DID YOU REALLY VOTE FOR THEM? The new MEPs, Mick Wallace and Clare Daly from Independents4Change, as well as old timer Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan could not even manage to brush their hair or get dressed for the opening session of the EU Parliament this morning. This is what your hard earned tax euros are paying them VERY well for? Continue reading…
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Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar conceded that a no-deal Brexit would force Dublin to put up a hard border in order to protect the European Union. However they also insist there is no other option than the already signed “Withdrawal Agreement” which has been rejected 3 times by UK parliament.
On his first official visit to Ireland, President Donald Trump met with Leo Varadkar at the VIP lounge at Shannon Airport. While Trump appeared to make mistake about the irish border, it seems he was once again right and ahead of his time… Trump supports the United Kingdom’s divorce from the European Union while Varadkar, as an EU puppet has become a Brexit opponent.
The Irish prime minister vowed to protect the EU’s single market if Britain leaves the bloc without a deal on October 31. The leader said he would implement the necessary checks on goods from Northern Ireland, which would ultimately lead to a hard border. After EU27 leaders were “updated” on the bloc’s no Continue reading…
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A controversial American Baptist pastor has been banned from preaching in the Netherlands or from entering Europe’s 26-state Schengen Zone, over his extreme views against the LGBT and Jewish communities.
Steven Anderson, who once praised the mass shooting at a gay night club in Orlando, was due to preach in Amsterdam on May 23 as part of his European tour, which also included public events in Sweden and Ireland. Concerned over the pastor’s well-documented hate statements, gay rights advocates and a number of MPs urged the Dutch government to ban him from entering the Benelux country.
On Wednesday the government adopted “measures” barring the 37-year-old pastor from entering the Schengen Zone, a 26-country area of Europe where visa-free travel is allowed.
The government is “taking strong action against extremist speakers who, by spreading their beliefs, restrict the freedoms of others or even incite hatred or violence” State Secretary of Justice and Se Continue reading…
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The Schengen agreement and the current migrant-sharing mechanism are deeply flawed and need urgent fixing, French President Emmanuel Macron has said. Europe must “have borders” even if it means a smaller Schengen zone, he said.
In the first major press conference since the Yellow Vest movement took off in November, Macron unveiled a range of policy measures to placate the protesters, including a proposed overhaul of the European-wide migration policy and the Schengen agreement.
The embattled French leader argued that the agreement that guarantees free movement across the Schengen area, while “wonderful,” does not work anymore.
The same, he said, applies to the Dublin Regulation that determines which EU member-state is responsible for accepting asylum seekers. Under the current version of the agreement, which came into force in 2013 and applies to all EU member-states except Denmark, the main criteria for determining responsibility is the first point of entry.
An anti-Semitic attack on a kosher cafe in Canada that police described as one of the “worst” they had seen has been revealed as a ruse by the owners. A vigil and a fundraising campaign had been set up to support the family.
The fake attack saw the BerMax Caffe and Bistro in Winnipeg spray painted with anti-Semitic graffiti and “severely vandalized.” A woman was assaulted and taken to the hospital for treatment, CBC reported at the time.
Police charged the owners with public mischief after an investigation involving 25 police officers and 1,000 hours of work revealed it to be nothing more than a scam. “In the end, we found evidence of a crime. It just wasn’t a hate crime,” Police Chief Danny Smyth said, Global News reports.
Alexander Berent, Oxana Berent, and Maxim Berent are to appear in court next month. Oxana was the woman allegedly assaulted. She denied the attack was fake on CBC Radio, saying, “We don’t joke about swastikas on our walls.”
Fianna Fáil had been expected to oppose legislation but just two TDs sought vote – Legislation which provides for factual objective sex education without regard to a school’s ethos has unexpectedly passed second stage in the Dáil without a vote. When Leas Cheann Comhairle Pat ‘The Cope’ Gallagher asked those in favour of a vote.. Continue reading…
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Marion Smith is executive director of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation.
Does your retirement plan or investment portfolio undermine human rights in China? For millions of Americans, the answer is yes. They unwittingly hold or benefit from investments in companies that enable the Chinese Communist Party’s oppression and imprisonment of the Uighur people.
Consider two Chinese firms, Hikvision and Dahua Technology. They supply about one-third of the world’s security cameras, but in their home country, both companies have received government contracts — totaling more than $1 billion — to install a vast surveillance apparatus in the western province of Xinjiang. “The projects include not only security cameras but also video analytics hubs, intelligent monitoring systems, big data centers, police checkpoints, and even drones,” Charles Rollet wrote in June in Foreign Policy.
Beijing has deployed the system to try to control the predominantly Muslim Continue reading…
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A leading member of South Africa’s ruling party has stirred controversy as he called on the country’s black population not to vote for white candidates. RT has asked a local politician and activist to weigh in.
With even members of his own party condemning the decision to “campaign along race lines,” the pressure is mounting against African National Congress secretary-general Ace Magashule. He has already found himself at the wrong end of a number of corruption scandals and has now been slammed for his “racist” remark.
A few weeks shy of the 25th anniversary of the end of apartheid, racial tensions remain an undeniable part of life in modern South Africa. And some in South Africa support Magashule’s sentiment.
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“White people are the beneficiaries of racism, all of them,” Andile Mngxitama of the pan-Africanist Black First Land First party told RT. He believes that the disproportionate amount of resources that remain in the Continue reading…
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Dangerous toys that harm Russian children through bizarre looks and the unsafe material from which they are made off must be taken off the shelves, Moscow legislators have urged.
The toys, sold in stores across Russia, are “for murder and death,” Tatyana Batysheva, Moscow City Duma MP and the capital’s chief child neurologist, said.
It’s wrong when children are given dolls with “fangs in their jaws” and “blood in their mouths,” she added. The young ones fall for monsters and vampires because they’re always impressed by “something unusual.”
They traumatize the children’s minds and I think such scary toys must be categorically banned.
Batysheva said that a special lab at the University of Psychology and Education had studied monster toys and revealed that they contribute to increase in anxiety and depression among the kids.
Monsters shouldn’t be the subject of children’s games, especially when aggression is on the rise in the society, she Continue reading…
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Greece’s parliament on Wednesday began a debate on a resolution to demand the payment of German war crime reparations, an issue long disputed by Berlin.
“These demands are always active. They were never set aside by Greece,” parliament chairman Nikos Voutsis told reporters this week.
The chamber is expected to approve later Wednesday, with cross-party support, a resolution calling on the government of Premier Alexis Tsipras “to take all the necessary diplomatic and legal steps to claim and fully satisfy all the demands of the Greek state stemming from World War I and World War II”.
A parliamentary committee last year determined that Germany owes Greece at least €270 billion for World War I damages and looting, atrocities and a forced loan during the Nazi occupation in World War II.
Reclaiming war reparations has been a campaign pledge by Tsipras since 2015. He faces multiple electoral challenges this year, with his party trailing in polls.