Contributor’s Links post for February 9th, 2019

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About Eeyore

Canadian artist and counter-jihad and freedom of speech activist as well as devout Schrödinger's catholic

94 Replies to “Contributor’s Links post for February 9th, 2019”

    • Actually she completely aligns with the Globalists. She is a Trudeau acolyte. She is a Soros minion who recently took part in an anti-Trump ralleye. A spade is a spade. This article muddies the waters with its own confused mud. Nazis just rebranded as progressive and march on.

      • “This article muddies the waters with its own confused mud.”

        What better seasoning than the familiar taste of your own private label snake oil? (Yes … it’s all about the food.)

  4. Anti-Semitic Attack in Tram in Frankfurt on the Main, Germany — Perpetrator is a Man with North African Appearance+++
    Yesterday morning, a group of young people was insulted and attacked by an as yet unknown perpetrator in a tram near Rheinland street in Frankfurt/Main. Around 11 a.m. the incident occurred in line 12 towards the Schwanheim terminus. A total of nine young people in a school class, among them a pupil of Jewish faith, were on their way to a funeral when the perpetrator first verbally attacked them.According to initial findings, he insulted the group in an obscene manner. Anti-Semitic hostility is also said to have occurred. Afterwards he tried to kick one of the pupils in the face with his foot, which could be averted by the quick reaction of his victim. At the tram stop ‘Harthweg’ the perpetrator left the train and went away unidentified.The police are now looking for an 18 – 20 year old man with a North African appearance, long, curly and brown hair, of thin stature and an angular face as well as brown eye colour. He wore a dark red NY-Yankee cap, dark sweatpants and black shoes.He is said to have spoken poor German and sentences without the use of genera. State security was called in and witnesses are asked to report with clues on 069 / 755 – 53111.
    Read more:
    https://searchlight-germany.blogspot.com/2019/02/anti-semitic-attack-in-tram-in.html

  6. PETITION: INTERNATIONAL APPEAL – STOP 5G ON EARTH AND IN SPACE
    TO THE UN, WHO, EU, COUNCIL OF EUROPE AND GOVERNMENTS OF ALL NATIONS
    We the undersigned scientists, doctors, environmental organizations and citizens from (__) countries, urgently call for a halt to the deployment of the 5G (fifth generation) wireless network, including 5G from space satellites. 5G will massively increase exposure to radio frequency (RF) radiation on top of the 2G, 3G and 4G networks for telecommunications already in place. RF radiation has been proven harmful for humans and the environment. The deployment of 5G constitutes an experiment on humanity and the environment that is defined as a crime under international law.
    https://www.5gspaceappeal.org/the-appeal/
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    https://www.rt.com/news/450775-massive-health-experiment-5g-cancer/
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    https://www.ageofautism.com/2019/02/the-threat-5g-poses-to-human-health-what-you-dont-know-will-alarm-you.html

  7. Texas man charged with recruiting on behalf of terror group (abcnews, Feb 8, 2019)
    https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/texas-man-charged-recruiting-behalf-terror-group-60949391

    “Federal authorities have charged an 18-year-old Texas man with recruiting fighters on behalf of a Pakistan-based terrorist organization.

    A criminal complaint filed in federal court in Fort Worth says Michael Kyle Sewell was charged Friday with conspiring to provide material support and resources to a foreign terrorist organization.

    The complaint alleges Sewell tried to recruit another person to join Lashkar-e-Taiba, the militant group behind a 2008 attack in India’s financial capital of Mumbai that killed 166.

    Authorities say Sewell put the person in contact with another person who he thought would facilitate overseas travel to join the terror group.

    But authorities say that third person was an undercover FBI agent.

    It’s not clear when Sewell was taken into custody or whether he has an attorney to speak on his behalf.”

  8. Woman acquitted of blasphemy still can’t leave Pakistan (abcnews, Feb 9, 2019)
    https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/friend-christian-woman-freed-court-transferred-south-60955144

    “A Christian woman acquitted of blasphemy after spending eight years on death row in Pakistan has been transferred from a secret location near the capital to another in Karachi, but is still unable to leave the country to join her daughters in Canada, a friend said Saturday.

    Aman Ullah, who spoke to Aasia Bibi by telephone Friday, said the 54-year-old Bibi is being held in a room in the southern port city. He said Bibi, who faces death threats by radical Islamists, is frustrated and frightened, uncertain of when she will be able to leave Pakistan.

    “She has no indication of when she will leave … they are not telling her why she cannot leave,” said Ullah, who fled the country Friday after receiving threats from extremists angered by his assistance to Bibi, which began while she was on death row.

    Ullah has been a liaison between Bibi and European diplomats, who have sought to assist her. The Associated Press spoke to Bibi by telephone with Ullah’s assistance following her October acquittal, which was upheld last month.

    Bibi’s ordeal began in 2009 when two fellow farmworkers refused to drink from the same container as a Christian woman. There was a quarrel and the two Muslim women later accused Bibi of blasphemy. The Supreme Court judges said there were widespread inconsistencies in the testimony against Bibi, who has steadfastly maintained her innocence.

    The acquittal should have given Bibi her freedom, but Ullah said diplomats were told that her departure from Pakistan, where she feels her life would be in danger, would come not in the short term, but “in the medium term.”

    He said Bibi told him she is locked in one room of a house.

    “The door opens at food time only,” said Ullah, and she is allowed to make phone calls in the morning and again at night. He said she usually calls her daughters.

    Bibi’s husband is with her, he said.

    “She is living with her family and given requisite security for safety,” Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry said in an email.

    He said the government was responsible for taking “all possible measures” to protect her and her family, adding that “she is a free citizen after her release from jail and can move anywhere in Pakistan or abroad.”

    Bibi’s case has brought international attention to Pakistan’s blasphemy law, which carries an automatic death sentence for a conviction of insulting Islam. There have been widespread complaints that the law is used to settle scores and intimidate religious minorities, including Shiite Muslims.

    The mere suggestion of blasphemy can incite mobs to kill. After Bibi’s October acquittal the radical Tehreek-e-Labbaik party called its followers onto the streets, where they protested for three days demanding Bibi’s immediate execution as well as the death of the judges who acquitted her. The party leadership also advocated overthrowing Prime Minister Imran Khan’s government and incited the military against the army chief.

    Since then the party’s leadership has been arrested along with dozens of their supporters for inciting violence.

    Ullah, a rights activist, first began aiding those falsely charged with blasphemy when his wife was wrongly accused, and has since helped several people gain their freedom. Bibi’s case brought him to the attention of religious radicals.

