Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has caused more controversy by refusing to allow a migrant “rescue” ship to unload its cargo at the port of Trapani. Meanwhile, Mr. Salvini said that at the current rate of 10,000 per year, it will take fifty years to expel the half-million migrants he promised to deport.
In other news, President Trump said that British Prime Minister Theresa May’s decision on a “soft Brexit” may have killed his proposed trade deal between the USA and the UK.
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Claims for Unemployment Insurance Drop Again, Near 50-Year Low
Jobless claims, a proxy for layoffs in the U.S. economy, dropped by 18,000 last week to 214,000, a low that is close to levels last seen in the late 1960s. Economists polled by Reuters got it wrong once again, predicting a decline in jobless claims of just 6,000 for the week.
Not only did the economy’s performance exceed forecasters’ expectations, but the number of unemployment claims filed last week was the third-lowest of the current nine-year-old economic expansion that began in mid-2009.
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Finland’s GDP Growth in 2017 Revised Upwards to 2.8 Percent
Statistics Finland says that Finland’s economy grew by 2.8 percent last year, up from its previous estimate of 2.6 percent. That means that last year, Finland’s GDP amounted to 216 billion euros, or 40,600 euros per inhabitant.
The figures show that 2017 saw the strongest economic growth since 2010 when it expanded by 3 percent.
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Ann Coulter: Kavanaugh Threatens the Left’s Right to Cheat
These are elected United States senators. Of all people, why are they carrying on about “rights”? If senators can’t protect these alleged “rights,” it can only be because most Americans do not agree that they should be “rights.”
That’s exactly why the left is so hysterical about the Supreme Court. They run to the courts to win their most unpopular policy ideas, gift-wrapped and handed to them as “constitutional rights.”
What liberals call “rights” are legislative proposals that they can’t pass through normal democratic processes — at least outside of the states they’ve already flipped with immigration, like California.
Realizing how widely reviled their ideas are, several decades ago the left figured out a procedural scam to give them whatever they wanted without ever having to pass a law.
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Hacker Selling US Military Documents Online… Because Someone Forgot to Change a Default Password
The entire affair could have been avoided, however, if the IT team at the military bases had simply changed the default password.
Bleeping Computer reported that the issue with Netgear routers using default passwords has been known since 2016 when a security researcher raised the alarm about the oversight. At the time, Netgear published a support page containing information on how users could change the password — but obviously not everyone paid attention.
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‘I Won’t Win’: Dem Candidate Says Why She Won’t Publicly Support Assault Rifle Ban
She supports the ban, but is hiding that to win an election
A Democrat running in New York said she cannot publicly say she supports an assault rifle ban, even though she does. Her reason is because she knows she won’t win her election in New York’s 21st Congressional District if she does.
Tedra Cobb, who’s trying to unseat Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY), was caught on video making the claim during a campaign event with teenage supporters, according to Stephen Gutowski at The Washington Free Beacon, who obtained the audio.
“When I was at this thing today, it was the first table I was at, a woman said, ‘How do you feel about assault rifles?’ And I said they should be banned,” Cobb said. “And I said, you know, people were getting up to go, to go get their lunch because it was a buffet, and I just said to her, I want you to know Cindy, I cannot say that.”
Cobb said the woman then pushed back.
“And she said, ‘Well, I want you to’ and I said, ‘I won’t win,’“ Cobb said. “I said Moms Demand [Action] says, and [member of New York chapter of Moms Demand] Tricia Pleau said, ‘Do not say that you want an assault rifle ban because you will not win.’“
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John Birch Society Member and Allies in Alabama Kill Local Agenda 21 Scheme
The ideology of Agenda 21 was well-expressed by Maurice Strong, secretary-general of the United Nations 1992 Earth Summit: “Current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle-class — involving high meat intake, use of fossil fuels, appliances, home and work air conditioning, and suburban housing are not sustainable.”
The buzz words of the Agenda 21 include “sustainability,” and “Smart Growth.” At its core, behind every sustainable policy initiative is the fear of overpopulation. A UN Global Biodiversity Assessment actually states, “A reasonable estimate for an industrialized world society at the present North American material standard of living would be 1 billion. At a more frugal European standard of living, 2 to 3 billion would be possible.”
While Agenda 21 is a globalist movement, its implementation is through local ordinances, usually by policymakers who are ignorant of the ultimate goal. As property-rights advocate Tom DeWeese wrote, “On the local level, this translates into planning policy that controls energy use and the efforts to cut down on the use of cars, enforcement of the building of expensive light rail train systems and bike paths, and the installation of smart meters, etc.”
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Man Challenges City on Use of Surveillance Cameras and Wins
It may be close to the truth that “You Can’t Fight City Hall,” but close doesn’t count, it seems, when it comes to one man’s successful fight to stop the government’s constant surveillance of people under no suspicion of wrongdoing.
Michael Maherrey, the communications director for the Tenth Amendment Center, was sued by the city of Lexington, Kentucky, in an effort to prevent Maharrey from discovering the scope of the city’s surveillance system. The city’s law enforcement admitted having deployed 29 “mobile surveillance cameras,” but they refused to disclose why the cameras were in use or how much they cost the taxpayers of Lexington.
The Lexington Police Department (LPD) claimed that they were exempt from releasing the information sought by Maharrey because such disclosure could threaten “homeland security.”
