Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš said that his country would refuse to take in any migrants from Mediterranean “rescues”. He referred to Italy’s request to do so as “the road to hell”. Meanwhile, Croatian Interior Minister Davor Bozinovic said much the same about his country.
In other migration news, Spain rescued 479 migrants over the weekend. Also, Algeria deported 400 migrants, sending them back to Niger.
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Judge Brett Kavanaugh is going into the Supreme Court confirmation process with a hail of rhetorical arrows zinging by him, including a phony letter-writing campaign aimed at unsuspecting American newspaper editors
At least 21 papers were duped last week, including big-market brands like the Dallas Morning News and The Washington Times. They ran identical letters over a four-day period, each signed by a different person.
The effort is an example of public-relations ‘astroturfing,’ a technique meant to simulate genuine grassroots support for an idea or cause.
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SF Mayor Says Her City is Drowning in Poop: ‘There’s More Feces … Than I’ve Ever Seen’
San Francisco Mayor London Breed said the streets of her city are flooded with the excrement of the homeless in an interview Friday.
Breed, a Democrat who was inaugurated as the San Francisco’s mayor Wednesday, urged homeless advocacy groups that receive money from the city to teach homeless people to “clean up after themselves.”
“There is more feces on the sidewalks than I’ve ever seen growing up here,” Breed told KNTV. “That is a huge problem and we are not just talking about from dogs — we’re talking about from humans.”
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Soros-Linked Group Will Spend Millions to Stop Kavanaugh
A new political advocacy group that vowed to put $5 million behind an effort to stop Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the U.S. Supreme Court has significant ties to the liberal financier George Soros.
A Daily Caller News Foundation review has found that the group’s primary financial supporter is a nonprofit to whom Soros has given millions.
The group, Demand Justice (DJ), is organized and financed by a 501(c)(4) called the Sixteen Thirty Fund, which collected some $2.2 million in contributions from the Open Society Policy Center (OSPC), one of Soros’ primary donation vehicles, between 2012 and 2016.
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The Twitter “Fake Follower” Purge: What Does it Mean?
With Twitter taking action to battle the issue of fake follower accounts, famous people — from celebrities to politicians — are seeing millions of “followers” disappear into the digital abyss. Former President Obama has already lost two million “fake followers” in the purge. President Trump has lost 310,000. Singer and actress Katy Perry — who still enjoys the prestige of being the most followed person on Twitter with 107 million followers — saw the loss of three million followers.
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Student Attacked in Dormitory Sues UBC
VANCOUVER — A young woman whose throat was slashed inside a University of British Columbia student residence has filed a lawsuit against the school alleging negligence.
The notice of civil claim says Mary Hare was inside her room in Salish House in October 2016 when international student Thamer Almestadi entered carrying a knife.
Almestadi’s trial heard he knocked on the 19-year-old’s door, slit her throat and started choking her before other students pulled him off.
A court found the teen not criminally responsible because he was suffering from a psychotic episode in which he believed the Qur’an had sent him a message to kill Hare.
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Amazing Turnout for Free Tommy Robinson Rally in London
The #FreeTommy march on 14 July on Whitehall had an amazing turnout. This, despite police telling people they weren’t allowed in and some were outright lied to being told that the event had been cancelled.
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Anarchy All Over France: Riots and Looting in Several Cities After World Cup Win
Violent riots broke out after France won the FIFA World Cup. Gangs of multicultural youths began rioting in French cities like Paris, Lyon and Marseille.
The first footage comes from Paris, where a bar was vandalised and a shop looted. The riots spread from the famous Arc de Triomphe to other parts of the French capital.
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Ex-Minister: There’s a Cloak and Dagger Establishment Plot to Thwart Brexit
Steve Baker MP, who resigned alongside David Davis after seeing Theresa May’s Chequers plan, has accused the government of operating a cloak and dagger plot to thwart Brexit.
He said there’s an ‘establishment elite’ who simply don’t care about the result of the democratic referendum.
Baker told The Telegraph: “It does appear to me that there has been a year’s worth of cloak and dagger to land us into the Chequers position (by) an establishment elite who never accepted the fundamental right of the public to choose democratically their institutions are working towards overturning them.
