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Fake child refugee convicted of brutal rape and murder of German medical student


Westmonster
Thu, 22 Mar 2018 14:25 UTC
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A man who posed as an Afghan child refugee has been convicted of the horrific rape and murder of a German medical student - the victim's father is Clemens Ladenburger, who was a lawyer for the European Commission.

The killer, Hussein K, was actually convicted of assaulting a woman in Corfu in 2013...so how on earth was he allowed to enter Germany and rape and kill a vulnerable young girl? Well, EU open borders of course.

He was sentenced to 10 years in jail in Greece for the attempted murder of a woman but released just 1 year into a 10 year sentence due to 'overcrowding'. Now he's been given a life sentence in Germany for his attack in Freiburg.

Hussein told German officials he was 17, from Afghanistan and his father was killed fighting the Taliban. Actually, he could well be in his 30s, he's from Iran and, you guessed it, his dad's still alive.
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'Not near our kids': Wealthy Californians fight temporary homeless shelters in their area


RT
Fri, 23 Mar 2018 14:15 UTC
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© Mike Blake / Reuters
A homeless encampment in Anaheim, California.
Three cities in affluent Orange County, California are suing over proposals to set up temporary homeless shelters in their area. California has the largest homeless population in the US and the plans have residents fearful.

"This freaks me out. I moved to O.C. because I thought it would be a safe place. Now it's getting more and more like L.A.," Rob Howard, an office manager in Irvine, told the LA Times. "Who wants tons of traffic, high prices and all kinds of unwanted people around you?"

As part of the $70 million plan temporary camps full of tents would be set up for homeless people in Irvine, Laguna Niguel, and on a former landfill in Huntington Beach. Homes in these districts are among the priciest in the county. Irvine City and Laguna Niguel councils voted on Tuesday to sue the county and put a halt to the proposal.
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From 'hero' to terrorist: Savchenko arrested in Ukrainian parliament for plotting terrorist attack and coup


RT
Thu, 22 Mar 2018 14:04 UTC
Nadiya Savchenko
© Valentyn Ogirenko / Reuters
Ukrainian parliamentary deputy Nadiya Savchenko attends a parliament session in Kiev, Ukraine, March 15, 2018.
Ukrainian MP Nadezhda Savchenko, once glorified as a Ukrainian "hero" persecuted by Moscow, has been detained again - this time by her fellow countrymen. The former pilot is now suspected of plotting a coup and a terrorist attack.

Savchenko was arrested by Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) officers right in the building of the Verkhovnaya Rada (the Ukrainian parliament) on Thursday. Moments before that, the MPs stripped Savchenko of her legal immunity that allows Ukrainian MPs to enjoy protection from prosecution and agreed to her arrest.

The lawmakers were shown a video obtained by the Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office that allegedly shows Savchenko discussing details of a coup plot with her accomplices. According to the video, the MP even planned to assassinate Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko. She is suspected of plotting a terrorist attack, planning to kill members of parliament, government, and the president, and organizing a coup.
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Israeli teen arrested & fined for urinating on Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial


RT
Fri, 23 Mar 2018 13:57 UTC
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© Reuters
The gates of the former Nazi German concentration camp.
An Israeli teenager was reportedly arrested at the Auschwitz-Birkenau museum for urinating on a victims' memorial in the former Nazi concentration camp. The unidentified 19-year-old was taken into custody on Wednesday.

At around 1pm local time the student, who was part of a visiting tour, was spotted by a guide at the former death camp urinating on the steps of a monument. He was subsequently detained and questioned by police before paying a fine of more than €1,100 for the act, according to TVP Polonia.

Auschwitz was the largest concentration camp built by Germany's Nazi Party as part of their effort to exterminate prisoners following the outbreak of World War II. The network of camps was a major cog in the Holocaust and Hitler's plan to murder Jews.
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Lawsuits piling up as #DeleteFacebook movement gains traction

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Thu, 22 Mar 2018 16:02 UTC
Mark Zuckerberg
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After shaving more than $20 off its share price earlier this week, Facebook stock moved back into the green Wednesday as CEO Mark Zuckerberg said he would publicly address the company's relationship with Cambridge Analytica some time during the next 24 hours.

At the same time, another lawsuit has been brought against the company, the second since the New York Times and the Observer reported over the weekend that the company had failed to stop CA from using data improperly gathered from tens of millions of users, a Maryland woman sued Facebook Tuesday in a San Jose, Calif. court. Her suit was filed on behalf of other Facebook users whose data were accessed by CA without their explicit permission, Bloomberg reported.
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Censorship: YouTube bans firearm videos & begins suspending accounts


RT
Fri, 23 Mar 2018 12:17 UTC
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Gun rights activists, bloggers and second amendment advocates are outraged at YouTube's ban on videos and channels which promote websites that sell firearms and accessories. And some believe Pornhub is the solution.

