Matteo Salvini, the leader of the Lega Nord in Italy, said that his party is making plans to leave the Eurozone. Mr. Salvini, who is expected to become his country’s next prime minister after the election, referred to the euro as a “German currency”.
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EC Sees Italian Growth of 1.5% in 2018
Prospects remain ‘moderate’ says Commission
(ANSA) — Brussels, February 7 — The European Commission said in its interim winter forecasts on Wednesday that it expects the Italian economy to grow 1.5% this year, up from the 1.3% it predicted in November. The Commission added, however, that Italy’s growth prospects are “moderate”. “Although Italy’s recovery is set to become more self-sustained, its growth prospects remain moderate, given the Italian economy’s limited growth potential,” the report said.
“Domestic downside risks largely relate to the still fragile state of the Italian banking sector, while there is an upside risk that the recovery could strengthen more than envisaged, at least in the near term”.
The Commission said its forecasts were based on “the no-policy-change assumption that Italy continues to implement already adopted growth-friendly reforms and pursues prudent fiscal policies”.
The Italian Treasury said the EU Commission had “renewed its confidence in the state of health” of the Italian economy and stressed that the new growth forecast was the same as that envisaged by an update of the Economic and Financial Document (DEF) in September.
But it stressed the new EU estimates were conditional on the “continuation of the implementation of reforms aimed at boosting growth and pursuing prudent budget policies”. Italy will hold a general election on March 4.
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Man Sentenced for Threatening to Decapitate FdL County DA for ISIS
DODGE COUNTY, Wis. (WBAY) — A man claiming to be with the terrorist organization ISIS has been sentenced for threatening Fond du Lac County’s District Attorney.
James Luke, 29, was ordered to spend two years in state prison for threatening DA Eric Toney. Luke is already in prison on a separate conviction, so this sentence will lengthen his stay.
Luke was in the Waupun Correctional Institution in Dodge County when he wrote a letter to Toney. Luke claimed he was acting on behalf of the terror group ISIS.
“I am going to personally decapitate you and mail your head in a box to the local news,” Luke wrote to Toney.
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Danish Politician Drove Car After Taking Cocaine, Loses Jobs
Jakob Engel-Schmidt, an MP with Denmark’s governing Venstre (Liberal) party, has lost two jobs and the representation of his constituency after being caught driving while under the influence of cocaine.
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Denmark to Become Latest European Nation to Ban the Burqa
The Danish Ministry of Justice has put out a press release indicating that the government is looking to place a ban on full-face Islamic veils and levy a fine on violators.
The Ministry of Justice wrote, “In Denmark, we will meet each other properly — face to face,” and added that in order to properly participate in Danish society it requires other people to be able to see a person’s face and confirm their identity, Swedish broadcaster SVT reports.
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Depleted Uranium Caused Italy Soldiers’ Cancer — Probe
But expert denies saying there was causal link
(ANSA) — Rome, February 7 — The final report of a commission on depleted uranium said Italian soldiers had been exposed to “shocking” levels of it in Italy and on foreign missions, and that it had “helped sow deaths and illnesses”.
However, the doctor whose expert opinion informed the panel’s conclusions denied a link between uranium and cancer, promoting the Italian defence ministry to call the panels’ charges “unacceptable”. Levels of uranium in the sectors of security and workplace health for soldiers had been toxic and deadly, said the report from the parliamentary commission of inquiry. The report highlighted that military chiefs had been in “denial” on the phenomenon, and also stressed the “deafening silences maintained by government authorities.” Experts heard by the panel had verified the links between exposure to depleted uranium and tumours, the report said.
Commission Chair Gian Piero Scanu of the Democratic Party said “repeated judicial sentences have consistently affirmed the existence of a causal link between exposure to depleted uranium and the pathologies cited by the soldiers: this is a milestone and now those who were exposed will have the possibility of getting justice without having to struggle as they have done so far”.
But the Italian doctor whose expert testimony was cited by the commission as evidence that depleted uranium caused cancer in soldiers denied “ever saying that”. “That is absolutely not my thinking, I never said that depleted uranium is responsible for the tumours found in the soldiers,” said Giorgio Trenta of the Italian association for medical radioprotection. Trenta’s report was cited by the panel as proof of the causal link between depleted uranium and cancer.