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Foiled Iranian Terrorist Attack
Tens of thousands of Iranians, and non-Iranian human rights defenders from all across the world, recently gathered at a Free Iran rally in Paris, France, to further peace and extend human rights to every person. European, American, and Middle Eastern leaders, as well as many other influential people participated, including former Canadian foreign minister John Baird and other international leaders.
Suddenly, according to Reuters, an Iranian diplomat, along with six other individuals, was arrested in Europe over a plot to commit a terrorist attack at that rally.
First of all, please imagine the plot these men had in mind for their terrorist attack; it parallels so many other attacks that have occurred. If those men had been successful in this attack, many more people, including international leaders, could have been injured or killed.
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France: A Second Jihad in the Bataclan?
“The French Suicide” (“Le suicide français”) is a book published by the author Éric Zemmour in October 2014. Just one year later, on November 13, 2015 in Paris, a horror took place at the Bataclan Theater, when three terrorists fired into the crowd during a concert, murdered 130 people, and injured 413. Some of the victims had been tortured.
The French population reacted as usual: shock and horror quickly gave way to resignation and submission. Flowers, candles and teddy bears were placed at the scene of the attacks. The government promised to act, but did almost nothing. A ceremony was organized that ended with a song that said, “When All You Have is Love”.
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Gang Crime Cost Denmark 42 Million Euros in 2016: Study
A new study, the first of its kind, has attempted to shed light on the cost of organised crime gangs to the Danish state.
Gang crime costs Danish taxpayers 315 million kroner (42 million euros) annually through costs to the legal system, a new study has found. The analysis, carried out by the Ministry of Justice’s research department, is the first to attempt to set out the costs of gang crime related to the legal system.
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Looters, Violence and Road Accidents Tarnish French World Cup Party
France erupted in joy after winning the World Cup on Sunday but scenes of joy turned to violence on the Champs Elysees in Paris where youths looted a store and clashed with police. At least two men died in accidents during the celebrations.
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Theresa May Refuses to Budge on Brexit Deal as Rebels Circle to Vote Down Key Bill Today
The Prime Minister warned she would fight any attempt to trigger a Tory leadership contest following the furious party civil war over her plan for quitting the EU.
She also urged MPs to focus on “the prize” of freeing Britain from the bloc rather than squabbling over the Tory crown.
Mrs May spoke out as her Chief Whip Julian Smith was telephoning Tory backbenchers to urge them not to vote against the Government in a series of Commons votes on Brexit legislation this evening.
Up to 80 Tory MPs are tipped to defy the Tory whip to back a string of rebel amendments to a key Brexit bill.
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Thousands Protest in Barcelona for Release of Catalan Leaders
Thousands of Catalans protested Saturday in Barcelona for the release of separatist leaders held over their role in the region’s secession bid and the return of those who fled abroad into self-exile.
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Trump on Trade: ‘I Think the European Union is a Foe’
Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” President Donald Trump said the European Union is a “foe” of the United States regarding trade.
Trump said, “Well, I think we have a lot of foes. I think the European Union is a foe, what they do to us in trade. Now, you wouldn’t think of the European Union, but they’re a foe. Russia is a foe in certain respects. China is a foe economically. Certainly, they are a foe. But that doesn’t mean they are bad. It doesn’t mean anything. It means that they are competitive.”
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UK: ‘Tommy Robinson is the Backbone of This Country’: Steve Bannon Clashes With LBC Political Chief
Former White House strategist Steve Bannon has found himself at the center of a row with the political editor of the London radio station LBC, after the pair clashed live on-air over anti-immigration activist Tommy Robinson.
In an on-air discussion hosted by former UKIP leader Nigel Farage, political editor Theo Usherwood challenged Bannon on his belief that Tommy Robinson has “got to be released from prison.”
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UK: ‘Free Speech is Dead’ — Police in Khan’s London Ban Pro-Trump Rally at U.S. Embassy
Police in Sadiq Khan’s London have used the Public Order Act to prevent a rally in support of U.S. President Donald Trump outside the American embassy, despite permitting a large, ill-tempered anti-Trump rally on Friday.
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UK: ‘Free Tommy Robinson’ Rally Draws Trump Supporters
Thousands of people, including President Donald Trump supporters, turned out on Saturday for a day of protest to free jailed British Activist, Tommy Robinson.
