Goldman Sachs Charged With Hiring Prostitute For Middle Eastern Client

Goldman Sachs executive Youssef Kabbaj paid for Haitem Zarti to fly business class to Dubai, put him up at a five-star hotel and paid £425 for a night with two women, to impress his brother Mustafa (right, next to Saif al Islam, General Gaddafi's son).

[From article]

The prostitute who was allegedly hired by a Goldman Sachs banker to sleep with a Middle Eastern client has been identified as a 25-year-old Russian who earns £500,000 a year.
The hooker, known only as Michella, is said to have been booked by Goldman Sachs executive Youssef Kabbaj in a bid to impress a Libyan investor before securing a deal.
An advert for her online reads: 'I have sexy shapes and great appetite for naughty games.'
She featured in a High Court case this week where the Libyan investment Authority is claiming £846million from Goldman Sachs after a series of disastrous trades made in 2008.
It claims Goldman abused a relationship of trust and took advantage of 'naïve and vulnerable' funds officials to persuade them to invest.
It was alleged in court that Mr Kabbaj paid for his contact Haitem Zarti to fly business class to Dubai, put him up at a five-star hotel and paid £425 for a night with two women.
He was under pressure to impress Mr Zarti's older brother Mustafa, a senior official with the Gaddafi-era Libyan Investment Authority (LIA), the High Court heard.
One of those women was named as Michella, and there is only one sex worker by that name in Dubai at the time, according to the Sun.
She charges the same rates as were quoted in court and advertises herself as 'an appealing young lady.'

The hooker, known only as Michella, is said to have been booked by Goldman Sachs executive Youssef Kabbaj in a bid to impress a Libyan investor before securing a deal.

An online advert on an escort website read: 'I am Michella, very appealing young lady.
'I am often complimented I am very beautiful with angelic smile.
'I have amazing refined body with sexy shapes.
'I am tender, very passionate and I am, guilty of having great appetite for naughty games.
'I love romantic and sensual dates, unforgettable moments, hours full of passion where all fantasies become real.'
Last night Michella was approached by a reporter for the Sun who showed her a pictured of Mr Kabbaj.
She said: 'Even if we met I don’t remember what happened eight years ago.
'I have five clients every day so you can count how many it is for eight years.'
In a statement earlier this week Mr Kabbaj said: 'Goldman Sachs or myself never paid for any LIA employee any improper entertainment.
'At the time of the event, I was one out of 5,000 vice-presidents of the firm.
'All my expenses relating to LIA have been reimbursed and signed off by at least two Goldman Sachs partners.
'I am under a strong confidentiality agreement but I expect Goldman Sachs to correct the facts and protect my reputation.'
Goldman Sachs denies wrongdoing. The case continues.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3648934/The-500-000-year-hooker-hired-Goldman-Sachs-banker-sleep-Middle-Eastern-client.html

Revealed: The £500,000-a-year hooker who 'was hired by a Goldman Sachs banker to sleep with a Middle Eastern client'
Russian Michella, 25, is said to have been booked by Goldman banker
Youssef Kabbaj was allegedly trying to impress a Libyan investor
Advert for her online reads: 'I have a great appetite for naughty games'
By CHARLIE MOORE FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 04:01 EST, 19 June 2016 | UPDATED: 06:05 EST, 19 June 2016

US Continues Ignoring Persecution of Christians by Muslims In Middle East

[From article]

The number of Syrian refugees admitted into the United States jumped to 1,037 during May – an increase of 130 percent over the previous month – but the proportion of Christians among them remains miniscule: two Christians (0.19 percent) compared to 1,035 Muslims.
[. . .]



Of the 2,099 Syrian refugees admitted so far this year, six (0.28 percent) are Christians, 2,043 (97.3 percent) are Sunni Muslims. The remaining 50 are 17 (0.8 percent) Shi’a, 30 (1.4 percent) other Muslims and 10 (0.47 percent) Yazidis.
Similar proportions are seen in the number of Syrian refugees having arrived in the U.S. since the start of fiscal year 2016: 2,773 in total, comprising 12 (0.4 percent) Christians, 2,703 (97.4 percent) Sunnis, 17 (0.6 percent) Shi’a, 30 (1.1 percent) other Muslims and 10 (0.3 percent) Yazidis.
And since the conflict erupted, of a total of 4,646 Syrian refugees admitted, 60 (1.3 percent) are Christians; 4,422 (95.1 percent) are Sunni Muslims. The remaining 163 include Shi’a, other Muslims, Zoroastrians, Baha’i, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Yazidi, and refugees identified as “other religion” or as having “no religion.”
[. . .]
Although Syrians of all stripes have been affected, the number of Christians among those admitted into the U.S. – 1.3 percent – remains significantly smaller than the proportion of Christians in the total population when the war began – an estimated 10 percent, according to the CIA World Factbook.
Last week, Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.) said the very small proportion of Christians among Syrian refugees resettled in the U.S. “has got to change.”
[. . .]



As CNSNews.com has reported previously, groups aiding Syrian Christians say many of those who have left the country avoid UNHCR refugee camps due to safety fears, seeking shelter instead with churches, charitable organizations or relatives in surrounding countries.
Since the U.S. relies on UNHCR referrals at the early stage of processing refugee status applications, Christians may as a result be disadvantaged.
The UNHCR has itself acknowledged that minorities “fear that registration might bring retribution from other refugees” in the camps.
It has also said that accommodation in a camp is not a requirement for refugees to be registered with the agency.

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/patrick-goodenough/1037-syrian-refugees-admitted-may-two-christians-1035-muslims

1,037 Syrian Refugees Admitted in May: Two Christians, 1,035 Muslims
By Patrick Goodenough

June 1, 2016 | 4:19 AM EDT

Elder Egyptian Christian Woman Stripped, Beaten by Muslim Mob

[From article]
A 70-year-old Christian woman was stripped naked, savagely beaten, and paraded in the streets of Egypt to jeers, whistles, and yells of "Allahu Akbar" after a mob of some 300 Muslim men descended on her house.
Her crime? Her son is falsely accused of having a romantic relationship with a Muslim woman, which is banned by Islamic law, or sharia – the same body of teachings that prescribes the collective punishment of non-Muslim "infidels." Seven other Christian homes were also torched by the mob.
The attacks occurred in Minya, Upper Egypt, on May 20, a Friday – the one day of the week when Muslims congregate in mosques and listen to sermons, and the one day of the week when most Muslim mob attacks on Christians occur.
While on the ground being kicked, cursed, and spat upon, Sa'd Thabet, the Christian grandmother, managed to slide herself underneath a wagon. While hidden there, an unidentified woman slipped her some garments, and the traumatized woman eventually managed to escape.
[. . .]



Prior to the attack on Thabet, her household had been receiving threats for some time. On the morning of the assault, some of the home's property was stolen and vandalized. She and her husband went to local police, who responded by threatening them and kicking them out of the station. A few hours later, around 8 pm, the attack occurred. It took the same local police over two hours to appear, by which time the "avenged" Muslim mob had dispersed.
When asked why she reported the incident four days after it happened, Thabet said: "I tried to hide and suppress what happened, but I could only take the feelings of humiliation and oppression for four days, at which point I decided to return to the local police station and testify about what happened to me before those who had refused to hear me."



She is hardly the first Christian woman in Egypt to be treated so. In 2013, Muslim Brotherhood supporters "burned down a Christian school, paraded three nuns on the streets like 'prisoners of war,' and sexually abused two other female staff even as at least 58 attacks on Christians and their property were reported across Egypt over the last four days. At least two Christians have died in the attacks."
Nor is this an "Egyptian" phenomenon; it's an "Islamic" one. In Pakistan, a 28-year-old pregnant Christian mother of four was stripped naked, beaten, and forced to walk nude in her town by two Muslim brothers following an argument. She lost her baby in the ordeal, which "was motivated because of Bibi's [Christian] religious beliefs." Similarly, a Muslim family kidnapped, beat, and left naked on the streets an 8-year-old Christian girl as a way to "punish" her uncle for pursuing a relationship with a female member of the Muslim family.



