Former Vice President Joe Biden’s poll numbers slumped after he was ensnared in a series of new #MeToo allegations. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi advised Mr. Biden to greet women at arm’s length, instead of his customary more intimate manner.
In other news, Brexit has been delayed yet again. Or is that really news?
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55 Years of Carte Blanche Lies by Main Stream Media
The odor of corruption has long been noxious and truth is not forthcoming from media. Why? Because the 1964 Supreme Court decision in NYTs v. Sullivan gave media a “first amendment” right to lie with impunity about any public figure they wished to destroy or promote thus protecting them from most libel suits.
A public official could recover in a libel action only if and when a court found that the libelous statement about the official was made with “actual malice”—that is, with knowledge that it was false or with reckless disregard of whether it was false or not. As long as the press has an “absence of malice,” public officials are barred from recovering damages for the publication of false statements about them.
Defamation law, the ability to sue someone for false attacks on your reputation, was governed by state law until 1964. The landmark U.S. Supreme Court case, New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254, 84 S. Ct. 710, 11 L. Ed. 2d 686 (1964), extended the First Amendment’s guarantee of free speech to libel cases brought by public officials. The Supreme Court sought to encourage “public debate” by changing the rules involving libel that had previously been the province of state law and state courts.
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A County in New York Has Completely Banned All Unvaccinated Children From All Public Places
One county in New York is taking extremely drastic measures in an attempt to force all children to get vaccinated for measles. Starting on Wednesday, any child that has not received the measles vaccine will be banned from all public places. That means that they will not be able to go to school, to church or to any store. In fact, just walking down the sidewalk will be a violation of this countywide “state of emergency”. Rockland County has essentially declared a state of medical martial law, and it is scheduled to last for the next 30 days…
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A-List Rap Artist ‘Nipsey Hussle’ Murdered After Plans to Expose Big Pharma
Many suspect Nipsey Hussle murdered because of documentary he made about herbalist doctor who proved he could cure AIDS
This weekend A-list rap artist and community philanthropist Nipsey Hussle was gunned down in Los Angeles. Without clear evidence of motive, his murder is being portrayed as gang violence. But many suspect he was murdered to silence him because of a documentary he was producing about an herbalist doctor who proved to the New York Supreme Court that he could cure AIDS.
In 2016, Dr Sebi was arrested and died in jail. His arrest records have not been released, so it remains unclear as to why he was arrested in the first place.
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Baltimore Mayor Pugh to Take Leave of Absence in Midst of ‘Healthy Holly’ Book Controversy
Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh, facing a call by Gov. Larry Hogan for a criminal investigation into the book deal that paid her hundreds of thousands of dollars, announced Monday that she will take an indefinite leave of absence because of her health.
The Democratic mayor’s office issued a statement Monday saying she had been advised by her doctors to take time to recover from a bout of pneumonia that hospitalized her for five days last week.
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Chicago Elects Lori Lightfoot as First Gay and First Black Female Mayor in City’s History
CHICAGO — Voters in Chicago on Tuesday elected former federal prosecutor Lori Lightfoot to become their next mayor, making Chicago the largest city to elect an African-American woman as its top elected official.
The Associated Press called the race for Lightfoot shortly before 8 p.m. With votes in 85% of precincts counted, Lightfoot had 73.9% of the vote and Preckwinkle 26.1%.
The win by Lightfoot, who identifies as a lesbian and will be Chicago’s first woman of color to serve as mayor, also means the Windy City is the biggest U.S. city to pick an openly gay mayor.
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CNN Host Says “Lock Her Up” Chants Should Have Been Shut Down for “Hate Speech”
CNN host Christiane Amanpour suggested that the anti-Hillary Clinton “lock her up” chant was “hate speech” and that the federal government should have “shut down” Trump supporters who uttered it.
Yes, really.
During her interview with former FBI director James Comey, Amanpour bizarrely asked if the FBI itself should have silenced Trump supporters over the viral chant.
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Destroying America From Within, Part 6
I brought up that muslims simply do what they want to do whether it is legal or not and it doesn’t help when we have cowards in places of authority that will not stand up to the advances of this barbaric ideology. We clearly have a double standard in this country when it comes to how Christians are treated compared to Muslims. Across the country, Christian students are banned from praying to Jesus and reading the Bible, as liberals suddenly have a hard-on for the Constitution and want to quoting clauses about the “separation of church in state” in order to justify their views. But of course that same logic doesn’t apply when it comes to Muslims’ religions freedoms, as liberals are all too eager to kiss the a** of anyone who hates America as much as they do.
In yet another startling example of hypocrisy when it comes to the idiots on the left, the very same school that bans students from praying to Jesus is now doing something absolutely sick to appease their Muslim students. At Liberty High School In Frisco, Texas, the Independent School District decided to convert an entire freaking classroom into a “prayer room” so these Muslims can practice their barbaric religion while at school.
Their excuse for favoring Muslim students over Christian students was equally as pathetic, with school officials saying they didn’t want Muslim students to “have to drive home to conduct their daily prayers.” Yes really…
“Liberty High School’s policy should be neutral toward religion,” read a letter sent to Frisco’s superintendent by Deputy Attorney General Andrew Leonie. “However, it appears that students are being treated different based on their religious beliefs. Such a practice, of course, is irreconcilable with our nation’s enduring commitment to religious liberty.”
I call these people cowards because this would not have been allowed for children of the Christian faith, so it should not be allowed for muslims either. This is what I meant when I said they begin to demand that we accept their culture but they will not embrace our culture.
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Duke University to Pay $112.5 Million for Faking Scientific Research Data
Former employee brought lawsuit against university
Duke University has agreed to pay $112.5 million to the US government for scientific research misconduct, the Department of Justice announced in a press release on Monday. The fine comes as a result of the university falsifying research on federal grants.
