A leading bishop in the Church of England says that there should be a reading from the Koran at Prince Charles’ coronation after the passing of Queen Elizabeth II. Lord Harries of Pentregarth says that the reading would make Muslims feel included and accepted in British society.
In other news, Spain has agreed to accept an NGO “rescue” ship carrying 59 migrants, after Italy and Malta refused to allow it to land.
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EU on Brink: Eurozone Faces Repeat of 2011 Meltdown and This is Why
THE European Union faces a repeat of the 2011 eurozone crisis, thanks to the looming EU trade war with the US and new government in Italy, with current conditions nearly mirroring the events leading up to the financial meltdown, a leading economist has warned.
The bloc focused on immigration and Brexit at the most recent EU summit, but Europe’s real threat stands somewhere else, according to Lorenzo Codogno, macroeconomist and former general director at the Treasury Department of the Italian Ministry of Economy.
Mr Codogno said the eurozone is facing three factors similar to those that triggered a sharp acceleration of the government bond crisis in Europe during the summer of 2011, causing the European debt crisis.
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“Girl From the Bronx” Ocasio-Cortez Called Out in Fact Check; Actually Grew Up in Wealthy Enclave
The Democratic Party’s rising socialist icon — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, has been on an intense media junket since her upset primary victory over establishment Democrat Joe Crowley this week — doing her darnedest to project her “girl from the Bronx” working-class image.
“Well, you know, the president is from Queens, and with all due respect — half of my district is from Queens — I don’t think he knows how to deal with a girl from the Bronx,” Ocasio-Cortez told Stephen Colbert during an appearance on The Late Show.
The socialist phenom also told the Washington Post “I wasn’t born to a wealthy or powerful family — mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx. I was born in a place where your Zip code determines your destiny.”
Except Ocasio-Cortez isn’t quite the blue-collar champion she’s branding herself as. Breitbart’s Josh Caplan is out with a “fact check” on the Democratic Socialist’s background — only to find she grew up in one of the richest counties in the United States.
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Today, the Daily Caller is reporting that Federal authorities have reportedly arrested a man who threatened Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai and his children.
Scott MacFarlane, an investigative reporter for NBC 4, tweeted on Friday that a man was arrested after sending an email to Pai threatening to find and kill his children. The email included the addresses of preschools in Arlington, Virginia, where Pai lives.
According to a Department of Justice press release, the man was “angry” that Pai repealed net neutrality and wanted to “scare” him. One email from the 33-year-old California man included a framed photograph of Pai’s family.
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America Tried Socialism and Did Not Like It
In 2008 the United States elected a socialist government committed to the transformation of the American free-enterprise system into an egalitarian society. And with it, Barack Obama brought to the White House what Harvard historian James T. Kloppenberg described as “A refreshing new way of thinking about the role of democracy.”
The aftermath of his new role of democracy resulted in an immense transfer of power away from the democratically elected representatives of Congress to the executive branch, thereby increasing its authority above and beyond constitutional limits. This power shift produced an extraordinary imbalance between power and legitimacy. Power founded on principles was replaced by the principles founded on power.
The President and his party were “fundamentally transforming” the country in pursuit of an eminently ideological objective — a form of socialism intrinsic to the United States.
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Bilderberg 2018: Orwell’s ‘Big Brother’ In a ‘Post-Truth’ World
Today, Trump’s plan is to “Make America Great Again,” renegotiate trade treaties that build up the American working and middle class, reestablish our national borders with a fair immigration policy, welcome and protect Christians via national and domestic policies, and enforce the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights.
In many respects, Trump’s goals are the opposite of the Bilderberg group and the globalists, and that’s why they see him as the single greatest threat to their technocratic-feudal system.
In our bestselling FaithWords/Hachette book, Trumpocalypse: The End-Times President, a Battle Against the Globalist Elite, and the Countdown to Armageddon, written by Pulitzer Prize-nominated investigative journalist and former Los Angeles Daily News reporter Troy Anderson and I, we explore why the elite view Trump as their greatest threat and reveal the driving secret behind Trump’s life that caused him not to sell out like so many other billionaires and members of the elite so that he could as president seek to “Make America Great Again” — not just as a marketing slogan, but from his heart.
Let’s start first, though, with a look at the agenda of the top-secret Bilderberg conference earlier this month in Turin, Italy. The published agenda for Bilderberg 2018 is:…
It’s not an accident that the Council on Foreign Relations, which is directly connected to Bilderberg group, openly presented a full-on Orwellian media presentation in which Richard Stengel, former Time managing editor and Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs in the Obama Administration, at a university forum organized by the CFR, openly promoted the idea that governments need to direct propaganda at their own domestic populations.
“Basically, every country creates their own narrative story,” Stengel said. “My old job at the State Department was what people used to joke [call] the chief propagandist job. I’m not against propaganda, every country does it and they have to do it to their own population and I don’t necessarily think it’s that awful.”
It’s not that the CFR and governments have not been directing propaganda toward their people since the founding of the CFR. It’s simply that a major leader from within the CFR has never so openly and boldly promoted a right to propaganda…
WikiLeaks and the Swiss Propaganda Research (SPR) center put together for the first time a detailed chart entitled, “The American Empire and Its Media,” with the words, “Bilderberg Group,” “Council on Foreign Relations” and “Trilateral Commission” below it. The chart shows the pictures of the faces of the people who run this media empire, the corporate logos, a detailed list of names and companies, and how they control the entire mainstream media through investments holdings. The chart (link) will answer many of your questions about various media personalities and why they were put into positions of power in the first place.
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Chaos Operations Are Being Used for Ideological Subversion of the United States
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Others pull from the cultural Marxist tactics of the Frankfurt School, which introduced subversive concepts such as “critical theory” that redefines history through the lens of Marxism, and that has become the basis of many radical social movements.
Some tactics are also operated on a nation-state level. Russia is among the better known to do this, but Iran and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) are also extremely active on this front.
The CCP’s People’s Liberation Army, for example, has its “Three Warfares” doctrine, based on the strategies of psychological warfare (to alter how information is perceived), media warfare (to control media narratives), and legal warfare (to manipulate international legal systems). Two Chinese colonels published the book “Unrestricted Warfare,” which outlines a system of war without morals, and which uses many nonmilitary tactics, including “culture warfare,” “drug warfare,” “economic aid warfare,” and others.
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Civil Unrest: America is Coming Undone
Patrick welcomes Paul Kersey back to the show for a captivating conversation about President Donald Trump, political polarization in America, mass migration, and the promising future of the dissident Right. We begin our program by addressing how Trump’s election radicalized the Left, which has engaged in a near-hysterical rearguard action characterized by political violence and overt anti-white vitriol. We discuss Trump’s deft rhetorical style that has infuriated the prevailing orthodoxy’s proponents, and the fact that the Left has shown its true transformative plans too early in the game.
