Hundreds of migrants from the Honduran “caravan” in Tijuana attempted to storm the US border at San Ysidro, crossing the river on foot and attacking the barriers. Border police on the American side fired tear gas at the would-be immigrants.
In other news, Slovakia has announced that it will not sign the UN migration pact, while Sweden promises that it will. Matteo Salvini and the Italian government have not yet revealed their decision.
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America’s ‘Ministry of Truth, ‘ Part II: The Institution
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A recent study published in Econ Journal Watch shows why. The authors examined Democrat-to-Republican (D—R) ratios across five disciplines, including journalism, at 40 leading universities, including some of the most prestigious institutions in the country. Although unlikely to produce an “a-ha!” moment, their findings still have the capacity to shock.
For instance, Democrats outnumber Republicans across the board by a ratio of 11.5-to-1, leading the authors to remark that “in most humanities/social-science fields a Republican is a rare bird.” Furthermore, “in 42 percent of the departments, Republican registrants were as scarce as or scarcer than left minor-party registrants.” Which is to say that for most departments, a Republican has the status of a museum piece. …
Thus, when Jim Acosta is relieved of his White House press credentials for habitual boorishness, along with the practice of asking questions that follow the “have you stopped beating your wife” template; when April Ryan shouts the question, “Are you a racist?” to the president; and when both are unapologetically defended by their media colleagues, one may safely assume America’s Ministry of Truth is functioning in ways not entirely unexpected by its commissars.
And as a reminder, there’s that pesky 92 percent negative reporting thing going on.
This suggests that even the term “group-think” fails to describe the process; “lock-step” does more heavy lifting, more fully conveys Minitrue’s approach—especially when it comes to deciding what is news and how it should be reported. This is the next topic in our review of America’s Ministry of Truth.
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America’s ‘Ministry of Truth, ‘ Part III: What is News?
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Hanson argues that the real problem conservatives face has little to do with trying to scoop up this or that part of the electorate before 2020. For those terrified by progressive statism, the situation is much worse than that: “Conservatives have lost entirely the culture and establishment wars,” Hanson states. “The result is that they are besieged by a circle of hostile progressive, but quite establishment institutions that are relentless.”
How relentless? From the continuous avalanche of progressive propaganda that floods airwaves and print media every day, often smothering scattered islands of independent thought, only a few examples will be selected: one from a few years ago and another dealing with the horrific mass murder that took place in Pittsburgh in October 2018. …
In Attkisson’s fascinating treatment of her time with CBS, superbly entitled, “Stonewalled: My Fight for Truth Against the Forces of Obstruction, Intimidation, and Harassment in Obama’s Washington,” she stated: “When left-wingers praised my work, it didn’t seem to ruffle any feathers among my colleagues at CBS. But when conservatives expressed support for my stories, some insiders viewed me as the enemy. She’s not one of us. Or else she wouldn’t be pursuing stories like that.
“So, the theory apparently goes something like this: I was a fair reporter when I examined the Bush-era controversies. But when I started digging into Obama administration problems, I was suddenly a fanatic bent on destroying the president and all good things liberal.” …
And woe to those who believe otherwise, who stray from The Narrative to see with eyes unjaundiced by The Narrative’s constraints—just ask Attkisson and the many others, especially public figures not as favorably situated or sufficiently savvy to grasp how America’s Ministry of Truth operates.
The consequences for Minitrue apostasy will be covered in our next treatment: crime and punishment.
[See also:
America’s ‘Ministry of Truth,’ Part I: The Narrative
https://www.theepochtimes.com/americas-ministry-of-truth-part-i-the-narrative_2711399.html ]
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Democrats Anti-American Agenda, Part 1
As we begin to slosh our way out of the 2018 Midterm elections, we are made aware to at least two glaring realities. First, the Democrats will do anything to win an election, legal or not, and not care how open they are about it. And second, they will do anything to undo the 2016 presidential election.
I remember very well when Hillary Clinton stated that if a person didn’t accept the results of an election in America that it would be ‘direct threat to our democracy’ if he didn’t accept the results of the 2016 election. The reason she said that was because she was assured that she would win. George Soros even said that Trump may win the popular vote, but Clinton would win the Electoral College. It was “a done deal”. If it was a ‘done deal’, then the election had to be rigged. But that is just how bad of a candidate Hillary was, she couldn’t even win an election that was massively rigged in her favor.
Let me quote our Founders on the type of person that we need to have in office. Thomas Jefferson stated, “The great principles of right and wrong are legible to every reader; to pursue them requires not the aid of many counselors. The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest. Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.” You see that he brings up a point that the Democrats are not capable of achieving, honesty. Jefferson was very big on government that kept to its constitutional role. He didn’t like the judiciary very much because he saw that they could, and probably would, become an oligarchy that would become more powerful that the other two branches combined. They have achieved that objective. When Justice Sotomayor was going through the conformation process a video of her, which has somehow disappeared from the internet, claiming that even though they are not supposed to make law, they do it all the time. She did say this in a 2005 Duke University panel discussion; “All of the legal defense funds out there, they’re looking for people with Court of Appeals experience. Because it is — Court of Appeals is where policy is made. And I know, and I know, that this is on tape, and I should never say that. Because we don’t ‘make law,’ I know. [Laughter from audience] Okay, I know. I know. I’m not promoting it, and I’m not advocating it. I’m, you know. [More laughter] Having said that, the Court of Appeals is where, before the Supreme Court makes the final decision, the law is percolating. Its interpretation, its application.
Jefferson warned on wanton interpretation of our Constitution by jurists who hold strong party ideals. “Our peculiar security is in possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction. … If it is, then we have no Constitution. … [T]o consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions … would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy. … In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.”
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Exclusive: Trump Set to Indict Hillary Clinton & Other Deep Staters in Coming Months
The desperate Swamp is aware that their end is near and is trying to discredit AG Whitaker.
President Trump is keen on indicting Hillary Clinton, as he promised he would do during his presidential campaign. Alex Jones breaks down how the Deep State is hell-bent on preventing Trump from restoring law and order in the Justice Department.
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Canada Francophones Gear Up for Fight Over Education, Rights
OTTAWA (AFP) — A French-language university cancelled by Ontario’s government this month has kindled the passions of Canada’s francophone minority, who are set to replay their historical rights struggle.
