German police used huge weighted trucks to form a protective barrier preventing Islamic terror attacks on a Pride parade. The large concrete blocks are commonly called “Merkel legos”. Are the protective trucks perhaps “Angelorries”?
In other news, the Spanish coast guard rescued more 200 migrants traveling in 21 boats in the Strait of Gibraltar.
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Russia GDP Growth Slows to 1.1 Percent in June From 2.2 Percent in May
MOSCOW (Reuters) — Russia’s gross domestic product grew 1.1 percent in year-on-year terms in June after expanding 2.2 percent in May, the Economy Ministry said on Thursday.
The Russian economy saw retail sales rising in June on the back of the soccer World Cup, while output in construction, agriculture and industrial sectors declined, the ministry said in a monthly report.
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“Better Bring Our Own Guns” — Portland ANTIFA Plotting “Direct Confrontation” At Pro-Trump Rally
A violent Antifa cell based in Portland, Oregon is planning a “direct confrontation” with participants in a pro-Trump rally next Saturday, according to a call to action on the leftist website “It’s Going Down.”
“Rose City Antifa has continued their great work of doxxing the Portland area Proud Boys involved in this violence, and is also calling for militant antifascist resistance against Patriot Prayer,” reads the posting first reported by Cassandra Fairbanks of the Gateway Pundit.
The Rose City Antifa group notably clashed with members of Patriot Prayer and the pro-Trump “Proud Boys” in early June, which resulted in a viral video of a member of Antifa being knocked out during a melee started by the violent “resistance” group.
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10 Signs That America is in Much Worse Trouble Than We All Thought…
You may find it difficult to believe some of the things that I am about to share with you. Instinctively, most of us know that America is in trouble, but recently it has been impressed upon me that things are much worse than I originally believed. Our cities are becoming cesspools, our nation is falling apart all around us, and it seems like the number of sick, twisted and depraved people is multiplying. We still have a relatively high standard of living for the moment, but the only reason we can maintain that standard of living is because we are on the greatest debt binge in human history. And once that bubble bursts, I fear for what this nation is going to become, because things are getting really bad out there. The following are #1 America is “the most dangerous country in the developed world to give birth in”. We all know that our healthcare system is rapidly deteriorating, but I figured that the U.S. would be at least in the middle of the pack when it comes to women dying during childbirth. Sadly, I was completely wrong…
#2 America is absolutely teeming with sexual predators. When I read stories like the one I am about to share with you, it makes me want to vomit. According to a report that was just released, more than 300 “predator priests” were identified in just 6 Pennsylvania dioceses…
#3 America has a massive problem with pedophilia. This is particularly true in Hollywood, and actor Elijah Wood has decided to go public about it…
The actor, in a new interview with the Sunday Times, is accusing Tinseltown of having a pedophilia problem, saying “a lot of vipers” are preying on children in the business.
“Clearly something major was going on in Hollywood. It was all organized. There are a lot of vipers in this industry, people who only have their own interests in mind,” he said. “There is darkness in the underbelly. What bums me about these situations is that the victims can’t speak as loudly as the people in power. That’s the tragedy of attempting to reveal what is happening to innocent people: they can be squashed, but their lives have been irreparably damaged.”
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Court Docs: SPLC Co-Founder Accused of Trying to Molest Step-Daughter With Sex Toy
A recently-uncovered court document from the divorce proceedings of a prominent Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) figure alleges horrific conduct on behalf of one of the most influential lawyers in America.
Maureene Dees, ex-wife of SPLC co-founder Morris Dees filed for divorce on March 8, 1979 after a decade-long marriage marred by difficulties, according to an appellant brief obtained by Big League Politics. The brief was filed by Maury Smith, Julia S. Waters and Charles M. Crook, attorneys for Maureene, in the Alabama Court of Civil Appeals.
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Facebook Suspends Alex Jones for 30 Days for “Bullying” And “Hate Speech”
Controversial talk-show host Alex Jones has been suspended for 30 days by Facebook because of posting four videos that the social-networking giant deemed offensive. The suspension only includes Jones’ personal page and any pages directly managed by him. The page for his Infowars platform is, thus far, unaffected by the suspension.
For 30 days, Jones may not post any new content to his page or any page he manages. Facebook has removed the four videos that it said violated its community standards. Two of the videos removed reportedly contained “hate speech” against Muslims; another was said to contain “hate speech” against transgendered people. The fourth video showed a child who was pushed to the ground by an adult and was removed because of “child endangerment” standards.
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George Soros’s Media Network Worked to Help Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Win Primary
New details have emerged revealing that George Soros helped prop-up Democratic socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s political career in an attempt to put 400 Bernie Sanders-like politicians in Congress.
