An unidentified flying object crash-landed in Turkish-controlled Northern Cyprus yesterday, resulting in an explosion that caused no injuries. The vehicle is believed to have been a Russian-made anti-aircraft missile that went astray after it was launched in Syria.
In other news, Annalena Baerbock, the co-chair of the Green Party in Germany, has apologized for ascribing Chancellor Angela Merkel’s tremors to the effects of global warming.
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US Stocks-S&P 500 Hits Record High as Trade Optimism Boosts Techs
July 1 (Reuters) — Gains in technology stocks lifted the S&P 500 to a record high on Monday, powered by growing optimism around U.S.-China trade talks and a likely reprieve for Chinese telecoms company Huawei.
The benchmark index hit an intraday high of 2,977.93, surpassing its previous record high of 2,964.15 touched on June 21, as the truce agreed upon at the G20 summit boosted risk appetite.
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12 US States Are Boosting Their Gasoline Tax Today, But Illinois’ is the Biggest
Today, gasoline taxes are rising in a dozen U.S. states. The following infographic shows where gasoline taxes are going up today and it’s based on data from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy.
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Andy Ngo’s Attorney Plans to “Sow Salt” Into Antifa’s “Yoga Studios and Avocado Toast Stands”
Journalist Andy Ngo was brutally assaulted in Portland on Saturday as the city’s police officers, failing to protect him or others attacked that day, tweeted. Bonchie initially covered the attack, which left Ngo with a brain bleed after being hit with “milkshakes” containing liquid concrete and other chemicals, hit by men wearing “assault gloves,” and kicked in the kneecap.
Ngo has been a frequent target of Antifa and has been attacked by its members before. Fortunately Ngo now has legal representation, and his attorney has put Antifa on notice, tweeting that she “plan[s] to sue [them] into oblivion” and then some.
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Violence erupted in Portland, Oregon over the weekend as Antifa terrorists physically assaulted conservatives while police stood by and watched.
Joseph Christian Evans was identified as the Antifa terrorist who beat a man named Adam Kelly with a metal rod over the weekend leaving him with huge bloody gashes on his head.
Adam Kelly was taken to the hospital where doctors stapled his head shut after the Antifa terrorist tried to kill him.
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On Saturday afternoon Quillette gay Asian journalist Andy Ngo was beaten and robbed by several Antifa attackers at a Portland protest march.
Ngo was later hospitalized Saturday night with a brain bleed following the brutal Antifa attack as he covered dueling left-right demonstrations in Portland, Oregon, Ngo’s attorney Harmeet K. Dhillon said.
On Monday night conservative reporter Andy Ngo went on with Tucker Carlson to discuss his horrific beating.
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Charles Koch, George Soros Help Fund Think Tank Opposed to ‘Endless War’
The Boston Globe reports the “astonishing turn” that organizations created by libertarian billionaire Charles Koch and progressive billionaire George Soros are helping to fund a new think tank, the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. The new group is committed to promoting “ideas that move U.S. foreign policy away from endless war and toward vigorous diplomacy in the pursuit of international peace.”
From the Globe‘s write-up:
It will promote an approach to the world based on diplomacy and restraint rather than threats, sanctions, and bombing. This is a radical notion in Washington, where every major think tank promotes some variant of neocon militarism or liberal interventionism. Soros and Koch are uniting to revive the fading vision of a peaceable United States. The street cred they bring from both ends of the political spectrum—along with the money they are providing—will make this new think tank an off-pitch voice for statesmanship amid a Washington chorus that promotes brinksmanship….
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Congressman Calls for Antifa to be Labeled a Domestic Terror Organization
Republican Congressman Jim Banks has called for Antifa to be labeled a “domestic terror organization” following the violence in Portland on Saturday.
Numerous people were violently attacked by far-left thugs during the rally, including journalist Andy Ngo, who was doused with milkshakes containing quick drying cement and had to be treated for brain bleed.
Two other attendees were attacked with metal poles and maced, leaving one with deep gashes in his head that required 25 stitches.
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On Saturday afternoon gay Asian editor for Quillette Andy Ngo was beaten and robbed by several Antifa attackers at a Portland protest march.
Ngo was later hospitalized Saturday night with a brain bleed following the brutal Antifa attack as he covered dueling left-right demonstrations in Portland, Oregon, Ngo’s attorney Harmeet K. Dhillon said.
Another Antifia terrorist identified as Joseph Christian Evans beat a man named Adam Kelly with a metal rod over the weekend leaving him with huge bloody gashes on his head.
Portland Police said that the ‘milkshakes’ being thrown by Antifa reportedly contained quick-drying cement.
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Democrat Union Workers Stampede Black & Latino Trump Supporters
“Everyone else walked around.”
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Facebook & Twitter Still Hosting Content for Antifa Group Responsible for Portland Violence
Facebook and Twitter are both still hosting content by the Antifa group responsible for organizing the violence in Portland on Saturday. The same group also openly doxxes people on their website.
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GoFundMe for Andy Ngo, Journalist Assaulted by Antifa, Raises $100k in Less Than 24 Hours
Journalist Andy Ngo was beaten and doused in liquids which police believe contained quick-drying cement while covering an Antifa rally in Portland. A GoFundMe campaign for the reporter raised over $100,000 in less than a day.
The ‘Protect Andy Ngo Fund’ was started by conservative author and commentator Michelle Malkin, and more than doubled its original target of $50,000. The campaign currently stands at $136,000 raised from roughly 4,600 donors.
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Hard-Left Site ThinkProgress is Up for Sale Thanks to a Loss of Millions of Dollars
What used to be bastions of leftist news and thought are collapsing like a house of cards as the Trump administration thunders forward despite their best efforts. Leftist news sites have been facing layoffs and cutbacks left and right, and the once mighty anti-Bush site ThinkProgress is now facing its own problems.
