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In Same Week NY Times Publishes Anti-Semitic Trump Cartoon They Defend Anti-Semitic Democrat Ilhan Omar in an Editorial
Less than a week after posting an anti-Semitic cartoon bashing Trump and Netanyahu The New York Times defended anti-Semitic Democrat Ilhan Omar on its pages on Thursday.
The New York Times published a horrible antisemitic cartoon last Monday
Not a single person in their layers of editors and fact checkers saw anything wrong with this cartoon depicting a blind kippah-wearing President Trump being led around by a dog depicting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/04/in-same-week-ny-times-publishes-anti-semitic-trump-cartoon-they-defend-anti-semitic-democrat-ilhan-omar-in-an-editorial/?utm_source=TGPemail&utm_medium=email&utm_content=subscriber_id:553016019&utm_campaign=Auto%20Send%20from%20The%20Gateway%20Pundit%20on%20April%2029,%202019%20at%2011:06:07%20AM
COMPLETE BS: Jared Kushner Explains How Mueller’s Junk Report of Russian Facebook Influence Was Deep State Garbage
The garbage Mueller Report came out and the overall conclusion is – what a lie!
The report for numerous reasons is a fraud but perhaps one of its biggest shams is its reference to Russians using Facebook to win the election for Trump.
According to far left Russian collusion promoters CNBC –
What a joke! Because Russia’s influence on the election was the heart of the fake investigation, the Mueller gang really let the media have it with false statements and make believe hyperbole of Russians impacting the election through the use of social media.
Iran Must Demonize Its Enemies to Justify Itself
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The consolidation of revolutionary regimes through demonization of ideological and political foes is a common practice, and the Islamic Republic of Iran has been no exception to this rule. Indeed, the Islamist regime’s intense preoccupation with constructing a negative image of its adversaries has become one of its foremost defining features.
At the onset of spring, the Islamic Republic of Iran observes the holiday of Noruz (the roots of which originated in the pre-Islamic period). As he does every year, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei went to the city of Mashhad during Noruz this year to deliver a speech. Unlike his predecessor, Ayatollah Khomeini, who was not inclined to draw extra attention to this event, Khamenei delivered a highly publicized speech at the Imam Reza mosque – the burial place of the eighth Imam of the Shiite dynasty – which blamed external factors for Iran’s economic woes. In an attempt to divert public anger away from the regime’s domestic failures, the Supreme Leader reiterated a motif that had become almost routine in his speeches: Iran is under economic assault from its enemies. He dismissed the financial mechanism set up by the Europeans to help Tehran through the sanctions era as a joke.
This theme was amplified by President Rouhani’s speech, which blamed external factors without reference to any of the regime’s many failures in managing the economy or to accusations of corruption among senior Iranian officials.
https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/iran-must-demonize-its-enemies-to-justify-itself/
LOS ANGELES (KABC) — A person suspected of planning a terrorist strike on “multiple targets” in Southern California was arrested, federal officials announced Monday.
The suspect, who has not yet been identified, was arrested on domestic terrorism charges, sources tell ABC News.
Officials will hold a press conference in downtown Los Angeles at 1 p.m.
https://abc7.com/suspect-arrested-in-terror-plot-targeting-southern-california/5276195/
Canada’s new far right: A trove of private chat room messages reveals an extremist subculture
An analysis of 150,000 chat room messages paints a picture of a group that is actively recruiting new members, buying weapons and trying to influence political parties
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-canadas-new-far-right-a-trove-of-private-chat-room-messages-reveals/
Group of ISIS recruiters busted outside Moscow
Seven suspected members of Islamic State have been detained outside Moscow.
The men were tasked by “foreign emissaries” to recruit more terrorists locally, investigators said.
ELECTION: SPAIN MOVES TOWARDS INCREASING POLITICAL INSTABILITY
The Spanish General Election results are in, but most people in the Anglosphere will have no idea what they mean because the Spanish political parties are not well known. So, in order to aid greater understanding Trad News will equate each party with well-known figures or parties from the Anglosphere.
https://trad-news.blogspot.com/2019/04/election-spain-moves-towards-increasing.html
Daycare fraud on a huge scale used to fund Somali terrorists:
An expanding list of Canadian farm exports is hitting obstacles at Chinese ports, leaving sellers of soybeans, peas and pork scrambling amid a bitter diplomatic dispute.
China has already blocked Canadian canola from Richardson International and Viterra, two of Canada’s biggest farm exporters, saying that shipments had pests. Other China-bound canola cargoes have been cancelled, forcing exporters to re-sell elsewhere at discount.
NEWScheer ramps up pressure on Liberals to ease canola crisis
Canadian politicians have said the concerns are baseless, and noted that China detained two Canadians after Canada arrested an executive of Chinese telecom company Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. in December at the United States’ request. China has used nontariff barriers before during diplomatic tensions, most recently against Australian coal.
