Well over four thousand Turks have applied for asylum in Germany this year, more than twice as many as last year. The number increased significantly after the failed coup attempt against President Erdogan.
In other news, President-elect Donald Trump announced his first two cabinet picks: Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions as attorney general, and Kansas congressman Mike Pompeo for the CIA.
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Italy’s GDP Up 0.3% in 3rd Quarter — ISTAT
Economy bounces back after flat growth in second quarter
(ANSA) — Rome, November 15 — Italy’s gross domestic product rose by 0.3% in the third quarter of 2016 with respect to the previous three months and by 0.9% compared to the same period last year, according to seasonally adjusted data released by Istat on Tuesday. Growth had been flat in the second quarter with respect to the first.
Italy’s ‘acquired growth’ for 2016 — what the annual growth rate will be if there are no further quarter-on-quarter rises in gross domestic product — has risen to 0.8%, Istat said Tuesday in the light of the positive GDP data for the third quarter. The previous estimate based on the data from the first two quarters of 2016 was a rise of 0.6%. The government has forecast (raw) growth of 0.8% for 2016.
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5 Times Corporate Media Got Caught Publishing Fake News Causing the Death & Suffering of Millions
A now-notorious list of ostensibly “fake” news sites — created by a liberal professor, seemingly out of thin air — spread like wildfire online in the past two days and was eagerly reprinted by corporate media presstitutes hoping to vindicate their own failed reporting on the 2016 election.
But branding perfectly legitimate outlets with the same scarlet letter as those devoid of integrity deemed the professor’s list a spurious attempt to defame alternative and independent media — anyone dissenting from the left’s mainstream narrative — as a whole.
This is, in no uncertain terms, a hit list — or, at least, a laughable attempt — and it fits conveniently into the establishment’s burgeoning war on independent media disguised as a battle against fake news.
When corporate media outlets from the Independent and Business Insider, to the Los Angeles Times and NYMagscrambled over one another to reprint this irresponsibly contrived hit list, they proved yet again a lack of journalistic integrity — the same issue that originally caused regular subscribers to abandon them in the first place.
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Backlash: Prominent Conservative James Woods Quits Twitter in Censorship Protest
Days after Twitter unleashed a purge of so-called “alt-right” accounts, deleting users without explanation, many speculated that this would lead to an angry backlash in which conservative pundits using Twitter would voluntarily leave the struggling social network in protest over Twitter’s suddenly rampant, and dubious, censorship.
Overnight, this was confirmed when actor and prominent conservative commentator James Woods tweeted that “Since @Twitter is now in the #censorship business, I will no longer use its service for my constitutional right to free speech. #GoodbyeAll”
He also changed his bio to say “Twitter has now sadly abdicated its position as a sole beacon of free speech. Voltaire’s famous dictum has been quietly buried by these left wing savages.”
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Caroline Glick: The Ellison Challenge
The Democratic Party stands at a crossroads today. And so do the Jewish Democrats.
Out of power in the White House and both houses of Congress, the Democrats must decide what sort of party they will be in the post-Obama world.
They have two basic options.
They can move to the center and try to rebuild their blue collar voter base that President-elect Donald Trump captivated with his populist message. To do so they will need to loosen the reins of the political correctness and weaken their racialism, their radical environmentalism and their support for open borders.
This is the sort of moderate posture that Bill Clinton led with. It is the sort of posture that Clinton tried but failed to convince his wife to adopt in this year’s campaign.
The second option is to go still further along the leftist trajectory that President Barack Obama set the party off on eight years ago. This is the favored option of the Bernie Sanders’ wing of the party. Sanders’ supporters refer to this option as the populist course. It is being played out today on the ground by the anti-Trump protesters who refuse to come to terms with the Trump victory and insistently defame Trump as a Nazi or Hitler and his advisors as Goebbels…
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Climate Depot’s 43 Page Report Presented To UN Climate Summit in Marraketch, Morocco — Trump is correct to be skeptical of ‘climate change’ claims
‘All of the so-called ‘solutions’ to global warming are purely symbolic when it comes to climate. So, even if we actually faced a climate catastrophe and we had to rely on a UN climate agreement, we would all be doomed!’ University of London professor emeritus Philip Stott: “The fundamental point has always been this. Climate change is governed by hundreds of factors, or variables, and the very idea that we can manage climate change predictably by understanding and manipulating at the margins one politically selected factor (CO2) is as misguided as it gets.” “It’s scientific nonsense,” Stott added.
Very prominent scientists are bailing out of the so-called “consensus.”
Renowned Princeton Physicist Freeman Dyson: ‘I’m 100% Democrat and I like Obama. But he took the wrong side on climate issue, and the Republicans took the right side’
Nobel Prize-Winning Scientist Dr. Ivar Giaever, Who Endorsed Obama Now Says Prez. is ‘Ridiculous’ & ‘Dead Wrong’ on ‘Global Warming’
Green Guru James Lovelock reverses belief in ‘global warming’: Now says ‘I’m not sure the whole thing isn’t crazy’ — Condemns green movement: ‘It’s a religion really, It’s totally unscientific’
[Comment: GW is a scam designed by globalists to control and enslave populations under the guise of helping Gaia, while giving the globalists more control, power and money.]
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Do you enjoy being lied to? Or do you have to watch sports so badly that you’re willing to fork over $150 per month for a cable or dish subscription that directly funds people who hate you and everything you believe in and want to mislead you, all while insulting you to your face? In a budget-conscious move three years ago, I decided to terminate our television package. Not only did I drown out the weasels on my screen, I increased the amount of quality time spent with my family and saved a lot of money. For only a small, one-time donation to the leftist agenda, I bought a device that streams all sorts of movie, entertainment, documentary, and information programming. Now, if I absolutely must see a live game, I will make plans to drink a beer and have some wings at a local place.
