Migrants are increasingly attempting to cross from Italy to Austria concealed in the freight cars of trains, sometimes dying in the attempt. In Tyrol on Tuesday four Eritrean migrants were discovered in a freight car and arrested.
In other news, in an unusual move, French President François Hollande decided not to run for re-election, saying that it would be better for his party if he stood down.
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Angry Mobs Lock up Indian Bankers as Cash Chaos Soars: “We Are Fearing the Worst”
“Reserve Bank has asked us to push the use of digital channels to all our customers and ensure that we bring down use of cash in the economy,” said a banker. This confirms a previous report according to which the demonstization campaign has been a not so subtle attempt to impose digital currency on the entire population.
Bankers have been making several trips to the central bank’s headquarters in Mumbai to get a sense of whether currency availability will improve. Some automated teller machines haven’t been filled even once since the old Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes ceased to be legal tender, they said. Typically, households pay milkmen, domestic helps, drivers, etc, at the start of the month in cash. The idea is that all these payments should become electronic, using computers or mobiles.
This strategy however, appears to not have been conveyed to the public, and as Bloomberg adds, “bankers are bracing for long hours and angry mobs as pay day approaches in India.”
“Already people who are frustrated are locking branches from outside in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Tamil Nadu and abusing staff as enough cash is not available,” said CH Venkatachalam, general secretary of the All India Bank Employees’ Association. The group has sought police protection at bank branches for the next 10 days, he added.
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Democratic investors went in on Clinton to the tune of more than $550 million, believing she would dispatch Trump, deliver Democrats the Senate and help the party make inroads into the GOP’s House majority.
[Comment: Check out the cartoons on the page.]
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15 Electors Will Refuse to Vote for Trump
Sensational plot to sabotage president elect
In a sensational new development, TV host David Pakman says he was told by a high level source that 15 electors in states Trump won will refuse to vote for Donald Trump.
Pakman went on to say that the electors are also lobbying other members of the electoral college to not vote for Trump.
The goal is to prevent Trump from getting the 270 electoral votes he requires to become president.
If Trump loses 37 electoral votes, it will put him under the 270 benchmark and throw America into a constitutional crisis.
This would be totally unprecedented, and it’s a long shot, but it illustrates the left’s desperation to do anything to sabotage Trump.
Could 15 or more electors really be planning to defy the democratic will of the American people — over 62 million of whom voted for Trump?
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Chicago Tops 700 Homicides — With a Month to Go in Violent 2016
In a year of relentless violence, Chicago has hit another grim milestone, exceeding 700 homicides for the first time in nearly two decades, according to official Police Department records.
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CNN’s Anderson Cooper Scared Trump Reads Infowars
“Does it scare you that the President elect is listening to Infowars?”
CNN anchor and CIA operative Anderson Cooper expressed serious concern Tuesday that President Elect Trump may read news items published at Infowars.com.
Moments after the network aired an attack piece against radio host Alex Jones and his flagship website, Cooper asked former White House Political Director Jeffrey Lord if the next president of the United States should get his information specifically from “Infowars.”…
It should be noted Anderson Cooper spent two summers in Langley, Virginia, interning for the Central Intelligence Agency prior to becoming a reporter at CNN with zero prior journalism or broadcast experience.
Cooper’s and CNN’s efforts to denigrate Infowars are part of a larger lash out by the establishment media against so-called “fake news,” which they claim helped push President Elect Donald Trump into office.
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Got Gold? This Guy Just Grabbed “$1.6 Million Pot of Gold” From a Security Truck and Walked Off
Hey, everybody likes gold.
And when this guy saw a golden opportunity staring him in the face, he ran with it… and got away.
This man, who was caught on surveillance footage in New York, walked up to an armored truck and picked up an 86-pound pot of gold — literally.
He made off with a sealed five gallon bucket of gold flakes that is worth a reported $1.6 million — in what was perhaps the easiest heist in history.
Despite being identified on camera, police have yet to find the man several months later, but certainly would like to recover the gold.
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Let’s put this into perspective. The maker of poisonous breakfast cereals pulled their ads from Breitbart, a very popular news site associated with the Trump campaign, because it didn’t align with their values — set forth in their advertising guidelines.
They said associating with brands like Breitbart wasn’t ‘consistent with their brand or corporate image.’
In a scathing report on child labor violations for procuring palm oil in Indonesia, Amnesty International lays waste to corporate giants like Unilever, Colgate, Proctor and Gamble and you guessed it Kellogg’s.
Amnesty has testimony and video of children as young as 8 years old, pulled from school to work on a slave plantation to endure ‘back breaking labor’, exposed to harsh chemicals and very heavy materials.
Let’s be clear, placing ads on pro Trump site is not conducive with Kellogg’s corporate image, but buying palm oil from a slave plantation that works 8 year old children is.
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Newsweek Editor: We Didn’t Read ‘Madam President’ Issue Before Publishing
A Newsweek editor admitted Wednesday that he and other staffers didn’t actually read their recalled commemorative “Madam President” election issue before it was published.
Newsweek political editor Matthew Cooper said Wednesday on Fox News’ “Tucker Carlson Tonight” that the magazine’s issue, which incorrectly anticipated a Hillary Clinton win, was not produced by Newsweek but by a third party.
“Well, no one on our staff wrote that,” Cooper said. “Again, we subcontract out to a company.”
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Obama Blames Democrat Losses on ‘Fox News in Every Bar and Restaurant’
Democrats were decimated in the 2016 election cycle, losing dozens of House seats, nine Senate seats, more than a dozen governorships and more than 1,000 seats in state legislatures — and according to Barack Obama, it’s all because Fox News was played in “every bar and restaurant in big chunks of the country.”
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Police: Son Dismembered Parents, Tried to Dissolve in Acid
‘It would be described as horrific, a very gruesome crime scene’
[Warning: Disturbing content.]
