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Bible Quotations For Today
Am I not
allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me? Or are you envious because
I am generous?" So the last will be first, and the first will be last
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew
20/01-16/:"‘The kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early
in the morning to hire labourers for his vineyard. After agreeing with the
labourers for the usual daily wage, he sent them into his vineyard. When he
went out about nine o’clock, he saw others standing idle in the market-place;
and he said to them, "You also go into the vineyard, and I will pay you
whatever is right." So they went. When he went out again about noon and
about three o’clock, he did the same. And about five o’clock he went out and
found others standing around; and he said to them, "Why are you standing
here idle all day?" They said to him, "Because no one has hired
us." He said to them, "You also go into the vineyard."When
evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his manager, "Call the
labourers and give them their pay, beginning with the last and then going to
the first." When those hired about five o’clock came, each of them
received the usual daily wage. Now when the first came, they thought they would
receive more; but each of them also received the usual daily wage. And when
they received it, they grumbled against the landowner, saying, "These last
worked only one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the
burden of the day and the scorching heat." But he replied to one of them,
"Friend, I am doing you no wrong; did you not agree with me for the usual
daily wage? Take what belongs to you and go; I choose to give to this last the
same as I give to you. Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs
to me? Or are you envious because I am generous?" So the last will be
first, and the first will be last.’"
The gospel that was proclaimed by me is not of human
origin; for I did not receive it from a human source, nor was I taught it, but
I received it through a revelation of Jesus Christ
Letter to the Galatians 01/11-17/:"For I want you to know,
brothers and sisters, that the gospel that was proclaimed by me is not of human
origin; for I did not receive it from a human source, nor was I taught it, but
I received it through a revelation of Jesus Christ. You have heard, no doubt,
of my earlier life in Judaism. I was violently persecuting the
Titles For Latest LCCC Bulletin analysis
& editorials from miscellaneous sources published on January 24-25/17
The suicide bomber who stopped for coffee/Diana Moukalled/Arab
News/Tuesday 24 January/17
Yazidi Girls Sold as Sex Slaves while Women March
against Trump/Uzay Bulut/Gatestone
Institute/January 24/17
Germany's New 'Ministry of Truth'/War against Free Speech/Stefan Frank/Gatestone Institute/January 24/17
Wilders to Prime Minister Rutte: Stop Deceiving the
People/Geert Wilders/Gatestone
Institute/January 24/17
It’s Going to Be a Hot Summer for Oil Prices/Jason Schenker/Bloomberg/Asharq
Al-Awsat/January 24/17
Trump’s No 1 Enemy/Abdulrahman Al-Rashed/Asharq
Al-Awsat/January 24/17
Titles For Latest Lebanese Related News
published on January 24-25/17
French FM ‘confident’ Saudi Arabia will restore military aid to Lebanon
Protests in Lebanon Complain of Syrian Labor
Competition
Kuwaiti Envoy Carries Invitation to Aoun to Visit
Kuwait
Hariri Discusses with Berri Electoral Law, Security
Situation
Mashnouq Confirms Costa was Target of 'Lone Wolf' al-Assi
Conflicting Reports on Gunshots near Israeli-Lebanese Border
French Presidential Hopeful Macron Meets Lebanese Leaders
Hariri Meets EU Envoys: Security, Electoral Law and Economy are Govt. Priorities
Body of Missing Jbeil Man Found in Akoura
Nasrallah Discusses Developments with Visiting
Iranian Official
Democratic Gathering Delegation Meets Hariri
Change and Reform Says 'Procrastination' Won't Push It to Accept Extension or
1960 Law
Judge Extends Deadline to Close Controversial Costa Brava Landfill
Geagea Says Hybrid Electoral Law Will Eventually be
Reached
Aoun Signs Decree Appointing OGERO Director-General
Qabbani after Public Works House Commission meeting:
Seagulls case is over
Man Plunges to Death in Beirut
Abi Khalil postpones press
conference till Thursday
The suicide bomber who stopped for coffee
Titles For Latest LCCC Bulletin For Miscellaneous
Reports And News published on January 24-25/17
Iran, Russia, Turkey 'to enforce' Syria ceasefire
Tehran responds to letter from Netanyahu to the Iranian people
Saudi Arabia captures 14 extremists
Jubeir: Optimistic after contact with Trump cabinet
NATO seeks closer ties with Gulf, opens new center
Yemen govt objects UN envoy Sanaa meetings
Yemen army takes control of strategic port city of Mokha
UN Security Council Wants to Keep Momentum of Cyprus Talks
Iran: The Finger Amputation of a 70-Year-Old Prisoner Is About to Be Carried
Out
Iran: Devastating State of Schools in Tehran
Addiction Is Rising Among Women in Iran: Rouhani's
Vice-President
At Peace Talks, Syrian Opposition Demand Iran Regime Leave Syria
Iran: High Ranking MP Says If We Stop Fighting in Syria, We Have to Fight in
Iranian Cities
Links
From Jihad Watch Site for on January 24-25/17
PA
threatens to cut US ties, turn to UN if US embassy moves to Jerusalem
Obama
hosted former Iranian official, pro-Tehran lobbyist at White House numerous
times
Nigeria:
Muslims use babies in jihad suicide bombings
Women’s
March organizer Linda Sarsour makes Islamic State
signal
Christine
Williams Moment: How the Victimology Subterfuge is
Killing the West
Muslim
cleric: Moving US embassy to Jerusalem would be declaration of war on Islam
Pakistan:
Two jihad suicide jackets found in mosque
Austria:
12-year-old Muslim boy arrested as part of an Islamic jihad network
Pakistan:
Council of Islamic Ideology says organ transplant un-Islamic
Texas
Christian University to send students to mosque for ‘religious experience’
Video:
Robert Spencer on Islam, the FBI and Bigotry Accusations
Bernie
Sanders, Elle defend Hamas-linked pro-Sharia Women’s
March organizer Linda Sarsour
Hugh
Fitzgerald: Professor Kishwar Rizvi
and “Misinformation About Islam”
Trump
affirms support for Egypt’s fight against terror in phone call with Sisi
In
final hours in office, Obama sent $221,000,000 to the “Palestinians”
Latest Lebanese Related News
published on January 24-25/17
French FM ‘confident’ Saudi
Arabia will restore military aid to Lebanon
Agence France-Presse/January
24, 2017/On a visit to Riyadh where he is to meet senior Saudi officials on
Tuesday, Mr Ayrault said the package was needed to
help bring stability to Lebanon. "It’s a country that should be
helped," he said. "And I know that the Lebanese army is a factor for
unity. So it’s true that aid can help stabilise things." A combined US$4
billion (Dh14.7bn) aid package is to see
Protests in
Asharq Al-Awsat/January
24/17/
Kuwaiti Envoy Carries Invitation to Aoun to Visit
Naharnet/January 24/17/Kuwaiti envoy, Sheikh Mohammed
Abdullah al-Mubarak al-Sabah who arrived in
Hariri Discusses with Berri
Electoral Law, Security Situation
Naharnet/January 24/17/Prime Minister Saad Hariri held talks Tuesday in Ain el-Tineh with Speaker Nabih Berri. Hariri was accompanied by his adviser Nader Hariri
and the meeting was held in the presence of Finance Minister Ali Hassan Khalil. State-run National News Agency said talks tackled
“the current situations, a number of proposed projects, the security situation
and the electoral law.”Al-Jadeed television said the
talks focused on the electoral law.
