Reader’s Links on February 15, 2020

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129 Replies to “Reader’s Links on February 15, 2020”

  1. CHINA: Not certain about this one, but it sounds plausible.

    https://ab-tc.com/china-seek-for-courts-approval-to-kill-the-over-20000-coronavirus-patients-to-avoid-further-spread-of-the-virus/

    ***
    INFO from Free Agenda-TV:

    At this point in time, there are over 3,000,000 people quarantined in China in their own homes and apartment buildings with strict orders not to leave and under outside surveillance. More cities are under lock-down.

    One city needs 100,000 more beds no later than Feb 19. They have requisitioned nine sport stadiums for makeshift hospitals. Problem: almost no doctors or nurses.

    Because many people refuse to go back to work, their economy is in free-fall. Also, many companies refuse to reopen until situation is under control.

    ***

    Meanwhile, we all know China refuses USA help via CDC. We know why, aka retrace origin of the virus. Larry Kudlow expects China to honor its trade agreement with USA.

    END OF TODAY’S NEWS.

    • This doesn’t sound right, the CCP controls the courts and they do what the CCP orders, if they want to kill people they kill them and order the Judges to cover up the murders after the fact.

      • But don’t forget SAMIZDAT.

        There are people decrying the fact they bring a sick relative to a facility, they’re not allowed to enter the facility, the relative is snatched from them at the door, and they await news about the status of their parent.

        It seems to be a ‘bring your sick relative and you never see him/her again’.

        China has close to 1.5 Billion citizens and not one is happy with their government. We now have people either sick or dying from every level of society.

        Forget the crematoriums. There will be mass burning of bodies or deep burial pits.

  2. “Police have recorded almost 120,000 ‘non-crime hate incidents’, it was revealed today – as a judge slammed ‘Gestapo’ police for quizzing a businessman at work over his ‘transphobic tweets’.

    Despite police accepting that such incidents are not crimes, they have still been logged on a system and can show up in criminal records checks – preventing the accused from getting jobs”
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8006275/Police-record-120-000-cases-non-crime-hate-incidents.html

    Not Gestapo, but Stasi.

  5. The United States Air Force updated its official dress code policy this month, in observance of religious practices, to allow military personnel to wear turbans or hijabs as a part of the uniform.

    The Air Force released an update to the “Dress and Personal Appearance of Air Force Personnel” code on Feb. 7, now permitting airmen to request a waiver to wear religious apparel while in uniform as long as they are “neat and conservative.”

    The material used for headwear must resemble the color of the assigned uniform. This includes camouflage, and must be worn in a fashion that presents a “professional and well-groomed appearance.”

    In addition to religious apparel, members also can request permission to have unshorn beards and unshorn hair. If the length of the beard exceeds 2 inches, it must be “rolled an or tied” to meet the new standards.

    https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/air-force-to-allow-uniformed-members-to-wear-turbans-hijabs-beards-in-new-dress-code-update

  6. Hungarian European Parliamentarian Balázs Hidvéghi declared this week that “radical Muslim antisemitism” is on the rise in Europe thanks to massive illegal immigration.

    Speaking in Strasbourg in a Parliamentary discussion on antisemitism, Mr. Hidvéghi insisted Europe must have “zero tolerance for antisemitism,” noting that this is the only suitable stance after the Second World War.

    “There is full social and political consensus on this issue in Hungary,” said the MEP. “Members of the Jewish community live in safety, practice their religion and live their identities. Ensuring this is not only a constitutional obligation but also a moral obligation.”

    Hidvéghi said the situation in Hungary stands in contrast to much of Western Europe, where waves of Muslim immigration have been accompanied by growing violence against Jews.

    “We are proud to be flourishing in Hungary and today experiencing a renaissance of Jewish culture, with Jewish people and families feeling safe and caring for their heritage,” Hidvéghi said. “In contrast, violence and attacks against Jewish communities in Western Europe are on the rise.”

    https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2020/02/14/hungarian-mep-rising-antisemitism-in-europe-fueled-by-illegal-immigration/

  8. Roger Stone demanded a retrial late Friday in a dramatic new twist in his prosecution – after the jury foreperson was revealed to be an anti-Donald Trump Democratic Congressional candidate who posted about Stone’s arrest before his case.

    Stone filed a sealed motion which the Department of Justice must respond to on Tuesday, two days before he was supposed to be sentenced.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8006115/Roger-Stone-demands-NEW-trial-revelation-jury-foreperson-posted-arrest.html

  10. Ilhan Omar’s husband discovered she was cheating on him with her chief fundraiser when he walked in on the lovers in pajamas – and now the congresswoman is paying ex $250,000 for his silence

    Ahmed Hirsi discovered Ilhan Omar having an affair with married Tim Mynett when he went to her Washington D.C. apartment and found lovers in pajamas
    ‘He suspected she was cheating but she kept telling him he was paranoid,’ one source told DailyMail.com
    DailyMail.com revealed last October that Omar and Mynett were not only dating, but living together ‘on and off’ at a secret DC apartment
    Families of Hirsi and Omar hammered out a settlement giving Hirsi tens of thousands of dollars if he did not speak publicly about the marriage breakdown
    Meanwhile, Omar’s campaign paid Mynett’s fundraising company more than $500k last year, according to new Federal Election Commission figures
    In December alone his E Street Company received $87,683, according to the figures reviewed by DailyMail.com

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8004745/Ilhan-Omars-ex-discovered-cheating-walked-lovers-pajamas-D-C.html?ito=social-twitter_dailymailus

  11. Spokesman for Saudi-Led Coalition Confirms Military Plane Has Crashed in Yemen (sputniknews, Feb 15, 2020)
    https://sputniknews.com/world/202002151078322846-spokesman-for-saudi-led-coalition-reportedly-says-military-plane-has-crashed-in-yemen/

    “The statement comes a day after Yemen’s Houthi militia reported downing a Saudi-led coalition Tornado warplane by a surface-to-air missile.

    A Saudi-coalition warplane has crashed in the northern Yemeni province of al-Jawf, a coalition spokesman has told the Saudi Press Agency.

    Saudi Arabia confirms downing of Tornado fighter aircraft while on mission over al-Jawf,

    A day earlier, Houthi spokeperson Brig. Gen. Yahya Saria reported that the militia had downed an “enemy jet” over northern Yemen using a new kind of cutting-edge surface-to-air missile.