In addition to nixing the proposed university that was to open in Toronto in 2020, the province with the largest francophone minority in the country — outside of Quebec — also cut funding for francophone theater troupes.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford, the brother of Toronto’s late crack-smoking mayor, responded to a barrage of criticism, saying the move “has nothing to do with personal (grudges or other) against any Franco-Ontarians.”
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Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Buying the Media in Time for 2019 Election
As he eyes his reelection, Justin Trudeau, who plays for keeps, is coming on like a Banana Republic dictator.
Buying the media is buying the Election.
This is what Trudeau was doing before blowing more than half a billion dollars for the domestic media:
It was only weeks ago when dictatorial Trudeau publicly defended a decision by Statistics Canada to compel banks and financial institutions to release the personal transaction data of 500,000 people without their consent.
“Conservative House Leader Candice Bergen grilled Trudeau during question period Monday following a report by Global News that revealed Statistics Canada is asking the country’s nine largest banks for the transaction data of 500,000 randomly chosen Canadians, including everything from bill payments to cash withdrawals from ATMs to credit card payments and even account balances.
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Canadian Companies Warned About Espionage if They Use Technology From Foreign State-Owned Firms
Canadian companies should watch out when they use technology supplied by state-owned companies from countries that want to steal corporate secrets, the country’s security agencies have warned them.
The RCMP organized two workshops last March — one in Calgary, the other in Toronto — to raise awareness about threats to critical systems, including espionage and foreign interference, cyberattacks, terrorism and sabotage, newly disclosed documents show.
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A Sharia Victory in the Netherlands
The Islamist mob is training many societies, and most particularly non-Muslims within them, to behave the way it wants them to behave.
This November was meant to be the month for MP Geert Wilders’ second “Draw Muhammad” contest, but Islamic law won a de facto victory over Dutch law mere weeks ago as Wilders announced the contest’s cancellation. When — among many other threats similar attacks — a 19-year-old Afghan stabbed two American tourists in Amsterdam, citing the planned contest as motive, Wilders canceled the event out of concern about further violence.
The Islamists had made their point: “Having the law on your side makes no difference. Do what we want, or somebody is going to get hurt.”
Such antics by Islamist Muslims are not new to Wilders and other speech and conscience advocates. In retribution for his firm and outspoken stance on this subject, he has “spent 15 years living in safe houses and escorted by a security detail due to constant death threats.” These are the tactics, of course, of any common mafia.
In securing Wilders’ retreat, the terrorists established Sharia’s authority for now in the Netherlands on the issue of speech.
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Brexit Deal Critics Gather in Belfast on Eve of EU Summit
BELFAST (AFP) — Opposition to a draft Brexit deal due to be approved by EU leaders will dominate a conference on Saturday of the Democratic Unionist Party, the Northern Irish party whose support is vital to Prime Minister Theresa May’s government and Brexit plans.
Britain’s former foreign minister Boris Johnson, a staunch critic of the deal, will be attending — along with Fabian Picardo, Chief Minister of Gibraltar, which is at the heart of a row that could also undermine Sunday’s EU summit.
The DUP has propped up Prime Minister Theresa May’s government ever since an election in 2017 in which her Conservatives lost their majority and were forced to turn to the right-wingers for help.
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Eight in Ten French Support ‘Yellow Jacket’ Protesters to Shut Down Paris
A new poll has shown a surge of support for the “gilets jaunes” or Yellow Vest protestors, who vowed to shut down the French capital on Saturday to protest higher fuel taxes and the government of President Emmanuel Macron.
The poll, conducted by polling firm Odoxa, found that 77 percent, or eight in ten, French surveyed thought the proposed shutting down of the French capital by the protestors was a legitimate action Le Figaro reports.
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EU Warns Italy: Change Budget or Face the Consequences
European Parliament President Antonio Tajani has warned Italy that its citizens will “suffer” the price of a “bad budget” unless its government makes significant changes to its plans.
“We’ll see if Italy wants to change the budget,” said Tajani, “it is a matter of substance.” “Changing manners is good, but the content is more important.
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EU leaders have wasted little time in gloating over “the worst deal in history” negotiated by Theresa May, with French president Emmanuel Macron gloating he can blackmail Britain into surrendering its fishing waters or force it into the humiliating “backstop”.
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France: What Riots? ABC Ignores Paris Burning Amid Protests Against Gas Tax Hike
As Americans begun celebrating the holiday season, almost 300,000 French people took to the streets to protest a massive fuel tax hike proposed by President Emmanuel Macron to fight climate change. The protests turned violent Saturday as the now-rioters began digging up the streets of Paris and trying to construct barricades as police fought back with tear gas and water cannons. Despite this ongoing battle, ABC News had not reported one word about it on air. Not even on Saturday’s World News Tonight.
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France: Le Pen Denies Inciting Yellow Vest Violence on Champs Elysées
France’s Far-right leader Marine Le Pen says she had “never called for any violence”, after clashes in Paris between police and Yellow Vest protesters, as she ridiculed Interior Minister Christophe Castaner’s accusation that she had called them onto the Champs-Elysées.
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French Tax Rebels to Try to Block Paris in Fight With Macron
PARIS (AFP) — Demonstrators who have blocked French roads over the past week dressed in high-visibility jackets, are set to cause another day of disruption on Saturday amid calls to bring Paris to a standstill.
Security forces are on high alert again, but face difficulties in predicting where crowds will gather to support what is still a largely spontaneous movement led by angry voters in rural and small-town France.
Nearly 300,000 people blocked motorways, roundabouts, businesses, and fuel depots last Saturday and smaller protests have continued this week, with an estimated 5,000 people still taking part on Friday.
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French Farmer Stabbed by Man on Terror Watchlist Protests Attack Not Labelled Terrorism
A French farmer who was attacked by a knife-wielding man yelling “Allahu Ackbar” has complained that the prosecution in the case has not treated the crime as terrorism despite the attacker also being on France’s terror watch list.
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German Robot Maker Kuka’s CEO to be Replaced by Chinese Owners
Nearly two years after a hostile Chinese takeover, Kuka’s Chief Executive Till Reuter is to be replaced. The industrial robot maker recently revised down its 2018 revenue prediction and its share price has plummeted.
German industrial robot maker Kuka on Saturday said it was planning to replace its CEO Till Reuter.
In a statement, the DAX listed company said the head of the supervisory board and Reuter “are discussing the premature termination of Mr. Reuter’s Executive Board activities.” It said the supervisory board had not yet discussed the changes. No further details were given.