According to the Daily Beast the house that the Center for American Progress built is up for sale due to what is being described as “severe financial strains during the Trump era”:
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Holocaust Survivor Accuses Ocasio-Cortez of Spreading ‘Anti-Semitism, Hatred and Stupidity’
‘She should be removed from Congress,’ says Ed Mosberg.
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Hunter Biden Started Dating Brother’s Widow Right After Crack Binge
Hunter Biden began dating his brother’s widow while recovering from a week spent buying crack from a homeless encampment in Los Angeles, according to a new report.
In a candid New Yorker interview with Democratic presidential front-runner Joe Biden’s troubled son, the 49-year-old lawyer explained the origins of his affair with brother Beau’s widow, Hallie, and the rock-bottom drug binge that came beforehand.
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Leftist Journalists React to the Andy Ngo Assault by Antifa With All the Flippancy You’d Expect
After the violent assault by Antifa on reporter Andy Ngo, the domestic terrorist group supported by many a leftist became the topic of conversation. It’s fair to say that they weren’t discussed kindly.
True to form, the leftist media immediately began running defense on Twitter as the Daily Caller highlighted, starting with Alheli Picazo who said Ngo’s attackers deserve to be praised for their violence because Ngo was somehow asking for it.
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MSM Has Covered Up Antifa Crimes for Years!
Alternative media has warned about the dangerous group for years.
CNN and other liberal outlets have been running cover for Antifa for years.
They bear responsibility for the violent attacks on journalist Andy Ngo and others and deserve to be exposed.
Alex Jones breaks down the media’s role in covering for Antifa in the following show segment:
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New Chicago Mayor Wants State Taxpayer Bailout of Chicago Pension Debts
Submitted by Ted Dabrowski and John Klingner of Wirepoints
It didn’t take long for new Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot to propose a plan that would wash her hands of Chicago’s pension crisis altogether. According to a recent report in Crain’s, Lightfoot wants the state to take over Chicago’s pension debts and merge them with the other pension plans throughout the state. The move would make all state taxpayers responsible for paying down the city’s debts.
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New Species of Fly Named After ‘Game of Thrones’ Villain
Winter may have come and gone for “Game of Thrones” and its infamous character, the Night King, but his legacy is poised to live on — in the form of an insect.
The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) has named a newly discovered bee fly found in Australia Paramonovius nightking after the big bad from the hit TV show, which was watched by millions around the globe.
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New Threat: Antifa Plans Acid Attack on D.C. Free Speech Rally, Promises to Blind Attendees
A person utilizing artwork created by a Rolling Stone journalist who writes favorably about Antifa has threatened to attack attendees of the Demand Free Speech rally with “muriatic acid, wax, and balloons” on July 6 in Washington, D.C.
The threats were made on a popular right wing Telegram channel. A user with the name “POUND ON YOUR BOY” made several threats against the rally, prompting co-organizer Enrique Tarrio to contact the FBI and DHS, who are now planning to provide additional security to the event.
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New Video Shows Antifa Crowbar Attack, Macing of Elderly Man
A new video from Saturday’s rally in Portland shows Antifa criminals macing an elderly man in the face while attacking another man with a crowbar
The vicious assault was even more brutal than that sustained by Andy Ngo, who was doused with quick drying cement hidden in milkshakes.
“Portland Antifa beats an elderly man bloody with a crowbar. As another man attempts to help, he is hit in head with crowbar then sprayed in face with mace,” tweeted the woman who posted the video.
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New York Man Arrested After Shooting Home Invaders
Flagrant disregard for right to self-defense underway.
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Oregon Run by Democrats is Not a Constitutional Republic
After Finicum’s death and his widow filing a Wrongful Death lawsuit, now eighty— year old RON VROOMAN began investigating the unfortunate shooting and discovered the State of Oregon has not been a Constitutional Republic since November 8, 1910 when Article VII Amended our Oregon constitution and was placed into our Constitution without one vote being counted in any county. This caused the executive, legislative and judicial branches of the lawful government to switch to COLOR OF LAW FROM RULE OF LAW and the fraud seems to be pervasive across the land as illustrated by Marilyn Barnewall below.
Salem can claim they operate our state government but the Secretary of State cannot prove they are the legitimate government. There is only one set of statehood documents in the original for Oregon and that was in the hands of the Founders of Oregon in 1859 so if there is no proof of statehood, we’re still a territory and as VROOMAN said in an earlier article, most likely, state of state franchises simply “moved in” after the Civil war and have operated like cuckoo birds in a robin’s nest ever since. The ones whose elected cuckoos like Governor Kate Brown, who is being recalled, stands before a microphone with a room full of young children behind her and calls it a “democracy.” Exposing all this corruption may get Hollywood’s attention after all because all this may get really big.
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The corrupt Antifa-supporting Mayor Ted Wheeler, who also serves as the police commissioner, has given stand down order to the police — where is the DOJ on this?
Reporter Andy Ngo, a gay Asian man, was brutally beaten and hit with a ‘milkshake’ concoction that contained quick-drying cement.
Another man named Adam Kelly was beaten with a metal rod or nunchucks by Antifa and was left with large bloody gashes on his head.
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Scott Adams Inspires Boycott Against Portland After City Allows Left-Wing Terrorism
Over the weekend, the left-wing hate group Antifa was caught on camera committing violent acts of terror on the streets of Portland, Oregon.
An elderly man was beaten bloody with a crowbar and journalist Andy Ngo was severely beaten and admitted to the hospital with a brain bleed.
While Ngo was assaulted with concrete “milkshakes,” Portland police mischaracterized assaulting people with objects as mere “harassment.”
