🇪🇸 **Catalonia to declare immediate independence if 'yes' wins referendum**
<https://archive.is/BFFwF>

Catalonia will declare independence "immediately" if a majority of the Spanish region's voters opt for independence in a Scotland-style referendum called for October, its ruling coalition said Tuesday.

"If the majority of votes are for creating a Catalan republic, obviously independence will have to be declared immediately," said Gabriela Serra, a member of the separatist coalition that governs Catalonia.

Her comments came as the coalition presented a law aimed at extracting the northeastern region from Spain's legal system in a bid to circumvent all legal and practical challenges to organising a referendum -- a move that will deepen tensions with Madrid.
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🇺🇸 **Duke University Admits Using Faked Data To Obtain Millions In Gov't Grants**
<https://archive.is/9lyXd>

Duke University admitted Sunday that it used manipulated and completely fabricated data about respiratory illnesses to obtains grants from the Environmental Protection Agency, among other agencies.

Internal investigators at the school believe that former lab technician Erin Potts-Kant falsified or fabricated data for medical research reports, attorneys for Duke said in response to a federal whistleblower lawsuit against the school. Potts-Kant told investigators that she faked data that wound up being “included in various publications and grant applications.”
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🇺🇸 **Lawsuit seeks to stop Trump voter commission’s data sweep**
<https://archive.is/jaIVr>

A privacy group has filed an emergency request trying to block the Trump election integrity commission’s demand for states to turn over voter data, saying the information, if made public, would be a severe invasion of Americans’ rights.

The Electronic Privacy Information Center filed its lawsuit Monday afternoon in federal district court in D.C., and Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly has set a speedy schedule, with the administration’s reply due by Wednesday afternoon.

The lawsuit is the latest resistance to the voter commission, run by Vice President Mike Pence and Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach. Mr. Kobach’s letter last week requesting voter information from all 50 states — including names, dates of birth, addresses, voting and registration history and partial Social Security numbers — has set of a firestorm of criticism.
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🇨🇦 **Killer Of U.S. Soldier To Get Apology And $10 Million From Trudeau Government**
<https://archive.is/yOD5Q>

Canada’s Liberal government is prepared to provide an apology and $10 million to the confessed killer of a U.S. soldier who spent time to Guantanamo Bay. According to multiple reports Tuesday, Omar Khadr will be compensated in part because his interrogation at the hands of Canadian security was deemed “oppressive” by the Supreme Court of Canada.

Khadar, who was born in Canada, was fighting with al-Qaeda forces in Afghanistan when he was 15. In a shoot-out with U.S. forces, Khadr confessed to killing U.S. Special Forces medic Sgt. Christopher Speer with a grenade.
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🇰🇵 **North Korea claims it tested first intercontinental missile**
<https://archive.is/dea1l>

North Korea on Tuesday claimed it successfully test-launched its first intercontinental ballistic missile, a potential game-changing development in what may be the world's most dangerous nuclear standoff and, if true, a direct rebuke to U.S. President Donald Trump's earlier declaration that such a test "won't happen!"

The launch appeared to be North Korea's most successful missile test yet. A U.S. scientist examining the height and distance said the missile could potentially be powerful enough to reach Alaska.
In typically heated rhetoric, North Korea's Academy of Defense Science said the test of an ICBM — the Hwasong-14 — marked the "final step" in creating a "confident and powerful nuclear state that can strike anywhere on Earth."
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🇰🇵 **North Korea missile test: Russia and China urge freeze in launches**
<https://archive.is/gQVBq>

Russia and China have urged North Korea to "freeze" its missile and nuclear programmes after it claimed to have successfully tested its first intercontinental ballistic missile.

Calling the launch "unacceptable", Russia and China, which share a land border with North Korea, also urged the US to not deploy the Thaad missile system - which aims to intercept attacks from Pyongyang - in South Korea.

Meanwhile, UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said the international community "must redouble its efforts to impose a price on this regime, which strains every nerve and sinew to build nuclear weapons and launch illegal missiles, even as the people of North Korea endure starvation and poverty".
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🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 **5 people taken into custody at hot dog contest** 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸
<https://archive.is/d99rk>

Police say five people have been taken into custody after trying to disrupt the annual Nathan's Famous July Fourth hot dog eating contest in New York.

About midway through the men's competition, some people amid the crowd of spectators at the contest on the Coney Island boardwalk appeared to be trying to unfold a black banner. Police stationed at the event rushed into the crowd, handcuffed the demonstrators and took them away.