Reuter’s departure comes nearly two years after Kuka was the subject of a hostile takeoverby China’s largest home appliances manufacturer Midea, which now holds almost 95 percent of the German firm’s shares.
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Hungary: Orban Blames Soros for Gruevski’s Case
Referring to bank cards and visa for migrants, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said in a public radio interview on Friday that pro-migration forces consider European institutions as a “transport agency”, because they believe migration is in Europe’s interest.
Orban said this was to Hungary’s detriment. Only after the European parliamentary election will the situation change, he added. He said that whereas the European Union justified repressive measures against European citizens by citing the fight against money laundering, the European Commission “is giving anonymous bank cards to people we don’t know … and many of them become terrorists and criminals.” “The rightful question is, why is this happening and where does the money come from,”he said. Fidesz MEPs, he added are investigating the matter, he added.
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Italy: Ready for EU Budget Talks Till Bitter End — Di Maio
Govt wants to explain virtues of the package says deputy premier
(ANSA) — Milan, November 23 — Deputy Premier and Labour and Industry Minister Luigi Di Maio said Friday that the government was ready to take talks to “the bitter end” to find an agreement after the European Commission this week rejected its budget plan for 2019. The Commission says the package, which sees Italy running a deficit of 2.4% of GDP next year, breaches the EU’s budget rules.
The government has refused to make major changes, saying an expansive budget is needed to finance key pledges and boost sluggish growth. “We must try to have dialogue till the bitter end with all the European Commissioner, with the Commission, to explain the virtues of these measures and, above all, to explain how the budget can improve, especially in terms of cutting waste,” the 5-Star Movement (M5S) leader said. Di Maio said the government’s key pledges will kick off as planned in 2019.
These are a pension reform to effectively bring down the retirement age by making it possible to start claiming a State pension when a person’s age plus their years of social-security contributions add up to 100 and a ‘citizenship wage’ basic income for job seekers. Italy has also come under pressure on the financial markers over the budget.
“When the budget is definitively approved by the end of the year, you’ll see that the everyone will understand the new measures,” Di Maio said.
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Major UK City Slashes FGM Measures, 95 Percent Crash in Referrals
Bristol Council has deliberately rolled back attempts to tackle Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), leading to a 95 percent crash in the number of referrals, after claims they were “over-policing” the Somali community.
An FGM safeguarding group for the city — England’s tenth-largest — which works with the council and police altered guidelines for referring girls suspected of being at risk of the grim practice this summer, Bristol Live reports.
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May’s Betrayal Agreement Signed: Britain on the Road to Brexit in Name Only
EU leaders have signed off on the Brexit agreement negotiated with Theresa May, described as “the worst deal in history” by Leavers.
The Remain-voting Prime Minister’s deal with the European Union — if ratified by the British Parliament and European Parliament — could condemn the United Kingdom to “perpetual purgatory” or even no Brexit at all, as Britain’s departure would be followed by a lengthy “transition” period in which it would remain subject to all the rules and regulations of an EU member-state, but without representation in the EU’s institutions.
European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker, EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier, Theresa May herself, and EU leaders including Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte are all claiming the agreement is “the only deal possible” — a coded and likely co-ordinated warning to Brexiteer MPs in the House of Commons who have said they will vote it down and argued for a rapid renegotiation.
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No OK to EU Budget if Farm Cuts — Salvini
Farm contributions an issue dear to me, personal battle
(ANSA) — Cagliari, November 23 — Itay will not say yes to the European Union budget if there are cuts to the farm budget, Deputy Premier and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said Friday.
“This government vows to not approve any European budget if it cuts even a single cent from Italian and Sardinian agriculture,” he said on a visit to the Italian island.
“The issue of Euroepan contributions to agriculture has been dear to me ever since I became an MEP, it is a personal battle of mine”.
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Prime Minister Viktor Orban bemoaned the endorsement on Sunday by EU leaders in Brussels of the Brexit withdrawal agreement, calling the day “a real Black Sunday” and “a sad day for the European Union”.
Speaking in Brussels, Orban told public television news channel M1 that Hungary had tried to convince the UK to remain in the EU, even intervening in the Brits’ campaign, but to no avail. “Now we have no other choice but to acknowledge the decision that has been taken,” he said.
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President Macron Admits That France is in a “Moral Crisis” And Calls it “Unfair”
Twenty-Eighteen just hasn’t been his year. The beleaguered and most unpopular of French Presidents in recent times, Emmanuel Macron, admitted on Saturday that France is in a “moral crisis”.
Macron implicitly refers to the “Yellow Vest” or “Hi Viz” protestors across the country who are protesting in the streets against rising fuel taxes and calling for Macron to resign.
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‘Shame on’ Anti-Government Protesters, Says Macron as France Revolts Over Green Fuel Tax
French president Emmanuel Macron has painted swathes of anti-tax-hike protesters as violent amid calls for his resignation over his ‘progressive’ policies.
President Macron said Saturday: “Shame on those who attacked [police and emergency services]. Shame on those who have abused other citizens and journalists. Shame on those who tried to intimidate the elect. [There is] no place for this violence in the Republic.”
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Swedish Train Driver Who Warned Against Pickpockets Reported for Racism
“Unusual announcements” have been called out in the subway during the past week. Several people attest that the announcer, on various occasions, has pointed out a certain group as pickpockets.
The group seems to be beggars. Josefin Meissner is one of those who has reported the announcements to SL (Stockholm Public Transport).
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Swiss Vote No in Sovereignty Referendum
Swiss voters have rejected a proposal to give Swiss law precedence over international law and treaties, according to results coming in from a national referendum.
Figures based on partial results give 67% against and 33% in favour, national broadcaster SRF said.
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Trump Ups Pressure on Macron as Weighs in on French Demos
WASHINGTON (AFP) — Donald Trump piled pressure on Emmanuel Macron Sunday, pushing for resolutions to disputes on trade and defense spending, as he weighed in on the mass protests against his French counterpart’s government.
Writing on Twitter, Trump showed he had been keeping an eye on Saturday’s demonstrations across France and refrained from showing sympathy for the beleaguered Macron, whose once cozy ties with the US president have chilled.
“The large and violent French protests don’t take into account how badly the United States has been treated on Trade by the European Union or on fair and reasonable payments for our GREAT military protection,” said Trump.
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UK: Community Kitchen Backed by Meghan Markle is Housed Inside Mosque Linked to 19 Extremists
Another Markle Debacle: Community kitchen supported by Meghan’s cookbook is inside mosque ‘which has links to 19 terror suspects including Jihadi John’.
