Early this morning a car was driven into a crowd outside a mosque in London, injuring three people. The incident is being investigated as a hate crime. The Metropolitan Police are appealing for eyewitnesses to come forward to help them with their enquiries.
In other news, more than half the politicians in the Swedish party Moderaterna (the Moderates) are open to the possibility of forming a government by coming to an agreement with the Sweden Democrats.
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Global Poverty Rate Drops to Record Low 10%: World Bank
Global poverty has fallen to a record low. The World Bank says 10 percent of the world’s population lived on less than $1.90 a day in 2015, down from 11.2 percent in 2013. That means 735.9 million people lived below the poverty threshold in 2015, down from 804.2 million.
Poverty dropped everywhere but the Middle East and North Africa, where conflicts in Syria and Yemen pushed the poverty rate up to 5 percent in 2015 from 2.6 percent in 2013.
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Brooklyn Man Charged With Taking Terror Trip to Middle East to Enlist in ISIS
A Brooklyn man was busted on federal charges after his plan to join ISIS forces in Syria fell through last summer, court documents revealed Wednesday.
Rasheedul Mowla, 21, was nabbed by the FBI after his return to Kennedy Airport from a June 2017 trip to enlist with the global terrorist organization, according to court papers.
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Chicago Set to Offer $350 Million Obamaland Center 99-Year Lease for Just $10
The Obama foundation is set to receive a 99-year lease to build its Presidential Center in Chicago’s Jackson Park, according to Chicago Business.
The ordinance will go before the City Council on Thursday, along with an ordinance that covers use of the roadways surrounding the center.
Under terms of the agreement, the Obama Foundation will be responsible for maintaining and keeping in good repair the grounds and buildings, while the City of Chicago will own the buildings and grounds. By contrast, the 11 official Museums in the Parks all have agreements in perpetuity. The foundation will pay the city $10 for the 99-year agreement. —Chicago Business
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Democrats Call on Deep State to Sabotage Trump’s Order to Declassify Russia Investigation Docs
Top Democrats have called on deep state members of the FBI and the Department of Justice to sabotage President Trump’s order to declassify documents relating to the Russia investigation.
On Monday, Trump ordered the release of Russia-related text messages from former FBI officials James Comey, Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok, and Lisa Page.
Last night, Rep. Adam Schiff, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, Senator Mark Warner, and Senator Charles Schumer all signed a letter which was sent to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein demanding that the relevant agencies ignore Trump’s order until Congress is consulted.
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Francis, a Pope Who Says One Thing and the Opposite
As the days go by, the controversy ignited by the indictment of former nuncio to the United States Carlo Maria Viganò against Pope Francis on account of the scandal of ex-cardinal Theodore McCarrick is becoming ever more lively. And it has seen a further flare-up with the explosion of the case of Kim Davis, the Christian county official in Kentucky who was imprisoned for a week in the summer of 2015 for having refused — for reasons of freedom of conscience and of religion — to grant a marriage license to homosexual couples, and was received by Francis on September 24 of that same year at the Vatican nunciature in Washington.
On the Kim Davis case there are at least two more elements to be brought into focus, until now overlooked by the commentators. And both of them shed light on the “mystery” of Francis’s personality….
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Huge Upset for GOP in Texas: State Senate Seat Flips Red for First Time in 139 Years
In a major upset Tuesday night, voters elected a conservative political newcomer to the Texas Senate, flipping a Democratic district red for the first time in 139 years.
Retired game warden Pete Flores defeated former state and U.S. Rep. Pete Gallego in the runoff election for the Senate District 19 seat in San Antonio, further increasing the Republicans’ supermajority in the chamber ahead of the November elections. Flores will replace Democrat State Sen. Carlos Uresti, who was forced to step down in June after being sentenced to 12 years in prison on federal fraud and money laundering charges.
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Justice Dept Vows to Investigate After Second Veritas Video Exposes “Deep Throat” Types Within HHS
The Department of Justice on Wednesday said it would look into allegations of “misuse of government resources to advance personal interests” after James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas released a second video this week exposing “deep state” federal employees pursuing socialist agendas while on the clock at their government jobs.