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GM Executives Closed Ohio Plant Despite Concessions From U.S. Workers: ‘We Did Everything They Want’
Executives at General Motors (GM) closed the Lordstown, Ohio, assembly plant last month — resulting in the immediate layoff of about 1,600 American workers — despite major concessions from the United Auto Workers (UAW), new details reveal.
Last month, GM CEO Mary Barra closed the Lordstown plant, a decision expected to result in the layoff of more than 8,000 American workers in the area, and allegedly blamed the UAW for the plant’s closure in a phone conversation with President Trump.
“Just spoke to Mary Barra, CEO of General Motors about the Lordstown Ohio plant … I asked her to sell it or do something quickly. She blamed the UAW Union — I don’t care, I just want it open!” Trump wrote on Twitter.
New details from Bloomberg News reveal a very different story. Documents note that the UAW agreed to make nearly $120 million a year in concessions to keep the Lordstown plant open in 2017 and were stunned by the announcement in late 2018 that the Lordstown plant would eventually close…
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While GM lays off thousands of American workers, its production in Mexico and China is ramping up. Specifically, GM is looking to manufacture an electric Cadillac in China and continue manufacturing its Envision compact vehicle in China.
[Comment: Many CEOs are globalist operatives.]
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GM Removes Made-in-Mexico Chevy Blazer From Detroit Ballpark After Backlash From American Workers
Multinational automaker General Motors (GM) removed its made-in-Mexico red Chevrolet Blazer SUV from a display at Detroit, Michigan’s Comerica Park this week after backlash from American workers.
GM had perched the made-in-Mexico Chevy Blazer on an enormous Chevrolet display — alongside the Chevrolet Silverado which is made in Fort Wayne, Indiana — in Comerica Park for the Detroit Tigers’ opening day this week.
GM executives’ decision to display the Chevy Blazer for opening day at Comerica Park came after the corporation decided to lay off thousands of American workers of the last two years, and most recently shuttered the Lordstown, Ohio, assembly plant — resulting in the immediate layoff of about 1,600 U.S. workers at the plant and experts predicting more than 8,000 Americans laid off from supporting industries in the area.
Comerica Park is the home of the Detroit Tigers, one of the country’s oldest baseball franchises. GM has featured its vehicles on the Chevrolet Fountain at centerfield for 10 years. The made-in-Mexico Chevy Blazer, though, quickly came under fire from Detroit locals.
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Gun Control Costs: Dick’s Sporting Goods Takes $150 Million Loss, CEO is Perfectly Fine With it
Dick’s Sporting Goods took a hard Communist stance against guns in the wake of the school shooting at Majorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Since then, Dick’s has lost over $150 million, but the CEO is ok with it.
In the midst of the retail apocalypse, Dick’s CEO Ed Stack has decided it isn’t important to make money, it’s only important to be a flamboyant leftist. According to a Bloomberg report, that Dick’s lost about $150 million after the company publically came out for gun control, yet Stack continues to stand his ground. He addressed America’s gun policy, saying, “The system does not work. It’s important that when you know there’s something that’s not working, and it’s to the detriment of the public, you have to stand up.”
Dick’s quit selling their definition of “high capacity magazines” and “assault rifles” in the wake of the shooting in Parkland, Florida while a bunch of teenagers demanded perfectly innocent people give up their rights to suit the feelings of those upset. The company also raised its own personal minimum purchase age for long guns to 21, according to a report by Breitbart.
But Stack should probably not be too comfortable with a loss of $150 million. The retail apocalypse is upon us, and Dick’s could now be in the crosshairs, and they’ll probably be upset that that terminology was used. On April 17, 2018, Breitbart News reported that Dick’s would not be sending the unsold “assault rifles” and “high capacity” magazines back to manufacturers. Rather, they would destroy them wasting millions of dollars.
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Homeland’s Alex Jones Character is a Lame Attempt to Smear InfoWars
Radio host obsessively listened to by character who has gone half mad
The new season of Homeland features an obnoxious Alex Jones-style radio host in what is a transparent effort to discredit Infowars and appease liberals via the medium of entertainment.
The Alex Jones character was introduced early in the season via a voice on the radio. One of the lead characters, Quinn, is seen obsessively listening to the show. This same character has become violent and semi-deranged since surviving a biological assassination attempt and a stroke.
The not so subtle inference is that anyone who listens to Alex Jones is violent and semi-deranged.
In the latest episode, the Alex Jones character is seen ranting about a terrorist attack in New York, blaming the female President-elect and vowing to “fight” her.
The plots of earlier Homeland seasons were usually focused around Islamic terrorism, but in later series the show has kowtowed to political correctness and allowed social justice narratives to ruin the dynamism of what was once an enjoyable watch.
The premiere of season 6 was about 600,000 viewers down on the first show of season 5.
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ISIS Wannabe From the Bronx Gets 20 Years for Supporting Terrorism
A Bronx home-health aide who plotted to pose as a humanitarian nurse to join ISIS was slapped with 20 years behind bars Tuesday.
Saddam Mohamed “Adam” Raishani, 32, was hoping to travel to Turkey to ultimately join up with the Islamic State in Syria. But his cohorts included an undercover NYPD detective and undercover FBI agent.
Raishani, who has a wife and young son, pleaded guilty to attempting to provide material support to a terrorist organization and a related conspiracy charge.
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Joe Biden’s Primary Victory Odds Slump After #MeToo controversy
Having previously been the clear frontrunner, Joe Biden’s primary victory odds have slumped following controversy over his inappropriate behavior around women.
Biden has been hit with two new accusations of being overly touchy-feely around women. For years, the former vice president has been known as ‘Creepy Uncle Joe’ because of numerous such incidents that were caught on camera.
The scandal has already impacted Biden’s odds of winning the Democratic primary, with a PredictIt chart showing the VP has now sunk below both Bernie Sanders and Kamala Harris.
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Jury Selection in Justine Damond Trial
Jury selection has begun in the trial of a former Minneapolis police officer who fatally shot an unarmed Australian woman after she called 911 to report a possible sexual assault behind her home.