The Al Manaar Muslim Cultural Heritage Centre was chosen by Ms. Markle for the cookbook in which she participated to raise money for the victims of the Grenfell Tower fire.
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UK: Facebook Documents Seized by MPs Investigating Privacy Breach
A cache of Facebook documents has been seized by MPs investigating the Cambridge Analytica data scandal.
Rarely used parliamentary powers were used to demand that the boss of a US software firm hand over the details.
The Observer, which first reported the story, said the documents included data about Facebook’s privacy controls.
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UK: MI6 Scrambling to Stop Trump From Releasing Classified Docs in Russia Probe
The UK’s Secret Intelligence Service, otherwise known as MI6, has been scrambling to prevent President Trump from publishing classified materials linked to the Russian election meddling investigation, according to The Telegraph, stating that any disclosure would “undermine intelligence gathering if he releases pages of an FBI application to wiretap one of his former campaign advisers.”
Trump’s allies, however, are fighting back — demanding transparency and suggesting that the UK wouldn’t want the documents withheld unless it had something to hide…
Perhaps the Brits are also concerned since much of the espionage performed on the Trump campaign was conducted on UK soil throughout 2016.
[Comment: Likely UK intelligence were involved in the fake story of Trump and Russia.]
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UK: Theresa May Writes ‘Letter to the Nation’ Begging Support for ‘Worst Deal in History’
Theresa May has written a “letter to the nation” begging the public to support her Brexit deal, which has been signed off by EU leaders but could be voted down in Parliament by Tory Brexiteers and Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party (DUP).
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Where Were the Brexit ‘No-Deal’ Warnings During the Scottish Independence Debate?
What about the threatened biblical plagues that will supposedly be visited on us if we leave without a deal? Why were these blood-curdling threats not made in the Scottish referendum? Quite rightly, no one would have believed such stories. No one would ever have imagined that the rest of the UK would have blockaded Scotland; and Brussels knew that if it had ordered Britain to institute a blockade that order would have been ignored, creating an immediate crisis for the whole EU edifice.
So why do Brussels and the civil service now make fearful threats about no deal? Where Brussels, Berlin and Paris are concerned, the answer is obvious. In the Scottish case, they reasoned on the principle that ‘my enemy’s [England’s] enemy [Scotland, as they saw it, ignoring three hundred years of shared history] is my friend.’ In the Brexit case, there is just an enemy — Britain — which must be impoverished, subjugated and humiliated. As for the domestic branch of the nomenklatura, one shudders to think what might be shaping its attitude.
The economic and, importantly, financial-system cost (and, even more, the security and defence cost) to the EU as a whole — and particularly to some individual EU countries, such as Ireland, and sectors, such as the German auto industry — of a no-deal Brexit and no FTA will be substantial. May’s deal, in contrast, would be very beneficial to the EU, allowing it to impose additional regulatory burdens on British firms and gain access to British markets on terms unfavourable to Britain, as bait in FTAs with other countries. So one can understand why the EU prefers May’s capitulation deal, even without taking into consideration the dreadful dilemma for the EU about the Irish border question it will have created for itself if there is no deal.
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Will the Yellow Vest Protests Push France Further to the Right?
France’s so-called yellow vest protests are a vehicle for those who feel left behind by politicians in the capital. The demonstrations could boost support for far-right parties. Lisa Louis reports from Paris.
Demonstrations are nothing out of the ordinary in France. But the yellow vest protests are different. The grassroots movement that sprung up on social networks mostly includes working-class people who had never before taken to the streets. They are outraged by new fuel taxes, which will make it even more difficult for them to make ends meet. That adds to their feeling of being left behind by the politicians in Paris.
Around 300,000 people demonstrated last week across France. Tens of thousands have continued to block roads, shopping centers and government buildings over the past few days. On Saturday, another large gathering is planned in Paris.
Christophe Chalencon has been blocking roads in the southern Vaucluse department. The blacksmith in his 50s voted for the centrist Emmanuel Macron in last year’s presidential election, but now feels betrayed by him.
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Will Britain’s Parliament Join in May’s Betrayal?
With claims of it being the “best and only deal possible”, EU leaders have approved an agreement on the UK’s withdrawal and future relations.
Though Leave voters will disagree with that statement as we are not leaving the EU with Mrs. May’s ‘checkered deal’, in fact, Jacob Rees-Mogg has said that there is nothing even resembling Article 50 for a way out of the EU, the UK will be locked in, so it’s living up to it’s #BrexitNotBrexit nickname.
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Bahrain Heads to Polls Amid Boycott Calls
DUBAI (AFP) — Bahrainis headed to the polls Saturday amid calls to boycott the parliamentary election in which dissolved opposition groups have been banned from taking part.
The country’s two main opposition groups, the Shiite Al-Wefaq and secular Waad, were barred from fielding candidates, prompting renewed calls for a boycott.
The polls opened at 8am local time (0500 GMT) and are set to close at 8pm.
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New Species of Lobster Discovered in Oman
Muscat — The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries registered a new type of lobster (Japanese blunthorn) in the Sea of Oman, which was found by an Omani fisherman from Seeb at a depth of 70-85 meters.
The ministry said the species lives on the rocky seabed, or coral reefs rock slopes at depths of 100-200 meters below sea level.
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Turkey Wipes Out the Christian Culture of Occupied Cyprus
A sixth-century mosaic of Saint Mark, stolen from a church after Turkey’s military invaded Cyprus in 1974, was recently recovered in a Monaco apartment and returned to Cypriot officials. The ancient masterpiece was described by Arthur Brand, the Dutch investigator who located it, as “one of the last and most beautiful examples of art from the early Byzantine era.”
Many other cultural Cypriot relics, from churches and other sites, were stolen from Cyprus by Turkish invaders and smuggled abroad. Some were recovered and returned in the past. In 1989, mosaics stolen from the Church of Panagia Kanakaria, discovered in the United States, were returned to Cyprus.
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Pope Francis Prays Soviet Starvation Massacre of Ukrainians Never be Repeated
Pope Francis recalled Sunday the manmade, Stalin-era famine that killed millions of Ukrainians in the early 20th century, praying that such a massacre never be repeated.
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Ukraine Considers Declaring Martial Law After Apparent Defeat in Russia Naval Skirmishes
The Ukrainian president will ask his parliament to consider enacting martial law after three Ukrainian navy ships were fired upon and captured in the Black Sea on Sunday.
