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‘We save 53 boats a DAY’ Coastguard’s passionate plea for help to deal with migrant crisis (express, Jun 2, 2017)
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/812142/Migrant-crisis-Italy-summer-surge-taxi-service-EU-Libya-Calais-jungle
“THE Italian coastguard has launched a passionate plea begging for help to process incoming migrants before the summer surge of crossings ensues.
Already this year, 60,000 migrants have been rescued from the Mediterranean and the number is set to increase, according to reports.
Pleading for better equipment to help the hopefuls, Admiral Vincenzo Melone, head of coastguard told the Times: “If we don’t have tug boats, charity ships and cargo vessels helping, we will never be able to do it alone.
“These boats sink just by you looking at them.”
The Admiral called the stretch of Libyan coast where 1,562 migrants are believed to have drowned this year, a “black hole”.
He continued: “Libya has never declared the area its responsibility, so when we are first to get the rescue call; it automatically becomes our responsibility.
“One day last August we had 53 boats to rescue in one day.”
The number crossings has risen by 25 per cent year on year. Last year’s
record of 181,000 rescues in the central Mediterranean looks set to be beaten in 2017 as migrants flee slavery, rape and torture in militia-run Libyan camps, the newspaper reports.
Admiral Vincenzo was speaking at the coastguard’s command centre on the fringe’s of Rome, where officials reportedly take calls from eight phone lines from terrified migrants on films and unsafe boats.
He claimed smugglers give migrants satellite phones with the coastguard’s numbers, so they can phone and be ushered into the EU.
His plea for help is a complete contrast to the claims from Italian politicians that their rescue operations act as a “taxi service” for migrants and even traffickers.
Richard Burnett, chief executive of the Road Haulage Association, who is in Calais with the Daily Express, said: “It’s shocking to see and I get the sense we are heading towards another summer of discontent. This is identical to how it all started two years ago.”
Yesterday, it was revealed that 500 people are now living in a wasteland just centres for where the notorious “Jungle” shanty town was flattened.
They have returned to the area from centres across France, where they were sent after the camp was emptied last year.”
Good analysis – great channel:
US Withdraws from Paris Climate Accord: And People Are Gobbling Up the Propaganda
Clinton Hack Likely Massive Breach of VoteBuilder Data
As the Clinton campaign tries to downplay the fact that it was hacked, the real story is going unreported: millions of Americans have likely had intimate personal details of their lives exposed through the hack, and it was probably the fault of the campaign’s lax security.
The Clinton campaign put out a statement once it became apparent that their systems had been hacked:
https://eoinhiggins.com/clinton-hack-likely-massive-breach-of-votebuilder-data-ba2ca814d7cb
ROFL: https://www.reddit.com/r/covfefe/
My favorite new word, too wonderful:
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magacovfefe!
PG-13-covfefe:
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LOL
NAZI SCUM:
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VIRGINIA IMAM SHAKER ELSAYED ENDORSES FEMALE CIRCUMCISION (FGM): IT PREVENTS GIRLS FROM BECOMING HYPERSEXUALLY ACTIVE
https://memri.org/tv/dar-al-hijrah-mosque-fairfax-virginia-fgm-prevents-hypersexuality
Few people know the story of Claudette Colvin: When she was 15, she refused to move to the back of the bus and give up her seat to a white person — nine months before Rosa Parks did the very same thing.
Most people know about Parks and the Montgomery, Ala., bus boycott that began in 1955, but few know that there were a number of women who refused to give up their seats on the same bus system. Most of the women were quietly fined, and no one heard much more.
Colvin was the first to really challenge the law.
Now a 69-year-old retiree, Colvin lives in the Bronx. She remembers taking the bus home from high school on March 2, 1955, as clear as if it were yesterday.
http://www.npr.org/2009/03/15/101719889/before-rosa-parks-there-was-claudette-colvin
P.S. – these women’s stories were not used because they were deemed to be of ‘questionable character’….
She should be 77 now not 69.
On a lighter note – thought people on here would enjoy this meme:
https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/6esdyl/lotta_ripped_globalist_buttholes_today/
Hail KeK-
If I can’t view reddit responsibly – fewer hours at a stretch – I’ll have to give it up entirely.
36 bodies found in Resorts World Manila, Philippines official says
http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/01/asia/resorts-world-manila-philippines/index.html?adkey=bn
The leaked climate science emails – and what they mean
Following the publication this week of 5,000 hacked climate emails, we look at what was happening in those exchanges
• Fresh round of hacked climate science emails leaked online
Hacked climate emails : Drunken forests caused as the permafrost melts as a result of global warming
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“Observations do not show rising temperatures throughout the tropical troposphere unless you accept one single study and approach and discount a wealth of others. This is just downright dangerous.”
• Peter Thorne, research scientist, Met Office Hadley Centre, to Phil Jones, UEA, 4 February 2005 (email 1939)
Having been asked to look over an early draft of part of the latest IPCC report, Thorne expresses concern that it over-simplifies or even dismisses uncertainty about temperature rises in the atmosphere. The fact Thorne was asked to comment is part of the process intended to make sure such omissions or distortions do not get published, and his reponse demonstrates the openness with which the scientists debate those issues. The resulting public review drafts and final report in 2007 reflected much more observational uncertainty, in line with Thorne’s comments.
“Getting people we know and trust [into the IPCC report team] is vital.”
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• Phil Jones, UEA, to Kevin Trenberth, NCAR, 15 September 2004 (email 714)
In an earlier email in the thread, Jones refers to two scientists he does not “trust”. He does not say why, but does not say because he does not agree with them. He and Trenberth discuss a huge range of names as possible contributors, from several countries, and are keen to widen the net.
“Mike, the figure you sent is very deceptive … there have been a number of dishonest presentations of model results by individual authors and by IPCC.”
• Tom Wigley, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, US, to Michael Mann, Penn State University, US, and others, 14 October 2009 (email 2884)
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2011/nov/24/leaked-climate-science-emails
NC election worker indicted after trying to restore 250 felons as voters, officials say
http://wbtw.com/2017/05/31/nc-election-worker-indicted-after-trying-to-restore-250-felons-as-voters-officials-say/
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ISIS sent a telegram to French authorities/media issuing 8 demands that, if not met, will result in waves of car bombs and truck attacks.
https://twitter.com/polNewsForever/status/870443142952235008
“all Muslims to be free to leave France and live in the Islamic State.”
I say that France should meet this demand and go ISIS one better by ensuring that the entire Muslim population of France is given a chance to live amongst the joys and pleasures of the Islamic State.