In response to Trenta’s statement, panel chair Scanu said the cancer expert had denied what he told the parliamentary commission of inquiry. Scanu said Trenta’ s former statements about the link were contained in sworn testimony made at an Abruzzo audit court and in his evidence to the panel on March 23 2016. “He was asked twice,” Scanu said, “if he confirmed that version and he did not deny having issued it. I can’t understand why the professor now wants to deny the responsibility of such (uranium-tipped) projectiles in generating the nanoparticles that are the real cause of many forms of cancer”.
The past president of the Italian association of medical oncology (AIOM), Carmine Pinto, told ANSA Wednesday there is a potential link between exposure to depleted uranium and cancer. “Potentially the continuous low-dosage exposure to uranium can be carcinogenic,” Pinto said. This type of exposure, “continuous and at low doses”, is exactly what could be determined by soldiers in missions and exercises”, using uranium-tipped shells.
The defence chief of staff said Wednesday that the parliamentary commission of inquiry had come out with “unacceptable” charges and there is no link to cancer. Speaking after Trenta disowned his past testimony, the defence chief of staff said “also in light of the statements from Professor Trenta the armed forces firmly reject the unacceptable accusations” from the panel and reiterated “the most complete availability to collaborate, as was shown at the technical negotiating table with the Commission, and stress the absolute transparency of all their activities”.
The relatives of soldiers who died of alleged uranium-linked cancer have been suing the government for years and pursuing cases in the courts, amid denials from military authorities.
In 2016 a Rome appeals court upheld a guilty verdict for the defence ministry in the 1999 death from leukemia due to depleted uranium exposure of 23-year-old Corporal Salvatore Vacca who handled uranium-tipped munitions during a 150-day mission in Bosnia in 1998-99.
The court found the ministry guilty of not having protected Vacca.
It ordered the ministry to pay more than one and a half million euros in compensation to Vacca’s family.
The families of other victims are suing the ministry for deaths allegedly due to depleted uranium exposure on several Italian missions.
Domenico Leggiero of the Military Observatory group said the sentence was “historic, because it confirms that the ministry was aware of the danger the soldiers sent to those zones were subject to”.
He said “I am sure Defence Minister Roberta Pinotti will bear this ruling in mind when she appears before the parliamentary depleted uranium commission”.
Italian authorities consistently played down the uranium risks.
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Eight of the Very Best Instagram Accounts to Follow in Spain
To spur some inspiration as you eat, drink and explore your way through Spain, The Local has compiled a list of the best Spain-based Instagram accounts to follow.
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European Parliament Dismisses Its Polish Vice President
Called a rival member woman a “Nazi collaborator”
(ANSA) — BRUSSELS — The European Parliament has voted to dismiss one of its vice presidents, Ryszard Czarnecki of Poland, after he compared a rival Polish parliament member to a Nazi collaborator.
Last month Czarnecki called Roza Thun, from Poland’s opposition Civic Platform party, a “szmalcownik”, a term for the Poles who blackmailed Jews during the Nazi German occupation of Poland, after she had criticized Poland’s government. Poland’s Foreign Minister Jacek Czaputowicz said Tuesday that Czarnecki went “too far” but that dismissing him would violate freedom of speech.
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George Soros Trying to Undo Brexit
Left-wing billionaire George Soros is bankrolling an effort to overturn British citizens’ historic vote in 2016 to leave the European Union.
Soros is one of three major backers of the Best for Britain campaign, which aims to overturn the Brexit vote, British newspaper The Telegraph reports.
Soros channeled £400,000 — the equivalent of more than $550,000 — to the group through his Open Society Foundations, according to The Telegraph. A spokesperson for Best for Britain confirmed to Reuters that Soros made the massive donation to the group.
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German Industry Wage Deal Lifts Pay, Enables Flexible Hours
Chance to work 28-hour week for up to two years
(ANSA) — TRIESTE — Germany’s biggest industrial union and employers have reached a wage deal that gives workers the equivalent of 3.5 percent annual raises over 27 months and the chance to work a 28-hour week for up to two years.
