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Germany: Naked Syrian riots with iron rod
test 08
Nackter Mann schlägt mit Eisenstange auf Autos ein
In Jüterbog hat ein nackter Mann, bewaffnet mit einer Eisenstange, Autos gestoppt und auf die Fahrzeuge eingeschlagen. Auch eine Autofahrerin wurde angegriffen.
Jüterbog – Ein nackter Mann hat am Montagvormittag gegen 9.40 auf der Dennewitzer Straße in Jüterbog mit einer Eisenstange auf Autos eingeschlagen. Nach Zeugenaussagen habe der 23-jährige Syrer eine Autofahrerin zum Anhalten gezwungen und anschließend das Auto mit der Eisenstange, die offenbar Teil eines Verkehrsschilds war, die Scheiben des Wagens zerschlagen, berichtete die Polizei am Nachmittag über den vorläufigen Ermittlungsstand. Außerdem habe er auch die Frau angegriffen und sie verletzt. Dann beschädigte der Mann noch weitere Autos, behinderte durch sein Verhalten den Verkehr und sorgte für einen Stau.
Polizisten überwältigten den Mann
Gegen 10 Uhr konnten Polizisten ihn dann unter Einsatz von Reizgas überwältigt und in Gewahrsam genommen. Ein Notarzt wies ihn aufgrund von akuten psychischen Problemen zwangsweise in eine Fachklinik ein. Die Polizei hat Strafanzeigen aufgenommen. Die Höhe des verursachten Schadens ist noch nicht bekannt, die Kriminalpolizei hat die Ermittlungen übernommen.
www (dot) maz-online (dot) de (slash) Lokales (slash) Teltow-Flaeming (slash) Jueterbog (slash) Nackter-Mann-schlaegt-mit-Eisenstange-auf-Autos-ein
“Germany: Naked Syrian riots with iron rod”
Germany: Naked Syrian riots with iron rod and receives lead slug.
There, fixed that.
PS: These metallurgical issues are just so tricky.
Orban said this about 11/2 years ago. Duh. Soros weaponizing third world humanity at a border near you:
https://orientalreview.org/2018/04/28/migrant-crisis-2-0-might-come-from-africa/
“Soros weaponizing third world humanity at a border near you…”
Minor nitpick:
“Soros being allowed to keep on weaponizing third world humanity at a border near you…”
Your patience is sincerely appreciated. Please carry on with your usual excellence and thank-you-very-much.
We are facing the problem of do we fight this as a war or a crime? If a crime (which is what the politicians are doing) we have to follow the rule of law. Soros is working against all of Civilization but is working through cut outs that are preventing our getting the evidence to charge Soros. Combine this with the Leftist politicians around the world who decide to not enforce the laws that are on the books. Many people keep saying we need new laws, what we need are people on the top to enforce the laws that are already on the books.
Just rope, lotsa rope.
“We are facing the problem of do we fight this as a war or a crime?”
Touché, Richard. Just recently I’ve made a similar distinction here at Vlad Tepes Blog.
Either Islam’s assault upon Western nations is immediately recognized as an Act of War™, or the West is culpable of indescribable recklessness.
I’ve just been booted off twitter again. Fed up with their islamophilia.
James Boom
@WASPMANTEA
What happened?
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Violating our rules against hateful conduct.
You may not promote violence against, threaten, or harass other people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, age, disability, or serious disease.
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@MarkACollett @ingridcarlqvist Considering all the islamic rape and sex slaving being ignored by the British Authorities, this story illuminates how native Brits are being racially persecuted. DEMOCIDE.
I’m torn, I could do without Twitter but I want to stay up to date on events and believe that in my own small way I can make a difference in informing people about the islamisation of the west.
PS Twitter probably heavily censored me already without me realising.
James Boom,
It is possible to stay informed without Twitter. I believe many people here do so. Norse–good point. I realize Soros is assuredly one of the world’s most slippery supervillains, but surely someone has the ability, besides Orban, to stick a stick in the fukcer’s spokes.
Elect Nationalist politicians and his power base will be reduced by half, if not more. Right now in the states he concentrating on getting far leftist elected Prosecuting Attorney, they then start bring baseless suits against raising populist politicians. In Missouri we have one of Soros’ minions as Prosecutor in St. Louis is going after the Governor because of a dream the supposed victim had. If we manage to get the Prosecutor removed (hard since removing her would look like revenge by the Governor) the damage has already been done to the reputation of the Governor. Another minion went after the former Texas Governor (Rick Perry), couldn’t prove any crimes but damaged his reputation and delayed if not killed his political career.
You’re banned, Hamas manages 5 Twitter accounts.
#GetHamasOffTwitter
https://twitter.com/hashtag/GetHamasOffTwitter?src=hash
Afghan forces losing control of the country, report warns (alaraby, May 1, 2018)
https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/news/2018/5/1/afghan-forces-losing-control-of-the-country-report-warns
“Afghan security forces are struggling to deal with a resurgence of the Taliban and other insurgent groups, which now control large parts of Afghanistan.
