Hungary’s unemployment rate has remained low as the country’s GDP has grown at an annual rate of 5%, and wages have grown by nearly 12%. Meanwhile, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán presented the British philosopher Sir Roger Scruton with the Order of Merit.
In other news, the non-Salvini Italian government gave permission for two NGO ships carrying more than 100 migrants to land in Italian ports.
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Canadian Personal Insolvencies Hit Decade High
Elevated debt levels could be harming Canadian households, as the nation hit the highest level of insolvencies in a decade during the month of October.
According to a report from the Globe and Mail, new figures from the Office of the Superintendent of Bankruptcy show “there were 13,200 consumer insolvencies in October, up 13.4 percent from a year ago.”
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Federal Reserve Proposes New Rule to Let Inflation Run “Hot” Ahead of Next Recession
As the Federal Reserve remains unable to stoke inflation (because it refuses to measure it correctly) and refuses to factor in asset price inflation…
[…]it has now considered launching a new rule that would let inflation run above its 2% target to make up for lost inflation, reported the Financial Times.
Though the Fed’s policies are to protect big Wall Street banks and keep liquidity ample in the financial system, its policies have overwhelmingly created deflation through supporting zombie companies and blowing financial bubbles.
[Comment: Banksters looking to ensure Trump doesn’t win re-election.]
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Impeachment czar Adam Schiff joined conspiracy nut Rachel Maddow on Monday night to discuss the latest developments in the Democrat Party’s December attempt to impeach President Trump.
During their conversation Adam Schiff claimed President Trump has “sought foreign intervention in US elections twice now.”
Adam Schiff: We’re continuing to issue new subpoenas, we’re continuing to learn new information. That work goes on. But we also feel a sense of urgency. This is a president who has sought foreign intervention in US elections twice now.
Actually, that is a complete lie. The Mueller report found no connection between the Trump campaign and Russia because there was none. And the Ukraine investigation has failed to find any proof of a quid-pro-quo or bribery or extortion with Ukraine.
Schiff lies so frequently he has no idea what the truth is anymore.
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As promised, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff released the Democrats’ report on the Trump impeachment inquiry on Tuesday. If anyone is so inclined, the report can be viewed here.
The report says, “President Trump’s scheme subverted U.S. foreign policy toward Ukraine and undermined our national security in favor of two politically motivated investigations that would help his presidential reelection campaign…The inquiry “uncovered a months-long effort by President Trump to use the powers of his office to solicit foreign interference on his behalf in the 2020 election.”
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Artificial Intelligence is Watching Our Every Move & Judging Us
Technology has advanced to the point that many Americans have artificial intelligence devices in their homes. But what the majority of the sleeping masses don’t realize, is that AI is watching us and judging us.
This should concern everyone because it isn’t just tyrannies like China that are employing AI as a way to control and further enslave the population. The United States government is doing it also — and for the same reasons — complete domination over everyone.
In fact, a 2017 algorithm developed at Stanford claimed to be able to tell if a person was gay. Even if it’s inaccurate, it will eventually be used by governments as a tool of persecution. Imagine being told AI could tell you political affiliation and whether or not you approve of the current or future regime. The outcome would be complete authoritarianism and enslavement regardless of which government chooses to use it. And we are NOT safe from it here in the U.S. Sadly, most Americans are embracing AI with open arms.
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YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki tells Lesley Stahl what the video platform is doing about hate speech in an interview Sunday on the CBS newsmagazine program ‘60 Minutes.’
Wojcicki told ‘60 Minutes’ that Google employs 10,000 people to focus on “controversial content.” She described their schedule, which includes time for therapy. Stahl also said there are reports that the “monitors” are “beginning to buy the conspiracy theories.”
“What we really had to do was tighten our enforcement of that to make sure we were catching everything and we use a combination of people and machines,” Wojcicki explained. “So Google as a whole has about 10,000 people that are focused on controversial content.”
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Google and YouTube Take Down Trump Campaign Ads (But Can’t Explain Why)
Over 300 Trump campaign ads were removed from Google and YouTube over the summer for “violating policies.” In an interview with Leslie Stahl from 60 Minutes, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki stated that the reason they were taken down had to do with “technically manipulated” content, not the political message. But Ms. Wojcicki couldn’t explain what “technically manipulated” content meant. She told Leslie Stahl where to look it up, but that resource didn’t explain why the ads weren’t removed either.