Author Scott Adams declared today that he would “never visit Portland as long as it remains legal for domestic terrorists to roam the streets in masked gangs, looking for victims.”
Adams has inspired an instant boycott of Portland.
[Comment: I will boycott Portland too. It is not hard. There are many other places worth visiting.]
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Socialism, Communism, Fascism, Islamists Have Joined to Destroy America
Not in America. After all we are America with the strongest military ever. No one will take us over. We have 2 oceans and a Constitution to protect us. We are (or used to be) Free People
Socialists have learned that they don’t need guns or a revolution just the right words and policies in order to create a non violent revolution. This revolution which has been going on for about 100 years is now out in the forefront. These communists are legally using our own rules and laws and yes even the constitution.
In the early 1940’s the CIC (called CIA today) brought over 1600 communists from Germany to America in “Operation Paperclip”. Brilliant minds we were told. They will bring innovation and creation in science and technology. Just one problem where did many of them go? They became professors in our finest universities. What did they teach? Communism. Why? Because they were communists.
In 1958, Eisenhower sent a commission to the Soviet Union in order to “understand” merge our cultures. Many of our “leaders’ studied in Russia: Bill Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Obama to name a few. This was the beginning of the normalizing of communism in America. Today they have named themselves Globalists, Progressives, Democratic Socialists, Leftists, and they have partnered with the Islamists. Their school is called the Aspen Institute where our leaders go to be told what to do to bring America into the One World Government Global structure. Look at the leadership. RINOS we call them on the right. Democrats we call the left. Communists I say. Who attended Aspen Institute: Paul Ryan, Romney, Rubio, Debbie Wasserman Shultz to name a few.
“We will Fundamentally Transform America,” Obama proclaimed. “We will change History,” Michelle added. Not one person ever asked Obama what fundamentally changing America meant. No one asked Michelle how do you change history? But yet we changed. Fundamentally Transform means Destroy and Changing History means Lie. And by silence we complied.
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Staffer for Mayor Pete Called for Urine Attack on Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz
A staffer working for Mayor Pete Buttigieg called for Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz to be attacked with urine.
Gaetz tweeted about the comment a day after journalist Andy Ngo was viciously assaulted with quick drying cement by Antifa criminals in Portland.
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Terrorism! Antifa Carried Out More Than 20 Acid Attacks in Portland, Oregon — Watch Live
Terrorist group makes good on threats to use acid on Americans, pledges more attacks across US!
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by JW Bryan
I’m sure many people are wondering how President Trump, in times past, could so disparagingly condemn, both the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) but then support ratification of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). The latter is a combination of the TPP and NAFTA plus additions which result in it being much worse than either of them or both of them together.
The Globalist USMCA
Perhaps the answer lies in the fact that back when President Trump was characterizing NAFTA and the TPP as a nightmare for the United States, he wasn’t listening to any of his advisors, he was using his own discernment and common sense, which is all it takes to see that the USMCA is a total disaster for America. It now appears that the President is not using his own judgment, but is relying on the advice of his advisors. As a result of manipulation by the Deep State, these advisers have been placed in positions in his administration not only to lead him astray, but to influence him in the direction favorable to the future fruition of the Globalist Agenda, i.e., the New World Order. Upon casual inspection, it is easy to see that the USMCA was made to order to accomplish this…
If the USMCA becomes law, it will bring into effect, through the back door — the Law of the Sea Treaty, endorsed by both Clinton and Bush, which was never ratified by the United States. President Reagan rejected it because it demanded technology and wealth transfer from developed nations to undeveloped ones. It was rejected not just for this reason, but because it contained many other damages lethal to American independence and autonomy.
President Reagan didn’t like the idea of establishing an international bureaucracy that would supersede U.S. rights of sovereignty. He knew that other nations would use the Law of the Sea Treaty to work against U.S. interests in ways not imagined in the benign scenarios painted by its supporters.
The USMCA and Sustainable Development
According to the Washington Standard of November 19, 2018, “The three parties (United States, Mexico, and Canada) recognize Sustainable Development (SD), the lynchpin of United Nations Agenda 21, which has morphed into UN Agenda 2030, and is an essential ingredient without which trade cannot exist.
Since the USMCA dictates that trade cannot exist without SD and a healthy environment with strict guidelines, the USMCA then must logically follow the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) promoted by the UN and all its affiliated agencies. Two of those SDGs are the elimination of poverty and hunger.
The three nations who are party to the USMCA supposedly understand that they have agreed to these SDGs in order to engage in trade, and that they must continually be active in promoting and bringing these 17 SDGs to fruition.
It’s all about the redistribution of wealth, taking from those who have worked for what they have and redistributing it to those on a lower income or those incapable of being employed.
If America complies with the dictates of the USMCA and begins to put into action what could possibly solve the problems of poverty, the end result will be total poverty and hunger.
The globalists have ways to accomplish this goal. One would be to pass a law making it illegal to have an income above a certain level; another would be to make it unlawful for anyone to have an income below a certain level.
This is a totally socialistic concept and the outcome will result in chaos and ultimately a dictatorship. Those who worked to build and employ will throw in the towel, and those who take will continue to demand more. The entire economy will go to pot and the result is a third world country much like Venezuela has become.
[Comment: Highly recommended reading. USCMA is worse than TPP. It is stuffed with language to usurp US sovereignty and take down the USA. It is a globalist turd that needs to be flushed down the toilet.]
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Your Patriotic Assignment for Independence Day A.K.A. 4th of July
No need to rehash the sickening politics raging over the illegals invasion. Last week saw a father and his 22-month old daughter lying dead at the Rio Grande River here in Texas. Predictably, fools on the left began vomiting it was Trump’s fault. The biggest mouths in Hollywood and the Democratic/Communist Party USA wept and shouted how horrible it was.
