The Italian government has refused permission for yet another NGO migrant vessel to land. Meanwhile, Switzerland has refused an EU request to accept the relocation of more “refugees” from Italy and Greece.
In other news, in a landslide vote, the socialist candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador has won the Mexican presidential election.
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Atlantic Council Explains Why We Need to be Propagandized for Our Own Good
I sometimes try to get establishment loyalists to explain to me exactly why we’re all meant to be terrified of this “Russian propaganda” thing they keep carrying on about. What is the threat, specifically? That it makes the public less willing to go to war with Russia and its allies? That it makes us less trusting of lying, torturing, coup-staging intelligence agencies? Does accidentally catching a glimpse of that green RT logo turn you to stone like Medusa, or melt your face like in Raiders of the Lost Ark?
“Well, it makes us lose trust in our institutions,” is the most common reply.
Okay. So? Where’s the threat there? We know for a fact that we’ve been lied to by those institutions. Iraq isn’t just something we imagined. We should be skeptical of claims made by western governments, intelligence agencies and mass media. How specifically is that skepticism dangerous?…
Braw argues that, because Russian propaganda is so dangerous (what with the threat of British people having insufficient emotional exuberance during a possible naval battle and all), what is required is a “NATO of infowar”, an alliance of western state media that is tasked with combatting Russian counter-narratives. Because, in the strange Dungeons & Dragons fantasy fairy world in which Braw penned her article, this isn’t already happening.
And of course, here in the real world, it is already happening. As I wrote recently, mainstream media outlets have been going out of their minds churning out attack editorials on anyone who questions the establishment narrative about what happened in Douma. A BBC reporter recently admonished a retired British naval officer for voicing skepticism of what we’re being told about Syria on the grounds that it might “muddy the waters” of the “information war” that is being fought against Russia. All day, every day, western mass media are pummeling the public with stories about how awful and scary Russians are and how everything they say is a lie.
This is because western mass media outlets are owned by western plutocrats, and those plutocrats have built their empires upon a status quo that they have a vested interest in preserving, often to the point where they will form alliances with defense and intelligence agencies to do so. They hire executives and editors who subscribe to a pro-establishment worldview, who in turn hire journalists who subscribe to a pro-establishment worldview, and in that way they ensure that all plutocrat-owned media outlets are advancing pro-plutocrat agendas.
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Donald Trump, Best in the West
Opposed by Democrats, the media and a nefarious cabal of high government officials, this most unlikely president has implemented precisely what he promised on the stump. Despite the Deep State’s worst efforts to bring him down, his record far exceeds even that of the great Ronald Reagan
Australia is fortunate indeed that Donald Trump is US President, just as we have been fortunate that we have always been so close to the world’s most powerful nation — first Great Britain, then the United States of America. It is crucial to Australia that the US continue in her powerful role of preserving, protecting and defending Western civilisation based, as it is, on Judeo-Christian values.
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How Deep is the Deep State, Part 3
We have to look at these organizations in order to understand who is attempting to direct America towards the one world order. They are everywhere and have infiltrated every concept of American life.
One that was co-founded by a member of the Lyndon Johnson and Jimmie Carter administrations, Zbignew Brzezinski, is the Trilateral Commission. The Trilateral Commission was established in 1973. Its founder and primary financial angel was international financier, David Rockefeller, longtime chairman of the Rockefeller family-controlled Chase Manhattan Bank and undisputed overlord of his family’s global corporate empire.
Rockefeller’s idea for establishing the commission emerged after he had read a book entitled Between Two Ages written by an Establishment scholar, Prof. Zbigniew Brzezinski of Columbia University.
In his book Brzezinski proposed a vast alliance between North America, Western Europe and Japan. According to Brzezinski, changes in the modern world required it.
“Resist as it might,” Brzezinski wrote elsewhere, “the American system is compelled gradually to accommodate itself to this emerging international context, with the U.S. government called upon to negotiate, to guarantee, and, to some extent, to protect the various arrangements that have been contrived even by private business.”
In other words, it was necessary for the international upper class to band together to protect its interests, and to ensure, in the developed nations, that political leaders were brought to power who would ensure that the global financial interests (of the Rockefellers and the other ruling elites) would be protected over those of the hoi polloi…
“To put it simply, Trilateralists are saying: The people, governments and economies of all nations must serve the needs of multinational banks and corporations.
“In short, Trilateralism is the current attempt by ruling elites to manage both dependence and democracy — at home and abroad.”
Another Trilateral critic, now-retired Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz.), views the commission as a Rockefeller family operation through and through. According to Goldwater:
“The Trilateral organization created by David Rockefeller was a surrogate — the members selected by Rockefeller, its purposes defined by Rockefeller, its funding supplied by Rockefeller. David Rockefeller screened and selected every individual who was invited to participate.” [5] Members in this group are just as elite as in the others and you’ll see that many are members in some of the other groups as well. You’ll also find many members of the military in this group as well: Madeleine K. Albright, Adm. Dennis B. Blair (ret.), Michael Bloomberg, Michael Chertoff, and Paul A. Volcker are just a few.