In short, every aspect of this most recent attack is part of a well established pattern that has played over in Egypt, Pakistan, and other Muslim-majority nations innumerable times: a Christian is (often falsely) accused of some infraction; his family and possibly entire village is savagely attacked, beaten, raped, and mugged by the mob; and police take their time to arrive and do little when there.
In 2012, after 3,000 Muslims attacked the Christians of a village near Alexandria, it took the army an hour to arrive, even though they were only one mile away. "This happens every time. They wait outside the village until the Muslims have had enough violence, then they appear," said a witness.
Islamic culture – founded as it is by an Arab tribesman – is inherently tribal. The umma is the super-tribe of Islam, meaning Muslims side with Muslims against all "infidels" – that is, outsiders – even if the latter are good and fair to them, according to the doctrine of "loyalty and enmity."
This is the hostile, unassimilating, tribal mentality that the West is importing by the millions. In Muslim-majority nations – where Christians and Muslims look the same, speak the same language, and are virtually indistinguishable – just being non-Muslim is enough to be subjected to the aforementioned hate, violence, and discrimination. How much more is to be expected when the host country isn't just non-Muslim, but completely alien in all ways?

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/05/muslims_beat_strip_naked_and_parade_70yearold_christian_woman.html

May 28, 2016
Muslims Beat, Strip Naked, and Parade 70-Year-Old Christian Woman
By Raymond Ibrahim

Tropical Disease Spreads Through Middle East

Children suffering from Cutaneous Leishmaniasis, a disfiguring and disabling skin disease (Getty Images )

[From article]
A disfiguring tropical disease is sweeping across the Middle East as a combination of heavy conflict and a breakdown of health care facilities in Isis-occupied areas leaves swathes of people vulnerable to the illness.
Cutaneous leishmaniasis is caused by a parasite in the blood stream transmitted through sand fly bites. The disease can result in horrible open sores as well as disfiguring skin lesions, nodules or papules.
Leishmaniasis has been endemic in Syria for centuries and was once commonly known as the “Aleppo evil”. However, as Syria’s civil war continues the resulting refugee crisis has triggered a catastrophic outbreak of the disease.
Research published on Thursday in the scientific journal PLOS has found the disease is now affecting hundreds of thousands of people living in refugee camps or trapped in conflict zones. A similar situation may also be unfolding in eastern Libya and Yemen.
“We're seeing lots of diseases, including leishmaniasis in these conflict zones and we need to ring-fence them or risk another situation like Ebola out of the conflict zones in West Africa in 2014,” Peter Hotez, dean of the US National School of Tropical Medicine, US Science Envoy to the Middle East, and lead author of the PLOS research told the Digital Journal.
[. . .]



In Syria, the number of leishmaniasis cases reported to the Ministry of Health doubled from 23,000 before the start of the civil war in 2011 to 41,000 in 2013, according to the PLOS research.
Neighbouring countries, which have received millions of refugees are also reporting many leishmaniasis cases. In Lebanon, cases rose to 1,033 in 2013 from six in the previous 12 years. Hundreds of cases have also been reported in Turkey and Jordan.
[. . .]
Dr Waleed Al-Salem, of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, told MailOnline: “It's a very bad situation. The disease has spread dramatically in Syria, but also into countries like Iraq, Lebanon, Turkey and even into southern Europe with refugees coming in.
[. . .]
“When people are bitten by sand flies - which are tiny and smaller than a mosquito - it can take anything between two to six months to have the infection.
[. . .]
Cutaneous leishmaniasis is one of 17 tropical diseases categorized by WHO as “neglected”. The organisation says greater awareness of the disease, better monitoring, training for clinicians and vector control could go some way to halting the epidemic.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/cutaneous-leishmaniasis-disfiguring-tropical-disease-sweeps-across-middle-east-a7056741.html

Cutaneous leishmaniasis: Disfiguring tropical disease sweeps across Middle East
Cutaneous leishmaniasis, a disease transmitted through sand flies causes horrible open sores as well as disfiguring skin lesions
Alexandra Sims
May 30, 2016

Brief History Treaty of Westphalia, Connection to Collapsing States in Middle East

[From article]
The Westphalian System is a doctrine in international law that has been the generally accepted norm for the world order in the past couple of centuries. The basis of this doctrine is the Peace of Westphalia that put an end to the Thirty Years’ War in Europe in 1648.



The Thirty Years’ War (1618-1648) proved to be one of the most devastating wars in Europe’s history, one that left around eight million casualties. The war initially started over post-Reformation religious disputes between the Protestant and the Catholic states in the Holy Roman Empire. However, it later grew into an ongoing continental power struggle between the Habsburg Empire and the Bourbon Empire for the fate of Europe, where the Habsburgs and their Catholic allies closed ranks against an alliance of the Protestant anti-Habsburgians and the Catholic Bourbon Empire. That bloody war was concluded by the Peace of Westphalia.
In order to prevent the re-forming of such formidable “blocs of power” that had made the disaster of the Thirty Years’ War possible in the first place, the Westphalian System stipulated a set of specific codes according to which all European states became bound by the principle of “non-interference” in the domestic affairs of other European states; each state’s right to exercise sovereignty over her territory was recognized and emphasized; and each country, regardless of its size, was accorded equal rights with others in international affairs.



The apex of the Westphalian System came in 19th-Century Europe, where it was infused with and strengthened by the emerging trend of “nationalism” that would consider the “state” and the “nation” one and the same. As time went by, with the spread of European imperial influence in the world, the Westphalian System and European-style nationalism were also taken to the four corners of the globe, in effect making the Westphalian System the basis of modern international law and thus the prototype of the new world order.
But if the Westphalian System had been theoretically designed to ward off war and to make peace permanent, it proved far from successful in practice. By making “separation” of states the most salient principle of international relations, the Westphalian System rendered “confrontation,” although of another kind, inevitable. In that regard, perhaps Javier Solana, the former NATO Secretary-General, has delivered the most cogent argument against the Westphalian System so far. In 1998, during a Symposium on the Continuing Political Relevance of the Peace of Westphalia, Solana said that



[T]he Westphalian system had its limits. For one, the principle of sovereignty it relied on also produced the basis for rivalry, not community of states; exclusion, not integration. Further, the idea of a strong, sovereign state was later draped with nationalistic fervour that degenerated into a destructive political force… In the end, it was a system that could not guarantee peace. Nor did it prevent war, as the history of the last three centuries has so tragically demonstrated.
[. . .]
Except for Iran and somewhat Turkey that had historical continuity as political entities, almost all the states in the modern Middle East are the product of the Westphalian System.
[. . .]
the Islamic Republic has been forging a wide-ranging and far-reaching league of Shiite extremists in the Middle East with zealous followers in the form of Hezb’allah in Lebanon, the Alawites and Druze in Syria, Houthis in Yemen, Twelvers in Iraq and Bahrain, Afghan Shiites, and even Zaydis in Saudi Arabia.
[. . .]
The key concepts here are “Islamism,” “Export of Revolution” and “terrorism,” the first continuously implemented via the second and the third. As such, the Islamic Republic has managed to create an ideological bloc of power that supersedes and threatens to subvert the Westphalian System, first in the Middle East and then all over the world.



And it is that bloc of power that today more than anything else threatens Western values and interests, not only in the Middle East but also around the world. It can be said that while the non-centralized Sunni forms of Islamism such as the Muslim Brotherhood, Al-Qaeda and ISIS only individually, sporadically and inconsistently threaten the West, the Iran-centered Shiite bloc of power has been collectively, systematically and consistently targeting the West and polarizing the region and the world to the detriment of the West.
Given that, believing that leaving the Iran-centered Islamist bloc to its own devices and granting it leverage in the region in hopes that it will behave itself and stick to its own business is only an illusion; as can be most apparently seen in the case of the ill-going Nuclear Deal with the regime of the mullahs. Indeed, leaving the Middle East’s fate to the mullahs will eventually lead to more unwanted cost and intervention on the part of the West as they will by no means cease to threaten the West: the Iranian brand of Islamism proves to be in a state of perpetual offensive against the West.
That is why if the Middle East is meant to be left to its own devices, whether as a result of a calculated, peaceful American withdrawal or in conclusion of any unavoidable confrontation, it is not only wise but also to the best interest of the West that whatever “order” is left behind shares the fundamental values of democracy, secularism, liberalism, human rights, and a predisposition to free market with the West. And the next occupant of the Oval Office will be well advised to heed that.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/05/the_collapsing_state_system_and_the_western_stake_in_the_middle_east.html

May 1, 2016
The Collapsing State System and the Western Stake in the Middle East
By Reza Parchizadeh

