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untold story of Boko Haram’s origins:
https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/175283
‘All Time Low’: Rep. Schiff On DOJ Move To Drop Flynn Charges
William Barr Talks About Flynn Case
CBS – Attorney General William Barr on Michael Flynn, Obamacare and coronavirus restrictions – Transcript
The Justice Department on Thursday moved to dismiss charges against Michael Flynn, President Trump’s first national security adviser. Flynn pleaded guilty in December 2017 to lying to the FBI about his contacts with the former Russian ambassador to the U.S. — but in January, Flynn asked the court to allow him to withdraw his guilty plea, citing the government’s “bad faith, vindictiveness and breach of the plea agreement.”
In a motion filed in U.S. district court, federal prosecutors asked the judge to dismiss the single count of making false statements to the FBI, claiming the government concluded that the FBI’s interview of Flynn “was untethered to, and unjustified by, the FBI’s counterintelligence investigation.”
Attorney General William Barr joined CBS News senior investigative correspondent Catherine Herridge to discuss the reasoning behind the motion.
Catherine Herridge: Attorney General Barr, thank you for speaking first to CBS News.
Attorney General William Barr: Hi, Catherine.
What action has the Justice Department taken today in the Michael Flynn case?
We dismissed or are moving to dismiss the charges against General Flynn. At any stage during a proceeding, even after indictment or a conviction or a guilty plea, the Department can move to dismiss the charges if we determine that our standards of prosecution have not been met.
As you recall, in January, General Flynn moved to withdraw his plea, and also alleged misconduct by the government. And at that time, I asked a very seasoned U.S. attorney, who had spent ten years as an FBI agent and ten years as a career prosecutor, Jeff Jensen, from St. Louis, to come in and take a fresh look at this whole case. And he found some additional material. And last week, he came in and briefed me and made a recommendation that we dismiss the case, which I fully agreed with, as did the U.S. attorney in D.C. So we’ve moved to dismiss the case.
So this decision to dismiss by the Justice Department, this all came together really within the last week, based on new evidence?
Right. Well U.S. Attorney Jensen since January has been investigating this. And he reported to me last week.
Does Judge Sullivan have a say?
Yes. Under the rules, the case can be dismissed with leave of court. Generally, the courts have said that that provision is in there to protect defendants, to make sure the government doesn’t play games by bringing a charge and then dismissing it; bringing another charge, dismissing it. But he does have a say.
But is the Flynn case effectively over today from the Justice Department’s point of view?
We think the case against Flynn for false statements should be dismissed, as far as the Department of Justice is concerned.
And depending on the judge’s decision, could charges be brought against General Flynn in the future for other actions he took during the presidential campaign or during the transition?
Well, no charges like that have been brought. And I’m not gonna speculate about what charges there may be.
All of that said, General Flynn pled guilty to lying to federal investigators during his interview in January of 2017. And Flynn admitted in court, quote, his “false statements and omissions impeded and otherwise had a material impact on the FBI’s ongoing investigation into the existence of any links or coordination between individuals with the campaign and Russia’s efforts to interfere with the 2016 presidential election.” Does the fact remain that General Flynn lied to federal investigators?
Well to constitute a false statement, you need two things. One, you need a false statement, lie. And then it has to be material to a legitimate investigation. And I think on the question of lying, it’s as Comey, Director Comey said just a few months after this episode, he said it was a closed question. And that, while you might make that argument, it was a very closed question.
But it’s on the question of materiality that we feel really that a crime cannot be established here because there was not, in our view, a legitimate investigation going on. They did not have a basis for a counterintelligence investigation against Flynn at that stage, based on a perfectly legitimate and appropriate call he made as a member of the transition. So.
Let me just also say that when he pled, the issue of materiality is related to whether the government has a bona fide investigation going on. And that’s information that’s really within the control of the government. The individual party would really not have that information. So as new information just became available that has a bearing on whether there was a legitimate investigation, that requires us, our duty, we think is to dismiss the case.
Does the new evidence show that the counterintelligence case against General Flynn was simply left open to lay a trap for lying?
Yes. Essentially. They had started a counterintelligence investigation during the summer, as you know, related to the campaign. But in December, the team, the Crossfire Hurricane team, was closing that and determined they had found nothing to justify continuing with that investigation against Flynn.
On the very day they prepared the final papers, the seventh floor, that is the director’s office and the deputy director’s office up there, sent down word they should keep that open. So that they could try to go and question Flynn about this call he had with the Russian ambassador.
Let me say that, at that point, he was the designated national security adviser for President-Elect Trump, and was part of the transition, which is recognized by the government and funded by the government as an important function to bring in a new administration. And it is very typical, very common for the national security team of the incoming president to communicate with foreign leaders.
And that call, there was nothing wrong with it whatever. In fact, it was laudable. He– and it was nothing inconsistent with the Obama administration’s policies. And it was in U.S. interests. He was saying to the Russians, you know, “Don’t escalate.” And they asked him if he remembered saying that, and he said he didn’t remember that.
What should Americans take away from your actions in the Flynn case today?
Well, as I said in my confirmation hearing, one of the reasons I came back is because I was concerned that people were feeling there were two standards of justice in this country. And that the political and that the justice, or the law enforcement process was being used to play political games. And I wanted to make sure that we restore confidence in the system. There’s only one standard of justice. And I believe that this case, that justice in this case requires dismissing the charges against General Flynn.
Are the actions you’re taking today bigger than the Flynn case?
Well, I think they are bigger because I hope that it sends the message that there is one standard of justice in this country. And that’s the way it will be. It doesn’t matter what political party you’re in, or, you know, whether you’re rich or poor. We will follow the same standard for everybody. Was there a crime committed, do we believe a crime was committed? And do we have the evidence to prove it beyond a reasonable doubt? And we don’t think either of those standards were applicable here.
Has this been one of the most consequential decisions that you have made as attorney general?
I don’t know. I let other people judge that. It’s certainly – I feel good about the decision because that’s what we’re here to do. We’re here to do what’s right.
Not what’s easy.
Right.
Was it an easy decision?
It was an easy decision, yes. I think easy because once I saw all the facts and some of the tactics used by the FBI in this instance and also the legal problems with the case, it was an easy decision. You know, one thing people will see when they look at the documents is how Director Comey purposely went around the Justice Department and ignored Deputy Attorney General Yates.
Deputy Attorney General Yates, I’ve disagreed with her about a couple of things, but, you know, here she upheld the fine tradition of the Department of Justice. She said that the new administration has to be treated just like the Obama administration, and they should go and tell the White House about their findings. They and, you know, Director Comey ran around that.
When the special counsel report was released last year, you were accused by critics of putting your thumb on the scale in the president’s favor. Are you doing the president’s bidding in General Flynn’s case?
No, I’m doing the law’s bidding. I’m doing my duty under the law, as I see it.
President Trump recently tweeted about the Flynn case. He said, “What happened to General Flynn should never be allowed to happen to a citizen of the United States again.” Were you influenced in any way by the president or his tweets?
No, not at all. And, you know, I made clear during my confirmation hearing that I was gonna look into what happened in 2016 and ’17. I made that crystal clear. I was very concerned about what happened. I was gonna get to the bottom of it. And that included the treatment of General Flynn.
And that is part of John Durham, U.S. Attorney John Durham’s portfolio. The reason we had to take this action now and why U.S. Attorney Jeff Jensen came in was because it was prompted by the motions that were filed in that case. And so we had to sorta move more quickly on it. But John Durham is still looking at all of this.