Sooner or later, France will realize that this sort of move is not an option. It’s only a matter of death toll and irreversible damage to French heritage.
Must Watch: Climatologist Breaks the Silence on Global Warming Groupthink
No one should take a position regarding The Great Warmening without reading the superb speech given by author Michael Crichton, “Aliens Cause Global Warming .
In the previous video, Judith Curry briefly touches upon “consensus” but does not adequately elaborate with regard to how unscientific and completely unprofessional it is to rely upon such a non-empirical process. In his speech, Crichton rips scientific consensus for what it really is, a killer of millions. His 12-page speech is a must-read.
George Webb explains Clinton´s rat line. He has been threatened by John Podesta.
JW: New Clinton Emails Show Classified Information Sent to Clinton Foundation Employees
Hungary’s leader says criticism by Soros ‘war declaration’
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary’s prime minister says criticism by billionaire George Soros who has made claims about corruption and a “mafia state” in Hungary is a “declaration of war.”
Prime Minister Viktor Orban said Friday that the Hungarian-American investor is paying “agent-like networks” of non-governmental organizations to enforce his policies, including the promotion of migration, in Europe and Hungary.
Replying to a Soros speech Thursday in Brussels, Orban said on state radio that Soros’ policies were “elitist and anti-democratic” because they were opposed by the Hungarian people.
Orban accused the NGOs supported by Soros of lacking transparency and operating “like a mafia.”
The ideological conflict between Orban and Soros has deepened in the past months after parliament approved legal changes which could force Central European University, founded by Soros, to leave Budapest.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_EUROPE_SOROS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2017-06-02-06-06-37
Colleges Celebrate Diversity With Separate ‘Commencements’
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Looking out over a sea of people in Harvard Yard last week, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s chief executive and one of Harvard’s most famous dropouts, told this year’s graduating class that it was living in an unstable time, when the defining struggle was “against the forces of authoritarianism, isolationism and nationalism.”
Two days earlier, another end-of-year ceremony had taken place, just a short walk away on a field outside the law school library. It was Harvard’s first commencement for black graduate students, and many of the speakers talked about a different, more personal kind of struggle, the struggle to be black at Harvard.
“We have endured the constant questioning of our legitimacy and our capacity, and yet here we are,” Duwain Pinder, a master’s degree candidate in business and public policy, told the cheering crowd of several hundred people in a keynote speech.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/02/us/black-commencement-harvard.html?_r=0
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Yeah I know, my.
My first thought was, and some fools say there won’t be a race war.
Philly principal hit with a brick at school dismissal
A Philadelphia principal suffered serious injuries when he was struck in the face with a brick at dismissal — a symptom, some administrators say, of a larger problem at some city schools.
The incident happened Wednesday outside Fitler Academics Plus School in Germantown, officials said.
Anthious Boone, principal of the K-8 school, was overseeing dismissal when a fight broke out between Fitler students and pupils from various nearby Mastery Charter schools, officials said.
Boone waded into the fray to try to break it up, said Robin Cooper, president of Commonwealth Association of School Administrators Local 502, the union that represents principals.
http://www.philly.com/philly/education/philly-principal-hit-with-a-brick-at-school-dismissal-20170601.html
a symptom….The incident happened…
Wrong.
It’s a vicious assault that didn’t just “happen”. An animal so full of hate, so vicious – that animal belongs in a cage.
At minimum, till it learns to control its impulsive behavior. Otherwise its lifespan will be brief – gangsters aren’t known for longevity.
When will the schools systems wake up and provide bodyguards for the teachers?
Gunman torches Philippine casino, killing at least 36 people
MANILA (Reuters) – A gunman burst into a casino in the Philippine capital on Friday, setting gaming tables alight and killing at least 36 people who suffocated in thick smoke, in an attack claimed by Islamic State but which officials believe was a botched robbery.
The gunman killed himself in a hotel room after being shot and wounded by security officers at the Resorts World Manila entertainment complex, police said. A second “person of interest” who was in the casino at the time was cooperating with the investigation, police said.
Most of the dead suffocated in the chaos. Many guests and staff had tried to hide from the gunfire rather than get out of the building when attack began shortly after midnight (1600 GMT) and fell victim to the smoke, the fire bureau said.
“Islamic State fighters carried out the Manila attack in the Philippines,” the militant group’s Amaq news agency said.
http://www.oann.com/explosions-gunshots-heard-at-resort-in-philippines-capital-media/
(Richard: I doubt the botched robbery scenario since a basic rule even the dumbest of crooks know is loot then burn with one of the first actions setting fire to the gaming tables argues against the robbery scenario.
France’s Macron shows Trump what’s what after Paris Accord announcement
By J.E. Dyer June 1, 2017
I suppose you thought the leading European nations were going to take President Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris climate accord lying down. (Of the accord, we are variously told that it imposes no mandates on anyone, you idiots, so Trump was lying about its inconvenient effects for America and there was no reason to withdraw; but it nevertheless must be remained in for global leadership’s sake lest the planet expire in a horrible way. If we were still in the accord, I might care to explore this conundrum further. But we’re not. At any rate, some might have expected the leaders of Europe to react in an ineffective and entirely symbolic manner.)
Nothing doing. President Emmanuel Macron of France weighed in immediately, making announcements of his own, and issuing a challenge to Americans, whom he felt comfortable appealing to directly.
Macron walked all over Trump by hijacking his “Make America Great Again” theme: …..
The climate accord isn’t about clean air — not even indirectly or obliquely. It’s not about pollutants that are thought to harm humans or animal life. Those are separate issues.
The climate accord is about a hypothetical effect of greenhouse gases on global climate patterns, with an obsessive focus on temperature. “Pollution” and demonstrated “environmental harm” are not at issue here. “Climate change,” even in theory, isn’t about dumping toxic substances in rivers, or human-manufactured chemicals weakening the ozone layer. It’s about carbon dioxide emissions and greenhouse-gas effects.
The hoary old bait-and-switch tactic of shouting “climate change” while showing unsightly images of roadside litter is one of the most ridiculous theme packages going, but it always gets pulled out of the drawer. That, of course, is because the whole thing isn’t about science or the climate or the environment to begin with; it’s about imposing collective solutions that must bring the entire globe under open-ended, unappealable mandates.
Never fear, however. Indivisible’s comrades in arms promptly undid the “clean air/pollution” theme by leaving a big, hypocrimonious pile of non-degradable trash across from the White House with their protest signs reading “LESS POLLUTION MORE SOLUTIONS”:
http://libertyunyielding.com/2017/06/01/frances-macron-shows-trump-whats-paris-accord-announcement/
Conservative smackdown: Elites versus scowling primitives and whining crybabies
By J.E. Dyer June 1, 2017
The occult power of Donald Trump to expose what everyone really is continues its hard-hacked path through the jungle of modern culture.
