Friday, January 2, 2015

AFP / Yahoo News: Italy takes control of drifting migrant ship [Translated into Sane-ish: 'Migrant Ship Takes Control of Drifting Italy.' --tma]


Italy takes control of drifting migrant ship



 Translated into Sane-ish: 'Invader Safety First.' --tma

 Brindisi (Italy) (AFP) - Italian sailors on Friday managed to take control of a crewless merchant ship as it drifted toward the country's southern shores in rough seas with 450 migrants on board, in the second such incident in two days.
Six coastguard officers were lowered from a helicopter onto the deck of the Ezadeen as it floated some 40 kilometres (25 miles) off Crotone on Italy's heel, the navy said.
It marked the second such drama in days for Italy, which is struggling with a record wave of migrants making the perilous journey across the Mediterranean, after the navy on Wednesday stopped another crewless "ghost" ship with hundreds of migrants on board. ...
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Refugee Resettlement Watch - Ann Corcoran: Fun with numbers! How many Syrian refugees have come to the US in FY2015 so far? [Congratulations Texas, North Carolina and Illinois! Not to be discouraged on low numbers so far, anyone--the spigot is just about to be opened 'wide'!]


Fun with numbers! How many Syrian refugees have come to the US in FY2015 so far?

Once again readers pushed this post through the roof yesterday (What! you were spending your holiday reading about Syrian refugees coming to your cities?).

Recently I came across this very cool data base maintained at the Refugee Processing Center (a US State Department data collection center).   I just tried it for Syrian refugees who entered the US from October 1, 2014 to December 31, 2014 (that is three months of the fiscal year that ends September 30th, 2015).
The number is still small (164) so if the State Department plans to get to 9,000-10,000 (mostly Muslims by the way) by September 30th, they will soon be opening the spigot pretty wide.  Also, it is possible that all December arrivals are not yet entered in the data base.

Right now the top three states “welcoming” Syrian refugees are Texas, North Carolina (they are really working hard to transform NC!), and Illinois.

Here are the numbers (just refugees, not asylum seekers or any others who found another way into the US):
California:
Oakland (4)
San Diego (1)
Florida:
Jacksonville (6)
Georgia:
Atlanta (3)
Idaho:
Boise (8)
Illinois:
Chicago (14) ...
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AFP / Yahoo News: Merkel to visit Cameron next week - While in London, Merkel also plans to visit the exhibition "Germany: memories of a nation" at the British Museum. [Also during Merkel's visit, the Chancellor and Cameron will be collaborating on a new Museum exhibit to be called 'The Last Days of Western Civilization.' --tma]

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'Londonistan'                                                      Google Images

Merkel to visit Cameron next week

Berlin (AFP) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel will visit Britain next week for talks with Prime Minister David Cameron, her office said Friday.
The visit Wednesday will focus on bilateral, European and international issues and on preparations for a G7 summit Germany hosts in Bavaria state on June 7-8, a statement said.
London and Berlin have recently been at odds over plans by Cameron's government to limit immigration from within the European Union.
Merkel reportedly told Cameron in October that he was approaching a "point of no return" with the EU over a proposal to limit the migrant intake from other member states.
Cameron promised tough curbs on welfare for EU migrants in a speech in late November but stopped short of calling for a cap on new arrivals.
He has promised to hold an in-or-out referendum on Britain's EU membership in 2017 if he wins a general election in May.
While in London, Merkel also plans to visit the exhibition "Germany: memories of a nation" at the British Museum which traces 600 years of German history until the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall. 
[above is entire short piece]
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Thursday, January 1, 2015

Breitbart News: Anti-police protesters in New York City hoping to disrupt the annual New Year’s Eve ball drop in Times Square didn't quite make it that far - “NYPD – KKK, how many kids did you kill today?” protesters yelled, as they carried “I can’t breathe” signs ... [If only. --tma]


ANTI-COP PROTESTERS FAIL TO DISRUPT NEW YEAR’S EVE IN TIMES SQUARE

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Top line on sign might better read: Africa is Everywhere! 
--tma

