Hate-hoax charges against the actor Jussie Smollett have been dropped by the Chicago prosecutor. In exchange Mr. Smollett will do community service and forfeit the bond payment he made when he was bailed.
In other news, a French couple in Paris were fined by police for wearing t-shirts supporting the Yellow Vests.
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Brian Stelter Gets Roasted for Saying it’s Not CNN’s Job to “Investigate”
CNN host Brian Stelter got roasted on Twitter after he quoted president Jeff Zucker’s claim that it’s not CNN journalists’ job to ‘investigate’.
“CNN prez Jeff Zucker: “We are not investigators. We are journalists, and our role is to report the facts as we know them, which is exactly what we did,” tweeted Stelter in response to the heat CNN and other mainstream media outlets have been receiving for their role in pushing the Russian collusion hoax.
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Dropping Charges Against Jussie Smollett a ‘Whitewash of Justice, ‘ Rahm Says
In a stunning reversal, prosecutors on Tuesday dropped charges against “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett for allegedly staging a hoax hate-crime attack against himself, a move that thrust the TV star’s case back into national headlines and drew swift condemnation from city leaders and police.
At a hastily scheduled hearing that lasted only a few minutes, prosecutors told a judge they would not pursue the 16 felony counts filed against the actor just over a month ago, and moved to seal all records in the case, effectively wiping the case from the public record.
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George Soros Spent $408k on Kim Foxx, Prosecutor in Jussie Smollett Case
Left-wing billionaire mega-donor George Soros donated $408,000 in 2016 to a super PAC that supported Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx, whose office prosecuted — and dropped — the Jussie Smollett case.
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Hey look, it’s a TaunTaun! We knew we liked Sen. Mike Lee for a reason. And is that Reagan on a T-Rex with the American flag?
OH HELL YEAH.
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Sorry, Green New Deal. Sorry, Earth. The Dems Don’t Care About You
Kudos to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for scheduling a vote on the Green New Deal today. He knows how important it is to get rid of all the farting cows and airplanes ASAP. We only have 12 years left before it’s too late for our planet, so there’s not a minute to spare. We must act immediately, if not sooner.
Unfortunately for Mitch, some of his colleagues are dragging their feet. And the weirdest thing is that they’re the ones who demanded it in the first place!
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Trump-Picked 9th Circuit Judge Clears Last Hurdle to Confirmation, With More Nominees in Pipeline
Another of President Trump’s nominees to the San Francisco-based 9th Circuit Court of Appeals cleared a key procedural hurdle in the Senate on Monday, as the White House continues its push to transform the key left-leaning appellate court that the president repeatedly has derided as hopelessly biased and “disgraceful.”
By a 77-20 vote, the Senate invoked cloture to end debate on Trump’s nomination of Arizona-based Magistrate Judge Bridget Bade, a former clerk to conservative 5th Circuit Judge Edith Jones. Bade is slated to replace Bill Clinton-nominated Judge Barry Silverman, who has been on senior status since late 2016 — effectively judicial semi-retirement.
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Woman Claims Online Alien Cult Led to Her Shooting Boyfriend in the Head
STROUDSBURG, Pa. — A woman accused of shooting her boyfriend in Pennsylvania blamed an online alien cult for the death of her boyfriend during her murder trial on Monday.
Police say Barbara Rogers shot Stephen Mineo in the head in July of 2017.
According to investigators, Rogers and Mineo belonged to an online cult led by Sherry Shriner centered on aliens and the end of the world.
Rogers claims the cult turned against her and Mineo, and because of those problems, Mineo wanted her to kill him…
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Judge Rules in Favour of Omar Khadr’s Request to End Remaining Sentence
An Alberta judge has ruled in favour of Omar Khadr’s request to effectively end his eight-year sentence for the killing of a U.S. soldier.
Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench Chief Justice Mary Moreau made the ruling Monday morning in Edmonton, as family and supporters of Khadr cried and hugged each other when the decision was read out. Khadr was seeking the 3-1/2 years remaining on his 2010 youth sentence to be reduced to one day as he awaits a decision in his U.S. appeal.
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UCP Candidate Steps Down After Racist, Transphobic Social Media Posts
Another candidate running for the United Conservative Party has stepped down. Eva Kiryakos made racist and transphobic comments on social media. She says someone was threatening to release the damaging comments, and wanted to release them before someone else did.
Kiryakos, who was the UPC candidate for Calgary-South East, announced on Sunday night that she is stepping down.