    According to the spokesman, the downed plane was a Panavia Tornado, a twin-engined, variable-sweep wing multirole fighter-bomber jointly developed by the UK, Italy and West Germany during the Cold War, and which is known to be fielded by the Royal Saudi Air Force. Saudi Arabia is believed to have 81 interdictor/strike variants of the Tornado in its inventory, and is the only member of the mostly-Gulf state coalition fighting the Houthis operating the planes.

    Yemen has been mired in an armed conflict between the Houthis and Saudi-led forces seeking to return ousted Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi to power. Hadi fled to Riyadh in early 2015 following a series of uprisings culminating in the Houthi taking of the capital of Sana’a in September 2014. In March 2015, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Sudan and Academi and Yemeni mercenary forces began a campaign to try to dislodge the Houthis and local militias, with the US and the UK providing logistical, intelligence and training support to the coalition. Qatar withdrew from the coalition in 2017, and Sudan indicated last week that it was reconsidering its participation in the campaign and would continue to reduce its troop presence there.

    Despite the coalition’s vast superiority in conventional forces and resources, its five year campaign has failed to strike a decisive blow to the Houthis, and the militia has even occasionally gone on the offensive, targeting infrastructure, military bases, aircraft, ships and population centers with missiles and drones which Saudi officials have claimed have been provided by Iran. The Houthis have repeatedly denied any affiliation with Tehran, while the Islamic Republic has said that the coalition’s blockade of Yemen made it impossible to deliver weapons to the war-torn country.

    DETAILS TO FOLLOW”

  12. Pakistan Summons Indian Diplomat Over Alleged Cross-Border Fire (sputniknews, Feb 15, 2020)
    https://sputniknews.com/india/202002151078320673-pakistan-summons-indian-diplomat-over-alleged-cross-border-fire/

    “Pakistan has summoned an Indian diplomat in Islamabad four times in two weeks over ceasefire violations along the Line of Control (LoC). The Indian defence ministry has said there were 3,479 incidents where Pakistani security personnel fired at India in 2019, while Pakistan has accused Delhi of 3,000 ceasefire violations.

    Pakistan on Saturday summoned a senior diplomat from the High Commission of India to strongly protest the recent ceasefire violations along the Line of Control in the Nezapir and Rakhchikri Sectors of Jammu and Kashmir…”

  14. ‘He Must Be Stopped’: Turkish Foreign Minister Claims LNA’s Haftar ‘Constantly’ Violating Ceasefire (sputniknews, Feb 15, 2020)
    https://sputniknews.com/africa/202002151078322225-he-must-be-stopped-turkish-foreign-minister-claims-lnas-haftar-constantly-violating-ceasefire/

    “On 19 January, an international conference on Libyan reconciliation took place in Berlin and was attended by 16 states and entities, including Russia, Turkey and the US.

    Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said that Commander of the Libyan National Army, Khalifa Haftar, is constantly violating the ceasefire and “must be stopped”.

    Haftar wants a military solution to the conflict rather than a political one, Cavusoglu said during a joint press conference with German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas at the Munich Security Conference.

    Earlier, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that Haftar continued to violate the ceasefire regime established in Libya.

    “Haftar ignores the peace efforts made in Moscow and Berlin”, Erdogan told reporters last month.

    An international conference on the conflict in Libya was held in Berlin on 19 January. It brought together 16 states and entities, among them Russia, Turkey, Egypt, the EU and the US. The participants agreed that a ceasefire was needed between the warring sides in Libya, and also urged the UN Security Council to impose sanctions on those who would violate a truce.

    Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar is the commander of the Libyan National Army (LNA), which controls the east of the country, while the Government of National Accord (GNA) led by Fayez Sarraj is in control of Libya’s west. The country has been living in a state of a severe political crisis since its leader Muammar Gaddafi was ousted and killed in 2011.”

  15. Pictured: Prince Andrew’s on Bahamas visit to SECOND tycoon facing child sex claims – Duke and family stayed with Peter Nygard who is accused of raping teenagers and plying them with wine and drugs

    Peter Nygard, 78, allegedly told girls as young as 14 he could make them models
    It is claimed he then raped them and forced them into performing ‘deviant acts’
    Andrew and his family visited Nygard’s lavish estate in the Bahamas in 2000

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8005623/Prince-Andrews-Bahamas-visit-SECOND-tycoon-facing-child-sex-claims.html

    Note: reminder that I had predicted that going after pedophiles will be the primary (though not highly visible) way that Trump will ‘drain the swamp’. So far, he has dismantled multiple pedophile rings and sex slave operations, jailing thousands of the mid-level operatives…

  17. French smuggler, 31, is jailed for 14 months after being caught with three Kurdish Iraqis hidden in horrifically ‘unsanitary conditions’ inside caravan on ferry into Portsmouth (dailymail, Feb 15, 2020)
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8007157/French-man-31-jailed-smuggling-three-Kurdish-Iraqis-Britain.html

    “A 31-year-old man has been jailed for smuggling three Kurdish Iraqis into Britain hidden in ‘unsanitary’ conditions inside a caravan.

    French national Jean Dufour borrowed his parents’ silver Citroen C4 and hired a caravan after being offered more than £6,000 by a Kurdish refugee in France to transport the men into Britain.

    But he was caught by Border Force officers as soon as he arrived in Portsmouth at 7pm on January 13.

    They discovered the men in ‘unsanitary conditions’ in the back of the vehicle, Portsmouth Crown Court heard.

    Dufour immediately confessed to people smuggling – and even said he had been prepared to do it again.

    He accepted the money offer while he was a cash-strapped apprentice at Michelin, according to his barrister Daniel Reilly.

    The defendant, who won a full contract, still carried on with the agreement through a sense of ‘obligation’.

    He was asked for help in smuggling people a year before he finally made the trip, the court heard…”

  18. Terrified woman is ‘grabbed and choked by a stranger with a BELT in broad daylight’ – as police release CCTV of a man walking behind her just before the attack (dailymail, Feb 15, 2020)
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8006761/Terrified-woman-choked-stranger-BELT-leaving-Chester-Hill-Railway-Station.html

    “A man hunt is under way after a terrified woman was allegedly grabbed and choked by a stranger with a belt in broad daylight.

    The 27-year-old woman left Chester Hill Railway Station, in Sydney’s west, at 6.15pm on Thursday.

    As she went to cross a road, a man allegedly looped a belt around her neck and choked her.

    The woman allegedly turned and confronted the man who allegedly ran away.

    The woman was unharmed and reported the alleged attack to police.