    In recent months, he has been physically assaulted, gunmen have opened fire on his home, and several religious radicals attacked his home. Ullah said he fears being attacked again or charged with blasphemy.

    Bibi hopes to be able to join her daughters in Canada, where they have been granted asylum.”

  9. Head of Italy’s Largest Asylum Centre Slams Open Borders NGOs for Migrant Deaths (breitbart, Feb 9, 2019)
    https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/02/09/director-largest-italian-asylum-centre-slams-open-borders-ngos-migrant-deaths/

    “The director of Italy’s largest migrant reception centre has slammed left-wing open borders activists, saying mass migration policies have done far more harm than good to Italy and to migrants.

    Francesco Magnano, the director of the Reception Centre for Asylum Seekers (CARA) of Mineo, has come out publicly against the policy of open borders, saying that left-wing “do-gooder” activists have helped lead to thousands of deaths in the Mediterranean, Il Giornale reports.

    “From 2014 to 2017, our ports have been opened without limits and we have recorded 15,000 deaths at sea,” Magnano said, adding that closing the border, as populist Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior Matteo Salvini has done, would “force Germany and France to sit down at the negotiating table.”

    Magnano showed disappointment at the recent move by Salvini to shut down the CARA of Mineo after a number of crimes had been tied to the centre, partly as a cost-saving measure. The migrants housed there are expected to be distributed to other centres across Italy with the first 50 migrants being evicted from the centre this week.

    “The truth is that it was a ‘den’ of humanity,” Magnano said, downplaying the “few dozen” cases of arrests for different crimes.

    The director turned his criticism to the migrant transport NGOs, saying open borders along with their activity has “created slums scattered throughout the country.”

    “In our country, there are 600,000 denials. People who have lost not only the right to reception, but have lost their status, they are zombies who live in our country,” he said.

    The comments are a real blow to the open borders advocates who have maintained a fierce opposition to Matteo Salvini and his migrant policies, with NGOs like Doctors Without Borders (MSF) having accused Salvini of creating a “humanitarian crisis” after closing Italian ports.

    Many have also opposed Salvini’s migration and security decree which scraps humanitarian residency permits and allows the authorities to evict squatters. Despite several left-wing mayors saying they would ignore the decree, the Italian public has shown overwhelming support, with a poll revealing 63 percent of Italians back Salvini on the issue.”

    • “…left-wing “do-gooder” activists have helped lead to thousands of deaths in the Mediterranean…

      Is there nothing that the Law of Unintended Consequences™ cannot do?

  10. Seven Jihadists Sentenced over 2015 Beach Massacre (breitbart, Feb 9, 2019)
    https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/02/09/seven-jihadists-sentenced-2015-beach-massacre/

    “A Tunisian court has sentenced seven jihadists to life in prison over attacks at a museum and on a beach in 2015 that killed 60 people, many of them British tourists, prosecutors said on Saturday.

    Dozens of defendants faced two separate trials over the closely linked shootings, which occurred just months apart in Tunis and Sousse, but many were acquitted.

    Four were sentenced to life in prison for the shooting rampage at a Sousse tourist resort in June 2015, which killed 38 people, mostly British tourists.

    Five other defendants in the Sousse case were handed jail terms ranging from six months to six years, while 17 were acquitted, prosecution spokesman Sofiene Sliti said.

    Three were given life sentences for the earlier attack in March 2015 at the capital’s Bardo National Museum, in which two gunmen killed 21 foreign tourists and a Tunisian security guard.

    Others found guilty of links to the Bardo attack were sentenced to prison terms ranging from one to 16 years, and a dozen defendants were acquitted, Sliti said.

    The prosecution will launch an appeal, he added.

    The court heard that the two attacks, both claimed by the Islamic State group (IS), were closely linked…”

  11. EXCLUSIVE – Hungary Backs Trump’s Wall: ‘Border Protection An Obligation of the State’ (breitbart, Feb 9, 2019)
    https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2019/02/09/exclusive-hungarian-govt-praises-trump-border-protection-obligation-state/

    “Hungarian foreign minister Péter Szijjártó has explained how Hungary slashed illegal immigration by building strong border barriers and praised U.S. President Donald Trump in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News…”

  12. Mysterious Turkish Firm Helped Venezuela Save $900 Mln in Gold – Reports (sputniknews, Feb 9, 2019)
    https://sputniknews.com/latam/201902091072275703-venezuelan-gold-turkey-import/

    “The Bank of England earlier denied Caracas’ request to repatriate $1.2 billion worth of its gold reserves without explaining the decision. This f ailed repatriation comes amid a sanctions campaign organised by the US against the Latin American state in a bid to force President Nicolas Maduro to step down.

    Turkish company Sardes, which was established around January 2018, had been helping Venezuela to export its gold to Turkey until the Latin American state’s assets came under sanctions in November 2018, Bloomberg reported.

    According to the media outlet, in the first month of operations Sardes imported $41 million worth of gold from Venezuela, and $100 million more the next month. Bloomberg states that by the end of its activities in November 2018, the company had moved whooping $900 million worth of gold to Turkey.

    It’s unclear where the gold is now, but according to a report by the Turkish newspaper Yeni Safak, Venezuela was mulling the possibility of refining its gold in facilities located in in the Turkish province of Corum. Caracas sent Minister of Industries and Production Tareck El Aissami, to assess the gold refining facilities and conduct negotiations with his Turkish counterparts in January 2019, but it’s unclear, how they ended…”

    • “Turkish company Sardes, which was established around January 2018, had been helping Venezuela to export its gold to Turkey until the Latin American state’s assets came under sanctions in November 2018, Bloomberg reported.”

      Awww … the Little Sultan selflessly reaches out to help useful idiot Infidels dispose of their gold. [sniffle] This sort of magnanimous gesture always leaves me feeling a bit verklempt.

      At the very least, it’s testimony to how unchanged things have been for the past 1,400 years. Here we are today and Muslims still hoover up wealth like a Kirby hotel model running on 220VAC.

      “According to the media outlet, in the first month of operations Sardes imported $41 million worth of gold from Venezuela, and $100 million more the next month. Bloomberg states that by the end of its activities in November 2018, the company had moved whooping $900 million worth of gold to Turkey.”

      It sounds to me like someone in Caracas had a skosh of advance notice.

      “It’s unclear where the gold is now…”

      Well, knock me down with a feather! Who’da thunk it?

      Then again, there’s those who just can’t figure out when to stop digging. Leftists everywhere accuse Conservatives of being “knee-jerk” reactionaries. Yet, there’s no one like the Prog Pomo Poobahs of Social Engineering when it comes to giving masterclasses in patellar reflexology.

