I meant to comment on this earlier. I found it very disappointing and distressing that the article made no mention of the ecological as well as financial benefits of eating Irish children. I am referring, of course, to that seminal work, "A Modest Proposal", as put forth by Jonathan Swift almost 300 years ago. As always, the MSM and the Cultural Elite discriminate against us Irish.
I was really looking for a new story that OAN did which included the following stories... Spain's overwhelmed coastguard says it can't cope with migrant influx, as 700 rescued in one morning Migrants rescued by the Spanish coastguard wait to be transferred in Tarifa Credit: Jorge Guerrero/AFP By Hannah Strange, Barcelona | 27 July 2018 | https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/20...med-coastguard-says-cant-cope-migrant-influx/ Spain’s coastguard union has warned the service was completely "overwhelmed" by surging numbers of migrant crossings, as more than 600 people were rescued from rafts in the Gibraltar Strait in just one morning. The union for Spain’s Maritime Rescue agency issued an urgent call for resources to help it cope with the “massive arrival of immigrants” on the country’s shores. Crew reinforcements were desperately needed to guarantee they could continue saving lives, it said in a statement. The “extraordinary upturn” in arrivals had meant “an absolute overflow of work” for maritime rescue centres, many of which already had “insufficient” crew levels, it said. The warning came as the Spanish coastguard pulled 774 people from 52 rafts in the Gibraltar Strait on Friday morning, bringing arrivals to more than 2000 this week alone. A further 125 people were rescued elsewhere in Spain, including the sea of Alborán, Murcia and Majorca. The country is now the largest gateway for migrants crossing the Mediterranean to Europe, with 20,992 people landing on its shores so far this year, according to the International Organisation for Migration. Arrivals to Italy now trail Spain by almost 3000 - a gap that just a week ago was 200. Thursday's events in Ceuta, one of Spain's two outposts in Morocco, where more than 600 migrants forced their way through the border fence. [/a] Two Civil Guard unions also called for urgent assistance in the face of what they said were increasingly well planned incursions into the two enclaves, Europe's only land borders with Africa. Thursday's forced entry was said by security forces to be of "unprecedented violence", with the group throwing quicklime, stones and excrement to fend off officers. The Red Cross later said more than 130 people had required medical treatment. [emphasis added] Authorities and NGOs in Andalusia have been sounding the alarm over the surge in arrivals, noting that reception centres are saturated and migrants being forced to sleep in converted sports halls, on boats and in one case on a police station patio. Both Spanish authorities and experts have blamed the increase on the crackdown on the central Mediterranean route from Libya to Italy, where the new populist government has barred NGO rescue ships from docking. The decision of Spain's new Socialist prime minister, Pedro Sanchez, to offer safe harbour to the NGO boat the Aquarius and its 630 rescued migrants in June was largely welcomed. But there are growing concerns that the Spanish asylum system, which NGOs describe as "collapsed", is simply unequipped to cope. Migration was a key topic at Thursday's meeting between Mr Sanchez and Emmanuel Macron, the French president, but there was little in the way of concrete proposals. The mayor of Algeciras, the Gibraltar Strait port city, said on Thursday the area was in danger of becoming the “new Lampedusa”, referring to the Italian island in the Mediterranean that became a hotspot for migrant landings at the peak of the crisis. José Ignacio Landaluce told El Mundo that European help was desperately needed, adding that arrivals were expected to rise further in August, the peak month for crossings. “It may be our problem initially, but tomorrow, or in a week's time, or a month's, it'll be at the heart of Europe,” he said. Dozens injured as hundreds of migrants storm Spain's Ceuta border with Morocco More than 700 sub-Saharan migrants on Thursday stormed the border fence surrounding the Spanish enclave of Ceuta in Morocco, ... The Daily Telegraph · July 26, 2018
This story is also related to the post above, Italy intensifies campaign against migrants by refusing ... The Daily Telegraph · July 10, 2018 · By Nick Squires, Rome Italy’s populist government intensified its hardline stance against migrants by refusing, for the first time, to allow an Italian merchant ship to deliver a group of rescued asylum seekers to an Italian port. The oil rig supply vessel picked up 66 migrants from the middle of the Mediterranean after they set out from the coast of Libya, as hundreds of thousands of others have done before them. But instead of being allowed to bring the asylum seekers directly to Italian soil, as would have happened in the past, Rome insisted that they be transferred from the Vos Thalassa supply ship to an Italian coast guard vessel. Italy said the commercial vessel should have waited for the migrants to be rescued by the Libyan coast guard, which would have taken them back to Libya. The migrants had threatened the 12 Italian crew members of the supply vessel with a mutiny and endangered their lives, Danilo Toninelli, Italy’s transport minister, alleged. He said the “troublemakers” among the migrants would be identified and