As Spain begins to implement direct rule over the Catalonia region, the Catalonian separatist government is rushing to create its own digital currency with the help of experts in Estonia. Meanwhile, the Belgian government has offered political asylum to deposed Catalonian leader Carles Puigdemont.
In other news, the Pakistani asylum seeker who allegedly murdered his 2-year-old daughter in Hamburg has been caught. Sohail A (like most culture-enriching criminals in Europe, the suspect has a one-character surname) was apprehended by police in Spain.
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Discovery Bay Resident Shot After Confronting Speeders
DISCOVERY BAY, Calif. (KTVU)- Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Deputies are investigating a shooting that left one man dead.
Officials say the shooting happened early Sunday morning, around 12:45, when a caller said a man was shot and laying on the street of Wilde Drive, near Frost Way.
The victim is a 48-year-old Discovery Bay resident. When police responded the victim was laying in the street with multiple gunshot wounds while a neighbor performed CPR. The victim was pronounced dead on the scene.
“We haven’t located any kind of part and the victim appears to be someone who was walking around his own neighborhood,” Said Lieutenant Ian Herbert.
Today flowers marked the area where the victim was shot. Neighbors are shaken and say he was family man who confronted the speeders and was trying to protect his neighborhood. His wife was the first to rush to the scene and discover he’d been shot.
Neighbors say visitors have caused problems before by speeding and partying. They’re calling for more surveillance cameras, especially at the entrances and exits to the neighborhood.
Two vehicles, each with several occupants in their late teens or early 20s, are believed to be involved in the shooting.
The occupants are male, except for one female. They are described as either Hispanic or Asian. One car is described as a newer matte-gray American mid-size car, possibly a Challenger or Mustang. The other is described as a red Mitsubishi Eclipse.
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Justice Department Admits IRS Wrongdoing, Agrees to $3.5 Million Settlement With Tea Party Groups
The Trump administration agreed Thursday to pay $3.5 million to tea party groups snared by IRS targeting during the Obama administration, saying the intrusive scrutiny was illegal and cannot be allowed to happen again.
The government also reversed its tune on former IRS senior executive Lois G. Lerner. Instead of being a hero who tried to stop the targeting — as the Obama administration concluded in 2015 — the Justice Department and IRS now say she failed to stop her employees and hid the bad behavior from her bosses for two years.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who announced the settlements, offered an apology to more than 450 groups that were part of two lawsuits against the IRS.
As part of the agreements, the government admitted that the IRS forced tea party groups into illegal delays and unconscionable scrutiny, including questions about their political beliefs, plans to run for office and names of financial backers.
“There is no excuse for this conduct,” Mr. Sessions said in a statement announcing the settlements. “Hundreds of organizations were affected by these actions, and they deserve an apology from the IRS.”…
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Explosion at Waterloo Home Causes Garage Doors to be Blown Out
One man was taken to hospital following an explosion in the garage of a home in Waterloo on Sunday.
Fire officials said that when they arrived to the home on Grange Crescent there was no fire…
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Belgium Could Grant Catalan Leader Carles Puigdemont Political Asylum
THE sacked leader of Catalonia Carles Puigdemont could be granted political asylum in Belgium according to the country’s migration minister.
Theo Francken said it would be “not unrealistic” for Belgium to offer ousted Mr Puigdemont political asylum if he asks for it.
However, there has been no indication yet that Mr Puigdemont has requested asylum in Belgium.
The ousted Catalan leader has released only a pre-recorded video message in the wake of Madrid imposing direct rule on the region.
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Catalonia Independence: President Could be Jailed for 30 Years as Spain Dispose Regional Government
CATALAN President, Carles Puigdemont, could be jailed for 30 years following his unilateral declaration of independence, Spanish prosecutors warn.
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Catalonia: ‘EU Always Interferes!’ Farage Blasts Brussels’ Response to Spain Violence
The MEP said the international community would feel “more sympathy” to Catalonia after comments made by Jean-Claude Juncker’s deputy.