**Joey ''Jaws'' Chestnut continues his reign** as the chowing champion at the annual July Fourth hot dog eating contest at Nathan's Famous in New York. The San Jose, California, man beat his own record to log a 10th win. He downed 72 hot dogs and buns in 10 minutes Tuesday, besting Carmen Cincotti (sihn-CAH'-tee), who ate 62.
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🇪🇺 **100,000 Migrants Have Entered Europe By Crossing the Mediterranean This Year**
<https://archive.is/mhFjX>

According to the United Nations, over 100,000 immigrants have entered Europe by crossing the Mediterranean Sea in 2017, with 85% of them arriving in Italy, most of them sub-Saharan Africans crossing from Libya.

Italy is pleading for other countries to open their ports so Italy is not inundated by the refugees, but the other countries refuse to help. France rejected the idea; an aide to France’s Interior Minister told AFP that opening a port in France would encourage more immigrants to attempt to enter Europe.
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🇺🇸 **US Coalition Bombs ISIS 25 Times To Ring In Independence Day**
<https://archive.is/hNWEY>

The 25 strikes consisted of “85 engagements” against the terrorist group and spanned Iraq and Syria. The strikes come amid two large scale U.S. backed pushes in both countries.

The U.S. is currently in the last phase of supporting the Iraqi Security Force’s military campaign to retake the formerly ISIS held city of Mosul. ISIS controlled the city uncontested for nearly two years and has put up a brutal defense since U.S. backed operations began in October 2016. The group routinely uses civilian human shields and child suicide bombers.
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🇬🇧 **Theresa Mayhem ‘sitting’ on UK terrorism funding report to protect Saudi allies**
<https://archive.is/FQljg>

Prime Minister Theresa May is withholding a Home Office report on foreign funding of British terrorist organizations because exposing the truth could sour relations with the UK’s major trading and security partner, Saudi Arabia.

The report, commissioned to investigate foreign states funding extremist groups in the UK, has yet to be made public despite being completed six months ago. The government’s reluctance to share it has left many concerned about how ethical Britain’s ongoing diplomatic relationship with the Gulf kingdom is.
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🇪🇺 **Bill Gates warns that Germany's open door policy to migrants will overwhelm EU, urges leaders to 'make it more difficult for Africans to reach the continent'**
<http://archive.is/XAhAL>

Bill Gates has warned that European leaders risk deepening the migrant crisis by being too generous to those arriving on the continent. The Microsoft founder said countries such as Germany will not be able to handle the 'huge' numbers of migrants waiting to leave Africa and find a better life overseas. Instead, the 61-year-old suggested spending more on foreign aid to treat the root causes of migration, while making it more difficult for people to reach the continent.

Mr Gates' comments came as Italian interior minister Marco Minniti held emergency talks with his French and German counterparts over the migrant crisis. Mr Minniti has threatened to close Italian ports to privately-funded vessels helping to rescue migrants from ships in the Mediterranean. He said that other European nations must agree to shoulder some of the burden, or Italy will cut funding to those refusing to help.
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🇬🇧 **Shed owners warned wire on windows could hurt burglars**
<https://archive.is/tBIj3>

A spate of thefts in several towns and villages in Kent and Surrey over the past few months led to many householders taking action to protect their property. Some have been warned by police that using wire mesh to reinforce shed windows was ''dangerous’’ and could lead to criminals claiming compensation if they ''hurt themselves’’.

Thomas Cooper, of Tatsfield, Surrey, used wire mesh to protect three of his garden sheds after two break-ins over the past four years. He decided to take action after reports of a rise in garden raids in the area. Mr Cooper said: “I reinforced my shed windows with wire mesh, but was told by the police I had to be very careful because thieves can actually sue you if they get hurt.
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___***How CNN found the Reddit user behind the Trump wrestling GIF***___
http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/04/politics/kfile-reddit-user-trump-tweet/index.html

- CNN doxxed him from his posting history that led to his real info Facebook and CNN contacted him
- Then he wiped his post and apologized on reddit
- Never, ever, link your internet identity with your irl identity

The Reddit user who initially claimed credit for President Donald Trump's tweet that showed Trump tackling CNN issued an apology Tuesday for the video and other offensive content he posted -- one day after CNN identified the man behind the account and attempted to make contact with him.