      Inside Caracas slum where hard-left ‘Chavistas’ loyal to Maduro say they’ll ‘fight to the death’ to defend crumbling legacy of communist icon Hugo Chavez

      • Crisis-hit Venezuela is beset by empty supermarkets, dwindling medical supplies and massive inflation making people’s meagre salaries almost worthless

      • People unable to afford basic provisions are leaving the country in their droves, heading for the borders of Colombia and Brazil

      • Yet despite the country collapsing and people starving, some die-hard ‘Chavistas’ in Caracas’ ghetto heartlands are clinging on to the socialist dream of Hugo Chavez

      • The hard-left, apparently two million people both young and old, say they are prepared to ‘fight to the death’ to save President Nicolas Maduro, who was selected by Chavez before he died in 2013
      • MailOnline went inside the failed-regime’s most deprived slums where impoverished Venezuelans believe Maduro is continuing the legacy of late dictator Chavez – a revolutionary icon still revered like a God.

      After exposure to Francis, the Vatican’s private Antichrist, small wonder that Catholic Venezolanos have chosen to worship a God with feet of clay.

  13. Warplanes from Eastern Libya Carry Out Airstrike Near El Feel Oilfield – Reports (sputniknews, Feb 9, 2019)
    https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201902091072277456-planes-airstrike-libya-oil-field/

    “Reports about the operation come just a day after the Libyan National Army (LNA), said that they had carried out air strikes against Chadian fighters in southern Libya.

    The al Hadath TV station reported Saturday that warplanes of the LNA had struck several targets near El Feel; however, no damage was reported at the oil field.

    According to Reuters, citing a field engineer, there were at least four warning airstrikes.

    The country has been ravaged by conflict since long-time leader Muammar Gaddafi was overthrown in 2011. There are two major forces: the UN-backed Government of National Accord, headquartered in Tripoli, while the Tobruk-based parliament in the east is cooperating with the Libyan National Army, loyal to Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar.

    DETAILS TO FOLLOW”

  16. Jeff Bezos Protests the Invasion of His Privacy, as Amazon Builds a Sprawling Surveillance State for Everyone Else

    The National Enquirer has engaged in behavior so lowly and unscrupulous that it created a seemingly impossible storyline: the world’s richest billionaire and a notorious labor abuser, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, as a sympathetic victim.

    On Thursday, Bezos published emails in which the Enquirer’s parent company explicitly threatened to publish intimate photographs of Bezos and his mistress, which were apparently exchanged between the two through their iPhones, unless Bezos agreed to a series of demands involving silence about the company’s conduct.

    In a perfect world, none of the sexually salacious material the Enquirer was threatening to release would be incriminating or embarrassing to Bezos: it involves consensual sex between adults that is the business of nobody other than those involved and their spouses. But that’s not the world in which we live: few news events generate moralizing interest like sex scandals, especially among the media.

    https://theintercept.com/2019/02/08/jeff-bezos-protests-the-invasion-of-his-privacy-as-amazon-builds-a-sprawling-surveillance-state-for-everyone-else/

    • Jeff Bezos Protests the Invasion of His Privacy, as Amazon Builds a Sprawling Surveillance State for Everyone Else

      For a long time now, I’ve thought that it was standard medical practice for all Leftists to customarily be given full humorectomies at birth.

      Now, it appears as though—probably via a miraculous, rainbow unicorn-vectored symbiosis involving autonomous neurolymphatic responses—this ubiquitous post-natal excisive procedure also confers comprehensive immunity to irony.

  18. “Zookeeper Threatens to Push Conservative Woman Into Alligator Pit”
    Liberty Hangout – Published on February 9, 2019

    • “Zookeeper Threatens to Push Conservative Woman Into Alligator Pit”

      All the while, weeping crocodile tears, I’m sure.

  19. Report: North Korea illegally sells goods between ships in violation of sanctions

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    UPDATED 7:30 AM PT – Sat. February 9, 2018

    A new report accuses North Korea of benefiting from illegal trade with other countries.

    South Korean media outlets are reporting that dozens of ships from around the world are swapping goods with North Korean vessels out on the open ocean.

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  20. Exclusive: U.S. in direct contact with Venezuelan military, urging defections – source

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States is holding direct communications with members of Venezuela’s military urging them to abandon President Nicolas Maduro and is also preparing new sanctions aimed at increasing pressure on him, a senior White House official said.

    The Trump administration expects further military defections from Maduro’s side, the official told Reuters in an interview, despite only a few senior officers having done so since opposition leader Juan Guaido declared himself interim president last month, earning the recognition of the United States and dozens of other countries.

    https://www.oann.com/exclusive-u-s-in-direct-contact-with-venezuelan-military-urging-defections-source/

  21. Yale University Newspaper Editor Urges Students to Spy on White Male Classmates to Be Able to Ruin Their Careers in the Future

    Yale Daily News’ opinion editor has published an op-ed urging students to spy on their white male classmates so they will be able to ruin their careers in the future.

    Isis Davis-Marks’ article, titled “Evil is Banal,” is filled with racist rhetoric towards her white male peers.“Everyone knows a white boy with shiny brown hair and a saccharine smile that conceals his great ambitions. He could be in Grand Strategy or the Yale Political Union. Maybe he’s the editor-in-chief of the News. He takes his classes. He networks. And, when it comes time for graduation, he wins all the awards,” the article begins.

    “One day, I’ll turn on the television — or, who knows, maybe televisions will be obsolete by this point — and I’ll see him sitting down for his Senate confirmation hearing. Yes, he’ll be a bit older, with tiny wrinkles sprouting at the corners of his eyes and a couple of gray hairs jutting out of the top of his widow’s peak. But that smile, that characteristic saccharine smile, will remain the same,” she continued.

    Davis-Marks continues on to say in the future, she will be watching that white boy, who by then will be a white man, on CNN. She explains that she will “remember a racist remark that he said, an unintentional utterance that he made when he had one drink too many at a frat party during sophomore year. I’ll recall a message that he accidentally left open on a computer when he forgot to log out of iMessage, where he likened a woman’s body to a particularly large animal. I’ll kick myself for forgetting to screenshot the evidence.”

    The op-ed claims that people forget about these small indiscretions, but in 30 years that white male student might have a job you don’t like — such as working at a company that contributes to “gentrification in cities.” She laments that without evidence, you won’t be able to ruin their lives for something that offended you in college.

    “But I can’t do that anymore — I can’t let things slip by. I’m watching you, white boy. And this time, I’m taking the screenshot,” the racist rant concludes.