Now traders say Canadian soybeans and peas face unusual obstacles. Ottawa also warned last week that China was holding up pork shipments over paperwork issues.
Increasing tensions with China, a top buyer for most Canadian farm commodities, have forced farmers to plant other crops, such as wheat, that they hope will not face barriers. China bought $2.7 billion worth of Canada’s canola and $514 million worth of its pork last year.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/canada-china-trade-1.5114989
Halima Aden makes history as the first model to wear a burkini in Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue
https://www.yahoo.com/gma/halima-aden-makes-history-first-model-wear-burkini-122449010–abc-news-fashion-and-beauty.html
WATCH ABOVE: Marine life is ‘worse off’ inside protected areas, new research shows (Dec. 2018)
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OTTAWA – The oil-and-gas industry has worn out its welcome in Canadian marine conservation areas, and Canada’s environmentalists are overjoyed.
READ MORE: New marine fuel standards expected to tank oilsands crude prices in 2020
Fisheries Minister Jonathan Wilkinson unveiled new standards for marine protected areas in Canada on Thursday, fully prohibiting oil-and-gas activity, as well as mining, waste-dumping and bottom-trawling.
The change implements recommendations made to the government last year by an advisory panel, and brings Canada up to international standards set by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
https://globalnews.ca/news/5202321/oil-gas-mining-ban-canada-protected-marine-areas/
Gunmen have opened fire on a church in northern Burkina Faso, killing at least six people, officials say.
The attackers reportedly arrived on seven motorbikes at the end of Sunday’s service and killed the pastor, two of his sons and three other worshippers.
It is the first attack on a church since jihadist violence erupted in the West African country in 2016.
Fighters affiliated to al-Qaeda and the Islamic State group as well as the local Ansarul Islam have been active.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-48094789
A beluga whale found off Norway’s coast wearing a special Russian harness was probably trained by the Russian navy, a Norwegian expert says.
Marine biologist Prof Audun Rikardsen said the harness had a GoPro camera holder and a label sourcing it to St Petersburg. A Norwegian fisherman managed to remove it from the whale.
He said a Russian fellow scientist had told him that it was not the sort of kit that Russian scientists would use.
Russia has a naval base in the region.
The tame beluga repeatedly approached Norwegian boats off Ingoya, an Arctic island about 415km (258 miles) from Murmansk, where Russia’s Northern Fleet is based. Belugas are native to Arctic waters.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48090616
Authorities say they thwarted a terror plot targeting white supremacists in California by an Army veteran who converted to Islam and wanted retribution for the New Zealand mosque attacks.
Federal prosecutors said Monday that 26-year-old Mark Domingo of Reseda was arrested for planning to plant a bomb at a Nazi rally Sunday in Long Beach.
Domingo was arrested Friday on a charge of providing material support to terrorists. The rally never happened.
Court papers say Domingo discussed several types of attacks with an informant that included targeting Jews, churches and police officers.
He said he wanted revenge for attacks on mosques in New Zealand that killed 50 people last month.
https://ktla.com/2019/04/29/authorities-disrupt-alleged-terror-plot-in-southern-california/
Media And Democrats Team Up To Lie About Trump Quoting Ralph Northam’s Infanticide Comments
Up is down, black is white, nothing matters. That’s basically the message we are seeing in response to Donald Trump truthfully describing what VA Gov. Ralph Northam said about killing babies after a botched abortion. This happened at a rally in Wisconsin, which was Trump’s counter to the lowly “nerd prom” that went on at the same time.
Here’s a post we saw repeated over and over in liberal and media circles last night, to the extent that they aren’t the same thing at least.
Amee Vanderpool
@girlsreallyrule
“The baby is born, the mother meets w/the doctor. They take care of the baby. They wrap the baby beautifully. Then the doctor and mother determine whether or not they will execute the baby.”
How is this man’s mental state not a National Emergency right now?
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Yes, Trump is crazy for…quoting Ralph Northam accurately? Wait what?
As I wrote last night, Brian Stelter helped kick off the gaslighting and it’s still currently ongoing.
https://www.redstate.com/bonchie/2019/04/29/media-democrats-team-lie-trump-ralph-northams-infanticide-comments/
Ilhan Omar – of course, weighs in as well:
https://imgur.com/tR5ffO9
Urgh! I can’t stand her. Please God let some scandal remove her from office or by any other mean possible. (I would prefer lightning strike if I had my druthers. Right on the top of her oversized hijab)
‘Spare innocent men anguish’: India ruling aims to end false rape claims
Judges have moved to ensure that women driven by revenge and self-interest will no longer be able to make spurious allegations when relationships end
Their romance began at work. She asked him out for coffee with her friends. He took her out for lunch. Dinners and walks in New Delhi’s Lodhi Gardens followed. Then, for 18 months, they were in a sexual relationship.
