A whopping 69 Afghans were deported from Germany to their homeland after their applications for asylum were rejected. The deportees comprise approximately 0.0046% of the migrants who have arrived in Germany since the Great European Migration Crisis began in 2015.
In other news, the Maltese government has denied takeoff rights to planes owned by a Swiss NGO that “rescues” migrants in the Mediterranean.
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ADP: U.S. Economy Added 177,000 Jobs in June; May’s Numbers Revised Upward to 189,000
ADP’s National Employment Report for June shows a robust jobs market, with the U.S. economy adding another 177,000 new jobs, while revising May’s numbers up by 11,000 to 189,000.
More than 60 percent of the job growth is happening in small— and medium-size companies, and it is taking place in every sector of the economy. The only exception is Information Technology (IT), which shrank by a nearly imperceptible 2,000 jobs in June. Small and medium-size companies added more than 100,000 jobs, while the goods-producing sector (natural resources, mining, construction, and manufacturing) added 29,000 jobs in June. In the service sector, every category except IT (trade, financial, business services, education, health service, and leisure and hospitality) showed job gains for the month.
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Actor Terry Crews Exposes Hollywoods Dirtiest Secrete to Congress
Terry Crews delivered an impassioned speech detailing his experience with sexual assault before the Senate Judiciary Committee on June 26. Crews first shared his story of being allegedly inappropriately groped by talent agent Adam Venit shortly after Hollywood’s fallen director Harvey Weinstein’s longstanding history of sexual assault, abuse and rape was revealed in two separate New York Times and New Yorker magazine expose’s in October.
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Artificial Intelligence Could One Day Determine Which Films Get Made
According to the founder of artificial intelligence outfit ScriptBook, Sony Pictures could have saved a fortune from 2015 to 2017 by using the company’s algorithms instead of human beings to reject or greenlight movies.
In a presentation at the Karlovy Vary Intl. Film Festival, ScriptBook founder Nadira Azermai said that by analyzing screenplays, ScriptBook retroactively identified as box-office failures 22 out of the 32 Sony movies that lost money in that period, during which Sony released a total of 62 movies.
“If Sony had used our system they could have eliminated 22 movies that failed financially,” said Azermai
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Bundy Trial Judge Slams Prosecutor’s Last Plea for Conviction [Video]
A federal judge just slammed a prosecutors’ request to reconsider her dismissal (see our previous report below) of the case against Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, his two sons and friend Ryan Payne.
U.S. District Judge Gloria M. Navarro dismissed conspiracy charges against the four men on Jan. 8 after finding that prosecutors had acted “with prejudice” throughout the trial, The Oregonian reported. Federal prosecutors violated federal law and failed to share evidence favorable to the defendants case with the court.
“The Court’s finding of outrageous government conduct was not in error,” Navarro wrote in her 11-page ruling, obtained by The Oregonian. “On the contrary, a universal sense of justice was violated by the Government’s failure to provide evidence that is potentially exculpatory.”
Navarro said Monday it was clear the FBI was involved in the prosecution and it was not a coincidence that most of the evidence that was held back — which would have worked in Bundy’s favor — came from the FBI, AZCentral reported.
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Facebook Algorithm Flags the Declaration of Independence as “Hate Speech”
Over the last couple of years major social media, news and video platforms have been actively engaged in the censorship of what they believe to be fake news and information. Often spearheaded by third-party review organizations known to have biased views, there have been countless examples of unpopular speech and commentary that has seen its distribution suppressed or outright banned.
While there is most certainly a human element involved in the review and flagging of information, mega Silicon Valley conglomerates have also implemented automated systems to identify potentially hateful and repulsive content.
To give you an idea of the kind of automation in play and what words and ideas are being identified as running contrary to the principles of media aggregators and distributors, consider that Facebook recently banned America’s founding document from being posted.
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Man Fired After Stealing MAGA Hat, Throwing Drink in Teenage Trump’s Supporter’s Face
A man was fired after he was caught on camera stealing a MAGA hat and throwing a drink in a teen’s face.
The clip shows an individual later identified as 30-year-old Jimenez Kino saying, “You ain’t supporting shit nigga!” before he throws the drink on 16-year-old Hunter Richard’s face and then exclaims, “Bitch ass mother f-er!”
“This is gonna go right in my f-ing fireplace, bitch,” Kino added as he walked away waving the distinctive red Trump hat.
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Mueller Probe Expands Despite Pleas to “Finish it the Hell Up”
Instead of winding down his investigation into Russian interference/collusion in the US 2016 election, Robert Mueller is requisitioning additional Department of Justice resources in the latest sign that the probe continues to expand nearly 14 months after Mueller was appointed special counsel. According to Bloomberg, in a sign that Mueller is preparing to hand off more of his investigation to other federal prosecutors — like he did with the investigation into Michael Cohen (which he “delegated” to the southern district of New York) — the DOJ is now spending more on supplemental work for Mueller than it is spending on the special counsel’s own staff.
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Firefighters all over the western part of the country are talking about an unprecedented wildfire season, and we are only in early July. It is going to get a lot hotter and a lot drier as we move deeper into the summer, and the wildfires are likely to get a whole lot worse. At this moment, more than 600,000 acres of land are on fire in America. From California to Colorado and from Alaska to Arizona, extremely violent wildfires are raging out of control as firefighters battle relentlessly to save homes and lives. Rain is desperately needed, but right now much of the Southwest is experiencing a historic drought. In fact, things have gotten so bad that some experts are already comparing this drought to the Dust Bowl conditions of the 1930s. If very high temperatures and extreme drought persist, that is going to continue to create ideal conditions for more wildfires.
Studies have shown that wildfires burn worse on federally-controlled land because of extreme mismanagement, and that is precisely what we are witnessing at this time. Fox News is reporting that “ about 70 fires” are raging currently, and unusually high winds in many areas are making some of them extremely difficult for firefighters to deal with…
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Paul Sperry reports at RealClearInvestigations — the investigative reporting affiliate of trusted polling aggregator RealClearPolitics — that the FBI is refusing to allow members of Congress to review intelligence that alleges Obama Attorney General Loretta Lynch interfered in the Hillary Clinton email investigation:
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Students: American Exceptionalism ‘Egotistical, ‘ Repeal All Donald Trump’s Policies
Campus Reform’s Cabot Phillips visited New York Univerity in Manhattan ahead of Independence Day and asked students if they felt proud to be an American — he was met with a resounding “no.”
“I’m not proud of America. I’m not proud of what we’ve done,” one male student declared when asked if he holds the U.S. in high regard.
One female student took aim at the idea of American Exceptionalism, describing the view as both “egotistical and not accurate.” When Philips inquired which country is better than the U.S., she replied: “Probably some nice little socialist country in Europe.”
[Comment: Proof the globalist planned communist indoctrinatino at “universities” is working.]
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Teen Attacked for Wearing MAGA Hat, Assailant Fired
San Antonio police are investigating what appears to be a politically motivated hate crime after 16-year-old Trump supporter Richard Hunter was reportedly assaulted by an aggressive liberal for wearing a red MAGA hat at a local Whataburger.