“I’ve been getting threats from someone who wants to release images of things I’ve said or commented on in the past,” Kiryakos said in a pre-recorded video statement. “At first I was scared of this person. Scared that my fellow candidates would be affected.”
In one of the exchanges, Kiryakos blamed Muslim refugees for a “rape crisis” in Germany, another exchange included a debate about transgender washrooms.
“The possibility of a grown man sharing a washroom with a little girl is to me, a perversion,” Kiryakos said. “I used the term ‘alternative lifestyle’, because people I engaged with on Twitter used those words, so I repeated them back. I voiced my honest opinion, and yes, I asked if the NDP had an agenda.”
UPC leader Jason Kenney responded to the decision by Kiryakos at a media event on Monday, saying he appreciated her decision to put the party ahead of her own interest.
“I thank her for that selfless decision,” he said.
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2019: Catholic Churches Are Being Desecrated Throughout France
Since the beginning of 2019, France has seen a torrent of attacks which have included arson, vandalism, and desecration of a number of its historic Catholic churches.
The defacers have torn down crosses, knocked down tabernacles, smashed statues, and have destroyed the Eucharist, igniting fears of a rise in widespread anti-Catholic sentiment across the country.
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‘Dark Day for Internet Freedom’: EU Lawmakers Approve Controversial Copyright Reform
The European Parliament has voted to adopt the highly controversial Article 13 provision which would govern the production and distribution of content online under the auspices of increasing copyright protections, RT.com writes.
Tuesday’s move will update the EU’s 20-year-old copyright rules and will govern audiovisual content, much to the dismay of many social media users who have already begun outpouring their grief online.
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Last January marked the 20th birthday of the euro, launched in January 1999, and so it is a good time to consider whether the euro is doing any good to the citizens of the EU from whom it was created.
Economists may debate the overall value of the euro for regional policies, but it is clear that the individual EU citizen hasn’t gained much with the introduction of the single currency.
If you ask my cousin in Amsterdam about it, he’ll simply tell you that many things have become more expensive with the euro. A Dutch comedy show used to depict the president of the Netherlands central bank going to the supermarket and saying, “Boy, milk is expensive. That damned euro…” This was particularly amusing while the Dutch central bank poured out reams of literature touting all the advantages everyone was enjoying thanks to the single currency…
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European Parliament OKs New Internet Copyright Rules
Directive ends ‘digital wild west’ says Tajani
(ANSA) — Brussels, March 26 — The European Parliament on Tuesday voted to approve a directive setting new copyright rules for the Internet. The aim is to strengthen the position of creatives and news publishers when they negotiate with internet giants that use their content. It does this by making internet platforms directly liable for content uploaded to their site and by automatically giving the right to news publishers to negotiate deals on behalf of journalists for news stories used by news aggregators.
The directive has come under fire from some who say it will affect freedom of expression.
But European Parliament President Antonio Tajani said it was a “balanced reform” that ends the “current digital wild west”.
Carlo Perrone, the president of European Newspaper Publishers Association ENPA, was delighted.
“It’s a great victory for the press in Italy. This is a historic vote for Europe’s soul and culture,” Perrone said.
“It will be essential for the future of press publishers and professional journalism.
“Web users will now be guaranteed a democratic, pluralistic Internet”.
Some uploaded material, such as memes or GIFs, is excluded from the directive.
Hyperlinks to news articles, accompanied by “individual words or very short extracts”, can be shared freely, while start-up platforms are subject to less stringent obligations.
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French Couple Fined for Wearing Pro-Yellow Vest Clothing
Police in Paris fined a French couple on Saturday for wearing clothing supporting the Citizen Initiated Referendum (RIC) policy advocated by the Gilets Jaunes (Yellow Vest) movement.
The pair, Jérôme and Béatrice, were given the fine while near the Arc de Triomphe because one of them was wearing a jumper saying, “Yes to the RIC, I say yes to the citizen-initiated referendum,” Le Figaro reports.
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‘Hungary First’: Orban Vows to Fight Brussels, Soros’s Globalist Agenda
“We have to show those in Brussels that what happens in Hungary is what the Hungarian people want,” Viktor Orban has said, vowing to fight unpopular EU efforts to quietly impose mass migration on every country in Europe.
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Hungarians Catch Suspected ISIS Beheader From Syria
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — A Syrian man suspected of having taken part in beheadings carried out by the Islamic State in Homs has been taken into custody and questioned by authorities in Hungary.
