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Jim Jordan Sounds the Alarm After Mueller Makes Last Minute Changes to Put His Deputy on the Witness Panel During Hearing
Former special counsel Robert Mueller is scheduled to testify Wednesday to the House Intelligence and House Judiciary Committees for a total of 5 hours.
Congressman Jim Jordan (R-OH) sounded the alarm on Tuesday and said that Mueller made last minute changes to put his chief of staff Aaron Zebley on the witness panel with Mueller.
Aaron Zebley, a close deputy to Mueller, worked on the obstruction of justice portion of the bogus Russia investigation — The DOJ a couple weeks ago quashed his testimony before the Dem-led House Committees so now Mueller is trying to sneak him in as a witness at the 11th hour.
According to reports, Mueller made the last minute request to swear-in his deputy to answer questions that Mueller couldn’t answer himself.
JIM JORDAN: Rumor is that Aaron Zebley (Mueller’s Chief of Staff) will be on the witness panel with Mueller. You don’t get to change the rules right before kickoff, especially after a 22 month, $30 million investigation.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/07/jim-jordan-sounds-the-alarm-after-mueller-makes-last-minute-changes-to-put-his-chief-of-staff-on-the-witness-panel-during-hearing/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=the-gateway-pundit&utm_campaign=dailypm&utm_content=daily
Judicial Watch Files House Ethics Complaint Against Ilhan Omar Over Potential Immigration, Marriage, Tax and Student Loan Fraud
Conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch this week filed a House Ethics complaint against Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) over potential immigration, marriage, tax and student loan fraud.
Investigative reporter David Steinberg and others have released compelling evidence that Ilhan Omar married her own brother to defraud US immigration, perjured herself several times in her divorce statement and filed fraudulent tax returns.
“The evidence is overwhelming Rep. Omar may have violated the law and House rules. The House of Representatives must urgently investigate and resolve the serious allegations of wrongdoing by Rep. Omar,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said. “We encourage Americans to share their views on Rep. Omar’s apparent misconduct with their congressmen.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/07/judicial-watch-files-house-ethics-complaint-against-ilhan-omar-over-potential-immigration-marriage-tax-and-student-loan-fraud/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=the-gateway-pundit&utm_campaign=dailypm&utm_content=daily
Trump’s Economic Plan Is Necessary Because Peace Is Not Possible
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: None of the three actors in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict – Hamas, the PA, and Israel – envisions peace in the foreseeable future. It is this very absence of the prospect of peace that makes the Trump economic plan so timely. Engendering economic well-being does not solve deep-seated political conflict, but it does contain the prospect that differences can be expressed in less violent ways.
None of the three actors in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict envisions peace in the foreseeable future.
Hamas can’t entertain the idea of real peace for ideological reasons. It would mean openly acknowledging that the dream of Palestine “from the river to the sea” is no longer attainable, and in so doing, it would lose its legitimacy in favor of the Palestinian Authority (PA), which is recognized by the international community. Peacemaking would also mean the end of Iranian military aid and Turkish and Qatari support.
Hamas would be threatened by the same marginalization that doomed once-strong Palestinian factions like the Popular and Democratic Fronts for the Liberation of Palestine. To court oblivion for the sake of the Jews is, to say the least, unpalatable.
https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/trump-economic-plan-peace/
European Union: A Massive Expansion of Top-down Powers
by Soeren Kern
July 23, 2019 at 5:00 am
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/14584/eu-top-down-powers
Former German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen has been narrowly confirmed as the next President of the European Commission, the powerful administrative arm of the European Union.
In a secret ballot in the European Parliament on July 16, von der Leyen, a close ally of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, received 383 votes, only nine more than the 374 required — the lowest margin since the position of President was established in 1958. She will take over from Jean-Claude Junker in November 2019 for a five-year term.
Before the vote, von der Leyen promised an ambitious left-leaning policy program on climate change, taxes, migration and the rule of law. Many of her pledges — which would require transferring yet more national sovereignty to unelected bureaucrats in Brussels — appeared aimed at enticing support for her candidacy from Greens and Socialists in the European Parliament.