The IG Metall union and employers in the southwestern Baden-Wuerttemberg state — home to automaker Daimler, Volkswagen’s Porsche and auto parts firm Bosch — agreed Tuesday on the regional deal, ending a dispute that had seen 24-hour strikes at targeted firms.
The deal involves the possibility of more flexible working hours, a contentious issue in a strong economy with some firms running at full capacity and facing shortages of skilled workers in some areas. Employees won the right to the shorter week while employers will be able to put more workers than before on longer 40-hour weeks. The deal runs through March 2020.
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Germany Coalition Deal Reached After Months of Wrangling
Germany is set to emerge from months of political deadlock after Angela Merkel’s conservatives (CDU/CSU) finally agreed a coalition deal with the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD).
Negotiators have agreed on the division of key ministries — one of the last hurdles towards forming a government.
It could end more than four months of wrangling since inconclusive elections in September.
But the deal will still need to be approved by SPD members.
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Germany Sees Record Increase of Weapons Permit Holders
More and more German citizens are choosing to arm themselves as the number of weapons permits for firearms saw a record increase in 2017 going up nationwide by 85 per cent.
In January 2016, Germany had around 300,000 holders of “small weapons” permits that allow citizens to own various kinds of weapons such as pepper spray and pistols that fire gas pellets. By the end of 2017, that number almost doubled to 557,000, Deutsche Welle reports.
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Hungarian MEP Blasts ‘Elite-Driven’ Plan to Replace British MEPs
A HUNGARIAN MEP has ripped into the European Union’s plans to replaces British MEPs after Brexit, branding the plans “as undemocratic as it gets”.
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ISIS Still Recruiting Terrorists at UK Universities — Despite Government Orders Over Crackdown
ISIS is still using England’s universities to recruit terrorists — despite government orders to crackdown on campuses being used as breeding grounds, ministers have revealed.
Security Minister Ben Wallace blasted universities for failing to do enough to safeguard against terrorist radicalisers on campus.
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Italy: Left Sounds Alarm on Fascist Resurgence After Macerata
Those who justify Traini open door to Fascism returning — Delrio
(ANSA) — Rome, February 7 — The centre-left Democratic Party (PD) has sounded an alarm over an alleged resurgence of Fascist sentiment in Italy after a neo-Nazi shot and wounded six migrants in Macerata in revenge for the murder and dismemberment of an Italian woman allegedly by a Nigerian drug pusher.
Some extremists have defended the shooter, Luca Traini, who has become a hero of sorts among far-right groups like Forza Nuova and CasaPound.
In the mainstream, anti-migrant League leader Matteo Salvini and centre-right Forza Italia leader Silvio Berlusconi have linked the attack to allegedly intolerable levels of illegal immigration and vowed to deport over 600,000 illegals.
On Wednesday a PD heavyweight, Transport Minister Graziano Delrio, told left-leaning daily la Repubblica that “those who justify incidents like the one in Macerata throw open the doors to a return of Fascism”.
CasaPound is set to stage a demonstration against immigrants in Macerata Wednesday afternoon, although the mayor, Romano Carancin, has called for a halt to all demos.
Meanwhile another PD heavyweight, Justice Minister Andrea Orlando, visited the two of the wounded migrants who are still in hospital.
He also met prosecutors investigating the racist shooting and the murder of 18-year-old Roman recovering drug addict Pamela Mastropietro.
The PD will stage a national anti-Fascist rally to warn against the return of violent xenophobic intolerance after Macerata, PD deputy leader Maurizio Martina, the farm minister, said Wednesday. “We will meet the appeal from the mayor of Macerata not to have any more demos in his city and we back the idea, proposed by (national partisans’ association) ANPI, for a national anti-Fascist rally against all forms of intolerance, violence and xenophobia,” Martina said. He said it would “keep high the attention on dangerous resurgence that the country must isolate and relaunch the democratic commitment the Italian Constitution calls us to bear witness to”.
The Italian media watchdog AGCOM on Wednesday issued a “strong appeal to all radio and TV broadcasters to ensure the most rigorous respect in their news and entertainment programmes of fundamental principles like respect for human dignity and non-discrimination as well as preventing direct or indirect forms of incitement to hatred based on ethnic origin, sex, religion or nationality”.