A former organizer for Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign, Ocasio-Cortez’s under-dog win in the Democratic primary was undoubtedly helped by online actors.
The New York Times writes that she was able to defeat her opponent, who greatly outspent her, due to her online presence. In an interview with progressive digital media outlet “The Young Turks,” a member of a Soros-funded network of far-left publications called The Media Consortium, Ocasio-Cortez also admits that their coverage helped her win.
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Liberal Smugness Will Destroy the Left
“There is a smug style in American liberalism,” wrote Emmett Rensin in a justly celebrated essay for the Vox web site. “It has been growing these past decades. It is a way of conducting politics, predicated on the belief that American life is not divided by moral difference or policy divergence — not really — but by the failure of half the country to know what’s good for them.”
Rensin wrote these words back in April 2016, before Brexit and before Trump. And time has made them even more pertinent. One might even call them prophetic. For if liberals used to adopt “a condescending, defensive sneer toward any person or movement outside of its consensus, dressed up as a monopoly on reason” before, they do so even more these days. And for the most part they are wholly unrepentant about it. Indeed, they are more often than not proud of their superiority complex. They are in the right, after all.
Rensen argues that the liberal smugness in the US is a consequence of the long decline in the number of working-class Democrats. In 1948, 66% of manual labourers voted for the Democrats. That figure was 55% in 1964. And 35% in 1980. And voting Democrat among the white working class has seen an even sharper decline.
So by the Nineties, Rensin argues, the old alliance between the working class and the progressive, college-educated elites began to break apart, leaving the graduates puzzling to themselves why they had been abandoned by the working class. Thomas Frank asked the question, in 2004, with his best selling book: What is the Matter with Kansas? And the answer that they began to develop was that the working class were basically too stupid to know what was in their best interest…
Rensin argues that what is often behind liberal smugness is the philosophical assumption that the difference between people politically is always a difference of knowing various facts, not a difference of ideology. This is the problem with the empiricist approach to politics: the fact-based assessments and belief that evidence only should drive our disagreements. For when fact-based empiricism comes to dominate the cultural and intellectual apparatus of the liberal world-view, then it can only be a knowledge of the facts that divides people.
This is where progressive smugness comes from: the idea that I know stuff that you do not. It is not that we disagree ideologically, because ideology is dead. All that is left is facts and knowing facts. And either you know the facts or you don’t. And we do. And you don’t.
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by Srdja Trifkovic
On July 26 Vice President Michael (“Mike”) Pence addressed the first “Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom” in Washington D.C. Pence opened his remarks by asserting that “religious freedom is a top priority of this administration,” that this “most fundamental of freedoms . . . is in the interest of the peace and security of the world.” His subsequent list of abuses of that freedom around the world was remarkable for its sins of omission.
In Nicaragua, Pence said, the government of Daniel Ortega is virtually waging war on the Catholic Church. For decades, he went on, Tibetan Buddhists and Uyghur Muslims have been brutally repressed by the Chinese government. According to Pence, North Korea’s “persecution of Christians has no rival on the Earth.” In Russia, he claimed, more than 170,000 Jehovah’s Witnesses face persecution. In Iran—”the leading state sponsor of terror,” according to Pence—”Christians, Jews, Sunnis, Baha’is, and other minority religious groups are denied the most basic rights enjoyed by the Shia majority.” In Europe, Pence warned, “attacks on Jews, even on aging Holocaust survivors, are growing at an alarming rate.” He singled out Britain, France and Germany as particularly problematic. His list also included the Islamic State: “ISIS has shown a savagery unseen in the Middle East since the Middle Ages.”
Pence announced a new U.S. initiative to “support the most vulnerable communities” in the Middle East and “embolden civil society to help stop violence in the future.” He concluded his address by pledging that “America will always stand for religious freedom, and we will always speak out boldly wherever and whenever it’s threatened.”
“Wherever”? “Whenever”? It is remarkable that Pence did not mention some of the worst religious freedom violators in the world, most notably the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. As I noted in these pages three years ago, while the Saudis continue to build mosques all over the world, hundreds of thousands of Christians—among the millions of foreign workers from Asia, Europe and America—must worship in secret, risking arrest, lashing or deportation for public display of their beliefs. The Saudi religious police, known as the Committee to Promote Virtue and Prevent Vice, continues to routinely intimidate, abuse, and detain citizens and foreigners. According to the U.S. Department of State International Religious Freedom Report for 2017, which devotes 19 pages to Saudi Arabia,…
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New Twitter “Hate Speech” Chief is a Trump-Hating Leftist
The woman selected to help Twitter develop an algorithm which targets “hate speech” is a hardcore leftist who hates Donald Trump.
