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Dollars

Austria doubles cash offer for migrants to voluntarily leave country


RT
Thu, 23 Mar 2017 12:20 UTC
crowd of migrants
© Leonhard Foeger / ReutersMigrants run towards the Austrian border from Hegyeshalom, Hungary
As part of a campaign to speed up the repatriation of around 50,000 asylum seekers, Vienna said it would double the amount of money paid to migrants who voluntarily return home.

They would be paid €1,000 ($1,080) to leave the country instead of the €500 previously offered.

Austria's Interior Minister Wolfgang Sobotka said the plan is primarily targeting "those who are not likely to be granted the right to long-term residence."

The payment offer is currently only available to the first 1,000 interested people who have already filed an asylum application.
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Satellite

Washington's little known spy agency: The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)

Stephen Lendman
Global Research
Thu, 23 Mar 2017 11:15 UTC
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
© Global Research
US spying is institutionalized - on anyone, anywhere for any reason or none at all.

Invented national security threats, targeting dissent and whistleblowers, along with challenging press freedom undermine fundamental rights.

In Palko v. Connecticut (1937), the Supreme Court called
"(f)reedom of thought the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom."
In Texas v. Johnson (1989), Justice William Brennan, writing for the majority, said
"if there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea offensive or disagreeable."

"Thomas Jefferson said "(w)hat country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance." Free speech and other fundamental rights "cannot be limited without being lost."
Former US Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall stressed:
"(a)bove all else, the First Amendment means that government has no power to restrict expression (regardless of its) ideas...subject matter (or) content....Our people are guaranteed the right to express any thought, free from government censorship" - along with having all other constitutional protections.
Unaccountable spying on Americans reflects police state rule, operating lawlessly, watching everyone to assure unchallenged control, wanting unacceptable ideas suppressed.

Comment: See also: National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency: The 'transparent' spy organization you probably never heard of

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Map

FBI lies about extent of facial recognition program; unfettered access to photos in 18 states

Joshua Kopstein
Vocativ
Wed, 22 Mar 2017 16:25 UTC
Facial recognition software
© Getty Images
Lawmakers express anger and horror over the agency's face recognition system, which now has unfettered accesses to ID photos in 18 states

The FBI took fire from privacy advocates and members of Congress Wednesday over how it characterizes its face recognition program, which has allowed agents to access and algorithmically match the photos of tens of millions of Americans — including innocent people who have never been charged with a crime.

At a hearing convened by the House of Representatives' government oversight committee, experts and lawmakers pressed an FBI representative on the agency's misrepresentation of the program's scope, as well as its refusal to audit the accuracy of systems responsible for matching vast databases of photos with criminal suspects.

FBI spokesperson Kimberly Del Greco responded to several questions with statements that contradict what is currently known about the scope and capabilities of the agency's face recognition programs.

"The only information the FBI has and have collected in our database are criminal mugshot photos," Del Greco stated, when asked by committee chairman Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) whether the FBI was collecting or storing photos of innocent people from other sources, like social media. "We do not have any other photos in our repository."

"That's not true," Chaffetz replied.
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Radar

Beijing warns US over B-1 bomber flying over East China Sea


Sputnik
Thu, 23 Mar 2017 09:44 UTC
US B-1 bomber
© AP Photo/ Osama Faisal
China's People's Liberation Army is not warmly embracing a US Air Force B-1 Bomber flying through international airspace over the East China Sea.

The PLA put the US on notice Wednesday after issuing a warning to the Pentagon for sending a military aircraft over the disputed East China Sea, a pair of US officials told Fox News. The East China Sea is bordered by Shanghai to the west, South Korea to the North, and Japan to the east. A US military official confirmed the presence of the B-1 near South Korea while corroborating the report that Chinese officials let the US Air Force know that Beijing was not pleased with the mission.
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Map

Syrian army gaining upper hand in Damascus fighting

Alexander Mercouris
The Duran
Thu, 23 Mar 2017 09:22 UTC
Damascus, Syria
Syrian troops inflict heavy losses on Jihadis after driving back attack on Damascus.

