Belgium
10:57 20/01/2021
Rudi Vervoort, the minister-president of the Brussels-Capital Region, warned parliament on Tuesday that the corona crisis is creating fertile ground for polarisation - echoing concerns from experts who fear an increase in radicalisation during the current pandemic. In recent months, certain groups have developed a radical discourse that, through the spread of fake news, calls into question the credibility of the authorities, Vervoort told the home affairs committee.
The coronavirus crisis accentuates social fault lines and feelings of insecurity among citizens, Vervoort said, quoting from a report from experts involved in the new Global Safety and Prevention Plan (GVPP) for the period 2021-2024. The plan aims to develop strategies for dealing with five types of organised and subversive crime, including radicalisation, in the region.
Actions taken by Army secretary, Congress after Spc. Vanessa Guillen’s death are insufficient By: Michelle J. Gradnigo
Army secretary addresses report of Fort Hood Independent Review Committee
Secretary of the Army Ryan D. McCarthy and the five civilian members of the Fort Hood Independent Review Committee unveiled the results of a three-month examination of the command climate and culture at Fort Hood and the surrounding military community on Dec. 8. Fort Hood has garnered international attention after 28 soldiers assigned to the post died in the past year. The most prominent was Spc. Vanessa Guillen’s alleged murder by a fellow soldier who then died by suicide.
front-runners in this primary. that s joe biden, kamala harris, that s pete buttigieg and that s bernie sanders. that s why in polls not just in iowa but around the country, we re seeing a steady increase for her. not as much for bernie sanders. david jolly, as we ve been watching your coverage on this story here on our network about, unfortunately, what happened over the last week and a half, with gun violence as well as we see so many deaths within a short amount of time here. elizabeth warren, let s stay on her for a moment. given that she popped such a large number of percentage points, plus 12, again, she just coming out with her gun prevention plan. part of it requiring background checks for the majority of private sales. appointing an a.g. who would investigate the nra for exploiting loopholes in federal laws. fairly far-reaching. i m just mentioning two of the bullet points from her prevention plan.
shared. fund that office specifically for domestic terrorism prevention services. two, you can expand the jurisdiction of the national counter-terrorism center to deal well domestic terrorism. you can also reinhaving investigate the executive committee, and also look at other things like partnering up with various partner tech companies, like there s this one entity called global internet forum. it s a partnership with twitter, i believe, facebook, youtube and microsoft. they understand tech a lot better than frankly our law and policy makers do. so i think those are certain things that could be done almost immediately. last thing out there dhs is working on a prevention plan. it s in draft format, i believe. that needs to be expedited and released. frank, last word to you on this. what realistically do you think can we do immediately?
expecting this type of possible terror attack? well, no, i think they have been preparing for it. and certainly i know from a number of the government agencies and a number of the units that i have contact with, they have been working on the terrorist plan, which is a plan to deal with these types of situations. now, it s in many respects more a response plan than it is necessarily a prevention plan. very, very difficult to prevent these types of attacks. there has been considerable planning behind this attack last night. these operations can certainly be implemented very, very quickly by the terrorists. all they need to do is designate their targets, have a quick decision. they are going to be look at the signatures of the construction of the suicide vests, looking at the weapons and where they could have potentially originated, again, it s really interesting in terms of looking at how the