What could possibly go wrong?
Earlier today it was reported that Dr. Rebekah Tromble, an assistant professor of political science at Leiden University, “will examine echo chambers and uncivil discourse” on behalf of Twitter.
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Robert Mueller’s Modus Operandi: Intimidation and Destruction
by Kelleigh Nelson
Congressman Louie Gohmert wrote an expose of Mueller, entitled, Robert Mueller Unmasked and he said this, “Robert Mueller has a long and sordid history of illicitly targeting innocent people. His many actions are a stain upon the legacy of American jurisprudence. He lacks the judgment and credibility to lead the prosecution of anyone. I do not make these statements lightly. Each time I prepared to question Mueller during Congressional hearings, the more concerned I became about his ethics and behavior.”
Death by a Thousand Cuts
We’ve all heard about this form of Chinese torture which was banned in 1905. Today this idiom refers to many small bad things happening, none of which are fatal in themselves, but which add up to a slow and painful demise.
I cannot name a single man or politician who could withstand the onslaught of hatred and vilification Trump has had to endure at the hands of these demonic and psychotic socialists. An ordinary man would have collapsed long ago under the weight of this evil. And yet we take it for granted that our President will bat a thousand for us every day and persist in being more energetic and more courageous than we could ever be in a million years. We criticize him for his imperfections and we are not grateful enough that he is fighting on our behalf. Outwardly, Donald Trump would appear to be base metal, but he is gold. He deserves our respect. Truly the foolishness of God is wiser than men. (I Corinthians 1:25) Our President is the left’s target.
Hyenas in a pack will attack a lion in order to take him down. One on one, they cannot do it, it takes the entire pack. But if the male lion will attack the head of the hyenas, it throws their entire pack into disarray.
It’s time for the enemies of our duly elected President to be taken down, and Trump needs to do it. He has been strong in telling our European allies that America will no longer carry the financial burdens of NATO. He has also been unwavering in demanding fair trade rather than free trade where America suffers billions in deficits.
The buck stops with our President. It is time he puts an end to the corruption and the partisan hacks in the DOJ and everywhere else in his administration. He is in charge, he has the authority to do so. I don’t care what his advisors are telling him not to fire anyone because it will play into his critics’ hands as obstruction of justice. He has to act or he will end up with a pack of hyenas devouring him.
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Secret Surveillance Program: TSA Can Track All Americans Like Terrorists
The TSA’s (Transportation Security Administration) has a secret program called “Quiet Skies.” This program is tracking normal everyday Americans and surveilling them without their knowledge or consent — and without the ordinary travelers being accused of a crime or being on any watchlist of any kind.
“Federal air marshals have begun following ordinary US citizens not suspected of a crime or on any terrorist watch list and collecting extensive information about their movements and behavior,” reports Jana Winter, a Boston Globe Spotlight fellow. The program has been criticized by the Air Marshalls who are tasked with carrying it out because they have been commanded to follow around Americans who pose no threat. Many see it as a waste of time and resources.
The Boston Globe reports TSA air marshals are surveilling ordinary Americans not suspected of any crime. NPR’s Michel Martin asks law professor Jonathan Turley about the legality of such a program.
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SUV Ploughs Into Crowd Outside New York City Restaurant — Several Hurt
The incident happened at 2.30pm local time (7.30pm Universal Time) on Sixth Avenue in a busy business distract in the city.
The car was an SUV and jumped the curb before ploughing into Korean BBQ restaurant Gogi Grill.
Emergency services are on the scene treating those injured.
Police have closed Sixth Avenue and nearby 17th Street while they investigate.
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Trump Tax Reforms Allow Companies to Expand Benefits, Increase Wages
More and more U.S. companies are using benefits from President Trump’s tax reform program to enhance their employees’ benefits, from paying more of their health-insurance premiums to contributing more to their retirement plans. Instead of going to pay higher salaries to company CEOs, those tax savings are increasingly going into longer paid family leaves, adoption assistance, and contributions to local charities.
Initially, it was all about tax savings. According to Americans for Tax Reform (ATR):
A family of four with an annual income of $73,000 will see a tax cut of more than $2,058;
A single parent with one child with an annual income of $41,000 will see a tax cut of $1,304;
Married small business owners with an annual income of $100,000 will see a tax cut of $2,603.
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Violence Paralyzes Minnesota School District
MINNEAPOLIS — Safety concerns arise as violence continues to escalate at Southwest High School.
On top of an already failing administration, Southwest High School staff are struggling to maintain peace between students. Last Friday, March 2, multiple fights broke out during the school’s second lunch period. Despite attempts to sweep the issue under the rug and downplay the violence, persistent students and parents forced the administration to address the situation.
