UK’s Most-Wanted Woman: ‘White Widow Plotting New Terrorist Attacks in London’

The 'White Widow' Samantha Lewthwaite with 7/7 London bomber Germaine Lindsay © Global Look Press / 12/Solo

Samantha Lewthwaite, better known as the ‘White Widow,’ is planning terrorist attacks in London from her base in Yemen, according to security sources.

British security sources believe that Lewthwaite, the former wife of 7/7 suicide bomber Germaine Lindsay, has been secretly plotting an attack in London from her current location in war-torn Yemen, according to the Daily Mirror.

The newspaper reports that the 35-year-old mum-of-four is thought to have undergone plastic surgery and put on a significant amount of weight in a bid to alter her appearance.

Lewthwaite, the daughter of a British soldier from Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire, UK, is said to have recently visited Dubai in the UAE, with sources fearing that she’s planning new terrorist attacks, including strikes on London.

The latest tip-off reportedly came from a source recruited by an MI6 officer in Nairobi, Kenya. The source is thought to have significant links to Lewthwaite, who is alleged to have ordered around 400 deaths.

The information received, described as “credible,” is believed to include evidence that Lewthwaite has a string of important contacts locations across Yemen, such as the former British colony of Aden and the major seaport of Mukalla.

British security services, which have been hunting Lewthwaite for seven years, claim “the net is finally closing in” on the ‘White Widow.’ She is believed to be under the protection of fighters from the jihadist militant group Al-Shabaab.

A source said: “Yemen is a hotbed for Al-Shabaab recruitment and its chaotic political situation gives an advantage to on-the-run terrorists like her.”

Interpol issued a Red Notice arrest warrant for her after she was linked to the 2013 Westgate Mall terrorist attack in Kenya, which left 71 people dead, including five Brits. Around 200 others were injured in the incident. Security chiefs also believe she was behind the killing of 148 people by Al-Shabaab gunmen at Garissa University, Kenya in 2015.

In Yemen, she is understood to have bribed women with £300 ($335) to become suicide bombers for her cause. She is also thought to have sent male suicide bombers as young as 15 to their deaths, pumped full of heroin.

She has vowed to raise her four children, who have three different fathers, as jihadists.

Radical Muslims are completely insane!

An hour is coming for everyone who kills you to think that he is offering service to God. John 16:2

'We are New Russians': How a Hard-Drinking Nation Curbed its Alcohol Use

While Canada legalizes marijuana and getting stoned increases sharply, Russia is moving in the opposite direction, and God bless them.

Russia now ranks 14th in terms of alcohol consumption globally,

and is comparable to France and Germany

Chris Brown · CBC News · Moscow Correspondent

Sober Russia volunteer Eduard Grigoriev shows off a pre-mixed, homemade bottle of energy drink and vodka

during a vigilante raid on an after-hours liquor store in Moscow. (Corinne Seminoff/CBC)

Once the holder of the dubious title of one of the world's hardest-drinking nations, Russia has fallen steadily down the list — and Eduard Grigoriev likes to think his group can claim some of the credit.

Chris Brown's use of the word 'fallen' here is very interesting. More on that at the bottom of this page.

A volunteer with the group Sober Russia, the 21-year-old is a self-proclaimed liquor vigilante. Since his teens, Grigoriev has been helping police crack down on businesses that break Russia's ever-stricter liquor laws.

"Four years ago, when we started, eight out of 10 stores in Moscow were selling illegal alcohol. Right now, it's three out of 10," said Grigoriev of the role that his band of helpers have played in ensuring liquor violators are brought to the attention of police.

Illegal alcohol sales usually take the form of homemade distilled spirits or legally made products sold after hours. Russian law prohibits any off-licence sales in corner stores or grocery stores past 11 p.m. at night.

The restrictions on availability have been part of a sweeping series of measures enacted by the Russian government since 2005, aimed at curbing widespread alcohol abuse in the country.

In its latest report, the World Health Organization acknowledges the efforts have paid off with significantly lower rates of consumption.

Sweeping restrictions

Grigoriev's group has affiliations with the governing United Russia party and Vladimir Putin's administration, but Grigoriev said Sober Russia isn't political, and everyone who joins is a volunteer.

The group's tactics involve sending volunteers into corner stores after Russia's 11 p.m. curfew and entrapping staff who sell booze.

Grigoriev, left, and another Sober Russia member report back on the outcome of their sting operation with

a Moscow police officer. (Pascal Dumont/CBC)

A crew from CBC's Moscow bureau was with Grigoriev's team recently when they visited the city's southern suburbs and documented several of their ensnarement stings.

"We're doing this because we think we can make Russia a better place to live in," Grigoriev explained. "This is our future."

Grigoriev said that if fewer stores sell illegal alcohol, "the better the alcohol will be in legal stores, and the less people will have health problems."

Sales of illegally distilled spirits in Russia have been a deadly health problem. In one of the worst cases in recent times, 78 people died in the Siberian city of Irkutsk in 2016 after drinking tainted moonshine.

Last week, police released a video of a police raid in a factory that was manufacturing illegal vodka just outside Moscow. It resulted in the seizure of more than 77,000 bottles. Not long before that, a bust at a factory in the central Russian city of Nefteyugansk netted about 30,000 bottles. Police claim the booze would have made people badly sick.

