orientation?
Parents plan ‘Sex Ed Sit Out’ to protest sexualized school curricula
Many of America’s public schools are teaching youths “pornographic” subject matter these days, some parents argue, so they’re planning a “Sex Ed Sit Out” on April 23.
They want like-minded parents to keep their children at home that Monday, to send a message to local school boards and elected officials.
Cities planning to participate include Charlotte, N.C.; Sacramento, Calif.; Bloomington, Ind.; Austin and San Antonio, Texas; Spokane, Wash.; and Martinsburg, W.Va., the Washington Times reported.
The effort is being run in partnership with socially conservative groups such as the Family Research Council, the American Life League and the Liberty Counsel, the Times reported.
http://www.foxnews.com/family/2018/04/12/parents-plan-sex-ed-sit-out-to-protest-sexualized-school-curricula.html
In Defense of Cash
Around the world, governments are trying to kill paper money. It’s a terrible idea.
On the evening of November 2016, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that 500-rupee notes (valued at about $8) and 1,000-rupee notes would become “worthless pieces of paper” at midnight, no longer recognized as legal tender. The stated goal of his demonetization plan: to catch criminals. The government offered a brief window in which old notes could be swapped for new ones, with the idea that everyone from human traffickers to tax cheats would have to show up at banks with vast sums of money and confess their sins or lose the value of their cash holdings altogether.
The costs of this scheme were large. At the time of the announcement, demonetized notes accounted for 86 percent of all currency in circulation. As George Mason economist Lawrence H. White has written, “A serious currency shortage immediately arose, with predictable consequences. Honest wage laborers in the huge cash economy went unpaid, honest construction projects came to a standstill, honest shopkeepers saw sales dry up, and honest businesses failed. Honest people wasted billions of hours waiting in queues to exchange old notes for the trickle of new notes.”
Growth in the country’s gross domestic product fell from an annualized rate of 7.37 percent in the quarter prior to the announcement to an average annualized rate of 6.06 percent in the first three quarters of 2017.
What’s more, the program utterly failed to impose a levy on those conducting business in the underground economy. Lawbreakers did not find themselves stuck with worthless notes. Instead, the Reserve Bank of India reports that 98.96 percent of all demonetized notes were turned in during the months following the announcement. That is on par with redemption rates in Italy (99.15 percent) and France (98.77 percent) following the introduction of the euro—and in those cases users were given 10 years to convert their old money.
The Indian experiment was a failure. Yet a group of politicians, academics, and do-gooders continues to dream about a cashless world where black markets would shrink and tax coffers would grow.
https://reason.com/archives/2018/04/22/in-defense-of-cash
BREAKING: Anti-Gun Control Parkland Survivor Kyle Kashuv Questioned By School Security For Visiting Gun Range With His Father
On Friday, Parkland survivor Kyle Kashuv went to the gun range to learn to fire a gun for the first time, alongside his father. He tweeted this:
According to Kyle, “My dad was there and I shot with an AR-15. After, I posted a few pictures and videos.”
Kashuv was quickly called out for visiting a gun range and posting about it by a variety of other students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. But that wasn’t the end of the story. When Kyle went to school today, his principal informed him that other students had been upset by his posts, but that he hadn’t done anything wrong. But according to Kyle, in the middle of the morning, events took a different turn:
https://www.dailywire.com/news/29790/breaking-anti-gun-control-parkland-survivor-kyle-daily-wire
Not meant to be comedy, but it made me laugh:
Guy in the car says: “Principally, I have nothing against women because women are also living creatures. Women are also human. They also eat and drink, that means women live in the world and we have to accept that we have to live together with them.”
Richard: This may be the next tactic in the Islamic Conquest
Emerging Islamist Political Clout Accelerates Europe’s Self-Islamization
Jihad by culture.
April 24, 2018
Abigail R. Esman
Forget the beheading videos, the ISIS propaganda on social media, even the terrorist attacks themselves. Europe, says counterterrorism expert Afshin Ellian, is Islamizing itself, and in the process, the Western values on which its democracies are built are increasingly put at risk.
