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Refugees who arrived in Europe last year could repay spending on them almost twice over within just five years, according to one of the first in-depth investigations into the impact incomers have on host communities. Refugees will create more jobs, increase demand for services and products, and fill gaps in European workforces – while their wages will help fund dwindling pensions pots and public finances, says Philippe Legrain, a former economic adviser to the president of the European commission. Simultaneously refugees are unlikely to decrease wages or raise unemployment for native workers, Legrain says, citing past studies by labour economists....

GRAFENWOEHR, Germany -- The German platoon took top honors in the Strong Europe Tank Challenge, a three-day competition that tested offensive and defensive operations and mounted orienteering, with Denmark and Poland placing second and third, May 13, 2016. Seven platoons from six NATO nations took part in the U.S. Army Europe and German Bundeswehr-sponsored competition that was hosted by 7th Army Joint Multinational Training Command, May 10-12, here. Units that participated included Denmark's 1st Platoon, 1st Tank Company, 1st Tank Battalion; Germany's Platoon C, Company 3, Mountain Panzer Battalion 8, Panzer Brigade 12; Italy's 1st Platoon, 2nd Company, 8th Battalion,...

Four men are facing trial this month accused of raping a woman on a student ferry trip between Stockholm and Finland, one in a series of alleged incidents on the so-called Baltic booze cruises. ... On Thursday four 19-year-old men were charged. According to the prosecutor no one else is believed to have been involved in the alleged aggravated rape. ... All Sweden-Finland ferry crossings give adult passengers the opportunity to purchase duty free alcohol, offering a huge discount for Nordic travellers used to some of the highest food and drink taxes in Europe. The incident is among several rapes...

The Muslim invasion is changing European and British demographics to the degree that some countries will soon have Muslim majorities. Will America follow Europe? What about our Publican and Demorat elites? Will we reject them and the unelected bureaucrats they have spawned and empowered? America needs to vote for her own version of Brexit this November.British and European Demographicshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-hPCnel0qc Paul Weston is the vile "Islamophobe" who dared to read -- aloud and in public -- a passage from a book written by another vile "Islamophobe," Winston Churchill, a couple of years ago. For that, he (Weston, not Winston) was arrested. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WB7en-eu0X8...

Join us as we interview Hugh from the Principality of Monaco, a long-time friend of a member of our panel. Hugh will offer his insights into the Muslim (so-called) “refugee” crisis in Monaco, France, and greater Europe. Also up for discussion is the upcoming “Brexit” vote, and the implications that could have for the Continent, which relies on the Schengen agreement economically. Finally, Hugh will offer a European view of the U.S. Presidential election. Topics of Discussion: - Brazil’s President Impeached - WaPo’s Investigative War on Trump - Erdogan delcared Sultan and Caliph! - Muslim “Refugees” Occupying Europe - The...

An Al-Qaeda terrorist convicted of plotting attacks against US targets in Europe received about €78,000 in compensation, as he claimed his human rights were violated by his extradition to the US, it has emerged. The information was revealed in Belgian media on Thursday. The compensation to the extremist – who was convicted of planning an attack on troops at a Belgian airbase and was suspected of planning an assault on the US embassy in Paris – was approved by the European Court of Human Rights back in 2014. Nizar Trabelsi, a Tunisian professional football player turned jihadist, was convicted on...

Liam Deacon12 May 2016 The number of Germans who say Islam does not belong in their country has risen from just over half to more than 60 per cent in two years, as over a million mostly young Muslim men arrived last year. Only 34 per cent of respondents to a poll for Infratest Dimap on Thursday said that Islam belonged in their culture, with 60 per cent rejecting it in Germany. The mass sex attacks in Cologne by Muslim migrants on New Year’s Eve, and the terror attacks in Paris and Brussels, no doubt effected the German people. The...

A glimpse into Europe’s future. This has been going on for five years, with authorities either indifferent to it or powerless to stop it. And with the massive influx of Muslim migrants, these “Sharia patrols” will certainly grow larger and more aggressive.====================================================== “Copenhagen bars tired of ‘Sharia patrols’ rampage & threats raise issue with integration minister,” RT, May 12, 2016: A group of bar owners from one of Copenhagen’s suburbs, who have been endlessly harassed by Muslim youth activists trying to impose a so-called “Shariah zone”, have taken their case to a government minister, urging her to protect their businesses...

Concerned that the flow of Muslim immigrants into the European Union might be deterred if member nations refuse to accept ever enlarging quantities of refugees, officials are implementing a €250,000 (about $300,000) per head fine for every refugee not allowed into a country. EU spokesman Geert Waloon explained that "the European reproduction rate is far below replacement levels. If our countries are to avoid becoming uninhabited 'ghost towns' we must increase our population. The refugees are fertile and not averse to generating offspring. Securing an abundant supply of them will ensure that EU government workers will have an adequate number...

Before the continent started banning hijab, European aristocrats used to change their names to Abdullah and Muhammad, and going to the local mosque was the latest trend.From the outside, with its high minarets and bulbous Mughal-style dome, the Wilmersdorf mosque, located on Brienner Street in southwest Berlin, looks much the same as it did when it was built in the 1920s. But the institution, just like the city around it, has changed. Today, the mosque is a quiet place. It mainly serves as an information center: School children sometimes visit on field trips; it hosts interfaith brunches. A small community...