This is one particular episode, but we view it as part of a number of related acts. And we’re looking at the whole pattern of conduct.
The whole pattern of conduct before?
And after.
And after?
Yeah, the election.
After the election? Okay. You talk about the importance of timing in this decision. What was the evidence that helped you decide this issue?
I think a very important evidence here was that this was not a bona fide counterintelligence investigation – was that they were closing the investigation in December. They started that process. And on January 4th, they were closing it.
And that when they heard about the phone call, which is – the FBI had the transcripts too – there’s no question as to what was discussed. The FBI knew exactly what was discussed. And General Flynn, being the former director of the DIA, said to them, you know, “You listen, you listen to everything. You know, you know what was said.”
So there was no mystery about the call. But they initially tried some theories of how they could open another investigation, which didn’t fly. And then they found out that they had not technically closed the earlier investigation. And they kept it open for the express purpose of trying to catch, lay a perjury trap for General Flynn.
They didn’t warn him, the way we usually would be required by the Department. They bypassed the Justice Department. They bypassed the protocols at the White House and so forth. These were things that persuaded me that there was not a legitimate counterintelligence investigation going on.
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You know you’re gonna take a lot of incoming, as they say in the military, for this decision. Are you prepared for that?
Yeah, I’m prepared for that. I also think it’s sad that nowadays these partisan feelings are so strong that people have lost any sense of justice. And the groups that usually worry about civil liberties and making sure that there’s proper procedures followed and standards set seem to be ignoring it and willing to destroy people’s lives and see great injustices done.
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Just to be clear, you said this was your decision.
Uh-huh.
Did you consult or discuss the decision in any way with President Trump?
No.
Did you advise the White House that you had made this decision?
No. They were aware, because of the schedule, that the Department would be saying something in court. And I said that we’d make up our mind what to do and file, you know, sometime before Monday. File our responses to what was going on in court. But other than that, no.
So the White House became aware of the decision when it filed today?
Yes.
Not earlier?
No.
No. Okay. A lot of records have come to light. You talk about the records for closing the Flynn case. Were those new records to you? Because–
Yes.
–of Jensen? Okay. All right. In addition to those records, there are handwritten notes from January 24th, 2017. This was the day of Michael Flynn’s interview. And the writer states, “What is our goal? Truth, admission, or to get him to lie so we can prosecute him or get him fired?” Is that a routine, by-the-book conversation between senior FBI officials?
Well, as many people point out, you know, it’s not unusual. In the course of a bona fide investigation, when you’re doing a criminal investigation or a counterintelligence investigation, that has a basis it’s not unusual to have an interview with someone and expecting that they might lie. But here’s what’s different here is that there was no underlying investigation that was legitimate. And the whole exercise was just about creating the lie.
But that language, does it bother you at all?
Well, my understanding is, just looking at the documents, the way I interpret them, is there was a disagreement. And that one of the agents, one of the senior agents felt that “Let’s not be game playing here. We have the transcript. Show him the transcripts and find out what you wanna find out.”
Instead of instead of, you know, essentially reading excerpts and saying, “Do you remember saying that?” which seemed to be all for the purpose of trying to catch him in something that could be called a lie. But, again, because the FBI knew about the call, there was nothing wrong with the call, the FBI has the transcript of the call, whether or not he remembered saying something is not material to anything.
Who at the FBI was driving this?
Well, this particular episode, it looks like the impetus came from the seventh floor.
The seventh floor is Director Comey.
I believe it’s Director Comey and the deputy’s office.
Based on the evidence that you have seen, did senior FBI officials conspire to throw out the national security adviser?
Well, as I said, this is a particular episode. And it has some troubling features to it, as we’ve discussed. But I think, you know, that’s a question that really has to wait an analysis of all the different episodes that occurred through the summer of 2016 and the first several months of President Trump’s administration.
What are the consequences for these individuals?
Well, you know, I don’t wanna, you know, we’re in the middle of looking at all of this. John Durham’s investigation, and U.S. Attorney Jensen, I’m gonna ask him to do some more work on different items as well. And I’m gonna wait till all the evidence is, and I get their recommendations as to what they found and how serious it is.
But if, you know, if we were to find wrongdoing, in the sense of any criminal act, you know, obviously we would, we would follow through on that. But, again, you know, just because something may even stink to high heaven and be, you know, appear everyone to be bad we still have to apply the right standard and be convinced that there’s a violation of a criminal statute. And that we can prove it beyond a reasonable doubt. The same standard applies to everybody.
It sounds to me like one of your objectives is to never allow the Justice Department to be used as a political weapon. That’s what you’re saying you think happened here?
I think, yes. I think there was an aspect of that. And I think, for the last several decades, the Department has been used more and more, or the efforts have been made to draw the Department into that. And I think it’s very important that that not happen.
People, you know, we should choose our leaders through the election process. And efforts to use the law enforcement process to change leaders or to disable administrations are incendiary in this country and destroy our republic.
Before we move on to some separate questions, many of these records should have been provided to Flynn’s defense team long ago. Do you still have confidence in FBI Director Christopher Wray?
Well, you know, Chris Wray has always supported and been very helpful in various investigations we’ve been running. He cooperated fully with Durham, cooperated fully with Jensen. But, you know, there are a lot of cases in the Department of Justice and I don’t consider it the director’s responsibility to make sure that all the documents are produced in each case. So I don’t– I wouldn’t say that this has affected my confidence in Director Wray.
Does Director Wray have what it takes to make the changes at the FBI?
Yeah, as I’ve said, you know, he’s been a great partner to me in our effort to restore the American people’s confidence in both the Department of Justice and the FBI. And we work very well together. And I think both of us know that we have to step up. That it’s very important to restore the American people’s confidence.
Does he have his arms around the gravity of what happened in 2016 and 2017?
I think he does.
Newly declassified footnotes in the Horowitz report suggest that the Steele dossier was likely the product of Russian disinformation. And there were multiple warnings to the FBI at that time, yet they continued to use that. How do you explain that?
I think that’s one of the most troubling aspects of this whole thing. And, in fact, I said it in testimony on the Hill, I can’t remember if it was my confirmation, that I said I was very concerned about the possibility that that dossier and Steele’s activities were used as a vector for the Russians to inject disinformation into the political campaign.
I think that is something that Robert Mueller was responsible for looking at under his charter, which is the potential of Russian influence. But I think it was ignored and there was mounting indications that this could very well have been happening and no one really stopped to look at it.
These are very smart people who were working in the special counsel’s office, and in senior levels of the FBI. So what drove them here?
Well, I think one of the things you have to guard against, both as a prosecutor and I think as an investigator, is that if you get too wedded to a particular outcome and you’re pursuing a particular agenda, you close your eyes to anything that sort of doesn’t fit with your preconception. And I think that’s probably the phenomenon we’re looking at here.
You know more about the investigation since Horowitz, since December. Do you see more evidence of personal or political bias today?
You know, I’m not gonna, again, get into reaching a conclusion at this point till I see everything. There’s certainly more information that has come out that, you know, points in that direction. But I haven’t reached a final conclusion.
Before we just move onto to a couple of off-topic questions, the last thing most Americans remember about General Flynn is that he resigned, was fired. And that he admitted lying to the FBI. Does the fact remain that he lied?