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Ford CEO Calls Donald Trump: Lincoln Plant Will Stay in Kentucky…
Ford CEO Mark Fields, like many modern vulture capitalists, is a globalist — not an America-First CEO.
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No Trojan Horses Inside the Tower
by Srdja Trifkovic
Contrary to the MSM pack’s pitch of the week, there is no “disarray” inside Donald Trump’s transition team, no “Stalinesque” purges, and most certainly no successful insinuation of “adults” (Deep State operatives) into the list of early major appointees. They are all excellent.
Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions as Trump’s attorney general, Kansas Rep. Mike Pompeo as his chief of the CIA, and retired Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn as the national security adviser will be loyal team players who share the incoming President’s vision of America’s future in general, and her true geostrategic interests in particular. The discredited MSM’s hysterics notwithstanding, the former two will be duly confirmed by the GOP controlled Senate. (Flynn needs no confirmation.)
Sessions (69)—the first Senator to support Trump last February—said he was honored to “enthusiastically embrace President-elect Trump’s vision for ‘one America,’ and his commitment to equal justice under law.” To Sessions this will mean no amnesty, no “dreamers,” no “sanctuaries,” and no exceptions. He knows that illegal aliens have no constitutional rights, and he will act upon that knowledge. After that Jihadist’s gay club slaughter in Orlando last June he pointed out—en passant—that more than 90% of recent Muslim immigrants are on food stamps and almost 70% on cash welfare. A good man. He has “sparked controversy” indeed, but only within the devastated ruins of the Duopoly. He will breezily sail through the nomination process (and forget his alleged “racist remarks”): Even Ted Cruz (a rumored rival for the post) called his nomination “great news for all of us who revere the Constitution and the rule of law.”…
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Red-Light Camera CEO Gets $2m Fine & 30 Months in Prison for Bribery Scam
A now former CEO of a red-light camera firm now has a $2 million fine and is sentenced to 30 months in prison after being caught red-handed bribing public officials in two states.
Karen Finley, the former chief executive of Redflex Traffic Systems, an Australia-based company, was found guilty of paying off a Chicago official in order to help her company win contracts for the installation of these red-light cameras.
Finley had already been serving a 14-month sentence for her role in bribing a public official in Ohio and has now doubled her prison sentence.
A four-year investigation by the Chicago Tribune, prompted a probe by Chicago’s Office of Inspector General, exposed this bribery scheme, as well as the mismanagement of cameras and related safety issues. The investigation showed illegal bribery in the form of paid vacations, meals and golf trips.
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S.F. Teacher Defends Anti-Trump Lesson Plan
(CBS News) A San Francisco high school teacher is taking on the post-election question of whether teachers are supposed to educate or advocate. The teacher said calling President-elect Donald Trump racist and sexist in her lesson plans is the truth and her right,
The lesson plan from Mission High School teacher Fakrah Shah (PDF) is not one adopted by the San Francisco Unified School District but has been published in the San Francisco teachers’ union newsletter and on the National Education Association website.
Shah wrote, “Let us please not sidestep the fact that a racist and sexist man has become the president of our country by pandering to a huge racist and sexist base.”
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Snowden to the World: Stop Letting Facebook Control Your News
As Edward Snowden pointed out, “[t]o have one company that has enough power to reshape the way we think, I don’t think I need to describe how dangerous that is.” Snowden addressed the fake news issue in detail via Beambot at Fusion’s Real Future Fair on Tuesday.
“I don’t think many people need to have this explained to them, that when you type something into the Google search box, it’s Google that decides what you get back. When you go to your Facebook page, it’s Facebook that decides what news it is that you see on your page.
When you go to a platform like Twitter, or any of these, really, the voices that are heard are the ones that are selected and permitted by the corporation.”
He identifies the source of the problem as a lack of competition.
“There seems to be no alternative to the larger services. Because of this network effect, because [of] the first mover advantage. When you get a Google or a Facebook or Twitter in place, they never seem to leave.”
His solution? Don’t rely on Facebook for your news. By banning websites from their platform, they are essentially telling users they aren’t intelligent enough to decide for themselves what is and is not news.
As Snowden put it, “they’re creating more silence than they are creating more speech.”
[Comment: This was always the goal of such web sites — to create filtered portal to the internet to ensure only globalist “news” is absorbed.]
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Soros & Hillary Launch Purple Revolution Against Trump
Globalists try to usurp power from the people
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Starbucks Calls Cops After Customer Requests ‘Trump’ Name on Cup
Chain has pledged to write any name on cup
A shocking video shows social justice warrior Starbucks employees refusing to write the name “Trump” on a cup for a paying customer.
The employees then called police on the man for requesting the writing.
One would think police manpower might be better utilized chasing down actual crime rather than responding to triggered crybaby liberals.
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‘Suck it Up, Buttercup’ Bill to Stop Student Coddling
(Christian Science Monitor) An Iowa state representative has introduced a bill he’s named “Suck it up, Buttercup” to the state legislature, hoping to deter some protests and university counseling services related to the presidential election.
Republican State Rep. Bobby Kaufmann, who represents the 3,000-resident town of Wilton near the state’s border with Illinois, put forth the bill, which intends to levy fines on state universities that fund counseling services such as “cry rooms” to help students cope with events like President-elect Donald Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton. The bill would also make those who block highway traffic subject to criminal penalties — an initiative spurred by highway shutdowns in the state during anti-Trump protests.
“That’s a waste of taxpayer dollars and that also doesn’t prepare kids for life,” he told Fox & Friends in an interview Wednesday. “In life there’s winners and losers and when your car breaks down, your kids get sick or you have to take a second job to pay your mortgage, you don’t get to go to a cry zone, you don’t get to pet a pony. You have to deal with it.”