A nurse walks through the emergency ward at a Russian alcohol rehabilitation clinic. While Russians continue to be heavy drinkers, the World Health Organization considers their fight against alcoholism to be a success story. (Pascal Dumont/CBC)

In one of the Sober Russia stings the CBC crew witnessed, a shopkeeper sold several bottles of beer to a volunteer after the 11 p.m. curfew. Then, with our cameras rolling, other members entered the store and confronted the employee, who quickly denied doing anything improper.

Grigoriev's team then found several large plastic bottles behind the cash register that contained a mixture of alcohol and an energy drink.

"It's like Red Bull, but with alcohol," he said. "This is forbidden."

Less boozy

Twelve years ago, Russians consumed roughly 15 litres of alcohol per person a year, which put them in fourth in the world rankings of the hardest-drinking countries. Now, in Russia, the per capita average is closer to 10 litres. (By comparison, Canada drinks eight litres per capita per year.)

Russia now ranks 14th in terms of alcohol consumption globally, and is comparable to France and Germany.

Notably, the proportion of strong liquor, such as vodka, in the overall mix of Russian alcohol consumption is down substantially, by 31 per cent.    

"Alcohol consumption has decreased a lot," said professor Yevgeny Yakovlev of Moscow's New Economic School, where he tracks Russia's consumption habits.  

"We see that everywhere. Mortality from alcohol poisoning has decreased by 30 per cent," he said. Yakovlev noted that suicides where alcohol is believed to have played a role have fallen by roughly the same amount in the past 12 years.

"In all of these measures, we see progress," said Yakovlev.

Yakovlev credits aggressive government measures to restrict alcohol sales and to discourage use, such as increased taxation. 

Drinking in public is still in common in Russia. (Mikhail Metzel/Associated Press)

While taxes on alcohol are politically unpopular, the World Health Organization notes that automatic yearly tax increases on booze have contributed to better health outcomes.

Earlier this month, Russia's health ministry announced it was drafting legislation that could raise the country's drinking age from 18 to 21. The Moscow Times newspaper cited a poll suggesting strong public support for the higher drinking age.

Healthier choices

Many Russians are making healthier lifestyle choices more generally, which are contributing to the significant decline in alcohol use.

At a gym in eastern Moscow, Yuri Sysoev and Alexei Forsenco have gone further than most Russians in promoting an alcohol-free lifestyle, both in their own choices and with their outreach.

"If I look back, well, basically, I had child alcoholism," said Sysoev during a break from sparring with a partner in the boxing ring.

Now an actor and filmmaker in Moscow, the 31-year-old Sysoev said the 1990s were a difficult time in Russia. In the post-Soviet economic and political chaos, he said drinking was a means of escape for many.

"I was a little kid in the theatre playing [roles] of gnomes and hobbits, and I got pulled into [binge-drinking culture]," Sysoev said. About nine years ago, an epiphany about the destructive effect alcohol was having on his life prompted him to give it up entirely, he said.

Moscow film producers Yuri Sysoev, left, and Alexei Forsenco gave up drinking and took up fitness.

Then they made a movie about why young people should follow their example. (Pascal Dumont/CBC)

Forsenco, his 37-year-old friend and business partner, said his story is quite similar, except it took him longer to come to the same realization.

"It wasn't until I had kids of my own, about five years ago, that I understood alcohol could not be part of my family."

Forsenco said the decision to abstain from booze often catches the foreigners they meet off guard. But he said no one should be surprised.

"We are new Russians. We don't drink alcohol."

The pair have made a short film that they are showing at Russian high schools. They are sharing their experiences with students in the hope of dissuading teenagers from repeating their mistakes.

Entitled The Outcast, the film features a teen walking through an apartment complex who is being taunted by his friends for not drinking after school. Instead of yielding to peer pressure, he stays the course and chooses the healthy option of a good workout.

"I don't want to brag, but we are the first in Russia to be making a film like this," said Sysoev.

At a recent showing, students peppered Sysoev and Forsenco with questions about their experience with alcohol and its destructive impact.

"We have to fight this," Sysoev told the students. "Not with banners and meetings, but [you must] change yourself first, and then the world around you will change."

While the film has been well received by students, the pair said they have also run into resistance from nervous school administrators, who are afraid The Outcast might portray Russia in a bad light.

Truth is often a 'bad light'!

While more Russians are opting for healthy lifestyles, Sysoev said there are still too many instances of people walking in their neighbourhoods and seeing what he calls an "alcohol apocalypse" — like drunks sleeping on benches or just staggering around.

"That's why we wanted to make this film and send a message that a healthy lifestyle and healthy sport is right."

The comparison between Russia and Canada has some ironic colourtones. Russia is a very conservative country, Canada, under Justin Trudeau is a very progressive country. He thinks that's a good thing and so does most Canadian media, like the CBC. That's why I found it interesting that the reporter would use the term 'fallen' to describe the increasing sobriety in Russia. That wasn't exactly his intention, of course, but that's how it struck me.

The word 'fallen' is often used to describe someone who has died in combat, or someone who has 'fallen' into sin. 'Fallen from grace' is a Biblical phrase. If you are a reader of my other blog you will have found the sentence 'Sin is Progressive' mentioned several times. The irony that appeals to me is that someone from a country that is frantically 'progressing' into extreme liberalism should call a country that is 'progressing' toward a healthier, more sane lifestyle - fallen!

