Reader’s Links for march 8, 2020

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

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  1. In the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Jihad – 2019

    ( 1 h 56 min )

    This movie tells the unique story of the Ayachis, a French Muslim family from Aix-en-Provence who traded their peaceful lives for revolution and Jihad in Syria in the name of Allah.

    The Ayachis are no ordinary Jihadists.

    Their path and ideas couldn’t be further from the clichés to which they’re associated.

    This family, headed by a Syrian father, was hailed as a model of Muslim integration in France in the 80’s, notably in a televised documentary.

    The father, imam Bassam Ayachi, was exiled to France in the 70’s. He descends from an old and prestigious family of the Syrian Sunni aristocracy. His son, Abdelrahman Ayachi, brilliant student at the university of Aix-en-Provence then Brussels, founded a small computer business.

    Then he became a famous warlord in Syria.

    He doesn’t follow Ben Laden’s example, but that of CHE GUEVARA !

    The Ayachi family fights against Bachar El Assad but also against ISIS.

    Walking the line between Middle-East and Europe, father and son both preach the benefits of Sharia and polygamy… but they also praise democracy values, those of 1789 or May 1968.

    Through the story of this family like no other, this movie evokes the complex relationship between two worlds: West and East, whose intimate relationship is shaping our society and civilisation. [ not shaping ... destroying ]

    This film follows the steps of the father, son, mother and sister. Stéphane Malterre, the director, follows them between Syria, France and Belgium.

  2. Another day on the rock pile.

    Notice gas prices? Now, to add to cratering demand because of–wait, no, back up.

    In Canada we’ve had the rail blockade terrorists who have created assorted known, and unnoticed market supply issues. We already had a slowly economy. Now Wuhan virus hits, which is like a sucker punch to the economy all on its own.

    I believe the 10-year T-Bill (U.S.) was showing an inverted yield curve on Friday, which indicates certain recession ahead.

    The Saudis react to the resultant falling oil prices by telling OPEC members to slash production. Putin tells them to shove it. So what do they do? Double down. May as well do our best to hurt the American shale producers who have really hurt us, they rationalize.

    Not that it matters, but if you or I have more than 3/4 share of any one market and collude to fix prices, it’s a crime. OPEC, I imagine, was tolerated by the U.S. all these years only because of the Saudi agreement to back the U.S. dollar post circa 1974 by recycling sales into T-Bills.

    This probably means the writing for OPEC is on the wall. Good riddance.

    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-07/saudis-plan-big-oil-output-hike-beginning-all-out-price-war?srnd=premium

  4. “Fear Grows in Italy as Coronavirus Containment Fails to Slow Spread”
    By jamie Dettmer – March 7, 2020

    Excerpt:

    Salvini bodyguard tests positive

    On Friday, it emerged that one of the bodyguards protecting Matteo Salvini, leader of the populist, anti-migrant Lega party, had tested positive for the virus. Salvini, who has mounted fierce criticism of the government’s response to coronavirus, appeared to dismiss calls to self-isolate, saying he felt fine and arguing he had little contact with the bodyguard. But he added, “Obviously, I’ll do everything that the health authorities will ask me to do, like any other citizen.”

    Five Star Movement politician Carlo Sibilia said Salvini should self-quarantine. “The virus does not look at your name. It does not look at your social position or your parliamentary status,” Sibilia said. “We invite all those, including Salvini, who have documented contacts with people who have tested positive to follow the measures developed by the government and not to go it alone, because it would mean endangering Italian citizens.”
    https://www.voanews.com/science-health/coronavirus-outbreak/fear-grows-italy-coronavirus-containment-fails-slow-spread

  5. “#UPDATE: Death toll has risen to 10, rescue work continues for remained 23 trapped people. Victims quarantined inside the collapsed hotel in Quanzhou, SE China’s Fujian, tested negative in nucleic acid test. Local authorities organized an investigation team to probe the accident.” People’s Daily, China – March 8, 2020 – Twitter
    https://twitter.com/PDChina/status/1236497047114731520

  7. Germany: Was this church vandalized by a Muslim refugee ?

    Yesterday morning, Saturday, a 49-year-old man rioted in a church in Guxhagen, district Ellenberg, causing damage of at least 10,000 euros.

    According to the police officers of the Melsungen police station, the man first entered the church by force and then damaged benches and other objects inside the church.

    After the police were called in at around 8:20 a.m., the police forces were able to arrest the man, who was known to the police, unharmed in the church shortly afterwards.

    As the 49-year-old man was allegedly confused and homeless (a paraphrase often used for criminal Muslim refugees), he was subsequently taken to hospital.

    Further investigations will be conducted by the responsible police station in Melsungen.
    More:
    https://medforth.blog/2020/03/08/germany-was-this-church-vandalized-by-a-muslim-refugee/

    • Then will the bottom-squeezer get a phone call from this same Officer and say he investigating Tommy for having “touched” him?

      “The truth is no defense” has moved to “the truth is no defence”.

      (Free Speech in America vs Redacted Speech in the UK).

