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France's colonies now suffering from major wave of illegal immigration


Economist
Wed, 11 Apr 2018 09:09 UTC
Protests over illegal migration have brought Mayotte to a standstill

Protests over illegal migration have brought Mayotte to a standstill
MANY Europeans feel their homelands have too many immigrants. In countries like Germany, as many as 15% of the population are foreigners. But on Mayotte, a small French island in the Indian Ocean with a population of 256,500, the share is more than half. Immigration has led to violent protests and a general strike, bringing the island to a standstill since February. Locals have begun rounding up suspected illegal immigrants, and the island is descending into chaos.

"Every night ten boats carrying at least 30 people arrive on our shores," says Mansour Kamardine, Mayotte's deputy in France's National Assembly. "It is absolutely intolerable." Many of those arriving are pregnant women. Every year, 70% of the 10,000 births in the island's sole maternity hospital are to illegal migrants. France's policy of droit du sol (birthright citizenship) means they are entitled to French nationality. French officials are considering making the hospital a non-French territory.

The Comoros islands, including Mayotte, were a single French colony until the 1970s, when the people of Mayotte, known as Mahorais, voted to split off and become a French overseas territory. Political turbulence and poverty in the other three islands, which became the independent Union of the Comoros, have since led thousands to flee to Mayotte. Comorians now make up 42% of Mayotte's population. Some have legal status; many do not.

Comment: France, its colonies, and the other Western nations waging war and preaching libtard values only have themselves to blame:

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'What's all the fuss about?' Israel responds to footage of IDF sniper shooting protester


Sputnik
Wed, 11 Apr 2018 13:12 UTC
Israel Sniper video screenshot
© Or Heller
The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) responded swiftly after a video emerged Monday of its snipers cheering as one of their number shot an unarmed Palestinian protester. The IDF released their findings in their initial investigation into the event just one day after the video was released.

"The video depicts a short part of the response to a violent riot, which included rock hurling and attempts to sabotage the security fence," the IDF said in a statement, adding that the video is from December 22, 2017, and therefore does not document events connected with the Great Return March, a weeks-long mass demonstration demanding Palestinians' right of return that has been ongoing since March 30.

Comment: It's time to re-examine the moral compass when it's 'no big fuss' to shoot people for 'approaching their fence.'

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Germany's arrest of Madrid's opponents has a chilling precedent

Wayne Madsen
Strategic Culture
Wed, 11 Apr 2018 13:12 UTC
Carles Puigdemont

Carles Puigdemont
The arrest by Germany of Catalonia's exiled former President, Carles Puigdemont, follows on a German tradition of tracking down and imprisoning political opponents of the "regime du jour" in Madrid since the fascist putsch launched by Generalissimo Francisco Franco in 1936.

Puigdemont, who had been living in exile in Belgium since being deposed by Spain's right-wing Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy in October 2017, was arrested on March 25 by police in Schleswig-Holstein. Puigdemont's detention by German police was based on a European arrest warrant issued by Spain, a warrant that had been conveniently ignored by authorities in Finland, where Puigdemont had spoken after traveling to Helsinki from Brussels by automobile; Denmark, where Puigdemont was transiting en route to Belgium; Sweden, via which, Puigdemont transited by ferry to and from Finland; and Belgium. The Spanish arrest warrant was similarly ignored by Denmark, during a previous trip by Puigdemont to Copenhagen, and by Swiss authorities when Puigdemont traveled there to address a conference. The Spanish extradition request for Puigdemont was based on Spanish government draconian charges of "rebellion, sedition and misuse of public funds in relation to Catalonia's declaration of independence from Spain following a plebiscite in the region that favored separation from Spain.
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German historian posts on Facebook that 'Islam is not part of German history', gets banned

Tyler O'Neil
PJ Media
Mon, 09 Apr 2018 00:01 UTC
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Last month, Facebook censored a German historian who posted a message about Islam's historic impact on Germany. Facebook banned the historian for 30 days, even though 76 percent of Germans agree that Islam does not "belong to Germany."

Michael Hesemann, a journalist and Vatican historian with an honorary doctorate for his work in uncovering documents from the Armenian Genocide, posted a message that Facebook said did "not correspond to our community standards." The offensive message was an accurate - if overstated - historical statement.

"Islam always plays only one role in the 1700-year-old history of the Christian Occident: the role of the sword of Damocles which hung above us, the threat of barbarism against which one needed to unite and fight," Hesemann wrote, according to NRW Direkt. "In this sense, Islam is not part of German history, but the defense against Islam!"

Comment: To a libtarded organization like Facebook, the truth is dangerous and in need of censorship. If it's not PC, it's not fit to post.

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Mark Zuckerberg is 'optimistic' AI tools to flag hate speech from Facebook will be developed in 5-10 years

Melissa Quinn
The Washington Examiner
Tue, 10 Apr 2018 15:51 UTC
Mark Zuckerberg testified
© Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified before a joint Senate committee hearing on Capitol Hill Tuesday.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg predicted Tuesday it will be five to 10 years before Facebook has technological tools in place to flag and remove hate speech from the platform before it is posted.

During testimony before a joint hearing with the Senate Judiciary and Commerce committees, Commerce Committee Chairman John Thune, R-S.D., asked Zuckerberg what challenges Facebook faces with evaluating hate speech versus legitimate political discourse.

Zuckerberg noted it's more difficult for Facebook to rely on technology to root out hate speech compared to other content on the platform, such as terrorist propaganda.

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US liberals and conservatives won't agree so should the country split?

