"Well, you know, the president is from Queens, and with all due respect - half of my district is from Queens - I don't think he knows how to deal with a girl from the Bronx," Ocasio-Cortez told Stephen Colbert during an appearance on The Late Show.
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"Well, you know, the president is from Queens, and with all due respect - half of my district is from Queens - I don't think he knows how to deal with a girl from the Bronx," Ocasio-Cortez told Stephen Colbert during an appearance on The Late Show.
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As far as I'm concerned, these sorts of slight obstructions and infringements are just part and parcel of driving. The same is true of walking along a street. People suddenly stop, or change direction. Stuff happens.
The UK population is at the end of June 2017 stood at 66,040,229, an increase of 392,000 since mid-2016. 59% of this increase is attributed to migration.
Though this year's annual population increase of 0.6% is lower than in previous years, historically it is huge. For instance, in 1997 when Tony Blair came to power, the annual population increase was 0.26%.
The ONS also reveal that the "largest inflow of immigrants to the UK was from Romania (50,000)".
Speed limits fall on 400,000km of secondary roads; the cost of gas and cigarettes will rise; energy tax credit for home improvements; better information for holidaymakers
Speed limits
From July 1, the speed limit on secondary routes in France will drop from 90kph to 80kph. The new maximum speeds will apply on two-way secondary roads that do not have a central separator - nearly half of the French road network.
The scheme, announced on January 9 as part of a wider government plan to reduce the number of road deaths, has generated criticism from motorists and biker associations, but Prime Minister Edouard Philippe has said he is prepared to accept the unpopularity of the law in order to save up to 400 lives a year.
Gas prices
Comment: With Macron's popularity tanking, mass protests and strikes against his governments education and employment reforms, his eagerness to wage war abroad, sycophantic and duplicitous behaviour on the world stage, his governments unseemly meddling with the of the age of consent and 'equal rights', one wonders how much more France will take.
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Macron has attempted to justify the proposal, saying that national service would promote patriotism and "social cohesion" among France's youth. The plan, which has undergone a number of changes, will now see both boys and girls that have reached the age of 16 serve in the program divided into a voluntary and compulsory stage.
They'll have to do a minimum one-month placement that could involve teaching, working with charities, and traditional military training with the police, fire service or army. The details of the scheme have not yet been finalized, sparking some confusion on what exactly will be compulsory, the exact length and the actual composition of the service.
Comment: As with many of these programs dreamed up by shady politicians, it sounds good on paper, however the true motivations are, as noted above, more likely to do with further indoctrinating children into the ruling establishment perspective - which, these days, is god-awful in western Europe. And they already get 13-odd years of that at school. On top of that there are rumours those participating will be classed as 'in employment', thus lowering France's unemployment numbers:
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Israeli forces fire tear gas at Palestinian demonstrators
Israeli forces fire tear gas at Palestinian demonstrators
Thousands of Palestinians once again descended on the Israeli-Gazan border on Friday for the latest showdown with the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). The Israeli forces responded with live fire as rioters hurled rocks and Molotov cocktails and also sent incendiary balloons across the fence which sparked at least 15 fires in Israel, the Times of Israel reports.
"All this is furniture from my living room," Billie McGruder, who lived in the house for decades, told a crew from CBS DFW. "It's out there for everybody to see."
Only two weeks prior to his 80th birthday, McGruder got a knock on the door informing him that it was time to vacate the home he inherited from his parents who bought the house in the 1930s.
"They come to evict me for back taxes," said McGruder.
Tarrant County records reveal that authorities seized his home over nearly $6,000 in unpaid taxes and auctioned the property off to a real estate company for $38,000.
While Tarrant County Precinct 8 Constable Michael Campbell told WFAA that the eviction followed standard protocol, with the property being sold on January 2, 2017, to a new owner, McGruder said he didn't know what was happening to his home in recent months, didn't understand the letters about overdue taxes or realize that his home was being put up for auction.
Members of the Moroccan counter-terrorism efforts, the newly set-up BCIJ (described as Morocco's FBI)
Nasser Zefzafi, who is about 39 years old, was arrested in May 2017 and transferred to a prison in Casablanca after organizing demonstrations in his hometown of Al Hoceima in what came to be called as "Hirak al Chaabi" in Arabic or "popular movement." He was charged with undermining public order and threatening national unity.
As part of the same verdict, Nabil Ahmijeq, Wassim El Boustani and Samir Aghid were also given 20 years in prison while three others received a 15-year jail sentence.
Seven activists were sentenced to five years in prison and six others were handed a 10-year jail sentence.
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Muslim Hajj pilgrims try to touch Kaaba stone as they circumnavigate around the Kaaba, Islam's holiest site, located in the center of the Masjid al-Haram (Grand Mosque) in Mecca, Saudi Arabia on 22 August, 2017
Muslim Hajj pilgrims try to touch Kaaba stone as they circumnavigate around the Kaaba, Islam's holiest site, located in the center of the Masjid al-Haram (Grand Mosque) in Mecca, Saudi Arabia on 22 August, 2017
Local media reported General-Secretary of the Union of Tunisian Imams, Fadhel Ashour, saying: "It is better to spend this money to improve the conditions of the Tunisian people."
Saudi Arabia uses the money of Hajj in the aggression against Islamic countries such as Syria and Yemen, which is contrary to Sharia.
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their laughter and their loveliness would clear a cloudy day.
And the song that I am singing is a prayer to non-believers,
To come and stand beside us, we can find a better way.
-- From a John Denver song: 'Rhymes and Reasons')
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As a nation, we have lost our way! In the "political wheeling and dealing" of Washington government's elites, far too many of these elected officials continue to pursue only their own self-serving interests. Getting re-elected is all that matters to these people. So the agendas and subsequent support of rich and powerful individuals and groups have become their priority rather than the common good and the critical needs of our nation.
One of the "buried issues" you never hear very much about in Congress or the White House is the appalling rate of poverty among children in the United States. But the primary advocate for children in America, Marian Wright Edelman, leader of the The Children's Defense Fund, has been relentless in her demands for better treatment of the poor children in our nation. Here is what she wrote to the newly-elected president in January:
Comment: Being a poor child is a direct result of having poor parents. What's one of the main drivers of poverty in many cases? Single parent homes. Unless there is an increase in responsible behaviors amongst men and women throwing more government money at the problem is unlikely to break the cycle of poverty.
Comment: The strain on services probably isn't due to migration, in fact, were it not for some migrants the NHS would struggle to function at all. The real strain on services is a decade of illogical and immoral 'austerity' measures and an ailing economy which has seen poverty sky rocket alongside a rise in violent crime. Obviously uncontrolled mass migration has a detrimental impact on a society and where possible, one would expect nurses to be recruited from the local community rather than shipped in from abroad just because they're willing to work for poverty pay and in inhuman working conditions.
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