Police estimate 6,000 to 8,000 Robinson supporters rallied on Saturday, iNews reported, many of whom were seen wearing “MAGA” hats and flying the U.S. flag, one day after the anti-Trump protest at Parliament Square in London, which included the highly publicized “baby Trump” float.
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UKIP Leader Gerard Batten Claims Muslim Rape Gangs Follow ‘Cult of Prophet Muhammad’
On July 14, supporters of the imprisoned Tommy Robinson gathered to protest for his release from jail, claiming that he had been specifically targeted by the UK government because of his outspoken reporting on largely Muslim rape gangs.
Speaking at the London rally, UKIP leader Gerard Batten told protestors that such rape gangs were inspired “by the cult of Muhammad”. In his short speech about Islam and its effect on British society, Mr Batten claimed that “the founder of their cult was himself a pedophile who kept sex slaves.”
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White House Announces Scheduled Time of Putin-Trump Helsinki Press Conference
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin will start their face-to-face meeting during Monday’s summit in Helsinki at 1:20 pm (10:20 GMT) local time and will continue talks for one and a half hours, according a schedule of events published by the White House.
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Muslim Head Teacher in WB Thrashed Hindu Student Severely for Saying Hindu Greetings
Muslim Head Teacher beat Hindu student ruthlessly for saying ‘Jai Sri Ram’in a Murshidabad school. Student admitted in Hospital.
Jhumpa Bairagi | HENB | Berhampore | July 14, 2018:: A Muslim headmaster of a school in Bengal’s sensitive Murshidabad district, allegedly thrashed four Hindu students for uttering “Jai Shri Ram” and sporting sacred wrist gears in the holi name of ‘Bipadttarini’. The attack was so violent that one of the students, Shovan Mandal, has yet to recover and be released from the Murshidabad Medical College to which he was admitted after the incident for better treatment.
Trouble began on Friday at Shaktipur Kumar Mahimchandra Institute, when Shovan, a student of class XI standard, uttered the three words -’Jai Shri Ram’, that sparked off tension in the school premises. He was soon joined by Anirudhha, Bikram and Somnath. A small scuffle broke out among some students. Before Friday Namaz inside the school premises, the majority of Muslim students were pressing for Islamic greeting, ‘Assalamu Alaikum’ by all others. But, the Hindu students tried to exchange greetings in Hindu way of Namaskar and Jai Shri Ram. The matter should have been ended there, but when the scuffle was reported to the Headmaster of the school, he decided to mete out corporal punishment to the three students, in a very Jihadi way to attack on Kaffirs.
In the words of Shovan, who right now is admitted in a hospital, “Sir beat me up so hard that a pipe and a tree branch broke in the process. Even when I was being rescued by my friends for first aid, he continued to beat me up.”
The tyrant Head Master Afiqul Alam allegedly warned the victims not to sport tilak or any sacred thread while in the school in earlier occasion. Violation of that might be a cause for the barbaric act done the Muslim Head Master…
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Ancient Humans Lived in China 2.1 Million Years Ago
For hundreds of thousands of years, small bands of ancient humans ranged across a sandy, hilly grassland. They survived on the mammals around them—perhaps hunting them, perhaps scavenging for their carcasses—and their tools were rudimentary, razor-sharp blades formed from chipped stone. They lived in fear of the big cats and large predators that stalked their children.
And they were isolated. They likely rarely encountered other creatures who looked like them, beyond the 25 or 50 with whom they lived.
This was the strange existence of early-human ancestors on the savannah. It’s a classic scene—the image of hunter-gatherers roaming grasslands is just as at home in a biology textbook as it was in 2001: A Space Odyssey. But according to new research, this scene did not play out only in Africa.
Our ancient ancestors lived in China, too.
Ancient humans appear to have reached northwestern China about 2.1 million years ago, and they lived there for hundreds of thousands of years, according to a new study published Wednesday in Nature.
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Algeria Deports Nearly 400 Migrants Back to Niger
NIAMEY (Reuters) — Algeria has deported nearly 400 African migrants trying to reach Europe, sending them back over the Sahara desert into neighboring Niger, the U.N. migration agency (IOM) and Niger said on Sunday.