Well, you know, people sometimes plead to things that turn out not to be crimes. And as I said, the question of lying, you know, it’s something he would know about. On its face, as Director Comey said, it’s not so clear. But the question of materiality is not something he would know about. That’s something that the government knows about. And we have now gotten into it, drilled down, obtained new information. And the Department of Justice is not persuaded that this was material to any legitimate counterintelligence investigation. So it was not a crime.
Before we leave this topic, is there anything that you would like to add?
No.
Okay. Just on COVID-19. Some of the news of today. The valet at the White House has tested positive. Have you had any exposure or interaction with this valet?
I don’t think I have, no.
Do you have a view on whether the president, the vice president should self-quarantine or be separated?
No, you know, I don’t have a view on that. I don’t know about how close they were physically or what the medical advice is the president gets. But we’re tested pretty regularly when we’re over at the White House to visit.
Every day, every other day?
It depends how frequently, though at least once a week, but sometimes, you know, if you’ve been around and could have been infected, you can get further testing.
The president said that he’s urging the Supreme Court to overturn the Affordable Care Act when it’s taken up in the Supreme Court later this year. What’s your position? Is that something the Justice Department will continue to back?
Yes. You know, we had an opportunity, all the stakeholders in the administration, to discuss this, and the Department is going to be taking the position as the president states.
Even if that means stripping millions of Americans of their health care in the middle of a pandemic?
Well, the case isn’t gonna be argued until October. And the president’s made clear that he strongly supports coverage of preexisting conditions. And there will be coverage of preexisting conditions. And, you know, he expects to fix and replace Obamacare with a better health care system.
If governors continue to limit the size of gatherings, including religious services, what further action is the Justice Department prepared to take?
Well, I think initially, you know, at the very beginning of the crisis, before we knew very much — and while, in some places, the infection rates were skyrocketing and threatening to overwhelm our health care system, you know, the initial limitations may have been defensible. But as time goes by, it’s harder to justify those kinds of blanket restrictions on religious practice.
I think, if people can follow social distancing by leaving space, wearing masks and so forth, there has to be accommodation to religious practice. The Department has already entered a few cases around the country where there have been these sweeping prohibitions against religion where there were comparable secular activities are not controlled the same way.
On the Bureau of Prisons– currently 2,100 inmates and over 360 Bureau prison staff have tested positive for COVID-19. Will you make universal testing available to the inmates and the staff?
I think over time, we’ll be testing and perhaps get to that point. You know, we got, right at the beginning, I dealt with FEMA and I was able to get some of the Abbott machines. And we’ve been building up our testing capacity. And we’re doing more and more tests.
And, you know, we’ve been trying to keep our inmates as safe as we can. We let a lot of inmates who are older and don’t pose a threat to the community, we’ve put them on home confinement to get ’em outta the institutions. So we’re taking every measure we can to protect those inmates.
Generally speaking, historically, the infection rates roughly, from what I’ve seen, are comparable inside the institution (SIC) as they are in society at large. And we’ve been able to prevent our prisons from becoming Petri dishes where they sweep through with the same lethality that they have in, you know, nursing homes and so forth. It takes a lotta work, and the Bureau of Prisons has been working hard on that.
In closing, this was a big decision in the Flynn case, to– to say the least. When history looks back on this decision, how do you think it will be written? What will it say about your decision making?
Well, history is written by the winner. So it largely depends on who’s writing the history. But I think a fair history would say that it was a good decision because it upheld the rule of law. It helped, it upheld the standards of the Department of Justice, and it undid what was an injustice.
Uh-huh.
I mean, it’s not gonna be the end of it.
What do you mean, it’s not the end of it?
Well, I said we’re gonna get to the bottom of what happened.
And later this year, do you expect a report from U.S. Attorney John Durham? Or do you expect indictments?
Well, as you know, I’m not gonna predict the outcome. But I said that we’re certainly — there probably will be a report as a byproduct of his work. But we also are seeing if there are people who violated the law and should be brought to justice. And that’s what we have our eye on.
And that would include individuals involved in the Flynn case?
I don’t wanna get into particular individuals.
Attorney General William Barr, thank you very much for joining us here at CBS News.
Thank you.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/attorney-general-william-barr-on-michael-flynn-obamacare-and-coronavirus-restrictions-transcript/
Trey Gowdy shreds Comey: ‘His arrogance, hubris wrecked the FBI’
Sen. Kamala Harris Renews Call For Attorney General Barr To Resign
Tom Fitton: Next step in justice is prosecution of Flynn’s persecutors
Jim Jordan calls for more investigations into Comey
‘Yesterday was a bad day for Adam Schiff’: John Solomon
… transcripts ‘undercut his three-and-a-half-year narrative of Russian collusion’.
TRUMP: Adam Schiff Is A Sick, Sick Man With A 9 Inch Neck
Sessions defends himself against Trump’s attacks: ‘I did the right thing’
Tucker: Adam Schiff should resign
Rep. Adam Schiff and the entire apparatus of official Washington has been exposed by these transcripts, as well as by the documents just released in the Michael Flynn case.
Hannity: Adam Schiff is a national disgrace
Thanks to Acting National Intel Director Ric Grenell and Attorney General Bill Barr we have definitive proof of Schiff’s malicious dishonesty.
Trey Gowdy bashes the media: They aided and abetted Adam Schiff
Rep Matt Gaetz Calls Out Trey Gowdy For Denying Subpoena Power To The GOP In 2018
European leaders are weak:
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/15994/coronavirus-europe-china
Clearly, Red Chinese influence is not fully understood. The V4 have been the voice of clear thinking in recent European history. They had better keep leading the way away from communusm.
Swedish City Plans to Erect ‘World’s Northernmost Mosque’ (sputniknews, May 8, 2020)
https://sputniknews.com/europe/202005081079237945-swedish-city-plans-to-erect-worlds-northernmost-mosque/
“Even if these plans come to fruition, the title of the world’s northernmost mosque firmly belongs to Nurd Kamal in Russia, as the Swedish city of Luleå is located much farther to the south.
The Swedish city of Luleå, the capital of its northernmost Norrbotten County, is rolling on with plans to house what has been described as “the northernmost mosque in the world”.
Norrbotten’s Islamic Centre is behind the idea. The plans to build a mosque in Hertsön, Luleå’s largest residential area located outside the inner city and on the island of Hertsön, have been around since 2013.
Now, the organisation plans to realise it in a much slimmed-down format with a much smaller budget.
“Previously, we had plans to build a huge building at a very high cost. The real cost had been around SEK 100 million ($10 million). Now it will be SEK 12 million ($1.2 million)”, Norrbotten Islamic Centre Chairman Hesham Ahmed told national broadcaster SVT.
The money will be collected from fellow Muslims across Sweden online through “microfinancing”. So far, the plot on Hertsön remains empty.
Luleå has roughly 50,000 inhabitants in its urban core and a total of 76,000 residents in the municipality as a whole. It houses a major harbour for shipping goods and a formidable steel industry that earned it the nickname “Steel City”. It it is home to Sweden’s northernmost university.
However, even if the money is gathered and the construction plans materialise, the Luleå Mosque still won’t wrest the title of the world’s northernmost mosque from the Nurd Kamal Mosque situated in Norilsk, Russia, as Luleå is located much farther to the south. Norilsk is the world’s northernmost city with over 100,000 inhabitants. Located in the northern part of Krasnoyarsk Krai in Eastern Siberia, above the Arctic Circle, east of the Yenisei River and south of the western Taymyr Peninsula, its mosque is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the most northerly-situated one in the world.
