Contributor’s links for June 5, 2019

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  1. Fix the Supreme Court by Following the Constitution
    The Democrats don’t want to fix the Court, they want to break America.
    June 5, 2019
    Daniel Greenfield

    Mayor Peter Buttigieg took a break from running the worst city in Indiana to call for raising the number of Supreme Court justices to fifteen. The plan comes from the same Rhodes Scholar who claimed that we should move to a popular vote system “if we’re going to call ourselves a democracy.”

    Buttigieg has a degree in history from Harvard, but knows less than a third grader did in 1925.

    Court packing schemes have been endorsed by Senator Elizabeth Warren, Senator Kamala Harris, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, Robert Francis O’Rourke, Mayor Buttigieg and a bunch of other candidates you never heard of. Other 2020 candidates, including Senator Bernie Sanders and Senator Cory Booker, have proposed rigging the Supreme Court in another way by introducing term limits for the justices.

    These proposals are invariably described with euphemistic verbs like “reform” or “fix”. But the only reason that they suddenly decided SCOTUS needs reforming is because they’re no longer in control of it.

    That’s not reforming or fixing, it’s rigging.

    Demand Justice has proposals for both court packing and term limits.

    https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/273932/fix-supreme-court-following-constitution-daniel-greenfield

  2. Swedish Bishop Claims to Have ‘More in Common with Muslims’ Than ‘Right-Wing Christians’ (breitbart, Jun 5, 2019)
    https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/06/05/swedish-bishop-claims-more-common-muslims-right-wing-christians/

    “Controversial Bishop of Stockholm Eva Brunne revealed that she not only has a distaste for right-wing Christians, but claims to have more in common with Muslims.

    The Church of Sweden bishop made her comments this week on the People and Faith programme broadcast on Sveriges Radio, stating that she believes that the subject of Christian values has been largely taken over by right-wing populists.

    “We all have to think about which people we are and who we are living with. And in fact, we all have the same value. Although we do not speak the same language or pray to God in the same way or look the same, we have the same value, and we shall live in a country together and have the same rights,” she said, in comments reported by Nyheter Idag.

    “I say that I sometimes have more in common with Muslims, those I meet, than with the right-wing Christians,” she said and went on to add that Christians have their own extremists, mentioning the Crusades and the witch burnings that took place hundreds of years ago.

    “We hear a lot about terrorism and think that it is Muslims who practice this, which it is, but it is nevertheless a small, small minority of all the Muslims we know,” she added.

    The first openly lesbian bishop in Sweden, Brunne has caused controversy in the past when she allocated Muslim prayer spaces in Swedish churches in 2015, demanding that crosses and other Christian symbols be removed as well. Brunne defended her decision comparing the spaces to multi-faith prayer rooms found in airports or hospitals.

    The Stockholm bishop is not the only member of the church of Sweden to have expressed a fondness for Islam. Last year, Muslims in the city of Växjö lobbied the local government to allow for the public broadcast of the Islamic call to prayer.

    While many rejected the idea, Bishop Fredrik Modeus announced his support for it saying: “I welcome the application and look forward to hearing both church bells and prayer announcements in our city.”

  3. New California law allows jail time for using wrong gender pronoun
    Brooke Singman, Fox News June 5, 2019

    [Ed. – Meanwhile, defecating on the sidewalk or shooting up with heroin are perfectly permissible. (h/t Deplorable Pet Lover)]

    https://libertyunyielding.com/2019/06/05/new-california-law-allows-jail-time-for-using-wrong-gender-pronoun/

    New California law allows jail time for using wrong gender pronoun, sponsor denies that would happen

    California health care workers who “willfully and repeatedly” decline to use a senior transgender patient’s “preferred name or pronouns” could face punishments ranging from a fine to jail time under a newly signed law.

    California Gov. Jerry Brown signed the legislation last week.