This idiot who tries to pass himself off as a minority by calling himself Beto, a common Spanish name for names ending in —berto when he’s a very wealthy Irish American whose real name is Robert Francis O’Rourke jumped on the garbage truck: O’Rourke on haunting photo: ‘Trump is responsible for these deaths’
Yes, loss of life is very sad. In this case, the blame goes to the mother, Tania Avalos and father, Oscar Martinez, who took their toddler daughter on a dangerous trek from El Salvador hoping to smuggle themselves across OUR border to leech off Americans. Steal their jobs and live off welfare in every form…
Is there any way to stop this? Yes, there is but it will NOT happen unless the heat turns into a bonfire. I sent a letter last week to Gov. Ron DeSantis [R-FL] congratulating him on signing into a law a bill ending so-called sanctuary cities in the State of Florida. I sent a copy to my governor, Greg Abbott [R-TX]. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signs “sanctuary cities” bill into law
I encouraged them to get together with other governors and have a face to face with Attorney General William Barr about putting together a task force to go after governors, members of state legislatures, mayors and sheriffs who are clearly in violation of federal immigration laws.
I also attached a letter I wrote to certain members of Congress regarding a bill that will self-deport tens of millions of illegals. Forget the old worn-out 11 million illegals in this country. The best estimate is between 30-35 million. So, both governors have my letter about sanctuary cities/states and how drive the freeloaders out of our country.
The ONLY way this is going to stop is if the Federal Department of Justice goes after the aforementioned with indictments and prosecution. I don’t give a tinker’s damn how Comrades Corey Booker, Kamala the Camel Harris or pederast presidential candidate, Mayor Petey Buttigieg jump up and down. Or the Hollywood crowd or anyone else. I tune them and their antics to out do my part.
No one is above the law but for decades wealthy and/or politically connected individuals and elected officials have continued to break the law with impunity because the past Attorney Generals have been Demorat political operatives who care NOTHING for laws on the books, only what they can get for their agenda.
AG Barr MUST set an example by prosecuting anyone violating federal immigration laws regardless of what office they hold or don’t like that little (expletive) Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook billionaire) who openly bragged about hiring illegals. No legal repercussions for punk Mark and that is the problem.
So, do you have a few minutes to write Barr a letter asking him to form a task force to go after these lawbreakers?
Attorney General William Barr U.S. Department of Justice 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20530-0001
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Blowing on Anti-Europeanism Conte Tells Merkel-Macron
Appointments package lacks respect for Italian and EU citizens
(ANSA) — Brussels, June 30 — Premier Giuseppe Conte told Corriere.it Monday that he had opposed a deal between German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron for a package of EU job appointments including giving Dutch Socialist Frans Timmermans the presidency of the European Commission because the accord risked “blowing on anti-Europeanism”.
He said “dear colleagues, I make a heartfelt plea to you, you are committing a glaring mistake.
“If you insist on this package of appointments without taking into account our requests, you do not fail to respect me but all the millions of citizens I represent” and the millions of citizens of countries outside the accord,” Conte told the European Council.
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Boris: UK Must Leave EU on Oct 31st to ‘Prove Putin Wrong’ About Liberalism
Tory leadership favourite Boris Johnson has said Britain must leave the European Union on the new October 31st Brexit deadline to prove Russia’s Vladimir Putin wrong about liberalism.
Speaking at the G20 summit in Osaka, Japan, the Russian leader had told the press that “The liberal idea has started eating itself,” and that the “those who propagate those ideas are separate from [the people]” who live under them.
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Conte Created Anti-2-Country Europe Front — PM Sources
Appointments package lacks respect for Italian and EU citizens
(ANSA) — Brussels, June 1 — Premier Giuseppe Conte created an Italy-led front of 11 countries against a take-it-or-leave-it Franco-German “two-country Europe” package including giving Frans Timmermans the European Commission presidency, premier’s office sources explained Monday.
Conte arrived at the EU summit “convinced that a veto was not needed” on Timmermans but then “found himself faced with a Franco German wall, compact in wanting to impose a take it or leave it package”, they said.
This is when it became a question of principle and method for Conte, they said, and of respect for Italy and the European Council, because “Europe is 28 and not just two”.
Conte managed to bring the other countries contrary to Timmermans onto this position too, “creating a front of 11,” the sources said. Conte told Corriere.it Monday that he had opposed a deal between German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron for a package of EU job appointments including giving Timmermans the presidency of the European Commission because the accord risked “blowing on anti-Europeanism”.
He said “dear colleagues, I make a heartfelt plea to you, you are committing a glaring mistake.
“If you insist on this package of appointments without taking into account our requests, you do not fail to respect me but all the millions of citizens I represent” and the millions of citizens of countries outside the accord,” Conte told the European Council.
Merkel said earlier that voting against Italy would lead to tensions, after the EU summit put off debate on appointments for another day amid opposition from Italy, the Visegrad Group, and other countries to some of the proposed new occupants of the top jobs.
“Voting against the entire Visegrad Group and a country like Italy would be very difficult” because “it would lead to tensions” in the future,” the chancellor said.
She said the EU leaders want to reach “the highest consensus possible”. Merkel said “I’m aware that we are giving a bad image to the citizens, but we are working to find a compromise”.
Earlier Conte said the “prefabricated Osaka package” including Timmermans as new European Commission President had left him and 10-11 other countries “perplexed” and he had thus voted against it.
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El Principe, Where a Jihadist is Born
by Marianna Di Piazza
Ceuta (Spain) “Today that are fewer routes, it’s a holiday today. But you just wait here, the next bus that passes close to El Principe arrives in ten minutes.” Those ten minutes saved us from a shooting.