In a video which went viral Wednesday, an angry man in black-rimmed glasses can be seen throwing a soda on Hunter and two friends at 2:35 a.m. on the 4th of July. As the man walks away with the teenager’s MAGA hat, he can be heard shouting “this is gonna go great in my ing fireplace, bitch,” while walking out of the eatery with another man who filmed the encounter.
Hunter told Fox 29 San Antonio that some of his hair was pulled when the man ripped his hat off, while calling for civil discourse instead of confrontation.
I support my President and if you don’t let’s have a conversation about it instead of ripping my hat off. I just think a conversation about politics is more productive for the entire whole rather than taking my hat and yelling subjective words to me.” —Richard Hunter
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In other words, the social crises, the constitutional crises, the financial crises— all of these are to some degree mere manifestations of the failure of centralized systems that arose to benefit from conditions that no longer exist.
Our centralized institutions and systems are failing, and shuffling the management and tweaking the parameters cannot stave off collapse.
What nobody gorging at the trough of the status quo dares admit is the system is failing most of its participants, and this is the source of populism and other manifestations of social disorder. I often publish this chart, as it crystallizes and encapsulates the verboten reality of 21st century America: the few are skimming the vast majority of the rewards of the system, at the expense of the many.
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Critics Blast New French Laws Censoring ‘Fake News’
The French National Assembly passed two bills this week concerning the censorship of “fake news” that have been sharply criticized as an attack on freedom of the press and the imposition of an “official truth.”
The two controversial bills—which now pass to the senate for approval—address the “manipulation of information” in the three months prior to national elections and referendums, granting sweeping powers of censorship to the judiciary branch of government. The bills respond to proposals by French President Emmanuel Macron earlier this year for legislative intervention to prevent the spread of “fake news” on social media during elections.
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European Parliament Rejects Controversial EU Copyright Law Backed by France
The European Parliament rejected Thursday a highly controversial EU copyright law proposal that has pitted Beatles legend Paul McCartney against internet giants and the creators of Wikipedia.
Lawmakers are now expected to return in September to the plans, which are aimed at ensuring creators of creative content — whether music, movies or news — are paid fairly in a digital world.
The draft law was firmly resisted by major US tech giants as well as advocates of internet freedom, with some campaigners warning it could even spell the end of viral “memes” or jokes.
“Today’s vote represents a victory for democracy,” said Siada El Ramly, head of EDiMA, a lobby representing Google, Facebook and other US tech giants.
Members of European Parliament meeting in the eastern French city of Strasbourg voted 318 against the measure, 278 in favour, with 31 abstentions…
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Farage Slams EU Army Plans, Bloc ‘Hell-Bent on Collision With Trump’
Brexit leader Nigel Farage has slammed the European Commission president for building an army to rival NATO and the U.S. military, claiming the bloc is “hell-bent to be in direct collision with Donald Trump”.
The former leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) blasted the unelected Brussels boss Jean-Claude Juncker at the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Tuesday.
He was attacking the bloc’s ‘PESCO’ project, a Brussels defence cooperation agreement signed in November 2017 by 23 member states, informally known as the European Union (EU) army.
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Farage Confirms Return to Frontline Politics if May Delays Brexit
Nigel Farage said he would have “no choice” but to defend Britain from “betrayal”, if the government delays Brexit beyond March 2019.
Speaking on his LBC show Wednesday, the Brexit leader slammed Prime Minister Theresa May’s “deception” over plans for leaving Europe, stating that he and many other people in the UK will be “furious” if the government delivers a soft Brexit.
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Fears May Will Scrap Brexit Department for Being Too Pro-Brexit
The Prime Minister is suspected of moving to sideline or even abolish the Brexit department, because it is too openly pro-Brexit, as the Brexit secretary warns her against abandoning a clean exit from the bloc and pushing to stay tied to its rules.
David Davis, the Brexit secretary, was Wednesday night leading a last-minute push by senior Tory eurosceptics to talk Theresa May out of backing a “third way” Brexit that would keep the UK locked in a customs union and single market with the European Union (EU).
The cabinet is meeting Friday at Chequers, where ministers are expected to attempt to make a decision on the issue.
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French Butchers Seek Government Protection From Anti-Meat ‘Terrorism’
French butchers have met with government officials to demand protection from “violent” vegan activists, marking the latest twist in a battle between France’s powerful meat industry and increasingly vocal animal-rights campaigners.
The CFBCT butchers’ confederation asked police officials at the Interior Ministry on Tuesday to “end the impunity” enjoyed by hardline vegan activists, whom it blames for a campaign of violence and intimidation targeting meat vendors.
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Germany: ‘Decapitating’ Freedom of the Press?
In an apparent attempt to sweep under the rug a recent double homicide in Hamburg, Germany, authorities there censored the story. They also raided the apartments of a witness who filmed a video describing the murder, and a blogger who posted the video on YouTube.
The murder, which made headlines worldwide, occurred on the morning of April 12. The assailant, Mourtala Madou, a 33-year-old illegal immigrant from Niger, stabbed his German ex-girlfriend, identified as Sandra P., and their one-year-old daughter, Miriam, at a Hamburg subway station. The child died at the scene; her mother died later, at the hospital. The woman’s three-year-old son witnessed the murders.
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German School Fines Parents for Refusing to Allow Their Son to Visit a Mosque
The parents of a boy, who saw an educational mosque visit as indoctrination and refused to let him go, have been fined, Der Spiegel reports.
For a geography course, the Kronwerk Gymnasium in Rendsburg wanted to visit a mosque, but the 13-year-old boy’s parents refused because they saw the visit as indoctrination and religious education.
The non-religious parents now have to pay a 50 euros fine because they banned their son from the attending the school’s obligatory mosque visit.
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Italy: Health Minister Grillo Expecting, Will Have Baby Vaccinated
Parents can use self-certification to admit kids to school
(ANSA) — Rome, July 5 — Health Minister Giulia Grillo, a member of the 5-Star Movement (M5S), said Thursday that she was pregnant and stressed that she would have her baby vaccinated.
The M5S has been accused of having an ambivalent attitude with regard to vaccines and the new government has talked of changing a law making vaccinations obligatory for school admission.
Grillo announced she was pregnant at a press conference at which she confirmed that parents will be able to self certify that they are in compliance with the obligatory vaccinations law to enrol their children for the 2018-2019 school year, rather than present the actual vaccination record. The obligatory-vaccinations law had set a deadline of July 10 for parents to present vaccines documentation for enrolment.
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Italy: ‘Rape Worse at Start’ Man Charges Dropped
Pakistani was sacked after comments on Rimini gang rapes
(ANSA) — Rome, September 4 — Prosecutors on Thursday shelved a case against a 24-year-old Pakistani cultural mediator for an Italian migrant-reception cooperative who said rape was worse “only at the beginning” and then women enjoyed it.
The Bologna prosecutor said his words were “certainly vulgar.
gratuitous and offensive for women” but did not constitute instigation to commit a crime.