  15. S. Korea confirms 179 new cases of COVID-19 bringing the total to more than 7,300

  17. Testimony from Michael Trammer, the journalist who was assaulted on Lesbos (by local anti-immigration vigilantes). In German:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKc1WY7dNZ8
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnS1xCb2RZw

    Johannes Scharf, Mario Müller and camera team were assaulted by Antifa. Testimony, in German:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_bj_vFCwp4

    Identitarians go to Greece to get involved at the border, are attacked by Antifa. In German:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cx_6AiY5rCQ

    Seven arrested for planning to beat migrants on Greek island
    https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/02/arrested-planning-beat-migrants-greek-island-200207163424072.html

    NGO members attacked in Lesbos island by Greeks

  18. Lesbos on strike amid protests against migrant detention centres
    https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/02/lesbos-strike-protests-migrant-detention-centres-200226120551774.html

    Greece migrant crisis: Refugee centre ablaze as tensions rise
    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-51781394

    Blaze engulfs refugee shelter on Lesbos amid tensions over surge in migration
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dEDRen7vLE

    Live, Lesbos Refugees Shelter Fire
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utFYmnTzI0o

    Refugee centre burns, this left-wing channel suggests it has to do with right-wing extremists. In German:

  19. Coronavirus in Missouri: Woman in St. Louis County tests positive for COVID-19

    CLAYTON, Mo. (KMOV.com) — Missouri Governor Mike Parson announced the first confirmed coronavirus case in the state was found in St. Louis County.

    Parson said a 20-year-old St. Louis County woman was tested positive for COVID-19 on Saturday. Officials said she was studying abroad in Italy and flew to Chicago O’Hare International Airport and took an Amtrak to St. Louis.
    read more at

    https://www.kmov.com/news/first-coronavirus-covid-confirmed-in-st-louis-county-missouri/article_039df6e6-60d5-11ea-b21c-73e9e9f251b7.html

    Richard: That is about 120 miles East South East from me. ;There are other articles but they are all saying the same thing.

  20. China’s coronavirus quarantine hotel collapses, dozens trapped | China in Focus – NTD

  23. KT McFarland on the Communist China Threat & the Unique Workings of Trump Foreign Policy [CPAC 2020]

  28. Troops deployed to U.S.-Mexico border in case of refugee rush

    Additional troops are reportedly being sent to the U.S.-Mexico border. According to new reports, the military has reassigned 160 troops to the ports of entry in El Paso, Texas, and San Ysidro, California.

    U.S. Customs and Border Protection confirmed the troops are scheduled to be there for about two weeks, but said their stay could be extended.

    The move came in response to a federal court’s decision to dismantle the ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy in California and Arizona. The court ruled that the initiative violated U.S. and international law.

    The policy has blocked asylum seekers, particularly those traveling through or from South America, from entering the U.S. until their claims have been heard in court. Since going into effect over a year ago, about 60,000 asylum seekers have begun taking refuge in Mexico while they await possible entry into the U.S.

    https://www.oann.com/u-s-troops-deployed-to-u-s-mexico-border-in-case-of-refugee-rush/

  29. Alarmed Italy locks down north to prevent spread of coronavirus

    MILAN (Reuters) – Italy ordered a virtual lockdown across a swathe of its wealthy north on Sunday, including the financial capital Milan, in a drastic new attempt to try to contain a rapidly growing outbreak of coronavirus.

    The unprecedented restrictions, which will impact some 16 million people and stay in force until April 3, were signed into law overnight by Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte.

    https://www.oann.com/italy-orders-lockdown-of-swathes-of-north-to-try-to-stop-coronavirus/

  30. Turkey: “Open your doors” – Erdogan tells Greece to let migrants in

    Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told Greece to “open your doors,” adding that the migrants massed at its border “will not come and stay in your country,” while speaking at International Women’s day event in Istanbul.

    “They will cross and will go to another European country. Why are you bothered?” continued Erdogan.

    “Open your doors too, get rid of this burden, they can go to other European countries,” he added.

    • Merkel on Monday told reporters in Berlin it was understandable if Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan felt overwhelmed by the number of refugees coming to Turkey from Syria.

    • Polish Minister Mariusz Kaminski

      “We can’t allow the dangerous situation on the Greek / Turkish border to turn into a new migration crisis like in 2015 We are prepared to send the Greeks some very concrete help.”

    • Greece: Protesters flood Athens in solidarity with migrants

      Protesters including members of an anti-fascist movement took to the streets of Athens to call for solidarity with migrants stranded at the Greek-Turkish border, on Saturday.

      The demonstrators gathered in the Monastiraki square, where they held banners and distributed flyers in support of migrants.

      The demonstration continued into the night, with riot police seen present at the scene with no major incidents reported.

    • Greece: “No to mosques, no to hospitality” – Anti-migrant protesters demonstrate in Thessaloniki

      Dozens of far-right protesters gathered in Thessaloniki on Sunday to demand that Greece closes the borders and stops letting migrants and refugees in.

      “We want closed borders at Evros Greece-Turkey border line, they are illegal immigrants not refugees,” said one resident as dozens marched with Greek flags, chanting anti-immigration slogans and singing the Greek national anthem.

      “They come from 72 different countries and we don’t want them here in Greece. They ask to be hosted in this country, by throwing rocks and tear gas,” she added.

      Anti-immigration banners, including one that read, “No to mosques, no to hospitality. Islam and illegal invaders out of Greece. Do not give them apartments to stay,” could be seen at the rally that had a heavy riot police presence.


