The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he ever receive either. – Benjamin Franklin
– Massive Coverup Exposed In Sweden As Media, Cops Hid Migrant Sex Attacks:
What began as a series of reports from women in Cologne who said they were sexually assaulted by men of “Arab and North African origin” on New Year’s Eve has mushroomed into a full blown crisis that threatens to further undermine support for Angela Merkel’s open-door refugee policy on the way to fomenting social upheaval in Germany.
Read moreMassive Coverup Exposed In Sweden As Media, Cops Hid Migrant Sex Attacks
– US-Backed Coalition Just Bombed ANOTHER Doctors Without Borders Hospital:
(MiddleEastEye) A missile strike on a Doctors Without Borders clinic in Yemen killed at least four people on Sunday, the group said, condemning what it called a “worrying pattern” of such attacks. The raid was the third of its kind in four months in the war-ravaged country, where a Saudi-led coalition has been battling Houthis who have seized territory from the internationally-recognised government.
It also follows a US strike in Afghanistan on a facility run by the Paris-based medical humanitarian organisation, known by its French acronym MSF, which killed 42 people in October.
Read moreUS-Backed Coalition Just Bombed ANOTHER Doctors Without Borders Hospital
As if the police in several countries would all at the same time start covering up sexual assaults without being ordered to do so.
– Swedish police accused of covering up sexual assaults committed by refugees at music festival:
Swedish police are accused of covering up mass sexual assaults allegedly committed by refugees at a music festival. It follows claims that gangs of youths, mostly from Afghanistan, molested girls as young as 11 or 12 at the annual event.
According to Dagens Nyheter newspaper, an internal police report on the 2015 ‘We Are Stockholm’ festival stated that “the problem of young men rubbing themselves up against young girls returned as in previous years.”
“These are so-called refugee youths [mostly] from Afghanistan…the [group] was also responsible for several fights during the evening,” police wrote.
Noting that the youngest victims were only 11 or 12, an unnamed officer admitted that he would “never have let my own daughter [go to] the festival if I knew what happened.”
Doing what TPTB want them to do, or told them to do, as many of these gangs are financed by the state.
Divide et impera! (More info down below.)
– German Biker Gangs, “Hooligans” Attack Foreigners In Migrant “Manhunts”:
On Sunday, we learned that the man who stormed a Paris police station while waving a meat cleaver and donning a fake bomb vest once lived in a center for asylum seekers in Germany and may have ties to the wave of sexual assaults that occurred in Cologne on New Year’s Eve.
The revelations came just a day after some 1,700 people turned out for a PEGIDA rally where demonstrators waved anti-migrant banners and called for the ouster of Angela Merkel.
We’ve long argued that the influx of Mid-East asylum seekers had the potential to trigger dangerous bouts of scapegoating xenophobia across the bloc. We’ve also noted that with each passing “incident” (be it a massacre of civilians like that which occurred in Paris, a bomb scare like what unfolded in Hannover, or sexual assaults like those that took place across Europe on New Year’s), Europe’s goodwill towards refugees gradually evaporates as even “compassionate” Westerners run out of patience in the face of what’s perceived as a growing threat to the region’s culture and security.
Ultimately, we’ve argued that it’s probably just a matter of time before some Europeans take matters into their own hands. That contention seemed even more likely after the New Year’s Eve attacks in Cologne where police have been blamed for their failure to protect the crowd.
Well sure enough, reports now indicate a rogue band of “bikers, hooligans and bouncers” organized a migrant “manhunt” on Facebook before attacking a group of Pakistanis in Cologne.
Read moreGerman Biker Gangs, “Hooligans” Attack Foreigners In Migrant “Manhunts”
Even as the fascist, corrupt U.S. government and its regulators (FDA and USDA) actively conspire with the biotech industry to poison Americans with genetically modified foods, Taiwan has already passed and implemented a nationwide law to protect its citizens from GMOs.
Nearly a full year ago, Taiwan passed Food Act Amendments that achieve remarkable food safety milestones the U.S. government refuses to implement, placing Taiwan far ahead of the United States on food safety. These milestones include:
Read moreTaiwan bans GMOs from school lunches, mandates nationwide GMO labeling
Divide et impera! … brought to you by TPTB.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEpRfQhndf4
– China’s Plunge Protection Team Bought ¥1.8 Trillion In Stocks In 2015:
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But how many billions (or trillions) did China’s so-called “national team” spend to prop up stocks in recent months? According to Goldman not less than CNY1.8 trillion in the June-November period.