Liberals and Conservatives and the Fear of God

Northwoods Ministries

Swedish National Broadcaster Plays Down Islamic Terrorism - Just Like UN Compact Says

Swedish media blasted for playing down horrific details of hikers’ IS-inspired murders in Morocco

For years now I have been criticizing the Swedish government and media for refusing to tell the truth about Muslim migrants and the danger they are to young, white, Swedish women. Many such girls have paid a very high price for Sweden's politically correct madness. SVT is not doing anything new here, but this is what we can all (almost) expect from the media in western countries. 

This is the very thing that the UN's Marrakesh compact, signed so recently, encourages countries receiving migrants to do. It's odd that the deal was signed in Marrakesh; Marrakesh is just 50 kms due north of where those two young women were massacred 6 days after the compact was signed. 

All 'progressive' countries can expect their media to behave with such politically correct insanity.

Swedish state broadcaster SVT has come under fire for what some viewers are calling an effort to downplay the horrendous details of the murders of two Scandinavian backpackers in Morocco last week.

Louisa Vesterager Jespersen, 24, from Denmark, and Maren Ueland, 28, from Norway were killed while backpacking in Morocco’s High Atlas mountains. While both girls were stabbed multiple times, one of them was also beheaded on camera, shown in a video that has spread like wildfire around social media.

Previously recorded footage, which was authenticated by investigators, also shows the suspects in the brutal double murder pledging allegiance to the Islamic State leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, further confirming that the murders were an act of terrorism.

Memorial to the slain backpackers at Danish embassy © Reuters / Youssef Boudlal

On Christmas Eve, the national public broadcaster in Sweden aired a report about the barbaric killings, but chose not to focus on the actual details of the crime or the now-established links to Islamic terrorism. The SVT report made no mention of the fact that one of the young women was beheaded, said nothing about the ISIS link and simply referred to “knife damage” on the woman’s neck.

Bizarrely, the report focused almost entirely on how it is a punishable offence to share the disturbing video. Written reports on SVT’s website did mention the fact that the murders have been linked to Islamic terrorism, but that fact was nowhere to be found in its strange Christmas Eve report.

The odd angle taken by SVT prompted suggestions from viewers that the broadcaster seemed to be more worried about the possibility of the video spreading further than the actual murders themselves – and annoyed viewers quickly took to social media to denounce what they said was a case of the media being overly concerned with political correctness.

One person noted that there was a significant difference between how SVT covered the 2015 Trollhättan school attack, in which the Swedish perpetrator had been motivated by racism and chose a school in an area with a high immigrant population to commit his murders. While in that case, SVT recounted “minute by minute” what the killer did, publishing graphics and detailed information, in the case of the Scandinavian girls, the coverage was far more vague.

One Twitter user wrote that at first he thought the use of the phrase “knife damage” instead of ‘beheaded’ or ‘decapitated’ was just some kind of unfortunate formulation of words until he realized the channel had repeated the phrase more than once.

People from Maren Ueland's hometown walk in a torch-lit march to honor Maren Ueland from Norway and Louisa Vesterager Jespersen from Denmark ©  Jan Kare Ness / NTB Scanpix / via Reuters

“I myself would never watch such a film, let alone share it. But now we are more upset about the crime of proliferation than the crime of beheading,” another user wrote, denouncing overly “PC” people.

“Have these IS killers already been given jobs at SVT?” asked another angry tweeter, while another asked had the SVT reporters seen the footage of the woman dying and in pain as her neck is cut. “Knife damage is indeed a euphemism,” they wrote.

“225 years ago Marie Antoinette suffered 'knife damage to her neck' during the French Revolution,” another user sarcastically wrote.

Mt Toubkal, Morocco

Germany Finances Palestinian School Books That Preach Terrorism

Is antisemitism rising again in Germany?

Editorial board, Progretto Dreyfus

That the Palestinian school system is poisoned by hatred for Israel is well known. That the books on which young Palestinians study are full of eulogies to terrorism , likewise.

What was not known is that the Palestinian educational system was financed by Germany, a country that knows perfectly well where the long hands of Palestinian terrorism can reach.

The thorny story was brought to light by the daily Bild who published German funding to the Palestinian Authority 's education department , based on a study of the Impact-se organization , which found many words of praise in the Palestinian books towards the Black September terrorist act against the 11 Israeli athletes during the Olympics held in Munich in 1972 and towards the Palestinian terrorist Dalal Mughrabi, involved in the killing of 38 Israelis, including 13 children, in 1978 .

The report urged parliamentarian Frank Müller-Rosentritt to ask for explanations from the government of Angela Merkel , who has already announced the opening of "an independent investigation into Palestinian school books".

Müller-Rosentritt wrote on Twitter :

"Unbelievable, should children be educated for a better future, not be educated in hatred and violence? The federal government must provide an explanation. German tax money should not flow into terrorist propaganda ".

What happened has several points of similarity with two other episodes that have filled the recent chronicles from the Middle East: the financing of the EU Commission to an anti-Semitic and the words of hatred against Israel and Jews of the Turkish President Erdogan addressed to the youth of Istanbul .

What makes this story even more incredible is that it was Germany that financed Palestinian textbooks that set off a bomb attack on German soil during what was supposed to be just a sporting party.

Germany Mulls ‘Mosque Tax’ to Help Distract Muslims from ‘Foreign Influence’

Islamization Backlash, in Germany?

It's about time and, possibly, too late

Sehitlik Mosque in Berlin

In a bid to curb a potentially radicalizing foreign influence on its Muslim residents, German lawmakers are considering a new “mosque tax,” intended to make Muslim communities self-reliant and under more control.