The man was sacked September 4 by the Bologna-based organisation Monday after commenting on Rimini rapes by a North African gang.
He said rape is “a worse act, but only at the beginning, when the willy goes in, then the woman becomes calm and you enjoy it like normal intercourse”.
Abid Jee’s Facebook post caused a storm despite being quickly removed.
The Lai-Momo cooperative fired the cultural mediator, rejecting a written justification.
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Le Monde Publishes Macron’s Plan to Reform Islam in France
Association financed by tax on halal and Mecca pilgrimages
(ANSAmed) — PARIS, JULY 5 — A confidential statement to French President Emmanuel Macron by one of his closest collaborators and published Thursday by French daily Le Monde outlines a plan to regulate Islam by making financing transparent and better integrating the community based on the principles of French social and economic life.
The plan was drawn up by Macron collaborator Hakim El Karoui, and provides for the creation of an association managed by French Muslims that will train and pay the imams, remodel the mosques and manage communication.
It will be financed by a tax on halal food products and on pilgrimages to Mecca, as well as by a tax exemption on donations by followers.
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London Mayor Sadiq Khan Agrees to Fly Trump in a Diaper Blimp During POTUS Visit
The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, who has previously expressed disdain for President Trump, has agreed a request to fly a blimp made up to look like a baby Trump in a diaper during the President’s state visit next week.
The 20-foot-tall blimp has been made by a protester in Britain who intends to fly it over parliament simply to ridicule the President during the visit because in his own words, “Trump has a tremendously fragile ego.”
“We want to make sure he knows that all of Britain is looking down on him and laughing at him,” the man Leo Murray told NBC News last month.
Now, after originally saying that the ‘Trump Baby’ was not legitimate protest, Sadiq Khan has approved the stunt, with his office issuing the following statement:
“The Mayor supports the right to peaceful protest and understands that this can take many different forms.”
“His city operations team have met with the organisers and have given them permission to use Parliament Square Garden as a grounding point for the blimp.” the statement continued.
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Man, 26, Who Funded ISIS From His Home in Ireland Jailed for Two-and-a-Half Years
A MAN who admitted to funding Islamic State from his home in Ireland has been jailed for two-and-a-half years.
Hassan Bal, 26, of O’Connell Street in Waterford, pleaded guilty to one count of unlawfully transferring €400 for use by the terror group and another of attempting to collect money on their behalf.
In the first successful trial of its kind in Ireland, Waterford Circuit Criminal Court heard how Bal had been in contact with “medium to high level” ISIS operatives and even tried to travel to Syria to fight in the civil war there.
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MEPs have just voted against the copyright bill going through the European Parliament that could have effectively banned memes.
Article 13 of the bill would have meant websites would have to use AI to screen potentially copyrighted materials, essentially destroying meme culture online.
But the vote was only slim, and it’s likely to return to the EU for another vote.
One MEP told me it definitely won’t disappear…
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Nobel Cancels Peace Prize Concert for Lack of Funds
The traditional concert after the annual awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize on December 10th in Oslo will not be staged this year due to financial difficulties, the organisers said Tuesday.
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Pics: France Police Shooting Riots Enter Second Night
Cars were burned and locals clashed with police in the French city of Nantes on Tuesday and Wednesday nights after police fatally shot a 22-year-old who tried to avoid a police checkpoint.
The initial incident occurred at around 8:30 in the evening in the Breil area when officers at a routine police checkpoint stopped a vehicle over the driver not wearing a seatbelt but could not determine the man’s identity.
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RAND: Terror Has Cost EU Countries £160 Billion Since 2004
A study by the RAND Corporation has revealed that from 2004 to 2016, terrorism cost European Union countries £160 billion ($210bn) with France and the UK losing the most.
The report, which was prepared for the European Parliament, says that as a result of terrorist acts, the UK economy lost £38.6 billion ($51.1bn) following the 7/7 bombings in 2005, while France lost an estimated £38 billion ($50.3bn) within the same period that saw the 2015 Charlie Hebdo attacks and the Bataclan massacre later that same year, as well as a large number of other, smaller terror events.
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Riots in France Spread After Aboubakar, a Criminal, Shot Dead by Police
Since Tuesday night, Breil’s youth, one of Nantes’s suburbs, have been rioting over the death of a criminal. Now it appears the riots are spreading to other cities, Actu reports.
Aboubakar Fofana, the criminal targeted by an arrest warrant and killed by Nantes’s police after he tried to flee arrest, was born in Garges-le’s-Gonesse, a small city of the Val-d’Oise.
Cars and rubbish in Garges-le’s-Gonesse have been burned and police also targeted overnight Wednesday, by rioters protesting the death of the 22-year-old.
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Romania: Abu Dhabi Group Takes Over Biggest Grain Farm
Value of the transaction 200 to 250 million euro
(ANSA) — BELGRADE, 04 LUG — Al Dahra Agriculture, a prominent agribusiness group based in Abu Dhabi, will take over the Romanian Agricost Braila, which controls the biggest grain farm in the country, the portal Romania Insider reported today, adding that the transaction was approved by the Romania’s Competition Council.
Agricost has a concession of 56,000 hectares at the Insula Mare a Brailei, “an island on the Danube that has the most fertile land in Romania, until 2032,” the portal added.
According to the information circulated on local media in Romania, the value of the transaction could vary from 200 to 250 million euro and it will include only the farming business, not the land, that belongs to the Romanian State. Al Dahra Agriculture may invest up to 500 million euro in five years in the business in Romania, local media added.
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Stop Lecturing Poland! Hungarian MEP to EU
“As a Hungarian MEP I’m very glad we are discussing our common future together with the prime minister of Poland. When Europe’s future is the question, we have to clearly see that we can’t speak about a strong EU without a strong Poland,” Hungarian MEP Gyorgy Holvenyi said in connection with the EP plenary debate with Mateusz Morawiecki.
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Sweden: 64-Year-Old Man Convicted for Posting Cartoon That Made Fun of Islam
A 64-year-old Swedish man was convicted of hate speech after posting a cartoon to a private Facebook group that made fun of Islam.
The man added a comment under the image in which he asserted that Muslims were “pedophiles” and “must be stopped and (have) no access to Europe.”
The satirical image was drawn by cartoonist Jan-Erik Ander. It shows two Muslim men including one holding a pram with a child.
“Grandchild?” asks one of the men, to which the other responds, “No, this is my new wife!”
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Swedish Left-Politician: EU Referendum ‘A Dangerous Idea’
Former Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt has slammed a proposal by the populist Sweden Democrats to hold a referendum on European Union membership calling the prospect of a vote “dangerous”.
The former leader of the Moderate Party called the proposition of an EU membership referendum, which was advocated by Sweden Democrats leader Jimmie Åkesson last month, as, “not just a bad idea, it’s a dangerous idea”, Aftonbladet reports.
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‘The Threat of Terrorism is Real’: Security Set to be Tight at This Year’s Tour De France
More than 30,000 security agents will be deployed for the Tour de France, organisers said after the head of world cycling cited threats of violence and called for a safe environment for British rider Chris Froome.