The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) report shows how government troops are on a backfoot in Afghanistan as militants capture populated areas in the country.
It comes as the Pentagon claims that Afghan troops and US-led NATO forces are making steady progress in the grueling conflict that has raged for nearly 17 years.
In addition to government losses in the hinterland, the Taliban and Islamic State group have also launched a series of bloody bombings and raids in the capital Kabul, in recent months.
Twin blasts killed at least 25 people, including nine journalists with AFP chief photographer for Afghanistan Shah Marai and BBC reporter Ahmad Shah among the dead.
According to SIGAR, the strength of the Afghan security forces dropped by about 10 percent over the course of a year – falling to a total size of 296,409 personnel in the army and police forces as of 31 January.
Militants including the Taliban and the Islamic State group have stepped up their attacks on Afghan troops and police in recent months. Desertions and corruption have also sapped morale.
US forces used to provide SIGAR with the number of Afghan troops being killed – the figures were more than 5,000 each year – but that information is now classified at the request of the Afghan government.
At the same time, the Taliban and other insurgent groups now control or influence 14.5 percent of Afghanistan’s 407 districts – the highest level since SIGAR started recording such data in late 2015.
The government, meanwhile, controls 56.3 percent of the districts, with the remainder considered “contested.”
The varying population sizes of each district means that since August 2016, Afghan government control over its people has decreased.
“The overall trend for the insurgency is rising control over the population (from nine percent in August 2016 to 12 percent in January 2018),” the SIGAR report states.
Civilians have also fallen victim with the a spike in deaths as the Afghan air force has stepped up its operations, while NATO has reduced its air strikes.
The Pentagon insists that the Taliban are weary and now have elements willing to negotiate for peace.
The attack was claimed by IS, which has established a footprint in Afghanistan, especially in Nangarhar.”
Lest we forget one of the reasons for this fine blog is to inform the public about the machinations of the at-once diabolically clever Left (ie. language manipulations particularly) and gobsmackingly (if this is a word it is a stupid word which I shall deploy in this instance as a hat tip to filthy commies everywhere) stupid for all other reasons.
https://www.marxists.org/subject/mayday/
May 1 should be returned as a celebration of Spring.
https://youtu.be/Z0xNo2894Fw
“Gobsmack” works every time, mate.
There’s a vast chasm between bloody-minded language and profanity. Eh?
Macron: Migrant Violence, Terror Is Europe’s Fault, ‘Not Linked’ to Mass Immigration (breitbart, May 1, 2018)
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/05/01/macron-migrant-violence-terror-europe-fault-not-linked-mass-immigration/
“Violent crime, terror attacks, and epidemic levels of sexual assault in Europe are “not linked” to mass migration, Emmanuel Macron has said, blaming “discrimination” and inequality for the phenomena.
Speaking to George Washington University students in the U.S. last week, the French President also acknowledged that “90 per cent” of African migrants arriving in Europe are economic migrants and not refugees.
Macron was prompted to address the topic after a student stood up to say that Americans have watched as mass immigration “from the Middle East and Africa to Europe … over the years”, resulting in the rise of violence, crime, and terror attacks on the continent.
Highlighting “an increase in sexual assault and rape of women to the point that many women are too afraid to leave home” and “an increase in anti-Semitism to the point that in many cities Jewish citizens are advised not to wear religious garb for fear of being attacked”, she asked the President what his government is doing “to ensure the national security and the cultural identity of France and Europe”.
“I am absolutely not naive. In our societies, we have a need for more security, more national security, especially for women,” Macron said, before stating: “I do not believe that these phenomena are linked to migration.”
“Why? Because it is not new and unfortunately we have had this problem for years not to say decades in my country”, he explained, telling students that “exactly the same debates” were taking place in France over national security during the country’s 2002 presidential election campaign.
“Anti-Semitism … Unfortunately we had the [Mohammed] Merah attack and terrorist attack … more than six years ago now,” continued Macron, making reference to the gunman who killed three French paratroopers, three Jewish schoolchildren, and a rabbi while on a shooting rampage in 2012.
“So it’s not brand new. And it must not be correlated with this immigration. Honestly,” Macron stressed, claiming it is the state’s responsibility “to provide opportunities” in order to reduce “conflicts in our societies” such as the attack by Merah, who was an Islamist of Algerian descent, both in France and the U.S…”
Outrage After Arabic Lesson Students in Swedish Schools Were Just Learning The Quran, Islamic Prayer (breitbart, May 1, 2018)
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/05/01/outrage-swedish-schools-quran-islamic-prayer-lessons/
“Two schools in Sweden have come under fire from school inspectorate authorities after it was revealed that migrant-background children being taught lessons in their native language were actually just learning the Quran…”
And people were surprised at this? Well Sweden and an immensely stupid government, say no more, that happens all over the place.
Hmm…maybe not the best example…
How about this: https://youtu.be/6LAPFM3dgag
Much better.
Yep.