Many German mosques are sponsored and are de-facto controlled from abroad, leaving local authorities in the dark about what happens inside. Now, several MPs have come up with an idea that they call a “solution” for a problem that has become increasingly unnerving for Berlin in recent years.

The MPs’ proposal involves the introduction of a special tax to be paid by all practicing Muslims in Germany, which would then be redistributed by the state among all officially registered Islamic religious institutions. A similar tax already exists in Germany and some other European countries for Catholic and Evangelical Christians.

The initiative is aimed at helping “Islam in Germany free itself from the influence of foreign states and get a stronger domestic orientation,” Thorsten Frei, the deputy head of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) faction in the German Parliament, said, calling the proposed tax “an important step in that direction.”

Frei’s idea immediately received support from other members of the ruling Grand Coalition. “Independent financing” would make the communities congregating in mosques in Germany more “transparent,” Michael Frieser, a legal expert and a member of the Bavarian Christian Social Union – a long-time CDU ally, said. A prominent member of the Social Democratic Party, Burkhard Lischka, called the suggestion “worthy of discussion.”

Other suggestions voiced by MPs include legally obliging the imams preaching in Germany to upload their sermons on the internet uncut. “The mosques must be open and transparent,” said Frieser.

One of the top figures in the CSU, Angela Merkel’s Bavarian sister party, has said Islam has no place in German society...

"Islam has no cultural roots in Germany and with Sharia as a legal system, it has nothing in common with our Judeo-Christian heritage," Alexander Dobrindt, the deputy leader of Bundestag’s biggest party, CDU/CSU, told Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung.

“Our ideas of tolerance and charity, freedom and equality,

cannot be found in the Islamic world." 

"These values are exactly the reason why so many people want to live with us,” he added, noting that migration from Christian countries to Muslim ones is almost non-existent.

However, any potential legislation on that matter has a long way to go before it could be implemented. Any draft bill should be first discussed with the German states as it falls within their jurisdiction, Lischka explained. So far, no detailed account of the future legislation has been presented.

Still, the idea also seemingly received backing from the Interior Ministry, which said “it can be a solution.” However, the ministry also said that the initiative would mostly rely on grassroots support from the Muslim communities themselves as it would still require a great deal of self-organization on their part.

Anti-Islam book becomes German bestseller less than two weeks after release — RT World News:

A new book highly critical of Islam and Muslims has been flying off the shelves in Germany to become a non-fiction bestseller. Mainstream media panned it for a simplistic approach to the religion.

The German Muslim community has so far remained conspicuously tight-lipped about the initiative. An outspoken unorthodox female preacher, Seyran Ates, founder of the first “liberal” mosque in Berlin, has been the only one to comment on the initiative so far. Ates backed the proposal by saying that “in the future everything that the community needs could be paid-for by its members themselves.”

For now, most Muslim religious institutions in Germany rely on foreign aid in some form. The Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs (DITIB), directly controlled by Ankara, is considered to be one of the largest organizations contributing to German mosques as it exerts influence over 896 Muslim communities across the country. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan personally opened one of the newly built mosques in the German city of Cologne during his visit in September.

DITIB might be one of the most influential Muslim organizations in Germany but the authorities are apparently more concerned about some other forces, which also seek to gain influence over German Muslims and which are much more radical. In 2017, German security forces warned that extremists from the Muslim Brotherhood –a radical Salafist organization established in 1928– were seeking to gain a “monopoly” over mosques in the eastern German state of Saxony and were even planning to “establish Sharia law in Germany.”

Earlier reports in the German media also suggested that Islamic religious groups from Gulf States such as Kuwait, Qatar and Saudi Arabia are supporting the radical Salafist movement in Germany with the suspected approval of their governments. The activities of the foreign-funded Islamic NGOs have caught the attention of the German authorities following the 2015 refugee crisis, as Berlin grew increasingly concerned that their actions would lead to further radicalization of German Muslims as well as refugees, who arrived there in large numbers.

The German domestic intelligence service, the BfV, has also warned that the Salafist movement became one of the most rapidly growing extremist groups in Germany. In late 2017, the then-head of the agency, Hans-Georg Maassen, said that there is now a record number of Islamists in Germany, putting their number at roughly 11,000.

In January 2018, a report by the BfV said that the number of Islamists in Berlin has more than doubled since 2011 and is steadily rising as 100 new followers joined local Salafist groups since the spring of 2017.

Outrage as Denmark Passes Law Making HANDSHAKE Mandatory for Naturalization

Denmark leading the Backlash against Islamization

© Reuters / RITZAU SCANPIX / Martin Sylvest

Danish lawmakers have approved a government-backed proposal to make citizenship applicants shake hands with the official conducting the naturalization ceremony. The bill has been criticized for discriminating against Muslims.

The new citizenship bill has been the subject of a heated debate since last summer. It requires those applying for Danish citizenship to commit to the country’s values and to show respect for its government by shaking hands with its representative.

Critics of the bill argue that it’s aimed at discouraging Muslims from seeking Danish citizenship, calling the proposal discriminatory and describing it as an unnecessary formality.

The proposal was backed by Denmark’s three-party minority government, with the driving force behind the legislation being the Conservative Party and anti-immigrant Danish People’s Party.

The changes to the naturalization ceremony, which come into effect on January 1, have been met with strong opposition from the local officials who conduct such proceedings. Some mayors have already said they will ignore the new guidelines. The mayor of the town of Kerteminde in central Denmark has gone so far as to imply that he would rather not show up at work than coerce an applicant to shake his hand.