    This problem isn’t just at big universities in liberal cities. On the exact same day that Davis-Marks’ disturbing piece was published, an article ran in the student paper at Dickinson College in Pennsylvania declaring that white boys should not be allowed to speak in class.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/02/yale-university-newspaper-editor-urges-students-to-spy-on-white-male-classmates-to-be-able-to-ruin-their-careers-in-the-future/?omhide=true

    Click above to read the rest of the article

    Why should anyone be shocked, the left has been pushing for a race war for decades, they are getting close to achieving their goal.

    • “Why should anyone be shocked, the left has been pushing for a race war for decades, they are getting close to achieving their goal.”

      I fail to see how anything but vigilantism will end this selectively enforced lawlessness and vitriol from the Left.

      • I agree with you, and it is getting closer all the time. The people I talk to about the mess say they are waiting for the left to start killing people for their political views. When the left starts the killing some of the “Dogs of War” are going to cry Havoc and slip their leashes. The left really doesn’t want this to happen, of course the left doesn’t know the “Dogs of War” the way other vets do.

    • She will remember a racist remark?
      Actions speak louder than words.

      “Five Juveniles Charged With Murder In Shooting Death Of Nashville Musician”
      Weasel Zippers via Daily Mail – February 9, 2019

      Police in Nashville have arrested five children, among them a 12-year-old girl, in connection to the shooting death of a local musician during what was believed to be a robbery-gone-awry.

      According to a press release from the Nashville Metro Police Department, on Friday morning detectives charged the underage suspects with criminal homicide for Thursday’s killing of 24-year-old Kyle Yorlets.

      Three of suspects were identified by investigators as Roniyah McKnight, 14; Diamond Lewis, 15, and Decorrius Wright, 16.

      The names of the two youngest suspects, including a 12-year-old girl and a 13-year-old boy, were not released because of their age.

      The district attorney will decide is the juveniles will be charged as adults.

      According to the police, the five kids were in a stolen Chevrolet Colorado pickup truck in the alley that runs behind Yorlets’ house in the 32000 block of Torbertt Street when they spotted him outside on Thursday afternoon.

      The minors accosted the man, took his wallet and demanded the keys to his car, which he refused to hand over, prompting the suspects to open fire on him, police stated.

      The mortally wounded victim managed to make it inside his home, where he was found by one of his roommates at 3pm.

      Yorlets was rushed to Vanderbilt University Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead from his injuries.

      Later that day, officers recovered the stolen Chevy Colorado, which had been abandoned in the 1600 block of Timberland Drive.

      Witnesses in the area reported seeing three juveniles get out of the vehicle. Two of them got into another car and drove off, while the third fled on foot.

      Police said in the course of the investigation, they learned that the underage suspects had traveled to the West Nashville Walmart on Charlotte Pike, where all five baby-faced suspected killers were apprehended.

      A loaded 9mm pistol, which had been reported stolen, was recovered from them. A second loaded, stolen pistol was recovered from inside the store.

      The vehicle in which they traveled to the Walmart, a Hyundai Santa Fe, had been stolen from Brentwood.
      https://www.weaselzippers.us/410590-five-juveniles-charged-with-murder-in-shooting-death-of-nashville-musician/

  22. DAILY MAIL – SAUDI ARABIA – Taxi driver hauls boy, six, from cab then ‘beheads’ him with shard of glass as his screaming mother fought to save him in Saudi Arabia

    Zakaria Al-Jaber was reportedly killed by a taxi driver in Medina, Saudi Arabia
    Shia Rights Watch have claimed the beheading was an act of sectarian violence
    Group have said mother was asked if she was Shia moments before attack

    A six-year-old boy was reportedly beheaded with a shard of glass as his mother desperately tried to save him in Saudi Arabia.

    Zakaria Al-Jaber was in a taxi with his mother on their way to the shrine of Prophet Muhammad in Medina when the driver stopped the car and forced the boy out.

    He dragged him to an area near a coffee shop in the Al-Tilal neighborhood, before smashing a glass bottle, reports TMV.

    The taxi driver slit his throat with a shard of glass before stabbing him repeatedly as both his mother and a nearby police officer attempted to stop the brutal attack.

    It is not known why the driver attacked the boy, but Saudi officials have reportedly claimed he was suffering from mental health issues.

    Shia Rights Watch have claimed the boy was killed on Thursday in an act of sectarian violence.

    The group said that an unknown man had asked the mother if she was Shia moments before the attack happened.

    They said: ‘The Saudi Shia community came together today in mourning and to show solidarity with the parents.

    ‘The community also reported this incident is a result of ongoing violations and lack of protection by the Saudi authority toward its Shia population.’

    Shia Rights Watch, whose headquarters are in Washington D.C., said the beheading must be addressed ASAP.

    They added: ‘Shia Rights Watch, other human rights NGOs and activists have long advocated for the rights of this minority through campians, UN and other entities.

    ‘However the population still suffers because of the lack of international commitment to end such violations.

    ‘Beheading of a young child in such manner must be addressed ASAP.’

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6685595/Saudi-Arabia-boy-six-beheaded-taxi-driver-screaming-mother-fought-save-him.html

  23. Russian Activist’s Testimony Provides Additional Evidence Trump Tower Russian Guests were there to Set Up the Trump Family!

    Russian Activist’s Testimony Provides Additional Evidence Trump Tower Russian Guests were there to Set Up the Trump Family!
    Jim Hoft by Jim Hoft February 9, 2019 148 Comments

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    Guest post by Joe Hoft

    We’ve already reported that Hillary Clinton’s campaign team, working with Glenn Simpson and Fusion GPS, likely set up the entire Trump Tower meeting with Donald Trump Jr. and Jared Kushner as a way of entrapping the Trump campaign.
    An additional review of evidence from testimonies of events that day provides further support that the whole thing was a political setup!

    Dan Bongino recently shared on his podcast facts about the meeting at Trump Tower –

    This meeting’s a set up. It’s a set up! It’s a set up! It’s a scam! It’s a set up”

    Bongino laid out how the entire meeting at Trump Tower was a set up. The ‘Russians’ involved were all connected to Hillary Clinton.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/02/russian-activists-testimony-provides-additional-evidence-trump-tower-russian-guests-were-there-to-set-up-the-trump-family/?omhide=true

  25. NYT – Exorcism or Placebo? This Kashmiri Faith Healer Treats a Community Traumatized by Conflict

    ( 7 min 22 )

    Musa Syeed’s evocative short film “The Dispossessed,” premiered at the Sundance Film Festival this year. The film shows how Mohammed Shafi Hazari, a traditional faith healer, exorcises patients who’ve been possessed. But in Kashmir, amidst the world’s longest running conflict, nothing is as it seems. A xerox technician by day, Hazari has a faith healing practice, looking for signs his patients might be possessed by a jinn. But more often than not, he finds what his patients call possession may actually be depression, triggered by a conflict that has dragged on for decades.