On Reddit, "HanA**holeSolo" took credit for inspiring the tweet. Soon after, "HanA**holeSolo's" other posts on Reddit, some of which included racist and anti-Semitic imagery, quickly circulated on social media.

Now the user is apologizing, writing in a lengthy post on Reddit that he does not advocate violence against the press and expressing remorse there and in an interview with CNN for other posts he made that were racist and anti-Semitic.

The apology came after CNN's KFile identified the man behind "HanA**holeSolo." Using identifying information that "HanA**holeSolo" posted on Reddit, KFile was able to determine key biographical details, to find the man's name using a Facebook search and ultimately corroborate details he had made available on Reddit.

On Monday, KFile attempted to contact the man by email and phone but he did not respond. On Tuesday, "HanA**holeSolo" posted his apology on the subreddit /The_Donald and deleted all of his other posts.

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🇻🇦 **Vatican Police Break Up Drug-Fuelled Gay Orgy at High-Ranking Cardinal’s Apartment**
<https://archive.is/ZmXLg>

About two months ago, the Vatican police raided the apartment of a secretary of an ( lit. extremely important Monsignor), one of the closest collaborators of the Pope. In the apartment was discovered cocaine. The secretary of His Eminence admitted he used the drugs during the gay party, **which he organized at Santo Uffizio**..."]

Dear friends. The Romans have been covering up - for at least two months. This now raises further questions. Was it during Lent? Was it during Holy Week? Could it have been on Good Friday? Just when were they snorting and sodomizing?
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___***Washington Post assembles kids to mock POTUS by song; what is wrong with these folks?***___
http://www.bizpacreview.com/2017/07/05/washington-post-assembles-kids-mock-potus-song-wrong-folks-510255

- BezosPost is at it again

The Washington Post shamelessly exploited children to mock the president of the United States. The once-venerated newspaper assembled a chorus of little kids to sing President Trump’s tweets in an attempt to ridicule the leader of the free world.

In the YouTube video, the children mocked Trump’s tweets in sing-song fashion. While the video was meant to be funny, it was totally humorless, and only got an anemic 21,500 views since being posted last week. There are cat videos posted by random private citizens that get more views.

While the Washington Post champions itself as a social justice warrior fighting on behalf of minorities and the underclass, its video featured NO black children, NO Asian children, and ZERO Muslims.

The video ends with the children singing the new Washington Post slogan: “Democracy dies in darkness.”

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🇵🇱 **In Poland, Trump Asks Whether West Has ‘Will to Survive’** 🇺🇸
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<http://archive.is/U9APi> New York Times

Mr. Trump delivered a message on Thursday of determination in the face of terrorism to the Polish people in a speech in Krasinski Square, where a monument commemorates the 1944 Warsaw Uprising against the Nazis, calling on the West to defend itself in a good-versus-evil fight against extremism.

“The fundamental question of our time is whether the West has the will to survive,” he said, employing the same life-or-death language as his inauguration speech. “Do we have the confidence in our values to defend them at any cost? Do we have enough respect for our citizens to protect our borders? Do we have the desire and the courage to preserve our civilization in the face of those who would subvert and destroy it?”

In the strongest terms that he has used to date, Mr. Trump also urged Russia to stop its “destabilizing activities” and its support for “hostile regimes” including Iran and **Syria**, delivering a broadside on the eve of his meeting with Mr. Putin, and he said that Poland had agreed to buy the Patriot missile defense system from the United States.

While Mr. Trump made mention of the terrible toll wreaked by the Nazis on Poland and its once thriving Jewish population, many of his comments were targeted at the onetime invaders from the East. **(Actually, the Soviets invaded Poland once before WWII.)** The president noted that Joseph Stalin had halted his troops outside the city during the uprising, allowing German forces to exterminate or capture Polish partisans fighting in the ruins of the city.

“The Soviet armed forces stopped and waited,” he reminded his Polish audience to applause and chants of “Donald Trump!” and “Hail to the heroes!” The Soviets, he added, “tried to destroy this nation forever by shattering its will to survive.”
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___***Missouri set to reduce St. Louis minimum wage from $10 to $7.70***___
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/missouri-set-reduce-st-louis-minimum-wage-10-7-70-article-1.3300143

- Wagekeks gets kekked

Missouri’s governor will allow a bill to pass that rolls back St. Louis’ minimum wage from $10 back to $7.70, the standard across the state.

Gov. Eric Greitens announced that he won’t sign a bill that blocks cities and counties from setting their own minimum wage, enforcing the Missouri standard statewide.