    • PARiS – TURKiSH Embassy – MARCH 07 2020

      All of them were arrested and spent the night in jail

      • What turmoil in Europe. Both Greece and Italy trying to protect themselves, but from different invaders.

    • Serbia: “We are not safe anymore” – Anti-migrant demo held in Belgrade

      The anti-migrant demonstration was held in the Serbian capital city of Belgrade on Sunday, amid fears of a migrant surge.

      People were seen holding Serbian and Greek flags, with some voicing concern about their safety.

      “We, the citizens of Serbia, are not safe anymore. I expect from my country to respect the constitution, to respect its own citizens first, citizens of Serbia. The state should protect us, its own citizens instead of protecting the foreign citizens,” said Aleksandra, one of the protesters.

      The protest started in front of the government building and from there people marched to the areas populated by migrants.

  31. (Richard: 2024 will probably be a Pence Haley ticket, this won’t split the Repub party and give Haley the executative training she needs.)

    Is Nikki Haley Planning A Presidential Run In 2024, Or Just Blasting Socialism To Help Trump?
    3-4 minutes

    (AmericanPoliticalDaily.com) – A potential 2024 Republican presidential candidate may already be hitting the campaign trail.

    During a speech she delivered at the Hudson Institute this week, Nikki Haley slammed Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders and warned listeners about the dangers of socialism.

    “We must promise each other and future generations that America will never become a socialist country,” she said at the think tank based in Washington, D.C. “Socialism is a total disaster, and as Americans, we must condemn it wherever it exists. That is why it is truly amazing to see how socialism has become trendy in parts of America. These days, it seems like socialism is everywhere.

    “It’s in our colleges and universities. It’s in Congress, where an up-and-coming congresswoman [Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez] says, ‘Capitalism is irredeemable.’ It’s at the highest levels of society and politics. Right now, the Democratic presidential frontrunner is an avowed socialist named Bernie Sanders. Only in a prosperous country like America can people be so flippant about capitalism and so naïve about socialism.

    https://americanpoliticaldaily.com/is-nikki-haley-planning-a-presidential-run-in-2024-or-just-blasting-socialism-to-help-trump/

  32. PHOTOS: Greek Border in Flames as Migrants Storm the Border – Geller Report News
    5-7 minutes

    The European Union, including the United Kingdom, gave billions to the jihadi Erdogan government – jizya – in a delusional effort to stop the hijrah.

    PICTURES: Greek Border in Flames as Migrants Keep Trying to Break Through

    By: Jack Montgomery, 7 Mar 2020820

    Dramatic pictures and video are emerging of fires raging along the border between Greece and Turkey, as migrants — aided and even armed by the Turks, according to the Greeks — continue their efforts to force their way in.
    The European Union, including the United Kingdom, funnelled billions of euros to the Islamist government in Ankara in an effort to persuade it to bring the migrant crisis under a modicum of control after hundreds of thousands of illegal border crossings, often by sea, in 2015-16.

    That deal unravelled at the end of February 2020, as Turkish president Reep Tayyip Erdogan announced migrants were free to pass through his country and into Europe, seemingly as punishment for the West’s failure to offer sufficient support to his invasion of Syria, which has become fraught with danger as his forces clash with the Russian-backed Syrian government in Idlib province.

    https://gellerreport.com/2020/03/migrants-torm-border-2.html/

  33. Showdown Brews As U.N. Court Targets U.S. GIs – Geller Report News
    6-8 minutes

    Breathtaking. A catastrophic move in a long history of UN failures. It is long past time we withdraw our considerable financial support of this corrupt institution. The alternative? How can democracies and dictatorships co-exist in a world body successfully? They can’t. And so immediately the organization was destined to fail. And it has. Spectacularly. The UN charter is a big lie, and things built on big lies tend to work to extremely damaging effects.

    UN expert Claudia Rosett said, “The UN is ‘power with law.’” It operates outside the law. The law of its own recipe ……brought us Animal Farm.

    https://gellerreport.com/2020/03/showdown-brews-as-u-n-court-targets-u-s-gis.html/

    • When the ICC was created a law was passed and signed by the President that requires the US government to do everything necessary to free any US Citizen that is on trial at the ICC. It was stated in the bill that if military force or even a war against another nation or nations that would be done.Up until now the Judges for the ICC have held back from investigating or trying US citizens, I guess this Judge thinks the Dems have enough power to stop any strong response. They are very wrong.

  34. In an effort to get rid of Christian (which was mostly Catholic) teaching in schools, the Quebec Government brought in their own course on religion and ethics, but it worked too well and they have found that young people are more accepting of religious differences and symbols, and making them more multicultural, so that won’t do. And now the Government is scrapping that course and bringing in another one aimed at making its little citizens more secular and diluting the religious content even more. (It was taking up too much time). Stamping out religion and imposing Government forced secularism is proving more difficult than they thought. Perhaps because culture works from the bottom up and not the top down.

    https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/end-of-quebec-course-on-religion-and-ethics-seen-as-win-for-nationalists/ar-BB10U3AE?ocid=spartandhp

  35. Women’s March in Pakistan’s Islamabad Attacked by Religious Groups – Photo, Video (sputniknews, Mar 8, 2020)
    https://sputniknews.com/asia/202003081078512532-womens-march-in-pakistans-islamabad-attacked-by-religious-groups/

    “Pakistani women in their thousands took to the streets in Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore, Quetta, and Sukkur on Sunday to mark the Aurat Azadi March (Women’s Freedom March).