Mashnouq Confirms Costa was Target of 'Lone Wolf' al-Assi
Naharnet/January 24/17/Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq confirmed
Tuesday that Hamra's Costa cafe was the target of the
would-be suicide bomber Omar al-Assi. In an interview
with Al-Arabiya Al-Hadath
television, Mashnouq also described the botched
attack as a “lone wolf” operation. “
Conflicting Reports on Gunshots near
Israeli-Lebanese Border
Naharnet/January 24/17/Conflicting reports emerged
Tuesday evening about whether or not gunshots were fired towards an Israeli
force near the border with Lebanon. Israeli army spokesman Avichay
Adraee announced on Twitter that “gunshots were heard
fired towards a force that was conducting routine activities in an area
overlooking the border with
French Presidential Hopeful Macron Meets
Lebanese Leaders
Associated Press/Naharnet/January 24/17/French presidential
candidate Emmanuel Macron held talks with President Michel Aoun
and Prime Minister Saad Hariri on Tuesday and said
his country needs a more "balanced" policy toward
Hariri Meets EU Envoys: Security,
Electoral Law and Economy are Govt. Priorities
Naharnet/January 24/17/Prime Minister Saad Hariri met Tuesday at the Grand Serail
with the ambassadors of the European Union member states to
Hariri continued: “The biggest challenge is to increase the economic growth
from the present one percent or less to more than that with the presence of
this large number of refugees.”“This economic
breakthrough can only be achieved through the renewal of confidence in the
state and the government. We will put a new budget that includes tax cuts
particularly for small businesses,” he added. “I want to reiterate the need and
the importance of investing in the Lebanese infrastructure because if we do not
do that we will face a problem in shouldering the burdens of 1.5 million Syrian
refugees,” Hariri said. Stressing the importance of the EU-Lebanon trade
agreement and the need to increase Lebanese exports to EU countries, the
premier revealed that EU Ambassador to Lebanon Christina Lassen
has suggested to “set up a working group of all relevant stakeholders to
discuss obstacles facing access of Lebanese products to EU markets.”“I
welcome such initiative. This would contribute to increased economic activity,
new job opportunities as well as potential new joint ventures. This is
important to help
Body of Missing Jbeil
Man Found in Akoura
Naharnet/January 24/17/After two days of search
operations, the dead body of Lebanese citizen Majid Raji al-Hashem, 61, was found
Tuesday buried in sand at a stone factory in the Jbeil
town of Akoura, state-run National News Agency
reported. Al-Hashem had gone missing at dawn Sunday.
Several of the stone factory's Syrian workers had been detained on charges of
involvement in al-Hashem's kidnap and murder. Two of
them were arrested earlier on Tuesday in the
Nasrallah Discusses Developments with Visiting Iranian Official
Naharnet/January 24/17/Hizbullah chief
Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah
held talks Tuesday with a visiting Iranian official, Hizbullah
said in a statement. Talks with Hossein Amir-Abdollahian -- an assistant to
Democratic Gathering Delegation Meets
Hariri
A Democratic Gathering bloc delegation held a meeting on Tuesday with Prime
Minister Saad Hariri at the Grand Serail,
talks focused on a new electoral law for the upcoming parliamentary elections.
The delegation included ministers Marwan Hamadeh and Ayman Choucair, and MPs Akram Shehayyeb, Henri Helou, Alaeddine Terro and Wael Abou Faour.
“We have allies in all political blocs. Wherever the delegations from the
Progressive Socialist Party and the Democratic Gathering bloc go, we find an
understanding for the positions of (PSP leader) Walid
Jumblat and his keenness for an electoral law that
ensures proper representation for all,” said Hamadeh
after the meeting. “Anyone who believes that we lack allies among the major
Christian parties and smaller partisans is wrong,” he added.
The Minister stressed that the bloc has held discussions with several
parties, and “they have all assured rejection for laws that do not meet the
approval of Jumblat.”The Democratic Gathering is
expected to meet Hizbullah on Wednesday. Last week
they met with President Michel Aoun and Speaker Nabih Berri. Jumblat
rejects endorsing a proportional representation system, and has recently
rejected the hybrid law system.
Change and Reform Says 'Procrastination'
Won't Push It to Accept Extension or 1960 Law
Naharnet/January 24/17/The Change and Reform
parliamentary bloc stressed Tuesday that “there will be no extension of the
parliament's term or a return to the 1960 law.”“Let
no one believe or bet that procrastination will make us accept a de facto
situation,” bloc secretary MP Ibrahim Kanaan said
after Change and Reform's weekly meeting in Rabieh.