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Hillary Clinton Still Refuses to Rule Out Running for President
Hillary Clinton is still refusing to rule out running for president despite already missing the filing deadline for the New Hampshire primary.
During an appearance on Britain’s Graham Norton Show, Clinton was again asked about her presidential aspirations.
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Kamala Harris’ Decline Began When Tulsi Gabbard Blasted Her in July Debate
A PredictIt chart shows that Kamala Harris’ presidential odds began to plummet immediately after Tulsi Gabbard destroyed her in a July Democratic presidential debate.
Harris announced that she was quitting the campaign trail today citing financial problems. Her campaign had also been beset by inner turmoil.
However, another primary reason for Harris’ fall was undoubtedly a confrontation she had with Gabbard in the second presidential debate on July 31.
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L.A.’s Head of Homelessness Resigns After 33% Increase in People Sleeping on the Streets
Los Angeles’ head of homelessness is resigning after presiding over a 33% increase in homelessness over the course of just five years.
Peter Lynn, head of the Los Angeles Homeless Service Authority, announced that he would leave at the end of the year, with the LAHSA having splashed out a total of more than $780 million to no avail.
The city’s homeless population jumped a further 12% from 2018 to 2019 but despite Lynn’s total failure, LA Mayor Eric Garcetti claimed he did an excellent job and oversaw “historic action.”
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Maxine Waters Faces Dissatisfaction From Progressive Freshman Democrats
Waters now considered a moderate, relatively speaking.
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President made it a goal to urge NATO members to pay their fair share and live up to their commitment to spend at least 2% of GDP on defense.
Trump bragged on Tuesday that member nations have increased their donations by $130 billion since Trump came into office.
President Trump has been fighting for increased burden sharing by NATO members, and it’s working. Over $130 billion in new defense spending by member countries! pic.twitter.com/JXspMyufPs
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) December 3, 2019
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The FISA Court Ruling shows widespread abuse of the FISA mandate. According to the report, Obama’s FBI and DOJ performed searches on Americans that were against their 4th Amendment rights. This went on for years. One paragraph in the report states that 85% of the Section 704 and 705(b) FISA searches made during this time were non-compliant with applicable laws and therefore criminal.
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The State of Virginia, now entirely run by truly insane Democrats who support infanticide and child murder, is proposing a new 2020 law known as SB64 (see link here) which will be taken up by the Democrat-run Senate beginning January 8, 2020.
The law would instantly transform all martial arts instructors into criminal felons. This includes instructors who teach kickboxing, BJJ, Krav Maga, boxing and even Capoeira.
It would also criminalize all firearms training classes, including concealed carry classes.
It would even criminalize a father teaching his own son how to use a hunting rifle.
Specifically, the law says that a person “is guilty of unlawful paramilitary activity” (a class 5 felony) if that person:
“Assembles with one or more persons for the purpose of training with, practicing with, or being instructed in the use of any firearm, explosive, or incendiary device, or technique capable of causing injury or death to persons…”
The phrase “technique capable of causing injury or death to persons” covers all forms of martial arts and self-defense training, including Krav Maga, BJJ, boxing and other contact martial arts such as Tae Kwon Do or Tai Chi.
Under the proposed law, all forms of self-defense training — including hand-to-hand martial arts training — would be considered “paramilitary activity,” even if the training consists of private classes involving just one instructor and one student. That’s because every form of martial arts training imparts skills that could be used to cause injury to other persons.
In fact, according to the language of the law, just “one” person learning such arts is a felony crime, which means that watching a DVD on Krav Maga would be a felony crime.
Here is the full text of the proposed law:…
This demonstration of blunt force tyranny showcases the real plan of Democrats when it comes to disarming the American people: This was never about “commonsense gun reforms,” you see. In truth, it has always been about criminalizing the very idea of self-defense and self-reliance.
The government of Virginia, honestly stated, doesn’t want you to be able to defend yourself against violent criminals. Why? Because if you had the capacity to do that, you might also be able to defend yourself against the violence of oppressive, corrupt government, too.