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Teen Who Wanted to Join ISIS Will be Free to Start College
An Illinois man who tried to slip out of the country to join ISIS in the Middle East should be freed from prison in time for him to begin college courses next fall, a federal judge ruled today, but he will be subject to intensive, customized monitoring and supervision for 20 years following his release.
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The Great Con: Political Correctness Has Marginalized the Working Class
by Charles Hugh Smith
So when the protected class of well-paid institutional “progressives” speak darkly of “reversing 40 years of social progress,” what they’re really saying is we’re terrified that the bottom 95% might be waking up to our Great Con of identity politics and political correctness.
To understand the Great Con of political correctness, we must first grasp the decline of the working class (self-described as “the middle class”), i.e. those who must sell their labor to earn their livelihood.
Labor’s share of the national economy has been declining for 46 years:…
And what is the technocrat/ managerial class response to this staggering decline in wealth and wages suffered by the bottom 95%? Political correctness.
Let’s look at political correctness and identity politics through the lens of class warfare and class consciousness. Those enjoying enormous gains in wealth and income have a problem: they must fragment and distract the bottom 95% who have lost income and wealth to the top 5%, lest the bottom 95% realize:
1. We have lost the undeclared economic war
2. We have more in common economically with others in the bottom 95% than we do with our neofeudal technocrat/ managerial overlords.
This unifying class consciousness would threaten the wealth, power and perquisites of the neofeudal technocrat/ managerial class, so they had to undermine an economic awareness of class.
They found the perfect weapon in identity politics and political correctness.What better way to fragment the working class than to carve it into cultural subclasses that could be manipulated into declaring war on each other?
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Trump to Send Message: ‘Shariah Incompatible With Constitution’
WND reported earlier President-elect Donald Trump is reportedly preparing to jumpstart a bill in Congress that would ban the Muslim Brotherhood by declaring it a terrorist organization.
Walid Phares, a foreign policy adviser to Trump, says he believes Trump will support the plan to make the designation.
Philip Haney, a founding member of the Department of Homeland Security and author of “See Something, Say Nothing: A Homeland Security Officer Exposes the Government’s Submission to Jihad,” greeted the news with hope, saying his former agency is finally returning to its initial mission.
“This is what the Department of Homeland Security was created for in the first place — to protect the American people from the threat of terrorism both foreign and domestic — so all he’s doing is following the policies of the original purpose of DHS,” Haney told WND. “This is what we were actually supposed to do clear back in 2003 when the agency was formed.”
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Trump Transitions to Leadership, Media Goes to War Against Him
Every selection by the Trump administration will be under extreme media scrutiny
On the Wednesday, Nov. 16 transmission of the Alex Jones Show, we look at the peak oil myth and Saudi Arabia’s warnings to Trump against blocking oil imports, while Texas discovers a $900 billion oil deposit.
We’ll also break down crony capitalism in the age of self-driving cars, as the dollar hits a 14-year high following Trump’s election.
And the Brexit and globalism are stalled amid a tsunami of populism and nationalism taking hold all over the world.
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Trump Taps Loyalists for Cabinet Picks: Session for AG, Pompeo as CIA Director
President-elect Donald Trump on Friday announced his first two Cabinet picks: Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions as attorney general and Kansas Rep. Mike Pompeo as CIA director.
Trump also confirmed that he called on retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn to be his national security adviser.
Sessions, Pompeo and Flynn have all been outspoken critics of President Obama and how his administration has handled terrorism and national security.
In picking Sessions and Flynn, Trump is rewarding two loyalists who were among his most ardent supporters during the presidential campaign.
Trump praised all three men in a lengthy written statement, calling Sessions “a world-class legal mind” who is “greatly admired by legal scholars and virtually everyone who knows him.”
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Trump Election: US Jewish Activist Vows Solidarity With Muslims
The Jewish head of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), an anti-bigotry group, has vowed to register as a Muslim if Donald Trump creates a database of Muslim Americans.
The idea of a Muslim database arose in November 2015, when Mr Trump told a reporter he would “certainly implement that. Absolutely”.
Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the ADL, said: “If one day Muslim Americans will be forced to register their identities, then that is the day that this proud Jew will register as a Muslim”.
His comments came at the group’s Never Is Now conference on anti-Semitism, held in New York.
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Trump Settles Trump University Lawsuits for $25m
Donald Trump has settled three Trump University lawsuits for $25m (£20m), the New York Attorney General has said.
The US president-elect was being sued by former students who paid $35,000 (£28,000) for real estate “secrets” from his “hand-picked” instructors.
Mr Trump had repeatedly said he would not settle the class-action lawsuits.
Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said the settlement was a “stunning reversal” by Mr Trump and a “major victory” for victims.
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UN Kangaroo Court Implodes Amid Threat to Prosecute U.S. Troops
Even as it threatens to illegally prosecute American soldiers, the dictator-dominated United Nations judicial body known as the “International Criminal Court” is imploding spectacularly on the world stage. With the withdrawal of the Russian government this week and South African authorities last month — not to mention the fact that the U.S. government never joined in the first place — the ICC is appears to be on its deathbed. Other African and Asian governments are also preparing to exit the outfit. The establishment and various globalists are outraged, of course. But for humanity and the cause of true justice, the dictatorship-infested ICC’s collapse is great news, asanyone familiar with the UN kangaroo court and its operation can attest.
