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Slovakia declares it will move its embassy to Jerusalem
“Slovakia is on its way to relocating its embassy to Jerusalem,” Andrej Danko, head of the Slovak National Council tells President Reuven Rivlin • Delegation of Slovak lawmakers also says country to open a cultural center in the Israeli capital.
http://www.israelhayom.com/2018/07/04/slovakia-declares-it-will-move-its-embassy-to-jerusalem/?platform=hootsuite
‘SHOOTING’ at Benidorm nightclub forces British holiday hot spot into ‘LOCKDOWN’ (express, Jul 5, 2018)
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/984037/benidorm-nightclub-shooting-spain-british-holiday-hot-spot
“TWO people are believed to have been shot at a nightclub, sending a British holiday hot spot into “lockdown” and forcing tourists to “do a runner” from the scene, according to unconfirmed reports.
Reports on social media suggest there has been a shooting at a venue in the Spanish resort of Benidorm.
Videos posted on Twitter show police and emergency service vehicle swarming the area.
Tourists have taken to the site to share their experiences of the drama.
One witness said bars around the area were placed into lockdown following the gun shots… More to follow…”
Why do they bother mentioning an exact geographic site in relation to these incidents involving whatever novel alphabet soup of [gag] rectal-cavity-du-jour, terrorist, jihadist incidents?
Just flipping move right along, admit that your recent terrorist attacks all were Muslim-related (or not, HAH!), and then get the farcking hell on with it. Emkay?
Oops, did I type that in my “Out Loud” voice?
EEK!
Spain 1498- 2018: “Jews – get out!”
With the case of the Aquarius ship, Spain of the new socialist government of Pedro Sánchez showed its welcoming and open face. But quietly and far from the cameras, all concentrated in the port of Barcelona, ??Spain itself was becoming the most hostile European nation to Israel.…
And in Benicassim, near Barcelona, ??the Jewish musician and reggae star Matthew Paul Miller, aka “Matisyahu”, had refused to comply with the request of the music festival director who ordered him to produce a video or written statement in which the singer was to support an Arab-Palestinian state. His performance was canceled.…
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/22408
……
It always starts with the Jews…
Refugee families sponsored by small town in Newfoundland have moved to Ontario
Jessica Chin 11 hrs ago
Kaley Cuoco and Johnny Galecki in The Big Bang Theory. Source: CBS.The bittersweet story behind this ‘Big Bang’ star’s photo
Image: Omar ReygadasRescued miner Omar Reygadas, 56, waves to the press as he arrives at the hospital in Copiapo, Chile on Oct. 13, 2010.Freed Chilean miner has advice for Thai soccer team
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LEWISPORTE, N.L. — The small Newfoundland town of Lewisporte has said goodbye to the second of two refugee families sponsored by the community.
Both families moved to Windsor, Ont., in search of better job security, proximity to family and friends, and a larger community of Arabic speakers.
In 2015, community members in Lewisporte banded together to sponsor one family from Iraq and one from Syria through the blended visa office-referred program, holding fundraisers and taking donations to bring them to Canada.
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/refugee-families-sponsored-by-small-town-in-newfoundland-have-moved-to-ontario/ar-AAzAiMy?li=AAggFp5&ocid=mailsignout
“Chilean miner has advice for Thai soccer team”
Crickey! Is there any better way of expressing the lunacy that’s coming into play?
P’raps not. Regardless, I’ll try to shut-the-fü¢k-up right now … just for fun of it. Eh?
Thenk ewe, Xanthippa. You are a priceless jewel.
The again, you already know that, eh?
While the U.S. Supreme Court as an institution features prominently in the history of this country, the men and women who compose that tribunal are unknown to most Americans.
In their honor, here are the seven best quotes from Supreme Court justices about freedom, liberty and the United States.
“If it were up to me, I would put in jail every sandal-wearing, scruffy-bearded weirdo who burns the American flag. But I am not king.”
Justice Antonin Scalia on Texas v. Johnson, the decision that struck down a state law banning the desecration of the flag
“May it be long before the people of the United States shall cease to take a deep and pervading interest in the Fourth of July, as the birthday of our national life, or the event which then occurred shall be subordinated to any other of our national history.”
Justice Samuel Freeman Miller
“Those who won our independence valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.”
Justice Louis Brandeis, Whitney v. California
http://dailycaller.com/2018/07/04/best-quotes-supreme-court-freedom/
At least 15 people were killed in central Somalia when villagers clashed with Al-Shabab militants trying to recruit their children as fighters.
According to local sources, 10 militants and five villagers died in the fighting in Aad village, in the central Galmudug administration.
A villager who requested anonymity told VOA’s Somali Service that the militants met with local elders two days ago and sought help with the recruitment. “The fighting came after they demanded that we provide young children to fight alongside them,” he said.
He said the villagers organized themselves and decided to resist, but Al-Shabab moved into the village, and took control.
https://www.voanews.com/a/somali-villagers-resist-al-shabab-militants-recruiting-children/4467625.html
“At least 15 people were killed in central Somalia when villagers clashed with Al-Shabab militants trying to recruit their children as fighters. ”
Parents or siblings? Eventually, it will make a difference, idiots!.
They’re so inbred it scarcely matters.
Devastated Saudi woman sees her car torched by men ‘opposed to women drivers’ only a week after the kingdom lifted a ban on female motorists
Salma al-Sharif used to spend half her salary paying for driver to get her to work
31-year-old started driving to her job last week but received insults from men
Now her car has been torched, near the holy city of Mecca
There has been an outpouring of support for her from Saudis on social media
Some 120,000 women have applied for driving licences, say Saudi authorities
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5917903/Saudi-womans-car-set-ablaze-driving-ban-lifted.html
From October 2017 to June 2018, a total of ten sexual assaults of women took place in Salzgitter district of Lebenstedt, in addition to one attempted and one completed rape of a prostitute in her working apartments. The alleged perpetrator (male, approximately 30 years old, between 170 and 175 cm tall, stable figure, short black hair, short black full beard, broken German speaking, Southeastern European to Arabic appearance) points to a previously unknown accused, who was taken by a surveillance camera (attached pictures). The Salzgitter police would like information about the person depicted on 05341 / 1897-0.
https://searchlight-germany.blogspot.com/2018/07/germany-mugshot-of-rapist-in-town-of.html
Many users found the name of the “WhoppHer” free burger campaign to support Saudi women inappropriate as it allegedly echoed manhandling as in “whop her.”