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Nine Stabbed in Unprovoked Spree at Idaho Apartment Complex
(BOISE) — Nine people are hospitalized — some seriously — after a man went on a stabbing spree at an apartment complex in Boise, Idaho, that is home to many refugee families, police said.
A 30-year-old man from out of state has been arrested in connection with the attack Saturday night that police said seemed to be “unprovoked.”
“This incident is not a representation of our community but a single evil individual who attacked people without provocation that we are aware of at this time,” Boise Police Chief Bill Bones said Saturday evening. “Our community is reeling from this attack.”
Police said they do not know if the suspect is connected to the victims in any way.
Boise police got a call at 8:46 p.m. local time about a man with a knife attacking victims at the apartment complex. The suspect was located and taken into custody immediately, police said.
The officers found the stabbing victims in the apartment complex and its parking lot, according to police. Nine were taken to a local hospital.
“The suspect is in custody and being interviewed at this time,” the Boise Police Department said on its Twitter feed. “Victim witness coordinators and counselors are working with the victims and witnesses to provide them services in the days and weeks ahead.”
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Police Identify Man Arrested for Boise Stabbing That Injured Nine
BOISE, Idaho (KBOI) — Boise police have identified the man arrested for a stabbing that injured nine people Saturday night, including six children.
Police say Timmy Kinner, 30, of Los Angeles, was arrested and charged with nine counts of felony aggravated battery and six counts of felony injury to a child.
Officers say 4 of the nine people have life-threatening injuries. Some of the victims are members of the refugee community. Police say Kinner is not a refugee.
Investigators say the preliminary evidence is showing that Kinner was a temporary resident at an apartment complex at State Street and Wylie Lane, where the stabbings happened.
Police say he was asked to leave the apartments Friday.
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According to Utah court records, Kinner was arrested in St. George, Utah, in April for stealing a man’s wallet. He was given 18 months probation as punishment.
[See more at URL. EDITORIAL COMMENT: the perp is from L.A., probably mentally disturbed. Definitely homeless. Perhaps someone in L.A. gave him a bus ticket…]
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Revisiting the Violent Left of the 60s for Perspective on the Left Today
In the 1970’s, Larry Grathwohl went undercover for the FBI in the Weather Underground terrorist group. In this 2013 interview with WNDB’s Marc Bernier, Grathwohl talks about his experiences with Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn as they planned and executed terrorist bombings in the United States and their ties to Barack and Michele Obama.
What about the anti-American left of today?
Brandon Darby was involved with the violent anti-American left in movements like Occupy Wall Street. In the video below, he explains why he decided to become an FBI informant initially to help stop a terrorist plot directed at the Republican National Convention in 2008.
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Riot Breaks Out in Portland as Antifa Activists Clash With Conservative Marchers
Members of Antifa clashed with members of the conservative group Patriot Prayer Saturday evening in Portland, Ore., forcing police to declare that a riot was taking place as officers fired paintballs filled with tear gas into the crowd, according to the Oregonian.
Scuffles broke out shortly after 6 pm local time as Antifa protesters pelted marchers from the conservative group with eggs, water bottles and firecrackers as the marchers spilled out into downtown Portland for their legally permitted march in support of a conservative Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate. The march followed an afternoon rally at Terry Schrunk Federal Plaza, Reuters reported.
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Viral ‘Walk Away’ Videos Highlight Growing Movement of Democrats Leaving the Party
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They gather at his two Facebook groups, “The Unsilent Minority” and “WalkAway Campaign.” Those who have the courage post their own video testimonials about the moment when the abuse, rage, and ugliness of the Democrats caused them to finally leave the party and “walk away.”
“This is so much more than a hashtag on Twitter,” he said. “This is a testimonial campaign, a grassroots movement that is going to change the political landscape of this country.”
And that’s the astonishing twist here: If these people have been driven into the arms of Donald Trump, who’s left on the left?
[See also:
https://www.facebook.com/WalkAwayCampaign
https://www.facebook.com/usminority
https://www.theepochtimes.com/sydneysiders-stand-with-300-million-chinese-who-have-cut-ties-with-the-chinese-communist-party_2519696.html]
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Williams: Why Liberals Have Flip-Flopped on Free Speech
In a remarkably honest exposé, the New York Times acknowledged Saturday that “liberals who once championed expansive First Amendment rights are now uneasy about them” ever since conservatives realized they should apply to them as well.
The Times cites First Amendment lawyer Floyd Abrams who noted that whereas the left once led support for First Amendment protections, they are now “at least skeptical and sometimes distraught at the level of First Amendment protection which is being afforded in cases brought by litigants on the right.” …
Catharine A. MacKinnon, a law professor at the University of Michigan, goes further still, declaring that free speech reinforces and amplifies injustice because it is now being used to defend ideas she finds distressing.
“Once a defense of the powerless, the First Amendment over the last hundred years has mainly become a weapon of the powerful,” writes MacKinnon, who teaches such courses as “Evolution of Gender Crimes” and “Sex Equality.”