But last year, when Pavan Gupta* turned 24, his parents began pressuring him to marry. When they introduced him to a girl he liked, Gupta ended his relationship with his girlfriend, Geeta Jain, telling her he could not disappoint his parents. “I liked her but I didn’t want to spend the rest of my life with her. I always told her I was an only child and would have to go along with my parents’ choice,” says Gupta.
In March, as Gupta was preparing for his wedding, Jain went to the Delhi police and accused him of rape. She said she had slept with him only on promise of marriage and, since he had not married her, consent was procured on a false pretext, making the sex rape.
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“Even if I had misled her and told her I’d marry her, it still wouldn’t make the sex rape. How can consensual sex for over a year be rape?” asks Gupta.
Last month, the supreme court ruled that rape cannot be invoked in cases of consensual sex after a relationship ends and the man declines to marry the woman, for whatever reason. The judges said a clear distinction had to be drawn between the two. But the ruling is of no help to Gupta. His life has already been shattered.
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/feb/11/spare-innocent-men-anguish-india-ruling-aims-to-end-false-claims
The man who fired a semi-automatic weapon inside the Chabad of Poway synagogue in San Diego on Saturday froze, dropped his gun and sprinted to his car when he saw Oscar Stewart come barreling toward him, yelling so loud the priest at a neighboring church could hear.
“Get down!” Stewart yelled, according to his wife and others who were at the scene. “You motherfucker! I’m going to kill you!”
Others who were there later told him it sounded like four or five people were shouting. He thinks maybe an angel was standing behind him and speaking through his voice. When the shooter ran, he immediately gave chase.
Stewart, 51, told The Daily Caller on Sunday he doesn’t remember any conscious thought from the moment he heard the gun shots until it was all over — he just acted on instinct to stop the shooter and prevent him from leaving so he couldn’t hurt more people somewhere else. The Iraq combat veteran said his military training kicked in.
“I knew I had to be within five feet of this guy so his rifle couldn’t get to me,” Stewart said. “So I ran immediately toward him, and I yelled as loud as I could. And he was scared. I scared the hell out of him.”
https://nworeport.me/2019/04/29/combat-vet-who-stopped-the-synagogue-shooter-i-scared-the-hell-out-of-him/
Ballot harvesting in California: Dems want this fraudulent practice implemented US-wide
The Notre Dame fire: Conclusions enforced before the evidence was examined
By John Dietrich
The recent fire in Notre Dame Cathedral has highlighted the attempts of the powerful to control the news.
The Paris prosecutor, Rémy Heitz, has decided the fire was “likely accident, not arson.” When reporting his decision, it is easy to eliminate the word “likely” for the sake of brevity. (Please excuse the sarcasm.) Luke Baker, Reuters’s Paris bureau chief, tweeted, “Fire at Paris’ Notre Dame cathedral was started by accident and is related to ongoing work, according to France 2, citing police.” There it is: the orthodox truth. If you don’t accept the “orthodox” story, you are a “conspiracy theorist,” an Islamophobe, and a racist.
Deviance from the orthodox view must be silenced. Fox News’s Shepard Smith invited the French media analyst Philippe Karsenty for an eyewitness interview while the fire was still raging. Karsenty said, “Of course you will hear the political correctness, that it’s probably an accident, but…” Before he could finish, Smith interrupted: “Sir, sir, sir, we’re not going to speculate here of the cause of something that we don’t know.” Karsenty continued: “I’m just telling you, you need to be ready…” Smith cut him off: “No, sir. We’re not doing that here. Not now. Not on my watch! Philippe Karsenty, it’s very good of you to be here.”
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/04/the_notre_dame_fire_conclusions_enforced_embeforeem_the_evidence_was_examined.html
WATCH Canada’s Trudeau Confuse Japan With China Alongside PM Abe (sputniknews, Apr 29, 2019)
https://sputniknews.com/world/201904291074556428-trudeau-confuses-japan-with-china-meeting-abe/
“Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met with his Japanese counterpart in Ottawa to discuss, among other issues, trade and the forthcoming G20 summit in Japan, when he suffered a major slip of the tongue.
Justin Trudeau welcomed Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Sunday and was supposed to speak about the diplomatic relations between Ottawa and Tokyo, but at one point started mumbling and accidentally referred to Japan as China.
“…on the occasion of 90 years of diplomatic relations between Canada and China… Uh, Canada and Japan”, he said as evidenced in the footage….”
New York City posts 4.6M voters personal information online
by John Gage
| April 29, 2019 07:47 AM
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New York City Board of Elections published the complete voter rolls of all 4.6 million New York City voters last week.