(KNOXVILLE NEWS SENTINEL) KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Joel Michael Guy Jr. drove up from Baton Rouge, La., apartment last week to join his parents at their West Knox County home, along with his three sisters, for Thanksgiving dinner.
Afterward the sisters returned to their homes. Everything seemed fine during the family gathering, authorities said.
But sometime between Friday night and mid-day Saturday, the 28-year-old Guy attacked his parents with a knife, possibly tortured them and dismembered their bodies, leaving remains in various rooms of the 2,256-square-foot home, according to Knox County Sheriff’s Office Maj. Michael K. MacLean.
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Risk of Terrorists Crossing US Border Into Texas is Real — But Low
In border enforcement parlance, they’re known as “exotics:” distinct from the usual flow of Mexicans and Latin Americans, they are people from far away countries as distant as Bangladesh and Pakistan, arriving at the southern border and crossing illegally into the United States.
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The Details Behind Trump’s Deal With Carrier Revealed
As Fortune reports, citing a source close to the company, Trump called Greg Hayes, CEO of Carrier’s parent company United Technologies, two weeks ago and asked him to rethink the decision to close the Carrier plant in Indiana. Hayes explained that the jobs were lower-wage and had high turnover, and the move was necessary to keep the plant competitive, according to the source. He said the plan would save the company $65 million a year.
Trump then replied that those savings would be dwarfed by the savings UTC would enjoy from corporate tax-rate reductions he planned to put in place. During the recent campaign, Trump threatened to slap tariffs on Carrier imports from Mexico.
So what were the “incentives”? In the end, UTC agreed to retain approximately 800 manufacturing jobs at the Indiana plant that had been slated to move to Mexico, as well as another 300 engineering and headquarters jobs. In return, the company will get roughly $700,000 a year for a period of years in state tax incentives. Still, some 1,300 jobs will still go to Mexico, which includes 600 Carrier employees, plus 700 workers from UTEC Controls in Huntington, Ind.
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These Numbers Should Shut up Liberals About the Electoral College Once and for All
After all it’s unfair: Hillary Clinton won the “popular vote” so she should win, right? Wrong.
Our Founders in their infinite wisdom created the Electoral College to ensure the STATES were fairly represented. Why should one or two densely populated areas speak for the whole of the nation?
The following list of statistics has been making the rounds on the Internet and it should finally put an end to the argument as to why the Electoral College makes sense.
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There are 3,141 counties in the United States.
Trump won 3,084 of them.
Clinton won 57.
There are 62 counties in New York State.
Trump won 46 of them.
Clinton won 16.
Clinton won the popular vote by approx. 1.5 million votes.
In the 5 counties that encompass NYC, (Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Richmond & Queens) Clinton received well over 2 million more votes than Trump. (Clinton only won 4 of these counties; Trump won Richmond)
Therefore these 5 counties alone, more than accounted for Clinton winning the popular vote of the entire country.
These 5 counties comprise 319 square miles.
The United States is comprised of 3, 797,000 square miles.
When you have a country that encompasses almost 4 million square miles of territory, it would be ludicrous to even suggest that the vote of those who inhabit a mere 319 square miles should dictate the outcome of a national election.
Large, densely populated Democrat cities (NYC, Chicago, LA, etc) don’t and shouldn’t speak for the rest of our country.
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True the Vote Supports Trump’s Claim on Illegal Voters
[…] “True the Vote absolutely supports President-elect Trump’s recent comment about the impact of illegal voting, as reflected in the national popular vote. We are still collecting data and will be for several months, but our intent is to publish a comprehensive study on the significant impact of illegal voting in all of its many forms and begin a national discussion on how voters, states, and the Trump Administration can best address this growing problem.” …
True the Vote has long been a lightning rod for criticism from the left, and was among the organizations targeted for abuse in the IRS scandal.
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Trump’s Tax Cuts Imply Billions Worth of Deferred Tax Asset Writedowns for Wall Street Banks
Corporate tax reform has been a key policy initiative of Trump’s as he has called for slashing the corporate tax rate from 35% down to 15%. While this is welcome news for most companies, it would result in some fairly staggering writedowns for Wall Street’s largest banks that amassed substantial net operating losses in 2008 and 2009.
According to Bloomberg, Citibank would be hardest hit with writedowns that could hit earnings for up to $12 billion or more.
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Trump, Pence Tour Carrier Plant to Tout Job-Saving Deal
President-elect Donald Trump touched down in wingman Mike Pence’s home state Thursday to take a bow for their dramatic, job-saving deal with Carrier air conditioning.
The stop, in the state Vice President-elect Pence still serves as governor, came amid a “thank you” tour of the Midwestern states that helped propel their ticket to victory.
“I will tell you that United Technologies and Carrier stepped up, and now they’re keeping over 1,100 people,” Trump said. “It’s so great.”
Trump said he got involved after seeing a report on Carrier’s announcement it would leave for Mexico. Trump said he was moved by a Carrier employee and Trump supporter who promised his co-workers that Trump wouldn’t let the company leave.
“It’s because of that guy,” Trump said, scanning the assembled throng and explaining how he reached out to the company’s top brass.
“Companies are not going to leave the United States anymore without consequences,” Trump thundered, before tempering the threat with pledges for deregulation and lower taxes.
“We’re going to do great things for businesses,” Trump said. “There’s no reason for them to leave anymore.”
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Twitter Threatens to Kill Trump’s Account
Social media site takes aim at president elect
Alex Jones discusses Twitter’s statement that they would consider banning President Elect Donald Trump’s account, an unprecedented move that would surely destroy the social media website.
A Twitter spokesperson told Slate this week that it would consider banning government officials, including president elect Trump, if its rules against “hateful conduct” were violated.
“Twitter Rules prohibit violent threats, harassment, hateful conduct, and multiple account abuse, and we will take action on accounts violating those policies,” a spokesperson recently told media outlet Quartz. “The Twitter Rules apply to all accounts.”