Mr Farage added the comments by Frans Timmermans, who is vice-president of the European Commission, would do little for the European Union’s reputation.
He said the “only way” to solve the crisis was to hold a referendum that was agreed by both Spain and Catalonia.
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Catalonia: Spain Fears Catalan Police Force May ‘Not Obey’ Spanish Rule, Warns Expert
Catalonia police could back either side as Spain’s deputy prime minister has been handed control of the region, according to Teresa Freixes.
Spain has sacked the chief of Catalan’s regional police force as Madrid attempts to block the region’s push for independence.
Ms Freixes, a Spanish constitutional law expert, said the police could cause a “problem” for Spain.
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Catalans Race to Create New Cryptocurrency to Defy Spain and EU
CATALONIA is working with fintech experts in Estonia to create a new digital currency for the region, it has been reported, even as Spain attempts to bring the would-be republic under state rule.
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French Monument to Polish Pope May be Moved to Poland
The government will endeavor to “save from censorship” a statue of Pope John Paul II in France.” We will offer to transfer it to Poland, provided that we receive the consent of the French authorities and the local community, “ said Prime Minister Beata Szydlo.
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German Populist Leader: ‘Margaret Thatcher is My Role Model’
Alice Weidel, the economist co-leader of the populist anti-mass migration Alternative For Germany (AfD) has spoken of her inspiration, Margaret Thatcher, and her hope to influence German national policy in the future.
Speaking in an interview with German Tabloid Bild am Sonntag, the AfD co-leader — who saw her party take 92 of 709 members of parliament in September’s Bundestag election — Weidel said she was content to remain in opposition for the time being, but believed her party would be mature enough to enter into a governing coalition after the next elections, due to take place in 2021.
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Greece Arrests Suspect Over Letter Bomb Attacks
By AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE, Athens, Greece, Oct 28 — Greek police said they arrested a suspect Saturday over a series of letter bomb attacks targeting the country’s creditors, one of which injured former prime minister Lucas Papademos earlier this year.
Police arrested a 29-year-old Greek man in the centre of Athens as he was leaving an apartment rented under an alias.
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Malta Refuses to Recognise Catalan Independence
Malta does not recognise Catalonia’s declaration of independence and will continue to respect the territorial integrity of Spain, the Foreign Affairs Ministry said this evening. In a statement reiterating its support to the Madrid-based government, the ministry said it was observing developments “with concern” and that it wanted to see the crisis resolved through the country’s existing constitution.
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Malta: See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil — Kristina Chetcuti
Do you remember the Charlie Hebdo massacre a couple of years ago in Paris? When three gunned man stormed the headquarters of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and shot and killed 12 people, including journalists? That same week, 3.7 million went out to march in the Parisian streets, in defiance and in support of freedom of expression.
Charlie Hebdo purports a highly critical, irreverent, non-conformist, divisive and, at times, shocking kind of journalism, but in the aftermath of the shooting, the topic was not the content of the magazine but the intent behind the horrific terrorist action.
Led by President François Hollande, the French walked the streets of Paris as one. And it was not just the French, mind you; they were joined by many people from all over the world expressing solidarity, including, as it happens, our very own Prime Minister Joseph Muscat. We even sent a DOI photographer to take a photo of him in that march, walking shoulder to shoulder next to people upholding freedom of expression.
And yet what happens here in Malta when the journalist who unveiled the Panama Papers — even before they were uncovered worldwide — is the victim of a minutely-plotted chilling assassination?
Yes, thousands of us take to the streets to march in support of freedom of expression and to demand stronger institutions which in the last four years have become a joke. But who are we led by? None of our leaders. And the Prime Minister, who attends protests in other countries, could not march with his people in the street — because he was the one in charge for the despairing state of the institutions.
Where does all this leave us? It leaves us living in a society which has no moral direction. Our only direction is now money.