“We will give a chance and contribute in a positive and constructive manner to
reach a solution, but this solution must respect equal power-sharing and
transparency,” he added. Kanaan also stressed that
the new electoral law “must shift the political system and state institutions from
the flawed situation to democratic, constitutional situation that conforms with the National Pact.”“Throughout
the next two weeks, there will be strenuous efforts to reach a positive
result,” he promised. Speaker Nabih Berri and Interior Minister Nouhad
al-Mashnouq have recently warned that the country
seems to be heading to parliamentary elections under the controversial 1960
electoral law due to the parties' failure to agree on a new law. Hizbullah has repeatedly called for an electoral law fully
based on proportional representation but other political parties, especially
al-Mustaqbal Movement and the Progressive Socialist Party, have rejected the proposal, arguing that Hizbullah's weapons would prevent serious competition in
the Iran-backed party's strongholds. Mustaqbal, the
Lebanese Forces and the PSP had proposed a hybrid electoral law that mixes the
proportional representation and the winner-takes-all systems but the PSP
eventually withdrew its support for the proposal. Berri
has also proposed a hybrid law. The country has not voted for a parliament
since 2009, with the legislature instead twice extending its own mandate. The
2009 polls were held under an amended version of the 1960 electoral law and the
next elections are scheduled for May 2017.
Judge Extends Deadline to Close
Controversial Costa Brava Landfill
Associated Press/Naharnet/January 24/17/Urgent
Matters Judge of Baabda Hassan Hamdan
ordered on Tuesday an extension for the deadline to close the controversial
landfill of Costa Brava until a final verdict is issued in the case on January
31, the National News Agency reported on Tuesday. The landfill was purported to
be permanently closed on Tuesday, January 24, pending a final verdict in the
case, according to a judge ruling. Orders to close the landfill, which lies at
the foot of the
Geagea Says Hybrid Electoral Law Will Eventually
be Reached
Naharnet/January 24/17/Lebanese Forces
leader Samir Geagea
announced Monday that a “middle-ground” solution will be reached regarding the
stalled electoral law. “We will end up with a hybrid electoral law, half of
which is based on the winner-takes-all system and the other half on
proportional representation, and this is what we are working on together with
the other parties because it's a solution that satisfies most parties,” Geagea said in an interview with Al-Arabiya
Al-Hadath television. “We and our allies have a lot
of cards and we will never accept an extension of the current parliament's term
or parliamentary elections under the 1960 law,” Geagea
added. Speaker Nabih Berri
and Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq
have recently warned that the country seems to be heading to parliamentary
elections under the controversial 1960 electoral law due to the parties'
failure to agree on a new law. Hizbullah has
repeatedly called for an electoral law fully based on proportional
representation but other political parties, especially al-Mustaqbal
Movement and the Progressive Socialist Party, have
rejected the proposal, arguing that Hizbullah's
weapons would prevent serious competition in the Iran-backed party's strongholds.
Mustaqbal, the LF and the PSP have meanwhile proposed
a hybrid electoral law that mixes the proportional representation and the
winner-takes-all systems. Berri has also proposed a
hybrid law. The country has not voted for a parliament since 2009, with the
legislature instead twice extending its own mandate. The 2009 polls were held
under an amended version of the 1960 electoral law and the next elections are
scheduled for May 2017.
Aoun Signs Decree Appointing OGERO Director-General
Naharnet/January 24/17/President Michel Aoun signed a decree on Tuesday appointing Imad Kreidieh as the
director-general of OGERO telecom authority, the state-run National News Agency
reported. Early in January, the cabinet appointed two successors to Abdul Menhem Youssef -- the
controversial director general of the OGERO telecom authority who was also
serving as director general of investment and maintenance at the telecom
ministry. The cabinet appointed Kreidieh to replace
Abdul Menhem Youssef as
OGERO chief and Bassel al-Ayyoubi
to replace Youssef as director general of investment
and maintenance at the telecom ministry. OGERO Telecom chief Abdul Menhem Youssef was interrogated
last year by the Central Inspection Bureau over charges of negligence and
embezzlement. He was summoned by the judiciary and questioned over several
issues related to his negligence in preserving public funds in the Internet
file and another case related to embezzling money from the employees' salaries
under the excuse of the VAT tax.
Qabbani after Public Works House Commission meeting: Seagulls
case is over
Tue 24 Jan 2017/NNA - Public Works, Transportation, Energy and Water House
Commission convened on Tuesday morning, under the chairmanship of Commission
head MP Mohammed Qabbani, to discuss the airport and
civil aviation issue. The meeting was attended by Public Works and
Transportation Minister, Youssef Fenianous
and State Minister for Combating Corruption, Nichola Tueini. On emerging, MP Qabbani
relayed Minister Fenianous as saying that the airport
seagulls' issue was over. He also indicated that the mouth of
Man Plunges to Death in
Naharnet/January 24/17/A Lebanese man fell to his
death on Tuesday from the balcony of his house in
Abi Khalil postpones press
conference till Thursday
Tue 24 Jan 2017/NNA - Water and Energy Minister, Cesar Abi Khalil, postponed his press
conference which was scheduled for which was scheduled to take place tomorrow
on January 24 at 4.00 p.m. at the "Lancaster Plaza" hotel, till
Thursday, January 26 at 1.30 p.m. at the Ministry building, to declare all the
necessary steps needed to complete the first licensing round for oil. The steps
include notably: the opening of blocks offered for the first licensing round,
roadmap for the completion of first licensing round, and opening a new round of
companies' pre-qualification.
The suicide bomber who stopped for
coffee
Diana Moukalled/Arab News/Tuesday 24 January 2017
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He smiled at the café waitress and ordered a cup of chocolate Frappuccino, before starting to gaze at the other
customers. Then he asked the waitress about the low customer turnout in the
place. She guessed that it could be due to the cold weather.
These details are not about an ordinary customer; they are about the young man
who was planning to blow himself up in a café in
The story is a bizarre one. It is strange for a suicide bomber to choose a café
that does not serve alcohol and is not frequented by many people. The people of
As Lebanese people, we are not removed from the crises of our surroundings. We
have several times suffered from fighting and suicide bombers. So the reality
that the security forces managed to preemptively arrest
a suicide bomber, who himself felt hesitant over committing the crime, gives us
a sense of temporary relief, despite the fact that the political
disappointments, exploited by extremist organizations to recruit suicide
bombers, do still exist.