On November 14, the Hague-based ICC, perhaps hoping to make itself appear relevant amid a growing wave of formal withdrawals, issued a threat about potentially prosecuting U.S. troops…
Whether the baseless threat to illegally prosecute U.S. forces was an effort to stem the exodus of members from the troubled and widely ridiculed court was not immediately clear. But while the ICC has in the past issued illegitimate threats to prosecute Americansover supposed crimes in places such as Libya, the threats have generally been ignored, because the court has no jurisdiction over Americans. By claiming that the alleged crimes by U.S. troops took place in nations where authorities have signed on to the Rome Statute, which created the court, the ICC now claims it may be able to investigate and prosecute Americans without constitutional protections.
Under normal circumstances, the U.S. government might kindly remind the ICC of its irrelevance and lack of jurisdiction, and that would be the end of the story. After all, American courts and officials are perfectly capable of prosecuting any of the crimes alleged to have been committed — all of which are serious crimes under U.S. law. Instead, though, the Obama administration, even while expressing doubts that U.S. troops would actually be prosecuted, has attempted to legitimize the ICC’s usurpation of jurisdiction by taking the threats seriously and treating them as legitimate, despite the fact that such schemes might open him and his top officials up to war-crimes trials.
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Video: The Truth About Fake News
Having lost the election and lost the argument, the butt-hurt left and the rigged media is desperate to salvage some scrap of credibility.
So they’ve decided to create a new panic over so-called “fake news” in an attempt to force Google & Facebook to censor conservative websites.
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I have the privilege of still being in contact with many of the students I taught years and years ago and watching their reaction to the Trump presidency has disturbed me. These young people are smart, well-educated (in the 21st century sense of the word), and hold responsible jobs. They aren’t discontented ne’er-do-wells. Most of them, in spite of having sat in my classroom, are left of center and are filled with self-righteous indignation, and they are scared. I’ve been mulling this over, trying to figure out why fear is such a big part of this and I have some ideas.
For one thing, the 18-25 age group has never consciously known any other administration than Barack Obama’s. They have no personal experience with a Constitutional president. They see the presidency as an absolute power and seem to think that Trump will just sail into the Oval Office and start wildly issuing near-Papal bulls outlawing birth control and locking up the LGBT crowd. They seem to think that he can, within days, pack the Supreme Court — whether anyone resigns or not.
It is true that he can rescind any of Obama’s holy decrees that he chooses, and when he chooses — but that’s what we all elected him to do. He can, if he wants, send back to the states responsibilities that the federal government had previously absorbed, as per the 10th Amendment. It’s interesting that this seems to be scary to these young people; I suspect they’ve grown accustomed to thinking of the federal government as a deity of sorts and find the dissolution of that god frightening.
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Anti-Trump Americans Can Move to London, Says Mayor Saddiq Khan
London Mayor Saddiq Khan has called on US workers disappointed with the election of Donald Trump to the White House to move to the British capital, reassuring them that “London is open.”
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Austria: Like Trump, Norbert Hofer Attracting Disillusioned Working Class Voters
Just as Donald Trump attracted voters in the American “rust belt”, anti-mass migration Freedom Party (FPÖ) presidential candidate Norbert Hofer is receiving huge support from Austria’s disaffected working class.
The American Midwest has the “rust belt” — a collection of states once booming with heavy industry from shipping to steel mills and factories. The Austrian equivalent is Obersteiermark — a region south of the capital of Vienna where many jobs have long gone, in part due to globalisation, which has led to working class people flocking to anti-establishment candidate for president Norbert Hofer, reports newspaper Der Standard.
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Belgium Remains Terrorist Hotbed With Hundreds Having Fought in Syria
Paul Van Tigchelt, head of Belgium’s terror threat analysis centre, said about 160 of his countrymen and women are believed to still be in Syria.
A further 110 are thought to have died there, he added.
Belgium, at the heart of the European Union (EU), has been on its second highest threat level — level three — for more than a year, with soldiers and extra police deployed to guard important public buildings and gatherings.
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‘Brexit, Trump Presidency… More to Come’ Merkel’s Worldview is Over, Farage Vows
ANGELA MERKEL and Barack Obama are in denial over the people’s repeated rejection of the establishment, Nigel Farage has blasted
The Brexiteer could barely contain his joy over the prospect of more nations following the path paved by Britain in voting to leave the European Union and the American people as they elected Donald Trump as President.
In two weeks time, Austrians will be heading to the ballot boxes again to elect their next president after their last run-off was overturned because rules on the counting of postal votes were broken.
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Caught on Tape: Soros Admits No Remorse for His Actions
Soros is proud of his Nazi routes
In a 60 minutes interview from 1998, George Soros was rather cavalier in talking about the actions he has taken in financial markets around the world as well as actions he took as a kid helping the Nazis.
Here are some of the highlights encapsulated by Owen Shroyer.
[Comment: As a Nazi collaborator, how did he escape punishment?]
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European Union Orders British Press Not to Report When Terrorists Are Muslims
According the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) — part of the Council of Europe — the British press is to blame for increasing hate speech and racist violence.
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Final Polls Show Renzi’s Referendum Heading for Defeat in Italy
The final rush of public opinion polls before Italy’s referendum next month showed voters are leaning toward turning down the constitutional reforms.
Four polls published Friday showed the “No” camp in the lead, in a trend that has been predominant for several weeks.
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Globalists Plot Their Survival
Soros and company intent on crushing populist uprising across West
Globalists say they are not letting the EU go, and one German finance minister threatens Britain.
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Italy: Rail Company FS Regains 100% Control of Centostazioni
Deal with Save signed to buy back 40% for 65.6 million
(ANSA) — Rome, November 15 — Rail company Ferrovie dello Stato (FS) on Tuesday signed a deal to buy the 40% of Centostazioni owned by Save for 65.6 million euros to regain 100% control of it, FS CEO Renato Mazzoncini said. Centostazioni manages a number of medium-sized Italian stations. The move will enable FS to manage over 600 stations in a single main network.
