Only 845 cars were torched over the July 14 (Bastille Day) weekend in France. That number is lower than last year’s, but more people were arrested over the weekend than during the same time last year.
In other news, 57 migrants were rescued off the Greek island of Lesvos and safely brought to shore.
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Bombshell Report: How Big Tech Censors Conservatives on Social Media
Censorship of conservative and libertarian speech from the Internet is real — and how it works exactly is outlined in a new, roadmap reportintended for DC policymakers.
The easily readable report, entitled The Censorship Master Plan Decoded, is intended for the average American to understand how online censorship works and how the various methods of suppression work together to clamp down on free speech throughout the Internet.
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57% Think Police Have Lost Control of Britain’s Streets
Staggering new figures show how unsafe the British public feel in the midst of surging violent crime wave sweeping the country.
A Daily Mail poll conducted by We The People and ComRes showed 57% of people think police have lost control of the streets and criminals no longer fear being caught.
51% of people who said they were victims of crime said police didn’t bother to visit their home and 30% were apparently told to gather evidence themselves.
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Bank Robber in Burqa Attempts Robbery of Bank in Vienna
A burqa clad robber in sunglasses attempted to rob a bank in Vienna on Friday, Austrian newspaper Kronen Zeitung reports.
According to reports, the would be robber was a man, who entered the bank in Vienna-Floridsdorf during peak hours.
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British Victim of Pakistani Rape Gang Trafficked to Morocco for Prostitution
A victim of a Pakistani rape gang has said that at one point during her abuse, she was trafficked to the North African country of Morocco where she was prostituted and repeatedly raped.
Writing in her book No Way Out, ‘Kate Elysia’ — a pseudonym — also revealed that she was sexually abused by more than 70 men from Birmingham and the West Midlands for years, but only two rapists were ever convicted, reports BirminghamLive.
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Brits Back No Deal Brexit Over May’s Plan
Another poll has revealed that the majority of Brits would rather back walking away from the European Union without a deal, rather than accept Theresa May’s Chequers plan.
39% of voters think Theresa May should just walk away without a deal, compared to 20% who think she should push ahead with her plan for a soft Brexit.
According to the Mirror, 51% of Conservative voters support a No Deal Brexit.
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Ex-PM Tusk Unlikely to Run for Polish President: Ruling Party Spokeswoman
Former Prime Minister Donald Tusk is unlikely to join Poland’s 2020 presidential race because he is afraid of losing to the incumbent, a spokeswoman for Poland’s governing conservatives has claimed.
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France: 845 Cars Torched on July 14 Weekend
Number of vehicles set alight during darker Fête Nationale tradition falls compared to previous year — but arrest figure higher than in 2017
A total 845 cars were torched and 508 people were taken into police custody during the July 14 festivities, the Interior Ministry has revealed.
Police arrested 237 individuals, including 92 minors, in the Paris area alone, with 183 taken into custody.
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France ‘Celebrates’ World Cup Victory: 292 Arrests, 45 Injured Police Officers and 2 Dead Civilians
On Monday morning, police authorities made public the results of vandalism and clashes that have followed France’s victory in the World Cup.
292 people have been taken into custody, including 90 in Paris and 18 in Lyon, with 45 policemen seriously wounded, French newspaper Le Monde reports.
There were also acts of vandalism throughout the country, especially in Paris where dozens of youths shattered windows and looted popular stores.
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Geert Wilders: ‘Tommy Robinson Doesn’t Deserve Prison, He Deserves a Medal!’
Geert Wilders, who leads the Freedom Party in the Netherlands, spoke to a ‘Free Tommy Robinson’ rally in London by video link after the British government prevented him from attending in the flesh.
The Dutchman, who delivered a speech in person at a June rally, placed second in the national elections last year, but as a prominent and strident critic of Islam has been living under a fatwa death warrant — and 24 hour police protection — for years.
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Macron’s Plans to Bring Back National Service Approved by Two-Thirds of French People
ALMOST two-thirds of French people approve of President Emmanuel Macron’s plan to bring back compulsory national service two decades after it was scrapped, a poll has revealed.
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Norway Calls in Military to Relieve Exhausted Fire Service
A firefighter has died as a result of his injuries after a reported accident while fighting one of a number of forest fires that raged in Norway during the weekend.