The Lebanese public have been very busy discussing the life of this would-be
suicide bomber, after his name, identity and photo were revealed. He apparently
took part in clashes in 2013 between the Lebanese army and supporters of the
militant preacher Sheikh Ahmad Al-Assir. Those
confrontations thereafter produced a number of suicide bombers who implemented
operations in
The potential suicide bomber at the Al-Hamra café
ordered a cup of coffee before reflecting on his own
fate. Perhaps he concluded that coffee and chocolate are better than a futile
death.
• Diana Moukalled is a veteran journalist with
extensive experience in both traditional and new media. She is also a columnist
and freelance documentary producer. She can be reached on Twitter @dianamoukalled. http://www.arabnews.com/node/1043426/columns
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Miscellaneous Reports And News published on January 24-25/17
Iran, Russia, Turkey 'to enforce' Syria ceasefire
Staff Writer, Al Arabiya English Tuesday, 24 January
2017/Iran, Russia and Turkey will establish a trilateral mechanism to observe
and ensure full compliance with the ceasefire in Syria, preventany
provocations and determine exactly how the ceasefire will work, the three
nations said in a joint statement. Concluding the
Syrian opposition unhappy
Syrian rebels are unhappy with a communique
establishing a ceasefire mechanism between
But fundamental divisions remain between
Mohammed Alloush, a leader of the powerful Jaysh al-Islam group who heads the rebel delegation,
insisted he wanted to stop "the horrific flow of blood" in the
six-year-old war. To achieve that, the Syrian army and its Iran-backed allies
had to abide by the truce and Shi'ite militias had to
leave the country.
Some observers said the meeting, sponsored by
Staff writer, Al Arabiya English Tuesday, 24 January
2017/Iran’s Foreign Ministry responded to a letter from Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu addressed to the Iranian people, in which he said he
“distinguishes between the Iranian regime and the people.”The
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Ghasemi said at news conference on Monday that “Netanyahu
ought to stop the massacres against the Palestinian people, and not talk about
Staff writer, Al Arabiya English Tuesday, 24 January
2017/Saudi
Further details were announced on the recent security operation that led to two
Saudi Arabia shuts down six explosives
factories in 28 months
Staff writer, Al Arabiya English Tuesday, 24 January
2017/Saudi Arabia has confirmed that six explosives factories were found and
destroyed after multiple operations were conducted in the past 28 months. Saudi
Arabia Interior Ministry General Bassam Attiyah confirmed the news on Tuesday when further details
were revealed on the operations that killed two
Jubeir: Optimistic after contact with Trump cabinet
Staff writer, Al Arabiya English Tuesday, 24 January
2017/Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir
said on Tuesday that Saudi-US relations are strong in all areas and that his
country would respect the decision of the American people. He also said he
looks forward and “optimistic” on cooperating with the US President Donald
Trump’s administration. Jubeir emphasized how the
relationship was multi-faceted and encompassed several areas including strategic,
political, military and economic fields. “The positions that President Trump
has articulated are ones that we are completely in accordance with: restoring
Key among the agreements between
Full text of Jubeir’s statement below:
Let me begin by saying that the US- Saudi relationship is a very long
relationship and a very strategic relationship. It is very multi-faceted. We
have very strong ties and have had for decades in the area of security, in the
military field, in the political field, in the economic field in the investment
field, and the people-people relationship. Half of the Saudi young men and
women who are studying abroad in the government of scholarships and their
numbers is roughly around 200 thousands- half of them are studying in the
United States. Their experience there has been phenomenal. It has been
positive. They have acquired skills and knowledge that they will bring back to
their country in order to further and advance our nation. I believe that the
He has spoken about containing
When you look at the individuals that President Trump has
appointed or nominated for key positions whether we are talking about General Mattis for the Defense
Department, General Kelly for Homeland Security, Mike Pompeo
for CIA, Rex Tillerson at the State Department.
When we are talking about Mr. Wilbur Ross at the Commerce
Department, Steve Mnuchin at the Treasury Department.
These are very very impressive individuals they are
highly capable. They are highly experienced and they have a very realistic and
a wise view of the world and of
In terms of the statements you mentioned which belongs to General Flynn.
General Flynn is an individual we know from his time Defense
Intelligence Agency and from his time as Central Command. He is an American
patriot. He is a man concerned about the security of the
NATO seeks closer ties with Gulf, opens
new center
AFP,
Stoltenberg said that over the past year, NATO has trained hundreds of Iraqi
officers in
Staff writer, Al Arabiya English Tuesday, 24 January
2017/The internationally recognized government of
“There is an urgent need for Ansar Allah and the
General People's congress to provide a well elaborated plan on security,
withdrawal and handover of medium and heavy weapons,” he said, noting that the
plan constitutes an essential part of the comprehensive peace agreement which
is the UN is aiming to implement.
The Associated Press, Sanaa Tuesday, 24 January
2017/Forces allied with the internationally-recognized government of
UN Security Council Wants to Keep
Momentum of
Agence France Presse/Naharnet/January
24/17/The UN Security Council on Monday pressed Greek and Turkish Cypriots to
keep the "momentum" in talks for possible reunification of the
island. "We urge all the parties to maintain the momentum and seize the
opportunity they now have to secure a historic agreement," Swiss envoy Olof Skogg, who holds the
rotating presidency this month, said after a closed-door session.
Iran: The Finger Amputation of a
70-Year-Old Prisoner Is About to Be Carried Out
NCRI/ Tuesday, 24 January 2017/According to the reports, a 70-year-old prisoner
of Ghezelhesar Prison (Western Tehran) named Yousef Parvaneh was transferred
to urmia in Norht Western
province of Azarbayjan for the execution of finger
amputation sentence. He was charged with theft. An informed source told a
Persian news agency:"the case of finger
amputation is related to a theft charge in 2008 in which Yosef
Parvaneh was released on bail in 2010 but he was then
arrested and transferred to Ghezelhesar Prison in
2011 due to another crime. He has been transferred to Urmia
for a month and he was given the sentence of finger mutilation in the branch 1
law enforcement court."The source also said that
the sentence was issued in absentia and Yusef Parvaneh has “appealed” the court ruling, but since one of
the complainants is the brother of one of the city's influential military
officials, the sentence is likely to be confirmed.