The city’s attorney disagreed, and ordered LPD to release all the information relevant to Maharrey’s request.
Not satisfied with the decision, the LPD issued a summons to Maharrey, suing him, likely in an effort to dissuade him from pursuing his search for the scope and purpose of the city’s surveillance of its citizens.
Here’s the story of the city’s lawsuit as told by Maharrey himself:…
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New “Bilateral” Trade Agreements Are Still Under Globalist WTO Authority
As President Trump’s recent auto, aluminum, and steel tariffs on the European Union and China have worried globalists about the possible destruction of the global trade order, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer is simultaneously pursuing new bilateral free-trade agreements (FTAs) with the United Kingdom, Japan, the Philippines, Vietnam, and counties in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Ozone Park Man Pleads Guilty to Aiding ISIS
An Ozone Park man pleaded guilty in a Brooklyn federal court last month to helping the overseas terrorist organization ISIS, according to the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York.
Ahmed Parveg, 22, entered a guilty plea before federal Judge Ann Donnelly June 20 to one count of attempting to provide material support or resources to ISIS, U.S. Attorney Richard Donoghue said.
According to court documents, Ahmed, a United States citizen, traveled to Saudi Arabia June 2017 to celebrate the Islamic religious holiday Ramadan, then attempted to travel to Syria to join ISIS. Ahmed was detained in a Middle Eastern country during his attempted travel to ISIS-controlled territory and was deported back to the United States in August 2017, where he was arrested at John F. Kennedy International Airport.
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Ratings Free Fall Continues for Trump-Hating Networks… Kids Shows Beat Out #FakeNews CNN and MSNBC
They made a conscious decision to broadcast anti-Trump news 24/7 on their networks. Now, CNN and MSNBC are paying a huge price for making the massive mistake of believing their viewers would turn on the TV to watch a bunch of whiny, complaining and negative hosts attack the President of the United States and his supporters. For the past two years, the hosts on these shows have embarrassed themselves with temper-tantrums and humiliating “gotcha” segments designed to destroy the credibility of a President whose only goal is to “Make America Great Again”, for ALL American citizens. Americans are showing CNN and MSNBC what they think of them by turning them off and turning instead, to their nemesis, Fox News. It’s no wonder their ratings are free-falling…
Fox News pulled out another week in first place in the cable ratings, while MSNBC and CNN failed to even beat home improvement shows and children’s cartoons…
CNN had a horrible week, managing just 669,000 primetime viewers and losing to the following networks: HGTV, USA, Food Network, TLC, Hallmark, and more. MSNBC fared much better in primetime, finishing third behind HGTV with 1.342 million viewers.
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Watch: Antifa Attack Old Lady at Prayer Vigil for Tommy Robinson
Incredibly brave, heroic, fearless antifa members went to a “#FreeTommyRobinson” prayer vigil in San Francisco and went straight after an elderly woman, stealing her hat and glasses and then attacking her when she resisted.
From Infowars:
The video, taken Saturday, July 7, shows around fifteen masked individuals approach the group of protesters and start a verbal confrontation.
One of the Antifa members steals a MAGA hat off an older woman’s head and takes her glasses off, causing the woman to defend herself with pepper spray which sparks an all-out brawl between the groups.
WATCH:…
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A woman’s body was found inside of a trash compactor near Union Square on Tuesday, police said.
Officers found the body at the Zeckendorf Towers on Irving Place just before 5 p.m., officials said. The woman, identified only as being 48 years old, was unconscious and unresponsive when police arrived on scene.
Security camera shows the woman entering the building shortly before her body was found in the trash compactor, sources said.
Property belonging to the woman, who entered the compactor area on the 27th floor, was found inside the compact room, police sources said. —Pix11
Police had been called to the block at 1 Irving Place in Union Square, where Anthony Weiner and Huma Abedin own an apartment, just before 5 pm.
She was found by a building maintenance worker, and her identity has been withheld until police notify her family.
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15-Year-Old Muslim Child Bride Marries in Germany — 400 Guests Fight Afterwards
The Oslebshausen police were called out for a large fight between 400 guests of an Islamic child marriage, the Weser Kurier reports.
On Saturday 2 June, numerous wedding guests attacked each other and more than 100 policemen had to move in to stop the fights.
The police later spoke of an “extremely aggressive mood” among the visitors, including Syrians. According to police, a dispute among the guests got out of control.
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‘He single-handedly ruined the entire tournament’
England fans have slammed World Cup semi final referee Cuneyt Cakir after the defeat to Croatia tonight and accused him of showing ‘bias’ towards the winners.
Some on social media called the Turkish national’s performance ‘embarrassing’ and called for an investigation by Fifa.
Others said he should ‘retire’ after an ‘incompetent’ performance while some on social media targeted the Croatia players and accused them of underhand tactics and wasting time.
His decision to allow the Croatia equaliser was also criticised with fans claiming it should have been given as a foul against England for a high foot.
One Twitter user wrote: ‘The referee was a shambles though. Most disgusting performance from a ref that I have seen at this world cup.’
Another said: ‘That must be the most questionable refereeing I have ever seen. He gave England nothing, the ball was going out of play and we got nothing fouls that weren’t even fouls. The referee beat us not Croatia.’