The move means anyone can go online and search through the name, party affiliation, and home address including apartment number of any registered voter in the city.
While the city’s Board of Elections emphasized that the information was already public record, privacy advocates and even New York’s Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo criticized what they thought was a risk to digital privacy.
“The New York City Board of Elections’ decision was theirs to make, but we believe sensitive voter information should always be protected,” Caitlin Girouard, a spokesperson for the governor said in a statement.
“When it comes to the current administration, we need to be extra vigilant to ensure New Yorkers’ information isn’t being used for politically motivated ill will,” Girouard said.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/new-york-city-posts-4-6-million-voters-personal-information-online
“When it comes to the current administration, we need to be extra vigilant to ensure New Yorkers’ information isn’t being used for politically motivated ill will,” Girouard said.
This tells you all you need to know about the current administration.
Turkey and the EU: A Doomed Engagement
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,155, April 28, 2019
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The March 31 elections, which blended victory with defeat for Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdo?an, put a further brake on Turkey’s stalled membership talks with the EU. The Islamist strongman appears to be the willing political hostage of Turkey’s Grey Wolves.
Two decades ago, the big question in Brussels and Ankara was, “Will Turkey one day become a full member of the EU?” A decade ago, it was, “How soon can Turkey become a full member?” Today, the question is simpler: “Will it be Turkey or the EU that puts an official end to this opera buffa?”
In March, the European Parliament forcefully reminded the West’s Turkey hopefuls that they are wrong. In a non-binding vote, the assembly recommended to suspend accession negotiations with Turkey (370 votes in favor, 109 against with 143 abstentions.) An EU press release after high-level talks with Turkey in Brussels confirmed that accession talks were at a standstill and said that the “Turkish government’s stated commitment to EU accession needs to be matched by corresponding reforms.”
https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/turkey-eu-engagement/
SCOTUS To Rule On Whether Men Can Wear Women’s Clothes On The Job
If ‘sex’ in federal law is replaced with ‘gender identity,’ the government will be unable to ensure equal opportunities for women.
Jeana Hallock
By Jeana Hallock
APRIL 29, 2019
R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes has been serving grieving families in the Detroit area since 1910. But in recent years, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has targeted this small family-owned funeral home for punishment due to their refusal to participate in an employee’s so-called gender identity preferences.
Why? To achieve its political objective: replacing “sex” in Title VII, a federal law, with “gender identity.” This means bypassing Congress to completely change the meaning of federal laws intended to advance women by including men who say they are women in the same legal categories.
If Harris Funeral Homes loses, it could be forced to pay a price few small businesses can survive—hundreds of thousands of dollars. Worse yet, women could be forced to sacrifice something priceless that they have struggled for decades to achieve: legal equality.
Harris Funeral Homes’ priority is to aid families in overcoming grief by remembering their loved one. To that end, its policies emphasize professionalism for employee dress and appearance. Consistent with the EEOC’s own manual, the company requires female employees to wear skirt suits and male employees to wear pant suits and ties.
https://thefederalist.com/2019/04/29/scotus-rule-whether-men-can-wear-womens-clothes-job/
The Palestinians’ Own Goals
by Khaled Abu Toameh
April 29, 2019 at 5:00 am
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/14141/palestinians-own-goal
On April 24, two Palestinian software development companies came to Bir Zeit University, north of the West Bank city of Ramallah, to offer jobs to Palestinian students. The companies were invited to campus as part of the university’s Annual Hiring Day — an event aimed at helping students find jobs with major Palestinian firms.
The event, however, turned ugly when students protested against the presence of the representatives of the two companies on campus. The protesters expelled the company representatives from the university premises after accusing them of engaging in “normalization” with Israel. In other words, the students attacked, humiliated and expelled Palestinian companies that came to offer them jobs at a time when the Palestinian economy is facing a crisis and thousands of young Palestinians remain unemployed.
The first company is ASAL Technologies, a Ramallah-based software and IT services outsourcing firm founded in 2000. ASAL Technologies is the largest Palestinian information and communications technology company that supplies international companies with talented Palestinian professionals. The second company, also based in Ramallah, is EXALT, a software development center specialized in web services, backend/API development and mobile apps.
Turkish ‘Justice’: Life in Prison for Journalists; Leniency for ISIS Terrorist
by Uzay Bulut
April 29, 2019 at 4:00 am
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/14137/turkish-prison-for-journalists
Two recent criminal cases in Turkey underscore Ankara’s disturbing double standard when it comes to the concept of justice.
In February, three dissident Turkish journalists accused of “attempting to overthrow the constitutional order” — for their alleged “involvement in the 2016 coup attempt” against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan — were sentenced to life in prison.