One-Sided Migrant Agreement Between the European Union and Turkey

[From article]
Frans Timmermans, vice-president of the European Commission, [. . .] on April 23, 2016, quote[d] the Bard of Avon.
[. . .]
Visiting a new refugee camp near the Turkish-Syrian border, before visiting a child protection center, Timmermans, correctly quoted Portia’s speech on mercy in the Merchant of Venice, “It blesses the one that gives and it blesses the one who takes,” but he was incorrect in his conclusion that “in that sense the Turkish people are really blessed.”
[. . .]
The EU has agreed to give Turkey 6 billion euros over the next few years in return for Turkey readmitting all “irregular migrants,” asylum seekers deported from Turkey to Greece. For its part, the EU agrees that for each Syrian returned to Turkey, the EU has promised to resettle a Syrian migrant in the EU.
[. . .]
But for the EU, the agreement is less an equitable arrangement than acquiescence in political blackmail. Already disbursement of the promised money for Turkey has started. Now, the EU has to deal with its promises both to loosen the visa restriction for the 75 million Turks wanting to visit the EU, and to accelerate negotiations over Turkey’s ambition to become a member of EU.
The Turkish prime minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, has insisted that this visa liberalization for Turks is a precondition for Turkish agreement to readmit migrants, and that the process of providing access for Turks to enter the Schengen passport-free zone must be completed by June 2016. If this is not done he said, “no one can expect Turkey to adhere to its commitments.” Apart from his undiplomatic behavior, Davutoglu ignored the fact that a number of problems remain, such as security chips in passports, efficient border patrols, and ending discrimination by Turkey against minority groups.
[. . .]



Questions have long been raised about Turkey’s actions. It has been dealing severely with political opponents. It has been supplying arms to Syrian rebels. It has been treating poorly most of the 2.7 million Syrians it has been housing since the civil war began in Syria five years ago. Most of the Syrians there live in poverty, being unable to find a job, unless they operate on the black market.
According to Amnesty International, some refugees have been sent back to Syria. Turkey has illegally forced thousands to return to Syria. About one hundred refugees a day have been so sent to Syria since January 2016, even though a state is prohibited from deporting individuals to a war zone. According to Human Rights Watch, there has been an increase in the number of Syrians who have been shot while trying to cross into Turkey which is evidently not a safe country for asylum.
[. . .]



So far in 2016, only 325 have been returned from Greece to Turkey while more than 140,000 migrants arrived by boat into Greece and the Greek islands from Turkey. Turkey has done little to halt the main migrant route into Europe via the Aegean. Greece is home to 54,000 stranded migrants, and there are as many as 10,000 refugees at the Greek-Macedonian border, near the village of Idomeni. The sight of Macedonian police using tear gas against those trying to break through the fence that was built to prevent people coming from Greece is distressing.
The EU is aware of the humanitarian migrant crisis, not only in terms of numbers but also in behavior of some of the migrants. Among the more unpleasant aspects of this are narcotics smuggling and trafficking, including heroin, and crime networks, as well as the entrance of ISIS Jihadists as pretended refugees.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/04/the_european_union_migrants_and_refugees.html

April 26, 2016
The European Union, Migrants, and Refugees
By Michael Curtis

Decline of Christianity Drives Decline of Europe and The United States

[From article]
“The vast majority of leading conservative writers … have a secular outlook on life. … They are unaware of the disaster that godlessness in the West has led to.”
These secular conservatives may think that “America can survive the death of God and religion,” writes Prager, but they are wrong.
And, indeed, the last half-century seems to bear him out.
A people’s religion, their faith, creates their culture, and their culture creates their civilization. And when faith dies, the culture dies, the civilization dies, and the people begin to die.
[. . .]
Today, no great Western nation has a birthrate that will prevent the extinction of its native-born. By century’s end, other peoples and other cultures will have largely repopulated the Old Continent.
European Man seems destined to end like the 10 lost tribes of Israel — overrun, assimilated and disappeared.
And while the European peoples — Russians, Germans, Brits, Balts — shrink in number, the U.N. estimates that the population of Africa will double in 34 years to well over 2 billion people.
[. . .]



As G. K. Chesterton wrote, when men cease to believe in God, they do not then believe in nothing, they believe in anything.
As European elites ceased to believe in Christianity, they began to convert to ideologies, to what Dr. Russell Kirk called “secular religions.”
For a time, these secular religions — Marxism-Leninism, fascism, Nazism — captured the hearts and minds of millions. But almost all were among the gods that failed in the 20th century.
Now Western Man embraces the newer religions: egalitarianism, democratism, capitalism, feminism, One Worldism, environmentalism.
These, too, give meaning to the lives of millions, but these, too, are inadequate substitutes for the faith that created the West.
For they lack what Christianity gave man — a cause not only to live for, and die for, but a moral code to live by, with the promise that, at the end a life so lived, would come eternal life. Islam, too, holds out that promise.
Secularism, however, has nothing on offer to match that hope.
[. . .]



When, after the fall of the Roman Empire, the West embraced Christianity as a faith superior to all others, as its founder was the Son of God, the West went on to create modern civilization, and then went out and conquered most of the known world.
The truths America has taught the world, of an inherent human dignity and worth, and inviolable human rights, are traceable to a Christianity that teaches that every person is a child of God.
Today, however, with Christianity virtually dead in Europe and slowly dying in America, Western culture grows debased and decadent, and Western civilization is in visible decline.
[. . .]
When, after the fall of the Roman Empire, the West embraced Christianity as a faith superior to all others, as its founder was the Son of God, the West went on to create modern civilization, and then went out and conquered most of the known world.
The truths America has taught the world, of an inherent human dignity and worth, and inviolable human rights, are traceable to a Christianity that teaches that every person is a child of God.
Today, however, with Christianity virtually dead in Europe and slowly dying in America, Western culture grows debased and decadent, and Western civilization is in visible decline.
[. . .]



Vladimir Putin, who witnessed the death of Marxism-Leninism up close, appears to understand the cruciality of Christianity to Mother Russia, and seeks to revive the Orthodox Church and write its moral code back into Russian law.
[. . .]
With Christianity excommunicated from her schools and public life for two generations, and Old and New Testament teachings rejected as a basis of law, we have witnessed a startlingly steep social decline.
Since the 1960s, America has set new records for abortions, violent crimes, incarcerations, drug consumption. While HIV/AIDS did not appear until the 1980s, hundreds of thousands have perished from it, and millions now suffer from it and related diseases.
Forty percent of U.S. births are out of wedlock. For Hispanics, the illegitimacy rate is over 50 percent; for African-Americans, it’s over 70 percent.
Test scores of U.S. high school students fall annually and approach parity with Third World countries.
Suicide is a rising cause of death for middle-aged whites.
[. . .]


C.S. Lewis

“How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure,” wrote Samuel Johnson.
Secular conservatives may have remedies for some of America’s maladies. But, as Johnson observed, no secular politics can cure the sickness of the soul of the West — a lost faith that appears irretrievable.
http://buchanan.org/blog/if-god-is-dead-125152

If God Is Dead…
Monday - April 25, 2016 at 9:00 pm
Patrick J. Buchanan

Collapse of Early Civilization, Book Review

Review of
Eric H. Cline
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed
Princeton University Press
Princeton NJ 2014