One of the things being clarified for us is that many in the conservative Old Guard are elitists before they are anything else.
I think a lot of people knew that already. But it has taken the Trump phenomenon to make me aware of how unforgiving some of these Old Guard folks are. They really are more concerned about social solecisms – i.e., what count as social solecisms in the circles they run in – than they are about whether liberty, the pursuit of truth, and the rule of law are actually being served.
That, at least, is how they come across.
For multiple reasons, I don’t SMH so much over the progressive left when it assumes, a priori, that it has some reason to “condescend” to – oh, let’s say, at random, Trump voters.
The progressive left has a different worldview to begin with. In one sense, it is far more in sync with the Charles Murrays of the world than it would ever acknowledge, assuming that race and class dictate an individual’s prospects, and that this must be taken as a given for policy and politics.
http://libertyunyielding.com/2017/06/01/conservative-smackdown-elites-versus-scowling-primitives-whining-crybabies/
Former Clinton CIA Director Woolsey: Nothing Wrong With Backchannels – Real Scandal Is Illegal Leaks
ACLU Opposes Anti-FGM Bill
A bill introduced in Maine to criminalize female genital mutilation (FGM) in minors is being opposed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
Speaking before the state legislature’s Committee of Criminal Justice and Public Safety Oamshri Amarasingham, a lawyer and policy director at the ACLU in Maine, said the ACLU opposes the bill in part because it would expand Maine’s criminal code and offenders would take up space in the state’s jails.
In addition, Amarasinghan told the committee, “Criminalizing new behavior does little to solve society’s problems and instead has contributed to the crises in funding and space in local jails.”
https://clarionproject.org/aclu-opposing-anti-fgm-bill-maine/
Obama’s Legacy, a Nuclear Iran?
Editor’s Note: May 24, 2017: On May 17, the Trump administration renewed a waiver of sanctions preventing U.S. companies from selling to or dealing with Iran, thus extending the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) that allows Iran to continue enriching uranium with restrictions. Days later, President Trump attacked Iran in unprecedented terms in a high-profile speech in Saudi Arabia. Though seemingly contradictory, the moves follow the advice offered weeks earlier in the below article by Emily B. Landau from the Spring 2017 issue of Middle East Quarterly.
There is little doubt that Barack Obama deems the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) of July 2015 to be his crowning foreign policy achievement and an important pillar of his presidential legacy. To his mind, the deal is a shining nonproliferation success story achieved via peaceful diplomacy and an important catalyst to improving decades-long, moribund U.S.-Iranian relations.
But, Obama’s assessment is wrong. The JCPOA has many flaws and weaknesses, and it is important to assess the president’s role in the process that produced this dubious deal: What happened on the ground, how Obama’s perceptions of nuclear disarmament colored his attitudes toward Iran, and the tactics he used to marginalize criticism and mobilize support for a flawed deal at the domestic level.
It is equally important to examine to what lengths the president went in order to protect his problematic deal after it was presented, and at what cost. What legacy on Iran has Obama left for the next administration?
https://clarionproject.org/obama-legacy-nuclear-iran/
“Obama’s Legacy, a Nuclear Iran?”
If not, it wasn’t for a lack of trying.
Examine, examine. Then…
Lock Him Up!
For about 999 years and 1 day.
Remember Iran and NORK are partners, what one has the other has, Iran has nukes and NORK has missiles that can reach Hawaii.
Selling Out Pentecost to Islam
by Geert Wilders
June 2, 2017 at 10:00 am
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10471/netherlands-pentecost-islam
Next Sunday, Christians are celebrating the feast of Pentecost. A Protestant church in the Netherlands is using the occasion to propose the abolishment of the public holiday for the second day of Pentecost. The Dutch have officially been enjoying this holiday since 1815, but the church wants it replaced by an official holiday on Eid-al-Fitr, the day marking the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
With its proposal, the Christian group says, it wants “to do justice to diversity in religion.” That is politically-correct claptrap. Browsing through today’s papers, I can, however, understand why many Dutch are in a festive mood once Ramadan is over! These days, the headlines are full of incidents, which De Telegraaf, the leading newspaper in the Netherlands, describes as Ramadan rellen (Ramadan riots).
Suppose Christians would, on an annual basis, start to riot after leaving church on Pentecost and demolish property, arson cars, attack police, throw stones through the neighbor’s windows. Suppose the police would feel obliged to mark the Christian Lent in the calendar as days of heightened tensions. Would we not begin to wonder whether there was something wrong with Christianity?
Afghanistan: Protesters rallying over truck bomb blast killed in Kabul clashes
Several protesters were reportedly killed and dozens of police officers injured in Kabul on Friday, when clashes erupted between demonstrators and police.
More than 1,000 demonstrators had gathered to commemorate the victims of a fatal truck bomb blast from earlier in the week and also to demand the resignation of Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and Chief Executive Officer Abdullah Abdullah.
Afghanistan: 7 demonstrators reported killed as clashes erupt at Kabul anti-government protest
Martin -No candles? No teddybears?
ROFL
Germany: Trump’s decision to pull US out of Paris deal ‘utterly regrettable’ – Merkel
German Chancellor Angela Merkel called US’ decision to pull out of the Paris Agreement “utterly regrettable” and pledged “more decisive action than ever” on climate change, speaking from Berlin on Friday.
SOT, Angela Merkel, German Chancellor (German): “The US’ decision to pull out of the Paris Agreement is utterly regrettable, and that is me expressing myself in a very restrained language. The Paris Agreement continues to be one of the corner stones of global cooperation and this agreement is indispensable to reach the goals of the 2030 Agenda. After the announcement made by the US administration yesterday evening it is necessary to turn our attention to the future. This decision must not and will not deter anyone who feels beholden to the protection of our Earth. On the contrary, with all the determination we will unite our efforts in Germany, Europe and across the globe to face and successfully overcome one the biggest challenges as the climate change.”
Belgium: ‘No backsliding’ on Paris climate agreement – Juncker
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said there can be no “backsliding” on the Paris climate change deal, speaking at the EU-China Business Summit Forum in Brussels, Friday. Juncker’s comments come after on Thursday US President Donald Trump announced that the US’s will drop out of the agreement.
Juncker said, “China and the European Union are aligned in the need for international solutions. Nowhere is that more important than in leading the global clean energy transition and the implementation, the full implementation of the Paris agreement.”