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Italy: Priest to be Tried for Sex Abuse
‘Threatened minor with knife and abused him’
(ANSA) — Siracusa, February 7 — A 51-year-old Italian priest was sent to trial Wednesday for allegedly sexually abusing a 15-year-old boy.
Father Antonio Sapienza, of the Catania diocese, allegedly threatened the boy with a knife before abusing him in Lentini.
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Italy: Sudanese Man Nabbed for Threatening Passersby With Cleavers
Near Matera
(ANSA) — Matera, February 7 — A 30-year-old Sudanese national was arrested Wednesday for threatening passersby with a knife and two cleavers.
The man slightly injured a Nigerian who tried to stop him, police said, in the small town of Metaponto di Bernalda near Matera.
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Italy: Berlusconi Indictment Sought for ‘Ruby Ter’ Case
For paying singer Apicella to deny prostitution
(ANSA) — Rome, February 7 — Prosecutors on Wednesday asked that Silvio Berlusconi be brought to trial in the ‘Ruby Ter’ case, the third case stemming from his involvement with Kharima El Mahroug, an underage Moroccan runaway and nightclub dancer who worked as a prostitute and whose stage name was Ruby the Heartstealer. The indictment was also sought of singer Mariano Apicella, who with Berlusconi entertained guests at what the ex-premier called elegant dinners but which in fact turned out to be ‘bunga bunga’ sex parties.
The three-time ex-premier is accused of corruption while Neapolitan balladeer Apicella is accused of corruption and false testimony.
Prosecutors say Berlusconi paid Apicella to deny that the women known as ‘Olgettine’ from their Berlusconi-paid flats in Milan’s Via Olgettina were in fact sex workers and not guests.
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Italy: Girl Kept From School for Not Wearing Veil
In Padua
(ANSA) — Padua, February 7 — A Muslim family kept their 16-year-old daughter from going to school because she refused to wear the Islamic veil there.
The girl was allowed back after the head of the Padua school intervened and persuaded the girls’ parents to change their minds.
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Italy: PD Attacks M5S on EP Reimbursement Case
MEP ‘used European funds to follow Di Maio’s campaign’
(ANSA) — Rome, February 7 — The Democratic Party (PD) on Wednesday attacked the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement (M5S) after M5S MEP Cristina Belotti was accused of using European Parliament expenses reimbursements to follow the general-election campaign of leader Luigi Di Maio in Italy.
The PD have demanded that Belotti, head of M5S communications in Strasbourg, step down.
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Italy: Milan Asks EU Court to Suspend EMA Move to Amsterdam
Pending appeal against Dutch city winning medicines agency
(ANSA) — Brussels, February 7 — The city of Milan has presented a petition to the European Court of Justice for it to suspend the transfer of the European Medicines Agency from London to Amsterdam pending its appeal, sources said Wednesday.
Milan lost out to Amsterdam to host the EMA, which is moving from London due to Brexit, after lots were drawn as a vote among EU member States ended in a draw.
The city and the Italian government are appealing after EMA’s chief suggested Amsterdam was not ready to host the agency.
Milan requested the suspension, alongside the main appeal, using special procedure for urgent requests requiring intervention to avoid serious, irreparable damage. “I don’t want to give up on EMA,” said Milan Mayor Beppe Sala.
“It seems to me that the doubts about the Dutch proposal increase every day. “The first step now is a visit to the Commission on the 12th”. The European Medicines Agency, however, said Wednesday that the temporary home Amsterdam plans to provide it while it prepares new, tailor-made premises will enable it to keep working as it moves from London. “The interim solution ensures EMA’s business continuity in Amsterdam for the limited time until its new permanent building is completed on 15 November 2019,” the EMA said in a statement after an extraordinary meeting of its management board on Tuesday.
