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2017-04-14 14:16:04 UTC  

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__***Why rightwingers are desperate for Sweden to ‘fail’ ***__
*https://goo.gl/Lyh4za*
*Christian Christensen - The Guardian*

*Of course Sweden isn’t perfect, but those who love to portray it as teeming with terrorists and naive towards reality, are just cynical hypocrites*

There are few countries in the world that have “lost their innocence” as many times as Sweden. Even before a suspected terrorist and Isis supporter killed four and injured many more in last week’s attack in central Stockholm, Sweden’s policies were being portrayed on the programmes of Fox News and pages of the Daily Mail as, at best, exercises in well-meaning-but-naive multiculturalism, and at worst terrorist appeasement.

So, when terrible events take place, they are framed as evidence of the decline and fall of the European social democratic project, the failure of European immigration policies and of Swedish innocence lost.

**bla bla bla**

So, when pundits and experts opine on Swedish “innocence lost” it is worth remembering that *Sweden has never been innocent*. It is also worth remembering that Sweden was willing to put its money where its mouth was when it came to taking in refugees and immigrants fleeing the conflicts and instability fuelled by countries __unwilling to deal with the consequences of their actions__. This shirking of responsibility while condemning the efforts of others is far worse than being naive. **It’s cynical hypocrisy.**

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2017-04-14 14:36:41 UTC  

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__***Turkroach Sultan Erdogan bitches about Turkey's problems, blames the crumbling EU for it***__
*https://goo.gl/h9OQUj* (Russia Today)

In a widening diplomatic rift between Turkey and the EU, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has made a new provocative statement saying that the “collapsing” Europe “will pay” for “humiliating” and “oppressing” Turks living on the continent.

“They said a century ago that we were the 'sick man.' Now they are the 'sick man.' Europe is collapsing,” the Turkish leader said, using an insult popular among European politicians in the 19th century when they talked about the collapsing Ottoman Empire.


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2017-04-14 15:10:55 UTC  

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__***EU working to 'push' Britain out of the space race by cancelling Galileo contracts after Brexit ***__
*https://goo.gl/mrkM3F*
*TELEGRAPH*

The European Commission is working to "push" British companies out of contracts for the latest phase of work on the EU's Galileo satellite navigation system, according to reports.

The body is understood to be calling for the right to cancel existing contracts if a supplier is no longer based in an European Union member state.

The Financial Times reports that the Commission is demanding that any company kicked out of the programme should be asked to finance the cost of finding a replacement supplier.

An UK government official said: “It feels like the UK is being targeted.

“We have been fighting to stay involved in Galileo whereas some European partners are working to push us out.”

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2017-04-14 15:56:14 UTC  

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__***Japan readying for N. Korea emergency***__
*https://goo.gl/6Czq8z*
*THE JAPAN NEWS*

The Japanese government, which has asked the United States to provide advance consultation if it decides to launch military action against North Korea, has ramped up preparations for unexpected situations.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe stressed on Wednesday that the region is becoming increasingly tense. “[U.S. President Donald Trump] has stated that all options are on the table. It’s a fact tensions are rising,” he said at the Prime Minister’s Office after receiving a written proposal calling for tougher sanctions on North Korea from the Liberal Democratic Party’s Eriko Yamatani, chief of the headquarters for the abduction issue.

A difficult issue that would emerge in a contingency on the Korean Peninsula is the rescue and protection of an estimated 57,000 Japanese, including tourists, in South Korea. The government started compiling an evacuation plan in the 1990s and has updated and changed it several times. The government plans to convene a meeting of the four ministers who form the National Security Council to review the strategy for dealing with this issue at an early date.

The government must also figure out how to cope with the huge number of refugees expected to descend on Japan from the Korean Peninsula. They would need to be temporarily accommodated, but it also is possible that North Korean agents would slip into Japan with the intention of striking nuclear power plants, heavily populated areas and other targets.

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2017-04-14 16:08:03 UTC  

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__***Muslim group that claims men beating their wives is a 'beautiful blessing' now say critics condemning their views are 'unfair' and just want to attack Islam***__
*https://goo.gl/kBeNRG*
*DAILY MAIL*

A hardline Muslim group which was condemned for encouraging husbands to beat their wives with sticks has claimed they have been unfairly attacked by critics.

Sydney **primary school teacher** Reem Allouche told the women's arm of hardline political group Hizb ut-Tahrir that men are permitted to beat 'disobedient women'.

The women agree that they should only be beaten if they are caught 'committing sin' - pointing out that this means seriously disrespecting Allah or their husbands.