“Shaking hands does not show if you are integrated or not. I think I will probably find an excuse and the deputy mayor will come to work that day,” Kasper Ejsing Olesen told the Guardian earlier.

The red tape associated with the festive ceremony will cost taxpayers an additional 2,400 kroner ($370) – double the current fee of 1,200 kroner ($183). However, the proponents of the new guidelines believe it’s a fair price to pay to become a Dane.

“When you consider that you are receiving the gift of Danish citizenship, I actually don’t think it’s that expensive. I think it is a tremendously large and valuable gift,” People’s Party spokesman Christian Langball told a local broadcaster in September, as cited by the Local.

Denmark’s Integration Minister Inger Stojberg, a member of the center-right Venstre party, brushed off the criticism, insisting that a handshake is “a completely natural part of the ceremony.”

Stojberg said that a spokesman for Hizb ut-Tahrir, an Islamic group that openly supports the establishment of a caliphate, told her that he would not have become a Danish citizen if the rules applied retroactively.

“I asked him if he would advise his followers in Hizb ut-Tahrir to pass on it, and he said he would. And that’s exactly what we want with the naturalization ceremony,” the minister said, as cited by TV2.

The point is if Danes or even half of Danes (women) are not considered worthy of shaking a Muslim hand, then why would Danes want them in their society? How can naturalizing a people who think they are better than you be a good thing? They will never be happy until they control you.

The latest measure is another step in the Danish government’s wide-ranging crackdown on migration. Earlier this month, Stojberg proposed sending rejected asylum seekers to a remote island, about two miles from the mainland. Some 100 failed asylum seekers and criminal migrants are going to be brought to the islet in the Baltic Sea on a ferry under the plan. 

In August, hundreds hit the streets to protest against a “burqa ban” – another “discriminatory” measure that came into effect that month.

Denmark has also been enforcing a controversial law allowing authorities to confiscate cash and valuables from refugees to fund their stay in Denmark since 2016. 

Russians Accepted $27M in Bribes Between Jan. and Oct., Prosecutor Says

Corruption is Everywhere - and most definitely in Russia

Russia's annual corruption joke

By Sommer Brokaw

A Russian flag flies near the Kremlin tower in Moscow on March 16.

Photo by Yuri Gripas/UPI | License Photo

(UPI) -- The general prosecutor's office in Russia said Tuesday Moscow officials accepted $27 million in bribes over the first nine months of 2018.

Spokesman Alexander Kurennoy said Russian officials took the bribes between January and September, while aired by the office's new interactive video service Efir Tuesday.

Kurrennoy said bribery cases in Russia rose by 3 percent to nearly 10,200 this year -- including the giving and taking of bribes, and prosecutions for facilitating bribery increased by 16 percent.

The amount of the average bribe was $9,140, officials said.

Nearly 200 large-scale bribes amounted to $22.5 million, an average of $121,000.

Bribe-giving was most common in Moscow and the Krasnodar region over the nine months. Moscow and regions of Rostov, Moscow and Chelyabinsk also led in a rating for bribe taking over the same period.

Anti-corruption activists said the official figure of $27 million may be an underestimate, given the country's low ranking in transparency and high-ranking in corruption.

May be an underestimate? This is only what was caught! $27m is certainly but a small fraction of what actually occurs. 

Danish Parliament OKs Plan to House Migrants on 17-Acre Island

By Sam Howard

Danish Parliament moved ahead Thursday on a plan to house certain migrants on Lindholm Island, shown here. Photo courtesy Erik Christensen/Wikimedia Commons

(UPI) -- Denmark Parliament voted Thursday to move forward with a plan to house migrant criminals on a small island south of Copenhagen.

Lindholm Island, currently home to an animal disease research center, will be able to house up to 125 migrants on its roughly 17 acres of land. The nation's parliament, the Folketing, voted Thursday to approve funding for the project, The New York Times reported.

Those housed on the small island may include rejected asylum seekers with criminal convictions and foreign residents Denmark doesn't have legal approval to deport.

Euronews reported that officials chose Lindholm because of its remote location. Danish Minister for Immigration, Integration and Housing Inger Støjberg said a ferry sailing to the island will operate "as infrequently as possible."

Danish Finance Minister Kristian Jensen has cautioned that foreigners sent to the island will not be considered prisoners, but will be imprisoned if they don't sleep on the island and report to authorities each day.

Converting the island's facilities so they can house migrants may cost least $115 million, according to a previous Times report. Danish officials hope to open the island to migrants in 2021.

2021 - that gives them lots of time to wreak havoc. But, at least it's an attempt to segregate some of the dangerous Muslims from society, as I suggested is necessary for European countries.

Good for Denmark!

Interpol Chief Warns Europe of ISIS 2.0 When Jihadists Serving Minor Sentences Leave Jail

FILE PHOTO © REUTERS/Omar Sanadiki

Europe should brace itself for a new wave of terrorist attacks when Islamic State supporters serving short sentences begin to emerge from jail in a few years, the head of Interpol has warned.

The next big terrorist threat in Europe could come from IS supporters currently in prison for minor terrorism-related crimes, according to Interpol Secretary-General Jurgen Stock. As they leave jail in the coming years, their radical beliefs are likely to trigger a relapse.