The incident followed a day of high tension and took place near the Crimean Peninsula, a site of historic tensions between the two countries. Russia has blamed Ukraine for starting the clash, which saw ships ramming each other, shots fired, and boardings launched.
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Eight Killed as Kashmir Reels From Deadly Year
SRINAGAR (INDIA) (AFP) — Eight people were killed Sunday in violence in Indian-administered Kashmir, capping off one of the deadliest weeks this year in a region already suffering its worst bloodshed in a decade.
Kashmir-based rights monitors say 528 people have died this year from armed conflict in the disputed Himalayan territory claimed in full by both India and Pakistan, including 145 civilians.
It is the deadliest year since 2009, said the Jammu Kashmir Coalition of Civil Societies, underscoring a worsening security situation in the Muslim-majority region controlled by India and half a million of its troops.
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InfoWars Predicted it: China Social Credit Score to Go Nationwide by 2020
Authoritarian system being implemented globally as world breaks from ‘Mark of the Beast’ technology
As Infowars predicted, China is poised to judge all 1.3 billion of its citizens by 2021 based on their behavior with a credit program that personalizes ratings for each one, according to reports.
According to the Bejing government’s website, the capital city will be rewarding and punishing its 22 million citizens by the end of 2020, and those who score poorly will be unable to participate in everyday life.
The social credit program will use a combination of facial recognition technology, mobile phone numbers, government IDs, and immersive surveillance systems to determine which citizen is exhibiting “pro-social” behavior.
“The Beijing project will improve blacklist systems so that those deemed untrustworthy will be ‘unable to move even a single step,’“ Bloomberg reported Wednesday. “Those with better so-called social credit will get ‘green channel’ benefits while those who violate laws will find life more difficult.”
Infowars has been warning of this authoritarian program for years.
In 2014, we reported that Big Tech giants like Facebook were cooperating with China’s Communist government to begin building the system.
And in 2015, we reported that the so-called “Sesame Credit” social score program is operated by Chinese companies Alibaba and Tencent, who control the country’s social media.
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New Stone Tools Analysis Challenges Theories of Human Evolution in East Asia
A new study of stone tools from a cave site in China shows that sophisticated “Levallois” tool-making techniques were present in East Asia at a much earlier date than previously thought.
The findings challenge the existing model of the origin and spread of these techniques in East Asia, with implications for theories of the dispersal of modern humans around the world.
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North and South Korean Soldiers Shake Hands on Dmz in Signs of Peace
Standing holding guns, the two soldiers reach out to each other and shake hands with an invisible border and steel posts between them.
The soldiers smile and talk as they survey the work their armies and teams have been doing as their heavily armed colleagues look on.
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With oil exploration looming on the horizon for the Great Australian Bight, stakeholders felt it was an important time to learn more about the species that call the rough waters off Australia’s southern coastline home.
In a joint effort between BP, The South Australian Research and Development Institute [SARDI], the CSIRO, the University of Adelaide and Flinders University, the Great Australian Bight’s deep sea waters have been surveyed for the first time and results have revealed 400 new species of invertebrates.
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Former Brazilian Leaders Rousseff and Lula Accused in Fresh Graft Case
BRASÍLIA (AFP) — Brazil has opened criminal proceedings against former left-wing leaders Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff for allegedly receiving bribes with money diverted from state-owned oil giant Petrobras.
The Workers Party (PT) of the two ex-presidents has strongly denied the charges, calling them a “scandalous maneuver” with partisan motives.
In addition to Lula and Rousseff, the PT’s current president and several former ministers are implicated.
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Breaking: Slovakia Will Not Support UN Migration Pact Under Any Circumstances, Prime Minister Says
Prime Minister Peter Pellegrini announced after the European Union Summit on Sunday that Slovakia will NOT support the United Nations Global Migration Compact.
“Slovakia will not support this United Nations pact under any circumstances and will not agree with it,” Pellegrini said after the meetings.
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Brussels Officials Ordered to Avoid Pubic Park After Slew of Migrant Attacks
Government employees have been ordered to avoid walking near a Brussels park during their work commute after a slew of robberies and attacks by migrants in recent weeks, according to local media.
Since October 1st, at least seven public workers have been ambushed while passing through Maximilian Park en route from a nearby transit station to the Flemish Administrative Center, Der Standaard reports.
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Busted: Migrants Caught on Video Throwing Rocks at Border Patrol Agents
Journalist Wendy Fry, who is covering the migrant caravan from the Mexican side of the border, caught the peaceful asylum seekers throwing rocks at Border Patrol agents during this afternoon’s incident near the San Ysidro border crossing.
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Can Italy’s Salvini Stop the Country From Signing the UN Migration Pact?
The UN Global Migration Pact has caused controversy throughout the world. The list of countries withdrawing and refusing to sign it is growing by the day.
It has been presented by the UN as a ‘non-binding’ agreement that every country should sign it, however, one lawyer has already pointed out that “ … while the UN migration pact is “non-binding” on countries, it does set up a “framework” which he says could be used by lawyers to interpret the meaning of laws”
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Aras Bacho, a Syrian refugee and blogger for the Huffpost, is accused of six cases of groping and sexually molesting girls and women. He denied all allegations against him on Friday at the trial in Lemgo, Germany.
The ‘refugee’ alleges his accusers agreed to make false statements against him. When the judge enquired as to why the women would do so, he replied that his classmates wanted to copy homework from him.
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Hungary Heavily Attacked For… Accepting an Asylum Seeker
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said that the people who attack Hungary for granting asylum to former Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski were “identical”to those people and organisations that support migration.
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‘Hypocritical’ UK Govt to Sign UN Migration Pact Despite Pledge to Control Borders
While debate on the UN migration pact rages worldwide, with a growing number of nations following the United States in withdrawing, the major deal has seen little discussion in the United Kingdom.
Britain’s ruling Conservative Party made pledges to reduce immigration “from the hundreds of thousands to the tens of thousands” in the 2010, 2015, and 2017 general elections, a promise they have not yet made significant progress in keeping.
Indeed, net migration to Britain still runs at over 270,000 a year, and former Tory chancellor George Osborne has suggested the party’s leadership never intended to honour the pledge.
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Mexico to Deport Hundreds of Migrants Who “Violently” Rushed US Border
Update: Mexico will deport approximately 500 migrants who “violently” tried to cross into the United States, according to Reuters.