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Door to Door Gun Confiscation: No Longer Law Enforcement, Now Agents of the State
Don’t Let it Get This Far America
“We’re bending the law as far as we can to ban an entirely new class of guns.” — Rahm Emmanuel, President Obama’s former Chief of Staff and a senior advisor to President Bill Clinton
Recently, I had seen a video of a police officer talking of the unlawful and unconstitutional actions of a city board in Deerfield, Illinois who is attempting to legitimize gun forfeiture and/or confiscation. Of course, it comes in the guise of law, has the color of law, yet it is not law.
Why?
Because it runs antithetical to American constitutional law, which is undermining the very laws in which they are to uphold and to enforce, which in short makes it “null and void!”…
This police officer went on to tell the American people that his partners in the police force were not, and will not, go door to door to enforce a violation of the 2nd Amendment.
Americans must remember that they have God-given rights (to do that which is right 2 Corinthians 3:17), not privileges from the people that work for them. After all, free people don’t ask for permission to do what already belongs to them.
He continued to share that if they were to enforce this unlawful and unconstitutional order to go door to door that they are no longer law enforcement agencies, but rather have become agents of the state…
Americans must come to the realization that either you lawfully remove corrupt anti-American politicians, or you will, at length, be disarmed.
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Good Riddance to Justice Anthony Kennedy
For once, the leftist freakout could be justified. Kennedy was the Court’s big swing vote because his conception of freedom aligned nicely with social liberalism’s narrow view of the human person. As Rusty Reno writes, “When it comes to engraving the sexual revolution into our basic law, Justice Kennedy has provided the key votes, and often the rationales.” It was this mistaken view that led him to vote with the liberal bloc of the Court and legalize same-sex marriage across the country. It also provided a bulwark against any challenge to Roe v. Wade should one have risen through the judicial system.
Kennedy’s vision was infamously summed up in Planned Parenthood v. Casey, a 1992 case that reinforced the right to abortion. Writing in the joint majority opinion, Kennedy fully embraced the relativistic view that freedom is anything one decides it should be, regardless of external truths. “At the heart of liberty is the right to define one’s own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life,” he waxed.
That passage, which is lauded by many libertarian legal scholars, sums up the ultra negative view of freedom. By its lights, a person is only truly free if they are treated like a blank slate, without history or connection to anything larger than their own subjective assumptions. Atavistic allegiance to concepts like family and religion may not infringe upon this sacred autonomy.
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How to Survive the Civil Unrest That’s Coming to America
The rhetoric in the United States is heating up and we’re sounding anything but… well… united.
It seems to most media pundits like we are too far down the path to Civil War 2.0 to turn back now. Activists are laying siege to government offices. Threats toward people who disagree are growing in ferocity. It’s ugly and getting uglier. It’s a powder keg that is about to erupt. (Here are some thoughts on what a full-fledged Civil War might look like.)
It is only a matter of time before civil unrest begins to escalate and spread throughout the country. Many people are wondering, how do you keep your family safe during widespread unrest? It’s not about being fearful. It’s about being prepared.
My thoughts on this manipulated division are fodder for another article. (You can find it here.) This article is apolitical (to the best of my ability, anyway) and focuses strictly on what you need to know to survive should the unrest come to your neighborhood.
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Israeli Dual Citizen Convicted of Making Hundreds of Hoax Bomb Threats Against Jewish Centers
An court in Israel has convicted a 19-year-old American-Israeli man of making hundreds of threats to bomb or otherwise attack Jewish schools and community centers.
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Right-Wing Activists Patriot Prayer, Antifa Clash at Portland Protests
PORTLAND, Ore. — Two opposing protest groups — Patriot Prayer and antifa — clashed in downtown Portland Saturday, CBS Portland affiliate KOIN reports. Portland police said failure to leave the area could leave to arrests, calling the demonstration a riot.
More than 100 members of Patriot Prayer group gathered at Terry Schrunk Plaza for a “freedom rally,” while more than 100 counter protesters with an antifa group gathered across the street at Chapman Square for rallies before a march. Police revoked Patriot Prayer’s permit for the rally after the two groups began to clash.
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Senate Votes to Legalize Hemp After 80 Years of Prohibition
Authored by Carey Wedler via Steemit.com
On Thursday, the U.S. Senate approved a bill to legalize hemp, an industrial crop that has been banned for decades.
In April, Senators Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Rand Paul (R-KY), Ron Wyden (D-OR), and Jeff Merkley (D-OR) submitted a separate bill to legalize hemp, and those provisions were then incorporated into the broader farm bill. The Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry approved that version before the upper house of Congress voted to approve it this week by a margin of 86-11. The bill would legalize the cultivation, processing, and sale of hemp.
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Tech Worker Dissent is Going Viral
Silicon Valley has a long and secretive history of building hardware and software for the military and law enforcement. In contrast, a recent wave of employee protests against some of those government contracts has been short, fast, and surprisingly public — tearing through corporate campuses, mailing lists, and message boards inside some of the world’s most powerful companies.
The revolt is part of a growing political awakening among some tech employees about the uses of the products they build. What began as concern inside Google about a Pentagon contract to tap the company’s artificial-intelligence smarts was catalyzed by outrage over Trump administration immigration policies. Now, it seems to be spreading quickly.
Within a few days in late June, employees from Microsoft, Amazon, and Salesforce publicized petitions urging their CEOs to cancel or rethink lucrative contracts with US Customs and Border Protection, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and local police departments.
[Comment: Tech industry is full of indoctrinated leftists.]
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The Destructive Internet Sales Tax and Those Who Promoted it
The power to tax is the power to destroy. — John Marshall — Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
What a pity we don’t have more justices on the Supreme Court today like we did with founding father Chief Justice Marshall. He was the last chief justice who was born a British subject prior to the American Revolutionary War. He was right…the power to tax is the power to destroy. Oh, is it ever! America’s taxes are out of control!
The recent high court decision in South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc., which overturns an earlier Supreme Court precedent, will boost state revenues at the expense of consumers and sellers who have avoided sales taxes in the past. But the justices did not specify what types of exceptions states may impose to limit the burden on small businesses.
The Scotus Vote
Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote the 5-4 decision, discarding the court’s longstanding rule that states cannot require companies without a physical presence in their state to collect sales taxes. He was joined by Justices Clarence Thomas, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch.
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Thousands of Small Internet Businesses Could be Forced to Close
On Thursday, June 21st, 2018, the U. S. Supreme Court delivered what could be a knockout blow to tens of thousands of small on-line sole proprietor retailers in America. The implications of this ruling could have far reaching consequences.