punished. The Italian coast guard boat was expected to bring the migrants to an Italian port, where they will be questioned. Matteo Salvini, the interior minister, has already banned NGO ships operated by humanitarian groups from landing rescued migrants and refugees in Italy. Now he wants to extend the ban to merchant vessels that go to their rescue, as well as foreign military ships that pull migrants from the sea. Mr Salvini says Italy has taken in 640,000 migrants since 2014 and has had enough, calling for new arrivals to be sent to other countries in the EU. "Our position is to block in any way possible the trafficking of human beings," Mr Salvini, who is the head of the hard-Right League party, told Il Messaggero newspaper. "We've done more than anyone else (to take in migrants). That's enough. It's someone else's turn." [emphasis added] With Italy drastically reducing the number of migrants it is prepared to take, Spain has emerged as the new flashpoint for asylum seekers fleeing Africa. Around 19,000 asylum-seekers arrived in Spain in the first five months of this year, almost as many as arrived there in all of 2017, eclipsing for the first time the numbers crossing from Libya to Italy. Migration will be a thorny issue at a meeting of EU interior ministers in Innsbruck on Wednesday and Thursday. Italy's populist government says it is fed up with accepting hundreds of thousands of migrants and asylum seekers, such as these people waiting to disembark in Sicily on June 13 Credit: Salvatore Cavalli/AP In a post on his Facebook page, Mr Salvini said that having banished NGO ships from Italy’s ports he would now target commercial and military boats, even though the latter are part of an EU-sanctioned search-and-rescue operation in the Mediterranean. “Privately-owned and military vessels must not help the human traffickers earn any more money,” he wrote. “Fewer migrant boat departures means few deaths at sea.” [emphasis added] Migration has become the number one issue for Italy’s new government since it was sworn in on June 1, with the outspoken and combative Mr Salvini grabbing the spotlight. He has easily eclipsed the prime minister, Giuseppe Conte, and Luigi Di Maio, who as head of the popular Five Star Movement is supposed to be the senior partner in the coalition. Mr Salvini upped the ante on Tuesday when he visited a camp full of African migrants in the southern region of Calabria. While some shouted and jostled the police officers protecting the deputy prime minister, others asked to pose with him for selfies. Migrants sit outside a building after being evicted by police in Rome, July 5, 2018. Over 100 migrants, most of them refugees, were evicted from a squatted building in Rome. Credit: Andrew Medichini/AP “This shanty village demonstrates that uncontrolled immigration brings only chaos,” Mr Salvini said. [emphasis added] Such camps were hotbeds of drug-dealing, prostitution and exploitation of migrant labour by organised crime groups like the ‘Ndrangheta mafia, he said. [emphasis added] “People fleeing war will have the right to stay in Italy but those not fleeing war just become new slaves to be used by organised crime,” he said. “They will not be allowed to stay in Italy.” [emphasis added] Mr Salvini said the new government would conduct “an all-out war” on organised crime across Italy, describing the ‘Ndrangheta as “a s--t, a cancer”. [emphasis added] “I'll keep fighting it until we have taken away even the underpants of these people". As Italy leads a hardening of attitudes towards asylum seekers, Austria said it was prepared to send soldiers to the Balkans or North Africa to help control the flow of migrants into Europe. [emphasis added] Troops could also be used along the EU’s external borders or in support of Frontex, the European border security agency, said Mario Kunasek, the defence minister, and Herbert Kickl, the interior minister. [emphasis added] In Greece, where around 50,000 asylum seekers are still stuck following the migration crisis of 2015-2016, eight people were injured and 19 arrested following a violent brawl at a refugee camp on the island of Lesbos. [emphasis added] Three tents were set ablaze during the fracas at the Moria refugee camp, which broke out late on Monday. [emphasis added] Lesbos is one of five Greek islands close to the coast of Turkey that is hosting thousands of migrants and refugees in conditions that often lead to riots and fights. [emphasis added]
oh brother, the Pope Will be upset about this and start quoting Scripture . Good for Italy!! You have to be an idiot to not see what is going on worldwide with "immigration" . What a mess. I don't know what the answer is but flooding counties across the globe with " migrants" is NOT
Bishops and Catholic media are already lined up against Salvini. They're calling him the Anti-Christ: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/07/26/italys-salvini-row-catholics-magazine-likens-satan/ One Bishop has already said that he would happily turn all Italy's churches into mosques if it would help the migrants. Salvini isn't exactly a model of Catholicism, although very few Italians are. His is the smaller party in Italy's coalition government. His coalition partners - the Five Star Party - are very anti-Catholic and given half a chance would scrap or rewrite the Lateran Treaty.
I have said it before, I think more people than we know are possessed. Why would a rational person want to hurt the country in which he lives and his children live. Makes no sense except for evil.