In the final vote, however, the Socialists were divided in their support for von der Leyen and the Greens formally opposed her. Interestingly, von der Leyen won with the support of eurosceptics in Central and Eastern Europe after she publicly criticized the way the EU has treated them due to their opposition to mass migration.
Eat Iran’s Lunch Before They Have Us for Dinner
by Tawfik Hamid
July 23, 2019 at 4:00 am
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/14572/eat-irans-lunch
Iran has crossed a new threshold in nuclear enrichment. This means that the nine nations in the world’s nuclear weapons club soon might be forced to acknowledge a new member. Iran’s emergence as a nuclear weapons state, however, if it occurs, will not be merely an addition to the roster of nuclear powers — it will be a terrifying game-changer.
Iran has already reached uranium enrichment levels of around 4.5 percent, Behrouz Kamalvandi, spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, told the semi-official Fars news agency. Mr. Kamalvandi warned that enrichment could reach 20 percent in the future. Inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency have confirmed Kamalvandi’s assertions.
Iran’s deputy foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, in an apparent attempt to increase pressure on ongoing diplomatic negotiations, said that Iran would exceed some other unspecified limit in 60 days.
Diplomatic efforts notwithstanding, the free world must realize that the threat posed by a nuclear Iran would be different from any other nation obtaining such weapons.
Take, for example, North Korea. Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) could deter its government from attacking the United States because neither its leader, Kim Jung-Un, nor its military personnel, are presumably ready to die in a guaranteed counterstrike by the US or other world powers.
Foreign terrorists in Mindanao grooming suicide bombers (straitstimes, Jul 23, 2019)
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/foreign-terrorists-in-mindanao-grooming-suicide-bombers
“Philippine security officials yesterday confirmed that at least seven foreign terrorists were training local militants for suicide attacks in the country’s restive south, and there could be dozens more.
“They are doing the usual. They are training bombers, grooming suicide bombers, as manifested by the recent incident. They are also training (Filipinos) on other terrorist actions,” Lieutenant-General Cirilito Sobejana, head of the military’s Western Mindanao Command, told reporters.
He said these foreign extremists were behind the first suicide attack carried out by a Filipino. On June 28, Norman Lasuca, 23, set off one of two bombs that exploded inside a temporary camp of a special army counter-terrorism unit in Indanan town, Sulu province. Three soldiers manning the camp’s gate were killed, along with three civilians.
Lt-Gen Sobejana said the seven foreign terrorists were scattered across war-torn Mindanao Island, which is the size of South Korea.
They were with the small but brutal Abu Sayyaf group in the island provinces of Sulu and Basilan, 1,000km south of Manila, or the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters in central Mindanao. Both groups have pledged allegiance to the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group…”
Yemeni Drones Launch Fresh Attack on Saudi Airbase (tasnimnews, Jul 23, 2019)
https://www.tasnimnews.com/en/news/2019/07/23/2060505/yemeni-drones-launch-fresh-attack-on-saudi-airbase
“TEHRAN (Tasnim) – King Khalid Air Base in Saudi Arabia’s southwestern province of Asir was hit by Yemeni drones in a retaliatory attack by Yemeni forces as the kingdom’s aggression on the Arabian Peninsula country continues…”
What the Smuggled Archive Tells Us About Iran’s Nuclear Weapons Project
XECUTIVE SUMMARY: As an apparent act of defiance against Western countries’ reluctance to support it against US sanctions, Iran has begun to enrich uranium beyond the level permitted by the nuclear deal. This fact, together with the information revealed by the smuggling out by the Israelis of Iran’s nuclear weapons program archive, belies Tehran’s oft-expressed claim that its nuclear program was always for peaceful use and shows the hollowness of the nuclear agreement.