    The sponsor, Democratic state Sen. Scott Wiener, has argued adamantly that nobody is going to be criminally prosecuted for using the wrong pronoun.

    “It’s just more scare tactics by people who oppose all LGBT civil rights and protections,” he said in a statement last month.

    But the language seemingly allows for the possibility, however remote.

    The bill itself is aimed at protecting transgender and other LGBT individuals in hospitals, retirement homes and assisted living facilities. The bill would ensure those facilities accommodate transgender people and their needs, including letting them decide which gender-specific bathroom they prefer to use.

    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/new-california-law-allows-jail-time-for-using-wrong-gender-pronoun-sponsor-denies-that-would-happen

  4. Richards: The answer to the question in the Title is because Obama didn’t want him dead. Remember Obama aborted several strikes against bil Laden the final attack was carried out because the lower ranking people ensured that Obama and the higher ranking civilians didn’t know about it until it was on the ground.

    America Had the Chance to Kill Al-Baghdadi But Didn’t. Why?

    The wife of a senior associate of ISIS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi gave Americans information that could have killed Baghdadi, but the military brass at the time declined to act on it, The Guardian reported.

    Later, U.S. officials reportedly said the information was correct.

    Nisrine Assad Ibrahim (a.k.a. Umm Sayyuf), 29, was married to Fathi Ben Awn Ben Jildi Murad al-Tunis (Abu Sayyaf), a close friend of al-Baghdadi’s who served as both as ISIS’ media chief and oil minister.

    Her own family was highly connected to al-Baghdadi as well. When al-Baghdadi would stay in Mosul, it was Umm Sayyuf’s aunt that found him shelter and ran a network of safe houses for him.

    Umm Sayyuf was captured in a Delta Force raid in May 2015 in the Omar oil field – a raid that killed her husband. She was sentenced to death for horrific crimes, including the enslavement and of American aid worker Kayla Mueller and facilitating her rape by al-Baghdadi as well as the enslavement of a number of Yazidi women and girls, all of whom were raped by senior ISIS leaders.

    Her captors at a prison in Erbil, Iraq where she is being held allowed The Guardian to interview her, the first media interview since her capture.

    For more than a half a year, Umm Sayyuf refused to cooperate with her captors, but by early 2016, she began revealing crucial intelligence information about the terror group. In particular, she revealed how al-Baghdadi operated and how he was able to travel around from location to location, information she was particularly privy to.

    https://clarionproject.org/america-had-the-chance-to-kill-al-baghdadi-but-didnt-why/?utm_source=Clarion+Project+Newsletter&utm_campaign=c3415df6d7-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_03_17_12_03_COPY_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_60abb35148-c3415df6d7-5908801&mc_cid=c3415df6d7&mc_eid=65230079c6

  5. The Dangerous New Way Hezbollah Is Skirting American Sanctions

    Hezbollah is skirting American sanctions with a new and dangerous strategy.

    According to an exclusive report the Kuwati news outlet Al Jarida, a senior official in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp (IRGC) confirmed recent comments by Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah, who declared that the terror organization is not manufacturing precision missiles in Lebanon.

    However, that is only half the story. “It doesn’t mean that there are no [Hezbollah] factories manufacturing these missiles. It just means the group stopped manufacturing them in Lebanon a while ago,” the official said.

    The official explained how Hezbollah has kept its regular missile factories in operation in Lebanon while moving the manufacture of precision heads and electronic parts to Syria.

    Those parts are then discreetly shipped to Lebanon where they are put together.

    This strategy avoids having to ship Iranian missiles from Syria to Lebanon. Such shipments, which are obvious and cumbersome, have become easy targets for Israel.

    Hezbollah previously operated factories in Lebanon to build precision missiles, the official noted. After they were exposed, Hezbollah and, in turn, the Lebanese government were under enormous pressure from the U.S. due to the sanctions America put on Hezbollah.