MOG thread: http://motheofgod.com/threads/new-to-q-need-to-catch-up.12008/ New to Q? Need to catch up? Tim Shea’s main account was banned on Facebook and Twitter but posts at https://m.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100008565554830 https://m.facebook.com/ReclaimAmerica/?__nodl&_rdr https://mobile.twitter.com/tadhgerstrike I’ve had some good private conversations with him and he’s an orthodox and unapologetic Catholic in addition to a great patriot. Once I get settled in Massachusetts we’re going to get together. He’s in the Syracuse NY area. PrayingMedic is great too, but he’s a former Catholic and I can’t trust everything he says about religion because of a certain low level anti-Catholism. https://mobile.twitter.com/prayingmedic Lisa Mei Crowley is great too. https://mobile.twitter.com/LisaMei62
How do you spell stoooopid?? Churches may have to pay taxes, and members of Congress may pay politically BY EMMA DUMAIN July 27, 2018 05:06 PM Updated July 27, 2018 05:11 PM WASHINGTON Members of Congress should be able to work together to protect houses of worship from having to pay taxes, especially in an election year when both parties want to earn the faith community’s vote. In an era of pervasive partisan politics, however, not even that is a guarantee. Some Republicans do want to tweak a portion of their 2017 tax bill that will now force nonprofits, including churches, to pay a 21 percent tax on the value of certain employee benefits. But most others downplay the problem or deny it needs to be addressed. Assistant House Minority Leader Jim Clyburn of South Carolina is rallying Democrats around new legislation to repeal the provision. But he can’t do it without help from Republicans, and calling their tax bill the “GOP tax scam” isn’t going to win over lawmakers who are fiercely protective of this congressional session’s biggest legislative achievement. “(Democrats and Republicans) are describing the problem in very different ways,” said Galen Carey, vice president of government relations for the National Association of Evangelicals. “One side is saying ‘this is an oversight,’ the other is calling it Republicans’ war on religion … overheated rhetoric probably won’t help us get a solution.” Short of legislative action, a public relations nightmare could be awaiting lawmakers who voted for the tax bill back home. “This is an issue that will not go away,” said Dan Busby, president of the Evangelical Council for Fiscal Accountability. “When you stir up 100,000 houses of worship, and then hundreds of thousands of nonprofits on top of that, you have a pretty mighty force that is going to get attention on this issue.” Tucked away in the new tax law congressional Republicans passed late last year with no Democratic support is a provision slapping certain nonprofits and charities, including houses of worship, with a 21 percent tax on the value of some employee benefits. The expectation is the tax would relate to parking spaces and public transit passes. But those affected by the provision are genuinely unsure what exactly would qualify as a taxable expense because they still haven’t received official guidance from the Treasury Department. “Treasury is aware of the change … and we have been talking to the impacted constituencies about the concern,” said a Treasury spokesperson in a statement to McClatchy. “We are working to address the issue and provide clarity for taxpayers.” The new tax on the value of employee benefits means that many institutions are going to have to prepare tax forms for the very first time — a convoluted and potentially costly exercise. “Most churches do not have the sophistication that’s necessary to deal with the tax code,” Clyburn told McClatchy. “Small churches that exist in communities I represent … don’t operate as businesses. They’ve never operated as businesses.” Churches also help pay for transportation expenses for employees who would might otherwise have a tough time paying for it themselves. If institutions had to pay a tax on providing these perks, they might rescind them, Clyburn suggested. The new requirement was not discussed in the lead-up to passage of the “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act” and has since caught virtually everyone off guard, even members of Congress. “Had we had hearings, I can assure you I would have been testifying or screaming,” said Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Missouri, a United Methodist pastor. Clyburn said he had only just learned about the provision from faith leaders in his district when he received a phone call from Rep. Mark Veasey, D-Texas, who described being “accosted” by ministers at an event in his district. Clyburn’s bill currently has 31 co-sponsors, including Cleaver and Veasey. All are Democrats and predominantly fellow members of the Congressional Black Caucus who tend to have strong ties to churches. Referring to the Republican tax bill as the “GOP tax scam” in a press release announcing the introduction of his bill, Clyburn said he’d be glad to work with GOP lawmakers to repeal the 21 percent tax, but had not talked to any yet. When asked how he might reconcile calling the tax bill a scam with his desire to work across the aisle, Clyburn chuckled. “They know it’s a scam,” he said. Republicans’ appetite to act seems tepid. As Republicans looked for ways to cut costs in their bill late last year, they decided to eliminate tax breaks for employers of for-profits who hand out perks to their employees. They decided to apply the same standard for nonprofits, too. Legislative tax-writers were reluctant this week to pan the provision or suggest there could be adverse effects. “People call it a tax on churches and charities. There is no tax on churches and charities,” said Rep. Tom Rice, R-South Carolina. “What we’ve said is, ‘We’re trying to make things fair across the board. So organizations — all organizations, for-profit, nonprofit, everybody