In March, Neil Christopher Prakash, an Australian ISIS terrorist caught in 2016 crossing the border into Turkey from Syria, was given a light sentence by the Kilis High Criminal Court.
Prakash, considered Australia’s “most wanted ISIS member,” was linked by the FBI to a failed plot to attack the Statue of Liberty in New York. In one of his many propaganda videos for ISIS, Prakash describes his conversion from Buddhism to Islam after a trip to Cambodia. He recounts attending meetings at a mosque and Islamic center in Melbourne. After reading the Koran and becoming a Muslim, he says, he traveled to Syria to join the jihad and the caliphate in 2013.
Girl shot in synagogue attack says ‘he was aiming at the kids’
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Updated 1:00 PM ET, Mon April 29, 2019
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Poway, California (CNN)Noya Dahan says she can never feel safe again. She will always be looking over her shoulder for the bad guys.
Noya is just 8 years old. But Saturday’s synagogue shooting was already the third time she has had to flee targeted attacks.
She was playing with other children inside the synagogue in Poway, California, when a gunman took aim and fired a hail of bullets into the congregation.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/29/us/poway-synagogue-victim-noya-dahan/index.html
Diversity and The Death of Free Speech
Once again, Middlebury College plays the role of killer.
This is an age of trigger warnings and safe spaces. The notion of free speech is an illusion. This is especially true on college campuses. However, this wasn’t always the case. There was a time, not that long ago, when college students were encouraged to expand their minds further. To do so, students were encouraged to open their minds, to consider and debate controversial opinions. After all, the world is an unpredictable place, full of beliefs that are as divisive as they are varied. College was designed to prepare you for the real world. Please note that I use the word was for a very specific reason.
For millions of Americans, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and freedom of the press are inviolable principles. An attack on any of these ideals is an attack on democracy.
On the other hand, millions of others are enamored by the idea of conditional free speech. Those of a sensitive nature must be provided with trigger warnings and safe spaces, maybe even an emotional support animal. Free speech is encouraged… but only if the speaker subscribes to a very specific ideology. Unfortunately, like the worst hostage negotiators in the world, college administrators around the country are acquiescing and giving into the demands of the Social Justice Stasi.
https://spectator.org/diversity-and-the-death-of-free-speech/?utm_source=American%20Spectator%20Emails&utm_campaign=545575b16a-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_04_29_03_58&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_797a38d487-545575b16a-104523669
screenshot: Google classified Abu Baks Al-Baghdadi as a ‘political leader’:
https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/bitpgd/abubakr_albaghdadi_considered_a_political_leader/
A Hatred Of Israel Is The One Thing All Anti-Semites Have In Common
The only Jew-hatred still acceptable in public discourse is the kind masquerading as “anti-Zionism.”
David Harsanyi By David Harsanyi
APRIL 29, 2019
“The past few days provide a useful case study,” the New York Times’ Bari Weiss wrote this weekend. “Thursday: an anti-Zionist cartoon is published in the Times. Saturday: a white nationalist guns down Jews in synagogue. Sunday: Javad Zarif appears on Fox. The three strands of modern anti-Semitism: far-left, far-right and Islamist.”
Though Weiss correctly identifies the three strands of contemporary Jew-hatred, none of them are truly modern. To various degrees, Islamic anti-Semitism has been prevalent for a long time. Left-wing anti-Semitism is old as Marx (and, really, even older.) And right-wing nationalist anti-Semitism has been with us since the concept was birthed in Europe.
The only truly modern component found in all three strands is Israel. Anti-Israel sentiment is already the predominant justification for violence, murder, and hatred against Jews in the Middle East and Europe. Now it’s coming here. Sometimes it’s merely a transparent excuse for animosity, other times it’s the spark for that hatred.
https://thefederalist.com/2019/04/29/its-a-hatred-of-israel-that-unites-all-anti-semites/
WATCH: Dan Crenshaw Gets Called A Nazi By Protester, Has Some ‘Fun’ With Response
https://twitter.com/i/status/1122188393037824003
https://www.dailywire.com/news/46506/watch-dan-crenshaw-gets-called-nazi-protester-has-ryan-saavedra?utm_medium=email&utm_content=042919-news&utm_campaign=position2
US Army vet who converted to Islam planned bomb attack
This attack along with the one at the Synagogue were done in revenge for the New Zealand Mosque attack.
I can’t stand Shep Smith so I don ‘t know any more.
Former FBI Agent: How Obama Officials Spied on Trump
Two men who ‘cynically sexually exploited young girl who was attacked from the age of 11’ go on trial alongside pair of women accused of cruelty towards the same child (dailymail, Apr 29, 2019)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6972899/Two-women-trial-child-cruelty-alongside-men-attacked-vulnerable-girl.html
“A vulnerable girl was ‘raped and abused by multiple men over several years’ starting when she was 11 or 12 years old, a jury has heard.