The High Court overturned their own 1992 decision in Quill vs. North Dakota that allowed on-line retailers to be exempt from state sales taxes as long as they did not have a physical presence in a particular state. Under the current decision, that exemption has been removed. Now, all on-line retailers, big and small, are subject to state taxes for sales within any state in America that levies state sales taxes.
It is not clear from the decision, at this point, that there are any sales threshold amounts that would exempt small on-line retail businesses from state sales taxes, with one exception. South Dakota, after the High Court ruling, did pass legislation that would exempt any business doing less than $100,000 in annual sales from the state sales taxes. Will other states follow? No one knows, leaving tens of thousands of small, sole proprietor businesses in a legal jeopardy. It’s bad enough having to deal with one state and their sales taxes. But to deal with 44 other states is tantamount to administrative purgatory.
If you are running your own on-line retail business and are forced to deal with at least 44 states that have state sales taxes, the time necessary to fill out each state form and write a check and mail to each state would literally overwhelm a sole proprietor. Larger companies will be forced to hire one or more administrative personnel to manage the forms and taxes for each state.
Also, it is not just a matter of filling out a tax form and mailing in a check. The sales and business and occupation (B & O) tax regulations for the state of Washington are so voluminous as to make compliance almost impossible for a small business. Here is an example:…
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Army to be Deployed to Pompeii Sites to Tackle Threat of Terrorism
Armed guards, metal detectors, apps and screens offering live time information. These are just some of the measures that authorities in Pompeii plan to introduce to increase security at one of Italy’s favourite sites.
More than 3.5 million tourists visited the archeological sites of Pompeii in 2017. The fascination with the Roman city destroyed by an eruption from Mt. Vesuvius in AD79 continues to fascinate visitors to southern Italy.
But the increasing numbers of tourists, coupled with contemporary security needs, means sightseers will soon have to contend with a plethora of new security measures.
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Austria’s Right-Wing ‘Rock Star’ Kurz at the Helm of EU Politics
VIENNA (AFP) — Feted as a “rock star” by an American ambassador and courted by Angela Merkel’s right-wing critics: it’s a dream start for Austria’s youthful Chancellor Sebastian Kurz as his country takes over the EU’s rotating presidency.
Aged just 31, Kurz is poised to steer the bloc as one of his pet themes — a tougher migration policy — rises rapidly up the European agenda again.
Kurz, whose centre-right People’s Party (OeVP) has governed with the far-right Freedom Party (FPOe) since December, rarely misses an opportunity to boast of his role in closing the “Balkan route” for migrants in 2016 when he was foreign minister…
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Austria’s Right-Wing ‘Rock Star’ Kurz Takes the Helm of EU Politics
Feted as a “rock star” by an American ambassador and courted by Angela Merkel’s right-wing critics: it’s a dream start for Austria’s youthful Chancellor Sebastian Kurz as his country takes over the EU’s rotating presidency.
Aged just 31, Kurz is poised to steer the bloc as one of his pet themes — a tougher migration policy — rises rapidly up the European agenda again.
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Austria’s Priorities as it Takes European Union Helm
The divisive issue of migration will be top of the agenda as Austria’s rightwing government takes over the rotating presidency of the European Union on Sunday.
“A Europe that protects” is the motto Vienna has chosen for its third period in the leadership role, which passes between different EU member states.
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Austrian Vice Chancellor Advises All Erdogan Voters in Austria to Go Back to Turkey
Heinz-Christian Strache, Austria’s Vice Chancellor and the leader of Freedom Party (FPÖ), gave clear advice to all Erdogan voters in his country.
On Facebook Strache says:
“I advise all Turks in Austria who voted for Erdogan to go back to Turkey.”
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Chances of No Deal Brexit Now 50-50, Says Official After EU Leaders Reject Brexit Progress
The chances of no deal Brexit have increased to nearly 50 percent an EU official said after Brussels concluded no substantial progress had been made on Brexit talks at the EU summit on Friday.
An EU prime minister sitting around the summit table said he was alarmed by the tone of Theresa May’s words on Brexit, an official he briefed on the discussion told Bloomberg.
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Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog
All sorts of centralized organizations that appear rock-solid may well melt into air as the disintegrative dynamics gather momentum.
Rising political and social discord that is generally being attributed to “populism” may actually be the re-emergence of ancient geographic and cultural fault lines. An often-overlooked manifestation of this might be the nation-state of Germany, a possibility fleshed out by longtime correspondent Mark G.
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Czech Republic’s Economic Boom Credited to High Tech, Low Taxes
The Czech Republic, riding a high-tech-driven economic boom, announced major new investments Thursday as part of the country’s expansionist, free-market economic strategy.
Having elected populist President Milos Zeman to his second term this year, the Czech Republic has been experiencing solid growth and rising standards of living, with an expanding economy and attractive fiscal policy that are drawing sustainable foreign investment.
An opponent of European Union (EU) migrant quotas and a supporter of a Brexit-like referendum on Czech membership in the EU, Zeman is considered a Eurosceptic, despite earlier support for both the EU and the common currency (euro).
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Food: In Romania, Poland and Bulgaria Lowest Prices in EU
But Gdp per capita still much under EU levels
(ANSA) — BELGRADE — In 2017, Romania, Poland and Bulgaria registered the lowest food and non-alcoholic beverages price levels in the European Union, according to Eurostat estimates.
Eurostat said that price levels ranged from 62% of the EU average in Romania, 65% in Poland and 73% in Bulgaria. Level of food prices lower than the EU average were registered also in Hungary and Lithuania (82%), Czech Republic (86%), Slovakia (91%), Estonia (94%), Latvia (95%) and Croatia (96%). Bulgaria (56% of the EU average), ahead of Romania (69%) and Hungary (70%) registered also the lowest price levels for alcoholic beverages and tobacco. Restaurants and hotels are also the cheapest in Bulgaria (45% of EU average), Romania (53%) and the Czech Republic (60%).
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Céline Pina, an ex-member of France’s Socialist Party (PS), is interviewed on French national television in a TV show hosted by David Pujadas.
Reacting to the increasing number of street prayers in France she says:
“There is no need to occupy the street. But why occupy the street? […] because the point of the game is to mark the appropriation, because the point of the game is the visibility.”
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Health: In Serbia, Lithuania Highest Increases of Costs
Strong growth of ‘medical inflation’ also in Serbia
(ANSA) — BELGRADE — Serbia, Lithuania and Romania are the three European countries that registered the highest growth in medical service costs in 2017, according to the study ‘Medical Trends Around the World’ of Mercer Marsh Benefits, local media in Romania reported.