[Comment: the sickness is spreading.]
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Spain: Violence Erupts as Nazi-Saluting Protestors Clash With Police
Chanting ‘Viva Franco’ and Nazi-saluting, protesters wrapped in Spain’s red and yellow flag were confronted by Catalan police officers wielding batons.
Shocking video shows a group of men lashing out at a line of police officers. One protester is seen lunging at a police officer, who hits back with a baton to the leg before the violence continues.
Further video shows gangs shouting ‘Viva Franco’, a celebration of the Spanish dictator who put down Catalonia in the Spanish Civil War, and groups of protesters Nazi-saluting openly.
Today’s unity protest saw protesters shout obscenities about Catalan separatist journalists and call for the region’s president Carles Puigdemont to be imprisoned.
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Terrorism is booming in Europe — even though the European Union statistics say it is not. The EU’s statistics on terrorism, simply put, confuse the issue. They are a fairy-tale. …
As experts always do when they want to shut down a debate, they turn to statistics, preferably European statistics. Since July 1, 1999 — the date of its inception — Europol (European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation) has regularly published an assessment of terrorism in the EU. …
If you read Europol’s last ten EU Terrorism Situation and Trend Reports (TE-SAT), you will find, year after year, the number of “failed, foiled or successfully executed” terror attacks and the subsequent number of victims — all you supposedly need to assess the true nature of terrorism in the EU.
For the number of terror attacks in Europe during the last ten years, here is a chart based on Europol’s data:
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The first surprise is that according to Europol, the trend is clearly downward: far fewer terror attacks in Europe in 2016 than ten years ago!
Does that seem a bit counter-intuitive? But, hey, those are the official statistics.
Then there are the number of fatalities:
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This second chart looks much more in line with the feelings of the common man, don’t you think? Approximately 150 dead in the EU from terror attacks in 2015 and 2016, compared to zero in 2007, or 4 in 2014. (That is what is so endearing about statistics: you can manipulate many things, such as the psychological and emotional damage or the consequences of a “foiled attack” — but not the number of dead bodies). …
In short, the EU definition of terrorism, wittingly or unwittingly, confuses the issue. It needs to be revised. One can imagine a new category, such as “political violence,” to designate acts that are neither intended to terrorize the public nor that actually do so, but are nonetheless political and violent by nature, such as public political riots, so common, in France. Or the definition of terrorism in American law (18 U.S. Code § 2331), under which no act can be qualified as terrorist if there is no terror intended.
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UK: ISIS Extremists ‘Threaten to Kill Prince George’ In Secret Online Group Chat
ISIS extremists have threatened to kill Prince George in messages shared on an encrypted instant messaging app.
Sources claim members of the terrorist group shared pictures of George next to his new school, Thomas’s Battersea, in south London, captioned: “School starts early”.
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UK: ISIS ‘Threats to Kill Prince George at School’ Spotted on Secret Messaging Service
ISIS has threatened to kill Prince George at his school, according to reports.
Vile messages referencing the royal family were spotted on the secretive messaging service Telegram, it is claimed.
Islamic extremists favour Telegram because messages are encrypted and keep the user’s location hidden.
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UK: Shocking Photos Emerge of Young Men Making Nazi Salutes on the Dancefloor at Student Nightclub
Photos have emerged showing a group of young men appearing to make Nazi salutes at a popular student nightclub in Birmingham.
The men were pictured performing the salutes on the venue’s dancefloor during a busy student night on Wednesday.
A fellow clubber at the venue Snobs, claimed they repeatedly made the salute, with some appearing to encourage their friends to join in.
[Comment: Give them all council houses and pay their rent for them, that’ll put a stop to it!]
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United States of Europe: Juncker’s Plot for Chancellor for All of EU
BRITAIN’S exit from the European Union has accelerated plans within Brussels to form a giant superstate with its own army, currency and shared rules, as well as a EU Chancellor of the Exchequer, it has been revealed.
