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Syria: Hundreds of IS family members released from Al-Hawl camp
Some 800 people, mostly women and children, have been released from the Al-Hawl camp in northern Syria on Monday.
The camp, situated on the outskirts of the town Al-Hawl in Al-Hasakah Governorate, hosts individuals displaced from territories formerly controlled by the self-proclaimed Islamic State.
According to reports, the camp is a home to at least 73,000 people, including many IS family members and about 10,000 foreigners from over 40 countries.
Monday’s release comes after a meeting between Kurdish authorities and Arab tribal leaders last month. It is believed to be the first in a string of mass releases that are to take place in the upcoming weeks.
More IS family members are expected to be released following Eid celebrations.
Can someone look into the Virginia Beach shooter since Good Morning America did their story. They had a new picture of him with a moslem beard. Thanks.
Look what became of Iraq!
Pictures of beautiful women, diverse like flowers, ancient minorities all but obliterated.
“TODAY is the day I make a thread on the traditional clothes of women in Iraq from various ethnicities”
https://twitter.com/MidEastWitness/status/1135578978738221057
Iran Official Tells Saudis to Stop Abetting US or Brace for ‘Shocking Decision’ (sputniknews, Jun 4, 2019)
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201906041075623472-iran-saudi-shocking-decision-warning/
“Last week, Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud accused Iran of “supporting terrorism” and called on regional powers to “resolutely confront” Tehran.
Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, special aide for international affairs to the speaker of Iran’s Parliament, has called on Riyadh to stop assisting the US in its economic war against the Islamic Republic, hinting that there would be consequences if they failed to do so.
“If Saudi leaders don’t stop aiding & abetting the US in its economic war against Iran they must wait for its new & shocking decision”, the official wrote in a recent tweet, without clarifying what this “shocking decision” would be.
“The clock is ticking so fast for the continuity of Saudi-Emirati-Israeli dirty policies”, he added, posting a caricature featuring the Saudi king dancing alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with feet made of bombs.
Amir-Abdollahian, who is known to have played a major role in shaping Iranian policy in the region in recent years, retweeted his post, originally published in Persian, Arabic, and English.
The official’s warning follows emergency summits of the Gulf Cooperation Council and Arab League members, convened by Saudi Arabia to discuss the alleged threat posed by Iran to the region. The meetings followed last month’s attacks on oil tankers off the coast of the United Arab Emirates, which the US immediately blamed on Tehran. Saudi Arabia later followed suit, with Salman accusing Iran of engaging in “subversive actions” during last week’s meetings.
Iran has vehemently denied any involvement in the tanker attacks, and called on the international community to investigate the acts of sabotage. Last week, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif met with Iraqi officials and called on Gulf countries to sign a non-aggression pact with Tehran in an effort to defuse regional tensions.
Relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia, countries informally seen as the leaders of the Sunni and Shia sects of Islam, respectively, have been poor for decades. In early 2016, Riyadh severed all diplomatic ties with Tehran after Iranian activists attacked Saudi diplomatic missions to protest the execution of prominent Saudi Shiite cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr.
Tensions between Iran and key Saudi ally the United States also escalated last month after Washington accused Iran of plotting attacks against US interests in the Middle East and substantially beefed up its regional military presence. This included the deployment of a US carrier strike group, hundreds of fresh troops, strategic bombers, and Patriot missile batteries.
On Sunday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo indicated that the US would be willing to talk to Tehran, but only if the country began behaving “like a normal nation”. Earlier, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani similarly said that Iranian officials were ready to speak to their US counterparts, but only if Washington showed respect for Iran and followed internationally accepted rules of conduct.”
UK: Women’s movement resists Trump visit
We Can’t Predict Which Immigrants to Admit
But we do know whom we should NOT admit.
June 4, 2019
Michael Ledeen
My paternal grandmother Masha was a Russian serf. Her happiest moment in the old country was a spell in prison after she was arrested by the Tsar’s police for a religious crime. She had bathed one of her kids (three boys and a girl) upstream in a creek where the Tsarevich was being baptized. She loved the jail. Food twice a day, and a roof. When told that she had served out her sentence, she protested. Wasn’t there some way she could stay longer?