    Syeed writes that, “As I filmed Mr. Hazari, I initially wanted to know after each treatment: exorcism or placebo? I wanted him to confirm something spectacular was happening. But as I watched patients eager to feel the healing in his breath, his hand, his dull knife, I bit my tongue. Here was a man who amid conflict and violence invites strangers to sit with him, to listen to their problems, to offer some hope that, together, they might solve them. And what do you call that, other than a miracle?”

  27. Swarming with Spooks: Brussels Claimed to be Overrun with Chinese, Russian Spies (sputniknews, Feb 9, 2019)
    https://sputniknews.com/military/201902091072280992-Brussels-Overrun-with-Chinese-Russian-Spies/

    “Brussels is a hotbed of Russian and Chinese spies according to a recent report from a popular German newspaper.

    Chinese and Russian spooks numbering in the hundreds freely roam the streets of the EU capital city, notes a breathless article from the German newspaper Welt am Sonntag.

    The German news outlet, owned by the same parent media company that publishes the nation’s third largest newspaper Die Welt, noted that diplomats and emissaries of many nations have been advised to avoid specific restaurants and bars in the so-called European quarter of Brussels.

    According to recent estimates from the European External Action Service (EEAS) — the diplomatic arm of the European Union — there are likely “about 250 Chinese and 200 Russian spies in the European capital,” cited by Welt .de.

    EU diplomats and military attaches have been told to stay away from named cafes and restaurants located within walking distance of the primary European Commission office building, according to reports.

    The statements from the EEAS — a branch of the EU headed by chief EU diplomat Federica Mogherini — avow that the alleged Beijing and Moscow spooks are primarily based within the embassies of their home nations, but do not offer specific details.
    The EEAS additionally asserted that Russian secret agents have historically made up the largest percentage of foreign spies declared to be operating in the Belgian capital, according to Welt am Sonntag.

    As well as being the home of the EU, Brussels also claims the honor of being the European headquarters for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), leading to memories of a 2003 spy scandal in the city targeting Spanish, British, German and French diplomats who worked within the European Council’s Justis Lipsius building.

    While those responsible for the notorious bugging scandal were never positively identified, the global intelligence community widely placed the blame on US and Israeli operatives.”

  28. End of ISIS? Syrian forces assault FINAL Islamic State stronghold – ‘it’s the LAST battle’ (express, Feb 9, 2019)
    https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1084960/isis-islamic-state-syria-war-sdf-final-battle

    “SYRIAN forces are preparing for the “last battle” with Islamic State (ISIS) as they prepare to assault the final pocket of territory held by the extremist group.

    The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) will launch their attack tonight as they seek to “eliminate the last remnants of the terrorist organisation”. SDF troops, led by Kurdish fighters, have been holding on the outskirts of ISIS territory for the last 10 days as more than 20,000 civilians were evacuated from the besieged enclave, the SDF said. But after nearly two weeks of waiting “patiently”, they are now due to begin their offensive on the final ISIS territory – which comprises of just two villages near the Iraqi border.

    Mustafa Bali, the head of the SDF media office, described the assault as the “last battle”.

    He said: “The battle will be launched this evening and its mission will be to eliminate the last remnants of the terrorist organisation.”

    However ISIS still has a territorial foothold in Syria west of the Euphrates river in a part of the country otherwise held by the Syrian government and its allies.

    News of tonight’s attack comes just days after President Donald Trump declared that the jihadist group would have been stamped out by next week…”

  29. WW3 ALERT: Iran threatens to TORPEDO US carrier amid secret underground missile test (express, Feb 9, 2019)
    https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1084916/World-War-3-warning-US-Iran-conflict-missile-test

    “THE IRANIAN regime has threatened to sink a US military aircraft carrier – just days after the Middle Eastern government revealed a shocking “underground missile factory”.

    Iranian State TV has aired a shocking animated video showing how the country’s high-tech submarines could quickly sink an American aircraft carrier. The alarming video comes just months after the US deployed a similar carrier strike group to the Persian Gulf after Iranian threats to close the Strait of Hormuz over sanctions. Footage of the military strike begins by showing the US aircraft carrier strike group accompanied by four destroyers.

    An Iranian submarine then surfaces and fires missiles that wipe out the entire carrier strike group.

    The state TV clip ends by showing the five US navy ships sinking to the bottom of the ocean.

    The voiceover, translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute, says: “Our Iran has the technology to manufacture very advanced Ghadir-class submarines”.

    Washington DC is on alert folllowing the eerie footage, after US deployed the USS John C. Stennis along the Persian Gulf in December last year…”

  30. Iran protest: ‘Trump is RIGHT’ Europe SAVAGED for soft touch on Iran after ‘YEAR OF SHAME’ (express, Feb 9, 2019)
    https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1084885/Iran-news-protest-rally-Donald-Trump-Europe-EU-news

    “EUROPE must end its ‘soft touch’ approach on Tehran and follow Donald Trump’s hardline stance on Iran, according to demonstrators who flooded the streets of Paris in a dramatic protest.

    Thousands of Iranians rallied and marched in Paris yesterday to mark the 40th anniversary of the Iran uprising which toppled the country’s monarchy. The powerful march swept through the streets of Paris, with the rhythms of the drums echoing as demonstrators chanted powerful slogans against the Iran regime. Protesters called on the global community to act now and end atrocities in Tehran – but it was Europe which was most heavily condemned as the demonstrators stood behind US President Donald Trump for his tough stance on the regime.

    One speaker at the rally, former French Senator Jean-Pierre Michel, said in an interview: “I’m not a fanatic of Mr Trump but I think the United States is right about Iran.”

    In a scathing attack, he also chastised Europe’s leaders for what he views as their softer approach to Tehran.

    He added: “I want to call upon our governments, European governments, Jean-Yves Le Drian and Federica Mogherini, do not fear the Iranian Resistance.

    “Open your eyes and ears. Retake the dignity that the status of Europe brings upon you, take back the dignity of the Europeans. Support the Iranian Resistance.”

    Dr Alejo Vidal-Quadras, a former Spanish Member of the European Parliament, said: “I call on the EU to take a hard line with this theocratic and terrorist regime which has no future.

