Europe's Mass Migration: The Leaders Vs. The Public
Authored by Douglas Murray via The Gatestone Institute,
Authored by Douglas Murray via The Gatestone Institute,
Last week the Republican party was at arms after Axios reported that Steve Bannon was said to be pushing president Trump to raise taxes on the wealthiest Americans. According to the website, Trump’s chief strategist was urging to raise the top tax rate on individuals, with Axios saying the former Breitbart CEO looking for the top rate to have “a 4 in front of it” (currently, the highest income-tax bracket in the US is 39.6% for individuals earning more than $414,000 a year).
The liberal facade behind Europe's grand refugee acceptance experiment took a big hit on Friday, when Italy's Former Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, and head of the ruling Democratic Party, said his country does not have "any moral duty to take in migrants", sharply toughening his stance over surging numbers of asylum seekers. His U-Turn follows that of Angela Merkel, who infamously accepted nearly 1 million mostly Syrian refugees in 2015, only to see a surge in terrorist attacks across Germany and Europe, and a plunge in her popularity as a result of an angry social backlash
On The Bright Side
CNN’s rankings collapse:
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2017/07/tyler-durden/cnns-ratings-collapse/
William Engdahl explains the Qatar Hullabaloo:
https://journal-neo.org/2017/06/24/has-washington-lost-the-middle-east-after-qatar/
Finian Cunningham explains the end of US unilateralism:
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2017/07/07/multipolar-world-arrives-russia-china-face-down-us-bully.html
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