The anger against the official was clear across Twitter, with another user calling his performance the ‘worst of the tournament’.
The user wrote: ‘Cakir Cuneyt has just single handily (sic) ruined the World Cup. Worst performance of the whole competition.
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EU Officials Silenced in Fear of Crashing Brexit Talks But Secretly Dubious of May’s Offer
EUROPEAN Union negotiators are already concerned Theresa May’s post-Brexit relationship plans could wrap UK-EU trade in red tape and bureaucracy as they arm themselves with questions ready for when discussions resume next week.
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Farage Backs Trump on NATO ‘Freeloaders’, Warns EU is Real Threat to Alliance’s Future
Brexit campaign leader Nigel Farage backed President Donald J Trump’s tough stance on European countries “freeloading” in NATO, and warned the EU’s ambitions to form a unified military is the real threat to the alliance’s future.
The former UKIP chief — one of the first foreign politicians to meet with Trump after he won the presidential election, and recommended for British ambassador to the U.S. by him — said he was “not in the least bit surprised” to see President Trump taking on the other NATO leaders for failing to meet their spending commitments.
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France in Flames, But World Cup Team Doing Great
Diversity is strength and immigration a blessing for the French Republic. Just look at the World Cup results. France’s heavily non-white team has been championed by Ed Aarons in the Guardian, Afshin Molavi in the Washington Post, and Antoinette Muller at the Daily Maverick as a multi-racial success. They’re hardly alone—the UK Independent called the polyglot Belgium/France matchup nothing less than a “celebration of immigration.” “Nativists” beware: If it weren’t for immigrant soccer players, neither France nor Belgium would have a chance in the World Cup.
This happy talk is in sad contrast with what’s happening back in the Republic. Last week, a French police officer in the western city of Nantes fatally shot one Aboubakar Fofana after a traffic stop. Initially, the officer said he fired to save the lives of others. However, under interrogation, he admitted his gun went off accidentally as he struggled with Fofana. The officer has been charged with manslaughter.
There were four days of riots. Even the New York Times called it a “familiar replay of grim media images . . . in France, where law enforcement tactics in immigrant neighborhoods are a regular source of friction.” According to the Times, the late Monsieur Aboubakar “had at least eight previous encounters with the police and . . . had an outstanding arrest warrant on a robbery charge.” Even if the officer made a mistake, constant interactions with criminals combined with large, resentful foreign populations that always take the criminals’ side make riots a regular feature of French life.
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Geert Wilders’ Speech for Tommy Robinson Rally Sabotaged by May’s Government
The United Kingdom is not free. The British people are a bound and seemingly gagged people.
In yet further efforts by the United Kingdom’s government, now seemingly to pander to the Muslim agenda, Geert Wilders’ speech, scheduled for the 14th at the #FreeTommy march, has to be cancelled.
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‘He’s Done a Terrible Job!’ Trump Blames Sadiq Khan for ‘Terror Attacks’ In London
In an explosive interview inside the US Embassy in Brussels ahead of his visit to the UK, the US President said the London Mayor has “done a very bad job on terrorism”.
He told the Sun: “I think allowing millions and millions of people to come into Europe is very, very sad.
“I look at cities in Europe, and I can be specific if you’d like.
“You have a mayor who has done a terrible job in London.
“He has done a terrible job…”
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Hungarian Fertility Rates Boom Thanks to ‘Family Culture’ In Hungary
With demographic decline being the overarching issue across Europe, Hungary seems to be bucking the trend. The fertility rate amongst married women has risen significantly in the past few years, defying commentators who have claimed it was impossible.
Hungarian women are more likely to get married than their Western European counterparts, significantly also marrying at a younger age to increase the chance of fertility.
Government policies, such as tax deductions for families with children and subsidies for families buying houses, have clearly encouraged family growth, but it is seen that the “pro-family culture” dominating Hungary currently is the bigger factor.
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Ireland’s Senate Approves Bill to Boycott Israel Goods
The Irish Senate has voted to approve a bill that would see the country boycott goods from illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, paving the way for the country to become the first EU nation to enforce a boycott.
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Fearing extradition to the United States, Assange has remained in the embassy for six years.
Assange has now taken on GreenWood Associates to organise media appearances, parliamentary engagement, consultancy, publicity and other services. GWA is a consultancy led by Nigel Griffiths, who was a Scottish Labour MP for 23 years until 2010.
PR services on the account will be provided by 6Hillgrove, the agency led by controversial UK-based PR man Richard Hillgrove.
The ultimate goal of the two firms’ work is to ensure that Assange would not be extradited or otherwise taken to the US to face charges, were he to leave his Ecuadorian sanctuary.
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No Extra NATO Spending by Italy — Italian Prime Minister
Premier Giuseppe Conte said after a NATO summit Thursday that “Italy has inherited spending commitments as far as the contribution to NATO concerns which we have not altered. Therefore there is no additional spending”.
Conte said Thursday that “I am drafting a letter to Juncker, Tusk and the European institutions to push Europe on the implementation of those innovative principles on immigration that emerged from the European Council”.
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Norwegians Shocked as Hundred Gravestones Defaced (Photos)
The Norwegian police admitted that they have never before seen such comprehensive damage done to a graveyard. In addition to the headstones, red paint was also used to deface a historic church. The main suspect is a man previously refused during a job interview.