Jesse Kelly
The Federalist
Tue, 10 Apr 2018 12:00 UTC
wrecked tattered flag
© AK Rockefeller / Flickr
This idea of breaking up the country may seem a bit outlandish now, but you won't think so once real domestic unrest comes to your town.
"When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another..." - The Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776

Divorce is hard, but it's easier than cutting the brake lines on your wife's car. It is long past time for an amicable divorce of the United States of America. There is simply no common ground with the Left anymore. We are now the couple screaming at each other all night, every night as the kids hide in their room.

We cannot come together, but we do not have to live like this. The history of the world is nations breaking up and redrawing their borders. If we want to avoid this political divide turning into a deadly one, we should do likewise.

Stop clinging to the past and acknowledge where we are as a country, not where you want us to be, not where things were when your grandpa was storming the beaches of Normandy. Where we truly are.

Comment: There's nothing to say that with a border the tensions wouldn't escalate further because the mutated liberal mindset, as noted in the article, is all consuming and won't stop till everybody and everything is subservient to its nihilistic agenda. Ultimately. like neo-nazis, libtards are just pawns in the ruling establishment's divide and conquer agenda: Also check out SOTT radio's:

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Supreme Court Justice's wife, Ginni Thomas, under fire for criticizing Parkland shooting survivors


RT
Tue, 10 Apr 2018 20:23 UTC
Parkland students
© Thom Baur / Reuters
Ginni Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, is the latest in a line of public figures under attack from the media for criticizing the survivors of the Parkland, Florida, high school shooting.

Thomas shared several posts on her Facebook page, including one that depicted a pile of shoes from Holocaust victims. The caption implied that gun control leads to genocide.

"To all the kids that walked out of school to protest guns. These are the shoes of Jews that gave up their firearms to Hitler. They were led into gas chambers, murdered and buried in mass graves. Pick up a history book and you'll realize what happens when u give up freedoms and why we have them," the post said.

Comment: It seems that to the left, any criticism of the Parkland students who are leveraging their association with the tragedy into political partisan platforms, is strictly verboten. The holocaust one is pretty tasteless (and hyperbolic) but the memes in particular are nothing to get bent out of shape over.

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Al-Qaeda's air force: Syrian terrorists announce intention to launch counter-offensive after US attack


RT
Wed, 11 Apr 2018 17:09 UTC
rebel fsa
© Umit Bektas / Reuters
"Go Trump!"
Syrian militants will launch an offensive to capture government-held areas, if the US goes ahead with a strike and weakens the Syrian Army's positions, a rebel commander has said.

In a hardly surprising admission, an oft-cited Free Syrian Army (FSA) commander said the possible strike against Syria mulled by US President Donald Trump would play into the hands of militants seeking to topple Syrian leader Bashar Assad.

"We will try to take advantage of this strike on the battlefield first of all, since these strikes will lead to the dispersion of the regime's forces, the chaos in its ranks and the rout of the regime. Such circumstances will subsequently prepare the armed forces of revolution for launching attacks, during which it will be possible to regain control of certain areas and capture new ones," Fateh Hassoun told RIA Novosti, also arguing that the possible US strike would pave the way for "real" negotiations.

"As forces of political opposition, we will use the political weakness of the regime. It can possibly become an influence lever to push Russia in order to start real negotiations," Hassoun said.


Comment: What a clown. "Political" opposition?


Comment: It makes sense. They're American-backed terrorists, after all. But does Trump really want to go down as the president who so transparently supported jihadists by acting as their own personal air force?

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Two Coloradan men only receive probation for gang-raping 13yo - locals outraged

Warner Todd Huston
Breitbart
Tue, 10 Apr 2018 17:03 UTC
Tommy Clarence Williams
© Colorado Springs Police Department
Coloradans are outraged that two men convicted of gang-raping a 13-year-old girl were only sentenced to probation.

On April 3, Tommy Williams, 20, and Clarence Williams, 19, received no jail time but were only sentenced to probation for the 2016 rape of a girl in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Fox News reported.

The pair was a part of a six-man crew convicted of the rape that occurred at the Stonebrook Terrace Apartments on the 4000 block of Tappan Drive in Colorado Springs. The victim testified that she was lured to the apartment with the promise of playing video games but, instead, found the crew there waiting to molest her.

The victim said there were other people in the apartment when she arrived, but when she went to use the bathroom, the others quickly vacated, leaving only the six men who attacked her. The girl's grandmother said the rape was so violent that the victim may never be able to have children, KKTV reported.

Some of the suspects were cousins or brothers, police discovered.

Comment: Rapists should go to prison. And parents should teach their young girls that it's very stupid to accept some stranger's offer to come up to his place to "play video games".

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Slain Palestinian journalist's media org Ain promises to hold Israel accountable 'for this heinous crime'


Mondoweiss
Mon, 09 Apr 2018 16:19 UTC
Yaser Murtajajournalst Gaza
© AIN Media
Yaser Murtaja, founder of Ain Media.
Last Friday, Palestinian journalist Yaser Abdul Rahman Murtaja was killed by an Israeli sniper near the border fence wearing a PRESS flak jacket, and today the Norwegian Refugee Council- which had reached an agreement for Murtaja to shoot video for them - linked to Murtaja's latest footage of the "Great March of Return" protests.

It is posted here, and is a ravishing demonstration of Murtaja's powers as a filmmaker. "He was killed doing his job: recording his people's right to protest for their human rights," says Karl Schembri of the Norwegian Refugee Council.

Comment: More than anything else, psychopaths fear exposure.

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