On July 7, 2019, Iran announced that in light of Western countries’ reluctance to support it against the newly imposed US sanctions, it will enrich uranium above the maximum 3.67% level agreed upon in the 2015 nuclear agreement (the JCPOA). According to Ayatollah Khamenei aide Ali Akbar Velayati, Iran will enrich uranium to 5% from now on, which is the level of enrichment of nuclear fuel at the Bushehr nuclear power plant. Iranian officials have since signaled that their country might in fact increase uranium enrichment to 20% (the level in the fuel of Tehran’s research reactor).
This would represent Iran’s second violation of the JCPOA. On July 1, it crossed the maximum amount of 300 kg UF6 (uranium hexafluoride), which, according to the agreement, is allowed to be enriched to 3.67%.
Furthermore, on July 11 – ten months after PM Benjamin Netanyahu identified the “secret atomic warehouse” at Turquzabad in Tehran – it was reported that soil samples taken from the site by IAEA inspectors were found to contain traces of radioactive material. This proves that the warehouse was indeed a nuclear storage facility, and that Iran’s failure to report it to the IAEA was a violation of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) to which it is a signatory.
https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/smuggled-iran-nuclear-archive/
Haftar forces announce offence on Tripoli (memo, Jul 23, 2019)
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20190723-haftar-forces-announce-offence-on-tripoli/
“The troops of retired Libyan General Khalifa Haftar, backed by Egypt, the UAE, Saudi Arabia and France, launched a violent offence on Tripoli.
The head of the operations room of the eastern army forces, Major General Saleh Abouda, announced it was time to storm Tripoli.
The air-backed attacks focused on the areas of Ain Zara, Al-Khula and Wadi Al-Rubaie, south of the capital.
The clashes took place in the southern neighbourhoods of the city. On the other hand, a Libyan Sukhoi, loaded with missiles, infiltrated the Tunisian airspace. Thus, the Tunisian authorities arrested the aeroplane commander without providing further details.
The Haftar forces claimed that there has been progress since the early morning hours on all axis and that the air force is still targeting points ahead of advancing fighter units, according to Al Jazeera…”
Saudi Arabia tortures prominent preacher after forcing to confess (memo, Jul 23, 2019)
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20190723-saudi-arabia-tortures-prominent-preacher-after-forcing-to-confess/
“Prominent Saudi Sheikh Ali Al-Omari was again subjected to torture in a royal prison at the end of May, the Twitter account Prisoners of Conscience revealed yesterday.
The group noted that Al-Omari was subjected to “more brutal” torture than he had before.
The latest assault came as a result of the disclosure of a secret interview conducted by Saudi TV 24 with Al-Omari in which he said he is a “terrorist”.
On 24 May 2018, the Twitter account said that Saudi TV 24 was preparing to broadcast an interview which was conducted after a round of torture and it included Al-Omari’s admitting that he is a “terrorist”.
The terrorist group, which Al-Omari allegedly pinpointed, included Sheikh Salman Al-Ouda, Awad Al-Qarni, Abdel-Aziz Al-Fawzan, Jamal Khashoggi and others. The interview was promoted in 2018, but it was not broadcasted because of Khashoggi’s assassination….”
Saudi Arabia urges global community to deter maritime trade disruptions (memo, Jul 23, 2019)
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20190723-saudi-arabia-urges-global-community-to-deter-maritime-trade-disruptions/
“Saudi Arabia’s cabinet said on Tuesday that Iran’s interception of commercial vessels in Gulf waters, including its seizure of a British tanker, violated international law and must be prevented, reports Reuters.
The Saudi remarks came after Britain called on Monday for a European-led naval mission to ensure safe shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, the world’s most important oil artery.
“Any disruption of the freedom of international maritime traffic is considered a violation of international law and the international community must do what is necessary to reject it and deter it,” the Saudi cabinet said in a statement carried on state media.
Iran said on Friday it had seized the British-flagged tanker Stena Impero, which had been heading to a port in Saudi Arabia and suddenly changed course after passing through the Strait of Hormuz at the mouth of the Gulf.