In 2017, Serbia recorded a ‘medical inflation’ of 17.5%, followed by Lithuania with 16.7%. Romania ranked third for the increase of medical cost, with 15%. The average increase in Europe registered in 2017 was 7.6%, according to Mercer Marsh Benefits. A strong growth in medical costs, well above the estimated inflation rate, was registered also in Bulgaria (+13%), Poland (+10.1%), Hungary (+10%) and Latvia (+8.9%). The study forecasts an increase of medical costs in these countries also in 2018.
The medical inflation in Romania was caused the higher investments in private medical infrastructure, technology development and higher salaries in the public sector, said Silvia Dumitrescu of Mercer Marsh Benefits Romania, as quoted by Romania Insider.
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Hungarian Prime Minister: The Order That You Are Defending is Born of Freedom
The Hungarian public expects the government and the police to protect the country, families and common values from external and internal threats, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said Saturday.
Speaking at an event in the Buda Castle, Orban said law and order, peace and security in Europe can no longer be taken for granted, and greater efforts are needed to “maintain the order of thousands of years of our own civilization”.
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ISIS Trained Child Soldiers to Launch Attacks on EU, Claims French Jihadist
ISIS made concrete plans to send child soldiers to Europe to carry out attacks against Western targets, A French jihadist has claimed. The children, mostly Syrians, will only be sent to Europe once they reach adolescence in an effort to make facial recognition virtually impossible, the jihadist said.
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Islamization of Sweden — Imams Divide Country Between Themselves
The Sweden National Defense College has revealed Sweden as a country in the process of full Islamization: Imams dividing Sweden between themselves, creating and claiming their own terriories. Qu’ran education schools brainwashing children through literacy and, anti-democratic ideology. And from the Sunni people, there is an intensely depressing message of hatred towards the “unbelievers”, Jews, gay men, women and the Swedish society.
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Italy: Govt to Stop Magistrates Returning From Politics
Will boost judicial autonomy, impartiality says Bonafede
(ANSA) — Rome, June 27 — The government plans to stop magistrates who enter political life returning to the judiciary once their political careers are over, Justice Minister Alfonso Bonafede said Wednesday. “Preventing, by law, that a magistrate who has held political elective office may return to the role of magistrate, is one of our plans,” he said.
He said this would bolster the “principles of autonomy, impartiality and non-partisanship of the judiciary”.
Several high-profile magistrates have switched between politics and the judiciary.
Bonafede also vowed to step up the fight against the mafia and corruption.
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Koran Should be Read at Prince Charles’ Coronation Says Top Bishop
Critics attack proposal and accuse Church of England of ‘losing confidence’ in its own traditions
Prince Charles’s coronation service should be opened with a reading from the Koran, a senior Church of England bishop said yesterday.
The gesture would be a ‘creative act of accommodation’ to make Muslims feel ‘embraced’ by the nation, Lord Harries of Pentregarth said.
But critics attacked the idea, accusing the Church of ‘losing confidence’ in its own institutions and traditions.
Lord Harries, a former Bishop of Oxford and a leading CofE liberal thinker, said he was sure Charles’s coronation would give scope to leaders of non-Christian religions to give their blessing to the new King.
The former Bishop of Oxford, who continues to serve as an assistant bishop in the diocese of Southwark, made the suggestion about the Koran during a House of Lords debate. He told peers the Church of England should take the lead in ‘exercising its historic position in a hospitable way’.
He said that at a civic service in Bristol Cathedral last year authorities had agreed to a reading of the opening passage of the Koran before the beginning of the Christian ritual. He said: ‘It was a brilliant creative act of accommodation that made the Muslim high sheriff feel, as she said, warmly embraced but did not alienate the core congregation.
‘That principle of hospitality can and should be reflected in many public ceremonies, including the next coronation service.’…
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Swedish PM Testifies in Court Over War Jets Sale in Brazil
STOCKHOLM (AFP) — Sweden’s Prime Minister Stefan Lofven testified in court on Friday, at the request of a Brazilian judge, over a suspected corruption case in Brazil involving the sale of Swedish fighter aircraft at the expense of their French counterpart Rafale.
Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is being investigated for money laundering and influence peddling as prosecutors accuse him of having received 2.25 million reais ($1.04 million at the current rate).
Lula is suspected of having received the money in the purchase of Swedish aircraft manufacturer Saab’s Jas Gripen fighter jets through his son Luis Claudio’s company to bribe Dilma Rousseff, who succeeded him as the nation’s leader in 2011…
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The European Intervention Initiative: A New Military Force Established in Europe
The predictions have come true about the emergence of a new defense group that will change the European security environment.
On June 25, the defense chiefs from nine EU countries signed off on the creation of a new force called the European Intervention Initiative (EII), which is spearheaded by French President Emmanuel Macron. The new organization will have a common budget and a doctrine establishing its guidelines for acting and joint planning for contingencies in which NATO may not get involved. The group includes the UK, Germany, Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, Estonia, Spain, and Portugal. Italy may join soon. The initiative is not tied to the EU’s Common European Defense, which includes the PESCO agreement as well as NATO. Great Britain has always opposed the idea of creating a European defense alliance, fearing it would undermine transatlantic unity. Now it has done an about-face, as the rifts within the US grow deeper.
[Comment: Watch for EU apparatchiks to give free citizenship to refugees for a 2-3 year stint in this new globalist army.]
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A magistrate defending his family against an armed gang who stormed his home ended up being arrested himself — and accused of a racially aggravated assault.
Police detained Nigel Stringer for three hours and he remains under investigation while the gang — believed to have been armed with a gun, knives, metal bars and a crossbow — were allowed to leave.
The 67-year-old, who has been a magistrate for 26 years, is now standing down to pursue a private prosecution against the men.
His wife Cindy, 55, says she lives in constant fear following the terrifying events of January 14.
Mr Stringer says justice ‘runs in my blood’, with his grandfather and parents having careers in policing.
But he said: ‘They would all turn in their graves to know that modern political correctness caused my son and I to be taken from our home for defending our family.
‘In detaining us the police left my wife and daughters unprotected with some of the gang still in and around our garden.’
[…]Mr Stringer said he was then horrified to see four other men on the other side of a hedge urging their companion with phrases such as: ‘Go on my n*****, slog him.’
He said: ‘I had no strength left, I only had my voice and I tried to find the most shocking words to shout, thinking that if they came through that hedge we could be killed. There was nobody there to save us, we were alone.
‘Using their own words, I shouted ‘and if you n*****s come into my garden I will f***ing hit you with this’. I merely flung their own words back at them. I am not racist.’
[…]Moments before police arrived, the remaining intruder made a 999 call saying he had been attacked by two men, suffered numerous injuries and racially abused.
Five police cars then arrived and officers arrested Mr Stringer and his son on suspicion of a racially aggravated attack. Police briefly questioned the men at the gate but none was arrested.