Yet, she had to go back to her shanty, her husband, and the four offspring. But she was determined to get out, and in 1906 she somehow managed to book a passage to New York, passed the Ellis Island exams, and, with virtually no money, and not a word of English, found lodging in Harlem.
Not the sort of immigrants we seem to be recruiting nowadays. After a few years in Harlem, where my father was born, Masha moved them to Toledo, Ohio, where she opened a little store that sold candy and newspapers. Amos Jacobs, who later gained fame as Danny Thomas, was a regular. All three boys went to college, and fathered children who did post-graduate work. All three were engineers.
No one would have predicted that Masha’s family would be such a success. By the standards of the new immigration code, they would not have been admitted. We want people who are trained in high tech, people who can enrich the tycoons of Silicon Valley. I’m all for that, but I’m also a strong believer that we should welcome those seeking a better life, the so-called “economic immigrants.”
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/273904/we-cant-predict-which-immigrants-admit-michael-ledeen
“I’m all for that, but I’m also a strong believer that we should welcome those seeking a better life, the so-called “economic immigrants.””
Nice try, Jerkwad. How about mentioning the importance of screening out third-rate, pre-industrial, human capital before it enters one of the most technologically advanced cultures in the entire world? Or is that too waysist?
This bloody-minded virtue signalling will be the willing and knowing death of us all. Whites, at least.
Democratic Conference Vice-Chairwoman: “Impeachment is a Tool… Not a Goal”
June 3, 2019
Daniel Greenfield
This is a very good quote because it’s one of those rare instances of the media broadcasting the real motives and agendas of the witch hunt.
The context were Clyburn’s remarks claiming that impeachment is apolitical.
So much for that.
As Clark makes very clear, impeachment is just one of a number of ways of achieving a political goal, forcing Trump out of office, and undoing the results of the 2016 election, in order to get the Democrats back in power.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/273917/democratic-conference-vice-chairwoman-impeachment-daniel-greenfield
“As Clark makes very clear, impeachment is just one of a number of ways of achieving a political goal, forcing Trump out of office, and undoing the results of the 2016 election, in order to get the Democrats back in power.”
All of which only proves my point.
The 0bama administrations must have been so hellishly corrupt (i.e., lucrative), to where being off that gravy train for just a year or two has these sphincters working both sides of the street like jonesing Vegas crack whores.
Consensual murder of a sitting president? No problemo.
Incarceration of all who voted for him? In a New York minute.
Confiscation of property, guns, children, finances, and social access at every conceivable level? Yes sir. Yes sir. Three bags full!
This is the Global Cultural Genocide that I predicted so very long ago. It cannot be helped if the 99% are unresponsive to being raped by the 1%, even as the Other 1% (e.g., citizen journalists) shout bloody murder. Rapists get shot before, during, and after the act. Full stop.
They are also subject to an intriguing and often excruciating variety of jailhouse antics at the hands of those currently unable to protect their own wimmen folk.
If the Great Unwashed are so inert right now, what happens when the guns come out (e.g., Bracken’s “When the Music Stops”)? All that these obese, ill-educated little consumer-bot snowflakes will be useful for is moving target practice, both sides.
Swedish Police Release ‘Vulnerable’ No-Go-Zone List Despite Calls for Censorship (breitbart, Jun 4, 2019)
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/06/04/swedish-police-release-vulnerable-no-go-zone-list-despite-calls-for-censorship/
“Swedish police released an updated list of so-called “vulnerable areas” across the country despite protests from certain municipalities who protested and wanted the list to be kept secret.
Swedish police produced the updated list of vulnerable areas, in which some are often referred to as “no-go areas,” on Monday revealing 23 areas that have been deemed as “particularly vulnerable” including the area of Skäggetorp which became an issue of contention for the local government in Linköping who wanted the list kept secret, Swedish broadcaster SVT reports.
