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Pro-Israeli British nationalists face-off with pro-Palestine Al Quds marchers

Police arrest a counter-demonstrator at Sunday's Al Quds march
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Police arrest a counter-demonstrator at Sunday's Al Quds march
Pro-Israeli British nationalists scuffled with police and pro-Palestine demonstrators at this year's Al Quds march in London.

The protest was part of Quds Day, an annual protest against Zionism the current and historical actions of Israeli state. Counter-protests were arranged by supporters of Israel and were attended by British nationalists opposed to the event's link to Lebanese group Hezbollah. A large police presence mostly kept the two groups apart.


Heart - Black

Watchdog group blasts Amazon over working conditions at product supply factory in China

Jeff Bezos Amazon
A watchdog group is calling on Amazon.com Inc. to improve conditions for factory workers in China who make Echo speakers and Kindle e-readers, renewing criticisms that CEO Jeff Bezos became the world's wealthiest man on the backs of low-paid laborers.

The New York-based China Labor Watch released a report at the weekend following a nine-month investigation of working conditions at a factory in the city of Hengyang owned by Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., the company known as Foxconn, which manufactures products for Amazon. It offers the first behind-the-scenes glimpse of how Amazon produces voice-activated speakers that cost as little as $40.

The report, which paints a picture of low pay and intense working conditions, includes the following findings:

Comment: The findings underscore Amazon's general indifference to its US based labor force:


Sheeple

Caving to the liberal mob: Twitter CEO apologizes for eating at Chick-fil-A because of company CEO's gay marriage stance

Jack Dorsey
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Co-chair and founder of Twitter, Jack Dorsey
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey on Sunday expressed regret over eating at Chick-fil-A, because of the chicken company's CEO's personal views on gay marriage.

Dorsey tweeted a screenshot from his phone that showed a purchase he had made at Chick-fil-A using a mobile application. After a liberal backlash, however, Dorsey apologized for eating at the popular fast food restaurant.

At issue was Chick-fil-A CEO Dan Cathy's 2012 support for defining marriage as between a man and a woman, which he described as "the biblical definition of a family."

Comment: Libtard insanity on full display - even minor infractions of the increasingly authoritarian liberal dogma will trigger SJW hysteria.


Blackbox

Publicity stunt? Chloe Ayling's kidnapper jailed for 16 years after drugging and abducting glamor model

Chloe Ayling
Chloe Ayling's kidnapper has been jailed for 16 years; found guilty of kidnapping the aspiring British glamor model. Lukasz Herba, however, has insisted that he "loved" the model and that the abduction was a publicity stunt.

Herba, who maintains his innocence and has already confirmed that he will appeal the sentence, was ordered to pay £60,000 ($80,300) damages to Ayling.

The accused, who wore a grey hoodie and jeans in court, was sentenced to 16 years for drugging and kidnapping the mum-of-one. Ayling was lured to a Milan address on the pretext of a bogus modelling job. She was then held hostage for six days at a farmhouse before being released at the British consulate in Milan.

Polish-born Herba, however, insists that the kidnapping was a set-up so the aspiring glamor model could star on reality TV and boost followers of her paid-for profile, through which she sold "spicy"photographs of herself for cash. "She wanted to be a model and she wanted to go on reality TV," he said.

Boat

'This Europe is not showing solidarity': After shutting ports to migrant rescue ship, Rome rebukes EU criticism

Rescue ship Aquarius
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Migrants wait to disembark from rescue ship Aquarius in Palermo, Sicily
Having come under fire for banning the migrant rescue ship 'Aquarius' with 629 people on board from docking at its ports, Italy's new government says it's been left alone by the EU to deal with the uncontrolled influx of refugees.

"This Europe is not showing solidarity," Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said, adding that "Italy has to deal with the problem" of illegal human trafficking and migration flows "all by itself."

He pointed out that some EU states shut their borders and refused to co-operate. Italy demands an equal share of migrant intake to be distributed across the bloc, something Conte raised at the G7 meeting this past weekend.

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Star of David

Israeli spy Yossi Alpher admits: We encouraged anti-Semitic conspiracy theories

Yossi Alpher
© Rami Zernger
Yossi Alpher, author of 'Periphery'
Books by former intelligence, military and political leaders are frequently tedious and self-serving. Obsessed with securing their own legacy, and proving how right they were about some long-standing grudge or another, such volumes rarely make for much of an enlightening read.

One such book I probably will subject myself to, however, is titled Periphery by the former Israeli spy Yossi Alpher. For all the tediousness one has to wade through in such propagandising dross, there are sometimes a few nuggets of insight - usually given away unintentionally.