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Watch Live: President Trump Joint Press Conference With Italian PM
Italy’s Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte arrived at the White House this morning and met with President Trump. We are sure immigration and NATO spending were among the many topics of joint interest, but will the press be asking about that or Manafort, Cohen, and Trump Tower instead?
As CNN notes, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron — no big fans of the US administration — are bound to hold their breath in fear that Italy might lend Trump a hand in further destabilizing the European Union, already torn by contrasts between member states and facing a deadlock in its integration process. And they do have cause for concern. Conte is turning out to be Trump’s main supporter and ally in Europe.
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Wrightsville Beach Fishing Tournament Met With ‘Vigil for Fish’ Protest
WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH, NC (WECT) — On Saturday, about 10 protesters gathered to raise awareness about ecology and animal rights during a popular fishing tournament, the Wrightsville Beach Inshore Challenge.
The protest, called Vigil for Fish, was organized by the groups Wilmington Fish Save and North Carolina Farmed Animal Save.
“We’re vegan activists, and we want to bring awareness to what fish go through,” said protester Daniel Veber. “Look at it from this fish’s point of view. If you were in your home, you would not want a hook to be hooked in the mouth, you would not want to be pulled up, you wouldn’t have to fight hours for your life to be pulled up. it’s scary.”
Protesters held signs reading “Fish feel pain,” “Sea life not seafood,” and “Fish want to live” in front of the tournament’s weigh-in at the Wrightsville Beach Marina.
The Wrightsville Beach Inshore Challenge is happening July 27 and July 28 at Wild Wing Cafe and Wrightsville Beach Marina. This is the fishing tournament’s 13th year.
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Canada and Norway’s Equinor Reach Accord on Big Offshore Oil Find
Authorities in Canada’s easternmost province said Thursday they had reached a tentative agreement with Norwegian oil giant Equinor to develop a major oil field discovered off Newfoundland in the North Atlantic.
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The Manchester suicide bomber was rescued by the Navy from war-torn Libya three years before his pop concert atrocity, the Mail reveals today.
HMS Enterprise plucked Salman Abedi, then 19, from the Libyan coast and took him to Malta for a flight home to Britain in August 2014.
Last May he set off a bomb in Manchester Arena that killed 22, including seven children.
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After Germany, Now Austrian Swimming Pools Need More Security to Combat Sexual Harassments
Sexual harassment, masturbation and fights; a lot happens in Austria’s swimming pools these days. More pool personnel have taken courses to combat sexual harassment, Austrian newspaper Heute reports.
In recent weeks, Austria has introduced the “I am your lifeline” concept into Viennese swimming pools. The initiative of the Women’s Service, aims to counteract sexual harassment with awareness and specially trained staff.
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Belgium: Three-Quarters of Local Police Forces Understaffed
There is a big shortage of police officers in Belgium. Monday’s edition of the daily ‘Het Nieuwsblad’ reports that the Federal Police Service is unstaffed to the tune of 1,620 officers, while three-quarters of the country’s local police services are under-staffed. The local police services need a total of 2,097 extra offices in order for them to be no longer understaffed.
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Copenhagen Imam: ‘Jihad Necessitates the Muslim Invasion and Conquest of Europe’
Imam Mundhir Abdallah, of the Masjid Al-Faruq mosque in Copenhagen, told his followers “the final solution to the problem of the Levant — after the establishment of the Caliphate and the elimination of the Jewish entity — will be through the conquest of Europe.”
Abdallah was speaking on a video first released in 2017. It has now been made public and translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) just a week after he was charged with hate speech over a separate incident where repeated a call to kill Jews.
In the latest video, Abdallah lays out a plan whereby Muslims can conquer all of Europe and deliver a final blow to the “vileness” of the Jewish people.
“Europe must be invaded again,” he said, calling for a new Islamic conquest of Al-Andalus, the Balkans, and Rome, in order to fulfill the promise of the Prophet Muhammad.
In the address, Imam Abdallah said that the Jews “are hastening their own annihilation by their rampaging, their filth, and their vileness, which reflect the immutable nature of the Jews.” He added he was “not a racist” but that this “has to do with the Jewish character and psyche, with that sick Jewish mentality.”
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Crime Rate in the U.K. Soars While 90% of Recorded Crime Goes Uncharged
Homicide and crime rates — including sexual assaults, and knife and gun attacks — continue to rise in the United Kingdom, with 90% of recorded offenses not ending in charges.
A report published last week lays bare the shocking numbers — crimes resulting in charges sat at 11%, with the percentage falling two points in just a year to 9%; down from 15% in 2015.