Burger King’s Swedish branch has launched a free burger campaign in support of Saudi ladies who have recently been granted the right to drive.
https://sputniknews.com/viral/201807021065954615-sweden-saudi-women-burgers/
Karachi’s cruel cages: African lions are ravaged by fungal skin disease at Victorian-era zoo in Pakistan that can’t afford vets to care for its 850 animals
Shocking pictures show a white African lioness locked in a small cage and suffering with a fungal skin disease
Staff at Karachi Zoological Garden in Pakistan say there are not enough vets to give 850 animals proper care
Many cages built over a century ago and bosses want the council to to fund a third veterinary position for zoo
By AFP
PUBLISHED: 23:54 EDT, 3 July 2018 | UPDATED: 12:41 EDT, 4 July 2018
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A white African lioness stares blankly at the spectators crowded outside her small, steel-barred cage, her extraordinary coat dotted with numerous spots, the result of a fungal skin disease that has marred her once pristine fur.
The ailment is curable – or, rather, it should be. But at the Karachi Zoological Garden there are not enough vets to give proper treatment to its more than 850 animals, many held in cages built over a century ago.
‘Here we have a mere two veterinaries and three paramedics. They are not at all sufficient,’ said the zoo’s chief, Mansoor Ahmed Qazi.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5916199/Shortage-vets-spells-misery-Karachi-zoo-animals.html
Pure Islam.As in, irreparably mar human reality and then relaxedly saunter away in a manner that pretends how nothing ever even mattered?
That the words, “How could you?” might even enter this discussion is hilarious.
Fü¢k all of them förever, før åll time. With füsion results.
Eh?
NR
Cummings Foundation grants $100K to CAIR so it can sue American businesses to comply with sharia law
JUNE 20, 2018 / CREEPING
Source: FFA – Cummings Foundation grants $100,000 to CAIR so it can sue American businesses to comply with un-American Islamist Sharia law.
CAIR issued a news release titled CAIR-Massachusetts Receives $100,000 Cummings Foundation Grant. The news release states in part:
The Massachusetts chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations is one of 100 local nonprofits to receive grants of $100,000 each through Cummings Foundation’s “$100K for 100” program.
CAIR-Massachusetts intends to use the funds to hire two legal fellows to assist with case management and to support its civil rights programming for the Massachusetts Muslim community.
https://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/2018/06/20/cummings-foundation-funds-hamas-cair/
Christianity CRACKDOWN: Church attacked by mob in Nigeria ‘GENOCIDE’ crisis
AN anti-Christian mob have ransacked a village in Nigeria killing six as “ethnic cleansing” of religious groups rages.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/983152/christian-news-world-nigeria-church-attack-christianity-persecution
Note: this is more serious than even this article demonstrates – there is an active genocide of Christians in this part of Africa: a band, ever moving southwards, genociding all non-Muslims in its path. It must be brought to the world’s attention – I just don’t know how…
Ten out of every 12 rapists in Denmark are either migrants, foreigners, or come from migrant backgrounds, according to an investigation by Danish media.
The figures come from a study of rape cases from January 2016 to May 2017 and looked specifically at cases in which the victim did not know their attacker, Danish tabloid BT reports.
According to the study carried out by the newspaper, there were 12 convictions for rape in which the attacker was a stranger to their victim and in those 12 cases, 10 of the attackers came from migrant backgrounds or were immigrants.
The tabloid claims that the convicted rapists came from a variety of countries including Eastern European nations such as Bulgaria and Macedonia as well as countries outside of Europe like Somalia, Iraq, and Eritrea.
Inger Støjberg, Danish Minister for Immigration and Integration, commented on the study saying: “It’s something we’ve seen through many years that crime rates are much higher in immigrant circles than they are among Danes.”
https://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/07/04/study-ten-twelve-rapists-denmark-migrant-backgrounds/
Failed Iraqi asylum seeker, 21, who was dragged back to Germany after admitting he murdered a 14-year-old girl, ‘also raped 11-year-old at refugee home’
Ali Bashar fled back to northern Iraq after the death of Susanna Maria Feldman
He returned to Germany by police and has admitted to murdering Susanna, 14
Bashar is now also suspected of raping an 11-year-old in a refugee home
An Afghan boy, who reported Bashar to the police for the murder of Susanna, is also suspected of raping the 11-year-old
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5914211/Iraqi-asylum-dragged-Germany-admitting-murder-girl-raped-11-year-old.html
“Haram” To Cast Votes For Women: Pakistan Ex Social Welfare Minister
Addressing a rally in his constituency in Muzaffargarh, Haroon Sultan said he will follow the directions of religion and will abstain from casting a vote to any female candidates as it is considered “haram” (forbidden in Islam), The News reported.
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/its-haram-to-cast-votes-for-women-says-pakistan-ex-social-welfare-minister-1877300
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) sold illegally obtained gas and oil to the Russian- and Iranian-backed Syrian regime as well as to Turkey while it ruled Iraq and Syria, Kurdistan 24 learned from a jailed senior commander from the jihadist group.
“Oil and gas obtained by the Islamic State [were] sold to Turkey and the Syrian regime,” Razeek Radeek Maksimo, an Azerbaijani ISIS senior commander, asserted while speaking from a Syrian Kurdistan jail. “[Oil] was sold to Turkey through the Free Syrian Army (FSA).”
The FSA, which once received U.S. assistance, is now fighting Assad in Syria with the support of Turkey.
At the peak of ISIS’s power, oil was the group’s top source of income. A Top U.S. Treasury official described the jihadi group in 2014 as “probably the best-funded terrorist organization we have confronted,” citing oil as its primary source of revenue.
After Turkey shot down a Russian warplane in 2015, Kremlin officials accused A
https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2018/07/03/report-turkey-syria-helped-keep-islamic-state-alive-by-buying-their-oil/
I read about this a long time ago already in the MSM. In the case of Turkey, a US politician made a remark about it, and turkish PMs openly accused Erodgan and his son. In the case of Assad, it was casually mentioned in a dutch newspaper article. I think that was more a convenient truce than anything else, they had shared enemies in the Kurds and maybe some rebel factions.
