President Donald Trump wrote in a tweet that Mexico should send the “caravan” migrants back to where they came from by any means necessary. He added that no matter what, the illegal immigrants will not be allowed into the USA.
In other news, the Islamic State has called on French Muslims to infiltrate the “yellow vest” protests and kill infidels.
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German Economy Cools Down: Business Confidence Dips for Third Consecutive Time, Key Survey Reveals
A key business climate survey published on Monday by the Munich-based Ifo Insitute has shown that business confidence in Germany has fallen for the third consecutive time.
The Ifo Business Climate Index fell 102.0 points in November from 102.9 points in October, suggesting German’s economy is cooling down and that sentiment among German businesses has weakened in line with slower economic activity.
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Those “Not in Labor Force” Will Surge Over the Next Decade
There are presently about 96 million Americans whom are 16+ years old and considered to be “not in the labor force” (those neither working nor actively looking for work). Those “not in labor force” has increased by over 17 million since 2008, while those employed has increased by 11 million, and those employed full time has increased by nearly 8 million. But these will be remembered as the good times compared to what is coming.
The chart below tracks the total non-farm payroll, those employed full time, and those “not in labor force”.
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After a String of Controversies Facebook Investors Want Zuckerberg Out
Thumbs up or thumbs down? Perhaps a frowning emoticon would be a more appropriate to tag embattled Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg.
Major investors of Facebook are pushing to oust Zuckerberg as chairman of his billion-dollar company. Zuckerberg’s leadership is being questioned amidst a string of controversies.
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An Extraordinary Group of Socialist Hacks Doing Their Best to Undermine the Constitution
Justice John Roberts, the judge that found a way to legalize Obamacare, recently rebuked President Trump for his remark about Obama judges. The Associated Press took it upon themselves to stir the pot by asking Roberts about the President’s remark, and Roberts responded, “We do not have Obama judges or Trump judges, Bush judges or Clinton judges. What we have is an extraordinary group of dedicated judges doing their level best to do equal right to those appearing before them.” He added, “independent judiciary is something we should all be thankful for.”
Roberts remark was in defense of another Federal Court judge, an Obama appointee, who issued a restraining order blocking the Trump Admisitration’s order to deny asylum to anyone entering our country illegally. The judge, Jon S. Tigar, issued a restraining order blocking the Trump administration from denying asylum to anyone, regardless of where or how they entered the United States. Tigar opened U.S. borders for criminals and terrorist to enter our country unfettered. Tigar also gave a green light to other invaders to come on in. It was a callous and calculated act to further dilute the American culture and endanger the security and well being of all Americans.
As for Chief Justice Roberts remark, the judiciary system may be an extraordinary group of dedicated judges, but they are not dedicated to the Constitution or the rule of law.
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Before John F Kennedy Was Shot, He Tried to Warn Americans
Warning of the deep state, John F. Kennedy candidly addressed the American Newspaper Publishers Association at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York, April 27, 1961:
“The very word ‘secrecy’ is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings …
We are opposed around the world by a … ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence — on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day.
It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations.
Its preparations are concealed, not published. Its mistakes are buried, not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced, not praised. No expenditure is questioned, no rumor is printed, no secret is revealed.” […]
Dutch politician Geert Wilders was born the year John F. Kennedy was shot.
Echoing Kennedy’s admonition that Americans are “watchmen on the walls of world freedom,” Geert Wilders gave a speech in New York, September 25, 2008, titled “America, the Last Man Standing”:
“The United States as the last bastion of Western civilization, facing an Islamic Europe …
Europe … is changing … by Muslim mass-migration … with mosques on many street corners … controlled by religious fanatics …
Muslim neighborhoods … are mushrooming in every city across Europe.
These are the building-blocks for territorial control of increasingly larger portions of Europe, street by street, neighborhood by neighborhood, city by city …
Many European cities are already one-quarter Muslim: just take Amsterdam, Marseille and Malmo in Sweden …”
Wilders continued:
“In many cities the majority of the under-18 population is Muslim.
Paris is now surrounded by a ring of Muslim neighborhoods. Mohammed is the most popular name among boys in many cities … In once-tolerant Amsterdam gays are beaten up almost exclusively by Muslims.
Non-Muslim women routinely hear ‘whore, whore’ … In France school teachers are advised to avoid authors deemed offensive to Muslims … The history of the Holocaust can no longer be taught because of Muslim sensitivity …”
Geert Wilders stated further:
“In England sharia courts are now officially part of the British legal system. Many neighborhoods in France are no-go areas for women without head scarves …
Jews are fleeing France in record numbers, on the run for the worst wave of anti-Semitism since World War II …
A total of fifty-four million Muslims now live in Europe … 25 percent of the population in Europe will be Muslim just 12 years from now …
The numbers would not be threatening if the Muslim-immigrants had a strong desire to assimilate … Half of French Muslims see their loyalty to Islam as greater than their loyalty to France.
One-third of French Muslims do not object to suicide attacks … One-third of British Muslim students are in favor of a worldwide caliphate …
They do not come to integrate into our societies; they come to integrate our society into their Dar al-Islam …”
Wilders added:
“Much of this street violence … is directed exclusively against non-Muslims, forcing many native people to leave their neighborhoods, their cities, their countries …
Muslims are now a swing vote not to be ignored. Mohammed’s … behavior is an example to all Muslims …
If Mohammed had been a man of peace, let us say like Ghandi and Mother Theresa wrapped in one, there would be no problem …
Islamic tradition tells us how he fought in battles, how he had his enemies murdered and even had prisoners of war executed. Mohammed himself slaughtered the Jewish tribe of Banu Qurayza …
Islam means ‘submission.’ Islam is not compatible with freedom and democracy, because what it strives for is sharia.
