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WASHINGTON - Intelligence shortcomings, as we see, have a thousand fathers; secret intelligence triumphs are orphans. Here is the unremarked story of "the Farewell dossier": how a CIA campaign of computer sabotage resulting in a huge explosion in Siberia -- all engineered by a mild-mannered economist named Gus Weiss -- helped us win the Cold War. Weiss worked down the hall from me in the Nixon administration. In early 1974, he wrote a report on Soviet advances in technology through purchasing and copying that led the beleaguered president -- detente notwithstanding -- to place restrictions on the export of computers...

GESTAPO TACTICS: GERMAN YOUTUBER FACES 5 YEARS IN JAIL FOR BURNING KORAN, IS DOXXED BY RADICAL FAR LEFT GROUP by March 2, 2019: BERLIN HAS FALLEN: GERMAN PROSECUTORS ARE THREATENING A 22-YEAR-OLD YOUTUBER WITH JAIL FOR CRITICIZING ISLAM, WHICH COULD AMOUNT TO A DEATH SENTENCE IN MUSLIM-FILLED JAILS. A STATE-FUNDED SOROS-LINKED HATE GROUP WITH A STASI PAST HAS PUBLICLY DOXXED THE YOUNG MUSICIAN, WHO GOES BY THE NAME OF SHLOMO FINKELSTEIN. Alex Malenki interviewing “Shlomo Finkelstein”, who faces up to 5 years in prison for cirticizing Islam. CNN Refuses to Show This Video. Click Here to Watch HSI Online Sponsored...

Germany: Muslim screams “Allahu akbar” at funeral service for woman murdered by Muslim migrant Syndia was murdered by a Muslim migrant. Apparently one of his friends or at very least coreligionists decided to proclaim this as victory of Allah at her funeral service. Many people at the church, hearing these screams of “Allahu akbar,” fled. How “Islamophobic” of them! Perhaps the English-language establishment media’s full-court press a few years ago to convince Americans that “Allahu akbar” was a benign phrase didn’t get echoed in the German establishment media. In the New York Daily News. Zainab Chaudry of the Hamas-linked Council...

In the first two months of this year, only 262 seaborne migrants reached Italy, compared with more than 13,000 during the same period in 2017 ... hard-line tactics, including in one case keeping 177 migrants docked on a ship for five days, have prompted prosecutors to investigate him for allegedly kidnapping migrants. Mr. Salvini helped deliver the coup de grace. Last summer, he repeatedly closed Italian ports to aid groups’ vessels ferrying rescued migrants. Nongovernmental organizations mostly stopped their rescue missions at sea. Some had already ceased operations after refusing to abide by obligations imposed by the previous Italian government....

In private discussions with his aides, President Trump has devised an eye-popping formula to address one of his long-standing complaints: that allies hosting U.S. forces don’t pay Washington enough money. Under the formula, countries would pay the full cost of stationing American troops on their territory, plus 50 percent more, said U.S. and foreign officials familiar with the idea, which could have allies contributing five times what they provide. Trump calls the formula “cost plus 50,” and it has struck fear in the hearts of U.S. allies who view it as extortionate. Rumors that the formula could become a global...

[photo caption] M1A2 Abrams tanks and Bradley Fighting Vehicles converge on a smoke signal during a live-fire exercise at Grafenwoehr, Germany, in March. President Trump is pushing a plan that demands allies pick up the full cost of hosting U.S. troops in their countries, plus a 50 percent premium for American protection, according to a news report. [photo credit; MARTIN EGNASH/STARS AND STRIPES] STUTTGART, Germany — President Donald Trump is pushing a plan that demands allies pick up the full cost of hosting U.S. troops in their countries, plus a 50 percent premium for the privilege of American protection, according...

The Boeing 737 MAX 8, a brand new plane only registered in November, disappeared from the radar six minutes into the flight. Immediate comparisons have been drawn with Lion Air flight 610, which crashed just over four months ago, killing 189 people. Flight data showed erratic climbs and descents before the plane, also a MAX 8, came down 12 minutes after takeoff from Jakarta. More than 300 Boeing 737-MAX planes are in operation and more than 5,000 have been ordered worldwide since 2017. It is the latest iteration of the 737, the world’s bestselling plane, ever more capable of flying...

Finland’s entire government resigned Friday after the governing coalition failed to agree on the welfare state reform, just one month before elections were due to be held. Juha Sipila has been the country’s prime minister since 2015 after forming a three-party governing coalition with two other right-leaning parties, including the small populist Blue Reform Party, a group that was once part of the eurosceptic True Finns but split up amid divisions over immigration policies. “I take the responsibility for the failure. It has been a huge disappointment to me,” Sipila said during a news conference, adding that the reform in...

A group of German authors, comedians and academics have added fuel to the flames of an increasingly bad-tempered culture war over language bias by calling for a fightback against “ridiculous linguistic constructions” designed to make German more gender-neutral. In an open letter published by the Dortmund-based German Language Association, signatories including the philosopher Rüdiger Safranski, novelist Peter Schneider, comedian Dieter Hallervorden and the former head of the country’s domestic intelligence Hans-Georg Maassen, hit back against calls for more gender-neutral generic nouns..(snip) ...The protest letter, headed “An end to gender nonsense!” and published shortly before International Women’s Day, argues that the...