    Hezbollah, which controls a large part of the Lebanese government, needed to relieve that pressure to maintain its influence on the country.

    https://clarionproject.org/the-dangerous-new-way-hezbollah-is-skirting-american-sanctions/?utm_source=Clarion+Project+Newsletter&utm_campaign=c3415df6d7-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_03_17_12_03_COPY_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_60abb35148-c3415df6d7-5908801&mc_cid=c3415df6d7&mc_eid=65230079c6

  6. American IS-affiliated women, children repatriated to US: Syria Kurds
    https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/news/2019/6/5/american-is-affiliated-women-children-repatriated-to-us-syria-kurds

    Two American women and six children had been repatriated to the United States from a camp housing thousands who fled the Islamic State group “caliphate”, Syria’s Kurds said on Wednesday.

    The repatriation was carried out “at the request of the US government and based… on the free and voluntary desire of the American citizens to return to their country without any pressure or coercion,” spokesman Kamal Akef said in a statement.

    Al-Hol camp in northeast Syria is home to nearly 74,000 people, among them wives and children of suspected IS fighters.

    The camp is bursting with Syrians, Iraqis and people from more than 40 other nations who fled successive US-backed assaults led by the Kurds against the last bastions of the Islamic State group’s “caliphate”.

    In March, the United States said it was not looking at an international court to try Islamic State militants and urged countries to repatriate them, just hours after Syria’s Kurds proposed a tribunal.

    Repatriation is a sensitive issue for Western nations such as France and Britain, which have experienced attacks by homegrown extremists and have little interest in seeing more return.

    Britain has gone so far as to strip Islamic State proponents of citizenship.

    In the most high-profile US case, the United States earlier this year said that Hoda Muthana, a young woman from Alabama who joined the Islamic State group, was not a citizen due to her father’s former diplomatic status.

    That came just a month after, British authorities caused a stir after stripping 19-year-old Shamima Begum of her citizenship despite having a new-born baby. Begum, who ran away from home to join IS when she was 15, had been holed up along with thousands of other women and children that had fled Baghouz, in the al-Hol camp.

    Begum’s child was confirmed dead by Kurdish officials in Syria just days after she was stripped of her citizenship but the UK said it would not have been able to repatriate the baby of IS member Shamima Begum citing safety concerns.
    [..]

  7. ANGRY PELOSI Slams Her Hands on Podium as She Attacks Trump’s Proposed Tariffs on Mexican Imports

    House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) sounded under the weather as she attacked President Trump over his proposed tariffs on Mexican imports during a presser on Wednesday.

    A reporter asked Pelosi if President Trump’s threat of tariffs against Mexico is working.

    Pelosi slammed her hands on the lectern as she lashed out at President Trump on Wednesday and asserted his proposed tariffs are “dangerous territory” and said this is not the way to deal with immigration.

    “This is dangerous territory. This is not a way to treat a friend. It’s not a way to deal with immigration,” Pelosi said.

    Pelosi did not sound well at all during her presser and she even twisted herself into a pretzel when she claimed Russia’s (nonexistent) ‘attack on the election’ was worse than Mexico pushing thousands of illegals and massive amount of drugs across the border into the US.

    https://twitter.com/i/status/1136293612449386496

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/06/speaker-pelosi-slams-her-hands-on-podium-as-she-attacks-trumps-proposed-tariffs-on-mexican-imports-video/

  8. Richard: Be sure to click through and read the entire article, it looks like the left wing tech giants are making their move to shut down all influential conservatives. The problem for them is that they have moved too early, there is time for the Conservatives to get their banning reversed.

    Here We Go… Google-YouTube to Remove THOUSANDS of Offensive Accounts — Conservatives to be Hit the Hardest

    In 2019 The Gateway Pundit was more accurate in reporting the top stories than the Washington Post, New York Times, CNN and the rest of the liberal mainstream media.