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“The first consideration in immigration is the welfare of the receiving nation. In a new government based on principles unfamiliar to the rest of the world and resting on the sentiments of the people themselves, the influx of a large number of new immigrants unaccustomed to the government of a free society could be detrimental to that society. Immigration, therefore, must be approached carefully and cautiously.” — Thomas Jefferson
Journalist and radio host Sue Payne reveals to Mark Levin what we’ve been saying about what’s happening to small towns all across America. Ms. Payne was lucky enough to be privy to a plan for building a ‘country within a country’ using illegals and refugees. This is terrible for America and is a serious blow to our economy, jobs and way of life. Please listen to Sue Payne and read the bullet points below. Google “Welcoming America” and check to see if they’re in your town, then you’ll know if your town is a target. Yes, this is the fundamental transformation Obama was talking about.
Sue Payne was privy to listening-in on multiple conference calls between Barack Obama and 16 members of his cabinet. What she uncovered was shocking and disturbing.
The administration’s weaponization of illegal aliens and refugees may be far more sinister than even the most ardent opponents have yet imagined.
On one of these calls, Obama conducted a meeting with his new ‘Task Force On New Americans,’ chaired by radical Cecilia Munoz, former vice president of the radical, Hispanic race-supremacy group La Raza (‘The Race’).
[Comment: More proof Obama commmitted treason.]
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Sweden Announces Support for UN Migrant Pact, Claims it Will Boost Economic and Social Development
The Swedish government has announced its support for the controversial UN migrant pact, claiming the agreement will provide “great potential” for Sweden’s economic and social development.
The Swedish government confirmed their support for the migration pact in a press release aimed at giving more information about the agreement to Swedes on Thursday.
Their statement claims the agreement will not be legally binding — which is disputed by its detractors — and asserts that the framework of the pact will have benefits for Sweden as well as migrants, saying: “There is a shortage of labour in several sectors in the Swedish labour market. Labour migration helps to meet this demand.
“Furthermore, migrants’ remittances can contribute to important income for families in poor countries as well as investments in health, education, and housing,” they add.
[Comment: Forked tongue. Ramming the Kalergi plan down the throats of their own citizens…such politicians are traitors.]
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Sweden to Sign UN Migration Pact — Claims it Will Lead to “Economic and Social Development”
Sweden will sign the United Nations’ Global Migration Agreement in December, the government confirms. It claims that the framework is important for Sweden’s economic development and that there is a “great potential” in even more immigration to Sweden.
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UK Govt Accused of ‘Massaging’ Migration Stats With Cheap Foreign Labour Plan
The UK government has been accused of planning to “massage” immigration statistics in its plans to maintain low-skilled labour after the country leaves the open borders European Union.
Leaked Cabinet papers from the Home Office outline plans that will launch 11-month visas for unskilled workers, reports The Telegraph.
The newspaper reports that the visa would put migrant workers under “restricted entitlements and rights” while they live in Britain, and the proposals are expected to be announced in the Government’s White Paper on migration set to be released in the week beginning December 3rd.
The proposals are alleged to prove Prime Minister Theresa May has fulfilled promises to cut immigration and halt free movement from the EU, and have been heralded by The Sun as a “Brexit crackdown” on immigration.
However, Mrs May has been accused of attempting to fudge immigration statistics through the duration of the worker’s visa.
Immigration statistics are based on the International Passenger Survey (IPS) — which collects information about a small number of passengers entering and leaving the UK on a voluntary basis — where anyone who declares they are staying for 12 months or longer is counted as an “immigrant” and all those staying for less than 12 months are logged as “short term.”
This effort to create an appearance of cutting immigration, which puts strain on public services like schools and hospitals as well as housing, has been called “massaging” by an economics professor at King’s College, London.
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Home Secretary Sajid Javid has argued passionately the case for granting Asia Bibi, a Pakistani Christian who’s conviction for blasphemy was recently pushed after eight years in solitary confinement, asylum in the UK.
An investigation by the daily mail revealed that on the day Asia was seized, she was accused of blasphemy, paraded through her village with her neck bound by a leather noose, beaten with sticks, and told by a makeshift sharia court that her life would only be spare if she converted to Islam.
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What Women and Children? US/Mexico Border Camp Video Tells the Truth [Video]
While our mainstream media is laser-focused on approximately 5% of caravan members who are mothers and children, the truth has been exposed by citizen journalists.
The Epoch Times reports that caravan members plan on waiting until the numbers grow to 20,000 and then they will rush the border. Another caravan member said asylum takes too long so he plans on crossing the border illegally:
- Gómez said he is not sure if he will apply for asylum: “It’s a waste of time. It’s a process that takes months and years—it’s a long time.”
- Frank Martinez says he will cross illegally: “Because we want a better life, and I’m in a hurry.”
The video below tells you exactly what you need to know:…
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Michael Lindell is one of President Trump’s biggest fans. He’s also an unapologetic Christian, who just committed $1 million to a movie that will expose the truth about Democrat Party donor and darling of the Left, Planned Parenthood.
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City of Boulder Slammed for Hosting Drag Queen Story Time
‘Not even remotely appropriate for children.’
The City of Boulder, Colorado, received major backlash on Twitter after promoting a Drag Queen story time event held for children this month.
Commentators on Twitter slammed the city government for promoting and hosting the event, which many deemed inappropriate for young children.
“[W]hy is the city promoting this? I don’t care what people want to do in their lives but the fact that the government is putting on and promoting this is disturbing,” wrote We Are Change’s Luke Rudowski.
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Taiwan’s Same-Sex Couples Put Future on Hold After Vote Defeat
TAIPEI (AFP) — After more than three decades together, Wang Tien-ming and Ho Hsiang finally decided to tie the knot when Taiwan’s top court ruled last year that same-sex marriage must be legalised.
But those wedding plans are on hold after conservative groups won a referendum battle over equal marriage which couples fear could water down their newly won rights.
The original landmark court decision in May 2017 made Taiwan the first place in Asia to legalise same-sex marriage -? it ruled the change must be implemented within two years and sparked a wave of optimism in the LGBT community.