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Italy Tired of EU Ambiguity, Contradictions — Gozi
Europe risks disintegrating unless it changes, says undersec
(ANSA) — Brussels, November 15 — European Affairs Undersecretary Sandro Gozi said Tuesday that Italy was tired of “ambiguity” and “contradictions” within the European Union, warning the bloc risks imploding unless it changes. “We are neither nationalist, nor populist,” Gozi said at the fringes of a general affairs council meeting in Brussels.
“But we are very tired of European ambiguity and contradictions. We are very tired of a Europe that says some things and then does not do them. “We are very tired of a Europe that is small on big things and big on small things. And we are convinced that, if Europe doesn’t change, we are faced with the start of European disintegration”.
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Italy: Fiat Chrylser to Sell Cars Online
Italian-American company reaches deal with Amazon
(ANSA) — Turin, November 18 — Fiat Chrylser Automobiles (FCA) announced Friday that it is to start selling some of its models online after reaching an agreement with Amazon. “We are opening a window to a new horizon with Amazon,” said Gianluca Italia, FCA’s Italian market chief. “A revolution in the way to choose Fiat vehicles has started”. The Fiat 500, 500L and Panda models are the first ones that it will be possible to buy online, with discounts ranging from 20% to 33%.
“We are innovating with Amazone because we believe it is necessary to have a new, more transparent and clear means of sale,” he added.
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Norway: Trondheim Approves Boycott of Israeli Settlement Goods
The Trondheim City Council on Thursday approved a plan to boycott all Israeli goods and services that are produced in settlements in the the occupied Palestinian areas, Addresseavisen reported.
The resolution states that Israel continues to aggressively pursue its policy of occupation.
“Illegal settlements are expanding, the construction of the wall continues, Palestinians are subjected to daily harassment and face major obstacles in their daily lives. This is a policy that Trondheim Municipality cannot support. The municipality will therefore refrain from purchasing goods and services produced in the occupied territories,” it reads.
The city council is also asking residents of Norway’s third largest city to personally boycott settlement goods and services.
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Poll Show Catalans Evenly Split on Independence From Spain
MADRID — A Catalan government opinion poll indicates people in the northeastern region are evenly divided over the question of independence from Spain, less than a year before the region’s planned secession.
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Spain: Woman Who Sought to Join ISIS Gets 5 Years
MADRID — A Spanish court has given a reduced five-year prison sentence to a Moroccan woman who confessed to having tried to join ISIS.
The National Court convicted Samira Yerou, 33, of membership of a terrorist organization and said Friday that the sentence was not as high as it could have been in light of her confession and stated repentance.
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Sweden: What Malmö Police Are Doing to Stop Killings
Malmö is moving police officers from Sweden’s southern border controls to the streets — in an effort to crack down on a recent wave of fatal incidents in Sweden’s third largest city.
Sweden introduced police controls on its borders in November last year as a result of the refugee crisis, which saw the country take in more than 160,000 asylum seekers in one year.
Police officers stationed at the border checks are now being moved to public areas in Malmö for the next two weeks, following an autumn spate of murders and murder attempts.
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Teenager Arrested in France for Alleged Links With ISIS Jihadi
PARIS — French authorities say a teenager was arrested this week for allegedly being linked to a French jihadi who claimed responsibility for the Bastille Day truck attack in Nice on behalf of the Islamic State group.
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UK: Downing Street Warns Peers They Face Curtailing of Powers if They Block Brexit
Downing Street has warned peers they face a drastic curtailing of their powers if they try to block the triggering of Brexit.
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What Democracy? Dutch Voters Betrayed as EU Rubber Stamps Visa-Free Access for Ukraine
Eurocrats extended their long and less than distinguished record of totally ignoring free and fair democratic votes to plough ahead with the plan despite fierce public opposition.
In April the Dutch people voted to reject a deal between Brussels and Kiev which will allow all Ukrainians to visit the Schengen zone without applying for a visa.
But senior EU officials immediately stated that they would simply ignore the referendum result and force through what they wanted anyway.
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Are the Saudis About to Reveal the Best Kept Secret in Oil?
One of the oil world’s longest and best kept secrets may finally be revealed. Saudi Arabia is preparing to unveil how much oil it holds, a closely guarded state secret that has been kept quiet for decades.
The decision to bring such important data to light comes as Saudi Aramco is preparing to partially privatize its assets, an IPO that could bring in some $100 billion. The IPO will be a monumental event, one that the Wall Street Journal says could offer Wall Street some of the largest fees in history.
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Deadly Mission: Iraqis Risk All Smuggling Alcohol Into Iran, Even as Baghdad Mulls Ban
It would be idyllic if it wasn’t so dangerous.
Fog swirls over the snow-dusted mountain range as the sunlight fades and the late fall cold settles on this rugged portion of a war-torn country reached only by a single, curling road. With the sprawling Iranian countryside as a distant backdrop, a dozen men trek up the steep mountain path, hunched under the weight of rucksacks laden food, electronics and the most coveted Iranian-bound cargo of all: alcohol.
“Other things are okay to smuggle during the day,” one local operative said. “But alcohol? Only in the dead of the night.”
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Fury as Turkey Votes to Make Child Rape Legal for Men Who Marry Their Victims
In a move which has shocked world politicians, the Muslim majority country proposed exonerating paedophiles en masse.
Hardline president Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government insists that the new law is designed to pardon men who did not realise they were having sex with underage girls.
But critics have reacted with open fury to the legislation, saying it officially legitimises both deliberate child rape and forced child marriages.
It comes after a shocking rise in violence against women in Turkey, which has risen by 40 per cent in the past decade.
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Green Berets Murdered for Thwarting CIA-Led ISIS Training Program
Corrupt CIA agents behind rise of ISIS
The truth about the three murdered CIA Green Berets has finally come out:
[Comment: Globalist run CIA agents within the CIA.]