Jewish Politician in Toulouse Faces Sack After Claiming ‘Too Many Arabs’ In the City (breitbart, May 1, 2018)
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/05/01/jewish-politician-toulouse-faces-sack-claiming-many-arabs-city/
“Jewish deputy mayor of Toulouse Aviv Zonabend could be fired after he allegedly said there were “too many Arabs” on an Israeli radio programme.
Mr. Zonabend made his remarks on broadcaster Army Radio last week, which airs in Hebrew, saying that there were “very many, too many” Arabs in Toulouse and far too few Jews, French radio broadcaster France Bleu reports.
Mayor of Toulouse Jean-Luc Moudenc condemned the statement saying it was “intolerable that the dialogue we are cultivating with and between religious communities is trampled”.
Zonabend defended his remarks claiming that his Hebrew language skills were lacking and that he had meant to say there were too many radical Islamic extremists in the country…”
‘Safe haven for terrorists’: Iran bans Telegram messenger over national security concerns (RT, May 1, 2017)
https://www.rt.com/news/425557-iran-bans-telegram-messenger/
“The Iranian judiciary has issued a “total ban” on Telegram following a request from the security services, which argued that the encrypted messaging app has become a “safe haven” for terrorist cells, according to local media.
“Considering various complaints against the Telegram social networking app by Iranian citizens and based on the demand of security organizations to confront the illegal activities of Telegram, the judiciary has banned its usage in Iran,” the decision said, as cited by Iranian media. “All Internet providers in Iran must take steps to block Telegram’s website and app as of April 30.”
The judicial order envisages a “total ban” on the messaging app that would require the providers to ensure there is no way circumvent the restrictions, Mehr state news agency said…”
Harboring ambitions: Gulf states scramble for Somalia (reuters, May 1, 2018)
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-somalia-gulf-analysis/harboring-ambitions-gulf-states-scramble-for-somalia-idUSKBN1I23B4
“NAIROBI (Reuters) – A battle for access to seaports is underway in one of the world’s unlikeliest places: Somalia, now caught up in a regional struggle between Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates on one side, with Qatar backed by Turkey on the other…”
Follow this situation closely. It is a bellwether. Africa is one of the last “final frontiers” that can be reached without a Space Elevator.
U.S.-backed Syrian forces resume battle against Islamic State (reuters, May 1, 2018)
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-sdf/u-s-backed-syrian-forces-resume-battle-against-islamic-state-idUSKBN1I2390
“DEIR AL-ZOR, Syria/BEIRUT (Reuters) – U.S.-backed Syrian militias on Tuesday relaunched their campaign to seize the last territory Islamic State controls in the east near the border with Iraq.
The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), an alliance of Kurdish and Arab militias, had paused their battle after Turkey launched an assault in January against their northern Afrin region.
“We have rearranged our ranks,” said Lilwa al-Abdallah, spokeswoman for the offensive in oil-rich Deir al-Zor province.
Islamic State militants stepped up attacks in the region in recent weeks in a bid to reorganize, she told a news conference at an oilfield on the eastern bank of the Euphrates river.
“Our heroic forces will liberate these areas and secure the border…We welcome the support of the Iraqi forces.”
Another SDF official in Deir al-Zor said that coordination with Iraqi troops had increased and that neither side would cross the border…”
Russia uses armed ROBOT during gun battle that left 11 jihadists dead during anti-terror operation ahead of the World Cup (dailymail, May 1, 2018)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5677705/Russia-uses-armed-ROBOT-gun-battle-left-11-jihadists-dead.html
“Russia operatives used an armed robot in a gunfight that left 11 jihadists dead – as they try to stamp out extremism ahead of the World Cup.
Counter-terrorism forces engaged extremists in the volatile Islamic region of Dagestan over several days.
Dramatic footage shows police marksman firing on a house from an armored vehicle
A compact armed robot is seen approaching the property to engage the jihadists.
The bullet-ridden bodies of six men were later shown in pictures released by investigative authorities.
Video and audio recordings taken by the robot reveal the voices of rebels shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’, followed by an explosion, it was reported.
The men were also believed to have been waving a jihadist flag.
Derbent, where the video was filmed, is just 590 miles southeast of Volgograd, where England will play their opening World Cup qualifying group game…”
Uncle Vlad, weapons merchant.
Biggest source of export revenue after oil, sales growing all the time. Syria’s been a grand testing and promotion opportunity.
They’re taking a hit on sales to Iran, though. Credit was extended in anticipation of payback when the Iran Nuke Deal kicked in. Then PTrump won the election.
Some countries – like those in the Gulf – buy stuff they don’t really need as a gesture of goodwill.
How Russia is using Syria as a military ‘guinea pig’
High-ranking Russian officials claim countries are lining up to purchase battle-tested hardware.
http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/How-Russia-is-using-Syria-as-a-military-guinea-pig-543839
“How Russia is using Syria as a military ‘guinea pig’? High-ranking Russian officials claim countries are lining up to purchase battle-tested hardware.”
The same sort of thing was done in the Falkland Islands. The big difference was that NATO Exocet missile codes had been shared.
If anyone here who is more well-versed than me can run up the incredible French betrayal of allied forces (with anti-ship missiles sent to Argentina), I’d be be truly grateful.