Take, for instance, Belgium’s ISLAM Party, which now hopes to participate in the country’s October local elections in 28 regions. (Its name serves as an acronym for “Integrité, Solidarité, Liberté, Authenticité, Moralité.)
Its ultimate aim: transforming Belgium into an Islamic state. Items high on its agenda include separating men and women on public transportation, and the incorporation of sharia law – as long as this does not conflict with current laws –according to the party’s founder, Redouane Ahrouch. His own behavior, however, suggests that his respect for “current laws” and mores has its bounds: He reportedly refuses to shake hands with women, and in 2003, he received a six-month sentence for beating and threatening his wife. Currently, the Islam Party has two elected representatives in office – one in Anderlecht, the other in Molenbeek – both regions that happen to be known as hotbeds of extremism.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/269918/emerging-islamist-political-clout-accelerates-abigail-r-esman
This article is trending article on Israeli websites.
On top of that, there’s this:
German CEO: Israel should no longer rely on Germany for its existence
‘Better to not rely on us,’ wrote Döpfner, regarding Germany providing military assistance to Israel, should she be in need.
http://www.jpost.com/International/German-CEO-Israel-should-no-longer-rely-on-Germany-for-its-existence-552571
………
A statement everybody found staggering. Comments:
• We think you can rest assured we never did.
• I don’t think that was ever a thing…?
• Lol. He’s quite der joker 😉
• Germany should no longer rely on the USA for its existence.
But, in fact, the quote came out kinda funny.
The German executive happens to be pro-Israel and critical of Merkel. He says: “In remembrance we are giants. In action and help we are dwarfs.”
The point is, as one reader put it:
“He is bitter and he is right, Germany have learnt from Swiss how to be successful by not taking sides on anything and it bugs him.
[Don’t criticize] him, but simple reassure that we are not counting on anyone except for ourselves.”
Richard: Pay close attention to this one, this is an attempt to set up nations within the US with their own police forces and courts. They are trying to destroy the US through this tactic. While I don’t think it will work it will weaken us at a time when we need to be able to project almost all of our strengthen over seas or to the Southern Border. </strong<
Hot New Trend: Refusing to Call the Police
April 24, 2018
Daniel Greenfield
I'm not sure which is dumber.
1. Refusing to call the police
2. Announcing that you won't call the police in the pages of a major paper whose articles are syndicated
But the anti-police and pro-crime insanity is moving to its next inevitable stage. Divesting from policing.
Two types of people will divest from the police.
1. Idiots who haven’t thought through the consequences of their actions
2. People receiving “protection” from elsewhere
Assorted black nationalists and radical leftists have already tried replacing the police with local gangs and Farrakhan’s Fruits of Islam. Which takes us to the “state within a state” problem.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/269976/hot-new-trend-refusing-call-police-daniel-greenfield
In the long run this is a losing tactic for the left, either the thugs that replace the police are so brutal everyone leaves, the thugs start raiding out into neighboring communities or least likely a wall will be built around the new countries sealing their people into the hell holes that have been created.
Banana republic-ville.
These new little countries are brittle, they fracture into shards of communities. You don’t dare venture outside your hellhole.
Like the bad days in Beirut, turf patrols on every other block, all warring against each other. You paid pimply thugs who learned how to manage firearms from gangster movies.
That is what they want, they think that if they make things bad enough people will welcome the leftist totalitarian government to stop the thugs. This is also why they fight against private ownership of firearms and self defense.
If they took one look at the creeps standing guard at every stinking alley, the “protection detail”, they might think twice…
…if they’re not terminally stupid.
When will liberals condemn vehicular rampages???
Entitlement Rogues: Alive and Well on America’s Campuses
Who deserves free education, lower financial burdens and the right not to work at all?
April 24, 2018
Jason D. Hill
On Monday, April 16, twenty students were arrested at Yale University after refusing to leave the school’s financial aid office during a rally. They were demanding that Yale remove what they regard as a financial burden for its low-income students on financial aid. The burden in question was the Student Effort requirement which requires students on significant financial aid to make a financial contribution of between $2,800 and $3,350 to their education by working on campus.