America’s founding document might be too politically incorrect for Facebook, which flagged and removed a post consisting almost entirely of text from the Declaration of Independence. The excerpt, posted by a small community newspaper in Texas, apparently violated the social media site’s policies against hate speech.
https://reason.com/blog/2018/07/03/facebook-algorithm-flags-removes-declara
Sweet message from TheMossad:
Happy Birthday, Big Satan!
Love,
Little Satan.
What are youy talking about?
Iran calls USA, the “Big Satan”, while Israel is the “Little Satan”.
So Mossad, the Israeli spy agency, wished us “Happy 4th of July!”
While some agents were [allegedly] stealing Iran’s clouds, others were retrieving the personal effects of a comrade executed in Syria in 1965:
Mossad recovers watch of legendary Israeli spy, Eli Cohen
Israel’s Mossad national intelligence and special operations agency has recovered an important personal item belonging to the legendary Israeli spy Eli Cohen.
Cohen, an Egyptian-born Jew, worked as an undercover Israeli agent in Egypt and Syria before he was discovered and hanged in 1965.
By the time of his discovery, Cohen had managed to climb the ranks of the Syrian Defense Ministry, becoming the top advisor to Syria’s Defense Minister.
In special operation recently, Israel’s Mossad managed to recover Cohen’s wristwatch, and return it to Israel, it was revealed on Thursday.…
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/248496
………
The Mossad says: “This is us just showing off.”
chutzpah
“Mossad standard issue watches have gotten nicer since then. Want one?”
For sale online in 5 styles!
Seriously? Can one buy a Mossad Watch? How and where?
url didn’t go thru – I’ll try it differently
https://themossadil[dot]com/collections/jewelry/products/themossadil-water-resistant-quartz-watches-various-styles
“No wristwatch left behind.”
Thank you.
The temptation to explain everything everywhere as clandestine ops by invisible infiltrators becomes irresistible to the Omniscient Twitterati™ and their followers.
A comic book shortcut, it satisfies transient insecurities.
Can’t find it on a map, don’t know a Druze from a snooze. What, me worry?
It’s a cult with virtual followers. Pretending to be news, it’s peddling a narrative, casting a spell. It brooks no challenge, contradictory evidence is easily dismissed.
Magical thinking: trust the witch-doctor’s absolute control and wisdom. He’s working in our best interests 100% of the time. Predictions are absolute, guaranteed.
Finland Aims to Block Repeat Asylum Applications to Stop Swindle Tactics (sputniknews, Jul 5, 2018)
https://sputniknews.com/europe/201807051066057472-finland-asylum-applications/
“At present, there are thousands of migrants whose asylum applications have been turned down. Many file new applications citing new grounds, such as religious conversion and homosexuality in an attempt to delay deportation.
Finland’s Interior Ministry is pushing to change the legal system in order to stop migrants from re-applying multiple times, as is currently allowed under the law, national broadcaster Yle reported.
Today, rejected migrants often launch their asylum processes anew in a bid to delay imminent deportation, the Interior Ministry said. Interior Minister Kai Mykkänen has stressed that the opportunity to abuse the system in order to create delays should be limited.
Both the number of repeat applications and their percentage of overall applications have grown in recent years, as thousands of migrants have received negative asylum decisions and are trying to avoid being sent back to their respective homelands. More than half of the repeat applicants are Iraqis, who also constituted the largest share of migrants arriving in Finland during the peak of the migrant crisis.
Right now repeat applications are not being considered if they use the same rationale as the initial one. The proposed changes would make it easier for authorities to deport people from the country if their first application was dismissed.
According to the Interior Ministry, any re-application must cite a clear, valid reason for granting asylum.
“If someone has new grounds for asylum, they must be presented as early and comprehensively as possible,” Interior Ministry senior specialist Kukka Krüger said.
Some of the most oft-cited reasons for re-application include conversion to Christianity and fear of persecution as apostate in one’s respective home country. Another typical scenario includes individuals citing their homosexuality, which they somehow failed to mention in the original application, as grounds for the new filing.
According to Krüger, though, such applications will be considered in practice even if the legislative change goes ahead.
In 2017, Finland made positive decisions on 40 percent of all asylum applicants in 2017, up from only 27 percent in 2016. According to Finland’s Migration Service (Migri), in 2016, mostly quick and easy applications were processed, in many of which the applicants clearly had no grounds for protection. Only in 2017 did Migri by its own admission move on to more challenging applications. The number of applications that Migri dealt with in 2016 totaled 28,000, falling to 9,400 in 2017.”
Memes Are Safe: European Parliament Rejects Controversial EU Copyright Law (sputniknews, Jul 5, 2018)
https://sputniknews.com/europe/201807051066064113-eu-law-copyright-parliament/
“The EU Copyright Directive, which is aimed at protecting the intellectual property of people who author material that is uploaded to the internet, has come under criticism because it could effectively lead banning parody content on the world wide web, such as viral memes, for example.
Members of the European Parliament in Strasbourg have rejected the copyright directive, with 318 voting against, 278 in favor and 31 abstaining.
Article 13 of the directive, which was rejected by European MPs, states that online media would be liable if its users upload or publish unlicensed content, including photos, videos, source code or music. According to the bill, such actions would require either that a license fee be paid, that the content be pre-filtered or that it be automatically censored.
The bill has faced harsh criticism from Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee, net neutrality expert Tim Wu, internet pioneer Vint Cerf and other specialists in the field.
First proposed in 2016, the document was intended to update copyright rules in order to tackle piracy and to introduce “fair pay” for artists and media when the fruits of their labor were used online and in real life. Opponents of the bill, however, have claimed that it would endanger freedom of expression and the public’s access to information.”
10,000 police officers took sick leave due to stress or anxiety over the past year – the largest number in history (dailymail, Jul 5, 2018)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5919575/10-000-police-officers-took-sick-leave-stress-anxiety-past-year.html
“Nearly 10,000 police officers took time off sick suffering from stress or anxiety over the past year – the largest number in history.
Freedom of information requests reveal that the number of officers taking time off with stress has rocketed by an astonishing 77 per cent over the past four years.
In the year to March 2014, 5,460 officers took time off for stress, depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder, but this had soared to 9,672 in the year to March 2018.
With 122,000 police officers in the country, that’s nearly one in 12 taking time off because of the stresses of the job. The Dorset, Essex and Nottinghamshire forces did not respond to the FoI request, meaning the true number of officers with stress is likely to be over the 10,000 mark.
