Iraqi Army Discovers US-Made Missiles in ISIS’s Military Base in Mosul
POLITICS
November 1, 2016
Iraqi army and popular forces have discovered a number of US-made missiles from a military position of the ISIS (ISIL, IS, Daesh) in the Southern part of Mosul, informed local sources disclosed after the first group of pro-government troops opened their way into Southern Mosul on Monday.

“Several US-made missiles were found in al-Shoura region to the South of Mosul,” a local source said on Monday.

The Iraqi army and popular forces had found US-made missiles in Anbar province several times before.

Provincial officials confirmed that the US-made weapons were sent by the US-led anti-ISIL coalition airplane for the ISIL terrorists in Anbar province.

Meantime, Iraqi security officials announced that the ISIL has sent US-made military equipment to Tal Afar region in the last two days to stand strong against Iraqi popular forces’ impending attack to capture the region.

“The ISIL terrorists have sent US-made TOW anti-tank missiles to Tal Afar and it is quite evident that they are preparing for a long-term war,” the Arabic-language media quoted an Iraqi security official as saying on Monday.

In late August 2015, a senior Iraqi intelligence official revealed that the US helicopters drop weapons and other aids for the ISIL terrorists in the Western province of al-Anbar.

“The fighters present at the forefront of fighting against the ISIL always see US helicopters flying over the ISIL-controlled areas and dropping weapons and urgent aids for them,” the official who called for anonymity told FNA.
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Yet, he said the helicopters could have also been sent from Turkey or Israel.

He added that in addition to dropping aids, the helicopters transfer the ISIL ringleaders and wounded members from the battleground to some hospitals in Syria or other countries which support the terrorist group.

The official cautioned that such assistance further prolongs the conflicts in Anbar, adding that when the Iraqi army and popular forces purge the terrorists from Anbar province, the US helicopters will transfer the ISIL ringleaders to other regions to prevent the Iraqi forces’ access to ISIL secrets.

Also in March 2015, a group of Iraqi popular forces known as Al-Hashad Al-Shabi shot down the US Army helicopter that was carrying weapons for the ISIL in the Western parts of Al-Baghdadi region in Al-Anbar province.

Meantime in February 2015, a senior lawmaker disclosed that Iraq’s army had shot down two British planes as they were carrying weapons for the ISIL terrorists in Al-Anbar province.

“The Iraqi Parliament’s National Security and Defense Committee has access to the photos of both planes that are British and have crashed while they were carrying weapons for the ISIL,” al-Zameli said.

H/T: Alal AM

Hillary Clinton: CHRISTIANS IN AMERICA Must ABANDON FAITH IN CHRIST, Adhere To NEW LIBERAL LAWS

By World News Politics -
September 18, 2016


Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton has recently stated that Christians have to deny their belief with the enforcement of laws, by claiming that the Christian faith in being anti-abortion, and pro-life, has to be altered and this process ought to be carried out through policies.

VIA Viral Liberty

If Christians must change Christian teachings in regards to abortion, then what Hilary Clinton is essentially saying is that Christians must deny their Faith. Hillary Clinton, speaking at the Women in the World Summit on April 23, made the statement:

Far too many women are denied access to reproductive health care and safe childbirth, and laws don’t count for much if they’re not enforced. Rights have to exist in practice — not just on paper. Laws have to be backed up with resources and political will. And deep-seated cultural codes, religious beliefs and structural biases have to be changed.
Notice that she says that the change of Christian beliefs is the “unfinished business of the 21st century,” which means she wants to persecute Christians.

God willing, Donald Trump will vanquish this witch in the elections.

The most horrific persecution of Christians is happening right now. Christians are being killed and tortured in the most demonic and cruel ways you can imagine, and its happening in Mexico.

Myriads of people killed, thousands of other innocent souls pressured under the most tyrannic oppression, but all is not lost, because thousands of Christians are being supplied with weapons and are returning the blow.

Igbo need the spirit of Biafra to move forward – Prof Chukwuemeka Ike
On November 5, 201612:13

Why Igbo Leaders of Thought have not involved Igbo Governors •Reveals how herbalist lured a policeman int EXPO ‘77 •
Speaks on why he declined Obasanjo’s offer •What made Govt College Umuahia so special to produce Chinua Achebe, Cyprain Ekwensi, Gabriel Okara, Ken Sara Wiwa etc By Emeka Mamah and Vincent Ujumadu