“In many parts of the world, in Europe but also Asia, this generation of early supporters will be released in the next couple of years, and they may again be part of a terrorist group or those supporting terrorist activities,” Stock said, estimating that the average jailed jihadist is serving a sentence of between two and five years.

“We could soon be facing a second wave of other Islamic State-linked or radicalized individuals that you might call ISIS 2.0,” he told the Anglo-American Press Association, as cited by the Guardian.

Possible members of IS sleeper cells aside, there is an ongoing threat of returning terrorists fleeing Iraq and Syria since the demise of Islamic State. Those disenchanted fighters with nothing to lose have become a major issue for local law enforcement.

“The security agencies are concerned about when they are coming back because most of them are battle hardened, they are trained, and they are internationally connected,” Stock said, noting that going to Syria and Iraq in the first place “was a huge opportunity to network on an international level.”

“These contacts still exist and we shouldn’t forget that,” he said.

It’s a guessing game as to where the retreating jihadists are going to flee when they’re squeezed out of Syria and Iraq. One of the probable destinations is southeast Asia or Africa, where there are still terrorist hotbeds. Another option for the jihadists is to keep a low profile and try to sneak back into Europe.

“With ISIS defeated geographically, these individuals will either try to move to other areas of conflict in southeast Asia, or Africa, or remain in Europe to carry out attacks,” Stock said.

Interpol has some 45,000 suspected foreign fighters in its database but it’s a Sisyphean task for local police to track them down, as many have perished on the battlefield, some are holed up in Syria or Iraq, and the whereabouts of many others is unknown.

Intelligence agencies in many countries, including in Europe, which has seen a spate of Islamist-linked terrorist attacks in recent years, have sounded the alarm over the threat posed by returnees.

Germany’s intelligence chief has warned that the children of jihadists coming from war zones can grow up to follow in the footsteps of their parents. Hans-Georg Maassen called for both widows and children of IS fighters to be treated as jihadists, arguing that they pose a considerable security risk after being brainwashed by IS propaganda.

The same concerns were echoed by the authorities in France, which has welcomed at least 300 jihadist militants back from Syria and Iraq. There have been calls for French citizens arrested on terrorist charges in Syria and Iraq to be tried there rather than brought back to France.

The solution that will never be implemented

The only credible way of dealing with jihadists is to segregate them from the rest of society. Their goals are to kill, destroy, disrupt, and cause terror in society, and it will be impossible to prevent that from happening without segregation.

Segregation can only come through the declaration of radical Muslims as clinically insane. As Dr. Wafa Sultan, a Syrian psychiatrist wrote: “I came to the absolute conviction that it is impossible…impossible…for any human being to read the biography of Mohammed and believe in it, and then emerge a psychologically and mentally healthy person.” 

Consequently, anyone espousing jihadist philosophy must be declared insane and locked up until he/she renounces radical Islam. It's pretty simple; but no politically correct government will ever have the courage to implement it.

Guardian Challenged over ‘Fake’ Assange & Manafort Story, as Luke Harding goes AWOL

While I have quoted Der Spiegel (see story immediately below) several times, I frequently use Guardian stories. I've always felt they had some journalistic integrity, and although it was obvious that was limited, it seemed superior to many other papers. This is disappointing, but not surprising.

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange holds up a copy of the Guardian newspaper July 26, 2010. ©REUTERS/Andrew Winning

Leading journalists have called out the UK's Guardian for not retracting their story that claimed Wikileaks’ Julian Assange met with ex-Donald Trump operative Paul Manafort despite a lack of evidence to support the claims.

Lead by ex-Guardian writer, now co-editor at the Intercept, Glenn Greenwald, various journalists and activists attacked the publication for going silent on the ‘bombshell’ story, while at the same time hailing that they are Britain’s most trusted news outlet.

Glenn Greenwald✔
@ggreenwald
 Happy 3-week anniversary to this blockbuster @Guardian story!

* No media outlet has confirmed it.
* No photo/video evidence has emerged.
* Ex-embassy official called the story "fake."
* Guardian refuses to talk about or retract it.

Why do people not trust media outlets??

Paul Johnson✔
@paul__johnson
Revealed: Trump ally Paul Manafort held secret talks with Julian Assange inside Ecuadorian embassy London
Exclusive by @lukeharding1968 & @yachay_dc http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/nov/27/manafort-held-secret-talks-with-assange-in-ecuadorian-embassy …


Ben Norton✔
@BenjaminNorton

3 weeks ago, The Guardian published a bogus story that WikiLeaks, Assange, and Ecuador's ex-consul all say is completely false.

This nonsensical report was co-authored by an Ecuadorian opposition activist, Fernando Villavicencio.

No one has apologized https://twitter.com/VillaFernando_/status/1067761750261596160 …


Ben Norton✔
@BenjaminNorton
Guardian reporters Luke Harding and Dan Collyns co-authored this bogus story with opposition activist Fernando Villavicencio, who has close ties to the US and who Ecuador said previously doctored a document that was irresponsibly published by The Guardianhttps://twitter.com/VillaFernando_/status/1069079592927928320 …

Fernando Villavicencio
@VillaFernando_
Una de mis mayores experiencias periodísticas fue trabajar durante meses la investigación sobre Assange con los colegas del diario británico The Guardian, Luke Harding, Dan Collins y con la joven periodista Cristina Solórzano de @somos_lafuente

Kristinn Hrafnsson
@khrafnsson
 Three weeks since @guardian killed its reputation with Manafort-met-Assange fabrication. It has neither retracted nor tried to defend the story. No word from the journalists nor the editor @KathViner. Don´t think I've experienced anything as pathetic in my 30 yrs as a journalist.