If you want to compare Islam to anything, compare it to communism or national-socialism, these are all totalitarian ideologies …”
Geert Wilders concluded:
“There is a danger greater danger than terrorist attacks, the scenario of America as the last man standing … With an Islamic Europe, it would be UP TO AMERICA ALONE to preserve the heritage of ROME, ATHENS and JERUSALEM.”
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Fake Orthodox Jews Against Trump
Fake Orthodox Jews campaigning against Trump would not have a fraction of the attention without a fake news media that gives them millions of dollars worth of unearned publicity.
You could find Rabbi Mike Moskowitz protesting for illegal aliens at “Moral Mincha” rallies organized by Torah Trumps Hate (TTH) and Hitoreri: An Orthodox Movement for Social Change.
Both lefty groups claim to be Orthodox Jewish organizations and with his black hat, dark suit and black beard, “Rabbi” Mike Moskowitz certainly looks the part of a real Orthodox Rabbi.
“Rabbi” Moskowitz is actually employed by Congregation Beit Simchat Torah, a gay non-Orthodox institution
But he’s as real as Hitoreri and Torah Trumps Hate.
“Rabbi” Moskowitz is actually employed by Congregation Beit Simchat Torah, a gay non-Orthodox institution. Its clerical leader, “Rabbi” Sharon Kleinbaum, was ordained by the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, a movement that rejects the idea of both God and the Torah. While Beit Simchat Torah’s views aren’t unusual within its movement, its anti-Israel politics have made it controversial.
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HS Graduation Rates Go Up Even as Students and Teachers Fail to Show Up
Phelps Architecture, Construction and Engineering High School in Washington, D.C., seemed to be doing great: A public school that enrolls only economically disadvantaged students, its graduation rate hit a recent high of 94.5 percent during the 2016-17 school year.
Yet in that same year, three-quarters of the students at Phelps were absent more than 10 percent of the time.
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Iraq War Vet Who Called Out Social Media Censorship Booted From Twitter
Iraq War veteran and former Republican congressional candidate Jesse Kelly has been banned from Twitter for unclear reasons, becoming yet another conservative personality to be kicked from the platform.
Kelly’s account on Twitter was disabled on Sunday, drawing anger from many conservative commentators, as the ban was apparently affected with no prior notice.
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Long Island Woman Pleads Guilty in Fraud Scheme to Fund ISIS
A Long Island woman pleaded guilty Monday to trying to help bankroll ISIS with a complicated con scheme to steal and launder money for the terrorism network.
Prosecutors say Zoobia Shahnaz duped financial institutions out of about $85,000 — including about $60,000 in bitcoin and other digital currencies — to help fund terror. Authorities said Shahnaz wired more than $150,000 to shell entities in Pakistan, China and Turkey with the intention of helping ISIS.
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Nearly 130 Chicago Public Schools employees have been terminated, recommended for dismissal or simply resigned amid scrutiny following an enormous review of worker backgrounds prompted by a Tribune investigation this year.
That group of employees includes nine teachers, 35 people classified as classroom aides and an unspecified number of people the district lists as substitute or hourly workers, according to CPS. In addition, 124 employees are still barred from work because they have not submitted fresh fingerprints for an updated district background check.
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NYT Editorial Board Compares Right-Wingers to Jihadists, Demands Censorship of Social Media
The legacy media is furious they’ve lost control of the narrative and they’re desperate to get it back by any means necessary.
Nationalist and populist movements are sweeping the globe due to open communication on the internet allowing the masses and anti-establishment leaders to do an end-run around the lying media.
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Protect Robert Mueller? Jail Him
Book mark this column and read Kelleigh’s factual columns about the thoroughly corrupt Robert Mueller:
- Robert Mueller’s Modus Operandi: Intimidation And Destruction
- Mueller Uses Manafort As A Tethered Goat To Ensnare The Lion
- Robert Mueller’s Amoral Abuse Of Power For The Elite
That is why the shadow government so hates Donald Trump. He is a threat to their game plan which has blown up in their faces and now that Sessions is gone and Whitaker is at the helm, I’m betting the fear factor has increased big time.
And, so, we have the Dem-o-rat vermin in Congress and their liars in the ‘mainstream’ media begin the usual Soviet-style propaganda (Saul Alinsky’s training) to protect an individual who not only has no honor, the SOB long ago betrayed any oath he ever took and is out for Trump’s blood no matter who he destroys along the way.
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Somali Muslim Arrested for Attempting to Mow Down Jews With Car in Front of L.A. Synagogue
Los Angeles police are investigating an incident Friday night as a potential hate crime after a Somali man, 32-year-old Mohamed Mohamed Abdi, attempted to run down worshipers standing outside a Hancock Park synagogue.
According to witness, Abdi was yelling “F**king Jews! F**king Jews!” during the attack.
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The New Fungus Among Us: Mushroom Species Discovered Near Soda Mountain
Biologist Scot Loring was scouring federal land near Soda Mountain for rare plants last spring when he stumbled upon a mushroom unlike any other.
“It didn’t look like anything I recognized,” Loring said.
Neither has any mycologist who has ever published a paper and conducted DNA tests on fungi, meaning Loring’s mushroom is a new species unto itself — a true new fungus among us.
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US Prosecutors Fight to Keep Assange Indictment Sealed
Federal prosecutors are fighting a request for the unsealing of any pending US criminal indictment against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, according to Reuters.