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Why Britain’s Deradicalization Programs Are Failing
The two effective initiatives were, “one defying political correctness and tackling difficult issues head-on and the other directly addressing extremism in religious [Islamic] texts.” — The Times.
Unwittingly, Home Secretary Sajid Javid showed just why the deradicalization programs he is defending do not work. He said nothing about the boy’s family’s religious faith, radical Islam or the narrative of hate and intolerance founded on a “radical” interpretation of the Quran and Sunna to which the boy may well have been exposed at home, at the mosque and over the internet.
The trouble with Javid’s tribute to those Muslims who “stand up against all forms of extremism” is that bigotry and bloodlust are not merely figments of Islamist extremists’ minds. They stem from an authentic interpretation of Quranic verses and hadiths, which currently dominates the Muslim world.
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Hate Communism? Move to Russia
by Servando Gonzalez
Mark Twain once wrote that reality always trumps fiction, because, contrary to fiction, reality doesn’t follow any rules. He was right.
If 50 years ago a science-fiction writer would have written a novel in which the Soviet Union turns into a capitalist country and American changes into a carbon-copy of what the Soviet Union was under the Communists’ rule, no publisher would have printed it, because he would have considered the story too farfetched to be credible.
Nevertheless, this is close to what has happened. Let’s see.
In their Communist Manifesto, first published in 1872, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels enumerate the necessary measures to be taken to implement communism in a particular country. Those are:
[Comment: Recommended reading.]
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Tony Blair is Right About Anti-Terrorism Alliance With Russia
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day, the old saying goes. The truth of the adage has been proved yet again by the statements made by former British Prime Minister Tony Blair on the need for Britain to work with Russia to counter terrorism.
“On the Middle East, on fighting terrorism, yes, we will have to ally with Russia, but that’s not to say we aren’t prepared to have powerful and strong disagreements with them when they’re doing things we don’t agree with and can’t agree with,” Blair said.
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“They’re Trying to Deceive us” — North Korea Adding to Nuclear Stockpiles, Satellite Photos Reveal
In what appears to be the latest indication that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s talk about abandoning the country’s nuclear arsenal is disingenuous, US intelligence believes Kim has increased nuclear enrichment activities at several “secret” facilities in recent months, even after securing a major concession from the US and South Korea to cancel their upcoming joint military exercises.
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China Monitors Citizens With TVs, Smartphones, Artificial Intelligence, And Robot Birds
China’s Global Times was pleased to announce on Wednesday that cell phones and TV sets have become eyes and ears for the largest mass surveillance network in the world, monitoring citizens in even rural communities and feeding the results into artificially intelligent computer systems.
The surveillance system is called “Sharp Eyes,” and its ostensible purpose is to help villages fight crime with limited police manpower. Leaving aside the question of whether the immense security apparatus in China can fairly be described as understaffed, the system is described as chillingly effective:…
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The Australian Human Rights Commission ordered Suncorp to compensate a registered sex offender after it was found that he was ‘discriminated against due to his criminal record’.
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Since then, a public petition from 150 academics at the University of Sydney expressing much the same sentiments has effectively disqualified that institution from applying to conduct a Ramsay-type degree too. It gives me no satisfaction to say that this confirms the warnings in this column in May 2017 that the academic situation in Australia was even worse than Britain and America and that none of the humanities faculties at our major public universities were fit for the task. All had been captured by anti-Western theories of cultural studies, neo-Marxism, gender theory and post-colonialism.
How this leftist domination came about was explained well by Niall Ferguson in an interview with Dave Rubin on the Rubin Report, YouTube, on June 1. Ferguson is a conservative historian who became an academic celebrity in 2002 with his book and television series Empire, largely in praise of the British Empire. His recruitment by Harvard University soon after seemed to proclaim a revival of the conservative position within the academic world. However, these days Ferguson is very pessimistic about the future. Here are extracts from the interview:…
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Christian Death Toll Rises to 200 in 4-Day Muslim ‘Killing Spree’ In Nigeria
The death toll of last weekend’s massacre of Nigerian Christians by militant Muslim Fulani herdsmen has risen to at least 200, according to a report released Friday by Open Doors, an organization that monitors Christian persecution.
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The Boer Project: Exposing the Farm Murders in South Africa
A video version of this show is available here.
Henrik welcomes Jonas back to the show to discuss his documentary on the plight of whites in South Africa. Before asking Jonas about his film, Henrik contextualizes recent events in South Africa that have resulted in unprecedented levels of violence against white farmers. Jonas states that he initially started the project ten years ago to highlight the situation’s increasing severity. Henrik and Jonas go on to address the oft-overlooked Swedish connection to the overturning of apartheid. Our show also examines many other facets of the crisis including how to best foster a humanitarian response; the importance of race in South Africa and the wider West; recent altruistic overtures by Australian politicians; multiculturalism’s inherent instability; and much more.
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A “Leftist Populist” Is About to Become President of Mexico: Full Elections Preview
Mexico — where over 100 politicians have been killed in the past year — will hold its general election on July 1, electing a new president, 128 members of the Senate and 500 members of Congress, while local elections will also be taking place in 30 of 32 Mexican states. Recent polling overwhelmingly suggests that the Latin American country will be the latest domino to fall to the global anti-establishment wave, and will elect its first “leftist populist” — some say socialist president — in a generation with potentially far-reaching consequences for the country’s oil industry, trade policy, crime fighting and relations with the United States.
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Embattled Merkel Draws Up New Measures to Tackle Migration
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has drawn up a raft of measures to tighten controls on the influx of migrants, according to a document submitted to her coalition partners Saturday as she battles for political survival.
However, the claim included in the document that Germany has secured deals with 14 EU member states to take back asylum-seekers already registered in those countries was quickly thrown into doubt. Two of the countries mentioned — Hungary and the Czech Republic — denied that any such deal had been reached.
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French Newspaper Claims as Many as One Million Illegal Migrants in Libya
The Libya correspondent for the French newspaper Le Monde has claimed the country could be playing host to as many as 700,000 to one million asylum seekers, with many waiting to come to Europe.
The claims came from journalist Frédéric Bobin who took questions from readers on the current situation in Libya and the status of the migrant crisis which has engulfed the country.
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Greeks Start Protesting After Migrants Sexually Assault Six Young Boys on the Island of Chios
On June 20th, a group of children was playing football in a field next to the refugee camp of Chalkios when suddenly a group of migrants appeared and stopped the game.
Some of the migrants started touching the boys who resisted and screamed for help. Their screams were heard by residents living in nearby homes.
Neighbours rushed out to protect the boys. The appearance of the residents and the children’s’ strong resistance made the migrants escape through the nearby fields to the camp. Residents themselves are prohibited to approach this camp.