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– Navy Uses US Citizens as Pawns in Domestic War Games:
These exclusive Navy documents outline plans for combat training exercises along vast areas of Washington State coastline. Each shows the areas the Navy is prepared to utilize.
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– China Contagion Spills Over To Hong Kong Banks As HIBOR Explodes To Record High, Stocks Tumble:
Chinese stocks are trading at the lows of the day after Overnight HIBOR rates (Hong Kong’s interbank borrowing rate) exploded a stunning 939bps to a record high 13.4%. It is clear that banks are utterly desperate for liquidity and/or are extremely concerned about one another’s counterparty risk. This has dragged HSCEI down 5% (to its lowest since Oct 2011).
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– Meanwhile In Shanghai Residents Form Lines To Sell Yuan, Buy Dollars:
Ming Pao, the most influential Chinese newspaper in Hong Kong, reports that Shanghai residents are lining up at local banks to sell Yuan for Dollars over fears of even more Yuan devaluation.
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– This Is What Gold Does In A Currency Crisis, China Edition:
As China’s leaders figure out that pegging the yuan to the dollar while quintupling their debt in five years was a colossal mistake, they are, apparently, concluding that the only way out is a sudden, sharp currency devaluation…
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– Shared Sacrifice? 1 In 3 Americans Slash Staples Spending To ‘Afford’ Obamacare:
Health insurers are in panic mode as the Obama administration, ever eager maximize coverage optics for Obamacare, has, as The NY Times reports, allowed large numbers of people to sign up for insurance after the deadlines in the last two years, destabilizing insurance markets and driving up premiums. This surge in costs, from unintended consequences, has left 1 in 5 Americans with health insurance is having problems paying medical bills; and, as a new poll finds, more than one in three Americans, or 35 percent, said they were unable to pay for basic necessities such as food, heat, and housing because of medical bill problems…
– US Responds To North Korean Nuke Test, Flies B-52 Over South Korea:
On Tuesday, North Korea announced it had “successfully” tested a hydrogen bomb.
According to Kim Jong-Un, the test was necessary because America is “a gang of cruel robbers” hell bent on waging nuclear war. “This is a self-defensive step for reliably defending the peace on the Korean Peninsula and regional security from the danger of nuclear war caused by the U.S.-led imperialists,” Kim said.
Read moreUS Responds To North Korean Nuke Test, Flies B-52 Over South Korea
And Jean-Claude Juncker wouldn’t lie to you, or would he?
– Juncker: “Dutch ‘NO’ Vote Will Lead To A Big Continental Crisis”:
Juncker: ‘Dutch “NO” will result in big continental crisis’
In April the Dutch people will vote on the European-Ukraine association treaty. In an interview with the NRC, a Dutch leading newspaper, Juncker warned the Dutch voters a “NO” will lead to a big continental crisis. “Russia and anti European movements will profit from a Dutch No, the Dutch has to vote yes for reasons not related to the treaty, the Dutch should act like an European strategist” according to Mr Juncker.
Read moreJean-Claude Juncker: ‘Dutch ‘NO’ Vote Will Lead To A Big Continental Crisis’
– Police register over 500 cases in Cologne’s ‘planned’ assaults on NYE:
The number of criminal cases filed with Cologne police has grown to 516, 40 percent of which relate to sexual assaults, police said. The German Justice Minister suggested that the Cologne attacks may have been coordinated with assaults in other cities.Police said that 19 suspects are under investigation, while a 19-year-old Moroccan was arrested on suspicion of theft during the mass assaults near Cologne’s train station on New Year’s Eve.
FYI.
– US releases video it says shows Iranian rockets fired near American aircraft carrier:
The US Navy has released footage purportedly showing the Iranian Navy firing unguided rockets in the strategic Strait of Hormuz near the Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier and other Western warships and commercial vessels.The 45-second black and white video shot from a Seahawk helicopter reportedly shows “fast inshore attack craft” of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard firing rockets close to the Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier, the USS Bulkeley destroyer, the FS Provence French naval frigate and some commercial ships on December 26. The video was declassified in response to a Freedom of Information Act request.
– Cameron says Brexit not ‘the right answer’ for UK:
British Prime Minister David Cameron appears to have made up his mind on the burning issue of the UK leaving or staying in the EU. It most likely won’t please Euroskeptics.Commenting on the situation of the UK’s membership in the EU, David Cameron made it clear he is hopeful of reaching a deal with European leaders regarding his reforms, which would probably eliminate the need for leaving the bloc.
“I don’t think that [exit] is the right answer … Were that to be the answer, we would have to do everything necessary to make that work,” the Conservative Party leader said in an interview on BBC’s Andrew Marr show on Sunday.