[From review]
But very few people will have the faintest idea that anything of interest happened in 1177 B.C. It wasn't one of the 5,000 “essential names, phrases, dates, and concepts” constituting the “shared knowledge of literate American culture” that E.D Hirsch identified in his best-seller Cultural Literacy (1988), nor did it make it onto the revised edition Hirsch issued in 2002. Just over 3,000 years ago, a series of catastrophic events demolished whole cities, destroying the commercial and diplomatic connections among distinct societies that had linked up to form an emerging world order.
[. . .]
Well, if the account attributed to Ramses III is reliable, that was the date of a final, juggernaut-like offensive by what he called the Sea Peoples. By then, skirmishes between Egypt and the seafaring barbarians had been under way, off and on, for some 30 years. But 1177 was the climactic year when, in the pharaoh’s words, “They laid their hands upon the lands as far as the circuit of the earth, their hearts confident…. ”
[. . .]
They attacked cities throughout the Mediterranean, in places now called Syria, Turkey, and Lebanon, among others. About one metropolis Ramses says the Sea Peoples “desolated” the population, Ramses says, “and its land was like that which has never come into being.”
Cline reproduces an inscription that shows the Sea Peoples invading Egypt by boat.
[. . .]
Given that the Egyptians ultimately prevailed over the Sea Peoples, it seems plausible: they would have had reason to record and celebrate such a maneuver. Ramses himself boasts of leading combat so effectively that the Sea Peoples who weren't killed or enslaved went home wishing they’d never even heard of Egypt:
[. . .]
Other societies were not so fortunate. One of them, the Hittite empire, at its peak covered much of Turkey and Syria. (If the name seems mildly familiar, that may be because the Hittites, like the Philistines, make a number of appearances in the Bible.) One zone under Hittite control was the harbor city of Ugariot, a mercantile center for the entire region. You name it, Ugarit had it, or at least someone there could order it for you: linen garments, alabaster jars, wine, wheat, olive oil, anything in metal…. In exchange for paying tribute, a vassal city like Ugarit enjoyed the protection of the Hittite armed forces. Four hundred years before the Sea Peoples came on the scene, the king of the Hittites could march troops into Mesopotamia, burn down the city, then march them back home — a thousand miles each way — without bothering to occupy the country,
[. . .]
But by the early 12th century, Ugarit had fallen. Archeologists have found, in Cline’s words, "that the city was burned, with a destruction level reaching two meters high in some places.” Buried in the ruins are “a number of hoards … [that] contained precious gold and bronze items, [. . .] They "appear to have been hidden just before the destruction took place,” but "their owners never returned to retrieve them.” Nor was Ugarit ever rebuilt, which raises the distinct possibility that there were no survivors.
Other Hittite populations survived the ordeal but declined in power, wealth, and security. One of the maps in The Year Civilization Collapsed marks the cities around the Mediterranean that were destroyed during the early decades of the 12th century B.C. — about 40 of them in all.
[. . .]
The Sea Peoples storm the beaches, one city after another collapses, but Ramses III survives to tell the tale…. One value of making a serious study of history, as somebody once said, is that you learn how things don’t happen.
Exactly what did becomes a serious challenge to determine, after a millennium or three. Cline’s book is a detailed but accessible synthesis of the findings and hypotheses of researchers concerned with the societies that developed around the Mediterranean throughout the second millennium B.C.,
[. . .]
The Sea Peoples storm the beaches, one city after another collapses, but Ramses III survives to tell the tale…. One value of making a serious study of history, as somebody once said, is that you learn how things don’t happen.
Exactly what did becomes a serious challenge to determine, after a millennium or three. Cline’s book is a detailed but accessible synthesis of the findings and hypotheses of researchers concerned with the societies that developed around the Mediterranean throughout the second millennium B.C.,
[. . .]
But evidence from the digs also shows two other developments during this period: a number of devastating earthquakes and droughts. Some of the cities that collapsed circa 1177 may have been destroyed by natural disaster, or so weakened that they succumbed far more quickly to the marauding Sea Peoples than they would have otherwise. For that matter, it is entirely possible that the Sea Peoples themselves were fleeing from such catastrophes. “In my opinion,” writes Cline, “… none of these individual factors would have been cataclysmic enough on their own to bring down even one of these civilizations, let alone all of them. However, they could have combined to produce a scenario in which the repercussions of each factor were magnified, in what some scholars have called a ‘multiplier effect.’ … The ensuing ‘systems collapse’ could have led to the disintegration of one society after another, in part because of the fragmentation of the global economy and the breakdown of the interconnections upon which each civilization was dependent."

https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2014/04/23/review-eric-h-cline-1177-bc-year-civilization-collapsed

Before the Fall
1177 B.C. was the kind of year people try to forget. Scott McLemee reports on a book that takes us all the way back.
April 23, 2014
By Scott McLemee

Communities Chosen For Resettelling Middle East Migrants

Published on Apr 13, 2016
Clip is from
KXJB (CBS) - Fargo, ND
Chris Berg
6:30 POV



https://youtu.be/DAeAbX4RLns

Feminism Defers to Multiculturalism, Rape Only Evil If Done By White Christian Men

[From article]
Feminists incessantly harp about a phantom “rape culture” in the United States and other Western countries. On New Year’s Eve 2016, Northern European cities experienced an outbreak of the real thing—and the opponents of patriarchy went silent. It turns out that a more powerful force exists on the left than feminist victimology: multiculturalism.
As revelers gathered in the central square of Cologne, Germany, for the traditional New Year’s Silvesternacht celebrations, thousands of North African and Middle Eastern males started throwing firecrackers into the crowd and attacking passersby. They pickpocketed and robbed males and females, but they directed most of their violence against women: grabbing their breasts and buttocks, inserting their fingers into the women’s vaginas, and, in a few instances, raping them, while shouting sexual insults. A total of 653 victims filed reports with the police.



Similar attacks were reported in Munich, Berlin, Nuremberg, Bremen, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Düsseldorf, and Bielefeld, among other cities across 12 German states, though not on the same scale. Outbreaks of sexual violence also occurred in France, Greece, Sweden, Switzerland, Finland, and Turkey. The assaults appeared to have been planned and coordinated through social media, Germany’s justice minister Heiko Maas later said. In Cologne, some of the suspects had notes in their pockets with scribbled German translations for female body parts. This mass sexual harassment of females recalled similar incidents during the occupation of Cairo’s Tahrir Square from 2012 to 2014.
German police and political leaders covered up the violence for days. A Cologne police-force press release originally reported that the Silvesternacht celebrations had been peaceful, though officers had witnessed the attacks. Police employees are “afraid of talking about these things in the context of the immigration debate today,” a Stockholm police spokesman told the Guardian, in reference to Sweden’s experience with Muslim sexual attacks on New Year’s Eve and at a music festival in 2014.
Eventually, however, news of the assaults leaked out, and the most surprising cover-up of all began. Leading feminists across the continent and in Great Britain either ignored the incidents entirely or distorted their significance beyond recognition. Silence was justified on the grounds that acknowledging the attacks would encourage opposition to the mass Muslim immigration that had engulfed Europe over the previous year.
[. . .]



When feminists were cornered into addressing the violence, they tied themselves into knots trying to change the subject back to their favorite topic: Western white-male patriarchy.
[. . .]
An old-school German feminist, Alice Schwarzer, denounced the New Year’s assaults as a “gang bang” designed to terrorize women; she found herself condemned by other feminists and “antiracists.” Victims refused to give their names to reporters for fear of being pilloried on social media for xenophobia.
[. . .]



The most dazzling eruption of moral blindness came from a British feminist currently on a fellowship at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society. The political and press silence after the New Year’s attacks was a product of Western sexism and indifference to rape, alleged Laurie Penny in The New Statesman. This was, of course, preposterous. Had thousands of white males committed the attacks, a worldwide furor would have immediately broken out. The effort to look the other way was patently the result of cringing political correctness. But Penny was equally critical of the “right-wing press” for condemning the mass violence, since it only did so out of “unbridled racism.”
[. . .]
Penny acknowledged that the “experience of women in the West is [not] exactly the same as the experience of women in Middle Eastern dictatorships and war zones.” Let’s rephrase that, shall we? To live in a society where women’s magazines, pop culture, and advertising incessantly celebrate female sexuality and promiscuity, where every elite profession desperately seeks to hire and promote as many women as it can, and where women enjoy every freedom and right that men do, is not just “not exactly the same” as living in a culture where female rape victims are murdered to preserve their family’s honor and where women who don’t wear the veil or burka face public shaming or worse; there is no similarity whatsoever between those two experiences.
[. . .]
The problem on New Year’s Eve, [The New York Times]reported, was that migrants from war-torn countries were “unfamiliar with German culture.” Translation: the norm that you don’t jam your fingers up women’s vaginas in public is just a quaint German custom, akin to wearing lederhosen.
[. . .]



A public pool in the Bavarian town of Bornheim posted cartoon warnings against the fondling of women’s bikini-clad bottoms, before banning male asylum seekers entirely in January 2016, due to the rash of harassment complaints. Women in Berlin report being called “slut” on the street. As for gay rights, try staging a gay pride parade in one of Europe’s Muslim enclaves, and see how far you get.
The New Year’s assaults should have been a wake-up call about the worsening civilizational clash brought on by mass immigration. The official cover-up of organized child sexual abuse committed by Pakistani-British men in Rotherham, England, foreshadowed the New Year’s suppression of truth by political correctness.
[. . .]
The hierarchy of left-wing pieties thus seems clear: narcissistic feminism may be important, but it’s even more important to inundate the West with Third World peoples.

http://city-journal.org/html/when-pieties-collide-14342.html

When Pieties Collide
Feminism and multiculturalism in Western Europe
Heather Mac Donald
Spring 2016

Palestinian Muslims Continue Destroying Christian Churches

Hamas has destroyed the ruins of an 1800-year-old Byzantine church that was recently unearthed in Gaza City.