'Disobedience to the husband. Immoral acts or cheating. Admitting anyone to the home that the husband doesn't like,' Ms Latifi explains.

Ms Allouche smiles as she adds that does not mean a man can beat his wife simply for not cooking dinner, with the women agreeing that violence should only be used to 'promote tranquility'.

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2017-04-14 16:16:01 UTC  

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__***RESIST!! Company Offers Employees Paid Leave For 'Activism' (Against Trump)***__
*https://goo.gl/Vu63ys*
*THE DAILY WIRE*

San Francisco-based Traction, has taken its anti-Trump stance even further, recently implementing what the agency calls "Days of Action," paid leave for employees who want to get out and make a difference (by "resisting" Trump, of course).

Traction CEO Adam Kleinberg touted the new pro-activism policy in an opinion piece on the agency's website. Kleinberg makes clear from the start that the "Days of Action" policy was created "in response to the increasing trend of budget cuts and divisive political discourse under the Trump administration."

Kleinberg goes on to detail his rationale for encouraging his employees to promote various leftist causes:
*Under the Trump administration, proposed cuts will dramatically impact funding
to a wide range of organizations including Planned Parenthood, National Endowment
for the Arts, and Global Climate Change Initiative.*

The CEO notes that he was partly inspired by Barack Obama's call to "Show up. Dive in. Perservere."

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2017-04-14 16:39:40 UTC  

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__***KKK Trump-Supporter Who Made Racist Threats Turns Out To Be … Black***__
*https://goo.gl/CTSLpz*
*THE DAILY WIRE*

One of six threatening letters sent to black residents in Knoxville, Tennessee, including a well-regarded pastor, read: "I am a very racist white man and with Mr. Trump in the White House being the President, white people going to take over the world."

On top of being a white Trump supporter, the author also claimed to be a member of the KKK.

To the surprise of no one, none of this turned out to be true. For in the Age of Trump, without the hate crime-hoax, there would not be all that many hate crimes.

Turns out the author of these racist letters is Justin Lamar Coleman, a black man who apparently suffers from a psychological disorder. His inspiration for this letter-writing campaign stems from a seven-year-old personal feud with Jack McCowan, who runs a local body shop.

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2017-04-14 16:59:59 UTC  

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__***Saudi banks, bin Laden companies sued by US insurers over 9/11 terror attacks ***__
*https://goo.gl/jDPWZw*
*RT*

Two Saudi banks, along with businesses related to the family of Osama bin Laden face more than $4 billion in lawsuits over the September 11, 2001 terror attacks. Reuters reports the plaintiffs are more than two dozen US insurers

They are accused of having "aided and abetted" terror by doing a variety of "activities in support of Al-Qaeda" in the years before the attacks.

Al Rajhi has said US courts have "repeatedly" dismissed claims against the bank, which "has no links to terrorism." The Saudi bank is the world's largest Islamic bank by capital based on 2015 data and one of the biggest joint stock companies in the Kingdom.

For a long time, Saudi Arabia had immunity from such lawsuits in the US, but the veto was overruled by Congress last September. Riyadh has denied involvement in the attacks.

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2017-04-14 17:05:34 UTC  

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__***African Migrants Brutally Rape Swedish Teen, Leave Male Friend with Brain Damage***__
*https://goo.gl/zuNQKl*
*BREITBART*

Two migrants have been given sentences of three and two-and-a-half years for beating a young Swede almost to death before violently raping his female friend. The government will try to deport only one of them, temporarily.

The Freie Zeiten describes how they then beat and kicked the Swede with “brutal force”, leaving him with “multiple cerebral haemorrhages, severe swelling and bruises all over his body, as well as bone fractures and open wounds”.

Jarara’s younger companion, 19-year-old Mwangi, is said to have “strangled” one of the girls when she tried to intervene, slamming her into a wall and “hurling” her to the floor.

The Kenyan then grabbed another of the girls by the hair, dragged her into the bedroom and raped her. She was also strangled, with the Kenyan threatening to strike her if she screamed.

According to the Fria Tider, the court sentenced Mwangi to just two-and-a-half years for his crimes, despite having raped another woman in May 2016. The government will attempt to deport him afterwards – although he will be allowed to return to the country after ten years. Jarara, who has a string of previous convictions for crimes including theft, serious bodily injury, and resisting arrest, was given a slightly longer sentence – three years – but he will not be deported.

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2017-04-14 17:16:38 UTC  

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__***Brussels Trying to ‘Pressure’ Hungary into Accepting Migrant Quotas, Relaxing Border Controls***__
*https://goo.gl/xqUWyT*
*BREITBART*

The European Union’s unelected executive is trying to “pressure” Hungary into accepting compulsory migrant quotas and relaxing its tough new border control measures, according to the government.