In the latest undercover video, DOJ paralegal and Democratic Socialists of America member, Allison Hrabar, reveals that there is “a lot of talk about how we can, like, resist from the inside.” She discusses a fellow DSA member working from within the Department of Agriculture who is “slowing down” the process by which people are eliminated from the food stamp program.
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions told a Chicago audience that groups like Black Lives Matter, Antifa and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) are responsible for increased violence in Chicago.
[Comment: A Chicago based magazine proposed a theory that black Aldermen have a deal with the gangs in their wards. The gangs help get out the vote for these Aldermen, and in turn, the Aldermen prevent law enforcement from going after the gangs.]
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The International Criminal Court: A Failed Experiment
The International Criminal Court (ICC) is “already dead to us” National Security Adviser John Bolton told the Federalist Society recently. The U.S. will, he said, resist the court “by any means necessary.”
Why would the Trump Administration take such a hard line against “the world’s court of last resort”? Founded in 2002, in the wake of the Rwandan and Yugoslavian genocides and mass rapes, the international body was supposed to try evildoers who would otherwise escape justice due to broken legal systems in failed states.
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The Spy Who Drove Her: Diane Feinstein and Chinese Espionage
San Francisco is a hotbed of espionage and international intrigue. And why wouldn’t it be? Strategically located near major West Coast ports, home to many large immigrant communities, and, perhaps most crucially, just up the road from America’s most technologically sophisticated corporations, it makes perfect sense that America’s geopolitical rivals would want to gain a foothold in the City by the Bay.
And gain it they have, evidently. Last year, when the president took the decidedly non-collusionish action of shuttering Russia’s San Francisco consulate—its oldest in the country—black smoke billowed from the historic Pacific Heights building that had long housed the Kremlin outpost. Clearly, the Russians were burning evidence of misdeeds.
And we now know that China, a much more worrisome long-term threat to the United States than a declining Russia, has been active in the Bay Area as well.
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‘Vice Pope’ Says Cardinal McCarrick’s Homosexual Abuse Was a ‘Private Matter’
Papal adviser Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga said last week that Cardinal Theodore McCarrick’s serial sex abuse and the way the pope handled it is a “private matter” that should not be treated as a sensational story.
“Turning a private matter into a bombshell headline that explodes in the world and whose shrapnel does damage to the faith of many people does not seem right,” the Honduran cardinal said in reference to a recent report by the former papal nuncio to the United States.
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Alternative Media Accounted for One-Third of Facebook Shares During Swedish Election
Alternative media news websites accounted for one-third of all the stories shared on Facebook during the Swedish election, according to a report that claims the influence of alternative media has grown in the country.
The study shows that most alternative media sites lean toward the right of the political spectrum and that on issues such as mass migration, they saw an even greater presence on Facebook, Swedish broadcaster SVT reports.
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Britain’s Future is Bright: Free Trade Deal With US Could ‘Rewrite Global Trade’
The “ideal” free trade deal between the US and the UK after Brexit could “rewrite the rules of global trade”, according to a new report released today.
US and UK free market Think Tanks such as the Cato Institute and Initiative for Free Trade have laid the groundwork for a new agreement between the US and the UK which will include the elimination of tariffs and allows the free movement of workers post-Brexit.
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End the Animal Cruelty Laws Exemptions Given to UK Halal and Shechita Abattoirs
The EU’s 2009 slaughter regulation requires all animals, including poultry, be stunned before slaughter. Religious abattoirs in the UK are de facto exempt from the stun laws which apply to non-religious abattoirs. Animal welfare must take priority over faith tradition.
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England Now to Give Islamic Names to the Weather: Say Hello to Storm “Ali”
The English Meteorologic Office published its list of storm names for the coming season and the first one and the eighth will bear Islamic names.
Back in 2015, the Met Office partnered with the Irish met Service to run a naming scheme whereby members of the public suggested names for wind storms.
The most popular names put forward by the public are made into a list along with other names suggested by Met Eireann (Ireland’s equivalent of the Met Office).