The Norwegian police are looking for a vandal who plunged the nation into shock by defacing 92 headstones in Åssiden in Buskerud County near Oslo, the tabloid daily Verdens Gang reported.
The graves were vandalized using red paint, which was also applied on the historic Åssiden Church in Drammen.
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Norwegian to Open New Hub for Long-Haul Flights From Copenhagen
Low-cost airline Norwegian is to hire 80 new pilots to for long-haul services out of Copenhagen.
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Poll: Clear Majority of Britons Support Trump’s Visit
In a new YouGov poll conducted between 9th and 10th of July, 50% of Britons support Donald Trump’s visit to the United Kingdom. While 37% believe the visit should not go ahead, it is clear the protestors who will be gathering in London to protest the US President constitute the minority opinion.
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President Trump States What Every Brexit Voter is Thinking
‘I don’t know if that’s what they voted for,’ Trump stated at an emergency press conference following the NATO summit in Brussels.
Unlike previous Presidents, who tried to tell British voters how to vote for Brexit, President Trump stated that it wasn’t his place to say what he thinks of Mrs. May’s Chequers Brexit (not Brexit) deal. He did affirm in his statements that it was our democratic right to choose to leave the EU, saying that “the people voted to break it up so I would imagine that’s what they’ll do but maybe they are taking a bit of a different route so I don’t know if that’s what they voted for.”
The President continued: “I’ve been reading a lot about Brexit over the past couple of days and it seems to be turning a little bit differently. They are getting partially involved back with the European Union.”
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Researcher Publishes Paper on the ‘Lived Experience’ of Wearing Shoes and Walking
An academic at a British fashion college recently published a research paper on the “lived experience” of wearing shoes and walking.
Ellen Sampson, an academic at the Chelsea College of Art in the United Kingdon, published an academic research piece in April about the complex act of wearing shoes. The article’s summary explains that Sampson’s research was conducted simply by her putting on shoes and then walking around.
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‘Shameless!’ Guy Verhofstadt Singles Out EU Critics for Trying to ‘Destroy’ Bloc in Rant
GUY Verhofstadt claimed Europe is not facing a migrant crisis as he hit out at a number of international politicians for trying to divide and destroy the European Union (EU). The European Parliament’s chief Brexit coordinator named and shamed political leaders and heavyweights from Italy, France, Austria, Poland and Hungary in the attack.
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Swedish Researcher Triggers Outrage by Labeling Jihadis ‘War Veterans’
Despite the fact that the former Anti-Fascist Action activist has deleted the original tweet and offered his apology, the public found his explanation offensive and insufficient.
Researcher Tobias Hübinette of the foundation Multicultural Center (MKC) has incited the ire of fellow Swedes for equating Daesh returnees with war veterans.
In a now-deleted tweet, Hübinette called a jihadi deserter arrested in connection with the deadly shooting in Örebro’s “vulnerable area” of Vivalla a “Swedish war veteran.” According to Sweden’s national broadcaster SVT, the man previously fought in Syria for Daesh or a similar-minded terrorist organization before returning to Sweden.
“If correct, this is unfortunately not the first time that a returning Swedish war veteran who killed people in conflicts in other countries, continues with killing, even here,” Hübinette tweeted.
The post sparked outrage in social media, evoking criticism from Conservative legislator Hanif Bali, among others.
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Gustav Kasselstrand is the leader of the newly founded Alternative for Sweden party (Alternativ för Sverige). He holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Gothenburg and an MBA from Aalto University in Helsinki (Finland). He also studied in Germany and Singapore. Kasselstrand is 30 years old and has been politically engaged since 2006, when he joined the Sweden Democrats, which at that time was a small party with a support of 2-3% in the polls.
— Why did you leave the Sweden Democrats?
As a matter of fact I was excluded from the Sweden Democrats back in 2015, when they expelled not only me as a chairman, but the whole youth organisation with its 5000 members. It was a witch hunt by the party leadership in order to secure their own power and positions in the party, but of course they did not say that but instead argued with typical PC mumbo jumbo that the youth league was “extremist”.
Everyone could see it was nonsense. It just proved that the Sweden Democrats used the same politically correct terminology towards their own youth league, that the liberal parties had done towards the Sweden Democrats for years and years.
— How bad are things in Sweden?
It is very bad. What you read about Sweden on alternative news platforms is true. We are facing problems more severe than ever before in our history, where Swedes face a situation of being a minority within 20 years if nothing is done to stop the replacement of our people.
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‘Theresa May Has Killed US-UK Trade Deal With Soft Brexit’ — Trump’s Major Blow to PM
DONALD TRUMP has shockingly revealed Theresa May’s choice to opt for a soft Brexit may have killed off the chance of striking the long-promised trade deal between the US and the UK, and has hit out at the Prime Minister for failing to listen to his negotiation advice.
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Theresa May last night faced claims she shared her Brexit plan with Angela Merkel before revealing it to her Cabinet at Chequers.
The Prime Minister is alleged to have blocked a suggested change from one of her ministers during the away day because it had already been approved by the German Chancellor.
In an article for the Spectator, journalist Charles Moore wrote: ‘At Chequers, I hear, one of her responses to suggested changes in her blueprint was to say, ‘No, that’s not possible, because I’ve already cleared it [the existing text] with Mrs Merkel’.’