It’s a few minutes after 3pm. The sun beats down on the Spanish citizens while the stores of famous European brands welcome residents and tourists enjoying the first warm weather of the holidays. A few kilometers away, near the border with Morocco, the city changes in nature. We are in the heart of the El Principe Alfonso. From here, in recent years, ten young people have left to join up with jihadists in Syria and Iraq…
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France: Nudists Brave Heat for Paris’s Journée Du Naturisme
Dozens of people stripped off for the second annual naturism day in capital’s Bois de Vincennes
An estimated 100 people braved the very strong sun to strip off for Paris’s second journée du naturisme in the Bois de Vincennes on Sunday.
The number of participants reported by France Bleu Paris was much lower than organisers, the Association des naturistes parisiens, had anticipated. They had called on naturists to beat last year’s figure of 970 participants — and more than 1,000 had declared an interest on the group’s Facebook page.
Organisers said the gathering “is a way to fight ideologies and stereotypes together on a symbolic day in a city that is widely observed around the world”.
A naturist area in the Bois de Vincennes, between la route Dauphiné and les allées royales, is open every day until October 13. It is screened from the rest of the park by trees, but it open to walkers.
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France: Police Use Tear Gas as Yellow Vests Protest in Paris for 33rd Consecutive Weekend (Video)
Thousands of demonstrators have been flooding the streets of France every weekend since the movement began in November 2018, initially to protest planned fuel tax hikes, but then growing into a larger movement against the policies of the French government.
French police have employed teargas to disperse crowds of Yellow Vests protesters in Paris.
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French Police Face Probe Over Tear Gas at Climate Protests
Police in France faced criticism on Monday after a video of officers spraying tear gas on climate protesters staging a sit-in on a bridge emerged online, prompting the French interior minister to call for an investigation.
The protest over the French government’s environment policies was held by members of the Extinction Rebellion group at the Pont de Sully bridge during sweltering heat on Friday.
A video shared on Twitter and since widely broadcast on news channels shows a group of protesters sitting on the ground with their arms linked and heads bowed after they had refused orders to vacate the bridge.
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Germany’s Green Leader Sorry for Linking Angela Merkel’s Shaking to Climate Crisis
German Green party leader Annalena Baerbock has tweeted her apologies after suggesting that the chancellor’s trembling may have been caused by climate disruption. Germany is currently in the middle of a heat wave.
Germany’s Green party co-leader Annalena Baerbock has apologized after suggesting that Chancellor Angela Merkel’s trembling episodes were connected to climate change.
During a press conference in Berlin on Friday, at which the German Greens were presenting their climate protection plan, Baerbock said, “regarding the hot temperatures, we can see from the chancellor it is clear that this summer climate has health consequences.”
The Green party leader then mentioned her recent trip to Iraq, where temperatures have reached 48 degrees Celsius (118 degrees Fahrenheit). If such heat ever hit Germany, she said, “anyone who stands in the sun for an hour would get shaky.” “The heat doesn’t stop for chancellors either,” she added later.
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Italy: Salvini Sees Sarraj, Who is Critical of France
Libya PM asks resolute intervention for peace
(ANSA) — Rome, July 1 — Deputy Premier and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini on Monday had “fruitful” talks in Milan with Libyan Premier Fayez al-Sarraj, sources close to Salvini said.
The two spoke about the situation in Libya and Sarraj asked for a resolute intervention by Italy to foster peace, the sources said.
Also on the agenda were immigration, energy and economic issues, the sources said.
Salvini guaranteed an Italian commitment, “happy about the central role of our country which confirms itself as a serious interlocutor”.
Sarraj, the same sources stressed, criticised the strategies of other countries starting with France.
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Long Lunch Break: France Pays €1 Million a Year to ‘Ghost’ Civil Servants Who Don’t Have Jobs
PARIS, France — Regional records have revealed the generous pay packets of a group of so-called ghost civil servants in France, some of whom have not done a day’s work since 1989, who drew combined salaries of one million euros a year.
The group of 30 civil servants who were made redundant when the state water board was privatised but were not taken off the payroll thanks to the French government’s generous labour policies all “worked” in the Provence-Alps-Riviera Regional government.
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Man Who Bravely Fought Off Islamic Terrorists is Put on an Terror Watchlist by UK Government
The ‘Lion of London Bridge’ who bravely fought off Islamic terrorists has been put on an anti-radicalization terror watchlist by the UK government over fears he could become a right-wing extremist.
Yes, really.
49-year-old Roy Larner screamed “f*** you, I’m Millwall” as he defended himself against jihadists who ended up killing 8 people and injuring 38 others during the horrific attack in London two years ago.
The attack left Larner with more than 80 stitches to his head, ear, arms and hands after two of the terrorists slashed at his head and neck.
Following the attack, Larner revealed that the terrorists had shouted, “This is for Allah” and “Islam, Islam, Islam” during the rampage.
Now Larner himself is being treated as a potential terrorist by the UK government.
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UK: 80 Per Cent of Police Physically Attacked as Violent Crime Rises
Last year, 80 per cent of British police officers were physically attacked whilst on the job, with officers describing assaults including being spat on and bitten, a survey has found.
The Channel 4 study, conducted for its Dispatches series, also found that of the 1,000 officers surveyed, one-third said they had suffered injury.
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Speakers’ Corner is a traditional site for public speeches and debates since the mid 1800’s when protests and demonstrations took place in Hyde Park.
Historic figures such as Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin and George Orwell were known to often use the area to demonstrate free speech. The British parliament set aside this part of Hyde Park for free speech in 1872.
But not everyone is open to this idea of free speech.
On Sunday a group of Muslims surrounded one speaker, threatened the man, started shouting, “Allahu Akbar”, followed the man and attacked him for exercising his free speech at Speakers Corner.