Mohamed Noor, 33, is charged in the July 2017 death of Justine Ruszczyk Damond in a case that drew international attention, cost the police chief her job and forced major revisions to the Police Department’s policy on body cameras.
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MSNBC’s Ocasio-Cortez Town Hall Falls Flat, Loses to Tucker Carlson in Ratings
MSNBC’s Town Hall featuring Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., fell flat in the ratings Friday evening, trailing far behind Fox News’ “Tucker Carlson Tonight.”
According to Nielsen’s early ratings, the Town Hall hosted by MSNBC’s “All In” host Chris Hayes garnered 1,568,000 total viewers while Carlson’s program had 2,656,000. CNN’s Anderson Cooper came in last with 733,000 total viewers.
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Nancy Pelosi Tells Joe Biden to Stop Touching Women
Nancy Pelosi warned Joe Biden to stop touching women during a speech at a breakfast hour Washington event earlier today.
Biden has been under intense scrutiny after two women accused the former vice president of behaving inappropriately towards them.
“Join the straight-arm club,” Pelosi advised Biden, adding, “In other words, keep your handshakes at arms’ length and don’t be touchy-feely.”
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NRA is Back, ‘Highest Ever’ Membership
The National Rifle Association has recovered from a membership drop after President Trump’s 2016 election and is now at the highest levels ever in its history.
New figures put the membership at approximately 5.5 million.
Typically the gun lobby membership dips after elections, especially in nonelection years like this year. But officials said it is “holding steady” at unusually high levels, an indication that members are steeling for the upcoming presidential election.
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NXIVM Member Admits to Enslaving Woman in a Locked Room for 2 Years
A Nxivm cult member who secretly pleaded guilty last week to charges of racketeering conspiracy admitted to keeping her own personal slave locked in a room for two years, newly unsealed court documents reveal.
“I knowingly and intentionally harbored Jane Doe 4, a woman whose identity is known to me, in a room in the home in the Northern District of New York,” said Lauren Salzman to Brooklyn federal court Judge Nicholas Garaufis last week.
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Freshman Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ayanna Pressley have in a matter of days rallied the progressive base against a plan by House Democrats’ campaign arm to isolate and discourage would-be challengers from running against incumbents in congressional primaries.
Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Pressley, D-Mass., both insurgents who ousted entrenched members of their own party, over the weekend criticized a policy by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) to blacklist political firms that work against sitting members of Congress.
[Comment: The bolsheviks are taking over the Democrat Party.]
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Poll: More Americans Think Hillary Colluded With Foreign Operatives Than Trump
Following the failure of the Mueller investigation to find any evidence that Trump or members of his campaign colluded with Russia, a new Rasmussen poll finds that more Americans now think Hillary Clinton colluded with foreign operatives than Trump.
“A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 47% of Likely U.S. Voters think Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign is more likely than President Trump’s to have illegally colluded with foreign operatives. Nearly as many (45%) still suspect the Trump campaign more,” reports the polling agency.
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According to the annual 2019 SonicWall Cyber Threat Report, we’re being subjected to more attacks by cybercriminals than ever before. The report provides an in-depth look at threat intelligence obtained from the company’s more than one million sensors located around the world. In 2018 there were a record-high 10.52 billion malware attacks that included 391,689 newly identified attack variants.
“Cyber perpetrators are not letting up in their relentless pursuit to illegally obtain data, valuable information and intellectual property,” said Bill Conner, president and CEO of SonicWall.
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Teardown of a 50 Year Old Modem
A few years ago, I was out at the W6TRW swap meet at the parking lot of Northrop Grumman in Redondo Beach, California. Tucked away between TVs shaped like polar bears and an infinite variety of cell phone chargers and wall warts was a small wooden box. There was a latch, a wooden handle, and on the side a DB-25 port. There was a switch for half duplex and full duplex. I knew what this was. This was a modem. A wooden modem. Specifically, a Livermore Data Systems acoustically coupled modem from 1965 or thereabouts.
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The Demise of the Logic of Moral Reasoning
Professor Abrams decided to undertake a small research project in which he would seek to determine the make-up of college administrators and other college staff employees who were engaged in direct student affairs, activities, and programming beyond the classroom teaching environment. Indeed, Dr. Abrams noted in his op-ed article that many colleges have transitioned away from classroom instruction as the sole method of interacting with students. In the place of classroom instruction, schools are hiring personnel for student residential life, student centers, offices of student life, success, inclusion, and engagement. In other words, schools have increasingly determined to shape the minds of students through non-observed, non-evaluated, student and peer led activities taking place in the very places students call home. This has enabled peer pressure and the development of a herd mentality to take the place of actual learning that is determined against rigorous examination and testing.
The result of Professor Abrams’ survey of approximately 900 college administrators across America that have direct interaction with students as the primary activity of their role was not surprising. On average, liberal college staff members outnumber their conservative counterparts by a 12 to 1 ratio. The statistics were much more lopsided when viewed regionally. For example, New England was the most liberal in the nation, with liberal administrators holding a 25 to 1 advantage over their conservative peers.
There was nothing unusual or controversial about anything that Dr. Abrams wrote. He concluded his op-ed with these words:
This warped ideological distribution among college administrators should give our students and their families pause. To students who are in their first semester at school, I urge you not to accept unthinkingly what your campus administrators are telling you. Their ideological imbalance, coupled with their agenda-setting power, threatens the free and open exchange of ideas, which is precisely what we need to protect in higher education in these politically polarized times.
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The Wise Purpose of the Electoral College
There are many today who argue that the Electoral College ought to be relegated to a museum with other quaint relics of the past. They argue that it is anti-democratic and has no legitimate place in our government today.
In part, I agree. It is anti-democratic. That is what it was supposed to be.