Give Twitter’s clear bias and selective enforcement of the rules, such a ban would not be unlikely.
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Video: Carrier Employee Thanks Trump for Being Able to Keep His Job
“I’d like to thank him and Mike Pence for doing it so quickly”
“I would like to tell him thank you for going out of your way and taking your time away from your family, working on the Carrier and employees’ deal,” 24-year employee Robin Maynard told Fox & Friends. “Sticking to your word and going to bat for us all at Carrier and keeping our jobs here. I’d like to thank him and Mike Pence for doing it so quickly.”
“I didn’t expect an announcement probably for three or four weeks, and we’re what? Two days from the meeting with them, and they’ve already made their announcement?”
“I’m very excited and would like to thank both of them personally and shake their hands hopefully tomorrow,” Maynard stated.
Carrier made headlines earlier this year when video emerged of employees in Indianapolis reacting in shock to news that their jobs, nearly 1,400 positions, would be sent to Mexico.
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What is Blockchain and How Will it Change Your Life?
“So what is the blockchain?” Warburg explains it well:
“Blockchain technology is a decentralized database that stores a registry of assets and transactions across a peer-to-peer network. It’s basically a public registry of who owns what and who transacts what. The transactions are secured through cryptography, and over time, that transaction history gets locked in blocks of data that are then cryptographically linked together and secured. This creates an immutable, unforgettable record of all of the transactions across this network. This record is replicated on every computer that uses the network.”
The concept of blockchain, something that can be decentralised, can operate autonomously, is auditable and apparently immutable is something that is difficult to get our heads around. The closest description Warburg can provide is Wikipedia.
“We can see everything on Wikipedia. It’s a composite view that’s constantly changing and being updated. We can also track those changes over time on Wikipedia, and we can create our own wikis, because at their core, they’re just a data infrastructure. On Wikipedia, it’s an open platform that stores words and images and the changes to that data over time.”
There are of course further technical details to blockchain, but at its core it is a very similar concept.
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‘Attack Emergency’: France Introduces New Level of Security Alert
France has introduced a new level to its security alert system, as national defense is tightened in the wake of ever-changing threat from terror attacks.
Wednesday saw the unveiling of a new look to the national security alert system known as Plan Vigipirate, which now features three levels of warnings.
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Belgian Beer Culture is Intangible Cultural Heritage: It’s Official!
Nobody in his or her right mind would ever have doubted it: Belgian beer culture is cultural heritage. But now this fact has received official recognition with the United Nations culture and education organisation, UNESCO, slapping Belgian beer culture on the list of intangible cultural heritage.
In a joint communique with other Belgian culture ministers Flemish culture minister, Sven Gatz, a noted defender of our beer culture, welcomed the news: “UNESCO’s recognition is an important feather in our cap. It comes as a reward to all those who have put in an effort to keep our rich beer culture vibrant.”
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Belgium: 6 Held in Raids Following Machete Attack on Police
Premises across the Charleroi area were raided this morning as part of the investigation into a man who attacked Charleroi police officers with a machete last August. The attacker was shot dead during the attack.
Six people have been detained while eight premises were raided.
Federal public prosecutors are charged with the investigation of what is seen as a terrorist attack. Suspects may face charges of attempted terrorist murder. It was a third police officer who shot dead the assailant during the attack.
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Belgium Charges Two Over August Attack Claimed by IS
A Belgian judge charged two people with participation in a terrorist organization and attempted murder, prosecutors said on Thursday, in connection with a machete attack on two policewomen claimed by Islamic State.
The attack by a 33-year-old Algerian man took place in August and police originally detained six suspects in the case.
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Britain Promises Close Ties With Poland After EU Exit
May says UK will send 150 troops to Poland in April
(ANSA-AP) — LONDON — Britain is promising Poland strong business, diplomatic and cultural ties — as well as a deployment of troops near the Russian border — as London tries to build goodwill with European allies ahead of European Union exit talks.
Prime Minister Theresa May is meeting Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydlo at 10 Downing St. Monday.
May said before the meeting that she was “determined that Brexit will not weaken our relationship with Poland, rather it will serve as a catalyst to strengthen it.” Szydlo said in a Daily Telegraph article that striking a good Brexit deal would require compromise on all sides.
Britain says it will send 150 troops to Poland in April as part of a NATO deployment to provide reassurance amid concerns about Russian military activities.
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Centuries Old Winter Tradition Disappearing Because it’s Too Swedish
A Swedish cultural tradition celebrated for hundreds of years, the annual candlelit Lucia procession, is dying out across Sweden several news outlets have reported.
The two main causes for declining interest in the “very Swedish”, Christian tradition is due to a more ‘outward-looking’ young generation, and that the procession is deemed insufficiently inclusive of migrants.
Jonas Engman, an ethnologist at the Nordic Museum, said declining interest in the Lucia procession accompanies a more general alienation with traditional Swedish culture.
“Lucia is seen as a very Swedish tradition. Young people today have greater focus on [things happening] outside of Sweden and the Internet. So the Lucia [procession] is not seen as important.”
Due to its Swedish nature, Engman suggested the festival feels unwelcoming to migrants and people of migrant backgrounds.
“Is the image of Lucia to be a blonde woman? It’s a picture of what Swedishness is, that many people do not recognise in themselves. If you feel you do not fit into the picture, it is easy to feel less welcome to participate,” he told Aftonbladet.
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Confidence in Sweden’s Police is Sinking: Poll
Confidence in Sweden’s police is on a downward trajectory and faith in the organization’s head is low, according to the result of a new study reported by SVT.
In a survey carried out by pollsters Sifo in November, 47 percent of respondents said they had very high or quite high confidence in the Swedish police, compared to 61 percent in a previous poll in March.
“There have been discussions in the countryside, where people say that there are no police. There were fatal shootings in Malmö and Gothenburg. There has been an intense debate about what the police can deliver, if they can get there, and which crimes are prosecuted,” Sifo opinion polls head Toivo Sjörén told SVT.