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UK: Farage: We Must End ‘Globalist Drive’ To Outsource People’s Sovereignty to Elites
Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has said that patriots must end the “globalist drive” to outsource decision-making to supranational bodies like the EU, warning that the elites want to see the nation-state “dissolved”.
Speaking to American conservative activist Candace Owens in a PragerU interview aired Sunday, Mr Farage explained that Brexit was a “fightback” against European institutions determining Britons’ future for them, with the United Kingdom battling to become a “normal nation” again — one that is the master of its own destiny.
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UK: Farage Condemns ‘Comedy’ TV Show Depicting Assassination of Politician ‘Neil Fromage’
Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has criticised Channel 4 for a “comedy” programme that depicts the assassination of an “anti-immigrant” politician named “Neil Fromage”.
The character, whose name is an obvious spoof of Mr Farage’s, appears in Year of the Rabbit — a “comedy” set in the Victorian era — with “Neil Fromage” being shot in the head whilst giving a speech on immigration.
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UK: No Skirts: Bradford Schoolgirls Ordered to Wear ‘Gender Neutral’ Trousers
Schoolgirls at Appleton Academy in Bradford, West Yorkshire, have been ordered to wear “gender neutral” trousers instead of skirts at the start of the next academic year.
“The minor policy change means that, from September 2019, the uniform for all secondary pupils is changing to trousers only,” stated the Exceed Academies Trust which runs the Appleton Academy — which was rated as requiring improvement by schools regulator Ofsted — in comments reported by the Daily Mirror.
“There are a number of reasons for this change; it is gender neutral in line with the policy in the majority of secondary schools, it simplifies the uniform and it removes the issue of pupils wearing skirts that are an inappropriate length.
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Voting Agst Italy Would Lead to Tensions — Merkel
Conte said no to ‘Osaka package’ including Timmermans
(ANSA) — Brussels, July 1 — Voting against Italy would lead to tensions, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said after the EU summit put off debate on appointments for another day amid opposition from Italy, the Visegrad Group, and other countries to some of the proposed new occupants of the top jobs.
“Voting against the entire Visegrad Group and a country like Italy would be very difficult” because “it would lead to tensions” in the future,” the chancellor said.
She said the EU leaders want to reach “the highest consensus possible”. Merkel said “I’m aware that we are giving a bad image to the citizens, but we are working to find a compromise”.
Earlier Premier Giuseppe Conte said the “prefabricated Osaka package” including Dutch Socialist Frans Timmermans as new European Commission President had left him and 10-11 other countries “perplexed” and he had voted against it.
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Twenty-six “Muslim scholars” based in Britain have called for “fascist” Israel to be returned to the Arabs, and expressed their hope that “Jerusalem will be the capital of the Islamic Caliphate when it returns, Allah willing.”
5Pillars, which describes itself as “The largest *regulated* Muslim news site in Europe & the Americas” — but has been described by Lead Commissioner for the Commission for Countering Extremism Sara Khan as “Islamist” — published the open letter on its website, and invited “Any Muslim scholar who would like to sign this open statement” to get in touch.
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NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Turkish Cypriot officials said Monday a Syrian anti-aircraft missile that missed its target and reached ethnically divided Cyprus around 120 miles away was the likely cause of an explosion outside a village in the breakaway north. No injuries were reported.
Ersin Tatar, the north’s prime minister told a news conference that debris found near the village of Tashkent where the pre-dawn explosion happened were pieces of a Russian-made S-200 missile. Tashkent lies on the foothills of the east Mediterranean island’s Pendataktylos mountain range.
Police have cordoned off the main debris field. At least five pieces of missile debris have been found in two nearby villages. Fire crews contained a blaze that flaming debris ignited outside the village.
Tatar said there was no reason for any alarm that this could soon happen again and assured there were no risks to public health since there were no poisonous or toxic emissions from the missile.
Foreign Minister Kudret Ozersay said writing on pieces of the missile was similar to that found on an S-200 missile that crashed in Gaziantep, Turkey in July 2018…
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100-Year-Old Durga Mata Mandir in Delhi’s Chandni Chowk Vandalised by Jihadi Muslim Mob
Jihadi Mob Vandalises 100 Yrs Old Temple In Delhi’s Chandni Chowk While Shouting’Naara E Takbeer — Allah Ho Akbar’…
Not in Pakistan, Shiv, Durga, Ram, Ganesh, Saraswati Deities vandalised in Delhi’s Durga Mata Temple complex (Lal Kuan-Chwari Bazar area in Old Delhi) one by one. Minority Hindus under Islamic attack in Delhi. Is Indian Capital is under the grip of Jihadis?
Sumedha Singh | HENB | New Delhi | July 1, 2019:: A temple in Chandni Chowk in Central/Old Delhi was allegedly vandalised by a fanatic mob last night. According to reports being posted on social media by locals, the Durga Mata Mandir in Lal Kuan-Chawri Bazar locality in Hauz Qazi area became the target of vandalism by a Muslim mob of 300-400 people on the night of June 30, 2019.
According to locals who posted videos of the temple on social media, at around 12 am, the Durga Mandir was attacked by 300-400 fanatic people belonging to the Muslim community. Along with the temple, the houses belonging to Hindus in the neighbourhood were also targeted by the Jihadi mob, the locals alleged.
A video shared by ruling AAP (Aam Admi Party) MLA in Delhi, Kapil Mishra shows youths storming into the temple with Islamic slogans like “Naaray E Takbeer — Allah Ho Akbar’, and also surrounding the Hauz Qazi police station in the area. Mishra tweeted that before the incident, a rumour was spread that a Muslim boy was lynched by a mob, forcing him to say Jai Shree Ram. But the whole incident happen out of a dispute involving car parking between two families…
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Hong Kong Police Evict Protesters Who Stormed Parliament
Police firing tear gas have evicted protesters who stormed and ransacked Hong Kong’s parliament.