The world’s biggest cycling race starts on Saturday, just days after four-time champion Froome was cleared of doping suspicions by the International Cycling Union (UCI), headed by David Lappartient.
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U.K. Tells Trump He Can’t Meet With Brexit Architect
Farage: ‘The one thing they do not want me doing is having a photograph with the U.S. president’
(Fox News) The U.K. government has reportedly told President Trump he must not meet Brexit architect and former U.K. Independence Party leader Nigel Farage when Trump visits the U.K. later this month.
The U.K. Daily Telegraph, citing a source within the British government, reports that 10 Downing Street made it clear that Trump “must not meet Farage” during his working visit to the U.K. on July 13.
Trump has embraced Farage, who is also a Fox News contributor, and called him “the man behind Brexit” during the 2016 campaign.
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UK: Almost 70 Percent Say Brexit Going Badly, Blame Theresa May Government
Almost 70 percent of Brits think Brexit is going badly, a poll has revealed, with the majority of both Leave and Remain voters blaming the government.
Over 60 percent blamed Theresa May’s government and around a third blamed the media for the perceived poor state of the Brexit process.
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UK: Rape Gang Ringleader Back Behind Bars After ‘Disgracefully’ Early Release
The leader of a Telford grooming gang which raped and trafficked children is back in prison just months after he was released having served less than five years of a 22-year sentence.
Mubarek Ali was sentenced in 2013 to 14 years’ immediate custody and eight years on licence for offences including controlling child prostitution, causing child prostitution, and trafficking in the UK for the purpose of prostitution, reported the Shropshire Star.
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A group of self-declared “anti-fascist art activists” have been granted permission by Sadiq Khan’s Greater London Authority to fly a grotesque 20-foot inflatable caricature of President Donald J. Trump when he visits the city next week.
[Comment: So in the UK, some types of speech are allowed, but other types are not. Uh-huh.]
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UK: Terror Suspect Plotted Multiple ‘Curry Mix’ Attacks With Suicide Belt, Bombs
Bangladeshi-born Naa’imur Zakariyah Rahman, 20, planned a “curry mix” of attacks against landmarks in the UK using a suicide belt, bombs, drones, and poison, a court heard.
Rahman, of Finchley, North London, is on trial for plotting to bomb security gates at 10 Downing Street and behead Prime Minister Theresa May.
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UKIP ‘Saves the Internet’: EU’s Attack on Memes Voted Down, Delayed
The European Parliament has voted to delay new copyright laws that would have required the monitoring of all online uploads and could have effectively outlawed meme culture.
The proposed laws come amid a sustained effort by the European Union (EU) to regulate expression online and were met with a ‘Save Your Internet’ campaign which united activists across the political divide.
The EU attempted to rush the laws through and into secret negotiations with the European Council and unelected European Commission before UKIP and other parties pushed for a vote.
Earlier this week, UKIP leader Gerard Batten blasted the proposed laws, known as Article 13 and the ‘link tax’ Article 11, as an attempt to “destroy the capacity for free speech” online.
A total of 318 MEPs voted against opening the secret talks this Wednesday, with 278 voting favour and 31 abstaining.
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US Government Plane Seen in Turku, Raising Speculation Over Trump’s Plans in Finland
A US government jet landed at Turku Airport on Tuesday evening, leading to speculation that US President Donald Trump might visit the Finnish president’s nearby summer residence.
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Salvini Eyes Israel Visit ‘By Autumn at Latest’
Pubblicato il: 04/07/2018 19:34
Italy’s far-right interior minister Matteo Salvini on Wednesday said he planned to visit Israel “by autumn at latest” after a meeting in Rome with its ambassador Ofer Sachs.
“I hope to see a bilateral summit between our governments to strengthen all aspects of the friendly ties between our two states,” Salvini stated.
“Excellent cooperation already exists with Israel on security, which I intend to strengthen further. A visit to Israel, by autumn at latest, is among the priorities for my international schedule,” Salvini added.
Salvini’s talks with Sachs covered cybersecurity, cooperation — including among police — in the fight against crime and international terrorism, as well as migration, according to Salvini’s statement.
“Israel is a country that pays attention to all the issues that affect the Mediterranean area and closely follows the geopolitical situation in Libya,” Salvini said, adding that he favours any initiative aimed at bringing peace and stability to the region.
“ I know that Israel is very keen on cooperating with African countries,” he added.
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Russia Denies Involvement in New UK Nerve Agent Poisoning
LONDON — Russia denied any involvement Thursday in the poisoning of a couple in Britain with a Soviet-developed nerve agent, four months after a Russian ex-spy and his daughter were found poisoned with the same toxin in a nearby city.
Emergency services were called to the town of Amesbury in Wiltshire, southern England, on Saturday after the couple, Charlie Rowley, 45, and Dawn Sturgess, 44, were found unconscious in a property. They were taken to Salisbury District Hospital where they remain in critical condition.
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How Islamic Terrorist Dawood Ibrahim Aide Rashid Malabari Planned to Kill Hindu Leaders in South
Confession of a hitman: Sharp shooter Rashid Malabari recounts, how Dawood & Chhota Shakeel network planned to eliminate Hindu leaders of South India.
Vicky Nanjappa | One India Online | Bengaluru | July 4, 2018:: Rashid Malabari, is a close aide of Dawood Ibrahim (an international Islamic terrorist). He was arrested by the Karnataka police for several cases and then four years back managed to jump bail and flee the country in dramatic style.
After a chase, Malabari who was tasked by Chhota Shakeel was finally arrested by the Abu Dhabi police. The Karnataka police will be seeking his extradition as he is wanted in several cases which includes the targeting of several Hindu leaders.
The investigation that was conducted by the Karnataka police showed that Malabari had planned on kidnapping a Dubai based businessman returning to Mangalore and demand a ransom of Rs 5 crore.
The money was to be used to kill Hindu leaders and he had already started picking his sharp-shooters for the same…
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Mother Teresa Charity Accused of Selling Babies in India
Indian authorities have arrested a nun and an employee at a home run by Mother Teresa’s charity after they allegedly sold a baby. Investigators say they are looking into several more complaints of child trafficking.
Police said Thursday they had taken two people into custody for allegedly selling infants from a shelter for unwed mothers in eastern India.
The facility in Jharkhand state is operated by Missionaries of Charity, a religious order founded by Mother Teresa in 1950.
“They have said that at least five to six babies have been sold to childless couples,” police officer Aman Kumar told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
“We are investigating to see how the operation was run and how many more children have been given away in the last few years.”…
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China Rejects US “Blackmail” On Eve of Trade War, Vows to Fight Back
With just hours left until the US officially declares trade war on China at midnight on Friday, when the Trump admin enacts tariffs on $34bn in Chinese products and Beijing retaliates instantly, China on Thursday rejected “threats and blackmail” ahead of a threatened U.S. tariff hike, once again striking a defiant stance in the dispute which companies have warned could flare into a full-blown trade war and chill the global economy.