The architecture of the mosque has been adapted to the extreme climatic conditions of the Far North that include permafrost and harsh winters where temperatures below 40 degrees and blizzards are not uncommon. For instance, Norilsk’s minaret tower, which is generally supposed to have a round shape, has a square base to offer more resistance to wind.”
This is for the “Wet Market” of free ideas. What is the truth, and how do we know it when we see it? Here is an article that casts a very skeptical view of Dr. Judy Mikovitz. It says she is an opportunistic conspiracy theorist who is not credible.
So much confusion. We don’t have the time, or even ability, to “trust but verify” everything we read or hear. So we read and read and watch in constant search of truth.
If she is a bad actor why does she stick up for hydroxychloroquine? If Fauci has been in government for so long, is it not possible that his greatest talent is not in science or medicine, but in being a bureacrat and understanding the levers of power therein? Does he really own patents? Because this truly would be in conflict with his job. If he does own patents, and those patents are pertinent to his job in any way (and given time this is practically inevitable), then he must be examined very closely.
There are ways to verify.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.buzzfeednews.com/amphtml/janelytvynenko/coronavirus-plandemic-viral-harmful-fauci-mikovits
Fauci received money:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC545012/
“Kaiser Wilhelm de Blasio Self Appointed Emperor of New York City with Special Guest Diana West”
Jason Goodman – May 7, 2020
Diana West Retweeted “Ghost Town NYC – Now We’re Really Closed” Diana West – May 7, 2020 – Twitter
https://twitter.com/diana_west_
“Geller vs. De Blasio: Lawsuit Filed Challenging N.Y. Mayor’s Suspension of the First Amendment” By Pamela Geller – May 7, 2020
https://gellerreport.com/2020/05/geller-vs-deblasio.html/
RCMP is on the job:
https://youtu.be/2PLC_cBJwk4
Czech police arrest Afghan migrant who stabbed his girlfriend 20 times in Germany
https://rmx.news/article/article/czech-police-arrest-afghan-migrant-who-stabbed-his-girlfriend-20-times-in-germany
Czech police arrest Afghan migrant who stabbed his girlfriend 20 times in Germany https://voiceofeurope.com/2020/05/czech-police-arrest-afghan-migrant-who-stabbed-his-girlfriend-20-times-in-germany-video/
After “sea rescue”: Violent migrants on German container ship – Shipping company warns of an escalation of violence
The container ship “MV Marina” (photo above) rescued 79 boat migrants near Malta, without taking into account the risks that welcoming them could cause. Since Sunday the “rescued” are on the ship and are stuck for the time being. This causes aggressions among the refugees and causes anxiety among the crew, who barricade themselves for safety’s sake, apparently there is danger for life and limb. Now the shipping company warns of an escalation on board the ship.Some merchant ships already got the shock of their lives after the “sea rescue” of “shipwrecked boat refugees”, e.g. the oil tanker “El Hiblu 1” was captured – migrants revolted on the “Vos Thalassa” and threatened the crew.
https://medforth.blog/2020/05/08/after-sea-rescue-violent-migrants-on-german-container-ship-shipping-company-warns-of-an-escalation-of-violence/
VIDEO “Youth” attack supermarket security over social distancing rules in Rotterdam-West, the Netherlands:
https://www.skoften.net/skft/742857/beveiliger-supermarkt-aangevallen-door-jeugd-die-corona-huisregels-negeert
COVID-19 Pandemic Added to Daesh Uptick in Activity in Iraq, US Coalition Official Says (sputniknews, May 8, 2020)
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202005081079243293-covid-19-pandemic-added-to-daesh-uptick-in-activity-in-iraq-us-coalition-official-says/
“CNN has cited two unnamed sources as saying that the ongoing coronavirus pandemic had prompted the US-led military coalition to pause or suspend key aspects of its anti-Daesh campaigns in Iraq and Syria.
One of the sources, a senior coalition official, told CNN that over the past few weeks, Daesh has tried to exploit the instability caused by COVID-19 and a drastic fall in global oil prices in order to increase its attacks in Iraq.
Despite the sophistication of the terrorist attacks not having increased, there has been a “slight uptick in the quantity of [Daesh] activity”, according to the official.
Even so, the source went on, the coronavirus-related concerns added to many of the coalition missions in Iraq being scaled back or adjusted, including those related to coalition troops accompanying Iraqi units or the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces during raids on Daesh targets.
“In the pre-COVID [-19] world those [types of missions] were still going on”, while “in the current COVID world those aren’t going on”, the source said.
At the same time, they underscored that if “there was a target that was important enough, a Baghdadi raid-type thing, of course we’d go out there and do something like that with our partners or potentially even unilaterally”, in an apparent reference to former Daesh leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who was killed in a US special operation in northwestern Syria last year…”
(Richard: Note the difference in the approach there and the one they took in New York, Singapore is working to protect the elderly and Cuomo and de Blasio sent infected people to the retirement homes. In a rational world they would be up for negligent homicide, Manslaughter or possible all the way up to 1st degree homicide.)
COVID-19: Singapore to house nursing home staff in hotels to protect the elderly
Singapore’s COVID-19 mass testing strategy: Who gets priority for tests?
I like them all, but this one’s my favorite. I always learn something from him.
How the CCP Plays Media Games to Deceive the World | Crossroads with Joshua Philipp
Italy set to legalize 600,000 migrants, Salvini slams mass amnesty plans (rmx, May 7, 2020)
https://rmx.news/article/article/italy-set-to-legalize-600-000-migrants-salvini-slams-mass-amnesty-plans
“Italy’s left-wing government is moving forward with plans to grant a mass amnesty for approximately 600,000 illegal immigrants, which would include granting them work and residency permits for a minimum of six months, according to Il Giornale.
Matteo Salvini, the leader of the anti-immigration Lega party, is calling for the government to drop the idea and protect Italy’s borders at a time when Italy is facing economic collapse and public health crisis due to the coronavirus crisis.
“The government has announced an amnesty for illegal migrants at a time when the number of arrivals has increased by 350 percent. 136 people made landfall on Lampedusa only this evening. Italy as a migrant camp? No, thanks,” the Salvini wrote on Twitter.
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte’s government, however, is currently drawing up plans for the mass amnesty, with the process having accelerated in recent days. Although the plans are not finalized, they are thought to be in advanced stages.
According to Il Giornale, Italian Agriculture Minister Teresa Bellanova would legalize migrants by issuing a temporary six-month residence permit, renewable for another six months.
As many as 700,000 illegal migrants in Italy could be legalized
Interior Minister Luciana Lamorgese and Minister of Labor Nunzia Catalfo are taking part in planning for the mass amnesty and currently working to determine how many migrants would be eligible. The government estimates that 600,000 migrants may potentially receive permits, but it is unclear how many illegal immigrants are actually in the country. Other estimates put the number as high as 700,000.
Bellanova quit Conte’s party last year to join Italia Viva, former Prime Minister Matteo Renzi’s new political party. Renzi has recently.called for the entire country of Hungary to be punished and expelled from the European Union because he vehemently opposes with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.
Bellanova said a decision on the migrants was urgent.
“I don’t think there is much else to wait. We know that hundreds and hundreds of laborers are imprisoned in the ghettos like mice,” she said.