Since March of this year and the 12 months before, only 443,000 crimes out of 4.6 million recorded resulted in charges.
Notably, the number of recorded crimes rose by 11% to 5.5 million offenses — the highest level in over a decade.
Earlier this year, the homicide rate in London overtook New York City — with knife attacks rising by more than 30%. Although crime rates are surging in the U.K.,officer numbers in London have hit a record low.
As it stands, fewer than 1 in 10 of recorded crimes result in a charge, doing little to abate fear that England is undergoing an epidemic of violent crime.
“High-harm” violent offenses involving weapons have soared — with knife, gun, and homicide rates rising rapidly.
Official figures reported by the Office for National Statistics detail that — even excluding incidents with multiple victims, such as the terror attacks in London or Manchester — homicides rose 12% from 74 to 701 in just the span of a year.
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Czech, Slovak Presidents Mark Anniversary of Common Statehood by Vintage Train Ride
As part of this year’s celebrations of the centenary of modern Czech statehood, Czech president Milos Zeman and his Slovak counterpart Andrej Kiska undertook a joint ride on a historical train to mark the anniversary of the declaration of independent Czechoslovakia and also to commemorate its first head of the state Tomas Garrigue Masaryk.
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Imam Mundhir Abdallah, of the Masjid Al-Faruq mosque in Copenhagen is calling for a new Islamic conquest of Al-Andalus, the Balkans, and Rome, to fulfil the promise of the Prophet Muhammad.
“Jihad Necessitates the Muslim Invasion and Conquest of Europe”, Abdallah told his followers “the final solution to the problem of the Levant — after the establishment of the Caliphate and the elimination of the Jewish entity — will be through the conquest of Europe.”
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Euro Human Rights Judges ‘Will Block UK Plans to Waive Death Penalty Protection for ISIS Torturers’
European Court of Human Rights judges would almost certainly rule plans to not block the death penalty for Islamic State terror suspects unlawful and could order Britain to pay damages to the alleged ‘Beatles’ members, experts have said.
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Germany Uses Weighted Trucks to Prevent Islamic Terrorists From Attacking Gays at Pride Parade
Exclusive video obtained by Big League Politics shows German truck operators and police officers using weighted trucks as a form of security at the Frankfurt Gay Pride Parade to prevent Muslim terrorists from attacking gay people.
Last weekend, thousands of gay people attended the annual Christopher Street Day Frankfurt gay pride parade in Frankfurt Germany, which took place over three days.
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‘Go Get Macron!’ Frenchman Starts Petition to Impeach President Amid Benallagate
Alexandre Benalla, French President Emmanuel Macron’s former security aide, has found himself at the epicenter of a national scandal after a video of him manhandling a May Day demonstrator in Paris emerged.
A French citizen has launched a Change.org petition to pressure lawmakers to initiate impeachment proceedings against President Emmanuel Macron due to a “breach of his duties clearly incompatible with the exercise of his mandate.”
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Heaver: May as the Face of Brexit is a Dream for Remainers — Brexiteers Must Act Now
Theresa May’s bungled Chequers plan, coupled with her free falling personal ratings is damaging Brexit.
Michael Heaver, co-founder of Westmonster, is calling for fresh leadership as May’s failure to deliver independence now sees just 10% of Brits backing her government as doing a good job carrying out the will of the people.
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May Concedes Again, EU Judges to Have Final Say on Key Disputes
Theresa May has secretly conceded that EU judges will have the final say on disputes over the £39bn Brexit payment to the EU and the rights of European citizens in the UK according to reports in The Times.
The European Court of Justice will be the legal arbiter on Brexit legal contentions, rather than British judges, in a move that has angered Brexiteers.
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Merkron Falls: Support for Merkel and Macron Drops to Record Lows — New Poll
PUBLIC support for leading EU governments is falling, with ratings of French president Emmanuel Macron and German chancellor Angela Merkel’s coalition dropping to record lows, new polls have revealed.
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‘Not Sure the EU Will be Around in 50 Years’ Brexiteer Warns Brussels This Could End Bloc
Former European Parliament president Martin Schulz called for the creation of a “United States of Europe” by 2025, with other top figures within the bloc backing plans for further integration among member states.
Speaking exclusively to Express.co.uk about previous forecasts about the future of the bloc, Ms Hossò said: “I said in my answer when talking about the 50-year horizon, I’m not sure that the EU will be around in 50 years.
“I didn’t give a year but actually, I do stand by that.”
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Swedes Go for a Swim in Rail Station Underpass After Torrential Rain Caused Floods
Images of a group of Swedes turning the inconvenience of flooding in central Uppsala into an opportunity to relax have gone viral, after they were photographed swimming through the central rail station’s underpass with inflatables and water pistols.
