The householder has the right to decide his or her guests. The political party has the right to decide its members. The employer has the right to decide its employees. The hallmark of any independent institution is its ability to control its entrants. Yet when it comes to the nation, it can no longer control who enters. The 1951 UN Refugee Convention has shattered the ability of nations to control their borders.
In its latest EU-wide survey of citizens’ views, the EU’s spring ‘Euro barometer’ will not make for comfortable reading in Brussels. Despite the Eurorats’ usual attempts to extract some positives from the answers to its 29 questions with many possible answers for each, the simple fact is that only 23% of the 27 nation EU citizens said they’re in favour of the EU as it is today.
That corporate media is more corrupt than all a prison’s convicts combined is generally accepted. Such is the arrogance of the Press, television and radio broadcasting companies they feel that they are omnipotent. So, they can shrug off and disdainfully dismiss the fact that theirs is the most discredited profession of many.
‘Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers.’ ~ Turkish President Erdogan quoting a Turkish poet. 1999.
It is not the Russians, it is the Israelis. Mark Zuckerberg, Founder and CEO of Facebook, Inc. is under artillery fire from former President Donald Trump regarding $350 million donated by Zuckerberg and his Chinese partner, Priscilla Chan to help local election offices in various jurisdictions.
The founder of the Telegram channel NEXTA, Roman Protasevich, who was detained in Belarus, has agreed that the Western-back hit-squad, who supervised anti-government protests, prepared to assassinate President Alexander Lukashenko, pled guilty to organising the riots and warned about the sleeping radical cells in Belarus.
Efforts to free WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange from Belmarsh Prison in the UK was increased this week ahead of the G7 summit with action in Geneva, a petition, and an intervention by the UN special rapporteur on torture.
Russian President Vladimir Putin says that because of its imperial ambitions the United States will repeat the fate of the USSR. ‘The United States acts like an empire as did the USSR. Some countries are threatened, others are bribed’, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at a meeting with the heads of international news agencies at the SPIEF.
Twitter is very concerned after its platform was kicked out of Nigeria, Africa’s most prosperous country. In an amazing display of Chutzpah, Twitter notorious for blocking users for being politically off-message is calling the free and open internet an ‘essential human right.’ Back in the US, commentators pointed out, Twitter itself doesn’t care much about this ‘right.’
Ouch! British fans responded to a pre-game protest by showering a cascade of strident boos upon England’s soccer team before a match against Austria on Wednesday. The English team knelt in what was claimed to be an anti-racism gesture before about 7,000 fans at Middlesbrough’s Riverside Stadium, according to ESPN.
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