She also added that Italy’s illegal migrants need papers in order to access Italy’s health system, a system that is severely overburdened due to the coronavirus crisis. Italian hospitals have already been blamed for overlooking seniors in nursing and retirement homes and giving them “lower priority” than younger patients.
The addition of 600,000 or more mostly younger migrants who can officially be treated in Italy’s hospitals may pose further challenges to Italy’s brittle health system.
Bellanova also argues that the workers need papers to work in Italy’s farms. She said that 10,000 people work in the fields for the fruit harvest every year and “75 percent of those workers are immigrants, many which are Africans.”
Salvini has also criticized that proposal, saying the government is not doing enough after a proposal in Campania Italy to bring 20,000 foreign workers to work Italian fields.
“Unbelievable, instead of helping find young and unemployed Italian jobs, even today they prefer immigrants, often illegal,” he wrote in protest.
As Remix News previously reported, NGOs have been actively lobbying for Italy to legalize the country’s illegal immigrant population during the pandemic.”
What do studies on new coronavirus mutations tell us?
More than 700 released from immigration detention centres as coronavirus prevents deportation (telegraph, May 7, 2020)
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2020/05/07/700-released-immigration-detention-centres-coronavirus-prevents/
“More than 700 detainees including convicted criminals have been released by the Home Office from immigration detention centres because the coronavirus pandemic means they cannot be deported.
The Home Office was forced to release at least 50 of them by judicial tribunals despite warning that they could pose a risk to the public.
The Government has had to free them because by law they can only detain them if they can remove them from the UK “within a reasonable time.”
More than 40 countries to which the Home Office planned to remove them have either closed their borders or imposed travel restrictions, making deportation impossible and requiring the detainees to be released.
A further 370 – described as largely convicted foreign offenders by the Home Office – are still being held in immigration detention centres…”
French Agriculture Orgs Demand Macron Rebuild ‘Food Sovereignty’ (breitbart, May 8, 2020)
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/05/08/french-agriculture-orgs-demand-macron-rebuild-food-sovereignty/
“Seven French agricultural organisations have called on the government to increase food sovereignty as a response to dangers revealed by the Wuhan coronavirus crisis.
The organisations focused on several points to make France’s agricultural sector less reliant on globalisation and said that the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak had revealed weaknesses in the country’s food independence.
“Beyond the economic weaknesses caused by this pandemic, it is today our structural weaknesses that need to be corrected because they directly threaten our food independence, and therefore our sovereignty… our imports, mainly ‘low cost’, are growing faster than our exports. The situation of dependence is growing dangerously,” the letter, published in L’Opinion, said.
The letter went on to note the demographic issues facing France’s farmers, stating that more than half of French farmers are set to retire in less than ten years and called on the government of President Emmanuel Macron to promote agricultural professions to young people.
The organisations also called for restructuring and even relocating production chains, ensure the public knows where French products are coming from, and educate the public regarding costs and a “fair price of food”.
“Rebuilding food sovereignty will be the work of a generation. It will only be possible if it is part of a real process of solidarity. We have always supported the idea that agriculture is an opportunity for France and for Europe. Circumstances brutally demonstrate this today,” they said…”
Illegal Immigration to the UK Soars as Deportations Continue to Fall (breitbart, May 8, 2020)
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/05/08/illegal-immigration-to-uk-soars-as-deportations-fall-think-tank/
“A report has found while the number of illegal crossings of the English Channel continues to rise increased, the number of migrants actually being deported by the British government has fallen.
Since the start of 2018 over 3,200 illegal boat migrants are known to have successfully reached British shores. During that same time period, the Home Office has deported just 155 people, despite promises from Prime Minister Boris Johnson that his government would send illegal migrants back to France, Migration Watch UK found.
The London-based research and pressure group noted that as opposed to previous years, people smugglers and migrants are no longer attempting to cross the English Channel secretly, but rather are intentionally trying to be ‘intercepted’ by the British Border Force, as they will be safely brought ashore and given the opportunity to apply for Asylum.
“If police catch you, they never send you back. It’s secure to go, no danger” an Afghani people smuggler told The Sun.
“Criminals exploit the gaps and weaknesses in our immigration and asylum regimes to pile people into flimsy craft in return for huge sums of money. Migrants leave safe and prosperous countries (France and Belgium) and risk their lives with assurances that they will be ‘rescued’ and given asylum in the UK,” Migration Watch UK said.
In the first two months of this year, the number of detected arrivals has more than doubled over the same time period last year. The anti-mass migration think tank suggested that the increase in illegal crossings of the channel could be attributable to the “growing paralysis in immigration enforcement” in which failed asylum seekers typically remain in the country. Of the 200,000 asylum seekers that arrived in Britain between 2004 and 2018, just 2,000 were removed from the country, the report noted.
In response to the growing migrant crisis, Migration Watch UK called on the Boris Johnson’s government to provide a “major boost” in funding for the nation’s immigration enforcement system in order to “substantially increase” the removal of people that have no right to remain in the country, including failed asylum seekers.
The think tank also called on the government to negotiate with France and Belgium, to secure a deal in which all migrants that attempt to cross the English Channel are immediately returned to the country that they set sail from, rather than being brought ashore in Britain.
“The government have had 18 months to deal with the problem of illegal Channel crossings in small boats. Thus far, a solution has not only proved elusive but the situation seems to be getting worse,” said Alp Mehmet, Chairman of Migration Watch UK.
“The time for decisive action cannot be ducked any longer. With the public in a pandemic lockdown, it is surely not expecting too much for them to be confident that their borders are secure,” Mehmet added.
Though a clear majority of the British public believe that those entering the country illegally should be removed, there has been little appetite in the British media establishment to address with the growing problem…”
Mass Migration Cost France at Least 6.6 Billion Euros in 2019 (breitbart, May 8, 2020)
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/05/08/hold-mass-migration-cost-france-6-6-billion-euros-2019/
“France spent €6.6 billion on immigration in 2019, handing out a total of 276,576 residency permits.
The Court of Auditors’ report states that while France receives far fewer migrants through legal means than countries such as the United Kingdom, Germany, or Sweden per 1,000 inhabitants, it continues to receive high numbers of illegal migrants and asylum seekers.
In 2019, “154,620 asylum requests were registered, placing France in the high range of the countries of the European Union and its asylum system under heavy stress”, the report states.
“State expenditure linked to these policies is estimated at €6.57 billion [£5.77bn/$7.09bn] in 2019, or 1.41 per cent of gross expenditure in the general budget, up by around 48 per cent compared to 2012,” the report added, according to Le Figaro.
The report notes that increased asylum numbers account for one-third of the increase of the spending on immigration, while state medical aid for migrants contributes one-fifth of the growth.
France has seen historic numbers of asylum seekers year after year since the height of the 2015 migrant crisis.
The cost of unaccompanied minor migrants alone was reported to be at least €2 billion (£1.76bn/$2.16bn) per year, according to a report from September 2019. There are believed to be over 40,000 migrants who claim to be underage, reportedly costing around €50,000 (£44,000/$54,000) each per year.
The exact costs of immigration to France per year have been widely debated, with populist National Rally leader Marine Le Pen claiming the expenses could be as high as €70 billion (£61bn/$76bn) per year when other linked costs are factored in.
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has put forward its own figure, saying that the cost is likely around €10 billion (£8.8bn/$10.8bn) per year in a report released in October 2019.”