‘Allahu Akbar’ heard as five are injured in knife attack at German railway station A number of people have been stabbed at a railway station near Munich, German police said. Four or five people are reported to have been injured in the attack, one of them seriously. The incident happened in Grafing, east of Munich, shortly before 5am local today. According to witnesses, the attacker is said to have shouted "Allahu Akbar" - "God is great". Police spokeswoman Michaela Grob said a man was arrested and authorities are working to identify him. More as we get it…

Fast Islamization of Europe, with Christian Assistance By Julio Severo A liberal Muslim who backs homosexual “marriage” was elected the first Islamic mayor of London, the capital of England and one of the most important cities in the West. Sadiq Khan, the first Islamic mayor of London Sadiq Khan, the new Muslim mayor of London, said, “This election was not without controversy and I’m so proud that Londoners have today chosen hope over fear and unity over division.” A Muslim teaching “unity” to a nation with a Christian past and majority? His election victory was celebrated in a multi-denominational...

A leading Pakistani human rights activist has been murdered by Islamic extremists hours after praising London for electing its first Muslim mayor. Khurram Zaki, the editor of political website Let Us Build Pakistan (LUBP), was shot dead in North Karachi while sat in a tea shop with two friends. Four gunmen on two motorcycles are reported to have opened fire on all three people and then fled the scene. Just hours before his death, Zaki's last Facebook post congratulated new London Mayor Sadiq Kahn on his election and hailed London as a beacon for the world.Khurram Zaki"Sadiq Khan is not...

Matthew Bracken is the author of several novels, and more recently the important essay “Tet, Take Two: Islam’s 2016 European Offensive”. Yesterday Mr. Bracken was interviewed by The Rebel Media. In the following excerpts he discusses the III Percent movement, Western Rifle Shooters, the coming civil wars in Europe, and the final stages of the “long march through the institutions.” Many thanks to Vlad Tepes for uploading this video:

From the outside, with its high minarets and bulbous Mughal-style dome, the Wilmersdorf mosque, located on Brienner Street in southwest Berlin, looks much the same as it did when it was built in the 1920s. But the institution, just like the city around it, has changed. Today, the mosque is a quiet place. It mainly serves as an information center: School children sometimes visit on field trips; it hosts interfaith brunches. A small community of Muslims regularly show up for Friday prayer. It’s all a far cry from the days when the Wilmersdorf mosque was the lively center of a...

The migration tsunami that swamped Europe with 1.5 million “refugees” in 2015 is roaring back with a tidal wave that may be double the size of last year’s deluge. In fact, most citizens of the European Union countries appear to be unaware that their unelected and unaccountable rulers at the European Commission, in their own European Economic Forecast report issued last fall, announced precisely that. That is, they projected (with apparent acceptance and approval) that three million refugees/migrants would arrive in Europe in 2016. The warming spring/summer weather along the Mediterranean now means calmer seas are returning, which means many...

During one of my recent research trips to Germany, among a small discussion group, a colonel in the German Bundeswehr raised a few eyebrows with an off-the-record observation: If Russian President Putin, he posited, ever unleashed his large and powerful mechanized forces across the North European Plain – through Belarus, Poland, Germany and beyond – nothing would be able to stop them. While such a grim prospect surely centers the mind, it also begs the question: Why would Putin, no matter how aggressive his behavior in recent years has become, ever commit such a staggering and calamitous act? Setting that...

As a follow-up to JLH’s translation from Stern, here’s a video showing part of the proceedings at the recent AfD (Alternative für Deutschland, Alternative for Germany) convention in Stuttgart. Many thanks to Egri Nök for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling: 00:00 Mr. Tillschneider, please present your proposal. 00:04 The draft of the executive board contains the idea that we should inject Islam with some kind of enlightenment. 00:12 I have stressed only the passages with those ideas. 00:16 Why? I find the notion of injecting Islam with some kind of enlightenment ridiculous. 00:22 We are witnessing...

The European Commission will on Wednesday propose a mandatory relocation system for asylum seekers, and will make it expensive for those EU countries that refuse to take part, according to an internal Commission document seen by POLITICO. It’s part of a planned shake-up of the bloc’s asylum rules that aims to ease the pressure on the EU countries at the bloc’s external borders. If the proposal becomes law, the EU country in which migrants first set foot would in principle have to process their asylum claims, but that country would no longer be obliged to host all of the migrants...

BRUSSELS is set to slap EU states with eye-watering fines of €250,000 for every refugee they refuse - twisting states' arms into accepting controversial migrant quotas.The financial penalty, which would see countries who wish to retain control of their own borders fined hundreds of millions of euros, is expected to be unveiled tomorrow. With countries including Hungary refusing to accept quotas of migrants issued by the European Union, the huge financial threat has been introduced to prevent states from choosing who to accept in their countries. The deliberately high fine of €250,000 per asylum seeker will leave countries with no...