A government spokesman said Beijing will defend itself if U.S. President Donald Trump goes ahead Friday with plans to raise duties on Chinese goods in the escalating conflict over technology policy. The Chinese government has already issued a list of U.S. goods for retaliation, but the Commerce Ministry said it will wait to see what Washington does.
“China will not bow in the face of threats and blackmail, nor will it be shaken in its resolve to defend global free trade,” said ministry spokesman Gao Feng at a news conference.
[Comment: Lop sided trade began with globalist puppet Clinton, allowing China into WTO — as well as masses of high technology transfer.]
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A 17-year-old New Zealand-born boy, who played rugby before falling in with the wrong crowd, has sparked a diplomatic clash between Australia and New Zealand as he faces deportation.
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David Leyonhjelm has again refused calls to apologise to Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young, despite received a concerns notice demanding an apology and compensation.
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The group of men abused Muslims at Brisbane’s Kuraby Mosque and claimed Muhammad was a paedophile on Wednesday before going to a mosque nearby where they were stopped at the gate.
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Lions Eat ‘Rhino Poachers’ On South African Game Reserve
At least two suspected rhino poachers have been mauled to death and eaten by lions on a South African game reserve, officials say.
Rangers discovered the remains of two, possibly three, people in a lion enclosure in the Sibuya reserve, near the south-east town of Kenton-on-Sea.
A high-powered rifle and an axe were also found.
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A Conversation With French Writer Renaud Camus
Jean Renaud Gabriel Camus, co-founder and President of the National Council of European Resistance, is a French writer known for having coined the phrase “Great replacement” — referring to the reported colonization of Western Europe by immigrants from North Africa and the Middle East.
Grégoire Canlorbe: “Replacement” is, you say, the ideology of the world superclass.[1] Do you see in Emmanuel Macron an agent of the “world superclass”?
Renaud Camus: Ah yes: the best. This is the man from Davos. Indeed, he sets in with great strides what I call the “Direct Davocracy,” the direct management of the human park by the banks, the stateless financiers, and the multinationals.
One only has to observe the systematic and hasty neutralization of the middle political stratum: the return to their homes of all the French political figures who have been in the spotlight for thirty years; a government of hangers-on; a parliamentary majority of dazed puppets; the constant reduction in the advantages of a political career… one would not be able to enumerate all, this is never-ending. The state is being destroyed stone by stone for the benefit of major investors.
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Ann Coulter Slams ‘Open Borders Zealots’ On Trump’s SCOTUS Shortlist, Backs Kavanaugh
Ann Coulter unloaded on Judge Raymond Kethledge, one of the judges President Donald Trump interviewed to potentially replace Justice Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court, on Twitter Wednesday.
“Hardiman & Kethledge are open borders zealots,” the New York Times best-selling author and populist conservative columnist said in the most explosive of her tweets:
Later, when challenged on her assertion, Coulter expounded on how she reached her conclusion, citing several opinions in which Judge Kethledge favored expanding the legal options available to illegal aliens facing deportation:…
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Austria: Turk Immigrants Who Voted for Erdogan Should Go Home
Populist Austrian Vice Chancellor and leader of the Freedom Party (FPÖ) Heinz-Christian Strache has said that Turks in Austria who voted for Islamist Recep Tayyip Erdogan should return to Turkey.
Mr Strache made his comments on Facebook over the weekend posting a picture of himself with the caption: “I recommend all the Turks in Austria who voted for Erdogan should return to Turkey!”
So far the post has 26,000 likes, has been shared more than 6,000 times, and has garnered over a thousand comments, many of which question how so many Turks could vote as Austria has strict rules on acquiring dual citizenship.
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CNN’s Jim Acosta Schooled on How the Statue of Liberty Has Nothing to Do With Immigration [Video]
We wish President Trump could clone SENIOR ADVISOR Stephen Miller! He’s so brilliant and knows immigration like no other! We can’t say the same for the White House Press Corp! The Statue of Liberty has NOTHING to do with immigration (see more below) Stephen Miller got the best of Acosta when he schooled him on the Statue of Liberty!
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- Austria, Germany, Italy to discuss closing Mediterranean migrant route into EU
- Talks were announced by Germany’s hardline Interior Minister Horst Seehofer
- Comes as Germany considers migrant measures at shared border with Austria
- Angela Merkel has accused hardline Hungarian PM failing to respect ‘humanity’ with his immigration policies
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First Group of Migrants Brought to Malta Flowed on to France
PARIS (AP) — The first group of migrants from a private rescue boat that Malta agreed to let dock only if they were divided among several countries left for France Thursday aboard a commercial flight.
French Interior Minister Gerard Collomb welcomed the arrival of 52 refugees who had been among 234 people who reached Malta last week aboard the Lifeline.
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Germany Fails to Protect Children: Merkel’s Government Has No Idea How Many Child Brides There Are
A year ago, Germany launched a law combating child marriages, but the Federal Government has no idea how many of those marriages exist in the country, Die Welt reports.
Last summer, during the ‘first’ refugee crisis, the German government decided to implement the law to protect children against premature and unwanted marriages in the future.
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Germany Reaches 11th Hour Migrant Deal as Leaders Scramble for Austria, Hungary Cooperation
The leaders of Germany’s three-way coalition have agreed to a comprehensive immigration package to deal with migrants seeking asylum, following a multi-week power struggle that almost saw chancellor Angela Merkel out of a job, as well as the almost-resignation of German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer.
Merkel’s Christian Democrats, the Social Democrats (SPD) and the Christian Social Union (CSU) have all agreed on a compromise package to deal with illegal migration which will strengthen asylum policy.
SPD Chairman Andrea Nahles announced the agreement Thursday night after a coalition committee meeting in Berlin, which includes “no camps” for refugee housing as well as an accelerated process for repatriating refugees.
Interior Minister Seehofer (CSU) was optimistic about the agreement, whose terms were documented by Welt (translated).
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Germany and Austria Put Schengen at Risk With Decision to Shut Migrant Route
Interior ministers from Berlin, Vienna, Italy and Greece will meet in Innsbruck in the coming weeks to reduce migratory pressure from across the Mediterranean, said Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz.
He said: “Next week there will be a meeting between the ministers of interior of Germany, Austria and Italy to decide measures to close the route of migration in the Mediterranean.”
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German Interior Minister Plans How to Send Migrants Back to Greece, Italy
(AP) — Germany’s interior minister says a new plan to establish so-called “transit centers” at the Austrian border to quickly process new migrant arrivals envisions sending people directly back to where they first entered the European Union, primarily Greece and Italy.
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Germany Deports 69 Failed Afghan Asylum Seekers
BERLIN (AP) — German authorities say they have deported 69 Afghans whose asylum requests were rejected back to their home country.
A plane carrying the men from Munich to Kabul landed in the Afghan capital early Wednesday. It was one of the largest collective deportation flights yet organized by Germany, which has vowed to step up the removal of people who don’t have a right to remain in the country.
