Reader’s links for July 18, 2017

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  1. Spain: Activists hold die-in flashmob on Melilla beach over refugees’ plight

    Some 500 activists from the Caravana Abriendo Fronteras organisation held a rally on a beach in the Spanish encalve of Melilla, located in mainland Africa, Tuesday, in protest against EU and Spanish refugee policies and against violations of refugees’ rights.

  2. RT – Russia: Veselnitskaya ready to clarify Trump Jr meeting to US Senate

    SOT Nataliya Veselnitskaya, lawyer (Russian): “I’m ready to clarify the situation behind this mass hysteria – but only through lawyers or testifying in the Senate.

    SOT, reporter (Russian): “You’re ready to go to Senate?

    SOT, Nataliya Veselnitskaya, lawyer (Russian): Yes, I’m ready – if I’m guaranteed safety. Because today I have to think about my safety first of foremost, about the safety of my family and my four children. It’s been revealed that Mr. Browder and his team have been gathering information about my family; they tried to find out whether I’m married or not, whether I have children or not. They found photos of my house and sent them to Kyle Parker. He’s a famous man in the House of Representatives, who worked for Mr Browder for many years – and not for congressmen or Congress. They shared all these details with representatives of the State Department. I don’t know why they need this.”

    SOT, Nataliya Veselnitskaya, lawyer (Russian): “I can only make assumptions here. I see today’s situation has been heating up for ten days or so – as a very well-orchestrated story concocted by one particular manipulator – and that is Mr. Browder. He is one of the greatest experts in the field of manipulating the mass media. I have no doubt that this whole information campaign is being spun, encouraged and organized by that very man – as revenge for his defeat in the ‘Perezvon’ company’s case in the Southern district of New York. He wasn’t able to convince the court with his lousy human tragedy that actually never happened, about the fate of a dead man – who he only learnt about after his death.

    SOT, reporter (Russian): Could you please clarify the role of the General Prosecutor’s office?

    SOT, Nataliya Veselnitskaya, lawyer (Russian): The General Prosecutor’s office of the Russian federation, when it comes to federal laws and the constitution, investigates criminal acts. In this situation, one shouldn’t seek to create a story and make something out of nothing. It’s not worth anything.

    SOT, reporter (Russian): But initially all this was formulated the way like you and the Prosecutor…

    SOT, Nataliya Veselnitskaya, lawyer (Russian): There is nothing about me and the General Prosecutor. Where am I and where is the prosecutor?”

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    Russian lawyer Nataliya Veselnitskaya confirmed that she was “ready to clarify the situation” around her meeting with the son of US President Donald Trump Donald Trump Jr, speaking to RT, in Moscow.

    On June 9, last year, US President Donald Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr, met with Natalia Veselnitskaya, alongside Trump’s presidential campaign chief Paul Manafort and Donald Trump’s son-in-law, now a Senior White House Advisor, Jared Kushner.

    • RT- Russia: US lobbyist fabricated story of Trump Jr’s meeting with Russian lawyer *EXCLUSIVE*

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      The dispute surrounding US President Donald Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr’s meeting with Russian lawyer Nataliya Veselnitskaya was masterminded by Magnitsky Act lobbyist William Browder claimed Veselnitskaya in an exclusive interview with RT in Moscow, on Tuesday

      • This can of worms just got a whole lot bigger because some of the people with the Russian Lawyer worked (at least part time) for the DNC and the Hillary campaign.

    • CNN – William Browder on New Details About Russian at Center of Trump JR. Controversy.

    • RT -Campaign is revenge for US lobbyist’s defeat in court’ – Laywer on Trump Jr. scandal

      Russian lawyer, Natalya Veselnitskaya, who’s caught up in a scandal over her meeting with Donald Trump Junior, has spoken exclusively to RT. Mainstream media in the U.S. has been speculating over possible ties between the Kremlin and team Trump. Veselnitskaya says she fears for her safety and believes she was framed by a man who’s lobbied for anti-Russian sanctions.

  3. Blinded vet: $8M settlement to terrorist makes no sense

    Sgt. Layne Morris speaks out on $8 million payday to Taliban soldier in settlement by Canada government, asking what kind of ‘sick, twisted ivory tower’ does Canadian PM Trudeau live in?
    #Tucker

  4. Paris police chief plans crackdown on police sirens to ease stress levels of Parisians (thelocal, Jul 18, 2017)
    https://www.thelocal.fr/20170718/paris-could-the-city-be-saying-au-revoir-to-the-sound-of-police-sirens

    “The noise of whaling police sirens in the French capital but you could soon be hearing them a lot less if the city’s new police chief gets his way.

    Everyone who’s been to Paris knows that the noise of sirens as police cars fly down the road is one of the city’s defining sounds, along with noisy mopeds and impatient drivers honking their horns.