Online gun vlogger InRangeTv has already begun migrating their videos to Pornhub. The group referred to YouTube's rule changes as "vague" and "one-sided."

"PornHub has a history of being a proactive voice in the online community, as well as operating a resilient and robust video streaming platform," InRangeTv wrote in an online statement. RT.com has also contacted PornHub regarding InRange TV's decision to migrate to the platform.

Comment: Caitlin Johnstone summed up this wave of censorship quite well in a recent article:
When you tell an establishment Democrat that Google's hiding and removal of content is a dangerous form of censorship, they often magically transform into Ayn Rand right before your eyes.

"It's a private company and they can do what they like with their property," they will tell you. "It's insane to say that a private company regulating its own affairs is the same as government censorship!"

This is absurd on its surface, because Google is not separate from the government in any meaningful way. [...]

Google is not any more separable from the US government than Lockheed Martin or Raytheon are, yet it has been given an unprecedented degree of authority over human speech and the way people communicate and share information. Would you feel comfortable allowing Northrop Grumman or Boeing to determine what political speech is permissible and giving them the authority to remove political Youtube content and hide leftist and anti-establishment outlets from visibility like Google does?


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Russia's MoD site comes under DDoS attack during vote to name arms systems


RT
Fri, 23 Mar 2018 12:17 UTC
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Screenshot of vote.mil.ru
During the final stage of an online vote to select the names of new Russian military hardware, Russia's Defense Ministry website suffered a massive DDoS attack, with all hacking attempts repelled by cyber security services.

"Attempts to attack the website were performed from the territory of Western Europe - the country is established, the North American continent and Ukraine," the Defense Ministry said in a statement.

There was a total of seven attacks during the final day of voting on Thursday, with two of the most intensive of them coming in the closing hours. "The DDoS attacks were neutralized by the cyber security services of the Defense Ministry," the statement read.
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Russian MoD: More than 5,000 civilians leave Eastern Ghouta as militants begin withdrawal


RT
Fri, 23 Mar 2018 09:28 UTC
Civilians leave Eastern Ghouta
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Civilians leave Eastern Ghouta via a humanitarian corridor
Over 5,000 civilians have left Eastern Ghouta through humanitarian corridors on Thursday, Russia's Defense Ministry said. The militants also reportedly began withdrawing from the area, as part of a deal with the Syrian government.

"Starting from the early hours of March 22, more than 5000 civilians have come out through the checkpoints in Eastern Ghouta," Russia's Reconciliation Center in Syria said, adding that the evacuation of the population from the terrorist-held areas continues. Those fleeing the Damascus suburb, which recently became the new hotspot of the Syrian conflict, were provided with hot food, water and sleeping accessories by the Russian troops, it added.

Earlier, the Reconciliation Center head, Major-General Yuri Yevtushenko, said that a total of 86,000 people have used the Russia-brokered humanitarian corridors to leave the besieged Eastern Ghouta since late February.

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US intelligence community members participating in survivalist 'doomsday camps' around Washington, DC

Paul Bedard
Washington Examiner
Mon, 19 Mar 2018 08:16 UTC
Fortitude Ranch camp

Each camp is expected to house 50-500 in a crisis and Miller said they will have lodges, underground bunkers and guard towers.
A building network of backwoods doomsday camps around the country are pulling in members from affluent areas and even Washington national security officials as the threats grow from nuclear war, an EMP or virus attack.

Called Fortitude Ranch, the outposts promise protection and a year's supply of food for those unable to build their own bunker. What's more, until a crisis strikes, they are being used for prepper training and vacations.


"We're seeing members from all the three letter agencies," said Fortitude creator Drew Miller, a retired Air Force colonel and intelligence officer, in a reference to the Central Intelligence Agency, Defense Intelligence Agency and Federal Bureau of Investigation.

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Poll: American public troubled by 'Deep State' (even though they don't know what it means)

John V. Walsh
Consortium News
Wed, 21 Mar 2018 00:01 UTC
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Although most Americans are unfamiliar with the term 'Deep State,' according to recent polling they are nevertheless skeptical of unelected government and military officials who secretly manipulate or direct national policy

"Public Troubled by Deep State" is the headline that the Monmouth University Polling Institute tags to its recent poll. Acknowledging that polling about the term "Deep State" is problematic because "few Americans (13%) are very familiar with the term 'Deep State,'" the pollsters at Monmouth defined the term as follows for their interviewees: "The term Deep State refers to the possible existence of a group of unelected government and military officials who secretly manipulate or direct national policy."

Then they asked whether such a group exists.

Comment: The Deep State is a very real thing, and even if the American people have never heard the term, they clearly have an idea that it exists. So why aren't there riots in the street?

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