The 27-year-old, whose name wasn’t released, has refugee status in Greece. He was initially apprehended in December at Budapest’s Ferenc Liszt International Airport when he and a female companion were found to have forged personal IDs.
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Italian Teen Girl Was Likely Dismembered Alive by Nigerian Migrant Drug Dealer
One of the most nauseating revelations to emerge from the trial for the murder of 18-year-old Italian Pamela Mastropietro is that she was likely to have been dismembered while still alive.
The horrifying reports come following court testimony given by Vincenzo Marino, a key witness in the trial of Nigerian drug pusher Innocent Oseghale who on trial for the brutal murder the young girl last year, Il Giornale reports.
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Italian Far-Left Terrorist Deported by Bolsonaro Admits to Murders
Italian far-left terrorist Cesare Battisti has confessed to the four murders he was convicted of before he fled the country 37 years ago to escape justice.
Batistti admitted to the killings during an interrogation with public prosecutor Alberto Nobili at the Oristano prison where he is currently being held after being brought back to Italy, Il Giornale reports.
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Italy: Battisti Should Say Who Helped Him — Ex Judge
‘Speak of those who backed and funded his life on the run’
(ANSA) — Milan, March 26 — Former leftist terrorist Cesare Battisti should say who helped him remain a fugitive from Italian justice for almost 40 years, one of the investigating magistrates who dealt with the four murders he committed in Italy’s Years of Lead said Tuesday.
Battisti was long a fugitive in France and Brazil before the latter extradited him to Italy to serve two life terms for the murders last year.
On Monday he finally apologised for them.
“If he wants to give a tardy contribution,” said former judge Pietro Forno, “he could do by speaking about those who supported, sustained, funded and helped his flight (from justice) and his being on the run”.
Forno said Battisti’s statement Monday was a “normal proclamation of the so-called disassociated (ex-terrorists) who don’t give any contribution to the authorities of the State they say they respect”.
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Italy: Female Staff at Osservatore Romano Quit En Masse
‘Delegitimised after denouncing nun abuse by clergy’
(ANSA) — Rome, March 26 — The founder and the all-female editorial committee of Vatican daily L’Osservatore Romano’s monthly insert Women Church World quit en masse Tuesday citing a Vatican campaign to discredit them and put them “under the direct control of men”.
They said the alleged campaign “has only increased after we denounced the sex abuse of nuns by the clergy”, they said.
Taking note of their decision, editor Andrea Monda said he had “always guaranteed autonomy and never interfered”.
Founder Lucetta Scaraffia said “I’m leaving because of our progressive delegitimisation”.
Scaraffia told ANSA later she hoped Pope Francis reads their letter and reiterated “we decided to stop collaborating because of the climate we suffered.
Asked if she hoped to be received by the pope, she said “I think he has more important things to do”.
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Italy: Veneto OKs Rehiring Retired Doctors
To meet staffing shortfalls
(ANSA) — Venice, March 26 — The Veneto regional government on Tuesday authorised the rehiring of retired doctors to meet a shortfall in staff.
The move is to “guarantee essential levels assistance if there were to be no availability of doctors on the market,” it said.
It was announced by Governor Luca Zaia.
The southern region of Molise last week proposed doing the same.
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Italy Deports Moroccan Ex-Imam on Security Grounds
Rome, March 19 (IANS/AKI) Italian authorities have expelled a radicalised former imam on security grounds, the Interior Ministry said in a statement Tuesday.
The 36-year-old Moroccan citizen was deported aboard a direct flight to Casablanca from Milan’s Malpensa airport, the statement said.
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Orban Looks to Salvini Alliance After EPP Suspension
Following the suspension of his Fidesz party from the European People’s Party group, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has set his sights on an alliance with Italian populist Interior minister Matteo Salvini.
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UK: Teachers Need Training to Spot Breast Ironing Abuse, Says Union
A union has called for teachers to be trained on spotting signs of breast ironing and for awareness of the issue to be taught nationally in schools.
Joint president of the National Education Union Kiri Tunks has called for teachers, particularly physical education teachers, to be trained on spotting signs of the mutilation, reports the BBC.