    Officers have now released CCTV footage of a man who was seen walking behind her…”

  19. Jessie Liu
    The former US Attorney who oversaw the Roger Stone and Mike Flynn persecution prosecutions resigned this week after Trump withdrew her nomination for a job at the Treasury Department.
    NBC reported:

    The former U.S. attorney whose office oversaw the Roger Stone prosecution resigned from the Trump administration Wednesday, two days after President Donald Trump abruptly withdrew her nomination for a top job at the Treasury Department.

    President Trump pulled his nomination on Tuesday of crooked Deep State US Attorney Jessie Liu to the Treasury Department.
    Liu was involved in the Maria Butina case where a young woman sat in prison, due to the fact that she was set up by the Deep State FBI. The information related to the FBI’s set up was never provided to her or her attorneys in spite of numerous requests from the defense for this information which was the government’s duty to provide to her.
    Liu also is involved in the Concord Management case. This case has been a mess since day one. The government alleged numerous lies about the company in order to tie the Mueller sham to Russia. Mueller’s team stated Concord and its sister company Concord Catering were involved in spreading news on Facebook that impacted the US election. The problem is Concord Catering wasn’t even in existence at the time they were indicted by Mueller and the Mueller team was never able to tie Russians to Concord Mangement which spent only $3,000 on Facebook ads that supposedly impacted the 2016 election.

    http://www.tathasta.com/2020/02/corrupt-us-attorney-jessie-liu-resigns.html

  20. 65 Per Cent of French Believe French Civilisation Will Collapse
    TOPSHOT – Firefighters work to put out a fire as cars burn in the Le Breil neighborhood of Nantes early on July 7, 2018. – A French policeman who shot dead a young black man in western France earlier this week, sparking four nights of rioting, has been charged with …
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    A survey released by polling firm Ifop has claimed that more than six in ten French people think that French civilisation as we know it will collapse.

    The survey noted that a third of the people who believed in the collapse. think it will occur in a brutal fashion and put the time frame for the collapse within the next 20 year or so.

    One of the chief reasons stated by respondents as the prime cause of a potential collapse is climate change, with 27 per cent stating that climate factors and overconsumption will spell the end for French civilisation, French media outlet L’Aisne Nouvelle reports.

    Around 15 per cent of the respondents said that mass migration would be the cause of the collapse, while another 14 per cent stated that internal conflicts within French society, or even civil war, could precipitate it.

    Many have warned of a potential civil war in France, including leading radical Islam scholar Gilles Kepel, who stated in 2016 that the “Jihadi Generation” had a goal to destroy Europe in a civil war and rebuild an Islamic society in the aftermath.

    The following year, Belgian historian David Engels made a similar prediction saying that “in 20 to 30 years Europe will have become an authoritarian or imperial state, after a phase resembling civil war and decay.”

    “I expect a civil war, which will force a fundamental social and political reformation in Europe, whether we like it or not, following the example of the decaying Roman Republic in the first century BC,” he added.

    https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/02/15/65-per-cent-of-french-believe-french-civilization-will-collapse/

  21. Another three “Asian” grooming gang abusers have been sentenced for multiple rapes, indecent assaults, and drug dealing offences in Oxford, England.

    41-year-old Naim Khan ( 24/8/1978), 44-year-old Mohammed Nazir (20/3/1975), and 42-year-old Raheem Ahmed (22/2/1977) were convicted of the following crimes, respectively, according to a Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) announcement:

    Seven counts of rape (two counts were multiple incidents covering at least 12 occasions); four counts of indecent assault (two counts were multiple incidents covering at least 15 occasions); one count of procuring a man to rape the victim; two counts of procuring men to indecently assault the victim; one count of supplying class B drugs on at least 12 occasions (Victim 1)
    one count of indecent assault (Victim 2)
    Six counts of rape (four counts were multiple incidents covering at least 14 occasions); five counts of indecent assault (all counts were multiple incidents covering at least 27 occasions); one count of procuring a man to rape the victim; three counts of procuring men to indecently assault the victim (one count was a multiple incident covering at least three occasions); one count of supplying class B drugs on at least 10 occasions (Victim 1)
    Two counts of indecent assault, and one count of supplying class B drugs on at least 10 occasions (Victim 1)

    https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/02/15/more-asian-grooming-gang-abusers-sentenced-oxford-england/

  22. 1 Dead, 4 Injured in Shooting Outside Berlin Music Venue
    https://www.usnews.com/news/entertainment/articles/2020-02-15/1-dead-3-injured-in-shooting-outside-berlin-music-venue
    One person has been killed and 4 others were injured in a shooting late Friday outside a Berlin event venue, German authorities said Saturday.
    A spokeswoman for Berlin prosecutors said one or more people opened fire outside the Tempodrom, located near Potsdamer Platz in the center of the city, before fleeing the scene.
    A 42-year-old man was killed, spokeswoman Mona Lorenz told The Associated Press. Four others were injured, some seriously. Lorenz couldn’t confirm whether the injuries resulted from gunfire.
    Investigators don’t have any indication yet about what motivated the shooting but it doesn’t appear to be terrorism-related, Lorenz said.
    The incident took place on a square in front of the Tempodrom as a Turkish comedy night was being staged inside.
    Berlin has one of the highest number of killings per person among European capitals.

    According to this article in German, the victim has turkish nationality:
    https://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/polizei-justiz/schuesse-vor-tempodrom-getoeteter-ist-42-jaehriger-tuerke-vier-weitere-personen-verletzt/25549254.html

    • BREITBART Germany: One Killed, Four Injured After Shooting at Berlin Tempodrom

      BERLIN (AP) — One person has been killed and 4 others were injured in a shooting late Friday outside a Berlin event venue, German authorities said Saturday.

      A spokeswoman for Berlin prosecutors said one or more people opened fire outside the Tempodrom, located near Potsdamer Platz in the centre of the city, before fleeing the scene.

      A 42-year-old man was killed, spokeswoman Mona Lorenz told The Associated Press. Four others were injured, some seriously. Lorenz couldn’t confirm whether the injuries resulted from gunfire.

      Investigators don’t have any indication yet about what motivated the shooting but it doesn’t appear to be terrorism-related, Lorenz said.

      The incident took place on a square in front of the Tempodrom as a Turkish comedy night was being staged inside.

      Berlin has one of the highest number of killings per person among European capitals.

      https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/02/15/germany-one-killed-four-injured-after-shooting-at-berlin-tempodrom/

  23. Poll reveals dwindling faith in police ability to solve crimes (telegraph, Feb 14, 2020)
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/02/14/poll-reveals-dwindling-faith-police-ability-solve-crimes/

    “As few as one in nine people believe police would solve their case if they were victims of crime, according to an exclusive YouGov poll that exposes a collapse in public confidence in the criminal justice system.

