The government of Spain is making every effort to disorganise Sunday’s referendum vote by the Catalans from seceding from Spain.
Meanwhile the forerunners of the so called countries of the free world; the United States and the United Kingdom have strongly opposed the ambitions of the Catalonians to hold a referendum, a self determination right that is recognised by the United Nations. The US over the years have positioned itself as the defender of social rights, just a few days ago at the United Nations General Assembly, President Trump echoed that the US does not wish to impose its ways of life on other countries but yet it opposes the right of the Catalonians to self determination. Also, the United Kingdom which have had its own fair share of refrendum remains opppsed to the idea of self determination while it allows two referendum, one on Scottish Independence and the other on Brexit. It is high time those who claim to be leaders of the free world to allow the world be free indeed.

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It was coming, has been predicted for some time now so it was only a matter of time for the German Chancellor Angela Merkel to cruise to victory in yet another election.
However, it isn’t a landslide victory nor one that hasn’t left sour grapes in the mouth of the Chancellor and her followers as her popularity reduced significantly, infant the anti-immigration Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party has entered the national parliament for the first time.
Mrs Merkel’s CDU/CSU alliance took between 33.5% of the vote, well ahead of the second placed Social Democratic Party with 21% which would be its worst result since World War Two.
But in a major shock, the AfD took 13%  in Sunday’s vote making it the country’s third biggest political force.
It is now heading for the opposition benches of the Bundestag lower house – the first time a hard-right openly anti-immigration party with so many seats has entered parliament since World War Two.

As one of the frontline power player in the EU, what does her partial victory mean for the EU which only last week the President of the European Commission gave a speech on the state of the union where he laid down a vision for further integration in Europe when he should have been talking about reforming the organisation’s immigration policy, a policy that has cost the German chancellor a landslide victory, will she take a look at the signs on the wall or will it just be business as usual for the EU, only time will tell.

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According to the Telegraph, a battered husband installed a hidden camera in his home to film his wife attacking him as he feared police wouldn’t believe him, a court has heard.

Neil Tweedy, 45, had endured violence from wife Helen since 2005, including an assault on their wedding night in 2008 where she kicked, punched and smothered him with a duvet, before making him sleep on the sofa.

Mr Tweedy eventually reported the crimes after Mrs Tweedy continued the abuse after the birth of their daughter, now four.

The victim secretly recorded the assaults at the couple’s £200,000 semi-detached home in Greater Manchester because he was afraid that police would not believe him without evidence. Over a two-month period three incidents of Mrs Tweedy slapping her husband over the head and swearing at him were caught on camera. Who says what a man can do, a woman can’t do better eh!

Original story: The Telegraph

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