that gives their employees free stuff, we’re trying to make it equal.’” Rep. Carlos Curbelo, R-Fla., was noncommittal, saying, “I do think it’s something that at the very least requires the committee’s consideration.” Some Republicans are quietly registering concerns. Without fanfare, GOP Reps. Mike Conaway of Texas and Mark Walker of North Carolina recently proposed their own bills to repeal the provision. Conaway’s bill has four co-sponsors, including one Democrat; Walker’s bill has five co-sponsors, all Republicans. On Thursday, each downplayed the extent to which there might be concern over the optics of making churches pay taxes. Conaway said he was confident House Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady, R-Texas, was committed to fixing the issue. Walker, the chairman of the conservative Republican Study Committee and a former minister, didn’t even mention he had a bill in an interview with McClatchy. While he said it was important to make sure religious organizations aren’t unfairly penalized by the new tax law, he added it might not be a widespread problem. “(Brady) said there were no churches in his entire district that would fall into that category,” Walker said of Brady’s remarks to the Republican Study Committee just the day before. “Of all the issues that we’ll be working with and happy to discuss with our constituents, I don’t know if this will be on the top of that list.” Several members said the provision might be addressed in another package of tax cuts Congressional Republicans want to pass before the year’s end, but Brady’s position has been hard to nail down. At a recent briefing with reporters, Brady said he was “actively asking for input from the nonprofits, including churches, about what changes they’d like to see,” but offered no commitment. “It has a fairly narrow impact in America, and it is about treating a nonprofit hospital the same way you treat a for-profit hospital, making sure the Gates Foundation or some other doesn’t have an advantage over a private sector business when competing for workers,” he said. Though the Congressional Joint Committee on Taxation did not provide a revenue estimate for this provision, it calculated the cost of the policy as part of a larger estimate for the “repeal deduction for qualified transportation fringes, including commuting.” That came out to $17.7 billion over 10 years. The Congressional Budget Office estimated in April the entire tax bill would cost $1.9 trillion over the time same frame. Read more here: https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/article215653425.html#storylink=cpy
Please pray for those affected by the following, At Least 14 Dead, 160 Hurt as Earthquake Hits Indonesia Island Magnitude 6.4 quake struck Lombok Island, a popular tourist destination next to Bali The ruins of a house following an earthquake on the Indonesian island of Lombok. . Photo: EPA/Shutterstock Associated Press | July 29, 2018 | https://www.wsj.com/articles/at-least-3-dead-12-hurt-as-earthquake-hits-indonesia-island-1532834374 JAKARTA, Indonesia—A shallow, magnitude 6.4 earthquake early Sunday killed at least 14 people and injured more than 160 on Indonesia’s Lombok Island, a popular tourist destination next to Bali, officials said. The quake damaged more than 1,000 houses and was felt in a wider area, including in Bali, where no damage or casualties were reported. The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake struck at a depth of 4.4 miles. East Lombok district was the hardest hit with 10 deaths, including a Malaysian national, said a spokesman for Indonesia’s Disaster Mitigation Agency, Sutopo Purwo Nugroho. The number of casualties could increase as data was still being collected from other locations on the island, he said. The quake also triggered a large landslide from Mount Rinjani. Authorities were still monitoring its impact. In East Lombok and the provincial capital of Mataram, the quake lasted about 10 seconds, sending residents fleeing their homes onto streets and fields, Mr. Nugroho said. He said most of the fatalities and injuries were caused by falling slabs of concrete. Photos released by the agency showed damaged houses and the entrance to the popular Mount Rinjani National Park, which was immediately closed for fear of landslides. Television footage showed residents remaining outside, fearing aftershocks, as the injured were being treated on mattresses taken out of their damaged houses and patients wheeled out of a hospital. “Residents refused to enter their houses as prolonged aftershocks are still being felt,” said Eka Fathurrahman, the police chief in East Lombok. The country’s meteorology and geophysics agency recorded more than 130. The Malaysian woman who died was one of a group of 18 Malaysian tourists who had just visited Mount Rinjani when the quake toppled a concrete wall of their guest house, Mr. Fathurrahman said. Six other people at the guest house were injured. Many injured people who had been treated outside a damaged clinic were moved to the main hospital farther away after more ambulances reached the devastated location in Sembalun village of East Lombok, he said. Like Bali, Lombok is known for pristine beaches and mountains. Both locations limit buildings to the height of coconut trees. Indonesia is prone to earthquakes due to its location on the Pacific “Ring of Fire,” an arc of volcanoes and fault lines in the Pacific Basin. In December 2004, a massive magnitude 9.1 earthquake off Sumatra triggered a tsunami that killed 230,000 people in a dozen countries. —Copyright 2018 the Associated Press. https://earthquake-report.com/2018/...hquake-sumbawa-region-indonesia-july-28-2018/
I like Tim Shea. I’m glad to know how to find him. I couldn’t get a link. I didn’t know Praying Medic is a former Catholic. Hmm. I stay away from his religious opinions and stick with Q commentary. I really like Lise Mei Crowley. Her dad was a devout Latin Mass Catholic.