    Only 12 per cent believe police would find and arrest a vandal who had damaged their property, according to the poll of 1,684 adults.

    Just a fifth (22 per cent) believe police would solve a burglary, and only 24 per cent are confident that a mugger or identity thief would be caught and arrested.

    Even for offences such as sexual harassment, stalking and sexual assault, in which a victim is likely to be able to give the police the name of the perpetrator, only around a third believe the offender would be caught and arrested….”

  24. 65 Per Cent of French Believe French Civilisation Will Collapse (breitbart, Feb 15, 2020)
    https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/02/15/65-per-cent-of-french-believe-french-civilization-will-collapse/

    “A survey released by polling firm Ifop has claimed that more than six in ten French people think that French civilisation as we know it will collapse.

    The survey noted that a third of the people who believed in the collapse. think it will occur in a brutal fashion and put the time frame for the collapse within the next 20 year or so.

    One of the chief reasons stated by respondents as the prime cause of a potential collapse is climate change, with 27 per cent stating that climate factors and overconsumption will spell the end for French civilisation, French media outlet L’Aisne Nouvelle reports.

    Around 15 per cent of the respondents said that mass migration would be the cause of the collapse, while another 14 per cent stated that internal conflicts within French society, or even civil war, could precipitate it.

    Many have warned of a potential civil war in France, including leading radical Islam scholar Gilles Kepel, who stated in 2016 that the “Jihadi Generation” had a goal to destroy Europe in a civil war and rebuild an Islamic society in the aftermath.

    The following year, Belgian historian David Engels made a similar prediction saying that “in 20 to 30 years Europe will have become an authoritarian or imperial state, after a phase resembling civil war and decay.”

    “I expect a civil war, which will force a fundamental social and political reformation in Europe, whether we like it or not, following the example of the decaying Roman Republic in the first century BC,” he added.

    Mass migration is often termed in France as the “Great Replacement”, a term coined by prolific French writer Renaud Camus, and a poll released in February of last year suggested that up to a quarter of French believe in the theory.

    Camus explained his theory of replacementism to Breitbart London in late 2018, describing it as people “being treated by managerial politics like an object, a simple product. A product, a producer, and a consumer all at once, a thing, a number, not a human being.””

  25. Germany: One Killed, Four Injured After Shooting at Berlin Tempodrom (breitbart, Feb 15, 2020)
    https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/02/15/germany-one-killed-four-injured-after-shooting-at-berlin-tempodrom/

    “One person has been killed and 4 others were injured in a shooting late Friday outside a Berlin event venue, German authorities said Saturday.

    A spokeswoman for Berlin prosecutors said one or more people opened fire outside the Tempodrom, located near Potsdamer Platz in the centre of the city, before fleeing the scene.

    A 42-year-old man was killed, spokeswoman Mona Lorenz told The Associated Press. Four others were injured, some seriously. Lorenz couldn’t confirm whether the injuries resulted from gunfire.

    Investigators don’t have any indication yet about what motivated the shooting but it doesn’t appear to be terrorism-related, Lorenz said.

    The incident took place on a square in front of the Tempodrom as a Turkish comedy night was being staged inside.

    Berlin has one of the highest number of killings per person among European capitals.”

  26. African Migrant Faked ‘Racist’ Attack By Stabbing Himself (breitbart, Feb 15, 2020)
    https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/02/15/senegalese-migrant-faked-racist-attack-by-stabbing-himself/

    “A Senegalese migrant living in Italy who claimed to have been the victim of a racist attack has now confessed he lied about the entire affair, saying he stabbed himself.

    The incident took place last summer when the 27-year-old Senegalese man arrived in hospital in critical condition with a deep cut to his throat, claiming that two men on the streets of the city of Sulmona had made racist insults before attacking him with a knife, Il Giornale reports.

    The migrant told the emergency workers that he had been approached by the two men after leaving the migrant reception centre he had been living in and after attempting to slit his throat said “we’ll teach you how to live.”

    He went on to claim that two men put him in their car and drove to an area where they threw him into a ditch where he remained overnight. and returned to the reception centre the next day.

    After several months, the migrant’s story fell apart as he provided more and more inaccurate information to investigators. He eventually confessed to them there had been no racist attack and he had inflicted the injury on himself.

    Investigators say the Senegalese man could be charged for making up the crime but the 27-year-old is currently in a fragile mental state.

    The hate hoax comes just months after a Nigerian migrant claimed to have been attacked by “fascists” in Florence in a case where the attackers were later revealed to be Eastern European migrants originally from Romania.

    Italy is not the only country in Europe to have recently seen hate crime hoaxes either. In November, Abdirahim “Husu” Hussein, a Social Democratic Party politician and Helsinki city councillor admitted to making up a hate hoax about a racist passenger in his taxi.

    The admission came after the taxi company had found GPS evidence that refuted the claimed of the Somali migrant.”

  27. Switzerland Thwarts Major Islamic State Terror Attack (breitbart, Feb 15, 2020)
    https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/02/15/switzerland-thwarts-major-islamic-state-terror-attack/

    “According to a new investigation by Swiss media, a cell of jihadists based in Geneva plotted to bomb cisterns full of oil near the city’s airport in a major terror attack.

    The plot, which was set to take place last year before being stopped, revolved largely around a man named Daniel D., who also went by the Islamic name Abu Ilias al-Swisri, a convert to Islam who went on to join the Islamic State terror group two years later, Le Temps reports.

    Al-Swisri, now 25-years-old, had attended the Petit-Saconnex mosque where he met two other radicals named “PF” and Ramzi, who would also join his Islamic State terror cell.

    In 2015, both al-Swisri and Ramzi took a trip to Syria where they met with a branch of Islamic State and received weapons training. PF, who remained in Geneva, requested to join the two men in Syria but was told by al-Swisri that the group wanted to plot an attack in Switzerland.

    Al-Swisri is said to have formed relationships with several more Switzerland-based jihadists, all of whom are currently, like al-Swisri, detained in Kurdish prison camps, and plotted the bombing attack with them.

    In 2018, American intelligence sent a warning to Swiss intelligence regarding the terror plot which was said to have been planned for April or May of 2019. The arrest fo two Albanian migrants heading for Geneva is also rumoured to have been a factor in the unravelling of the plot.

    Details, however, have remained sketchy due to investigators not wanting to jeopardise the case, with key details being kept hidden until they were revealed this week by Le Temps.