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Harvard-Harris Poll: Seven of 10 Registered Voters Want to Keep ICE
The results of the latest Harvard-Harris poll over the question of keeping or abolishing ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) portends great difficulty for the Democrats in the upcoming midterms. If the leading lights of the party continue their push to abolish ICE, the results for them in November could be catastrophic.
In its online survey of 1,448 registered voters, the pollsters asked, “Do you think that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, known as ICE, should be disbanded, or not?” Sixty-nine percent of them said no, while 70 percent of them said ICE should instead step up its enforcement of the nation’s immigration laws.
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Hungary to Increase Military Presence in Crisis Zones
Hungary will increase its military contribution to missions in countries “crucial in terms of migration and terrorism”, Istvan Szabo, state secretary of defence, told military attaches at their annual meeting on Tuesday.
Szabo noted the heightened threat of terrorism across the world and drew a link to “illegal mass migration”. He also warned of increasing religious radicalism. No improvement in the crisis zones where most migrants come from is discernable, he said.
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Italian Interior Minister: Not One More Person Should Arrive by Boat on Italian Shores
Matteo Salvini, Italy’s Interior Minister, announced in a press conference that he wants to block migrant arrivals by boat completely.
“The aim is that not one more person arrives by boat on Italian shores,” Salvini said in a joint press conference with his guest Ahmed Maiteeq, Libya’s current vice president.
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Italian Church Faces Growing Divide Between Prelates and People Over Immigration
As the Italian hierarchy aligns itself ever more closely with the open-borders movement, the country’s citizens — most of whom are Catholic — seem to be moving in the opposite direction, creating a curious lay-clerical split.
Italy’s interior minister, Matteo Salvini, is now the most trusted politician in the country by a significant margin, a position he has earned above all by his firm stance against unchecked mass migration
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Italy: Austria and Germany Seek to Halt Mediterranean Migration
Pubblicato il: 05/07/2018 18:08
Italy’s interior minister Matteo Salvini and his German and Austrian counterparts, Hoorst Seehofer and Herbert Kickl will meet in Innsbruck next week to look at ways “to close down Mediterranean migration”, Austria’s Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said on Thursday.
The meeting is expected to take place in the run-up to a meeting of European Union interior ministers in Innsbruck on 12-13 July.
Kurz made the announcement after a meeting with Seehofer, who earlier this week cut a last-ditch deal with Chancellor Angela Merkel to detain asylum-seekers at Germany’s border with Austria and send them back to the EU countries they first arrived in.
Kurz, a right-wing conservative who is in coalition with his country’s far-right party, has called for the formation of an anti-migration “axis of the willing” with Germany and Italy, to push for more restrictive border policies at an EU level.
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Italy: 42 Mn From Migrant Reception to Repatriation — Salvini
After screening all projects
(ANSA) — Rome, July 5 — The interior ministry has shifted 42 million euros of spending from migrant reception to voluntary repatriations, Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said Thursday.
He said the move had been made possible after screening all ongoing integration and reception projects, funded both by the EU and Italy. “What until a short while ago was a business that enriched a few people at the expense of many has become an investment in security and repatriation,” he said.
“The line item is still the same, immigration, but there different ways of using the funds that are under that item”.
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Italy: Salvini Tightens Up Asylum Claims
Speed up cases, more rigour in granting humanitarian permits
(ANSA) — Rome, July 5 — Interior Minister Matteo Salvini issued a circular to prefects Thursday tightening up procedures for vetting asylum claims. In the circular, the anti-migrant League leader said cases should be assessed faster and more “rigour” should be shown in granting humanitarian permits.
The circular was also sent to the chairs of committees that recognise international protection.
Salvini said “I personally requested speed and attention in receiving those who are really fleeing war but also to block all those who are not entitled to (asylum)”.
He added: “Pregnant women, children and refugees will stay in Italy.
“The badly informed who say and write the opposite should be ashamed”.
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‘It’s a Charade’ Merkel’s EU Migrant Deal Dismantled as Desperate Power Grab
ANGELA Merkel’s latest migrant deal with other members of the European Union is “a little bit of a charade” to secure an electoral victory to her Bavarian allies, independent political analyst Steven Meissner claimed.
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Lift Libya Embargo Says Salvini
Aid to Tripoli must be top item on Innsbruck agenda
(ANSA) — Rome, July 5 — The embargo on Libya must be lifted “because human and arms traffickers don’t care about the embargo,” Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said after talks in Rome Thursday with Libyan Deputy Premier Ahmed Maitig. Salvini stressed that Italy will ask that aid for Libya be the top item on the agenda of an interior ministers’ meeting scheduled in Innsbruck next Thursday.
“From the EU for the moment there are many nice words but little else,” said Salvini, “Let’s hope we can prick European consciences on this”.
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Merkel, Orban Clash Over EU Migration Policy
Angela Merkel and her Hungarian counterpart have butted heads over how Europe should deal with migrants. Germany’s chancellor said there was a need for “humanity,” while Viktor Orban called for borders to be closed.
During a tense news conference on Thursday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel described the Hungarian government’s stance on migration as “a problem,” and called for people seeking refuge to be treated humanely.
“The problem I see, and where (our) difference lies, is that we must always remember and never forget that this is about human beings,” Merkel told reporters, after talks with Prime Minister Viktor Orban in Berlin.
“It is about human beings who come to us, and about Europe’s basic message. And that is humanity.”…
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Merkel Lectures Orban on EU Migrant Crisis — ‘The Soul of Europe is Humanity’
ANGELA Merkel has clashed with her Hungarian counterpart Viktor Orban over the responsibilities Europe has towards migrants in a tense press conference marked by unusually passionate disagreements.
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Migrants: Morawiecki: Poland Received 1.5mn Ukrainians
‘They fled because of Russian aggression’
(ANSA) — STRASBOURG, JULY 4 — “Poland is home for about one and a half million Ukrainians, people who have fled their country because of Russian aggression, they are certainly not registered as refugees, because of the long proceedings, but they definitely have this status, and they can look for a job and build a new life by in this country, stimulating our economy”. That is what Poland’s prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki said at the plenary session of the European Parliament in Strasbourg. “At the recent European summit we have seen how Europe is able to build trust with its citizens, who want to see their borders protected from migration, the EU is facing today a great influx of immigrants and only through a flexible and intelligent approach we can rebuild trust with our citizens”, he added.
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Migration Row Continues to Overshadow Bundestag Debates
The migration row that threatened to sink Germany’s government continued to overshadow debates in the Bundestag as CSU leader Horst Seehofer said responsibility for getting EU countries to cooperate lies with the chancellor.
During a budget debate on Thursday, discussion moved to the migrant policy issue that has divided the government.
Federal Interior Minister Seehofer of the Christian Social Union (CSU) said he believes ultimate responsibility for securing agreements with EU countries to transfer asylum seekers who have previously registered in other countries lies with Christian Democratic (CDU) Chancellor Angela Merkel.