Maybe I am just looking for signs but a lot of major events appear to happen around the 18th of the month. Oh and by the way, this new Nation-state law which defines Israel as a ‘Jewish State’ was enacted around 9.5-10 months after the Woman Clothed With The Sun sign was purported to have appeared in the heavens last Fall and 70 years after Israel became an independent state in 1948. I believe that this law was enacted approximately 42 weeks and 3 days after the heavenly sign. Israel Passes Contested Law That Defines It as a ‘Jewish State’ Supporters say the law enshrines Israel’s Jewish character but critics say it alienates the Arab minority and weakens the nation’s democracy Arab lawmakers stood up in protest against controversial legislation during a parliamentary session in the country’s Knesset in Jerusalem on Thursday. Photo: OLIVIER FITOUSSI/ASSOCIATED PRESS By Dov Lieber | July 19, 2018 2:18 | https://www.wsj.com/articles/israel...-that-defines-it-as-a-jewish-state-1532024318 TEL AVIV—Israel’s parliament passed a law defining the country as a Jewish state, a step supporters say enshrines a basic national principle but that opponents said discriminates against Arab citizens. The legislation, approved early Thursday after hours of heated debate, declares Israel “the national home of the Jewish people” and says only Jews have “the right to exercise national self-determination.” It also downgrades Arabic from an official language to a “special one.” “Israel is the nation state of the Jewish people, that respects the individual rights of all its citizens,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said after the vote. “This is our state, the Jewish state.” Supporters of the measure, including members of Mr. Netanyahu’s conservative governing coalition, argued that it was necessary to codify the reason for the founding of the country 70 years ago as a homeland for Jews. Critics, including opposition lawmakers, Arab politicians and rights groups, said it would strain relations between the Jewish majority and minority populations. More than a fifth of Israel’s nine million people aren’t Jewish. Parliament passed the law by a vote of 62-55, after some of its most controversial elements—including one that called on the Supreme Court to look to Jewish tradition in cases without legal precedent—were modified or removed. Such legislation has been considered off and on for decades. Despite the furor over the bill, Yohanan Plesner, president of the Israel Democracy Institute, a think tank in Tel Aviv, said the law’s broad language meant it was unlikely to lead to any immediate practical changes. “So far it has mainly a symbolic effect,” said Mr. Plesner. Still, it could “drive a wedge between the state of Israel and it’s non-Jewish citizens.” Members of the Joint List, a political union of Arab parties, tore up copies of the bill and tossed the scraps on the floor of the house. The group called on the government to focus on strengthening Israel’s democracy rather than focus on its Jewish character. Any version of a Jewish state that doesn’t give full equality to all citizens “will necessarily be messianic and racist,” Joint List said in a statement. Days before the law was passed, a clause that effectively legalized the founding of Jewish-only communities was altered to say Israel “views the development of Jewish settlement as a national value and will act to encourage and promote its establishment and consolidation.” Since Israel’s founding, members of the Arab minority have complained of being treated as second-class citizens. Israeli officials say all citizens are treated equally under Israeli law. The new law’s detractors said Mr. Netanyahu’s government was motivated to push the legislation by politics. Mr. Netanyahu’s secular-nationalist Likud party receives support from Ultra-Orthodox and religious Zionist parties. Mr. Netanyahu has sought to consolidate his support as he battles corruption allegations. The American Jewish Committee, a group that represents the Jewish diaspora, said it was “deeply disappointed” by the new law. The group said the demotion of Arabic as a language and the clause regarding Jewish settlement “put at risk the commitment of Israel’s founders to build a country that is both Jewish and democratic.” Israel does not have a constitution. Its Declaration of Independence written in 1948 defined Israel as both Jewish and democratic. Avi Dichter, the Likud lawmaker who drafted the law, said during the debate that its critics were spreading “fake news.” “This basic law doesn’t hurt the culture of minorities living in Israel, doesn’t hurt their sabbaticals and holidays and certainly doesn’t hurt the Arabic language, which remains a mother tongue for 1.5 million of Israel’s citizens,” he said. A spokeswoman for the European Union’s foreign affairs chief, Federica Mogherini, on Thursday said the law complicates the path to a two-state solution—which would see the birth of an independent Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza. —Laurence Norman in Brussels contributed to this article. Final text of Jewish nation-state law, approved by the Knesset early on July 19 Knesset members approved overnight Wednesday-Thursday a controversial and long-debated law that officially defines Israel as the Jewish nation-state, votin… The Times of Israel · July 18, 2018 Thousands Attend Mega Arabic Lesson in Tel Aviv to Protest Nation-state Law by Judy Maltz, Haaretz |July 30, 2018 Israeli Druze Commander Quits Army Over Nation-state Law in Open Letter to Netanyahu by Yaniv Kubovich, Haaretz | July 30, 2018 Yuval Noah Harari Rebuffs Israeli Consulate Event Over Controversial Laws Haaretz | July 30, 2018 Hunting Season Officially Opens: Netanyahu Turns Nation-state Law Into Test of Loyalty by Chemi Shalev, Haaretz | July 30, 2018 Israeli Army Suspends Druze Officer Who Published a Facebook Post Against the Nation-state Law by Yaniv Kubovich, Haaretz | July 31, 2018 **** Here are two more articles from the Wall Street Journal. These two are related to Iran, Iranian Officials Rebuff Trump Meeting Offer July 31, 2018 Domestic pressure on Iranian President Hassan Rouhani to take a more hard-line stance toward the U.S. after Washington’s withdrawal from the nuclear deal gives him little leeway to accept President Trump’s offer to meet. Iran’s Rial at Historic Low as U.S. Sanctions Loom July 30, 2018 Iran’s local currency hit another record low against the U.S. dollar, extending a historic slide on concerns about new sanctions due to be imposed next week.