    The terror cell is not the first in Switzerland. In 2015 it was revealed that a terror cell was operating out of the An’Nur mosque in the city of Winterthur near Zurich by journalist Kurt Pelda.

    As recently as October of last year, eleven suspected jihadists were arrested by Swiss authorities, including five minors.”

  28. More ‘Asian’ Grooming Gang Abusers Sentenced in Oxford, England (breitbart, Feb 15, 2020)
    https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/02/15/more-asian-grooming-gang-abusers-sentenced-oxford-england/

    “Another three “Asian” grooming gang abusers have been sentenced for multiple rapes, indecent assaults, and drug dealing offences in Oxford, England.

    41-year-old Naim Khan ( 24/8/1978), 44-year-old Mohammed Nazir (20/3/1975), and 42-year-old Raheem Ahmed (22/2/1977) were convicted of the following crimes, respectively, according to a Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) announcement:

    Seven counts of rape (two counts were multiple incidents covering at least 12 occasions); four counts of indecent assault (two counts were multiple incidents covering at least 15 occasions); one count of procuring a man to rape the victim; two counts of procuring men to indecently assault the victim; one count of supplying class B drugs on at least 12 occasions (Victim 1)
    one count of indecent assault (Victim 2)
    Six counts of rape (four counts were multiple incidents covering at least 14 occasions); five counts of indecent assault (all counts were multiple incidents covering at least 27 occasions); one count of procuring a man to rape the victim; three counts of procuring men to indecently assault the victim (one count was a multiple incident covering at least three occasions); one count of supplying class B drugs on at least 10 occasions (Victim 1)
    Two counts of indecent assault, and one count of supplying class B drugs on at least 10 occasions (Victim 1)
    A fourth man, 42-year-old Afzal Mohammed of Randolph Street, Oxford, was acquited of one count of rape.

    Prosecutors claim the convicted trio have been “jailed for a total of 49 years”, with Khan, Nazir, and Ahmed receiving terms of 24 years, 20 years, and five years — but this may be misleading.

    In the British criminal justice system, criminals handed multiple sentences are generally told they will serve them concurrently — i.e. all at the same time, rendering all but the longest effectively meaningless.

    They are also typically eligible for automatic early release on licence halfway through non-“life” terms, or else at the two-thirds point with Parole Board approval if handed special “extended” sentences.

    While the CPS did not make the details of the Oxford gang’s sentencing immediately clear in their announcement, the above was certainly the case for Telford rape gang ringleader Mubarek Ali, who became eligible for release on licence — which he received — less than five years into a supposed 22-year sentence.

    Breitbart London has contacted the CPS for clarification.

    “The abuse to which [the victims] were subjected to by these men was horrendous and sadistic,” said Principal Investigator Mark Glover in comments reported by the Oxford Mail.

    “They have had to live with the actions of these predatory offenders for the majority of their lives, and they have all been impacted in different ways,” he added.

    “They will never be able to forget what happened to them all those years ago.”

    Senior prosecutor Clare Tucker said the “depraved” groomers had “told the teenagers [their abuse] was normal and threatened the victims if they resisted.”

    One of the victims, of whom it is said Naim Khan “began to pimp her out to other Asian males, made her sexually available to other men in return for payment”, revealed the consequences of her abuse in an impact statement: “My life has been destroyed. I cannot form loving or lasting relationships with men. I have not been able to care for my children as a mother should be able to.”

    She did not come forward for some time because she “felt disgusted by what those men did to me” when she was aged between 14 and 15 — “I just didn’t want it to come out and for anyone to know.”

    In British parlance “Asian” typically refers to people with roots in South Asian countries such as Bangladesh and Pakistan rather countries in the Far East like China and Japan.

    Sentencing bulletins from police and prosecutors and mainstream media and local court reports generally do not disclose the religious background of the perpetrators or the ethnicity of their victims in grooming gang cases, but multiple probes suggest abusers are overwhelmingly Muslim and their victims overwhelmingly white — although others including Sikh girls have also been targetted.”

    • zero hedge – In latest Embarrassment For Macron, Former Advisor Ends Mayoral Bid After Explicit Texts, Video Emerge

      French President Emmanuel Macron’s approval ratings already appeared to be at rock-bottom levels as yellow-vest wearing rioters sacked his country’s capital city and an 800-year-old monument to Roman Catholicism suffered a devastating fire on his watch.

      But it appears he has started to dig.

      Members of Macron’s “Le Republique En Marche” movement have fled the party ahead of local elections next month where the president’s centrist movement is expected to do poorly as opinion polls show Macron is giving his predecessor, socialist Francois Hollande, some stiff competition for least popular president of modern France, according to the FT.

      In the latest embarrassment for Macron, Benjamin Griveaux, the “En Marche!” candidate for mayor of Paris, has withdrawn his candidacy after an explicit video and some private messages leaked online, the FT reports. Griveaux apparently sent the sexually-charged messages to a woman who wasn’t his wife.

      Though readers outside of France might not recognize it at first, this is a major blow for Macron ahead of the regional elections next month.

      Before announcing his candidacy, Griveaux was one of Macron’s spokespeople, as well as one of the president’s closest lieutenants, according to Reuters.

      The 42-year-old is one of the “Macron boys”, a clique of political advisors that helped propel the former investment banker to the Elysee Palace.

      He got his start in politics as an adviser to Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former IMF head who achieved international notoriety after allegedly assaulting a maid in an NYC hotel.

      For Griveaux and his family, the leaks followed months of anonymous threats and defamatory statements, along with threats to expose the private data that appears to have been stolen from Griveaux.

      Now, it seems, his antagonists have made good on their threats.

      According to Reuters, a Russian dissident artist named Pyotr Pavlensky published screenshots of an online chat between Griveaux and a woman who was not his wife, exposing his alleged “hypocrisy.”

      The chat included a video of a man’s genitals – allegedly belonging to Griveaux.

      Griveaux’s candidacy was central to Macron’s political strategy moving forward, which relied on building a base of local support in the French capital in the mayoral elections. However, opinion polls showed that Griveaux’ mayoral bid was already in trouble before the scandal.

      The final ironiy is that Macron’s party chose Griveaux over Cedric Villani, whom Reuters described as “an eccentric mathematician.” It’s unclear whether the party will now rally around Villani, a rebel lawmaker who was kicked out of the party last month after referring to political rivals as “arseholes” in a leaked conversation.

      French politicians from all camps denounced the leaks, saying it was a flagrant violation of Griveaux’s privacy.