The Swedish police in general are more popular than their boss however. Confidence in Sweden’s National Police Commissioner Dan Eliasson is at rock bottom, according to the study.
Only one percent of respondents said they have high confidence in how he does his job.
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Danish People’s Party Signals Support for Leaving EU
Leaders of the eurosceptic Danish People’s Party (DF) met with former UKIP leader Nigel Farage in Copenhagen on Wednesday and signalled that the party is considering formally backing a referendum to have Denmark leave the EU.
DF veteran Søren Espersen, the party’s foreign affairs spokesman, said that the outcome of the ongoing Brexit process would determine whether his party throws its support behind a Danish exit from the union.
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France Presidency: Francois Hollande Decides Not to Run Again
In a surprise move Francois Hollande has announced he will not seek a second term as president of France.
“I’ve decided not to be a candidate to renew my mandate,” the Socialist leader said in a live televised address.
The 62-year-old, faced with very low popularity ratings, has become the first sitting president in modern French history not to seek re-election.
Conservative Republicans party candidate Francois Fillon is seen as a favourite in next year’s election.
Recent opinion polls suggest far-right contender Marine Le Pen from the National Front could be Mr Fillon’s closest challenger.
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France: Guess Who Charlie Hebdo Mocks in First German Edition
The provocative French satire magazine launched its first German — and foreign language — version on Thursday, having a pop at a fairly obvious target.
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France Jailed a Man for Visiting Pro-ISIS Websites
France’s mercurial relationship with technology and the internet is in the news once again. This time it’s because a man was going to pro-ISIS websites with regularity. Facing a two year sentence, the suspect said that he was simply curious and wanted to “tell the difference between real Islam and the false Islam,” France Bleu reports.
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Germany: Outrage as Islam Stall Established at Town’s Christmas Market
A Muslim group in Germany has been asked to voluntarily disassemble their information stand at a local Christmas market after a significant number of complaints about their presence were lodged at the local town hall.
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Hungarian Village Bans Mosques, Muezzins, Burqas, Burkinis
To defend the village’s “community and traditions”
(ANSA-AP) — BUDAPEST — The far-right mayor of a Hungarian village says councilors have voted to ban the construction of mosques and the activity of muezzins, as well as the use of veils and headscarves like burqas, chadors and burkinis worn by Muslim women.
Asotthalom mayor Laszlo Toroczkai says the ordinance was adopted to defend the village’s “community and traditions” from any EU scheme to resettle asylum-seekers among the members of the 28-nation bloc.
The southern village is on the border with Serbia and has been a major entry point into Hungary for migrants on the Balkan route trying to reach Western Europe.
Toroczkai was an early advocate of building border fences to stop the migrant flow. The Hungarian government put them up along the borders with Serbia and Croatia in late 2015.
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Bracing for another migrant wave after the winter, Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban announced the government will spend up to $340m for the training, equipment and remuneration of 3,000 “border hunters”.
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A Swedish festival blighted by sexual assault complaints has faced ridicule after ordering revellers to sign up to a written set of ‘values’.
There was outrage in July when music lovers reported five rapes and a series of other sexual assaults at the Bravalla festival in Norrköping in July.
In an attempt to encourage ‘respect, care and courage’, underfire organisers have now told anyone buying tickets for next year’s event that they ‘must endorse’ the festival’s values.
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Iceland: On an Island Named for Ice, The Poets Are Just Getting Warmed Up
Iceland, it seems, is full of hidden poets.
When they’re not at their day jobs, a great many of the island’s 330,000 inhabitants dabble in verse, including politicians, businessmen, horse breeders and scientists who study the genetic isolation of the island in pursuit of medical breakthroughs. Even David Oddsson, who was prime minister in 2002 (when Iceland’s banks were privatized) and central bank governor in 2008 (when they collapsed), is a poet by training.
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Italy: Del Debbio ‘Could be Our Trump’ — Berlusconi
Trump ‘won due to years on TV’
(ANSA) — Milan, December 1 — Mediaset talk show host Paolo Del Debbio “could be our Trump”, Mediaset owner and former premier Silvio Berlusconi told the journalist on a referendum show Thursday.
Saying that Donald Trump’s presidential win was also due to his “14 years on TV” as hirer-and-firer on The Apprentice, centre-right Forza Italia party leader Berlusconi urged his employee to “think about it”.
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Italy: Vivendi Caused Mediaset ‘Serious Damage’
Pier Silvio Berlusconi on dispute with French media company
(ANSA) — Milan, December 1 — Mediaset CEO Pier Silvio Berlusconi on Thursday said French media company Vivendi caused the Italian broadcaster “very serious damage” after Vivendi pulled out of a deal to buy Mediaset Premium. “Still today we don’t completely understand the reasons for their refusal,” he said. “The European pay-TV platform was our idea and we’re still working in it, if needed also with other partners”.
On October 20 shares in former premier Silvio Berlusconi’s Mediaset group fell 6% on the Milan bourse after the breakdown of talks aimed at reaching an out-of-court settlement to a dispute over Vivendi’s pulling out of a deal to buy Premium.
The issue will now have to be settled in court.
The Italian media conglomerate said a conflict with the French media multinational “will be resolved in court”.
“We have had no contact since July,” the Italian company said in a statement.
Vivendi earlier issued a statement saying it will no longer pursue a “friendly solution” after it backed out of the deal to purchase Premium.
Vivendi backtracked from the deal to take full control of Mediaset Premium announced in April, citing “unrealistic” budget assumptions and sparking lawsuits.
In July, the French firm said Mediaset’s business plan for its Premium pay-TV business was “based on unrealistic assumptions”.
The plan presented by Berlusconi’s broadcasting company said its Premium division would break even in 2018.
The French group said in a statement that due diligence by Deloitte auditors at the beginning of June deemed the business plan to be “unachievable”.