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UKIP Leader, Elected Politicians ‘Shadow Banned’ On Twitter
UKIP has accused Twitter of “shadow banning” Gerard Batten, the party’s leader and the elected representative for London in the European Parliament.
The party’s London Assembly Members Peter Whittle and David Kurten have also been “shadow banned”, UKIP said in a statement, as well as their Head of Communications Kris Hicks, who has been in the job for just a week.
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Vandal Attack on Polish Ruling Party’s Office in Warsaw
Police are investigating after a vandal daubed graffiti on an office of Poland’s ruling conservative Law and Justice party in Warsaw.
Police were informed about the graffiti on Sunday. They have seized video surveillance footage from the area. Last Friday, “PZPR+” was painted on the building’s façade, Polish Radio’s IAR news agency reported.
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40% of girls under the age of 18 in Turkey are forced into marriage, according to Turkish Philanthropy Funds.
In January 2018, a government body under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s jurisdiction suggested that, according to Islamic law, girls as young as 9 and boys as young as 12 could marry.
“Low education” means almost all of Turkey: The average schooling in the country is a mere 6.5 years.
In Turkey you may abuse a 13-year-old and walk free, but you may not tease the president.
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India Effectively Strips 4m People of Their Citizenship in Northern Assam Region
India has effectively stripped 4 million people from the state of Assam of their citizenship.
The state has a National Register of Citizens (NRC), which includes the names of all those who can prove they came to the state before 24 March 1971 — the day before Bangladesh declared independence.
India has now released a final draft of a list of its citizens, leaving some 4 million people to prove their Indian nationality.
It says hundreds of thousands of people have illegally entered the country from neighbouring Bangladesh over decades and settled down in the northeast — a claim which Bangladesh rejects.
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MH370 Mystery Remains Unsolved Even as Probe Finds Controls “Manipulated”
A comprehensive final report made public by investigators on Monday has stirred fresh controversy as Malaysian authorities say they “cannot determine with any certainty” why Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 disappeared on March 8, 2014.
However one key irregular finding in the 495-page report is that the Boeing 777’s controls were most likely deliberately manipulated to take the plane off course, perhaps putting to rest theories of remote hijacking, which investigators behind the report also considered, noting only that “unlawful third party interference” could have possibly come into play related to the pilots’ decision to turn back.
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Agim Kruezi is facing sentencing in Brisbane Supreme Court on Monday for preparing or planning for a terrorist act and preparing for incursion into a foreign state.
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Young Mother Stabbed to Death While She Nursed Her Newborn at Home in South Africa
A young mum was attacked by a crazed knifeman and brutally butchered in her own home while nursing her new born baby daughter.
Kelly Bain, 26, was on maternity leave with the one-month-old tot when an unknown man slipped into her home and locked her maid in the loo.
Then he stabbed the pretty blonde mother-of-two twice in the neck severing an artery and once in the body leaving her on the floor in a pool of blood.
Moments later her fiance Christopher Bonus, 34, had returned home to pay the maid her wages and heard the maid screaming for help in the bathroom.
He walked straight into his bride-to-be’s attacker and the pair of them scuffled but the attacker broke free and is said to have vaulted a fence and escaped.
The couple were engaged last November and were planning to marry in the next few months and had just celebrated the birth of their first child together.
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A Guide to 2018 Latin American Elections
In 2018, the three biggest countries in Latin America—Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico—will elect new presidents. But those aren’t the only ones where voters head to the ballot box in a year that could see sweeping political changes across the region.
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Petition to Trump: Pardon Julian Assange
This is a red level emergency.
Journalist and Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange, is now in failing health and has been a prisoner in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London for six years even though there is absolutely no legitimate legal ground for his prosecution.
Sign and spread this petition so it can reach President Donald J. Trump to fully and unconditionally pardon Julian Assange in the interests of both justice and mercy.
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More than a third of newborn babies are born to foreign mothers in one Australian state, as the numbers of children born to immigrants rise across the nation.
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Croatia: NGO Wants Police to Disobey Orders to Expel Refugees
ZAGREB, July 30, 2018 — The Welcome refugee support initiative on Monday called on Croatian police officers to disobey orders to expel refugees from Croatia in order to show the senselessness of the policy of guarding the border against people who are in need of safety and thus improve the image of the Croatian police.
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Germany’s BAMF Migration Office Warns Against Fake Employees
Germany’s Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) warned on Monday that it had recorded several instances of people posing as immigration officials and conducting interviews with asylum seekers at their homes.