[From article]

For Palestinian Christians, the destruction of the ancient Byzantine church ruins is yet a further attempt by Palestinian Muslim leaders to efface both Christian history and signs of any Christian presence in the West Bank and Gaza, under the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Hamas. A growing number of Christians feel they are being systematically targeted by both the PA and Hamas for being Christians.
Bulldozers were used to destroy some of the church artifacts; some Palestinian Christians accused both Hamas and the PA of copying ISIS tactics to demolish historic sites.
"Where are the heads of the churches in Jerusalem and the world?... Where are the Vatican and UNESCO? Where are the leaders and politicians who talk, talk, talk about national unity and the preservation of holy sites? Or is this a collective conspiracy to end our existence and history in the East?" — Sami Khalil, a Christian from the West Bank city of Nablus.
The plight of Palestinian Christians does not interest the international community. That is because Israel cannot be blamed for demolishing the antiquities. If the current policy against Christians persists, the day will come when no Christians will be left in Bethlehem.

[. . .]

The ruins of the 1800-year-old church were discovered in Palestine Square, in the Al-Daraj neighborhood of Gaza City, where Hamas is planning to build a shopping mall. The dramaticdiscovery of the antiquities did not seem to leave an impression on the construction workers, who removed artifacts and continued with their work at the site.
Defying belief, bulldozers were used to destroy some of the church artifacts, drawing sharp criticism from Palestinian Christians, some of whom rushed to accuse both Hamas and the Palestinian Authority (PA) of copying ISIS tactics to demolish historic sites.
For Palestinian Christians, the destruction of the church ruins is yet a further attempt by Palestinian Muslim leaders to efface both Christian history and signs of any Christian presence in the Palestinian territories.
[. . .]
Hamas claims that it does not have the resources to preserve the ancient site of the church. Preserving the Christian site, they say, would require millions of dollars and hundreds of workers at a time when the Islamist movement is facing a financial crisis due to the ongoing "blockade" on the Gaza Strip.
The Palestinian Authority, for its part, maintains that, as it is not in control of the Gaza Strip, the destruction of antiquities is out of its hands. Still, the PA leadership in the West Bank has not come out publicly against the demolition. This is the same PA that promotes a stabbing and car-ramming "intifada" for the Jews' "desecrating" the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem by touring the Temple Mount under police protection.

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/7832/palestinians-christian-history

Palestinians: Erasing Christian History
by Khaled Abu Toameh
April 12, 2016 at 5:00 am

Resettling Middle East Migrants In A Site Near You?

Protesters in Olympia, Washington last fall. Photo and story at Newsweek. http://www.newsweek.com/who-exactly-are-syrian-refugees-we-have-already-taken-397795

See also

http://enoughroom.blogspot.com/2016/04/white-house-sticking-it-to-whitey.html

[From article]

Are you within a 100-mile radius of a resettlement site? If so, you are in the (ever-expanding) target range
First, if you haven’t done so already, go to this list (click here) and find out where your closest UN/US State Department designated resettlement office is located. See the map here.
Here is an article reader Diane brought to my attention (we mentioned it before, and the link has now been corrected thanks to Diane), but am posting it again because a huge push is on to find new resettlement locations (original ones are now getting very overloaded).Then draw a circle one hundred miles out from that city/town.*** If your town is within that circle, you could be seeing some of the huge surge of refugees expected to arrive in the US by September 30th. (And, of course the following year many more as Obama has promised that at his last opportunity, for FY2017, he will be recommending 100,000, unless a new President comes in and rescinds that order).
US Together is affiliated with Hebrew Immigration Aid Society, a national resettlement organization, which began plans to open an office in Toledo about five years ago. The Toledo office resettles people within a 100-mile radius of the city.
I first heard this ‘100-mile rule’ in 2007 when a US State Department employee told me about it in relationship to what was happening in my county seat—-Hagerstown, MD.

https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2016/04/16/are-you-within-a-100-mile-radius-of-a-resettlement-site-if-so-you-are-in-the-ever-expanding-target-range/

Are you within a 100-mile radius of a resettlement site? If so, you are in the (ever-expanding) target range
Posted by Ann Corcoran

April 16, 2016

German Police Reveal Government Ordered Cover Up Of New Year's Eve Cologne Rapes

[From article]
A leaked cache of confidential emails and notes passed between the North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) state government and local police has revealed the extent to which the force were placed under pressure to cover up the migrant sex attacks at New Year’s Eve.
Reportedly released to Cologne-based German newspaper the Express by an inside police source, the documents may imperil the position of NRW interior minister Ralf Jäger. The minister has been clinging to his position since the attacks first became known, days after the event, and even went so far as to fire his chief of police to “restore faith” in the city.
One of the documents sent by Jäger’s interior ministry to the police ont he first of January is a so-called “Important Event-Message” (“Wichtiges Ereignis-Meldung”). Far from the initial claims made, and statements made at an early press conference about the attacks the message confirmed the state government had full knowledge of the gang sex attacks.
The internal message explained there had been “Rape, sexual offenses, thefts, robberies committed by larger foreign Group” and that a “40- to 50-strong group of people” had been acting in the “downtown area” by the railway station “to the detriment of young women”.
Although it took days of exposure on-line and at news outlets such as Breitbart London to reveal the full scale of the attacks, the document confirms that the police were fully aware of what was going on. Describing the offences, it said: “The women were in this case surrounded by the group of people and groped above their clothing, jewellery stolen and was snatched. In one case, a 19-year-old German victim had fingers inserted into her body openings [vagina and anus].
“The criminal group was consistently described by the victims as North Africans, between 17-28 years of age. Investigations are continuing”.



In all, there were 359 complaints of sexual assault and rape on the night.
A leaked cache of confidential emails and notes passed between the North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) state government and local police has revealed the extent to which the force were placed under pressure to cover up the migrant sex attacks at New Year’s Eve.
Reportedly released to Cologne-based German newspaper the Express by an inside police source, the documents may imperil the position of NRW interior minister Ralf Jäger. The minister has been clinging to his position since the attacks first became known, days after the event, and even went so far as to fire his chief of police to “restore faith” in the city.
One of the documents sent by Jäger’s interior ministry to the police ont he first of January is a so-called “Important Event-Message” (“Wichtiges Ereignis-Meldung”). Far from the initial claims made, and statements made at an early press conference about the attacks the message confirmed the state government had full knowledge of the gang sex attacks.



The internal message explained there had been “Rape, sexual offenses, thefts, robberies committed by larger foreign Group” and that a “40- to 50-strong group of people” had been acting in the “downtown area” by the railway station “to the detriment of young women”.
Although it took days of exposure on-line and at news outlets such as Breitbart London to reveal the full scale of the attacks, the document confirms that the police were fully aware of what was going on. Describing the offences, it said: “The women were in this case surrounded by the group of people and groped above their clothing, jewellery stolen and was snatched. In one case, a 19-year-old German victim had fingers inserted into her body openings [vagina and anus].
“The criminal group was consistently described by the victims as North Africans, between 17-28 years of age. Investigations are continuing”.
In all, there were 359 complaints of sexual assault and rape on the night.

http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/04/06/cologne-police-reveal-cover-new-years-eve-rape-attacks-ordered-government/

Cologne Police Reveal ‘Cover Up’ Of New Year’s Eve Rape Attacks Ordered By Government
by OLIVER JJ LANE
6 Apr 2016