According to the broadcaster, the police define a “particularly vulnerable” area as “characterized by social problems and a criminal presence which led to a widespread reluctance to participate in the legal process and difficulties for the police to fulfil their mission. The situation is considered acute.”
In April, Breitbart London reported that several municipal governments wanted police to make the list secret from the general public with Erik Pelling, a member of the Uppsala local government complaining that the list could hurt investment in the area of Gottsunda and even requested the area be removed from the list altogether.
“Because of the lack of transparency, it is not possible to know if we are moving away from it. And, of course, companies are thinking twice before investing in a neighbourhood with such a label,” he said.
Mats Löfving, head of the police’s national operational department (Noa) explained the reasons for the police refusing to censor the list saying, “…for the police, it is important to highlight facts and put them on the table under full transparency, in order to then be able to start from there and take action together with the areas concerned. That is the whole starting point.”
For years Sweden has struggled with increased crime and violence in no-go areas with violence toward police and emergency services even being caught on video and released in 2017.
Several solutions have been offered to combat the situation in many of the areas, which also tend to have higher migrant populations, including a suggestion from the centre-right Moderate Party to bring in the Swedish military to support the police in particularly impacted areas.”
Trump’s Mexico Tariffs: Result of Congressional Obstruction
Congress and courts have undermined border security – tariffs are a last resort.
On May 30, 2019 President Trump announced that he was contemplating imposing tariffs against Mexican imports to the United States to force Mexico to assist in securing the U.S./Mexican border. The very next day, CNN reported, “Trump threatens tariffs on Mexico over immigration” while USA Today reported, “US Chamber weighing lawsuit against White House over Trump tariffs.”
Trump is now seeking to impose tariffs on the goods from Mexico to gain control over the highly porous southern border of the United States, through which tonnage of deadly drugs and other contraband freely flow into the country and unknown hundreds of thousand of illegal aliens enter without inspection. Trump’s action is the direct result of the unwillingness of the “leaders” of both the Democratic and Republican parties to have provided the administration with the tools it clearly needs to end the crisis.
While a wall on the border would not, by itself, end the immigration crisis, it would represent an important element of what should be a secure immigration system that honors America’s tradition of welcoming more lawful immigrants than the rest of the world combined by making clear distinctions between lawful immigrants and illegal aliens.
More than a decade ago Congress voted to fund a fence on the southern border. However, that fence was never built. Other measures were never implemented either, but continual promises of the creation of massive amnesty programs have served to encourage millions of aspiring illegal aliens from around the world to head for our borders.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/273907/trumps-mexico-tariffs-result-congressional-michael-cutler
ARAB GULF STATES COZY UP TO JEWS AND ISRAEL
And how the U.S. can help.
June 4, 2019
Joseph Puder
Bahrain is slated to host a conference in its capital Manama, a conference that would deal with the economic aspects of the Trump administration’s Middle East peace plan also known as the “Deal of the Century.” The conference, scheduled to take place next month (June 25-26), is meant to focus on providing billions of dollars to revive the Palestinian economy. While Israel plans to dispatch a delegation led by Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon, the Palestinian Authority (PA) has already announced its refusal to attend, despite the conference aim to revive its failing economy. A senior PA official has called the White House planned conference and the “deal of the century,” a “financial blackmail.”
Bahrain’s willingness to accept the Trump administration’s request to host such a conference, despite objections from the PA, is indicative of the new attitudes emerging from the moderate Sunni-Arab Gulf states. Although relations with the Jewish state are still unofficial, a new openness can be detected toward Judaism, Jews, and Israel. The National, a publication based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), reported on May 1, 2019, that the Saudi head of the Muslim World League, and former Saudi Justice Minister, Dr. Mohammad Al Issa, has signed up to become the most senior Islamic leader to visit Auschwitz at next January’s observance of the Holocaust Remembrance Day. Dr. Al Issa stated that, “By paying my respect to the victims of Auschwitz, I will encourage Muslims and non-Muslims to embrace mutual respect, understanding and diversity.”