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Kuwait: ‘System Not Working’ Term Has Become Frequent in Ministries — Employees Deliberately Disable
KUWAIT CITY, March 25: Academics at the Kuwait University and the Public Authority for Applied Education and Training (PAAET) have agreed that the term “The system is not working or is disrupted” is a problem has become frequent in recent times in a number of ministries, and called on the government to develop the electronic devices and operating systems in the ministries which some employees deliberately disable because they want to get relief from work pressure or other reasons, reports Al-Qabas daily.
They have demanded the development of questionnaire forms in government institutions, which provide services to citizens, to measure the satisfaction of citizens with these services. A professor of education technology at the Faculty of Basic Education, Dr Badr Al-Khudari said the government agencies spend large sums on the development of devices and systems in order to complete transactions quickly, but when one enters the ministries of Social Affairs and Labor or the Ministry of Interior, the Kuwait Municipality, Housing, Education or other places we hear the same story “System is not working or disrupted”, especially during the early hours of work and near the end of duty hours.
“We have heard a lot about e-government, but when applying for transactions, we find every citizen or resident carrying 30 papers to complete the transaction, in addition to some employees send him to the typists in order to print certain documents and when he returns he hear the same words” system disabled, “wondering” “Electronic devices and systems cost large sums of money, however nothing seen on the ground.”
In turn, a professor of management at the College of Business Studies, Dr Mohammed Al-Watiyan said that there are some government agencies still operating the old manual system, which wastes time and effort, and this confirms that we are still late.
He added that the government does not measure the satisfaction of citizens for the services they provide them, stressing that the problems facing citizens during completing their transactions due to the employee does not want to work, because he is lazy and evade the performance of his work, or argue that “The System is not working”. Meanwhile, the Dean of the College of Graduate Studies at Kuwait University recently received a visiting professor Cherukuri Harischandra who was in the college to evaluate the Mechanical Engineering program.
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La Scala to Set Up Conservatory in Saudi Arabia
Academy board in unanimous vote
(ANSA) — Milan, March 26 — La Scala has taken the first step towards setting up a conservatory for boys and girls in Saudi Arabia.
The board of the iconic Milan opera house’s academy unanimously approved “the start-up project for the creation of a future Conservatory in the city of Riyadh”, La Scala said.
On March 18 the opera house’s council decided to return to the Saudi culture ministry 3.1 million euros, ending the hypothesis that the ministry would become a partner and get a place on the board.
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Qatari School Books: What is Being Taught
Qatari Islamic education [is] perhaps even more radical than the most concerned Western critics were assuming. — Based on the “Review Of Qatari Islamic Education School Textbooks For The First Half Of The 2018-2019 School Year,” by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI).
“The textbooks for grades 6, 8, 9 and 12 glorify jihad and self-sacrifice for the sake of Islam, presenting them as virtues and as divine commandments that earn Allah’s favor and rewards, chief among them admittance into the highest level of Paradise”. — MEMRI.
The students learn that Muslims who, despite the prohibition, befriend non-Muslims must be punished. The textbook emphasizes, “Allah prohibits alliances of any kind with unbelievers, and the Islamic nation must disavow unbelievers and their families…”
Students are taught at length about the superiority of Islam over other religions, especially over Judaism and Christianity. Judaism and Jews, as stressed in the grade 7 textbook, are portrayed as follows: “Treachery and perfidy are among the traits of the Jews throughout history”… [and] that Judaism is a distorted religion, that the Jews have an ‘evil nature’ and that they “want to take over the world”.
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Australian History Lecturer is Caught Branding ANZAC Heroes Who Fought at Gallipoli as ‘Killers’
A lecturer has been caught teaching students at a prestigious Perth university that Australian soldiers who fought at Gallipoli are ‘killers.’
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Second Major Blackout Leaves Venezuelans Fearing Power Cuts Will be the Norm
CARACAS (Reuters) — Venezuela’s government told workers and school children to stay home on Tuesday as the second major blackout this month left the streets of Caracas mostly empty and residents wondering how long power would be out amid a deepening economic crisis.
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EU Says Europe ‘Ideal Refuge’ For Migrants Fleeing ‘Poverty, Climate Change’
Europe will be an “ideal refuge for asylum seekers and migrants” in a world where “climate change and global poverty” will drive increasing numbers of poor people to seek better lives elsewhere, according to an EU policy briefing.
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French Bishops: Immigration Policy Not for Single Nations to Decide
The French bishops published a statement Monday on the upcoming European elections, insisting that certain issues such as immigration must be addressed at the multinational level.