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YouTube CEO Wojcicki: We’ve Cut Amount of Time Americans Watch “Controversial Content” By 70%
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki tells Lesley Stahl what the video platform is doing about hate speech in an interview Sunday on the CBS newsmagazine program ‘60 Minutes.’
Wojcicki told ‘60 Minutes’ that Google employs 10,000 people to focus on “controversial content.” She described their schedule, which includes time for therapy. Stahl also said there are reports that the “monitors” are “beginning to buy the conspiracy theories.”
“What we really had to do was tighten our enforcement of that to make sure we were catching everything and we use a combination of people and machines,” Wojcicki explained. “So Google as a whole has about 10,000 people that are focused on controversial content.”
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Ford Government Passes Law to Protect Farmers From Animal Rights Activists
The repercussions for trespassing on farmers’ land increased greatly following new legislation by the Ford government.
Following new legislation introduced on Monday, Ontario would create “animal protection zones” where fines would be far higher for acts such as trespassing.
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Paleontologists Find Fossils of Six New Dragonfly Species
Six new species of dragonflies that lived about 50 million years ago (early Eocene epoch) have been identified from fossils found in the Okanagan Highlands, an elevated hilly plateau area in British Columbia, Canada, and the U.S. state of Washington.
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QC Liberal Party Booted Out of Quebec, Remains Only in Montreal
Quebec’s Liberal Party has suffered another loss in a byelection in the riding of Jean-Talon, just outside of Quebec City. As a result of this, the Liberals now represent only two ridings outside of Montreal.
The Liberals were dealt this staggering blow by the surging CAQ, suffering a negative swing of 7.6 percent. The CAQ, on the other hand, was rewarded with a positive swing of 14.8 percent—a testament to the continued popularity of the CAQ’s policies in La Belle Province.
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Quebec politician Luc Ferrandez has suggested that euthanasia could be extended to those who wish not to be a burden on society.
Writing in a Facebook post, the former mayor of Plateau Mont-Royal said, “Could we, for environmental, social and economic reasons, decide that we want to receive help to die so as not to be a burden for our family and society in general?”
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RCMP Training Facility Suspected of Causing Illness and Death of Recruits
For 20 years, Canada’s agents were trained in an area filled with dangerous contaminants.
According to a recently published CBC investigation, a training facility in Ontario, designed to secretly train Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) members tasked with spy operations included large amounts of mould, water containing lead levels 14 times higher than permitted, as well as asbestos.
The CBC’s investigation furthermore found that “at least six RCMP members who had trained at the facility and who died prematurely.”
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Antisemitic Attacks on the Rise Across Sweden
Jews in Sweden say that they are finding it harder to be openly Jewish as statistics show antisemitic attacks are rising across the country.
According to statistics published by the Swedish Crime Prevention Council (Brå), the number of antisemitic attacks has increased from 182 in 2016 to 278 in 2018, a 52 per cent increase, Swedish broadcaster Sveriges Radio reports.
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Belgium: Salvini Receives a Warm Welcome From Populists in Antwerp
The national populist Vlaams Belang (Flemish Interest) party gave Italian populist leader Matteo Salvini a rock star’s greeting at an Antwerp trade fair on Monday.
Salvini, the former interior minister and deputy prime minister of Italy, came to Antwerp at the invitation of Identity and Democracy (ID), a right-wing populist voting bloc inside the European Parliament, Het Laatste Nieuws reports.
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Danish Academic: U.N. May Use Military to Enforce Climate Action
The United Nations may resort to military action against states that defy its mandates on global climate action, according to Ole Wæver, a prominent international relations professor at the University of Copenhagen.
In an interview with ABC News in Australia, Professor Wæver cautions that what he sees as “climate inaction” might draw the U.N. into considering other means to ensure its goals are met, even if that leads to global armed conflict.
Professor Wæver says more resistance to change could potentially threaten democracy although the U.N. would counter that the end justified the means in much the same way countries like Greece had their debt crisis solutions forced on them by European Union bureaucrats in Brussels and Strasbourg.
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Danish Govt Strips Third ISIS Terrorist of Citizenship
The Danish government has stripped another Islamic State terrorist of their citizenship on Monday, bringing the total number of foreign fighters who’ve lost their Danish passports up to three, national newspaper Berlingske reports.