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Give Thanks That We No Longer Live on the Precipice
Fossil fuels helped humanity improve our health, living standards and longevity in just 200 years
by Paul Driessen
Thanksgiving is a good time to express our sincere gratitude that we no longer “enjoy” the “simpler life of yesteryear.” As my grandmother said, “The only good thing about the good old days is that they’re gone.” …
Safe water and wastewater treatment — also made possible by fossil fuels, electricity and the infrastructure they support — supported still healthier societies that created still more prosperity, by eliminating the bacteria, parasites and other waterborne pathogens that made people too sick to work and killed millions, especially children. They all but eradicated cholera, one of history’s greatest killers.
Insecticides and other chemicals control disease-carrying and crop-destroying insects and pathogens. Ammonia-based fertilizers arrived in 1910; tractors and combines became common in the 1920s. Today, modern mechanized agriculture, fertilizers, hybrid and biotech seeds, drip irrigation and other advances combine to produce bumper crops that feed billions, using less land, water and insecticides. …
So, this holiday season, give thanks for all these blessings — while praying and doing everything you can to help bring the same blessings to billions of people worldwide who still do not enjoy them.
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Are readers of the news feed ok with articles about new species?
I will stop submitting new species articles if people don’t care for them.
I have no problem. I find them interesting and a useful addition to knowlege about the world around us. That I don’t comment does not mean disinterest.
I don’t mind. Stories about discoveries of new spineless invertebrates fit into this site just fine. I for one, would love to see stories about the possible discovery of intelligent life in Washington DC, London, Berlin, or Brussels.
Good point. I don’t mind them either. It’s the uncritical praise of our civilization as in the “we no longer live on the precipice” type of articles I mind.
Btw, there is nothing safe (or smart) about today’s city wastewater treatment, which is preceded by people pooping into porcelain bowls of full of drinking water which is about the most uncivilized thing I can think of.
Agreed Vera, but imagine the cost (and disruption) of creating two separate water supplies.
Well, the pooping into porcelain bowls part seems to be a problem in the Left Coast bastion of San Francisco. Maybe the bums there are just more socially conscious and are actively attempting to keep from fouling scarce drinking water…
When I was deployed to Afghanistan, we had signs in the latrines that were shared with the imported workers from culturally enriching countries instructing them in their own barbaric yawp to refrain from cultural practices such as standing on the toilet seat to do #2, as well as no defecating in the showers. And toilet paper seemed to be unknown to a large percentage of them. There is a reason why in the lands of islamic wisdom the left hand is considered unclean…
Yes, more articles !
Thank you for taking the time to find and submit them.
“Matteo Salvini and the Italian government have not yet revealed their decision”
Salvini is wise: He knows the Pact is not worth even responding to it in the negative.
Salvini is going to salvage Europe from its suicidal fate.
Actually it is the western infidels who inspired muslims to come up with a pact like this. It was infidels who invented the koran. It was Spanish infidels who invited muslims to invade Spain and Europe. |Today the same : infidels are surrendering their nations to islam.
Is Salvini Italian for “Savior” as you suggest?
Could you please provide documentation for your assertion that the Qur’an was invented by the infidels. This student of history and the Qur’an would certainly love see the proof of the contradiction of the narrative that we have been forced to accept.
To Acuara,
My assertion is not based on a personal whim or opinion.
I have gleaned that conclusion from learned [-nid] scholar like Ibn Waraq and numerous videos. And I mean many, many videos.
For example: The original koran had no diacritics, just like Aramaic. Later diacritics were used, to avoid several readings and interpretations of the same text. Koran went through many processes and changes, omissions, additions especially during the Abbasid Period. Abbasid came up with a Koran that suited their political goals ( Taha Hussein, Died: October 28, 1973, Cairo, Egypt. Al Khwarizmi (Died: 850 AD, Baghdad, Iraq) .
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Syro-Aramaic_Reading_of_the_Koran
The Syro-Aramaic Reading of the Koran
The Syro-Aramaic Reading of the Koran: A Contribution to the Decoding of the Language of the Koran is an English-language edition (2007) of Die syro-aramäische Lesart des Koran: Ein Beitrag zur Entschlüsselung der Koransprache (2000) by Christoph Luxenberg.
By the way, Muhammad was illiterate this explains why he could not produce anything. To muslims this is a proof that it was sent down on him. Koran’s stories and tenets are a pale shadow of the Old and New Testaments, with many omissions and twisted parts.
Yeshua did not create a new religion: He wanted less rituals and more sincerity and sublime noble attitudes in humans.
Today’s wolf-in-sheep’s and false-virtue signaling politicians need a Yeshua.
We have a study in contrasts, both in leadership and in consequences. The migrant caravans have the appearance of having been organized by the same superintending entity which according to some sources has been a Soros spot on the posterior for years. Of course, anyone who can turn the Ruble into rubble should have a 24/7 guard set on him so as to prevent him from causing further economic outrages.
What is instructive is the response on the part of the leadership of the two areas that have been confronted by this migrant invasion. One set of leaders welcomed them with open arms out of a liberal-minded hubris without considering the consequences. They even sent boats to rescue them when the migrants became dinghy.
The other knew what was coming because several forays had occurred in the past with disastrous results and consequences that are still being dealt with. This leader said, “Gracias, pero no mas.” (thanks, but no more). Now the disloyal opposition (Democratic Party) is calling for this leader’s head to be set upon a pikestaff.
However, as one who suffered under Reagan’s generosity in 1986 I would like to point out who would benefit from these migrant caravanserais as being those who most likely funded both the migrants and governmental functionaries, congress people, senators et al. These are the folks who have restricted wage growth to year 2000 levels while inflation has run at about 1.5% to 2.5% per year (do the math: 1*1.025^18) while rewarding themselves with salaries in the millions and paying attorneys to ‘offshore’ their pay so as to evade taxation. It would seem that their intent is a return to the Roman system of chattel slaves, plebeians,and the few ‘freemen’ whose loyalty could be counted upon, to serve them while they rested in their wanton luxury devising new means and games to have more of what they already didn’t need.
As such, I would rather think that “Hunger Games” was a foreboding of what is intended to come. I am grateful that Trump is president, at least for now. I shudder to think of what would have happened had Mdme. Hillaryous been president. She would have probably turned those migrant gangs loose to slaughter those who refused to vote for her (she as the Red Queen and Bill as the Black Knight in Alles en Underland).
I also think that The Hunger Games is a model for what was intended, but that Europe is playing it out more perfectly. Anyone who hasn’t read that trilogy must DO SO NOW. It’s Lord of the Flies on steroids.
keep going with the “New Species ” stories.
Thy are very interesting, but also uplifting and give us hope.