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Farage and UKIP Cleared by Electoral Commission After Two Years of ‘Agony’
The Electoral Commission has cleared the UK Independence Party (UKIP) of breaking rules in 2015 and 2016, after a two-year investigation.
The regulator ruled the party, then led by Nigel Farage, did not take donations from impermissible sources ahead of the general and European elections and stayed within the rules.
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Finnish Police Update Safety Protocols Over Life-Threatening Illegal Drugs
Synthetic opioids such as fentanyl are far more dangerous even than heroin, prompting police to update their safety measures.
The forensic lab of the National Bureau of Investigation has updated its safety guidelines for handling and investigating powerful synthetic opioids, which have become more common in Finland’s illegal drug trade.
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Fiscal Peace is Essential Says Italian Prime Minister
Premier Giuseppe Conte has said that the government is determined to bring its plans for a so-called fiscal peace to fruition.
“The fiscal peace will happen, it’s essential,” Conte said in an interview published in Wednesday’s edition of La Verità. Critics of the League / 5-Star Movement (M5S) government have said that the fiscal peace is just another name for an amnesty for tax evaders.
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German Police Raid Far-Left Rioters More Than a Year After Violent Hamburg G20
German police in Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein, and North Rhine-Westphalia raided several properties belonging to members of the far-left scene arresting one man thought to have been involved in the Hamburg G20 riots last year.
Police in Hamburg say they have arrested a 35-year-old man in the Winterhude district of the city but have so far refused to comment on what he will be charged with, Die Welt reports.
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Fidesz and the government have submitted a resolution proposal to lawmakers that calls on the government “not to give in to blackmail” when it comes to the “fraudulent” and “defamatory” Sargentini report that concludes Hungary is in danger of breaching the core values of the European Union.
The resolution bill was submitted to parliament by Mate Kocsis, leader of the ruling party’s group, and Gergely Gulyas, the head of the Prime Minister’s Office.
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Inside Bannon’s European Roadshow to Galvanize Populist Movements, Defeat Soros
As we reported in July, former Trump strategist Steve Bannon has been canvassing Europe as he forms form a loose coalition of populist governments, coordinated through Brussels-based non-profit NGO; “The Movement.”
Founded by Belgian politician Mischaël Modrikamen, The Movement will highlight the importance of national sovereignty, strong borders, strict limits on migration and staunch opposition to radical Islamic terror.
The Movement, which plans to hold a founding convention in Brussels in late November, will also serve as a link between allies in 27 EU countries and the pro-Trump freedom caucus in the US.
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Italy: 3 Friars on Trial for Embezzlement
20-mn ‘hole’ at Franciscan chapter in Milan
(ANSA) — Milan, February 20 — Three Franciscan friars went on trial on Tuesday for alleged embezzlement and misappropriation at the Milan chapter of their order.
The trio were charged after a 20-million-euro ‘hole’ opened up in the order’s finances.
Three Franciscan bodies have asked to stand as plaintiffs in the case.
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Majority of Swedish Moderate Party Politicians Open to Governing Agreement With Populists
The majority of Swedish Moderate Party politicians would like to see party leader Ulf Kristersson open a dialogue for a potential governing agreement with the populist, anti-mass migration Sweden Democrats.
Moderate Party politicians across Sweden were asked Monday: “Do you think the Moderates will take power through negotiations with the Sweden Democrats if required?” Out of the 609 elected politicians, 324 advocated Kristersson reaching out to Sweden Democrats (SD) leader Jimmie Åkesson, newspaper Expressen reports.
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A 70-year-old man with dementia was conned by a locksmith as needing to pay a bill eight times, Dutch newspaper AD reports.
In total the elderly man paid around 2,000 euros. “My father transferred 250 euros six times, 300 one time and another time 180. The locksmith also simulated to be a mechanic,” the man’s son tells the newspaper.
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Netherlands: Geert Wilders Calls Leader of Islamic Party ‘A Poison of Society’
Dutch firebrand Geert Wilders called the leader of the predominantly Islamic Denk party ‘a poison of society and democracy’, newspaper AD reports.
The leader of the Freedom Party, the largest opposition party, replied to statements that the Denk leader made earlier about the Dutch people.
