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Video: Ice Cube Reunites With N.W.A. Members To Perform ‘F— Tha Police’

Video: Ice Cube Reunites With N.W.A. Members To Perform 'F--- Tha Police' N.W.A.’s “F— Tha Police” is a timeless rap anthem, but it somehow sounds the most relevant right now—almost 27 years later. [ more › ]mf.gif
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Egyptian Aak 2015 – Week 26 ( June 22 – 28)

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Sandstorm hits Egypt – Ahramonline

Top Headlines

  • Prominent Al Jazeera journalist and Muslim Brotherhood supporter Ahmed Mansour has been released by the German authorities (Monday)
  • Egypt opens Rafah border with Gaza for the third time in a month (Tuesday)
  • GCC is not expected to provide Egypt with additional aid during FY2015/2016 (Sunday) 

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Tuesday

  • Egypt’s army receives…

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As it happened – Yanis Varoufakis’ intervention during the 27th June 2015 Eurogroup Meeting

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The Eurogroup Meeting of 27th June 2015 will not go down as a proud moment in Europe’s history. Ministers turned down the Greek government’s request that the Greek people should be granted a single week during which to deliver a Yes or No answer to the institutions’ proposals – proposals crucial for Greece’s future in the Eurozone. The very idea that a government would consult its people on a problematic proposal put to it by the institutions was treated with incomprehension and often with disdain bordering on contempt. I was even asked: “How do you expect common people to understand such complex issues?”. Indeed, democracy did not have a good day in yesterday’s Eurogroup meeting! But nor did European institutions. After our request was rejected, the Eurogroup President broke with the convention of unanimity (issuing a statement without my consent) and even took the dubious decision to convene a follow up meeting without the Greek minister, ostensibly to…

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Cameron is abusing Magna Carta in abolishing our rights | Michael Ignatieff

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Citizens need protecting, and not only by English laws

Lawyers, scholars and citizens will gather on Monday night at the British Library to examine the iconic power of a wrinkled piece of parchment, covered with faded, semi-legible medieval script, now 800 years old. We like to think Magna Carta has this power because it represents the beginning of what we hold in common. It may be iconic for the opposite reason: because it frames fundamental disagreements and forces us to understand just how far back these disagreements run.

Its key clauses lay out the lineaments of the rule of law, but this principle divides us, because the question remains: whose law? This argument is at the heart of modern British politics. On one side, mostly, but not exclusively, conservative, are those who think Magna Carta inaugurated a tradition of freedom that is distinctively British, or should I say, English, since it is unclear if the Scots and Welsh feel their liberties flow from the same source.

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Cameron is abusing Magna Carta in abolishing our rights | Michael Ignatieff

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Citizens need protecting, and not only by English laws

Lawyers, scholars and citizens will gather on Monday night at the British Library to examine the iconic power of a wrinkled piece of parchment, covered with faded, semi-legible medieval script, now 800 years old. We like to think Magna Carta has this power because it represents the beginning of what we hold in common. It may be iconic for the opposite reason: because it frames fundamental disagreements and forces us to understand just how far back these disagreements run.

Its key clauses lay out the lineaments of the rule of law, but this principle divides us, because the question remains: whose law? This argument is at the heart of modern British politics. On one side, mostly, but not exclusively, conservative, are those who think Magna Carta inaugurated a tradition of freedom that is distinctively British, or should I say, English, since it is unclear if the Scots and Welsh feel their liberties flow from the same source.

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Pope Francis recruits Naomi Klein in climate change battle

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Social activist ‘surprised but delighted’ to join top cardinal in high-level environment conference at the Vatican

She is one of the world’s most high-profile social activists and a ferocious critic of 21st-century capitalism. He is one of the pope’s most senior aides and a professor of climate change economics. But this week the secular radical will join forces with the Catholic cardinal in the latest move by Pope Francis to shift the debate on global warming.

Naomi Klein and Cardinal Peter Turkson are to lead a high-level conference on the environment, bringing together churchmen, scientists and activists to debate climate change action. Klein, who campaigns for an overhaul of the global financial system to tackle climate change, told the Observer she was surprised but delighted to receive the invitation from Turkson’s office.

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Greek Strategy

“We exhausted every limit of concessions so there could be an agreement,” Tsipras said. “Perhaps some saw that as a weakness.”

He said the Greek people would vote against a deal on June 5.

“This no will also be a big yes, a big yes to the decision of the Greek government to reject an ultimatum that insults the Greek people.”

via News from The Associated Press.

ASIA/HOLY LAND – “New” jihadist acronym threatens Christians in Jerusalem

Jerusalem – Some leaflets containing threats to Christians in Jerusalem and signed by an unknown organization calling itself “Islamic state in Palestine” – with the clear intention of showing their affiliation or proximity to the Islamic State – were found on Thursday evening, June 25 in some Arab neighborhoods in the eastern part of the Holy City. According to reports by the Israeli media, in the leaflets the Christians in Jerusalem are threatened with death if they do not leave the city before 18 July, the day in which the feast of Eid al Fitr falls this year, at the end of the holy month of Ramadan. In the message – that also contains threats against Palestinian Authority President Mahmud Abbas – Christians are called “agents of Israel”.
The message of intimidation contained in the leaflets caused immediate reactions by Michel Sabbah, Patriarch Emeritus of Jerusalem of the Latins, and Archbishop Theodosios of Sebastia, of the Greek-Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem. “No one knows who distributed the leaflets”, says to Agenzia Fides Fr. Raed Abusahliah, Director General of Caritas Jerusalem. “Of course the episode has spread concern among some Christians. Some of them ask themselves: how can these fools have come this far?”. Father Raed points out that “Muslims reacted before Christians: many Muslim leaders have condemned the threats contained in the leaflets and said they will be the first to defend their Christian brothers, if something happens.
While many faithful Christians have said they will never leave the land of Christ, where they were born, before any threat”. The Director of Caritas Jerusalem also notes that “these acronyms and such groups are most probably supported and infiltrated by forces acting in the shadows. Maybe now some want to show that Christians are fragile and need some kind of ‘protection’ “.

via ASIA/HOLY LAND – “New” jihadist acronym threatens Christians in Jerusalem.

Council Of Conservative Citizens Suspended From PayPal

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In the wake of revelations that Dylann Roof, the alleged Charleston, South Carolina, shooter, was “awakened” to the epidemic of “black-on-white crime” by the Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC), PayPal – one of the world’s largest online money transfer services – has suspended the white nationalist hate group’s account after being contacted by Hatewatch. “The […]