Britain has called the seizure an act of “state piracy“…”
Top Khamenei aide hails Iran’s downing of US drone, tanker seizure (memo, Jul 23, 2019)
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20190723-top-khamenei-aide-hails-irans-downing-of-us-drone-tanker-seizure/
“A top adviser to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Tuesday praised Iran’s recent downing of a US drone and seizure of a British-flagged tanker as turning points in “Muslims’ struggle”, the semi-official news agency Fars said, reports Reuters.
Ali Akbar Velayati, Khamenei’s top foreign policy adviser, told a visiting delegation from Hamas that Iran and its regional allies would stand with the Palestinians against Israel and the United States.
“Muslim countries and the resistance front are today stronger than before as shown by the seizure of the British oil tanker or the downing of the US drone which violated Iran’s territory – which are milestones in the history of Muslims’ struggle,” Velayati said, according to Fars.
Iran often refers to regional countries and forces opposed to Israel and the United States as a “resistance front”…”
Curse the mummy: Egypt investigating ‘assault’ on Pharaoh at Cairo museum (alaraby, Jul 23, 2019)
https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/news/2019/7/23/egypt-investigates-assault-on-mummy-in-cairo-museum
“Egypt’s Ministry of Antiquities has opened an investigation after an ancient mummy preserved in Cairo’s Egyptian Museum was attacked by a visitor.
The Egyptian Museum’s director filed a complaint to the ministry demanding an investigation after video evidence of a visitor attacking the mummy appeared online.
Sabah Abdel Razek said the visitor, who appeared to be an Arab man, swore at the mummy of Seqenenre Ra and spat on it twice.
The museum is currently looking through its own security footage to identify the perpetrator.
The video was shared by a number of people on social media and was used in a compilation of footage which was sent to the ministry.
Media adviser to the ministry Nevin al-Aref added that not only was the assault on the mummy disrespectful, but it also illegal because it is against the law to take photographs inside the Royal Mummies Hall in the museum.”
Congo Islamist ADF rebels kill 12 in Ebola area (reuters, Jul 23, 2019)
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-congo-security/congo-islamist-adf-rebels-kill-12-in-ebola-area-idUSKCN1UI2SH
“Islamist rebels killed twelve people in two attacks in an area of east Congo that is struggling to contain an Ebola epidemic, local authorities said on Tuesday.
Suspected rebels from the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) simultaneously attacked the towns of Eringeti and Oicha on Monday in the locality of Beni, the epicenter of an Ebola epidemic, Beni’s territorial administrator Kasereka Donat said.
They killed nine in Eringeti and three in Oicha, he said. A local civil society official based in Beni, Janvier Kasahiryo,
gave the same figures.
“Despite a strong deployment of Congolese army troops in the region, the population is in a state of total panic because of these attacks,” Donat said.
Since last month, Islamic State have claimed attacks carried out by the ADF, but their relationship with each other is murky.. Though the ADF has never claimed allegiance to Islamic State, the organization has described areas under ADF influence as its ‘Central Africa Province’…”
Shi’ite protesters clash with Nigeria military, police in Abuja (reuters, Jul 23, 2019)
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-nigeria-security-shiites/shiite-protesters-clash-with-nigeria-military-police-in-abuja-idUSKCN1UI1RS
“Nigerian troops and police clashed on Tuesday with Shi’ite Muslim protesters in the capital Abuja and gunfire could be heard, according to a Reuters witness.
The air was thick with teargas as soldiers and police officers made arrests. The Shi’ite group marched in protest against the continued detention of its leader, despite a court ruling that he be released.
The violence happened a day after at least three people – including a journalist and senior policeman – were killed in a similar confrontation in the administrative heart of Abuja. As many as 10 more people may have died in the violence, a spokesman for the Shi’ites said that day.
