Germany’s growing concern over its own security in the wake of the ongoing migrant crisis has been revealed in a poll showing fully two thirds of the country anticipate an Islamic State attack in 2016. The data showing that most Germans expect an Islamic State attack on German soil within the next year is taken from a recent YouGov poll, reports The Local. Conducted for the Deutsche Presse Agentur news agency between 21st and 23rd December, it showed that while 17 per cent had not made up their minds and 17 per cent think it will not happen, 66 per cent of Germans believe that an Islamic State attack will occur in 2016. Historically Germany has not been subjected to large-scale Islamist terror atrocities, but the country is nervous following November’s Paris attacks which left 130 people dead. The only Islamist-motivated terrorist attack in Germany to date occurred in 2011. Even then it was not on the grand scale witnessed elsewhere, as it involved only one ethnic Albanian from Kosovo who shot and killed two American airmen, wounding two others, at Frankfurt Airport. Recently the situation has changed, however. An international football match between Germany and the Netherlands was cancelled days after the Paris attacks due to what German intelligence had
Month: December 2015
BBC News Website Taken Down By ‘Attack’
LONDON (AP) — BBC says its main news website and other sites were knocked offline due to an attack. Service was out for more than three hours Thursday. Users received an error message and the broadcaster said on Twitter the outage was due to technical problems. BBC later apologized for the outage. A news story posted on the website said it had been due to a “distributed denial of service” attack in which a website is swamped with more traffic than it can handle. This is a relatively common way to target a website and temporarily make it inaccessible. The reported attack hit a wide range of BBC websites and also affected the iPlayer and iPlayer Radio services. The corporation’s televised news service and live radio services remained on the air.
2015: Year The Palestinians Turned Toward Global Caliphate Creation
TEL AVIV – With little fanfare and almost no one in the news media paying careful attention, this year marked a tectonic shift in the dynamics of the so-called Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Indeed, 2015 will become known as the year the highly-control…
Looming Democrat Civil War Over $1 Trillion Gap in Pensions
Fiscally, this pension deficit jeopardizes taxpayers and almost all other state and local budget items. The amount states have allocated to their pension systems has almost doubled in the past decade, but even that higher spending hasn’t made a dent i…
Etsy Store Sells Tear Gas Christmas Decorations, ‘Peace Earrings’ From Projectiles Hurled at IDF Soldiers
A store on Etsy called “Peace Parcels” is selling earrings made from marbles thrown at IDF soldiers by Palestinians. The store also hawks Christmas tree ornaments from expended tear gas canisters (pictured). The seller, who calls himself William Stephenson but whose real name is Walter Brynjolfson, claims he does not support violence in any shape or form. The site also contains a photo of a Palestinian wrapped in a kaffiyeh launching a slingshot. The description of the marble earring reads: “These illustrious little earrings are made from marbles thrown at Israeli soldiers in Bethlehem. They were tenderly gathered off the streets and masterfully crafted into fashionable items. Now you can help carry the weight of military oppression wherever you go.” Stephenson writes that proceeds from the jewelry will go to Wi’Am, a self-described conflict resolution center that provides Palestinians “with peaceful alternatives to conflict.” Peace Parcels is also retailing tear gas Christmas tree ornaments, which it advertises on its Twitter account . Expended canisters were apparently “gathered off the streets, opened, emptied of their contents, thoroughly scrubbed, and re-dressed with a cheery Christmas appearance,” according to the item’s description. The description continues, “Now during this holiday season you can share in the
Secret Service Involved in Fatal Car Crash After Clinton Campaign Boasts Snow Won’t Stop Them
A few hours after Hillary Clinton’s campaign team was boasting that snow wouldn’t slow them down, four Secret Service agents were seriously injured in a head-on collision that proved fatal for the driver of the other vehicle.
