The European Union Times |
- Overwhelming majority of Italians say no to “refugees”
- US slap in face of Israel – Cuban embassy opening
- Gay Marriage Ruling Renews Debate Over Legalizing Polygamy
- France intercepts international communications
- Greece after 5 years of belt tightening
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Posted: 03 Jul 2015 03:59 AM PDT
 Interviews of nearly a thousand Italians by Rai News, show that more than 8 out of 10 Italians say they do not want “refugees” brought into their country. The interviews, conducted from the 23rd to the 24th of June also showed that: 1 out of 4 (25%) Italians thought immigration was the country’s top problem. 2 out of 5 (38%) thought immigration was a “a serious security threat“ and can “be connected to terrorism.“ Over 2 out of 5 (40%) wanted to send illegal immigrants back and use the military if necessary. Only 1 out of 4 (16%) wanted to bring in “refugees”. It’s good to see that most Italians have not been fooled by the “refugee” label. Both the mainstream media and government are trying to “repackage” illegal immigrants as these vulnerable “refugees” who were forced to flee… but no one will tell us why they pass through several safe countries on their way to Europe. Interestingly, the survey found that 2 out of 5 (34%) thought Italian Prime Minister, Matteo Renzi, “does not protect the national interest.“ This week Renzi scorned other European countries in an emotional outburst for not accepting a quota on illegal immigrants, saying that “you aren’t worthy of calling yourselves Europe.” I can see why a growing number of Italians are unhappy with this anti-Italian sleazebag. He tried to push yet more genocide on Europe, but turned into a big cry-baby when democracy ensued.           |
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Posted: 03 Jul 2015 03:17 AM PDT
 After a significant thaw between the US and Cuba, the states decided to restore their embassies. However, some believe that opening an embassy in Havana would avert one of the American’s important allies. Thus, the presidential candidate from the Republican party Ted Cruz claimed, that reopening is a “slap in the face” of Israel. Cruz called Obama’s announcement “unacceptable and a slap in the face of a close ally that the United States will have an embassy in Havana before one in Jerusalem (al-Quds).” The United States maintains an embassy in Tel Aviv, but Cruz has repeatedly demanded that Washington move its embassy to al-Quds. Cruz, along with Cuban-American senator Marco Rubio, have sponsored a congressional bill that would annul a national security waiver which allows the administration to bypass a 1995 law to move the embassy to al-Quds. Cruz and Rubio are competing with a dozen other Republicans to get funding for their presidential campaigns, which mostly comes from groups and business tycoons linked to the Zionist lobby. Analysts say that’s the basic reason they are making pro-Israel statements. Source      |
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Posted: 03 Jul 2015 02:52 AM PDT
 The Supreme Court decision supporting gay marriage has sparked a debate on whether to legalize polygamy, especially after Chief Justice John Roberts pointed out the ruling paves the way for a legal marriage between three or more people. Not long after the decision, a Montana man applied for a marriage license to wed a second wife, encouraged by the fact that the same legal argument made in favor of gay marriage also applies to polygamy. “It’s about marriage equality,” the man, Nathan Collier, told the AP on Wednesday. “You can’t have this without polygamy.” “My second wife Christine, who I’m not legally married to, she’s put up with my crap for a lot of years; she deserves legitimacy.” Roberts, one of the four justices dissenting the decision, predicted this would happen. “Although the majority randomly inserts the adjective ‘two’ in various places, it offers no reason at all why the two-person element of the core definition of marriage may be preserved while the man-woman element may not,” Roberts wrote in his dissent of the ruling. “Indeed, from the standpoint of history and tradition, a leap from opposite-sex marriage to same-sex marriage is much greater than one from a two-person union to plural unions, which have deep roots in some cultures around the world.” Politco’s Fredrik Deboer came out in favor of group marriages, stating that “polygamy today stands as a taboo just as strong as same-sex marriage was several decades ago.” “We should turn our efforts towards the legal recognition of marriages between more than two partners,” he wrote. “It’s time to legalize polygamy.” The vast majority of Americans, however, disagree: a recent Gallup poll shows that only 16% of the public finds polygamy morally acceptable. But whether public opinion will prevent the legalization of group marriages remains to be seen. Source      |
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Posted: 03 Jul 2015 02:24 AM PDT
 France’s external intelligence agency has been intercepting international communications for the last couple of years, a new investigation reveals. The findings of a weeks-long investigation carried out by the French daily Le Nouvel Observateur, published on Wednesday, show that France’s Directorate-General for External Security, known by its French acronym DGSE, has been spying on the international communications via a secret network of submarine cables linking Europe to the rest of the world. According to the newspaper, in 2008, France’s then President Nicolas Sarkozy authorized DGSE to launch a comprehensive espionage on global communications transmitted through the cables. About €700 million was earmarked by the secret service for the “Top Secret” plan over five years, from 2008 to 2013, to install interception stations where the cables end in France, particularly in the cities of Marseille, Penmarch Saint-Valéry-en-Caux, the probe by the daily further said. At least five major cables, routed to the United States, Southeast Asia, East Africa, and India, were tapped during this period with the help of the operator Orange and Alcatel-Lucent group, Le Nouvel Observateur added. The newspaper also said that President Francois Hollande has authorized the DGSE to extend its espionage operations and increase the cable stations in a new five-year plan, from 2014 to 2019. The article also added that there has been an intense cooperation between DGSE and the UK’s intelligence agency GCHQ following a secret 2010 accord on cooperation between Sarkozy and British Prime Minister David Cameron. Source      |
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Posted: 03 Jul 2015 02:21 AM PDT
 The EU and its financial institutions have been pushing an austerity policy on Greece for the last five years. High unemployment, more taxes, billions of euros fleeing, and an increase in suicides mean Greeks on Sunday have to decide if enough is enough. What happened? In January, the left-wing Syriza party led by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras promised to end years of austerity measures without leaving the eurozone. What went wrong? Greek debt negotiations have been fruitless for five months. Creditors wanted economic reforms in return for bailout money, but Syriza refused to budge on key election promises. RT shows you what has happened to the Greek economy during the era of austerity. 1 – “In five years in Greece, we have cut pensions by 44 percent, reduced private sector pay by 32 percent, destroyed the job market, smashed the welfare state, bled employees and the middle class dry with taxes, and reached one and a half million unemployed in a country with an active population of six million,” Alexis Tsipras said in an interview with an Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera. 2 – Greek GDP per capita has fallen to $21,700 in 2014 from $26,900 in 2010 in current US dollars, World Bank data suggests.  3 – Youth unemployment has reached more than 50 percent. Around 55 percent of those unemployed are under 35, according to UK entrepreneurship charity Endeavour. 4 – 44.8 percent of Greek pensioners are living below the poverty line. Their pensions amount to no more than €665 and have been cut 44-48 percent since 2010. 5 – The Greek suicide rate jumped 35 percent during the peak of the crisis in 2011 and 2012. Almost 80 percent of the suicides were men. Greece’s rate used to be the lowest in Europe, but it soared during the crisis. 6 – The Bank of England has warned that the Greek debt crisis is a threat to the UK’s financial stability and could trigger wider problems for financial markets. The market value of European banks shrunk by more than €50 billion on July 29, when the Greek government closed banks across the country and limited daily cash withdrawals to €60. Source     |