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Depopulation madness spreading by design
“Walking along a street in any crumbling urban area in this country you see miserable faces staring blankly as they trudge through their lives on the road to nowhere or wasting time absorbed by trivialities and bulls*** emanating from their iGadgets,” writes Jim Quinn in an especially prescient post on The Burning Platform Blog:
The lives of so many are a meaningless march of misery and mindless repetition of daily chores. There is an overwhelming cloud of sadness permeating the lives of the masses as our repulsive culture, built on fulfilling desires, consumerism, selfishness and greed, ultimately results in delusional, disappointed and desperate human beings.
Quinn explains the collapse of cognizant civilization as arising out of “social indoctrination” and the organized programming of children via the disastrous public education system:
Our society did not become so ludicrous, misguided and defective overnight. It has been decades in the making. And it can be attributed to the purposeful effort by those in control of the government in destroying our educational system and replacing it with a social indoctrination system. Children are no longer taught how to think, but how to feel. Children are being raised by the state as nothing more than cogs in the machine.
Children who question authority or do not act in a subservient manner are immediately diagnosed with ADD and drugged into submission. The public-school system doesn’t want high performers, critical thinkers or anyone questioning their government mandated orthodoxy. The ruling class (aka Deep State) wants controllable, malleable, non-thinking automatons to do the menial low paying jobs, buy cheap foreign crap with their credit cards, and be dependent upon the state for their miserable existence…
The self destruction of the human race can no longer be stopped. We are long past the point of achieving a sufficient critical mass awakening that might turn things around and end the insanity. Human societies are now inescapably headed into a shared, global catastrophe that can only end in mass financial, political, ecological and cultural collapse.
With that collapse will come global pandemics, disease wipeouts, social unrest, political chaos and mass starvation. This outcome is now inescapable, and some believe the world is being deliberately pushed in this direction to achieve both a global population wipeout and the establishment of global government that rises out of the engineered crisis to “save” humankind.
One in ten people might survive what’s coming, and no one will survive with their individual liberty intact. Following the global collapse of modern society, a dystopian, globalist-run police state society will rise to power. It will be modeled after China’s authoritarian social score system that monitors the online speech, purchasing behaviors, physical movements and psychological profiles of every citizen, then blocks access to societal infrastructure (travel, home loans, public education, etc.) for those who do not sufficiently conform to the demands of the State.
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GM to Fire 15% of Salaried Workers, Close 7 Plants
Update II: The cutbacks announced by GM Monday morning were more severe than most analysts expected — and were certainly steeper than leaked reports published late Sunday and early Monday had suggested.
After GM shares were halted pending news following a 2%+ jump after the open, Barra revealed that the company would shutter 7 plants (5 in North America and 2 international) after 2019, fire 15% of its salaried workforce and shift hiring priorities to more tech workers in a cost-cutting drive intended to save the company some $6 billion by the end of 2020 ($4.5 billion will come from cost savings, $1.5 billion from lower capital spending). As GM seeks more workers with “different skills”, it also plans to shift its investment focus toward electric and autonomous vehicles.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has expressed “deep disappointment” at GM’s decision to close its plant in Oshawa, Ontario. He reportedly spoke with Barra over the weekend.
The company’s shares ripped higher after the trading halt ended, climbing 7.6% in their strongest one-day jump since Oct. 31, when the company announced some of its cost cutting plans and said it expected EPS for 2018 toward the high end of its guidance.
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Alabi’s case should be noted carefully, as it sets a precedent and gives a warning: anyone who opposes a Muslim, even justifiably, can possibly have his or her life ruined and be made into a public example, if the Muslim merely claims discrimination. It is reminiscent of Pakistan, where Christians live in fear of trumped-up charges of blasphemy in any dispute with Muslims.
What is difficult for many to understand is that the trampling of the rights of one citizen today signifies that anyone’s rights could be trampled tomorrow. Islamic supremacist incursion into Canada is threatening the freedom of its citizens. Citizens are no longer safe when government tribunals and courts, which were intended to protect justice and the human rights of all, become biased, agenda-driven, and politically weaponized against the people.
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Day 10: ‘Yellow Vest’ Protests Continue Across France With Pressure on Macron to Respond
On Monday morning as the “yellow vest” protests continued their fight against rising fuel taxes and declining living standards there were filtered road blocks in place across France.
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Delingpole: Britain’s Worst Ever Prime Minister May Yet Save Brexit
Theresa May is without question the worst prime minister in British history.
Sure there have been more insidiously evil ones (Tony Blair), more grotesquely overrated ones (Clement Atlee), more corrupt ones (Harold Wilson), more downright useless squishy ones (Ted Heath), more ineffectual ones (Dave).
No one, though, has been more perfect at doing the wrong thing every single time without fail than Theresa May. And no single person bears more responsibility for the excruciatingly rubbish Brexit strategy.
May was bad enough when she was merely Home Secretary.
But as Prime Minister she has set new personal career lows with her characteristic mix of stubbornness, high handedness and stupidity so abject that it quite takes the breath away…
Why, we all ask, isn’t more being done to rid us of the greatest obstacle to British prosperity and sovereignty since the Second World War?
Why won’t those MPs do something?
Well my hunch is that they will. And I think the person we have most to thank for this is Theresa May.
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French Budget Minister’s Restaurant Gaffe Reveals Expensive Tastes
In a speech urging compassion for the “yellow vests” protesting rising fuel costs and stagnating living standards, France’s budget minister managed to appear out of touch by saying that a meal for one at a Paris restaurant costs €100 — without wine.
There are few worse gaffes for a French politician than making a ill-judged remark about food.
French Budget Minister Gerald Darmanin might be about to learn the lesson, having apparently revealed his rather expensive taste in restaurants during a speech at the Sorbonne university in Paris on Thursday.
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The European Parliament elections next May will hopefully be a victory for the Europe of nation states and not the federalist concept of the European Union, Hungarian House Speaker Laszlo Kover said in an interview to Polish public television.