    The Aurat Azadi March in Islamabad was allegedly attacked by the religious parties on Sunday…”

    • Pakistan: Conservative rally clashes with Women”s March participants in Islamabad

      Clashes erupted between participants of the Women’s March (Aurat march) and a conservative religious rally in Islamabad on International Women’s Day on Sunday.

      Footage shows members of the conservative groups removing a fence that was installed by local authorities and organisers to separate the two rallies from each other. Police forces struggled to contain the outraged mob who continued to throw projectiles at people in the Women’s March.

      The Women’s March has been held in different cities in Pakistan since 2018 and has prompted outrage amongst some religious groups in the country, who even took a petition to ban the march to a court in Lahore, which failed to pass.

  36. Erdogan Threatens Unilateral Action in Idlib if Russia-Brokered Ceasefire Goes Awry (sputniknews, Mar 8, 2020)
    https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202003081078512578-erdogan-threatens-unilateral-action-in-idlib-if-russia-brokered-ceasefire-goes-awry/

    “Russia brokered a ceasefire between Turkey and Syria on Thursday, which wrapped up weeks of fighting in Syria’s last rebel-held province that caused dozens of casualties on both sides.

    Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has threatened to take unilateral action in Syria’s Idlib if the Russia-brokered ceasefire deal is not adhered to.

    “If the promises made regarding Operation Spring Shield are not kept, we reserve the right to clean up [the area] using our own methods,” Erdogan said in a speech in Istanbul on Sunday.

    “If the agreement is violated, we will go strongly after [those who violate it]. We signed this agreement [with Russia] to provide a solution to the crisis in Idlib without further bloodshed. Otherwise, we will continue to walk our own path.”

    Russia and Turkey announced a preliminary agreement on Thursday after Erdogan’s six-hour meeting with Vladimir Putin in Moscow. A ceasefire went into effect in the province of Idlib on 6 March, with Russia and Turkey agreeing to jointly patrol the M4 highway south of Idlib beginning on 15 March and setting up a 12-kilometre-wide security corridor along that highway.

    Idlib, in northwestern Syria, is the last region controlled by forces opposed to President Bashar al-Assad. Those include the jihadist alliance Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (al-Qaida’s former Syrian affiliate) and several Turkish-backed militant groups.

    The Syrian army has been conducting an offensive against Idlib rebels since early December. Turkey deployed thousands of troops to the area in February to halt their advance and push them back to pre-offensive lines. The stand-off descended into fighting between Syrian and Turkish armies.

    A Syrian army air strike on a militant convoy on 27 Feb. killed 33 Turkish forces; Russia, Syria’s main military ally, said that the Turkish troops were not supposed to be there and that nobody, including the Syrian command, knew about their whereabouts.

    In response to the attack, Turkey launched Operation Spring Shield – its fourth military mission in the war-torn country since 2016. As part of that operation, Turkish forces were launching drone attacks and striking Syrian soldiers, equipment and ammunition depots.

    According to Erdogan, at least 59 Turkish troops died in Idlib last month, with just over 100 Syrian troops reportedly killed.”

  37. Turkish President Erdogan Urges Greece to ‘Open the Gates’ to Migrants (sputniknews, Mar 8, 2020)
    https://sputniknews.com/world/202003081078511885-turkish-president-erdogan-urges-greece-to-open-the-gates-to-migrants—reports/

    “Turkey announced last month that it could no longer restrain the flow of refugees from Syria, and opened its borders. Following this decision, taken amid tensions in Syria’s Idlib province, thousands of migrants have been attempting to enter Greece through Turkey. Police and army units have been deployed to the border.

    Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called on Greece to “open the gates” to migrants.

    “Hey Greece! I appeal to you… open the gates as well and be free of this burden. Let them go to other European countries,” President Erdogan said during a televised speech in Istanbul.

    He added that he will travel to Belgium on Monday for talks with European Council President Charles Michel and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.

    “I hope I will return from Belgium with different outcomes,” Erdogan said.
    The Turkish coast guard said on Saturday that Erdogan had ordered that they bar refugees from crossing the sea border with Greece due to a threat to their security.

    Greek-Turkish border crisis
    The situation with migrants at the Greek-Turkish border escalated in late February after Ankara announced it had opened its border with the European Union to migrants and refugees following the recent increase in tension in the Syrian province of Idlib. Soon after, tens of thousands of migrants rushed to Turkey’s border with Greece and Bulgaria to attempt to get into Europe.

    According to Turkey, one of the reasons it has opened its borders to the EU was the lack of assistance from the bloc in dealing with the flow of migrants. Under the 2016 agreement between the two, Ankara promised to restrain the flow of migrants into the bloc, with Brussels pledging to provide funds to help Turkey care for the refugees.

    On Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, agreed on a ceasefire in Idlib. Two parties also agreed to create a security corridor six kilometres (3.7 miles) north and south of the M4 highway in Syria, which connects the provinces of Latakia and Aleppo.”