“It is obvious to everyone that some solutions cannot be found at the level of individual nations; such is the issue of migrants,” the bishops declare in their statement. “Pope Francis reminded European leaders: ‘We cannot think of the migratory process as a process without discernment and without rules, but we cannot erect walls of indifference or fear.’“
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Pope Francis Tells Rome Mayor to ‘Welcome and Integrate’ Migrants
Pope Francis traveled to Rome’s city hall Tuesday, encouraging the mayor and her staff to be welcoming toward migrants and anyone who wants to make his home in the capital.
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Trump is Getting His Wall Money, Even Without Congress
President Trump didn’t need another feather in his cap on Monday after his attorney general produced a summary the long-anticipated Mueller report that cleared him of collusion charges, and his erstwhile rival Michael Avenatti got indicted (twice). He got one anyway: a Congress-proof gift of one billion dollars towards his southern border wall from the Pentagon.
On Monday, the Defense Department notified Congress that it had transferred one billion dollars to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to go towards 57 miles of wall construction complete with 18-foot-high fences and lighting.
As the press release on transfer made clear, the Pentagon didn’t rely on Trump’s national emergency declaration and instead made the transfer in compliance with a law that allows the Pentagon to “construct roads and fences and to install lighting to block drug-smuggling corridors across international boundaries of the United States in support of counter-narcotic activities of Federal law enforcement agencies.”
That law only requires that an appropriate official request such support and, in this case, the DoD statement makes clear that they’re responding to a request from the Department of Homeland Security “to support DHS’s request.”
That’s a clear gift to the president. It not only marks the realization of his longstanding goal to circumvent lawmakers unwilling to fund border security, but it also does so seemingly without needing to rely on his national emergency declaration.
For the lawmakers who had agitated to oppose the wall in Congress, that’s a serious blow. Not only was the transfer was made without notifying Congress ahead of time, but it also couldn’t be reversed with current attempts to override Trump’s veto of legislation overturning his national emergency. Even if such an override passed, which it won’t, Trump would still get at least 57 miles of wall[…]
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Trump’s National Emergency Declaration for a Border Wall Survives After House Fails to Override Veto
WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives failed to garner enough votes to override President Donald Trump’s veto of the resolution crafted to terminate his national emergency declarationto divert military funds and build a wall along the United States border with Mexico.
The vote finished 248-181, far short of the required two-thirds majority required to overturn a presidential veto.
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Gay Teacher Fired for Having Sex With Teen Boys Wins Discrimination Case
A 42-year-old gay headteacher who was fired for having sex with two 17-year-old boys he met on Grindr has won a discrimination case against his former employer.
Matthew Aplin, the former principal at Tywyn Primary School in Neath Port Talbot, Wales, was found by a tribunal to have been discriminated against, reports The Telegraph.
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Pope: ‘Family Based on Marriage Between One Man and One Woman’
Pope Francis stressed the importance of the natural family Monday, insisting it is based on the marriage between one man and one woman.
The pope was visiting the Catholic Shrine of Loreto, a pilgrimage site believed by many to contain the walls of the house of the Virgin Mary from Nazareth. “Indeed, here are conserved the walls that, according to tradition, come from Nazareth, where the Holy Virgin pronounced her ‘yes,’ becoming the mother of Jesus,” the pontiff noted in his address.
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In a recent study, a team led by Moriah Thomason from New York University Langone scanned the brains of 118 fetuses in the second half of pregnancy. The researchers saw differences in how different brain regions connect together — but not everyone is convinced.
Thomason said: “Males are more susceptible to environmental influences than female babies”.
“We have previously seen that the prenatal brain of the female appears to be more robust, more linked to future behavior.”
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“Proof That Boys and Girls Are Born to be Different — New Study Shows That the Differences Between Male and Female Brains Start in the Womb” – this is nothing new, studies from as far back as the 70’s show different behavior patterns in newborns as young as 2 weeks. It’s the same kind of screening that would make a clear cut between transsexual individuals and brainwashed sjw supporters (even in children). But feminists still ignore this obvious fact because, well, they cherish their feelings more, am I right?
“UK: Teachers Need Training to Spot Breast Ironing Abuse, Says Union” way back when I was a kid we went through regular check-ups at school (every semester or so), we would strip to just undergarments and the teacher (or two) would check our height, weight, overall build and face size (for gas mask purposes). Our pediatrician also invited us for a mandatory check-up every other year or so.