“The elections will decide the question of which direction we are headed in: the direction of a federalist state or that of stronger nation states,” Kover told TVP Info.
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ISIS Calls on Lone-Wolf Fanatics to Infiltrate French Fuel Protests to ‘Kill the Unbelievers”
TWO ISIS groups have circulated posters calling for rogue fanatics to exploit the fuel protests in France to “kill the unbelievers”.
The posters depict scenes of the ‘yellow vest’ protests with a caption which translates as “Oh lone wolves, exploit the demonstrations and kill the unbelievers in France”.
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Poland’s Ruling Conservatives Continue to Gain Support: Survey Finds
The ruling conservative Law and Justice party (PiS) is now backed by 38.2 per cent of voters a new poll revealed Monday.
Researcher IBRiS released their current poll showing that the largest opposition party, Civic Platform, has 30.2 per cent and the Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) placing third with 8.2 per cent.
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Science Shocker: Adam and Eve for Real
In a major shock to evolutionary science, a sweeping survey of the genetic code shows the human race sprang from a single adult couple.
The research was led by the Rockefeller University and the University of Basel, Switzerland, and stunned all involved.
“This conclusion is very surprising,” said David Thaler, research associate from the University of Basel. “And I fought against it as hard as I could.”
While still holding to an old Earth with these modern humans dating back between 100,000 to 200,000 years, it’s a time far more recent than other claims in the evolutionary theory.
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‘Spain Wins’ — Madrid Brags May’s EU ‘Deal’ Offers Chance to Grab Gibraltar Sovereignty
Spain’s socialist prime minister has claimed victory on the issue of Gibraltar in Theresa May’s Brexit “deal” with the European Union.
The British Overseas Territory, located at the entrance to the Mediterranean Sea on Europe’s southernmost tip, was ceded to the United Kingdom “in perpetuity” by Spain in 1713 during the War of the Spanish Succession.
Madrid recognises the Treaty of Utrecht which ceded Gibraltar, but continues to advance claims against it — although it has not mounted any serious military efforts to capture the city since the Great Siege of 1779 to 1783, which the British successfully resisted.
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Spain: Ex-IMF Chief Rato in Dock Again in Major Bankia Trial
MADRID (AFP) — A mega-trial harking back to the dark years of Spain’s economic crisis kicks off Monday over the alleged fraudulent 2011 listing of financial giant Bankia, with former IMF leader Rodrigo Rato in the dock.
The Spanish state was forced to step in to prevent the bank’s collapse and then to borrow 41 billion euros from the EU to keep Spain’s banking sector afloat.
The 69-year-old Rato, head of the bank at the time, is accused of falsifying the books and fraud to the detriment of investors.
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A report by a charity called the Sikh Meditation and Rehabilitation Team has revealedsystematic exploitation of Sikh girls in Britain by Muslim gangs which has been going on for decades.
The report, backed by the Labour Party, expressed clearly that it was not intended to constitute a “witch-hunt against any individual, community, or culture of faith”.
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UK: Fraudsters Who Ran Fake Visa Scam and Stole £13m From HMRC Sentenced to 31 Years in Jail
Five fraudsters who ran a fake Bangladeshi visa scam and falsely claimed £13 million in tax repayments have been sentenced to total of 31 years in jail.
London law student Abul Kalam Muhammad Rezaul Karim, 42, was the ringleader in the organised crime group, which set up 79 bogus companies and created fake documentation used by Bangladeshi nationals in fraudulent visa applications.
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The UK plays host to a startling number of foreign and dual nationals involved in radical Islamic terrorism
Theresa May has reportedly refused to grant a Pakistani Christian woman being hunted by lynch mobs for “blasphemy” asylum, after bureaucrats advised her it would cause upset in Britain’s Muslim community.
Asia Bibi’s ordeal began when Muslim fieldworkers objected to her drinking from the same water supply as them, branding her “unclean” and telling her she should convert to Islam, which she declined to do.
Days later, village imam Qari Muhammad Salaam declared she had committed blasphemy over the mosque loudspeakers. A baying mob dragged her before a makeshift sharia court with a leather noose around her neck, again demanded that she convert, and beat her with sticks and sandals when she again refused.
The mob then handed her over to the authorities, who laid formal charges against her in a town court which handed down a sentence of death by hanging after a 30-minute hearing.
Eight years on death row in solitary confinement followed before her conviction was finally overturned in a Supreme Court appeal — but this triggered a wave of furious protests by thousands of radical Muslims demanding her execution go ahead.
The United Kingdom plays host to a startling number of foreign and dual nationals involved in radical Islamic terrorism, hate preaching, organised crime, and even war crimes, and Theresa May recently agreed to take thousands of young male illegal migrants claiming to be children from safe, first world France.
She declined to take in Mrs Bibi, however, after unelected civil servants — on whom she relies heavily for advice on Brexit, foreign policy, and much else — advised her that it could “stoke tensions” among Britain’s over three million strong Muslim population, and prompt radicals overseas to attack British embassies and consulates.
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Soros NGO Driven Out of Turkey
Erdogan accuses Soros of organizing, funding coup attempt
Liberal billionaire George Soros’ Open Society Foundations NGO will close up shop in Turkey, saying “groundless claims and speculation” have hindered its work.
The organization announced the news on Monday, days after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused Soros of stoking protests to divide the country, referring to the elderly liberal financier as that “famous Hungarian Jew Soros.”
Erdogan accused Soros of controlling Turkish opposition figure Osman Kavala, himself accused of financing and organizing anti-government demonstrations in 2013, and being linked to a failed coup attempt in 2016. Kavala is an advisory board member of OSF.