War In Middle East Will Present Difficult Choices. New President Needed

[From article]
During wars between civilized nations (assuming wars fought with mutually agreed upon rules are civilly acceptable), there are times when combatants on one side or the other realize that further fighting is futile and surrender. Usually they are interned and after the end of hostilities, repatriated.
However, even among the civilized, surrender has not always been the choix du jour. Spartans were taught to fear slavery more than death, and in our time, the Japanese believed surrender would disgrace the family and dying for the Emperor was life's greatest honor.
As to the future, although it make take awhile, ISIS or ISL or Daesh, however yclept by our administration, will be defeated and we will be faced with a difficult decision. What do we do with thousands of men who have chosen not to participate in Mohammad's promised heavenly reward for dying in jihad and have to be dealt with?
[. . .]
What psychiatric or psychological protocol exists to rehabilitate the minds of these men so they could take a place in civilized society? Is there an uninhabited place in to world where they all could be located, isolated, and left to their own devices? Should mass execution be their condign punishment?
Victory in this war may end the Weltanschauung jihad has brought about, but it will also bring about a moral dilemma.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/04/a_looming_moral_dilemma.html

April 7, 2016
A Looming Moral Dilemma
By William R. Casey

Hungary's Prime MInster Speaks About Migrant Abuses

Hungary's Prime Minster Viktor Orban

[From article]
Here are some key points, which [Prime Minster Viktor Orban, leader of Hungary’s national conservative ruling party Fidesz] has made before, from a report by Alex Newman in The New American of 25 March 2016:
The refugee crisis is a gigantic lie. Most of the arrivals are not actual refugees, and humanitarianism is not the agenda of the globalist conspirators aiding them.
The engineered crisis is a tool of forces plotting to destroy Western civilization while undermining Christianity and nation-states.
Millions of third-world people are preparing to start heading for Europe. Action to stop the invasion is crucial as well as urgent.
Everything Europe represents would be fundamentally transformed once tens of millions of Muslims have settled on the continent.
These people bring with them crime and terror and are creating a separate world with its own laws and ideals, tearing apart the centuries-old structure of Europe.
Brussels (European Union Headquarters) seeks to transport and settle foreigners in order to reshape the religious and cultural landscape of Europe and to re-engineer its ethnic foundations.
Brussels wants to eliminate the last barrier to internationalism: nation-states. Faceless bureaucrats are working to crush nationhood and national sovereignty on the road to what they call the New World Order.
Globalists intend to eliminate everything that is unique, autonomous, age-old, and national. They aim to forcibly blend cultures, religions, and populations until old, proud Europe becomes docile.
Brussels is stealthily devouring more and more slices of national sovereignty and is making a plan for a United States of Europe.
If Hungarians resign themselves to this outcome, they will be swallowed up in the enormous belly of the United States of Europe.
Hungarians will not allow anyone to tell them whom to let into their country, whom they will live alongside, and with whom they will share their country.
There will be no urban areas in Hungary beyond the reach of the law – so-called “no-go zones.” There will be no mass disorder or immigrant riots. There will be no gangs hunting down Hungarian women and daughters.
The task for Hungarians and other Europeans who have not yet lost all common sense is to work to undo the fate intended for them by globalist tyranny.
The open-borders crowd running the Democratic Party has a great deal in common with the Brussels globalists. They are soul mates. Both believe that power can be effectively wielded if and only if it is centralized in the hands of a tightly knit elite marching in lockstep, acting on its own regardless of the will of the electorate.
The GOP would do well to highlight this comparison once the dust settles and a candidate has been picked to run against Hillary Clinton – assuming she isn’t indicted. A Trump White House would certainly invite Mr. Orban back, this time for consultations on how to fight an enemy threatening Europe as well as the United States.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/03/a_trumpian_leader_in_eastern_europe.html

March 29, 2016
A Trumpian leader in Eastern Europe
By Arnold Cusmariu

Ungrateful Middle East Migrants Like Suitors of Penelope Upon Return of Odysseus

"So Odysseus, How Was Your Trip?"

[From article]
In The Odyssey, Odysseus’s family endures the suitors, a group of more than 100 men sponging off them under the pretext that they seek Penelope’s hand in marriage, after enduring the prolonged absence of the family patriarch. Rather than gratitude, the parasites repay the beleaguered family with contempt and conspiracies.
When Odysseus, disguised as a beggar after his return from the Trojan War, strings a bow that the beggars disguised as suitors cannot, they resolve to deny Odysseus the food that’s not theirs to withhold and the common decency that they lack to give. Eurymachus laments the beggar’s bow-and-arrow feats eclipsing the talents of the suitors, “This is what will be said, and it will be a scandal against us.”
“People who persist in eating up the estate of a great chieftain and dishonoring his house,” Odysseus’s wife Penelope responds, “must not expect others to speak well of them. Why then should you mind if men talk as you think they will?”
The same question might be posed to the West’s visitors. This week several of their number indiscriminately executed travelers for the crimes of going to work on the subway and preparing to fly at the airport. They did this in the name of Islam but should anyone acknowledge this too loudly — that the loyalty of a significant number of Muslims for our house resembles the loyalty of the suitors for Odysseus’s house — co-religionists cry bigotry.
The West provided a peaceful existence that sheltered the Belgian-born terrorists from the bloodshed of life in many Muslim nations, the freedom to practice their faith, and economic opportunities that include health care, welfare, and other financial benefits unconnected to any obligation to find gainful employment. Counterintuitively, yet commonly, they hate their benefactors.
Unlike Penelope, the West possesses the power to evict its suitors. Instead, we go out of our way to demonstrate that we are the suckers they believe us to be.
One of the airport bombers received a nine-year sentence for shooting at police officers in 2010. His younger brother, who authorities say perished in the subway bombing, received a five-year sentence for carjacking in 2011. With both men behind bars, they could not possibly have carried out the Brussels attacks, right? Right?
Last year, the Turkish government detained airport bomber Ibrahim el-Bakraoui, just five years into his supposed nine-year Belgian prison term, attempting to enter Syria to join ISIS. Turkey deported him. The Netherlands, and later Belgium, accepted him. “Despite our warnings that this person was a foreign terrorist fighter,” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan explained, “the Belgian authorities could not identify a link to terrorism.”
Perhaps their detective work will find some clue establishing a connection now.
The allied ne’er-do-wells who targeted a rock concert and a soccer game in Paris last year similarly acted as takers rather than makers before their final acts of ingratitude.
[. . .]
We don’t require an Odysseus to emerge from his rags to enact vengeance upon the ingrates. (“You wasted my substance, have forced my women servants to lie with you, and have wooed my wife while I was still living. You have feared neither God nor man, and now you shall die.”) We could use a few Penelopes pointing out the ingratitude, the basic indecency that lashes out against hospitality. (“When men are courting a woman who they think will be a good wife to them and who is of noble birth, and when they are each trying to win her for himself, they usually bring oxen and sheep to feast the friends of the lady, and they make her magnificent presents, instead of eating up other people’s property without paying for it.”)
The compulsion not to offend with words the people who offend us with actions overrides the desire to speak truthfully. But until Westerners identify with volume and clarity the source of the decades-long attack on its civilization, wise actions remain thoughts scattered about.
[. . .]
But forgetting who we are we means we can’t begin to defend our civilization. A people who stand for nothing get stepped upon by those who stand for something, even a bad thing.
We wonder why they attack us. We rarely get around to pondering what, precisely, we seek to save, beyond people and property, from the onslaught.

http://spectator.org/articles/65882/west’s-parasites-again-become-its-predators

The West’s Parasites Again Become Its Predators
Forgetting who we are we means we can’t begin to defend our civilization.
By Daniel J. Flynn

3.25.16

Middle East Migrant Abducts Child At Austrian Pool To Lure Mother Who was Molested

[From article]
A migrant abducted a four-year-old boy at an Austrian swimming pool just so he could molest his mother when she came to look for him in the latest terrifying sex attack.
The man, who barely spoke German had attempted to chat to the 37-year-old woman who was at the pool in the town of Klagenfurt with her young son.
When she rejected his advances, the asylum seeker went into the children's play pool, where her son was and grabbed the boy.
He then ran off with him into a grotto behind a fake waterfall within the swimming complex.
The boy's panicked mother then ran after him and found the pair hiding in the coroner.
But when the mother arrived, the man put the child aside and instead grabbed her and groped her inside her swimming costume.
[. . .]
He said the man is described as dark-skinned, six foot one inches tall, powerfully built with short curly hair, brown eyes and a moustache.
Meanwhile Austrian police also confirmed today that a seven-year-old girl was threatened by an asylum seeker from Afghanistan.
The man had approached the girl in the indoor swimming pool in the Penzing area of the Austrian capital Vienna, and had been spotted by outraged guests pointing at his crotch and indicating what he wanted her to do.
Austrian police spokesman Roman Hahslinger confirmed that the man had been arrested before the had been any physical contact.
He had been spotted by outraged swimmers who raised the alarm and the man has been released on bail while the investigation continues.
The incident comes just days after a swimming pool in Germany said it was being forced to segregate men and women after two sex attacks by migrants took place.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3484046/Migrant-abducts-mother-s-four-year-old-son-Austrian-swimming-pool-molests-goes-latest-terrifying-sex-attack.html