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Tory MPs lashed Theresa May’s Brexit blueprint for recreating the ‘worst parts of the EU’ today as it was published for the first time.
A 98-page report setting out the Government’s demands to Brussels would mean EU workers will still be allowed rights to travel to Britain temporarily.
Tourists, young people and business trips would also be allowed in without visas.
EU judges will get to advise a new joint committee of UK and EU officials tasked with resolving disputes after Brexit.
And it confirms the Prime Minister’s plan to have Britain follow EU rules on goods without any say on how they are drafted.
Brexiteer ringleader Jacob Rees-Mogg declared the plan ‘does not respect the referendum result’ while Tory MPs lined up to condemn the plans in Parliament.
Amid chaotic scenes, the Commons was briefly suspended as Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab tried to present the policy paper before it was given to MPs.
The plans have threatened to derail Theresa May’s Government since they were agreed by the Cabinet a week ago. Boris Johnson and David Davis resigned in protest, claiming that the plans betray the 2016 referendum vote.
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Trump Slams NATO: “Pay 2% of GDP Immediately” Or Even 4%
President Trump is, rightly, stirring the pot in Europe today, reportedly demanding that NATO leaders increase their defense spending targets from 2 to 4%, according to the Bulgarian president.
“President Trump, who spoke, raised the question not just to reach 2%, today, but set a new target — 4%,” Bulgarian president Rumen Radev told reporters, according to Reuters, citing BNR public radio.
“NATO is not a bourse a which one can buy security. But yes, on the other hand, President Trump is right, as each country should build its effective capabilities, and the unwillingness with which Bulgaria spends money on defense is obvious.”
As a reminder, US only spends 3.57% of GDP (which is the most), and as one French official noted, “it wasn’t a demand, rather just a mention.”.
White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders confirmed that:
“During the president’s remarks today at the NATO summit, he suggested that countries not only meet their commitment of 2 per cent of their GDP on defence spending, but that they increase it to 4 per cent,” Sanders said after the closed-door meeting of NATO leaders.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg was reluctant to endorse such a move.
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UK: ‘Verging on Criminal’: Fury at Telegraph Article Suggesting PM Theresa May Guilty of Treason
The Telegraph has drawn the ire of MPs and social media users alike over an article it published insinuating UK Prime Minister Theresa May is guilty of treason over her latest Brexit plan.
Cross-party MPs are accusing the outlet of being “shockingly irresponsible” over the article by writer Christopher Howse entitled: ‘Is Theresa May guilty of treason? Plenty of readers think so. Politicians would be wise to listen up’.
Howse explains how the paper has received a storm of letters from angry readers who feel “betrayed” by May’s post-Brexit trade plan agreed at Chequers on Friday. The plan would see the UK sticking to EU rules in order to have a free trade deal with the bloc once Brexit takes effect.
“‘Where are the politicians of principle who will honour the manifesto promises they were elected on,’ asked a reader from Solihull,” Howse wrote of the correspondence.
“Instead we have only traitorous members of the Cabinet who think only of their careers,” the reader added.
Public outcry swiftly poured in through Twitter over the article, with one saying it “verges on criminal” in its broaching of the treason charge.
[comment: Likely the Twitter “public outcry” over accusations of treason were those who are communists, leftists and other assorted EU lovers and useful idiots.]
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UK: Sir Christopher Meyer’s Wife Thanks Readers for Support After Brutal Attack
Sir Christopher Meyer suffered injuries to his face in the attack at Victoria station in central London
Sir Christopher Meyer, the former ambassador to the US, is in hospital after two youths attacked him at Victoria station in London yesterday afternoon.
Sir Christopher, 74, was left with injuries to his left eye, nose and lip after the assault. His wife, Baroness Meyer, said that he was taking the Tube home when he was attacked.
“He looks terrible. His left eye is like a golf ball and bleeding, the nose looks like it could be broken,” she said.
Baroness Meyer used a comment on theTimes website this morning to thank well-wishers and praise the swift response of police on the scene…
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UK: Theresa May’s Favourability Rating Plummets to All-Time Low
Theresa May’s personal davourability ratings amongst the British public have just sunk to an all-time low.
YouGov now have the PM with a —37 favourability rating, worse than her previous lowest —34 in the aftermath of the disastrous General Election.
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UK:43% Say May Should Stand Down
43% of voters believe Theresa May should stand down as leader of the Conservatives, 7 points more than believe she should stay.
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UKIP Polling Highest Level Since May 2017 in YouGov Poll
The kickback against Theresa May’s disastrous EU plan continues, with UKIP now on 6% with YouGov.
That’s their highest level since May 2017, according to Britain Elects.
10% of 2017 Tory voters have now switched to UKIP, as have 12% of Leave voters overall.
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A Massive, Black Sarcophagus Has Been Unearthed in Egypt, And Nobody Knows Who’s Inside
Archaeological digs around ancient Egyptian sites still have plenty of secrets to give up yet — like the huge, black granite sarcophagus just discovered at an excavation in the city of Alexandria, on the northern coast of Egypt.
What really stands out about the solemn-looking coffin is its size. At 185 cm (72.8 inches) tall, 265 cm (104.3 inches) long, and 165 cm (65 inches) wide, it’s the biggest ever found in Alexandria.