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How to Humanely Reduce Unlawful Immigration and Shut Down Open-Borders Democrats
Today’s lesson on morality and human rights comes from the probable (according to polls) next president of our crime-infested and corrupt neighbor to the south (emphases added):
Mexican presidential candidate Andre’s Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) called for mass immigration to the United States[,] … declaring it a “human right” for all North Americans.
“[W]e will defend all the migrants in the American continent and all the migrants in the world,” Obrador said, adding that immigrants “must leave their towns and find a life in the United States.”
Apparently, the U.S. must welcome an unlimited number of these unwanted, by their own president, Mexicans, because the U.S. is morally obligated to serve as Mexico’s social-dysfunction safety valve and ATM.
Did you know that “chutzpah” is the same in Hebrew and Spanish? On the other hand, everyone knows that Obrador can count on a large cohort of Democrats, who share his view:
The reaction among immigration advocates has gone from outrage about family separations to consternation about family detention, because their ultimate goal is to let the migrants come into the United States and stay.
Lest anyone misunderstand, when Democrats say “the,” they mean “all.” Today, it’s “family separations”; tomorrow, who knows? But whatever the Dems’ démagogie du jour, most Americans want illegal immigration greatly reduced and, ideally, eliminated. The latter, most likely, is a pipe dream. But not only can the former be done. It can be done using methods already tried and proven.
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Illegal Aliens: The New Black Vote for Democrats
As an African-American, I cannot remember a better time in history to live in the United States; and thanks to the policies of President Trump, many other Blacks are starting to feel the same way. The 60-year gig is up for the power-hungry Democratic Party that has been running a massive scam on Black people since the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King. Thank God — Black people are finally starting to wake up and unplug themselves from the Liberal Matrix that has ruled their reality for over a half a century.
First it was the hilariously viral YouTube sensations “Diamond & Silk” supporting Trump during his 2016 Presidential campaign.
Then, it was Kanye West shocking the world with his vehement support of President Trump on TMZ Live, touting all the wonderful things that Trump has done for the Black community. Remember, this is the same guy who said back in 2005 during the Hurricane Katrina catastrophe that President Bush “doesn’t care about Black people.” He has now woken up to the Democrat scam and is making an effort to wake his fellow Blacks up to it.
Then there was Candace Owens of Turning Point USA, who has been on an aggressive nationwide campaign exposing the Democratic Party for what it truly is — A communist, socialist, racist organization that has presided over the massive unemployment, massive genocide (via abortion), and massive economic slavery (in the form of family-destroying welfare programs) of poor Black minorities in the U.S. since the 1960s.
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‘Judgement Day’ For Merkel: Coalition Partners to Discuss Chancellor’s EU Migration Deal
ANGELA Merkel’s political future will be determined at a showdown meeting later today, where the leadership of the Christian Social Union (CSU) party will congregate to determine whether to accept her updated EU migration deal.
[Comment: Article dated July 1, 2018.]
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Libya Navy Bemoans Lack of EU Support Over Migrants
TRIPOLI (AFP) — The Libyan coastguard, charged with patrolling the frontline of Europe’s efforts to halt irregular migration, has only three working patrol boats, which often stay in port for lack of fuel.
“We don’t get any support, either from inside the country or from overseas,” said Ayoub Kacem, spokesman for the navy which oversees Libya’s coastguard, adding that the force’s only vessels have been on loan from Italy since 2010.
In a country wracked by violence since the 2011 fall and killing of longtime dictator Moamer Kadhafi in a NATO-backed uprising that destroyed Libya’s navy, officials say European powers have abandoned them — despite their efforts on Europe’s behalf to prevent migrants crossing their territory…
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On Immigration, Trump Should Beware the Power of the Pen
There has been years of neglect on the issue of immigration from Democrats, including at a time when they controlled the White House and the House and had a 60-vote majority in the Senate. Now, we are seeing a concerted effort by Democrats, along with help from their friends in the media, to drum up a frenzy on immigration and lay the blame squarely at the feet of President Trump. The hope of the left seems to be that the public pressure begins to weigh so heavily that President Trump decides to handle the issue through executive order.
It is clear that Democrats are pushing this issue as a last-ditch effort to save what once looked to be a promising midterm election cycle. But there may be another ulterior motive for pushing immigration, and for pressuring President Trump to use the power of the pen.
According to a new CBS news poll, 63 percent of Americans in competitive congressional districts think those crossing illegally should be immediately deported or arrested. This is undoubtedly contrary to the views expressed by the Democratic Party.
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Poland Says Has Not Signed Migrant Repatriation Deal With Germany
WARSAW (Reuters) — Poland has not entered into any agreement about repatriating asylum seekers, Foreign Ministry spokesman said after a German government document was circulated saying Warsaw was one of 14 governments that had indicated it would be prepared to do so.
“There are no any new agreements regarding the reception of asylum seekers from EU countries, we confirm (that), like the Czech Republic and Hungary,” Artur Lompart, a Foreign Ministry spokesman told Reuters on Saturday.
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Polish MP: Our Country is Safe Because We Didn’t Accept Illegal Muslim Migrants
Dominik Tarczynski, a member of Poland’s Law and Justice party was recently interviewed by Britain’s Channel 4. According to the Polish MP, his country is safe because it refused to accept illegal Muslim migrants.
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Protesters Hit the Streets of Chicago in Mass Demonstration Against Trump’s Immigration Agenda
CHICAGO — Thousands of people gathered in Daley Center Plaza on a sweltering Saturday to protest the Trump administration’s immigration policies, part of a nationwide day of outrage sparked by the separation of illegal immigrant families at the southwest border.
Despite oppressive humidity that pushed the heat index to 105 degrees, a huge crowd filled the plaza for a rally before marching through closed streets in the heart of Chicago’s downtown Loop district.
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Spain to Take in NGO With 59 Migrants After Italy and Malta Refuse Access
UPDATED: A Spanish NGO said on Saturday it had rescued 59 migrants as they tried to cross the Mediterranean from Libya and would dock in Spain after Italy and Malta refused access.
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Steven Mosher: China Refuses Refugees Due to Belief in ‘Ethnic Superiority’
Population Research Institute President Steven Mosher explained to Breitbart News Sunday host Amanda House this week that China has refused to take any refugees from dangerous parts of the world to preserve its “ethnically based empire.”
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Teetering Merkel Concedes Some Migration Controls to Stave Off Political Demise
Germany’s Angela Merkel has drawn up a raft of measures to tighten controls on the influx of migrants, according to a document submitted to her coalition partners Saturday as she battles for political survival.
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Austrian Court Moves to Recognise ‘Third Gender’
Austria’s constitutional court on Friday ruled that people not wanting to be identified as either male or female should have the right to do so when completing official forms, a big step towards the formal recognition of a third gender.