In August, Berlusconi’s family holding company Fininvest sought 570 million euros in damages from Vivendi over its alleged failure to respect the April deal.
On September 30, Vivendi CEO Arnaud de Puyfontaine said talks with Mediaset were ongoing and he was confident an agreement could be found.
“Perhaps we will find a solution — I am confident,” the chief executive said on his way out of a board meeting in Milan of Telecom Italia, of which he is vice-president.
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Italy: Judge Risks Transfer Over Referendum Comments
Bologna Court president says reform based on corruption
(ANSA) — Rome, December 1 — A high-ranking Italian judge risks being transferred after the judiciary’s self-governing body, the CSM, opened disciplinary proceedings against him for comments about the Constitutional referendum posted on social media. Francesco Caruso, the president of the court of Bologna, reportedly said on Facebook that the Constitutional reform being voted on is based on “corruption” and “clientelism”. Caruso gave no comment on the CSM’s move.
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Julian Assange Renews Plea to be Set Free Following UN Rebuffing UK Appeal
Julian Assange has renewed his plea to be freed from his detainment after a United Nations (UN) panel upheld its earlier ruling on his “arbitrary detainment,” rejecting an appeal brought forward by the British government.
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[…] Ultimately, if the citizenry wants to combat media bias, Farage said it’s easy to do so. All people have to do is turn off the news and get their information from alternative sources that are not as biased in favor of the establishment or status quo.
“Stop watching. This is about consumer choice,” Farage said.
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Norway Frees Radical Islamist as Italy Ends Extradition Bid
Italy has cancelled a request for the extradition from Norway of controversial Iraqi Kurdish fundamentalist preacher Mullah Krekar, the Norwegian prosecution agency said on Wednesday, ordering his immediate release.
The prosecution agency did not provide any explanation for Italy’s move, saying simply that the Italian justice ministry had informed its Norwegian counterpart in a letter that the request would be “withdrawn.”
A refugee in Norway since 1991 but not a citizen, 60-year-old Krekar — whose real name is Najumuddin Ahmad Faraj — is suspected by Italian police of leading the Rawti Shax, a network with alleged links to the Islamic State group and which is suspected of planning attacks in the West.
Norwegian officials had perceived the extradition request as a blessing for their country, which has been struggling for more than 10 years to rid itself of a man seen as troublesome.
Considered a threat to national security and featuring on UN and US terror lists, Krekar has been at risk of deportation since 2003.
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Norwegian Carlsen Wins Third World Chess Championship
Norwegian Magnus Carlsen extended his dominance over the chess world on Wednesday by winning the World Chess Championship for the third consecutive time on Wednesday, beating his Russian challenger Sergei Karyakin in a tiebreaker.
The win puts Carlsen closer to the status of chess legends such as Garry Kasparov, who dominated the game for 15 years.
Although Karyakin foiled predictions by tying Carlsen in 12 regular rounds, the Norwegian champion beat him in the final phase of four quick-fire extra games.
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Report: The Guardian Publishes Fake News From Notorious Internet Troll
Liberal pundits praise fake story denouncing “alt-right”
A notorious Internet troll reportedly convinced The Guardian to publish a fake news story Monday on his journey to becoming a racist member of the “alt-right.”
Godfrey Elfwich, who jokingly describes Xirself (preferred gender pronoun) as a “Genderqueer Muslim atheist,” has gained a large Twitter following for trolling the far-left. In 2015, Elfwich famously made his way onto a BBC radio show and convinced the host that Star Wars was racist because Darth Vader was black.
In what could be the most trollish act yet, Elfwich appears to have had an article anonymously published on The Guardian entitled, “‘Alt-right’ online poison nearly turned me into a racist.”
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Shock Poll: Four in Ten British Muslims Want Some Aspect of Sharia Law Enforced in UK
Forty-three per cent of followers of the religion living in the country believed that parts of the Islamic legal system should replace British law while only 22 per cent opposed the idea.
Researchers also found “deeply worrying” levels of belief among British Muslims in conspiracy theories such as blaming the US government or “Jews” for the 9/11 terror attacks on America.
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Slovakia Passes Law to Prevent Islam From Registering as a Religion
Europe’s rejection of Islamification continues to build momentum
The legislation hints at a dramatic changing attitude towards the religion in the past year across the continent, which has struggled to stem the escalating migrant crisis.
The former communist state has fiercely resisted European Union (EU) efforts to cope with an influx of migrants travelling into Europe by turning its back on the bloc’s introduction of migrant quotas.
But prime minister Robert Fico’s government has repeatedly said Islam has no place in Slovakia.
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Tennis Match-Fixing: Spain Arrests Six Players, 28 Others
Police in Spain have arrested 34 people in connection with a suspected match-fixing ring in both Spain and Portugal.
The arrested include six tennis players, the country’s interior ministry said, without identifying any of the individuals.
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‘The EU is a Disaster and Le Pen Will Win Presidency’ Chomsky Blasts Brussels Bloc
Marine Le Pen has promised to hold a referendum on France’s place in the EU — similar to Brexit — and Chomsky has tipped the Front National leader to win the presidency in the upcoming election later this year.
Brexit has sparked a series of anti-establishment movements across the world in 2016, with Donald Trump’s Presidential election following and Le Pen’s election becoming a real possibility.
Mr Chomsky said: “I don’t think Germany would initiate it [the collapse of the EU] because they are beneficiaries of the union. If the union falls apart, I think it would be a tragic development.”
The 87-year-old said failed “neoliberal policies of the past generation” had spurred the rise of populism and right-wing movements around the world.
He added: “These programs were designed in such a way so that they would lead to stagnation and even decline for a large part, actually, majority of the population. They also severely undermined democracy, which is even more true in Europe than in the US.