Activists had occupied the Legislative Council (LegCo) building for hours after breaking away from a protest on the anniversary of Hong Kong’s transfer of sovereignty to China from Britain.
After midnight (16:00 GMT), hundreds of police secured the building following a warning to protesters to clear it.
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Pope Francis Lauds Trump-Kim Meeting as Example of ‘Culture of Encounter’
ROME — Pope Francis showcased the surprise meeting between Donald Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un as an example of the “culture of encounter” that he has often touted.
“In the last few hours we have witnessed a good example of the culture of encounter in Korea,” Francis said following his weekly Angelus prayer on Sunday.
“I salute the protagonists, with the prayer that this significant gesture may constitute a further step in the path of peace, not only on that peninsula but in the whole world,” he said, referring to the two heads of state.
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2020 Dem candidate courts foreigners to win US presidential election.
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Guadalajara Hit by Freak Hail Storm; Cars Buried, Hundreds of Structures Damaged
Guadalajara, Mexico was struck by a freak hail storm on Sunday, burying vehicles and trapping residents in ice pellets up to two meters (6.5 ft) deep, according to AFP.
“I’ve never seen such scenes in Guadalajara,” said state governor, adding “Then we ask ourselves if climate change is real. These are never-before-seen natural phenomenons.”
“It’s incredible!”
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According to the Center for Immigration Studies, 35,000 more African migrants are currently in Central America en route to the United States.
Word of the hundreds of successful entries into the US this year by Congolese migrants spread quickly and now a surge of Africans and Middle Easterners are in Panama en route to the US.
The African migrants who were dumped in San Antonio recently were also seen holding wads of $100 bills.
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France Condemns Italy Over Rescue Ship Arrest ‘Creating Hysteria’
France has joined Germany in condemning the Italian government following the arrest of the captain of the ship Sea-Watch 3 who rescued migrants at risk of drowning in the Mediterranean.
After spending two weeks in international waters with dozens of rescued migrants from Africa, the ship’s German captain Carola Rackete, 31, was arrested on Saturday after the Sea-Watch 3 ship docked at the island port of Lampedusa without permission.
During the docking, an Italian police launch was briefly caught between the vessel and the quay. Italy’s deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini called it, “a criminal act, an act of war”.
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Pope Mass for Migrants, Rescuers July 7
On 6th anniversary of visit to Lampedusa
(ANSA) — Vatican City, July 1 — Pope Francis will say a Mass in St Peter’s July 7 marking the sixth anniversary of his historic visit to Lampedusa, the Vatican press office said Monday.
The Mass for Migrants will begin at 11:00, said press office chief Alessandro Gisotti.
“About 250 people will take part including migrants, refugees and people working to save their lives”, he said.
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Pope Francis to Celebrate ‘Mass for Migrants’ In Vatican
ROME — Pope Francis will celebrate a “Mass for Migrants” on Monday July 8 to commemorate the sixth anniversary of his visit to Lampedusa in 2013.
“In memory of the 6th anniversary of his visit to Lampedusa, on Monday, 8 July, the Holy Father Pope Francis, will celebrate a Mass for Migrants, at 11:00, in St Peter’s Basilica,” a Vatican communiqué said Monday.
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Revealed: Only 2% of Illegal Border Crossers Into Canada Deported
A new conservative order paper question shows us just how bad the illegal border crosser crisis is here in Canada.
It’s such chaos, the ministry responsible is having trouble providing all the data.
Trudeau opened his heart and Canadian’s wallets to the influx of illegal immigration with his infamous “Welcome to Canada” tweet made back in January 2017.
What resulted was a surge in illegal border crossing from the United States, as failed refugee and immigrant claimants threatened with removal from the United States sauntered into Canada to try their luck here.
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Sea Watch Captain’s Father Hopes for German Intervention
But Germany says can’t intervene
(ANSA) — Berlin, July 1 — The father of the captain of the German NGO run Sea-Watch3 migrant rescue ship said Monday he hoped the German government would intervene on behalf of his daughter who is being held in Italy for abetting illegal immigration and allegedly ramming a tax police cutter.
But Germany said it can’t intervene.
Carola Rackete, 30, forced a ban Saturday to land her 40 migrants on the island of Lampedusa saying she was afraid some might commit suicide after being at sea for 17 days following a rescue off Libya.
Rackete now faces a prison term of between three and 10 years for ignoring Interior Minister Matteo Salvini’s closed-ports policy and hitting the Guardia di Finanza ship, which she said she could not avoid and had not struck deliberately.
Carola’s father Ekkehart Rackete told the DPA news agency that he thought “the international pressure on the Italian government will make the difference” and get his daughter released.
He said Italy was governed by “the rule of law” and he was not worried about Carola, with whom he had spoken by phone on Sunday.
“She is good fund as always and she seemed tranquil to me,” he said.
The captain has become a hero to those opposed to Salvini’s policy and a villain to those who support it.
The Sea-Watch3 is run by the German migrant rescue NGO Sea-Watch and flies a Dutch flag.
Rackete left Lampedusa Sunday for Agrigento where she will be questioned Monday ahead of the ratification of her house-arrest warrant.
Germany said Monday it cannot intervene in the case.
“We cannot intervene on Italian justice,” government spokeswoman Martina Fiez said.
But she reiterated that Berlin is “against the criminalisation of sea rescuers”.
Fiez said “the charges must be verified, and we are following the situation very attentively.” She said that “the German government is currently working for a European solution”.
Italian foreign ministry sources have said that more than four EU countries are willing to take some of the 40 Sea-Watch migrants, including France, Germany, Luxembourg and Portugal.