    In the top stories of the year:
    ** The Covington Catholic School Boys Media Assault
    ** The Jussie Smollett fake hate crime
    ** The Trump-Russia Collusion hoax

    The Gateway Pundit was 100% correct in our instincts and in our reporting.
    The far left mainstream media fell short with their bias and lies.

    In 2017, following the presidential election in November 2016, both the “Harvard Berkman Klein Center study and the Columbia Journalism Review study ranked The Gateway Pundit as the fourth most influential conservative publisher of the 2016 election.

    Since then The Gateway Pundit has been censored or eliminated by the tech giants and far left social media platforms.

    FACEBOOK— In March of 2018 Facebook shut down our content. Facebook has targeted and ELIMINATED conservative content since the 2016 election. Over 2 billion conservative page views were deleted from top conservative websites since 2016. In 2016 Facebook accounted for one-third of the traffic at The Gateway Pundit. Today Facebook accounts for only 2-4 percent of our traffic.
    This influence map below by Columbia Journalism Review shows the top influencers during the 2016 election.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/06/here-we-go-google-youtube-to-remove-thousands-of-offensive-accounts-conservatives-to-be-hit-the-hardest/

  9. 22-year-od Mehmet A. from Tiel, the Netherlands, turns out to be another (muslim) mole in the police force. Positioned there presumably by the `mocro maffia’:
    https://nltimes.nl/2019/03/06/amsterdam-corrupt-cop-deliberately-positioned-underworld-prosecutor-suspects

    According to the Prosecutor, since December 2017, A. searched the police systems for dozens of names of drug criminals, ATM bombers, and motorcycle gang members. The Prosecutor spoke of an “alarmingly large amount of illegal searches and the frequent resale of these”.

    There is no hard evidence that A. was deliberately positioned with the police by the underworld, but there are indications pointing to it, according to the Amsterdam broadcaster. For example, A. was given an encrypted PGP phone by a criminal, with which he could share police information. Investigation showed that A. searched the police systems thousands of times, almost always when he was off duty and for reasons that had nothing to do with his police work.

    [..]

    The police received an anonymous tip early in 2018 that a police officer had been bribed by two brothers from Tiel who are active in the cannabis world. That turned out to be true. The cop told the brothers that there was an investigation against them. One of them fled to Morocco.

  10. Washington Examiner – Democrats plan Capitol Hill event to put Trump’s mental health under fire

    Democrats are planning to host a Capitol Hill event featuring psychiatrists who will warn that President Trump is unfit for office based on his mental health.

    The event will be led by Dr. Bandy Lee, a Yale School of Medicine psychiatrist and editor of The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump, a book that argues psychiatrists have a responsibility to warn the public when a president is dangerous. The position is controversial because psychiatric associations urge members never to diagnose patients they haven’t personally evaluated, saying it undermines the scientific rigor of the profession.

    But Lee and others who agree with her stance say that their description of the president’s behavior, of his showing mental instability and dangerousness, shouldn’t be interpreted as issuing a diagnosis.

    “The president’s condition has been visibly deteriorating to the point where there’s a lot of talk right now about his mental state beyond mental health professionals,” Lee said. “It no longer takes a mental health professional to recognize the seriousness of the current presidency.”

    The date for the town hall hasn’t been set but would be held “imminently soon within the next couple of weeks,” said Lee, who said the event was meant to be bipartisan. Budget Committee Chairman John Yarmuth, D-Ky., who has called for Trump’s impeachment, confirmed the event was in the works, but said it would be more likely to occur in July because lawmakers have a full plate in June with spending bills.

    “We’re planning to put together an event,” Yarmuth said. “She’s calling it a town hall. We haven’t actually determined the format, but it’s going to be an event where she is going to present her findings, and media will be invited.”

    Yarmuth said every House member would be invited but that he hadn’t yet gauged who would be interested because not many people knew about it. Lee said the group would reconsider the event if no Republicans planned to show up.

    The White House did not immediately return a request for comment.