The victim was ‘deliberately targeted by men who wanted to use her for their own sexual purposes’ throughout her childhood, prosecutors told Leeds Crown Court on Monday.
Opening the trial of Mohammed Akram and Usman Khalid, Richard Wright QC, prosecuting, told the jury: ‘We say that both of the men in the dock had sexual contact with her when she was just 12 and they knew how old she was.
‘They each, on separate occasions, took her out of the children’s home where she was living without permission and with a sinister, ultimately sexually motivated, purpose.’
Mr Wright told the jury: ‘This case concerns the cynical sexual exploitation of an extremely vulnerable young girl. Throughout her childhood she was deliberately targeted by men who wanted to use her for their own sexual purposes.’
The prosecutor said: ‘This case concerns her childhood when, as you will hear – and it is important that you understand that there is no dispute about this – she was raped and abused by multiple men over several years. That abuse began when she could properly be described as a little girl.’
Mr Wright said the girl was groomed in the Huddersfield area of West Yorkshire.
He told the jury that the girl ‘found herself drawn into a world in which she had little or no control of her life and was utterly unable to make truly free or informed choices about anything where sex was concerned.’
He told the members of the jury that they may wonder why no-one in her family, the social services department or in the police was looking after the girl’s interest.
Mr Wright said: ‘The sad truth is that she was, at the time of these offences, alone in the world. Her mother was a hopeless addict who was utterly unable or unwilling to care for her.
‘Instead she fended for herself on the streets, in pubs, in taxi offices and in takeaway shops. Living by her wits and befriending men in the hope that they might feed her, or care for her, but as you will hear that was the last thing they did.’
Akram and Khalid went on trial on Monday along with two women – Shahnaz Malik, 57, of St Anne’s Avenue, Huddersfield, and Naveeda Habeeb, 40, of Prince Wood Lane, Huddersfield – who are both charged with child cruelty.
Akram, 33, of Springdale Street, Huddersfield, denies five counts of rape, sexual assault, abducting a child and trafficking for sexual exploitation.
Khalid, 31, of Brook Street, Huddersfield, denies sexual assault and child abduction.
The trial is expected to last two weeks.”
How China’s Military and Police Use US Satellites | China Uncensored
See my reply here:
https://vladtepesblog.com/2019/04/29/contributors-links-post-for-april-29-2019/comment-page-3/#comment-480909
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The FBI says it got tips about a threatening social media post about five minutes before a deadly attack on a synagogue near San Diego but it was too late to identify the suspect.
In a statement to The Associated Press, the FBI said Monday that it got word about the anonymous post through its tip website and phone line just before Saturday’s attack on the Chabad of Poway.
The FBI says the tips included a link to the post but didn’t offer specific information about its author or the location threatened.
The bureau says its employees immediately took action to identify who wrote the post but the shooting took place before they finished.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/apr/29/the-latest-fbi-got-tip-just-minutes-before-synagog/
Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein had asked the Border Patrol agent in the Chabad of Poway to pray armed and it was that agent that chased Saturday’s attacker out of the building.
On April 27, 2019, Breitbart News reported that a suspect opened fire in the Chabad of Poway and a good guy with a gun was able to shoot back. That good guy, Border Patrol Agent Jonathan Morales, chased after the attacker and shot at him as he got into his vehicle to flee.
The Times of Israel reports that Morales had “recently discovered his Jewish roots” and, after he began coming to Chabad of Poway, was asked by Goldstein to pray armed.
Goldstein said, “Morales recently discovered his Jewish roots. He would travel three and a half hours from [the California town of] El Centro to pray with us at our shul. He felt this was his house of worship. And many times I said, ‘Jonathan, you work for the border patrol. Please arm yourself when you are here; we never know when we will need it.’”
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/04/29/rabbi-asked-border-patrol-agent-come-armed-just-case/
Fake News SMEARS On Pewdiepie Hurt ALL Of Us On Youtube
Jair M. Bolsonaro, the current president of Brazil, has announced on Twitter his plans to stop government funding of philosophy and sociology in the nation’s public universities.
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O Ministro da Educação @abrahamWeinT estuda descentralizar investimento em faculdades de filosofia e sociologia (humanas). Alunos já matriculados não serão afetados. O objetivo é focar em áreas que gerem retorno imediato ao contribuinte, como: veterinária, engenharia e medicina.
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A rough translation is: “The Minister of Education, Abraham Weintraub, is studying how to decentralize investment in philosophy and sociology at universities. Students who have already enrolled will not be affected. The objective is to focus on areas that generate immediate return to the taxpayer, such as: veterinary, engineering, and medicine.”
http://dailynous.com/2019/04/26/brazilian-government-defund-philosophy-public-universities/
Tom Fitton: President Obama Allowed DOJ & FBI to Spy on Trump Using Clinton/DNC Dossier
So, let me get this straight…
Everyone I don’t like is Hitler.