The fires, which have affected several parts of southern Norway, are straining emergency services to such an extent that the Home Guard has been deployed to relieve fire services in some areas.
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Norwegian Political Giant Thorvald Stoltenberg Dies Aged 87
Thorvald Stoltenberg, a former foreign and defence minister and father of Nato secretary general and former prime minister Jens Stoltenberg, died on Friday.
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Pamela Anderson Opens Up About Being Romantically Linked to Julian Assange: ‘it is Sexism’
Pamela Anderson is shedding more light on the nature of her relationship to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
The actress sat down for an interview with The Daily Beast where she opens up about Assange, the whistleblower who has been taking refuge in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London for the past six years. Anderson has spoken in support of him several times and hinted at them being more than just friends, but seemed to shut down those rumors in the interview.
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Somali Mother First to be Sentenced Under New Law in Switzerland for Genital Mutilation of Daughters
A court in Neuchtel last week found a Somali mother guilty of submitting her two daughters to female genital mutilation in a landmark case in the Alpine nation.
It was the first ever such sentence in Switzerland, where female genital mutilation was made a crime in 2011 under Article 124.
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Sweden on Fire: Over 60 Forest Fires Across the Country — Call EU for Help
At present, some 60 forest fires are ravaging Sweden and the risk of further forest fires is “extremely high”, the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency says (MSB) says. It has even called for help from the EU, Swedish news outlet Fria Tider reports.
According to SOS Alarm, there are currently more than 60 fires across the country of different sizes, they told Sweden’s SVT News on Monday evening.
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UK: ‘We Will Just Leave on WTO Rules!’ Rees-Mogg Claims Theresa May Lacks Soft Brexit Majority
LEADING Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg claimed Theresa May’s Brexit plan will be voted down in the House of Commons unless she agrees to scrap it, as both Remainers and Brexiteers believe the deal would be detrimental to the UK.
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UK: Farage: We Need a Brexiteer PM
Nigel Farage was on ITV’s Good Morning Britain this morning, saying what a lot of Brexiteers are thinking: that Theresa May must go.
Speaking to Piers Morgan and Susanna Reid this morning, he said: “The first and most important thing is to get rid of this Prime Minister.
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UK: May Avoids Defeat by 3 Vote Margin as Even More Brexit Chaos Breaks Loose
Just over a week after Theresa May narrowly survived a revolt by Brexiteers which saw several resignations including that of Brexit minister David Davis and Foreign Minister Boris Johnson, on Monday evening May faced another cabinet rebellion, this time by Tory “remainers“, when May barely scraped through Customs Union amendments with a nail-biting margin of just 3 votes, and only after 3 Labor MPs voted with the government. More from the Guardian:
The government majority was reduced to just three votes on the most controversial amendment after leading Tory remainer Anna Soubry complained that the prime minister had lost control of events by making concessions to the rightwing European Research Group of MPs.
The reason for the Remainers ire is that earlier in the day, May unexpectedly had caved in to Brexiters by accepting their amendments to a customs bill to head off a leadership challenge before the summer break. The most important of the four amendments proposed earlier in the day from the hardliner Brexiteer European Research Group of MPs, or ERG chaired by Jacob Rees-Mogg, had been designed to frustrate May’s compromise proposals over customs arrangements agreed at Chequers and had been initially been opposed by the government until Downing Street made a sudden U-turn in the afternoon.
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UK: Theresa May’s Government Implodes as 9th MP Resigns Over Soft Brexit Plan
A ninth MP has resigned from the government in the week since Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May revealed her soft Brexit plan which has been branded a betrayal of Leave voters by prominent Eurosceptics.
In the space of 24 hours, MP for Witney Robert Courts and MP for North Cornwall Scott Mann have resigned from their government positions following the release of Mrs May’s plans for future European Union-UK relations, which would see post-Brexit Britain tied to many of the bloc’s rules and regulations, joining seven others who resigned either from Cabinet or from a Tory Party role.
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Why I’m Going to London to Cover Tommy Robinson’s Appeal
Our former reporter, Tommy Robinson, is finally getting a proper appeal, in court, in London, on Wednesday, July 18.
As you know, Tommy was reporting live outside a court house in Leeds, in the north of England, outside a trial where 27 men and two women were being prosecuted for running a rape gang, targeting British girls as young as 11. These rape gangs are almost always Muslim. And the victims are almost always white girls, sometimes with some Sikh girls, too.