Like you noted, Richard, we are foolishly sending our front-line weapons into battle. The ONE BIG DIFFERENCE is that we’re testing our tip-top hardware and the Russkies aren’t necessarily doing the same.
Counts for something, if you ask me.
FLIPPING LACK OF PREVIEW!!!
Feds process asylum-seekers from caravan criticized by Trump
By ELLIOT SPAGAT
Associated Press
AP Photo
AP Photo/Hans-Maximo Musielik
TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) — U.S. border inspectors allowed some of the Central American asylum-seekers to enter the country for processing, ending a brief impasse over lack of space. Now, the migrants who crossed Mexico in a caravan may face a long legal path.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection didn’t say how many caravan members were allowed in Monday, but organizers said there were eight.
About 140 others were still waiting in Mexico to turn themselves in at San Diego’s San Ysidro border crossing, the nation’s busiest, said Alex Mensing, project organizer for Pueblo Sin Fronteras, which is leading the caravan.
“The spirits are high, there was good news for everybody,” Mensing said on the Mexican side of the crossing, moments after learning that some were allowed in.
American attorneys who volunteered advice in Tijuana last week warned the Central Americans that parents may be separated from their children and be detained for many months while their asylum cases are pending.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/L/LT_MIGRANT_CARAVAN_TXOL-?SITE=TXMCA&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2018-05-01-05-59-05
DOJ charges 11 possible caravan members with illegally entering the US
By Laura Jarrett and Darran Simon, CNN
(CNN)The Department of Justice on Monday filed complaints against 11 individuals believed to be members of the Central American migrant caravan, accusing them of illegally entering the United States.
After a month-long journey by bus, train and on foot, about 100 migrants arrived at the San Ysidro port of entry on the US-Mexico border on Sunday evening, preparing to claim asylum. Twenty to 30 migrants spent Sunday night in front of the turnstiles leading to the US side of the San Ysidro port of entry in Tijuana, Mexico. An organizer of the caravan said they would remain at the immigration processing center until “every last one is admitted into the United States.”
Eight migrants from the caravan were being processed by US officials, the group Pueblo Sin Fronteras and two observers said Monday night.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/30/us/doj-charges-migrant-caravans-members/index.html
In Venezuela, five years of severance pay now buys a coffee
CARACAS (AFP) –
When Yolanda Abreu got her check for severance pay after five years working as a cardiologist, she let out a laugh of sheer disbelief: it was barely enough for a cup of coffee.
Like her, millions of Venezuelans have seen their salaries decimated by rampant hyperinflation that is expected to drive prices up by 13,000 percent this year, IMF figures show.
Her story hit the headlines after she tweeted a photo of the check for 156,584.29 bolivars, which equates to about $0.20 on the black market.
http://www.france24.com/en/20180501-venezuela-five-years-severance-pay-now-buys-coffee
Huge icebergs could be towed from Antarctica to Cape Town to solve South African drought crisis
Marine salvage experts hope to guide huge chunks of ice across the ocean, chop them into a slurry and melt them down in drinking water
Salvage master Nick Sloane told Reuters news agency he was looking for government and private investors for a scheme to guide huge chunks of ice across the ocean, chop them into a slurry and melt them down into millions of litres of drinking water.
“We want to show that if there is no other source to solve the water crisis, we have another idea no one else has thought of yet,” said Sloane, who led the refloating of the capsized Italian passenger liner Costa Concordia in 2014.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/huge-icebergs-could-towed-antarctica-12456271
NYT says it has the questions Mueller wants to ask Trump – which, if true, makes me worry about Mueller
By J.E. Dyer April 30, 2018
NYT says it has the questions Mueller wants to ask Trump – which, if true, makes me worry about Mueller
By J.E. Dyer April 30, 2018
Let me start this by saying that I really wonder if the New York Times is about to get a big egg sandwich on its face.
The newspaper reported today that it has obtained the list of questions special counsel Robert Mueller wants to ask President Trump. It’s a list of several dozen questions, which NYT has paraphrased here.
NYT states clearly that these are not the original questions, verbatim. They’re paraphrases of those questions, to which the Times has helpfully added explanatory context.
But looking through these questions, I have to think I’d have the same reaction to the originals that I have to the great majority of the paraphrased questions. Which is: what lawyer in his right mind would let his client answer such questions?
It’s as if they’re designed to elicit responses that can either (a) create new avenues for investigation out of thin air, or (b) be easily framed as false statements.
https://libertyunyielding.com/2018/04/30/nyt-says-questions-mueller-wants-ask-trump-true-makes-worry-mueller/
I hope these aren’t the real questions, if they are Mueller is a much worse lawyer then I thought. I know he is crooked but I thought he had enough brains to tie his own shoes.
“I know he is crooked but I thought he had enough brains to tie his own shoes.”
AND THAT’S WHY HE WEARS LOAFERS!!!
Mosque to be erected at site of UK’s last Christian revival
By LU Staff April 30, 2018
The site of the UK’s last great Christian revival will soon have its first mosque, and local church leaders are welcoming the addition.