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Italy: Puglia Regional Councillor Resigns Amid Corruption Probe
Caracciolo PD candidate in uninominal constituency on March 4
(ANSA) — Bari, February 7 — Puglia executive regional councillor for the environment Filippo Caracciolo of the Democratic Party (PD) resigned on Wednesday after learning that he was under investigation for alleged corruption and bid rigging. The regional councillor, who is running for the PD in a uninominal constituency in the March 4 elections, is being probed in connection with a 5.8 million euro procurement procedure to build a lower secondary school in Corato. “The decision (to resign) is motivated exclusively by the intention of protecting the regional administration and of allowing investigations to continue undisturbed,” Caracciolo said in a statement. Regional governor Michele Emiliano of the PD expressed his confidence in Caracciolo, saying he was sure he would ‘clear up all doubts’ concerning the matter.
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Italy: Church: European Bishops, Meeting on Relations With Islam
5th Meeting of nationale Delegates in Scutari in February
(ANSA) — TRIESTE — Looking at Islam not only as a set of behavioral norms, but as a religion, with its own spirituality, its own religiosity and its own theological reflection: this is what the national delegates of the Bishops’ conferences in Europe for relations with Muslims intend to discuss in their meeting in Scutari next 7-9 February.
Holding the meeting for the first time in Albania at the invitation of the Archbishop of Scutari-Pult, Mgr Angelo Massafra OFM, the meeting testifies to the interest and the capillary work of the Catholic Church in Europe for dialogue with the believers of the other religions present on the continent, in particular with the Muslim community.
This year the chosen approach will foster a theological-spiritual reflection and the exchange of initiatives and good practices put in place by the Church in the field of relations with other religions.
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Italy’s Northern League Chief Attacks Euro, Says Preparing Exit
FLORENCE, Italy (Reuters) — The leader of Italy’s right-wing Northern League said on Wednesday his party was preparing the ground to leave the euro zone and called the euro a “German currency” which had damaged Italy’s economy.
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Nord Stream: Germany Gave Greenlight to Pipeline Construction
‘Nord Stream 2 has met all the requirements’
(ANSA) — MOSCOW, JAN 31- Nord Stream 2 received permission to build and manage a gas pipeline in German territorial waters, the company reported in a statement.
“The Stralsund Mining Authority has given official approval to this section of approximately 55km in accordance with the Energy Industry Act (EnWG”, reported the press release cited by TASS. “The authorization procedures in the other four countries — Russia, Finland, Sweden and Denmark — are being carried out as planned: Nord Stream 2 has met all the requirements and expects the permits to be released in time in accordance to the schedule”, said the pipeline operator.
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Norway: Former Labour Deputy Leader Can Return to Parliament After Scandal
Trond Giske, the former deputy leader of Norway’s opposition Labour party, is reportedly able to return to parliament following an absence after allegations of sexual harassment were made against him.
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Record Support for Conservative, Pro-Sovereignty Government in Hungary, Poland
Recent polls show that the conservative, anti-mass migration governing parties of Hungary and Poland are receiving record support as EU unity on immigration continues to crumble.
Nearly three-quarters of Polish voters, 73 per cent, believe President Andrzej Duda is performing well, according to a study by pollster CBOS.
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Spaniard Who Photoshopped His Own Face on Christ Statue Ordered to Pay Damages to Church
A 24-year-old man from Jaen has been ordered to pay a fine for offending the church by posting a photoshopped image of his own face on a revered statue of Christ.
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‘Stop the Violence’: Italians March to Remember Woman Found Dismembered in Macerata
Around 200 people participated in a torchlit march in Macerata, central Italy on Tuesday, in honour of an 18-year-old woman whose dismembered body was found there last week.
Police found the body of 18-year-old Pamela Mastropietro in two suitcases on January 31st, though the cause of her death has not yet been established by investigators.
“It is inhuman what they did to my daughter; an absurd violence,” her mother was quoted by the Ansa news agency as saying at Tuesday’s march. “Pamela’s death could have been avoided.”
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UK: Pamela Anderson Again Visits Assange
Long-term supporter Pamela Anderson has visited WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange a day after he lost the first part of a legal fight against a UK arrest warrant.
The former Baywatch star carried two takeaway coffee cups into the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where Assange has been living for more than five years.
Wearing a black dress and dark glasses, she smiled but made no comment as she was let into the embassy building on Wednesday.
An earlier visitor to the embassy was Nobel Peace Prize winner Adolfo Perez Esquivel.