“*Hungary is ready for debates, but we are not going to yield an inch as far as the issue of immigration is concerned*,” said a statement quoted by The Times.

European Commission Vice-President Frans Timmermans has levelled a number of charges at Hungary in recent weeks, principally concerning its resistance to compulsory migrant quotas, automatic detention of asylum seekers, and the removal of special privileges from the Central European University founded by billionaire open borders campaigner George Soros.

The migrant quotas, imposed despite the opposition of several Central European countries, were overwhelmingly rejected by the Hungarian people in a referendum in 2016.

Hungary’s measures slashed migrant numbers entering Hungary via the Serbian route from 200,000 in 2015 to just 25,000 in 2016 – actions for which the Hungarian government is privately thanked, according to Prime Minister Orbán.

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2017-04-14 18:31:18 UTC  

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***US successfully tests new nuclear gravity bomb***
*https://www.rt.com/usa/384786-nuclear-bomb-test-nevada/*


As the world’s attention was on the first combat use of the conventional “Mother Of All Bombs,” the US National Nuclear Security Administration announced the successful field test of the modernized gravity nuclear bomb in Nevada.

The NNSA and the US Air Force completed the first qualification flight test of the B61-12 gravity nuclear bomb on March 14 at the Tonopah Test Range in Nevada, the agency announced on Thursday.

The test was intended to evaluate the weapon’s “non-nuclear functions” and the capability of the F-16 fighter to successfully deploy the bomb. An F-16 fighter from Nellis Air Force Base dropped the “non-nuclear test assembly,” the NNSA said in a statement.

“The successful test provides critical qualification data to validate that the baseline design meets military requirements,” said Brigadier General Michael Lutton, NNSA’s principal assistant deputy administrator for military application. The NNSA is part of the Department of Energy, which is charged with managing US nuclear weapons.

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2017-04-14 19:25:44 UTC  

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__***‘March for Science’ Group Laments Trump’s Bombing of ‘Marginalized’ ISIS Fighters***__
*https://goo.gl/r9RThR*
*THE STREAM*

The organization behind the “March for Science” tweeted the Trump administration’s bombing Islamic State fighters in Afghanistan is “an example of how science is weaponized against marginalized people.”

“Really another successful job,” Trump said of the strike Thursday. “We’re very, very proud of our military. We are so proud of our military and it was another successful event.”

Science march organizers have been racked by infighting over how much the event should emphasize diversity and gender issues. Some march leaders have resigned over such disagreements.

The “March for Science” started to gain traction in January, garnering hundreds of thousands of likes on Facebook. Major environmentalist and activist groups have backed the march, but sister marches are planned in other cities as well.

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2017-04-14 19:56:26 UTC  

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***MOAB drop ordered by US general, Trump approval not needed, officials say***


http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/04/14/moab-drop-ordered-by-us-general-trump-approval-not-needed-officials-say.html

The decision to drop the largest non-nuclear bomb ever used in combat was made by the top U.S. commander on the ground, officials told Fox News on Friday, after the so-called "mother of all bombs" was used to obliterate an ISIS target in Afghanistan. 

Fox News is told that Gen. John Nicholson made the decision on his own. President Trump’s approval apparently was not needed.

Trump himself declined to say Thursday where the order came from, but stressed that he has given the military complete flexibility.

“We have given [the military] total authorization,” Trump told reporters. “Frankly, that’s why they’ve been so successful lately.”

The Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb, or MOAB, arrived in Afghanistan in early January, and is designed for its psychological effect as much as the damage it causes – the 21,000-pound bomb has a blast radius of one mile. 

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2017-04-14 22:10:28 UTC  

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__***SCIENCE: Babies Are Racist***__
*https://goo.gl/qsvcXN*
*THE DAILY WIRE*

According to researchers at the University of Toronto's Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), while people aren't born racist, adorable little six-month-old infants often are. But no worries, scientists think they might have the answer to preventing the nearly universal problem of baby racism.

The key findings of the two studies were highlighted in a media release published on Tuesday, in which the OISE explains that its researchers found that "six- to nine-month-old infants demonstrate racial bias in favour of members of their own race and racial bias against those of other races."

Princeton doctoral fellow Dr. Naiqi (Gabriel) Xiao, first author of the two papers, said that the studies show that "race-based bias emerges without experience with other-race individuals," rather than stemming from a "negative experience he or she may have had with other-race individuals."

