Blog Heap of Links for the day 10 March 2016

ISIS staff list is LEAKED: Names and family details of 22,000 jihadis revealed in cache of application forms complete with references (and next of kin) Former MI6 director said files could be the 'biggest breakthrough in years'…

His band were unwittingly at the centre of one of the bloodiest massacres to happen on European soil in a century.

Now, almost four months after 89 people were killed by Islamic extremists at their concert, Eagles of Death Metal singer Jesse Hughes has expressed suspicion about security at the event.

Speaking to Fox Business Network, he suggested that around six guards at the Bataclan concert hall in Paris “had a reason” not to show up for work on the night of the attack.
He refused to elaborate any further out of “respect” for the police inquiry, but said he had already been concerned about staff at the venue.…

…The FBI has now instructed high schools across the nation to report students who in any way criticize government policies and what the report phrases as “western corruption.” The FBI is interested in determining – as part of some warped “pre-crime” program – who might become potential future terrorists.…

Two significant rulings by the National Labor Relations Board in 2015 expanded the interpretation of the “joint employer” rule. Joint employer is a designation given when two firms are involved in the employment practices of an employee.… The real fight here has nothing to do with righting alleged wrongs. The ultimate goal is a unionized fast food work force. … NLRB general counsel Richard Griffin admits that the NLRB action … is all about the Service Employees International Union’s “Fight for $15” wage push. … How will this affect the nation’s 780,000 franchises that provide 9 million jobs? Likely not in a good way. …

The ancient al-Qarawiyyin Library in Fez isn’t just the oldest library in Africa. Founded in 859, it’s the oldest working library in the world, holding ancient manuscripts that date as far back as 12 centuries. But modern life had taken a toll on the library, with its buildings falling into disrepair. That’s why in 2012, the Moroccan Ministry of Culture asked TED Fellow and architect Aziza Chaouni to rehabilitate the library…

Some think the Devil can be found in the Hebrew Bible. Are they right?…

The Tick might be on his way back to television if new reports are to be believed. Amazon has ordered a pilot for the new series, with Ben Edlund back in the fold as writer and producer and Barry Josephson as executive producer.

Unfortunately actor Patrick Warburton, who played the big blue lug in the previous live action series is not going to be reprising his role, as he has a new series, Crowded, on NBC. He will be included as an executive producer, and hopefully, they can find someone to fill his big blue shoes.…

Amputee Dennis Aabo Sørensen has made history as the first person to regain real-time sensation of touch using a bionic fingertip.… successfully recognized the different textures with a 96% accuracy.…

My mother passed away tonight. I’d sat with her since 6 am and she held on, with morphine easing her distress. I finally left at 10, after giving her a kiss and saying good-bye — and she died ten minutes later. I don’t believe the timing was a coincidence.…

New Video of Deadly Shooting at Militia Occupation in Oregon… The new release pairs already-public aerial footage from the FBI with a 12-minute cellphone video shot by one of the militants inside Finicum’s truck.…

Next boss of the USAF…
Never deployed.
No combat experience.
Nothing.
What a joke.…

Police confiscated firearms from 74-year-old Ralph Gilbertsen, although he is not a felon or domestic abuser, and he has never been ruled dangerous to others because of mental illness.… lives in Richfield, Minnesota, believes in Bigfoot and UFOs. …does receive treatment for a “mild” mental health disorder… psychologist sent a letter to the judge in the case, stating that “Gilbertsen is compliant with his medications and poses no danger to himself or others.” … former Marine… concealed carry permit holder… proud owner of three handguns, until the police knocked on his door.… Hennepin Community Outreach for Psychiatric Emergencies (COPE) called police about Gilbertsen after his apartment managers expressed concern about a series of letters he had written on CIA spying. … Joseph Olson, emeritus professor at Mitchell Hamline School of Law in Minnesota, simply sees a man who is “eccentric.” Olson observes, “That’s not a crime in America.”

Gilbertsen is suing to get his guns back.

WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. James Lankford accused Democrats of hypocrisy Wednesday for insisting that the Supreme Court vacancy be filled during a presidential election year.

Lankford, R-Oklahoma, also vowed that Republicans would ensure President Barack Obama can’t appoint someone to the high court during a Senate break.

In a speech on the Senate floor, Lankford said, “We will also not allow a recess appointment.

“That has been floated multiple times in the media — that the president will just do a recess appointment and go around us. The Senate chooses when the Senate is in recess. Not the president. So we can do this. We can remain in continuous session without recess to prevent a recess appointment by this president through the rest of this year.…”

The Public Prosecutor in the Netherlands has finally released the list of charges that Geert Wilders will face in his upcoming trial. They are:
1. Deliberately insulting a group of people because of their race; and
2. Inciting hatred or discrimination against these people.
Mr. Wilders is being charged with four variants of each of these offenses — complicity, commit, incitement and “doing it complicity”.

In other news, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, and Macedonia have now announced that they will close their borders, effectively shutting off the migration route through Greece to Central Europe. This action was undertaken with EU approval, which is surprising, given that just a few weeks ago the European Commission told Austria it was violating international law and the human rights of migrants by limiting the number of “refugees” that could cross its borders every year.… …

Female residents of the northern Swedish town of Östersund have been warned by police officials not to leave their homes at night, after six recent incidents in which unaccompanied women were viciously attacked by men of “foreign appearance”. There is no official indication that these brutal incidents had anything to do with either Islam or mass immigration.

In other news, more than 1,300 new cases of Female Genital Mutilation were reported in England over a three-month period, according to the government’s health statistics agency.…

• Restoring the world’s oldest library
• Looking for Satan in All the Wrong Places - Some think the Devil can be found in the Hebrew Bible. Are they right?
• Via Drudge: AG Lynch Testifies: Justice Dept. Has ‘Discussed’ Civil Legal Action Against Climate Change Deniers
• Why Are Liberal-Run Institutions Such Hotbeds of Racism and Sexism?…

Conservative author and Constitutional scholar Mark Levin has endorsed Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) as his choice to become the next president of the United States.… Cruz is best when it comes to “the Constitution, the Republic, individual sovereignty, separation of powers, the Bill of Rights, family, faith, a secure border,” and “our national security,” Levin explained.…

Former Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma… said Rubio was the most “trustworthy” and electable of the candidates, while Cruz has difficulty getting things done and would have too much difficulty winning support from voters who didn’t wholeheartedly agree with his ideas, and he dismissed Trump as a “carnival barker.”…

[Cruz:] "…Donald does well with voters who have relatively low information, who are not that engaged and who are angry and they see him as an angry voice. Where we are beating him, is when voters get more engaged and they get more informed.…"

Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) endorsed Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) as his choice to become the next president of the United States Thursday afternoon.… hinted that other senators will soon endorse him, and called on Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) to drop out.…

…Senator Bernie Sanders implied to supporters at a campaign rally on Monday in Dearborn, Michigan - home of one of the nation’s largest Arab and Muslim communities - that “hatred and warfare” in the Middle east region were the fault of Israel.…

…Mitt Romney said he wasn’t running for President of the United States. He said he wasn’t going to do it all weekend long. According to political pundit Fred Karger, Romney has offically filed with the FEC…