Dr. Al Issa also asserted that “He who denies the Holocaust seeks to repeat it…rational human beings must unite and work together to restrain the advocates of murder and extermination, otherwise the lessons of history won’t be useful.” Dr. Al Issa’s empathy toward a seminal event in Jewish history – the Holocaust, reflects a general tendency in the Arab Gulf states of seeking to strengthen their ties with Judaism.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/273895/arab-gulf-states-cozy-jews-and-israel-joseph-puder
Paul Weston – Update Re Britain’s Sharia Compliant Police
‘HOLY CRAP!’: Hillary Clinton Roasted By Juanita Broaddrick For Telling Trump He ‘is not above the law’
Some users on Twitter were not impressed by a tweet that 2016 Democratic presidential candidate and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton posted that said President Donald Trump was “not above the law” — including Juanita Broaddrick, who accused her husband, former President Bill Clinton, of sexually assaulting her.
On Monday, Clinton — who lost to Trump in the 2016 presidential election — posted a passive-aggressive tweet targeting the president, saying that he was “not above” the laws of the United States.
https://viralbuzz247.com/holy-crap-hillary-clinton-roasted-by-juanita-broaddrick-for-telling-trump-he-is-not-above-the-law/
Ep. 994 This Should’ve Been All Over The News Yesterday. The Dan Bongino Show 6/4/2019.
Key Mueller figure George Nader charged with transporting child porn
George Nader, a Lebanese American businessman with links to associates of President Trump, has been arrested on a charge of transporting child pornography.
U.S. officials arrested Nader at John F. Kennedy Airport on Monday morning, the Justice Department said. Nader was charged under seal after he arrived in Washington from Dubai in January 2018 with a cellphone containing images of minors engaged in sexual conduct, officials said.
https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/446709-key-mueller-figure-george-nader-charged-with-transporting-child-porn
They’re the Same Everywhere: Violent Leftist Assaults Trump Supporter Wearing MAGA Hat in London (VIDEO)
Red Hat Showdown: Trump supporter is attacked outside Buckingham Palace during presidential visit
A violent leftist was caught on camera attacking a Trump supporter and trying to steal his “Make America Great Again” red hat. The violence led to a scuffle between the British and American man.
The left is the same everywhere: violent, unhinged, angry and out of ideas.
Via Brightstrt
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/06/theyre-the-same-everywhere-violent-leftist-assaults-trump-supporter-wearing-maga-hat-in-london-video/?utm_source=TGPemail&utm_medium=email&utm_content=subscriber_id:553016019&utm_campaign=Auto%20Send%20from%20The%20Gateway%20Pundit%20on%20June%204,%202019%20at%2011:06:06%20AM
SICK. Nearly 50K People ‘Like’ Tweet About Running Over Seven-Year-Old Pro-Trump Child
Nearly 50,000 people have liked a tweet from comedian and Awful Records founder Zack Fox about killing a pro-Trump child.
The child from Texas, Benton Stevens, made national news this week after raising $22,000 for a border wall with lemonade and hot chocolate stands.
“Benton Stevens raised $22k with his hot chocolate stand to help build the wall! We were honored to have him at our ribbon cutting ceremony yesterday for the wall he helped pay for along with all of you who donated. This is only the beginning and we’re excited to keep building more to protect our nation and the legal citizens who proudly call American their home!” We Build the Wall, an organization crowdfunding the private construction of a border wall wrote on Facebook.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/06/sick-nearly-50k-people-like-tweet-about-running-over-seven-year-old-pro-trump-child/?utm_source=TGPemail&utm_medium=email&utm_content=subscriber_id:553016019&utm_campaign=Auto%20Send%20from%20The%20Gateway%20Pundit%20on%20June%204,%202019%20at%2011:06:06%20AM
UK – LONDON –Trump baby blimp ‘stabbed with sharp object’ by pro-Trump activist in London
One of the Trump baby blimps flown at today’s protests in London against the US president’s visit was attacked by a pro-Trump supporter carrying a sharp object.
A woman approached a group anti-Trump activists outside the House of Commons and stabbed the mini blimp in the back, according to the team of “babysitters” looking after the balloon.