"These findings thus point to the possibility that aspects of racial bias later in life may arise from our lack of exposure to other-race individuals in infancy," Lee hypothesized, adding, "If we can pinpoint the starting point of racial bias, which we may have done here, we can start to find ways to prevent racial biases from happening."

Dr. Xiao suggested that the studies point to the importance of early exposure to other races to prevent the potential development of racial bias later in life.

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2017-04-15 01:08:11 UTC  

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__***China Reportedly Tells Military To Be Ready To "Move" To North Korea Border***__
*http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-04-12/china-reportedly-tells-military-be-ready-move-north-korea-border*
*According to the otherwise credible UPI, or United Press International, China has ordered its military to be on nationwide alert, in addition to areas near the North Korea border, as tensions escalate on the peninsula.

Citing the Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy, a nongovernmental organization in Hong Kong, UPI writes that Beijing has ordered troops at all five military "regions" to maintain preparedness because of the situation in North Korea, according to Oriental Daily News in Hong Kong. According to the NGO, China's armored and mechanized infantry brigades in the provinces of Shandong, Zhejiang and Yunnan received the state mandate.*

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-04-12/china-reportedly-tells-military-be-ready-move-north-korea-border

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2017-04-15 03:06:03 UTC  

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__***N. Korea sends radio broadcast of new encrypted numbers ahead of key anniv.***__
*http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/northkorea/2017/04/14/0401000000AEN20170414002900315.html*
*SEOUL, April 14 (Yonhap) -- North Korea on Friday sent a radio broadcast of a new combination of mysterious random numbers believed to be coded orders to its spies operating in South Korea, one day ahead of late state founder Kim Il-sung's 105th birthday, one of its key anniversaries.

The North's propaganda station Radio Pyongyang began broadcasting the messages at 1:15 a.m. (Seoul time), calling out a series of pages and numbers, such as No. 69 on page 823, No. 92 on page 467 and No. 100 on page 957, before repeating them one more time.

The radio announcer said, "(I'm) giving review works in elementary information technology lessons of the remote education university for No. 27 expedition agents."

The latest batch of numbers are different from those that have been aired to date. Pyongyang Radio last aired a broadcast of encrypted numbers Sunday.

It marked the 32nd time that Pyongyang has broadcast encrypted numbers since June 2016*

http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/northkorea/2017/04/14/0401000000AEN20170414002900315.html

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2017-04-15 03:06:39 UTC  

numbers stations is creepy yo.. radio fags wirldwide listen and work on decoding.. at least thats frontline from SDR fans

2017-04-15 05:16:03 UTC  

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__***Defectors send anti-Pyongyang leaflets on N.K. founder's birth anniversary NOrk shitposters confirmed***__
*http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/national/2017/04/15/77/0302000000AEN20170415002900315F.html*
*GIMPO, South Korea, April 15 (Yonhap) -- A group of North Korean defectors in South Korea on Saturday sent hundreds of thousands of anti-Pyongyang leaflets via helium balloons across the inter-Korean border in time for the 105th birth anniversary of the North's late founder Kim Il-sung.

The Fighters for Free North Korea said its members sent some 300,000 leaflets from a mountain in Gimpo, just west of Seoul, starting at 5 a.m., condemning the North Korean regime and its role in the assassination of leader Kim Jong-un's elder half brother, Kim Jong-nam, in February in Malaysia.

Besides the leaflets, the 10 gas-filled balloons also contained 2,000 one-dollar bills, 1,000 USB storage devices, 1,000 DVDs and 500 booklets, the group said.
Large placards attached to the balloons featured photos of Kim Jong-un and Kim Jong-nam, which were titled "murderer" and "dead person," respectively.

The group said the leaflets contained all the details of the assassination of Kim Jong-nam which occurred at Malaysia's Kuala Lumpur International Airport on Feb. 13, as well as criticism of the Pyongyang regime.

The leaflets slammed the Kim Jong-un regime for sticking to nuclear weapons and missiles despite its isolation in the international community and idolizing the late founder Kim Il-sung.

"We condemn dictator Kim Jong-un for persistently threatening the Republic of Korea (South Korea) and the global society with nuclear weapons and missiles and murdering his half brother," group leader Park Sang-hak said.*

http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/national/2017/04/15/77/0302000000AEN20170415002900315F.html

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2017-04-15 05:30:15 UTC  

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__***Prime Minister Cuck Trudeau legalizes (DUDE) weed, now Canadians can get stoned mentally and physically thanks to (DUDE) weed and Mudslimes***__
*https://goo.gl/yixsnu* (NBC News)

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced legislation that could make Canada the second country ever to legalize recreational marijuana.