Over a dozen people linked to Kavala were arrested last week, as Erdogan’s crackdown on anyone suspected of involvement with the coup continues…
After OSF closed its doors in Hungary, the country’s parliament approved the ‘Stop Soros’ law, a piece of legislation introduced by Orban’s Fidesz party that criminalized aid workers and organizations suspected of “enabling illegal immigration.” Liberalizing immigration and border controls has long been one of Soros’ goals, hence the law’s name.
The Open Society Foundations project was started in 1979, with the first non-US foundation opening in Hungary in 1984. The group currently has annual expenditures of over $940 million, operates in over 100 countries across the globe, with 26 national and regional foundations and offices.
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by Srdja Trifkovic
“America First! The world is a very dangerous place!” President Donald J. Trump’s opening of his statement on “Standing with Saudi Arabia” (November 20) was eccentric; the ensuing 600-odd words—indubitably his own—appeared to give Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (“MbS”) an unqualified and outrageous carte blanche, seven weeks after Jamal Khashoggi’s murder. There may be more than meets the eye, however.
A disclaimer first. With my decades long, sometimes passionate, amply documented record of loathing all things Saudi, I do not rejoice at what looks like the President telling a nasty man in charge of a nasty country that he is free to go on acting like a murderous thug that he is. What I sense, however, is that Trump-the-Transactionalist senses an opportunity to grab and hold MbS by his short and curlies, while telling an incredulous world that the Prince is still a good boy intent on reforms like women driving, Saudi Vision 2030, and all that.
The opening of Trump’s statement was replete with visceral Iranophobia:…
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Russia Fires at Ukrainian Ships and Captures Three Vessels Off Crimea
Russia has opened fire on Ukrainian ships and captured three vessels in a major escalation of tensions off the coast of Crimea.
Three sailors have been wounded after the Ukrainian navy said two artillery boats were hit by the strikes in the Black Sea.
Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko called an emergency session of his war cabinet and has asked parliament to vote on whether to impose martial law on the country for 60 days.
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Sumit Patel | HENB | Ahmadabad | Nov 26, 2018:: On the very 10th anniversary of deadly 26/11 Mumbai attack+, Gujarat Crime Branch Police arrested an accused on Monday in the 2002 Akshardham temple terror attack case, moments after he alighted from a flight here.
The arrest of the Pak trained Jihadi terrorist connected with Akshardham Hindu temple, came as a success after 16 years of the deadly attack commenced as to destabilized the peace and democracy in India.
Mohammed Farooq Shaikh was nabbed by the Crime Branch from Ahmedabad airport, soon after his arrival from Riyadh in Saudi Arabia, Assistant Commissioner of Police Bhagrithsinh Gohil told PTI.
Two armed terrorists were gunned down who had attacked the temple in Gandhinagar in the pick hours of visitors, killing 30 people and injuring eighty four on September 24, 2002. The attack followed the Godhra riots in the same year. As per source, Mohammad Farook and another were sent as second line of support for the assigned Jihadi attack and fled from the scene for that time.
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Suspected Jihadi Bangladeshi Youth With Fake Indian Identity Arrested From Vrindavan ISKCON Temple
Rupesh Das | HENB | Vrindavan | Nov 26, 2018:: International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) is now checking their Sevak, Brahmachari and Saint order whether any fake Muslim Bangladeshi infiltrators have been able to enter in the society on the basis of fake documents and identity.
A Bangladeshi youth, who was living as a Krishna devotee at the temple in Vrindavan was arrested by the local police on Thursday last on charges of illegally entering and staying in India. He has been found in possession of fake identity documents including Aadhaar, Passport and PAN Cards etc.
According to police, 35 year old youth, identified as Falgun Vikas Vaidh alias Firhad Hakim Baidya, entered India in 2004 and came to Vrindavan in 2010. Earlier he had stayed at Mayapur and Ujjain. The suspect told the police that he had entered India after giving a bribe of Rs 500 to a middleman for crossing the border.
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China’s Terrifying Social Credit System
And how it’s already operating in the west
The media is alarmed at China’s Orwellian social credit system.
A system where citizens are financially & socially punished for their opinions.
They’re total hypocrites.
They’ve joined forces with Silicon Valley to cheerlead and lobby for an almost identical system right here in the west.
Imagine going to buy something and your credit card is declined because some idiot in San Franacisco thinks you posted something “hateful” on the Internet.
That’s our collective future.
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Brazil’s Outgoing President Hikes Judges’ Pay in Setback for Bolsonaro
BRASILIA — Brazil’s exiting President Michel Temer signed into law a 16 percent pay rise for Supreme Court justices on Monday, disregarding a request from his President-elect Jair Bolsonaro that he veto the bill to avoid increasing next year’s budget deficit.
The top court salaries serve as a benchmark for other public sector pay and the hike will add an estimated 4 billion reais ($1 billion) to the deficit that Bolsonaro’s economic team has promised to balance in one year.
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Afghan Migrant Who Got Asylum to Avoid Being Raped, Has Now Raped a 15-Year-Old Swedish Girl Himself
Ruhollah Karimi, 17, was granted asylum in Sweden last year. As grounds for asylum, he stated that he is afraid of being sexually assaulted in his native country Afghanistan, where there is a tradition of “dancing boys”, who are gang raped by older men.
However, less than a year later he participated in a gang rape of a 15-year-old Swedish girl. He was convicted, but not expelled — because he is still in danger of being raped in Afghanistan.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Compares Migrant Caravan to Jews Fleeing Holocaust
Ocasio-Cortez took to Twitter to denounce the treatment of the caravan members
New York Democratic Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Sunday compared members of the migrant caravan attempting to enter the United States to Jews fleeing Nazi Germany during the Holocaust.
