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Middle Eastern Terrorism Coming to the US through Its Mexican Border
by Raymond Ibrahim
August 1, 2019 at 4:00 am
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/14632/terrorism-mexico-border
A captured Islamic State fighter recently related how, in an effort to terrorize America on its own soil, the Islamic terror group is committed to exploiting the porous US-Mexico border, including through the aid of ISIS-sympathizers living in the United States.
“Whatever one thinks of President Donald Trump’s heightened rhetoric about the US-Mexico border and his many claims that it is vulnerable to terrorists, ISIS apparently also thought so,” according to the Government Technology and Services Coalition.
In May, Abu Henricki, a Canadian citizen of Trinidadian origin, told researchers with the International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism that ISIS sought to recruit him and others to penetrate the US-Mexican border through routes originating in various Central American locations.
“The plan came from someone from the New Jersey state of America,” Henricki confessed.
SEDITION: Declassified Docs Exposing Obama Officials Due Out Wednesday Says Joe diGenova
Documents requested by Rep. Devin Nunes will be released on Wednesday, according to Joseph diGenova.
Former United States Attorney for the District of Columbia Joseph diGenova released a bombshell this week when he claimed that key documents exposing the nature of the deep state coup d’état against President Donald Trump will be released as soon as Wednesday.
“The declassification process will start this week. There are going to be documents released, I think, by Wednesday. The Attorney General as I understand it is in the process of getting those ready to come out,” diGenova said during an appearance on WMAL Radio on Monday morning.
“There are going to be some of the Devin Nunes documents that he requested, and then a series of other releases will come after that. It’s because [U.S. Attorney John] Durham is progressing very, very quickly in his criminal investigation,” diGenova added.
Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) has been one of the loudest critics of the deep state’s conspiracy against the President from the start. He has fought tirelessly for transparency and the release of documents exposing the lurid and obscene process that went into staging the Russian collusion hoax.
https://bigleaguepolitics.com/sedition-declassified-docs-exposing-obama-officials-due-out-wednesday-says-joe-digenova/
More photos and video for the sword attack in Stuttgart. Warning, graphic:
https://twitter.com/trutzblut/status/1156740193883426816
The sheath suggests it was a katana. Whatever sword it was, it was pretty sharp. The 2nd video shows the victim’s left arm chopped off with one blow.
Pub Pensioner Blinded By Somali Who Shouted Allahu Akbar
https://ananova.news/pub-pensioner-blinded-by-somali-who-shouted-allahu-akbar/
The sons of the 75yo victim plan to sue the german state. The Somali was arrested the day before for attacking a cab driver. In German:
https://www.bild.de/regional/stuttgart/stuttgart-aktuell/offenburg-soehne-von-pruegel-opfer-wollen-deutschland-verklagen-63036522.bild.html
The Race Purges in the Democratic Party
Remarkable. In order to file an EEO claim for a violation (of using the protected status of race as an employment or promotion criterion), one has to–I believe–be the person affected by the violation. Who among those fired will find themselves using that 90-day window of opportunity?
The resignations were for incompetence for not meeting diversity goals that had been promised. (Resignation vs firing often changes the contentiousness of an EEO claim–has to show a pressure to resign?) https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/455255-dccc-faces-mass-staff-shakeup-its-the-monday-night-massacre
Attorney website: forced resignation is called a “Constructive discharge” and an EEO complaint can be filed if the basis for the resignation stems from an untenable employment situation because of one”s race, national origin, sex, etc.
http://eeo21.com/constructive_discharge.html
Germany’s top court upholds ban on anti-Erdo?an poem (hdn, Aug 1, 2019)
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/germanys-top-court-upholds-ban-on-anti-erdogan-poem-145424
“Germany’s highest court has upheld a ban on large sections of a satirical poem which mocked Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an.
The Federal Court of Justice, the highest German court for civil and criminal law, on July 31 rejected an appeal by comedian Jan Bohmermann and upheld the previous verdicts by a local court and a higher regional court in Hamburg.
Bohmermann sparked uproar in 2016 with his controversial poem, which was widely criticized for being racist and abusive, exceeding the limits of freedom of expression.
Erdo?an’s lawyers had filed a complaint against the comedian.
The Hamburg court ruled in 2017 that many passages in the poem breached the Turkish leader’s personal rights. It prohibited the German comedian from repeating certain sections of the poem, which included racial stereotypes, sexual references and insults.
While underlining the significance of artistic freedom and freedom of expression, the court concluded that certain parts of Bohmermann’s work exceeded the limits of permissible criticism.