In late October, the Danish parliament passed a law that made it a lot easier for the country’s immigration minister to revoke the passports of citizens who’ve joined foreign terrorist organizations.
A little over a month later, the Danish government has applied the law on three separate occasions.
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Gearing up for the first big wave of EU spending on arms procurement will be a top priority for the European Parliament’s subcommittee on security and defence (SEDE), according to its chairman, French liberal politician Nathalie Loiseau. But regulatory and strategic questions remained “unanswered”, she said.
The committee would “monitor implementation of the tools we’ve created to enhance our defence union”, Loiseau said, naming an alphabet soup of acronyms for EU projects on new defence assets: Pesco, EDF, and EDIDP.
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EU Probe Targets Google and Facebook Data Collection
EU antitrust regulators are investigating how Facebook and Google collects and monetises its data, the EU Commission said on Monday, adding to existing scrutiny of Facebook’s online marketplace. The EU executive said it had sent out questionnaires as part of preliminary investigations into both Facebook and Google’s data. The probe looks into how the tech giants leverage data gathered to block their competitors.
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Farage: NATO and EU Army Cannot Coexist
Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has warned that NATO and a future EU army cannot coexist.
Mr Farage said during a campaign event in Buckley, Wales, on Monday that Prime Minister Boris Johnson has to choose the UK’s place inside or out the European Defence Union. He said that if the nation commits to the proto-EU army post-Brexit, then the North Atlantic Treaty Organization could collapse.
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Finnish Prime Minister Resigns
Finnish president Sauli Niinisto has accepted the resignation of prime minister Antti Rinne, but asked the government to remain in place as a a caretaker executive. Rinne took office this summer as Finland launched its EU presidency in July. The Finnish Centre Party, part of the country’s five-party ruling coalition, had lost confidence in Rinne over the government’s handling of a two-week postal strike.
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Greta Thunberg Warns That People Underestimate ‘The Force of Angry Kids’
Teenage climate scold Greta Thunberg issued another warning Tuesday to adults who allow global warming to continue, suggesting they fail to grasp the power of the young.
“People are underestimating the force of angry kids,” the 16-year-old Swedish activist toldcrowds in Lisbon, Portugal. “They’re angry and frustrated.”
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Head of EU Malta Delegation Says PM Should Step Aside
The head of a European Parliament’s delegation sent to Malta to review the rule of law on the island, Sophie In’t Veld, said on Tuesday that Maltese prime minister Joseph Muscat should step aside, Reuters writes. Following a scandal over the murder of the journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, the parliament planned a two-day EU parliamentary mission to Malta. Muscat said he will step down as prime minister next month.
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Hungary Gross Wages Up 11.8 Percent
The average gross wage for full-time workers in Hungary grew by an annual 11.8 percent to 360,709 forints in September, the Central Statistical Office (KSH) said on Friday.
[Comment: Article dated Nov 29, 2019.]
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Hungary Jobless Rate Still 3.5 Percent
Hungary’s three-month rolling average jobless rate was 3.5 percent in August-October, unchanged from the previous three-month period and down from 3.7 percent a year earlier, the Central Statistical Office (KSH) said on Wednesday.
The rate covers unemployment among those between the ages of 15 and 74.
[Comment: Article dated November 27, 2019.]
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Hungary GDP Growth Accelerates to 5 Percent in Q3
Hungary’s GDP rose by an annual 5.0 percent in the third quarter, the Central Statistical Office (KSH) said in a first reading of data on Thursday.
Growth accelerated from 4.9 percent in Q2.
KSH said the industrial and construction sectors as well as market-based services contributed the most to growth in Q3.
Adjusted for seasonal and calendar year effects, Q3 GDP growth was 4.8 percent.
Hungary’s GDP rose by an annual 5.0 percent in the third quarter, the Central Statistical Office (KSH) said in a first reading of data on Thursday.
[Comment: Article dated November 14, 2019.]
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Julian Assange will be interviewed via video link by a judge investigating claims that a Spanish company orchestrated a spying operation against him while he resided in the Ecuadorian embassy.
The request, made in September, was granted last week. Assange will be taken to Westminster Magistrates’ Court on 20 December to be questioned as a witness.
Judge José de la Mata wants to talk to the WikiLeaks founder about allegations that a Spanish security company snooped on him and his lawyers via hidden microphones while they were preparing his defence to extradition proceedings.