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‘We Will Fight to the Death’ Catalan Crisis Escalates With Violent Clashes ‘Imminent’
THE Catalan crisis has continued to spiral out-of-control, as figures on both sides of the fight expect violence to break out imminently.
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Caroline Glick: Balfour’s Greatest of Gifts
This week Israel’s judo team was harassed and discriminated against by UAE officials when they tried to board a flight from Tel Aviv to Istanbul, en route to Abu Dhabi to participate in the Judo Grand Slam competition.
Apropos of nothing, UAE told the Israelis they would only be permitted to enter the UAE from Amman. And once they finally arrived at the competition, they were prohibited from competing under their national flag. Lowlights of the UAE’s shameful bigotry included the forcing Tal Flicker to receive his gold medal under the international Judo association’s flag with the association’s theme song, rather than Israel’s national anthem playing in the background and the sight of a Moroccan femail judoka literally running away from her Israeli opponent rather than shake hands with her.
The discrimination that Israel’s judokas suffered is newsworthy because it’s appalling, not because it is rare. It isn’t rare. Israeli athletes and performers, professors, students and tourists in countries throughout the world are regularly discriminated against for being Israeli Jews. Concerts are picketed or canceled. Israelis are denied educational opportunities and teaching positions.
Israeli brands are boycotted and Israeli shops are picketed from Montreal to Brooklyn to Johannesburg.
The simple act of purchasing Israeli cucumbers has become a political statement in countries around the world.
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Terror suspects including jihadis returning from fighting in Syria are to be offered taxpayer-funded homes, counselling and help finding jobs to stop them carrying out attacks in Britain. The top-secret Government strategy, codenamed Operation Constrain, could even allow fanatics to jump to the top of council house waiting lists.
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U.A.E Refuses to Play Israeli National Anthem, Raise Star of David Flag for Judo Champion
A champion Israeli judo fighter was forced to sing his own national anthem beneath an International Judo Federation (IJF) flag during an awards ceremony Thursday because of a ban on Israeli symbols at the sport’s Grand Slam competition in Abu Dhabi.
Tal Flicker, who won gold in the men’s under-145lbs category, had to sing his own private version of the ‘Hatikvah,’ Israel’s national anthem, because tournament organizers in the Gulf nation had refused to play it.
[Comment: Islam, so non-discriminatory, so tolerant, so not racist or hateful … no wonder the lefties love it.]
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Muslim Group in Indonesia Forces Cancellation of Christian Celebration
A Muslim group in Indonesia have forced the cancellation of a Reformation celebration event, saying they were plotting to convert Muslims to Christanity.
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China ‘City Brain’ A.I. Tracks Every Movement of Citizens, Looks to be Used in Other Countries
The over 9 million citizens of Hangzhou, China, have been under constant surveillance by artificial intelligence since October 2016.
The Orwellian “City Brain” allegedly seeks to make life in Hangzhou easier by tracking traffic, crime, commutes, purchases, interactions, general movements, and more. Residents were tracked both generally and specifically, with City Brain even plugged into local social media. It even uses their cell phones.
A year later, rush hour traffic is down. So are crime and car accidents. City Brain notifies authorities if a car is illegally parked and makes tracking criminals almost trivial. It adjusts traffic light patterns to reduce congestion in the streets and will contact individual commuters to offer detours and weather advisories. …
The AI nanny is so effective that it is drawing praise despite objectively disturbing privacy implications. With its success, Alibaba plans to implement it in other Chinese cities — and from there, to package it for international use. It represents an easy fix for bureaucrats looking to save money on managing a bustling metropolis… at the cost of any modicum of privacy.
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China Unveils Leadership Ambition
The third factor that Xi has in mind is the growing vacuum left by the United States’ inability or unwillingness to play its traditional world leadership role in the past decade or so.