U.S. Customs and Border Patrol closed the port of entry in response and reportedly used tear gas to disperse the crowd of migrants.
Ocasio-Cortez took to Twitter to denounce the treatment of the caravan members.
[Comment: Typical bolshevik and globalist tool.]
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Anybody Looking at What’s Happening to Europe?
While we watch a third world invasion from Central America knocking on our southern border with Mexico, is anybody watching what’s happening to Europe? Canada? Australia?
Immigrants overrun each of those Western entities by the millions.
What’s most interesting: their leaders invite the invasions of their countries against their countrymen and women. Worse, against their successful cultures!
European cultures face extinction or bastardization from incompatible religions, cultures and world views of the immigrants. Those immigrants fundamentally ransack the parliamentary laws of Europeans.
No less than 90 “no go zones” inhabit dozens of towns and regions of France, Germany, UK, Holland, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Italy and Spain. The immigrants created separate societies within those countries. Separate languages, cultures and ways of life.
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Donald Trump to Mexico: Migrants ‘Are Not Coming Into the U.S.A.’
President Donald Trump urged Mexico on Monday to send the growing flow of migrants from South America back to their countries of origin.
“Mexico should move the flag-waving Migrants, many of whom are stone cold criminals, back to their countries,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “Do it by plane, do it by bus, do it any way you want, but they are NOT coming into the U.S.A.”
More than a hundred migrants who tried to rush through the border were turned back as American agents fired tear gas at the approaching crowds.
Currently, 5,000 migrants are in a camp in Tijuana while the Trump administration is urging the Mexican government to keep them from the border. Thousands of additional migrants are also expected to arrive in Tijuana.
“Would be very SMART if Mexico would stop the Caravans long before they get to our Southern Border,” Trump wrote on Twitter on Sunday.
Trump is reportedly working on a deal with the Mexican government to keep migrants in Mexico while they await asylum claims, instead of allowing into the United States. The incoming Mexican administration, however, denied that they are putting that kind of policy in place.
The president is putting more pressure on Mexico, warning that he might close the southern border “permanently” if necessary.
He also demanded that Congress fund his promised wall proposed for the border.
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Elijah Cummings Reveals Dems Terrifying Plan for Immigration: “They Should be Allowed to Come In…”
Cummings wants caravan migrants to enter the country immediately. In other words, he wants catch and release to continue. That would mean that the illegals would be able to live in the US with a promise they’ll return for their asylum hearing. If you laughed out loud at that, you would be correct in assuming that most illegals just disappear and never show up for their hearing.
What President Trump is trying to do is keep them in Mexico while their cases are processed. We’re so blessed that our president is trying his hardest to stop the constant influx of illegals who just disappear into America.
Cummings suddenly wants to follow the law that lets the invasion continue:
“That’s not the law. They should be allowed to come in, seek asylum. That’s the law.”
Chuck Todd then asked Cummings if he would support changing the law…HE SAID, “NO”
This should be a HUGE wakeup call to anyone who doesn’t realize what Democrats want. It certainly isn’t an “America First” agenda like Trump wants!
Cummings makes the false claim that the “system” has worked for a long time:
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Germany: Possible Merkel Successor Agrees With Open Borders Policy of 2015
Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, running for Merkel chairmanship of the CDU, avows the policy of open borders, newspaper the Frankfurter Allgemeine reports.
in an interview with the newspaper she says: “One also has to have the strength to put one’s faith in Europe during a nationalist pressure situation”.
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Illegal Alien Gets 12 Years in Prison for Sexually Abusing 6-Year-Old Girl
An illegal alien has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for sexually abusing a six-year-old girl in Trenton, New Jersey, last year.
Edgar Mendoza, a 29-year-old illegal alien from Guatemala, has been sentenced to 12 years in state prison in New Jersey after he broke into the home of a New Jersey family and sexually molested their 6-year-old daughter.
The sentencing comes as New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D) announced that he will set aside $2 million in taxpayer funds to help illegal aliens fight their deportation from the U.S.
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Iraqi Refugee Accused of Raping Teenage Daughter of German Businessman Who Hired Him
An Iraqi refugee is accused of raping a teenage girl in Germany, news outlet Rheinische Post (RP) online reports.
The 22-year-old rapist came in contact with the girl after her father hired him for a job. The father wanted to support Germany’s refugee community by helping them integrate into the labour market.
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Mexico Announces Move to Punish 500 Caravan Migrants Who “Violently” Attempted to Rush the Border
We reported earlier today on the effort by hundreds of caravan migrants to storm the US border (see video below). Tear gas was used to repel the crowd. The Mexican government is going to take measures to deport the 500 migrants who were involved. If only they had stopped the migrants when they entered Mexico in the first place!
[Comment: Soros should be forced to pay for the costs incurred by nations as a result of funding such mass migrations.]
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Migrant Joke About Working Germans and Migrant Benefits Goes Viral
Germany is being laughed at… migrant humour reveals the sad truth, migrants are taking the mick.
The political elite and leftist media have tried to convince Germans that the young illegal ‘refugee’ men (soldiers) coming in the hundreds of thousands to Germany will help the declining workforce.
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MSM ‘Conveniently’ Leaves Out 2 Major Details in Outrage Over Tear Gas Used at Border
1. The tear gas was used in response to migrants throwing rocks and other materials at the agents.
President Trump previously remarked that any violence to the border patrol agents, including the throwing of rocks, would be interpreted like the firing of a weapon. A subsequent and swift response would then be expected.
2. Most of the migrant caravan members are men. This included the 500 or so members who violently rushed the border. According to some reports, young men make up nearly 90 percent of the group.
Fox News plainly reported: “Within an hour on Sunday, the group from the caravan that rushed toward the border largely dispersed. Most of the migrants in the group were men.”
