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Belgian national crisis center: Spread of Saudi-backed Wahhabism cause for concern


PressTV
Wed, 08 Feb 2017 18:10 UTC
Belgium Brussels airport
© AFPMembers of the civil protection walk outside the damaged front of Brussels Airport in Zaventem on March 23, 2016, one day after a series of bomb attacks in the country.
Belgium has voiced concerns over the spread of Saudi-backed Wahhabism throughout the country and the rest of Europe.

According to a Wednesday report by De Standaard, the country's OCAM national crisis center stressed that Wahhabism is being preached in an increasing number of the country's mosques receiving financial support from Saudi Arabia.

"We believe that a growing number of mosques and Islamic centers in Belgium, like the rest of Europe, are under the influence of Wahhabism," said the OCAM.

Wahhabism is the radical ideology dominating Saudi Arabia, freely preached by government-backed clerics there, and inspiring terrorists worldwide. Daesh and other Takfiri terror groups use the ideology to declare people of other faiths as "infidels" and then kill them.

"We also note that the imams of these mosques are regularly being 'salafized' or are already 'salafized'," added the center.

Comment: But never mind, keeping sending the Saudis weapons so they can keep spreading radical Islam to Europe and America and giving them medals for "fighting terrorism":


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'Sexual assault, violence, rape far too common' at France's Dunkirk refugee camp


RT
Sun, 12 Feb 2017 18:08 UTC
woman in refugee camp in dunkirk france
© Pascal Rossignol / ReutersFILE PHOTO A woman in a refugee camp in Grande-Synthe, near Dunkirk, northern France
Children and women are assaulted and raped by traffickers inside a refugee camp in northern France, where unaccompanied individuals are viewed as easy prey, according to volunteers, medics, refugees, and security officials interviewed by the Observer.

"Sexual assault, violence and rape are all far too common," one volunteer female coordinator told the Observer, speaking on condition of anonymity.

"Minors are assaulted and women are raped and forced to pay for smuggling with their bodies," she said.

Comment: Preventing these already marginalized people from being further abused by predators is not an unsolvable problem, so it looks like those in charge of this refugee camp are, at best, completely inept at doing their job.

Or perhaps human trafficking was the goal all along:

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Four cops beat, tase and arrest man for dancing at a bus stop

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Sun, 12 Feb 2017 18:40 UTC
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In today's 'See Something, Say Something' society, doing the 'pee pee dance' while waiting for a bus is grounds for police action — at least that's what a woman in Austin thought when she called the cops on a dancing man. Unfortunately, for the dancing man, police would also perceive his harmless behavior as a threat and move to neutralize it.

This latest instance of ridiculous police brutality was captured on video Tuesday outside of an Austin restaurant. As the video begins, a nicely dressed man was standing at a bus stop doing a bit of a sidestep dance in place. The officer responding to the fearful woman's 911 call perceived this dance as a potentially dangerous act.

The dancing man appeared to have a mental imbalance and may have flipped the bird at someone driving by. According to witnesses at the scene, the man may have had "some kind of disorder" and a "mental imbalance of some kind." However, this was not grounds for what happened next.

In the video, we see the man doing nothing other than dancing when the officer approaches him as if he's holding a child hostage. Within just a few moments the officer has his taser drawn, aiming it at the man's head.

When the bus shows up, the man attempts to get on it, as it appears that was his intention the entire time. However, the cop would not have it. As the man attempted to walk toward the bus, the cop waved it on.
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Cop exchanges booze for sex with underaged teen; charges against him are dropped

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Sun, 12 Feb 2017 17:48 UTC
oakland police
In America, it has become quite clear over the years that there are two very different justice systems — one for the political and ruling class, and one for everyone else. Politicians, government employees, and police officers are, all too often, given special treatment because of their connection to the ruling class — allowing them to escape accountability for even the most heinous of crimes. A Livermore cop is the latest example of this flawed system of 'justice' in America.

Last week, an officer who admitted to multiple crimes, including paying for sex with a teenager, was given one of these special deals and will now have all of his charges simply vanish.

According to SF Gate,
Daniel Black agreed to plead no contest to one misdemeanor count of lewd conduct in public. Prosecutors said that while off duty as a police officer in April, Black and a teenager engaged in sexual acts in his motor home on two occasions and that he paid for her dinners and gave her alcohol in exchange.

Five other misdemeanor charges against Black — including lewd conduct, engaging in prostitution and giving alcohol to a minor — were dismissed with the deal.

Comment: See also:

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Corrupt prison industrial complex: Mississippi sues 25 defendants for $800 million in prison bribery scandal

Erik De La Garza
Courthouse News
Fri, 10 Feb 2017 15:22 UTC
Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood
© Imani Khayyam.Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood is suing 25 individuals and companies associated with a prison bribery scheme, saying they should have to repay more than $800 million in revenue they received from the state.
Mississippi sued 10 people and 15 corporations this week to recoup more than $800 million in state money lost in a seven-year prison bribery scandal.

Defendants in the 11 lawsuits included former Mississippi Department of Corrections Commissioner Chris Epps, and former Republican state House Member Cecil McCrory, the key figures in the conspiracy. They and four other people pleaded guilty to their involvement in the conspiracy.

