Monday, November 23, 2015
Germany: Merkel and Kissinger Bid Farewell to Former-Chancellor Helmut Schmidt
Hamburg: "Helmut Schmidt wird uns allen fehlen"
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| Angela Merkel im Hamburger Michel beim Staatsakt für Helmut Schmidt |
Bewegender Abschied von Helmut Schmidt: Im Hamburger Michel haben Freunde und politische Weggefährten dem ehemaligen Bundeskanzler und ZEIT-Herausgeber die letzte Ehre erwiesen. Der SPD-Politiker und Publizist war am 10. November im Alter von 96 Jahren gestorben. Etwa 1.800 Trauergäste verfolgten den Staatsakt, darunter Bundespräsident Joachim Gauck, Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel (CDU), Frankreichs Ex-Präsident Valérie Giscard d'Estaing und der ehemalige US-Außenminister Henry Kissinger. » | Quelle: ZEIT ONLINE, dpa, sk | Montag, 23. November 2015
Raymond Ibrahim: Obama’s Love for Jihadis and Hate for Christians
Accordingly, the administration is still determined to accept 10,000 more Syrian refugees, almost all of whom will be Muslim, despite the fact that some are ISIS operatives, while many share the ISIS worldview (as explained below).
Yet right as Obama was grandstanding about “who we are,” statistics were released indicating that “the current [refugee] system overwhelmingly favors Muslim refugees. Of the 2,184 Syrian refugees admitted to the United States so far, only 53 are Christians while 2,098 are Muslim.”
Aside from the obvious—or to use Obama’s own word, “shameful”—pro-Muslim, anti-Christian bias evident in these statistics, there are a number of other troubling factors as well. » | Raymond Ibrahim | Monday, November 23, 2015
Archbishop of Canterbury: The Way Islamic State Distorts Islam “One of the Most Desperate Aspects of Our World Today”
Drought Led to Rise in Terror: Prince Charles Blames Climate Change for War in Syria
The drought that ravaged the country for more than five years has led to conflict and terrorism, he said.
The Prince claimed that unless urgent action was taken over environmental issues, the world faced catastrophe. In an interview with Sky News, recorded before the Paris atrocities, he said: “We’re seeing a classic case of not dealing with the problem.
“It sounds awful to say, but some of us were saying 20 something years ago that if we didn’t tackle these issues you would see ever greater conflict over scarce resources and ever greater difficulties over drought.
“There’s very good evidence indeed that one of the major reasons for this horror in Syria was a drought that lasted for about five or six years, which meant that huge numbers of people in the end had to leave the land.” » | Helene Perkins | Monday, November 23, 2015
Decade in Power: Angela Merkel Marks 10 Years as Chancellor of Germany
Terrorangst in Brüssel: Eine gelähmte Stadt
Sonntag ist in Brüssel Markttag - normalerweise. Doch an diesem kühlen Novembertag ist in der belgischen Hauptstadt nichts normal. Am Südbahnhof, wo sich Sonntag für Sonntag Hunderte Händler und Zehntausende von Kunden aus aller Herren Länder tummeln, herrscht gespenstische Ruhe. Gepanzerte Armeefahrzeuge, bis auf die Zähne bewaffnete Polizisten und Fallschirmjäger bestimmen nicht nur dort das Straßenbild. Auch der Markt auf dem 15 Gehminuten vom Südbahnhof entfernten Hauptplatz des Stadtteils Molenbeek-Saint-Jean fällt aus. » | Michael Stabenow, Brüssel | Sonntag, 22. November 2015
Sunday, November 22, 2015
Spain: Far-right Activists Mark 40th Anniversary of General Franco's Death
Tollwütige Hunde und Klapperschlangen
Nach den Terroranschlägen in Paris wird die Kontroverse über die Aufnahme syrischer Flüchtlinge in den USA von einer zusehends radikaleren Sprache sowie Forderungen nach einer amerikanischen Abschottung gegenüber Muslimen geprägt. In der vergangenen Woche wurden syrische Flüchtlinge von amerikanischen Politikern unter anderem mit «Klapperschlangen» und «tollwütigen Hunden» verglichen. Derzeit halten sich rund 2000 Flüchtlinge aus Syrien im Land auf, doch plant Präsident Obama 2016 die Einreise von weiteren 10'000 Flüchtlingen. » | Martin Kilian, Korrespondent | Sonntag, 22. November 2015
France: Police Clash with Protesters at Banned Pro-refugee Rally in Paris
Brussels 'Very Dangerous' as Several Terror Suspects Remain At Large
Several terrorists remain at large in Brussels and threaten to commit a “very dangerous act”, a senior official has said, as the Belgian capital enters its second day with soldiers and armoured vehicles continuing to keep the city in lockdown.