    • WHY Don’t Rich Muslim Countries like Qatar, SAudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait etc Share some of this Burden, Why is it ONLY White Judeo Christian Countries, Once the West IS Destroyed, where will ALL the White Christians Go, these Muslimsand Africans can STILL Go back to THEIR Countries!

      • Good question.
        But when we drive them out – AGAIN – they won’t be going anywhere but hell.
        We did it before – look at the Cross of Matamoros, remember La Reconquista – and we will do it again.

  38. Reports: Turkish Police Use Drones to Organise Tear Gas Attacks on Greek Border Guards (breitbart, Mar 8. 2020)
    https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/03/08/reports-turkish-police-use-drones-to-organise-tear-gas-attacks-on-greek-border-guards/

    “Turkish police used drones to organise attacks against Greek security forces tasked with protecting the nation’s borders from thousands of migrants attempting to illegally cross into the country, according to reports…”

  39. German ISIS Woman Accused of Sending Son to Child Soldier Camp (breitbart, Mar 8, 2020)
    https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/03/08/german-isis-woman-accused-of-sending-son-to-child-soldier-camp/

    “German Islamic State member Carla-Josephine S. began her trial this week, accused of placing one of her children into a camp for child soldiers run by the terrorist group in Syria.

    The 32-year-old, who joined the radical Islamic terrorist group in Syria with her three children who were aged 3, 6, and 7 at the time, is currently facing charges of exposing her children to the risk of war by travelling to the region.

    Her trial began in the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court earlier this week as it was also noted that her youngest son was killed during a rocket attack in 2018, German tabloid Bild reports.

    The Islamic State member told the court about her life, how she grew up raised by a single parent and married a Tunisian man and had her three children with him. She also converted to Islam during this time and wore the full-face burqa, saying she wanted to leave Germany and move to Tunisia.

    Following alleged domestic violence from her husband, the 32-year-old collected all of her money and her children and fled to Turkey and eventually to the Islamic State caliphate which spanned Syria and Iraq, where she worked as a driver for a female combat unit.

    She also is said to have reported her own son to the terror group’s religious police when expressed doubts about their radical Islamic ideology.

    When asked by the judge if her six-year-old son was allowed to carry around a Kalashnikov rifle, she replied, “I couldn’t prevent it” and said that she advised him to wet his bed in order to get out of having to go to the child soldier camp — but claimed he wanted to attend it.

    Carla-Josephine S. is not the first German woman to face trial for her activities as a member of the Islamic State.

    Last year, 21-year-old Sarah O. was charged for being a member of the group’s notorious morality police and for enslaving several Yazidi children alongside her Islamic state terrorist partner.”

  40. Police Investigating Case of Girl Abducted from UK by Dubai Sheikh (breitbart, Mar 8, 2020)
    https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/03/08/police-investigating-case-of-girl-abducted-from-uk-by-dubai-sheikh/

    “British police said Saturday they were reviewing an investigation into the disappearance of the ruler of Dubai’s daughter after a court found that she had been abducted by her father.

    Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum, who is vice-president and prime minister of the United Arab Emirates, orchestrated the forcible return home of Sheikha Shamsa from Britain in 2000, the High Court ruled earlier this week.

    The finding was part of a damning judgement that also revealed the sheikh had seized Shamsa’s sister Latifa, now 35, twice and returned her to Dubai.

    Police in the English city of Cambridge investigated Shamsa’s disappearance there two decades ago, when she was 19, but there was insufficient evidence to take any further action.

    A review in 2017 came to a similar conclusion, but the force is now conducting a further review in the wake of the court ruling.

    A spokeswoman for Cambridgeshire police noted that the standard of proof in criminal cases is significantly different to that of family court hearings.

    “However, in light of the recent release of the judgement, aspects of the case will now be subject to review,” she said.

    The ruling was issued as part of a legal dispute between the sheikh and his most recent ex-wife, Princess Haya Bint Al Hussein, who applied for protection for their two school-age children.

    It found the sheikh had subjected Princess Haya, a half-sister of Jordan’s King Abdullah II, to a “campaign of fear and intimidation”, forcing her to flee to London.

    Foreign Office role

    There have been questions over whether the Foreign Office intervened to stop the police investigation into Shamsa’s disappearance because of Britain’s close ties to Dubai.

    The detective in charge, David Beck — now retired — was quoted in British media Saturday as saying he was told the case was being shelved because of “significant sensitivities”.

    At a hearing in the case in November, details of which were made public this week, Princess Haya’s lawyer, Charles Geekie, said then British foreign minister Robin Cook expressed a “direct interest” in the probe.

    The court ruling confirmed that Beck had been refused permission from the state prosecution service to visit Dubai to interview potential witnesses.

    It also said the Foreign Office has information relating to that request, which it has declined to publish, citing concerns about the harm posed to UK-UAE relations.

    “But it is not possible to find on the balance of probability that permission for Mr Beck to visit Dubai was refused because of the direct intervention of the FCO,” the judgement said.

    State-sanctioned abduction

    Human rights groups have now called for the release of Shamsa and Latifa, who the court found had been effectively imprisoned in Dubai since their attempts to flee.