USA: Clinton discusses Russian alleged interference in US elections at Book Expo
Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke to a crowd at the Jacob Javits Convention Centre in New York City, Thursday, in an event to promote her two upcoming books.
The former presidential candidate reflected on her experience in the 2016 presidential elections, as well as voiced her criticism of the current US administration and concerns over alleged Russian interference in the elections.
“Obviously I’m particularly concerned about the role that Russia played and the very serious interference that we know they were responsible for in our most fundamental democratic act,” the former presidential candidate said, adding that “it is deeply troubling and it also worrisome that it could cause lasting damage to our institutions.”
Clinton is set to publish two books, one of which is memoire, and the other is a children’s book.
Hillary Clinton compares Trump supporters to genocidal terrorists
The nut in Portland was a Berni supporter.
It was the Hillary people who were attacking the Trump supporters, note how stupid she thinks we are.
she is projecting her own faults on to her political opponents, she thinks she is the good guy in this fight and she knows her flaws, that means here enemies must be incredibly evil.
“Clinton is set to publish two books, one of which is memoire, and the other is a children’s book.”
How will anyone be able to tell the difference? Both will be total fantasies.
Daily Mail columnist reacts to US exit from climate accord
Tucker: Trump gets US out of bad deal and left melts down
The Mayor is dodging the question, he can’t answer the question so he is trying to baffle us with BS.
He did the right thing.
“Fears of ‘another Rochdale’ as police probe 200 cases of child exploitation in West Yorkshire town where girl, 13, was raped by gang who ‘lined up’ and took turns to attack her”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4565862/Fears-Rochdale-West-Yorkshire-town.html#comments-4565862
The UK are now waiting for elected Muslim leaders to say this is normal and expected in a Multicultural Society.
Climate action ‘unstoppable’, nations should stay the course: UN
the daily caller – Religious Left Decries Trump’s Paris Accord Decision
The religious left came out in force Thursday to protest President Donald Trump’s decision to back out of the Paris Accord, concerned that the decision would hurt both the poor and those affected by world hunger.
Catholic, Protestant, Jewish and interfaith organizations who typically support liberal climate change policies fervently decried Trump’s decision as a death knell for the poor and a commitment to furthering global catastrophes, even those not directly related to climate change.
Leaders of various faith based and humanitarian organizations placed responsibility for the continuance of everything from sickness related deaths to world hunger squarely on Trump’s shoulders.
“The world will not be able to end hunger without addressing climate change,” said Asma Lateef, director of Bread For the World Institute. “Unfortunately, President Trump’s actions today have made it that much more difficult to reach this goal.”
Bishop Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo, director of the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy of Sciences, called the decision “a huge slap in the face” to the Vatican in light of Trump’s recent visit with Pope Francis, reports Religion News Service. The Pope gave Trump a copy of “Laudato Si,” his second encyclical, which warns of climate change and its global effects.
Given that supporters of leftist climate change policies have typically invoked the example of Galileo in defending those policies from religious skeptics, the left now aligning with the Catholic Church on scientific matters comes as an abrupt shift in ideology.
Kyle Meyaard-Schaap, spokesperson and national organizer for Young Evangelicals for Climate Action, issued an ominous warning to Trump in light of his decision. “We reject your disdain for the wellbeing of those suffering from the impacts of a changing climate,” said Meyaard-Schaap. “We bear witness to your moral failure, and we will not forget it.”
The leaders of several Jewish organizations also denounced the decision to back out of the climate accord.
“We stand proudly as Jews who cherish the Earth to object in the strongest terms to the President’s shortsighted and damaging decision,” said Robert Bank, president and CEO of American Jewish World Service.
Pesner called for Trump “to reverse this decision and advance policies that will provide meaningful climate solutions.”
In reality, the economic effects of the Paris Agreement on those affected by poverty and world hunger is actually negative, as demonstrated in a report from The Heritage Foundation. The report asserts that staying in Paris would raise energy prices, affecting poor Americans the most.
“The result is fewer opportunities for American workers, lower incomes, less economic growth, and higher unemployment,” reads the report.
The concept that liberal climate change policies actually hurt the poor is echoed by Cornell University Professor Ravi Kanbur, whose findings assert that “efforts to mitigate climate change frequently force governments to enact policies that hurt the poor.”
Despite vociferous concern from the religious left, some evangelicals on the right, like Michigan Rep. Tim Walberg, maintain that the issue is in God’s hands.
“I believe there’s climate change. I believe there’s been climate change since the beginning of time. I think there are cycles,” Walberg said. “Do I think that man has some impact? Yeah, of course. Do I think man can change the entire universe? No. Why do I believe that? Well, as a Christian I believe that there is a creator in God who’s much bigger than us. And I’m confident that if there’s a real problem, He can take care of it.”
http://dailycaller.com/2017/06/02/religious-left-decries-trump-paris-accord-decision/
Leftism IS a religion.
That’s an either/or deal for Judaism, at least.
You can’t be a Torah-observant Jew without compromising Leftist core dogma.
You can’t be a human being using critical thought without violating a lot of leftist dogma.
VATICAN URGES MUSLIMS TO JOIN ‘BELIEVERS IN ONE GOD’ TO COMBAT CLIMATE CHANGE IN ANNUAL RAMADAN MESSAGE
Message released weeks before end of Muslim holy month and the day after Donald Trump withdraws from Paris Agreement
The Vatican has used its annual message to Muslims at the end of Ramadan – the annual month of fasting – to reiterate its commitment to combating climate change just a day after Donald Trump, the US president, withdrew the United States from the Paris Agreement.
Political and religious leaders have been quick to condemn Trump’s announcement from the White House on Thursday that the accord “hamstrings the United States” because it was “less about the climate and more about other countries obtaining a financial advantage over the United States”.
In its annual Ramadan message the Vatican said that Christians and Muslims, believers in one God, have an obligation to safeguard the world God created.
“Our vocation to be guardians of God’s handiwork is not optional, nor is it tangential to our religious commitment as Christians and Muslims: It is an essential part of it,” said Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran and Bishop Miguel Angel Ayuso Guixot, respectively president and secretary of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue.
The message – which was dated 19 May but was released at the Vatican today, three weeks before the end of Ramadan on 24 June. Each year, the council for interreligious dialogue publishes a message to the world’s Muslims in preparation for the celebration of the end of Ramadan, a month of fasting.
The pontifical council chooses a theme annually to promote dialogue by “offering insights on current and pressing issues.” The theme chosen for 2017 was “Caring for Our Common Home,” which echoes Pope Francis’ encyclical on the environment, “Laudato Si’.”