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Populist Proposal to Ban Islamic Expressions in Netherlands Immediately Shot Down
PVV leader Geert Wilders put forward a proposal to ban all forms of Islamic expressions in the Netherlands during the first day of the General Considerations, the parliamentary debate on the government’s plans and budget for the next year, on Wednesday. The proposal was immediately shot down by the other parties, NU.nl reports.
Mosques, Islamic schools, the Koran and burkas must be removed from the Netherlands, the populist party leader said. “Let us strengthen our rule of law by putting our ideology above Sharia”, Wilders said. “Out of love for the Netherlands. Out of love for our freedom.”
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Spanish Health Minister Quits Over Master’s Degree Plagiarism
Carmen Montón, of the Socialist Party (PSOE), steps down after university admits changing her grades, and TV network La Sexta reveals widespread copying in her final thesis
Spanish Health Minister Carmen Montón was forced to quit last night after mounting irregularities emerged regarding a master’s degree she had studied for at Madrid’s King Juan Carlos University (URJC) in 2011. The institution has been at the center of a series of scandals, which have involved current Popular Party (PP) leader Pablo Casado, and former Madrid regional premier Cristina Cifuentes, also of the PP. The latter was also forced to step down over her master’s degree, among other matters.
A story published earlier this week by Spanish online newspaper eldiario.es revealed that Montón’s grades had been altered in the university’s online system. Montón did not pass all parts of the masters’ course in June 2011, which is when she should have finished her studies. According to her student records, at least one part of the coursework was marked as “not submitted.”…
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An Iranian couple is on trial after allegedly forcing their 18-year-old daughter to visit a doctor for a virginity test, and threatening to kill her boyfriend after they uncovered the teens’ secret relationship.
Mitra Eidani, 42, and Ali Safaraei, 56, are thought to be the first parents to be tried under laws brought into effect in 2015 against psychological abuse in a family or intimate relationship and are accused of controlling or coercive behaviour, making a threat to kill, and assault occasioning actual bodily harm, reports The Telegraph.
It is alleged that Ms Eidani and Mr Safaraei had attempted to force their daughter, Sophia Safaraei, 18, to have a virginity test after her boyfriend, Bailey Marshall-Telfer, 18, was discovered visiting the family home in Wandsworth, South London, in May 2018.
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UK: No He Khant — the Failures of Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London (Just This Week’s Tally)
You have to hand it to Sadiq Khan for his output. Not the roll up your sleeves and get something done output but his public relations output.
It’s only Wednesday and already this week’s PR churn is impressive. Sadiq, our diminutive, slimy, disingenuous, spivvy politician’s initiatives can all be unpicked and exposed as spin.
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Three people were injured, two seriously enough to be taken to hospital, after they were struck by a car following an altercation outside a mosque in northwest London in the early hours of Wednesday morning.
London’s Metropolitan Police launched an appeal Wednesday morning after the incident, which the force said took place after a disagreement between the occupants of the vehicle and a “large group” of people outside the Al-Majlis Al-Hussaini Muslim Community Centre in Cricklewood.
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The inquest into the 2017 Westminster terror attack has heard evidence from the Islamist killer’s mother, who told the hearing that she long feared Khalid Masood’s violence, which he exhibited from a young age.
Details that have emerged about Khalid Masood, the Islamist extremist who killed five on Westminster Bridge and in Palace Yard, include his long criminal history and apparent conversion to Islam in prison. His first arrest, age 14, was for shoplifting but soon he was involved with police for more serious crimes.
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Viktor Orban Challenged Macron and Said He Would be “The Biggest Winner of All”
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has challenged France’s Macron to contest the ideological future of Europe, the Telegraph reveals.
Mr. Orban’s comments were made in June’s quarterly EU leaders summit and he reportedly told Mr. Macron that Europe’s destiny would play out between the two of them, “the populist and the European”.
Hungary’s fierce defender explained to the President of France that there would “only be two winners” in the EU elections next May, Orban and Macron, but that he (Orban) would be “the biggest winner of all”.