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Migrants in Germany Sent Nearly £16 Billion to Their Homelands in 2016
Migrants in Germany sent back £15.6 billion ($20.6bn) to their homelands in 2016, a number dwarfing the country’s total foreign aid budget.
The figures, released by the German Federal government, come following a parliamentary request from the populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) and reveal the massive growth of capital outflow from Germany by migrants compared to previous years, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reports.
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Three illegal aliens with fake ID’s are on the run after they allegedly kidnapped and raped 13 and 14-yr-old sisters who were staying with their family at a Days Inn hotel. Two of them were in the area doing a drywalling job, the other one worked for a grocery store. According to Democrats, illegal aliens are here, in America, doing the jobs Americans won’t do. The median annual Drywall Installer salary is $46,331, as of June 29, 2018, with a range usually between $38,387—$55,991. According to the 2017 US poverty guidelines, a person with an income at or below $12,060 is considered to be living in poverty. The purpose for addressing this issue is to show how these illegal alien criminals have not only destroyed the lives of two innocent young girls but have also stolen decent paying jobs from American citizens.
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Norway’s PM and Finance Minister in Potential Clash Over EU Asylum
Prime Minister Erna Solberg has said she would be open to Norway relieving pressure on EU countries by taking in more refugees.
The PM’s view is not shared by Finance Minister Siv Jensen, who is also leader of the anti-immigration Progress Party.
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Paris is a Mess: Up to 400,000 Illegal Immigrants Live in Just One Suburb
A new parliamentary report shows that the number of migrants living in a Paris suburb may be nearing 400,000, according to Paris Vox.
The report of the deputies François Cornut-Gentille and Rodrigue Kokouendo says that the French Republic is failing in the Seine-Saint-Denis suburb, which is north east of Paris.
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Polish Official: “We Will Not Receive Even One Muslim” In Poland
A sea change is occurring in Europe — and the continent may never be the same again. Whereas just some years ago immigrationism would not be questioned, the ice is now beyond broken: European nations are increasingly rebelling against globalist, culture-rending European Union migration policies. The latest example is a Polish official who, responding to an attempt at politically correct shaming, unabashedly told a British television host, “We will not receive even one Muslim, because this is what we promised… This is why our government was elected, this is why Poland is so safe, this is why we have not had even one terror attack.”
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Pope Francis to Celebrate ‘Mass for Migrants’ in Vatican Basilica
Pope Francis will celebrate a special “Mass for Migrants” this Friday at the main altar of Saint Peter’s Basilica to commemorate the fifth anniversary of his visit to migrants on the Italian island of Lampedusa, the Vatican announced Wednesday.
The Director of the Holy See Press Office, Greg Burke, released a statement on the Vatican’s website alerting people to the Mass in support of migrants, which “will be a moment of prayer for the deceased, for survivors and for those who assist them.”
Mr. Burke said that some 200 people are expected to be present at the event, “including refugees and people who take care of them.”
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Swedish Party Wants to Deport at Least 500,000 Migrants as Integration Completely Fails
The Alternative for Sweden (AfS) party wants to return at least half a million migrants, its party leader, Gustav Kasselstrand, told SVT news.
Kasselstrand believes this is the only way to solve Sweden’s problems:
“It’s not enough for a restrictive immigration policy. It is not enough to want to stop immigration. In order to solve the major societal problems in Sweden, one has to dare to talk about re-immigration. And not on a small one, but on a large-scale,” he said.
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Swiss NGO’s Refugee Rescue Missions in Med Grounded
Maltese authorities have grounded flights by a Swiss NGO which aimed to save the lives of refugees in the Mediterranean.
German NGO Sea-Watch said the Moonbird aircraft has been blocked from taking part in refugee rescue missions.
The Moonbird aircraft is jointly operated by Sea-Watch and the Swiss Humanitarian Pilots Initiative (HPI) with support from the Evangelical Church of Germany.
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UK: Home Office Told to Put Refugees in Every Town and Village
Every time I go back to my home town, I notice how it’s changed just a little bit more. It’s a part of the world that never really suffered multiculturalism and mass immigration, but it’s slowly creeping in.
And now, it’s coming to your home town, too.
The Home Office has been told by Citizens UK, an NGO funded by George Soros’ Open Society Foundation, to start spreading their refuge resettlement scheme to every part of the UK. It’s not just the big cities any more, these far-left crazies want ‘refugees’ in every town and village. Even the small towns and villages that have maintained their character and history could soon be transformed, if the government once again bows down to them.
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UK: Labour Demands Cash-Strapped Town ‘Roll Out Welcome Mat’ For Illegals
Labour has slammed cash-strapped Scarborough council’s rejection of Home Office plans to house illegal immigrants in the North Yorkshire town where more than 2,000 people are on the housing waiting list.
Conservative-run Scarborough Borough Council voted against taking up the government’s request to become an “asylum seeker dispersal area”, a proposal which would have seen migrants sent to live in the town while their applications to stay in the UK were processed.
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UK: Snapchat Queen Allegedly Arranged and Filmed Calais Jungle Migrant Boyfriend Death
Fatima Khan, 21, filmed her boyfriend bleeding to death outside a coffee shop in London and posted it to Snapchat with the caption, “This is what happens when you f*ck with me,” the Old Bailey has heard.
Fatima Khan is on trial for allegedly planning the murder of her boyfriend, Khalid Safi, 18, who was repeatedly stabbed to death outside of Costa Coffee in Acton, West London, by Raza Khan, 19, on December 1st, 2016.
Ms Khan is alleged to have urged Raza Khan (above, left) to stab her “clingy” boyfriend, reports Court News.
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Viktor Orban to Germany: Hungary Won’t Take Back Migrants
Hungary is unable and unwilling to take back any migrants, but is ready to help with moving illegal migrants back to Greece, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said at his talks with German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer, leader of the Bavarian Christian Social Union, in Berlin, Orban’s press chief said on Wednesday.
Orban and Seehofer were in agreement that Hungarian-Bavarian relations were at an all-time high, Bertalan Havasi told MTI. The broad economic cooperation between Hungary and Bavaria has been expanded to cover the defence industry as well, he added.
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Episcopal Church to Vote on God’s Gender
(CBN) Since before the days of the early church, God has always been addressed in prayers as a male, including terms like Father, King, and Lord.
In the New Testament, Jesus taught his disciples to pray to God using a male term. In Luke 11:1-4, one of the disciples asked Jesus to teach them how to pray. “ And He said to them, When you pray, say: ‘ Father, hallowed be Your name.’“ (NASV)
Now the Episcopal Church is debating about overhauling its Book of Common Prayer, which is used in Episcopal congregations worldwide.
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Italy: Lesbian Non-Biological Mother Recognised as Birth Mum
‘She shared project of assisted procreation’
(ANSA) — Naples, July 5 — In a revolutionary sentence, a Naples appeals court on Thursday recognised the non-biological mother in a lesbian couple as the mother of a child from its birth. The second mum is also a birth mother, the court ruled, because “she accepted and shared the project of assisted procreation”.
The court upheld an appeal on stepchild adoption of a child born from her partner using assisted fertility.