      Griveaux announced his decision to withdraw in a video statement where he lashed out at the mysterious people who have been hounding him and his family, saying he simply can’t take it anymore.

      “I have decided to withdraw my candidacy from the municipal election,” Griveaux said in a video statement.

      “I do not want myself or my family exposed any longer when all the low blows are permitted. Parisians deserve a dignified campaign,” he said.

      “For more than a year, my family and I have suffered defamatory statements, lies, rumours, anonymous attacks, the revelation of stolen private conversations as well as death threats,” he said. “This torrent of mud has affected me and above all harmed those I love.”

      As Macron’s technocratic, centrist dream crumbles, the French right have gained some newfound momentum. We may be heading for a rematch between Macron and Le Pen in 2022.

      Though the next French national vote is still a long way off…

      https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/latest-embarrassment-macron-former-advisor-ends-mayoral-bid-after-explicit-texts

      • Macron warns of Russian efforts to destabilise Western democracies

        French President Emmanuel Macron has warned that Russia will continue to try to “destabilise” Western democracies by interfering in elections, social media manipulation and other acts of cyber warfare. The French leader was speaking at the Munich Security Conference.

        Moscow would carry out its work “either through private actors, directly through its agencies, or through proxies,” Macron said.

        Russia has been accused of interfering in a string of elections, most notably the 2016 vote that put US President Donald Trump in the White House, and Britain’s Brexit referendum.

        Macron predicted Moscow would be “extremely aggressive” in this arena “in the months and years to come”.

        But the French leader, who hopes to be re-elected in 2022, stressed that Russia was not alone in meddling in foreign elections.

        He said “conservative actors from America’s ultra-right” had sought to interfere in European elections and the French president urged European intelligence agencies to cooperate more closely.

        So-called deep fake videos and information designed to mislead and divide were spreading online without accountability, Macron added, calling for an urgent response.

        Europe accuses US of global retreat

        US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Saturday traded barbs with European leaders over diminishing Western influence, rejecting as “grossly over-exaggerated” their claims that Washington had retreated from the global stage.

        Speaking at the Munich Security Conference, Pompeo sought to assuage European anxiety over the transatlantic bond under an unpredictable President Donald Trump, saying: “The West is winning and we’re winning together.”

        But he was immediately contradicted by French President Emmanuel Macron, who warned of “a weakening of the West”.

        The annual gathering of world leaders, generals and diplomats to discuss security challenges has been dominated by fears over the West’s diminishing role in the face of a more assertive stance by both China and Russia.

        http://www.rfi.fr/en/international/20200215-macron-warns-russian-efforts-destabilise-western-democracies

        • Russia doesn’t need to do anything to destablize the West, the Left in the West are doing that job, in fact they couldn’t do a better job if they tried.

    • Man behind videos that felled Paris mayor contender arrested

      PARIS — A controversial Russian performance artist who claimed responsibility for making public sex videos that brought down a candidate for Paris mayor was detained by police Saturday, the prosecutor’s office said.

      Pyotr Pavlensky was questioned at a police station on Paris’ Left Bank about a separate case involving “violence with a weapon” on New Year’s Eve, the Paris prosecutor’s office said. The nature of the incident wasn’t immediately clear.

      Pavlensky, who fled Russia and was granted asylum in France, has had trouble with the law before. He was convicted in January 2019 of setting fire to a Bank of France branch and damaging its facade in 2017.

      He was sentenced to a year in prison, plus a two-year suspended sentence. However, the judge allowed Pavlensky to walk free because he had already spent 11 months in pretrial detention.

      The appearance of the sex videos on an internet site created by Pavlensky pushed the mayoral candidate representing President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist party to withdraw from the race Friday, a month before the election.

      Pavlensky created a special site to post the material, believed to have been extracted from cellphone exchanges.

      The candidate, Benjamin Griveaux, did not directly acknowledge a connection to the explicit videos. But his withdrawal sent shock waves through the political establishment of a country that has a tradition of keeping the private lives of public servants out of view.

      Pavlensky left Russia in 2017 after being told of rape accusations against him. While in Russia, he set a fire in front of the Russian federal security agency and nailed his scrotum to Moscow’s Red Square in what he said was a metaphor for Russian political apathy.

      https://toronto.citynews.ca/2020/02/15/man-behind-videos-that-felled-paris-mayor-contender-arrested/

  33. Billionaire oligarch Mike Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York City who is now running for president, funded a network of attorneys who helped pursue prosecutions related to “climate change.”

    As the Competitive Enterprise Institute noted in a 2018 report, Bloomberg created a “scheme” to pay attorneys who were placed in the offices of state attorneys general, and whose role was to pursue environmental violations — as well as the political opponents of left-wing climate change policies:

    Led and funded by former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, this scheme centerson paying to place activist attorneys—dubbed State Assistant Attorneys General (SAAGs)—in offices of the attorney general (OAGs) to play an agreed, predetermined, and activist role.

    The intent is for those attorneys to advance the donors’ and large environmental advocacy groups’ “progressive clean energy, climate change, and environmental” policy agenda and—according to at least one OAG application—expressly to assist in pursuing the same agenda’s political opponents. In practice, this is a case of law enforcement for hire.

    https://www.breitbart.com/environment/2020/02/14/rule-of-law-mike-bloomberg-funded-special-prosecutors-on-climate-change/

  34. zero hedge – Bloomberg Considers Hillary For Running Mate

    In another classic Drudge Report scoop that is bound to dominate the Democratic Primary news cycle from now until South Carolina and Nevada, the conservative-leaning aggregator reports that Mike Bloomberg is considering Hillary Clinton as a potential running mate.

    ===================================================

    EXCLUSIVE: BLOOMBERG CONSIDERS HILLARY RUNNING MATE

    Sources close to Bloomberg campaign tell DRUDGE REPORT that candidate is considering Hillary as running mate, after their polling found the Bloomberg-Clinton combination would be a formidable force

    https://twitter.com/DRUDGE/status/1228704614737821697

    ====================================================

    The news comes amid a surge in the polls that has put Bloomberg closer and closer to taking first in Florida, a key part of his strategy.

    And sure, Bloomberg wasn’t even on the ballot in Iowa, but who needs the electoral process when you have money and deep-state Clinton power? After all, nobody knows how to rig a primary like Hillary.

    more:
    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/bloomberg-considers-hillary-running-mate

    • This, I predicted months ago.

      Hillary has had multiple facial cosmetic procedures and she’s been more visible lately.