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Resist the LGBT Propaganda Agenda
It’s the summer of 2018 and many children are at home enjoying a school break. It’s a good time for family gatherings and family discussions. Summer will eventually come to a close, and moms and dads across America will have to send their children back to school in the fall.
Many parents of faith know that their children are being taught non-Judeo-Christian values in the school systems, namely that homosexuality and heterosexuality are both equal and perfectly normal. But many parents and grandparents and other guardians of today’s children don’t know how to protect their children from the poisonous doctrines of sexual immorality and homosexuality that they are receiving in the public schools.
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I thought that Charles was to have been bypassed as Queen Elizabeth had designated William as Crown Prince. Explanation please?
Yeah. Explanation please….
I vaguely recall a whisper of that in passing, but nothing substantial. Seems like such would make a lot of people happy.
Alternatively, it would seem Charles could immediately resign after “accepting” the crown, thereby establishing the right to be king but achieving the same end.
Charles resign?? I don’t think he can or would. No man who has spent his entire life – up to and including his old age – preparing for his ascent to the throne would willingly surrender his lifelong goal.
Abdicate. Edward VIII.
(Okay…. So I don’t always use the right word. I’m over 80 years old.)
“Abdicate” is the right word, but Edward wanted to marry a divorced woman and back then it meant he had no choice if his true love was Wallis Simpson.
https://www.biography.com/people/groups/edward-viii-and-wallis-simpson
They led a sad life, not unlike Charles.
I call it “sad” because they seemed to find no gravitas in their life-long career among the idle Rich & Famous.
Sadly not, acuara. The Queen made it very clear, quite recently, that she expects Charles to succeed. Many Brits, not just republicans like myself, find this difficult to understand, as she presumably wants the Monarchy to survive, but Charles’ widespread unpopularity makes this less likely (at the least, it would encourage borderline republican Commonwealth nations such as Australia to leave); I guess she believes in following the “correct” succession over all other considerations.
Having said which, the Queen is 92, and her mother lived to be 101; who knows what the state of Britain will be in around twenty years? -it may all be irrelevant by then.
It would be unthinkable to deny Charles his rightful inheritance short of a civil war. True the guy is a bit of a flake but on several occasions England had total nutcakes on the throne and it survived those too.
Sorry, around ten years! Maths was never my best subject.
Copyrighter (below), I doubt whether a “flake” would be tolerated now- oddly, perhaps, because it’s now more important for the monarch to be apolitical.
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Sweden’s opposite
500 asylum seekers are causing panic in South Korea – the government promises to stop the inflow.
After a name collection for expelling the Yemenites has collected half a million signatures, the government has promised to amend the asylum law, which provides the opportunity to appeal an expulsion decision in court. It is also promised to eradicate potential terrorists and criminals!
Many have expressed concern that the group should bring about an Islamization of South Korea and expose the population to violent crimes.
The migrants are being held in an asylum center on the island of Jeju, which allows foreigners to stay for 30 days without a visa.
By 2018, a total of 430 Yemenites have applied for asylum in South Korea. The over 500 current culture enrichters have arrived between January and May.
The predominantly homogeneous South Korea has granted 893 people asylum since 1994.
I do hope South Korea stays relatively stable. I have a website with a company based there.
And, if little ol’ (nobody) me can have something of importance in South Korea, it’s a sure bet there are a lot of people with a lot more at stake.
Yemenites in SoKo? How does that happen?
They flew in from Malaysia (*sans* wives and children, naturally). Regular articles are appearing in the English language Korea Times and Korea Herald (links here).
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www2/index.asp
http://www.koreaherald.com/
The population is split, with a majority against accepting them and considerable awareness and wisdom being shown on the one side and some of the foolery we Europeans are by now well used to on the other.
Here’s an up-to-date video and report:
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2018/07/718_251514.html
and here’s another link:
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2018/07/356_251512.html
The Korea Herald reporter at this e-mail address
dyc@heraldcorp.com,
a Ms. Lee, has written an uninformed, typically leftie article. Any information or opinions sent to her to show her that we know she’s wrong can in a small way help this beautiful country defend itself.
Joe-
You’ve nailed the problem in your first paragraph.
By international law, these Yemenis are required to apply for asylum in the first safe country they reach.
I’m not fully informed, but I’m pretty sure that Malaysia is stable right now. It is also full of their co-believers. You’d think they would be more comfortable in such a society than South Korea.
If SK can’t eject these immivaders, they should put them in a camp indefinitely and feed them just enough Samgyeopsal to keep them alive.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samgyeopsal
I love living in Korea. Absolutely love it. It really is a wonderful country and I’m relieved they’re actually taking action on this matter.
These bishops are so desperate to find people to share their beliefs with they’ll ring in other religions. Perhaps if they spent more time encouraging Christians and Christianity and less time promoting Islam they’d have more people in their churches.
You don’t see McDonalds doing outreach to Burger King or offering to sell KFC in their stores.
Actually, they’re preaching a form of Christianity, but one that doesn’t make a lot of sense in the light of other principles such as the principle of self defense. Example:
Just this morning in my apartment I smacked an ailing spider with a body about an inch and a quarter long and a half inch wide, scooped it up and put it in a jar for the pest control people. I’m not anti-spider — sick or well they can sit around all they want outside, but I’d rather not live with them.
Easy to trap them in a glass and toss them outside. Why kill when you can be kind?
Easy, maybe, if they are within reach and not moving and you are able-bodied, which I am not.
And, if you aren’t careful about the force you use when setting “a glass” anywhere you will have broken glass, which can have sharp cutting edges. I already have enough scars from that.
Well, DanielK, if the businesses you mention rilly rilly believed in equality, of course they’d do what you suggest 😉
McDonalds isn’t doing fast food outreach but Carl’s Junior has adopted some of the fare from Green Burrito and my nearby KFC offers burgers from the A&W menu. Blended fast food joints have been happening for well over ten years now.
This is not to defend bishops blending Christianity with Islam, just to point out the simile is not apt. In fact Catholicism from the West Indies and South America has been blended with voodoo and other belief systems. Anything to fill the pews I guess.
Peter Hitchens on the coronation of Charles. Eloquently, beautifully articulated . . . and crushingly sad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjplZG7mrws
“A leading bishop in the Church of England says that there should be a reading from the Koran at Prince Charles’ coronation after the passing of Queen Elizabeth II. Lord Harries of Pentregarth says that the reading would make Muslims feel included and accepted in British society.”
Typically he doesn’t say how he thinks it would make English people feel.
Perhaps because he was intending to speak only to the British affiliated with some Christian church, not everyone. …Which suggests he doesn’t deal with anyone else.