“The result of these processes is that people are angry, disillusioned, their hopes for the future have collapsed.”…
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UK Brexit Minister: Leaving EU Won’t Mean Economic Isolation
Britain’s minister for leaving the European Union tried to reassure businesses on Thursday that exiting the bloc won’t cut the U.K. off from much-needed international workers and investment.
Brexit Secretary David Davis said the U.K. was seeking “the freest possible market in goods and services with the EU and the rest of the world.”
In a speech to the Welsh arm of the Confederation of British Industry, Davis said Britain and the EU “should steer clear of protectionist measures.”
He conceded that many business leaders wanted to remain in the 28-nation EU and its tariff-free single market for goods and services.
The British government has refused to say whether it will try to stay in the single market after it leaves the bloc. EU leaders say that’s impossible unless Britain allows the free movement of workers from other EU countries — something the government says it won’t do.
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UK: Terrorism Exercise Executed by More Than 500 Members of the Emergency Services in London
A three day live exercise to test responses to a terrorist attack has been executed in London.
The exercise, which was five months in the planning, involved more than 500 Met Police officers and members from the military and other partners.
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Update 3 — Hungary Adds Transaction Tax Rebate to 2017 Stimulus Mix
- Plan follows cuts in payroll, corporate taxes, minimum wage hike
- Rebate offered for 20 pct rise in company lending over 2 years
- Analysts see world-beating stimulus in 2017 pre-election year
- Local bank shares post modest gains
- Government to upgrade 2017 GDP growth forecast -minister (Adds upgrade of 2017 growth forecast)
[Comment: Cut taxes and secure the borders. Sounds great to me!]
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Albania: Europe’s Outdoor Cannabis Capital
Albania has become the largest producer of outdoor-grown cannabis in Europe. The potent plant has been described as “green gold” for struggling farmers. In a poor nation, it’s a billion-euro industry.
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Aaron Klein: Breitbart Jerusalem Founded ‘To Counter the Total Bias of the Mainstream Media’
Saying he shares a worldview with Bannon, President-elect Donald Trump’s chief White House strategist, Aaron Klein plans to expand the Israel operation, which staunchly backs the Jewish state’s political right wing. There is talk of moving into the Hebrew market.
“We’re here to counter the total bias of the mainstream media in coverage of Israel,” Klein, 38, said in an interview at his three-story apartment near this city’s beach. “We write for the American audience, a Western audience obviously at this point. I think a huge segment of Israelis also has a pretty [whetted] appetite for an outlet that isn’t controlled by the leftist media mafia.”
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ISIS Tells Fighters to Stop Texting So They Don’t Get Bombed
Leaders of the so-called Islamic State told their underlings to stop using messaging apps so coalition planes can no longer bomb them.
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Israel Bombs Anti-ISIS Forces in Syria
The Israeli air force has bombed a town on the outskirts of the Syrian capital Damascus used as a transit point for the Lebanese Hezbollah group-part of the military alliance fighting ISIS. The Syrians are unable to retaliate because they cannot afford a second front against the Jewish ethnostate while still fighting ISIS.
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Long Way to Go: One-Fifth of Mosul Freed From ISIS Control, US Military Says
Describing the battle to defeat ISIS in Mosul as “very dangerous fighting,” Col. John Dorrian, U.S. spokesman for Operation Inherent Resolve, told Fox News he estimates 20 percent of Mosul has been freed of the militants so far, after more than six weeks of tough fighting by Iraqi forces backed by U.S. airstrikes and support on the ground.
“The Iraqi forces are working very hard to get this done,” Dorrian told Fox News via Skype from Baghdad, “but they are up against a fanatical enemy.”
Making things more complicated: the million-plus residents of Mosul said to have stayed in the city when the fighting began. Officials this week said some 650,000 residents no longer had access to clean drinking water.
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Radioactive Device Stolen in Iran: Officials Warn: “Could Yield a Dirty Bomb”
Conflicting reports from the middle east indicate that a radiological device has disappeared in Iran. The Tehran Times, an Iranian media mouthpiece, claims that an anonymous source has dismissed the reports as politically motivated, saying that the device was a radiological “camera” and nothing more.
But Western intelligence agencies say that the missing material containing the highly unstable isotope Iridium-192 could be used to manufacture a dirty bomb or to poison water supplies:…
In short, someone in the middle east just got ahold of a radioactive device loaded with Iridium-192. Officials says they don’t know where the device is or who may have taken it.
For all we know it could be on its way to Europe or the United States right now.
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Saudi Arabia’s terrorist rehabilitation centre is actually a “hidden radicalisation programme,” an accused al-Qaeda bomb-maker detained at Guantanamo Bay has claimed.
Saudi prisoner Ghassan Abdullah al-Sharbi told a Gitmo parole board: “You guys want to send me back to Saudi Arabia because you believe there is a de-radicalisation programme on the surface, true.
“You are 100 per cent right, there is a strong de-radicalisation programme, but make no mistake, underneath there is a hidden radicalisation programme.”
Al-Sharbi made the comments to the Periodic Review Board, which assesses whether Guantanamo prisoners can be released, in June, according to recently declassified documents.
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Jack Letts, 20, from Oxford, was one of first white converts to join ISIS
The parents of ‘Jihadi Jack’ will face a terror trial next year after they denied sending their son £1,700 knowing it would be used for terrorism.
Jack Letts, 20, from Oxford, became the one of the first white British converts to join ISIS, has changed his name to Abu Mohammed and fathered a son with an Iraqi bride.
His parents John Letts, 55, and wife Sally Lane, 54, are accused of transferring cash to their son despite being warned not to by police on at least three occasions.
The middle class couple, who run an ancient grain business, were allegedly warned they could face criminal prosecution if they sent any money to the Islamic State stronghold of Raqqa.
Jack enjoyed a comfortable upbringing at the hands of Canadian master-thatcher father, John, an organic farmer and archaeobotanist considered a ‘leading light’ in ancient wheat.
