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Bill Cosby ‘Stung’ Even Al Sharpton & Jesse Jackson Won’t Play Race Card for Him: Report – Breitbart News

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Bill Cosby is reportedly stung that even Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are refusing to play the race card for him.

Cosby, who has been accused of sexual assault by nearly 60 women, has reportedly been charged with drugging and assaulting former Temple University athlete Andrea Constand, then 31, in his home in 2004. His legal team plans to play the race card when Cosbys trial is set to start on June 5. Cosby has denied all of the charges and reportedly faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted.

A source from Cosbys camp told the New York Post over the weekend that, Jesse [Jackson] claims to have forgotten Bills number and Al Sharpton wont even return his phone calls.

Both of them were vocal in their support of Michael Jackson and the charges against Mike involved kids, the source reportedly added. So, is this really that toxic when you compare the two? Any other time theyd at least rally to say something about innocent until otherwise proven.

As the Associated Press noted, when the prosecution struck two black jurors during the jury selection process, Cosbys lawyers attacked what they claimed was the prosecutions systemic exclusion of African-Americans.

Two black jurors were ultimately selected for the 12-person jury and two more were among the six people chosen as alternates.

Cosby reportedly spoke to a black media outlet last month about the racist history of the United States and his daughters reportedly have claimed that the racist mainstream media have been lynching their father.

Loyola Law School professor Laurie Levenson told the Associated Press that Cosby may be signaling to jurors that you have a mission on this jury, to make sure hes not treated as a black man whos come on aggressively to white women.

She also pointed out that Cosby is not the average black defendant because he is the African-American celebrity who crossed the race divide. He had enormous appeal to white households.

James Braxton Peterson, the director of Africana Studies at Lehigh University, told the Associated Press that it isstriking and ironic that Cosby is playing the race card given that hes demonized poor black people in the past.

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Ann Coulter: Rome Burns Nero Worries About Pyrophobia – Breitbart News

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This is not a game. When young British girls are the targets of a suicide bombing, can we take a short break from the posturing, political correctness and Russia conspiracy theorizing? Wont the hatred of Trump keep for a few weeks?

Channel-surfing on Monday night was like watching broadcasts from different countries. While Fox News and CNN covered the terrorist attack, MSNBC concentrated on the real news of the night TRUMPS COLLUSION WITH RUSSIA as children screamed in the background in footage from Manchester.

It was a big enough step for MSNBC to stop claiming that the explosion was just popping balloons. The hosts reasoned,We know that Islam is a religion of peace, so what else could it be?

CBS and NBC News finally produced the name of the suicide bomber the next day. (After any terrorist attack, the media like to keep us in suspense for as long as possible about whether it was a Muslim or a Christian.)

Even then, the answer was difficult to find on either networks Twitter feeds, which were bristling with minute-by-minute updates on former CIA Director John Brennans congressional testimony about Russia and Trump: Yes, collusion was investigated. No, Brennan is not aware of any evidence to support the theory. BREAKING NEWS!

The media didnt gaudily broadcast the bombers name, religion or ethnicity in their headlines, but at least they finally coughed up the information. He was Salman Abedi, son of Libyan refugees.

Apparently, the media think you cant be trusted with that information. You might notice that the West is deliberately importing people who enjoy killing kids.

According to ABC News, the bombers father, Ramadan Abedi (not to be confused with Huma Abedin) was a member of an al-Qaida-linked Islamic group in Libya. For this, he was accepted as a refugee by the British government.

Liberals main reaction to the attack was not to demand the toppling of the terrorist-friendly British government, but to worry about an upsurge in Islamophobia. They say theres nothing we can do about terrorism and we probably shouldnt do anything anyway, because we deserve it.

These were teen and preteen girls! Is there any fuel left in the gas tank of humanity, or are we just running on fumes now?

While liberals are impatient to get back to their murderous immigration policies, conservatives are pining for war. And really, who wouldnt want to send ground troops to Syria after our tremendous successes in Iraq and Afghanistan?

Why do we need to fight ISIS in Syria again? I forget. How about we NOT send U.S. troops to some godforsaken nation of primitives?