Officials in the town of Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis, which is off the Scottish coast, approved plans for the island’s first mosque to be built and completed in May in time for Ramadan, according to Christianity Today.
The lack of opposition to the plans from the Free Church of Scotland, the island’s main denomination, came as a surprise that stirred some controversy, given that conservative Christian culture has held sway in the island communities since the Hebrides Revival that began in Stornoway in 1949 and lasted for three years. The Hebrides Revival was the last UK Christian revival thus far.
“They have always been regarded by the local community as people who’ve contributed to the local economy and integrated well. I don’t remember any animosity towards them. Outsiders may have got the impression that the Christian community here have resisted the mosque, but that’s not the case,” James Maciver, a minister of the Free Church of Scotland, told The Guardian in early April.
https://libertyunyielding.com/2018/04/30/mosque-erected-site-uks-last-christian-revival/
New Israeli intel is timely reminder: Iran JCPOA ignored evidence and is meaningless even if ‘enforced’
By J.E. Dyer May 1, 2018
It’s easy to get a bit mesmerized with the intelligence coup the Israelis have achieved by obtaining the information Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu briefed on Monday 30 April 2018. (The video presentation is below.)
It really is pretty amazing, to think that Israeli agents were able to get hold of over 100,000 documents stored by the Iranians on their secret nuclear weapons program. According to Netanyahu, the Iranians moved their extensive documentation into an unprepossessing building in Tehran, sometime after breaking their program up in 2003, renaming it, and going to great lengths to hide it and continue it furtively.
That Israel found the Iranian documentation anyway, and was able to abstract it, certainly merits at least a golf clap from intelligence professionals the world over.
But I want to focus on a couple of points with immediate relevance for President Trump’s JCPOA (Joint Comprehensive Plan of action) decision deadline on 12 May.
https://libertyunyielding.com/2018/05/01/new-israeli-intel-timely-reminder-iran-jcpoa-ignored-evidence-meaningless-even-enforced/
Links to back up documentation
http://www.thetower.org/62047-netanyahu-iran-lied-about-its-nuclear-weapons-program-and-plans-to-restart-it/
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/u-s-confirms-authenticity-secret-iran-nuclear-docs-officials-see-game-deal/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/pm-iran-lied-about-nuclear-plans-continued-to-expand-program-after-deal/
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/04/30/world/middleeast/israel-iran-nuclear-netanyahu.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fworld&action=click&contentCollection=world®ion=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=2&pgtype=sectionfront
“… Israel found the Iranian documentation anyway, and was able to abstract it…
Which is why Mossad remains the eternal envy of almost all other international spy agencies.
Yemen National Army pushes into northern Houthi stronghold (memo, May 1, 2018)
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20180501-yemen-national-army-pushes-into-northern-houthi-stronghold/
“Yemen’s National Army (YNA) has reportedly made considerable military advancements against the Houthi group’s stronghold in Saada governorate, the Anadolu Agency reported today.
The YNA captured eight Houthi military positions in Saada following lethal clashes inflicting several casualties on the Houthis. The YNA reported on its open source wires that it destroyed several combat vehicles belonging to the Houthis in the Kataf directorate.
The Houthi official Telegram group reported continuous rocket fire and artillery attacks on various areas on the border town of Razih. In addition, the Saudi-led coalition launched 23 air raids in different areas of the Directorate of Baqam…”
Blasts kill around 20 people in northeast Nigeria’s Mubi – Adamawa police commissioner (reuters, May 1, 2018)
https://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFKBN1I23QD-OZATP
“Blasts in and around a mosque killed around 20 people in the northeast Nigerian town of Mubi on Tuesday, the police commissioner of Adamawa state said.
The blasts bore the hallmarks of Islamist militant group Boko Haram and follow Thursday’s attack by the jihadist group on Maiduguri, the capital of neighbouring Borno state, which killed four people.”
Somali aid worker killed in shooting in Mogadishu – police (reuters, May 1, 2018)
https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-somalia-shooting/somali-aid-worker-killed-in-shooting-in-mogadishu-police-idUKKBN1I23PT
“A Somali aid worker was shot dead by unknown gunmen in the main market in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Tuesday, police said.
The gunmen escaped, police said. They did not say which NGO or aid agency the Somali woman worked for.”
Watch: EU Claims Iran ‘Complying’ with Nuclear Deal Despite Israeli Disclosures (breitbart, May 1, 2018)
http://www.breitbart.com/jerusalem/2018/05/01/eu-claims-iran-complying-with-nuclear-deal-despite-israeli-disclosures/
“Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s allegations of a secret Iranian atomic weapons program have been dismissed by EU diplomatic chief Federica Mogherini who says Iran is complying with its nuclear commitments.
“We need to assess the details of the statement Prime Minister Netanyahu has made,” Mogherini said in a statement on Monday night after Mr. Netanyahu made global headlines by offering substantive proof of an Iranian plan that could be activated at any time to deliver an atomic weapon.
Mr. Netanyahu said Iran’s failure to disclose its secret program while misleading the world shows the nuclear deal is “based on lies based on Iranian deception.”