    “Abducting family members abroad and continuing to confine them shows the extent to which UAE rulers behave as if they are unaccountable for their actions and above the law,” said Rothna Begum, senior women’s rights researcher at Human Rights Watch.

    “The UAE authorities should immediately free Sheikha Shamsa and Sheikha Latifa, allow them to leave the UAE if they wish, investigate their abduction and allegations of torture, and bring those responsible to account.”

    Lynn Maalouf, Amnesty International’s Middle East research director, added: “Throughout the hearing, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid has insisted these are ‘private family matters’.

    “But state-sanctioned abduction and inhuman treatment is not a family affair. It is a serious human rights violation and a matter of international concern.

    “Federal law in the UAE leaves women unprotected and undermined, which too often leaves them vulnerable to abuse by male family members.””

  41. UK: Underage Girl Used Like ‘Piece of Meat’ By ‘Asian’ Grooming Gang (breitbart, Mar 8, 2020)
    https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/03/08/uk-teen-girl-used-as-a-piece-of-meat-by-asian-grooming-gang/

    “Four “Asian” men have been found guilty for their roles in sexually grooming a 15-year-old girl, who the court heard the men passed around like a “piece of meat”.

    The four grooming gang members — Shangar Ibrahimi, Kawan Omar Ahmed, Jasim Mohammed, and Nzar Anwar — were found guilty of rape. Another man, Saba Mohammed, was found guilty of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice. The men were convicted at Sheffield Crown Court on Wednesday and will appear in court on Friday 13 March to be sentenced.

    The court was told by the prosecution that the men used the 15-year-old girl, now in her twenties, as a “piece of meat” and that she was “nothing more than an object” to them. The court heard that the rapists were “able to use and abuse her sexually for their own sexual gratification”, reports the Birmingham Mail.

    A total of ten men were on trial for the sexual abuse of the teenage girl, who “was systematically groomed and exploited between 2010 and 2012 when she was aged 15-16” — but only five of the men were convicted.

    Detective Inspector Rob Platts, the Senior Investigating Officer in the case, said: “The bravery of the victim has resulted in the conviction of five very dangerous offenders for serious sexual offences. While the jury found some of the defendants not guilty of the charges faced, their decision has to be respected.”

    “The overall outcome demonstrates the complexity of these prosecutions and does not detract from the numerous guilty verdicts against five offenders.”

    “She had to recount incredibly traumatic incidents of sexual abuse and exploitation in front of the jury over several days and it is testament to her bravery that she elected to do this in person. I am so pleased her voice has been heard.”

    The grooming gang members would dose their young victim with alcohol and drugs, before subjecting her to sexual abuse and rape.

    “At the time of the offending, the victim was incredibly vulnerable and was deliberately targeted for the purposes of sexual exploitation,” DI Platts explained.

    “It is difficult to put into words the damage and impact of sexual exploitation on children, but I hope that by hearing this brave woman’s account, other victims of this awful crime find the strength to come forward and tell someone what has happened or is happening to them,” he added.

    In January, it was revealed that police in Rotherham ignored decades of abuse committed by “Asian” grooming gangs for fear of sparking racial tensions in the area.

    An Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) report found that a Rotherham chief inspector told a father of a missing girl that the city “would erupt” should the public be informed that “Asian” grooming gangs were sexually exploiting young white girls.”

  42. Denmark: 62 Per Cent of Young Somali Migrants Convicted by Age 30 (breitbart, Mar 8, 2020)
    https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/03/08/denmark-62-per-cent-of-young-somali-migrants-convicted-by-age-30/

    “Over half of all of the young migrant men from Somalia, Lebanon, and Morocco living in Denmark have been convicted of at least one crime before the age of 30.

    The figures come from a report by think tank Unitos that delved into crime statistics kept by the Danish Ministry of Justice and looked at the crime rates for men born between 1985 and 1987.

    The report found that young migrants from certain backgrounds were especially prone to criminal behaviour, with 222 of the 357 Somali young men, 62 per cent, having been convicted of a crime such as violence, vandalism, and theft before the age of 30, Jyllands Posten reports.

    For Lebanese migrants, the rate was 60 per cent, and for Moroccans the rate was 52 per cent.

    Migrants from Iraq, Iran, and the former Yugoslavia saw rates of 40 per cent.

    In contrast, only 18 per cent of Danish-born citizens had been convicted by 30.

    Lasse Birk Olesen, the co-founder of Unitos, commented on the results, saying: “The figures show that a very large proportion of young men from some of the major immigrant countries have been convicted of breaking criminal laws.”

    Criminologist David Sausdal, however, expressed caution at the conclusions of the study, claiming that socioeconomic factors should be examined and more research done into migrant crime statistics.

    Last year in June, Danish Justice Minister Søren Pape Poulsen admitted that the country had a problem with migrant criminals following a media investigation that revealed Somali migrants were vastly over-represented in cases of violent crime.

    Poulsen said the data “clearly shows that there is a big problem with criminal foreigners that we should not have in our society”.

    Earlier in the year, the then-Danish government said it would not rule out deporting Somali migrants by force with then-Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen saying: “We have an increasingly good cooperation, which the Somalis attach great importance to in confidentiality. Therefore, I cannot go into detail with it. But it is a collaboration that also makes it possible in certain situations to force people to Somalia, if necessary.”