The IOM and European Union are intensifying efforts to return African migrants home, after thousands have died making the dangerous crossing to Europe across the Mediterranean in overcrowded boats. Many get stuck before ever reaching Africa’s northern coast, either in Libya, where they suffer slavery and abuse at the hands of militias, or Algeria.
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Austrian President Criticises Government’s Asylum Proposals
Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen used an interview published on Saturday to criticise proposals put forward by the government to make it impossible to claim asylum on European soil.
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Croatia Will Not Allow Illegal Migration: Interior Minister
In a two day meeting in Innsbruck, Austria, comprised of Home Affairs ministers across Europe, Croatian Interior Minister Davor Bozinovic asserted that “Croatia will continue to protect its borders”.
While remaining consistent with values of “humanity and solidarity”, Mr Bozinovic made clear that Croatia “will not allow illegal migration”. The migrant crisis has been the most pressing issue within the European Union recently, with many European leaders under political pressure to tighten their national borders.
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EU’s Hailed Migrant Plan ‘A Road to Hell’ Czech Republic Refuses Involvement
The CZECH Republic has refused to take any of the 450 migrants that Italy rescued from an overcrowded migrant boat from the Mediterranean on Saturday, and branded Rome’s shared responsibility plan as “a road to hell”.
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Germany: More Than Half of Deportees Go Missing
More than half of the ordered migrant deportations failed to be carried out through May, in almost all cases because the individual could not be located, a German newspaper reported on Sunday.
Through the first five months of the year nearly 24,000 people were ordered to be returned to their home country but only about 11,000 deportations were completed, according to an internal report by the federal police that was first reported by the Welt am Sonntag.
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Germany Tells Italy it Will Take 50 Migrants From Frontex Ships
Germany said Sunday it had agreed with Italy to take in 50 of the 450 migrants aboard two EU border agency vessels, matching similar pledges by France and Malta.
Italy has since Saturday requested that its EU peers take some of the migrants stranded aboard the Frontex ships off the Italian coast.
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By Shari Goodman
The Democratic Party, along with its shills in the mainstream media, has misleadingly blurred the lines between the definition of “immigrant” and “invader.” An immigrant is an alien who has been granted the right to permanently reside in the United States by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. An “invader,” as defined by Merriam Webster, is one who “trespasses, encroaches, and infringes upon another’s property.” The United States is our collective home and those who come here without seeking and gaining permission to enter our collective home are no different than an uninvited guest who enters our personal home to take up residence without permission.
As a legal immigrant brought to the United States from Germany at a young age by my parents, I and many legal immigrants who waited sometimes years to obtain the necessary visa for entry resent those who merely walk across our border and claim to be “immigrants.” An immigrant is one who seeks and gains approval to enter, while invaders disrespect our laws put in place by “We the people.”
Currently the Democratic Party, under the leadership of Tom Perez, a Marxist, and Keith Ellison, a Muslim Brotherhood operative, have been campaigning for open borders. They have resisted President Trump’s border enforcement, and many others are now calling for the abolishment of ICE (Immigration Custom Enforcement). One only has to look at crime statistics committed by illegals to see a glimpse of what a borderless United States holds for us…
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Italy Allows Migrants to Land in Sicily
Italy will allow 450 migrants who were picked up from an overcrowded boat on Saturday to disembark in Sicily.
The decision was taken after Italy said that France, Germany, Malta, Portugal and Spain had each agreed to take 50 migrants.
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PM Babiš: Czech Republic Not to Accept Any Illegal Migrants
The Czech Republic will not accept any illegal migrants, Prime MinisterAndrej Babiš told the Czech News Agency on Sunday in reaction to Italy’sappeal to the EU for help with taking in African migrants.
Mr Babiš pointed out that the EU agreement on migration was based on avoluntary basis. He said taking in more migrants was not a solution, andwould only increase Europe’s problem.
Italy’s Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has appealed to EU countries totake in some of the 450 migrants rescued from an overcrowded ship in theMediterranean on Saturday. France and Malta have already agreed to host 50people each and other EU members states will also take some of the asylumseekers.
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Request to Take Migrants ‘Road to Hell’: Czech PM
Billionaire Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis says he sees Italy’s request that EU peers take some of 450 migrants stranded at sea on two Frontex vessels as “a road to hell.”