U.S. Mother Stabs Baby to Death, Stuffs Body in Suitcase to ‘Save Him’ From Biblical Flood
TEL AVIV – A Florida woman has been arrested after confessing that she stabbed her toddler to death, stuffed the body in a suitcase, and threw it in a pond in order to “save” him from a Biblical flood. 27-year-old Egypt Moneeck Robinson’s boyfriend alerted authorities in Callaway that his girlfriend had killed her child. The woman (pictured), who seemed “distraught” according to the sheriff’s office, immediately admitted killing the child. The sheriff’s spokeswoman told the Daily Mail that Robinson was placed in custody and taken to an area hospital to be treated for a self-inflicted wound. A black suitcase floating in about 3 feet of water was found by police behind the house. The dead body of Robinson’s son, Aries Juan Acevedo, was discovered inside. An autopsy revealed that he had died from a stab wound more than 24 hours beforehand. The toddler’s murder may be deemed “ritualistic in nature” by investigators. The Daily Mail reported that one of the deputies responding to the crime was approached by Robinson who said, “Just put me into handcuffs. I did it. I killed my baby and put him inside of the suitcase.” In his incident report, the deputy wrote that on
Ancient Farmhouse Discovered Next to Byzantine Monastery in Israel
TEL AVIV – An ancient farmhouse dating back 2,700 years has been unearthed in Israel on the same site as a Byzantine monastery, the Daily Mail reported. The monastery is considerably younger than the farmstead, which is thought to have been built just after the Assyrian conquest of Israel that led Israel’s tribes to be scattered throughout the empire. Amit Shadman, who led the excavation, notes that the site consists of 24 rooms surrounding a central courtyard. The farmhouse measures 98 feet by 164 feet and has walls that reach 6.5 feet in height. Its original purpose and the identity of its builders are not known. Shadman cited the discovery of rock-hewn oil presses used in the production of olive oil. The excavations further revealed a silo in the courtyard meant to protect grain. “It seems carbohydrates were as popular then as now, and the growing and processing of grain were fairly widespread in the rural-agricultural region,” said Shadman. Discoveries in a field in the area included several millstones that would have been used to grind grain into flour. Two silver coins from the fourth century BC that bear the images of the goddess Athena and the Athenian owl were
Read The Epic Social Justice Warrior Smackdown That Is Going Viral
I can’t help but share this amazing anonymous smackdown of the odious cult of social justice with readers. It’s currently doing the rounds on Twitter and reddit. If anyone knows the author, do get in touch… “We are fighting to end hate, to unite as one and love each other. We are fighting to be treated right without discrimination and for everyone to have equal opportunities.” Bullshit. You have no quantifiable metrics for injustice, so you have no victory conditions (for a very simplified example, when blacks hold X% of all engineering jobs and are only Y% of all prisoners, racism is ended). That would be fine by itself, but you believe in fighting injustice with injustice (gays have historically been denied gay marriage? let’s get random CEOs fired for opinions they held six years ago). You don’t seek converts, you seek to punish and bully – straight white males who disagree with you must be purged and publicly humiliated. Even the jihadists will spare you if you convert; no apology or future correction will satisfy a SJW. I could forgive that too if you weren’t all hypocrites and liars. Your treatment of women and minority dissenters is appalling; if
New Year’s Eve Celebrations Banned Over Concerns Exploding Fireworks Could Upset Immigrants
While the Belgian capital’s annual New Year’s Eve fireworks have been cancelled because of the terror threat in Brussels, a small German town has taken the unusual step of banning bangers over fears it may trigger traumatised foreigners. Inhabitants of the town of Arnberg, district Arnberg in the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) have been told not to set off fireworks in the vicinity of local migrant accommodation, while migrants taking refuge in the town have been banned from buying them altogether. The weight of the ban falls most heavily on refugees themselves, reports the Lippische Landes-Zeitung, as the lightweight wooden construction of temporary migrant accommodation halls are particularly vulnerable to fire. Town spokesman Christoph Söbbeler told press the council had put up posters in several languages stating that for “security reasons” they had been banned from buying fireworks. In addition to the fire risk, which has been proven time and time again over the course of 2015, there was also a psychological element at work. Mr. Söbbeler said of the ban on locals having private displays within earshot of the camps and on migrants having fireworks at all: “Those who come from a war zone, pounding more associated with shots and bombs than