Anti-police protesters in New York City hoping to disrupt the annual New Year’s Eve ball drop in Times Square didn’t quite make it that far Wednesday night.
The demonstrators marched from Union Square to 38th and Broadway, where they were prohibited from going any further uptown towards the celebration when the clock struck 12. Protesters were beckoned by the organization Stop Mass Incarceration to participate in the march on New Year’s Eve.
The New York Police Department passed out flyers to protesters at Union Square telling the marchers that they must walk on the sidewalk during their march and not go into the streets and block vehicle traffic. A recording that looped numerous times played the NYPD flyer’s message through a loudspeaker during the night.
By 10 p.m., about 100 protesters began walking up 6th Avenue toward Times Square as NYPD officers controlled the direction of the march.  Police diverted the group as they approached 33rd street in Herald Square.
“NYPD – KKK, how many kids did you kill today?” protesters yelled, as they carried “I can’t breathe” signs, referencing the last words of Eric Garner as NYPD officers held him in a headlock after he resisted arrest. ...
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AP / Yahoo News - OLDSMAR, Fla - Sheriff's office: Florida man decapitates his mother [And don't forget to 'Celebrate Diversity!']


Sheriff's office: Florida man decapitates his mother



OLDSMAR, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man is charged with first-degree murder after his mother was found decapitated outside their home on New Year's Eve.
According to the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office, Mario Gomez called 911 on Wednesday evening and told dispatchers that his brother Christian had killed their mother and cut off her head.
Deputies found Maria Suarez-Cassagne's body outside the Oldsmar home, near some garbage cans.
Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said Thursday that Gomez had planned his mother's murder for two days.
Gomez was upset with his mother because she wanted him to move boxes around the house, and he was jealous of the attention Suarez-Cassagne paid to his brother, Gualtieri said.
The 23-year-old attacked his mother in the garage with an ax, severing her head ...
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VDare - Brenda Walker: Fake Hate Crimes against Muslims, in Fresno and Beyond ... Cologne, Dearborn, Montclair State University, El Cajon, California ... - "CAIR and their comrades worldwide advance the Hate meme to quash any reasoned discussion about the threat of Islam invading the west through immigration. Intimidation is an effective weapon, and hostile Muslims have been perfecting their world-conquest chops for 1400 years."


Fake Hate Crimes against Muslims, in Fresno and Beyond



By Brenda Walker on December 30, 2014, 12:24 pm
On Christmas day in Fresno, somebody vandalized a local mosque, and shrieking immediately began characterizing the damage as a hate crime, a thought energetically stoked by the media:
Police now have a suspect in custody after a cultural center promoting peace, is the victim of hate.
Fresno police say a lone suspect vandalized the Islamic Cultural Center in Northeast Fresno on Christmas morning. Police Chief Jerry Dyer will release more information about the suspect at a Saturday morning news conference.
Fresno Police Chief Jerry Dyer says it is clear the incident is a hate crime which is why the FBI is also investigating this case. The suspect went to the center twice Thursday morning, and the second time he dumped a bottle of bleach on the American flag. . .
Here’s a screen snap from the KFSN news report, emphasizing HATE ...
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Endangered Earth, Fall 2014 - Shaye Wolf: A New Fight to Save Wolverines - Fish and Wildlife Caves to Political Pressure, Center Fights Back [Appreciating the intrepid wolverine and the intrepid human heroes trying to protect them --tma]


A New Fight to Save Wolverines - 
Fish and Wildlife Caves to Political Pressure, Center Fights Back



Fierce, cunning and built for survival on unforgiving mountain landscapes, American wolverines are iconic carnivores that can chase away grizzlies — many times their own size. But these feisty furbearers are now caught up in a fight that even they may not walk away from, which is why we’re standing up for them.

 Wolverines once roamed a large swath of the mountainous
West. But after decades of trapping and habitat loss, fewer
than 300 of these intriguing animals remain in the lower
48 states, mostly in the northern Rockies — and now they
face a new threat to their survival: global warming, which is
melting the snowpack they need to build dens and raise their
young. Scientists estimate that over the next 75 years, warming temperatures could rob wolverines of 63 percent of their snowy habitat. It’s not hard to imagine what that will do to an animal whose numbers are already precariously low.

 Following more than a decade of work by the Center and
allies to protect wolverines, in 2013 U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service scientists finally proposed Endangered Species Act
protections for the species in the lower 48, concluding that
the warming climate is threatening them with extinction. The
proposal won strong support from five of seven scientific peer
reviewers and a nine-person independent science panel. ...

http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/publications/earth/newsletter-fall-2014.pdf
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