Professor Chukwuemeka Ike, the traditional ruler of Ndikelionwu in Orumba North local government area of Anambra State is one of the top people in the academia sitting on the throne of their communities. Ike, an old boy of the famous Government College, Umuahia is also an accomplished writer and has over eight novels to his credit. He mounted the throne of the ancient Kingdom of Ndikelionwu after retirement as the Registrar of WAEC. In fact, he was the first Nigerian to hold that position. He is also a member of Igbo Leaders of Thought, a think tank for moving Igbo nation forward. In this interview with Saturday Vanguard, Professor Ike spoke on the need for Igbo nation to reenact the spirit that made Biafra thick during the civil war, the infamous Expo 77, among other issues. At the recent meeting of Igbo Elders Forum in Enugu, you spoke about an attempt by the Buhari administration to Islamize Nigeria. What gave you that impression? Well, I have not used those words myself, but I know from my writing, from my civil war novel, which is a historical novel, that we were in trouble. I also wrote a novel when Nigeria was 40 years old which I called ‘The Search’ which was aimed to look at Nigeria since independence. It’s like a lost ship that went on a voyage and after long nautical miles something went wrong and all the hopes were in trouble. One of the things I said was that there are people who think they are born to rule; that they come from part of the country that must rule and if they are not ruling, nothing goes. *Prof. Chukwuemeka Ike *Prof. Chukwuemeka Ike In fact, in my novel ‘The search’, I talked about the military coups. It was like some people would organize themselves and as soon as the group settles down, the chairs are pulled away. There is no doubt that some people in this country feel that they are born to rule Nigeria and that Nigeria must be ruled by them. During the war, the slogan was ‘To keep Nigeria one is a task that must be done!’ But the question is to keep Nigeria one for what purpose? So that is the Islamization. The Hausa/Falani feel that they are the people meant to rule the country all the time. This issue of herdsmen carrying AK47 is not unlikely that it is part of the ambition to overrun Nigeria. So we the Igbo are concerned about this even though Ndigbo are responsible for part of what is happening to them and that is why some of them still talk about Biafra. I have given my own ideas of what I would like to see. If we can get ourselves organized and see what we can do to improve ourselves, we many not care so much about what is happening in the rest part of the country. If we are satisfied with the way things are here in Anambra, we may not care much about the bigger Nigeria. It may almost be irrelevant if we get things properly organized here. Is it not a problem of leadership? Where is Igbo leadership? Can you name one person that can lead? We are in Igbo Leaders of Thought because a number of us come together to exchange views from time to time. But the problem really is, can you get them to stay together and identify their problems and deal with them? That is one problem we have. That is why I said that if we could see ourselves as having a common problem and choose our leadership properly, we can begin to make headway. Some people hold the view that if Igbo and Yoruba can come together, the north will join us to build a strong nation. But Igbo and Yoruba don’t come together. That is the problem the Middle Belt is also having. At a time they wanted to team up with us, but somehow it didn’t work out. The Yorubas came together at some stage under the late Chief Obafemi Awotowo, but it was not easy for Igbos to do that during the time of Zik. Anyway let’s not digress because I am not a politician. But my worry really is that it has not been easy for us to stay together. I was at Igalla when the late Chief Christian Onoh came to talk about the creation of Wawa State and some of the things he said about the rest of us were surprising. I sat on the panel for the Anambra State University of Science and Technology at a time and I knew what the experience was like. So that is why I say we should concentrate on Anambra State and if we succeed, it will help to ginger others on the need to be united. We share the same culture and tradition and I don’t see why we cannot join hands to improve our fortunes. So I advocate that we should start developing in smaller scales, our various states and when we see progress here and there, it will be easier to come together. We should not be struggling to kick each other out. Is there no possibility of assembling Igbo people together to work out ways of developing the area? Well, I have not thought about it, but I remember that I met Prof Nebo and General Ike Nwachukwu over the issue. But really, I have decided to concentrate on Anambra State because it will be easier for us to begin here in Anambra state than to involve the entire states in Igbo land. And if we are likely to get a good leader in Anambra State who has large ideas, a proper direction will begin to evolve. The Indigenous People of Biafra on a Peaceful Protest over the Arrest of the Director of Radio Biafra yesterday along Ikwerre road in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. Photo: Nwankpa Chijioke The Indigenous People of Biafra on a Peaceful Protest over the Arrest of the Director of Radio Biafra yesterday along Ikwerre road in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. Photo: Nwankpa Chijioke What is the position of Biafra in all these? My concern is not Biafra, but Biafranism. We should try and re-enact those things that made us great in Biafra. There was an article that appeared in News of the World Report in the USA in 1968 titled, ‘Biafra Possibilities’. That was only one year after the civil war started and they had seen what was emerging and they were concerned about it. This Biafranism was what they destroyed after the war because they did not want to see that anything good came out of Biafra. And that is the kind of spirit I really want us to re-enact. If we can do it in Anambra State, in Enugu State, in Abia State, Igboland will become great again. If we do that, we will have a stronger force collectively. Biafra taught us that we had brains. Not that it brought something new, but it showed that we had all along, failed to realize what we had. If we evolve the spirit of Biafra again, things will change. I always use petrol to illustrate this. Before Biafra, Nigeria had been brainwashed by the Western World that crude oil refining is capital intensive and technologically advanced for the developing nations. They gave us the impression that it was beyond us, and were buying off our crude oil. Then when Biafra lost Port Harcourt, and lost the refinery, we were faced with a challenge. You couldn’t fight the war without petrol. So Biafra scientists began to ask, this crude oil refining, what is in it? Is it not boiling the crude oil to a certain temperature and boil that to another higher temperature until petrol emerges? Before long, we had our own refineries and government had to control refining. All that Biafra needed at the end of the war was additives. I had said it somewhere that the people of Niger Delta have a message which no one wants to listen to. They have made us to know that you don’t have to be a super human to refine crude oil. So they are doing it with what they have and nobody is listening to them. We are talking about spending trillions to produce refined oil, but these chaps are telling us that they can do it and save the country so much money. We have crude oil in Anambra, although I don’t know what they are doing now. But that is one area we can show our capability. That crude oil is one area, but there are many other areas we can excel. For instance, we can also excel in the manufacture of hardware. I tell you a story of a Professor of Physics, an Igbo chap who is one of the most efficient physicists of his time. We had run from Nsukka to Enugu because of the war. I saw him with a bottle of beer and this is not a kind of man you would associate with drinking beer. I called him and said man what is the matter? He said he had taught all sorts of courses, including nuclear power, but he had never imagined himself being able to launch a rocket. But that day, he launched a four-feet rocket. It was small but something great. Of course Biafra later went into launching rockets and anti aircraft. And of course you know Ogbunigwe was the known war head Biafra produced. There were many other things. The raffia palm tree is being set ablaze and nobody is doing anything with it, but the war showed us that it was a very precious tree. Parts of it were used for scientific purposes and this tree was virtually everywhere. Our brain showed us a lot of possibilities of what we could do. But as I said the civil war ended. At the end of the war, I talked with Ukpabi Asika who was the Administrator of East Central State. In fact he made me chairman of the committee for the reopening of University of Nigeria, Nuskka and I told him he must do something to encourage our people. When I was appointed chairman of the committee to reopen University