The purpose of the Constitution, according to the Declaration of Independence, is to “secure” the unalienable rights of the people. That is all our national government was supposed to do: protect and preserve us in our lives, our liberty, and our property. To do this, the Founders gave us a republic, not a democracy. They understood that in a democracy, eventually, the people can gradually be taught to accept the idea that it is perfectly legal — and therefore just — to put their neighbor’s unalienable rights to a popular vote, and that this will incrementally erode and destroy our right to life, to liberty, and to property. The Founders sought to guard against this as they debated the principles they would incorporate in the Constitution. There was purpose in the design of the Electoral College. It was created to be part of the bulwark they erected to protect our unalienable rights from direct democratic usurpation. But this is precisely why it is held in such contempt by many. Those who inveigh against the Electoral College usually argue that it is an impediment to pure principles of “one man, one vote.”
And indeed, it is…
To do away with the Electoral College is to do away with national elections, and also to do away with presidential accountability to all Americans. Why? Because if the election of the president is based solely on popular vote, only the areas of highest concentration of population — i.e., the New York City area and the Los Angeles area, with a few other lesser but still highly populated areas sprinkled in, will control national elections. That’s where the greatest concentrations of population are. The areas between the two coasts, already referred to derisively as flyover country, and the Americans who live there, will be effectively unrepresented in such elections.
The object of our constitutional republic is not to make everyone’s voice exactly equal, but rather to make everyone’s unalienable rights equally secure.
[Comment: Recommended reading.]
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Suspect Charged After Langara College Arson Attack
A 23-year-old Surrey man allegedly set three incendiary devices in a building at Langara College on Monday following a dispute with one or more people at the south Vancouver college, Postmedia has learned.
Nasradin Abdusamad Ali is also believed to have sent taunting electronic messages to the college Monday afternoon after two of the devices detonated and the entire campus was evacuated.
Ali made a brief appearance in Vancouver Provincial Court on Tuesday afternoon on two charges — one of arson in relation to inhabited property, and one count of possession of incendiary material.
He is due back in court Friday for a bail hearing.
Vancouver Police Const. Jason Doucette said Ali was quickly identified as a suspect after a fire was started in Langara’s Technology “T” Building about 11:30 a.m. on Monday…
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91-Year-Old Swede Prosecuted and Heavily Fined for Stating That Muslims “Seem to be Inbred”
In Skåne in southern Sweden, the judicial system’s resources have recently, among other things, been used to frame a 91-year-old man who wrote negatively about Islam and Muslims on Facebook.
The man who is from Bromölla was convicted of “incitement to racial or ethnic hatred” after he wrote “offensive” about Muslims, according to the local newspaper.
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An Average of Three Church Attacks Per Day in Multicultural France
Over the past three years French churches have become the target of vandals and criminals with an average of almost three churches targeted for vandalism per day.
A report from the Central Criminal Intelligence Service of the gendarmerie noted that from 2016 to 2018 there had been thousands of cases of church vandalism, peaking in 2017 with 1,045 cases, Le Figaro reports.
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Are You Buying “Organic”? Here’s the Truth on This Modern Trend
I have interviewed the agronomist with specific knowledge in the mathematic modelling of the agro-ecosystem, Luigi Mariani, to understand why the “organic” trend is not what it appears. Mariani was a professor of Agrometeorology and Agronomy at the University of Milan, and now teaches the History of Agriculture. He is also co-director at the Lombard museum of the history of agriculture and vice-president of the Agrarian Lombard Society.
In December, you wrote a letter with hundreds of scientists, researchers, and experts in agriculture to the Italian Parliament, asking it to reconsider the proposal “Organic Agriculture”. Why do you oppose the concept of organic agriculture, which is becoming increasingly popular in our modern society?
A fair, “organic label” exists. But it produces inferior quantities of food compared to conventional agriculture, so its products are sold at a much higher price (about double the amount of conventional agriculture). If there is consumer demand for organic agriculture, then there is nothing wrong when this demand is satisfied. What I find extremely problematic about this new trend to buy “organic” food, is that organic labels often accuse other farmers of being pollutants and poisoners. This is simply false: the organization of organic products called Federbio produces annual reports called “Change our soil”, co-signed by WWF. The subtitle to this report is: “How conventional agriculture pollutes our economy (and our planet).” The text negates the enormous benefits that conventional agriculture has in guaranteeing food security at rates which were never achieved in the history of mankind (today, only 11% of the world population is below the food security line, compared to 35% in 1970, and 50% in 1945). I also find it problematic that organic agriculture proposes itself as a solution to a worldwide problem, because it simply does not have the capacity to produce enough quantities of food for our current world population, and even if it wanted to do so it would require enormous amounts of resources. First, if organic agriculture were adopted at a worldwide level, billions of people would die of hunger. We have five main food resources: wheat, rice, corn, and barley, which guarantee 70% of food for humanity. If these resources were produced with organic agriculture, there would be a steep decline in productivity, specifically from 20 to 70%. If we consider a decline of an average 50% of productivity, we would need to double the soil needed to grow these resources, which would destroy our natural habitats. It would be an ecological and environmental disaster. I am surprised, therefore, to see that WWF, which claims to be in favour of protecting the environment, appears to be supporting this cause.
Unsustainability aside, is organic agriculture of better quality than conventional agriculture?…
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‘Bitch-Fight’ Between Juncker and Orban: “Nationalism Can Lead to War”
Jean-Claude Juncker told Italy’s public tv channel RAI1 that he doesn’t care about the Hungarian government’s campaign against him, but he is bothered by Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s xenophobia, hostility towards foreigners.
According to European Commission’s president, such nationalism can lead to war.
Answering a question by ATV.hu, Orban said that “someone who unveiled a statue of Marx shouldn’t be lecturing anyone about xenophobia, because the master of xenophobia was called Karl Marx”.
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Brexit Deadlock: Theresa May to Delay Brexit… Again
British Prime Minister Theresa May has addressed the United Kingdom — again — after hosting an epic seven hours of government meetings Tuesday and told the nation she intends to delay Brexit again to get her deal agreed by Parliament, or else open the door for a softer Brexit.