Chief among the protestors was an international student on a student visa from Pakistan, Shaheer Malik, who objected to the having to work up to 10 hours per week in the library scanning barcodes on the grounds that such work robbed him of his ability to fully enjoy the social activities that constitute the Yale experience. Other students complained that having to work was unfair because it discriminated against them based on their economic status whereas as their wealthier counterparts were spared the injustice of having to work.
The protestors prove once more that there are people in our county that fail to realize that immigration is a privilege and not a right; that their parents’ procreative choices are not the fiscal responsibility of others to bear; that our country was founded on political equality not economic equality; and that the task of assuming responsibility for one’s life as an adult supersedes any social activities or play time that might be part of the Yale experience.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/269936/entitlement-rogues-alive-and-well-americas-jason-d-hill
Hang Trump Fresno State Prof Upset At All the Death Threats
April 24, 2018
Daniel Greenfield
In last week’s article, I noted that it wasn’t just about Randa Jarrar who had celebrated Barbara Bush’d death. Fresno State had a bigger problem with violently hateful faculty.
Now Lars is back. And defending Jarrar.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/269977/hang-trump-fresno-state-prof-upset-all-death-daniel-greenfield
Levin Show 4/23/18 – Mark Levin Show April 23,2018 Full Podcast
The Harris Poll
Kamala Harris is a shoo-in for Dems in 2020, but what about her controversial past?
April 24, 2018
Lloyd Billingsley
“Kamala Harris Emerges as Voice of Immigrant Advocates in Senate,” headlined the Sacramento Bee, a reliable Democratic Party newsletter. Still, Harris should avoid backroom deals on border security because “such provisions could alienate the activist base the senator is wooing, with an eye toward the 2020 presidential race.”
Last August, Brides magazine cited “7 Reasons Sen. Kamala Harris’s Husband Douglas Emhoff Would Make a Great First Man.” He’s willing to compromise and cares about children, but most important he’s married to Kamala Harris, so “If he’s First Whatever, this means in 2020, we’d elect our first female president. This reason’s a no-brainer, right?” So like Bill and Hillary it’s a two-for-one deal, though POTUS 44 appears to favor the bride.
“She is brilliant and she is dedicated and she is tough, and she is exactly what you’d want in anybody who is administering the law, and making sure that everybody is getting a fair shake,” he said in 2013. “She also happens to be, by far, the best looking attorney general in the country.” The president apologized for that remark but Harris had other issues to walk back.
In the 2010 race for attorney general, the Sacramento Bee endorsed Republican Steve Cooley over Harris. She won by less than one percentage point, but as the Bee saw it, “she could be more aggressive on public corruption cases, though her handlers might worry that would cause friction with fellow Democratic politicians.” They had always shown her special kindness.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/269928/harris-poll-lloyd-billingsley
Kamala Harris has just made _The Boycott List_ !So soon, so over-exposed…
“May Allah Destroy Your Houses and Burn You All!”
The terrifying lives of Christians under Islam.
April 24, 2018
Raymond Ibrahim
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In one of the most brazen attacks on Egypt’s Christians, a Muslim man slaughtered a Christian bishop in broad daylight. Security camera footage (viewable here) captured a man with a large butcher knife chasing and stabbing Bishop Samaan Shehata—including in the head, neck, and torso—in the streets of Cairo on October 12. According to eyewitnesses “the assailant had seen Shehata in his car, forcibly stopped him, ordered him out and then started to stab him in the neck and torso. Shehata fled, and the attacker followed him into the warehouse and finished his attack there with several blows to the head.” Then, while standing over his fallen victim, “the assailant used the bishop’s blood to form a cross on his forehead.” It took 90 minutes for an ambulance to arrive, and “the bishop was alive for half an hour after being struck and could have been saved if the ambulance had arrived timely.”
Some personally acquainted with the murderer said Ahmed Saeed Ibrahim had recently “begun praying in the street, shouting loudly and calling Christians infidels.” As for motive, one report says “he had decided to kill any Coptic priest, purchased a dagger, and lay in wait for one to pass by, in a street leading to the local church.” His father “is more of a terrorist than his son,” added one woman; he “used to stop children on their way back from church and say, ‘You are multiplying, may Allah destroy your houses and burn you all. You have filled our neighborhood with filth.’”