    “The EU must stop its appeasement policies and support the Iranian opposition instead of the mullahs.

    “Appeasement only encourages the mullahs to commit more crimes in Iran and more terrorism in Europe.

    “The EU has to put the entire Iranian Intelligence Ministry and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on its terrorism blacklist.””

  31. WATCH: Jew-haters burn down New York yeshiva, paint swastikas
    By Pamela Geller – on February 8, 2019

    This is the work of the left. Devout Muslims and their leftist lapdogs are norming systematic Jew-hatred worldwide under the euphemistically labeled BDS movement — a nazi-esque movement to alienate, isolate and destroy the Jewish state. Worse still, it is funded by wealthy liberal American Jews, as I have documented here at the Geller Report in numerous exposes. And now it has the Democrat Party leadership on its side, as well as leftist pressure groups such as the ACLU. It’s unconscionable how the left is lining up systematically against Israel while ignoring the actual human rights abuses committed by numerous other countries. It reveals the Jew-hatred that is at the bottom of all this.

    https://gellerreport.com/2019/02/new-york-yeshiva.html/

    • “It reveals the Jew-hatred that is at the bottom of all this.”

      Gotta be terminal-phase jealousy over all of those Nobel Prizes in the hard sciences. Only Danes come even close on a per capita basis.

      Speaking of prize-winning accomplishments, here’s another striking parallel shared by Islam and Communism. Both eternally condemn their respective shibboleths despite how every major technological advance they make utterly depends upon looting it from us Western Infidel Capitalist wage-slaves.

  32. Looks like some Turkish maffia sh*t to me:

    Murder in broad daylight in Antwerpen (VIDEO)
    https://www.liveleak.com/view?t=uhrnP_1549191455
    After the shooting in the Brederode Street on the Antwerp South one of the three victims died. The two others were seriously injured.

    The shooting took place on Saturday afternoon at 2.42 pm, just as soon as a tram passed. The cousins ??Emre and Ozan S. were shot up close by two suspects who were arrested. It is a 60-year-old man and his 32-year-old son of Turkish origin who run a notorious café in the Brederode Street.

    One of the two victims – a 28-year-old man – was declared clinically dead and died later in the day, the other was seriously injured. The last night and earlier in the day there had been incidents between the victims and the shooters.

    The suspects will be interviewed extensively, and appear before the examining magistrate tomorrow, reports the Antwerp prosecutor.

    The third person who was hit, is also seriously injured according to the Antwerp prosecutor. It is a neighbor who wanted to intervene in the incident.

    • “Proud Boys exec gets his bank account closed.”

      It may have been in “Bear and Dragon” that Tom Clancy described Communist China as a process of “Economic Capture”. A glance at the incestuous relationship between Beijing and Huawei is enough to convince all but the most foolhardy.

      Red China’s now-clichéd Great Firewall was only the precursor to its much more far-reaching Social Credit system in its role as an ersatz (but comprehensive) form of Judicial Capture.

      The third remaining (timeworn and splintered) leg of this extruded Reddish stool is Political Capture. Mentioning that obviosity in the same sentence as Beijing’s Politburo only deserves the sort of scornful laughter reserved for long-stale news.

      It is a central reason why I keep insisting that the West closely examine Communist China’s treatment of its Muslim Uyghurs. Rarely even now or in the future will this planet witness such instructive cycling of a classic ‘Irresistible Force meets Immovable Object’ action–reaction loop.

      If attention remains focused upon the Mainland, it’s more likely that North America and less-observant Old World countries won’t be gulled into accepting that same cyber-tyranny on their own shores.

      Western pragmatists who are intent upon surviving TEOTWAWKI had best study how one of the most brute-force régimes on earth deals with one of history’s most brutal. Just this upcoming Islamo-Sino friction may be all that’s needed to start cooking off several other global (and Globalist) powder kegs.

  34. Hungary: Protesters turn out to counter far-right demo in Budapest

    Far-right demonstrators rallied in Budapest on Saturday for a so-called ‘Day of Honour’ to pay tribute to those who ‘defended’ the Hungarian capital.

    • Most of us on the right don’t hate the left but they are forcing us into a corner where we either fight or submit. When you opponents won’t talk and insist on submission you have to fight.

  41. Israeli Report: Iran Manufacturing Precision-guided Missiles in Syria (aawsat, Feb 9, 2019)
    https://aawsat.com/english/home/article/1583481/israeli-report-iran-manufacturing-precision-guided-missiles-syria

    “Israeli Directorate of Military Intelligence (AMAN) sources have said that Iran attempted to deceit Israel and established a factory in Syria instead of Lebanon to produce precision-guided missiles to avoid Israeli strikes.

    The sources told Channel 2 that given the difficulties faced by Iran and Hezbollah to find the right infrastructure to produce missiles in Lebanon, Iranians and Syrians discovered creative ways to provide necessary equipment to Lebanon.

    The Organization of Technological Industries (OTI) helped circumvent US and European sanctions and contribute to Iran and Hezbollah’s plan to develop precision-guided missiles, claimed the report.

    Israeli military sources revealed that Iran is likely to move its weapons supply center for Syria from the Damascus international airport to the Syrian air base known as T4, located between Homs and Palmyra.

    The alleged decision comes following the latest wave of Israeli attacks on the Damascus airport, which has caused tension between Iran on the one side and the Syrian regime and Russian on the other because it undermined the attempt by Damascus and Moscow to create the impression that the regime had restored stability to the country after scoring a series of victories in the latest battles.

    Iran has progressively stepped up the presence it established years ago at the Damascus airport, with the consent of the Syrian regime. During the war, the international airport has turned into a hub where arms transported from Iran have been received, sorted and supplied.

    The Damascus facility is Syria’s main civilian airport. Traffic through it diminished during the war, in part because the regime severed diplomatic ties with several countries. Next to the civilian terminal is the seven-story Glasshouse, which was originally built as a hotel.

    The Quds Brigade of the Revolutionary Guard Corps has its own independent compound within the airport, just dozens of meters from the international terminal through which passengers and tourists enter and leave Syria.

    In recent years, the seven-story Glasshouse has served as the headquarters from which Iran runs its Syrian operations. Access to the Glasshouse is restricted. Arms storage depots, including two underground bunkers, which were originally intended to protect jet planes from aerial attack, lie nearby.”