Mogherini also stressed the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) needed to assess the Israeli claims that Tehran was in breach of its 2015 nuclear deal brokered by then U.S. President Barack Obama.
“The IAEA is the only impartial, international organisation that is in charge of monitoring Iran’s nuclear commitments,” she said.
“What I have seen from the first reports is that Prime Minister Netanyahu has not put into question Iran’s compliance with the JCPOA (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action) commitments, meaning post-2015 nuclear commitments,” she added…”
Iran creates own cryptocurrency amid fears Trump will issue CRIPPLING economic sanctions (express, Apr 30, 2018)
https://www.express.co.uk/finance/city/953341/iran-bitcoin-cryptocurrency-central-bank-of-iran-bitcoin-ban-donald-trump-USA
“IRAN has created its own cryptocurrency amid fears the United States will issue crippling economic sanctions.
Mohammad Javad Azari-Jahromi, Iran’s Information and Communications Technology Minister, announced a trial version of the state crypto is now ready.
Mr Azari-Jahromi said: “Last week, at a joint meeting to review the progress of the local cryptocurrency project, it was announced that the experimental model was ready.”
The digital currency was jointly developed by the CBI and Iran’s Information and Communications Technology (ICT) ministry and the announcement comes days after the CBI banned bitcoin trading amid money laundering fears.
Mr Azari-Jahromi said: “The Central Bank’s ban does not mean the prohibition or restriction on the use of the digital currency in domestic development.
“The CBI ban on bitcoin dealings was made out of concerns that the volatility in the crypto market could lead people to lose their assets. Bitcoin is not the one and only cryptocurrency.”
The idea of a state backed crypto was first announced in February when the minister tweeted: “In a meeting with the board of directors of Post Bank on digital currencies based on the blockchain, I prescribed measures to implement the country’s first cloud-based digital currency.”
This development comes ahead of the expected return of US economic sanctions on Iran with Donald Trump’s formal decision on the Iran nuclear deal to come on May 12.
Iran banned bitcoin trading earlier this month blaming concerns over money laundering, after the rial crashed to a record low amid fears Mr Trump would pull the US out of the nuclear deal…”
CNN – Cuomo presses Netanyahu on Israel’s nuclear capability
Netanyahu talks Iran Nuclear Deal on Fox & Friends
A Sri Lankan refugee who could not speak English has won a legal battle against the NHS after her child was brain damaged after hospital staff did not explain the importance of feeding a newborn.
Nilujan Rajatheepan was in good condition when he was delivered by caesarean section at King George Hospital in Goodmayes, Essex in July 2009.
His parents are Tamil refugees from Sri Lanka and his mother, Sinthiya, was 21 when Nilujan was born and spoke only very few words of English.
When the community midwife visited the family at home after the birth, Nilujan was pale and lethargic, having not been fed for more than 15 hours.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/04/13/sri-lankan-wins-lawsuit-against-nhs-midwives-fail-explain-needed/
0:27 – Kill Your Landlord
Mass killings of landlords under Mao Zedong
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_killings_of_landlords_under_Mao_Zedong
“Mao Dead” The Australian – September 10, 1976
Two radio podcasts of his death.
http://australianpolitics.com/1976/09/10/the-death-of-chairman-mao-tse-tung.html
Related: Australia – Today
“China Refuses Entry to Australian Critic of Communist Party”
By Damien Cave – March 21, 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/21/world/australia/china-john-hugh-silent-invasion.html
“Book Launch: Silent Invasion-China’s Influence in Australia by Professor Clive Hamilton” – NTDTV – March 14, 2018
The pro-ISIS group that in January depicted the invasion of Washington and in February declared “Paris before Rome,” depicting a terrorist invasion that began with cells in the countryside outside Paris before attacking the city, circulated a warning online to commercial aviation.
The Al-Abd al-Faqir Media release comes on the heels of a March video depicting a global caliphate, showing a Facebook-style profile of “John Stephen,” a white man with a closely trimmed beard and an image of the White House exploding in flames as his banner photo.
In the new poster, a clean-shaven dark-haired white man sits in the aisle seat during a commercial flight, a knife blade jutting out from his hand.
“You will be an easy prey,” the poster warned in English, French and Arabic.