The company, UC Global, is also accused of passing on this information to Ecuadorian and US intelligence agencies.
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Lefty BBC Comedian Booed Off Stage for Tired Brexit ‘Jokes’
Insulted crowd, and said “what you need here is far right comedians”
A comedian who regularly appears on BBC programming was booed off stage and had food thrown at him within minutes of the beginning his routine because he spoke negatively about Brexit and Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
The tail end of Nish Kumar’s appearance was filmed by members of the audience at a charity cricket lunch in London. The footage shows Kumar refusing to leave the stage, and having to be escorted off.
“I know you want me to leave but I’m not going to do it. Absolutely not.” Kumar can be heard saying in the video.
He was also reported to have bragged to the crowd that he was doing the event for free, but they should have paid a “far right” comedian to do the performance, which incensed the audience even more.
“It was the most embarrassing thing I’ve ever seen,” attendee Jon Austin told the Telegraph.
“It was Brexit straight away. He came on and he killed the audience. It took less than a minute. People were booing him. He had bread rolls thrown at him.” Austin added, saying the event in aid of disabled children “wasn’t the place” for politics.
This perfectly underscores how sick British people are of being told what the ‘right’ way of thinking is by establishment hacks like Kumar. All he does is use comedy as a coat for imposing his political beliefs on others. It is simultaneously a horrendous misuse of the art form, and a smarmy declaration of moral superiority.
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Muslim Men Beat Christian Street Preacher in Norway
A gang of four Muslim men attacked a Christian street preacher in Norway, kicking him in the face and threatening to kill him if he did not convert to Islam.
The four men approached Roar Fløttum last week when he was preaching and praying for the sick on a street in Trondheim and asked him to come with them to pray over a friend who was injured. When they got him alone, they pushed him down a cellar staircase, beat him, robbed him, and threatened to kill him if he did not convert to Islam, as reported by the Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians in Europe, a Vienna-based watchdog group.
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Orban on Politico’s ‘Most Powerful People in Europe’ List as ‘Dreamer’
Politico published its yearly list of Europe’s 28 most influential people, in which Viktor Orban was named the second most important in the “dreamer” category, with only Greta Thunberg ahead of him.
Politico’s list aims to identify the 28 most powerful people on the Continent, and those expected to make the biggest impact on the continent in 2020.
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Royal Portraits Confirm “Habsburg Jaw” Was Caused by Inbreeding
Scientists have confirmed that facial deformities among the House of Habsburg were caused by inbreeding, according to a newly-published study. The twist: they reached their findings by studying paintings. The influential Austrian royal line produced European rulers between the 14th and 20th centuries.
Paintings?
Yep. They analyzed 66 royal portraits of 15 members of the House of Habsburg, all of which (crucially, if not surprisingly) showed the faces of their subjects.
What were they looking for?
The researchers were interested in mandibular prognathism, perhaps better known as the famous “Habsburg jaw.” This was a facial deformity that affected some of the Habsburgs, notably including King Charles II of Spain. They also looked for maxillary deficiency, characterized by an enlarged lower lip and overhanging nose, hence also Habsburg lip and Habsburg nose.
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Sir Roger Scruton Receives Hungarian State Decoration
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Tuesday presented author and philosopher Sir Roger Scruton with the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary, Middle Cross, saying he had “recognised the dangers of illegal migration and protected Hungary from unjust criticism”.
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Sweden: Less Than 1 in 10 Voters Think Social Democrats Can Stop Gang Violence
Just 8 percent of Swedish voters believe that the ruling Social Democrats can tackle the growing problem of gang violence in the next half-year, a new poll has revealed.
The survey, which was carried out by the research company Sifo, showed that 88 percent of Swedish voters believe that levels of violence will remain constant or will grow in the months ahead, Expressen reports.
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Trump Unloads on “Very Nasty” Macron, Insists France “Is Not Doing Well Economically at All”
Trump slammed France for trying to raise money via a “digital tax” levy on US tech giants like Facebook and Google.
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Trump: No NHS on Negotiating Table Even if Served on Silver Platter
President Donald J Trump has again confirmed that Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) will not form any part of future UK-U.S. free trade deal negotiations even if it was served to the U.S. “on a silver platter”.