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Dossier Libya: France Does Not Give Up
France on the dossier Libya does not give up despite the UN decision to leave its mission for another year and bring the North African country to the elections by March 2019. Béatrice le Fraper du Hellen, ambassador of France to Libya, was appointed ambassador to Malta and began her new job with a meeting on Sunday in Tunisia with the head of the Libyan High State Council Khalid Al-Mishri.
According to the press office of the High Council, the meeting is the last attempt to create a constitutional basis for the elections in Libya set during the Paris meetings.
“The tight deadlines, however, could cause the Paris agreement to fail because the House of Representatives is not doing its part,” said Al-Mishri.
Al-Mishri therefore welcomed the approval of the constitutional referendum law, stating that efforts should be doubled to end the crisis…
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Spain Will Sell 400 Missiles to Saudi Arabia Despite Concerns Over Yemen
Foreign Minister Josep Borrell says country must honor its 2015 contract, and that the high-tech bombs do not cause collateral damage
Spain will finally sell 400 laser-guided bombs to Saudi Arabia despite a move by Defense Minister Margarita Robles to put the sale on hold due to concerns that the missiles might be used in the ongoing conflict in Yemen.
Just 48 hours after Robles of the Socialist Party (PSOE) said that the sale was “undergoing review,” the government decided to reactivate it.
Foreign Minister Josep Borrell said in a radio interview on Onda Cero that his department had found “no irregularities to prevent” the sale. The missiles will be delivered “to honor our commitments,” said Borrell about the 2015 contract…
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Journalist Unpersoned by ChiCom Social Score, No Travel, No Property
A Chinese journalist who allegedly exposed government corruption has been banned from traveling by train or airplane and has had his social media accounts with millions of subscribers suspended.
Chinese journalist Liu Hua lives in a jaw-droppingly Orwellian society where “bad driving, smoking in non-smoking zones, buying too many video games and posting fake news online” can affect your social score negatively, according to Business Insider.
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North Korea Pledges to Dismantle Nuclear Reactor, Shutter Missile Launchers
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has proven in the past that he would be willing to say anything to keep South Korea and the US at the bargaining table, even if he doesn’t intend to follow through. And just a few weeks after President Trump canceled a planned visit to North Korea by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Kim on Wednesday announced that he would allow international monitors to enter the country and observe the dismantling of the North’s nuclear reactor in Yongbyon, its primary source of nuclear fuel, amid a raft of other bilateral promises including plans for the North and South to field a joint team at the Tokyo Summer Olympics in 2020 while seeking a joint bid to host the 2032 Summer Olympics.
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UK Taxpayer Funded 100 ‘Aid’ Projects in Superpower China Last Year
Last year the British taxpayer funded almost 100 “aid” projects in China, a world superpower with a space programme, a massive army, and the second biggest economy in the world.
Britsh cash is paying for doctors and schools in the nation at a time when public services including education and the National Health Service in the UK are facing shortages.
The spending is part of a billion-pound ‘Prosperity Fund’ run by the governments’ Foreign Office, The Sun reports, with some projects in China already planned to run into 2021.
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South African BLF Party: White “Existence is a Crime… We Say Land or Death”
Authored by Chris Menahan via InformationLiberation.com
Remember folks: white people are not being targeted in South Africa and President Trump and others who suggest otherwise are conspiracy theorists!
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Head of Latin American Bishops Defends Pope Against Unjust ‘Attacks’
The president of the Latin American Episcopal Council (CELAM) came out Tuesday in defense of Pope Francis, who faces allegations of having knowingly rehabilitated serial homosexual abuser Cardinal Theodore McCarrick.
“The attacks against the pope seem to us to be completely unjust,” said CELAM president, the Colombian Cardinal Rubén Salazar in an interview with Religión Digital.
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Poll Finds 30% of Venezuelans Often Eat Only Once a Day
Bogota, Colombia — Facing severe food and medicine shortages, Venezuelans are increasingly open to extreme options like foreign intervention and leaving the country in order to stay alive, according to a new study.