Tommy Robinson freed after winning appeal over contempt of court sentence Robinson, 35, was sentenced to 13 months in prison after he broadcast footage during a trial on social media TOMMY Robinson will today be freed from jail after winning his appeal for a contempt of court conviction. The English Defence League (EDL) founder was sentenced to 13 months in prison earlier this year after broadcasting footage of trial defendants on social media. But the 35-year-old, who did not appear for the hearing, is a free man again after the Court of Appeal ruled there were technical flaws in the ruling of the judge who jailed him. The original judge was found to have rushed Robinson’s trial and as a result the court did not hear which parts of his offending footage was problematic. This meant that he could not defend himself properly, the Court of Appeal heard. The allegations against Robinson will be reheard at The Old Bailey later this year - possibly as early as September. Announcing the decision to free Robinson, Lord Burnett told the court: "The appellant is granted bail and the matter of contempt at Leeds Crown Court is remitted to be heard again." Robinson supporters wearing 'Free Tommy' t-shirts cheered outside the Court of Appeal today, after months of campaigning for his release. Judges were urged to overturn the original findings against the far-right activist, whose real name is Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon. There were also mass protests against his sentence, with scenes turning ugly on the streets of London as campaigners called for Robinson to be freed. At a hearing in July, his QC Jeremy Dein argued that procedural "deficiencies" had given rise to "prejudice". Mr Dein also submitted that "insufficient" regard had been given to Robinson's personal mitigation - factors which could reduce sentence, like an early guilty plea - and as a result his sentence was "manifestly excessive". Robinson's footage was watched 250,000 times within hours of being posted on Facebook ====================================================================== WHAT IS NEXT FOR TOMMY ROBINSON? Tommy Robinson’s conviction for contempt of court was quashed by an appeal judge. In May, the far-right campaigner was sentenced to 10 months in prison for prejudicing trial proceedings at Leeds Crown Court. But now the 35-year-old will be freed after a judge was found to have rushed proceedings against him. Robinson will have to reappear to face the Leeds charges again in a fresh trial at The Old Bailey - which could be as early as September this year. In May he was also sentenced to a further three months after breaching a suspended sentence for a previous contempt offence in Canterbury last year. His conviction for contempt in Canterbury has been upheld. ================================================================= He was detained outside Leeds Crown Court after using social media to broadcast details of a trial which is subject to blanket reporting restrictions. Robinson was given 10 months for contempt of court, which he admitted, and a further three months for breaching a previous suspended sentence. Jailing him, Judge Geoffrey Marson told Robinson that it was a "serious aggravating feature" that he was encouraging others to share it and it had been shared widely. He added: "Everyone understands the right to freedom of speech but there are responsibilities and obligations. "I am not sure you appreciate the potential consequence of what you have done. People have to understand that if they breach court orders there will be very real consequences." It was the second time Robinson had breached court orders, having narrowly avoided jail in May last year over footage he filmed during the trial of four men who were later convicted of gang-raping a teenage girl. ================================================ CONTEMPT DEFINED: What is contempt of court and why can you be jailed for it? In the UK, a person can be found in contempt of court if they wilfully defy a court order. According to the Crown Prosecution Service, the main types of the offence can be physically interfering in a trial, threatening witnesses or obstructing justice. Showing disrespect to a judge can also be contempt of the court. If someone is in contempt of the Magistrates' Court, a person can be imprisoned for one month or face a fine of up to £2,500. But for those in contempt of a crown court, they can be jailed for up to two years or face a fine. In the UK, media can only report the facts of a case. In the US, contempt of court is generally not considered to be a criminal offence. Due to the First Amendment, the media outlet cannot be found in contempt of court. ================================================== The judge on that occasion gave him a three-month suspended sentence and told him his punishment was not about "freedom of speech or freedom of the press" but about "justice and ensuring that a trial can be carried out justly and fairly". Mr Dein argued during the recent appeal proceedings that the findings of contempt of court on each occasion should be quashed as a "conglomeration of procedural deficiencies" had given rise to prejudice. The QC said the proceedings in Leeds had been "unnecessarily and unjustifiably rushed". He told the judges: "We maintain it is of particular importance that right from the outset the appellant, albeit in a very stressful and difficult situation, offered to have the live stream taken down and contact people who could do so." There had been no intention to disrupt the trial or to breach any order, Mr Dein said. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/6912226/tommy-robinson-freed-appeal-bail-contempt-of-court-latest/