His mother, Sally, is a books editor…
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Russia Ready to Cooperate With Trump, Join Anti-Terrorism Efforts
MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Russia is ready to cooperate with Donald Trump Administration, hopes to join efforts with the United States in the fight against international terrorism, in particular in Syria, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday.
[Comment: Trump is saving American jobs, improving US-Russian relations, and the stock market made a new high; and he’s not even President yet!]
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Ukraine Ready to Resume Gas Purchases From Russia
EU, Russia and Ukraine could get together next month to discuss
(ANSA-AP) — MOSCOW — Ukraine’s state-owned energy company says it’s ready to resume gas purchases from Russia.
The statement was released several hours after the Russian energy minister and the European Union’s energy chief met for talks in Moscow on Friday and said representatives of the EU, Russia and Ukraine could get together next month to discuss gas supplies for Ukraine.
Naftogaz stopped buying gas from Russia last November after it had used up a $500 million loan from the European Commission for the purchase of gas supplies that are vital to get through the cold Ukrainian winter. Ukraine has since then relied on the so-called reverse supply of gas, buying it from European countries who had received it from Russia.
Ukraine is a major transit country for Russian gas traveling on to Europe.
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Thai Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn Proclaimed King
Thai Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn, 64, has become the country’s new king, succeeding his much-revered late father King Bhumibol Adulyadej.
He accepted the throne in a televised broadcast following an invitation from parliament, formalising his accession.
King Bhumibol, the world’s longest-reigning monarch, died on 13 October.
The late king was widely seen as a pillar of stability during seven decades of political turmoil in Thailand.
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South Korean Leader Makes Rare Public Appearance as Scandals Threaten Presidency
South Korea’s embattled president on Thursday made an emotional appearance among her citizens for the first time since an escalating scandal exposed her links to million-dollar extortion, a cult leader who served as a personal mentor, and her government’s mass purchases of Viagra and similar drugs.
President Park Geun-hye visibly teared up during her visit to a rural market as parliament lawmakers squabbled over whether to impeach her. The string of controversies has led hundreds of thousands of people to protest in the streets of South Korea for more than a month.
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German Court Forbids Deportation of Migrants to Hungary
German court has ruled that Hungary is now “too dangerous” to send deported migrants as the court alleges the Hungarian government treats them inhumanely.
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Increasing Number of Migrants Smuggled in Freight Trains
Migrants in Austria are frequently being discovered in the cars of freight trains as they attempt to sneak across the border from Italy, leading to several deaths.
Four migrants from Eritrea were arrested Tuesday in the Austrian region of Tyrol after police discovered them in one of the cars of a freight train, OE24 reports.
The migrants were attempting to sneak into the country from Italy, which has become inundated with a record number of migrants crossing the Mediterranean Sea this year.
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Slovakia Passes Law to Ban Islam Being Registered as Religion in Face of EU Migrant Quotas
The legislation hints at a dramatic changing attitude towards the religion in the past year across the continent, which has struggled to stem the escalating migrant crisis.
The former communist state has fiercely resisted European Union (EU) efforts to cope with an influx of migrants travelling into Europe by turning its back on the bloc’s introduction of migrant quotas.
But prime minister Robert Fico’s government has repeatedly said Islam has no place in Slovakia.
Attitudes toward the religion appear to reflect fear of so-called Islamisation…
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‘This Spells War!’ Turkey Prepares Dinghies to Send 3,000 Migrants to Europe Every Day
The Government in Turkey has prepared thousands of dinghies and motorboats along the coast, Greek analysts claim, to be used if the seemingly doomed refugee deal agreed between Ankara and Brussels officially fails.
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EPA: Gender is ‘Male, Female, A Blend of Both, Or Neither’
Agency continues collecting info about employees’ sexual orientation
The Environmental Protection Agency is entering its second phase of a data project to collect information on the sexual orientation of its employees.
The Sexual Orientation Gender Identity (SOGI) pilot program allows EPA employees to voluntarily disclose their gender identity and sexual orientation, information that the agency says is “crucial” to an “inclusive” workplace.
After first focusing on employees in Midwestern states, the EPA is now opening up the database to all employees so they can answer questions about their sexual preferences and gender, specifying whether they are “male, female, a blend of both, or neither.” All employees will be able to answer the questions early next month.
[Comment: We have now entered the “bizarro” world of official DNA denial.]
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‘Fixer Upper’ Couple Attacked for Attending ‘Anti-Gay’ Church
Media, LGBT activists unleash fury on Christian stars of HGTV show
Hosts Chip and Joanna Gaines have not only made Waco, Texas a tourist destination, but they’ve also educated us about the many uses of shiplap.
If you aren’t a fan of the show, you might want to Google that.
I also appreciate that Chip and Joanna are devout Christians. Viewers can see how their faith flavors not only their television program — but also their family life.
But not everyone appreciates those Christian beliefs — especially the militant LGBT crowd.
And now, they are on the warpath.
The Mainstream Media and militant LGBT activists are unleashing their fury over reports the Gaines family attends Antioch Community Church, a non-denominational megachurch.
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French Lawmakers Debating Bill to Criminalize Online Pro-Life Advocacy
The legislation would extend the ambit of already-illegal “interference” in abortion to cover digital media
French lawmakers on Thursday will debate and vote on a government-backed draft law that could criminalize online pro-life advocacy. The legislation would extend the ambit of already-illegal “interference” in abortion to cover digital media.
Any website carrying material that is deemed to be “deliberately misleading, intimidating and/or exerting psychological or moral pressure” aimed at persuading a mother not to abort her child could face criminal charges, with punishments of two years in prison and a fine of 30,000 euros ($31,800).
A Catholic archbishop has called the move “a very serious attack on the principles of democracy.”
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Ohio State University Terrorist Was a Social Justice Warrior
PC culture is now not only a threat to free speech, but a tool for violent radicalization
Abdul Razak Ali Artan was undergoing politically correct “microaggression” indoctrination
The Ohio State University terrorist who went on a vehicle and knife rampage before being shot dead was a social justice warrior who had been studying a branch of political correctness before the attack.