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Turkey: Hyperinflation and Mass-Migration Crisis Inevitable
As Erdogan tightens his grip on finance and the central bank, Investors Fear Turkish Currency Crisis.
The Turkish lira fell around 4% against the dollar late Monday after Mr. Erdogan appointed his son-in-law as finance minister and put in place measures that could curb the independence of the country’s central bank. Investors also sold Turkish shares and debt, with yields on its dollar bond maturing in October 2028 rising from around 6.8% last week to about 7.15% recently, according to Tradeweb. Yields rise as prices fall.
“There’s a real risk that this spirals into a full-blown currency crisis,” said Paul McNamara, a portfolio manager at GAM Holding . “It’s got so many red flags that we’ve associated with economic crises…in the past.”
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Japan Rocked by Yet Another Serial Killer of Sick and Elderly
A Japanese nurse confessed to police this week that she killed as many as 20 patients while working at a hospital in Yokohama, claiming that she wanted to avoid explaining the deaths to families so ensured that poison drips would kill the person when she was not on duty.
Ayumi Kuboki claims that she only targeted terminally ill patients, but a report in Japan’s Asahi Shimbun says that police have identified several suspected cases of her victims that were not doomed to die before she took them under her care.
The incident is the latest in a string of murders in Japan targeting the sick and elderly in hospitals, nursing homes, and other target-rich environments for these killers, many of whom were paid to guarantee the comfort and health of their victims.
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Kim Jong Un Breaks Silence Since Summit With Letter to Trump
President Donald Trump released a letter he received from Kim Jong Un Thursday expressing hope for the future of relations between North Korea and the United States.
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‘80% Were Grown-Ups’: Swedish Dentist Fired for Exposing Migrant ‘Kids’ As Adults Talks to RT
A Swedish dentist who was ruined after being fired and fined for revealing that over 80 percent of his refugee ‘children’ patients were actually adults, told RT that people coming to his country should not lie about their age.
The story of Bernt Herlitz, a dental hygienist from the Swedish island of Gotland, came under the spotlight in 2016 when he revealed an unpleasant truth. Herlitz was analyzing the teeth of “unaccompanied” minor migrants who started to arrive in the Scandinavian country as the worst refugee crisis since WWII struck Europe. It turned out that wisdom teeth of the ‘children’ were fully grown in 80 percent of cases, a sign clearly showing that Herlitz’ patients were far from being underage.
“If you have an X-ray you can easily see that the person is over or under 18 years old. About 80 percent were grown-ups,” he said, speaking to RT.
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KTLA reported about a 92-year-old man who was severely beaten by a woman in his neighborhood with a brick. Although they included the image of the woman who beat the 92-yr-old in their video report, they never mentioned that the woman they were looking for is a black woman in the article that appeared on their website. The Washington Post, who also reported on the story, didn’t mention that the attacker was a Black woman until the 4th paragraph of their article.
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Deadly Parasitic Worm Coming to Europe Due to Third-World Migration
Hundreds to thousands of eggs are produced daily by each female worm.
One of the many benefits of open borders!
Karl Hoffmann, a professor of parasitology at Aberystwyth University, writes in The Independent:
Not so long ago, human diseases caused by parasitic worms were thought to be confined to resource poor communities throughout Africa, Asia and South America. But in this age of global travel and changing climate, parasitic worms are slowly but surely moving into parts of Europe and North America. The long-term consequences of increased parasitic worm distributions are difficult to predict, but the harm that infection causes highlights the need for developing control strategies that can mitigate this 21st-century threat to global health…Schistosomiasis — which is caused by infection with blood dwelling schistosome flatworms — currently affects hundreds of millions of people every year, often leading to the deaths of thousands to hundreds of thousands of victims. Its impact is so great that some have claimed it is second only to malaria on the scale of devastating parasitic diseases.
Approximately 85 per cent of all human schistosomasis currently occurs in sub-Saharan Africa, but outbreaks have recently been reported on the Mediterranean island of Corsica. People become infected with the parasites when they come into contact with certain types of freshwater snail that produce human-infective stage schistosomes. These parasitic worms rapidly penetrate the skin and develop into adult male and female schistosomes within the blood vessels surrounding the intestines or bladder of infected individuals.
Hundreds to thousands of eggs are produced daily by each female worm. And, once they become trapped in human organs, these eggs induce chronic complications including inflammation, tissue scarring, fluid imbalances, anaemia and, eventually, death. A proportion of eggs that migrate into the intestines or bladder will be released into the environment when an infected individual defecates or urinates. If these eggs reach fresh water, they can hatch and release snail-infective schistosome stages, which effectively completes the life cycle.
A lack of resources to support appropriate water and sewage sanitation infrastructures contributes to the transmission of schistosomiasis in endemic areas.
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Radical left-wing protesters in Portland, Oregon, proved to be no match for federal officers determined to maintain law and order.
Militant extremists reportedly hurled rocks — and vulgar insults — as some tried to block a driveway at an U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility. Federal police countered by hurling traditional tools of the trade, namely pepper spray and pepper balls, to restore order, according to KOIN.
**Warning for vulgar language.
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It Takes Twelve Germans to Work and Pay Taxes in Order to Fund the Cost of Just One Migrant
One of the biggest secrets in Europe is the real cost of migration and especially the cost of one migrant. Our attention was brought to an article from Germany, in which the costs are calculated. The results are shocking.