And,
Anything done by someone I don’t like is corrupt.
Uff da! That simplifies all of the propaganda scripting, eh? Why, that makes things so easy to where even a college graduate can do it.
Rather inaccurately, Fitton calls it, trying to “paper the record”—whereas “paper hanging” comes much closer to the truth. The felony fraud involved would be mind-bending if the Clintons didn’t figure so prominently in all of this.
With 0’Hillary in the building, there’s barely room for the usual herd of Stampys. While it sure saves on peanuts, getting out that rancid smell lingering from 2016 is a lot harder than freshening up the place after a bull in must.
Analysis of al-Baghdadi’s new video, with slightly fethishistic focus on his gear:
https://twitter.com/CalibreObscura/status/1122907930100158464
This may be a bit more interesting, speculation about his whereabouts and security arrangements:
https://twitter.com/DanieleRaineri/status/1111288242404540422
Two suspected Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh militants killed in Dhaka police raid (thedefensepost, Apr 29, 2019)
https://thedefensepost.com/2019/04/29/police-kill-jamaat-ul-mujahideen-bangladesh-raid/
“Bangladesh security forces raided a suspected Islamist extremist hideout in Dhaka on Monday killing at least two militants, police said.
Police commandos were met with gunfire on arriving at a house in the capital’s Bosila neighborhood after midnight on Monday, April 29, Lieutenant Colonel Ashique Billah told AFP.
This was followed by an explosion which demolished the walls of the house, the Rapid Action Battalion commander added.
“Our bomb disposal unit found the body parts of two militants in the house. The explosion was so powerful that it tore apart the bodies and shook the whole area,” he said.
Four other people were detained including a caretaker and imam from a nearby mosque, the officer added.
Bangladesh launched a crackdown on Islamist extremism after attacks in July 2016, when Islamic State-inspired militants stormed a Dhaka cafe killing 22 people, including 18 foreigners.
Monday’s raid came after police received information about the presence of suspected members of Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh, the group that carried out the cafe attack, Reuters reported…”
General Soleimani: Iran Never to Succumb to Pressure (tasnimnews, Apr 29, 2019)
https://www.tasnimnews.com/en/news/2019/04/29/2000229/general-soleimani-iran-never-to-succumb-to-pressure
“Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Quds Force Major General Qassem Soleimani ruled out the possibility of negotiations with the US under economic pressures, stressing that Iran will never give in to talks under such conditions…”
Yemeni Attacks Inflict Heavy Casualties on Saudi Mercenaries (tasnimnews, Apr 29, 2019)
https://www.tasnimnews.com/en/news/2019/04/29/1999915/yemeni-attacks-inflict-heavy-casualties-on-saudi-mercenaries
“Yemen’s army and Popular Committees launched drone and artillery attacks against Saudi-backed militants in the southwestern province of Taiz and Saudi Arabia’s southwestern region of Najran, inflicting heavy casualties on them, local reports said.
In a joint operation by the drone and artillery units of the Yemeni army and Popular Committees on Sunday, the gatherings of the Saudi mercenaries in Najran were targeted and hit, according to the Arabic-language al-Masirah TV.
The Yemeni forces also mounted artillery and missile attacks on the positions of Saudi-backed militants in Taiz on the same day, killing 9 and injuring 13 others.
The attacks against the Saudi-led forces came in retaliation for the continued massacre of civilians and destruction of Yemen’s infrastructure by the coalition led by the Riyadh regime.
Yemen’s defenseless people have been under massive attacks by the coalition for more than four years but Riyadh has reached none of its objectives in Yemen so far…”
Suspected UAE spy found dead in Turkish prison (mee, Apr 29, 2019)
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/suspected-uae-spy-found-dead-turkish-prison
“One of two alleged UAE agents who were arrested in Istanbul 10 days ago has been found dead in his prison cell, Istanbul prosecutor’s office said in a written statement on Monday.
Zaki Hasan, a Palestinian citizen, was kept in the cell alone. He was found dead there on Sunday morning, the statement said.
“During the distribution of food, a guard found his body hanging on the bathroom door. An autopsy on the body has been conducted. The investigation on the matter continues,” the statement added. Both alleged Emirati agents had been held in Istanbul’s Silivri prison.
Turkish police, in close coordination with national intelligence agency MIT, earlier this month detained Palestinian citizens Hasan and Samer Shaban on charges of espionage and spying on Arab citizens in Turkey.
Turkish officials said both individuals, on behalf of the United Arab Emirates’ intelligence services, were compiling information on the location of members, companies and groups connected to the Palestinians Liberation Organisation (PLO).