NCRI/ Tuesday, 24 January 2017/The Head of the Education Department of the
Cities of Tehran Province stated that 30% of schools and educational facilities
of
Addiction Is Rising Among Women in Iran: Rouhani's
Vice-President
NCRI/ Tuesday, 24 January 2017/The Vice President in the Cabinet of Hassan Rouhani in the Section of Women and Family Affairs, Shahindokht Molaverdi expressed
her concern regarding women and family affairs as well as the rise of drug
addiction among the Iranian women. She stated that 9% of addicts are of women
in
At Peace Talks, Syrian Opposition Demand
Iran Regime Leave Syria
NCRI/ Tuesday, 24 January 2017/The Syrian opposition delegation attending peace
talks in the Kazakh capital, Astana, has rejected a plan for the Iranian regime
to play a role in monitoring the ceasefire in Syria, Britain's Guardian
reported on Monday. Mohammed Alloush, the head of the
opposition delegation, said in his opening remarks that the presence of
Iranian-sponsored militias alongside regular Syrian government troops made
peace more difficult to achieve, and called for them to leave the country,
according to the Guardian. He also called for the release of prisoners from
government jails, saying 13,000 women were being held arbitrarily. Alloush insisted the political process would begin with the
departure of Syrian dictator
Iran: High Ranking MP Says If We Stop
Fighting in Syria, We Have to Fight in Iranian Cities
NCRI/ Tuesday, 24 January 2017/In a speech in the city of Birjand
in Iran on January 23, the spokesman for the Security Commission of the Iranian
regime’s Parliament Seyed-Hossein Naghavi
Hosseini acknowledged that some within the regime are
having doubts about the continuation of the war in Syria. He said that “it’s
quite surprising how some people, who believe in the system, sometimes say such
things as why should we be concerned about the war in Syria and that our
national interests should be sought within our own borders.”
“If today the Islamic Republic stops fighting in Syria, tomorrow it will have
to fight in Iran’s Kurdistan”, said Naghavi Hosseini. He added that
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Yazidi Girls Sold as Sex Slaves while Women March against
Trump
تباع اليزيديات
كجواري وعبيد
في حين تتظاهر
النساء ضد ترامب
Uzay Bulut/Gatestone
Institute/January 24/17
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Some Yazidi girls were "sold" for a few
packs of cigarettes.
"Some of those women and girls have had to watch 7-, 8-, and 9-year-old
children bleed to death before their eyes, after being raped by
"This is genocide against women." — Zeynep Kaya Cavus,
leading Alevi activist.
Sadly, many of the organizers and participants of the "Women's March"
in Washington chose to ignore women being tortured and exterminated by Islamic
terrorists, and in other parts of the world, not being able to to receive an education or even leave the house without the
permission of a male.
If only these women felt as motivated to protest about the
enslavement, rape and torture of Yazidi women and
children, as about the cost of tampons.
On January 21, some women's rights groups organized "Women's
There were many speakers and participants. One, the actress Ashley Judd, read a
poem in
As Ms. Judd talked about her devastating tragedy, thousands of Yazidi children and women were being forced into sexual
slavery in
While actress Ashley Judd complained at a
ISIS attacked the Yazidi homeland of Shingal in
The Islamic State has institutionalized a culture of rape and sex-slavery.
"I remember a man who looked at least 40 years old coming and taking a
ten-year-old girl. When she resisted him, he beat her severely,
using stones, and would have opened fire on her if she had not gone with him.
Everything against her will. They used to come and buy the girls without a
price, I mean, they used to tell us Yazidi girls, you
are sabiya [spoils of war, sex slaves], you are kuffar [infidels], you are to be sold without a
price," meaning they had no base value. Some Yazidi
girls were sold for a few packs of cigarettes.
"Every day I died 100 times over. Not just once. Every hour I died, every
hour. ... From the beating, from the misery, from the torture," she said.
Mirza Ismail, founder and chairman of the Yezidi Human Rights Organization-International, said in his
speech at the U.S. Congress:
"According to many escaped women and girls to whom I spoke in
"Some of those women and girls have had to watch 7-, 8-, and 9-year-old
children bleed to death before their eyes, after being raped by
In December 2015, reports disclosed that ISIS was selling Yazidi
women and children in the southeastern city of
However, this and many other threats did not stop women's rights defenders in
An activist from the group "Gaziantep Democratic Women's Platform", Fatma Keskintimur, read a
statement to the press, which said in part:
"That the jihadi gangs fighting in Syria has
received the biggest support from Turkey and that the cell houses they use... [are] known by everybody. Given what kind of a danger this
situation creates for those who live in Antep, the
uneasiness of people is intensifying every day."
Even under these conditions, women's rights defenders in
Last year, for example, the "Yazidi Women's
Assembly" commemorated August 3rd as "the day of international action
against massacres against women and genocide". Members of the pro-Kurdish
Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) organized protests in many cities across
Safak Ozanlı, a former
MP from the HDP, said that ISIS still held 3,000 Yazidi
women as sex slaves: "
Members of the Alevi religious minority also
supported the protest in
There are a few Americans, too, that are doing their best to help Yazidis, such as Amy L. Beam, a human rights activist who
has been living with and advocating for Yazidis full
time since 2014. Her book The Last Yezidi Genocide,
is to be published shortly, and she is the executive director of "Amy, Azadi and Jiyan" (AAJ --
"Friend, Freedom, and Life"), a humanitarian organization in Iraqi
Kurdistan.
"Thousands of Yezidis have a long list of dead
or missing family members under ISIS control in
"Yazidi girls and women with their children ...
are subjected to repeated beatings and rape by
One wishes that the women activists in the
Some of the participants of the women's march in
Radical Islamic ideology is a universal threat. Wherever it is weakened or
defeated, this helps liberate victims in other parts of the world, as well.