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Obama Pepper-Sprayed Illegal Migrants and Hillary Would Have Done Too
The images are horrendous.
A desperate mother fleeing with her little kids as US border patrol guards open fire on them with teargas.
Her terrified children crying, spluttering and screaming — desperate to escape the gasping, pain-inducing hell of the gas as it enveloped them…..They were taken yesterday afternoon on the Mexico-US border point at San Ysidro in Tiguana, where a caravan of over 5000 migrants has amassed after a lengthy journey from Central America.
The border guards claimed they fired teargas because they were threatened by a group of several hundred mostly male migrants, some throwing rocks as they stormed the border trying to illegally enter the U.S. after opening a small hole in concertina wire.
Within minutes, breaking news flashed around the world: ‘Trump teargasses defenseless migrant women and kids!’
Cable news moved swiftly to saturation coverage of the latest outrage by the man they consider the most outrageous president America’s ever seen.
And of course, liberal celebrities raced to Twitter to scream their foul-mouthed fury and abuse at him.
‘You tear-gassed woman and children, a**wipe!’ shrieked actress Alyssa Milano, one of the more fervent and relentless Trump-hating stars. ‘And on Thanksgiving weekend, you piece of sh*t, a**hole, mother*cking, evil-creature-person!’
Yet amid the outpouring of equally enraged responses to her tweet to Trump, one leaped out at me from someone named Brandon Darby, a conservative blogger and managing director of Breitbart Texas, a right-wing website.
‘Hey,’ he tweeted Milano, ‘Barack Obama did the same thing at the same exact place in 2013. Did you call him names too?’
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Resistance Against UN Migration Pact is Increasing Rapidly in Europe
Rejection of the UN Migration Pact Increases. With many of the mind that it should be stopped, the UN Migration Pact has been determined by legal experts as the thin end of the wedge as the UN could at any time once agreed change it from non-binding to binding.
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School Labels Parents ‘Racist’ For Questioning if ‘15yo Refugee’ Is a 30yo Man
The only reason this was exposed is because students shared photographs of the man on social media and it went viral among parents
School administrators “dismissed parents as ‘racist’“ and allegedly threatened them with prosecution for questioning whether a “15-year-old asylum seeker” is actually a 30-year-old man, according to a report in The Sun.
The only reason this was exposed is because students shared photographs of the man on social media and it went viral among parents.
From The Sun:…
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Tear Gas Used Once a Month at Border Under Obama
The same tear gas agent that the Trump administration is taking heat for deploying against a border mob this weekend is actually used fairly frequently — including more than once a month during some years under President Obama, according to Homeland Security data.
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US Border Chief: Caravan Used Women, Children as Human Shields Before Rocking Agents
A San Diego Customs and Border Protection agent gave CNN a firsthand account of events at the US border in Tijuana over the weekend, describing migrants who attacked agents as “adult males” who used women and children as shields before assaulting agents with rocks.
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Canadian Schools Facing Blowback for ‘White Privilege’ Awareness Campaigns
Both a B.C. school district and an Ontario university ran poster campaigns trying to make students aware of their privilege
Two Canadian educational institutions this week faced blowback for campaigns intended to highlight the racial “privilege” of students.
The University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT) put up posters encouraging students to “check their privilege” using a list of privileges such as “Christian,” “White,” “Heterosexual” and “Male.”
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‘Homophobes Should Keep Quiet’: Elementary School Accused of ‘Intimidating’ Christian Parents
A UK primary school threatened with legal action over an LGBT pride parade for young children has been accused of intimidation after a concerned mother was met by a member of staff wearing a T-shirt which “belittled” Christian views.
When Izzy Montague met with the head of Heavers Farm Primary School to discuss concerns that teachers’ promoting of LGBT lifestyles conflicted with Christian beliefs, she was confronted by a member of staff wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the slogan: “Why be racist, sexist, homophobic, or transphobic when you could just be quiet?”
“Given the nature of my complaints it was obviously a deliberate act to wear the T-shirt. I believe it was intended to belittle my views and intimidate me into silence,” she told the British Mail on Sunday tabloid.
Mrs Montague made the appointment with headteacher Susan Papas in September to discuss the school’s refusal to excuse her five-year-old son from its ‘Proud to be Me’ parade during so-called gay pride month in June, which a number of Christian parents of children at Heaver Farm have complained was set up to promote LGBT lifestyles.
“I thought this was completely unreasonable … Our children were being indoctrinated with values that they do not need to be taught at such a young age,” she said, telling the newspaper other parents had spoken of teachers reading children storybooks about homosexual penguins and that “no one consulted us about this”…
Mrs Montague has now launched an official complaint about the T-shirt, which was worn by Attie Copeman-Papas — the school’s ‘deputy safeguarding manager’ and the head teacher’s daughter — who sat in during the meeting.
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Kevin Hart and His Wife Are Attacked by the Social Justice Mob Over Child’s Birthday Party
Remember how you used to be able to have fun?
Yeah, well you can’t do that anymore.
Everything must be offensive. Everything must be off-limits. And everything must absolutely be not fun.
A growing horde of social justice warriors — that would be, people who fight in order to seem to fight — want to invalidate everything (here, here, and here). They’re engaged in the most immature of games, one in which they compete to see who can appear to be the most offended. Collateral damage in that game is everything that’s ever been good.
As the immaturity rises and the stakes lower, the most harmless becomes the most outrage-inducing. Cut to Kevin Hart’s child’s recent birthday party.