Whereas free speech used to be invoked to defend “radicals, artists and activists, socialists and pacifists, the excluded and the dispossessed,” MacKinnon laments, it has now become “a sword for authoritarians, racists and misogynists, Nazis and Klansmen, pornographers and corporations buying elections.” …
In reading through the New York Times piece it becomes abundantly clear that many liberals really never cared about “free speech” as such, but rather sought protection specifically for progressive ideas and behaviors. As soon as conservatives started demanding the same protections for their speech, it no longer seemed like such a good idea.
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Teahouse Attacked on Yelp After Kicking Out Customer in ‘MAGA’ Hat
Vancouver’s Teahouse in Stanley Park has been flooded with a wave of one-star Yelp reviews following a recent incident that saw a manager fired for refusing service to a man in a “Make America Great Again” hat.
Darin Hodge was dismissed from the restaurant Thursday, two days after asking a customer to remove the red MAGA hat, which signals support not just for Donald Trump, but for his divisive and often racist policies.
The Sequoia Company of Restaurants, which owns the Teahouse, said in an emailed statement that it “does not support intolerance of any kind” and “cannot discriminate against someone based on their support for the current administration in the United States or any other bona fide political party.”
But Hodge was defiant, releasing a statement Friday through Facebook standing by his decision. “The MAGA hat has come to symbolize racism, bigotry, Islamophobia, misogyny, white supremacy, homophobia,” Hodge said. “As a person with a strong moral backbone, I had to take a stand against this guest’s choice of headgear while in my former place of work. Absolutely no regrets.”
News of the incident kicked off a tempest for the Teahouse.
Hodge’s name was trending on Twitter in Vancouver Friday afternoon, as many took to social media to voice their support for his actions and their anger with the Teahouse’s response, which they believed aligned the popular brunch spot with racism and hatespeech, rather than in opposition to it…
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France Investigates Muslim Cleric for Allegedly Inciting Hatred Against Jews
French prosecutors announced Friday that they are investigating an imam for allegedly inciting hatred against Jews and violence against Israel in a video-recorded sermon.
Prosecutors said they will investigate Mohamed Tatai, imam at the Grand Mosque of Toulouse, for comments he made in a December 15 sermon in which he predicted the destruction of Israel and cited a Hadith about Muslims killing Jews in the last days, according to The Times of Israel. Video of the sermon, translated by the Middles East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), garnered condemnation against Tatai from B’nai B’rith, the oldest Jewish advocacy and service organization in the world
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A leaked confidential note from the French ambassador to Hungary has revealed praise for Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s migrant policy, and has drawn ire from French president Emmanuel Macron.
In the confidential note, which was addressed to the Élysée Palace and top European Union officials, Ambassador Eric Fournier defends the Hungarian leader, saying that the migrant policy of Prime Minister Orban is a “model” for Europe and that many politicians in the west suffer from “Hungaryophobia”, French broadcaster BFMTV reports.
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Germany’s AfD Calls for a ‘Fortress Europe’ at Party Conference
Representatives of Germany’s right-wing populist AfD have urged the creation of “Fortress Europe” with the help of Hungary’s Viktor Orban and Austria’s Sebastian Kurz. Thousands protested AfD party congress in Augsburg.
Some 600 AfD representatives gathered in Augsburg for the start of a two-day congress of the German populist party on Saturday, as left-wing protesters staged demonstrations in the Bavarian city.
Addressing the delegates, senior AfD lawmaker Jörg Meuthen slammed multiculturalism as a “quixotic ideology” and “the great ideological fallacy of the early 21st century.”
Meuthen also pushed for a new immigration policy that would turn the EU into “Fortress Europe.”…
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Is Guilt Killing the West From Within?
A “sense of guilt” for colonialism is debasing the West from within, according to Professor Bruce Gilley, and authoritarian regimes such as Iran, Russia, China and Turkey are profiting from this weakness.
The Romans called it damnatio memoriae: the damnation of memory that resulted in destroying the portraits and even the names of the fallen emperors. The same process is now underway in the West about its colonial past. The cultural elite in the West now seem so haunted by feelings of imperialist guilt that they are no longer confident that our civilization is something to be proud of.
A sense of guilt now seems a kind of post-Christian substitute religion that seduces many Westerners. The French scholar Shmuel Trigano suggested that this ideology is turning the Westerners into “post-colonial subjects” who no longer believe in their own civilization, but instead what will destroy it: multiculturalism. In France, for example, a manifesto was launched for “a multicultural and post racial republic”. The result would be, in the words of the anthropologist Jean-Loup Amselle, a “war of identities” and a clash between communities. Last month, the UK Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn said that, if elected Prime Minister, he would order the British Museum to return to Greece the Elgin Marbles, the frieze that had surrounded the Parthenon of Athens and one of the major attractions of the British Museum. “This whole campaign is sheer lunacy,” wrote Richard Dorment. But it is a lunacy spreading all over Europe. …
Thirty years ago, in a book, The Tears of the White Man, the French philosopher Pascal Bruckner wrote that, “the remorseless and self-righteous critic who endlessly denounces the deceptions of parliamentary democracy is suddenly rapt with admiration before the atrocities committed in the name of the Koran, the Vedas, the Great Helmsman…” Since then, Western elites have excused many crimes committed in the name of political Islam, as if these were the consequences of our own colonial crimes.