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British ISIS Bride Shamima Begum ‘Bored’ of Brexit
Shamima Begum, the teenager who left the UK to join Islamic State and marry a jihadist, has said she is “bored” of Brexit, as her lawyer fights to have her repatriated.
Ms Begum, 19, made the comments in a ‘flash of humour’ during an interview with The Times, according to the newspaper’s journalist.
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Call to Castrate Gang-Rape Suspects Voiced by Italian Deputy PM
Matteo Salvini’s remark comes as Italy debates a new amendment which would allow convicted sex offenders to receive a suspended sentence in exchange for chemical castration.
Italian Interior Minister and Deputy PM Matteo Salvini has called for the castration of a trio of men who stand accused of gang-raping a 19-year-old American woman in Catania, Sicily earlier this month.
The minister insisted that the alleged rapists must face guaranteed jail time and be subjected to chemical castration, describing the offenders as “raping worms”.
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Desperate Remainers Push ‘Last Ditch Attempt’ Bill to Stop No Deal Brexit
Labour’s Yvette Cooper is pushing a bill that would stop the UK leaving the EU in a clean, no deal by forcing another extension of Article 50.
Cooper’s backbench bill is slated for debate on Wednesday after a third round of indicative votes planned for tomorrow was rescheduled for Monday, reports The Guardian.
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Eurocrats: No Deal ‘Inevitable’ After MPs Rule Out Soft Brexit Options
The European Union’s senior Brexit administrators have said that after MPs ruled out all four soft-Brexit options, a clean exit is now “nearly inevitable.”
The European Parliament’s Brexit coordinator Guy Verhofstadt wrote Monday evening, “The House of Commons again votes against all options. A hard Brexit becomes nearly inevitable.
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Former French President Warns Macron’s Battle With Yellow Vests Will End ‘Badly’
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has warned that the current fight between President Emmanuel Macron and the Gilets Jaunes (Yellow Vest) movement will “end badly.”
Mr Sarkozy slammed Macron for not taking firm action against violence from radicals within the Yellow Vest movement saying, “Macron must act to restore authority. The state must answer. I am sure he will do it. But it must be done now and with extreme firmness,” Le Figaro reports.
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Here Comes the Splinternet: How the EU is Helping Break Apart the Internet
In the wake of last week’s unfortunate decision by the EU Parliament to vote for the terrible EU Copyright Directive, Casey Newton over at the Verge has a thoughtful piece about how this could lead to the internet splitting into three.
…this latest effort is hamfisted in the extreme, and may have the effect of splintering the internet beyond what seemed possible even a few years ago. In the wake of GDPR’s passage, Europeans couldn’t visit the websites of some US publishers for months as new privacy frameworks were put into place. That sort of thing may be about to become a lot more common. The time has now come to speak of the internets, plural. And to get around, you might just need a passport.
Basically, as Newton notes, it just might not be worth it for many sites to serve EU visitors: Perhaps the big platforms will feel so motivated to preserve their European user bases that they will indeed negotiate the deals necessary to keep their existing services operating basically as is. But it’s just as easy to imagine them scaling back their services, as Google has already done, and further divide the internet into zones. If it goes far enough, the entire internet may begin to feel like Netflix, whose library of content varies dramatically depending on which country you log on from.
But that’s just the big platforms. Smaller platforms aren’t even going to be in a position or have the resources to negotiate those deals.
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If We’d Listened to EU We’d be in Underpants — Salvini
Luckily things will change on May 26
(ANSA) — Cagliari, April 2 — Deputy Premier Matteo Salvini said Tuesday in response to European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker’s concern over an Italian economic “regression” that “if we’d listened to Europe we’d be in our underpants now”.
He said that “in the last few years European bureaucrats have damaged the Italian economy…
“Luckily, on May 26 (at the EP elections) things will change,” he said.
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ISIS is Recruiting in Europe’s Criminal Underworld
European criminal gangs are a new recruiting ground for ISIS and other jihadi terrorist groups, a new paper argues.
In the paper, Jytte Klausen uses the term “gangster jihadism” to describe the nexus between the criminal underworld and radical Islamic groups.
This new alliance with the criminal underworld marks a major shift in how Islamic extremists lure new members. In the past, young European men were radicalized in mosques and online.
Twenty-two percent of jihadis who were captured or killed in Brussels between 2012-17 were known to have had a criminal history before becoming radicalized, finds Klausen, professor of international cooperation at Brandeis University.
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Italy: League Pulls Amendment on Rapist Chemical Castration
Due to M5S opposition
(ANSA) — Rome, April 2 — The nationalist populist League party on Tuesday withdrew an amendment introducing chemical castration for rapists.
It said this was due to opposition from its government partner, the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement (M5S).
“We are aware that this amendment, at this stage, is not shared by the M5S,” said the League’s civil service minister, Giulia Bongiorno. Earlier Interior Minister Matteo Salvini’s party said it was still set to file an amendment to a violence against women bill envisaging chemical castration, sources at the House justice committee said Tuesday.
Salvini has repeatedly called for chemical castration for rapists.
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Italy: Ferrero Snaps Up Kellogg’s Snacks and Biscuits
Keebler and Famous Amos brands sale envisaged for $1.3 bn
(ANSA) — Rome, April 1 — Italian candy maker Ferrero on Monday snapped up two of US multinational Kellogg’s snacks and biscuits units.
Kellogg announced its intention of selling Ferrero two of its snacks and biscuits brands, Keebler and Famous Amos, less well known abroad than its iconic cornflakes.
Among other things, they make traditional chocolate cookies.
The operation is worth about $1.3 billion.
Ferrero beat out a rival bid from US Hostess Brands.
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Italy: Murderer Says He Killed Victim for ‘Looking Happy’
Killer was ‘depressed’ after separation
(ANSA) — Turin, April 1 — Prosecutors said Monday that a suspect has confessed to murdering Stefano Leo, a young man who was found stabbed to death on the banks of the River Po in Turin in February, for the sole reason that he wanted to kill someone.