He’d been accused of adding heavy metals to food at the factory where he worked... Testing later revealed the powder to be a toxic lead acetate, RTL reported. The amount smeared on the sandwich had been enough cause severe organ damage, according to authorities. Two of the victims, ages 27 and 67, have been left with serious kidney damage from poisoning with lead and cadmium. They also face an increased risk of cancer. The third victim, a 23-year-old trainee, is currently in a vegetative state after falling into a coma.

Klaus O refused to speak during his trial and the motive for his actions is still unclear. However, a mental health expert for the prison service told the court that the defendant wanted to see how the poison would affect his colleagues, like a scientist performing tests on a rabbit, according to RTL. In May 2018, a security camera captured Klaus O opening a co-worker's lunchbox and putting a substance on the sandwich inside, the police said in a statement in June last year. A small bottle of a "powdery substance" was found in the suspect's bag after he was...

“Dutch author and sociologist Ruud Koopmans said this week that Muslims are more difficult to integrate into Western society than other migrant groups because of a literal interpretation of the Quran prevalent among Muslims.” Koopmans called this a “threat to world peace.” Most Muslims agree that “Muslims should return to the roots of Islam,” while a whopping “75 percent think there is only one interpretation of the Qur’an possible to which every Muslim should stick.” That interpretation is normative Islam, and the one that resulted in over 11 million Muslims being murdered for not being Muslim enough since 1948, along...

UK: Muslim man threatens Muslim woman for wearing Western clothing Mohammed Amin appointed himself the Sharia police in Sadiq Khan’s multicultural London. Khan has been cracking down on “Islamophobic hate speech” on the internet while actual crime soars. And now Amin felt free in Khan’s London to threaten a woman for not abiding by the Sharia dress code. Today he was sentenced to an 18 month community order after being convicted of two counts of racially/religiously aggravated Section 4 Public Order Act offences against NHS staff on February 7. This light sentence will likely not faze Amin, as he was...

Islamic State jihadi returned to Sweden for medical care, then went back to the jihad “We give care to rich and poor, to murderers and people sitting in prison. If people need to be punished, there are other parts of society that can do it. Healthcare should not become part of the apparatus of punishment.” Right. But he should have been arrested when he returned to Sweden, or not allowed to return in the first place. He joined an entity that is at war with Sweden. That should disqualify him from receiving any Swedish benefits. “Isis jihadi ‘returned to Sweden...

France: Muslim prisoner screaming “Allahu akbar” stabs guards with knife wife smuggled in during conjugal visit “It was truly a murder attempt. There was blood everywhere. The family-visiting unit was a battle scene.” Before too long, all of France will be a battle scene. “Islamist inmate screaming ‘Allahu Akbar’ stabs two guards in ‘terror incident’ during wife’s conjugal visit to French prison where he is serving 28 years for killing Jewish Holocaust survivor,” by Ross Ibbetson and Peter Allen, Mailonline, March 5, 2019: A radicalised Islamist inmate screaming ‘Allahu Akbar’ stabbed two guards in a ‘terror incident’ during a conjugal...

ROME - It was Holy Thursday 2016 when Pope Francis visited to wash their feet in a symbolic gesture of welcome, but today over 500 immigrants staying at a welcoming center just north of Rome are being forced to leave as the Italian government tightens its grip on immigration. “The news of the eviction came out of the blue,” said Father Melchor José Sanchez de Toca y Alameda, under-secretary of the Pontifical Council for Culture, in an interview with Crux. “They just began to bring everyone out and to take them to other centers,” he said. The closing date for...

UK: Muslim rape gang gave 14-year-old drink and raped her repeatedly — “I was nothing but a toy to play with” Why does this keep happening? One survivor of a Muslim rape gang in the UK said that her rapists would quote Quran to her, and believed their actions justified by Islam. The Qur’an teaches that Infidel women can be lawfully taken for sexual use (cf. its allowance for a man to take “captives of the right hand,” 4:3, 4:24, 23:1-6, 33:50, 70:30). The Qur’an says: “O Prophet, tell your wives and your daughters and the women of the believers...

Jerusalem (AFP) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that Israel and Russia are to form a joint team to examine the withdrawal of foreign forces from Syria. Israel is seeking the removal of Iranian forces and has vowed to keep its main enemy from entrenching itself militarily in the neighbouring country. Netanyahu met Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday in Moscow to discuss Iran's presence in Syria. "I made it unequivocally clear that Israel will not allow the military entrenchment of Iran in Syria, and I also made it unequivocally clear that we would continue to take military action...

fter an absence from Italy of nearly 500 years, beavers are back. The species, which was once widespread across Europe, has been spotted in Italy’s northerly region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia. The animals are believed to have wandered over the border from neighbouring Austria or possibly Slovenia. An adult beaver was filmed by a camera trap in a forest near Tarvisio, a town that lies in the triangle where Italy, Austria and Slovenia converge. “The reason beavers disappeared from Italy is simple – for hundreds of years they were trapped for their fur and also prized for their meat,” Paolo Molinari,...

President Trump is imposing financial sanctions on six of Venezuelan strongman Nicolas Maduro’s top military and internal security officials, the Treasury Department announced Friday. “We are sanctioning members of Maduro’s security forces in response to the reprehensible violence, tragic deaths, and unconscionable torching of food and medicine destined for sick and starving Venezuelans,” Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said. The move came the same day Trump's State Department announced it was expelling dozens of Maduro loyalists from the United States. The new Treasury blacklist includes a major general with the Venezuelan National Guard, three senior officials responsible for Venezuela’s internal defense,...