  42. Saudi-led Coalition Denies Supplying Houthis, AQAP with US Weapons in Yemen (aawsat, Feb 9, 2019)
    https://aawsat.com/english/home/article/1583786/saudi-led-coalition-denies-supplying-houthis-aqap-us-weapons-yemen

    “The Coalition to restore legitimacy in Yemen has viewed with concern media reports alleging the transfer of US military weapons to the Iranian backed Houthi militia and AQAP in Yemen.

    Coalition spokesman Colonel Turki al-Malki strongly denied those claims, and stressed the Coalition countries’ commitment to confront and defeat the illegal Houthi takeover of Yemen, in addition to decisively confronting other terrorist groups, such as ISIS And AQAP, rendering the idea of supplying weapons to these groups illogical…”

  43. Egypt receives 18 mln euros from EU to finance 6 development projects: Investment minister (ahram, Feb 9, 2019)
    http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/325250/Egypt/Politics-/Egypt-receives–mln-euros-from-EU-to-finance–deve.aspx

    “Egypt received grants worth 18 million euros for six development projects as part of the first phase of the European Union’s Cross Border Cooperation programme, Egypt’s Minister of Investment and International Cooperation Sahar Nasr announced.

    The minister’s remarks came at the conclusion of the Joint Monitoring Committee Meetings of the CBC Mediterranean Sea Basin Programme, hosted by Egypt for the first time.

    The six projects are to be implemented by Egypt’s chambers of commerce, the Academy of Scientific Research and Technology, the Arab Academy, the Japanese University and partners from Italy, Spain, France, Greece, Cyprus, Lebanon, Jordan and Tunisia, she noted.

    Nasr added that the projects help develop regional cooperation in the fields of textile industries, tourism, small and medium enterprises, environment as well as new and renewable energy.”

  44. Unidentified attackers kill man outside Lahore session court (tribune, Feb 9, 2019)
    https://tribune.com.pk/story/1906908/1-unidentified-attackers-kill-man-outside-lahore-session-court/

    “Unidentified attackers on Saturday killed a man outside a session court in Lahore.

    The two attackers on a motorcycle, opened fire on the man as he arrived at the premises to secure interim bail in a case lodged against him for marrying in accordance with his will.

    Following the attack, the victim, Bilal Azeem, was rushed to a nearby hospital where he succumbed to his wounds.

    Session judge Shahid Baig took notice of the incident and sought a report from the police. He further directed that immediate action is taken against the culprits and expressed displeasure over the negligence of on-duty personnel.

    Furthermore, the police took the body into custody and initiated an investigation on the matter.”

  45. TV anchor Rizwan Razi arrested for ‘defaming state institutions’ (tribune, Feb 9, 2019)
    https://tribune.com.pk/story/1907030/1-tv-anchor-rizwan-razi-arrested-defaming-state-institutions/

    “Journalist Rizwanur Rehman Razi was arrested on Saturday by Lahore’s Cyber Crime Wing of Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) for allegedly posting defamatory and obnoxious content on social media.

    Razi has over twenty years of experience in journalism having worked for several news outlets in Pakistan.

    Currently, he was serving as an anchorperson with Din News — a local media organisation.

    The journalist was taken into custody from his house early in the morning with the news being made public by his son.

    Through his twitter account, his son had said Razi was arrested by unidentified persons.

    He also said that the raiding party was escorted by Rangers personnel.

    Razi was accused of “uploading defamatory and obnoxious posts through media accounts of twitter against the judiciary, government institutions and intelligence agencies,” according to case lodged by the FIA…”

  46. Faisalabad milkman ‘rapes, murders’ seven-year-old girl (tribune, Feb 9, 2019)
    https://tribune.com.pk/story/1907053/1-faisalabad-milkman-rapes-murders-seven-year-old-girl/

    “A seven-year-old girl was allegedly first raped and then murdered by a milkman in Faisalabad’s D Type Colony on Saturday.

    Police found the victim’s body near a factory site.

    Authorities arrested Saleem, the suspect, along with his nephew. They said the suspect lured the child on the pretext of returning the money he owed her.
    The victim’s father stated that the girl had gone to the milk shop to claim her Rs10 but never came back.

    Punjab Chief Minister Usman Buzdar has taken notice of the issue and sought a detailed report from the Faisalabad regional police officer.

    A case has now been registered against suspects with an investigation into the incident underway…”

  47. Pakistan starts behind-scenes aid to US-Taliban talks (tribune, Feb 9, 2019)
    https://tribune.com.pk/story/1906605/1-pakistan-starts-behind-scenes-aid-us-taliban-talks/

    “Pakistan, long at odds with the United States over the war in Afghanistan, has begun to play a behind-the-scenes but central role in supporting US peace talks with the Afghan Taliban, including by facilitating travel to negotiations, US officials and Taliban sources tell Reuters.

    The Pakistani assistance, which has not been reported in such detail before, also includes exerting pressure on Taliban leaders who fail to cooperate, including by detaining members of the militants’ families, the insurgents say.

    The Pakistani role in the peace negotiations is a delicate one, with Islamabad seeking to avoid demonstrating the kind of broad influence over the Taliban that Washington has long accused it of having.

    Sources caution its help could be temporary. The Taliban also do not want to appear beholden to Islamabad.

    One senior US official, who declined to be identified, said of Pakistan’s role in the talks: “We know it just wouldn’t be possible without their support.”

    “They’ve facilitated some movement and travel to the discussions in Doha,” the official said.

    Taliban sources said Pakistan’s role in bringing the Taliban to the negotiating table was instrumental. In one instance, Islamabad sent a message to the militants through religious leaders that they had to talk to the United States or risk a cut-off in ties.

    They detained Taliban members’ families as a way to pressure them, a Taliban leader told Reuters.

    “I haven’t seen Pakistan so serious before,” the senior Taliban leader said. The Taliban leader, who declined to be named, said Pakistan had kept “unprecedented pressure” on the militants and their close relatives over the past few months.

    “They made it clear to us that we (Taliban) have to talk to the US and Afghan government,” the Taliban leader said.

    Pakistani sources suggest that the driver behind their country’s support for the talks is not US aid but growing concerns over the regional economic shockwaves that could follow an abrupt US pullout from Afghanistan.

    Those concerns have been strengthened by Trump’s surprise decision in December to withdraw completely from Syria, despite objections from the Pentagon.

    Islamabad says it cannot afford to see Afghanistan slide into chaos just as Pakistan is trying to attract foreign investors to shore up its own economy.

    “That is our main worry in all of this,” said a senior official who is closely involved in cross-border relations. “We have enough economic issues of our own to deal with already.””