“According to the Federal Constitutional Court, artistic freedom is unconditional but not unbounded,” the court said in its ruling.
“Satire is protected under artistic freedom, but it can also affect the core area of protection of personality, and for this reason it can be prohibited,” it added.”
Germany to employ Turkish care workers for its elderly (hdn, Aug 1, 2019)
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/germany-to-employ-turkish-care-workers-for-its-elderly-145430
“The Arbeiterwohlfarht (AWO), or Workers Welfare Institution, a service organization dedicated to promoting worker welfare in Germany, will hold job interviews with Turkish care workers in Istanbul starting this month to care for the country’s aging population…”
Turkey helps to combat terrorism in Africa: Envoy (hdn, Aug 1, 2019)
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/turkey-helps-to-combat-terrorism-in-africa-envoy-145416
“Turkey is helping G5 Sahel — an institutional framework for coordination of regional cooperation security matters in West Africa — to combat terrorism.
Without specifying the contours of cooperation, Turkish envoy in Niger, Mustafa Türker Ari, said his country was financing the joint G5 Sahel counter-terrorism force…”
Southern Italy has more emigrants than immigrants – report (ansa, Aug 1, 2019)
http://www.ansa.it/english/news/2019/08/01/southern-italy-has-more-emigrants-than-immigrants-report_ccdfe5e7-2d6c-452d-8ec3-19d584cc71c2.html
“Emigration away is big problem for southern Italy and the arrival of immigrants is not compensating, according to a report by the Svimez institute, excerpts of which were released in advance on Thursday.
It said that over two million people left Italy’s southern regions between 2002 and 2017.
It said that 132,187 upped sticks from the south in 2017 alone, including 66,557 young people, 33% of whom were graduates.
The institute said it saw little sign of the trend being reversed in the near future.
“The gradual slowdown of the Italian economy has reopened the territorial fracture,” it said.
“This is set to plunge the south back into a recession that it emerged from too slowly”.”
NGO-ship with 40 migrants heading north, close to Lampedusa (ansa, Aug 1, 2019)
http://www.ansa.it/english/news/2019/08/01/ngo-ship-with-40-migrants-heading-north-close-to-lampedusa_c9347684-4a43-4425-8fd2-6432bdfd6ed4.html
“The Alan Kurdi, a search-and-rescue ship run by the Sea-Eye NGO, was close to Italian island of Lampedusa and heading north on Thursday after picking up 40 migrants off Libya on Wednesday, sources said.
On Wednesday Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, Transport Minister Danilo Toninelli and Defence Minister Elisabetta Trenta signed an order banning the ship from entering Italian waters. Salvini has spearheaded the government tough stance of refusing access to Italy’s ports to NGO-run ships that rescue migrants in the Mediterranean.
This has led to a series of standoffs with vessels that have sought to defy this policy.
“There is a squalid, disgusting new development,” Salvini said on Thursday.
“The umpteenth provocation is taking place in the Mediterranean”.”
Tulsi Gabbard sounds off after ripping Kamala Harris at debate
Democratic presidential candidate Rep. Tulsi Gabbard on calling out fellow candidate Sen. Kamala Harris over her hypocrisy on prison reform during the debate.
Migrants: 2,600 Syrians detained amid Istanbul crackdown (ansamed Aug 1, 2019)
http://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/sections/politics/2019/08/01/migrants-2600-syrians-detained-amid-istanbul-crackdown_bd75ee8a-9987-450d-8476-70a715ce4c76.html
“A crackdown first launched 20 days ago by Turkish authorities on migrants and refugees in Istanbul is continuing. Between July 12 and July 31, 12,474 people have been detained for having illegal documents. The majority were Afghan and Pakistani nationals. The crackdown vies to fight the concentration of migrants in the city. The local prefect said 2,630 Syrians are among those detained.
The measure was taken after an increase in protests and reactions of intolerance by the local population. The over 3.5 million Syrians living in Turkey have a status of temporary protection that forces them to reside in the province where they have been registered, with a few exceptions for ”humanitarian motives”.
Officially, 547,000 Syrians are registered in Istanbul although tens of thousands more are believed to live in the city. According to Abdullah Ayaz, who is in charge of the department for migration of the interior ministry, none of those apprehended were expelled to Syria in violation of international legislation but they were taken to temporary identification centers.
A number of local NGOs have denounced several cases of Syrians who were sent back to their country after unknowingly signing a document in which they accepted voluntary repatriation. “