A poll by Meganalisis released Monday found 84.3 percent of those surveyed would favor a multinational “intervention” if it brought large amounts of food and medicine to the country. And 20.5 percent — or the equivalent of 6 million people — say they’ll leave the once-wealthy South American nation if President Nicolas Maduro remains in power and the economic situation doesn’t change.
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European Bishops Decry Mentality That Views Immigrants as ‘Foreigners’
The bishops of Europe called for solidarity in welcoming migrants Monday, condemning a mentality where immigrants are considered “foreigners.”
“Individualistic culture, which seems to be prevailing as a pensée unique, leads to a purely economic view of things where solidarity has no place, weaker individuals are considered burdens, and immigrants are viewed as foreigners,” the members of the Council of European Catholic Bishops’ Conferences stated in the final text from their meeting in Poznan, Poland.
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Italy: Nothing to Apologise to African Union for — Salvini
Deputy premier said did not equate migrants to slaves
(ANSA) — Rome, September 19 — Deputy Premier and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said Wednesday that he had no reason to apologise to the African Union and denied having compared migrants to slaves. Earlier on Wednesday the African Union expressed dismay about reported comments by Salvini last week and called on him to retract them.
“There is nothing to apologise for,” Salvini told a press conference at the interior ministry.
“I deny (making) any equation between immigrants and slaves.
“On the contrary, my statements in Vienna were to defend migrants, who some want to use as slaves.
“If some people want to think badly (that’s up to them), perhaps the was a mistake in the French translation”. Salvini had a verbal spat with Luxembourg Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn last week after reportedly saying Europe does not need new slaves to make up for low birth rates.
“The African Union Commission expresses dismay at the comments made by the Italian Deputy Prime Minister, Mr. Matteo Salvini, at a recent conference in Vienna at which he likened African immigrants to slaves,” the AU said in a statement. “It is the view of the African Union that name-calling will not resolve the migration challenges facing Africa and Europe…
“In the interests of constructive engagement on the migration debate between the two continents, the African Union requests the Italian Deputy Prime Minister to retract his derogatory statement about African migrants and further urge Italy to emulate and support other European Union member states, like Spain, which have extended support and protection to migrants in distress, irrespective of their origin and legal status, before their admission status is determined”.
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Italy: Moroccan Muslim Migrant Investigated After Beating Daughter for Acting ‘Too Western’
A Moroccan migrant living in Italy is facing charges after allegedly brutally beating his own daughter because he felt that she was acting and dressing “too Western”.
The 58-year-old is said to have repeatedly beaten his 16-year-old daughter at their home in the municipality of Soresina in the northern Italian region of Lombardy, Il Giornalereports.
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Lesbos in Greece is Bursting With Almost 15% of Its Population Being Migrants
In just three days last week the island of Lesbos in the North Aegean received over 600 migrants of different nationalities. This pushes the total number of illegal immigrants or “asylum seekers” on the island to above 12,000 — about 14% of the island’s population of 86,000.
Authorities said that on Friday 14th September, 98 people reached the island, another arrived 193 on Saturday and 324 landed on Sunday.
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Nearly Half in Top 5 U.S. Cities Don’t Speak English at Home, Record 67 Million
Nearly half of the residents in the nation’s five biggest cities do not speak English at home, choosing instead their native language, according to the latest Census Bureau data that details the impact of a decade of soft immigration policies.
Overall, a record 67 million do not speak English at home, said the bureau. That is nearly double in 27 years.
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Report: Italy’s Policy to Curb Mass Immigration Fully ‘Justifiable’
A new report on Italian immigration from a leading political think tank has defended efforts by the government to rein in illegal immigration, saying that such measures are “justifiable” from a number of perspectives.
Due to Italy’s prolonged economic stagnation and high unemployment, states the 20-page report from the Machiavelli Center for Political and Strategic Studies, “quantitative limits” on immigration are required to avoid flooding the labor market.
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Spain Reveals Trump Planned Wall in Sahara Desert to Deal With Europe’s ‘Migrant Problem’
Mr Borrell, a former President of the European Parliament, said President Trump insisted the type of border wall with Mexico he has vowed to make his southern neighbours pay for would work for Europe as well.
