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Angela Merkel’s Government is on the Verge of Collapse as Her Interior Minister Threatens to Quit Over Her Handling of the Migration Crisis by JOHN STEVENS FOR THE DAILY MAIL, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/ * Immigration storm could bring her down as coalition partner threatens to resign * Mountains have become a route for Africans looking for a new life […]
The patriots in Portland are claiming that once again the Portland police stood down and let the antifa attack them.
CBS reports that Portland revoked the patriots permit to gather as soon as the riot broke out. That’s not right. That’s giving the leftists a victory, which is probably what liberal Portland wanted anyway. The leftists started the violence, but the right got blamed by the lying Portland police.
Leftism is a mental disturbance. If it’s origins are genetic, those genes need to be removed from the gene pool by any means necessary.
This is a civil war. It’s started. And in Portland, the police are on the side of leftist tyranny.
Ralph Nader, Consumer Advocate and former Presidential Candidate, discusses American Mythology with Chris Hedges.
CC0 A report from the Middle East Forum (MEF) says that one of the largest Islamic charities, indirectly funded by US taxpayers from America and Europe, is linked to terrorist groups around the world. Islamic Relief (IR), one of the largest Islamic charities in the world, is entangled in […]
Islamic Relief (IR), one of the world’s largest Islamic charities, is entangled in terrorist ties, according to a report by the Middle East Forum (MEF), an American think-tank the Daily Caller.
The report states that IR accepts and provides money to terrorist organizations.
IR claims to accept donations from the Charitable Society for Social Welfare, founded by Abdul Majeed Al-Zindani, that the MEF – a group that has set itself the task of looking for examples of extreme Islamism in the West – is a terrorist. Al Qaeda and « Loyalist of Bin Laden. «
The non-profit organization IR is providing funding to the Hamas movement in Gaza, considered by Israel as a terrorist group and would also have close ties with the Muslim Brotherhood,
According to the MEF’s report, American and European taxpayers have provided huge amounts of funding to IR over the years. In the last ten years, said the MEF, taxpayers in Western countries have provided at least $ 80 million to Islamic Relief.
« IRW [Islamic Relief West] claims to have received grants from the United States of America […] Government of the United States Department of Health and Human Services and USAID ». read in the report.
« In 2012, IR-Canada received 1.5 million Canadian dollars ($ 1.9 million) from the government. In 2017, an additional $ 4.5 million ($ 5.7 million) in grants to Islamic Relief was posted on Canadian government websites.
The list includes funds from sources in the United Kingdom, the United Nations, Spain and Sweden.
« In total, from the available data, over the last ten years, we can find at least $ 80 million that the Islamic Relief franchise has received from Western governments, the European Union and the United Nations, » he said. The report.
Islamic Relief denies allegations of support for terrorism, accusing the MEF of « building conspiracies » from one-off individual events.
« Islamic Relief operates as a leading humanitarian organization for 25 years working to provide relief and development in a non-discriminatory and dignified way to vulnerable people in more than 40 countries around the world, » said Sharif Aly, CEO of Islamic Relief USA. . (IRUSA), in a statement to The Daily Caller.
« IRUSA upholds strict standards of neutrality and impartiality in fulfilling its global humanitarian mission, » said Aly.
The non-profit organization stresses that it only works with legitimate, accredited charities and government organizations, including FEMA, USDA, Red Cross, and HIAS – a charity for the community. resettlement of Jewish refugees – the paper said.
« [IR] has received more than $ 700,000 from [American] taxpayers’ money during the Obama administration, » said Sam Westrop, author of the MEF report. « And now, under the Trump administration, civil servants continue to talk about its events and legitimize their status as a charitable institution, but officials of this institution continue to promote non-charitable ideas: hatred of Jews, support for ideologies extremists and praise of terror. «
According to the MEF, Islamic Relief officials « dined at the White House » and served as advisers to the US State Department. However, government funding and support is not the only or the biggest source of revenue. Corporate foundations and individual donors have provided the non-profit organization over $ 4.3 million over the last 17 years, said the MEF report, with the largest donation of 1, $ 4 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Speaking to the Daily Caller, Westrop noted that the UAE and Israel have banned Islamic aid, and the EU has launched several investigations into accusations that the group is promoting extremist imams who advocate violence and hatred.
