“Under the system, those who have visited any of seven blacklisted countries – Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia and Yemen – on or after 1 March 2011 are barred from receiving the waiver and have to apply for a visa.”
Tag Archives: Europe
The Brexit Short: How Hedge Funds Used Private Polls to Make Millions
“Private polls—and a timely ‘concession’ from the face of Leave—allowed the funds to make millions off the pound’s collapse.”
Spain: Students Forced Out of Their Homes to Make Way For Migrants
“Students in Spain have been forced to leave their homes despite having paid their accommodation fees to make way for migrants who just arrived on the Aquarius rescue ship in Valencia.”
Read more: https://www.infowars.com/spain-students-forced-out-of-their-homes-to-make-way-for-migrants/
Bill Bonner: Ike was right!
“There were two big temptations to the American Republic of the 1950s; subsequent generations gave in to both of them.”
Read more: https://bonnerandpartners.com/ike-was-right/
Sweden’s Military Madness: Conscription and Propaganda
“The government of Sweden has reinstated the military draft and sent a war propaganda brochure to all Swedes promoting fear, Russophobia, and warlike thinking.”
Read more: http://davidswanson.org/swedens-military-madness/
Marxism didn’t die. It’s alive and well and living among us
“We’ve been elaborately fooled into believing the opposite of the truth, that Marxism has disappeared and offers no threat to our happiness and liberty, even as we moan about the strange and humourless restrictions on free speech and thought that grow in our midst like knotweed. How did that happen?”
Read more: https://www.spectator.co.uk/2018/06/marxism-didnt-die-its-alive-and-well-and-living-among-us/
Internet luminaries urge EU to kill off automated copyright filter proposal
“A large group of Internet pioneers have sent an open letter to the European Union urging it to scrap a proposal to introduce automated upload filters, arguing that it could damage the internet as we know it.”
Read more: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/06/12/eu_copyright_filter/
Seizing epileptic boy’s cannabis oil at Heathrow signed his death warrant: mother
“The Home Office defended the seizure.”
French President Macron’s vision of post-Brexit Europe: armies, police and taxes
“French President Emmanuel Macron called for a common European defence force and budget, as well as common asylum offices, border police, financial transaction tax and carbon tax, in a wide-ranging speech setting out his vision for Europe.”
The EU’s Copyright Proposal is Extremely Bad News for Everyone, Especially Wikipedia
“Sites will have to pay to license the technology to match submissions to the database, and to identify near matches as well as exact ones. Sites will be required to have a process to allow rightsholders to update this list with more copyrighted works. Even under the best of circumstances, this presents huge problems.”