The respected Spanish politician did not reveal when the controversial US leader put forward his radical solution, although diplomatic sources suggested it had been in June when he flew to the States in a trip coinciding with the visit to the White House of the Spanish King and Queen.
Mr Borrell revealed President Trump’s Saharan wall “solution” during a lunch in Madrid organised by cultural association Club Siglo XXI, which was formed in 1969 and is known for holding respected debates, conferences and forums.
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Sweden Gives Permanent Residency to an Afghan Murderer for ‘Humanitarian Reasons’
The Swedish Migration Court has overturned a 2015 decision, granting permanent residency to an Afghan migrant murderer, Aftonbladet reports.
The 25-year-old man had a dispute over land and money in Afghanistan with his cousin. He killed him with a rock.
He then fled to Iran where he lived with his family, but out of fear his relatives would take revenge, he decided to flee the country with his wife and two children.
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Theresa May Vows to Clamp Down on Facebook for Facilitating People Smuggling
THERESA MAY lambasted Facebook on Wednesday evening for failing to remove people-smuggling adverts, and vowed to crack down on the practice in a bid to curb the flow of undocumented migrants to Europe and the UK.
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Vatican Teams With WCC to Push Immigration, Condemn ‘Populist Nationalism’
The Vatican kicked off a two-day conference against “xenophobia, racism, and populist nationalism” Tuesday as part of a push for greater openness to global migration.
The Rev. Dr. Olav Fykse Tveit, General Secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC), opened the conference titled the “World Conference on Xenophobia, Racism, and Populist Nationalism in the Context of Global Migration and Refugees” by condemning the “destructive forces” of populism and nationalism.
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Pope Welcomes U2’s Bono Months After He Campaigned for Abortion in Ireland
Pope Francis granted pop singer Bono a private audience in the Vatican Wednesday, just months after the U2 singer publicly campaigned to legalize abortion in his native Ireland.
After their half-hour meeting, Bono said that Francis had been “incredibly gracious with his time, his concentration.”
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Soros Funded Group Lobbies YouTube to Silence Conservative Creators
A Soros-funded organization called the “Data & Society” group is now lobbying YouTube to censor conservative voices.
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“…Chinese journalist Liu Hua lives in a jaw-droppingly Orwellian society where “bad driving, smoking in non-smoking zones, buying too many video games and posting fake news online” can affect your social score negatively, according to Business Insider…” – a society that punishes psychopathic behaviours is not Orwellian but a normal-functioning society.
Do you have a link to the Business Insider report?
Certainly curbing “bad driving” is a good idea; we already do that.
Ditto, no-smoking zones.
Posting”fake news” isn’t much different than giving one’s opinion -especially in a totalitarian society.
Who decides the correct number of video games in a culture which managed to produce large cohorts of single men who will never be able to marry because too many female fetuses were aborted?
It is also a society which harvests the organs of prisoners because selling their organs is big business.
Liu Hua’s culture had its soul removed by Mao. China’s dystopian central command totalitarianism makes Europe’s and North America’s cultures look benign by comparison.
ok then, who decides what is the norm in “normal-functioning society”. The communist party of China?
It used to be normal to claim Earth is flat, and if you posted some fake news, like that its not flat, you could get killed… that was also normal.
A young Kyrgyz woman sang in a bra. Now she is threatened with death
https://freemuse.org/news/freemuse-calls-for-protection-of-kyrgyz-musician-receiving-death-threats-over-music-video/
I really like the humorous resource TELL MAMA – I often laugh when reading their publications. Sometimes I put them on my blog.
I recently posted this post.
https://tellmamauk.org/shes-gonna-blow-how-children-taunted-a-muslim-mother-on-london-bus/
When I tried to find an illustration in English with English boys schoolchildren, I had difficulties, because … Google is not a racist resource, but multicultural!
That’s a creepy site. Here’s their Tommy Robinson page:
https://tellmamauk.org/category/tommy-robinson/
Tommy could never say anything that salacious and not be jailed for his efforts.
Ugly.
You won’t find “English schoolboy” images because even wanting them is RAACIST.
Great Britain is lost.