« Now is the time for US politicians and law enforcement to consider these reasons, to stop funding the work of Islamic Relief and to begin to challenge the pernicious extremism spread by this franchise. International and its Islamist militants in the United States of America « .
Sources:Spoutniknews
A special thank for Mirastnews for the translation in french
Credit: NASA
Three hundred and thirty American men and women have served as astronauts since the start of NASA’s human spaceflight program. Only one is publicly known to have been gay or bisexual — Sally Ride — and she kept it private until her death, yesterday (July 23), when her obituary on the Sally Ride Science organization’s website stated that Ride was survived by Tam O’Shaughnessy, her « partner of 27 years. »
As the first American woman in space and a scientist, Ride served as a role model for generations of young girls. Now, she’ll serve as a role model for LGBT youth as well, said her sister, Bear Ride. « I hope it makes it easier for kids growing up gay that they know that another one of their heroes was like them, » Bear Ride, who identifies as gay, told Buzzfeed yesterday.
Gay rights advocates say Sally Ride’s addition to the ranks of LGBT role models will make a tremendous impact. « Role models are incredibly valuable for everyone, but I think especially for LGBT youth, who may be born into a family where they don’t have an LGBT role model. It is so important for them to look out into the world and see they could be welcome in that world, » Stuart Gaffney, media director at Marriage Equality USA, told SPACE.com. « Sally Ride will be that for them now. »
Human Rights Campaign president Chad Griffin concurred, telling Buzzfeed, « The fact that Sally Ride was a lesbian will further help round out Americans’ understanding of the contributions of LGBT Americans to our country. » [Astronaut Sally Ride: In Her Own Words]
Ride’s decision to keep her sexual orientation private reflects her very private nature, sources said. But the lack of even one openly gay or lesbian astronaut in the history of American spaceflight may reflect the culture at the NASA astronaut office. Although NASA does not discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation, Michael Cassutt, author of five books and hundreds of articles about human spaceflight, said coming out would until recently have been « a career-wrecker » for an astronaut. « Not for any formal reason, but in the same way that any medical issue or even some kind of notoriety has been an astronaut career-wrecker, » Cassutt told SPACE.com.
« Any issue that detracts from the mission is or has been the kind of thing an astronaut wants to avoid. It isn’t NASA politics; it is NASA politics as practiced at the astronaut office, » Cassutt said, adding that the office has often resembled a « military squadron. »
A NASA spokesman told SPACE.com that astronauts decide for themselves what to reveal about their private lives.
« Certainly we try to be open with their professional activities and beyond that what they reveal privately is pretty much up to them, » said the spokesman, who asked not to be named. Still, the fact remains that no astronauts have ever come out as gay or lesbian, while many astronauts include mention of their husbands, wives or children on their NASA official biography pages. (As of today, Ride’s NASA bio page was updated to mention that she is survived by her mother, with no mention of her partner.)
Cassutt said even though he suspects there are or have been some other gay or lesbian astronauts, and in spite of the progress made on LGBT issues, « I don’t expect anyone in the current corps to be ‘out’ any time soon, assuming anyone is gay. »
The implication is that even in 2012, a same-sex orientation could still earn an astronaut unwanted notoriety that would detract from a mission. Robert Pearlman, space historian and founding editor of collectSPACE.com (a SPACE.com partner site), said the choice to shield one’s sexuality « unfortunately cannot yet be labeled ‘behind the times.’ While there are a great many more people who are openly gay today, we are not yet to a point of universal acceptance, » he noted.
There is also the fact that 219 of the 330 current and former astronauts served in the military, according to NASA. The U.S. military operated under a « don’t ask, don’t tell » (DADT) policy from 1993 until 2011, under which gay and lesbian servicemen and women had to remain closeted or risk expulsion. The repeal of DADT last year allowed gays and lesbians to serve openly in the U.S. military for the first time in history.
Of NASA’s continued culture of no one asking and no one telling, Gaffney of Marriage Equality USA said, « Ultimately, it’s a culture that needs to and will change. Harvey Milk said, ‘Come out, come out, wherever you are.’ The point being that the world needs to know, and LGBT youth need to see, that we really are everywhere and that includes people in every walk of life. Some professions have been quicker to change than others. Every profession is going to change. And the news this week about Sally Ride is just one more example of that. »
He added, « It will be part of her legacy that change will come to her profession as well. »
https://www.space.com/16735-gay-astronauts-sally-ride.html
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