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Italy: 4 Nuns Suspended for Mistreating Nursery School Kids
Near Caserta
(ANSA) — Caserta, June 28 — Four nuns including two Filipinas, an Indonesian and an Italian mother superior were suspended Thursday for allegedly mistreating nursery school children near Caserta north of Naples. They were suspended for a year for mistreating the children, aged three to five.
The mother superior did not personally take part in the maltreatment but did nothing to prevent it, police said.
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Italy’s Salvini Vows to Create Pan-European Association of Nationalist Parties
Having taken Italy by storm, and threatening to prematurely terminate the career of German Chancellor Angela Merkel with his staunch opposition to further European migration, Matteo Salvini — leader of Italy’s populist League — said on Sunday he wanted to expand its success to create a pan-European association of like-minded, nationalist parties.
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Meet the Germans: Why Germany’s Nudist Culture Remains Refreshing
From lakes to saunas and parks: Is Germany’s nudist culture, known as FKK, dying out or still making waves? It’s still strong enough to inspire a change of attitude for Berlin-based expats.
At first glance it seems like a regular beach scene: Children running in and out the water, sandwiches being passed around families and couples sunning themselves.
But on closer inspection most people at Krumme Lanke, a lake in the south west of Berlin have something in common.
They aren’t wearing a scrap of clothing. And it’s a non-event. No one cares and no one is surprised. There’s nothing sexy about it. It’s 25C; it’s a very hot spring day and there’s really no need for clothing if you don’t feel like wearing it…
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Merkel’s Friends and Foes in the EU
German Chancellor Angela Merkel needs allies among EU leaders in her search for a ‘European solution’ to the migration crisis. But they are getting thin on the ground, and some have even come out against her.
At the European level, German chancellor Angela Merkel has been the undisputed number one head of state and government for some time. But since the beginning of the migration crisis, she is looking increasingly lonely. Especially now, given the domestic political pressures she faces, Merkel is more dependent on supporters in Brussels. So, what can she expect from other leaders as they meet in Brussels?
The Partner
If anyone can be called Merkel’s politicial friend, it is French President Emmanuel Macron. Like Merkel, he is an advocate of a European solution to the migration problem. He, like her, sees the issue as axiomatic to the EU’s future existence. However, some in Germany believe Macron’s support comes at a high price.
The sympathetic one
New Spanish prime minister, Pedro Sanchez, may have acted in the spirit of Merkel when he took in boats with African refugees, after the Italian government had turned them away. Such humanity is rare at the moment, but the socialist has also said that his country needs assistance in coping with migration.
The Mediator
The trading nation of the Netherlands is very interested in keeping the EU’s internal borders open. On that issue, its prime minister, Mark Rutte, agrees with Merkel. On the other hand, the mood in the country is now more hostile to migrants. Rutter’s fence-sitting strategy means he could take a mediating role…
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Notorious French Gangster Flees Paris Jail in Dramatic Helicopter Escape
A notorious gangster who was once France’s most wanted, has pulled off an epic jailbreak, escaping from prison by helicopter, according to the Telegraph.
Rédoine Faïd, 46, was flown out of the Réau prison located in Paris’ south-eastern suburbs on Sunday, aided by two heavily armed men, local police said. A Belgium-registered helicopter landed in the courtyard of the prison, believed to be the only spot not protected by a net, sources told Reuters.
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Poland’s Ruling Conservatives Gain in New Poll
If parliamentary elections were held this Sunday, Poland’s ruling conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party would win 42.3 percent of the vote, according to a poll.
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Red Terror: Alt-Left Antifa Extremists Brag About Vicious Attack on British Identitarian Leader
Alt-left Antifa extremists have taken responsibility for a vicious attack on Generation Identity UK co-leader Tom Dupré, severely lacerating his face and allegedly leaving him unconscious for up to five minutes.
The politically motivated attack took place on Thursday evening in the Hackney area of London, according to Dupré, who said he had been in a pub in the area, then left and walked by a Kurdish community centre noticing a group of Antifa extremists.
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Remembering Food Rationing Under Communism
My elder aunt uses words of love to describe the menu for today. She is a gourmet cook who likes to eat and uses all the fattening ingredients she can possibly find in her pantry in order to make everything tastier, sweeter, and more buttery. Unable to walk from the pounds she put on after the fall of communism in 1989, she cannot stop buying food. Most of her pension is spent on food, medicine, and rent.
The survival mode that was etched into her brain during 45 years of communist rule is impossible to erase. People hoarded food every day because they never knew when a more severe rationing or complete scarcity would commence, and food would be hard or impossible to find. …
Unless they had a severe hormonal illness, Romanians were very thin and even gaunt under communism. Westerners joked that women were beautiful because they were on Ceausescu’s diet. The dear leader even passed a decree telling citizens exactly how much food and calories they could consume per day and how much they should weigh. Perhaps it would be hard for American women to see that as a bad thing, considering they are obsessed with weight loss. …
Most Americans today don’t understand what it’s like to starve or wait in line for food and return home empty-handed with a growling stomach after smelling fresh-baked bread. The younger generations are too far removed from the Great Depression and the soup kitchens of Herbert Hoover’s administration (1929—1933).