    According to Lee, attendees at the town hall would watch a condensed video that was recorded at a Washington, D.C., event held at the National Press Club in March that featured 13 experts discussing how they didn’t think Trump was fit for office. The experts, who came from the fields of mental health, philosophy, history, and journalism, said they were worried about the president’s access to nuclear weapons and the impact his administration would have on climate change.

    Lee said the event is to allow members of Congress to ask her and other experts questions, but planners hope the town hall will be broadcast live so that people who aren’t in D.C. also would be able to watch and submit questions.

    Lee said the experts won’t make specific recommendations about whether Congress should consider invoking the 25th Amendment to remove the president from office or whether they should do so by impeachment. The political process should be determined by members of Congress, she said.

    Yarmuth said that, to him, the event was a separate question from impeachment. “I don’t think an assessment of someone’s mental health is an impeachable issue,” he said.

    He decided to hold the event “for the same fears she has,” he said, referring to Lee. “That the president is manifesting dangerous behavior and the American people need to be alert to it.”

    “Their position is that as professionals, when they see patterns of behavior that are endangering people, that they have a professional obligation to go public and alert the people who are threatened, and in this case it’s the American people,” Yarmuth said. “I think the American people deserve to have wider dissemination of that perspective.”

    It’s not yet clear who else will participate. Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., who has a 25th Amendment bill that would set up a body in Congress to determine presidential fitness, had been asked to be on a panel that was based on the topic and set for sometime around May 20. The panel was then canceled or postponed because of scheduling conflicts, and Raskin’s office said it hadn’t heard about a new one in the works.

    His deputy communications director, Samantha Brown, said in an email that he likely would have discussed the 25th Amendment from a historical and legal perspective.

    Lee has been outspoken about Trump’s mental state. She’s the public face of a five-person group that is meeting regularly in D.C. and working to set up a medical panel to evaluate the mental capacity of Trump and Democratic presidential candidates.

    “It’s deceptive because it seems like he’s alert, it seems like he’s responding to things in a rational manner, but it is not the case from every measure that we have taken,” Lee said of Trump. “And this is very serious. In fact, worse than if he had a stroke and were unconscious because he can mislead the country in destructive or nefarious ways.”

    One of the other members of the working group is Dr. James Merikangas, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at George Washington University, but the others haven’t identified themselves publicly and aren’t known to the Washington Examiner.

    In April, Lee and other psychiatrists wrote a report using the former special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of Russian election interference to make an assessment about the president’s mental health. They at first refrained from issuing a conclusion and gave Trump three weeks to undergo an evaluation. After they didn’t hear back, they released a conclusion that Trump “lacks mental basic mental capacity for duties of office” and recommended his access to nuclear weapons and war powers be curtailed.

    “Our concern is that the dangers be contained — the dangers of having a president who lacks the mental capacity, lacks the fitness to discharge his duties of office for the remainder of his term,” Lee said. “I mean, this is really a national emergency.”

    https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/healthcare/democrats-plan-capitol-hill-event-to-put-trumps-mental-health-under-fire

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    Nancy Pelosi On Impeachment Process: ‘We Know Exactly What Path We’re On’

    House Speaker Nancy Pelosi dismissed the criticism that Democrats haven’t started the impeachment process yet, explaining that House members “know exactly what actions” they need to take.

    • People who have not read Sarah Rosenberg’s essay on “face” will probably not appreciate how reserved Ms. Ho’s expressions are.

      Cancellation of her obviously valuable Mainland concert tour is the least of her worries. My Trowel of Cosmic Irony is yapping fiercely as I type about how Uighurs are getting imprisoned in the exact same way that Muslim Majority countries jail their own enemas enemies of the state.

      The difference between an Islamic rape cell and a Communist Chinese “comfort chamber” isn’t even a matter of inches with these barbaric needle-dicks. As if they even have inches to begin with.

      This brave woman is in immense danger and, as with so many conscientious objectors to Bejing’s Communist filth, she risks everything out of love for the real Chinese people.