of Nigeria, there was a Lt. Col. Who was asked to take us to Nuskka to tell the Army to vacate the campus because the University was used as an Army Brigade. In those days, we had a borehole serving the University and it was destroyed during the war. They brought Army Engineers from Lagos to repair it and after working on it for two weeks, they proclaimed the borehole dead. We were using tanker to go several miles away to bring water to serve the University, but with the spirit of Biafra, I called Professor Gordian Ezekwe who was a member of my committee and reminded him that he was head of the Research and Production in Biafra and that he must do something to give the University water. Within two weeks, water flowed in the University. He knew that I couldn’t take no for an answer and he took the challenge and found an answer to it. Unfortunately, that spirit of Biafra is gone because, as I said, General Obasanjo ensured that people should believe that nothing good came out of Biafra. So we couldn’t talk about manufacturing military hardware. I believe that if we come together and reenact that spirit of Biafra, we will be self sustaining that we won’t care about what is happening in other parts of Nigeria. That is why I say we should develop the spirit of Biafransim if we must move forward. We need to exploit what God had given to us to solve our problems. When we were young, there were things we used to describe as “Fabrikwe” which were things manufactured in Japan. They were of poor quality at that time, but that was how they started. Where is Japan today? That is the kind of thing our people have to emulate; that is being innovative and creative. I am happy Governor Willie Obiano has raised an Elder’s council. The first day he called us for a meeting, I raised that issue, that it is necessary that our people should be encouraged to start using our brains. I believe we can do it successfully by bringing our people in the Diaspora. If we do it in all the Igbo -speaking states and succeed, nobody will care whether the president is a Falani or Hausa because we will be self sustaining. In fact, other Nigerian will then become afraid to get into our way. Some of the people who served in Biafra are still around and can be useful. What do you think will be the relevance of these people who are agitating for Biafra? The Indigenous People of Biafra on a Peaceful Protest over the Arrest of the Director of Radio Biafra yesterday along Ikwerre road in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. Photo: Nwankpa Chijioke The Indigenous People of Biafra on a Peaceful Protest over the Arrest of the Director of Radio Biafra yesterday along Ikwerre road in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. Photo: Nwankpa Chijioke By doing that kind of thing, you are creating enemies for yourself. People are attacking what they should not be attacking. Biafra was defeated; even though I hear some people say that the UN had agreed that the people can come together to decide what they want to be. But I think that is a diversion for me from what I call the spirit of Biafranism. This spirit is much more important than MASSOB, the IPOB and the new one that came up recently. If their concern is who will become what, that is not my concern. My concern is to get that spirit that made Biafra thick. Besides, if Biafra survives, there will be more problems. What kind of government will the agitators even form? Will it be modeled after the Ahiara Declaration? There were people like Chinua Achebe who were formulating ideas as we were fighting Nigeria and deciding the kind of government that would be in place after the war. But with the way things were going, some people dismissed it even before the declaration came out. Such people believed that the situation was not ideal for formulating such a policy in time of war. However, there were things that gingered the people’s spirit during the war, like the war songs and the Radio Biafra propaganda championed by Okokon Ndem. In fact every field had a contribution to make during the war, including musicians. Nobody or group was superior to the other. What we need now is to encourage our people to select a leader that can give them what they want. If we can do that, we can transform Igbo land and I assure you, other people will want to come and join us to see what they can get from us. That is why I say that I don’t want to be caught up with IPOB or MASSOB. Come to even think of it, who are the people in MASSOB? Do they even have any ideology? They tell themselves lets’ go on and by so doing, they give publicity to themselves. Maybe they are happy they are keeping the name Biafra alive after Nigeria abolished the Bight of Biafra which was even there before Nigeria’s Independence. For that hatred for Biafra, Nigeria decided to abolish the Bight of Biafra. Who really can be described as a hero? That somebody is a Head of State does not make him a hero. In fact in one of my novels, I said that if I have power, political parties should not exist for 30 years because all they are doing is pursuit of power. They are not seriously interested in ideology. If we ban political parties, we can talk about rotation. What Nigerians should be doing is that when it is their turn, they should bring somebody. We don’t need to hold national election, the result of it most of us know how it is arrived at and we spend millions in addition. People should meet in their areas and select somebody when it is their turn. Political parties as they exist here make no meaning. The system we are running is so corrupt that somebody has virtually nothing, gets elected or appointed into a public office and within four years, he builds mansions in many places. Nigeria is still recovering money looted by a former Head of state and this was somebody who never even attended a university. The question is, how did he make this money? It was not like somebody like Okotiebo, who was very rich before he became a minister. I believe that with time, we will begin to see people who possess the qualities of leaders who can help our people to create wealth. That will go a long way to change the manner of our people. What kind of impact do you think the Igbo leaders of thought will really make? The Igbo Leaders of Thought is made up of people from states in Igbo land and when we go there, nobody pays us transport allowance. So we are not going there for what we will get. So you can see that the impact is limited at the moment. Maybe over the years, it may be possible to expand it by involving more people. At the moment, we do not want to involve the governors because they are politicians. Maybe they could function in advisory capacity when necessary. The kind of goals they have may not fit into the activities of Leaders of Thought. What is the difference between Igbo Leaders of Thought and Ohaneze Ndigbo? Ohaneze is almost an institution that involves the entire Igbo people. Ohaneze speaks the minds of Ndigbo, even though I don’t know what the situation is now concerning its leadership. Tell us your experience when you were part of the administration at the University of Nigeria? Initially, Nuskka had problems; serious problems. Many people were not happy that Zik brought American education to Nigeria. It started with its own degrees when others were awarding foreign degrees. There were jokes about Nsukka degrees then. We had difficulties getting students and we had to organize secondary school students to talk to them and encourage them to come to UNN. We published newsletters which we also sent to the schools from time to time. I visited Government College Umuahia deliberately to talk to the students. I was the college prefect during my time there and the idea was to assure them that I would not deceive them if Nsukka was not good. Nsukka was very unpopular and the University was offering courses the students had never heard about. We also organized careers exhibition and brought in employers to address the students in UNN. There was a white man at the Nigeria Tobacco Company who called me by the side and said, if you were in my shoes, will you be employing these students? They believed the degrees were useless. So I decided to employ Nduka Eya and B.I.C Ijeoma, who were graduates of the university. When I went to WAEC as Registrar, I wanted to take Nduka Eya but his wife did not like their moving to Ghana with me. Eya was among the first set of graduates. But look at Nsukka today. If Ohaneze Ndigbo is effective, would there have been any need for Igbo Leaders of Thought? Igbo Leaders of Thought is more selective. Not everybody joins it. You join when you are invited. Theoretically, they should be better equipped to do the job. They don’t have the reach Ohaneze has, but quite frankly it is in a position to encourage our people to pay more attention to their states. You were the Registrar of WAEC when there was this Expo 77. What happened? Yes, there was a leakage of the examination that year. There had been one before I came in, I think in the 60s. A Ghanaian was the Registrar at the time. I was the first Nigerian Registrar of WAEC. I gave a press conference that annoyed the chairman of the committee set up by the federal