    But this could all be set to change.

    The French capital’s new police chief Michel Delpuech has come out publicly against what he sees as the abuse of the “dual tone” siren used by the police and other emergency services, and plans to crack down on its use, Le Monde reported…”

  5. Muslim woman banned from divorcing husband while wearing headscarf (thelocal, Jul 18, 2017)
    https://www.thelocal.de/20170718/muslim-woman-banned-from-divorcing-husband-while-wearing-headscarf

    “A court in eastern Germany has told a Syrian woman that she is not allowed to appear in court for divorce proceedings against her husband unless she takes off her headscarf, Tagesspiegel reports.

    The woman’s lawyer received a letter from the presiding judge at the district court in Luckenwalde, informing her that “religiously motivated statements, such as the wearing of a headscarf, will not be allowed” during the court case, Tagesspiegel reported on Tuesday.

    The letter warned that the woman could face legal sanctions if she does not comply with the instruction. At the same time, it instructed her to appear in person for the proceedings, leaving her in an apparently impossible situation.

    The woman’s lawyer now plans to take legal measures against the court instruction, claiming it to be a breach of the constitution.

    Officials in courts in Germany have a duty of religious neutrality, and are generally not allowed to wear religious symbols.

    But civilians who appear in the court are not bound by the laws on religious neutrality. The Federal Constitutional Court ruled in 2006 that a judge has no right to expel a spectator from a court proceeding because they are wearing a headscarf.

    Defence lawyers are also not bound by rules on religious neutrality, and may wear a headscarf or other symbols of religiosity.

    The district court in Luckenwalde defended the decision, telling Tagesspiegel that the judge “is responsible for ensuring rules are adhered to in the courtroom, where religious symbols have no place.”

    The judge’s decision has already caused controversy in legal circles…”

  6. QUEBEC – Muslim cemetery: The story is not over, Couillard says

    Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard said he was disappointed with the results of a vote against opening a Muslim cemetery in St-Apollinaire, and said a great majority of Quebecers agree with him.

    In a press scrum on Tuesday in Edmonton, where he is attending the Council of the Federation meetings, Couillard emphasized that the cemetery project’s rejection was a result of a “very small number of people.”

    Thirty-six of 49 registered voters were entitled to vote in Sunday’s referendum – 16 voted yes, 19 voted no, with one ballot discarded.

    Rejecting criticism of the Quebec government’s failure to intervene during the campaign leading up to the vote in St-Apollinaire, Couillard said that the “story is not over” and that he sees “the need for the government to get involved in finding a solution.”

    Couillard said he believes it is “fundamental” that Muslim Quebecers have the guarantee of a cemetery.

    At a funeral following the Ste-Foy mosque shootings in January, Quebec City mayor Régis Labeaume promised Muslims in the capital “they would have their cemetery.” The shooting victims were buried in Montreal or abroad. A portion of the Jardins Québec multi-confessional cemetery in St-Augustin-de-Desmaures, some 30 kilometres west of Quebec City, has recently been reserved for Muslims.

    Labeaume said Monday he “regrets” the results in St-Apollinaire.

    Said Couillard on Tuesday: “We know this community, of course, especially since the tragic circumstances we have known. We will sit down with them, with the mayor of Quebec City… Let’s see if we can find a solution together.

    “I remember thousands of people on the streets calling for solidarity and affection for Muslims,” Couillard said, referring to solidarity gatherings after the Ste-Foy shooting. “That is what Quebec wants to see and hear.”

    http://montrealgazette.com/news/quebec/muslim-cemetery-the-story-is-not-over-couillard-says

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    http://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1045980/cimetiere-musulman-lhistoire-nest-pas-terminee-philippe-couillard

  7. VICE NEWS – Marble Helped Scholars Whitewash Ancient History

    Polychromy in ancient statues and the whiteness of marble without paint has made both the Roman and Greek antiquity seem like they were all white. This was done on purpose by scholars in the 18th and 19th century who purposefully whitewashed those periods and pointed to the whiteness of the marble as proof that those worlds, which had people from all “races” (the term wasn’t really relevant back then) were also white. VICE News Tonight walks through the Art Institute with polychromy expert Sarah Bond.

    • What they want to repaint the ancient statues?

      Only a modern leftist so called intellectual would fixate on this, or even make a big deal about it, back when I was in school we were taught that Rome was a multi racial society and that most of the Greeks and Italians had the skin tones of modern day Greeks and Italians. But the modern pseudo intellectuals have to try and deconstruct Western Civilization with the skin tone of ancient Greeks and Romans. For that matter if you look at the ancient Egyptians paintings you see brown, white and black skin tones. And the DNA tests of the Mummys show that most of them were a mix of European and Arabic people.