Under President Barack Obama, who believed that America had not always been a force for good on the global stage, the US was put in a strategic retreat mode. Under President Donald Trump the same retreat has continued under the new “America First” slogan.
Filling the vacuum thus created isn’t easy. The European Union is beset by its own internal contradictions, highlighted by Britain’s Brexit.
Russia would love to see itself in the driving seat but lacks the economic power and the cultural dominance to make much headway beyond its nearby environs.
All that provides China with an opportunity that President Xi seems determined not to miss.
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A suspected arsonist was taken into police custody on Saturday night after three ‘suspicious fires’ in Melbourne. There have been more than seven fires in the area in recent months.
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Milo Yiannopoulos has taken a swipe at outspoken Australian feminist Clementine Ford, labelling her ‘vindictive, spiteful’ and ‘particularly unintelligent’.
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As African Nations Tackle Child Marriage, Young Survivors Speak Out
DAKAR, SENEGAL—Sitting on the floor and dressed in black, the 15-year-old held her baby as panicked tears welled in her eyes. Her husband, two decades her senior, could kill her if he found out she was telling her story, she said.
She was married at age 13 in the West African nation of Guinea because her parents feared she could harm her marriage prospects by having premarital sex. At the time, she said, she had not even developed breasts.
“I was given to a man that I didn’t choose before my body was even ready to have sex,” she said, speaking on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals. “I couldn’t even move for a week afterward because I was swollen and bleeding.”
Child marriage remains deeply entrenched in West and Central Africa, home to six of the 10 countries with the highest rates in the world. Rights groups and political and religious leaders from across the region gathered in Senegal this past week to seek ways to curb the practice.
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Somalia: Bombs Kill at Least Seven in Mogadishu
MOGADISHU (Reuters) — Two car bombs killed at least seven people in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Saturday, police said, and Islamist group al Shabaab claimed responsibility.
A suicide car bomb was rammed into a hotel, Nasahablod Two, about 600 metres from the presidential palace, and then armed militants stormed the building, police said.
A few minutes later a car bomb exploded near the former parliament house nearby.
Major Mohamed Hussein, a police officer, told Reuters seven people had been killed, including soldiers and civilians. Fighting was still raging inside the hotel and Hussein said the death toll was likely to rise.
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A rejected Pakistani asylum seeker who fled Germany after slashing the throat of his two-year-old daughter has been captured in Spain, police say.
Interpol assisted in the hunt for 33-year-old Sohail A, who police say murdered his child following a violent row with his wife at their home on the north German city of Hamburg last Monday.
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German Migrant Agency Fails to Send ‘Refugees’ Back, Even When Home Nations Are Safe
The German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) has been accused of treating refugee status as a path to immigration as they rarely ever check to see if approved refugees’ homelands are safe for them to return to.
BAMF is required to examine the details of every approved refugee case in Germany after three years of the approval date to determine if there is still a danger in the individuals home country. If the agency does not check the status by the third year the individuals are given permanent residency Die Welt reports.
So far this year BAMF has revoked the refugee status of only 206 individuals despite there being 107,000 potential cases for them to review over the same period.
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Cross Must be Removed From Statue of Pope
The statue has been in place since 2006
The religious symbol must be removed from the top of a statue of Pope John Paul II in Ploërmel, Morbihan
France’s top administrative court the Conseil d’Etat has ruled that the cross must be removed as it is a religious symbol and breaks France’s law of separation of Church and State of 1905. The rest of the statue, including an arch over the figure of the Pope, can remain in place.
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Idaho: Christian University Drops ‘Crusaders’ Moniker
A Christian university in Idaho has dropped its “Crusaders” mascot, claiming “there has been a growing diversity of opinion regarding the mascot and nickname” in recent years that led to the change.
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On Cross must be removed from statue of the Pope: Yes, I would agree if the statue was that of the Anti-Pope Francis, but John Paul?