    Somali migrants have also been shown to have much higher rates of welfare use and unemployment in countries like Switzerland, where more than 80 per cent of Somalis do not work.”

  43. Scores detained at women’s rally in Kyrgyzstan (abcnews, Mar 8, 2020)
    https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/scores-detained-womens-rally-kyrgyzstan-69466615

    “Police in the capital of Kyrgyzstan have detained about 60 people after an unauthorized rally to mark International Women’s Day was broken up by a group of men.

    The disorder took place Sunday at a main square in Bishkek.

    Demonstrators gathered for a rally to express support for women’s and children’s rights, but unidentified males barged into the gathering. Bishkek police said people from both sides were detained, but news reports said the detainees were primarily women.

    The Akipress news agency cited lawyer Bakytbek Aftandil as saying those detained were released several hours later and that about 10 of them had been charged with resisting police, which carries a fine of 3000 soms ($70).”

  44. Afghan official killed in capital by unknown gunmen (abcnews, Mar 8, 2020)
    https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/afghan-official-killed-capital-unknown-gunmen-69465743

    “An Afghan provincial council member and two of his bodyguards were killed by gunmen on Sunday in the capital of Kabul, officials said.

    No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack. But it came just days after the Islamic State group killed at least 32 people at a ceremony in Kabul attended by prominent political leaders.

    The gunmen opened fire on Naser Ghairat’s vehicle and also wounded his driver, according to Ferdaws Faramrez, spokesman for Kabul’s police chief.

    Ghairat was a councilman from Logar province, which lies just to the south of the capital. Many provincial council members have homes or even keep their families in Kabul. Provincial councils typically have a dozen or more members based on their population, and include both men and women.

    Afghan officials also confirmed Sunday that unknown gunmen had killed at least seven civilians and wounded 17 others in the western Herat province. The attack took place early Saturday, according to Jailani Farhad, spokesman for Herat’s governor. Again, no one claimed responsibility for that attack.

    Friday’s attack on the ceremony in Kabul came less than a week after the U.S. and Afghanistan’s Taliban insurgents signed an ambitious peace deal that lays out a path for the withdrawal of American forces from the country. The Taliban have said they were not involved in Friday’s attack.

    Any U.S. troop pullout from Afghanistan would be tied in part to promises by the Taliban to fight terrorism and the Islamic State group. The Taliban have been fighting IS militants in their headquarters in eastern Afghanistan.

    During any withdrawal, the U.S. would retain the right to continue its counter-terrorism operations in the country.”

  45. Turkey: Clashes break out between police and activists at Istanbul Women”s Day march

  46. China’s New Silk Road Strategy and the Middle East

    BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,473, March 8, 2020

    EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: In recent years, the People’s Republic of China has significantly increased its economic and diplomatic engagement with the Middle East. Most of Beijing’s investment in the region focuses on energy, infrastructure construction, nuclear power, new energy sources, agriculture, and finance. These investments serve not only China’s interests but also those of Middle Eastern countries hoping to boost their economies as a means of strengthening social stability.

    Outside the Asia-Pacific, the Middle East is likely the most critical region in the world for China, connecting it to the Mediterranean and Europe. It is a critical source of much-needed energy resources and an area of expanding economic ties. In turn, Middle Eastern countries see Beijing as the most important world capital after Washington because of China’s considerable economic power.

    China’s policy toward the Middle East is necessarily defined within a complex regional context that involves a multitude of local rivalries enmeshed with serious great power competition. The Chinese policy is to maintain a balance among several priorities that are at times in conflict. These priorities are to:

    https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/china-silk-road-middle-east/

  47. Did Amy Klobuchar Just Accidentally Reveal That She’s Been Chosen As Biden’s Running Mate?

    When Amy Klobuchar dropped out of the 2020 race and immediately backed Joe Biden, many people wondered if she had been offered something in return for her support.

    Now that speculation is growing.

    During a recent public appearance, Klobuchar seemed to accidentally suggest she was going to be on the ticket with Joe.

    The Daily Caller reports:

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/03/did-amy-klobuchar-just-accidentally-reveal-that-shes-been-chosen-as-bidens-running-mate/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=the-gateway-pundit&utm_campaign=dailyam&utm_content=weekend

    Richard: If she can’t keep this secret how can she be trusted with our national secrets?

  48. 20-Year-Old St. Louis Woman Tests Positive for Coronavirus After Studying Abroad in Italy – First Case in

    A twenty-year-old St. Louis woman tested positive for coronavirus after returning to the United States from Italy.

    The woman was sent home to self-quarantine.

    This was Missouri’s first confirmed coronavirus patient.

    FOX 2 reported:

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/03/20-year-old-st-louis-woman-tests-positive-for-coronavirus-after-studying-abroad-in-italy-first-case-in-missouri/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=the-gateway-pundit&utm_campaign=dailyam&utm_content=weekend

  49. the Sun – GERMANY – RAISED BY PEDOS Horrifying Berlin foster experiments saw kids DELIBERATELY given to pedos to see if sex abuse was ‘good for them’

    VICTIMS of a warped social experiment in Germany where authorities deliberately placed troubled kids with pedophile foster parents are set to win compensation.