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I am a Star Trek fan, like millions and millions of others on the planet. In later versions of the franchise, the great threat to the star fleet and the Federation was the Borg. The Borg, if I remember correctly, was about the collective—that total lack of individuality among beings and a complete lack of liberty for those civilizations that had been conquered. If one did not submit, then elimination of that civilization was the obligation of the Borg. Their goal was perfection. Does any of this sound familiar in any way?
On the Far Left, we encounter a mentality that is eerily similar to that found in the fictional Borg. The Far Left requires all adherents to be part of the collective and any variance is not tolerated. If one opposes the Far Left, then one must brace for a full-throated attack focused on personal destruction (I have personal flight test data on this point).
The Far Left, after mutilating Darwinian theories, seeks the perfection of man and all things associated with man. This can only be done if there is an intellectual elite that control everything. This is why the Far Left has worked so hard to control everything from reproduction to climate change to education.
This single-mindedness of the Far Left is fueling their efforts to shift voting patterns away from usual conservative strongholds. Their use of technology, funding levels, and dedication to putting people on the ground in all contested areas shows that they are serious about winning elections, regardless of what it takes.
The Far Left (the Borg) has come out of the closet and is openly advocating for changing our free market system for an economy based on socialism.
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Swedish Headmaster Wears Dress to School — to “Break Norms”
Henrik Theorin, headmaster at Hagaskolan in Umeå, wears nail varnish and sometimes also a dress to work.
“I want to show the students that it’s actually okay for a guy to wear a dress if he wants to,” says Theorin to SVT. No, it’s not a delayed right-wing April fools’ joke.
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The Vindictiveness of the Far Left and Their Media Minions
Today, we are assaulted by media types and progressive commentators with every form of hate speech. The purpose of this deliberate approach of intimidation is to suppress speech and to cower, through some form of guilt burdening, everyone who cannot identify as an underrepresented population.
The late Aaron Wildavsky, an incredible political scientist in his day, wrote about the notion of radical egalitarianism—equal outcomes for everyone. In order for this idea to gain traction, there are three elements that must be in place—victims, villains and vindictiveness.
More and more today, those who cannot get their way through the political process of winning ideas winning at the ballot box must advance their agenda through fear, threat, bullying and intimidation. The more aggrieved an individual appears to be, the better. As we continue to send our children to campuses where intellectual diversity is non-existent, we will continue to see more and more victims graduating into our society. If there are victims— those with some perceived grievance—then there must be villains. There are many easy targets. Today, the cause de jur is simply being white.
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Website Claims “Teletubbies” Were Used to Push a Pro-Communist and Pro-Gay Agenda
THE BBC used hit late 90’s CBBC children’s show ‘Teletubbies’ to push a leftist pro-Gay and Pro-Communist agenda, it has been claimed.
CommieTubbies — a Teletubbie themed conspiracy website says the youngest Teletubby ‘Poh’ is red, an obvious allusion to Karl Marx.
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Google Reveals Plans to Monitor Our Moods, Our Movements, And Our Children’s Behavior at Home
If you think our privacy is compromised now, just wait
Patents recently issued to Google provide a window into their development activities. While it’s no guarantee of a future product, it is a sure indication of what’s of interest to them. What we’ve given up in privacy to Google, Facebook, and others thus far is minuscule compared to what is coming if these companies get their way.
These patents tell us that Google is developing smart-home products that are capable of eavesdropping on us throughout our home in order to learn more about us and better target us with advertising.
It goes much further than the current Google Home speaker that’s promoted to answer our questions and provide useful information, and the Google-owned Nest thermostat that measures environmental conditions in our home. What the patents describe are sensors and cameras mounted in every room to follow us and analyze what we’re doing throughout our home.
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re: White Privilege awareness in Canadian schools
Today my son came home from his Canadian high school (secondary school / grade 9-12) and said his English literature class was spent criticising the white privilege of the white pupils.
The teacher gave each student a length of string and a handful of beads. She then read aloud a list of attributes which grant a student ‘white privilege’. For each attribute which applied to each student, such as ‘white’, ‘male’, ‘Canadian citizen’ etc., the student would add one to three beads to the string. The number of beads assigned to each ‘privilege’ depended upon the ‘severity’ of the ‘privilege’.
Some of the boys and girls refused to wear this nice bracelet for the remainder of the day, as commanded by the ‘teacher’.
For them, the garbage can is where the bracelets went as they left the room for their next class.
What are you going to do about it
Excellent Point!!
Bitching about these things in a forum of like minded folk will not do much to change these things.
I should have mentioned that I contacted the School Board.
I had to ask my son for permission to send a complaint since he may have to pay some consequences. He laughed and said he could care less what they may say or do.
What province?
Ontario.
School boards across the province have apparently been training the teachers for this for some time.
https://www.cp24.com/news/ontario-teachers-union-defends-planned-white-privilege-workshop-1.2046962
You should tell the teacher that he traded the beads with a first nations pupil for a deed to their reservation.
That’s hilarious !!
I will tell this to my son.
re: New Fungus discovered
It’s amazing to me that new species of anything continue to be discovered in North America. I thought nearly every square inch has been inspected with a fine tooth comb.
A good reason to protect natural areas.
The situation in the Black Sea is very profitable and timely, for Putin and for Poroshenko.
Lampposts miss their necks.
Bad news
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/islamophobia-definition-muslims-racism-antisemitism-labour-conservatives-uk-a8653701.html
Sometimes I am tempted to play the ‘racist card’ and declare to my bank or to my children’s school that I am a muslim and I am offended by paying Christians’ high interest rates and that my children are offended by their western teachers.
I wonder if this would allow me to extract some benefits???
Don’t misunderstand me, I am not muslim or arab.
I am French-Canadian with a touch of Irish.
Today I read one quote:
Islamophobia is that someone denies the right of Muslims to cause suffering to non-Muslims.