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Sweden wants more manpower to find 10K rejected refugees in hiding after one commits terror attack

Refugees in Sweden
© Johan Nilsson / TT News Agency / Reuters
The force of 200 officers tasked with tracking down the thousands of migrants that have gone into hiding in Sweden needs to be substantially boosted, the country's border police chief said after a rejected refugee carried out a terrorist attack in Stockholm.

"We certainly need more resources. We need a few hundred employees, maybe more," Patrik Engstrom, head of Sweden's national border police, told Dagens Nyheter newspaper, noting that "above all" the country needs more police officers to "take part in immigration control [operations]"

Approximately 1,200 Swedish police officers are currently involved in border control at their national operative department (NOA) and seven police regions, but the majority is assigned to operations securing the country's external borders, such as passport control, he said.

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Swastikas near synagogue & market in Israeli city leave residents in shock

anti-semetic vandalism
© Nir Keidar / Reuters
Israelis worship near a swastika spray-painted in a synagogue in the central Israeli city of Petah Tikva, May 4, 2006
Residents of an Israeli city have been shocked and terrified by swastikas spray-painted near a synagogue and a market in two separate neighborhoods.

The anti-Semitic vandalism took place in the city of Petah Tikva in Israel's Central District 10 kilometers east of Tel Aviv on Tuesday morning, the first morning of Passover, which is a major religious holiday for Jewish people.

One of the Nazi symbols had been spray-painted on a billboard showing a map of the city, Israeli media reported, citing a municipal website.

"We woke up this morning and on the way to the synagogue we encountered the graffiti with the symbol of the Nazi movement," local residents said, as cited by Arutz Sheva network.

Comment: We know that authentically racist acts against Jews occur and are probably even exacerbated by Israel's high crimes - but given stories like this recent one: 19yo US-Israeli citizen arrested for global wave of bomb threats against Jewish centers - one can't help but wonder what percentage of these occurrences are actually perpetrated by Jewish sympathy-seekers in order to garner support for Israel's genocidal policies.

And, of course, there was 911.


Handcuffs

Not the only one: Another United first-class passenger was threatened with handcuffs to make room for 'higher-priority' traveler

Geoff Fearns united airlines
© Geoff Fearns
Geoff Fearns who was threatened with being handcuffed by United Airlines if he didn’t give up his first class seat.
It's hard to find examples of worse decision-making and customer treatment than United Airlines having a passenger dragged from an overbooked plane. But United's shabby treatment of Geoff Fearns, including a threat to place him in handcuffs, comes close.

Fearns, 59, is president of TriPacific Capital Advisors, an Irvine investment firm that handles more than half a billion dollars in real estate holdings on behalf of public pension funds. He had to fly to Hawaii last week for a business conference.

Fearns needed to return early so he paid about $1,000 for a full-fare, first-class ticket to Los Angeles. He boarded the aircraft at Lihue Airport on the island of Kauai, took his seat and enjoyed a complimentary glass of orange juice while awaiting takeoff.

Then, as Fearns tells it, a United employee rushed onto the aircraft and informed him that he had to get off the plane.

"I asked why," he told me. "They said the flight was overfull."

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Ayaan Hirsi Ali: How to combat political Islam

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Ayaan Hirsi Ali
For the full article go here.

Hirsi Ali is a senior fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School and a research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. For the latter, she has just published an comprehensive, thoroughly researched paper, The Challenge of Dawa: Political Islam and How to Counter It. (Dawa is, strictly speaking, Arabic for proselytizing for Islam, but as Hirsi Ali explains, given the troubling specifics of Islamic doctrine, it is "more complex, more sinister, and more far-reaching" than that.) The president and every high-level official in the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security, as well as every member of Congress, should read it. Now.

Hirsi Ali covers her subject in its entirety, substantiating each assertion with footnotes, but here I'll address only the most salient aspects. Her thesis: the American government's "narrow focus on Islamist violence had the effect of restricting our options only to tools such as military intervention, electronic surveillance, and the criminal justice system. . . . In focusing only on acts of violence, we have ignored the ideology that justifies, promotes, celebrates, and encourages those acts."

Comment: Anti-jihadist strategies in order of effectiveness: military/intelligence/criminal justice -> ideology/reform -> ponerology.


Boat

The refugees who used to make curtains in Syria, now sewing sails in Germany

Coastworxx worker from Syria
© Coastworxx
From sewing curtains in Syria to stitching sails in Germany, refugees Mohammed Alsahani and his son Yousef fled to escape war. Ending up in a small textile workshop in northern Germany where they now make sailcloth, this new life has proved not only beneficial to Mr. Alsahani and his family, but also to the textile company for whom they work.