“As believers, our relationship with God should be increasingly shown in the way we relate to the world around us,” Cardinal Tauran and Bishop Ayuso wrote.
Pope Francis’ encyclical, they noted, was addressed “to the whole of humanity” and drew attention “to the harm our lifestyles and decisions are causing to the environment, to ourselves and to our fellow human beings”.
“What is needed,” they said, “is education, spiritual openness and a ‘global ecological conversion’ to adequately address this challenge.”
The encyclical’s reference to the earth as a “‘common home,’ a dwelling for all the members of the human family,” they said, means that “no one person, nation or people can impose exclusively their understanding of our planet”.
The message also went on to discuss “certain philosophical, religious and cultural perspectives that present obstacles which threaten humanity’s relationship with nature.”
The message repeated Pope Francis’ call for “a new dialogue about how we are shaping the future of our planet … since the environmental challenge we are undergoing, and its human roots, concern and affects us all”.
http://www.thetablet.co.uk/news/7222/0/vatican-urges-muslims-to-join-believers-in-one-god-to-combat-climate-change-in-annual-ramadan-message
Greeting to Muslims to mark month of Ramadan, ‘Id al–Fitr
For the Islamic Month of Ramadan and the feast of ‘Id al–Fitr, the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue has published a message to Muslims entitled “Christians and Muslims: Caring for our Common Home.
In the message, Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, the President of the Counci (PCID), offers best wishes to Muslims and “prayerful solidarity during this time of fasting in the month of Ramadan and the celebration of ‘Id al–Fitr that concludes it.”
The PCID points out that this year it is drawing from Pope Francis’ encyclical “Caring for our Common Home”, which it notes is addressed to the whole of humanity.
Pope Francis, Cardinal Tauran says, “draws attention to the harm our lifestyles and decisions are causing to the environment, to ourselves and to our fellow human beings”.
The greeting goes on to say that “as believers, our relationship with God should be increasingly shown in the way we relate to the world around us. Our vocation to be guardians of God’s handiwork is not optional, nor it is tangential to our religious commitment as Christians and Muslims: it is an essential part of it.”
The Cardinal concludes with, “May the religious insights and blessings that flow from fasting, prayer and good works sustain you, with God’s help, on the path of peace and goodness, to care for all the members of the human family and for the whole of creation.” 🙂 🙂 🙂
The month of Ramadan concludes with celebration of ‘Id al–Fitr on June 25th.
http://en.radiovaticana.va/news/2017/06/02/greeting_to_muslims_to_mark_month_of_ramadan,_%E2%80%98id_al%E2%80%93fitr/1316433
Vatican Message to Muslims for Ramadan
Christians and Muslims: Caring for our Common Home
Christians and Muslims:
Caring for our Common Home
Dear Muslim Brothers and Sisters,
We wish to assure you of our prayerful solidarity during this time of fasting in the month of Ramadan and the celebration of ‘Id al–Fitr that concludes it, and we extend to you our heartfelt best wishes for serenity, joy and abundant spiritual gifts.
This year’s Message is especially timely and significant: fifty years ago, in 1967, only three years after the establishment of this Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue (PCID) by Pope Paul VI on 19 May 1964, the first Message was sent for this occasion.
In the years that have followed, two Messages have been particularly important: the Message of 1991, during the pontificate of Pope John Paul II, entitled “The Path of Believers is the Way of Peace”, and the Message of 2013, in the first year of Pope Francis’ pontificate, entitled “Promoting Mutual Respect through Education”. Both Messages were signed by the Pontiffs.
Among the many activities of the PCID for promoting dialogue with Muslims, the most important and longstanding is this yearly Message for Ramadan and for ‘Id al-Fitr addressed to Muslims throughout the world. To share this Message in the widest way possible, the PCID is assisted by local Catholic communities, as well as Papal Representatives present in almost every country.
The experience of both our religious communities affirms the value of this Message for promoting cordial relations between Christian and Muslim neighbours and friends, by offering insights on current and pressing issues.
For this year, the PCID offers a theme related to Pope Francis’ Encyclical Letter “Laudato Si’– On Care for Our Common Home”, which was addressed not only to Catholics and Christians, but to the whole of humanity.
Pope Francis draws attention to the harm our lifestyles and decisions are causing to the environment, to ourselves and to our fellow human beings. There are, for example, certain philosophical, religious, and cultural perspectives that present obstacles which threaten humanity’s relationship with nature. To take up this challenge involves all of us, regardless of whether or not we profess a religious belief.
The Encyclical’s title itself is expressive: the world is a “common home”, a dwelling for all the members of the human family. Therefore, no one person, nation or people can impose exclusively their understanding of our planet . This is why Pope Francis appeals “for a new dialogue about how we are shaping the future of our planet…, since the environmental challenge we are undergoing, and its human roots, concern and affects us all” (n. 14).
Pope Francis states that “the ecological crisis is also a summons to profound interior conversion” (no. 217). What is needed is education, spiritual openness and a “global ecological conversion” to adequately address this challenge. As believers, our relationship with God should be increasingly shown in the way we relate to the world around us. Our vocation to be guardians of God’s handiwork is not optional, nor it is tangential to our religious commitment as Christians and Muslims: it is an essential part of it.
May the religious insights and blessings that flow from fasting, prayer and good works sustain you, with God’s help, on the path of peace and goodness, to care for all the members of the human family and for the whole of creation.
With these sentiments, we wish you once again serenity, joy and prosperity.
From the Vatican, 19 May 2017
Jean-Louis Cardinal Tauran
President
Bishop Miguel Ángel Ayuso Guixot, M.C.C.l.
Secretary
[Original text: English] [Vatican-provided text]
https://zenit.org/articles/vatican-message-to-muslims-for-ramadan-8/
drivel – get the silver hammer~
New Yorkers celebrate iftar in front of Trump Tower
Ramadan in New York: Muslims break fast in front of Trump Tower
Ramadan Drummers: Ancient tradition used to wake the faithful
Why don’t they enforce the noise pollution laws?
USA CNN – Man fights for his right to wear colander
The authors are good; Olli Heinonen was Deputy Director General of the IAEA. Links to PDF.
Is Iran Mass Producing Advanced Gas Centrifuge Components? Can we even know with the way the Iran deal has been structured and implemented so far?
The head of Iran’s nuclear program says Iran has the capability to initiate mass production of advanced centrifuges on short notice. The mass production of these centrifuges (or their components) would greatly expand Iran’s ability to sneak out or breakout to nuclear weapons capability. If the statement is true, Iran could have already stockpiled many advanced centrifuge components, associated raw materials, and the equipment necessary to operate a large number of advanced centrifuges.?