The pair are alleged to have also been collecting intelligence on senior officials from Fatah, the party leading the PLO.
They were also accused of trying to obtain information on possible Hamas members, and learn the details of Muslim Brotherhood organisation in the country. A source told Middle East Eye that both of them also have UAE citizenship.
Another Turkish official source, who wished to remain anonymous, said Hasan committed suicide by using parts of his own clothing.
“They are kept in solitary confinement and it is impossible to move a foreign object inside. Extra measures have been put in place to protect the second individual,” the source said.
Zakaria Mubarak, Hasan’s brother, told Saudi-owned Al Arabiya that Turkey’s statement was a “mere charade” and claimed that Turkish officials were lying.
Meanwhile, Hasan’s son Yusuf, called for an international commission to investigate his father’s death…”
Algeria ex-police chief in court on corruption charges (memo, Apr 29, 2019)
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20190429-algeria-ex-police-chief-in-court-on-corruption-charges/
“The former head of Algerian police, retired Major General Abdelghani Hamel, and his son appeared in court today on corruption charges today, according to state television.
The pair are accused of “illegal activities including misuse of power”, the report said.
The former official led the Algerian police from 2010 to 2018 and was one of the close security figures of former President Abdelaziz Bouteflika.
Last week, Algerian authorities detained a number of businessmen close to Bouteflika for interrogation over corruption charges…”
UAE court upholds life sentence against Turkish citizen for terrorism (reuters, Apr 29, 2019)
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-emirates-turkey-court/uae-court-upholds-life-sentence-against-turkish-citizen-for-terrorism-idUSKCN1S5229
“The United Arab Emirates’ Supreme Federal Court upheld a life sentence against a Turkish citizen in a terrorism case, Emirates News agency (WAM) said on Monday.
The Turkish national, according to the indictment, was found guilty of “launching an extensive campaign on a Facebook account named ‘Ali Ozturk Mehmet’ without getting an official permit. He used the account for promoting the ideologies of the two terrorist groups and sending them funds through money transfer companies in the UAE”, WAM said.
A trade and tourism hub, the UAE is an absolute monarchy which tolerates little public criticism.”
Guards repel assault on Libya’s biggest oilfield as Tripoli battle rages (reuters, Apr 29, 2019)
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-libya-security/guards-repel-assault-on-libyas-biggest-oilfield-as-tripoli-battle-rages-idUSKCN1S50OW
“An armed group attacked Libya’s largest oilfield on Monday, but was repelled after clashes with its protection force, while fighting escalated in eastern commander Khalifa Haftar’s effort to capture the capital Tripoli…”
US vows Daesh leaders will be ‘delivered justice’ (gulfnews, Apr 30, 2019)
https://gulfnews.com/world/americas/us-vows-daesh-leaders-will-be-delivered-justice-1.1556577351180
“Washington: The United States vowed Monday that it would track down and defeat surviving leaders of Daesh after its elusive supremo Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi appeared in a video tape.
The US-led coalition against the group will fight across the world to “ensure an enduring defeat of these terrorists and that any leaders who remain are delivered the justice that they deserve,” a State Department spokesman said.”
Study: Moroccans Make Up 9% of the Foreign Population in Brussels (moroccoworldnews, Apr 29, 2019)
https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2019/04/271737/morocco-foreign-population-brussels/
“Brussels has the second highest percentage of foreign residents among cities worldwide after Dubai, according to a study from Brussels Jet Pack Center for Analysis. A total of 1.2 million people inhabit Brussels, and six out of 10 of those inhabitants were not born in Belgium. Of those six, two gain Belgian citizenship at some point.
Nine percent of non-Belgians in Brussels are from Morocco, making Moroccans the third most present nationality among foreigners after French people and Romanians. Africa is the most common place of origin of non-European migrants living in Brussels at 17% of migrants. Within this population, the migrants are more likely to be from North Africa than other regions on the continent…”
Man Opens Fire, Wounds 13 Algerians Protesting Lack of Drinking Water (moroccoworldnews, Apr 19, 2019)
https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2019/04/271698/algeria-protesting-lack-drinking-water/
“Thirteen people received injuries when an owner of the Youkous mineral water factory in eastern Algeria opened fire on protesters condemning lack of access to water.
AFP reported that the owner had opened fire to disperse protests. Auxiliary forces took the 13 wounded people to the hospital after police intervention.
AFP said that clashes escalated in the town of Hammamest after authorities gave the company the right to bottle the water from a spring in the area.
Security services said that protesters set fire to tires and one water truck in front of the factory.
The demonstrations against lack of drinking water come on the heel of a growing popular movement against the current government…”
Man Opens Fire, Wounds 13 Algerians Protesting Lack of Drinking Water
I guess he was installing some of that famous Old World lead piping.