They are uplifting and give us hope in comparison to most of the stories on here.
The fact that 99% of the articles you publish show how stupid mankind is as a species, therefore I conclude that the only hope
of intelligent life appearing on this planet is in the form of a new species.
One that does not vote Democrat.
Best regards and keep up the good work.
“So long, and thanks for all the fish!”
Said the intelligent dolphins to mankind before leaving Earth.
Good to meet a fellow fan of Douglas Adams!
(The answer is, of course, 42).
When even the dead (and brain-dead) reliably vote Democrat, I am sure it is only a matter of time before the new species are harnessed to elect and reelect mindless invertebrates.
What is this ‘Kalergi plan’ I keep hearing so much about?
While perhaps the open-border pan-European, (the EU as it’s become) and miscegenation aspect of Kalergi’s odd mix of Victorian civilising mission and progressive politics is perhaps happening, the opposite of just about everything else Kalergi proposed is also occurring.
The natural aristocracy of “the Jewish Socialist leaders” he envisioned leading Europe to an anti-capitalist, earthly paradise are fleeing Muslim and leftist antisemitism in increasing numbers – instead of peace among men, mass immigration has set Europe on a path to secession, religious and/or civil wars and Islamic conquest;
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/13335/fracturing-france
Kalergi wanted to ‘Europeanise’ the MENA&Africa, instead Europe is being Islamified, (Kalergi made no provision for other cultures becoming embedded in Europe and like Frantz Fanon completely and utterly missed the persistence of Islam).
‘In Europa Erwacht (1934) Kalergi thought that “the Arab population of Africa” will eventually “adopt the European way of life”[xxi]. Although Kalergi thought it necessary for Europe to exploit Africa, he did not intend large-scale immigration and settlement in Europe by African peoples: “Europe must at all costs prevent ‘that great numbers of black workers and soldiers immigrate to Europe'”[xxii].
https://www.eurocanadian.ca/2015/02/ideological-and-geopolitical-origins-of-eu-richard-von-coudenhove-kalergis-pan-europa.html
Ironically his views on Africa would be called racist and colonial these days;
Coudenhove-Kalegri- Afrika, Paneuropa Vol 5
“Europe’s mission in Africa is to bring light to this the darkest of continents,As long as the black race is unable to civilise its part of the earth, the white race must do it”
European colonies were to be exploited and ‘civilised’ while “millions of Europeans” would be settled in those African colonies.
That would go down really well today!
But most of all Kalergi’s ‘plan’ has been supplanted by realpolitik of the 1970’s oil crisis and the hard agreements of the Euro/Arab Dialogue(EAD) or as it’s otherwise known – Eurabia.
Kalergi’s plan may have given them a platform to build on but the OIC has very different ideas for Europe and the West- as mapped out in the 2000 document ‘The Strategy for Cultural Action Outside the Islamic World’ (which I see the GoV features an article on Jean-Frédéric Poisson’s book: Islam conquering the West: The Strategy Unveiled which deals with that very document).
The Euro-Canadian has two very informative articles that set out the timelines and accords.
https://www.eurocanadian.ca/2015/03/ideological-and-geopolitical-origins-of-eu-islamization-mass-immigration-and-destruction-of-european-ethnicity.html
p.s sorry Dymphna, I know it’s a 3 link comment!
This precis makes more sense than the usual definitions of the Kalergi plan I see floating around. It’s more rational as a world view than what the EU has actually done to its member countries.
Can someone please explain why Victor Orban does not support Brexit?
As I understand it, Orban would like to reform the EU and for that the Brits would be an important player.
The EU has been a pretty successful project for the Eastern European countries coming out from under totalitarian Commie regimes – in that sense it worked, (spread liberal democracy through trade and a common market) but some might say Orban, because his country has done well out the EU, just wants to have his cake and eat it.
For example just about every single proposal for reform British governments have put to the EU have been turned down flat – so reform seems unlikely, the EU is still following the basic road-plan of ever-closer union and more centralisation, (Mrs Merkel has recently been telling other nations, they must surrender yet more sovereignty to the EU).
I imagine at some point the Visegrad 4 will be forced to choose – have control of their borders and country or membership of the EU.
What is wrong with Sweden? Why following such appalling behaviour from those that were invited into their country from other countries from outside the EU and whose cultures and ideology are so far removed from those of Sweden would they then agree to support the UN migration pact. Such action will destroy Sweden and the fault will have to lie with its overly liberal approach to Society. How very sad for the Swedes.
I see part of the reason for the Swedish seeminly insane actions:
No offence to Swedes here but the Swedes I know have one thing in common: they hold cold hard data in high regard. They do not trust anecdotal or any similar evidence. They believe that once a project is begun, it must be completed regardless of how bad the current results may appear.
So, though some of the Swedish government ‘trusted’ data is now beginning to prove that migrants are destroying parts of Sweden and Swedish society, many Swedes prefer to wait to see if this is just a short term problem. They feel more comfortable to wait to see if the gov’t data will begin to show a turn to more positive results. They are a patient people and are generally willing to wait a long time for positive changes.
They have much faith in their own ideas as a nation and they generally believe that criticising too much is childish; one must be patient, seek only approved and reliable data and above all be patient for the expected results to be manifest.
The attributes that have made Sweden great are now for them their curse.
Reminds me of a comment by Gisela Stewart (German-born British Labour MP) about the Germans: once set on a course, they’re reluctant to abandon it, even in the light of new evidence.
Next is Germany and France to sign with this disgusting traitors , Merkel &Macron, kombonation , absolutely horrified…
Miss Moscow married the king of Malaysia.
According to the newspaper, the wedding ceremony took place in the Barvikha Concert Hall on Thursday, November 22. The solemn event passed without alcohol, and all the food was halal. Islam News also clarifies that the king came out to the public in Malaysian national dress, and the bride appeared in Russian attire.
https://lenta.ru/news/2018/11/26/wedding/
From the looks of this guy, Miss Moscow may never smile again.
re: Stone tools in China
While I am interested in the archaelogical discoveries in China, I admit that I am also a bit skeptical of the findings and conclusions made.
There is simply too much government control and influence in Chinese science and historical studies.
You can clearly see in the stated conclusions drawn from these stone tool discoveries the usual communist form of nationalist pride.
It’s a Communist thing…remember when the Soviets would claim to have invented things they hadn’t?
yes, like the original Star Trek where the Russian Lieutenant would “Chekov” one invention after another as being Russian.