I’ve always cautioned my Che Guevara T-shirt-wearing students who express their love for communism: Be careful what you wish for, because reality may be quite different from the romanticized version your clueless teachers describe, when they themselves have never lived a day under the boot of communism.
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Trump Pressing for a Super-Fast Trade Deal in Secret Talks About Britain After the EU
DONALD Trump has pressed for a “super-fast” trade deal with Britain in secret talks between one of his key advisers and Tory Brexiteers. National security adviser John Bolton has met the powerful European Research Group, headed by Jacob Rees-Mogg, to discuss Britain’s post-Brexit relationship with the US.
[Comment: This is a great move by Trump. A US-UK trade deal will help the UK’s position vis a vis the EU, hastening the EU’s demise. ]
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UK: London: 11-Year-Old Boy Arrested After Boy, 14, Was Knifed Multiple Times in the Street
An 11-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a teenager was stabbed several times in the middle of a north London street.
A boy, 14, was found with multiple blade wounds and has been taken by air ambulance to an east London hospital. Officers were called to Fairbridge Road, Islington, at 6.50pm to reports of an injured male.
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UK: Moped Muggers Are Inflicting Misery to Fund Party Lifestyle
MOPED muggers are using the proceeds of their crimes to fund exotic summer holidays, a security expert said yesterday. They have been selling snatched watches, mobile phones and jewellery to pay for trips to party islands in the Mediterranean.
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Three ‘callous’ men have been jailed after they led a teenage university student to a car park so they could gang rape her and dump her in the street.
Sali Amet, 23, Omer Engin, 24, and Salih Altun, 25, were caught on CCTV luring their victim, 19, from The Cuban Bar in Canterbury, Kent on April 13 this year.
They were seen taking her to a nearby car park where she was raped four times by the three men in a horrific 50-minute attack.
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UK: Urgent Tommy Robinson Update: UK’s Senior Criminal Judge to Hear Tommy’s Appeal
I have just received breaking news from Tommy Robinson’s family, and I wanted to pass it on to you immediately.
The Right Honourable Lord Justice Leveson, the most senior criminal judge in the United Kingdom, will hear Tommy Robinson’s appeal at the Royal Courts of Justice, in London, on July 10 at 10am.
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Opinion: Macedonia, Albania Accession Talks — the EU Never Fails to Disappoint
France and the Netherlands have sacrificed the EU’s credibility in the Balkans, punishing Macedonia and Albania in order to appease populists. It’s a dangerous and short-sighted move, says DW’s Boris Georgievski.
An EU candidate country since 2005, and recommended for accession negotiations nine times, Macedonia has never been spared humiliation and disappointment in its relations with the European Union.
For almost a decade Greece blocked the Balkan country over the name dispute. Now that the disputeis nearing an end, the future North Macedonia rightfully hoped to receive its just reward. But the EU managed to disappoint the country once again. Instead of recommending a date to start the accession negotiations as promised, the EU has announced it will “set out a path towards opening accession negotiations in June 2019.” The same fate befell Albania, Macedonia’s western Balkan neighbor.
Victims of EU politics
Both Macedonia and Albania are victims of internal EU disagreements: France and the Netherlands wanted to postpone the European Commission’s plan for negotiations mainly because of their own internal political considerations. And although French President Emmanuel Macron for his part has argued that the EU shouldn’t accept more members before carrying out its own internal reforms, EU officials have indicated Macron is actually afraid that French populists and right-wing movements would use accession to drum up fears of migration from eastern Europe.
The governments in Skopje and Tirana, as well as the European Commission tried to put a positive spin on the decision, praising it as historical, but it would take an enormous effort to find much to celebrate…
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Population: ‘Alarming’ Decline in Balkans and Eastern Europe
Phenomenon particularly significant in the Balkans
(ANSA) — BELGRADE, 29 GIU — Many countries in Eastern and South-eastern Europe are witnessing a worrying phenomenon of reduction of their population, “at an alarming rate”, while the population in Western Europe is at the same time increasing, according to the report ‘European Demographic Data Sheet 2018’, made recently public by the Vienna Institute for Demography of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the Wittgenstein Centre.
“Europe today remains divided by long-term population trends” and this “division mostly follows the past geopolitical cleavage between Europe’s East and West,” the report states. The West, South, and North of Europe, in particular the richest regions and Ireland, Switzerland, Norway and Spain,, are witnessing a rising population sizes, to be explained as “combination of minor natural population increases and higher levels of immigration than emigration.” At the same time, “almost all countries in Central, South-Eastern, and Eastern Europe saw substantial population declines, due to a combined effect of natural population decrease and emigration.” According to data quoted in the report, the Balkans are one of the region most affected by a negative population change, with a rate “unprecedented in times of peace,” the study noted.
In Bosnia, the population declined by 22% between 1990 and 2017, in Bulgaria by 19%, in Romania by 15%, in Croatia -13%, in Serbia -8%. A significant drop of population was registered also in Moldova (-19%), in Latvia (-27%) and Lithuania (-23%), less significant in Hungary (-6%), while the Czech Republic (+2%), Slovakia and Slovenia (+3%) registered a slight increase in their population in the past decades.