  48. PM to meet IMF chief for talks on bailout (tribune, Feb 9, 2019)
    https://tribune.com.pk/story/1907013/2-pm-imran-khan-meet-imf-chief-lagarde-talks-bailout/

    “Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Fawad Chaudhry has said Prime Minister Imran Khan will meet International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief Christine Lagarde in Dubai today (Sunday) for talks on issues which have held up bailout negotiations.

    Talking to Reuters on Saturday, the minister said PM Imran will meet Lagarde on the sidelines of the World Government Summit in Dubai…”

  49. Why science and technology is on decline in Muslim world? (tribune, Feb 9, 2019) https://tribune.com.pk/story/1907056/1-science-technology-decline-muslim-world/

    “Some 57 Muslim countries in the world are home to more than 25 per cent of the population. Most of these nations are confronted with problems such as poverty, war, unrest and political instability However, the countries in Gulf and United Arab Emirates are rich in resources and are self-sufficient.

    Despite the varied spectrum, one factor is common in all of these states – they lag far behind in science, technology, new patents and innovations as compared to other developed nations.

    In 2016, the Task Force on Science at the Universities of the Muslim World published a comprehensive report regarding the status of science, technology and higher education in Islamic countries. The report presented alarming facts from the Muslim world.
    Here are some disturbing details from the Organisation of Islamic Countries (OIC) as mentioned in the report:

    Only three scientists from OIC namely Dr Abdus Salam from Pakistan (Physics 1979), Prof Ahmed Zewail from Egypt (Chemistry 1999) and Aziz Sancar from Turkey (Chemistry 2015) received Nobel Prizes in their respective fields.

    All of them did their award winning work outside their home countries.

    The Muslim world produces only six per cent of the global academic publications, 1.6 per cent of the world’s patents and shares 2.4 per cent of global research expenditures.

    Muslim countries on an average invest 0.5 of their GDP in research and development programme.

    The Express Tribune asked eight scientists from different Islamic countries to communicate the reasons behind the lagging of Muslim states in the field of science & technology.

    Colonialism, conflicts and lack of political will

    Speaking to The Express Tribune, Dean of College of Pharmacy University of Alkitab Dr Nohad Alomari said that Iraqis were struggling for everyday utilities as war after war had badly disturbed every aspect of their lives.

    Alomari said science needs a suitable environment to mull over facts but the Iraqis were preoccupied with daily needs. A lot of time was required to normalise the situation in the war-torn country.

    The US-led invasion of Iraq not only destroyed dozens of universities and science institutes but also targeted hundreds of top scientists.

    Baghdad University geologist and head of Association of University Lecturers Al-Rawi archived that around 300 academics and university administrators have been assassinated since the US occupation of Iraq that began in 2003.

    Almost all scholars agreed that lack of political will in acquiring higher education and conducting research was another problem in majority of the Muslim states.

    Eldar A Garev and Kamala Badalova, both from Azerbaijan Medical University stated that they have language hurdles in the higher education.

    “Azerbaijani, Russian and English are the medium of teaching in my country, however, we have some political hurdles in research and higher education,” said Garev.

    Karachi University director of International Center for Chemical and Biological Sciences Dr Muhammad Iqbal Choudhary said the leaders have failed to understand that progress without science and technology is not possible in the ever changing world.

    “I would state three problems: First is the lack of understanding and political will. Secondly, our own issues and problems kept busy in the civil wars and political unrest. The third is our failure to unite as Muslim Ummah or our inability to create a Pan-Islamic movement for science and technology,” he added.

    Manal Fardon from the American University of Beirut said that there was no luxury of science amid war and insecurity.

    “In my country, resources are very limited and the market is supersaturated with many competent graduates. So the authorities should determine that who is good for teaching and who is eligible for research as lack of research center is another problem in Lebanon,” Manal remarked.

    But the situation seems to be different in Palestine where there is shortage of human resource in universities.

    Rami Arafeh from Palestine Biotechnology Research Centre said that he had a modern food science laboratory in his country but it was closed due to lack of skilled professionals.

    According to Arafeh, favouritism, low capacity and teaching instead of research were three main problems of higher education in the Palestine.

    “The USAID and other NGOs come to us, and say, here is the money, do the research. But we do not have technicians and experts who can run these machines,” Arafeh noted.

    “In general, from Palestine, only those research publications are high ranking if they are jointly produced with at least one or two western scholars,” he added.

    Sahar Mostafa of Mansoura University in Egypt reiterated that majority of Egyptian scientists are not concerned with research and development. They only focus on their own promotions by writing papers which is a waste of time and resources.

    Pakistani scientist Dr Muhammad Iqbal Choudhary stressed upon the need of virtual network of scholars from Islamic countries.

    “Instead of waiting for the political leadership, I think it is important that the scientists from chemistry, medicine, social science and other disciplines should create a web-based network to achieve the common goals,” he said.

    Eminent Malaysian chemist Prof Dr Dato Ibrahim Jantan maintained that science is controlled by the west. A strong leadership is required to bring the Muslim scholars together.”

  50. All terrorists who kill Muslims have Western weapons: Turkish President Erdo?an (hurriyetdailynews, Feb 9, 2019)
    http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/all-terrorists-who-kill-muslims-have-western-weapons-turkish-president-erdogan-141117

    “President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has accused Turkey’s western allies of arming terrorists and killers who target Muslims around the world.

    “Those who give weapons to terrorists with blood-soaked hands create unimagined obstacles when Turkey seeks to buy the same weapons. From Daesh and PKK to Al Qaida and Al Shabaab, all terror organizations that shed the blood of Muslims have Western weapons in their hands,” Erdo?an said in Istanbul on Feb. 9 at the launch ceremony of a new test and training ship.

    “The murderers of PYD/YPG, who conduct an ethnic cleansing in northern Syria, have the rockets, bombs and ammunition of our allies. Facing such a picture, Turkey cannot wait with tied-up hands or delegate its national security to other countries,” he added.

    Erdo?an had signaled earlier this month that a cross-border operation against the YPG will happen soon. Since 2016, Ankara has carried out two similar military operations in northern Syria with the help of Free Syrian Army members.

    Although a military operation seems to have been shelved for now following President Donald Trump’s surprise decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria, Turkey has made clear that it will never tolerate the presence of the YPG on its borders even if it comes to an agreement with the Assad regime to maintain control of the east of Euphrates River.

    On Feb. 9, Erdo?an also said Turkey’s military capabilities will “help its presence on the table” in its moves to end the war in Syria, as well as in its anti-terror fight.

    “Over the last three years, we have scored many large successes against terror groups, especially Daesh and the PKK, who target our citizens’ lives and try to divide our country,” he added.”