Alpher is a former military intelligence officer. Periphery, released earlier this year, is his account of years of desperate Israeli efforts for allies in a region it is inherently alienated from, due to its long record of military aggression against neighbouring countries, the 67-year-long military occupation and dispossession of the Palestinian people.

Heart - Black

London's scourge of violence continues as man murdered, 5 others injured in spate of knife attacks

london crime wave
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London has suffered through another weekend of violence, as knife crime continues to terrorize the capital that saw a man murdered and five others injured in a spate of unrelated knife attacks.

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan will today meet with Home Secretary Sajid Javid to "discuss how we address the scourge of serious violence across Britain" after the death on Saturday night near Turnpike Lane Tube station in Haringey marks the Metropolitan Police's 74th murder investigation for 2018.

On Friday, a family in a stationary car was robbed at knifepoint on Keats Way, Coulsdon, just before 6pm. Police say the pair made off with a "small quantity of jewellery", cutting a 30-year-old woman's hand as one of the suspects attempted to steal her bracelet.

Comment: 'The wolves are here now': Fmr London police officer accuses Theresa May of ignoring warnings before knife crime tsunami


Megaphone

Massive crowd gathers in London to hear Geert Wilders demand release of Tommy Robinson

geert wilders tommy robinson
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Massive crowds turned out in London on Saturday to rally for free speech and hear Dutch firebrand Geert Wilders demand the release of Tommy Robinson from prison.

"It's so good to see so many of you here today, you are all heroes for being here today," said the Freedom Party leader, an outspoken critic of radical Islam who rose to second place in the Dutch national elections last year.

Wilders told the crowd he had come to Britain to tell Robinson's supporters they "will never walk alone" and to "tell the world, and the UK government in particular: Free Tommy Robinson!"

"At this very moment, thousands of people all over the world are demonstrating in front of British embassies, from LA to Sydney, and over half a million people have already signed the petition for Tommy," he told the crowd.

"And all with the one important message: Free Tommy!

"So, Downing Street is just around the corner, so maybe once again, as loud as possible as we can, let them hear our message: Free Tommy Robinson!" he cried, prompting extended chants of 'Oh, Tommy Tommy, Tommy Tommy Tommy Tommy Robinson!' and 'We want Tommy out!'

Comment: More on Robinson's arrest: Robinson broke the law - he technically wasn't arrested for exposing the truth. But the real issue isn't Robinson - it's the fact that the government practically allowed these grooming gangs to get away with everything, and covered it up. They have provoked a predictable reaction. That reaction has the potential to go overboard in dangerous ways, but the thing is: they're right. And if the establishment continues to cover their ears, the reaction will only continue.

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Russian Flag

How the West deliberately continues to fatally misunderstand Russia & Putin

Putin as hitler
© Yurko Dyachyshn/Media Drum World
Posters across the city of Lviv in Ukraine compare Putin with Hitler
From a talk given to Australian National University (ANU) Business Students, 7 June

Two and a half years ago, in Jan-Feb 2016, I visited Russia for a month. The result was this published book, a literary travel memoir, Return to Moscow. I returned in January-February this year, 2018. I gave a public lecture in the Moscow Museum of Contemporary Russian History.

In the two years since I wrote my book, relations between Russia and the West have become worse. On the other hand, Russian relations with China, and with the whole vast Eurasian region bounded by China, Korea, Japan, the ASEAN countries, India and Pakistan, and westwards through Central Asia as far as Iran, Syria and Turkey, even with Israel, have correspondingly warmed and deepened.

No Entry

'Dishonor for France' as Muslim rapper who sang about 'crucifying secularists' to play at Bataclan

Bataclan Theater
© Christophe Petit Tesson / Reuters
A planned performance by a controversial Muslim rapper at the Bataclan, where 90 people were killed during the November 2015 Paris attacks, has prompted a wave of criticism and has been described as a 'dishonor for France.'

Medine, who is of Algerian descent, is due to play two gigs at the venue in October. The musician has denied that he is an Islamist but caused outcry in the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo attack because of his song 'Don't Laik,' which includes the lyrics: "Let's crucify the secularists like at Calvary... put fatwas on the heads of these idiots."

He also released an album called 'Jihad' in 2005, but insisted that it is about an internal identity struggle.

The decision to allow the singer to play the venue has drawn severe criticism from several high-profile French politicians. Laurent Wauquiez, the leader of the Republicans, France's largest opposition party, tweeted that it was "sacrilege for the victims" and a "dishonor for France."