The U.S. and the IAEA need to determine the status of Iran’s centrifuge manufacturing capabilities, including the number of key centrifuge parts Iran has made and the amount of centrifuge equipment it has procured. They need to ensure that Iran’s centrifuge manufacturing is consistent with the intent of the nuclear deal. The Iranian statement illuminates significant weaknesses in the Iran deal that need to be fixed.
http://isis-online.org/uploads/isis-reports/documents/Mass_Production_of_Centrifuges_30May2017_Final.pdf
Palestinian statehood is a grave threat to Saudi Arabia
Even more than it endangers Israel, a Palestinian Arab state threatens Saudi Arabia and Jordan – and they know it.
Introducing President Trump to the assembled 50 Muslim/Sunni Presidents on May 21, 2017, King Salman of Saudi Arabia spent 8 pages of text excoriating the “Iranian Regime and its affiliated organizations such as Hezbollah and the Houtis, as well as ISIS (Daesh) and Al-Qaeda” for “attempts to exploit Islam as a cover for political purposes that fuel hatred, extremism, terrorism, and religious and sectarian conflicts.”
The Saudis have realized that the Iranian knife is at the Saudi and Sunni jugular vein. The Saudis need all the military help they can get and have finally come to understand how militarily vital Israel’s existence is to the safety of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/230455
[Warning: Lots of annoying junk at link – I turn off Java.]
“The victim, who is a Hungarian national named Laura G., was attacked on her way home on the night of August 27, Bild reports. Near an underpass, 23-year-old Isaac N. suddenly appeared out of nowhere and grabbed the woman’s arm, stating:
“We’re going to have sex now.”
When Laura refused, N. beat her in the face, knocking her to the ground. Next, the man pulled the woman’s trousers down, but she nevertheless managed to make a run for it. The victim was then intercepted by 29-year-old Medhanie A. and Dawit T., 22, who are both Eritrean nationals.
The men subsequently dragged the by now defenceless Laura under the viaduct where all three of them took turns in raping her. During her ordeal, Laura’s mouth was kept shut by the attackers “in order to prevent her from screaming,” the prosecutor yesterday stated in court. He described the gang rape as “brutal.””
https://theoldcontinent.eu/german-eri/
The Muslim Brotherhood.
Three More ‘Asian’ Men
“Led away by ‘Good Samaritan… who gang-raped her in a back street’: Harrowing CCTV footage shows moment man takes woman, 34, through Covent Garden before horrific attack”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4565402/CCTV-footage-shows-woman-led-away-gang-raped.html#comments
David Goldman, aka Spengler:
Merkel Throws Trump in the Briar Patch
Donald Trump and Angela Merkel now agree about the main issues in U.S.-German relations. “The times in which we could rely fully on others — they are a way past us,” Merkel told a beer-tent rally of her political party. “We Europeans really have to take our fate into our own hands.”
That is just what President Trump has been telling the Europeans since the beginning of last year’s U.S. election campaign, demanding in particular that Europe pay more for its own defense. Both Trump and Merkel, moreover, say they want the euro to strengthen against the U.S. dollar. That buries the two bones of contention between Berlin and Washington. Everything else is political posturing and fake news.
https://pjmedia.com/spengler/2017/05/30/merkel-throws-trump-in-the-briar-patch/
A split has emerged between the U.S. and its European allies. And there’s probably no going back.
BY JEET HEER, THE NEW REPUBLIC
Trump’s European Trip Was a Watershed Moment
Like a jilted spouse who has finally had enough, Western Europe is going its own way. German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced the split on Sunday, shortly after President Donald Trump concluded an official visit to the continent that created a deep rift in the heart of NATO.
“The times when we could fully rely on others are to some extent over—I experienced that in the last few days,” Merkel declared, speaking at a Bavarian beer hall rally. “We Europeans must really take our destiny into our own hands.” At the end of her speech she took a swig from an oversized beer mug, smiling, as if relieved to be done with it.
https://newrepublic.com/article/142938/trumps-european-trip-watershed-moment
He said they couldn’t free load off us on defense and the left says he is the one who has damaged the relationship.
Wait until it hits the fan with a nuclear armed Iran or when the invaders come out and attack in Europe and see how fast they want the US back.
Caroline Glick:
Sarsour and the progressive zeitgeist
What’s the real reason Linda Sarsour was invited to be a commencement speaker at CUNY?
In US academic tradition, university administrators choose commencement speakers they believe embody the zeitgeist of their institutions and as such, will be able to inspire graduating students to take that zeitgeist with them into the world outside.
In this context, it makes perfect sense that Ayman El-Mohandes, dean of the Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy at City University of New York (CUNY), invited Linda Sarsour to serve as commencement speaker at his faculty’s graduation ceremony.
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Sarsour-and-the-progressive-zeitgeist-494273
[Keep the Java off for the Jerusalem ComPost, too.]
Jonathan Spyer:
Why Eastern Syria is Essential to Containing Iran
Events taking place in a remote stretch of southeast Syrian desert in recent days reveal the current direction of US Middle East strategy.
An observable ratcheting up of US and allied air and special forces activity in eastern Syria is currently under way. This in turn appears to derive from a new, hard-nosed understanding of the nature of the strategic game in the large, strife-ridden area covering what was once Syria and Iraq.
On Thursday, May 18th, US aircraft launched strikes on a column of Assad regime vehicles including tanks and earth-movers, 18 miles from the town of al-Tanf, on the Syrian-Iraqi border. The strikes took place after the vehicles entered an agreed deconfliction zone around the town. US and British special forces are currently training “vetted partner forces,” i.e. Syrian Sunni Arab rebels, in the town.
http://www.meforum.org/6717/eclipsing-caliphate-the-fight-for-eastern-syria
How Guile and Guts Won Israel’s Future, And Today’s Optimism
Shortly before the Six-Day War broke out, I attended an Israeli Defense Forces demonstration of military prowess at a site outside Tel Aviv. We foreign reporters were unimpressed as young Israeli recruits scrambled clumsily over the sand dues.
http://www.nysun.com/foreign/how-guile-and-guts-won-israels-future-and-todays/89994/
The Six-Day War: A Brief History
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 483, June 1, 2017
Trump’s Air Strike on al-Tanf: No to the Shiite Crescent
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The two recent US air strikes on a Syrian convoy heading to the al-Tanf military base in the southern Syrian Desert a few miles from the Jordanian-Syrian border have major strategic importance. The attack signaled for the first time since the Syrian civil war broke out in 2011 that the US would not countenance the reemergence of the Iranian-controlled Shiite crescent that Iran had created through Teheran, Baghdad, Damascus, and Beirut after the US exited Iraq in 2010.
https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/syria-tanf-airstrike/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hphs_-fbhwQ
Hat tip: Xanthippa
Thank You, there has been something in the back of my mind saying that the EMP fears were false but I haven’t bothered to dig to find out what it was telling me not to worry. The only thing i disagree with in the video is his assessment that NORK is going to do something without Chinese approval.