I don’t remember anyone in our class was out of the ordinary, but I believe in case someone wasn’t, for example, growing enough, further tests and possibly medication would follow. Similarly, I suppose in case of suspected abuse authorities would’ve been notified.
Surely such practises would be enough to spot “breast ironing” as well. Though I’m at a loss how to prevent rape of those girls, since muslim men apparently can’t keep it in their pants. […]
We need to define accurately which cultural practices go with which culture. From the wiki on breast ironing:
It is mostly practiced in parts of Cameroon, where boys and men may think that girls whose breasts have begun to grow are ready for sex.[2] Some reports suggest that it has spread to the Cameroonian diaspora, for example to Britain,[5] where the government classifies it as child abuse[6][7].
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Breast ironing is practiced in all ten regions of Cameroon[4] and has also been reported across West and Central Africa, in Benin, Chad, Ivory Coast, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea-Conakry, Togo and Zimbabwe.[citation needed] Breast “sweeping” has been reported in South Africa.[1] All of Cameroon’s 200 ethnic groups engage in breast ironing,[9] with no known relation to religion, socio-economic status, or any other identifier.[1] A June 2006 survey by the German development agency GIZ of more than 5,000 Cameroonian girls and women between the ages of 10 and 82 estimated that nearly one in four had undergone breast ironing, corresponding to four million girls. The survey also reported that it is most commonly practiced in urban areas, where mothers fear their children could be more exposed to sexual abuse.[3] Incidence is 53 percent in Cameroon’s southeastern region of Littoral.[8] Compared with Cameroon’s Christian and animist south, breast ironing is less common in the Muslim north, where only 10 percent of women are affected.[3] Some hypothesize that this is related to the practice of early marriage, which is more common in the north, making early sexual development irrelevant or even preferable.[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breast_ironing
To paraphrase the old saying, “all God’s dangers ain’t a Muslim”…Thus, those pedophilic marriages so common in Islam seem to save some girls from this ignorant practice – though unfortunately, they are still at risk for genital mutilation.
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Dr. T Lothrop Stoddard was an American author, journalist, historian and race antropolog author of a long series of books.
This book from 1921 was the first work that warned the Western world for the expansion of Islam that began during the 1900s and which would reach new heights during the mass immigration and Islamic extremism that began in the 1980s.
The book offers a historical retrospective of Islam’s founding, initial prosperity and sophistication, the decay appearing today.
Stoddard explains the wahabbistiska roots, nationalism rebirth of Arab States, India and the Middle East after World War I and its relation to Islam. Stoddard warns that Islam once set in motion to try to conquer the world.
Contents:
Introduction: The Decline And Fall Of The Old Islamic World
I. The Mohammedan Revival
II. Pan-Islamism
III. The Influence Of The West
IV. Political Change
V. Nationalism
VI. Nationalism In India
VII. Economic Change
VIII. Social Change
IX. Social Unrest And Bolshevism
Conclusion
Index
Map
Author: Dr. T Lothrop Stoddard
Pages: 238
Binding: Softcover
Published: 2012
Language: English
I couldn’t find a title for this book, so I searched on the author’s name, Dr. T Lothrop Stoddard.
Whoo, boy! He’s both a splitter and a lumper. BTW, he believes y’all Nordic folk are at the top of the “good” racial pyramid, followed by the Alpine, and then the Mediterranean.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lothrop_Stoddard
[Maybe the Alpines include the Hungarians? I hadn’t heard of that distinction before. These white people all look alike.]
There is a global colored map of his theories on that wiki.
Stoddard was obviously a bedfellow of Margaret Sanger’s; Hitler loved his ideas enough to adopt the German version of this guy’s notion of the Untermensch. Well, that’s a Harvard grad for you. Back in his day, I don’t think Harvard admitted Jews, or severely limited their numbers – just like they’re doing with Asian American students now (and being sued for the policy):
“Harvard Is Being Accused Of Treating Asians The Same Way It Used To Treat Jews”
https://www.businessinsider.com/the-ivy-leagues-history-of-discriminating-against-jews-2014-12
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“He’s both a splitter and a lumper”,
which means?
Sorry, I am a stupid North-European!
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OK, my little trick omittingg the book-title awakened your interest
for further investigation.
Stoddard seems to have been a perceptive person and you probably cannot call him outright nazi.
listen and read description:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEEuHoGfQ0c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9s92jWDX7Us
BtheW, did you know that the Nuernberg Laws were copied from
the US , word negr exchanged with jew and made somewhat milder.