President Trump made the comments during a press conference in London on Tuesday morning alongside NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg. The American president is in the United Kingdom for the 70th anniversary of the formation of the transatlantic defence union.
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Trump Trolls Macron by Offering Him ‘Some Nice ISIS Fighters’
President Donald Trump has taunted French President Emmanuel Macron over French Islamist fighters in Syria, asking him if he would like “some nice ISIS fighters” sent back to France.
On Tuesday morning, President Trump had criticised Mr Macron for his “nasty” comments about NATO, who last month had said the defence union was suffering a “brain death”. But the rift appeared to be lifted during the afternoon’s bilateral press meeting between the two world leaders, with the American president ribbing the French premier over his commitment to accept returning foreign fighters.
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Trump Praises ‘Incredible’ People Who Tackled London Bridge Terrorist
President Donald Trump has praised the “incredible” people who intervened and stopped London Bridge terrorist Usman Khan.
During a press conference with French President Emmanuel Macron in London on Tuesday, President Trump said: “I was very proud of those people who grabbed him and did such a good job between the fire extinguishers and whatever else. It was an amazing job they did.
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UK: Cinema Suspends Screening of Gang Movie After Man Stabbed
The British cinema chain Cineworld has suspended screenings of gang movie Blue Story at one of their theatres in Nottingham, England, following a stabbing during the end credits.
A 20-year-old man had reportedly been stabbed at the Cornerhouse Cineworld complex on Sunday at 8:15 pm. The victim was taken to hospital for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries.
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UK: Praising Brexit and Boris Johnson, President Trump Insists He Won’t Interfere in UK Election
President Trump answered the speculation over whether he would get involved in the UK general election campaign during his visit to London this week, praising Brexit and Boris Johnson but insisting he would stay out of the vote.
The United Kingdom is just nine days away from voting in a new government in an election that was called after the NATO 70th anniversary conference was called in London. President Trump has frequently shared his views on British politics on previous visits, but his remarks Tuesday morning demonstrated he would not be drawn into attempting to influence the Uk vote.
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The unnamed rabbi was visiting the UK for a family wedding. He was thrown to the ground by two men on Clapton Common in Stamford Hill at about 9.45pm on Friday. Pictured: stock image.
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Watch: Lefty BBC Comedian Booed Off Stage for Tired Brexit ‘Jokes’
Insulted crowd, and said “what you need here is far right comedians”
Update — A longer video of the incident has emerged.
A comedian who regularly appears on BBC programming was booed off stage and had food thrown at him within minutes of the beginning his routine because he spoke negatively about Brexit and Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
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Iran’s Security Forces Shot and Killed ‘Rioters’ In Gas Price Protests, State TV Reports
Iranian security forces gunned down “rioters” in multiple cities during recent protests over an increase in government-set gasoline prices, the country’s state television admitted Tuesday, as unease continues to grip the Islamic Republic.
The report — which the Associated Press said is the first time authorities have offered any sort of accounting for the violence used to quell the demonstrations — comes a day after Amnesty International estimated that at least 208 people have been killed since they began in mid-November.
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Turkey’s Open Secret: Fake Secularism
In theory, Turkey has a secular regime. Its constitution dictates the state and its institutions to be at equal distance to every faith, including no faith. In theory, discrimination based on religious belief is a criminal offense. Turkey’s Islamist strongman, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, said he is at equal distance to every faith, and that he is against “religious nationalism”, and he told the media at the White House on November 13 that Turkey would restore damaged churches in Syria.
In reality, however, Erdogan and his Islamist governance stand as an excellent example to illustrate how political Islam cannot be secular.
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Last year Australia spent $39.2million of taxpayer cash on various programs to help the country’s women and girls as well its water and food security.
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Australia ranked 16th in reading, 29th in maths and 17th in science, while the grouped Chinese provinces of Beijing-Shanghai-Jiangsu-Zhejiang topped each category.
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Scientists tested 50 packaged foods purchased from six Asian grocery stores in Melbourne, finding 46 per cent contained an allergen that wasn’t listed on the label.
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Measles Outbreak Spurred by Anti-Vaxxers Shuts Down Samoan Government
The government of Samoa will shut down for two days this week while officials try to curb a deadly measles outbreak that has sickened 3,728 and killed 53—48 of whom were children ages 0 to 4 years old.