My reasoning is: It will cost us trillions of dollars; we will sacrifice the lives of an untold number of our best young men in combat (and little girls thanks, liberals!); and we will accomplish absolutely nothing, apart from creating a new stream of refugees and making the primitives even angrier with us, if thats possible.

Historically, starting wars in the Third World has not proved salutary.

Trump was elected for one reason: Because he promised to put Americans interests first. If only hed stuck to his campaign promises, hed be a hero right now.

The one promise Trump has kept is the so-called Muslim ban and hes looking prophetic on that. The Ninth Circuit was probably just about to release its opinion affirming a Hawaii judges revocation of Trumps travel ban, but after Manchester, theyll have to sit on it for a few weeks.

Wouldnt you rather be defending Trump for imposing a travel ban, building a wall and deporting Dreamers, than for idiotic leaks about nothing? If Trump started removing undesirable foreigners, liberals would rush back to the airports, en masse, and forget all about Russia.

The most humane response to terrorist attacks in the West is to kill a bunch of them for revenge, and then concentrate on our own problems. Instead of sending ground troops to Syria, we should be sending them to San Diego.

Our policy following every Islamic terrorist attack anyplace in the West should be the following:

1) We drop a nuke on some majority-Muslim city involved in terrorism.

2) We add six months to the immigration moratorium (which Trump promised us in his Aug. 16, 2015, immigration policy paper, the greatest political document since the Magna Carta).

3) We deport one Ninth Circuit judge.

Since Trump, politics has become a game to liberals. The media is a game. Hollywood is a game. Islamic terrorists are killing little girls in England. This isnt a game.

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Ann Coulter: Rome Burns Nero Worries About Pyrophobia - Breitbart News

European Union demands indefinite right to remain for unborn children of EU nationals in UK – Telegraph.co.uk

It lists 74 different EU bodies which it wants Britain to pay its share of funding, including the European Commission, the European Standards Agency and the EU Council.

The final bill should be paid in euros, it says, adding that the financial settlement should be based on the principle that the United Kingdom must honour its share of the financing of all the obligations undertaken while it was a member of the Union.

The United Kingdom obligations should be fixed as a percentage of the EU obligations calculated at the date of withdrawal in accordance with a methodology to be agreed in the first phase of the negotiations.

The bill should also take into pensions and other employee benefits of staff at the EU institutions.

Mrs May will use the demands to try to convince voters that she is better placed than her Labour rival Jeremy Corbyn to negotiate Britains exit from the EU.

Mrs May is expected to say today: The European Commission has shown the importance of the choice faced by the British public next week.

They are adopting an aggressive negotiating position, which can only be met by strong leadership on behalf of Britain. Jeremy Corbyn is in no position to provide that kind of leadership. He has no plan to deliver Brexit, and he has already admitted he would give control of our borders and control of our laws back to Brussels. The Brexit negotiations are due to begin only eleven days after polling day.

If I lose just six seats, Jeremy Corbyn could become Prime Minister at the head of a coalition of chaos, with the parties still arguing among themselves rather than negotiating for Britain.

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European Union greenlights free WiFi for towns and villages – The INQUIRER

EUROPEAN LOCAL COMMUNITIES, WHATEVER THE HELL THEY ARE, are to be equipped with and offered WiFi hotspots under European Union proposals.

This plan has been bubbling under for some little time now, and was hinted at in September last year when the EU said that a thing called WiFi4EU could be used to blanket cities and towns with free and fast wireless when otherwise it would not be available.

"On 14 September 2016, the Commission published a proposal for the promotion of very fast wireless internet access in local communities. This service would be provided free of charge to the public at large. The areas covered would encompass public administrations, libraries and hospitals, as well as outdoor spaces accessible to all," explains the European Parliament.

"The aim is to increase accessibility to high-performance mobile internet, and to raise awareness of the benefits of such connectivity. It is planned to simplify administrative procedures and to use EU funds to provide financial support to the establishment of such networks."