To so many persecuted peoples in the
On November 7, the Yezidi Human Rights
Organization-International issued a public statement titled "Yezidis look forward to a Trump presidency to help them
wipe out
The women's march, for all the good intentions on the part of many, violated
the core principle of human rights: "The worst first."
Sadly, many of the organizers and participants of the march chose to stand by
and ignore women being tortured and exterminated by Islamic terrorists, and in
other parts of the world, not being able to receive an education or even leave
the house without the permission of a male.If only
these women felt as motivated to protest about the enslavement, rape and
torture of Yazidi women and children, as about the
cost of tampons.
Acting like self-serving, delusional fanatics, whose sheer hatred of an elected
president blinds their eyes to the real problems of the world, does not help
anyone. There have been just as many people who might have hated other
presidents.
Let us with our actions remind women in the
**Uzay Bulut, a journalist
born and raised a Muslim in
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Germany's New 'Ministry of Truth'/War
against Free Speech
Stefan Frank/Gatestone Institute/January 24/17
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/9822/germany-ministry-of-truth
It seems that all ideas suspected of being "populist" -- or simply
those ideas without the blessing of the elites -- will now be banned in
Germany. This restriction applies to criticism of the government (especially
regarding immigration and energy policies), of the EU, of Islam, of government
officials and of the media.
As in communist dictatorships, the more obvious the failings
of the government, the more aggressively the establishment attacks those
who speak out about them.
Large companies such as Deutsche Telekom (T-Mobile), BMW, Mercedes-Benz and the
supermarket chain REWE obeyed straightaway and promised to place Breitbart on the blacklist immediately, and never to
advertise there again.
A plucky little pizza delivery service responded to the blacklisting demand by
declaring that it was "not the morality police". The company was
denounced by Der Spiegel as "inept", and
after "protests from customers", it ended up capitulating, as the
newspaper reported with much satisfaction.
The elites and intellectuals are apparently now counted among the German
minorities in need of protection.
Toward the end of last year,
The German government's efforts at thought control seem to have begun with the
victory of Donald J. Trump in the
For hard-core Trump-haters, however, a witch hunt by itself is insufficient;
they want activism! Since November,
The Federal Government's "Ministry of Truth"
To this effect, as reported by Der Spiegel, the
Federal Interior Ministry, intends to set up a "
"It sounds like the Ministry of Truth, 'Minitrue,'
from George Orwell's dystopian novel 1984", wrote even the left-leaning
daily, Frankfurter Rundschau.
Frank Überall, national head of the German
Association of Journalists (DJV), bluntly stated: "This smells like censorship."
It seems that all ideas suspected of being "populist" -- or simply
those ideas without the blessing of the elites – will now be banned in
The Federal Agency for Political Education -- the information agency of the
Interior Ministry – is quite open about it: "Anti-elitism",
"anti-intellectualism", "anti-politics" and "hostility
toward institutions" are the "key characteristics of populism".
"Fat, Stupid White Men"
Toward the end of 2016, one of the biggest German media scandals in recent
memory erupted when Gerald Hensel, undoubtedly a
member of Germany's elite, tried to introduce a new form of internet censorship
with the help of a team of media agencies and political players. Until
recently, Hensel was "Director of Strategy"
at Scholz & Friends, one of
Apparently in anger over Trump's election victory, Hensel
demanded: "Let us freeze the cash flow of the right-wing extremist
media!" He had previously written a strategy brief declaring debate to be
useless; instead, the political enemy -- the "populists" – needed to
be fought, even with questionable methods:
"The liberal center must, especially in these new digital and
information-based wars, take off the kid gloves. We have to turn the tables and
learn about populism, particularly on the Internet... Thus, we have to respond
in a more wide-spread digital manner and with explicitly less sympathy to those
people who want to force their own future on us -- and do this long before the
next federal election... Political storytelling, targeting the political enemy,
influencers, forums, rumours..."
"Measures," he added, have to be taken against the "new
right" – measures that:
"are 'Below the Line' and also digital. We need
'good' troll factories in our fight against Frauke Petry, Beatrix von Storch, Geert Wilders, Marine Le Pen and the fat stupid white men
behind them. Ideally, as quickly as possible. Starting
in 2017, they will continue to dismantle the EU and thus our future and that of
our children."
Advertising Agency as Thought Police
Toward the end of November, Hensel appealed to his
colleagues in various advertising agencies, under the banner of "no money
for the right", to boycott all those who fit the description of his
bogeyman -- because they were "hostile towards the EU," or because
they might even harbour sympathies for Donald Trump. He was jumping on a
bandwagon. A witch hunt was already under way against the American website Breitbart, due to the closeness of its former executive
chair, Steve Bannon, to Donald Trump. Without
providing any kind of proof, countless German newspapers and broadcasters
claimed that Breitbart was "racist",
"sexist", "xenophobic", "anti-Semitic" and "Islamophobic", and a "hate site". The
state-owned German television station ARD described Breitbart
as an "ultra right-wing" platform for "white supremacy".
Other journalists followed suit.
Those Not Reading Newspapers are Suspect
Hensel went one step farther. In the style of a
prosecutor during the Inquisition, he called to break the "dominance of
right-wing micro media". He seems to consider particularly dangerous and
subversive, anyone who reads articles that do not originate from one of
"While I may satisfy my thirst for information with my subscriptions to
ZEIT or Le Mode Diplomatique, the brave new-right
freedom-fighter likes to stay informed via online media such as the Axis of
Good or Breitbart News."
This alone raises several suspicions. Hensel, whose
website (which since December can only be accessed with a password) is graced
by the display of a Soviet red star, likes to eliminate his opponents swiftly. Breitbart, for example, is deemed fascist
("salon-fascists"). Why? Because the blog -- and here he, supposedly
for simplicity's sake, quotes an article from the Süddeutsche
Zeitung -- "covers all the topics of German
right-wing populism"; Breitbart reports about
"the migrant and refugee policies of the German federal government, as
well as of supposed criminal acts conducted by migrants and Islamic
activities."