government to look into the leakage. But what gave me joy was that government set up the panel and no official of WAEC was linked with the leakage. What happened was that a policeman from the Special Branch who was detailed to guard the papers fell sick and went to a herbalist. The herbalist asked him where he was working and he said WAEC and the herbalist shouted aah, you are in money. You are guarding question papers. With that encouragement, the man would go to the strong room, steal one question paper and went and sold. He was eventually caught and what gave me joy was that no WAEC official was involved. It showed that all my staff were people of high integrity. The other one happened at the Nigerian Minting and Printing Company in Lagos which, though had very effective security, some of the workers there memorized WAEC questions sent there for printing, then came out and wrote the questions. When I was asked to give a guarantee that there won’t be further leakage, I said they should invite the Commissioner of Police to guarantee that his men sent to guard the question papers would no longer steal them. But we evolved a strategy that enabled us to minimize the effect of the leakage. So we had adopted a measure whereby if any question paper leaked, we cancelled it outright and set another one. From that experience, I keep saying that corruption is our common way of life. WAEC had been disturbed by miracle centres. Surprisingly some parents aide their children to cheat in examinations. These days we hear the kind of things that did not happen during our days in the university. We hear lecturers these days ask students to go and pay for rooms in hotels and wait for them to come and meet them just to pass them in the examination. It is really unimaginable. Do you think it was lack of confidence in WAEC after the EXPO 77 that made government to establish NECO? Prof Babs Fafunwa who was with us at Nsukka embarked on a massive campaign against WAEC. Zik brought him to Nsukka when he returned to Nigeria from USA. When I was Registrar of WAEC, he was at Nsukka. He gave examples that there were many examination boards in England and wanted Nigeria to break the monopoly of WAEC. I said he should have told the whole story. It is true that there were many Examination boards in England, but our system was different from theirs. That was also how JAMB came. They wanted a quota system and they felt that the only way to achieve it was to set up another body. It was Prof. Bamiro who argued that Northern students were unfairly treated. How can we discriminate in WAEC? The next thing we heard was that government had set up JAMB without even waiting for an interim report and Obasanjo announced that it was with immediate effect. They later amended it when they discovered that it was impossible to implement it immediately and it was shifted to one year later. That’s how these things started. The impression they gave was that WAEC was favouring southern students. You left WAEC under controversial circumstances. What actually happened? This thing happened a long time ago and I am surprised that you know it. Actually, I gathered that when the WAEC leakage happened in 1977, government set up a panel. All kinds of allegations were made, including the allegations that WAEC was favouring some schools. Nobody in WAEC, not even the Registrar, knows what any student would score until the results are collated. The papers are marked in batches and printed school by school. Nobody has the capacity to change anything but the chairman of the panel believed that the result of his child’s school was cancelled because he went to a poor school. The result was that Ike must be punished. There was also the allegation that when I was appointed WAEC Registrar, that I did not report to Lagos; that I went to Accra straight. They thought they would catch me but from all the reports, they could not catch me. Anyway, I was travelling to Senegal and they wanted me back in Lagos immediately. In fact, they wanted to send a special plane for me to return immediately and I said there was no need for that because I was already returning to Lagos. At the Airport, somebody gave me a photocopy of the decision they had already taken and the next thing was that Obasanjo wanted me to name any other job I wanted apart from Registrar of WAEC. I was asked to report to the chairman of the Public Service Commission who said man you are lucky, just name anything big and it will be yours. I told him plainly that I did not want anybody to give me any job. Anyway, after so many intrigues, I offered to retire voluntarily. Sometime later, Obasanjo invited me to join Otta Farms, but I could not. Sometime later, I was invited to be among 15 Nigerians for a special assignment and I also declined. Was it after your retirement from WAEC that you went to teach in the University? It was after my retirement from WAEC that I went into teaching. I was the Registrar at the University of Nigeria before going to WAEC. After my retirement, I was invited by the University of Jos as a visiting Professor. Because of the level I had attained, I could not be invited to come and become just a lecturer. I was first invited by a University in the USA and in fact I was inclined to go, but I chose Jos. Obasanjo has been mentioned in many places during this interaction. How do you rate him as a leader? Can he be described as a hero? Obasanjo ruled this country for 11years and he is in a different class if you want to compare him with people like Sani Abacha and other people. Whenever it comes to the issue of heroes, I have to do some more thinking. It should be left for Nigerians to define who should be called heroes. Well, somebody can be fantastic and within a few months of his leadership, you could see the direction he is going. That somebody should be called a hero because he served as a head of state, certainly I cannot accept it. You wrote many books. What influenced your writing? I will start from secondary school. I went to a good school which is Government College Umuahia which encouraged us. We had such caliber of people, like Prof. Biobaku who was my teacher. He got B.A from London and came to teach us. In fact he marked my essay and gave me 27/30. He was somebody that encouraged me and I owe a lot to him. After my graduation, I got in contact with him and he changed my career. The kind of knowledge the teachers impacted on us made Umuahia to be noted for creative writing. It was so much work that the students didn’t know much about social life. So a social night was organized for us at the Women Training College (WTC) , Umuahia on a Saturday night. Biobaku taught us how to comport ourselves. On the Monday morning when we came to the class we were asked to write a poem on the outing and what one of us wrote surprised us as he used beautiful language to capture all the events of the night. That made me to develop interest in writing. Chinua Achebe was my senior at Umuahia and he too influenced my writing. In fact, I never thought of writing novels until Chinua Achebe published his Things Fall Apart in 1958.Chinua Achebe and myself were close friends and we thought about writing together. That was how it started. Later I saw I could use fiction to write. I didn’t know I would be lucky with writing. I continued and, glory be to God, I celebrated 50 years of writing in October last year. Umuahia produced a lot of writers- myself, Chinua Achebe, Cyprain Ekwensi, Gabriel Okara, Ken Saro Wiwa etc. Which was your first novel? Toads for Super What is your attitude towards wealth? In an interview I granted two years ago, I said I would rather have 20 novels against my name, than have 20m pounds in my account. I like money, but money cannot be my target in life. Money is helpful, but for me, there are things that are more enduring than money. In August this year, I got a call from the Federal University in Yola that I would be honoured with a Doctorate Degree. I don’t know anybody there and if it were something to be bought with money, there is no way I could get it. How long did it take you to build this house? I was a young graduate and my father surprised me one day. He bought some bags of cement and said I should build a house. It was a challenge. I finished the house before my wedding in December 1959. This office we are using now was my father’s bedroom. In this community we don’t have a central palace for the traditional ruler and so when you are made the traditional ruler, you use your house as the palace. I started building the other house after I had retired from WAEC Is the traditional institution hereditary in Ndikelionwu? Yes. We are different from many communities. In a number of communities, they tell you that two or three families that came first will be producing the Eze. Here, only the Ike dynasty produces the Eze. There was a move by some people to make it rotational but that has not gone beyond some people’s imagination. What is your advice to Ndigbo? We need to help ourselves. We need to use our God-given brains much more than we are doing. That is the only way to transform our society. This country is blessed and we can make ourselves more progressive than we are today.


Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/201....6/11/igbo-need-the-s

Israel Warns Russia “We’ll Bring Whole World Down With Us”

Grim reports circulating in the Kremlin today are stating that during a “shouting match” between President Medvedev and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu , the leader of the Jewish Nation warned “We’ll bring the whole World down with us if we have to” after his, Netanyahu, being “told with all authority” by Medvedev that Russia would not sanction Israel’s planned nuclear bombing of Iran and would “very likely” retaliate if Netanyahu carries out his threat.

In what Russian Foreign Ministry Officials are saying was an “unprecedented breech on International protocol”, Netanyahu secreted himself to Moscow this week aboard an Israeli registered private jet that reported its destination as being the capital of Georgia, Tbilisi, which Israel had previously armed for that Nations brutal assault upon South Ossetia which Russian forces were able to successfully repel during last years war.

However, upon the Israeli plane nearing Russian airspace, these reports continue, an “urgent” request to deviate from its original flight plan and fly to Moscow was received by Russian Military air controllers who were “stunned” when informed by the pilot that Netanyahu was aboard whereupon permission was granted for the flight to land at the Kubinka air base in Moscow Oblast where it was met by FSB forces, Russian and Israeli diplomatic officials.

Medvedev, when informed of Netanyahu’s surprise visit was rushed by his Security personal to Kubinka where according to these reports he was met by an “enraged” Netanyahu, Israeli Military Affairs Secretary General Meir Kalifi and Israeli National Security Advisor Uzi Arad who all then demanded the “immediate return” of “all documents, equipment and Mossad agents” captured by Russian and US commandos who took back control from the Israeli and rogue CIA commandos the hijacked ship Arctic Sea.

[Note: We had previously reported on the Arctic Sea hijacking in our reports: “Russia “Alarmed” After Nuclear Warheads Go Missing In Atlantic” and “Russian And US Forces Retake Missing Nukes From Rogue CIA “Terrorists”]

[Note: Western propaganda media sources are currently reporting the absurd notion that the Arctic Sea “may have” contained Russian missiles bound for Iran, which as anyone who knows this region is aware that all sea traffic between Russia and Iran is done on the waters of the Caspian Sea that both countries have ports on and is never conducted on Atlantic or Mediterranean sea lanes.]

Medvedev, when faced with Netanyahu’s “outburst”, was reported to have responded (Medvedev and Netanyahu both spoke in English which they are both fluent in) that as the facts into the Arctic Sea hijacking was still being investigated Russia was “not prepared” to release any of the “evidence” to anyone.

Netanyahu then issued his threatening words to Medvedev along with a further threat that Russia “should watch its own back” and not to be surprised when “mushroom clouds start appearing over Tehran” whereupon he re-boarded his plane with his military and intelligence entourage for his return flight back to Israel and leaving “everyone shocked” as to what all of the events meant.

Upon Netanyahu’s return to Israel their media reported that he, at first, attempted to deny his secret trip to Russia, but which was subsequently confirmed by a “senior Jerusalem official”.

An FSB addendum to these reports state that Israeli National Security Advisor Uzi Arad, who was the former director of intelligence for Israel’s Mossad and banned from the United States in 2004, was “most assuredly” the “mastermind” behind the hijacking of the Arctic Sea for a planned attack upon the US as Russian Intelligence Officials have long suspected him of being one of the “main perpetrators” of the September 11, 2001 attacks upon America.

Arad is also believed by Russian Military Analysts to be the main instigator for an immediate nuclear attack upon Iran’s atomic facilities as he his Nation’s destruction of the Persian Nation as an “existential imperative” for Israel if it is to survive.

Further threatening Israel was Netanyahu’s defiance of President Obama in ordering an expansion of settlements in occupied Palestinian territory that the US, EU, Russia and China had warned him not to do.

Russian Foreign Ministry Officials state grimly in these reports that unless Israel returns to a more “sane” government headed by the highly respected opposition chairwoman Tzipi Livni the “only outcome” will be “Total Global Warfare” which Netanyahu and his radical right-wing allies (who stole the Israeli election from Livni) are intent upon starting as they see a “great conflict” as being the only means viable for keeping all of the land they say is theirs by “birthright”, but which millions of Palestinians strongly disagree.

And to how radical Netanyahu’s government has become we can see evidenced in his ordering his government to begin running television advertisements warning Israelis not to marry non-Jews, and as we can read:

“The Israeli government has launched a television and Internet advertising campaign urging Israelis to inform on Jewish friends and relatives abroad who may be in danger of marrying non-Jews. The advertisements, employing what the Israeli media described as “scare tactics,” are designed to stop assimilation through intermarriage among young Diaspora Jews by encouraging their move to Israel.”

To what the final outcome of these events will be can be gleaned from these reports, but which due to the constraints placed upon us in receiving this information in the first place we can only strongly advise that the next 8-weeks may well be the defining period of time for this entire century.

Problems, Panthers surface at Pa. polls

By Dave Boyer and Jim McElhatton - The Washington Times - Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Problems at the polls surfaced early Tuesday in the battleground state of Pennsylvania, with Republican election monitors being turned away from polling places and members of the New Black Panther Party appearing at voting sites in Philadelphia.

Pennsylvania Republican officials said 75 election monitors from the party were turned away from polling places in heavily Democratic sections of Philadelphia Tuesday, but a judge has ordered them reinstated.

“It certainly raises the question, what are Democrats doing in the polls that they are working so hard to shield folks from monitoring in this election?” state Republican chairman Rob Gleason said in a statement.

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has turned his attention to Pennsylvania in the final days of the race, as polls there have tightened in a state that President Obama’s campaign believed it would win fairly easily. Mr. Romney turned out about 30,000 supporters Sunday night at a rally in the Philadelphia suburbs.

The New Black Panther Party was back at the polls Tuesday in Philadelphia, where its members provoked a complaint of voter intimidation in 2008.

A reporter for Philadelphia Magazine found a “uniformed member of the New Black Panther Party” Tuesday morning at the entrance to a polling place in the 1200 block of Fairmount Avenue in Philadelphia. The reporter, Victor Fiorillo, told the man he was going to take his photograph.


Other Black Panthers reportedly showed up at a second polling place in Philadelphia Tuesday morning.

On Election Day in 2008, three members of the New Black Panther Party stood outside a polling place in Philadelphia, with one of them brandishing a nightstick or baton. The Justice Department under President George W. Bush filed a civil complaint again three Black Panthers — Minister King Samir Shabazz, Malik Zulu Shabazz and Jerry Jackson — charging them with violating voter rights by using coercion, threats and intimidation. The Obama administration later dismissed most of the case, even though the Black Panthers had not contested the charges.

Separately, Republicans had to go to court Tuesday to get a Barack Obama mural covered up in the voting room at a north Philadelphia precinct.

The wall at Benjamin Franklin Elementary School, which was just inches away from at least one voting machine, includes an image of Mr. Obama, his campaign’s familiar “O” icon, an excerpt from his 2008 victory speech, and that campaign’s “Hope” and “Change” slogans.

Meanwhile, Democrats in the key battleground state were concerned about a mysterious last-minute mailer, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported.

The newspaper wrote that a voter in Harrisburg, site of a close state senate race, reported recently getting a mailer that purported to come from the state’s Department of State saying identification is required to vote.

However, a judge ruled more than a month ago that no identification was required for this election, and a Democratic official told the newspaper that the mailer seemed “very suspicious.”

Matthew Keeler, a spokesman for the Pennsylvania Department of State, told The Washington Times that the department had sent out the mailer, but that happened more than a month ago before the judge’s ruling. He said the department had not sent out the mailer in recent days.