Mohammed and Yousef work for a textile company called Coastworxx, where they use their unique skills to help make sails. Both men had textile businesses in Damascus, Syria and are now able to use this same craft in their host country of Germany.

Mohammed and Yousef contradict the mainstream media narrative that refugees have come to Europe to take benefits and not contribute to society.

Bizarro Earth

UK goes further than UN with calls to end the genocide in South Sudan civil war

Sudan man with rifle
© Goran Tomasevic / Reuters
South Sudan's four-year civil war now amounts to genocide, according to a senior British official.

International Development Secretary Priti Patel said South Sudan is effectively genocide because slaughter is taking place on tribal lines.

Patel said there are "massacres taking place, people's throats being slit." She called for international leaders to do more to lobby President Salva Kiir to stop the ethnic cleansing.

She claimed conditions in the world's youngest country are "abhorrent and inhumane" amid a "scorched earth policy."

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Resourceful Ohio inmates built and hid computers in prison

prisoners hide computers
Lax security allowed inmates at an Ohio prison to build two computers and connect them to the state's Department of Rehabilitation and Correction's network, investigators found.

The computers were found hidden in the ceiling of the prison in Marion County in 2015, prompting an investigation by Ohio's Inspector General.The computers contained applications for credit cards using another inmate's information, pornography, research on tax refund fraud, recipes for homemade drugs and message exchanges.

The Marion Correctional Institution inmates were also able to issue passes to gain access to multiple areas within the prison.

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Fast and Furious: Suspected triggerman in border agent's murder arrested

Agent Brian A. Terry, 40
© FNC
Agent Brian A. Terry, 40, was killed on Dec. 14 near Rio Rico, Ariz., according to a statement released by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials.
The cartel member suspected of shooting and killing Border Patrol agent Brian Terry in 2010 with a gun supplied by the U.S. government was arrested in Mexico Wednesday, senior law enforcement, Border Patrol, and congressional sources told Fox News.

The suspect, Heraclio Osorio-Arellanes, was apprehended by a joint U.S.-Mexico law enforcement task force that included the Drug Enforcement Administration, U.S. Marshals and the Border Patrol Tactical Unit (BORTAC).

A $250,000 reward had been sought for information leading to the arrest of Osorio-Arellanes, who was captured at a ranch on the border of the Mexican states of Sinaloa and Chihuahua. U.S. authorities have said they will seek his extradition.

Stormtrooper

Sacramento police to investigate cop who punched jaywalking suspect

Sacramento police officer and a suspected jaywalker
© Naomi Montaie / Facebook
A violent confrontation between a police officer and a suspected jaywalker erupted in northern Sacramento, California. Facebook Live and cruiser dashcam videos of the incident are now primary evidence in a criminal investigation of the officer.

Nandi Cain, Jr. kept on walking and ignored commands to stop from a Sacramento police officer around 5:00pm Monday, when the officer accused him of jaywalking, KCRA reported.

"Hey, can I talk to you real quick, bud? Can you come here please? Come here, bud," the officer is heard saying in a dashcam video released by the Sacramento Police Department. SPD voluntarily released the recording, but chose not to reveal the officer's name, only that he'd been on the force for two years.


Comment: It all started because Nandi Cain walked across the street. These days walking across the street is good reason for getting beaten by cops.


Nuke

Sign of the times: 'World War 3' Google search has hit highest peak ever

World War 3 nuclear fallout google search
© The Free Thought Project
As further evidence the United States is inching dangerously toward armed conflict with Russian, China, and Iran, the actual term "World War III" is being searched on the Internet at an all-time historic high. Google began tracking trending topics in 2004. Since that time, the term hasn't drawn very much of the world's attention, with the exception of years 2006, 2015, and now, 2017.

Interest in the term "World War III" first peaked in 2006, when the sovereign state of Israel was engaged in skirmishes with Hezbollah, the Palestinian group some have likened to a terrorist organization. It was called the Israel-Hezbollah War of 2006. After enduring an onslaught of homemade missiles by Hezbollah soldiers, Israel retaliated and ended the war laying waste to many parts of Lebanon, the country from which many of the attacks were staged.

Israel was heavily criticized for its heavy-handed bombardment of the sovereign country of Lebanon. The war came to an end in August but not before, apparently, many folks were concerned enough about a global war erupting that they performed a great number of internet inquiries regarding world war.

Interest in "World War III" peaked again in November of 2015. That's when a Russian airliner Metrojet Flight 9268 crashed in the Egyptian desert of Sharm el Sheikh. What was at first considered a tragic accident, soon evolved into an apparent act of terrorism. Later, the Islamic State (ISIS) claimed responsibility for the attack. It uploaded pictures of a soda-can-bomb it says it used to bring down the passenger jet, killing all 224 souls aboard.