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/269940/may-allah-destroy-your-houses-and-burn-you-all-raymond-ibrahim
Cuba’s ‘Transition’
Fake news with bells on.
April 24, 2018
Humberto Fontova
Castro’s (unregistered) agents of influence are frantically busy this week thanks to their (unregistered) accomplices in the Fake News Media. All claim an earth-shaking “transition” is underway in Cuba!
Needless to add, according to these (unregistered) foreign agents, President Trump should promptly avail himself of this golden opportunity to embrace those harmless, innocent, free-health-care providers that U.S. policy has unjustly and vicariously “bullied” for so many years.
Could anything be more transparently facetious and idiotic? To quote the late Joan Rivers: “Can we talk?”
In fact, what’s happening as Cuban “President” (dictator) Raul Castro “steps down” in favor of Cuban “President” (eunuch and puppet) Miguel Diaz-Canel is about what happened when Korean “President” Kim Jong-il stepped down in favor of his son Kim Jong-un—except that Korea’s Kim Jong-il actually kicked the bucket before his son fully took over the reins of the mass-murdering, terror-sponsoring, nuke-rattling regime.
In fact, much of the vital day-to-day functions of the Stalinist regime will remain in the hands of Raul Castro’s son Alejandro Castro-Espin, a KGB-trained colonel in Cuba’s secret police and a fanatical Stalinist. Alejandro denounces to the U.S. as “an Empire of Terror!” and shrieks that “Cuba will never return to capitalism!”
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/269957/cubas-transition-humberto-fontova
Spain: Jihad Continues
by Soeren Kern
April 24, 2018 at 5:00 am
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/12202/spain-jihad
Ten members of an Islamic State jihadi cell have been sentenced to combined prison terms of nearly 100 years for a plot to bomb landmarks and behead infidels in Barcelona.
The cell, composed of five Moroccans, four Spaniards and a Brazilian, was separate to and independent of the jihadi group that killed 16 people in Barcelona and nearby Cambrils in August 2017.
The case shows that Spain continues to be a prime target for jihadis, many of whom are striving to reconquer al-Andalus, the Arabic name given to those parts of Spain, Portugal and France occupied by Muslim conquerors (also known as the Moors) from 711 to 1492. Many jihadis believe that territories Muslims lost during the Christian Reconquest of Spain still belong to the realm of Islam, and that Sharia law requires them to re-establish Muslim rule there.
The court heard how the jihadi cell — called “Islamic Fraternity, Group for Preaching Jihad” — was created in 2014 at a mosque in Terrassa, a city located 30 kilometers from Barcelona, with the objective of creating a global Islamic Caliphate.
Prosecutors said the cell’s “sole purpose and motive was to fulfill and serve the objectives of the Islamic State and to carry out, at any time, an attack on institutions such as the police, banks or Jewish interests.”
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/12202/spain-jihad
Germany: Migrant Crisis Delusions
by Vijeta Uniyal
April 24, 2018 at 4:30 am
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/12182/germany-migrants-coverup
While the number of Salafists in Germany reaches a record high and machete-wielding gangs riot on the country’s streets, the establishment media not only covers up the fallout from Chancellor Angela Merkel’s open door migration policy, but continues to paint a false picture of the country’s current state.
“Cool Germany,” a cover story on Britain’s magazine, The Economist, claims that, “Germany is becoming more open and diverse” and “[m]any of the country’s defining traits” including “its ethnic and cultural homogeneity, conformist and conservative society” are “suddenly in flux.”
The Economist attributes this change to Chancellor Merkel’s migrant policy. “The biggest change comes from Mrs. Merkel’s “open door” policy towards refugees, which brought in 1.2 million new migrants in 2015-16. The magazine celebrates the sudden outburst of diversity as its transforms “once-homogeneous Germany” into a “melting-pot” and claims that the “patriarchal culture has become more gender-balanced.”
The Economist also advocates the urgent necessity of the open-door policy for refugees, and alleges that the “flow of newcomers to Germany” will “cushion the demographic crunch.”