      Three cheers for the umbrella movement. Like the gilets jeune, the way that they are appropriating an everyday symbol which the authorities cannot possibly hope to outlaw is sheer brilliance.

  11. Libyan Army Accuses Turkey of Providing Military Support to Brotherhood (aawsat, Jun 5, 2019)
    https://aawsat.com/english/home/article/1754611/libyan-army-accuses-turkey-%C2%A0providing-military-support-brotherhood

    “Karama operations media center of the Libyan National Army (LNA) has said ‘Turkish drones’ had targeted several regions in the south of the capital Tripoli.

    The center accused Turkey of making a “blatant intervention in support of the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood and its militias despite a UN Security Council arms embargo on Libya.”

    LNA’s Brigadier General Fawzi al-Mansouri said that his forces thwarted Tuesday an attack conducted by militias loyal to Fayez al-Sarraj’s Government of National Accord (GNA). They attacked Tripoli’s former international airport but they ended up with heavy casualties, Mansouri added.

    Military sources in Sarraj’s government said that its forces launched an attack on at least four fronts in an attempt to force the LNA to withdraw. They noted that the attacks included airstrikes on army positions near Tripoli.

    Moreover, the GNA announced that Undersecretary of Housing and Utilities Ministry Salah al-Din al-Ruqaie was killed while fighting alongside pro-Sarraj militias on Monday.

    On its Facebook page, the ministry mourned Ruqaie and affirmed that he was on the frontlines of Tripoli before getting killed.

    Karama operations media center, further, unveiled that the GNA’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation has officially requested Malta’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs to permit the passage of three flights coming from Sabiha Gokcen International Airport starting Wednesday until June 25.

    The center said that these flights will most likely carry arms, ammunition and mercenaries, stressing that Malta should not be party to the Libyan conflict.

    Moreover, it accused High Council of State chief Khalid al-Mishri of recruiting children and attempting to form a battalion of children and youths from Hararat region. It also said that Mishri has recruited around 20 juveniles to fight alongside the militias in return for money.Karama operations media center of the Libyan National Army (LNA) has said ‘Turkish drones’ had targeted several regions in the south of the capital Tripoli.

    The center accused Turkey of making a “blatant intervention in support of the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood and its militias despite a UN Security Council arms embargo on Libya.”

    LNA’s Brigadier General Fawzi al-Mansouri said that his forces thwarted Tuesday an attack conducted by militias loyal to Fayez al-Sarraj’s Government of National Accord (GNA). They attacked Tripoli’s former international airport but they ended up with heavy casualties, Mansouri added.

    Military sources in Sarraj’s government said that its forces launched an attack on at least four fronts in an attempt to force the LNA to withdraw. They noted that the attacks included airstrikes on army positions near Tripoli.

    Moreover, the GNA announced that Undersecretary of Housing and Utilities Ministry Salah al-Din al-Ruqaie was killed while fighting alongside pro-Sarraj militias on Monday.

    On its Facebook page, the ministry mourned Ruqaie and affirmed that he was on the frontlines of Tripoli before getting killed.

    Karama operations media center, further, unveiled that the GNA’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation has officially requested Malta’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs to permit the passage of three flights coming from Sabiha Gokcen International Airport starting Wednesday until June 25.

    The center said that these flights will most likely carry arms, ammunition and mercenaries, stressing that Malta should not be party to the Libyan conflict.

    Moreover, it accused High Council of State chief Khalid al-Mishri of recruiting children and attempting to form a battalion of children and youths from Hararat region. It also said that Mishri has recruited around 20 juveniles to fight alongside the militias in return for money.”

  12. Yemen’s Houthis claim to take positions in Saudi Arabia (memo, Jun 5, 2019)
    https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20190605-yemens-houthis-claim-to-take-positions-in-saudi-arabia/

    “Yemen’s Houthi rebel group on Wednesday claimed to have captured 20 military positions inside Saudi Arabia’s southwestern Najran province, reports Anadolu Agency.