Visitors to the BAMF website on Monday would have seen a warning box that read: “There have been several occasions very recently in which people have pretended to be employees of the Federal Office and asked for an interview at which they questioned asylum applicants intensively. This took place in some cases on the pretext that a second hearing was allegedly needed. “
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German Students Empty Water Bottles Onto Their Heads in Protest Against Drowning Refugees
Students of the Munich Movie School HFF, held a protest against their state’s migration policy. During a visit of the Bavarian Prime Minister to the school, the students emptied bottles onto their heads to draw attention to the situation of refugees in the Mediterranean.
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Hungarian PM: Every Single Migrant Who Has Been Rescued Must Return to Africa
In an interview with German tabloid Bild, the Hungarian Prime Minister has heavily criticised the EU’s migration policy.
“If we want to save lives we must stop people at the southern shores of the Mediterranean Sea to prevent them from setting off on their hopeless journey,” Orban said.
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Matteo’s response to the report in Italian media that illegal immigration into Italy has been nearly completely stopped, as fewer than 2,000 migrants arriving in Italian ports in the month of July. Compared to the previous July, which was over 11,000, and 2016 seeing 23.552.
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Italian President Mattarella: Migrants Are Often Victims of Slavery and That’s a Shame
President Sergio Mattarella said Monday that migrants are often the victims of moderns forms of slavery in a message for the World Day against Trafficking in Persons.
“Slavery is one of the greatest shames of humanity,” the head of State said. “Today, the World Day against Trafficking in Persons, obliges us to reiterate our condemnation against all forms of slavery, old and new, and to battle against it,” he added, stressing that “the migratory phenomenon is easy ground for these new forms of slavery.
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Jordanian National Arrested for Allegedly Smuggling Yemeni Citizens Across the US-Mexico Border
A Jordanian national who allegedly smuggled six Yemeni citizens across the U.S.— Mexico border was arrested Saturday, according to the Department of Justice.
Moayad Heider Mohammad Aldairi, 31, was given an arrest warrant followed by a criminal complaint on May 29 for the supposed smuggling trips through the Texas border between July 1, 2017 and December 12, 2017, the DOJ reported Monday.
Aldairi was also a Mexican citizen and conspired with others who wanted to smuggle “Special Interest Aliens” across the border, according to the complaint.
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Migrants Flock to Spain — But Enter Country Via Nudist Beach
Visitors to the beach, looking for a quiet spot to catch the sun, were surprised when a dinghy containing around 30 African migrants that had departed from Morocco and through the strait of Gibraltar, landed on the beach.
In a new video posted online, the dinghy sails towards Tarifa nudist beat near the port of Algeciras, the largest city on the rock of Gibraltar.
The moment followed the migrants being approached by a coastguard boat, the migrants disembark and run towards woodland in an attempt to avoid capture by the police.
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‘No Prospects for Merkel’s Policy in Germany Anymore’ — Local Politician
Vienna has vowed not to accept any agreements which come at Austria’s expense amid a deal on migrant policy reached in neighboring Germany between Chancellor Angela Merkel and Interior Minister Horst Seehofer. Cloppenburg regional parliament MP Michael Klitzing says migration is just part of a much wider, possibly irresolvable problem for Merkel.
The CDU and CSU agreed this week to turn asylum seekers away at the German-Austrian border if they had already filed asylum applications in other states. The deal also envisions setting up transit centers to speed up deportations, and to look for a bilateral deal with Austria on the issue. Vienna responded by promising to protect itself if Berlin adopted the policy, with Austrian border patrol forces carrying out demonstrative training exercises last week. Austrian Interior Minister Herbert Kickl said that as far as he was concerned, the German agreement doesn’t even exist, and it is difficult to imagine how it could work.
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President Trump: High Praise for Italy’s Tough Immigration Policies
During a meeting on Monday at the White House with Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, President Trump gave praise for his country’s tough immigration policies.
The President, having met Giuseppe in June at the G7 summit in Canada, recognises Conte as a fellow populist, giving praise for his election and promise to prioritise government action for Italian citizens.
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Spain’s Interior Ministry, headed by Fernando Grande-Marlaska, has approved several emergency contracts to establish a unit based in the Bay of Algeciras (Cadiz) to assist illegal immigrants upon arrival.
The total cost of these measures, for a period of only 3 months, amounts to almost €3.5 million, of which a total of €350,000 for translators and interpreters stands out
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Spain Rescues Over 200 Migrants From 21 Boats Off Gibraltar
MADRID — Spain said it had plucked more than 200 migrants from the Mediterranean Sea on Sunday as the country’s interior minister headed to Mauritania to try to boost cooperation in the fight against illegal immigration.