    Between 1969 to 2003, these homeless boys aged between six and 14 were handed over to pedos — because it was thought the vulnerable kids might benefit from their attention.

    The twisted logic behind the “Kentler experiment”— named after the leading sexologist Helmut Kentler who spearheaded it — was that pedophilia could have “positive consequences”.

    Astonishingly, in the late 1960s Kentler managed to persuade West Berlin’s ruling Senate that homeless boys would leap at the opportunity to be fostered by pedophile dads.

    It was successfully argued they would be “head over heels in love” with their new father figures.

    About this time Kentler was publicly lobbying for decriminalization sex between adults and children in West Germany.

    The academic argued youngsters “almost always more seriously damaged” by their abusers being prosecuted than by the abuse itself.

    ‘THEY’LL LEARN TO LIVE PROPER’

    But despite his openly positive views on pedophilia, Kentler was given official blessing for a pilot that paved the way for the experiment.

    This arranged for boys to move in with three known West Berlin pedophiles so they could then “learn to live proper, unremarkable lives”.

    Later he explained he believed the “three men would do so much to help ‘their’ boys because they had a sexual relationship with them”.

    It is not clear whether the West Berlin’s Senate voted on the experiment or agreed to it behind closed doors.

    Three men would do so much to help ‘their’ boys because they had a sexual relationship with them

    But details are now beginning to come to light of the grotesque policy as the victims demand justice for their ordeal.

    Two of the fostered victims are in line for a compensation pay out from the city Senate which has agreed an out-of-court settlement, reports Der Tagesspiegel.

    They were so emotionally disfigured by their ordeal they are unable to work

    One of the victim’s lawyers is reportedly pressing for a lump sum of €100,000 (£86,703) plus a monthly pension of €2,500 (£2,167).

    The legal proceedings refer to one boy called Marco, who had been taken into care in 1989 after fleeing his violent dad.

    Aged six, he was placed with his foster father, Fritz H, began going into room for a “cuddle” which heralded years of abuse

    In an interview with Der Spiegel, Marco said for ten years he was repeatedly beaten and raped by Fritz H, until he grew up and fought back.

    Another of his victims, known as Sven, was abandoned by his parents at the age of seven and contracted hepatitis B on the streets of Berlin.

    Authorities in 1990 then gave him to the pedophile and he suffered repeated sexual assaults which were allegedly videoed.

    Boys in the care of Fritz, who has since died, were kept isolated from the outside world.

    So many questions — not least why the Kentler experiment was ever allowed — remain unanswered.

    The city government says it has no idea who in West Berlin’s welfare agency agreed to the so-called Kentler Experiment.

    It has since set up a hotline for former kids.

    Four years ago the Berlin Senate commissioned a public inquiry into the scandal being carried out by experts at Göttingen University.

    But this is still ongoing and the final report is nowhere near being published

    When Kentler died in 2008 he left behind papers describing the entire experiment as a “success”, but shockingly he admitted placing youths with pedophiles broke the law.

    https://www.the-sun.com/news/490187/horrifying-berlin-foster-experiments-spedos-sex-abuse-good-them/

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    Der Kinderfänger von Berlin

    Der Pädophile Fritz H. nahm binnen 30 Jahren neun Pflegekinder bei sich auf. Er misshandelte und vergewaltigte mindestens zwei von ihnen – unter der Zuständigkeit des Jugendamts Schöneberg.

    Eine exklusive Recherche der Berliner Zeitung.

    […]

    https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/mensch-metropole/der-fall-fritz-h-missbrauch-von-pflegekindern-in-berlin-li.75778

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    • My guess: the vote was recorded and filed on the 1st of the month preceding the first placement. Find the file.

      • For sure.
        They kept meticulous records during the Holocaust. The Spanish Inquisition kept transcripts of interrogations.

  50. “What’s He Going to Be Like Three Years from Now?” – Rudy Giuliani on Joe Biden: “Bernie Was So Frightening that They Picked the Man with Obvious Signs of Dementia”

    Rudy Giuliani joined Jesse Watters on Watters’ World on Saturday to discuss the resurrection of Joe Biden in the Democrat primaries this week.

    iden won a majority of states on Super Tuesday after his first primary victory ever in South Carolina last weekend.

    In true Giuliani fashion, the former New York City mayor pointed out the obvious – Joe Biden’s dementia.

    Rudy Giuliani: I think that Bernie was so frightening that they picked the man with obvious signs of dementia. If you consider what he’s displaying gets worse What’s he going to be like three years from now? If he doesn’t know what state he’s in and can’t figure out who his wife is? And if he thinks that 150 million people, which is half f he population in America got killed then what’s he going to be like two years from now when this gets worse? … We’re dealing with who should be the President of the United States. And we shouldn’t pussyfoot around this this. The man has something seriously wrong with him.

    Via Watters’ World:

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/03/whats-he-going-to-be-like-three-years-from-now-rudy-giuliani-on-joe-biden-bernie-was-so-frightening-that-they-picked-the-man-with-obvious-signs-of-dementia/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=the-gateway-pundit&utm_campaign=dailyam&utm_content=weekend

    • One theory is that Biden will pick Clinton as running mate, and after a year in office will step down cause dementia, and hey presto! A Hillary presidency.