    Speaking to Yemen’s SABA news agency, Houthi spokesman Yahya Sarei said the sites were captured in a “surprise” offensive carried out over the last 72 hours.

    Earlier Wednesday, the Houthi-run Al-Masirah television channel reported that Houthi fighters had launched multiple attacks on several Saudi military positions in Najran, which is located adjacent to the Yemeni border.

    According to Sarei, Houthi fighters overwhelmed the positions in a “surprise attack carried out along three separate axes”.

    The spokesman went on to assert that more than 200 personnel affiliated with a Saudi-led military coalition had been killed or wounded, while numerous others were captured along with large quantities of military equipment.

    “We have extensive video footage of the operation which will be broadcast later,” Sarei was quoted as saying.

    Anadolu Agency was unable to obtain immediate comment from the Saudi authorities or the Saudi-led coalition regarding the rebel group’s claims.

    Yemen has been wracked by violence since 2014, when Shia Houthi rebels overran much of the country, including capital Sanaa.

    The conflict escalated in 2015 when Saudi Arabia and its Sunni-Arab allies launched a massive air campaign in Yemen aimed at rolling back Houthi gains.”

  13. This is in response to an upcoming House Resolution on Amnesty.
    https://www.alipac.us/f8/current-ex-trump-voters-protest-illegal-immigration-amnesty-dc-sat-june-8-a-372949/
    ALIPAC hopes to live stream the June 8 rally on the Facebook pages of
    Raymond Herrera
    https://www.facebook.com/raymond.herrera.9212
    William Gheen
    https://www.facebook.com/william.gheen/
    for audiences to watch and share from home.

    Opponents of illegal immigration and Amnesty, with varying degrees of support for Trump, are encouraged to attend this demonstration and bring appropriate signs and US flags.

  14. House Impeachment Push Would Guarantee Trump’s Re-election—Jason Meister

  15. Spain Arrests Moroccan Suspected of Involvement in Terrorism (moroccoworldnews, Jun 5, 2019)
    https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2019/06/275164/spain-arrests-moroccan-suspected-of-alleged-involvement-in-terror-group/

    “Spanish police announced the arrest of a 30-year old Moroccan national in Coloma de Gramenet, near Barcelona. Maghreb Arab Press (MAP) reported that the suspect was under an international arrest warrant issued by Moroccan authorities.

    The man is suspected of being involved in a “terrorist organization” and “drug trafficking.” Spanish police said that they arrested the suspect on Tuesday.

    Quoted by MAP, a statement from the Spanish police said that the arrest “reflects the process of dealing and addressing a global phenomenon that requires an effort that goes beyond borders and strong, intensive international security cooperation such as that between Spain and Morocco.

    The suspect fled Morocco in September 2018 following the dismantling of a terror cell. The suspect is allegedly a member of that dismantled terror group.

    “Data obtained by the Spanish investigation police revealed that the suspect illegally entered Spanish territory,” the statement said.

    Morocco and Spain share strong diplomatic ties and cooperation in several areas, including in the fight against drug trafficking, irregular migration networks, and counterterrorism…”

  16. Iran urges West to halt arms supplies to Arab coalition (aa, Jun 5, 2019)
    https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/iran-urges-west-to-halt-arms-supplies-to-arab-coalition/1497368

    “Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif on Wednesday urged western capitals to stop providing arms to a Saudi-led coalition which for the past four years has waged a devastating war on Yemen’s Houthi rebel group.

    Speaking via Twitter, Zarif criticized the coalition, which has continued to operate against the Houthis in tandem with Yemen’s Aden-based government.

    “Western publics & legislatures demand an end to [the] humanitarian disaster that is the Saudi-Emirati war on Yemen,” he said.

    “But their governments provide ever more weapons used to perpetrate war crimes,” the Iranian FM asserted.