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World View: Syria and Russia Create Humanitarian Catastrophe in Daraa
The assault that began on June 19 of the combination of the army of Syria’s president Bashar al-Assad and bombs from Russian warplanes is threatening a massive humanitarian disaster greater than the combined sizes of the humanitarian disasters at Aleppo and Ghouta.
Daraa is supposed to be part of a “de-escalation zone,” based on peace talks last year in Astana, Kazakhstan, between Russia, Iran, and Turkey. An outcome was that Russia and the U.S. agreed that the U.S. would oversee the ceasefire in Daraa.
Promises and agreements mean nothing to Russia and Syria, and they never intended to honor the ceasefire. The U.S. does usually honor its promises, but in this case has chosen not to intervene, rather than get pulled into yet another war, this time a full-scale war with Syria and Russia.
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Malaysian Man Marries 11 Yr Old Thai Girl
KUALA LUMPUR: The marriage of a Malaysia man with a 11-year-old Thai girl in the Muslim majority country has sparked outrage with one activist yesterday labeling the groom a “child predator”. Malaysian Muslims below the age of 16 are allowed to marry if they obtain the permission of a religious court. But the country’s women and families ministry said there was no record of religious authorities approving the union, which took place last month across the border in Thailand’s largely Muslim far south. “Our officers have gone to the house and met the girl’s mother. We are waiting for more reports before deciding on the next course of action,” deputy prime minister Wan Azizah Wan Ismail was quoted as saying by the Sunday Star newspaper. The 41-year-old husband could be jailed for six months if he married without permission.- AFP
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[Andrew Bolt, Herald Sun]
They are Africans and mostly Christians, so of little interest to the media:
Over 200 people, most of them believed to be Christians, were massacred over three days in Nigeria this past weekend, officials and church sources are saying, as the relentless bloodshed carried out by radicals continues.
The Christian Association of Nigeria said on Wednesday that the current death toll in the country’s Middle Belt, based on attacks that began last Thursday and continued until Sunday, stands at 218….
The killings are a result of clashes between the radical Muslim Fulani herdsmen and local area farmers near the city of Jos, many of whom are Christians, though officials have not yet identified how many of the victims belong to each group.
Organizations representing the Fulani have denied that they are responsible for the attacks, AFP reported, though police say that the cattle-herders are indeed to blame.
Plateau State Governor Simon Lalong revealed that “sophisticated weapons” were used in the latest attacks on farmlands, which he said were “reflective of a terrorist invasion.
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Breaking: Andrés Manuel López Obrador Wins Mexico Election According to Exit Poll
MEXICO’s Lopez Obrador is likely to have won the Mexico presidential election by between 53 and 59 percent according to the Parametria exit poll.
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German Interior Minister Offers to Resign in Migration Showdown With Merkel
Germany’s interior minister Horst Seehofer on Sunday said he wants to resign both his office and his position as head of the hardline conservative Bavarian CSU party, throwing into question the future of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s coalition government.
Seehofer and his party spent hours finding a response to a hard-fought agreement to reduce migration into the European Union and so-called “secondary migration” between member states hammered out by Merkel at a leaders’ summit last week.
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German Interior Minister Unhappy With Merkel’s EU Migration Deal
German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer is unhappy with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s deal with other EU nations to slash immigration, sources from his CSU party told AFP Sunday, a sign she may have failed to defuse tensions within her conservative alliance.
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Germany’s Interior Minister Seehofer to Resign After Clash With Merkel Over Migrants
Update 2: No statement from Merkel tonight (contrary to earlier reports) however Seehofer did speak to reporters and said that he offered to quit as German interior minister, and that he wants to avoid Merkel government collapse.
He also added that he will stay in politics if Angela Merkel’s CDU backs down in the two parties’ deadlock over migration, DPA reports.
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Germany: Merkel Coalition Govt on Brink as Interior Minister Threatens to Resign Over Immigration
BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s interior minister and head of the Christian Social Union party reportedly offered his resignation from both posts Sunday night rather than back down from his stance against Chancellor Angela Merkel’s migration policies, as the crisis within her governing coalition came to a head.
The dpa news agency, citing information from unidentified participants, reported that a nearly eight-hour meeting of the CSU in Munich was put on hold after Interior Minister Horst Seehofer made his offer. Dpa reported that Alexander Dobrindt, the leader of the CSU in parliament, told others Seehofer could not be allowed to resign.
If Seehofer does step down, it was not immediately clear what effect the move would have on a three-week impasse between Merkel and her Bavarian-only CSU partners, which has centered around his resolve to turn away some types of asylum-seekers at Germany’s borders.
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Illegal Immigrant Arrested for Starting a Colorado Fire That Charred 40K Acres
Colorado authorities arrested an illegal immigrant Saturday for allegedly starting a string of wildfires in the state that have consumed more than 40,000 acres and has not yet been contained.
Jesper Joergensen was apprehended after the announcement was made at a community meeting, the Costilla County Sheriff’s Office confirmed. Joergensen is not a U.S. citizen and will be given to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after he faces arson charges, a Costilla County official said at the meeting.