Others queried as to the whereabouts of one of the article’s authors, Luke Harding – the Guardian’s former Moscow correspondent. Some wondered whether Harding, a constant critic of the Russian state, had been placed on “gardening leave” following the publication of his ‘exclusive.’

Matt Kennard
@KennardMatt
 Where’s the @guardian’s Luke Harding?

He hasn’t published a story for three weeks. Has he been put on gardening leave after the fabricated frontpage Assange-Manafort story?#fakenews #boycotttheguardianhttps://www.theguardian.com/profile/lukeharding …

Greenwald, whose work with Edward Snowden lead to the Guardian receiving a their only Pulitzer Prize, was supported by Media Lens, an analysis website that frequently calls out the liberal publication for it's pro-business biases, and historian Mark Curtis, among others.

Curtis also highlighted a tweet from Paul Johnson’s the paper’s deputy editor, which cited an industry study that concluded that the Guardian was “the most trusted newspaper in Britain,” indicative of the state of the UK’s press.

Paul Johnson✔
@paul__johnson
 Guardian most trusted newspaper in Britain
-And most read quality news outlet
-And most popular news outlet among younger people https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/dec/17/guardian-most-trusted-newspaper-in-britain-says-industry-report?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other …

Guardian most trusted newspaper in Britain, says industry report
News outlet reaches more than 23m UK adults every month, helped by free website

On November 27, the Guardian splashed with an eye-catching article, claiming that its journalists had seen an Ecuadorian intelligence agency document detailing that Manafort and Assange had met three times in the London Ecuadorian embassy, including during the run-up to the 2016 US Presidential Election.

The piece suggested that “Russians” were also guests at the embassy, though it failed to identify any individuals in question. The article also didn’t include any non-anonymous sources nor did it reproduce, in any capacity, the document in question. No police force or intelligence service has corroborated the story despite the Ecuadorian embassy being one of the most surveilled spots in London.

It is not surprising that a rabid anti-Russian is a fake news reporter. Much of the anti-Russian hysteria emanates from governmental sources, but, obviously, some of it comes from so-called 'journalist's' imaginations. Such people appear to be completely lacking in integrity and have no respect for truth.

Top Journalist at Reputable German Magazine Faked his Stories for Years

And MSM wonders why they are held in such little respect, even contempt

FILE PHOTO. © Reuters / Christian Charisius

One of Germany’s most popular papers, Der Spiegel, has found itself at the center of a scandal involving one of its top reporters who was caught fabricating elements of his stories.

Claas Relotius, who worked at Der Spiegel as a freelancer for 6 years until receiving a staff position in 2017, seemed to be a paragon of modern journalism. The 33-year-old has received numerous prestigious journalism awards, both in Germany and abroad.

Just this December he was awarded a prize by the German reporter’s association for his story about the life of a child in Syria. In 2014, Relotius was warmly welcomed by CNN who named him ‘Journalist of the Year.’

However, his seemingly brilliant career has turned out to be a house of cards that is now falling apart, just as it had with Stephen Glass: a former staff writer at the New Republic who authored one of the most spectacular fabrication campaigns in the history of American journalism.

It was recently revealed that Relotius literally made up details in his stories and even “invented protagonists” – people he had never met in person.

One of his colleagues who was working with Relotius on a story about the situation on the US-Mexican border grew suspicious of some of the details in the journalist’s report. The man then tracked down two alleged sources Relotius quoted extensively in his text, only to find out that none of them ever actually met him.

The subsequent investigation by Der Spiegel into Relotius’ activities also uncovered that he fabricated details in another story including a claim that he had seen a sign in a US town that read: “Mexicans keep out.” When faced with the incriminating evidence, the journalist confessed to faking elements of his texts – not just in one story, but in a number of them.

So far, at least 14 stories out of almost 60 pieces the journalist wrote for Der Spiegel’s print and online editions turned out to contain fake details, the magazine said, adding that that figure might potentially be higher, and warning that other media outlets might also be affected.

I have quoted Der Spiegel several times on this and on my other blog, however, Relotius name never appeared on any of the stories.

Over the years, Relotius worked for about a dozen German news outlets, including the well-known Die Welt, Die Zeit and Financial Times Germany. Notably, the list of his stories that were proven to be at least partially fake included several pieces that had won journalism awards, including stories about Iraqi children kidnapped by Islamic State and prisoners in Guantanamo.

In a lengthy article which serves as both a clarification of the case and an apology, Der Spiegel said it was “shocked” by the discovery and offered an apology to its readers along with all those affected by Relotius’ articles. It also described the situation as "a low point in Der Spiegel's 70-year history."

Relotius, who resigned after the fraud came to light, told Der Spiegel that he regretted his actions and felt “deeply ashamed.” Meanwhile, the magazine’s management has set up a special investigative commission consisting of what it calls “experienced internal and external persons” to look through all of the journalist’s pieces and prepare recommendations to improve “safety mechanisms.”

Fury in Washington as Trump Announces Withdrawal from Syria

Time for another false flag chemical weapons attack?

I have been calling for Trump to pull out of Syria since he won the election to be President. His delay had me questioning his strength - whether he could stand up to Deep State and do the right thing. Of course it isn't done yet, we can expect, any minute now, another chemical attack that will be blamed on Assad. It will be a desperate attempt by NATO, MI6, and who knows how many other Deep State facilitators, to take control back from Trump. He must not allow that to happen. The war in Syria must end and it cannot when US forces are there.