“A woman … punctured the mini Trump baby replica with a sharp object,” said a spokesman for the Trump Baby UK group. “It’s not surprising that the far right would want to meet freedom of expression with violence.”
The Donald Trump supporter was led away from the crowd by police officers. A spokesperson for Scotland Yard told The Independent that “one female has been arrested for being in possession of a pointed or bladed article”.
Elsewhere in Parliament Square, one of the president’s supporters was hit on the head by a milkshake. Video footage showed a crowd of demonstrators chanting “Nazi scum” at the man, before he was struck by a drink container and with left milkshake dripping down his forehead.[…]
https://news.yahoo.com/trump-baby-blimp-stabbed-sharp-153350746.html
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Anti-Trump protests in London turn violent
Democrat rule has brought trash heaps, rats, typhus and more to California cities
GOPUSA StaffTammy Bruce, Washington Times Posted On 11:55 am June 4, 2019
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It takes a lot of resilience to look over one’s shoulder at California. We Americans are a proud people and love our country. We know we’re wildly imperfect, but we also have seen our country overcome difficulties to become a more perfect union.
California, not so much.
One glance at the formerly Golden State is a frightening embarrassment. The latest indictment of liberal leadership is the trash heap of Los Angeles. Literally. Despite the emergence of louse-borne typhus, Los Angeles can’t seem to get its act together.
Steve Lopez of the Los Angeles Times reported a week ago on the obscene condition of downtown Los Angeles, “A mountain of rotting, oozing, stinking trash … stretching a good 20 yards along a skid row alley. Rats popped their heads out of the debris like they were in a game of Whac-A-Mole, then scampered for cover as a tractor with a scoop lurched toward them. … The trash problem is not confined to any one street, but this particular location on the 800 block of Ceres Avenue is surrounded by food distribution companies that sell to shoppers, vendors, stores and restaurants. I counted seven within a block, so you have to wonder — given the colonies of football-size rats — about the potential contamination of the food supply chain and the spread of disease.”
http://www.gopusa.com/?p=70505?omhide=true
‘Medieval’ Diseases Like Typhus Are Making a Comeback
LAPD Officers Diagnosed With Typhus due Tons of Rotting Rat-Infested Trash
Steve Bannon’s speech on June 3, 2019
RT- Indigenous people face race-base genocide in Canada – report
“Race-based genocide” is how a Canadian government report has branded decades of violence against the country’s indigenous population.
The study was released on Monday at a ceremony – and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who was present – accepted mistakes had been made. But his failure to use the word genocide, saw the PM heckled.
New Russian anti-ballistic missile successfully completes test launch
A rocket flying at vertiginous speed appears on a fresh MoD video as the Russian military successfully tests a new addition to the missile defense shield.
europravda- Meet the Bavarian Christians who have veered left to support the Green Party
An otherwise conservative region in Germany has seen a surge in Green Party voters in the last EU election.
In this feature of Insiders, meet the Christians who have thrown their support behind the left-wing party
Trigger Words: A Gun Ride Through American History
David Harsanyi understands what guns have meant to us.
When Free Soil settlers in Kansas were being bloodied by pro-slavery forces in the years before the American Civil War, abolitionist preacher Henry Ward Beecher decided enough was enough, endorsing the shipment of a thousand high-powered Sharps rifles to the settlers.
The guns’ new breech-loading mechanism dramatically increased their rate of fire over the era’s slow, awkward muzzle-loaders. In essence, this made them the assault rifles of their time. The Rev. Beecher (brother to Uncle Tom’s Cabin author Harriet Beecher Stowe) told a reporter that there was “more moral power in one of those instruments, so far as the slaveholders of Kansas were concerned, than in a hundred Bibles.”
Viewing guns as a positive good isn’t typical in this era of mass shootings, but a recent book suggests that for much of America’s history, that is exactly how they were regarded.