And then police swooped in to arrest him.
Tommy was prosecuted for contempt of court, convicted in less than 15 minutes, and sentenced to 13 months in prison.
But on July 18, there will finally be an appeal.
And Tommy has specifically asked me to go to London to report on it.
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Italian Minister Salvini Calls for EU Sanctions Against Russia to be Lifted by End of 2018
Italy’s far-right Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said during a visit to Moscow on Monday that he wanted to see EU sanctions against Russia dropped “by the end of the year”.
Salvini said he would use any means possible to convince European partners to scrap sanctions brought in over Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014 and subsequent activity in the east of Ukraine.
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President Trump to Vladimir Putin: ‘The World Wants to See US Get Along’
President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin appeared to have a positive meeting in a room at the Presidential Palace in Helsinki, Finland.
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Trump Criticized for Performance at Summit With Putin
Shortly after the joint press conference of President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, the harsh criticisms began. Former CIA Director (for President Barack Obama) John Brennan actually tweeted that Trump’s performance at the press briefing was “nothing short of treasonous.”
It is not surprising that Trump’s summit with Putin, and his efforts to improve relations with Russia, has generated intense criticism from the “usual suspects” — Democrats and their allies in the liberal media — but what is disappointing is that he is being lambasted by fellow Republicans and even from some personalities at Fox News.
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Airbnb owners are also to blame for African youth crime and share responsibility for the recent spate of out-of-control parties, Ring Mayar a South Sudanese leader has said.
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Profit Palace Group tells potential buyers they could get a permanent resident visa in six months and live a ‘high-quality lifestyle’ if they buy a property in an estate in the Hunter Valley in New South Wales.
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New data from the Department of Social Services has revealed there are nearly one million Australians stuck on welfare long-term, costing taxpayers hundreds of millions.
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A 25-year-old man is recovering in The Alfred hospital after being struck in the head during a violent home invasion in Melbourne’s South-East.
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Alaa El Zien, 25, was sentenced to 12 months behind bars at Fairfield Court on Monday over the April 12 road rage attack in which he threatened drivers with a chainsaw in western Sydney.
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78-Year-Old Greek Shoots Refugee Who Tries to Burgle Him
Last week, a 78 year-old Greek man was arrested by police for shooting at a 16-year-old Syrian refugee with a shotgun, hitting his head and legs.
According to the Greek news outlet Lesvosnews, the Greek man admitted that he shot at the refugee upon confronting him inside his property. He thought the refugee was attempting to burgle his property. He stated clearly, however, that he had no intention to kill him.
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Dozens of Migrants Intercepted Off Greek Islands
A group of 57 undocumented migrants were intercepted off the coast of the eastern Aegean island of Lesvos and brought to shore early Monday morning by coast guard officials and Frontex.
According to reports, the boat carrying the migrants was first seen by a Frontex vessel. The 33-year-old skipper of the boat was arrested.
[Comment: Article dated July 16, 2018.]
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From Cameroon to US-Mexico Border: ‘We Saw Corpses Along the Way’
Yannick, a 30-year-old pastor from Cameroon, waited in line with about 100 other asylum seekers at the US-Tijuana border on a chilly afternoon in late December.
He and his wife had been in Tijuana for two days, and were speaking with an aid worker about where to find a bed for the night.
“My only goal is to find a way to cross the border,” Yannick said, rubbing his gloved hands together to keep warm.
“We don’t know exactly where we will go, we just have to wait,” he told Al Jazeera.
Yannick is one of the increasing number of African migrants and asylum seekers, as well as others from Asia and the Middle East, who have attempted to reach the US via Latin America over the last several years.
He and his wife stood in a group of Cameroonian asylum seekers. Next to them, were those from Eritrea, Pakistan, and central Mexico, each speaking their native languages, their voices drowned out by the sound of roaring traffic from the nearby highway overpass.
The line at the border can last for hours or even days, so many of those who wait camp out in tents, waiting for their turn for an interview with US Customs and Border Protection.