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2017-04-15 05:33:53 UTC  

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__***The Hermit Kingdom of North Korea celebrates their fatass founder's birthday***__
*https://goo.gl/25U3gi* (NBC News)

North Korea held a large celebration in honor of the 105th birthday of the country's founder, Kim Il Sung.

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2017-04-15 07:17:55 UTC  

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__***US government 'hacked global bank system'***__
*https://goo.gl/D3Vczj*
*BBC*

A huge range of security weaknesses, said to be worth over $2m if sold on the black market, have been leaked online.

The tools are said to have been created by the US National Security Agency (NSA), and accompanying documents appear to indicate a possible breach of the Swift global banking system.

Such a hack could have enabled the US to covertly monitor financial transactions, researchers said.

The files were released by Shadow Brokers, a hacking group that has previously leaked malware.

If genuine, it represents perhaps the most significant exposure of NSA files since the Edward Snowden leaks in 2013.

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2017-04-15 08:45:13 UTC  

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__***N. Korea sends radio broadcast of new encrypted numbers ahead of key anniversary***__
*https://goo.gl/M0PxxS*
*YONHAP*

North Korea on Friday sent a radio broadcast of a new combination of mysterious random numbers believed to be coded orders to its spies operating in South Korea, one day ahead of late state founder Kim Il-sung's 105th birthday, one of its key anniversaries.

The North's propaganda station Radio Pyongyang began broadcasting the messages at 1:15 a.m. (Seoul time), calling out a series of pages and numbers, such as No. 69 on page 823, No. 92 on page 467 and No. 100 on page 957, before repeating them one more time.

The radio announcer said, "(I'm) giving review works in elementary information technology lessons of the remote education university for No. 27 expedition agents."

The latest batch of numbers are different from those that have been aired to date. Pyongyang Radio last aired a broadcast of encrypted numbers Sunday.

It marked the 32nd time that Pyongyang has broadcast encrypted numbers since June 2016.

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2017-04-15 08:59:42 UTC  

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__***Le Pen criticizes Trump's new found NATO stance ***__
*https://goo.gl/TUZ4A7*
*(((CNN)))*

Far-right French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen criticized President Donald Trump Friday for his sudden embrace of NATO.
"Undeniably he is in contradiction with the commitments he had made," Le Pen said in an interview with France Info radio. "I am coherent, I don't change my mind in a few days. He had said he would not be the policeman of the world, that he would be the president of the United States and would not be the policeman of the world, but it seems today that he has changed his mind."

Her comments come just two days after Trump hosted NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at the White House and declared that the military alliance is no longer outdated, which had been a frequent refrain of his during the 2016 campaign.

Le Pen, leader of The National Front, went on to say that while she does not know if Trump would continue to abandon his "America First" approach, she herself would stick to a France first approach if elected president.

"Will he persist, or is it a political coup which facilitates his domestic policy, I have absolutely no idea. But I am coherent in my analyses. When something favors France I say so, when it doesn't I say so too," she said.

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2017-04-15 09:06:53 UTC  

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__***New Data Depicts Global Demographic War Between Old Christians And Young Muslims***__
*https://goo.gl/cVyRLm*
*THE FEDERALIST*

Pew Forum data projects Islam will surpass Christianity among adherents’ baby production within 20 years while increasing in conversions as Christian conversions decline.

Christianity is and has long been the world’s largest religious faith. Christians are also the most fertile of all religions overall. They like babies. Thirty-one percent of the world’s 7.3 billion people currently identify as Christians. Muslims represent nearly a quarter. All other religions are significantly lower.

While Christianity is expected to continue to grow at a small rate, Islam is projected to make greater gains, coming within a decimal point by 2060. They are expected to surpass Christianity in baby-making work by 2035.

In the last five years, 33 percent of the world’s babies were born to Christians and 31 percent were born to Muslims. By 2060, this fertility score will be 35 to 36 percent in favor of the Muslims. It will decline from 16 to 13 percent for those with no faith.

This is all driven by a current fertility rate for Muslims of 2.9 children per women over Christianity’s 2.6. Religiously unaffiliated women have a birth rate of 1.6 children, below replacement level of 2.1. This number is unlikely to increase.

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2017-04-15 09:25:49 UTC  

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__***Pence to spend Easter visiting troops in South Korea***__
*https://goo.gl/NclUsI*
*WASHINGTON EXAMINER*

Vice President Mike Pence will spend the Easter holiday weekend visiting with leaders in South Korea.

On Sunday, Pence will visit the Seoul National Cemetery before attending an evening Easter church service with U.S. and Korean service members, their family and local residents at the Yongsan Garrison Army Base. Pence is also scheduled to have dinner with the group at the base.