The mayor of one of Brussels’ municipalities said the area was still facing a grave threat, adding that suspects linked to the Paris terror attack that killed more than 130 last week remain on the run.
Schaerbeek’s mayor, Bernard Clerfayt, said on Sunday: “There are two terrorists in the Brussels region that could commit very dangerous acts.” The Belgian interior minister, Jan Jambon, added “several suspects” tied to the Paris attacks could be at large in the country.
Belgium’s national crisis centre on Saturday raised the threat alert in the Brussels region to level four, which indicates a “serious and immediate threat”. Clerfayt said it was necessary to try to anticipate and prevent any such acts and their consequences. He said: “As long as this threat is present, we must be very attentive.” » | Jason Burke and Ian Traynor in Brussels | Sunday, November 22, 2015
Brussels Faces Week On Lockdown as Hunt for Terror Cell Intensifies
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| A police officer and soldiers on security duty inside the Galerie de la Reine in Brussels on Sunday. |
Europe’s unofficial capital faces an unprecedented security lockdown this week after Belgian authorities imposed a slew of safety-first measures to prevent a “serious and imminent” terrorist attack.
Charles Michel, the Belgian prime minister, said schools and universities would be shut on Monday while the Metro in the city, which had been expected to partially open after being suspended over the weekend, will not run.
Belgian counter-terrorist agencies are continuing their search for a network of Islamic militants as soldiers patrol the streets with armoured vehicles outside main stations and in public spaces.
“We still fear attacks here like those that occurred in Paris, involving several individuals striking simultaneously in several places,” Michel told a tense press conference, adding that there were “indications” that transport systems, commercial centres, shopping streets and busy places were targets.
Local media described the measures, particularly the closure of schools, as unprecedented and historic, and predicted mass disruption. It remained unclear how the lockdown would affect Europe’s political executive, the European commission. » | Jason Burke in Brussels | Sunday, November 22, 2015
On the Murder March with ISIS: Terror Expert Tells of the Slave Markets, Summary Executions and 'Morality' Police of the Jihadi Group - Who Have $2trillion in the Bank
It is a force the like of which the world has never seen before: a medieval death cult with a territory roughly the size of England.
Its tentacles of power stretch out across Iraq and Syria, whose border it has erased. Syrian Raqqa is the de facto capital, Iraqi Mosul its most populous centre. Within its brutal control lies a huge population of eight million – and it has assets estimated at $2 trillion.
This is the Islamic State, sometimes called ISIS, a terrorist movement with the destructive power of an army possessed by a terrifying vision of the world to come. Read on and comment » | Michael Burleigh for the Mail On Sunday | Sunday, November 21, 2015
Austria: Anti-refugee Protesters Rally against Government in Vienna
Germany: 'Merkel Must Go' - Anti-refugee AfD Rally Hits Mainz
Germany: More Than 100 Arrested as Clashes Erupt over NPD Conference in Weinheim
Saturday, November 21, 2015
Germany: Far-right Activists Commemorate Nazi Soldiers Killed in WWII
Ban Bathtubs, Says Sweden's 'Green King'
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| King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden |
The king of Sweden wants to ban all bath-tubs in an effort to save water.
King Carl XVI Gustaf, who in recent years has put past scandals relating to his reputation as a lothario behind him to become better known as a dedicated environmentalist, has given a frank interview to describe his determination to turn the royal palace in Stockholm green.
He also suggested that having given up taking baths himself his people should follow where he has led.
“We should ban all baths, imagine that,” he said when asked about his suggestions for everyday energy saving.
The question arose when he confessed he had recently been forced to run himself a bath when staying somewhere that lacked showers. “That’s when it hit me how much water and energy it used," he said. "I thought ‘I can’t believe I’m having to do this’. I felt quite ashamed.”
The comment about a bath ban appeared to be in jest, but he added: “There’s truth in it though. It’s the small details that have an enormous effect.” » | Lisa Kjellsson | Saturday, November 21, 2015
My comment:
Doesn't this king have more important things to worry about? I would have thought that the Islamisation of his country would be uppermost in his mind. – © Mark
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