The suspect, Said Machaouat, a 27-year-old Italian with Moroccan roots, turned himself in at the weekend. “I chose to kill that young man because he looked happy. And I couldn’t stand his happiness,” Machaouat said, according to the prosecutors.
“The motive is spine chilling,” Turin prosecutor Paolo Borgna said. Machaouat was quoted as telling prosecutors Ciro Santoriello and Enzo Bucarelli that “I wanted to kill a lad like me, to take away all his prospects, his children, his friends and relatives”. The suspect, who showed investigators to where a kitchen knife that is thought to have been the murder weapon was, said he was depressed after splitting up with his ex wife. “The worst thing was knowing that my four-year-old boy was calling a friend of my ex partner daddy,” Machaouat was quoted as saying.
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Italy: Salvini Dismisses Govt-Crisis Talk as ‘Crap’
Administration set to keep moving forward says deputy premier
(ANSA) — Rome, April 1 — Deputy Premier and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini on Monday dismissed as “crap” reports that the government is in crisis due to a series of rows between his League party and its coalition partner, the 5-Star Movement (M5S). “The government is moving forward and there is no chance of me throwing in the towel,” Salvini told Lady Radio. “I have read this crap in the newspapers since the day we were sworn in”. The minister also hit back at Confindustria after the leader of the industrial employers confederation suggested it would be better to have fresh elections if the government is unable to tackle the nation’s problems, among fears that the Italian economy is stagnating.
“Confindustria attacks us in the newspapers and then it asks us for a meeting,” Salvini said.
“Maybe the big industrialists were spoilt by the left (who governed in the past). They got whatever they wanted”.
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Italy’s Matteo Salvini Named as Face of New Sovereignty Populist Supergroup
Italian populist Interior Minister Matteo Salvini is slated to be the new face of an emerging sovereigntist-populist supergroup in Europe, according to Austrian Freedom Party MEP Harald Vilimnsky.
Mr Vilimsky, who serves as the Secretary General of the Freedom Party (FPÖ), said that three major sovereigntist-populist political groups in the European Parliament would be presenting a new agreement this month to increase cooperation between them, Omni reports.
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London’s ‘Giant Dildo’ Skyscraper Receives Planning Approval
A giant skyscraper which some claim is shaped like a dildo has received planning approval despite concerns it will ruin the skyline of London.
The Tulip, 305 meter high structure, will become western Europe’s second tallest building after the Shard.
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PM’s U-Turns on Stop and Search Follows Bloody Weekend in London
British police are to get new powers to stop and search potential suspects, particularly to discover if they are carrying deadly weapons, in a policy u-turn by political leaders who have curtailed it in the past for political reasons.
Prime Minister Theresa May has approved a plan by Home Secretary Sajid Javid to grant police officers greater stop and search powers in order to try and curb the alarming levels of knife crime in London and across the country. This move represents a u-turn for the PM as in 2014, in her previous role as Home Secretary, she introduced changes that made stop and search more difficult for police.
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Should Spain Apologize to Muslims?
by Robert Spencer
The chutzpah is off the charts: Voice of Europe reported on Saturday that the Ishbilia mosque in Seville, Spain, is demanding that King Felipe VI apologize for the Reconquista, the Christian Reconquest of Spain.
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Tommy Blackout: British MPs Force YouTube to Ban Tommy Robinson From Streaming Live
A YouTube spokesperson said: “After consulting with third-party experts, we are applying a tougher treatment to Tommy Robinson’s channel in keeping with our policies on borderline content.”
BRITISH MPs have forced YouTube to restrict right-wing Activist Tommy Robinson from live-streaming to his more than 300,000 followers on the video-sharing site, according to sources.
YouTube has reportedly placed several restrictions on Mr Robinson’s YouTube account, that will greatly reduce his ability to reach a wide audience.
His videos on the site will be removed from search results and his videos will no longer show stats such as views and likes.
The latest move by Silicon Valley to interfere in British democracy comes just weeks after the activist was banned from Facebook, where his page had over one million likes, making him one of Britain’s most popular political figures on social media.
YouTube has said it will not fully ban Tommy, but no-one will be able to see his videos without a ‘direct link’ and his content will become ‘undiscoverable’ with videos featuring a warning message before they play.
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UK: Corbyn Promises to Prevent No Deal Brexit in Talks With May — ‘It’s My Responsibility’
JEREMY Corbyn has agreed to meet Theresa May for crunch Brexit talks to “prevent a disastrous no deal”.
The Prime Minister asked the Labour leader for fresh talks following a marathon seven-hour Cabinet meeting on Tuesday. Mr Corbyn said he is “very happy” to sit down with Mrs May in an attempt to thrash out a plan for the UK to leave the EU with a divorce deal. He said: “We recognise that she has made a move, I recognise my responsibility to represent the people that supported Labour in the last election and the people who didn’t support Labour but nevertheless want certainty and security for their own future and that’s the basis on which we will meet her and we will have those discussions.
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UK: Edmonton Knife Attacks: ‘Same Suspect’ Hunted in Fifth Stabbing in London Borough in Four Days
A man is in a life-threatening condition after being stabbed in Edmonton — the same part of London where four other people were knifed in random attacks over the weekend.
The Metropolitan Police have said the latest attack “has not yet been formally linked” to the others, but the suspect they are hunting in all five fits the same description — a tall, skinny black man, wearing a hoodie.
Officers were called to reports of a man stabbed in Aberdeen Road, N18, around 5am this morning and attended with the London Ambulance Service.
There they found a man, believed to be in his 30s, suffering a stab injury.
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‘We Won’t Take Lessons From Juncker!’ Italy Rages at EU Chief for ‘Damaging’ Nation
JEAN-Claude Juncker faces a lukewarm reception from Italy’s Giuseppe Conte after the European Commission President hit out at the nation’s poor economic figures.