While North Korea is warning of a "big event" in the near future — possibly by the weekend — Pentagon officials have mobilized resources to hit back.

The U.S. said this week that it is well-prepared to respond with military action to any hostile behavior or serious threat from North Korea, including launching missiles at the nation's nuclear test site, U.S. intelligence officials said Thursday evening according to a report.

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2017-04-15 09:28:43 UTC  

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__***China Threatens North Korea With Sanctions If They Test Another Nuke***__
*https://goo.gl/JR3Dph*
*DAILY WIRE*

China, suddenly aware that their client state North Korea is out of control, has warned the North Korean regime that if it conducts its imminent nuclear test China will hit the regime with further sanctions.

Chinese imports of coal dropped 51.6 percent in the first three months of 2017 compared with the first quarter of last year, according to Huang Songping, a spokesman for the Chinese customs agency. The Chinese money paid to North Korea for its coal, roughly one billion dollars annually, has helped fund North Korea’s nuclear weapons program.

Beijing imposed a cutoff on Feb. 19, ostensibly in response to the February killing in Malaysia of Kim Jong-nam, the estranged half brother of North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un.

On Friday, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, told reporters in Beijing that China was calling on “all the parties, no matter verbally or in action, to stop provoking and threatening each other and not to allow the situation to become irretrievable and out of control.”

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2017-04-15 09:32:16 UTC  

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__***New York's Communist Mayor De Blasio slams Charging Bull as symbol of ‘unfettered capitalism’***__
*https://goo.gl/SYXdp6*
*NEW YORK POST*

Mayor de Blasio deprecated the Charging Bull sculpture in Lower Manhattan on Friday as a “celebration of unfettered capitalism” — while defending the Fearless Girl statue in front of the bull for “standing up to injustice.”

The mayor made the comment on his weekly WNYC radio show, where he also vowed that the city would fight a lawsuit by the creator of Charging Bull to get rid of Fearless Girl.

The 4-foot “Fearless Girl” — installed for International Woman’s Day — initially had a temporary permit to stand opposite the bull.

But de Blasio extended it another 11 months at the request of women’s groups.

De Blasio said it would be a “mistake” for the frail 76-year-old artist to sue and that the city “will fight him legally.”

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2017-04-15 09:35:29 UTC  

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__***Trump to Speak at NRA Forum, First President to Do So Since 1983***__
*https://goo.gl/Z7NLpX*
*BLOOMBERG*

President Donald Trump will speak at the National Rifle Association’s annual convention on April 28, becoming the first U.S. president to address the gun-rights group since Ronald Reagan in 1983.

“The NRA is honored to have the president address our annual meeting at the leadership forum,” said Jennifer Baker, a spokeswoman for the NRA. “We’re excited to once again have a president who respects the Second Amendment.”

The NRA endorsed Trump’s bid for president last May, after the then-candidate addressed the group’s annual forum in Louisville, Kentucky. Trump pledged at the time to “save our Second Amendment” and appoint judges which would support expansive gun rights.

The visit is scheduled for April 28, the last day of government funding under the current spending bill. If Congress doesn’t pass a new spending measure by that day, the government faces a partial shutdown.

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2017-04-15 09:50:04 UTC  

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__***Microsoft Transparency Report Shows Massive Increase in 2016 Obama Era FISA Orders***__
*https://goo.gl/R34zRF*
*THE CONSERVATIVE TREEHOUSE*

Microsoft tries to thread the needle of transparency by telling its consuming audience as much about governmental collection of data as possible. Toward that end Microsoft releases a biannual transparency report.

Within the latest transparency release Microsoft reports in the first half of 2016 they received a massive increase in FISA orders; primarily from U.S. governmental agencies.

• *“For the latest Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) data reported,
Microsoft received 1,000-1,499 FISA orders seeking content disclosures
affecting 12,000-12,499 accounts, compared to the 0-499 FISA orders
seeking disclosure of content impacting 17,500-17,999 accounts reported
for the previous period.*

*We received 0-499 National Security Letters in the latest reporting period,
which remains unchanged from the previous period.”*

However, simultaneous to the increase in the number of FISA orders, the requests were on fewer accounts. So FISA using agencies were seeking more total data but on a smaller number of accounts.