I think being able to rape native girls by the hundreds for decades with no police interference is more than being “accepted.” They’ve been handed the keys to the kingdom.
Enraged? Just like they already are? And the consequences of that would be…. Anything more than tut-tutting and drunken tirades in a few pubs?
I have no problem of the koran being read.
Most likely it will be a Mecca verse, amongst the first suras chronologically when forming the koran, in its illogical order.
Then the abrogation verses should also be quoted.
That abrogation effects need to be fully and openly discussed and debated by all, in church, in mosques, in synagogues, media, newspapers, television etc.. !
The over riding of the Mecca verses by the Medina verses needs to be more widely known!
Would some compere, commentator on radio or tv, dare to bring out the abrogation verses of what an imam would most likely quote at a coronation?
It needs to be exposed as muslims one way or the other must be forced to know about this, and then own it!, just as Mohammad did, which is shown by the many supporting hadith and sira.
“The overriding of the Meccan verses by the Medinan verses needs to be more widely known!”
Indeed it does simpleton1! Very few Westerners understand the Koranic doctrine of abrogation: they read of the nice Meccan verses (trotted out by Western propagandists for Islam and Islamic taqiyya artists) and think “Aww, shucks that’s nice. Islam is okay.”
For many, many, years I have been trying to explain the doctrine of abrogation to fair-minded people.
And now you have provided me with the actual verses. Or three of them. I have copied and pasted them into a Word doc for future reference and use.
I am in your debt. Isn’t it great to be a reader of GoV? One learns so much.
Was Lauren Southern’s Farmlands documentary not shared yet or have I missed the post? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_bDc7FfItk
And can anyone please let me know if someone’s working on Czech subtitles? If not I would happily provide the translation (I have translated blockbuster-lenght documentaries before).
Thanks!
After Prince Harry’s ‘marriage’ to Meghan Markle, Prince Charles converting to Islam doesn’t seem highly implausible.
The world is so messed up right now, anything is possible
My only hope in that regard is prince Charles doing the reasonable thing and leaving the throne to William. I’m considering his behaviour in the recent years as pointing in that direction, plus William’s much more popular than him. As for Harry I doubt anything he’d do would surprise anyone anymore and he doesn’t need to care about his image either, as the second born he pretty much won’t have any responsibilities and does have a good life ensured, in his place I wouldn’t care much about anything either (granted he did seem to grow up somewhat after being on a foreign mission with the army).
What’s your problem with Meghan, Jeff? She seems like a breath of fresh air to many of us Brits.
Are you being facetious?! She’s a vacuous SJW, from the most vulgar segment of U.S. society — Hollywood/LA.
Didn’t know about her politics, Rob- just the difference from the women our princes usually marry seemed refreshing.
One of the best predictors (in many cases, but not all by any means) of a stable marriage is the intact family of at least one of the couple. Neither husband nor wife, in this case, brings such a history to the table. Family of origin dynamics really do make a difference in the long term.
Further, looking at Meghan’s life up until she met Harry gives one pause. You have only to examine the particulars of her first divorce to wonder if Harry will prosper once their deep love becomes the inevitably routinized married love. Anyway, I feel sorry for him, situated as he is, i.e., the second son who can never have a career with real meaning. In days of old, such men went off to new lands to carve out a life for themselves. He doesn’t have that choice, poor fellow.
If you mean Meghan Markle’s freedom to marry, surely the matter was explored and validated somehow.
Elisabeth ll is (possibly) descended from a certain Mohammed via Zaida and Sancho.
https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2018/04/05/muslims-consider-queen-elizabeths-ties-to-the-prophet-muhammad
Though according to
http://nicholaswhyte.info/muhammad.htm
just about all Arabs and many westerners, especially nobility, are.
It is a bit freaky looking at how interconnected populations are, even if distant relationship with other peoples only symbolises a tiny part of any person’s overall heritage.
Interesting. It reads like a genealogy account from the Old Testament. He links to Mark Humphrys’ page, though I’d never noticed that one before.
Mark is considered a qualified expert on geneaology – I first ran across references to him in an Atlantic essay. So maybe you and I are 12th cousins once removed to Queen Elisabeth? I or II, doesn’t matter.
You never know, but records for us commoners don’t go back too far I think… maybe we just “appeared” : – )
It’s a difficult one…a friend once remarked, after seeing the coast here fill up with all sorts in the space of a few years
“Where did all these people come from? ”
The only answer that came to mind while looking at the crowds who, if you didn’t know otherwise, would seem like they had always been there and belonged, if not owned the place, was “I don’t know”.
…what is really strange though is having known half of the locals of this “what was a small town”, when all the familiar faces and characters, who were so familiar as to be that town, started leaving in one way or another, and something very different installed itself there, well you realise just how powerful is bureaucracy and finance combined, people just following a paper trail that is designed to attract and provide for them… for just as long as they are able to contribute to its construction, after which is post-boom and “something very different”.
First Q. Is the economy getting better
Second Q. Is finding work easy/hard
at
https://politica.elpais.com/politica/2018/05/14/actualidad/1526314779_900586.html
From
https://wolfstreet.com/2018/06/20/how-the-ecb-helped-spain-recover-faster-than-italy-from-the-crisis/
Some really confused goings on in Spain.
Perhaps Prince Charles is already a muslim.
‘This claim was put forward by no less a personage than the grand mufti of Cyprus: “Did you know that Prince Charles has converted to Islam. Yes, yes. He is a Muslim. I can’t say more. But it happened in Turkey. Oh, yes, he converted all right. When you get home check on how often he travels to Turkey. You’ll find that your future king is a Muslim.”‘.
https://www.meforum.org/articles/other/prince-charles-of-arabia
Then he cannot be King! Period!
Mass stabbing in Boise, Idaho…the police are sitting on the attacker’s details, could be a Mohammedan:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/9-injured-in-mass-stabbing-at-idaho-apartment-complex/
No islam in this one, just a semi-homeless man who is probably mentally ill. I’m long-distance diagnosing his condition because he wasn’t able to procure a firearm, he had no permanent address, and he’d just been booted from the mostly-refugee apartment complex where he was staying.
http://idahonews.com/news/local/police-identify-man-arrested-for-boise-stabbing-that-injured-nine
[BTW, if you avoid the Bigs and search for local news, you’ll often find the breaking news more quickly.]
Many years ago [before the open jihad begun in NYC on 9/11] with the collapse of the CofE I said England would become an Islamic country, and all the churches converted to mosques, if it were not for three things: that (the name of the spirit they worship [which I decline to name] ) has got a downer on alcohol; pork; and foreskins, none of which Englishmen can do without.
Well, I’ve had to do without mine since I was a toddler, but that was because it got infected playing on a beach (too much infornation? Sorry!)