The highest number signed off were at the Met, with 1,086 officers off sick in the past year.
Manchester (720) and the West Midlands (601) were next, while the lowest figures were from Wiltshire and Durham, with just 70 officers each off sick with stress.
Ché Donald, vice-chairman of the Police Federation of England and Wales, said the figures were ‘no surprise’.
He said: ‘Officers are still under increasing demand.
‘Numbers haven’t changed and you’ve got a pressure-cooker environment exacerbated by the job itself which involves exposure to traumatic incidents. Police officers are broken.
‘If you don’t reduce the strain that officers are under, even with the best occupational health in the world, all you are going to have is a steady stream of officers wanting to access that service. We know the causes but we are only tackling the symptoms.’
Mr Donald said more officers were needed on the streets to plug the gaps and that nothing will change unless numbers were boosted. He added: ‘We need to have an honest conversation with the public about this.
‘We are policing 2018 with 1995 numbers and crime has changed. We need to ask – are we fit for purpose? Something needs to change. Otherwise the future remains bleak.’
One police officer, who asked not to be named but who has been with the Met Police for more than ten years, said this week that officers were increasingly taking time off sick with stress because they felt they had no support.
He said: ‘Most of the officers I know feel there is very little support for them in their moment of need.
‘Many of us are out there by ourselves – the days of two bobbies strolling down the street is long gone. We are dealing with an increase in crime at the same time as officer numbers are cut and the strain on officers is sometimes overwhelming.
‘I have seen many friends leave the service in the past five years because they cannot take the daily stresses any more.’
A spokesman for the Home Office said: ‘It is the responsibility of chief officers – supported by the College of Policing – to ensure the welfare of their staff.’
He added: ‘The Government takes the issue of police wellbeing very seriously and has invested in programmes, including targeted mental health support and £7.5 million over three years for a dedicated national welfare service, to directly support officers.’”
Swedish Left-Politician: EU Referendum ‘a Dangerous Idea’ (breitbart, Jul 5, 2018)
https://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/07/05/former-swedish-foreign-minister-eu-referendum-dangerous/
“Former Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt has slammed a proposal by the populist Sweden Democrats to hold a referendum on European Union membership calling the prospect of a vote “dangerous”.
The former leader of the Moderate Party called the proposition of an EU membership referendum, which was advocated by Sweden Democrats leader Jimmie Åkesson last month, as, “not just a bad idea, it’s a dangerous idea”, Aftonbladet reports.
“Firstly, the EU has a major impact on political stability in most of Europe. Secondly, it is crucial to our economy. The single internal market is crucial for a foreign trade-dependent nation like Sweden,” Bild said.
Claiming that the Sweden Democrats wanted to throw the country into the same situation as the UK after the Brexit vote, Bildt said: “It’s the single biggest danger to Sweden’s prosperity development in the future.”…”
Egypt sentences 14 to life for belonging to banned Islamists (abcnews, Jul 5, 2018)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/egypt-sentences-14-life-belonging-banned-islamists-56378259
“An Egyptian court has sentenced 14 people, including an adviser to an ousted Islamist president, to life in prison for membership in the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood.
The state-run Al Ahram news website reported on Thursday that out of the 14, eight were sentenced in absentia.
Thursday’s verdict by the Cairo Criminal Court included 15-year-sentences that were handed down to six other defendants while one person was sentenced to 10 years. The verdicts can be appealed.
Along with Brotherhood membership, charges included possessing firearms, violating citizens’ personal freedoms and disrupting constitutional provisions.
Egypt has cracked down severely on Islamists since the 2013 ouster of President Mohammed Morsi, who hailed from the Brotherhood, following mass protests against his one-year divisive rule.
The Brotherhood was designated a “terrorist organization” months after Morsi’s ouster.”
SLÀV performances has been cancelled
The Montreal International Jazz Festival (FIJM) cancels all performances of SLAV because of the racial controversy surrounding the show staged by Robert Lepage.
In a statement released Wednesday morning, the organization of the Festival claims to have been “shaken and strongly affected by all the testimonials received.” It apologizes to those who have been injured, and adds that this was not their intention at all.
African-American musician Moses Sumney withdrew from the FIJM on Tuesday due to SLâV’s presence in the lineup. Mr. Sumney blames the show for being led by a white man (Robert Lepage) and a white singer (Betty Bonifassi) performs songs composed by African-American slaves. The 28-year-old Californian said on Twitter that he could not present his music to the Festival in good conscience after learning that they continued to defend this event publicly.
On Wednesday, the Jazz Festival said inclusion and bridging between communities is essential. The organization of the summer event states that the decision to cancel future performances was made in agreement with Betty Bonifassi.
In a statement released Wednesday afternoon, Robert Lepage promised “to react to the controversy by the end of the week.”
SLV has been at the heart of a controversy since last week, when many voices have spoken out against the presentation of the show, which, they say, represents a racist appropriation of black culture.
Whites should not enjoy the history, culture and suffering of blacks, said Lucas Charlie Rose, a hip-hop artist who even organized a rally against the show.
Joined by The Canadian Press on Wednesday, activist Vincent Mousseau welcomed “this first step to make the Montreal and Quebec art scene more anti-racist”…..
http://www.lapresse.ca/arts/festivals/festival-de-jazz/201807/04/01-5188241-les-representations-de-slv-annulees.php
GAVIN McINNES’ freedom-loving, beer-slinging Independence Day SHOUTOUT to AMERICA
Viral video: Teen says he was attacked for wearing ‘Make American Great Again’ hat
https://news4sanantonio.com/news/local/viral-video-shows-teen-attacked-for-wearing-make-american-great-again-hatSAN ANTONIO — Police are investigating after a teen says he was verbally attacked and assaulted at a Whataburger for wearing a Make America Great Again hat.
In the video, you can see a man throw a drink in 16-year-old Hunter Richard’s face before leaving the restaurant with his hat. Hunter said some of his hair was pulled during the assault.
“I support my President and if you don’t let’s have a conversation about it instead of ripping my hat off. I just think a conversation about politics is more productive for the entire whole rather than taking my hat and yelling subjective words to me,” he said.