According to OSU student Hallie Crow, ISIS-inspired jihadist Abdul Razak Ali Artan was part of a group assignment working on a presentation about “microaggressions”.
Microaggressions are a set of words and behaviors characterized by far left professors and radicals as being politically incorrect, racist or offensive towards minorities.
According to different universities, microaggressions include “identifying as American,” and using the word “American” because it is “problematic”.
Other discouraged words and phrases included, “obese,” “normal,” “mothering,” “fathering,” “homosexual,” “illegal alien,” and “senior citizens.”
A professor at Portland College also characterized a white person smiling at a black person as a microaggression.
The fact that Artan was undergoing politically correct indoctrination illustrates how PC culture is now not only a threat to free speech, but a tool for violent radicalization.
[Comment: microagressions training is used to emotionally drive the person to a near constant state of anger and outrage.]
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Oregon School District Bans Santa, ‘Religious-Themed’ Christmas Decorations
“We will not be holding a door decorating contest this year.”
Officials in the Hillsboro School District contend they’re not banning Santa from school, they just don’t want staff using his likeness during the Christmas season.
“We will not be holding a door decorating contest this year,” district officials wrote in a memo to staff at area high schools. “You may still decorate your door or office if you like, but we ask that you be respectful and sensitive to diverse perspectives and beliefs of our community and refrain from using religious-themed decorations or images like Santa Claus.”
Hillsboro spokeswoman Beth Graser told WGRZ the memo was sent to secondary school principals because the Christmas door decoration contest made some people uncomfortable in years past, and the district wants to maintain “inclusive and welcoming spaces” for all, including students who don’t believe in Santa…
The news site reports several other area school districts have similar policies regarding Christmas decorations, including Portland Public Schools, Beaverton School District, North Clackamas School District and the Oregon City School District.
[Comment: Santa is used as cover for forcing any reminder of Christ out of Christmas.]
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UK Scientists Want to Create Three-Person Baby
Doctors say that now is the time to try the technique on the public
While the idea of a three-person baby has been on the table for a while now, doctors in the United Kingdom have now sought permission to create the country’s first three-person baby.
This treatment will then be available to patients that have been carefully screened and selected.
The decision will be made next month on whether or not the UK will move ahead with the controversial treatment.
[Comment: This is tampering with the germ-line. ie. The DNA changes are transferable to the next generation — genetic pollution that is a one way ticket and not reversable. All part of the slow-kill depopulation agenda. Watch for genetic diseases to increase.]
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Islam: War on Women and Western Society
Globalists export chaos to the Middle East and medieval culture to the West
Alex Jones covers how the globalists are spreading Islam to Western society to turn them into third world hellholes.
While leftists accuse the West of being a “rape culture” that mistreats women, the brutality displayed against females in Muslim countries is completely ignored.
Meanwhile, as Moroccan television teaches women to cover up their domestic violence bruises with makeup, CNN tells American women to put hijabs over their heads.
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** Plan Vigipirate, which now features three levels of warnings **
Level 1 – All clear.
Level 2 – Glazed donut shortage.
Level 3 – Dieudonné gives quenelle.
New highest level – Muslim army advancing from Marseille; caliphate declared.
** Even David Oddsson, who was prime minister in 2002 . . . is a poet by training **
Stand back!! A trained poet!
**doctors in the United Kingdom have now sought permission to create the country’s first three-person baby **
Playing God. Who are these swine who risk a child’s being known as a freak of nature, not to mention being subject to horrible genetic diseases as JD notes? Who would risk marriage with such a person if having a family is important?
What is the “problem” for which this “treatment” is a solution?
The “problem” is congenital diseases, which have led couples to make the heartrending decision not to have children. Why do others have a problem with this?
I have a huge problem with three-parent children.
The Unintended Consequences of such machinations could quickly become an expensive burden on the larger culture. Such profound changes call into question all sorts of previously settled laws and practices.
Just because technology permits new permutations does not mean those permutations ought be allowed sans any public discussion of possible outcomes. There needs to be at least some rough agreement on how to ethically handle unforeseen problems arising from such a profound change.
I’m with you on this, Mark. If it’s for such dire medical reasons, this isn’t just playing around with genes for fun and people desperate to be parents should be helped.
I’m much more worried about people who *know* that they can/will pass on very severe illnesses or disabilities, and then still decide to have children. I’ve seen supposedly ‘heart-rending’ stories in newspapers showing people who knowingly had severely disabled children, going on about how much they love them, who have even had more children with these disabilities. They are bringing people into this world who will suffer and maybe die young, just so they can have someone to love and care for. I just don’t understand it.
There is not a scientific solution to every human problem.
Where is it written that geneticists have a complete understanding of DNA and that their techniques for splicing genes are foolproof? Let them make their case for how particular conditions can be avoided so that there can be public discussion.
The possibility of acceptance is reduced by referring to the intended resulting infant as a “three-parent” baby. That does not imply a precise, limited replacement of one or two defective genes but something more extensive and, frankly, creepy. Public relations geniuses these people are not. It makes it sound like they are tinkering for the heck of it. If they have an ameliorative purpose let them describe it that way.
Personally, when scientists start talking about patients being carefully screened and vetted the hairs on the back of my neck go up. Sure they are. Just like those new drugs that come onto the market.
It’s the same when I hear of “carefully screening and vetting” economic and hijra migration opportunists, but that’s another story.
Our Marxists still control most of the institutions inside the dying Western civilization.
Let us hope, that after Sundays poll the Renzi-Administration in Italy will be history.
Because this idiot otherwise will continue scooping so called refugees inside Italy and the
EU in the hundreds of thousands.
Knowing quiet well, that almost none of them wants to stay in Italy anyway.
They literally picking them up… err, rescue them in sight of the north african coast.
In some sense he is even worse then Merkel.