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Allah and his Mohammedans were completely forgotten. Pity.
That Stoddard fellow was pre-Nazi. He was a true believer in the superiority of one race over another and would have criminalized intermarriage if he could have. In the U.S., there were many others just like him.
I don’t doubt what you say about the Nuremberg Laws being based on American ideas. Lord knows those were some evil ideas, the old Dixiecrat culture. However, the wiki on those laws has this:
Protection of German Blood and German Honour, which forbade marriages and extramarital intercourse between Jews and Germans and the employment of German females under 45 in Jewish households…
was the German version. In the American South (and some of the urban north) domestic life would have ground to a halt without black maids and repairmen. Even lower-middle-class families had weekly black maids. In the mornings, going to school on the city bus, I’d be getting on as the maids were getting off to walk to their six or eight hours’ cleaning jobs. OTOH, our postman (a federal job) was also black and had our route the whole time I was growing up. He sent all his girls to college.
My hometown was once rated the most segregated city in the U.S. It got right fierce in the 60s.
Big difference between Nazis and Americans: they imposed those laws in Germany quite suddenly and with malice aforethought. In the U.S., people of every color were struggling to bring those practices to an end. And still struggle. It’s been made more difficult by the politics of resentment and envy, but at least Europeans can’t claim innocence anymore. There’s that.
Jews in the American South are a whole nother story. A most interesting one, too.
NOTE: See difference between splitters and lumpers here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumpers_and_splitters
As for being a “stupid North European”, you and I both know that y’all are at the top of heap intellectually. Just check Stoddard’s pyramid: on top of it, the Nordic is king of all he surveys.
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L&S/- needs thinking!
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Stoddard seems to have been truly exemplified in Zimbabve.
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https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-whitman-hitler-
american-race-laws-20170222-story.html
https://youtu.be/OTKm8yjYZj4
https://youtu.be/XWD3Z3GCY8U
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https://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2017/
august/the-big-lie-dinesh-dsouza-exposes-neo-nazi-roots-of-the-progressive-left
https://youtu.be/us8Kg7O1Bus
https://youtu.be/6KybG6117Dk
https://youtu.be/QKJ9kSQpuxI
https://www.dineshdsouza.com/news/forbes-okeefe-moore-
discuss-fascism-with-dsouza/
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Last but not least:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XU0Cb9mNCPs
Hmmmm.Mister “north Scandinavian ” and rest of Norwegian contingent on GOV longing for update on Quisling 2.0 ?
We are watching !
Please! He is NOT Norwegian.
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Harvard >>>> https://youtu.be/7VTQ-dBYSlQ
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Enjoy a reading weekend, Dymphna – Quislingwas¨nt 100 % bad!
;but 100% scapegoat.
https://www.consciouslivingfoundation.org/ebooks/13/CLF-TheNewWorldOfIslam-LothropStoddard.pdf
http://www.colchestercollection.com/titles/pdf/I/into-the-darkness.pdf
Qatar – Home of the 2022 World Cup. How much money got spread around to award it to that sandpile?
Events in Christchurch increasingly resemble Operation False Flag
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/new-zealand-terror-attack-generation-identity-austria-kurz-a8841841.html
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But in Britain, good children grow up – in them your hope and future.
After all, you were warned back in the 80s: children need to be raised like John Connor.
https://metro.co.uk/2019/03/26/six-children-arrested-ripping-koran-trashing-islamic-school-9029091/?ito=cbshare
Hang on, the shooter gave a small sum of money to an Austrian political party and now they are somehow responsible for his actions?
If I shoot up a bunch of people but give donations to Red Cross first and World Wildlife Fund, does that mean those charities should come under scrutiny?
Facebook has already stated it is banning White Nationalist accounts and comments and there is some high level movement to crack down on such groups in America, yet the Moslem Brotherhood ticks along business as usual.
The Facebook one is a typical response as such groups exist all over the world and every race, even national governments like China espouse racial homogeneity as desirable, yet white groups in the west are being singled out.
It does have an air of pre-planning or at least gross opportunism by anti-western factions.
I agree with you, Danielk.
If Facebook as a public social media (which may hold many of our personal informatin) continue to refuse to allow us or protect us who wish to make some very valid points, no matter how disagreeable it may be to certain factions of extremely irrational intolerant nonwhites, then it is just futile to be part of the Facebook community.
I am just surprised that Facebook is still so popular with some people.