In First Freedom: A Ride Through America’s Enduring History with the Gun (Simon & Schuster, Oct. 2018), David Harsanyi argues that in America at least, guns were central to the national experience; without them we might still be squatting on the Atlantic seaboard subsisting on shellfish and charity from the nearby Wampanoag Indian tribes.
https://spectator.org/trigger-words-a-gun-ride-through-american-history/?utm_source=American%20Spectator%20Emails&utm_campaign=33a03912ae-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_06_04_05_06&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_797a38d487-33a03912ae-104523669
Terror attack in Oslo – June 4. 2019
A Muslim was stopped by the Norwegian police in Oslo
Russian with knife, shouting “Allah akbar,” attacks foreigner in Oslo
The Oslo police detained a Russian citizen who attacked with a knife and shouting “Allah akbar” a 30-year-old Filipino. The incident was regarded as an attempted murder. Even before the crime, the Russian was remembered by policemen for strange behavior, which led to suspicions about the use of drugs or psychoactive substances by the detainee, NRK reports.
“I’m looking for protection from Satan. Lord is great. I throw myself into the arms of God,” the Russian muttered as he wandered through the streets of Oslo.
In the morning of June 4, in the area of ??Grunerlokk, the Russian citizen attacked a Filipino and inflicted a severe wound. A few minutes later, the police found him near the scene of the incident. The Russian did not react to the demands to put down his weapon, therefore a stun-gun was used against him.
https://en.crimerussia.com/gromkie-dela/russian-with-knife-shouting-allah-akbar-attacks-foreigner-in-oslo-/
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“Paul Manafort to be Transferred to Notorious and Dangerous Rikers Island Jail – May Face Solitary Confinement”
by Cristina Laila – June 4, 2019
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/06/paul-manafort-to-be-transferred-to-notorious-and-dangerous-rikers-island-jail-may-face-solitary-confinement/
“Associate Andrew Weissmann ‘Using Terror Tactics’ to ‘Coerce’ Manafort”
Fox News Insider – Published on August 3, 2018
“Tucker Carlson: The Paul Manafort Trial – Prosecution or Persecution?”
Liberty Pen – Published on August 8, 2018
June 4: China’s Longest Night
by Gordon G. Chang
June 4, 2019 at 4:00 am
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/14333/tiananmen-square-anniversary
As June 3 passed into June 4 in Beijing in 1989, enraged citizens defended streets and neighborhoods as soldiers and armored vehicles of the murderous 27th Army, along with the 38th, moved from the western approaches of the Chinese capital to the heart of the city. It was China’s longest night.
By the morning of the 4th, the self-styled army of the Chinese people, the People’s Liberation Army, had viciously cleared Tiananmen Square, where more than a million people had gathered, talked, sung, and celebrated since the middle of April. The papier-mâché Goddess of Democracy, a monument to freedom that dominated the square, was smashed.
During the night thousands died. Blood marked pavements, corpses littered streets and alleys. Protests in the Chinese capital and about 370 other cities were put down. The ensuing political crackdown lasted years, and there was an immediate end to efforts to liberalize the economy.
For many, it was the end of hope. Dissidents surreptitiously fled China for Hong Kong and points beyond. Not all were so fortunate as to make it out of the country.
Deng Xiaoping, paramount leader of the time, wanted to make a point: the Communist Party was prepared to kill in great numbers to keep power.
His three successors have taken a different approach. They released a low — 241 — official death toll. Most estimates put the dead in the thousands. Moreover, officials avoid mentioning the event that had almost turned into an uprising. Chinese high school students have been given only one line in a textbook.
Afghanistan: Explosion kills two and injures 14 in Baghlan province
Two people were killed and 14 wounded as an improvised explosive device went off in the Nahrein district of the northern province of Baglan on Tuesday.
The blast reportedly occurred near a mosque after the Eid al-Fitr prayers, which mark the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
Footage shows blood on the ground, among debris, and an exploded motorbike.
No responsibility has been claimed for the explosion yet.
On Monday, another blast left at least five people dead and ten injured after a bus carrying government employees was struck by an explosion in Kabul.
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Germany: Students stage ‘die-in’ at parliament in climate protest
A group of about 20 students interrupted a Bundestag session to stage a ‘die-in’ by lying down on the floor to protest the government’s approach to the climate crisis, in Berlin on Tuesday.
