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OT: The News Thread

https://newromantimes.com/breaking-rolling-stones-guitarist-keith-richards-found-still-alive/

Breaking: Rolling Stones Guitarist Keith Richards Found Still Alive

WESTON – In a startling development for the Rock n Roll community, world famous Rolling Stones guitarist and songwriter Keith Richards was found alive on Wednesday. Crew members said they found his animated body sitting beside an amp, picking at a guitar and murmuring some incomprehensible melody. Shocked but elated, the roadies took Richards back to the dressing rooms and covered his old broken body with designer scarves and skull rings.
 
axlsalinger said:
https://newromantimes.com/breaking-rolling-stones-guitarist-keith-richards-found-still-alive/

Breaking: Rolling Stones Guitarist Keith Richards Found Still Alive

WESTON – In a startling development for the Rock n Roll community, world famous Rolling Stones guitarist and songwriter Keith Richards was found alive on Wednesday. Crew members said they found his animated body sitting beside an amp, picking at a guitar and murmuring some incomprehensible melody. Shocked but elated, the roadies took Richards back to the dressing rooms and covered his old broken body with designer scarves and skull rings.
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The really funny part is that article could be dated anywhere from 1970 to last week.
 
Syrian government and rebels seems to agree to a nationwide ceasefire brokered by Russia and Turkey.

USA nowhere to be seen.

Leadership people, leadership.
 
Habitants87 said:
Syrian government and rebels seems to agree to a nationwide ceasefire brokered by Russia and Turkey.

USA nowhere to be seen.

Leadership people, leadership.
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Is this really news?

Seems like I've been seeing that headline every day for the past few weeks, only for the "cease-fire" to fall apart almost immediately every time.
 
Good news. Germans are learning. First baby steps.
https://www.google.ca/amp/news.nati...refugee-crime/amp?client=ms-android-rogers-ca

Those who have branded Europe, and Germany in particular, too weak and politically correct to stop a purported wave of crime brought on by the arrival of more than a million asylum seekers, should pay attention to the news. German police haven’t taken long to get their act together, and immigrant crime is down sharply. Their methods, which include a sort of racial– or at least behavioural –profiling may be controversial, but they are proving effective.

On New Year’s Eve, 2016, more than 500 women were sexually assaulted, and 22 raped, in the vicinity of the central station in Cologne by crowds of young men, many of them of North African extraction. Police were outnumbered and humiliated. A few days later, the city’s police chief was fired. Mayor Henriette Reker was ridiculed for advising women to stick to a “code of conduct” that included keeping at “arm’s length” from strangers. It made Germany look enfeebled and confused, and the many critics of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s decision to open the country’s borders to asylum seekers had a field day.

On Dec. 31, 2016, the central station neighborhood in Cologne was flooded by 1,700 police. They were checking documents and pushing young men, more than a hundred at the last count, into vans. While this was going on, a tweet appeared on the Cologne police force’s account: “At Central Station, several hundred Nafris are being checked.” Nafris is shorthand for North Africans, and it set off waves of predictable criticism from left-wing politicians who called the term “dehumanizing” and accused Cologne police of racial profiling. The police chief, Juergen Mathies, apologized for “Nafris” — it was only a “working term” police used, he said — but not for his officers’ actions. After all, only a handful of assaults, and no rapes, were reported.

“From the experience of last New Year’s Eve and from experience gained in raids in general, a clear impression has emerged here about which persons to check,” he said. “There were no gray-haired older men or blonde, young women there.”

Though the German Interior Ministry also winced at the “Nafris” tweet, Mathies will not be fired. His pre-emptive action has been lauded by federal and local officials including Mayor Reker, that softie from a year ago. Lip service has been paid to politically correct language, but everyone knows what the police chief had to deal with.
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High immigration — in the 11 months through November, 723,027 asylum applications were filed in Germany, compared with 476,649 in all of 2015 — is driving the budget increases. That’s based on some hard facts. In 2015, 6.5 percent of all crimes in Germany were committed by immigrants, compared with 3.6 percent in 2014. In 2016, the proportion is likely to be higher — in the first nine months, immigrants committed 214,600 crimes, more than the 206,201 registered in all of 2015, and the general crime rate in Germany has been steady in recent years. Immigrants from North Africa are the least law-abiding group: They make up 2 percent of Germany’s immigrant population, but in the nine months of 2016, they accounted for 22 percent of immigrant crime.

In the third quarter of 2016, however, crime by immigrants dropped 23 percent compared with the first three months of the year. One reason could be that police are taking account of the numbers and the trends they reflect, and they are not being too sentimental or too careful of being branded racist.
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JohnnyHolmes said:
Still a problem that never needed to be created in the first place.

Why let all these people in to your country if you need to turn it into a police state to deal with them all?
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Sure. They never should have let waves of people into their country without knowing exactly who they were letting in.

But now that they are there and have to be dealt with this is the best way. No more being afraid of being called racist, no more being politically correct, and you don't get the mass sexual assault like in Cologne a year ago and migrant crime is dropping.

If they are going to be there then do what you need to do to keep everyone safe, even if the PC crowd gets uncomfortable with the methods.

Glad the Germans are learning, even if it was the hard way.
 
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