WHO: Under-4s Should Learn About ‘Early Childhood Masturbation’, ‘Explore Gender Identities’ (breitbart, May 8, 2020)
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/05/08/who-under-4s-should-learn-about-early-childhood-masturbation-explore-gender-identities/
Paris Mosque Threatens Legal Action If Not Allowed to Open During Ramadan (breitbart, May 8, 2020)
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/05/08/paris-mosque-threatens-legal-action-not-allowed-open-ramadan/
“The Grand Mosque of Paris has threatened to file a discrimination lawsuit against the French government if it is not allowed to open to worshippers before the end of Ramadan.
Head of the Grand Mosque Chems-Eddine Hafiz expressed anger at the announcement that mosques, churches, and other places of worship under lockdown due to the Wuhan coronavirus would not be opened earlier than May 29th, several days after the end of the Muslim holy month.
Mr Hafiz, who is also a lawyer, called on President Emmanuel Macron’s government to open places of worship on May 24th to coincide with the Islamic holiday of Eid to celebrate the end of Ramadan and said that legal action would be undertaken otherwise, Le Figaro reports.
“The holiday of Eid which closes the holy month of Ramadan is as important as Jewish or Christian Pentecost,” he said and added he was prepared to “use all legal means to defend the moral interests of Muslims in France”.
Pentecost, also called Whitsun, takes place on May 31st, two days after the lifting of the lockdown measures for places of worship. While the Jewish holiday of Shavuot begins at sunset on May 28th and ends at sundown on May 30th. The timing of the lifting of the lockdown Hafiz argued was “de facto excluding Muslim worship”.
“Muslims, linked to the National Federation of the Great Mosque of Paris (GMP), which I have the honour to represent, would not understand this unfair measure of the ‘double standards’, the feast of Eid being separated from Jewish and Christian Pentecost by only four days,” he added.
Many other countries have prohibited worship during their own coronavirus lockdown measures, but some have made concessions to Muslims by allowing the Islamic call to prayer to be broadcast during the month of Ramadan.
In Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and several other parties supported the public broadcast of the Muslim call to prayer.
CDU religious policy spokesman Christoph de Vries argued that he “therefore considers temporary permission to allow the call to prayer as a symbolic sign of solidarity and common ground to be justifiable”.
In Canada, Mississauga Mayor Bonnie Crombie also amended local bylaws to allow for the broadcast, saying the move “will provide inspiration, familiarity, and comfort to our city’s Muslim community during this challenging time”.”
Pakistan court orders auction of ex-Taliban chief’s property (abcnews, May 8, 2020)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/pakistan-court-orders-auction-taliban-chiefs-property-70575929
“A Pakistani judge ordered the auction of five properties purchased by former Taliban chief Mullah Akhtar Mansour with fake documents before he was killed in a U.S. drone strike in 2016, two investigators familiar with the case said Friday.
Mansour bought the properties, estimated to be worth about $200,000, after he replaced Taliban founder Mullah Mohammad Omar, whose death was announced in 2015.
Mansour’s properties were detected in the port city of Karachi after he was killed in a drone strike in Baluchistan province, the investigators said on condition of anonymity for security reasons.
The officials said the judge, whose name was not revealed for security reasons, recently ordered the government to quickly finalize arrangements for auctioning the properties, which were seized earlier this year.
The investigators said authorities published advertisement in Pakistani newspapers to determine if there were any claims to the properties.
Money collected through the auction will go to the government. The investigators said the value of the properties, which include small apartments and plots, was estimated to be about $200,000.
Mansour’s killing strained relations between Pakistan and United States at the time, as Islamabad said Washington unilaterally targeted Mansour in violation of international laws and the country’s sovereign.”
Spain: police arrest man suspected of planning terror attack (abcnews, May 8, 2020)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/spain-police-arrest-man-suspected-planning-terror-attack-70575260
“Spanish police arrested a Moroccan man on Friday suspected of planning a terror attack in the name of the Islamic State group during Spain’s coronavirus crisis.
Spain’s Civil Guard said that the arrest carried out in Barcelona was aided by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation and Morocco’s state security forces.
The Civil Guard said that they had been watching the suspect for four years but that his “process of radicalization” had been accelerated during Spain’s lockdown that started in mid-March to control its COVID-19 outbreak.
Investigators suspected the man had been motivated by calls made by IS for followers to carry out attacks in their countries of residence. Police said the suspect had made “public declarations” of his allegiance to IS and hatred for Western countries on social media.
Investigators feared he was planning an attack, perhaps using a knife or with a vehicle, in Barcelona after observing him breaking virus confinement rules to move around the city, possibly searching for a target.”
https://summit.news/2020/05/07/multimillionaire-celebrities-call-for-end-to-capitalism-from-the-comfort-of-their-luxury-mansions/
Hypocrites.
Wuhan market had role in virus outbreak, but more research needed: WHO
GENEVA (Reuters) – A wholesale market in the central Chinese city of Wuhan played a role in the outbreak of the novel coronavirus last year, as the source or possibly as an “amplifying setting”, the World Health Organization said on Friday, calling for more research.
Chinese authorities shut down the market in January as part of efforts to halt the spread of the virus and ordered a temporary ban on trade and consumption of wildlife.
https://www.oann.com/wuhan-market-had-role-in-virus-outbreak-but-more-research-needed-who/
Hotels housing migrants vandalized in Greece
As the pandemic rages, Greek authorities have been transferring hundreds of refugees to facilities on the mainland from its overcrowded island refugee camps.
German FM Heiko Maas has called the EU’s migrant policy ‘inadequate.’
Meanwhile, anti-immigration protesters vandalized two Greek hotels that reportedly hosted up to 50 migrants.
europravda – Coronavirus in your eyes: risk is higher due to strength of strain say researchers
Researchers based in Hong Kong say that COVID-19 infection via the eyes is a greater risk than before because it is stronger than previous coronaviruses
De Hemel Is Mijn Thuis
De hemel is mijn thuis
De hemel is mijn thuis
Nu is deze zoete wereld mij dierbaar
Ik heb deze weg eerder afgelegd
Op reis voor een vriend
Ben weg geweest, maar nu ben ik terug voor meer
Ga weer deze weg af
Je weet dat hij elk gebed beantwoordt
Maar je kunt maar beter je steentje bijdragen
Geesten overal om je heen overal
Maar je moet je hart openen
Je moet je hart openen
Je bent alleen als je in deze wereld komt
Je bent alleen als je gaat
En het maakt niet uit wie je bent
Het maakt niet uit wie je kent
Blijf luisteren naar die stille stem
Dat is de manier om te beginnen
De deur staat open, maar je hebt een keuze
Je moet je hart openen
Je moet je hart openen
Oh deze wereld is me dierbaar
Maar de hemel is mijn thuis
Dit is waar ik naar verlang te zijn
Maar de hemel is mijn thuis
Als je leven somber lijkt
Tranen beginnen te vallen
Stuur het woord terug naar mij
En ik zal er zijn als je belt
Ik ben eerder op deze weg geweest
Maar de hemel is mijn thuis
En ik kom terug (ja) (in de ochtend?)
De hemel is mijn thuis
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(Richard: This one is well worth the read for those who aren’t in the firearms community.)
Canada Prime Minister Trudeau’s ‘Assault-Style’ Gun Ban Outlaws Many Shotguns, Bolt Action Rifles
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is either devilishly stupid, or devilishly underhanded. With Canada’s Boy Wonder, sometimes the differences are difficult to discern.