From the pics in this article you can understand what Kipling meant, from his experience of the dilirium caused by the sun in India, when he wrote: only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the noonday sun!! And one has to be a tan worshipper to lie very long on those rocky beaches! FEELING THE HEAT Heatwave warning for Brits in southern Spain as experts predict Europe could see HOTTEST EVER day with temperatures topping 48C Mainland Europe is currently in the grip of an extreme heatwave with temperatures almost double the annual average BRITS across mainland Europe’s Mediterranean coast have been warned to take extra care as the continental heatwave threatens temperatures in the high 40s. Europe is set to experience its hottest day ever as Spain and Portugal look likely to reach 48C later this week. 9 Europe is set to experience its hottest day ever as Spain and Portugal look likely to reach 48C Spanish authorities have started making emergency preparations for the intense heatwave, which is expected to last until at least Sunday. Forecasters say the fiery "furnace" blast from the Costas is good news for sun lovers here in the UK with temperatures tipped to hit 36C. Met Office meteorologist Nicola Maxey said: "Temperatures will increase by a couple of degrees day by day with highs in the upper 20Cs quite widely by Friday and into the low 30Cs in places at the weekend. “Warmer air will be arriving from Iberia and the Continent from the middle of the week leading to an increase in temperatures.” Now some forecasters are saying the thermometer could hit 36C by the middle of next week and that would beat Britain’s 35.3C hottest day for three years last Thursday. Tourists in Spain have been warned to take extra care in the heat, and have been advised to remain out of the sun and to ensure they drink plenty of water. At least 27 of Spain’s 50 provinces have been declared an “extreme risk” as temperatures look set to begin soaring rapidly from Thursday. The worst of the heat is set to strike the Iberian Peninsula, close to the border of Portugal, where almost 11,000 firefighters and 56 aircraft are on standby to tackle forest fires. The extreme heat is expected to build up due to hot air coming up from North Africa - particularly over southwestern Europe. Spain’s current record high is 47.3C and Portugal has previously seen highs of 47.4C. The all-time continental European maximum is 48C, recorded in Athens, Greece, in July 1977. Temperatures across Southern France are also set to soar, with highs of around 40C expected within days. Authorities in the towns of Ardèche, Drôme, Pyrénées-Orientales, Rhône, Alpes-Maritimes, Gard, Hérault, Isère and Vaucluse are all on orange alert – the country’s second highest weather warning. Temperatures have already hit 36C near the town of Montélimar, with temperatures set to exceed 35C in Grenoble in the French Alps. The heatwave is expected to see scorching temperatures as high as 39C in the south east, especially near Marseille, by Wednesday. France has already had an intense bout of hot weather this summer, with July temperatures breaking weather records as the hottest on record since 2006 and 1983. Here in the UK, temperatures are set to reach 30C again, following a brief respite over the last few days, as the heatwave return to British shores with a vengeance. Forecasters have warned that mercury is likely to hit 30C again across London and the South of England by Friday. The Met Office confirmed in a tweet that the heat was returning as a sea of red sweeps across the globe towards the UK. Brits will be rushing to beaches and parks across the country to soak up the sun and BBQ’s are expected to be sold out as the temperatures soar. They have been told to brace for even more sweltering weather over the weekendwhen it could reach possible highs of 33C. While the south sizzles, northern parts of the UK will continue to see showers with temperatures sitting in the mid-20s. A spokesman for the Met Office added: “In terms of the working days this week the weather will be quite unsettled. “In the North West parts of England and Norther Ireland, Scotland and parts of Wales can expect spells of wet weather. “Southern England and Wales are going to turn quite hot by Friday with temperatures hitting the high 20’s again. “This is likely to include quite a wide area across the southern part of the UK and it will widely hit 30C across southern England and Wales, and the very hot weather will return as we approach the weekend.” GETTY IMAGES - GETTY 9 Brits in Spain have been warned to stay out of the sun as temperatures look likely to reach 48C https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/6910780/heatwave-warning-southern-spain-europe-hottest-day-ever/