A Reuters reporter witnessed the funeral in Nigeria’s northern state of Niger for six of those the group said were killed during Monday’s protest. A man whose child was killed during the protest said his son has become a martyr…”
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Over 50% families can’t have two meals a day (tribune, Jul 23, 2019)
https://tribune.com.pk/story/2019836/1-50-families-cant-two-meals-day/
“Nearly half of all households in Pakistan are unable to meet their nutritional needs, the first ever survey of its kind in the country has revealed…”
Pakistan borrows record $16b in just one year (tribune, Jul 23, 2019)
https://tribune.com.pk/story/2019072/2-pakistan-borrows-record-16b-just-one-year/
“For the first time in its history, Pakistan borrowed a whopping $16 billion in foreign loans in just one year aimed at avoiding default on international debt obligations and financing its imports…”
At least two martyred, over 20 injured as bomb explodes in Quetta (tribune, Jul 23, 2019)
https://tribune.com.pk/story/2019731/1-two-martyred-four-injured-bomb-explodes-quetta/
“At least two people were martyred and over 20 others sustained injuries after a bomb installed in a bicycle exploded in Quetta.
According to security sources, unidentified terrorists had planted a remote-controlled improvised explosive device (IED) in a bicycle near Sher Jan bus stop outside a medical store near Eastern Bypass area of the Balochistan’s capital…”
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Turkey advances its navy buildup in east Med (hdn, Jul 23, 2019)
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/turkey-advances-its-navy-buildup-in-east-med-145192
“Turkey has been advancing its navy buildup in the eastern Mediterranean as Turkish drilling vessels have been operating in the company of Naval Forces Command elements.
The Naval Forces Command is providing full protection to the drilling vessels, both on the surface and underwater, with the help of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), the National Defense Ministry said in a tweet on July 23.
“Our Naval Forces Command is continuously and incessantly accompanying our drilling vessels in the eastern Mediterranean,” the ministry tweeted, with video footage of the vessels, shot by a UAV.
The vessels are being protected by air with the Bayraktar TB-2 UAV, a maritime patrol aircraft and naval helicopters. Some corvettes, frigates and assault boats are providing protection on the surface, the ministry conveyed.
Furthermore, submarines are also escorting the drilling vessels by guarding them underwater, the ministry’s tweet added…”
Spain’s model for saving lives at sea should be emulated in the EU (thelocal, Jul 23, 2019)
https://www.thelocal.es/20190723/spains-model-for-saving-lives-at-sea-should-be-emulated-in-the-eu
“European states have the legal and moral obligation to resume search-and-rescue operations in the Mediterranean. Spain’s Salvamento Maritimo should lead the way, writes Luna Vives, Assistant Professor of Geography and Migration at the Université de Montréal.
According to the International Organization for Migration, more than 18,000 migrants have died or disappeared in the Mediterranean on their way to Europe since 2014. Last year, the suspension of search-and-rescue operations in the central Mediterranean caused the deaths of one in eight migrants along this route.
Refusal to aid migrant vessels in distress is not only causing the carnage. It is also a violation of a nation’s responsibilities under the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) Convention, a cornerstone of international maritime law and a legal obligation the 174 member states of the International Maritime Organization have willingly assumed.
For these reasons, the UN Refugee Agency and the international community is urging European states to resume search-and-rescue operations in the Mediterranean. It’s important that this responsibility be placed in government-run entities independent of the military. Spain’s approach to saving lives at sea through its publicly owned search-and-rescue agency, Salvamento Marítimo (SASEMAR), is a viable alternative to relying on the military or humanitarian organizations to do the job.According to the International Organization for Migration, more than 18,000 migrants have died or disappeared in the Mediterranean on their way to Europe since 2014. Last year, the suspension of search-and-rescue operations in the central Mediterranean caused the deaths of one in eight migrants along this route.
Refusal to aid migrant vessels in distress is not only causing the carnage. It is also a violation of a nation’s responsibilities under the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) Convention, a cornerstone of international maritime law and a legal obligation the 174 member states of the International Maritime Organization have willingly assumed.
The military should no longer control borders
Most southern European coast guards are under military command. These militaries are partisan and opaque entities that have shown little regard for migrants’ lives.