– “Trump Could Win It All”: 20% Of Democrats Say They’d Vote For Trump Over Hillary:
At this point, it’s become abundantly clear that Donald Trump’s brazen rhetoric and unorthodox campaign strategy (which primarily involves simply saying whatever pops into his head with no filter whatsoever) isn’t a liability.
In fact, the bellicose billionaire’s style and penchant for controversy has catapulted the real estate mogul to the top of the polls leaving but one serious challenger (Ted Cruz) for the GOP nomination.
Read more“Trump Could Win It All”: 20% Of Democrats Say They’d Vote For Trump Over Hillary
– Jewish New York High School Student Facing Legal Action for Supporting Palestine:
The superintendent defended the school’s actions, insisting they were forced to investigate by an anti-bullying law that’s “one of the strictest in the nation.”
Fair Lawn, NJ — Twitter users rallied this week behind a Jewish high school student that faced possible legal action after she criticized Israel on the social media network.is an 16-year old Israeli Jewish student at Fair Lawn High School, but she’s also accumulated thousands of followers on Twitter for her outspoken views on apartheid Israel’s treatment of Palestine. Unfortunately, she’s also found herself accused of bullying after a student apparently complained to her school about tweets she’d written over her December holiday break.
Read moreJewish New York High School Student Facing Legal Action for Supporting Palestine
09.01.2016
“As predicted August 6th, 2015 “The Panic Of 2016” has arrived, despite equities down gold prices have risen & “the civilian death toll in the Saudi war in Yemen continues to escalate with more than double the number killed in December than November”.
Original release: January 7th, 2016.
– The Counted: people killed by police in the United States in 2015 – interactive:
The Counted is a special Guardian project to record all people killed by police in the United States this year.
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– Record Number of Cops Charged with Killing People in 2015 — Not a Single Officer Convicted:
Although the number of cops charged with murder or manslaughter sharply spiked last year, not a single officer was convicted for these unjustified deaths. With less cops killed in the line of duty in 2015, the number of people killed by police increased yet again.
The accumulated number of people killed by police in the U.S. last year remains between 986 and 1,200, with The Guardian currently totaling 1,138 victims. Although many disagree on the exact number of fatalities caused by cops, most concur that 2015 saw an escalation in both the total of people killed by police and the number of officers charged with murder or manslaughter.
Read moreRecord Number of Cops Charged with Killing People in 2015 — Not a Single Officer Convicted
FYI.
– Germany Erupts Into Chaos As Protesters Declare “Rapefugees Not Welcome”:
Anger over a wave of sexual assaults that occurred across the EU on New Year’s Eve reached a boiling point in Germany on Saturday when some 1,700 people attended a rally organized by the anti-Muslim PEGIDA movement.PEGIDA, which nearly fizzled early last year, gained in popularity as hundreds of thousands of Mid-East asylum seekers responded to Angela Merkel’s open-door refugee policy by flooding across Germany’s borders. Initially, many Germans met the the migrants with hugs and gifts, but as the months wore on, sentiment gradually soured and attendance at PEGIDA rallies once again spiked with as many as 20,000 people showing up for an October demonstration.
Read moreGermany Erupts Into Chaos As Protesters Declare “Rapefugees Not Welcome”
– Nebraska Is Torturing Incarcerated Youth for Having Too Many Books, Passing Notes:
A report released by the Nebraska American Civil Liberties Union this week reveals the state’s extensive use of solitary confinement in children across multiple juvenile detention centers. Solitary confinement is considered a form of torture by the U.N., and in recent years, has been outlawed and scaled back in the United States. In Nebraska, however, children are being forced into isolation for offenses as minor as having too many books or passing notes.
Read moreNebraska Is Torturing Incarcerated Youth for Having Too Many Books, Passing Notes
– China Goes Full Keynesian-tard: Demolishes Never-Used Just-Built Skyscraper:
“Growth” meet “mal-investment boom-bust” In a perfect example of the smoke-and-mirror-ness of China’s credit-fueled expansion, a 27-storey high-rise building which was completed on November 15th 2015 was just demolished, “having been left unused for too long.”
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– Iran Bans Citizens from Making Pilgrimages to Mecca:
In a further escalation of tensions with Saudi Arabia, Iran on Thursday banned Saudi imports and forbid Iranian citizens from making the annual trip to Mecca.
All Muslims financially and physically capable of doing so are required at make a pilgrimage to Islam’s holiest city at least once in a lifetime.
Read moreIran Bans Citizens from Making Pilgrimages to Mecca