The Canadian head-of-state’s unilateral gun grab that bans 1,500 makes and models of modern sporting rifles under the guise of an “assault-style” firearm classification, swept up multiple other firearms. Some are certainly “military-grade” like the mortars, grenade launchers and rocket and missile launchers, which were already banned.
It also banned Ruger’s Mini-14, commonly referred to as a “ranch rifle” that doesn’t have any of the offensive cosmetic characteristics gun control groups get woozy over when they hear them described. That’s why the prime minister echoed one of their favorite sound bites.
“You don’t need an AR-15 to bring down a deer,” Prime Minister Trudeau said during his gun grab announcement.
https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/canada-prime-minister-trudeaus-assault-style-gun-ban-outlaws-many-shotguns-bolt-action-rifles-too/?utm_source=wideopen&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=wideopen&utm_content=%5B%5Brssitem_title%5D%5D
Retailers Reporting Pushback Against Social Distance Enforcers; Are We Headed for Independence Day 2.0?
Tensions are escalating across America as people have had enough of power-mad governors and state officials trying to enforce tyranny in the name of protecting people from a virus. If this continues through the July 4th weekend, will things turn into Independence Day 2.0?
The Illinois Retail Merchants Association reports that customers have already begun pushing back on busybodies scolding them to follow Governor J.B.Pritzker’s executive order mandating masks for people in stores. And they report the problem has quickly grown worse – with increasing violence.
https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/retailers-reporting-pushback-against-social-distance-enforcers-are-we-headed-for-independence-day-2-0/?utm_source=wideopen&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=wideopen&utm_content=%5B%5Brssitem_title%5D%5D
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Mueller Abuses Exceed Any Standard of Criminality
While most of the nation’s attention is riveted on the upheaval associated with the Wuhan Flu pandemic/panic, other insidious acts, committed by leftist Democrats and their minions, keep coming to light.
Throughout its two plus years, the entire Mueller kangaroo-court, ostensibly conducted to “investigate” whether or not President Trump had colluded with the Russians to win in 2016, has been a cesspool of lies and criminal excesses, perpetrated by a thoroughly corrupt DOJ and FBI, which had been “weaponized” by the Obama Administration.
https://www.gopusa.com/?p=88495?omhide=true
CHP blocks Newsom protesters from capitol grounds
Hundreds of protesters came to the California’s state Capitol on Thursday for another demonstration against Gov. Gavin Newsom’s coronavirus stay-at-home order, but this time they couldn’t get onto the grounds.
Six days after 32 people were arrested at a boisterous rally on the downtown landmark’s steps, the protesters were met by steel barriers ringing the west end of the property — the spot where the rally was supposed to be held — and about 200 California Highway Patrol officers in helmets and masks patrolling the grounds. The CHP has banned all protests on property for the time being.
Although the east side of Capitol Park was left open, the demonstrators settled for a peaceful rally on the sidewalk along the west side in what was billed as “A National Day of Prayer — Building Bridges.” They took communion, blasted Newsom’s stewardship of the coronavirus pandemic and literally offered an olive branch to the CHP officers standing guard, saying they were just carrying out Newsom’s orders.
Sacramento Police said late Thursday that no one was arrested in the demonstrations.
https://www.gopusa.com/?p=88641?omhide=true
(Richard: This article is a concealed attack on home schooling, they talk against the Teahchers Unions but call the online home schooling sub standard.)
If Parents Don’t Demand Open Schools They May Not Get Them
Going to school is a core function of a civilized society. Yet, due to the coronavirus pandemic that spurred nationwide lockdowns in March, American schools closed their doors. Since then, most of our nation’s 57 million children in grades K-12 have been isolated at home, cut off from face-to-face human contact, friends, sports, school activities and normal life.
This cruel and unusual punishment cannot continue indefinitely, especially since it’s well-known that the coronavirus mostly affects the elderly and those with underlying medical conditions — not children. So though the main reason for justifying the mass closure of America’s schools is to protect children, our kids are not a high-risk group. Does that warrant this radical upheaval to their lives? Does that warrant the impact on millions of parents nationwide who can’t pay their bills and feed their families because they can’t go to work with children at home?
According to the Centers for Disease Control, 10 children in the U.S. between ages 0-14 have died from COVID-19 as of May 6. As tragic as that is, for comparison, 107 kids in the same age group have died this year from pneumonia and 85 from the flu. But we would never close schools for those deadly diseases.
https://www.gopusa.com/?p=88604?omhide=true
Far-Left Anarchists Suspected of Defacing Memorial to French WWII Resistance (breitbart, May 8, 2020)
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/05/08/far-left-anarchists-suspected-defacing-memorial-french-wwii-resistance/
“Police in the commune of Espenel believe far-left anarchists are behind a wave of recent vandalisation in the area, including the defacement of a memorial to French World War II resistance fighters.
The words “deadly control, fertile resistance” were spray-painted onto the side of the memorial which lists the names of resistance fighters and victims of the massacres that occurred in 1944 and saw the deaths of 600 resistance fighters and 200 civilians at the hands of German occupying forces.
Over the past 15 days, police in the area say they have seen various slogans spray-painted, all of which they believe have been committed by left-wing extremists, France Bleu reports.
Along with the graffiti, the police reported that since April there had been other acts of vandalism including an attack on the CCTV cameras at the micro-hydroelectric power station in Luc-en-Diois.
Another incident took place earlier this week when a mobile phone relay antenna was destroyed in a fire in Oriol-en-Royans. The sabotage is believed to have been deliberate and French intelligence has noted a surge of similar attacks, likely from the far-left, across France in recent weeks…”
France: Far-Left Antifa Extremists Possible Suspects in Mass Sabotage of Internet Infrastructure (breitbart, May 8, 2020)
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/05/08/france-far-left-antifa-extremists-possible-suspects-in-mass-sabotage-of-internet-infrastructure/
“An act of deliberate sabotage that knocked out the internet for 50,000 people this week in the Ile-de-France region may be connected to a series of vandalism acts believed to be linked to far-left Antifa extremists.
According to investigations conducted by the Departmental Judicial Police Service (SDPJ) of Val-de-Marne, the incident which led to customers becoming disconnected from the internet in the region was deliberate.
A police source close to the investigation told Le Parisien that the damage could cost as much as an estimated one million euros. While an unnamed internet company head told the newspaper the scale of the sabotage was “unheard of in 20 years”.
The sabotage involved the cutting of telephone and communications cables and is just the latest act of sabotage across France in the last month.
A leaked note from the Central Territorial Intelligence Service (SCRT) claimed that there had been as many as 20 acts of sabotage in recent weeks, all of them targetting communications infrastructure.
“These individuals have forced open the street signs that protect underground fibre optic networks. They then cut the big cables and took the time to cut everything into smaller pieces to delay repairs that could take weeks,” a source told Le Parisien.
Orange, the internet and mobile network most affected by the sabotage, confirmed four separate areas where acts of sabotage occurred. While an industry expert told the newspaper at least 20 sites were sabotaged, stating that many of the locations are confidential.
Just days before, Le Parisien reported that the central territorial intelligence service (SCRT) suspected far-left extremists were behind the wave of sabotage, saying all targets were “historic targets of the ultra-left movement”.
French intelligence services also noted several calls for sabotage that have been posted on far-left Antifa websites and social media pages including a March 30th manifesto calling on extremists to “resume direct action”.