Military forces have regularly foregone their duty to assist migrant vessels. A leaked conversation between a Syrian refugee aboard a sinking boat and the Italian emergency services gave chilling testimony to this. The migrant boat sank shortly after the call, and all migrants aboard died.
In the Mediterranean, militarization has mainly meant developing capacity to detect migrants before they enter European search-and-rescue responsibility zones. The contracts with private firms to develop and implement technologically advanced border surveillance systems (for example, EUROSUR, the Sunny project, Albatross or Roborder) are disturbingly opaque. These projects cost billions of euros and are approved without public or parliamentary scrutiny. It’s unclear what these firms will do with the collected data.
These is also a push to transfer search-and-rescue responsibilities from states to the European Border and Coast Guard (also known as Frontex). This agency, military in its approach to border control, is currently before the EU Court of Justice on charges of lack of transparency that potentially include human rights abuses. And yet, just a few months ago, the European Parliament gave Frontex more money and an expanded mandate to seal the EU’s maritime borders against unwanted migrants.
NGOs: A stop-gap solution
Until 2017, European governments in the central and eastern Mediterranean welcomed NGO participation in rescue operations.
That year, NGOs were first accused of aiding human trafficking and forced to abide by a controversial code of conduct. Since then, European states have criminalized humanitarian rescue operations, denied operational and docking permits and closed off their ports.
The Italian government (especially Matteo Salvini, minister of the interior) has been particularly aggressive, as the criminal prosecution of rescue crews helmed by Pia Klemp, Miguel Roldán, Carola Rackete and others demonstrate. NGOs currently operating in the central Mediterranean are doing so illegally.
NGOs have saved many lives at great cost. But it is not their role to fulfil the legal obligations of European states.
Public search and rescue service
Since 1992, Spain has fulfilled its search-and-rescue responsibilities without involving the military or NGOs. But that’s changing.
SASEMAR, Spain’s publicly owned company, is in charge of addressing all emergencies in Spain’s responsibility zone — an area 1.5 million square kilometres, three times the country’s land mass. SASEMAR is under the purview of Spain’s Ministry of Development.
Only 10 per cent of SASEMAR’s operations relate to migration. And yet, in 2018 alone, the company rescued almost 50,000 migrants. With a maritime rescue crew of 80 workers and equipment specifically designed for the task, a typical rescue led by SASEMAR takes between one to two minutes (NGO-run operations generally take 10 to 30 minutes).
But in a push for the militarization of the sea, Spain’s left-leaning government is quietly dismantling SASEMAR. Rescue crews are overwhelmed. Air radars, key for locating vessels, have been down for more than a year.
Pedro Sánchez’s government has transferred control of sea operations involving migrants to Spain’s Guardia Civil (a force under the Ministries of the Interior and Defense), the armed forces and Frontex. Under military command, the duration of an average rescue operation has gone up by 3.5 hours. More migrants are drowning.
When rescued migrants arrive at port, they are interviewed by two agents from the Guardia Civil, two police officers and two Frontex officers. Sometimes, six additional Frontex officers take pictures and notes about the operation.
Clearly, we are witnessing the transfer of search-and-rescue responsibilities to the military.
But if the EU and its member states really want to address their responsibilities, the military is not the answer. Neither are NGOs. Instead, they must carefully consider Spain’s previous approach — a professional, safe and cost-efficient way of saving lives at sea.The Conversation”
Switzerland: UNHCR urges Italy to ‘reconsider’ migrant policy
UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) Spokesperson Charlie Yaxley urged Italy to “reconsider” its policy on migrants rescued in the Mediterranean, at a press conference in Geneva on Tuesday.
Yaxley also condemned the criminalisation of migrant rescuers, noting that “people saving lives should not be criminalised or stigmatised for doing so.”
The UNHCR spokesperson also stressed, “It’s a moral obligation but also a fundamental legal obligation under international maritime law, and fundamentally it is the right thing to do a well.”