RAND: Terror Has Cost EU Countries £160 Billion Since 2004 (breitbart, Jul 5, 2018)
https://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/07/05/study-terror-costs-eu-countries-160-billion-2004-2018/
“A study by the RAND Corporation has revealed that from 2004 to 2016, terrorism cost European Union countries £160 billion ($210bn) with France and the UK losing the most.
The report, which was prepared for the European Parliament, says that as a result of terrorist acts, the UK economy lost £38.6 billion ($51.1bn) following the 7/7 bombings in 2005, while France lost an estimated £38 billion ($50.3bn) within the same period that saw the 2015 Charlie Hebdo attacks and the Bataclan massacre later that same year, as well as a large number of other, smaller terror events.
“Besides the obvious physical devastation and emotional trauma, there is a negative impact on economic growth in the countries where these terrorist attacks take place. When you bear in mind the infrequent nature of terror events in Europe, the GDP losses that occur to national economies are notable,” senior RAND economist Marco Hafner said.
Mr Hafner added that terrorism can also have an impact on the psychology of people and companies and may change their spending habits. The phenomenon was clearly seen in places like Paris, where following the 2015 terrorist attacks, tourism to the French capital dropped significantly.
“Some people may value their future less and ‘live in the moment more.’ These effects can impact how people consume and save, potentially leading to an increase in consumption and decrease in savings and investment rates by companies. The end result is economic losses across Europe,” Hafner said.
RAND noted several potential policies to curb terrorism including strengthening ties between European law enforcement agencies but noted some of the recommendations “could have implications for human rights legislation and data protection across the EU”.
One major policy proposal from the think tank was to counter terrorist financing. Earlier this year, French investigators were able to identify 416 financial donors to the Islamic State terror group.
Paris prosecutor François Molins noted the large number of “micro-transactions” used by Islamic State supporters and security services claimed the group may be sitting on as much as £2.7 billion in cash.”
Trump will tell NATO nations U.S. cannot be the world’s piggy bank
ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (Reuters) – President Donald Trump will tell fellow NATO countries at next week’s summit that the United States cannot be “the world’s piggy bank,” White House spokesman Hogan Gidley said on Tuesday.
“What the president is going to do is go into these meetings with the mindset to protect the American people, stand with our partners and allies – but as he has said many times before America is thought so often to be the world’s piggy bank. And that’s gotta stop,” Gidley told reporters as Trump flew to West Virginia. Trump has pressured some NATO allies to significantly increase military expenditure.
Reporting by Jeff Mason; Writing by Eric Beech and James Oliphant; Editing by Mohammad Zargham
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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-nato/trump-will-tell-nato-nations-us-cannot-be-the-worlds-piggy-bank-idUSKBN1JT2XD
Merkel warns of worldwide financial crisis
BERLIN –– German Chancellor Angela Merkel raised the specter of a new global financial crisis as she warned of the potential fallout from a trade war with the U.S., saying tariffs on European cars would be “much more serious” than levies on steel and aluminum.
In an address to Germany’s lower house of parliament Wednesday, Merkel cited President Donald Trump’s threat of targeting U.S. imports of cars from Europe, which risk hitting Germany the hardest. She backed efforts by the European Union and U.S. negotiators to reach a deal this month.
“The international financial crisis, which ensured that we now act in the framework of the (Group of 20), would never have been resolved so quickly, despite the pain, if we hadn’t cooperated in a multilateral fashion in the spirit of comradeship,” Merkel said. “This has to happen.”
As the leader of Europe’s biggest economy, Merkel underscored her resolve to fight for the survival of post-World War II global institutions under attack by the Trump administration. At the same time, she renewed her counterattack against U.S. criticism of German exports by saying that the U.S. has a trade surplus with the EU if services are included.
“This is taking on the contours of a trade conflict. I don’t want to use words that go any further,” Merkel said in her speech. “It’s worth every effort to try to defuse this so that this conflict doesn’t become a war.”
http://www.bakersfield.com/ap/national/merkel-warns-of-worldwide-financial-crisis/article_2dff7b52-12a8-5a67-86b0-e4b9324607aa.html
Richard: While there is a very real threat of a major economic crisis this is a clumsy attempt by Merkel to try and force PT to stop pushing for fair trade and let the Germans screw the US.
lotsa luck, you old stassi witch
WhatsApp ‘horrified’ over India lynchings, promises action
WhatsApp said Wednesday it was “horrified” by a spate of lynchings in India sparked by false rumours shared on its platform as the government accused the messaging service of irresponsibility.
More than 20 people have been killed in India in the last two months, according to media reports, after rumours were spread on smartphones about child kidnappers, thieves and sexual predators.
The attacks — usually targeting outsiders — have left authorities scrambling to mount an effective response, with awareness campaigns and public alerts having limited effect.
A stern statement issued by the electronics and IT ministry late on Tuesday expressed the government’s “deep disapproval” to the senior management of WhatsApp over the “irresponsible and explosive messages”.
“The government has also conveyed in no uncertain terms that WhatsApp must take immediate action to end this menace,” it added.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/india-slams-whatsapp-over-deadly-rumours-050022052.html
WhatsApp in India says partnership with government, society needed to combat misinformation
MUMBAI (Reuters) – Facebook Inc’s WhatsApp messenger service has responded to a call from India’s technology ministry to curb the spread of false information on its platform, saying such a task required a partnership between the pair as well as with society in general.
India is WhatsApp’s biggest market with over 200 million users. But false information on its app this year has contributed toward the triggering of mass beatings of more than a dozen people, at least three of whom have died.
On Sunday, five more people were lynched in the western state of Maharashtra on suspicion of being child abductors.
The rise in such incidents prompted the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology on Tuesday to ask WhatsApp to take immediate steps to prevent the circulation of false information and provocative content.
The ministry also said WhatsApp “cannot evade accountability and responsibility” when such services are abused by users to spread such misinformation.
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/whatsapp-india-partnership-government-civil-society-curb-spread-055439900–finance.html
Uganda leader says social media used for ‘lying’, defends tax for access
[Reuters]
By Elias Biryabarema
KAMPALA (Reuters) – Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has defended the country’s new social media tax, saying Ugandans were using such platforms for “lying”, and squandering the nation’s hard currency on fees to foreign-owned telecoms firms.
In May Uganda’s parliament passed new tax laws that introduced a levy of 200 shillings ($0.05) per day for access to a range of online services.