Migrant abducts mother's four-year-old son at Austrian swimming pool and molests her when she goes to find him in latest terrifying sex attack
Migrant approached a woman who rejected his advances at Austrian pool
He then abducted her young son and took him to a grotto area of the pool
When the mother went to look for the boy the migrant then groped her
Incident is latest in a string of sex attacks at swimming pools in Austria
By JENNIFER NEWTON FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 09:45 EST, 9 March 2016 | UPDATED: 10:05 EST, 9 March 2016

Petition to Rhode Island Governor Regarding Threat Of Middle East Muslim Migrants

Gov. Raimondo Ignores Serious Risks to Rhode Islanders Posed by Syrian Refugees

Jewish community especially endangered
On February 22, at 2:15-3:15 at the State House in Providence, former Congressman Pete Hoekstra (R-Mich), former chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Rhode Island State Representative Mike Chippendale, and Dr. Charles Jacobs, President of Americans for Peace and Tolerance, will call on Gov. Raimondo to reconsider her unconditional welcome to Syrian refugees, whose culture rejects basic American values.

Jacobs said, “We are a country of immigrants. We welcome people who come here to join us and bolster our way of life. We see and sympathize with people fleeing war and violence. But an influx of Syrian refugees may pose a significant danger to Rhode Islanders, and especially to the Jewish community here.”

He said, “Three top Obama administration officials are telling us that Syrian refugees cannot be properly vetted for connection to terror and jihadist ideology.”

FBI Director James Comey has stated that “We can query our databases until the cows come home, but nothing will show up because we have no record of them.”

Congressman Peter King, Homeland Security Counterterrorism Subcommittee Chairman says that “There is absolutely no real way of vetting these refugees coming in. . . . it definitely puts the United States at risk.”

Director of National Intelligence James Clapper says he has a “huge concern” about ISIS’s ability to infiltrate the country via Syrian refugees.”

Jacobs said, “In all the national discussion, no one has raised the question of the deeply ingrained hatred of the West – and particularly Jews -- that is inculcated through Syrian educational intuitions – starting from childhood. Yet studies of Syrian school curricula show that practically every Syrian will have been taught these hatreds. This is the sad consequence of growing up under a Ba’athist regime – a violent authoritarian movement with its roots in 1930s European fascism. But in the U.S., no one is talking about Syrian cultural values. Even Jewish community leaders have failed to take note of this danger.”

A study of Syrian textbooks, written in 2000, concludes that the regime works to “indoctrinate children with the idea that it is their duty to wage Jihad and become martyrs in the service of the state and its ideology.” The study also found that extermination of the Jews is stated as an obligation in an eleventh-grade textbook.

The Center for Monitoring the Impact of Peace published a report in 2001 that revealed Syrian school textbooks teach that Jews “are portrayed as enemies of the Arabs since antiquity, of Islam since its inception, of all mankind, of the prophets and of God himself” and “The Holocaust is justified, though its magnitude is exaggerated by the Jews.” The textbooks also teach that martyrdom is an ‘exalted value’ and encourage students to study ‘actual or imagined attacks on civilians.’

Dr Jacobs argues: “We need to heed the lessons of Europe. We are inviting in people from a radicalized culture that rejects tolerance and teaches hatred of women, gays, Jews, and democracy.

Jewish leaders in Europe have spoken about the growing violence against the Jewish community surging from Muslim immigrants. Sexual assaults and violent anti-Semitism now affect much of Western Europe. Before we can admit hundreds of these refugees, we must first gauge the threat they pose and examine the ideas they support.”

Feckless White House Led To Destruction of Syria, Middle East Stability

From article]
It is hard to remember that that the Syrian War began during those hopeful, halcyon days of the dawning of the “Arab Spring” in March, 2011, when some young, idealist Syrians wanted to overthrow the brutal stranglehold of Bashir Assad. Mr. Assad’s security forces plowed down these teenagers painting murals with revolutionary slogans on a school wall, and hundreds of thousands took to the streets in support of them, but Assad’s forces mowed them down as well. In an attempt to expel Assad’s security forces, and to defend themselves, opposition forces were forced to take up arms.
The conflict quickly escalated into a sectarian, ethnic, and religious one. The government has long been controlled by the Alawite minority which is closely related to Shia Islam, and has therefore long been aligned with Iran, which has sent the IRGC and Hizb’allah into Iran. And Russia, hungry to reassert itself on the global stage, quickly became allied with this constellation.
While waiting, to no avail, for the U.S. cavalry to arrive, some of the legitimate Sunni opposition became hardened and disillusioned with the United States. We now have brutal jihadists in the form of ISIS taking advantage of the chaos and taking over huge segments of Syria. Some of the original Sunni opposition battled ISIS, and some have either willingly or through the threat of death, joined ISIS, which has claimed to have established a “caliphate” in Syria.
We now have a completely chaotic situation of several “wars within a war” with a new spinoff group of Al Qaeda, the Al Nusra Front, Kurdish Forces, and a whole array of other spinoff groups forming and quickly jumping into the fray.
The chaos has been further complicated this past Saturday when Turkey began shelling Aleppo. Of course, Erdogan is hiding behind the pretense that Turkey is fighting terrorists, which for Erdogan means the Kurds, who are perhaps some of our staunchest and most valiant allies in the region.
The Obama administration made a similar error in November when it trusted Putin to coordinate with it in the fight against ISIS,
[. . .]
It has been agonizing to watch this spiraling descent into hell in which many good, innocent people, as well as some very venal actors, have been caught up. The New York Times on Saturday cited a report from the Syrian Center for Policy Research saying there is an estimated 470,000 fatalities. The war has created a staggering refugee crisis, with at least 5 million refugees pouring into Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, Egypt, Germany, Belgium, Sweden, France, Italy, Switzerland, Denmark, Norway, and Hungary, totally changing the demographics of these nations.
President Bashir Assad, together with his Hizb’allah forces have completely surrounded the town of Madaya, outside of Damascus, cutting them off from all known food sources.
[. . .]
It is almost impossible not to feel rage, when one remembers President Obama’s sacrosanct “red line” of August 20, 2012, when he stated that “there would be enormous consequences if we started seeing movement on the chemical weapons front”. And exactly one year and one day later, on August 21, 2013, Bashir Assad launched a chemical attack on Ghouta.
[. . .]
President Assad tested President Obama’s mettle, and he failed miserably. This colossal failure signaled in neon lights to the international community this president’s complete lack of resolve.
As part of this colossal failure, President Obama made an arrangement for Russia’s President Putin to have the chemical weapons transferred out of Syria. Putin of course jumped at this willingness for international prestige and legitimacy, while he was planning the takeover of the Ukraine.
[. . .]
My favorite moment in recent history was the Cedars Revolution in Lebanon, during the spring of 2005. That is when Lebanese Christians were not afraid to take to the streets, and forced 14,000 Syrian soldiers and intelligence agents to withdraw from Lebanon.
That is because someone then sat in the Oval Office who demonstrated concern for the rights of religious minorities, and was not afraid to use force to back up that concern.
And because of Obama’s retreat from the world stage, we now have almost half a million dead Syrians, and the worst humanitarian and refugee crisis since World War II.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/02/the_syrian_descent_into_hell.html