Latest reports from the fighting in eastern Damascus say that the Syrian army has successfully recovered all the strong points captured by the Jihadis in their attack of yesterday.

In particular the Syrian troops have recaptured the 'Fabric Factory' - captured by the Jihadis yesterday - which is a lynchpin of Syrian defenses in the area.
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Attention

Over 100 NATO military vehicles arrive in Estonia as part of 'biggest deployment since Cold War'


RT
Thu, 23 Mar 2017 09:15 UTC
British tanks and military vehicles
© Raul Mee / AFPBritish tanks and military vehicles are unloaded at the port Estonian of Paldiski on March 22, 2017.
Scores of tanks, self-propelled artillery guns and other military hardware have started to arrive in Estonia from the UK and Germany, in what the UK defense minister has called the largest deployment in Eastern Europe since the Cold War.

The first of hundreds of UK military vehicles have arrived in Estonia on Wednesday, delivered by a ferry from ports in Britain and Germany, the UK Ministry of Defence reported.

The heavy military equipment - Challenger 2 tanks, Terrier, Titan and Trojan armored battlefield engineer vehicles as well as Warrior infantry fighting vehicles - will be moved from an Estonian port to a military base in Tapa, the ministry statement said.
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Pistol

Cop among four dead in Wisconsin shooting rampage


RT
Thu, 23 Mar 2017 08:58 UTC
Wisconsin shooting
© Dino Corvino / Twitter
One shooter killed four people across three crime scenes in three small Wisconsin towns before being taken into custody following a standoff with a SWAT team. A police officer is among the dead.

Some questions remain following press conferences with Marathon County police, who declined to release the names of those killed. Just before 12:30pm Wednesday, police responded to a "domestic situation" at Marathon Savings Bank, and then about 30 minutes later, they returned to the bank to find two people shot. The suspect had since fled the scene, WAOW reported.
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Passport

Landmark case sees Germany deport first homegrown ISIS suspects, impose life-long reentry ban


RT
Wed, 22 Mar 2017 23:48 UTC
Isis flag
© Stringer / Reuters
Germany has announced it will deport two German-born Islamic State suspects to Algeria and Nigeria over suspicions they planned a terrorist attack. The first-of-its-kind deportation is intended to send a "clear warning to all fanatics."

A 27 year old with Algerian parents and a 22 year old with Nigerian parents were arrested last month as part of a terrorism investigation.

Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) flags, propaganda and guns were found in the men's homes in Gottingen, in the Lower Saxony state, during police raids last month.
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Heart - Black

Sott Exclusive: CCTV Footage of London Terror Attackers Car on Westminster Bridge


Sott.net
Wed, 22 Mar 2017 22:44 UTC
Westminster bridge car terror attack
CCTV footage caught the moment when possibly two terrorists (one white bald male and one black male) in a car mounted the sidewalk along Westminster bridge in London and ran over dozens of people.

One woman was apparently knocked over the side of the bridge and into the Thames river (see video). She is currently in a serious condition in hospital. The two occupants crashed the car into railings outside the Houses of Parliament and then stabbed a policeman nearby. Unfortunately the officer died later in hospital. Two other people died as a result of their injuries from being impacted by the car. The black male terrorist was shot by police.
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USA

US Military Now Personally Delivering Jihadis to Strategic Locations in Syria


Sott.net
Wed, 22 Mar 2017 21:48 UTC
ISIS made in USA
Everyone knows (or should know by now) that the US govt. created ISIS as a proxy mercenary army in order to carry out 'regime change' in the Middle East, most recently in Syria. Everyone should also be aware of the fact that the US government has been spending large amounts of US taxpayer dollars on training and arming this jihadi army. It's only logical, therefore, that as the relationship deepens, the US would take the next step of personally transporting the jihadis to specific destinations. That is, in fact, what happened recently when, as reported by the BBC:
"US-led coalition aircraft have for the first time carried out an airlift of allied fighters battling the jihadist group Islamic State (IS) in Syria.

The Pentagon said members of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) alliance were dropped behind IS lines close to the Tabqa dam, west of the city of Raqqa.

Fierce fighting was continuing around the dam, thought to be a base for hundreds of foreign fighters, it added."
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