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Jordan: Media: 11 Convicted for Pro-ISIS Propaganda
Three university students found guilty of propaganda online
(ANSAmed) — BEIRUT, APRIL 2 — The Jordanian judiciary has sentenced 11 people to jail and forced labor for “pro-ISIS propaganda”, pan Arab media reported on Tuesday, quoting a Jordanian government statement.
Three university students were among the 11 convicted, according to the statement. The three students, along with the others, were found guilty of promoting the so-called ‘Islamic State’ with slogans and propaganda on social media. Jordan has harshened measures against anyone sympathizing publicly and on social media with terrorist groups such as ISIS.
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India: Kerala is Home to Two New Plant Species
A small ironwood tree that bears clumps of white flowers on its stalks, and a new species of wild fern are the latest additions to Kerala’s flora.
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Christchurch Murders: The Real Accomplices
The Christchurch massacre — in which dozens of innocents were slaughtered in cold blood because of their religion, as they were assembled to pray — was a despicable, indefensible act. The murderer, Brenton Tarrant, is a criminal. The manifesto text he left to justify his act is in no way a justification.
The reactions that followed were marked by legitimate indignation. Unfortunately, the attack was also used to launch a campaign both dangerous and treacherous.
Tarrant, in his manifesto, defined himself as an “eco-fascist” and wrote that he admires British Nazi Oswald Mosley and China’s communist regime, and that he rejects conservatism. Even though US President Donald J. Trump condemned the murders, the killer’s remarks were used to attack him.
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Enormous Shark Head Stuns Internet as Fisherman Questions What Killed it (Graphic Photos)
An Australian fisherman pulled an enormous decapitated shark from the water, sparking an extensive social media investigation into what animal could have caused such ferocious damage.
Jason Moyce, known on social media as Trapman Bermagui, shared several graphic images of the mutilated 550-pound mako shark that he and his employee caught off the coast of New South Wales on Wednesday.
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Masih Alinejad is both an activist and journalist, and is outspoken in her condemnation of Iran’s laws surrounding obligatory wearing of headscarves.
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New Zealand to Tighten Gun Law With New Amendment Bill — Parliament
The Parliament of New Zealand adopted on Tuesday after the first reading a new Arms Amendment Bill that aims to tighten gun control and to ban semi-automatic firearms, magazines, and parts that can be used to assemble prohibited firearms, a statement on the parliament’s website said.
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Unbelievable Moment Gang of Thieves Drive a Bobcat Into a Closed Shopping Centre and Steal an ATM
Police rushed to a shopping centre in Moama in southern New South Wales following reports a bobcat had been driven through the front doors at 4.30am on February 25.
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Nigerian Air Force Targets Islamic State Base at Magari Near Lake Chad
Airstrikes “significantly degraded” an Islamic State West Africa province base at Magari in the Lake Chad area of Borno state, the Nigerian Air Force said in a Tuesday, April 2 release.
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EU Plots ‘Proactive Approach’ For Boosting Legal Migration to Europe
Europe must take a “proactive approach” to increasing the level of immigration to the bloc, according to a new European Commission report proclaiming migrants would become “increasingly important” in the EU strategy for economic growth.
According to a ‘fitness check’ of European laws on legal immigration, adopted on Friday as part of Brussels’ Regulatory Fitness and Performance (REFIT) scheme, current EU rules were said to be “largely fit for purpose”.
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Italy: Second-Gen Immigrants to March for Ius Soli in Rome May 9
Want terror bus boy heroes Rami and Adam to be reps
(ANSA) — Rome, April 2 — Second-generation immigrants who are denied the chance to become Italian citizens until they turn 18 will march for a ‘ius soli’ (law of the soil) reform slashing that age limit in Rome on May 9, organisers said Tuesday.
The organisers of the New Italians march said they want Ramy Shehata and Adam El Hamami, two Egyptian boy heroes of a recent bus hijacking near Milan, to be special representatives of the event.
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Italy and Malta Enact More Intense Cooperation on Migrants
Following meeting between Moavero and Abela 10 days ago
(ANSAmed) — ROME, APRIL 1 — Italian Foreign Minister Enzo Moavero Milanesi and Maltese Foreign Minister Carmelo Abela have enacted a more intense and systematic reciprocal consultation following their meeting on March 20 in Rome, with a particular focus on aspects of foreign policy related to migrant flows.
Within this framework, Italy and Malta will also take up joint initiatives as part of negotiations on the Multiannual Financial Framework for 2021-2027, in order to ensure higher allocations for more incisive action in cooperation and development in migrant countries of origin and transit.
Following Malta’s indictment of three migrants on charges of terrorism after they overtook a merchant ship at sea, Italian Deputy Premier and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said, “I am certain that with Valletta we will manage to establish an excellent collaboration against smugglers and illegal immigrants”.
“Three indictments for terrorism, of whom two are minors.
Abroad, they strike down the pirates and human traffickers; in Italy they call for prosecuting the interior minister for kidnapping. I’m not giving up,” Salvini said.
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Pope Francis: Xenophobic Mentality ‘Needs to be Addressed Decisively’
Pope Francis has warned that some unscrupulous politicians exploit the issue of immigration for “political ends,” fueling “fear and alarm.”
In a new book-length letter bearing the Latin title Christus Vivit (Christ lives), the pope said that the Church plays “a prophetic role in society with regard to the issue of migration” and has “an important role as a point of reference” for the young members of families divided by migration.
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Sweden to Release First Report on Migration and Crime Since 2005
The Swedish Crime Prevention Council Brå has commissioned a study comparing crime rates of native Swedes to migrants.
According to the agency, the study was commissioned after a “great demand” for statistics relating to the relationship between mass migration and crime.
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U. Arizona Students Face Criminal Charges for Confrontation With Border Patrol Agents
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Two University of Arizona students face criminal charges for their part in a confrontation with a pair of US Border Patrol employees who were holding a discussion with a campus student organization.