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A teenager who had been recruited by the Islamic State in Mosul killed the whole of his six-member family when his explosive belt went off inside their home east of the city.
Three children were reportedly among those killed by the unnamed boy’s explosive device.
The boy, who belonged to the so-called ‘Cubs of the Caliphate’ squad, had been given the suicide belt by other members of the terror group, Alsumaria News reports.
He put the device on and went back to his home in the al-Wehda district of Mosul, where it later exploded, a source told the news channel.
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Russian Warships Prepare for Large-Scale Assault Off Syrian Coast
Russia put its aircraft carrier to full use and launched a large-scale offensive across Syria
On Saturday, a flotilla of Russian warships arrived off the coast of Syria. The flotilla was reportedly deployed to prepare for a large-scale land and sea assault on the ravaged city of Aleppo.
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Saudis Ban International Schools From Observing Christmas
(Breitbart) The Sunni Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, a U.S. ally, has prohibited international schools from designating non-Islamic holidays, such as Christmas and New Year’s Day, as school vacation days, reports the Indo-Asian News Service (IANS).
“Saudi education ministry has warned international schools from marking non-Islamic occasions, such as Christmas and New Year, the media reported on Monday,” notes IANS in an article published by the Times of India (TOI).
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Terror Suspect Probed in Italy Identified in Iraq
Posted ISIS propaganda video with 10-year-old son
(ANSA) — Milan, November 18 — A man suspected by Milan prosecutors of having ties with the so-called Islamic State (ISIS) organization has been identified in Iraq but not yet detained, State attorneys in Italy’s financial capital said Friday.
Moroccan national Ahmed Taskour, 47, a fugitive from Italian justice, was identified following investigations coordinated by the anti-terrorism department of the Milan State Attorney’s office, which was led until a few weeks ago by Maurizio Romanelli and is now coordinated by Alberto Nobili, and by prosecutor Enrico Pavone.
Milan magistrates told a press conference Friday that the suspect is a “high-ranking” militant and “an important element of propaganda” for the terror organization.
Milan judge Manuela Scudieri has issued a detention order and a European arrest warrant on international terrorism charges.
Taskour allegedly set out from Lombardy at the end of 2014 with his wife and two children, now aged 11 and 15, to fight with ISIS in Iraq, said prosecutors Pietro Forno and Enrico Pavone and Milan DIGOS anti-terror police chief Claudio Ciccimarra.
In a video filmed right after the November 13 terror attacks in Paris last year, which has also been posted to YouTube, Taskour appears with his then-10-year-old son as they both threaten the West.
The boy “hails jihad” and wishes “death to the West and Westerners” in the video, which features the logo and flag of ISIS and was filmed in Iraq, investigators said.
The duo reportedly spoke in Arabic, with French subtitles, using a number of expressions often heard in such videos to threaten Western targets, like “we will kill you in your homes”.
“I congratulate our Muslim brothers and soldiers of the caliphate in France for this blessed operation, which for you, crusaders, is only the beginning — may our soldiers prevail!”, the boy also said in the video allegedly filmed right after the multiple attacks in Paris on November 13 in which 130 people were killed.
Before disappearing, the family led an “apparently normal life” in Bresso, near Milan, where the boy was born in 2005.
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Trump’s Plan for Syria Could Keep the US Out of War With Russia
“I’ve had an opposite view of many people regarding Syria,” Trump stated
Donald Trump has publicly opposed a U.S. attack on Bashar al-Assad in Syria. In his first interview since his victory, Trump told the Wall Street Journal he would likely abandon the current administration’s position on Assad.
“I’ve had an opposite view of many people regarding Syria,” Trump stated.
“My attitude was you’re fighting Syria, Syria is fighting ISIS, and you have to get rid of ISIS. Russia is now totally aligned with Syria, and now you have Iran, which is becoming powerful, because of us, is aligned with Syria… Now we’re backing rebels against Syria, and we have no idea who these people are.”
Most notable is Trump’s warning that if the U.S. goes to war with Assad, then”we will end up fighting Russia, fighting Syria.”
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Turkish Bill Clears Men of Statutory Rape if They Marry
A bill which would allow men accused of raping underage girls to be cleared if they marry the girl has been preliminarily backed by Turkish MPs.
The bill would pardon men only if they had sex without “force or threat” and if they married the victim.
Critics say it legitimises rape and child marriage, and lets off men who are aware of their crime.
Violence against women in Turkey has increased in the past decade — 40% of women report sexual or physical abuse.
Statistics also show the murder rate of women increased by 1,400% between 2003 and 2010.
The bill was initially approved on Thursday evening after being brought to parliament by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP). On Tuesday, MPs will debate the bill a second time before casting their final vote.
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Indian Economy Grinds to a Halt After Cash-Ban: “Faith in System Shaken”
Amid scenes of panic across India, following PM Modi’s shock decision to withdraw high-value bills in the middle of the sowing and wedding season, Reuters reports the move, aimed at cracking down on the shadow economy, has brought India’s cash economy to a virtual standstill. With over 90% of all transactions done in cash, money flows in and out of the black-and-white system… until now, as Devangshu Datta exclaims, “The system works because everybody believes that those pieces of paper will be accepted by everybody else… This move has shaken that trust.”
Farmers have been left stranded as traders have no cash to pay for their produce, while millions of Indians lined up outside banks and post offices for the ninth day to exchange old banknotes or withdraw rationed money from their accounts.
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Europe: More Invaders in 2016 Than 2015
More nonwhite invaders pretending to be asylum seekers landed in Europe in the first nine months of 2016 than in the same period last year, dramatic new figures from the European Union’s European Asylum Support Office (EASO) have revealed. Since the beginning of 2016, at least 1,013,053 “asylum” applications have been recorded, as opposed to 894,028 applications lodged in the same period of 2015.