The developments come just as hundreds of federal observers have fanned out across the country to monitor elections and polling places in 23 states, including closely watched Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida.

Government officials, lawyers from both parties and watchdog groups are looking for irregularities the could tilt the outcome of the most expensive presidential election in history.

The Committee of Seventy, an election watchdog group in Philadelphia, said Tuesday there was much confusion at polling places in Philadelphia and its suburbs about the voter ID law. It said many polling sites around the region were distributing old information indicating that voters must produce ID to vote.

WHEN THE CATTLE THIEF ANNOUNCES THE ARRIVAL OF THE SHEPHERD’S DOG AS A WOLF (By Donald Ekpo responding to Alhaji Sagir Ringim)

RE: BIAFRA; “IT’S A PLOT BY IGBO TO COLONISE SOUTH SOUTH – Alhaji Sagir Ringim

Sir, I want to thank you for your concern about the welfare of the people of the South South by exposing the plans of the Igbos to recolonize the region. But I am worried about the sincerity of these your concerns. Because of these worries, let us dissect and carefully assess your statements of fear and concerns in four (4) segments, so as not to repeat the mistakes of 1964, 1966 and 1967-1970s till date. In your carefully written letter or chat with the Journalists as reported in the national dallies yesterday, you clearly stated that the Igbos want to;

(1) SEIZE THE ECONOMIC PROSPECTS OF THE MINORITY ETHINIC NATIONALITY OF THE OIL RICH REGION.

Alhaji Ringim, may I remind you that the economic prospects of the South South is currently being seized and controlled by your people of the Northern protectorate of Nigeria. Does that in anyway mean that you agree that your people have colonized my region? Are you also aware that even the oil wells in Abia State, Imo State and Anambra state and recently Enugu State (Igbo land) is being owned by your people in the Northern Protectorate? Are you aware that we in the oil rich region (South South) do not have control over our wealth, and its fortunes are determined by your people? Are you also aware that after sharing the proceeds of oil between your protégés in Shell, Mobil, Agip and Chevron, the left over is given to 44 local government of your state Kano, and only 8 Local government of Bayelsa? How more criminal could that be? Do you know that even when the Natural Gas from my State Akwa Ibom is used to generate power from my state owned Power Station, that the fraud of a constitution you fostered on my people does not allow me to use same electricity in my state or region, but I am forced to load it into the National grid that sends same power to your home in Kano State? Have you seen how the United Nigeria is enslaving me? Are you aware that the fraud of your constitution took away the economic prospects of my region by empowering only the Federal government to build roads that your people from the Northern protectorate never built in my state for over 40 years until the coming of our own Son Goodluck Jonathan, when he allowed state governments to tamper with Federal Roads, yet you were busy building all the so called federal roads in your region. That your fraud of a constitution imposed on us by you and your allies in the southwest took away the power from us to develop on the economic prospects of the region thereby taking away our rights to economic progress for over 50 years. And here you are sir getting worried of what the Igbos will do to my people. Sir have you been ever worried about what your people have done to my people? How many of my people have you killed in your region? Please tell me the number of my people slaughtered by the Igbos in their land that is enough for me to be weary of them. Remember that these are my neighbors that lived peacefully with us for centuries, shared cultures, intermarried and even celebrated common cultural events before you came with your successful propagandas that deceived our fathers?

(2) COLONISE THE SOUTH SOUTH, CAPTURE THE REGION, COLONISE THE OIL FIELD FOR BETTERMENT OF THE IGBOS.
Alhaji Sagir Ringim may I remind you that the Igbos are not the colonist as you have insinuated here, but you and your people in the northern protectorate. They have so far not shown the threat to colonize as when compared to your people. It is your people that used the oil from our region to better the livelihood of your people and that of your few allies in the Southwest. It is you that is synonymous with the word “CAPTURE”. It is your people that kill non-indigenes in your region to take-over their property. Alhaji Sagir Ringim, just in case you think this generation is as vulnerable are our grandfathers and fathers you deceived by your propaganda. You were able to make them see the Igbos as their enemies in the 60s. Please note that this is the 21st century of 2016. We are aware of these same lies you told our grandfathers and fathers in the early 60s. We are aware that after lying to them that they were different from the Igbos, you still went ahead and killed them in the name of killing the Igbos. We are aware of the devilish, malicious and infernal act you used one of your willing protégés General Gowon to do when you suddenly created the South East State (Today’s Cross River/Akwa Ibom State), Rivers State (Today’s Rivers and Bayelsa state) just to devise the divide-and-rule policy that was advise by the evil British woman just to break the unity of the region. We know that is was also based on Awolowo’s advise that certain parts of Igbo were sliced off, and added into the new states you created so as to weaken any form of unity that could hold. We have also read from a list of newspaper publications from the New York Post of the 60s as compiled by the LOWER NIGER CONGRESS on all the atrocities you committed against the people of the region before your final propaganda to separate them by these hypocritical lies. And we promise you that even though you used your fraud of a constitution to discourage the study of Nigerian History of the said period in Nigerian Schools, we will do well to expose this events in a carefully Chronicled format for every child/youth of this generation to know the truth. How dare you assume that even in the retard state of your protectorate, that you can conveniently influence the minds of the learned region in this millennium?

(3) BIAFRA IS LANDLOCKED AND WASN’T BLESSED WITH SOLID MATERIALS APART FROM COAL, ADDED THAT THE GEOLOGY OF THE ENCLAVE CAN’T SUPPORT AN INDEPENDENT COUNTRY.
Alhaji Sagir Ringim, if these are your fears about the existence of Biafra, first of all, are you revealing the fears of your region, the Northern protectorate of the 12 Sharia states or the entire protectorate? You do not have any mineral resources and you are landlocked. Are you telling me you and your people have been so worried of surviving alone hence your insistence of a non-functional ONE NIGERIA PROJECT? Let me explain this to you Sir; The Igbos you are taking about do not just have a large reservoir of Coal in Enugu that can last for another century knowing that Coal is presently running major economies in Europe, South America and South Africa, the region also has a large reserve of Oil and gas in Abia and Imo state. Oil exploration in Anambra state has also commence and will soon commence in Enugu State. Can you see that your propagandas won’t work as it did in the 60s? Apart from the fact that your people maliciously separated the Igbos from their original race to Delta, Rivers and Akwa Ibom states, we at the LOWER NIGER CONGRESS have taken it upon ourselves to expose the malicious schemes of lies you used to separate our region. Your protégé General Buhari made it easier for us on National Television when his hatred for the people overwhelmed his ability to continue in the cover of your propaganda. He acknowledged the fact that we were all the same people. That notwithstanding, in a matter time, your lies and propaganda will hit the broken bridges of discontinuity. How dare you generate fears that do not exist for your selfish interest? You must have been thinking how successful your deceitful and hypocritical lies would go in rejuvenating the lies of the 60s.