Around 1.7 million people applied for asylum in Germany since 2014, but anyone who asks the government for the costs will be sent into a labyrinth of statistics and numbers, the German author writes.
Based on a projection of the government he estimates the annual costs between 30 and 40 billion, but it is not clear whether additional expenditures for kindergartens, schools, extra judges and healthcare are included.
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Italy Forces New Standoff, Refuses to Let Migrants Disembark
Italy’s hard-line interior minister refused Thursday to let 67 migrants disembark from an Italian coast guard ship until an investigation determines whether any of them had violently threatened their rescuers to prevent being returned to Libya.
The Diciotti ship pulled into the port of Trapani after taking on board the migrants from an Italian-flagged oil rig supply tug that rescued them Sunday in off the coast of Libya. The dispute over what transpired next has turned into the latest standoff since Italy’s anti-migrant government took power last month.
Italy’s transport minister says the tug reported that some of the migrants made “death threats” against the crew.
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Italy’s Right-Wing Migration Policy Saves Migrant Lives — Death Toll Drops by More Than 50%
The original humanitarian crisis in Syria which sparked off a massive influx of immigration from Africa and the Middle East into Europe three years ago has now clearly morphed into an economic migration free-for-all, largely because Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel encouraged the “refugees” to make the dangerous crossing of the Mediterranean.
Added to that have been increasing calls from The Pope and The Church generally to accept and assimilate these immigrants into Europe, with little or no thought as to whether the immigrants themselves will assimilate to Europe itself. Recently, Bishops in Malta suggested that closing Malta’s ports to the “NGO ferry service” (which has aided human traffickers bringing in thousands of migrants across the Med) could potentially increase the death toll of crossing the sea.
But Italy’s new government and their stricter immigration policy has busted that myth, with a massive drop in immigration arrivals this year (16,919) of 80% compared to last year (85,197), the death toll for migrants has inevitably also dropped, from 2,258 to 1,058.
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Liberian refugee Thomas Scott Gbojueh, 50, who left a girl, 12, pregnant and needing an abortion after having sex with her less than four months after arriving in Australia, was only deported last week.
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President Trump at NATO: ‘Immigration is Taking Over Europe’
The 45th President, Donald J. Trump, didn’t mince words at a press conference in Brussels, Belgium, “I told them today that the EU better be careful because immigration is taking over Europe and I said that loud and clear,” Trump said.
Contributing his win at least partially on immigration, he likened the election in Italy and others on strong immigration policies.
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Rome, Berlin, Vienna in Migrant Deal, Conte to Pen EU Letter Containing Migration ‘Principles’
Interior ministers Matteo Salvini of Italy, Horst Seehofer of Germany and Herbert Kickl of Austria said after talks in Innsbruck Thursday that an “axis of the willing” led by Vienna, Berlin and Rome would curb migrant departures and landings in Europe, so that only those who are really fleeing was arrive in Europe.
Italian proposals on migrants should become EU ones, Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said after three-way talks in Innsbruck Thursday with German and Austrian counterparts Horst Seehofer and Herbert Kickl. “It will bring satisfaction if Italian proposals become European ones with a reduction of migrant departures, landings and costs,” he said.
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Scottish MPs Report on Benefits to Scotland of Continued Migration
The views of many in the regional government of Edinburgh seem to contradict the majority of opinion in Scotland which favors ending freedom of movement with Europe.
Members of the Scottish Parliament have insisted the country should have a separate immigration policy from the rest of the United Kingdom after it leaves the European Union, arguing that ending freedom of movement would negatively impact the country’s population growth.
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Swedish Cardinal: Pope Francis Has ‘Prophetic Voice’ on Immigration
Cardinal Anders Arborelius said in an interview Thursday that although many world leaders do not follow his advice, Pope Francis has a “prophetic voice” regarding immigration and many people are in fact listening to him.
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Third World Migration Drives EU Population Rise to 513 Million
Despite more deaths than births taking place in Europe last year, the continent’s population swelled by more than a million in 2017 thanks to immigration.
European Union (EU) figures estimated the number of people living within the bloc’s 28 member states rose from 511.5 million at the beginning of last year to 512.6 million as of January 1 2018, according to Eurostat.
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Trump at NATO: ‘Immigration is Taking Over Europe’
U.S. President Donald J. Trump has told press at the NATO summit on Thursday that he warned the defence union that “immigration is taking over Europe”.
“I told them today that the EU better be careful because immigration is taking over Europe and I said that loud and clear,” President Trump told a press conference in Brussels, Belgium.
“You see what’s going on throughout the world with immigration. I probably — if not partially — won an election because of immigration,” President Trump said, observing that the issue of mass, uncontrolled migration is inspiring voters in Europe — and the United States — to elect leaders who are tough on border control.
Remarking on the formation of the anti-mass migration Five-Star Movement (M5S) and the League (Lega) coalition in Italy, President Trump said: “If you look at Italy, [Prime Minister] Giuseppe [Conte] won his election on his strong immigration policies.”
The President also observed that Britain voted to leave the European Union (EU) because of uncontrolled immigration.
[Comment: More accurately, mass migration thanks to traitorous puppet politicians and globalists.]