During the die-in, students deployed a banner that was snatched away by another attendee.
The demonstration took place during a ‘Youth and Parliament’ session – a four-day mock parliament session – as the Bundestag president Wolfgang Schaeuble was giving a closing speech.
Schaeuble reacted by ringing a bell and then said “I say however that tomorrow at midday, I have to open the parliamentary session here, and by that time you should have removed yourselves.”
Activist Maximilian Reimann reportedly said that the stunt aimed at drawing attention to the climate crisis and to put pressure on the government to act.
In the AI We Trust? Discussing the Deep Fake Wars
Mark Steyn: “Free speech is hate speech, and hate speech is free speech” | David Menzies
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Spanish Police Arrest 16 Moroccans for Trafficking Minors to Europe (moroccoworldnews, Jun 4, 2019)
https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2019/06/275004/spanish-police-moroccans-trafficking-minors/
“Spain’s Guardia Civil busted four rings composed of 16 members of Moroccan origins on charges of trafficking minors.
According to the Spanish news agency Eldiario, the ring, which operated in the Spanish cities of Cadiz, Seville, Morocco, and Gibraltar, smuggled Moroccan minors seeking to reach Europe.
The suspects used boats to take kids from the Gibraltar peninsula to cities such as Barcelona, Bilbao or Valencia.
According to a statement from Civil Guardia, upon landing in Gibraltar, where the children were kept in houses run by the organization, the ring contacted the families of the children to settle on a price of $600 to $800, before transferring the children to other cities.
The ring smuggled the children onboard chartered petras and inflatable boats which were unfit for open water, and at times snuck them in trucks and buses, to transport the minor migrants across the Mediterranean Sea.
According to the Civil Guardia, starting at the end of last year, security forces executed a raid on a camp in Seville, where they found that 253 minors had escaped from the reception facilities in Seville.
The authorities also nabbed a second organization operating in Algeciras and San Pablo de Buceite village in the province of Cadiz. The ring had branches in Morocco.
Authorities also seized computer equipment and marijuana.
The ring members are being charged with crimes against the rights of foreign citizens, illegal immigration, illegal detention and for belonging to a criminal organization.”
Christopher Steele to be interviewed by US investigators
At least 200 Afghan civilians killed in Ramadan (aa, Jun 4, 2019)
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/asia-pacific/at-least-200-afghan-civilians-killed-in-ramadan/1496719
“As the Taliban continued to engage in a series of symbolic reconciliation parleys, the raging war with no eminent signs of truce in Afghanistan killed an estimated 200 more civilians during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan alone.
Figures compiled by Anadolu Agency suggested a string of landmine blasts, suicide attacks, targeted killings and air raids left at least 200 civilians killed and more than 300 wounded in the restive Helmand, Ghazni, Nangarhar, Jawzjan, Paktika, Ghor, Badghes, Zabul, Kunduz, Herat, Faryab, Sar-i-Pul, Kapisa, Baghlan, Maidan Wardak, and Kabul provinces in the Muslim holy month of Ramadan that began on May 6.
The capital city, Kabul, alone was rocked by three terrorist attacks in the last week of May killing six soldiers and five civilians, while injuring over 20 civilians. However, Ghazni remained the most volatile province of all 34 provinces in the country this month.
During the month of Ramadan, 33 Afghan children and 14 women were killed, while 34 more children and 9 women got injured in different violent incidents, said the Civilian Protection Advocacy Group, a network of 20 civil society institutions.
Under the newly appointed interior and defense ministers, Massound Andrabi and Assadullah Khalid respectively, the Afghan security forces have been rejuvenated and molded into a relatively aggressive posture against the resilient insurgents.
The Afghan security forces managed to reclaim the restive Deh Yaq district in Ghazni province this month after nearly two years of the Taliban control over it.
The security forces and the Taliban on Sunday made tall claims about killing around 100 fighters of opposite sides in central Ghazni province amid an evident surge in fighting.
The Ministry of Defense boasted it has killed 160 members of the Taliban’s so-called “Red Unit” of fighters in Ghazni and Maidan Wardak provinces this month.