(4) BECAUSE OF THESE NATURAL SHORTCOMINGS, IGBOS SURVIVED AS A DESPORA RACE THAN ANY DOMINANT GROUP IN NIGERIA…. …. THE ECONOMIC PROWESS OF THE IGBOS IS DOMICILED OUTSIDE BIAFRA…
Alhaji Sagir Ringim, this is the most absurd and ridiculous of all your concerns as expressed by your expression of love towards my people in the Niger Delta region. Industrialist do not just sit and lazy about as expected by you. And these were one of the fears and concerned expressed by your late Sultan in a video we managed to see where he was worried about the Igbos in the north. Alhaji, are you aware that your successful brother, Dangote; one of the richest man in Africa, has his economic wealth spread and domiciled outside the Northern region? Or are you in anyway saying that because people expand, explore greener areas, that means such an individual has no space in his home? Your points are a bit too ridiculous to have considered as your reasons for granting this interview.

Having segmented your major reasons for advising my region to be weary of our Igbo brothers as those that intend to recolonize my people, I stand bold to say that you and your kinsmen are guilty of all your worries. It is also a cause for concern that you and your allies have suddenly decided to worry about the Niger Delta region. When did you love the region this much?
(1) Are you not the same people that classify us all as Igbos during your killing and butchering spree and largess in the north?
(2) How come you are bothered that the people you classify as one when butchering, are two different people when it comes to owners of wealth?
(3) If you could desecrate our land as if we do not exist, come in and take away our oil wells as though it belongs to you,
(4) Announce on National Television that the Oil in Bayelsa belongs to you in Kano and Jagawa,
(5) Kill us at will if your religion is disrespected in faraway Norway,
(6) Determine for us when and how our roads are built and how we use power generated from our resources.
(7) Swore over your graves that our our kinsman cannot be President or else you make the country ungovernable of which you did.

Yet you have the guts to tell us to be weary of those that have not in any way attempted to take anything from us by force. I truly hope you realize that this is 2016 and not 1964.

It is best to inform you and all those that have decided to cry more than the bereaved that we are aware that these are the same propaganda you used to separate us, then forced us to continue in this unholy Union. That was a very unfortunate thing to have happened that kept us in this bondage. Fortunately for us, the UNITED NATION CHARTER ON THE RIGHTS OF THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE is a tool you cannot do anything about. THE LOWER NIGER CONGRESS has taken advantage of these rights and it is set to call for a referendum. Quit crying on our behalf, we are presently studying the Constitution of which the Region will be built upon and so far, it can never be an evil as the Forced Marriage called Nigeria.
Thank you for your concerns Alhaji and co.

Press Statement

LESSONS BUHARI SHOULD LEARN FROM MARK ELLIOT ZUCKERBERG’S EPIC ENCOUNTER WITH IPOB

On Friday, the 29th of October 2016, Mark Elliot Zuckerberg, the 32-year old Jewish CEO of the social media platform Facebook (F, pulled down the FB group page belonging to Radio Biafra London (RBL). It is common knowledge that RBL is the media arm of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPO. In essence, Mark Zuckerberg intentionally and indirectly stifled IPOB from using FB to educate, inform, and disseminate the gospel of the restoration of the nation of Biafra to both Biafrans and non-Biafrans alike. What is more worrisome is that this clampdown on RBL by Mr. Zuckerberg came a few weeks after he visited the serial killer of Biafrans known as Muhammadu Buhari in Abuja-Nigeria. It is on record that on the same day Mark Zuckerberg held a secret meeting with Buhari in Abuja, his $95 million satellite exploded while on a launch pad in Cape Canaveral, Brevard County in Florida-USA.

As a stop-gap measure to the taking down of RBL FB page, the leadership of IPOB opened another group page for RBL and invited Biafrans and friends of Biafra to populate the page by adding their FB friends to the new group page. Surprisingly, FB Management started blocking those who attempted to add their friends to the group page. We posit that the blocking of people who were populating the FB group page did not happen without the knowledge and approval of Mr. Zuckerberg.

The Indigenous People of Biafra are still in shock as they wonder why Zuckerberg with a Jewish ancestry will work with an Anti-Semitic person like Muhammad Buhari to block RBL, which is the media arm of IPOB that belongs to Biafrans and these Biafrans have the same ancestry as Zuckerberg.

Did money exchange hands from Buhari’s Government to Mark Zuckerberg? If so, does Mr. Zuckerberg live with the philosophy that “money is thicker than blood“? Is Mr. Zuckerberg aware that Buhari hates the Jews and Biafrans more than any other thing in his life and that Buhari has visited all the neighbours of the State of Israel but vowed never to step his feet in Israel? Does Mr. Zuckerberg know that Buhari is the number one global campaigner for the division of Jerusalem the Biblical and ancient capital of Israel? Is Zuckerberg aware that Buhari covertly blocked Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from conducting state visits to West African region just as he visited the other regions of Africa?

If there were any doubts before, the personal experience of Mark Zuckerberg in the past few days that he shut down Radio Biafra London on Facebook has indicated to him the force behind the new Biafra movement led by Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. Something Buhari is confronting every day but too proud to acknowledge publicly.

Zuckerberg and his Facebook felt the might and divinity of IPOB in the past days when they lost over 5% of the value of his Facebook company which cost him $3 billion, simply because he messed with IPOB. Having been visited by this second divine retribution, he quickly backtracked and restored RBL FB group page on Friday, November 4th, 2016.

Contrast this conscientious and repentant attitude of Zuckerberg towards IPOB with that of Buhari who miscalculated and kidnapped the symbol and arrowhead of the new fearless agitation for Biafra, the IPOB leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. Despite the calamitous destruction of the Nigerian economy, disease, pestilence, restiveness, hunger and pain, Buhari like the Biblical Pharaoh has refused to restore the freedom of the IPOB leader quite unlike Mark Zuckerberg that saw the demise of his empire and quickly did the needful.

It will be in the interest of Buhari to learn from Mark Zuckerberg's experience since they are friends. He tampered with RBL Facebook group page and felt the wrath of God instantly. RBL on Facebook is the central new media platform for IPOB and all lovers of freedom including journalists, which makes it naturally the largest and most popular forum on Facebook.

Considering the total mess Nigeria is in and the need to avert the complete collapse of the country into an unimaginable state of anarchy, it is our expectation that Justice Binta Nyako will be moved to salvage what is left of the wreckage that Nigeria has become. Failure by Binta Nyako to dismiss outright the politically motivated and frivolous charges against the IPOB leader Nnamdi Kanu will invite deadlier calamities upon Nigeria.