Without the first-year governor’s signature, the law will automatically kick in on Aug. 28.

“Our state needs more private sector paychecks and bigger private sector paychecks,” Greitens said in a statement. “Politicians in St. Louis passed a bill that fails on both counts: it will kill jobs, and despite what you hear from liberals, it will take money out of people's pockets.”

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__***Germany dismantles huge online child pornography ring***__
German prosecutors said on July 6 they had shut down a major online child pornography platform used to organize sexual abuse of children, arresting its suspected administrator and others in Germany and abroad.The site known as “Elysium” “was used for global exchanges of child pornography by its members and to arrange meetings to sexually abuse children,” prosecutors in the western city of Frankfurt said in a statement.Its 87,000 members traded images and video files of “the most serious sexual abuse of children, including babies, and representations of sexual violence against children,” the statement continued.After months of investigation, authorities arrested a 39-year-old man from the Limburg-Weilburg district north of Frankfurt in mid-June, and are questioning him in custody.“The suspect is believed to have been largely responsible for the creation of the technical infrastructure of the platform as its administrator,” prosecutors said, adding that they had found the server used to store the darknet site’s data during a search of his flat.Darknet sites like the one uncovered in the case are invisible to most internet users and can only be accessed by using encryption technology.They have repeatedly been used by criminals to trade drugs, weapons and child pornography.Investigators have identified other administrators and members of the ring and arrested some of them, mostly in Germany and Austria.Among them are people accused of serious sexual abuse of children as well as distribution of child pornography, the statement said.
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___***Someone Sent Rachel Maddow Fake NSA Documents Alleging Trump-Russia Collusion***___
http://dailycaller.com/2017/07/06/someone-sent-rachel-maddow-fake-nsa-documents-alleging-trump-russia-collusion/

- Someone sent Maddow forged NSA document
- Someone is trying to trap her just like on CNN where 3 of their reporters resigned
- THE LEAKS ARE REAL BUT THE NEWS IS FAKE

MSNBC host Rachel Maddow gave a “heads up” to other news organizations on Thursday after she was sent what she believes are faked National Security Agency documents alleging collusion between a member of the Trump campaign and Russian government.

“Somebody, for some reason, appears to be shopping a fairly convincing fake NSA document that purports to directly implicate somebody from the Trump campaign in working with the Russians in their attack in the election,” Maddow said in a lengthy segment on her show.

She suggested that the unidentified muckraker who sent her the fake documents hopes to undermine news organizations in general and deflate the Trump-Russia collusion investigation, which has been going on for nearly a year.

On June 7, an unidentified person sent documents to an online tip line for Maddow’s show, she said.

That was two days after The Intercept published legitimate NSA documents that were stolen by Reality Winner, a contractor for the agency.


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___***'It's an honor to be with you,' Trump tells Putin as the two presidents have first sit-down meeting - and Russian leader says he's 'delighted'***___
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4675262/It-s-honor-Trump-tells-Putin-G20.html

- Trump and Vlad met for the first time

The two leaders of nations that once squared off in Cold War iciness sat down in a neutral setting Friday, representing their nations at the G20 in Hamburg, Germany.

The men's first high-stakes handshake had happened hours earlier in a backstage moment captured by a German government photographer.

Accompanying each man was the smallest of entourages: for Trump, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, and a translator, and for Putin, his foreign minister Sergey Lavrov, and a translator.

On the agenda, according to White House officials, was everything from the Ukraine to NATO arms buildups.

In video of the meeting, Trump is seen shaking Vlad's hand rightie-to-rightie, and using his left hand to pat the underside of Putin's arm

The pair smiled and told one another they would see each other soon in a private meeting. Trump earlier tweeted that he had 'much to discuss' with the Russian leader.

At one point during their brief initial meeting, Putin pointed at Trump as they continued to shake hands. Their private meeting is scheduled for later on Friday

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___***‘Dominance in the heavens’: Pushy US VP Pence overrides NASA’s ‘do not touch’ command***___
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4675262/It-s-honor-Trump-tells-Putin-G20.html

- Electro Pence gives 0 fucks

US Vice President Mike Pence boldly declared Americans would return to their lunar hunting grounds and step on the Red Planet during a visit to Kennedy Space Center. It’s his hands-on approach, however, that sent the internet into warp speed.

During the speech in Cape Canaveral, Pence pledged to make space exploration a top priority for the US. “Our nation will return to the Moon and we will put American boots on the face of Mars,” he said.