      Bloomberg is only 5’4”. His choices for a running mate are quite limited because he can’t appear diminished in stature. In Politics, optics are everything. Thus, only a female can fit the role.

      Bonus: with a female running mate, he’ll attract stupid/feminist female voters. And with Hillary, even female Black voters.

      I now know Bloomberg and Hillary don’t believe in the ‘Never twice without thrice’. Hillary lost twice.

      • The Dems hold the American voters in Contempt and all of their actions since the 2016 election have shown that contempt. They consider themselves to be the elite who are ordained by God to rule the US. They have a plan to turn the eitinre world into a socialist hellhole and part of the plan is to create so much chaos that the US Government collapses this event is suppose to open the door for a Far Left strongman to step in to save the US. If this happens Look at the Soviet Union, the Warsaw Block, Communist China, Cuba and Venezuela to discover what will happen it they succeed in their attempt to seize total control.

  35. No charges against Andrew McCabe; McCabe says ‘absolute disgrace’ to put his family through this
    By J.E. Dyer February 14, 2020

    The Friday afternoon news drop brings word that the Department of Justice won’t be filing charges against former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe.

    The DOJ IG referred McCabe for possible charges stemming from his “lack of candor” during the 2017-2018 probe of the FBI’s handling of the Clinton Foundation investigation. The IG found that McCabe “lacked candor” under questioning about his role in a media leak to the Wall Street Journal in October 2016, shortly before the presidential election. Basically, in 2017, he first told investigators he had no role in the leak, but later acknowledged that he had been involved in it. (In fact, he admitted authorizing it.)

    Reportedly, McCabe has since apologized to the investigators for making false statements to them. So we can take comfort in that.

    McCabe was fired just short of his pension eligibility date in March 2018 because of the lack-of-candor finding in the IG report. In August 2019, he sued the Justice Department for “wrongful” firing, claiming that the Trump administration was retaliating against him. The initial reports that no charges will be filed against him have not clarified whether the status of his federal pension will get another look.

    Trending: Judge Napolitano: If Stone juror lied, she could face jail time, and Stone should get a new trial

    https://libertyunyielding.com/2020/02/14/no-charges-against-andrew-mccabe-mccabe-says-absolute-disgrace-to-put-his-family-through-this/

  36. NEW YORK: Massive blood loss from his neck onto the sidewalk (VIDEO)

    French tourist randomly slashed in the neck in Harlem

    A French tourist was randomly slashed in the neck while strolling in Harlem with his girlfriend on Friday, police said.

    Video obtained by The Post showed the 27-year-old man kneeling on a sidewalk, with his blood spilling on the pavement, as people press a cloth to his neck and his distraught girlfriend holds him while talking to police.

    The unidentified couple was walking on Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard between West 132nd and 133rd streets at around 11 a.m. when a stranger slashed the man across the face and neck with a knife, cops said.

    “One of my customers ran in asking me if I could speak French. He said someone got cut on the neck but [that the victim] wasn’t speaking English,” said Oliver Dominguez, a worker at the nearby Maya Hardware Store.

    The tourist and his girlfriend had just walked out of the IHOP on Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard at West 135th Street when the unprovoked attack happened, police sources said.

    EMS rushed the man to Harlem Hospital, where he was listed in critical but stable condition.

    Police canvassed the neighborhood for a suspect dressed in black and wearing Air Jordan sneakers but had yet to find him as of Friday evening.

    A man who works in a nearby building recounted the attack after seeing it on surveillance tape.

    MORE… https://nypost.com/2020/02/14/french-tourist-randomly-slashed-in-the-neck-in-harlem/

  37. GREECE _ ATHENS – Police sweep in city center after deadly street shooting

    A total of 130 foreign nationals were detained in downtown Athens on Friday afternoon as part of a police sweep sparked by a shooting Thursday in the city center that left a 23-year-old Afghan national dead.

    Another 25-year-old Afghan suffered serious knife wounds.

    Witnesses said around 30 people armed with guns and knives attacked a group of men selling contraband cigarettes on the corner of Menandrou and Sapfous streets.

    Police believe the incident is linked to a turf war between competing criminal gangs.

    Most of those who were detained were later released while five were arrested for not having residence documents. Another 15 were charged with illegal trading.

    http://www.ekathimerini.com/249594/gallery/ekathimerini/in-images/police-sweep-in-city-center-after-deadly-street-shooting

  38. London’s Euston Station Evacuated Amid Unconfirmed Reports of Stabbing Incident (sputniknews, Feb 15, 2020)
    https://sputniknews.com/uk/202002151078323907-londons-euston-station-evacuated-amid-unconfirmed-reports-of-stabbing-incident/

    “There have been reports of people “running in panic” and armed police at the scene, the Daily Mail reported.

    London Euston station has been evacuated following reports of a stabbing incident, media reports say…”

  39. Turkey Vows to Drive Syrian Army Out of Idlib Unless It Leaves Province by End of February (sputniknews, Feb 15, 2020)
    https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202002151078324003-turkey-vows-to-drive-syrian-army-out-of-idlib-unless-it-leaves-province-by-end-of-february/

    “Tensions in northern Syria began to escalate earlier this month when Turkey retaliated against the killing of eight Turkish nationals in a shelling which Ankara claims was conducted by Syrian forces on one of Turkey’s observation posts in the Arab country’s Idlib province.

    Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay told the country’s NTV broadcaster on Saturday that Ankara “has fulfilled its responsibilities” in the northwestern Syrian province of Idlib, in sync with its agreement on de-escalation zones with Moscow and Tehran.

    “Some of our [military] observation posts have now fallen into areas controlled by the [Syrian] regime”, Oktay added, in an apparent reference to the posts that Turkey established in the province under the trilateral deal.

    He also warned that Ankara will use military power to drive the Syrian Army out of Idlib unless it withdraws from the province by the end of February.

    “The [Bashar Assad] regime must know this: if attacks on our military continue, Turkey will know no bounds [in its retaliation]. This message was clearly conveyed to Russia”, Oktay said

    He spoke after the Russian Defence Ministry blamed the escalation of the situation in Idlib on Turkey’s failure to live up to its obligations on Syria.

    “The real reason of the crisis in Idlib de-escalation zone is, unfortunately, the failure of our Turkish colleagues to adhere to their commitments on separating moderate opposition fighters from terrorists of Jabhat al-Nusra* and Hurras ad-Din [linked to al-Qaeda*], the Ministry said.

    It pointed to “provocations in Idlib de-escalation zone by the terrorist groups that use ‘live shield’ against the Syrian government forces”.