Sarah Halimi was beaten to death in Paris by a Muslim attacker reciting verses from the Quran. The press covered it up.
At a press conference held this week by the victim’s family and their lawyer, Jean-Alexandre Buchinger, new details emerged on the savage April 4 beating and killing of Sarah Halimi, 67, in the Belleville neighborhood of Paris. Contrary to assertions made earlier by the police and the French press…it appears that Halimi’s murderer did target his victim because of her Jewishness, and recited verses of the Quran both before and after he killed her. Why was this information not reported at the time?
[…]
The Halimi family is now calling for a reclassification of the murder as a terrorist act with torture and with anti-Semitism as an aggravating circumstance. Yet, if the anti-Jewish impulse is indisputable, describing the murder as terrorism seems dubious, as everything indicates that [the killer, known to the public only as] Kobili T., acted on impulse.
In fact, Sarah Halimi’s murder looks a lot like the killing of Sébastien Selam [another Jew murdered by a Muslim] that occurred in 2003, coincidentally in the same neighborhood. . . . It is difficult to draw an equivalence between the sudden upsurge of a murderous impulse and a planned killing that came at the end of months of preparation and training.
What should be understood is how the violent anti-Semitic impulse serves as a base and a justification for subsequent terror planning. In 2014, the year preceding the major terror wave that continues to this day in France, the figures on spontaneous anti-Jewish aggressions as given by the Ministry of Interior reached 800—two a day, directed against a total population of 500,000 people. . . .
Isn’t it striking, also, that, from the Kouachi brothers [who carried out the Charlie Hebdo/Hypercacher killings] to the Bataclan commando members, the killers involved in recent terror attacks voiced their hatred of Jews and “Zionists” while committing their deeds, regardless of whether their actual targets were Jewish?
http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/235532/sarah-halimi-france-anti-semitism
From May 19, I’m catching up. Satisfying article:
FAREWELL, ISRAEL’S STATE-RUN TV. You won’t be missed.
Saying goodbye to a channel that embodied the Founding Fathers’ authoritarian, socialist beliefs
http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/234343/farewell-israels-state-run-tv
St. Louis: 30+ Muslims Arrested in Multi-State Illegal Cigarette, Money Laundering Op
Indicted were the following individuals:
Mohammed Almuttan, aka Abu Ali, 35, St. Louis, MO
Rami Almuttan, aka Abu Louay, 33, St. Louis, MO
Hisham Mutan, aka Abu Mohamed, 41, St. Louis, MO
Saddam Mutan, aka Abu Ali, 24, St. Louis, MO
Mazin Abdelsalam, aka Abu Mohammad, 38, St. Louis, MO
Najeh Muhana, aka Abu Yazan, 41, Fairview, NJ
Fares Muhana, aka Abu Yamama, 40, Cliffside Park, NJ
Ayoub Qaiymah, aka Abu Faysal, 23, Richmond, VA
Naser Abid, 23, Chicago, IL
Yadgar Barzanji, aka Abu Siver, 47, St. Louis, MO
Wafaa Alwan, 50, St. Louis, MO
Ahmed Abuali, aka Bazilla, 31, North Bergen, NJ
Mohammed Kayed, aka Mohammed Fayez, 21, Clifton, NJ
Momen Abuali, 20, Little Ferry, NJ
Firat Sevindik, 42, Cliffside Park, NJ
Mohammed Mustafa, 30, North Bergen, NJ
Mohammad Karashqah, Abu Yazid, 47, North Bergen, NJ
Fayez Sheikha, 46, Mishawaka, IN
Jihad Shihadeh, Abu Malik, 58, Chicago Ridge, IL
Ismael Abadi, 57, Carol Stream, IL
Abed Hamed, Abed Fawzan, 39, Greenville, NC
Maher Hamed, Abu Alazara, 33, Swansea, IL
Abdel Adi, 25, Oak Lawn, IL
Muhanad Khatib, Abu Alamin, 36, Chicago, IL
Eyad Awad, 38, Chicago, IL
Dale Garbin, 60, Kankakee, IL
Hayder Al Fatli, 40, St. Louis, MO
Kutlay Guvener, 35, Chicago, IL
Saad Al Mallak, 30, Dittmer, MO
Hassan Abdelatif, 29, Collinsville, IL
Mahajir Naz, 32, St. Louis, MO
Talal Abuajaj, 23, St. Louis, MO
Basem Hamdan, aka Abu Ramiz, 57, St. Louis, MO
Zainal Saleh, 29, St. Louis, MO and
Ibrahim Awad, 39, St. Louis, MO
This bust should not be confused with the 43 non-resident Muslims arrested in cigarette/money laundering bust a few weeks ago in Virginia.
Last week, convenience stores across St. Louis were raided by federal and local law enforcement agencies, startling regular shoppers and neighbors who watched as agents removed merchandise and other items. Now, thanks to a 29-page federal indictment filed against 35 defendants, we know why.
The indictment alleges that some of the defendants conspired to shuttle low-tax Missouri cigarettes to high-tax markets in Chicago and New Jersey. Other defendants are facing charges for manufacturing synthetic weed and selling the product “on a daily basis” through convenience stores, according to a press release.
The cigarette scheme, though, appears to have been a longstanding conspiracy orchestrated through several local convenience stores, which the defendants “owned or operated to create the appearance of legitimate cigarette purchases.”
For instance, in early July 2015, Najeh Muhana and a second defendant were stopped in Indiana while driving a van, and police allegedly discovered 2,460 cartons of Missouri tax-stamped cigarettes, which had been purchased earlier that day. Four months later, Muhana was busted once again in Indiana, this time with approximately $240,000 in cash, with which he allegedly intended to purchase more Missouri cigarettes.
In a statement, James P. Shroba, special agent in charge of the DEA’s St. Louis division, touted the collaboration between local and federal agencies during the two-year investigation.
“These indictments and arrests reflect the commitment of the DEA and our federal, state and local law enforcement partners to dismantle these types of unprincipled business operations that are profiting from human frailty,” Shroba said.