    He added: “Time & again our offers of [a] political way out have been rebuffed. This evil cycle must stop.”

    Since 2015, a year after the Houthis overran much of Yemen, the Saudi-led coalition has pounded rebel positions across the impoverished country, causing numerous civilian casualties and laying waste to vital infrastructure.”

  17. Migrant boat sinks off Libya – SeaWatch (ansa, Jun 5, 2019)
    http://www.ansa.it/english/news/2019/06/05/migrant-boat-sinks-off-libya-seawatch_4935c7d2-112f-41a1-b3f6-74203feac311.html

    “A boatload of migrants sank off the coast of Libya on Wednesday, German migrant rescue NGO SeaWatch said.

    The shipwreck took place around 50 nautical miles north of Garabulli, the NGO said.
    It posed a photo from volunteers showing a semi-deflated dinghy and several people in the sea.

    “Many people in the water, high probability of missing and drowning deaths,” it said.
    It said an SOS had been put out, to which two merchant ships and the Libyan Coast Guard had responded.

    The latter was already at the scene, it said.”

  18. Vox’s Scorched Earth Plan WORKED, Youtube Demonetized Steven Crowder And Others

    • “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
      – George Orwell, Animal Farm

      US Bail Reform News
      https://www.usbailreform.com/

      “Nassau COBA President Brian Sullivan Calls for Changes to the Bail Reform Law”
      Nassau COBA – Published on May 10, 2019

  19. Egyptian Police Kill 14 Militants in Northern Sinai Peninsula – Statement (sputniknews, Jun 6, 2019)
    https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201906061075673871-egypt-police-suspects-elimination/

    “The Egyptian Interior Ministry’s forces killed 14 militants in the north of the Sinai Peninsula, the ministry said in a statement on Thursday, adding that the militants might have had a role in the recent attack on a law enforcement checkpoint in the city of Arish…”

  20. US Claims Data Shows Riyadh Boosted Missile Program With China’s Help – Reports (sputniknews, Jun 6, 2019)
    https://sputniknews.com/military/201906061075673108-usa-china-saudi-arabia-missiles/

    “The US government has obtained intelligence information that Saudi Arabia has significantly enhanced its ballistic missile program through recent purchases from China, local media reported.

    Saudi Arabia is reportedly expanding both its missile infrastructure and technology with recent purchases from China, CNN reported on Wednesday, citing three sources who have access to classified intelligence reports.

    Congressional lawmakers worry that the fact the government did not disclose this information in a series of briefings may signal the administration’s “tacit approval” of the deal as it seeks to counter Iran…”

  21. Mark Levin: The media won’t self-police

    ‘Unfreedom of the Press’ author Mark Levin discusses the rising problem of fake news on ‘Hannity.’

  22. PBS – What the Mueller report says about Trump’s firing James Comey

    In the NewsHour’s week-long series analyzing the details of the Mueller report, we turn to its second volume, which deals with the question of whether President Trump committed obstruction of justice.

    Specifically, how does the special counsel view Trump’s firing of former FBI Director James Comey, and what prompted Trump to take that step?

  23. DAILY MAIL – Satellite images reveal China has demolished dozens of mosques in its Muslim region since 2017 as Beijing ramps up control on Islamic traditions

    The destruction of mosques in Xinjiang highlights the increasing pressure Uighurs face in the region

    In the mosques that are open, worshippers go through metal detectors and are monitored by cameras

    Muslim students must scan their faces upon entering the razor-wired gates in a primary school in Hotan

    The Chinese government wants to achieve ‘the secularisation of Chinese society’, one expert says

    Xinjiang authority says it ‘protects religious freedoms’ and citizens may follow traditions that are legal

    Some one million Uighurs and other ethnic minorities are said to be held in internment camps in the area

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7106855/Wrecked-mosques-police-watch-A-tense-Ramadan-Xinjiang.html