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UK: WikiLeaks: What is Next for Julian Assange?
After losing a bid to overturn a UK arrest warrant, it is unclear how the controversial whistleblower will come to leave the Ecuadorian embassy
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Tunisian FM Decries EU Decision to Blacklist Country
Added to list at risk of terrorism funding, money laundering
(ANSAmed) — TUNIS, FEBRUARY 7 — Tunisian Foreign Minister Khemaies Jhinaoui said his country would “continue to fight for Tunisia not to be included unfairly on blacklists”. The comment came after Wednesday’s voting by the European Parliament to include Tunisia on the list of non-EU nations at high risk of money laundering and terrorism funding. “Including Tunisia on these lists does not take into account the economic peculiarities of the country and the continual structural reforms,” he added.
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Kuwait: ‘Murdered Maid’ Found in Freezer of Closed Flat
Alleged ‘killer couple’ left Kuwait more than a year ago
The body of an unidentified woman was found in the freezer of an apartment by police yesterday. The body of the woman, thought to be a Filipina domestic helper, was discovered after police entered the flat in Salmiya after a court order was issued. The apartment had been closed since its renters left Kuwait in November 2016.
Police allegedly found fatal stab wounds on the woman’s neck and torture marks across her body, and identified her employers as the prime suspects in the case, a security source said. Two suspects — a Lebanese man and his Syrian wife — who were renting the flat are wanted for questioning in the case. No immediate cause of death has been announced and the woman’s identity remains uncertain.
Philippine Ambassador to Kuwait Rene Villa was unaware of the case until contacted by Kuwait Times. “We are coordinating with the police, and while there is such a report, we are not sure about the nationality (of the deceased),” the ambassador later told Kuwait Times.
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte recently implemented a ban on Filipinos working in Kuwait, citing cases of abuse and mistreatment including a high profile case of a Filipina domestic helper committing suicide. There are about 265,000 Filipinos in Kuwait, of which 165,000 are working as domestic helpers.
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BJP’s Vinay Katiyar Asks, Why Do Communal Muslims Live in India?
As per ‘two-nation’ theory, this land was divided as Hindustan for Hindus and Pakistan for Muslims.
Upendra Bharti | HENB | New Delhi | Feb 7, 2018:: In a trail as All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) MP Assaduddin Owaisi’s urged in the parliament to punish whoever “calling an Indian Muslim a Pakistani”; the pro Hindutva leader Vinay Katyar reacted heavily on the matter. BJP MP Vinay Katiyar said today that “Muslims should not even be living in this country, they should go to Pakistan or Bangladesh”, reported ANI.
Katiyar, who founded the Vishwa Hindu Parishad’s (VHP) youth wing, Bajrang Dal, further said a bill should be introduced in Parliament that frames a punishment for those “who do not respect Vande Mataram, (and) those who insult the national flag, or hoist the Pakistani flag.”
AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi was demanding to frame a law to punish anyone who calls an Indian Muslim a “Pakistani”.
Without referring to Owaisi, Katiyar further said that “Muslims partitioned the country” on religious lines. Owaisi is a MP from Hyderabad whose ancestors were connected with Rajakars who wanted the partition of India and even wanted to join Hyderabad with Pakistan…
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Yassmin Abdel-Magied, 26, isn’t too bothered about becoming married, but does want to have sex, she revealed in a British documentary on Islam and womanhood.
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Migrants: Budapest Secretly Received 1,291 Refugees
While Orban is against immigrants and rejects quotas
(ANSA) — BUDAPEST — Budapest in 2017 secretly received and accomodated 1,291 refugees who reached the Hungarian border, granting them asylum with refugee status, or humanitarian protection, whereas the government led by Viktor Orban is focusing his electoral campaign on propaganda against immigration and the quota system.
This was reported by the Immigration Office (Bah) at the insistence of some journalists. Most of those refugees come from Afghanistan and Syria.
“The government campaign against the alleged Soros plan and the danger represented by immigrants is a big fat lie in the light of these figures”, the opposition parties underlined.
Hungary was expected to receive 1,294 asylum seekers, relocated from Italy and Greece, but the government has always rejected the quota system, despite a verdict of the EU Court.