If convicted, the 35 defendants could face from five to twenty years in prison, not to mention fines up to $1 million. Read the prosecutors’ full press release below. (link on the page )
https://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/2017/06/02/muslims-arrested-multi-state-cig-money-laund-op/
Greece accepts improved 600 million euro bid for Athens airport concession
Greece’s privatization agency said on Wednesday it had accepted an improved 600 million euro ($674 million) bid from the operator of Athens airport to retain the concession for a further 20 years.
Under a third bailout signed with the European Union and the International Monetary Fund in 2015, Greece promised to renew the concession agreement for the airport, Greece’s largest. The concession will now run until 2046.
Greece’s privatization fund, HRADF, had on Tuesday sought an improved bid from Athens International Airport (AIA), which has been operating the terminal facility since 1995. It did not disclose AIA’s original offer.
“AIA’s improved offer provides a total cost of 600 million euros, including the corresponding VAT. The net proceeds from the privatization program amount to 483.87 million,” HRADF said.
German-based airport manager AviAlliance and Greek group Copelouzos together have a 45 percent stake in AIA. HRADF holds a 30 percent stake and the Greek government 25 percent.
HRADF said it expected additional revenues for the state of around 894 million euros from the 20 year extension.
Completion of the transaction is subject to approval by European authorities and the Greek parliament, HRADF said.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-eurozone-greece-privatisation-airport-idUSKBN18R2B9
Greek privitisation agency accepts €1.5bn bid to extend Athens airport contract
Greece’s privatisation agency TAIPED has accepted an improved bid worth €1.5bn from the state-controlled Athens International Airport company for a 20-year extension of its current operating concession.
The agreement opens the way for TAIPED (The Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund) to sell its 30 per cent stake in the airport operator later this year.
The Syriza government is committed to privatising the airport, Greece’s largest, under the terms of the country’s €86bn third international bailout.
TAIPED said the airport company bid €600m to retain the operating concession until 2046, while the Greek state would receive an additional €890m in revenues over the 20-year period.
The other shareholders in the company are the Greek state with 25 per cent and AviAlliance of Germany, which holds a 45 per cent stake together with Copelouzos, a private Greek group.
The transaction is subject to approval by the EU’s competition and internal market authorities and the Greek parliament, TAIPED added.
Fraport, the German airport operator, last month took over the operation of 14 regional Greek airports, mainly on popular tourist islands, under a 40-year concession agreement. Fraport and Copelouzos, its Greek partner, paid €1.2bn for the concession.
https://www.ft.com/content/da323e64-4f02-32a0-98b9-42487e2415c9
Anti-Semitism in Greece May Be Highest in Europe: Uprooting anti-Semitism in Greece, starting in the classroom
Experts are urging authorities to take active measures to combat anti-Semitism in Greece after a recent study confirmed levels of hatred toward Jews believed to be the highest in Europe.
“Greece has rates of anti-Semitism matching those recorded in countries that neighbor Israel rather than ones in the European Union,” said Elias Dinas, a political scientist at the University of Oxford.
A report published last month by the Thessaloniki branch of the Heinrich Boll Foundation, a political think tank affiliated with the German Green Party, found anti-Jewish sentiment to be as strong on the far left as on the right.
Senior clergymen of the Orthodox Church, which has not officially absolved the Jews for the death of Christ, often make anti-Semitic remarks. Newspapers regularly feature anti-Jewish conspiracy theories, as well as cartoons with anti-Semitic themes or caricatures.
“There is this shared conviction that Greeks have been treated more unfairly and suffered more pain than any other people,” Dinas said. “This creates a feeling of inferiority, envy and competition.”
According to polls, 70% believe that Greek people have suffered a genocide that is worse or similar to that suffered by the Jews.
http://www.ekathimerini.com/218850/article/ekathimerini/comment/uprooting-anti-semitism-in-greece-starting-in-the-classroom
Soros Aligned NGO Under Investigation for Sexually Abusing Migrants in Greece (breitbart, Jun 2, 2017)
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/06/02/soros-aligned-ngo-investigation-sexually-abusing-migrants-greece/
“U.S. charity Mercy Corps is under investigation by the Greek government on allegations that members of the group sexually abused migrants in Greek asylum centres.
Two members of the pro-migrant charity are under investigation by Greek authorities who say they sexually abused asylum seekers, though have not gone into the details of the abuse. The charity is also one of many NGOs that receives funding from the European Union, Austrian newspaper Kurier reports.
The two members in question have been relieved of their duties whilst the investigation is taking place. Mercy Corps also added they had conducted their own internal investigation into the allegations of sexual abuse.
According to their website, George Soros’s Open Society Foundations is one of the NGO’s “foundation and corporate partners”…”
New Migrant Route Opens to Spain, With Arrivals Trebling in 2017 (breitbart, Jun 2, 2017)
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/06/02/new-migrant-route-opening-up-in-spain/
“A third migrant route appears to be opening up across the Mediterranean as the number of migrants landing along Spain’s coastline has tripled this year.
Between January and April 2016, some 1,026 migrants arrived in Europe via Spain. But that number has shot up in the same period of 2017 to more than 3,300, making the Spanish route the fastest growing in the Mediterranean.
In the last week alone, there has been a fresh surge in arrivals. On Wednesday, more than 100 migrants were picked up by the Spanish coastguard from three boats near Alborán, a rocky outcrop halfway between Spain and Morocco, The Telegraph has reported.
Those migrants were in addition to the more than 200 plucked from six boats along the Andalusian coastline within a week – more than half of them on Saturday alone.
Although the proximity to Morocco makes Spain an obvious target – and a historical crossing point for migrants moving northward to Europe – cooperation between the Spanish and Moroccan governments had kept numbers subdued even at the height of the migrant crisis in 2015/16.
But Turkey’s actions in quelling migration to Greece have all but closed off the Eastern route, sending migrant numbers plummeting to 7,043 in the first four months of this year, down from a staggering 156,267 over the same period in 2016, and driving the migrants westwards.
Ten years ago, the route through Spain was used mainly by economic migrants from North Africa looking for quick passage across the sea. But conflicts in Mali, Sudan, Nigeria, and the Central African Republic are re-energising the route, which is also being used by a handful of Syrians.
Consequently, deaths in Spanish waters now exceed those in Greek territory; 51 migrants have perished on the crossing to Spain this year, while 38 have drowned in the Aegean Sea. Both pale in comparison to the close to 1,500 who have died attempting to reach Italy so far this year.
The number of migrants arriving in Spain are still low compared to those seen in Italy – which itself has seen a 50 per cent rise on 2016 figures, with in excess of 60,000 arriving so far this year, mostly in Sicily. But the emergence of the new western route just as the eastern route is closing down suggests the migrant crisis is a problem that is not going away soon.”