US troops on patrol with Turkish forces near Manbij, Syria, November 1, 2018.

©  US Army / Arnada Jones (via Reuters)

President Donald Trump’s decision to declare ISIS defeated and order a full US withdrawal from Syria has been met with anger and disbelief by the Washington establishment that hoped for regime change in Damascus.

Trump declared victory over Islamic State on Wednesday morning, as media reported that some 2,000 or so US troops will leave Syria within 60 to 100 days. Though Trump had openly spoken about wanting to leave Syria back in March, senior officials in his administration (read Deep State) have said that US forces would stay there indefinitely.

CNN’s Jake Tapper reacted to the announcement by quoting an anonymous Pentagon official who saw it as a victory for Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Jake Tapper✔
@jaketapper
 Responding to this, a Pentagon official asks me: “so when does Russia announce their victory?”

Donald J. Trump✔
@realDonaldTrump
We have defeated ISIS in Syria, my only reason for being there during the Trump Presidency.

Seriously, Jake - do you think Putin is that petty?

Hillary Clinton’s former foreign policy adviser Jesse Lehrich bemoaned that the withdrawal would embolden Syrian President Bashar Assad and strengthen Russia and Iran, while leaving the US-allied Kurdish militias “once again hung out to dry.”

Jesse Lehrich✔
@JesseLehrich
 there are no easy answers in Syria & getting troops home is a worthy goal, but...

1) this is a lie — the Pentagon says so.

2) abrupt withdrawal will not only breathe new life into ISIS, but also amounts to a dangerous abandonment of our allies & strategic goals in the region.

The American troops actually did comparatively little in eliminating ISIS from Syria. Their focus was confused by also trying to defeat Assad which sometimes resulted in their assisting militias that were ISIS-friendly, or even worse than ISIS.

The end of ISIS was not in sight until the Russians entered the war. If ISIS regains strength, the Russians will assist the Syrian Army in routing them again.

It seems obvious, also, that Israel can take care of Iran's interest in Syria. They've been doing that for years.

Senator Marco Rubio (R-Florida), known as a foreign policy hawk, also disagreed with a withdrawal, calling it a “colossal” mistake and a “grave error that's going to have significant repercussions in the years and months to come.”

Rubio echoed Lehrich’s assessment that the US withdrawal would turn Syria over to Russia and Iran, adding that it might lead to another conflict between Israel and the Iranian-backed Hezbollah, and lend strength to the (hypothetical) argument by Russia and China that Washington is an “unreliable ally.”

NBC News✔
@NBCNews

Sen. Rubio: "The decision to withdraw an American presence in Syria is a colossal, in my mind, mistake -- a grave error that's going to have significant repercussions in the years and months to come." https://nbcnews.to/2UW5uh6 

Another foreign policy hawk, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) said the pullout would be “a huge Obama-like mistake,” enabling the revival of IS and putting the Kurds at risk.

Lindsey Graham✔
@LindseyGrahamSC
 Withdrawal of this small American force in Syria would be a huge Obama-like mistake.

With all due respect, ISIS is not defeated in Syria, Iraq, and after just returning from visiting there -- certainly not Afghanistan.

Are you suggesting the US send more troops into Afghanistan?

The Atlantic Council’s resident Syria expert, Faysal Itani, was likewise glum in his predictions.

“I expect ISIS will be back in some form within a year, and expelling Iran from Syria will not be achieved if the US is not in Syria at all,” he told the UAE-based The National, adding that a more likely outcome would be “a possible military confrontation between Turkey and the Kurds, at least in the border area, if Russia allows that.”

The Washington Post’s foreign policy editor Jackson Diehl wondered how Trump’s national security adviser John Bolton felt about the withdrawal, given his recent statements about the US staying in Syria as long as any Iranian-backed forces were there, meaning indefinitely.

Jackson Diehl✔

@JacksonDiehl
 I wonder how John Bolton is feeling this morning. It's been less than three months since he announced the US would not leave Syria unless and until Iran did.  https://wapo.st/2Q2fjqj?tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.33feb60c46eb …

Critics of the US involvement in Syria, however, cheered on the news of the withdrawal, pointing out that the real mistake was Washington getting involved in the attempt to overthrow the government in Damascus in the first place.

Daniel McAdams
@DanielLMcAdams
 Um...Lindsey? Take your meds. Obama is the moron who got us INTO Syria. So getting us OUT of Syria would by definition NOT be an "Obama-like" mistake.

Elijah J. Magnier
@ejmalrai
 If the #US pull out all its forces from the north-east of #Syria, and I mean ALL, this is time to celebrate for all Syrians and declare the day of the last US soldier withdrawal THE independence day.

It makes no sense, in a sane world, why Europeans aren't fighting tooth and nail for peace in Syria. It would, in no small way, reverse the migrant flow as thousands of people would happily return to Syria. Why the EU doesn't seem to want that is a big problem for someone trying to figure out how the world works. But then, peace doesn't sell weapons.

According to Wikipedia, there are 776 modern armament manufacturers in the world. 143 of them are in America! The next largest maker of weapons is Turkey with 52 facilities. Russia has only 20 listed, although I suspect there may be more military facilities that are not counted. Nevertheless, that is less than either Italy or Canada. So, who benefits from the wars and fears of wars promulgated by NATO and other Deep State entities?