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Sea Watch Skipper Quizzed for Arrest Ruling
‘Acted in state of necessity’ says lawyer
(ANSA) — Agrigento, July 1 — Sea-Watch3 skipper Carola Rackete was quizzed by a judge Monday who must confirm or quash an arrest warrant issued Saturday for defying a Lampedusa port entry ban and allegedly ramming a police boat to land 40 allegedly suicidal migrants picked up by the German NGO run migrant rescue vessel off Libya 17 days previously.
Rackete’s lawyer said “she will answer all the judge’s questions.
He said “Ms Rackete acted in a state of necessity and had no intention of using violence towards the men of the Finance Guard”.
Earlier Monday German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas asked Italy to release Rackete .
At the end of a rule of law process, Maas said “from our standpoint there can only be the release of Carola Rackete: I will clarify this yet again to Italy,” he said on Facebook.
Maas reiterated that Germany is “against criminalising the activities of rescue at sea” and said that at a European level “the haggling over the redistribution of migrants is shameful and must end”.
Italian officials including President Sergio Mattarella and Premier Giuseppe Conte responded to Maas by reminding Germany that the Italian judiciary, like Germany’s, are independent of the executive bracnh of government.
Germany said earlier it cannot intervene in the case despite a plea from Rackete’s father. “We cannot intervene on Italian justice,” government spokeswoman Martina Fiez said.
But she reiterated that Berlin is “against the criminalisation of sea rescuers”.
Fiez said “the charges must be verified, and we are following the situation very attentively.” She said that “the German government is currently working for a European solution”.
Italian foreign ministry sources have said that more than four EU countries are willing to take some of the 40 Sea-Watch migrants, including France, Germany, Luxembourg and Portugal.
Rackete’s father said earlier he hoped the German government would intervene on behalf of his daughter.
Carola Rackete, 30, forced a ban Saturday to land her 40 migrants on the island of Lampedusa saying she was afraid some might commit suicide after being at sea for 17 days following a rescue off Libya.
Rackete now faces a prison term of between three and 10 years for ignoring Interior Minister Matteo Salvini’s closed-ports policy and hitting a Guardia di Finanza ship, which she said she could not avoid and had not rammed deliberately.
Carola’s father Ekkehart Rackete told the DPA news agency that he thought “the international pressure on the Italian government will make the difference” and get his daughter released.
He said Italy was governed by “the rule of law” and he was not worried about Carola, with whom he had spoken by phone on Sunday.
“She is good fun as always and she seemed tranquil to me,” he said.
The captain has become a hero to those opposed to Salvini’s policy and a villain to those who support it.
The Sea-Watch3 is run by the German migrant rescue NGO Sea-Watch and flies a Dutch flag.
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UK: Outrage as £10m of Taxpayers’ Money Wasted on ‘Phantom’ Flights for Failed Deportations
TAXPAYERS have forked out more than £10million in five years to pay for “phantom” flights after aeroplane tickets bought to deport failed asylum seekers never get used thanks to last-minute appeals and their refusal to leave.
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New Jersey Catholic Church Celebrates LGBT ‘Pride Mass’
Our Lady of Grace Catholic Church in Hoboken celebrated a special “Pride Mass” on Sunday, highlighting a growing rift among the Catholic community over homosexuality.
Despite the Catholic Church’s condemnation of homosexual activity, local media reported, the Pride Mass “signifies an acknowledgement of dramatically shifting views, not only within the Catholic community but Hoboken itself.”
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Only 5% of Palestinians and 6% of Lebanese Accept Gay Relationships
Jordan blocked on of the first LGBT magazines.
A survey published for BBC News Arabic reveals shocking rates of homophobia across the Middle East and North Africa.
The study was conducted by the Arab Barometer research network on June 24, during LGBT Pride month. The BBC wrote, “Acceptance of homosexuality varies but is low or extremely low across the region. In Lebanon, despite having a reputation for being more socially liberal than its neighbors, the figure is 6%.”
The study wrote that a mere 5% of Palestinians from the West Bank accepted same-sex relations. Palestinians in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip were not surveyed.
Algerians scored the highest number of acceptance of gay relations with 26%. Morocco followed with 21% and Sudan with 17%. Tunisia tied Jordan with 7%. Palestinians harbored the most intolerance toward gay relations.
According to the BBC, “More than 25,000 people were interviewed for the survey across 10 countries and the Palestinian territories between late 2018 and spring 2019.”
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Space Miners Race to an Asteroid Worth Quintillions
Would you like to be a billionaire? All you have to do is figure out how to go into space and mine 16 Psyche, an asteroid made of gold and other metals like iron and nickel. Flying somewhere between Mars and Jupiter, this amazing space rock is estimated to be worth as much as $700 quintillion, thanks to all the metals it contains.
Quintillion, if you are wondering, is 1 with 18 zeroes. It’s such a large amount of money that if you divide it up between everyone alive on Earth currently, each person would get about $93 billion.
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“UK: No Skirts: Bradford Schoolgirls Ordered to Wear ‘Gender Neutral’ Trousers” lol how are trousers gender neutral?
And if everyone had 93 billion dollars, it would all be worthless.
Re: Andy Ngo (several posts).
I subscribe to Sam Harris’ podcasts, but don’t always find the time to listen. However this one, with the brilliant polymath Jared Diamond, covering the current climate of political intolerance, among many subjects, is worth ninety minutes of anyone’s time: https://mailchi.mp/samharris/new-podcast-mental-models-757393?e=969dab3205
I’d also forgotten how credible Diamond is on why the planet was colonised by Europeans and Asians; it’s not because we’re intrinsically evil, we just had the good fortune to inhabit the places that have plants and animals which lend themselves to domestication, so could move beyond hunter-gathering to agriculture, leading to surpluses and specialisations, including the mounting of exploratory voyages.
Boycott Portland: YES!!