The platforms that have been identified by the country’s revenue service for the tax include Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, Google Hangouts, YouTube, Skype, Yahoo Messenger and many others.
The tax, collected by mobile phone internet service providers since July 1, is equivalent to about 20 percent of what typical Ugandan users pay for their mobile phone data plans.
In a statement on Twitter, Museveni described social media as a “luxury by those who are enjoying themselves or those who are malicious…all the moral reasons are in favor of that tax.”
Ugandan social media users, he said, were “endlessly donating money to foreign telephone companies through chatting or even lying.”
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/uganda-leader-says-social-media-used-lying-defends-191424087–finance.html
Facebook and Apple Disagree on How to Curb Fake News for U.S. Midterms
(Bloomberg) — Apple and Facebook have figured out how to keep us glued to their devices and platforms. But they haven’t figured out how to curb the misinformation that plagued them during the 2016 election and have struggled to regain public trust. And now, in the run-up to the 2018 midterms, they certainly don’t agree on a solution.
Last week, Apple launched a human-curated political news section to help readers steer clear of falsehoods surrounding the midterms. The company’s announcement reignited a fiery debate with Facebook about whether tech giants should hire people to curate news or rely on algorithms instead.
Apple has used human editors to curate news content in “Top News” and other specialized sections since the application first launched in 2015, and said it will continue to do so for the midterm elections news section. The company uses a combination of human editors and machine learning to manage more tailored content in personalized feeds for users.
“News was kind of going a little crazy,” said Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook at the recent Fortune CEO Initiative, subtly referring to Facebook’s struggle with the foreign actors such as Russia, profiteers and bots that took advantage of its News Feed algorithms for financial and political gain during the presidential election. “We felt the top stories should be selected by humans,” Cook said.
https://www.bloombergquint.com/business/2018/07/03/facebook-and-apple-disagree-on-how-to-curb-fake-news-for-u-s-midterms
Mueller Taps More Prosecutors to Help With Growing Trump Probe
(Bloomberg) — Special Counsel Robert Mueller is tapping additional Justice Department resources for help with new legal battles as his year-old investigation of Russian interference with the 2016 election continues to expand.
As Mueller pursues his probe, he’s making more use of career prosecutors from the offices of U.S. attorneys and from Justice Department headquarters, as well as FBI agents — a sign that he may be laying the groundwork to hand off parts of his investigation eventually, several current and former U.S. officials said.
https://www.bloombergquint.com/politics/2018/07/05/mueller-said-to-tap-more-career-prosecutors-as-trump-probe-grows
Sanctioned Russian oligarch linked to Cohen has vast US ties
WASHINGTON (AP) — Long before Viktor Vekselberg was tied to a scandal over the president and a porn star, the Russian oligarch had been positioning himself to extend his influence in the United States.
Working closely with an American cousin who heads the New York investment management firm Columbus Nova, Vekselberg backed a $1.6 million lobbying campaign to aid Russian interests in Washington. His cousin Andrew Intrater served as CEO of a Vekselberg company on that project, and the two men have collaborated on numerous other investments involving Vekselberg’s extensive holdings.
https://apnews.com/5e533f93afae4a4fa5c2f7fe80ad72ac
Fish for flour? Barter is the new currency in collapsing Venezuela
RIO CHICO, Venezuela (Reuters) – Under the midday sun, dozens of fishermen wait to sell their day’s catch by a lagoon in the town of Rio Chico on the Caribbean coast of Venezuela. But they aren’t expecting cash in return.
Instead, they’re swapping mullets and snappers for packages of flour, rice and cooking oil.
“There is no cash here, only barter,” said Mileidy Lovera, 30, walking along the shore with a cooler of fish that her husband had caught. She hoped to exchange it for food to feed her four children, or medicine to treat her son’s epilepsy.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-barter/fish-for-flour-barter-is-the-new-currency-in-collapsing-venezuela-idUSKBN1JT1UM?il=0
Maduro warns Venezuela army over Trump ‘invasion’ plans
Caracas (AFP) – President Nicolas Maduro urged his armed forces Wednesday to be on guard following news reports in the United States that a year ago President Donald Trump raised the possibility of invading Venezuela.
“You cannot lower you guard for even a second, because we will defend the greatest right our homeland has had in all of its history,” Maduro said at a military ceremony, “which is to live in peace.”
He alluded to reports in the US press which said that last August Trump asked foreign policy advisers about the possibility of invading Venezuela, which the Trump administration has derided as a corrupt, leftwing dictatorship.
Trump raised the idea in August 2017 during a meeting about sanctions the United States has imposed on oil rich Venezuela, CNN said, quoting a senior administration official.
Trump’s advisers said no, as did Latin American leaders with whom Trump also raised the idea, CNN said.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/maduro-warns-venezuela-army-over-trump-invasion-plans-045636143.html
China’s ambitions in eastern Europe to face scrutiny at summit
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House GOP to Tackle Unfunded Federal Mandates Next Week
Congress is working on a plan to help local governments by rolling back rules and regulations passed without providing funding.
In an effort spearheaded by North Carolina Representative Virginia Foxx, Republicans are expected to attack unfunded mandates next week.
http://www.oann.com/house-gop-to-tackle-unfunded-federal-mandates-next-week/
Major medical convention in San Francisco canceled, unsafe streets cited as reason
By Howard Portnoy July 4, 2018
Tony Bennett may have left his heart in San Francisco, but a huge medical convention will not be leaving its dollars in the City by the Bay, according to CBS affiliate KPIX. The organizers of the event claim its members don’t feel safe on the streets.
The individuals may have been reacting to a malodorous 20-pound bag of human excrement that someone left on the sidewalk last Saturday in the city’s Tenderloin district. Or perhaps it was to the open-air urinal that the city installed in its Dolores Park in 2016 in the hopes of discouraging public urination on the streets.
https://libertyunyielding.com/2018/07/04/major-convention-cancels-meeting-in-san-francisco-citing-unsafe-streets/
Judge shuts down federal prosecutors in ‘prejudice’ ruling: No more shots at the Bundys
By Daily Caller News Foundation July 4, 2018
A federal judge rejected prosecutors’ request Tuesday to reconsider her dismissal of the case against Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, his two sons and friend Ryan Payne.