Following the speech a photo emerged that hints that the vice president may have meant that quite literally. The picture, which flew straight into orbit on social media, shows Pence solemnly touching a piece of NASA hardware clearly labelled “Critical space hardware. Do not touch.”

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___***Omar Khadr received $10.5M from Ottawa on Wednesday, government confirms***___
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/omar-khadr-settlement-1.4194142

- Confessed killing US soldier in Afg, sent to guantanamo
- Receive $10.5M from canadian gov and formal apology
- Why? Because "the payment reflects the fact that his charter rights were violated, and the Liberal government will support the charter, even when it's unpopular."

Former Guantanamo Bay prisoner Omar Khadr received a $10.5-million legal settlement Wednesday and will also receive an official apology from the Canadian government, a senior government source tells CBC News.

The Toronto-born Khadr confessed to killing Speer in Afghanistan when he was 15, under interrogation that was later deemed "oppressive."

He had been seeking $20 million in a wrongful imprisonment civil suit against Ottawa.

The source told CBC News that the decision to pay a settlement to resolve Khadr's case was not about what he did or did not do as a 15-year-old in Afghanistan. Rather, the payment reflects the fact that his charter rights were violated, and the Liberal government will support the charter, even when it's unpopular.

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Hamburg's G20 rioters are 'crazy' in the eyes of Arab refugees
Reuters
https://goo.gl/1j5jJy
Arab refugees watching anti-G20 riots in Hamburg from the relative safety of a falafel joint said on Saturday the rioters were insane for destroying their tolerant adoptive city and were astonished by what they saw as the police's restraint.

"If people did this in Egypt they would be shot," said Ibrahim Ali, a 29-year-old Egyptian who came here in 2011. "The state provides everything: housing, unemployment benefits and education. Yet those people are not happy. I don't get it."

"They are crazy. I can't believe my eyes," said Mohammad Halabi, 32, a Syrian who arrived in Germany as a refugee some 18 months ago. "They have such a beautiful country and they're destroying it."
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🇺🇸 Military C-130 out of Memphis crashes on Leflore/Sunflower County line; Four bodies recovered🇺🇸
(MS News) - https://goo.gl/ZeEX18

LEFLORE COUNTY, MS (Mississippi News Now) -

First responders are on the scene of a plane crash in Leflore County.

Authorities on the ground told WTVA in Tupelo, the plane was an Military C-130 out of Memphis with eight people on board. So far, four bodies have been recovered.

Firefighters are working to put out the fire after the plane crashed in an agricultural field near County Road 287, just off Highway 82, and near the LeFlore/Sunflower County line.

Both articals posted by /pol/ archivists and reposted here.

🇭🇺 **Israel backs Hungary, says financier Soros is a threat**
<https://archive.is/WYqOp>

Israel's foreign ministry has issued a statement denouncing U.S. billionaire George Soros, a move that appeared designed to align Israel more closely with Hungary ahead of a visit to Budapest next week by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

"George Soros continuously undermines Israel's democratically elected governments," said foreign ministry spokesman Emmanuel Nahshon, adding that Soros funded organizations "that defame the Jewish state and seek to deny it the right to defend itself".

Hungary has held discussions with Israel about purchasing security fences to keep migrants out, while Israel has sought better ties with countries that it hopes will take its side in any EU discussions where Israel is criticized.
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🇩🇪 **German politicians demand crackdown on left-wing extremism after G20 riots**
<https://archive.is/YrDlc>

“Germany’s image in the international community has been severely damaged due to the incidents in Hamburg,” German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel told Bild’s weekend edition following three nights of violent clashes between the left-wing radicals and police in the German northern port city that hosted the G20 summit.

“All alleged political motives for this orgy of violence are full of deceit and should just serve as a disguise for the real motive of the offenders that [came] from all parts of Europe: violence in itself,” Gabriel added.

The minister also demanded the creation of an EU-wide special investigative committee that would launch an inquiry against all those involved in the violent riots in Hamburg.

*“A state governed by the rule of law must now demonstrate an ability to defend itself,”* he said.
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___***Full transcript: Defense Secretary James Mattis’ interview with The Islander***___
http://mihsislander.org/2017/06/full-transcript-james-mattis-interview/

- BezosPost leaked Mad Dog's phone number
- Some high schooler decided to ring up his phone and asked for interview
- Mad dog did it. Full transcript on the link

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