Hensel's
solution? Boycott!
"There is freedom of speech in my stupid little world. Undoubtedly,
websites such as Breitbart News and the Axis of
Good... are legal media. Nevertheless, one could ask brand names whether
they... are aware that their banner ads appear on these particular websites and
represent their brand there."
This type of "asking", of course, roughly corresponds to the mafia
"asking" the pizzeria owner if he has fire insurance.
Hensel also considerately provided detailed
instructions for his readers. Those employed by an enterprise should check
whether the websites that he deemed "right-wing" are registered on a
blacklist. Employees of advertising agencies should form a team, with Hensel and other authoritarians, for internet censorship:
"If your career in a media agency has propelled you a little higher up the
hierarchy, you might be able to bring up the topic at the next media
get-together with colleagues. 2017 is an election year. You, dearest
colleagues, clearly have a part in determining who receives our advertising
dollars."
Hensel also suggests that consumers put direct
pressure on companies or approach them via social media, to dissuade them from
advertising on "hate publishers" and "destroyers of the
future".
This manifesto was only published on a private blog -- one that barely anyone
had ever heard of before. But the power of which Hensel
boasted -- the networks in the advertising agencies and editorial offices -- is
real. On Hensel's command, big newspapers and
websites reported on the operation with much sympathy, along with the hashtag #NoMoneyForTheRight.
Companies Submit to Pressure
Large companies such as Deutsche Telekom (T-Mobile), BMW, Mercedes-Benz and the
supermarket chain REWE obeyed straightaway, and promised to place "Breitbart" on the blacklist immediately and never to
advertise there again. Der Spiegel cited Hensel's "resistance" (!) and pilloried one
business that did not follow suit: A plucky little pizza delivery service that
responded to the blacklisting demand by declaring that it was "not the
morality police". The company was denounced by Der
Spiegel as "inept", and after "protests from customers", it
ended up capitulating, as the newspaper reported with much satisfaction.
Breitbart will cope with missing out on a few hundred
dollars of advertising revenue from
State-Financed Boycott
For this campaign, Hensel also received support from
the group Network Against Nazis ("Netz gegen Nazis"), which
receives financing from by
Shortly after Hensel's call for boycotts, the Axis of
Good was place on a list of "popular right-wing blogs" by Network
Against Nazis -- together with the liberal publisher Roland Tichy
and the evangelical civil rights activist Vera Lengsfeld
(who is a thorn in the side of communists, because she fought against the East
Germany's dictatorship in the 1980s). The Amadeu-Antonio
Foundation, which runs the Network Against Nazis
website, receives almost a million euros per year from
the federal government. Not surprisingly, it demonstrates its gratitude with
character assassinations of critics of the government.
"The Trend of Denouncing People as Right-Wingers"
Within a short time, Hensel had put together a kind
of mafia, bent on economically ruining whoever rejected his ideological
commands, by using libel and slander to scare away their customers.
As the Frankfurter Allgemeine daily
newspaper commented:
"It is very fashionable right now to stigmatize people and denounce them
as 'right-wing' if they do not share your views. Companies want nothing
to do with that label, and, as you can see on Twitter, they quickly change
direction if they are aggressively made aware that they support the wrong side
with their ads (which are often automatically activated and run on the
internet)."
In response to the boycott campaign against it, the Axis of Good showed how a
business can defend itself: the editors raised a public alarm about Hensel's campaign in a series of reports and commentaries.
Thousands of readers complained on the Facebook page
of Hensel's employer, Scholz
& Friends, which, after its initial support, began to distance itself from
its employee's campaign and finally severed ties with him.
According to Hensel's version, his campaign was
"so successful" that he wanted to take his employer "out of the
line of fire".
"My former employer and I became the victims of a massive hate storm
consisting of countless of tweets, emails and comments on social media... This
is a systematic campaign."
Propaganda Offensive ahead of the Federal Election
Of course, it was Hensel himself who initiated a
systematic campaign, including dirty tricks, which were waged with an eye to
the government's apparent plans to consolidate the population ideologically. As
research by the Axis of Good has revealed, Hensel's
boycott operation was closely tied to the plans by the Federal Ministry of
Family Affairs to conduct an advertising campaign in support of an open-door
immigration policy in 2017. For this, an advertising agency was necessary, as
reported in September by an industry journal:
"As revealed by a Europe-wide announcement, the Federal Minister of Family
Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth is looking for an agency to advertise
the brand 'Living democracy! Actively against right-wing
extremism, violence and inhumanity'."
Ad agencies were invited to submit their suggestions by the middle of December.
The Axis of Good concluded:
"There is a suspicion that this [boycott] operation was a hurried pilot
project for the bid for the million-euro project by Schwesig's
Family Ministry. A free trial run for the so-called
'advertising pitch'."
Regarding the question of how much economic damage was caused to the Axis of
Good by the boycott campaign, Henryk M. Broder, the website's publisher, told Gatestone:
"It is significant, but how big it really was, we will only know in a few
months. After all, it is not the companies themselves that stopped advertising,
but the agencies. The damage for Scholz & Friends
could be even bigger, but they do not talk about it."
The Hamburger Abendblatt daily referred to Hensel's campaign as an "attack on the freedom of the
press," adding: "It seems as if the shot from the activists
backfired."
As in communist dictatorships, the more obvious the failings
of the government, the more aggressively the establishment attacks those
who speak out about them.
Stefan Frank, a journalist and writer, is based in
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Wilders to Prime Minister Rutte: Stop Deceiving the People
Geert Wilders/Gatestone
Institute/January 24/17
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/9823/wilders-rutte
Prime Minister Rutte ran an election advertisement in
today's newspapers.
And I have a message to this prime minister.
Stop with the deceit of the
There is absolutely no-one who still believes you.
It was you, who caused the loss of our freedom, our security, and our culture.
It was you, who governed with the Labor Party; you,
who conducted dangerous open borders policy.
You, who even allowed terrorists to freely travel in and out of the
You, who have given Islam free rein.