U.S. District Judge Gloria M. Navarro dismissed conspiracy charges against the four men on Jan. 8 after finding that prosecutors had acted “with prejudice” throughout the trial, The Oregonian reported. Federal prosecutors violated federal law and failed to share evidence favorable to the defendants case with the court. (RELATED: Bundy Case Dismissed, Judge Orders Rancher Released)
“The Court’s finding of outrageous government conduct was not in error,” Navarro wrote in her 11-page ruling, obtained by The Oregonian. “On the contrary, a universal sense of justice was violated by the Government’s failure to provide evidence that is potentially exculpatory.”
The prosecutors’ request did not make any new arguments or bring forth any evidence that Navarro had not already considered in her decision to dismiss the case.
https://libertyunyielding.com/2018/07/04/judge-shuts-down-federal-prosecutors-in-prejudice-ruling-no-more-shots-at-the-bundys/
The Karachi Press Club invited Tehreek Labbaik Pakistan chief Khadim Hussain Rizvi to meet journalists on Tuesday. He said that if he had the atom bomb, he would have wiped out Holland before they could hold a caricature competition.
https://www.samaa.tv/video/2018/07/if-i-had-the-atom-bomb-i-would-wipe-out-holland-khadim-hussain-rizvi/
About that competition:
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/973579/anti-islam-geert-wilders-party-for-freedom-drawing-mohammed-competition-netherlands
A Socialist Mexico: Threat to American Security?
Ankara’s Withdrawal From NATO Just a Matter of Time – Turkish Politician (sputniknews, Jul 5, 2018)
https://sputniknews.com/analysis/201807051066066621-turkey-us-nato/
“Washington’s stick-and-carrot approach towards Ankara is unlikely to bear any fruit given Turkey’s adherence to a consistent and independent foreign strategy, Turkish analysts told Sputnik, dropping a hint that Ankara’s withdrawal from NATO is just a matter of time…”
FBI’s Peter Strzok is going to get fired: Chris Swecker
Just total and utter ridiculousness – “Russians posed as Americans influenced the election outcome in the U.S. against ME”. (Oh my gosh, I hate this woman. That’s why she lost, because I am not the only one that feels that way. /Rant off/)
Clinton: Trump Presidency A Consequence of ‘White supremacist’ Putin’s Authoritarianism
UK reportedly tells Trump he cannot meet with Brexit architect Nigel Farage
The U.K. government has reportedly told President Trump he must not meet Brexit architect and former U.K. Independence Party leader Nigel Farage when Trump visits the U.K. later this month.
The U.K. Daily Telegraph, citing a source within the British government, reports that 10 Downing Street made it clear that Trump “must not meet Farage” during his working visit to the U.K. on July 13.
Trump has embraced Farage, who is also a Fox News contributor, and called him “the man behind Brexit” during the 2016 campaign.
Farage told Fox News he would not comment on any conversations he had with the White House but said the Telegraph report was “utterly consistent” with past behavior from the U.K. government.
“The one thing they do not want me doing is having a photograph with the U.S. president when he’s in London with both of us saying ‘Brexit is a great idea, why doesn’t the government just get on with it?’”
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/07/04/uk-reportedly-tells-trump-cannot-meet-with-brexit-architect-nigel-farage.html
Yikes!
NOTHING TO DO WITH MY PROPHET
Sounds like the tardish counterpart of an East Coast tikkum-olam-ing sorta-Jew. Who’s taken drama classes from somebody like Baby-Doc of Canada.
AUSTRALIA – BRISBANE – Christian fundamentalists confront Muslim leader at Brisbane mosque to condemn Islam
Police have been called after an ugly confrontation broke out at a Brisbane mosque between activists describing themselves as Christian documentary makers and Islamic leaders.
The group of at least four activists, who were involved in a similar incident at the Kuraby mosque yesterday, confronted worshippers at a Darra mosque in Brisbane’s south-west just before midday on Thursday.
When they were denied access, a heated argument broke out between self-declared activist Logan Robertson and Ali Kadri from the Islamic Council of Queensland.
Mr Kadri asked: “I’m trying to talk to you in a nice manner, why are you responding in such an aggressive manner?”
Mr Robertson replied: “Because I hate the religion of Islam. I don’t hate Muslims, I hate the religion.”
Police intervened and forced the group to leave the property.
Authorities said a group of up to six men went to a mosque at Kuraby yesterday and harassed some of the worshippers in the lead-up to 1:00pm prayers.
Nobody was injured in the incident and no charges were laid.
Mr Kadri said a teenage boy was verbally abused during yesterday’s incident and was called a terrorist.
“Why did you abuse a 15-year-old Muslim kid then?” Mr Kadri asked.
Mr Robertson replied: “We didn’t abuse him.”
Mr Robertson, who said he represented the Pillar Baptist Church at Ipswich, also claimed he was part of a group making a film on Islam.
“We’re making a documentary about your false religion that’s what we are trying to do,” Mr Robertson said.
“You are not a patriot, you are a hateful hatemonger — that’s what you are, my friend,” Mr Kadri said.
“Despite you being a hatemonger, I don’t hate you.”
‘What’s next, will they come into our houses?’
Mr Kadri said the men were “extremists” and likened them to “white ISIS [Islamic State]”.
“Unfortunately if we don’t rein these kind of people in this country, then these people in absence of law will not only just harm minorities like us.
“They are going to harm their own people who don’t agree with them … so to me, he is an extremist,” Mr Kadri said.
“I think these kinds of people are white ISIS.”
Mr Kadri said security would be increased at mosques around the state and most of them would now be locked at night.
“I don’t think there is any justification for these kind of things … our mosques are a peaceful congregation,” he said.
“Do we have to wait for somebody to get killed before we realise? This kind of hatred has to be addressed and condemned.
“Before, it was individuals on the corner street … now they’ve actually come inside a mosque — what’s next, will they come into our houses?”
Not long after the confrontation inside the Darra mosque, police stopped the men on the side of a road and confiscated their camera equipment.
“We’ll continue making our documentary,” Mr Robertson said.
He told media he was not racist.
“We’ve got Asians in our church, there’s Pacific Islanders in our church — there’s all types of races in our church. We’re not racist at all, it’s about a religion,” he said.
Who is Logan Robertson?
A self-proclaimed pastor of the Pillar Baptist Church, which opened at Goodna, west of Brisbane, within the past 12 months.
It is not affiliated with the mainstream Baptist denomination.