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2017-04-15 10:02:12 UTC  

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__***Wellesley College Newspaper Editorial: We Must Punish 'Problematic' Thought Crimes With 'Hostility'***__
*https://goo.gl/Mmk1Ni*
*TOWNHALL*

The [Welsley College newspaper editorial] is a jumble of incoherence that should theoretically humiliate the "elite" all-female institution that (a) admitted these students, and (b) cultivated this sort of thinking. A taste:

Wellesley is certainly not a place for racism, sexism, homophobia, Islamophobia, transphobia or any other type of discriminatory speech. **Shutting down rhetoric that undermines the existence and rights of others is not a violation of free speech; it is hate speech.**

**We have all said problematic claims**, the origins of which were ingrained in us by our discriminatory and biased society. Luckily, most of us have been taught by our peers and mentors at Wellesley in a productive way.

While it is expected that these lessons will be difficult and often personal, holding difficult conversations for the sake of educating is very different from shaming on the basis of ignorance. This being said, **if people are given the resources to learn and either continue to speak hate speech or refuse to adapt their beliefs, then hostility may be warranted.**

[Click link to read full transcript]

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2017-04-15 10:25:47 UTC  

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__***MIT professor exposes ‘egregious error’ & evidence tampering in US report on Syria sarin incident***__
*https://goo.gl/BT2ioO*
*RT*

A closer look at photos from the town of Khan Shaykhun shows that the chemical attack site was tampered with and that the US report blaming the Syrian government can’t be true, says the MIT professor skeptical of the White House narrative.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professor Theodore Postol, who wrote a preliminary review of the US government claims earlier this week and shared his findings with RT, examined photographs of the attack site and concluded that the report endorsed by the White House “could not be true.”

Senior US administration officials who briefed the media on Tuesday admitted the White House intelligence was partly “based on the pro-opposition social media reporting,” which “tells a very clear and consistent story about what we think happened.”

Postol’s six-page addendum, made public on Thursday evening, “unambiguously shows that the assumption in the [White House report] that there was no tampering with the alleged site of the sarin release is not correct.”

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2017-04-15 11:14:07 UTC  

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__***Canada Gives Up On Freedom And Passes Anti-Islamophobia Motion***__
*https://goo.gl/b7TFyz*
*RETURN OF KANGZ*

In late March, Canada’s federal government decisively passed a controversial Liberal-backed motion “condemning Islamophobia and all forms of systemic racism and religious discrimination.”

This motion, coined M-103, purports to “quell the increasing climate of hate and fear” in the country, yet neglects to define the broad terminology behind this supposed hatred. Nonetheless, the House of Commons approved M-103 by a staggering 201 votes against an opposition’s measly 91.

Left-leaning publications Huff Post and Vice predictably dismissed this resemblance to theocratic blasphemy laws as a right-wing “attack” and “conspiracy theory” on the motion, emphasizing that M-103 is not a bill and bears no relationship to blasphemy laws or any form of Sharia.

Canadians must heed the late Christopher Hitchens warning on Islamification: “resist it while you can”. The now-passed motion of M-103 represents yet another example of the political correctness and national cuckoldry capturing the once-Great White North.

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2017-04-15 15:31:16 UTC  

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__***protest held ahead of Arkansas death row inmates executions***__
*http://www.fox13memphis.com/top-stories/protest-planned-ahead-of-arkansas-death-row-inmates-executions/512621622*
*LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Protesters demonstrated at the Arkansas State Capitol Friday afternoon in a last-minute effort to save the lives of seven men on death row, all of whom the state plans to execute before April 30.

The protest started at 1:30 PM on the steps of the State Capitol building in Little Rockriday’s demonstration was organized by Damien Echols of the “West Memphis Three.” Echols was on death row after being convicted of the 1993 murder of three young boys in West Memphis, Ark. He was released from prison in 2011 after DNA evidence pointed to new suspects, bringing national scrutiny to the case.

“Am I scared?” Echols posted on Facebook: “More than I can say. I will be standing before the very people who tried to murder me.”*
http://www.fox13memphis.com/top-stories/protest-planned-ahead-of-arkansas-death-row-inmates-executions/512621622

2017-04-15 15:31:44 UTC  

several ads interrupted said post but its important news since arkansas has murdered innocent fucks before

2017-04-15 16:12:30 UTC  

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__***Syria war: Huge bomb kills dozens of evacuees in Syria***__
*https://goo.gl/ELu71O*
*BBC*

A huge car bomb has blasted a convoy of coaches carrying evacuees from government-held towns in Syria, killing at least 39 people.

It shattered coaches and set cars on fire, leaving a trail of bodies including children, as the convoy waited in rebel territory near Aleppo.

Russian troops have reportedly moved to shield rebel evacuees from retaliation.

A suicide bomber driving a van supposedly carrying aid supplies blew it up near the coaches, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports.