While France and Malta have already agreed to take 50 each, the Czech government chief held on to his anti-migrant stance which he shares with other leaders in the region including Hungary, Poland and Slovakia.
“Just like the other EU prime ministers, I got a copy of a letter from Italian Prime Minister (Giuseppe) Conte… in which he asks the EU to take care of some of 450 people now stranded at sea,” Babis tweeted.
“Such an approach is a road to hell,” added the 63-year-old Slovak-born populist, whose minority coalition government won a confidence vote Thursday thanks to backing from the Communist Party.
This approach “only motivates smugglers and increases their income. Our country won’t take any migrants,” Babis added, calling for “a principle of voluntariness.”
“We have to help migrants in the countries from which they come, beyond Europe’s borders, to stop them from setting out on their journey,” said Babis.
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The Latest: Spain Reports 479 Migrants Rescued Over Weekend
Berlin
The Latest on migration into Europe (all times local):
9:20 p.m.
Spain’s Maritime Rescue Service says at least 479 people, including more than 100 children, were rescued over the weekend while attempting to cross a narrow stretch of the Mediterranean Sea from North Africa.
The service said 330 migrants were rescued on Saturday, most of them in the Strait of Gibraltar area and some further east in a part of the Mediterranean known as the Alboran Sea.
Read more here: #storylink=cpy
They included about 100 minors who were picked up by a Spanish Civil Guard vessel and a Moroccan man who was found drifting on an inflated inner tube from a truck tire.
The rescue service says another 149 people were brought ashore on Sunday.
[Comment: Article dated July 15, 2018.]
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The High Cost of Catering to SJWs on Campus: Dwindling Enrollment and Finances
Over the last few years, a select few schools around the country have shown the high cost of catering to the demands of partisan activist groups and mobs of social justice warriors.
Schools like Evergreen State College, the University of Missouri and Oberlin College are all notorious for their tendency to pander to social justice activists — and now they are paying the price. Although college enrollment is slightly declining throughout the country, these institutions have seen massive declines over just the past few years.
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Within months, Karen’s life was unravelling — her marriage, friendships and family relationships: her entire identity as she’d always known it. Two years on, the dust is still settling.
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“The High Cost of Catering to SJWs on Campus: Dwindling Enrollment and Finances” – I see this on my local campus.
They’re crazy on there. I “triggered” one of the profs a few weeks ago. They actually are b@tsh.t cr@zy. I often wondered if it was fake, but no, it’s real.
I’d run for the hills, if I were a prospective student. At least away from SJW programmes.
If your prof was triggered, and is still teaching, perhaps you didn’t use enough cordite? He should resign and drop out, not you.
What Claire McCaskill did to Mizzou was sacrifice the school on the altar of PC. She ruined it.
“SF MAYOR SAYS HER CITY IS DROWNING IN POOP: ‘THERE’S MORE FECES … THAN I’VE EVER SEEN” – play-doh for their feminist KG of the future.
Kim at least kept his capital clean.
So did many tyrants keep the streets clean. Pol Pot was insistent on it.
I guess they do not have a “poop and scoop” program in SF.
Algeria Deports Nearly 400 Migrants Back to Niger
NIAMEY (Reuters) — Algeria has deported nearly 400 African migrants trying to reach Europe, sending them back over the Sahara desert into neighboring Niger, the U.N. migration agency (IOM) and Niger said on Sunday.
If only Hillary didn’t destroy Libya.
Mr. Babiš may not be all innocent, but kudos to him for this standpoint!
Sharia in Russia.
Video blogger Ilya Davydov was sentenced to a year and a half of the suspended term under the article “Extremism” for an unsuccessful joke about the Koran
https://lenta.ru/news/2018/07/16/etozhemad/
Video of Gerard Batten’s speech on `the cult of Muhammed` given at the Free Tommy rally have been removed `for violating YouTube’s policy on hate speech.
https://youtu.be/gq52pNASWsU
“It is unbelief (kufr) to hold that the remnant cults now bearing the names of former religions like “Christianity” or “Judaism” are acceptable to Allah..”
Manual of Islamic Law, “Reliance of the Traveller” w4.
Is that in violation of youtube’s policy on hate speech?
On a wider matter:
It was this night , the 16th/17th, one hundred years ago that the Romanovs were brutally slaughtered in Ekateringburg.