    The Ministry also said that the situation in Idlib is “exacerbated by the arrival of weapons and ammunition in the de-escalation zone via the Syrian-Turkish border, as well as the arrival of Turkish armoured vehicles and troops” in the area.

    The statement came as Syrian government forces increased their efforts to expel militants from Idlib, the only remaining militant stronghold in Syria. At the same time, the Turkish Defence Ministry reported that the country’s military has been conducting retaliatory attacks on Syrian government forces.

    Earlier this week, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov commented on the situation in Idlib by emphasising that Damascus had every right to engage in anti-terrorist operations on its own territory.

    “This is a matter of fulfilling the Sochi accords [on Idlib de-escalation zone] and the obligations that the parties assumed in accordance with this document. Also, perhaps first and foremost, we’re talking about the fight against terrorism that the Syrian Armed Forces are waging on the territory of their country”, Peskov pointed out.

    Tensions in Northern Syria on Increase
    He made the remarks amid escalating tensions in northern Syria which started to worsen earlier this month, when the shelling, which Ankara argued was conducted by Syrian forces on one of Turkey’s observation posts in Idlib, claimed the lives of at least eight Turkish nationals. The Syrian government hasn’t commented on the claims yet.

    Turkish troops responded with an air strike which they claimed killed at least 76 Syrian servicemen.

    Idlib remains one of four de-escalation zones created in Syria through the joint efforts of Russia, Iran and Turkey in 2017. The region is believed to contain tens of thousands of terrorist militants, as well as hundreds of thousands of civilians. Late last year, the Syrian Army began an operation in the area after militants’ repeated attacks on Syrian Army positions claimed the lives of dozens of servicemen.

    * Jabhat al-Nusra, al-Qaeda, terrorist groups banned in Russia and some other countries”

    • Erdogan Demands Syrian Forces Immediately Leave Idlib, Refuses to Wait Until End of Month (sputniknews, Feb 15, 2020)
      https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202002151078324418-erdogan-demands-syrian-forces-immediately-leave-idlib-refuses-to-wait-until-end-of-month/

      “Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan demanded on Saturday that Syrian government forces immediately withdrew from the areas close to Turkish observation posts in Idlib, backtracking from his previous pledge to wait for the move until the end of February.

      “Until the regime’s [Syrian government] forces pull out beyond the borders [of the Idlib de-escalation zone] outlined in the Sochi agreement, the problem will not be solved. If they do not leave, we will do this work without waiting until the end of February,” Erdogan said in a speech in Istanbul, broadcast by the NTV channel.

      Erdogan earlier repeatedly threatened military action unless Syrian armed forces stopped their operation in Idlib and withdrew from the aforementioned areas by the end of the month…”

    • Turkey Sending Military Equipment to Terrorists in Syria – Source (sputniknews, Feb 15, 2020)
      https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202002151078324243-turkey-sending-military-equipment-to-terrorists-in-syria—source/

      “Nusra Front terrorists shot down two Syrian Army helicopters in Syria this week, with the escalation coming amid raging tensions between Damascus and Ankara, which escalated into a shooting war this week after Syrian artillery struck a Turkish observation post in the rebel province on Monday.

      Much of the Turkish military equipment being sent into Syria finds its way into the hands of Jabhat al-Nusra* immediately after crossing the border, a military-diplomatic source told Sputnik on Saturday.

      According to the source, who asked to remain unidentified, Syria’s Idlib de-escalation zone now contains over 70 Turkish-sourced tanks, about 200 armoured vehicles and 80 pieces of artillery.

      The source said that Turkish armoured vehicles, poorly driven by their untrained terrorist crews, are being spotted more and more often by the Syrian Army. “In the last week alone, government forces repelling attacks by militants destroyed over 20 Turkish-supplied tanks and infantry fighting vehicles,” the source said.

      The source also indicated that US-made MANPAD air defence systems being used by terrorists in Idlib were sourced from Turkish military stocks. “The US MANPADS which were in service with the Turkish armed forces, which the militants did not have access to before, fell into the hands of the terrorists thanks to Turkish deliveries,” the source said.
      Calling these weapons’ deployment in Idlib a “major” source of concern, the source warned that “nobody in Ankara, and especially in Washington, knows where these weapons will end up in the future.”

      Turkey is also responsible for providing terrorist militants in Idlib with Turkish Army uniforms, the source said, saying this was another cause for concern, as it allows terrorists to attack Syrian forces under the guise of being Turkish troops, with which Syria and its partners have sought to avoid an escalation.

      Finally, the source alleged that Ankara is continuing to transfer personnel, weapons and equipment into Idlib, despite Ankara’s statements about seeking a diplomatic solution to the conflict.

      Turkish officials did not immediately comment on the allegations made by the source…”

  40. Kazakh violence puts spotlight on Chinese Muslim minority

    Residents of the Dungan village of Masanchi in Kazakhstan clean up after the February 7 rampage, which resulted in 11 deaths, and saw hundreds of ethnic Kazakh assailants set fire to dozens of homes, shops and livestock in the village inhabited by ethnic Chinese Muslims.

    The bloody clashes have highlighted underlying tensions in a region where many ethnic groups live side by side, and have left some in the Dungan community wondering what the future holds for them.

  47. All men in Alabama will be forced to have a VASECTOMY at 50 or when they have their third child under ‘outrageous’ state law proposed by Democrat

    Rep. Rolanda Hollis put the bill forward in reaction to the abortion ban
    Hollis says Republicans have tried to ‘dictate a woman’s body’
    The proposal has been branded an ‘outrageous overstep’ by opponents
    Men would have to to pay for the enforced sterilization themselves
    The Republican state senate passed a near-total ban on abortion last year
    The law has been temporarily blocked by a federal judge since October

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8007287/Men-FORCED-vasectomy-50-outrageous-law-proposed-Alabama-Democrat.html

  48. Climate Strike Chaos: Antifa and Extinction Rebellion Violently Clash With Police in London

  49. BEIJING: A disabled boy has died after being left to fend for himself when his father was quarantined over the deadly new coronavirus in China’s Hubei province.

    Yan Cheng, who was confined to a wheelchair because of cerebral palsy, was abandoned at home when his father was isolated because of a fever.

    The 17-year-old, who could not speak, walk or eat by himself, and whose mother died several years earlier, had no one to feed him or help him with daily life.

    https://www.bangkokpost.com/world/1850339/disabled-chinese-boy-dies-while-father-in-virus-quarantine