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In Austria, Migrant Trainees Face Explusion as Attitudes Harden
In a small town in northern Austria, Sylvia Hochstoeger never imagined she would become the figurehead for a protest movement.
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Italy Refuses Another Migrant Ship — Day After Dead Babies Fished From the Med
Italian interior minister Matteo Salvini took to Twitter this morning and shared with his 802,000 followers authorities turned the boat away before adding they “can forget about arriving in an Italian port”.
His tweet comes 24 hours after the bodies of three babies were washed up on a Libyan shore when a boat carrying 120 immigrants sank with just 16 survivors.
[Comment: Well, the deaths are due to the risky actions of the NGOs and adult migrants.]
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Large Increase in Number of German Women Feeling Unsafe: Name Refugees as Essential Factor
Women in Germany’s Sinsheim municipality feel increasingly unsafe, an academic study says. Compared with nine years ago, two and a half times more women say they feel less secure, the Rhein Neckar Zeitung reports.
The results were presented to the local council by research leader Prof. Dieter Hermann of the University of Heidelberg.
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Merkel and Her Coalition in Crisis: German Interior Minister to Resign Over Migration Row
Party sources told news agency AFP Germany’s interior Minister Horst Seehofer has offered to step down after a day of talks with the German Chancellor over a European Union agreement on limiting immigration.
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New EU Deal Continues Migrant Influx, Advances Globalism
With the European Union superstate on the brink of collapse over disagreements on how to handle the migrant tsunami swamping the bloc, EU leaders met in Brussels last week and inked a “compromise” deal that will encourage further mass migration while advancing globalism in Europe and beyond. Globalist EU bigwigs and United Nations bosses all celebrated the plan. Even some ostensibly “populist” leaders expressed support due to some minor concessions they secured. But as Western governments continue to promote mass immigration from the Third World, the latest polls show Europeans, like Americans, are overwhelmingly opposed — and public outrage is reaching a boiling point. Meanwhile, warnings that tens of millions of migrants are waiting to pour in are growing louder.
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South Koreans Resist Arrival of Yemeni Asylum Seekers
There has been a backlash after a thousand Yemenis exploited a visa loophole to apply for refugee status. Many South Koreans are concerned that Muslims will fail to integrate into their society.
An influx of nearly 1,000 Yemeni asylum seekers into the South Korean resort island of Jeju has triggered a fierce backlash against immigration rules that many South Koreans perceive to be lax and dangerous to the well-being of their society.
The concern has grown suddenly with 950 foreign nationals — the majority fleeing conflict-wracked Yemen — applying at the Jeju Immigration Office for legal refugee status after arriving as tourists.
In the whole of last year, only 312 people applied for refugee status on Jeju and local people fear their island is being targeted as an easy way into the East Asian nation…
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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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Study: 83% of Rapes in Denmark Are Committed by Migrants or Their Descendants
A recent study, by newspaper BT, reveals that 10 in 12 rapes committed in Denmark are by migrants, or their descendants. The review was based on sentencing reports between January 2016 and May 2017 and the figures have increased.
The perpetrators were from Macedonia, Somalia, Bulgaria, Iraq and Eritrea. It is commonly know that Africa has a higher rate of sexual assaults than other areas of the world. These were also rapes where the victim did not know the attacker, which in Europe was more rare.
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Switzerland Refuses to Take More Asylum Seekers From Italy, Greece
Switzerland has rejected a refugee relocation program proposed by the European Union to relieve the burden on frontier countries like Italy and Greece, local media reported on Sunday.
The Sonntags Blick paper reported that a spokesperson from the Swiss State Secretariat for Migration (SEM) has confirmed that the country will not renew its commitment to accept asylum seekers from southern European countries.
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Three Pakistani Migrants Attempt to Rape British Tourist in Zakinthos, Greece
A British woman holidaying in Zakinthos, reported to police in Kalamaki, that three Pakistani migrants tried to rape her yesterday near the Area of Laganas.
The young British woman, after an enjoying night at a club near Laganas, became lost on her way to her hotel so she asked a stranger for directions.
Instead of leading her to her hotel, the Pakistani man lead her to a local barn, where he was living with fellow countrymen. He obviously had already informed them by phone, as they were waiting for the lady totally naked.
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Bill Gates, UNESCO, Common Core and Failing Government Schools
We have been reporting the failure of America’s government schools who now follow UNESCO’s worldwide Common Core. You read that right: Common Core is a UNESCO program, and is supported by Microsoft.
As a result, American government schools are failing our students. Fifty percent of American graduates cannot read, write and do simple math. Bill Gates admitted its failure. More money is his answer. We all know that the only thing that will affect change is a return of the curricula back to traditional education, WHICH WAS A HUGE SUCCESS…
Common Core forces a child to think in a box with little hope for a future not in line with the predetermined government goal. Common Core is based on the premise that people are stupid and the “smart academics know best”. To rise against their desired response often causes a child to be bullied or act out just to make their ideas known. Drugs, massive piercing, drinking, murder, terrorism, suicide are often the result of feeling hopeless. Common Core manipulates emotion and eliminates individualism, forcing a child into groupthink, not innovation and creation. Emotion become dominant with no logic reason balance. A person can only think of one thought at a time. By forcing overuse of right brain function (emotion) the left brain (logic and reason) become dormant from lack of use. Today, aside from being functionally illiterate, too many people are motivated by a trigger that unleashes unbridled emotion too often resulting in violence or suicide.