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Exit Poll: 58 Percent of Hispanic Voters Back Donald Trump’s Immigration Policies
Of all voters, 57.4 percent said they support Trump’s immigration policies, with 38.4 percent backing Clinton’s
A majority of Hispanic voters said they “support Donald Trump’s immigration policies,” undercutting the narrative that enforcing immigration law will drive away Latinos, one exit poll found.
The poll, conducted from Nov. 9 to Nov. 10 by Zogby Analytics for the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), found 58.5 percent of Hispanic voters favored President-Elect Donald Trump’s immigration policies, compared to 32.9 percent for failed Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton.
Of all voters, 57.4 percent said they support Trump’s immigration policies, with 38.4 percent backing Clinton’s.
Clinton promised to all but dissolve U.S. borders in her first 100 days in office, and told a South American bank in a private, paid speech she “dreamed” of a “hemispheric common market, with open trade and open borders.”
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Germany: Turkish Asylum Requests More Than Double This Year
More than 4,400 Turkish citizens have applied for asylum in Germany this year, the government said Friday, with numbers up since a foiled coup attempt against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Berlin-Ankara relations have been badly strained by concerns over the Erdogan government’s stance on civil rights, especially its sweeping crackdown since the July coup attempt against opposition lawmakers, journalists and other critical voices.
On Friday, Germany’s Office for Migration and Refugees said that this year it had received 4,437 political asylum requests by the end of October, compared to 1,767 during all of last year from the EU-candidate country.
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Italy Against Dublin Reform Unless Changed — Gentiloni
Rome has ‘objections and reservations’
(ANSA) — Brussels, November 15 — Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni said Tuesday that Italy had “objections and reservations” about the ongoing debate on revising the EU’s Dublin Regulation on asylum seekers. He said the current direction of the debate was “entirely unsatisfactory” because it opens up to “unacceptable” flexibility on migrant commitments while “loading many burdens” on the countries where the asylum seekers arrive first. “If it is not corrected, we will state our opposition,” Gentiloni said after meeting Frans Timmermans, the First Vice-President of the European Commission. Gentiloni also said that he could see “no rifts” in relations between Italy and the European Union following recent polemics and speculation on whether Brussels will soften its position on Rome’s 2017 budget when it gives its opinion on it on Wednesday. “We don’t expect any particular rigidity or flexibility, but simply the acknowledgement of our good arguments,” he said.
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Italy ‘Doing the Impossible’ On Refugees Says Juncker
Italy, Greece need EU solidarity says EC chief
(ANSA) — Bolzano, November 18 — European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said Friday “Italy is doing the impossible” in tackling the asylum seeker crisis. “We must not abandon Italy and Greece just because they’re in the wrong place, albeit a sunny one,” he said. “Europe needs to show Italy its solidarity”. Italy and Greece are the first landfall for people fleeing across the Mediterranean from wars and persecution in Africa and the Middle East, especially the country of Syria where a civil war has been raging for six years.
Juncker went on to say that “the measures Europe has decided on must be applied”.
“Syria practically borders on the EU and (its refugees) must be taken in, independently of their religious faith,” he said.
The European Commission chief also said Britain must keep in mind that it can’t be “a full-time taker and a part-time giver” in its relationship with the EU after the Brexit.
Juncker was speaking at Bolzano Free University conference on the 70th anniversary of the autonomy of Italy’s northern Alto Adige province bordering on Austria and Switzerland.
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Muslim Migrants Display ‘Pure Hatred’ of Christians, Translator at German Refugee Camp Says
‘They want us to be Islamised. They despise our country and our values’
A translator at German refugee camps has revealed Muslim migrants are showing ‘pure hatred’ toward Christians and want the country to be Islamised.
The Arabic speaker worked in a number of asylum centres across the country and went undercover to discover migrants were preaching ‘pure hatred’ about non-Muslims and women were planning to have more children to ‘destroy Christians’.
She said the hostility is also visible at asylum homes, where Muslim children refuse to play with Christians.
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Shock Video: Police Force 80-Year-Old Italian Hotel Owner to House African Migrants
Government confiscates private property to accommodate “refugees”
Shock video footage out of Italy shows an 80-year-old hotel owner being forced by police to house numerous African migrants as he desperately tries to resist government confiscation of his property.
The old man seen in the video is Luigi Fogli. He runs Hotel Lory in Ficarolo, in the province of Rovigo.
Fogli briefly looked into providing asylum accommodation services for migrants arriving from North Africa but dropped the issue when he discovered he would only be paid 7 euros per night for each “refugee”.
“At that point, the local prefecture simply confiscated his hotel and forced the invaders upon him,” reports Diversity Macht Frei.
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Sweden: Young Asylum Seekers “Must Have Opportunity to Finish High School”
The government is discussing a change to the law which would prevent asylum-seeking children being deported if they are studying, Swedish Radio News has reported.
The government had received criticism for tightening the law, which means 16 and 17-year-old unaccompanied minors currently only receive temporary permission to stay in this country until they are 18. When they reach that age, they could then be deported.
The vast majority of unaccompanied asylum-seekers under 18 in Sweden are from Afghanistan, which Sweden recently reached agreement with to send back failed asylum-seekers.
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Three Pakistani Men Apprehended in U.S. at Arizona Border
Three Pakistani men were apprehended after crossing into the U.S. from Mexico in the Tucson Sector. A combination of sources — including official confirmation from Customs and Border Protection (CBP) — revealed the men were in fact apprehended and are currently in U.S. federal custody.
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UK: Home Office Admits 119,000 Illegal Migrants Have Disappeared
THE Home Office has admitted it is unable to say what has happened to more than 119,000 illegal migrants arrested since 2011.