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Over 2,000 Germans March Against Mass Migration in City Experiencing Wave of Migrant Crime
Around 2,000 demonstrators gathered in the German city of Cottbus over the weekend to protest mass migration after the city had seen a rise in violence that often involved migrants.
The protest, organised by the group Zukunft Heimat or Future Homeland, saw 2,000 individuals gather to protest the ongoing migrant violence in the city, Deutsche Welle reports.
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Pope Francis: Human Trafficking is Fueled by Lack of ‘Regular Channels’ For Migration
Many migrants wind up as slaves to human traffickers, thanks to a lack of “regular channels” of migration, Pope Francis said Wednesday.
In a special appeal for Thursday’s World Day of Prayer and Reflection against Trafficking, whose theme this year is “Migration without Trafficking: Yes to Freedom! No to Trafficking!”, the pope wished to explore the deeper causes of human trafficking and suggested that well-established paths of migration might ease the problem.
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“The result of 25 years of multiculturalism has not been multicultural communities. It has been mono-cultural communities… Islamic communities are segregated.” — Ed Husain, former Muslim extremist.
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Migrants staged a riot in the temporary detention center near Krasnoyarsk
http://www.interfax.ru/russia/599010
As in the case of Assange, when the deep state freaks want you…they’re gonna get you. They must be imprisoned, not Assange. PM May leads the pack.
Considering Russia as a cryptocolony, I always thought that the thought implanted in us for a quarter of a century “is a shame to be Russian” comes from the Anglo-Saxons. But now I read such news, and I do not know what to think. Guys, someone hates you terribly. And the Swedes, and the Germans, too. Who could it be? And he is very powerful.
https://meduza.io/feature/2018/02/07/uchenye-sdelali-dnk-test-pervogo-britantsa-on-okazalsya-temnokozhim-i-goluboglazym
The scientists made a DNA test of the “first Briton”. He turned out to be dark-skinned and blue-eyed
I believe it was shame to be Russian under communism, and the world is slowly coming to the realisation, that Russia was just its first victim.
In Czechoslovakia, in the 19th century (under Austria-Hungary back then), Russia was very highly regarded. These days it is said that it was just the pan-slavic brotherhood thing, but if you consider that Russians built the first four engine aircraft, and sciences were pretty high… But when Czechoslovak intelectuals visited Russia in the 1930’s it was altogether different story. They came back and warned against – communism/Russia.
Of course, after the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, Russians lost last bits of sympathy with the Czechoslovaks, but that was long time ago, and there is nothing more to say than thats history.
Anyhow, I am convinced that the “shame” you are speaking of is a direct result of Communism: By its many iniquities, Communism brews shame, and Russia is quite a major victim – for perpetrating all those crimes, gulags, etc. Everyone east of the iron curtain had been infected.
The history of the revolution is a sad story. In any case, many of those who arranged it were not Russian. For them it was an opportunity for revenge. But nevertheless, it is believed that Russians are guilty of Stalinism.
Two of my grandfathers were repressed. One is deprived of property, the other is shot. My grandfather’s husband was repressed and shot. Now he is canonized by the ROC as a newcomer.
But the grandson of the executioner of the Gulag from the radio says to me that I am guilty for the actions of Stalin.
Sorry, translation difficulties. Repressed by great-grandparents.
So were all our ancestors (the skin, not the eyes); maybe he was a relatively recent arrival from Africa!
There was no pysiological need for depigmentation (vitamin D synthesis) as long as people were mostly hunters/fishermen.
…the problem is “misplaced shame” – for example making 12 year old german children feel guilty for concentration camps, or to blame young Russians for Stalinism, or making young Swedes feel bad for having it so good…
You most accurately described the kind of shame that is cultivated. If you are Russian, you are to blame for the actions of Ivan the Terrible.
Collective responsibility for the actions of the authorities under the General powerlessness of the people.
Unbelievable:
http://www.breitbart.com/radio/2018/02/08/former-fbi-agent-gilliam-bureaus-top-brass-climbs-ladder-ideology-not-merit/
Where is Senator McCarthy when we need him? A thousand so-called ‘witch hunts’ would only begin to clean this disaster up!