Continuing to do the same thing over and over, expecting different results, is insane, as we have heard over and over. Common Core, Whole Word Reading, Eureka Math, Evolution all assist in diminishing the capacity of America’s future. Yet we ignore the facts and continue to push this horrid programs filled with errors, omissions and bias.
Have we learned nothing from years of failing grades?
Why are we forcing America’s children to follow a failed program? Education based on collectivism not individualism, training not education and values not facts, according to the brilliant educator Shirley McCune, is to change and alter the society. This is not education. It is indoctrination. She promotes outcome based education. Our children’s destiny will now be chosen by a computer. How many more generations of Americans will we lose to this indoctrination called education? [Link]
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MSM: Supporting Free Speech Makes You an “Extremist”
The mainstream media now says that supporting free speech makes you an “extremist”.
Let that sink in.
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A few weeks ago, several of us from Wisconsin joined the Salt and Light Brigade team at a series of street-witnessing events in Columbus, Ohio. Remnant Christians came to serve from 21 states, all across the nation. In all, there were about a hundred of us taking part this year. Our mission was to minister the TRUE Gospel, warn the wicked and rescue the perishing at several venues.
First up was street preaching at a local mosque. We did not go to be “mean,” “hateful,” or to pick a fight with Muslims — we went to give them the Good News of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Our plan was to witness to Muslims as they entered their mosque for their Friday call to prayer. But to our surprise, upon our arrival, we discovered there WERE NO Muslims — their call to prayer had been cancelled. And while the mosque was situated in a Muslim neighborhood, none came out of their homes or apartments.
What DID we encounter? The entrance to the mosque was being guarded by about 500 self-professing “Christians,” and “Pastors,” standing arm-in-arm with pagans, witches, and homosexuals. YOU HEARD ME RIGHT. Their message was “Love Over Hate.” (Of course, WE were deemed the “haters,” as we came with the truth — right out of God’s Word). Somehow, they had heard we were coming, and they arrived ahead of us, and these so-called Christians chanted and shouted PROFANITY at us, as they stood in solidarity with the false god of Islam, Wiccans, Pagans, Witches and sodomites. YES, AGAIN, YOU HEARD ME RIGHT.
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Ref. the deliberately naive article, lying by omission, today on GoV about German nudism by a Rachel Loxton, self-styled journalist, on the website of DW, Deutsche Welle,
– the globalist, “anti-racist” (NB: this of course does not rule out US-Democrat-style Russophobia, Russians being white, often Christian and owning far too many raw materials for their own good (irony:off) )
– and “Rapefugees Welcome” radio/TV mouthpiece of the German state. Loxton writes namely:
“And I like living in a country where you’re likely to find pensioners in the buff, friends chilling without clothes, and naked yoga. No one cares what you look like, it’s just bodies — we all have them.”
Do say. Because if I enter the German abbreviation for nudism, “FKK”, and the German for “refugee” in a search engine I get 5 full pages of articles. These refer to incidents in Germany and Austria since before 4.9.2015 where Crimigrants and or Salafist-type German-born Muslims eg Turks, threatened indigenous sunbathing women with rape or spat and hit them and/or ordered them to put on clothes.
As usual with the German presstitute media, developments are mentioned without the reasons being addressed.
Hence a barebones quote from the head of the local FKK group (3,300 members) in Berlin when FKK was banned this year in the indoor sauna at a Berlin swimming centre: “There is a wave of prudery sweeping Berlin”. Really? Now why would that be all of a sudden?
Denmark seems to be coming back to normal.
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/07/01/world/europe/denmark-immigrant-ghettos.html
In Denmark, Harsh New Laws for Immigrant ‘Ghettos’
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I found this information in a Muslim twitter with a loud name “Documenting Oppression Against Muslims ”
…Many of us say that the oppression faced by Uyghur Muslims in EastTurkestan cannot happen to Muslims in Europe, have a look at the Danish plans/proposals…
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Amazing parasites: they want dominance and social benefits.
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COMPULSORY MUST BE SEEN
Hitler would have been pleased…
PICTURE: https://tinyurl.com/HEILMUTTI
Germany Enforces Sharia Blasphemy Laws
Publiced 2 juli 2018
Although German leaders assured us that their new “hate speech” law would not be used to curb freedom of expression, the law is being used to suppress criticism of Islam. Angela Merkel’s Germany is thus enforcing Sharia blasphemy laws, because Muhammad must not be mocked.
https://youtu.be/Itab8Cc4tg8
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THE ATTEMPTED MURDER ON ROBERT SPENCER
1. https://youtu.be/uB_cP4sPIoM
2. https://youtu.be/yiMdqOLIxQA
3. https://youtu.be/Qirvh5nnNFw
LAUGH TO PIECES the HUGE [redacted]!