MUST SEE=> Facebook Blocks Beautiful and Moving Pro-Life Ad: Says It Violates Rules, Contains ‘Shocking, Disrespectful or Sensational Content” Chris McDonough is a Republican candidate for St. Charles County Circuit Judge, Division 4 in Missouri. On Sunday Chris posted this beautiful and hopeful story on his McDonough for Judge Facebook page. Chris McDonough: In my family, we’ve had some very personal experiences that have made me appreciate firsthand how precious and fragile the gift of human life is. The most recent was the birth of our nephew, Albert. He is a miracle. This is his story. This is a story about life, our first unalienable right. (VIDEO) which FACEBOOK denied.... What a beautiful story! Chris wanted to boost this ad on Facebook this week. But Facebook would not approve the pro-life ad. It violated the rules. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/20...hocking-disrespectful-or-sensational-content/
Tanker, I just came across the following article regarding this subject of Italian immigration. This particular article is from Chris Ferrara which I thought you and others here might be interested in. News & Views Thursday July 12th, 2018 “Refugees” Threaten to Cut the Throats of their Rescuers by Chris Ferrara | https://fatima.org/news-views/fatima-perspectives-1215/ Fatima Perspectives #1215 As the Muslim invasion of Europe continues, Italy has resoundingly declared “Basta!” and is now turning away boats full of overwhelmingly young male “refugees” who think they are entitled to risk their own lives in pontoon rafts after paying human traffickers to take them just far enough into the ocean to be “rescued” by NGOs, who plot with the traffickers to import their human cargo illegally into Italy. Tuesday’s column exposed the criminal enterprise involved in this immigration racket. Today, we learn that yet another boat full of male “refugees” has demonstrated the general caliber of the people Pope Francis insists on depicting as innocent victims of cruel immigration laws. As Euro News reports, the Italian government “intervened in a migrant rescue by a private Italian ship this week after migrants reacted to attempts to hand the operation over to Libyan authorities by threatening the crew…” The Italian ship, named Vos Thalassa, took aboard 67 potential illegal immigrants, including 6 children, who thought they were heading to Italy after their raft had taken them far enough out to sea to be “rescued” from the emergency they and their human traffickers had deliberately created. When the ship’s crew revealed that the “refugees” were not being taken to an Italian port in the usual manner of the immigration scam, a number of the adult male passengers, having learned that they were going to be handed over to the Libyan coast guard instead, “started to threaten the crew, surrounding and pushing them and making ‘cut your throat’ gestures.” The shipping company’s statement noted that being “severely outnumbered on board a merchant vessel by an angry crowd that has very little to lose is very frightening. We are very proud of the professionalism of our crew in these very challenging circumstances.” The Italian coast guard confirmed that the ship had “reported a situation of serious danger for the security of the ship and its crew… caused by attitudes threatening the crew by some migrants” and further reported that it would be “identifying those responsible for the disturbances”. Of course there is a duty to save people in danger of death if possible, even if their own reckless conduct is the cause of their endangerment. But there is no duty to take to them to Italy as illegal immigrants. So back to Libya they go. Their attempt to violate Italian law with impunity will not be rewarded. Perhaps many will ultimately return to the women and children they left behind, which is where they belong. Termination of what has been called the “NGO ferry service” to Italy has actually saved lives rather than endangering them according to the myth that many will die because of Italy’s “heartless” immigration policy. As Voice of Europe reports: “Italy’s new government and their stricter immigration policy has busted that myth, with a massive drop in immigration arrivals this year (16,919) of 80% compared to last year (85,197), the death toll for migrants has inevitably also dropped, from 2,258 to 1,058.” Indeed, it was precisely the criminal immigration racket itself that was killing people by sending them out to sea in unsuitable vessels in exchange for onerous cash payments. Meanwhile, notes Voice of Europe, there are still “increasing calls from the Pope and the Church generally to accept and assimilate these immigrants into Europe, with little or no thought as to whether the immigrants themselves will assimilate to Europe…” But it seems that facts and rationality have little to do with the ecclesial demagoguery that now reigns in place of the true Gospel in a Church now undergoing the worst crisis of faith and discipline she has ever witnessed. The crisis Our Lady foresaw at Fatima.
Some lined up links on Drudge today: BIBLICAL DUST STORM ROLLS THROUGH PHOENIX http://www.azfamily.com/story/38802702/monsoon-madness-huge-wall-of-dust-rolls-through-town "Unprecedented" 143 MPH "fire tornado" in California https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2018/08/02/fire-tornado-redding-carr-fire/ Virgina flooding sparks fears of dam failure, leads to evacuations https://www.nbcnews.com/news/weathe...s-fears-dam-failure-leads-evacuations-n897291 Europe heat wave turns killer https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/la...on-spain-portugal-bbc-met-office-warning-neqa Sweden's highest peak melts away? https://www.thelocal.se/20180802/arctic-heat-melts-away-swedens-highest-peak-kebnekaise