Refugees and migrants wait at the El Chaparral border crossing in Tijuana, hoping to enter the US [Walker Dawson/Al Jazeera]
Due to the danger involved in crossing the Mediterranean Sea from Libya to Europe, many people from African countries are instead choosing to seek asylum in the US, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR ), which also attributes the trend to the overall rise in global migration…
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Italy Warns EU: ‘We Are No Longer the Refugee Camp of the World’
Matteo Salvini, Italy’s Minister of the Interior, has warned the EU that his country will no longer be the world’s refugee camp.
“Italy is no longer the refugee camp of the world. There is now a government that protects the interests of its citizens, and now everyone in the EU has realised that we cannot be the only ones to accept migrants,” Salvini said.
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Most Australians Demand Immigration Halt as Population Soars
Most Australians want an end to mass immigration as the country’s soaring population is set to bounce above the 25 million mark within a month, an opinion poll shows.
Former Prime Minister Tony Abbott attributes the rise in part to the work of “ethnic activists” in the left-wing opposition Australian Labor Party.
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UK: Net Migration Running at 280,000 in 2017, According to Ons
Whilst Theresa May still refuses to say much at all about a post-Brexit border policy, mass migration goes on with little sign of ending.
The Office for National Statistics now say that net migration in 2017 was 280,000. That’s a ridiculous surge in 12 months given the Conservative Party have promised time and time again to bring down numbers to the tens of thousands.
EU migration plays a big role in this, as the ONS lay out: “EU net migration continues to add to the UK population with around 100,000 more EU citizens coming to the UK than leaving.”
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An Australian fashion label, MOGA, has launched a social media campaign for models to front a new campaign. However, it is not accepting applications from Caucasian models.
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Well it didn’t take long for Italy to backpeddle on the “refugees”. They’ll be allowed in so long as other countries take them which is pretty much what the status quo was. Let the ships in with the understanding that they’d make their own way north.
…and how many of the 600,000 currently in Italy have been returned home under the new government?
Words are wind…
Yes.
A plague on all of them.
What would France do without all those culture enrichers who are doing their best to keep insurers and car manufacturers fully occupied?
Trump criticized for his dealings with Putin…especially on election interference and hacking DNC I suppose….
And the recent indictment of 12 Russian intelligence officers I also suppose….
Too much supposing is always risky, of course, but I will go one more. Once upon a time, a report of 12 Russian intel people misbehaving in a hostile manner would have gone directly to the president rather than directly to a surprise-the-public court proceeding.
Here is a hypothetical historical parallel for you. Imagine that Robert E Lee with a 70,000 man force moved in a hostile way toward Maryland. Would it have been an appropriate response by US forward observers to NOT notify President Lincoln but instead to have indicted Lee in an obscure courtroom, notify the newspapers, and then to accuse Lincoln of treasonous inaction?
One might not want to rely on those forward observers.
That’s a good analogy.
a riot by foreign workers in Siberia
http://activatica.org/blogs/view/id/5296/title/bunt-inostrannyh-rabochih-v-sibiri
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Almost 20 years, the government of Putin (and before him – Yeltsin) did nothing for the development of the Russian people. For its demography, education, health and development.
And then just decided to buy a slave-Asians. And also cultivated the Muslim factor as a layer between the oligarchy and the robbed people.
Now the government has got a revolutionary situation, like 100 years ago. Hungry, angry, hateful infidels – they cry revenge.
The angry left such as McCain hate Donald Trump simply because he wants peace with Russia whereas they want war and chaos to ensue on a worldwide scale. Imagine if Obama had met with NK and Russia to discuss peace, he’d now have another few Nobel prizes adding to the one he got for slaughtering millions in the Middle East causing the migrant crisis.
By far the worst government who constantly taunt Russia is the British government. Novichuckle is a joke and just made up [odiferous substance] without any evidence being shown.
Russia are responsible for Brexit aswell as Trump winning. As if 17.4m Brits looked at Facebook and were instantly brainwashed by some Russian post.
The world has gone absolutely crazy and we must dig deeper to find out who exactly is responsible. I have my thoughts but I’d like to hear from others also.
“Novichuckle is a joke”? Tell that to the woman who died a few days ago.
It didn’t kill the supposed intended targets but killed two dumpster divers which makes this a joke of an assassination attempt by a government as supposedly as ruthless as the Kremlin. Given that the drug has known Russian association why even use it if you’re Russian government agents?
I don’t trust the msm anymore and I have little trust in Western governments that supply jihadists with money and weapons while cracking down on dissent against the same.