Urgh. That’s literally disgusting…celebrating a country being raped and pillaged.
None of those “newcomers” will cushion anything but their wallets with taxpayer money.
They’re earning their postwar collaborator’s reward.
Contrary To Initial Reports, F-22s Were Indeed Flying And Older, Standard JASSMs Were Used During Syria Strike
AFCENT Changing The Narrative About the Strikes and Weapons Used in Syria.
U.S. Air Forces Central Command (AFCENT) made an unusual announcement today revealing to Air Force Magazine that: “US Air Force F-22 Raptors played an integral role in protecting ground forces during and after the multinational strikes against Syrian chemical weapons production facilities on the morning of April 14.”
AFCENT spokesman USAF Capt. Mark Graff released that, “Thanks to its unique fifth generation capabilities, the F-22 was the only airframe suited to operate inside the Syrian integrated air defense systems, offering an option to neutralize [Integrated Air Defense System] threats to our forces and installations in the region, and provide protective air support for US, coalition and partners on the ground in Syria.”
An article published today by reporters and subject matter experts John Tirpak and Brian Everstine of Air Force Magazine said that Air Forces Central Command was “correcting the record” about the April 14, 2018 anti-chemical weapons strikes on Syria.
During the combined air and sea strikes in Syria on the 14th, aircraft and weapons from a coalition of the United Kingdom, France and the United States struck a weapons research center in Damascus, a chemical weapons storage facility west of Homs, and a chemical weapon storage site and command center that had been associated with chemical weapons delivery and production.
According to multiple press reports, over 100 weapons were employed in the strikes that the U.S claims were successful. Syria and Russia claim a number of cruise missiles were shot down during the strikes and that little damage was done. The U.S. has published strike video of targets being destroyed in the raids. Russia and Syria have not produced tangible evidence of the claims that the raids were ineffective.
https://theaviationist.com/2018/04/21/contrary-to-initial-reports-f-22s-were-indeed-flying-and-older-standard-jassms-were-used-during-syria-strike/
NOR evidence that they did much DAMAGE!
Over 100 weapons from 3 countries hit 3 measly, empty sites?
Just what exactly was this mission supposed to accomplish?
Sound and fury. Smoke and mirrors.
Create good headlines.
Came across this summary:
https://i.redd.it/3yjz0vjimxt01.jpg
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – Some leaders in Brooklyn’s Jewish community say bias attacks are happening more frequently.
Read: New York Considering Ban On Plastic Bottles At Parks & Beaches
The most recent incident left a man badly bruised. It was captured on camera and now police are searching for the attacker.
Police are keeping watch at the scene of the latest attack on Rutland Road near Schenectady Avenue.
Many Jewish leaders say this is happening too frequently to be a coincidence, CBS2’s Janelle Burrell reported.
“People are very, very nervous about what is going on,” said Assemblyman Dov Hikind.
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2018/04/23/anti-semitic-bias-attacks-in-brooklyn/
California State Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia (D-Bell Gardens), one of the female leaders of the “#MeToo” movement in California, reportedly said she wanted to punch an “Asian person” in the face in 2014, according to new allegations.
The remark was apparently made during a closed-door meeting about a successful lobbying effort by Asian-American activists to defeat a Democratic proposal to overturn the Golden State’s ban on affirmative action in colleges.
Affirmative action, the Asian-American activists argued, hurt their community.
“This makes me feel like I want to punch the next Asian person I see in the face,” Garcia allegedly said, according to sources present at the mid-March 2014 meeting, as reported by Politico.
http://www.breitbart.com/california/2018/04/23/embattled-metoo-leader-made-anti-asian-comments/
MPs are to write a report on identifying a “working definition of Islamophobia”, appealing to hard-line Islamist and far left, Soros-funded groups to contribute.
The All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on British Muslims launched their “appeal for evidence” Monday, describing “Islamophobia” as a form of “group based hatred or hostility” comparable to racism.
Their letter does not acknowledge there might be rational reasons to have reservations about rising levels of radical Islam and the growing influence of Islam in the West generally.
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/04/24/parliament-appeals-islamist-group-official-islamophobia-definition/