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World’s Biggest Migrant Camp Dubbed Terror ‘Breeding Ground’ Stay Open
THE CLOSURE of the world’s biggest refugee camp, said to be a recruiting ground for jihadists, has been postponed.
The Dadaab camp in eastern Kenya is home to roughly 280,000 refugees, mostly Somalians, after being set up more than 25 years ago.
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Anti-Trump Left Pushing Pedophile Rights
Moral relativism leads to societal collapse
A self-admitted pedophile claims his attraction to children is just a “sexual orientation” as leftist media promotes “pedophile rights.”
Todd Nickerson, a 43-year-old from Tenn., said he is part of the emerging “virtuous pedophiles” movement, which its members describe themselves as “ethical pedophiles” and “gold-star pedophiles.”…
He came into public spotlight in Sept. 2015 when left-wing outlet Salon.com published his op/ed asking Americans to “learn to accept” pedophiles and become “understanding and supportive” of their “sexual orientation.”
“So, please, be understanding and supportive,” pedophile Todd Nickerson wrote. “It’s really all we ask of you.”
But why is the left-wing media using pedophiles like Nickerson to try to normalize pedophilia?
It’s because the progressive left has adopted a moral relativist philosophy in which there are no absolute moral standards which transcends individual or societal opinions.
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Israel Chief Rabbi Amar Condemned for ‘Gay Death Penalty’ Comment
Israeli political and community leaders have called for a top Jerusalem rabbi to be fired after he said Jewish law prescribed the death penalty for gays.
Sephardi Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar told Israel Hayom newspaper homosexuality was a “cult of abomination”, which the Torah “punishes… with death”.
Several members of parliament have written to the prime minister to complain.
Rabbi Amar has previously been criticised for similar past remarks.
Last year he was rebuked for saying most people were “disgusted” by homosexuality, and calling Jerusalem’s annual gay pride parade “an embarrassing phenomenon”.
In an interview with Israel Hayom, Rabbi Amar said it was “clear that it [homosexuality] is abomination. The Torah punishes it with death. This is in the first line of serious sins.”
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Quantcast Blacklists Infowars as “Fake News” Free Speech Purge Accelerates
Establishment media — kings of fake news — appoint themselves moral authority over identifying “fake news”
Quantcast has blacklisted Infowars from its top trafficked websites as the establishment’s attempt to silence opposing voices by declaring conservative outlets “fake news” accelerates.
After routinely appearing in the list of top 200 websites in the world, at one stage being ranked the 168th biggest website on the planet, Infowars has now been de-listed and “hidden” alongside porn websites, fake news websites and other legally questionable content.
The screen shots below show how Infowars appeared on Quantcast.com before it was completely purged.
Quantcast’s decision to blacklist Infowars coincides with a huge new establishment media narrative that is attempting to have Google, Facebook and others drown out conservative voices by denouncing any unauthorized views as “fake news”.
This is particularly ironic, given that the mainstream media itself has earned the title of “fake news” throughout the entire election cycle, posting stories such as these;
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The Ontario Gov’t is About to Redefine Your Relationship With Your Child to Appease the LGBT Lobby
“…Most people in Ontario still haven’t heard of Bill 28. It is an omnibus bill redefining the family. It is currently being rushed through the Ontario Parliament without any real consultation, and with virtually no media attention. It apparently enjoys all-party support, and has already passed its second reading.
There has been absolutely no consultation of the public about the redefinition of the basic social institution of every person throughout human history.
It is an assault on every Ontarian. It gets rid of “mother” and “father” in family law — mum entirely — to allow for a purely contractual relationship between up to four adult parents, and the children that are legally identified as theirs.
The legislation is there to appease the LGBT lobby and help them procure children.
However, it doesn’t just affect them.
In fact, it treats the family as a zero sum game.
According to this Bill 28, this new legal “family” can only exist if the traditional, natural family unit is destroyed. In the process, it also makes it far easier for the government to seize our children because henceforth we too will only have a contractual — not a natural — bond to our children. As we know, contractual relationships are easy to change.”
In other words, under Bill 28 all children in Ontario will become commodities.
[Comment: Aiming to get the kids brainwashed early and break the parent-child link to stop the dissemination of thinking contrary to the globalist goals.]
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The freedom to visit websites, communicate, and post to the Internet without the interference of government is a right people around the world should be able to take for granted. Unfortunately, for growing portion of the world’s population, that is not the case. In fact, the Freedom on the Net report by the online activist group, Freedom House, shows that “Internet freedom around the world declined in 2016 for the sixth consecutive year.”
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” The chair of the Catholic German bishops conference Cardinal Reinhard Marx and the chair of the Council of the Evangelical [Protestant] Church in Germany, Bavaria’s regional bishop Heinrich Bedford-Strohm, took off their crosses there because a Muslim dignitary, and allegedly also a Jewish dignitary, requested it.”
They had an opportunity to stand up for their faith in a region where Christians are pushed around. They chose to become dhimmi in the mistaken belief their actions would gain them and their church respect from the muslims who control the site. They are sadly wrong. I can’t imagine Martin Luther would have submitted to this request.
At best they look weak.
** [Ontario’s Bill 28 ] apparently enjoys all-party support, **
The left exults every time they can find a new way to humiliate the ordinary stiff: homosexual marriage, homosexual adoption, homosexual “families” in the media and advertising, bizarre homosexual parades featuring half-naked peacocks, and bathrooms and childrens’ locker rooms thrown open to perverts and the sexually confused.
Unfortunately, said stiffs provide unstinting support for their political enemies. Their very children are at risk if being torn from their protection and control but still they dutifully vote for their enemies.
Eons of human experience and preference and still these pumped up, smug fools think they can improve on them.