John Paul’s statue alone speaks volumes about his faith and that of all those who followed him. There is no conflict in regard the separation of Church and State by this statue or by the cross above it. This is a religious statue, non-political, and poses no conceivable threat to any government or its agencies except those atheist judges.
On Council House bribes for returning Jihadis: Could those who thought this one up be any more treacherous or craven in their kowtowing? The refusal to acknowledge and then deal effectively with those who will slit British throats given the first opportunity, must be seen as rampant cowardice and attacked for what it is.
** Under President Donald Trump the same retreat has continued under the new “America First” slogan. **
The US no longer has any claim to world leadership. Our unconstitutional, aggressive wars against Serbia, Iraq, Libya and Syria were and are dishonest and unclean. Our opposition to Russia is premised on lies and manufactured fairy tales. We turn a blind eye to Saudi Arabia, one of the most repulsive regimes on the planet. It finances the construction of radical mosques here with abandon but prohibits church construction in Saudi Arabia. And we grovel at their feet or they get a smooch from Bush ’43.
We can’t even bring ourselves to cleanse our own streets of the ultra-left AntiFa thugs — truly rivals to ISIS for the title of Scum of the Earth — so on what basis can we claim any kind of a right to police the rest of the world?
We don’t even protect our own borders so our professed concern for the international order is pure hypocrisy.
Our political system has become the plaything of an odious media monopoly and our one-dollar-one-vote elections make a mockery of our quite-spurious, but endlessly repeated, desire to spread “democracy” and oppose nasty “dictatorships. Free speech here drowns under a thick soup of political correctness and gutless college administrators and municipal and state authorities. Our founding document is long since abandoned, a joke, that no judge, no bar association even bothers to notice, intent as they are on finding justifications for mere legislative whim and caprice.
Our major political parties are corrupt and utterly worthless, unable to deal with the simplest of responsibilities of government. Public officials who stand on principle are hounded. Think of Roy Moore and Joe Arpaio. A bizarre woman who once cultivated bad personal hygiene and still cultivates a stunning personal corruption and dishonesty was recently the candidate of one of our major parties. Our last president had less papers than a pedigree cocker spaniel and began his political career in the living room of two communist terrorists.
We cannot manage our finances and spend our money on pure air. Our factories we send to China by the tens of thousands and our remaining jobs we turn over to 40,000,000+ foreigners so they can “make a contribution.” We admit in effect, in so doing, that we need foreign help to run our country on a daily basis.
We celebrate depravity, punish the enterprising, and subsidize parasitism and the single most important cause of underclass criminality and the destruction of our great cities – single motherhood. Feminist harridans spit and fume over imagined misogyny and all manner of male perfidy. Marriage has become a minefield for men. Abortion is a sacrament.
So on what moral, legal, or political basis do we claim the mantle of world leadership? I have my doubts that Chinese “leadership” will be that wonderful given their approach to locals in Zambia. But our claim to be the privileged “it” on the world stage is as thin as the rubber on the tires of my voiture.
I suppose any of your paragraphs would have served to make the point, but this one is particularly sad:
We celebrate depravity, punish the enterprising, and subsidize parasitism and the single most important cause of underclass criminality and the destruction of our great cities – single motherhood. Feminist harridans spit and fume over imagined misogyny and all manner of male perfidy. Marriage has become a minefield for men. Abortion is a sacrament.
Modern culture is not the road to Hell; it is Hell…
It is indeed. Urban life seems like it should be entertaining, be stimulating, and offer opportunity galore. And it does but in our debased times one cannot ignore very real security issues and there seems to be an automatic process whereby fabulous neighborhoods and civic amenities get trashed. Our cities have proved to be not self sustaining and de facto segregation is unavoidable.
Anti-Christian France is lost to Western civilization as they sip wine and enjoy their tea.
There’s not even a need for one of their white flags. Hopefully, the John Paul statue will find refuge in Catholic Poland.
Scorpions gonna scorpion:
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/10/30/couple-plotted-terror-attack-meeting-muslim-dating-site/