Moving forward, we warn Mr. Zuckerberg to steer clear of Muhammadu Buhari and to avoid anything that will drag him into fighting against the restoration of Biafra. Anyone who fights against Biafra is directly fighting against the Almighty God, Chukwu Okike Abiama, hence repercussions must follow such a person or nation.

On the other hand, we feel so sorry for Muhammadu Buhari because he has sunk billions of dollars into stopping Radio Biafra and the Biafran restoration process without any success. This is beside the thousands of Biafran lives he has killed in cold blood from August 30th, 2015 till date. Muhammadu Buhari has blood-letting in his DNA because this was why he started his military career with the assassination of Major-General J. T. U. Aguiyi-Ironsi on the 29th of July, 1966. Buhari was also involved in the massacre of over two million Biafrans at Owerri in 1968.

The futility of Mark Elliot Zuckerberg’s clampdown on RBL FB page and the failure of Muhammadu Buhari in silencing IPOB is a big lesson to those who are opposed to the restoration of the nation of Biafra. The restoration of the nation of Biafra is a divine project whose time has come and the likes of Mark Elliot Zuckerberg and Muhammadu Buhari cannot alter the plans of the God of Biafrans because He is indeed El-Sali, El-Haggadol, El-Elyon, and El-Gibbor.
Biafra restoration is a mandate from Sovereign LORD of all Creation.

Signed:
Barrister Emma Nmezu
Dr. Clifford Chukwuemeka Iroanya
Spokespersons for IPOB

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GERMANY AT BOILING POINT: Furious mob takes to streets hunting and attacking migrants
A MOB of up to 50 stone-throwing neo-Nazis went "hunting" for migrants in the eastern German city of Bautzen yesterday in a repeat of scenes which played out there two months ago.
By Allan Hall
PUBLISHED: 06:21, Thu, Nov 3, 2016 | UPDATED: 09:26, Thu, Nov 3, 2016


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Migrants fled from the mob fearing for their lives

Two refugees fled for their lives from the right-wingers who screamed insults and threats after them.

Police were out in force at the time of the confrontation but apparently did not act until the refugees began to run from the mob who had gathered at the city’s Holzmarkt.

One of the asylum seekers was hit by a bicycle ridden by one of his pursuers and suffered a cut from a stone which hit him.
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Police rescued a second youth and took him away in a patrol car.

The town has had a nightly curfew for unaccompanied minor refugees since the violent events of mid-September when nearly 80 neo-Nazis chased 19 asylum seekers through the streets after exchanging insults in a main square.

This time the far-right opponents of refugees took to cars and bikes to chase the migrants who told police they genuinely felt in fear of their lives.

Like in the previous incident, the confrontation escalated after both groups exchanged verbal insults.

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The incident started off with verbal assaults between the right wingers and migrants

The incident has highlighted once again the seething resentment that the far-right has for refugees who are spread out in accommodation centres across the country.

One week after the initial incident in Bautzen, neo-Nazi youths shouting 'foreigners out!' beat up an elderly man in the town.

The 72-year-old German citizen with Algerian roots was set upon by thugs who punched him to the ground.

They hurled racial epithets at him before fleeing and have so far not been caught.

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One migrants suffered injuries after being hit by a stone

In February, a cheering crowd was seen outside a burning asylum-seeker shelter in Bautzen, clapping and shouting: "Good, that's up in flames."

That same weekend, a video emerged of neo-Nazis intimidating refugee children, preventing them from getting off a bus to get to another shelter in Clausnitz.

Germany recorded more than 1,000 attacks on refugee shelters last year - a five-fold rise over 2014.

Bautzen mayor Alexander Ahrens met members of far-right groups in October in a bid to try to learn their motivation for violence.

Politics | Fri Nov 4, 2016 | 11:12pm EDT
San Diego Catholic Diocese denounces parish that called voting Democrat 'mortal sin'
U.S. Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton gets off her campaign plane in Moon, Pennsylvania, U.S. November 4, 2016. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
U.S. Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton gets off her campaign plane in Moon, Pennsylvania, U.S. November 4, 2016. REUTERS/Brian Snyder

The Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego denounced one of its parishes on Friday after its worshippers were told that voting for Democrats is a "mortal sin" that could lead to an eternity in hell.

The Diocese said the Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in the neighborhood of Old Town made the statement in an insert to a weekly leaflet given to churchgoers on Oct. 16, calling abortion, same-sex marriage, euthanasia and other political issues "non-negotiables."

"It is a mortal sin to vote Democrat," the insert read, with the words underlined and bolded. "If your bishop, priest, deacon or other parishioners tell you to do so, you must walk away from them. Your immortal soul and your salvation are at stake."

On Tuesday, voters will pick the next president after an often bitter contest that polls suggest has tightened considerably in the last week. While several states are too close to call, polls have shown Democrat Hillary Clinton leading over Republican Donald Trump for some time in California where the parish is located.

Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego Bishop Robert McElroy said in a statement that the parish, which will also serve as a polling place, violated its religious duties with the political comments.

"It is contrary to Catholic teaching to state that voting for a Democrat or Republican automatically condemns the voter to hell," the statement said. "The Catholic Church does not endorse specific candidates, use parish media or bulletins to favor candidates or parties or engage in partisan political activity of any kind."

The parish's pastor, Richard Perozich, did not respond to calls and an email on Friday.

The Diocese also took issue with a column in the parish's Oct. 30 bulletin that railed against abortion and constraints on tax-exempt organizations from certain political activity, and blames elected officials for allowing U.S. society to be "enslaved" to sin.

"Satan has deceived many Christians to convert to worldly values from Christian ones," the bulletin reads. "The devil does this through the tactics outlined by Saul Alinsky with the outcome as Hillary Clinton has stated, 'And deep-seated cultural codes, religious beliefs and structural biases have to be changed,' to draw us away from God's teachings."

Alinsky was a pioneer in community organizing in Chicago known for confrontational, though nonviolent, tactics to achieve social change.

Clinton has been a lifelong Methodist, attending first as child with her parents and later attending a Methodist church as first lady. Trump on the other hand has been backed by religious conservatives and evangelicals.

Richard Schmalbeck, a professor at Duke University School of Law with expertise in non-profits, said the statements appear to violate requirements for tax-exempt organizations around political activity.
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"Anything that clearly disparages a candidate is intervention in opposition to a candidate, and I think saying the devil operates through a person would count as disparagement," he said.

Schmalbeck said it seems unlikely, however, that the U.S. Internal Revenue Service would aggressively pursue revoking the church's tax-exempt status given its recent history of not going after churches that have made similar comments.

(Reporting by Curtis Skinner in San Francisco; Editing by Lisa Shumaker)