Led by Mexican-American studies major “Denisse” who filmed herself yelling “Murder Patrol!” at the agents while following them, a group of students soon after mounted an impromptu protest of the Border Patrol.
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Italy: Trenta Wishes Female Newlywed Couple Well
Navy ship commander, NCO get hitched in La Spezia
(ANSA) — Rome, April 1 — Defence Minister Elisabetta Trenta on Monday sent her best wishes to a lesbian couple, a navy officer and an NCO, who got married in La Spezia on Sunday.
“I wanted to send my best wishes to Lorella and Rosy — I have learned that your friends call you that — our two sailors who celebrated their union on March 31,” she said.
Lorella commands a ship and Rosy is a warrant officer.
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Italy: No to Opposing Protests on Family Issues — Bassetti
Let’s help each other find thinking for this period
(ANSA) — Rome, April 1 — Italian Bishops Conference (CEI) chief Cardinal Gualtiero Bassetti on Monday called for an end to opposing protests on family issues such as those seen at the ultraconservative World Families Congress in Verona at the weekend.
“The family”, he said, “is the most sensitive thermometer of social changes: without betraying principles, since the family is not a menu from which you can choose what you want, let’s try to craft thinking on the family for this period of time.
“Those who are sincerely willing to take this step, the condition for a better society, will always find us at their side”.
Bassetti also called for a halt in the decline of Italy’s birth rate and to safeguard working mothers.
He also said it was time to reduce the number of Italian dioceses.
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Stephen Baldwin Calls Out Brother Alec for ‘Spirit of Hate’ Over Abortion Boycott
Actor Stephen Baldwin called out his brother Alec Baldwin for having a “spirit of hate” after the Saturday Night Live star signing a letter threatening to boycott the state of Georgia if Gov. Brian Kemp (R) signed a bill restricting abortion into law.
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Video: Teen Vogue Declares ‘The Idea That the Body is Male or Female is Wrong’
Teen magazine, Teen Vogue, is at it again, diving headlong into contentious politics and calling it “science” — this time with a video titled, “5 Common Misconceptions About Sex and Gender” that proposes that “binary is bulls**t.”
[Comment: DNA deniers. According to their logic if you believe you can fly like an eagle, then you can…]
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Fact: 95% of All Plastic in the Oceans Comes From 3rd World Countries
If Democrats really want to make the world cleaner they would do well to start pointing their judgement toward 3rd world nations and not the United States of America.
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New Species of Wood-Munching Clams Found at the Bottom of the Ocean
When a tree falls in a forest, regardless of whether anyone hears it, it sometimes becomes clam food. Wood that finds its way from rivers into the ocean can eventually become waterlogged and sink to the sea floor, sometimes to great depths. There, tiny clams bore into the wood, eating the wood shavings and living the rest of their lives head down in the holes they made. In a new paper in the Journal of Molluscan Studies, researchers have updated the deep-sea wood-boring clam family tree with three new genus groups and one new species.
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It is difficult for me to find the most accurate link in English, let it be this:
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1108658/St-Petersburg-explosion-military-academy-russia-injured-latest
St Petersburg EXPLOSION: Multiple people injured after blast at military academy in Russia
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But that writes one Russian edition:
“Ammunition could bring migrant workers”
– What exploded?
– The FSB and SC officers say that it was an “explosive device without a shell” … Although at first there was talk about a mine or even a tank projectile. But it is better to judge the specialists with this … The explosion was considerable … Demolished the flight of stairs and several dozen cadets could not therefore be equipped from the building.
– How could the ammunition be on the territory of the regime?
– This is a question for the investigators. I can only express my guess.
– And what?
– Let’s say, the ammunition could have been brought to the territory of the academy by outsiders … Suppose, so-called “guest migrant workers” … They work as janitors, cleaners …
https://www.kazan.kp.ru/daily/26961/4015667/
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Great, right? And if you consider that they are working as cleaners in the metro, airports and other strategic facilities, then Moscow can suddenly become “Mumbai 2008”
The prosecutor of St. Petersburg has introduced a new definition. Anything to avoid the word “Islam and Muslims” – these words are not found in the text even once. And only once some unintelligible “religiosity” is mentioned without clarification.
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https://tsargrad.tv/news/ih-cel-sozdanie-shahidskogo-gosudarstva-prokuror-rasskazala-kak-gotovili-terakt-v-peterburgskom-metro_192509
“Their goal is the creation of a shahid (???) state”: The prosecutor told how they prepared the terrorist act in the St. Petersburg metro.
In St. Petersburg on Tuesday, April 2, the Moscow District Military Court at the retreat began to consider the merits of a criminal case about a terrorist act in the St. Petersburg metro that took place on April 3, 2017. According to the prosecutor Nadezhda Tikhonova, the main goal of the criminals is to create a shahid state in Russia.
Officially, more than a hundred people were recognized as victims, in the courtroom there were a little more than ten. They refused to communicate with the press. But actively responded to questions before the meeting, accused of terrorist attack, who were in a glass “aquarium.”
Most of the defendants come from the republics of Central Asia, some of them even have Russian citizenship.
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Funny detail, pay attention to the clothes of the terrorist, the only woman among young men.
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Christchurch mosque shooting victim backs Crusaders name change
https://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/111777244/christchurch-mosque-shooting-victim-backs-crusaders-name-change
“The symbol of the Crusaders does not look too good because it looks like a sword … it looks dangerous, so it should be changed,” Jahid said.
He appreciated the Crusaders had decided to remove the famous pre-match entertainment of the sword-weilding knights and horses.
The name-change pressure emerged because of the centuries-old sensitivity over the history of the Crusades, which were bloody medieval conflicts between Muslims and Christians.
I wouldn’t think there would be too many Allah’s [followers] wanting to live in a city named Christchurch anyway, Jacinta might want to get on that, a suggestion might be a name change to Momosque; come on New Zealand you know it’s the right thing to do.