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2017-04-15 16:15:26 UTC  

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__***Report: Illegal Immigrant Border Crossings Declined By 93 Percent***__
*https://goo.gl/wLoQQA*
*DAILY WIRE*

A new report shows that the number of illegal immigrants caught crossing the border has dropped by a stunning 93 percent since December.

According to new numbers provided by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), around 16,000 people were apprehended illegally crossing the border in December, but only a little more than 1,100 were caught in March.

DHS is crediting President Donald Trump's harsher immigration policies as the primary cause of the significant slow-down in illegal crossings. However, Reuters points to the "threat of new policies" that may be implemented in the future as the main factor for the decline in illegal border crossings; mainly the possibility that mothers could be separated from their children.

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2017-04-15 16:19:40 UTC  

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__***Chinese Media Almost Sets Off Military Action With Erroneous North Korea Headline***__
*https://goo.gl/3hz5eQ*
*ZEROHEDGE*

As expected - and feared - during the annual "Day of the Sun" celebration parade (celebrating the birth of the nation's founder), Bloomberg blasted a headline that Chinese news agency Xinhua reported that North Korea has fired a projectile.

On its website, Bloomberg immediately picked up the story, and ran with "North Korea Fires Projectile Media, Says Xinhua" (at a url which still reads: "*https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-15/north-korea-fires-projectile-media-says-xinhua*")

However, it appears that the headline scanning algos made a collosal error, and that Xinhua interpreted events quite incorrectly as it was, as CBC and Reuters reports, *the appearance of a new submarine-launched missile at the parade for the first time*.

And that's how World War 3 almost occurred.

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2017-04-15 16:24:44 UTC  

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__***Hitler’s Mein Kampf returns to Japanese schools as ‘teaching material’ ***__
*https://goo.gl/AmqogW*
*RT*

Japan has okayed using Mein Kampf, Hitler’s autobiography and Nazi manifesto, in schools for educational purposes just weeks after the similarly controversial Imperial Rescript on Education was approved as “teaching material,” according to media reports.

Although the Japanese government approved Hitler’s infamous book as “teaching material” for schools on Friday, using it to promote racial hatred will lead to a strict response from regulators, according to the Japan Times report.

The decision came weeks after the controversial Imperial Rescript on Education in schools was approved for the same purposes.

According to many historians, the Rescript, which focuses on patriotism and loyalty to the Japanese Emperor, was one of the primary sources promoting obedience and moral certitude that helped militarism to grow in Japan.

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2017-04-15 17:43:49 UTC  

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***Report: Trump reelection effort raised $13.2 million so far in 2017***
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/04/15/report-trump-reelection-effort-raised-13-2-million-so-far-in-2017.html

President Trump’s reelection campaign has already raised $13.2 million this year, according to federal records filed Friday night and obtained by Politico.

The amount was collected by three committees -- Donald J. Trump for President, Trump Victory and Trump Make America Great Again Committee. And roughly 80 percent of the money was raised through small, online donations.

The Republican National Committee confirmed earlier this month that it had raised $41.3 million over the same period. But as of early Saturday, the group had yet to file a report with the Federal Elections Committee.

The group also says much of the money came from the same small-amount, online donors who helped Trump become president and that the effort brought in tens of thousands of new donors.

According to Politico, the FEC report for the three Trump committees suggested much of the money came from merchandise sold during Trump’s inauguration and early presidency, considering they spent roughly $4.7 million on hats, T-shirts, mugs and stickers.

The committees collectively spent at least $2.7 million on fundraising and other activities including $1.6 million to the web design and digital media company run by Trump campaign digital director Brad Parscale.

The committees reported roughly $16 million in the bank at the end of March.

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2017-04-15 20:52:37 UTC  

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__***Computer Blunder Might Wipe Out Marine Le Pen In French Election***__
*https://goo.gl/4acJiR*
*THE GOLDWATER*

A computer error might cost Marine Le Pen the French general election as 500,000 citizens living outside of France have the chance to vote twice.

There are astounding reports indicating that half a million people managed to receive duplicate polling cards. The duplicates would allow them to cast two votes in the first round of the election which will be held on the 23rd of April.

The incident will not be investigated by French authorities until the election is over. The authorities confirmed that they would not be investigating the potential electoral fraud so as to allow retrospective prosecution.

The decision by French authorities is likely to crush Ms. Le Pen’s dreams of rising to power, as most French nationals living outside of their country are not right-wing. This was demonstrated by the fact many feel they depend on the European Union to guarantee their stay in foreign countries.

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2017-04-15 21:15:22 UTC