Attorney General Jim Hood says in the lawsuits that multiple corporations, including prominent private prison contractors, paid millions of dollars in bogus "consulting fees" to people who used the money to pay bribes and kickbacks to Epps.

Epps then steered approximately $800 million in public contracts to those private prison contractors.

Comment: The prison industrial complex is rotten to the core:

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Turkish media reports police foil 'sensational' ISIS terror plot targeting Europe


RT
Sun, 12 Feb 2017 17:57 UTC
Turkish police
© Murad Sezer / Reuters
Turkish police have thwarted an Islamic State terror plot by arresting two EU citizens that allegedly aimed to carry out a "sensational" attack in Europe, a Turkish news agency reported, citing a judicial source.

Mahamad Laban, 45, a Lebanon-born Danish citizen, and Mohammed Tofik Saleh, 34, an Iraqi-born Swiss citizen, were detained in the Turkish city of Adana earlier this month, according to the source, who spoke to Anadolu agency on condition of anonymity due to restrictions on speaking to the media.

The suspects were brought before an Adana court on Friday following ten days of interrogation and have been returned to custody to await the results of an investigation looking into their activities, Anadolu reported.
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Veterans preparing to return to Standing Rock to protect #NoDAPL


RT
Sun, 12 Feb 2017 17:25 UTC
veterans standing rock
© Stephen Yang / ReutersVeterans march with activists outside the Oceti Sakowin camp in December
US veterans are returning to Standing Rock to support and protect Native American protesters as the Dakota Access Pipeline continues to meet resistance despite President Trump's executive order to continue construction of the $3.7 billion pipeline. The veterans are gathering in Cannon Ball, North Dakota, with many on their way.

"We are prepared to put our bodies between Native elders and a privatized military force," Air Force veteran Elizabeth Williams told the Guardian. "We've stood in the face of fire before. We feel a responsibility to use the skills we have."

The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe has vowed to fight the president's order to push ahead with the pipeline despite the US Army Corps of Engineers stating it would cancel its planned environmental impact study and grant a permit for construction of the final phase of the pipeline beneath Lake Oahe to go ahead.

The protest camps are being prepared for flooding that is expected to come as temperatures increase. The veterans' presence will present a challenge to law enforcement wishing to remove water protectors from the area.

Comment: Police raids for removal of water protectors at Standing Rock begin

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What voter fraud? Mexican citizen sentenced to prison after illegally voting in Texas

Tyler Durden
Zerohedge
Fri, 10 Feb 2017 22:15 UTC
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Rosa Ortega, a Mexican citizen, has been convicted of voter fraud and sentenced to 8 years in prison in Texas after inadvertently admitting to election officials that she had been voting in Dallas County for years. Apparently the voting fraud was discovered by chance after Ortega tried to register to vote in Tarrant County but was rejected after she admitted that she was not actually a citizen of the United States. While she should have probably just accepted the rejection, Ortega pushed back by arguing that she had already been voting in Dallas County, an argument that drew the attention of investigators.

Ortega's voting privileges were approved in Dallas after she falsified her application by claiming to be a citizen. Of course, liberal lawyers, funded by George Soros, have done a masterful job convincing courts around the country that verifying things like a person's identity and citizenship status prior to allowing them to vote is unconstitutional. Per CBS:

Comment: Realistically, there's probably been voter fraud for as long as there's been voting, and despite the clamoring from the mainstream media, it was probably Killary Clinton rigging the vote in this election:

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Teacher from New Jersey falls to her death from escalator at World Trade Center

Larry Celona, Kevin Fasick and Abigail Gepner
New York Post
Sat, 11 Feb 2017 10:19 UTC
Escaltor
© John Roca
An adventure-loving substitute teacher from New Jersey fell to her death in the World Trade Center's Oculus transit hub — toppling off a high escalator while reaching for a hat dropped by her twin sister.

Tragic twins Jenny and Jessica Santos, 29, had been heading for a PATH train home to Kearny, NJ at 5:30 a.m. Saturday morning after a night of partying in the city, law enforcement sources told The Post.

The two women — described by friends as inseparable — may have been jokingly playing with Jessica's hat as they rode the escalator down to the concourse level.

But when Jenny grabbed for her twin's hat as it began to fall, she lost her balance, sources said.

Comment: Our condolences to the Santos family. Rest in Peace Jenny Santos.

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Hysteria mounts as ICE conducts 'routine' immigration raids planned by Obama administration


RT
Sun, 12 Feb 2017 00:00 UTC
protests immigration raids
© Stephanie Keith / Reuters People participate in a protest against U.S. President Donald Trump's immigration policy in New York City, U.S. February 11, 2017.
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids being conducted across the US have seen hundreds of undocumented workers being arrested. While the action was planned under Barack Obama, activists fear they are targeting more immigrants than planned.

According to officials, the raids have been targeting criminals, but reports suggested those without criminal records are also being arrested.

Those living undocumented are fearful that they may be targeted as part of President Donald Trump's immigration policy, but officials say the raids are ordinary methods of enforcement, and that the recent raids were planned during the Obama administration, which deported a total of 2 million people during its time in office.

Comment: Immigration 'raids' spawn fear in Los Angeles, though officials say arrests are 'routine'

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