https://pjmedia.com/homeland-security/isis-group-warns-of-knife-wielding-terrorists-on-commercial-flights/
Woman who uses her gun to save officer’s life is being sued by criminal’s family for wrongful death
29 APR , 2018
In February 2017, we posted links to news stories discussing how a woman named Kystie Jaehnen had come to the aid of an officer who was being beaten by a criminal. Sergeant William Halbig, President of Laughery Valley Fraternal Order of Police Lodge, posted this account of what happened:
https://crimeresearch.org/2018/04/woman-uses-gun-save-officers-life-sued-criminals-family-wrongful-death/
Ron Paul Rages: ‘Baby Alfie’ Is The Latest Victim Of Omnipotent Government
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Twenty-three-month-old Alfie Evans, passed away in a British hospital on Saturday. While the official cause of death was a degenerative brain disease, Alfie may have been murdered by the British health system and the British high court. Doctors at the hospital treating Alfie decided to remove his life support, against the wishes of Alfie’s parents. The high court not only upheld the doctors’ authority to override the parents’ wishes, it refused to allow the parents to take Alfie abroad for treatment.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-04-30/ron-paul-rages-baby-alfie-latest-victim-omnipotent-government
So Kanye West just tweeted out a Thomas Sowell quote – Looks like someone is getting ACTUALLY ‘woke’ (Or perhaps has been but now feels like he can say something)
https://www.ac2news.com/2018/04/so-kanye-west-just-tweeted-out-a-thomas-sowell-quote-looks-like-someone-is-getting-actually-woke-or-perhaps-has-been-but-now-feels-like-he-can-say-something/
University of Texas to treat masculinity as a ‘mental health issue’
By Rick Moran
A new program at the University of Texas Counseling and Mental Health Center will promote “healthy masculinity” through “public events, educational workshops, and other forms of student involvement.”
The goal is “to impact campus culture to increase acceptance of gender diversity, promote healthy relationships with an emphasis on consent, and prevent interpersonal violence.”
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/04/university_of_texas_to_treat_masculinity_as_a_mental_health_issue.html
Recovering from the debacle of his India trip and resulting controversies surrounding the visit, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau opted to skip the annual Khalsa Day Parade in Toronto on April 29, the Hindustan Times reported. His appearance at the event last year invited disapproval from the Indian government.
The parade, which sees Sikhs sporting Khalistan flags and chanting Sikh independence slogans, was, however, attended by top Canadian leaders, who also participated in Surrey’s Baisakhi celebration in British Columbia last week. Among the politicians who attended both the events was New Democratic Party leader Jagmeet Singh, who has faced heat for being associated with Sikh separatist events in the past. He said in Toronto that human rights violations in India were similar to those in Syria and those against the Rohingya in Myanmar, the Hindustan Times reported. While Singh’s presence at the Surrey event went unannounced and unmarked on social media, he was in the limelight in Toronto.
Ontario premier Kathleen Wynne also addressed the gathering, where banners for a 2020 referendum for a separate Sikh homeland, and Khalistan flags were seen flying.
https://littleindia.com/canada-pm-skips-khalsa-day-parade-in-toronto-this-year/
Texas Republican Congressman Louie Gohmert called on Special Counsel Robert Mueller to resign and discussed a lengthy report he published on the former FBI director’s “problematic” past.
Steve Doocy played video of Gohmert ripping then-Director Mueller during a hearing on the Boston Marathon bombing.
Mueller told Gohmert his “facts are not all together (unintelligible),” prompting the lawmaker to challenge the director to tell him where he was lying.
Gohmert told Doocy Mueller was not being completely forthright in statements about visiting a Massachusetts mosque frequented by the murderous Tsarnaev brothers.
http://insider.foxnews.com/2018/04/30/robert-mueller-should-resign-louie-gohmert-says-new-report-russia-probe
German Socialists (SPD) fail German Children
Germany: New SPD leader joins May Day protests in Koblenz
France: Paris May Day rally marred by teargas, vandalism
VIOLENCES BLACK BLOCS 01 MAI 2018
reuters –Morocco accuses Iran of backing Polisario Front, severs ties
RABAT (Reuters) – Morocco will sever diplomatic ties with Iran over Tehran’s support for the Polisario Front, a Western Sahara independence movement, the Moroccan foreign minister said on Tuesday.
Morocco claimed Western Sahara after colonial Spain left, but Polisario fought a guerrilla war for independence for the Sahrawi people until a U.N.-backed ceasefire.
Morocco will close its embassy in Tehran and will expel the Iranian ambassador in Rabat, Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita told reporters.
He said that Iran and its Lebanese Shi’ite ally Hezbollah were supporting Polisario by training and arming its fighters.
It was not immediately possible to get Iranian reaction to the Moroccan accusation.
The Western Sahara region has effectively been split by an earthen wall separating an area controlled by Morocco that it claims as its southern provinces and territory controlled by the Polisario, with a U.N.-mandated buffer zone between them.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-morocco-iran/morocco-accuses-iran-of-backing-polisario-front-severs-ties-idUSKBN1I23VF
Nigeria attacks: Mosque bomb blasts kill 24 in Mubi (BBC, May 1, 2018)
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-43967738
“At least 24 people are reported to have been killed in suicide bomb blasts in the north-east Nigerian town of Mubi.
The explosions happened in and around a mosque as Muslims were preparing for afternoon prayers.
No-one has yet said they were behind the bombings, but the Islamist militant group Boko Haram has launched previous attacks in Mubi.
Boko Haram has waged a campaign of violence to try to create an Islamic state in northern Nigeria since 2009.
The violence has killed about 20,000 people and displaced more than two million.
State police commissioner Abdullahi Yerima said the first blast took place at the mosque at about 13:00 (12:00 GMT) and a second bomber detonated a device nearby as worshippers fled.