The Taliban, on the other hand, opened new fronts such as in central Ghor province, where 18 security forces were killed last week. In neighboring Badghes province, the insurgents managed to recapture Bala Murhab by killing at least 12 security forces at the check posts on the outskirts of the volatile district.
The country’s former spy chief, Rehmatullah Nabil, told a news conference in Kabul on Sunday more deadly clashes are on the cards as the Taliban seek to have an upper hand in proposed peace talks with the U.S.
‘Taliban shying away from ceasefire’
In the wake of mounting social and diplomatic pressure on the Taliban for ceasefire combined with intensified air and ground offensives by the Afghan forces, the insurgents adopted equally aggressive posture both on the diplomatic as well as the war fronts this month.
Mirza Mohammad Yarmand, a Kabul-based security affairs analyst, argued the Taliban are shying away from announcing a ceasefire on the occasion of Ramadan or Eid al-Fitr on the directives of their foreign backers.
“No one should expect us to pour cold water on the heated battlefronts of ‘Jihad’ or forget our forty-year sacrifices before reaching our objectives”, said Taliban leader Mawlawi Hibatullah Akhundzada, in a message ahead of Eid al-Fitr.
He blamed the Afghan government for trying to sabotage dialogue between the Taliban and Afghan political figures “by seeking prominence”.
It is with a clear reference to the multiple rounds of talks in Moscow between the insurgents and the Afghan politicians from the opposition groups where the Kabul government had no official representation.
Responding to this, Zalmay Khalilzad, the top U.S. peace negotiator, said in a series of tweets that the Taliban leader’s Eid statement provides some welcome support for the peace process, and a desire to participate in dialogue with other Afghans and in a final political settlement that will require power sharing.
“At the same time, the statement’s bombastic tone is unnecessary & only serves to complicate & disrupt as we advance peace talks. The statement suggests the US seeks violence. We do not. The level of violence in Afghanistan is unacceptable and we have no desire to perpetuate it,” Khalilzad added.
Waheed Mujda, an expert on the Taliban affairs, told Anadolu Agency there is strong opposition among the ranks of the Taliban towards the idea of a ceasefire at this stage.
“They [Taliban] present presence of foreign troops in Afghanistan as a justification for the continuation of fighting. Last year, when the Taliban entered brief ceasefire, many top leaders of them [Taliban] did not like it,” he said.
The Taliban and the U.S. envoy are set to resume political wrangling in the Qatari capital Doha later this month on ways and means to end this 18-year-old war.”
Man arrested for trying to strangle wife (ansa, Jun 4, 2019)
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“A 36-year-old Albanian man was arrested in Trieste at the end of May while trying to strangle his wife, police said Tuesday.”
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[utrid]BS.Libya: UNHCR calls for closure of Zintan migrant center (ansamed, Jun 4, 2019)
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“The UN Refugee Agency UNHCR said in a statement that 96 migrants have been transferred from Libya’s Zintan detention facility, south-west of Tripoli, where living conditions are ”terrible”. ”The center should be dismantled as soon as possible”, the UN agency said.
Common areas at the center are ”overcrowded” and don’t have sufficient air, UNHCR said. In some areas, hygienic services are broken and would need to be repaired. As a consequence, solid and organic waste have accumulated in cells for days, posing a serious risk for the health of detainees. Tension among detainees is high due to desperation, said UNHCR.
The migrants who were released from the center are mainly from Somalia, Eritrea and Ethiopia and include two newborns.
However, the center still hosts 654 refugees and migrants.
”It is necessary to immediately adopt all the available options to release the remaining detainees”, insisted the UN agency. ”Since at the moment there is no adequate center to host refugees and migrants in Tripoli, in part due to the ongoing hostilities, UNHCR urges once again the international community to carry out further evacuations of refugees from the capital”.
Meanwhile, arrivals are on the rise: in the month of May alone, Libyan coast guards took back to Libya a higher number of people (1,224) than over the previous months of 2019, according to the agency. The country has ”no safe port where refugees and migrants who have been rescued can land”, it said.”