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Vatican Secretary of State: Sealed Borders ‘Not the Answer’ To Mass Migration
“Closing ports is certainly not the solution” to Italy’s migrant crisis, said Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin Wednesday.
Cardinal Parolin made his remarks to journalists after having met with Italian president Sergio Mattarella. “We talked about international issues more than anything else,” Parolin said of his meeting. “The president had returned from a trip to the Baltic countries, and I recently made a trip to the Balkans. We talked about European perspectives and of migrants in this context.”
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Video: ‘Abolish ICE’ Protesters Call Black ICE Agents N-Word
A video has emerged showing ‘Abolish ICE’ protesters calling black ICE officers the n-word during an arrest.
The clip shows leftists screaming at ICE agents as they arrest a group of unidentified men.
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While Germany Spends 78 Billion on Migrants, It Ignores Its Poor Pensioners
Almost every other retirement pension in Germany amounts to less than 800 euros a month. These figures emerged from the response by the Federal Ministry of Labour to a request by MP Sabine Zimmermann.
In 2016, around 8.6 million pensioners received a pension below 800 euros per month. That equates to 48 percent. A good 11.3 million, or 62 percent, of pensioners received less than 1000 euros on retirement pensions.
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Will Take 50 Yrs to Expel 500,000 Migrants — Salvini
(ANSA) — Innsbruck, July 12 — Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said Thursday “Italy has a backlog of 500,000 illegal immigrants and if we don’t manage to expel more than 10,000 a year we’ll take 50 years to make up for the past”.
He said there had been “no concrete results” from EU initiatives in Africa.
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New Mexico Threatens Homeschoolers Who Won’t Jump Through Hoops
State education bureaucrats in New Mexico are under fire nationwide after demanding that homeschool families sign “illegal” declarations agreeing that their “permission” to educate their own children could be revoked if they fail to follow bureaucratic decrees. Home-education groups and lawyers are urging families to ignore the demands.
The lawless demands came from the New Mexico Public Education Department (PED), as the state’s government-education overlords are known, in a document referred to as “Statements of Understanding of Home School Parent/Family.” In the form, homeschool parents are told that their children must do the same amount of hours as children in government schools, among other controversial elements.
If parents do not jump through all the hoops as commanded, “the department may order that a student attend a public school or a private school,” reads the document. It goes on to threaten again that authorities may force parents to submit their children to state indoctrination if they do not comply with all the government’s requirements.
But it is not clear that the declaration is legal. And home-education groups are urging parents to refuse to sign it.
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Portland State Will Hire ‘Practitioner of Feminist Activism’ For Teaching Role
A new job listing for Portland State University seeks to fill a teaching position with a “practitioner of feminist activism.”
The job listing, which is for the role of “senior instructor” in the university’s “Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies” program, states that they are looking to hire a candidate that is a “practitioner of feminist activism” who focuses particularly on the “feminisms” of women of color.
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“In an explosive interview inside the US Embassy in Brussels ahead of his visit to the UK, the US President said the London Mayor has “done a very bad job on terrorism”.”
This is true but hardly surprising. Khan’s first loyalty is to islam, which automatically puts him at variance with those he purports to represent.
Londonistan is falling down with a retired UK ambassador beaten to a pulp in the railroad station by a vicious boy and a vicious girl…investigated but sent home? Both the mayor and the PM are fools, you know. Such is the fate of democracy in the final analysis. A bloody mess, man.
I threw this link in a few article back, but will copy it here also as the words “EU” and “treason” are being bandied around. It gives an idea of where the current approach to Brexit is extending from
http://www.vernoncoleman.com/euillegally.html
Few understand Target2, and many of those that do misportray it. Here is a true critique
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-07-12/mish-lashes-out-medias-stunning-ignorance-italys-soaring-target2-capital-flight
Facts is resolution of the accumulated debt and credit imbalance is only “secure” while the various parties remain within Euro and under ECB management. If a country leaves Euro there is no certain way to enforce repayment of debt from it. Probably a country leaving will declare that debt as odious. The German’s agreed to keep financing this imbalance ( to keep repayments of previous debt current, to allow continued trade, to keep inflation going, for political influence also) , so no sympathy there… average German people are the ones who might lose out though through their ignorance of financial matters.
That first link is fascinating; wish I had the financial resources to pursue a legal challenge!
Not sure the second affects us (directly) in the UK, as we’re not in the Euro.
The first link is no exageration or invention, there are high level letters/documents and various other forms of proof that corroborate that reality.
The second is mostly for Euro readers… but it still helpful to understand how the table is laid and what is at stake, the reasoning and tools behind the push and pull of EU policy and legislation . A lot of people from UK have moved to EU also. Indirectly though it is still important as trouble in EU is bound to have an effect on UK.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiitaXCdqGw
it seems that in the former Yugoslavia, the Serbs and part of the Croats have no more disagreements on one issue …
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It saddens me when people lose their humanity.
But it seems that Europe has begun to disperse the barricades.
http://www.newsweek.com/british-politician-tweeted-picture-trump-laughing-pig-humping-london-muslim-1021231
Big politics more like an obscene circus.
Who will establish order in this world is incomprehensible.
“Meanwhile, Mr. Salvini said that at the current rate of 10,000 per year, it will take fifty years to expel the half-million migrants he promised to deport.”
It looks as though someone is finally starting to do the math.
I guess it needs to 10,000 per month.