Witness Abdullahi Labaran said the first bomber had mingled with worshippers and detonated his explosives shortly before prayers began.
He said people in the mosque then fled towards a market where the second bomber struck…”
A Russian fighter jet buzzed a U.S. military spy plane in the Baltic Sea on Tuesday morning, two defense officials told Fox News.
The Russian Su-27 jet performed a “safe” but “unprofessional” intercept of a U.S. Navy P-8 surveillance plane while flying in international airspace over the Baltic Sea.
The Russian jet came within about 20 feet of the U.S. Navy aircraft, but the American pilots told officials they never felt threatened or unsafe.
It’s the first incident between Russian and American military aircraft since January, when a Russian fighter jet buzzed a U.S. Navy EP-3 spy plane over the Black Sea.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/05/01/russian-fighter-jet-buzzes-us-military-spy-plane-over-baltic-sea-officials-say.html
Union Representing California’s Maintenance Workers Files Grievance Due To Hazardous Conditions
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As California’s homeless population skyrockets, the cost of cleaning up the state’s numerous shanty towns is also hitting record highs — and the price tag is likely to keep rising as workers tasked with tossing the vagrants’ syringes, feces and buckets of urine fight for safer conditions.
https://californiarealitywatch.com/2018/05/01/union-representing-californias-maintenance-workers-files-grievance-due-to-hazardous-conditions/
A whistleblower case currently in federal court in Washington, D.C. stands to bring out incredible allegations of John Brennan and James Clapper’s moves against the former presiding judge of the FISA court, Reggie Walton.
Real estate mogul Timothy Blixseth admitted that he saw records from CIA and NSA whistleblower Dennis Montgomery proving that Clapper and Obama CIA director John Brennan oversaw repeated spying on the phone calls of President Donald Trump and millions of other private American citizens, including Supreme Court Justice John Roberts and FISA court judge Reggie Walton. Fired former FBI director James Comey received evidence from the whistleblower’s lawyer but sat on it.
https://bigleaguepolitics.com/whistleblower-brennan-clapper-hacked-fisa-court-judge/
Israel seems to be preparing for war with Iran, U.S. officials say
An Israeli airstrike that killed and wounded dozens of Iranians at a Syrian base is the latest sign of escalating conflict.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/mideast/israel-seems-be-preparing-war-iran-say-u-s-officials-n870051
NBC has cut staff drastically.
Sources say.
Just no longer sources at NBC
Morocco severs ties with Iran, accusing it of backing Polisario Front
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RABAT (Reuters) – Morocco will sever diplomatic ties with Iran over Tehran’s support for the Polisario Front, a Western Sahara independence movement, the Moroccan foreign minister said on Tuesday.
Morocco claimed Western Sahara after colonial Spain left, but Polisario fought a guerrilla war for independence for the Sahrawi people until a U.N.-backed ceasefire.
Morocco will close its embassy in Tehran and will expel the Iranian ambassador in Rabat, Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita told reporters.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-morocco-iran/morocco-severs-ties-with-iran-over-support-for-west-sahara-polisario-front-official-idUSKBN1I23VF
VICE news – Left Hook: Anti-Fascist Self Defense
Every week in a secret location in Brighton, a group of hunt saboteurs, antifascists, students and other left-wingers spend a few hours teaching each other how to defend themselves at anti-fascist demonstrations or when out sabotaging hunts.
Left Hook is one of the longest running anti-fascist self defense clubs in the UK, taking inspiration from similar initiatives in Germany, Poland, Italy and Greece. Over the past few years other clubs have popped up across the country with similar missions – if you’re going to attend an anti-fascist demonstration, make sure you know how to protect yourself and others if confronted.
Since the Brexit vote in 2016 there has been a dramatic rise in hate crime incidents and far-right terrorism, making the training taking place at Left Hook all the more necessary for those willing to stand against racism.
Practicing a mix of boxing, Muay Thai and MMA techniques, Vice travelled down to Brighton to see the training firsthand and hear from those taking part.
BBC – Who is Sajid Javid?
Sajid Javid has replaced Amber Rudd as the home secretary. He has promised to “do whatever it takes” to put right problems faced by the Windrush generation.
the rebel – Robert Spencer: History of Jihad from Muhammad to ISIS
May 1, 2018: Ep. 710 The Secret Backchannel Exposed
https://www.bongino.com/may-1-2018-ep-710-the-secret-backchannel-exposed/
Two of the news pick links go to zero hedge, they are about the funding article from yesterday and about the US debt.
Conservative Speakers Conspire Against Universities to Get Themselves Attacked
May 1, 2018
Daniel Greenfield
It’s a plot so fiendishly brilliant that it could only come from the mind of a leftist apologist.
The conspiracy theory on Brian Leiter’s blog, by Michael Simkovic, starts off with an attack so dishonest and vile that you don’t know whether to laugh or wash your hands of the whole thing.
William Jacobson is Jewish. The “radically charged comments” that Simkovic links to consist of Jacobson urging Senator Warren to apologize for falsely claiming to be Cherokee.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/270048/conservative-speakers-conspire-against-daniel-greenfield