The second mother has been awarded the status of birth mother and not just adoptive mother.
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The New Oil Cartel Threatening OPEC
When reports emerged that India and China are in talks about forming an oil buyers’ club, OPEC was probably too busy with its upcoming June 22 meeting to concern itself with that dangerous alliance. Now, it may be time for it to start worrying.
“The timing is right. The boom in U.S. oil and gas production gives us greater leverage against OPEC,” the Times of India quoted an Indian official as saying last month after the formal start of said talks. The two countries, after all, account for a combined 17 percent of global oil consumption and they are the ones that would be the hardest hit if prices rise as a result of OPEC’s actions.
What’s more, they might not be alone in this attempt to curb OPEC’s clout on the global oil market. According to Bloomberg’s Carl Pope, Europe and Japan, previously reluctant to take part in any anti-OPEC projects, may now join in. The reason they are likely to join in is that unlike in previous oil price cycles, now there are alternatives to fossil fuels. Electrification is where OPEC may have to face off with a future oil buyers’ cartel.
India, China, and Europe are all very big on EV adoption. Japan is a leader in battery manufacturing.
If they set their minds to it, these four players could upend the oil market and effectively cripple OPEC. Of course, this is a best-case scenario of the kind that rarely unfolds in reality.
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Whopping. !!
When I saw the word whopping methought it was 6.9 million. I looked closely there was no point, disappointed I resigned to the fact that it was really merely 69.
What a great feat by Angie Hajjia, the tender mother of all muslims jihadi or not.
By the way all came from the same hellhole. How are these different from the rest.
0.0046 (n) = 69 n = 15 000 Really? Europe is full of miracles: 15 million can transmogrify into 15 000 at will if they are Pirates.
.0046% is the same as the decimal .000046. Multiply 1.5 million by that number and you get 69.
That’s correct, Baron. My mistake. I appreciate that. I did not pay attention to the % sign.
“Brexit leader Nigel Farage has slammed the European Commission president for building an army to rival NATO and the U.S. military, claiming the bloc is “hell-bent to be in direct collision with Donald Trump”.
An independent army under the direct control of unelected socialist EU bureaucrats….what possibly could go wrong?
A lot can and will go wrong. European defences are in a deplorable state as it is.
How you can forge a unified EU army out of this rabble is beyond me besides European leaders can never agree to anything let alone an EU army.
Since the UK is leaving, English as a “lingua franca” must be dropped by the EU therefore this new “army” must go back to school and learn French and German.
Good luck with that.
Even the former highly disciplined German Navy now manages blowing up their own ships.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8TaIP-TgRw
bovine faeces,copywriter. This ship was not sunk and accidents with explosive devices happen all the time.Thats what military world is made off, but many do not know due to lack of experience.
“In its online survey of 1,448 registered voters, the pollsters asked, “Do you think that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, known as ICE, should be disbanded, or not?” Sixty-nine percent of them said no, while 70 percent of them said ICE should instead step up its enforcement of the nation’s immigration laws.”
Hmmm, looks like the Democrat party is onto a winning strategy here.
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The Truth About Sweden. Prepare Yourself Accordingly
Stefan Molyneux
Publiced 5 juli 2018
Almost 3 hours
On September 9th, 2018, Sweden’s national election will determine members of the Riksdag which in turn will elect the Prime Minister of Sweden. Like in much of Europe, discussions about the migrant crisis and immigration have taken priority as citizens head to the ballot box. Establishment parties including the Social Democrats and Moderate Party face strong opposition from the immigration-critical Sweden Democrats. On May 4th, 2018, the ruling Social Democrats announced a “change” to their migration policy which allowed over 350,000 asylum seekers to arrive within the previous four years. While refusing to set any type of hard limit, Social Democrat figures announced plans to negotiate more restrictive asylum legislation with the European Union, requiring municipalities to deny services to those refused asylum, abolition or reduction in work permits for denied applicants, expanded measures to ensure the identity of asylum seekers and more! Includes: The European Migrant Crisis, Aslum applications over-time, foreign-born population, the upcoming Sweden national elections, rise of the Swedish Democrats, Sweden Democrats Leader Jimmie Åkesson, pressure from the European Union, rising criminality, Asylum home overload, the Dublin Regulation, Sweden No-Go Zones, the rise of sexual assault, Cultural Enrichment, Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), child marriage prevalence, population projections, migrant voting and much much more!
https://youtu.be/VH3koxGaHaQ
This summer, my husband and I drove 2,700 kilometers across the European part of Russia from north to south by car. We drove slowly, stopping in the cities. In some I have been there many years ago. Russia is very “blackened”.
I read a lot of press, including the foreign Islamic. Everyone is very unhappy with Putin and Assad. In Russia, these materials are immediately blocked, but the part sometimes slips in social networks.
I wonder when this difference will explode: Putin bombs Muslims outside of Russia and Putin massively imports Muslims to Russia.
I am glad that I live in an economically unfavorable region where migrants do not go.
I am glad that I live in an economically unfavorable region where migrants do not go.
A matter of time. I thought poverty was the saving grace of Albania. No. They want to send… 600,000 cultural enrichers in Albania. I know that you think that they would fit well in Albania, but that’s not the case.
In UK they have already colonized beyond repair all the major cities. What comes next? Voices are rising for the government to forcibly settle some colons in every village. They are coming. Things are really dire.
Indeed they are dire. As if Central and Eastern Europe hadn’t suffered enough. Like our Russian commenter, I feel fortunate to live in such a poor, boring, and unattractive area. The nearest culture enrichers are in a compound several counties over, all former felons, graduated from our fine prison institutions. Sullen.
Africa is projected to reach 2.5 bullion people. This is how the good intentions of Europe end up. They ate up all of the humanitarian aid and turned it into more people. Fast forward to Africanization of the planet. Then we’ll be all blessed.
All of Balkans are one nation, many languages. Globalists shattered us into statelets smaller than Rhodes Island, rife with ethnic cleansing. Now they want to bless us with 600,000 bundles of love from (of all places) Middle East.
I live in a monoethnic traditionally Russian region, I do not think that it threatens us in the short term. While we were driving by car, I noticed that in our locality there are no roadside “crosses”. But there are a lot of them in regions with a mixed population, especially in the South and the Volga region. It looks like a metaphysical markup of the territory.
In the case of Albania, I am rather optimistic.
The population there is not as brainwashed as the one in northern Europe and illegals will quickly be taught where their place is, and be it six feet under.
I am cautiously optimistic. It is true that people are not brainwashed in this direction and that people have guns and in some cases antitank bazookas. Here is where the good news end. Albanians do not look much beyond their family. Both the British and the Germans define Albanians as cowards, efficient at manipulating, not good for the fight. In this moment the plan to relocate in Albania 600,000 Middle Eastern bundles of love has been dropped, at least officially. For this I also thank Trump who keeps globalists busy. As information came out, PM Edi Rama, personal friend of Soros (attended his wedding in private) said that the plan has been dropped. Information came out.