February 18, 2016
The Syrian Descent into Hell
By Sarah N. Stern

National Suicide To Avoid Hurting Feelings of Middle East Migrants

[From article]
Today, Angela Merkel's Germany is making another suicidal gesture by opening the borders to tens of thousands of predatory, war-indoctrinated jihadis – young men of military age, who have been taught to despise, hate, and beat up anybody outside their own Muslim sect. They are indoctrinated in war theology – the last major war theology on Earth. Merkel and the EU have drifted into this suicidal fiasco by mistake – but they still refuse to admit it.
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Sweden and Germany (especially Prussia) have a long folk reputation for getting completely stuck in whatever the current absolutist ideology happens to be. This kind of fanatical belief led to centuries of bloody warfare between German-speaking Lutherans and Catholics.
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Only the slogans changed.
Today Angela Merkel and the EU preach peace, peace, but they stupidly let in 50 million easily indoctrinated Muslims – so there will be no peace.
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After Hitler and the Holocaust, West Germany had a long period of stability, under American defense guarantees, and many West Germans repented of the most disastrous mass regression in European history, the Nazi period. At the same time, East Germany under Soviet control refused to take any responsibility for the Nazi past, including the ex-Nazis themselves. It is difficult for human beings to confess to overwhelming guilt. People who lived under Stalin had their own Holodomor and Siberian concentration camps, and humankind cannot bear much reality.
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Rational adult responsibility for Hitler turned into compulsive self-loathing, which was as insane in its own way as all the other absolutist beliefs of the past. Multiculturalism took over as an irrational overcompensation for the sins of the fathers, who were long dead by the time the multicult took hold.
The biblical wisdom is that children cannot be blamed for the sins of the fathers. Public guilt-tripping for the Holocaust was mighty convenient for the hard left, which never repented of 100 million victims of Marxist regimes in the 20th century (still growing in North Korea today).
Freud thought that mental illnesses were irrational exaggerations of normal emotions. Paranoids suffer from intolerable suspicion about hidden forces, but there is such a thing as reasonable suspicion. Severe depression is the extreme of normal sadness, driven by irrational perfectionism. Anxiety disorders involve dysfunctional fears, but sane fear is a very healthy thing when a big truck is bearing down on you. Islamophobia is a fantasy disease manufactured by the Organs of Propaganda, but legitimate fear of jihad is completely sane.
German-Swedish-French perfectionism and self-loathing are national manifestations of the same disorders we see in individuals. If you're haunted by deeply irrational self-loathing, insane fear, or suspicion, the answer is not to swing to the opposite extreme.
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Still – Angela Merkel overcompensated to an insane extreme when she opened Europe's borders to the closest thing to the Nazis since Hitler. This is a madness of Europe's political elites.
ISIS is not at all different from the sadistic mass murders committed by the Nazis and by Stalin. War ideologies are pretty much the same; only the uniforms, the hats, and the flags change. What we see on ISIS murder videos is a bunch of adolescent males wearing Halloween outfits while they boast about murdering and abusing children and other innocents, who happen to believe in the wrong things. The Hitler Jugend was an earlier manifestation of ISIS, with different hats and flags.
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Murder cults are amazingly stereotypical.
The biggest mistake Europe's ruling classes made was "multiculturalism": glorifying dysfunctional tribal cultures and spreading hatred against the successful West and Christianity. The multicult has now been denounced by Merkel, by Britain's David Cameron, Tony Blair, and other big politicians, but you can't wipe out decades of heavy indoctrination in one day.
The European and U.S. left wing hammered multi-cultism into millions of human heads, 24 hours a day, shoving it down in the schools and insisting on perverse glorification of violent tribal groups, like Muslim Somalis in Minneapolis.
The Multi Cult forbade rational thinking about importing violent Muslims and their hate-preaching imams.
The current wave of holy war began with the rise of OPEC in the 1970s, as per Mohammed's specs from the Arabian desert 1,400 years ago. Saudi super-billionaire Walid bin Talal has just promised another 35 million dollars for Muslim expansion in the West. Holy struggle doesn't have to be violent; if you kowtow to them completely, they are happy to accept your surrender.
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Jihad adapts its tactics to the enemy, but it never drops the goal of global conquest. This is not a secret; our ruling classes and media are not as stupid as they pretend to be.
They know.
The European Union never has to face an election. Eurosocialist politicians have lifetime tenure, and when they make ruinous mistakes, they always escape any blame. The euro currency has been a catastrophe for the weaker economies of Europe – all except Germany and France. Importing 50 million easily radicalized Muslims was a history-making suicidal blunder, but nobody is allowed to say so, even today. Cannibalizing their defenses to feed the welfare state was yet another mind-boggling mistake. In the real world, suicidal mistakes are punished by reality, or by other people. Socialism evades any consequences.
When Obama withdrew U.S. protection, Europe suddenly became vulnerable to Putin and jihad. Even so-called "conservative" (i.e., sane) newspapers over there can't bring themselves to tell the truth. The EU and its national elites own the media. Not all Europeans are blind to these gross, delusional mistakes. Millions of people see it happening, and they are afraid. But this bunch of Eurosocialist rulers are just as deaf and dumb as the Soviet apparatchiks were. They can see their delusions crumbling, but they can't stop it.
The EU has a perfect formula for endemic corruption and betrayal, and Muslim regimes have always practiced political baksheesh. All the Saudis had to do was to import their own ancient political culture along with the mosques they built all over the place. Under Multi-Cult Jacques Chirac, Dominique de Villepin and Kofi Annan took big money from Saddam Hussein, money that was intended to feed Iraqi children. Nicolas Sarkozy took 50 million dollars from Moammar Gaddafi. Helmuth Kohl sold out to Putin's Gazprom, the Russian energy giant. The media shut their eyes.
Today the London Daily Telegraph claims that 261 British politicians are directly implicated in child sexual abuse rings in the U.K., but they are never exposed. The BBC covered up their own child sex abuse scandal for decades. Every writer about Islam has known that underage sexual abuse is endemic in the Muslim world, following the example of the perfect man, Mohammed. Occasionally another "Asian" (Muslim) child abuse gang is arrested in the U.K., but the cops can never catch up. They can't even go into no-go zones in London. Nobody can purge the rot, because everybody is either on the take or open to blackmail.
The Cambridge Spy Ring of the 1930s were gay college students who were easily suborned by the KGB. Today gay sex is legal, but child abuse is not, and to hostile regimes it's an obvious blackmail trick. In the U.S., Bill Clinton was caught going to Jeffrey Epstein's Lolita Island off the Florida coast, and yes, Mr. Epstein did have videocams recording what was going on.
Nobody has ever told the U.S. public all the blackmail possibilities, but we know that unidentified hackers have stolen hundreds of personal identities of many federal officials. Hillary and Huma's email scam was a wide open invitation for predatory hackers from Russia, Iran, China, Israel, the EU, and all the rest. Once you can read hundreds of Hillary's SecState emails, it's a lot easier to break into more secure systems.
Any sentient person now knows that Obama and Hillary are Eurosocialists. Chicago is a sort of Eurosocialist political machine. Obama's mentor is Emil Jones, the "godfather" of the Illinois Machine, and Michelle's father was a Chicago ward boss. Chicago is also a baksheesh culture. It makes Chicago Muslims feel right at home.
The West has cooked up this devil's brew with the active help of hostile regimes. Angela Merkel will never admit to being wrong about the jihad invasion, because German politicians can't admit mistakes. The Euroclass keep committing lethal blunders, but they're afraid that public exposure will bring Dr. Guillotin to their door, just as with Marie Antoinette. Muslim infiltration by money, blackmail, and jihad immigration is still out of control.
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Europe is still the second richest economy per capita, with more than 300 million productive people. It still has no serious defensive capacity, because Uncle Sam took care of all that – until Obama pulled out the rug.
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Europe has been emasculated by two generations of anti-male, anti-realist, fantasy propaganda.
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When Obama gave his first "Look at me, citizens of the world!" speech in Berlin in 2008, he first wanted to talk at the Brandenburg Gate. Instead, the Germans proposed the Siegesaule Platz, the center of the gay scene in Berlin.
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Everybody over there understood the joke, but nobody told Americans. The Victory Column celebrates Prussia's victory over France in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. Otto von Bismarck ruled Prussia at the time, and the war was part of his campaign to unite all the German-speaking provinces under Berlin's control in a single Reich. Bismarck's unification of Germany led directly to World War I, which led directly to World War II and the Cold War.
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Eurosocialism has now managed to swing Europe away from its bloody past, which seems like a good idea. But under Angela Merkel the Germans have also managed to emasculate themselves, in another one of those pathological swings from one extreme to the other. The EU proclaims its peaceful intentions at the top of its voice, just like Stalin's Soviet Union.
But Merkel's ground-kissing bow to the rapefugees tells us that Europe still hasn't found a sane political balance.
Europe has only switched one political pathology for another one.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/02/suicidal_overcompensation_in_germany.html

February 19, 2016
Suicidal Overcompensation in Germany
By James Lewis