“We must act in concrete resistance, not symbolic […] To carry out sabotage, there is no need to be in large numbers or have experience. Direct action is within everyone’s reach,” the manifesto’s author wrote.
A senior civil servant stated that in the case of the mass internet cable sabotage this week, no procedural links to the far-left have yet been made, but the planned nature of the attack means they have also not been excluded as potential suspects…”
German Islamists Raided over Coronavirus Aid Fraud Allegations (breitbart, May 8, 2020)
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/05/08/german-islamists-raided-coronavirus-aid-fraud-allegations/
“German police in Berlin raided the homes of several known Islamic extremists on suspicion of involvement in fraudulently claiming Wuhan coronavirus aid benefits.
The raids involved at least five suspects, all of which are said to be hardcore members of the Islamist Salafist community. They are also linked to the radical Fussilet mosque that was also connected to Berlin Christmas market terrorist and Tunisian failed asylum seeker Anis Amri.
A suspect named Walid S., according to a report from Tagesspiegel, was a close confidant of Amri. Walid S. was also said to have been at the scene of the terror attack shortly after it had occurred.
He had also been investigated in 2018 by police who believed he was plotting an attack on the Berlin half-marathon.
In total, investigators say that the five suspects defrauded the German government of around €94,000 (£82,100/$102,000). The Attorney General stated on Thursday that the suspects had been “fraudulently requesting and receiving partial emergency corona help for small businesses from Investitionsbank Berlin, even though they were not entitled to such aid payments”.
Salafist Yunis M. is said to have requested money for a hairdresser and sushi restaurant. Another suspect applied for €9,000 (£7,900/$9,800) five times for an internet cafe business and received €14,000 (£12,000/$15,000) from the government.
The investigation into the fraud began with information gained from another case of benefit fraud involving an Islamist hate preacher. Abul Barra and his partner had received €18,000 (£15,700/$19,500) in aid for a shop that had been closed since 2019.
Norbert Cioma, head of the police union in Berlin, praised the cooperation between police and Investitionsbank Berlin (IBB) but also added: “On the other hand, it becomes clear once again that organised crime and terrorism have strong points of contact.”
Benefit fraud is nothing new for radical Islamic extremists across Europe and has been used by many as a tactic to fund their activities.
Last year in Switzerland, radical imam Abu Ramadan was accused of engaging in fraud to the amount of 590,000 Swiss francs (£455,335/$596,700) between 2003 and 2017.
Sweden has had similar problems, particularly with Islamists who left the country to join Islamic State overseas but who were still able to claim welfare benefits from the Swedish state.”
Arizona Professor Threatened for Offending Islam, College Demands He Apologize
The academic Left’s war against reality comes to Scottsdale, Arizona, and one prof pays the price.
Nicholas Damask, Ph.D., has taught political science at Scottsdale Community College in Arizona for 24 years. But now he is facing a barrage of threats, and his family, including his 9-year-old grandson and 85-year-old parents, is in hiding, while College officials are demanding that he apologize – all for the crime of speaking the truth about the motivating ideology behind the threat of Islamic jihad worldwide.
Damask, who has an MA in International Relations from American University in Washington, DC, and a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Cincinnati, says he is “to my knowledge, the only tenured political science faculty currently teaching in Arizona to write a doctoral dissertation on terrorism.” He has taught Scottsdale Community College’s World Politics for each of the 24 years he has worked at the school.
Professor Damask’s troubles began during the current Spring semester, when a student took exception to three quiz questions. The questions were:
https://cms.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/05/arizona-professor-threatened-offending-islam-robert-spencer
Mecca – May 08 2020
Did the Lockdown Model Cause Half the Coronavirus Deaths in New Jersey?
Instead of coronavirus overwhelming hospitals, it overwhelmed nursing homes.
On March 31st, New Jersey Commissioner of Health Judith Persichilli issued an order to nursing homes and rehab facilities ordering them to take coronavirus patients.
Relying on Governor Murphy’s Public Health Emergency executive order, she issued a Health Department order that set out to achieve “the expedited receipt of patients/residents discharging from hospitals” by warning that, “no patient/resident shall be denied re-admission or admission to the post-acute care setting solely based on a confirmed diagnosis of COVID-19.”
The New Jersey Health boss further warned that “post-acute care facilities are prohibited from requiring a hospitalized patient/resident who is determined medically stable to be tested for COVID-19 prior to admission or readmission.”
Chinese Espionage Made Possible By Immigration Failures
What visa fraud does to our national security and public health.
With all of the focus on the Coronavirus pandemic other major issues. such as the immigration crisis, is being utterly ignored by the news media.
There is however, a direct nexus between failures of the immigration system and the current Coronavirus Pandemic. China has robbed America blind of intellectual property that has included high tech research into biology, chemistry and physics.
Indeed, Chinese espionage has become so routine across a wide array of areas including military secrets that the intelligence community has given it the sarcastic nickname of “Chinese Takeout!”
Obviously, in order to spy on America, Chinese operatives need to enter the United States.
Border security involves much more than our northern and southern borders, it also includes the vetting process conducted at ports of entry by CBP (Customs and Border Protection) inspectors and the issuance of visas at U.S. embassies and consulates overseas.
https://cms.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/05/chinese-espionage-made-possible-immigration-michael-cutler
LA Threatens to “Commandeer” Hotels That Won’t House the Homeless
The crusade to wreck the country’s major blue cities is proceeding nicely. By 2030, will San Fran, NYC, or LA even be habitable? I wouldn’t place the best odds on it. The pandemic may just be the tipping point for a wave of horrible policies that will double down on the destruction. Here’s what the Los Angeles City Council is busy doing, courtesy of the great Bill Melugin.
https://cms.frontpagemag.com/point/2020/05/la-threatens-commandeer-hotels-wont-house-homeless-daniel-greenfield
Shannon Bream: I am Told There is MUCH MORE Coming Next Week Including “A BOMBSHELL”
Sidney Powell GLOATS After Case Dropped Against Gen. Flynn — Takes Parting Shot at Liar Adam Schiff
The Turkish Sultan’s Dubious Charm Offensive
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Turkey’s Islamist strongman, President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an, knows he needs to win Western public opinion in order to achieve international legitimacy. But try as he might, his propaganda efforts are instantly undone by his routine authoritarianism.
In an article published in 2016, “Erdo?an: The World’s Most Insulted President,” this author suggested that the perpetually angry Recep Tayyip Erdo?an, president of Turkey, would do well to take a moment and consider why he is perhaps the most disrespected president on earth.
He is no more popular four years later. Between 2014 and 2018, some 17,500 people were sued for insulting Erdo?an, according to the Turkish Justice Ministry. In 2018 alone, some 26,000 new investigations were opened for an offense punishable by one to four years in jail. Of those suspects, hundreds are minors.
Not all these alleged insulters of Erdo?an are Turks, though most apparently are. In one sensational case filed in Germany, Erdo?an invoked an obscure German law, dating back to 1871 and still in effect in 2016, which had been used by the Shah of Iran and by Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet to silence dissidents in the 1960s and 1970s. The archaic law allows prosecution in Germany for insulting a foreign leader, but only with the consent of the government. German Chancellor Angela Merkel reluctantly granted her consent for the prosecution of German comedian Jan Böhmermann for insulting Erdo?an but promised that the law would be repealed.
https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/erdogan-charm-offensive/
GREECE – SAMOS