The church declares it is anti-abortion, anti-gay and anti-Islam.
Mr Robertson posts sermons on social media and also released a “documentary” critical of the Mormon faith.
On the church’s website, Mr Robertson describes his church as a “New Testament Independent Fundamental Baptist Church”.
“Our Church is a friendly group of believers who have a strong desire for truthful biblical preaching, that isn’t watered down or compromised,” the website says.
In New Zealand, Mr Robertson sparked controversy by saying people in gay marriages should be shot, and that New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern should “get in the kitchen where women belong”.
He was rebuked by Baptist Churches of New Zealand in 2014, who said he had never been affiliated with their denomination.
“The NZ Baptist churches have been demeaned by his vitriol, leaving many of our Baptist church members and pastors wrongly implicated by Robertson’s actions,” the church said.
New Zealand police reportedly launched an investigation into Mr Robertson but dropped the case on the basis there was no evidence to suggest he had committed any crimes.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-07-05/baptists-confront-islamic-leader-at-brisbane-mosque/9944580
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https://www.facebook.com/7NewsBrisbane/videos/2004731346206374/
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The Aussie Media Like to Lie (Full Footage of Darra Mosque QLD) Pastor Logan Robertson
In the comments on the YT page : the news version of this is completely different to the actual full conversation, they cut out any of the bits where he clearly explains himself and how they just wanted to set up interviews.
Brian Ross Parts Ways With ABC News After False Report On Trump
After 24 years with ABC News, Brian Ross announced on Monday that he’s parting ways with the network. The decision comes a little over six months after Ross falsely reported that Donald Trump ordered adviser Mike Flynn to contact Russian officials during the 2016 campaign — a claim that sent the stock market diving and left the Democrats’ salivating over the belief they’d finally got their evidence of “collusion” to take down Trump.
“After a great run of 24 years, we have decided to pack up and move on from ABC News, an organization that has meant so much to us,” Ross and longtime executive producer Rhonda Schwartz said in a statement Monday. “While we are signing off from ABC News, we are hardly leaving investigative journalism. There is much more to do.”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/32576/brian-ross-parts-ways-abc-news-after-false-report-james-barrett
Hezbollah’s Indefinite Presence in Syria
by Sirwan Kajjo
July 5, 2018 at 5:00 am
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/12608/hezbollah-syria
After weeks of shuttle diplomacy allegedly carried out by Russia and Israel, Iranian forces and allied militias — including the so-called “military wing” of the Lebanon-based organization Hezbollah, all of which has been designated as a terrorist group by the US — reportedly began to withdraw from parts of southern Syria, near Israel’s border. According to other reports, however, many Hezbollah fighters, disguised as members of the Syrian army, have simply remained on their bases to escape being targeted by the Israel Air Force. Since the start of the Syrian civil war in 2011, Israel’s air force has carried out sporadic strikes against Iranian and Hezbollah bases and convoys across its neighbor on the north. After more than seven years of fighting alongside the Assad regime in Syria, the Iran-backed terrorist group Hezbollah is highly unlikely to make an easy exit from the war-torn territory, no matter what supposed agreements are reached or promises made.
In a televised speech on “Quds Day” — which Iran has marked every year since the Islamic Revolution in 1979 — Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah addressed his supporters as follows:
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/12608/hezbollah-syria
Israel Must Stop Syria’s Advance Southward
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Israel must halt the reconsolidation of the Syrian regime, especially in the country’s south. Russia helped to bolster the regime through airpower. In response to the resulting and growing threat, Israel must now unleash the might of the IAF.
https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/south-syria-offensive/
…What must Israel do to prevent this?
The Syrians are advancing southward against the last rebel strongholds in the Daraa area. The IAF must stop that advance by striking at the movement of forces and Syrian positions. The drawing of heavy casualties must be added to the list of Israeli objectives in Syria.
This is of crucial importance because of the unique demographic attributes of Israel’s enemies, the Alawite regime, its Hezbollah supporters, and even the Iranians.…
Read the rest: https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/south-syria-offensive/
Eyal Zisser, publications at INSS:
http://www.inss.org.il/publication/?pauthor=60295
(Note: INSS has a “leftish” reputation. As does Tel Aviv U. But that’s relative right now within tiny Israel. ‘Left’ and ‘right’ end up side-by-side in tanks and bomb-shelters.)
Israel lays down red lines for postwar relations with Syria
As Syrian army continues its offensive on rebel-held areas near the Golan border, Israel signals it expects 1974 Separation of Forces Agreement to be honored; ‘We must do everything to clarify to the Russians and the Assad government that we won’t accept any armed presence in demilitarized areas,’ says Minister Erdan.
https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5304872,00.html
Merkel Please Go !
Part of a speech in the German Parliament (Bundestag) on 4.7.2018, where the co-leader of the AfD, Dr. Alice Weidel asks the Chancellor Merkel to stop the vulgar and damaging Tragi-Comedy and go !
Richard: I don’t remember enough German to search for the related video can one of our German Friends do that?
In an apparent attempt to sweep under the rug a recent double homicide in Hamburg, Germany, authorities there censored the story. They also raided the apartments of a witness who filmed a video describing the murder, and a blogger who posted the video on YouTube.
The murder, which made headlines worldwide, occurred on the morning of April 12. The assailant, Mourtala Madou, a 33-year-old illegal immigrant from Niger, stabbed his German ex-girlfriend, identified as Sandra P., and their one-year-old daughter, Miriam, at a Hamburg subway station. The child died at the scene; her mother died later, at the hospital. The woman’s three-year-old son witnessed the murders.
According to the prosecutor’s office, Madou — who initially fled the scene, but then called the police and was arrested shortly thereafter — acted “out of anger and revenge,” because the day before the incident, the court had denied him joint custody of his daughter.
It later emerged that for months Madou had been threatening to harm Sandra P. and the baby. A senior public prosecutor told reporters that the police investigated the woman’s charges, but had concluded that the “threats were not meant seriously” and did not pursue the case.
Furthermore, half a year earlier, in October 2017, a judge revoked a restraining order that Sandra P. had obtained against Madou two months earlier, on the grounds that he saw “no evidence” that Madou had threatened her. That was when Madou’s threats increased and he explicitly announced: “I’m going to kill our daughter, and then I kill you!”
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/12618/germany-press-freedom
You mean this one Richard?