On Monday, French President Emmanuel Macron said that 14 EU members states had tentatively agreed to a new ‘solidarity mechanism’, proposed by France and Germany, to redistribute migrants rescued in the Mediterranean. Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has criticised the efforts, railing against France and Germany’s role in determining EU migration policy.
Sea-Watch 3 Captain Carola Rackete has been probed by an Italian prosecutor for allegedly aiding undocumented migration. Rackete was arrested in Italy on June 29, after refusing to comply with a ban on entering Italy’s territorial waters, and docking her vessel in the port of Lampedusa, with 40 migrants on board.
europravda – Salvini clashes with Macron after Paris and Berlin offer new migrant influx mechanism
Italy’s Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said Italy would not continue to be “Europe’s refugee camp” after 14 EU members agreed to a new Franco-German migrant influx mechanism on Monday.
NYT – Lifesavers or Smugglers? How Sea-Watch and Italy Play Political Games With Migrants
( 12 min 45 )
We went onboard a ship that rescues migrants in the the Mediterranean and witnessed a standoff between the captain and Italian officials, who view the crew as criminals.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/are-you-woke-enough-to-force-women-to-wax-testicles
i continue to be transfixed by this issue because it is so insane that it deserves our attention’
twitter :
Jessica Yaniv was interviewed by Irish broadcaster Niall Boylan on the “wax my balls” human rights case. Yaniv told Boylan that women have no right to reject a trans person’s demands to touch their scrotum. Yaniv hung up mid-interview.
https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1153446102093316097
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Report: One of Jessica Yaniv’s alleged victims comes forward, says she was just 14 when sexual harassment began
The walls appear to be closing in on Jessica Yaniv. After initially making a name for him/herself for filing human rights complaints against female aestheticians who refused to wax his/her genitals, Yaniv has become more famous — or, rather, infamous — as of late for allegedly sexually preying on women and especially young girls.
And now, at least one of his alleged victims has come forward with further disturbing charges against Yaniv:
https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1153716804562423810
According to the Post Millennial, the alleged victim, 20-year-old Jessica Rumpel, was 14 when Yaniv’s inappropriate conduct allegedly began.
These are very serious allegations and it should go without saying that further investigation is necessary. But it should also go without saying that Jessica Yaniv is clearly a disturbed individual at best and should stay far away from young women.
https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2019/07/23/one-of-jessica-yanivs-alleged-victims-comes-forward-says-she-was-just-14-when-sexual-harassment-began/
I would like to think that this case will break the back of the Trans attack on reason, I would like to but I am afraid that this one will be disappeared down the memory hole as soon as the left can arrange it.
MEMRI –Toronto Imam: Moon Landing Proves the Feasibility of Prophet Muhammad’s Ascension to the Heavens
Toronto Shiite imam Sayyid Muhammad Rizvi said in a Friday sermon at the Jaffari Community Centre that he remembers that some Sunni scholars had denied the Apollo 11 moon landing when it took place and that they had claimed that it had merely been American propaganda.
Imam Rizvi said that the views of these scholars can be traced back to certain early Muslims who believed that the Prophet Muhammad’s night journey to Heaven had only been a dream, and he said that science and the moon landing suggest that the Prophet Muhammad’s journey had been real.
He explained that if one believes that humanity can go to the moon using its own resources, then one can easily believe that Allah took Muhammad up to Heaven during the night journey.
The sermon was delivered on July 19, 2019 and was posted the following day to the IslamiCentre YouTube channel.
TORONTO – CANADA – Egyptian Minister Threatens to “Slice” Egyptians in Canada for Criticizing the Regime
Egyptian minister of immigration , Nabila Makram, is visiting Canada to say: “Anyone who speaks against Egypt will be sliced”, then made a slaughter gesture with her hand. Watch.
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What will the Canadian officials do about this threat to Canadian citizens who may exercise their democratic right and criticize human rights violations in Egypt?
The statement was made during a meeting with Egyptian Canadians in Toronto, Ontario.
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20190723-egypt-immigration-minister-criticise-egypt-lose-your-head/
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