The UK did a thing last June that surprised us, and could now mean that we stand outside of this WiFi bonanza and look on enviously and wonder how a gigabit society would feel under our feet. So we cannot be too enthused about this right now, but the Eurocrats certainly are.

"This action comes within the framework of the digital single market, and is one of several legislative proposals announced by the Commission with its communication, Connectivity for a competitive digital single market - Towards a European gigabit society'", they added.

"The proposal aims to develop, by 2025, fast wireless internet connections for citizens in spaces where public services are provided. These could be public administrations, libraries and hospitals. Other places where community life takes place should be targeted too, such as outdoor spaces accessible to the general public.

"It is expected that this operation will raise citizens' awareness of, and interest in, high capacity internet services, thus promoting both the use of new, fast services, and the development of public infrastructure."

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UK wrong to deny residency rights in test case, EU’s legal adviser says – The Guardian

The panel of judges at the European court of justice will hand down its final ruling on the case this summer. Photograph: Francois Lenoir/Reuters

The Home Office was wrong to deny the Algerian husband of a dual British-Spanish citizen the right to live with her in the UK, according to the initial opinion of the European court of justices advocate general in a test case.

In the AGs official opinion, Toufik Lounes does have the right to remain in the UK even though his wife, Perla Nerea Garca Ormazbal, became a British citizen in 2010 a change in status that it had been claimed meant she had lost the right she had previously enjoyed to bring her family to the UK.

The panel of 15 judges will hand down its final ruling on the matter this summer. The judgment will then be considered by a high court judge, who referred the Lounes case to Europe last year.

The Home Office had argued that the womans freedom of movement rights, which enable EU citizens to live with their family in any other state within the EU, had fallen away once she naturalised. The advocate general, Yves Bot, agreed that this appeared to be the case under the European directive 2004/38 on freedom of movement, but found that Garca Ormazbal had legacy rights as an EU national.

The rights she used to reside in the UK continued to apply even though she had become a British national subsequently, under article 21 of the superior and overarching treaty on the functioning of the European Union (TFEU), he found.

Under article 21(1) TFEU, member states must permit EU citizens who are not their nationals to move and reside within their territory with their spouse and, possibly, certain members of their family who are not EU citizens, said Bot.

The opinion is not the final word on the case, with a full ruling yet to be arrived at by the panel of the grand chamber, which heard the case earlier this month.

However, it is seen as a significant step in a case that could have widespread implications for all EU citizens applying for British passports and those married or considering marriage to a third-country national.

The case was referred to the European court by the high court in London last year after the Home Office rejected an application by Lounes for permanent residency in the UK on the basis that his wife remained an EU national as a dual British-Spanish citizen.

The Home Office had argued that Garca Ormazbals rights under the freedom of movement directive no longer applied because she had become a British citizen in 2010.

They argued that instead, domestic immigration laws applied and therefore he was not entitled to apply for permanent residency under EU legislation.

Bot sided with the Home Office in part of his opinion, which centres on the complex interplay between domestic and EU law. He found that she did not have rights under the 2004/38 freedom of movement directive.

In his opinion Bot said: Garcia Ormazabal no longer falls within the definition of a beneficiary within the meaning of the directive. It follows that her spouse is not eligible, on the basis of the directive, for a derived right of residence in the member state of which his spouse is now a national.

Her legal situation has profoundly altered, both in EU law and in national law, on account of her naturalisation.

But he found that although it is for each member state to lay down the conditions for the acquisition and loss of nationality, that competence must be exercised having due regard to EU law and the national rules in question must have due regard to EU law.

Under article 21(1) TFEU, member states must permit EU citizens who are not their nationals to move and reside within their territory with their spouse and, possibly, certain members of their family who are not EU citizens, he said.

Lounes came to the UK on a six-month visitor visa in 2010 and illegally overstayed, according to the high court ruling on the case last year.

The high court judges referred the matter to the European court for future clarity on the complex interplay between European treaties, directives and British legislation.

They described it as a test case and stayed its judgment pending the European courts interpretation of the law. They heard that in 2013 Lounes formed a relationship with Garca Ormazbal and the couple married on 16 May 2014.

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