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Spanish Conservative Hits Out at Mass Migration After Wave of Illegal Arrivals
Spain has overtaken Italy and Greece as the new migrant hotspot, according to official figures from the International Organisation for Migration.
20,992 people landed on Spanish shores this year alone, compared to 18,130 in Italy and 15,528 in Greece.
Pablo Casado, the leader of the Conservative Popular Party, warned against migrants coming to Spain, saying: “It is not possible that there are papers for all, nor is it sustainable that a welfare state can absorb millions of Africans who want to come to Europe and we have to say it, even though it is politically incorrect.”
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Academic Journal Duped by Author of ‘Dog Rape Culture’ Article
The author of the viral academic article on “rape culture” at Portland dog parks appears to have misled the journal about her credentials, Campus Reform has learned.
Helen Wilson submitted her study, “Human reactions to rape culture and queer performativity at urban dog parks in Portland, Oregon” to the Journal of Feminist Geography in 2017, claiming to the editors that she holds a “doctorate in feminist studies.”
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Following the recent murder of a random Bay Area black woman by a random Bay Area white man, Hollywood actress Anne Hathaway took to social media to demand all white people recognize the “white privilege” that protects them from murder.
“The murder of Nia Wilson— may she rest in the power and peace she was denied here— is unspeakable AND MUST NOT be met with silence. She is not a hash tag; she was a black woman and she was murdered in cold blood by a white man,” she wrote.
“White people— including me, including you— must take into the marrow of our privileged bones the truth that ALL black people fear for their lives DAILY in America and have done so for GENERATIONS. White people DO NOT have equivalence for this fear of violence.”…
Dovetailing back to Hathaway, she of course attributes Wilson’s murder to racism. She further appears to believe that white people have never been victimized or murdered, let alone victimized or murdered by blacks specifically. This of course is a glaring lie.
[Comment: Being this stupid must come naturally.]
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“George Soros’s Media Network Worked to Help Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Win Primary”
I don’t remember what she said exactly but this is what I remember: “If we raise income taxes, and if we raise property taxes, and if we raise corporate taxes, and if we raise taxes on the rich, and then we drop the military budget…”
There will be heaven on earth in no time.
The scary thing is that people believe her…
Only people in large numbers in the states of New York, Illinois, and California believe things like that. In the U.S., anyway.
From here it looks like Ireland and other welfare states buy that economic philosophy, too. None of them have read their Frederic Bastiat or they wouldn’t seek airy-fairy solutions to intractable problems, many of which are self-inflicted.
Yes well we have this kind of people in the EU as well. At least she doesn’t go as far as one of our prominent Czech Social Democrats who openly said that all private companies are parasites on the body of the state: And he was serious.
“Act of Betrayal: Manchester Bomber Was Rescued by the Royal Navy From Libyan Warzone and Evacuated Back to Britain — Three Years Before He Slaughtered 22 People at a Pop Concert”
Yes, but nothing like the headline implies:
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/revealed-uk-government-communications-groups-linked-manchester-bomber-53000913
https://www.un.org/sc/suborg/en/sanctions/1267/aq_sanctions_list/summaries/entity/libyan-islamic-fighting-group
https://eng-archive.aawsat.com/tag/editors-pick/page/2
Gaddafi was betrayed by his western allies, especially UK, who supported the spring and LIFG to depose him. Then you all complain when allegiances of LIFG act to depose your own authorities ?
The UK is morally bankrupt.
This Anne Hathaway is as dipsy as Jennifer Lawrence. Boycott both birds!
Boycott Hollywood .
“Merkel legos”. Otherwise known as Allahu Akbarriers : )
Patriarch Kirill’s press Secretary identified Islam with terrorism
Muslims are outraged by the Islamophobic comment by press Secretary Alexander Volkov, who explains the need for personal inspection of believers who came to the celebration on the occasion of the 1030th anniversary of the baptism of Russia: “Turning their pockets is not humiliating at all. It is humiliating to collect the remains of people from the asphalt, if someone wants to shout “Allah Akbar” on the Kremlin square. We live in such a time, it’s not a joke, and no one has yet melted from the need to show the contents of the pockets.”
https://www.islamnews.ru/news-moskovskij-patriarhat-sprovociroval-skandal-islamofobskim-zajavleniem-na-prazdnovanii-kreshhenija-rusi/
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Well, at least some benefit from these idlers in cassocks.
Here’s one for you Baron from the culturally enriched conclave of Rochester Minnesota
http://www.postbulletin.com/news/crime/rochester-man-loses-eyes-in-domestic-assault/article_a256993a-9356-11e8-bb6e-e777b2697f88.html
Just as long as they are not called “Angelenos.” Us folks here would take umbrage and contact our attorneys.