Why don't you talk about that?
Four years of Mark Rutte means four years of, every
day, a little less
Why do you not talk about Islamization?
Why do you not talk about terror?
Why don't we hear you about the billions that are spent every year on Africa,
Why don't you mention the hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers and
immigrants whom you've allowed into our country?
That is the biggest threat to our country.
That is what you, as prime minister, should never have allowed to happen.
It is your fault and no-one else's.
And if we continue the way you are doing now, then the
Then there will be only one standard in this country: Islam. And we will have
lost our beautiful country.
But we will not allow that to happen, because this is the land of all those
millions of Dutch whom you have let down.
The millions of people whom you have cheated and robbed of
their own country.
But, together with them, we will reconquer the
It's time that you leave.
And, on March 15th, the
*Geert Wilders is a member of the Dutch Parliament
and leader of the Party for Freedom (PVV).
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It’s Going to
Be a Hot Summer for Oil Prices
Jason Schenker/Bloomberg/Asharq Al-Awsat/January 24/17
Oil prices have been falling since the New Year. After a bullish announcement
from the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and production cuts by
non-OPEC nations, the narrative has become bearish, focused on drilling for
While it may be only the third week of January, March crude oil contracts on
the NYMEX become the new trading benchmark when February contracts expire on
Jan. 20. This shift puts refineries, hedgers and traders one month closer to
the high-demand summer, the biggest seasonal driver of global oil prices of the
year. Because of the timing of NYMEX contract trading changes, refiners are
likely to significantly increase their oil hedging and purchasing when April
crude oil contracts on the NYMEX become the trading benchmark on Feb. 21. That
means upside surprises to oil prices in 2017 may be only a month away.
This year, the seasonal upside could be even greater than normal. With the
lowest
Although there are upside price risks to WTI crude oil prices when the NYMEX
contract rolls to April on Feb. 21, there are downside risks for oil prices
when the summer driving season ends on the NYMEX. Just as the summer starts
early on the NYMEX, it has a premature end, too: September WTI crude oil
becomes the benchmark after the contract roll on July 20. Significant price
declines accompanied similar contract rolls signaling
an end to the summer driving season in 2014, 2015 and 2016 — though some of the
downside risks in 2016 were mitigated by anticipated OPEC oil production cuts.
With upside risks to global and
Oil traders watch a number of technical trading indicators, including moving
averages, trading volumes and relative strength. These technicals
are somewhat mixed for WTI crude oil prices. In addition, fundamentals are
being unduly influenced by concerns about higher rig counts and the lack of
compliance by OPEC oil production cut compliance. But upside risks to NYMEX WTI
prices are increasing with each contract roll that brings the driving season
closer. That driving season will dominate the headlines, support price
increases engendered by fundamental demand and trigger additional technical buy
signals. These factors are likely to send oil prices significantly higher ahead
of and during the summer — even if it is tough to imagine now, in the dead of
winter.
Opinion: Trump’s No 1 Enemy
Abdulrahman Al-Rashed/Asharq
Al-Awsat/January 24/17
The playwright Bernard Shaw once said “I learned long
ago not to engage in a quarrel with the media. It’s like wrestling with a pig.
You will get dirty if you win or you lose. I apologise to my colleagues in the
profession.” The American President Donald Trump has been the best at deceiving
the media and he used it for a year, during the election period. Trump was the
media’s favourite subject because he was an unusual candidate and did not
adhere to the rules of traditional competition. He is incredibly popular and
does not care much about intellectuals’ opinion of him. There is no doubt that
Trump rose on the media’s shoulders for the cheapest price and invaded
television screens for free after channels competed to broadcast him in order
to gain more viewers. While his rival Hillary Clinton spent more than $1
billion dollars on the media, Trump had only paid a very small amount until
last September. Despite this, his presence dominated the media. I don’t believe
that any major media strategist imagined that Trump’s luck would take him to
the final stages and it was completely ruled out that he would win the
elections.
Underestimating Trump made his pro-Democratic Party opponents, such as CNN,
give him their microphones in an unprecedented manner and they pampered him in
order to entertain people, not out of love for him or in order to promote him.
When there were a few weeks left till the elections and everyone began to
realise that he was one of the two candidates to win the presidency, media
outlets loyal to the Democrats turned against him. However, it was too late as
he had built his name, established a plan and had gained popularity and
followers.
Trump’s victory ended the electoral competition but it seems that the media war
has just begun. Media figures are well aware that the president is an easy
target because he is the first to be held responsible. His administration will
undoubtedly commit mistakes, have shortcomings and will sometimes be unable to
fulfil its promises. There may be developments against him that he cannot
influence. In addition to this, there are endless possibilities and
embarrassments. All of this will provide the media with ammunition to weaken
him.
Trump, the man who looks like a tough Roman wrestler, will tire because, as
Shaw said, a public figure cannot win against the media which considers
criticism as its task and source of power.
In a country like the
Obama succeeded in subduing most of the media although, from amongst all
American presidents, he was the most sensitive to criticism and journalists. It
is said that he was the president who punished journalists the most by
preventing those who disagreed with him or criticised him from participating in
covering his activities and trips.
Trump’s problem is that, apart from being impulsive, he likes confrontation and
believes that it is his weapon to discipline journalists. However, this will
exhaust him and cost him a lot in the years to come, and it may even destroy
him.
His Democrat rivals are influential and popular in society and they are
favoured by the media which mainly consists of liberal movements that are
affiliated to them. They are followed by Women’s groups, minorities, the LGBT
community and the disabled. The list is long and includes rich organisations
that have many supporters, and institutions that will keep Trump busy during
the next four years with protests. They will use the weapon of popular and
qualitative media against him on a large scale.
Therefore, the threat that President Trump made publicly against journalists a
few days ago is mere talk and expresses his anger and frustration at the
media’s attacks on him. He can shout in their faces but he can’t actually do
much against them except deprive those who do not like him from accompanying
him and keeping his personal information private. Trump may retreat and accept
that the only way of dealing with the bullying media is to co-exist with it as
part of a long and slow relationship, or be patient with it.