The Pacific island nation of around 200,000 first declared an outbreak of measles on October 16. The highly contagious viral infection spread rapidly, and officials declared a state of emergency by mid-November. The outbreak has continued to flare, however. On Sunday, the government reported that there had been 198 new measles cases in the last 24 hours alone.
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The NSW RFS on Tuesday afternoon issued the warning for an out-of-control fire burning at Cranebrook north of Penrith. There were also less serious fires at nearby Londonderry.
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Channel Migrants: Two Boats Carrying 13 People Stopped
Two boats carrying 13 migrants have been intercepted in the Channel, the Home Office has confirmed.
The boats, spotted at about 08:00 and 09:00 GMT, were stopped by Border Force vessels and all those on board were taken to Dover, Kent.
The first boat was carrying eight men who said they were Iranian and the second had five men, four of whom said they were Iranian and one Albanian.
One was later found to be a child and will be cared for by social services.
[Comment: Article dated December 3, 2019.]
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France: Migrants Complain Govt-Issued Bank Cards Do Not Allow Cash Withdrawals
Asylum seekers in France have complained that new bank cards issued to them by the French government do not allow them to withdraw cash.
The new bank card, known as the ADA card in France, was released on the 5th of November and allows migrants to make purchases with allowances ranging from 190 euros a month for single persons up to 660 euros per month for a family of six, Infomigrants reports.
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Italy Authorises Arrival of Two Ships Carrying Rescued Migrants
Rome (AFP) — Italy authorised the arrival of two charity ships carrying more than 100 migrants rescued in the Mediterranean, under the terms of an agreement with other EU countries, the interior ministry said late Tuesday.
“The European Commission has started the procedure of distributing the 61 migrants on the Alan Kurdi and the 60 aboard the Ocean Viking,” the ministry said in a statement.
“Some European countries, including Germany and France, have offered to accommodate some of these migrants,” it said.
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Official Warns: 100,000 Migrants Gathering at EU Doorstep
Europe facing crisis of 2015 proportions.
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UK: ‘It’s Time This Country Got Serious’ Says Farage as Poll Reveals 71% Back Annual Migrant Cap
British voters across all party allegiances, views on Brexit, and age profiles think there should be an annual cap on the number of migrant arrivals to the country after a Brexit, a new poll has found, prompting Brexit leader Nigel Farage to reflect it was time for the nation to “get serious” on the challenge.
A majority of voters in the United Kingdom support what amounts to a radical re-think on immigration control, agreeing to changes to the present system that go well beyond anything on offer from the mainstream political parties. Some seven in ten — or 71 per cent — of those asked in new Deltapoll research said they supported controlling the number of migrant worker arrivals.
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Yazidi Slave Confronts ISIS Captor Who Raped Her and Was Then Given Refugee Status in Germany
“Now you know what torture is.”
A former Yazidi sex slave who saw her ISIS captor on the streets of Germany after he was given refugee status was finally given the chance to confront the rapist in an emotional video.
Ashwaq Haji Hamid was 14-years-old when she was sold as a slave after thousands of men were killed by Islamic State terrorists in the Yazidi heartland of Mount Sinjar in 2014.
The ISIS militant who bought her went on to beat and sexually abuse her several times a day.
Hamid later encountered her captor on the streets of Stuttgart, Germany during which threatened her again, saying he knew where she lived.
Despite informing German authorities, she was told there was nothing they could do because he had been registered as a “refugee” like her.
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#TROLLINGTHEGUARDIAN: The Guardian is Censoring Satirists
A popular parody account has been suspended from Twitter following outrage by one of the largest media outlets in the world. The man behind Shaniqua O’Tool, an account that had over 15,000 followers at the time of suspension, says The Guardian forced Twitter to censor comedy.
He spoke to The Post Millennial to reveal details on the campaign waged by The Guardian against his satirical tweets. While his identity is known to The Post Millennial, it is being withheld for reasons of privacy.
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Andy Ngo Responds: Twitter Punishes You for Telling the Truth
On “Trans Day of Remembrance” this year, numerous politicians and celebrities used the occasion to virtue signal on social media. They repeated the claim-turned-mantra from LBGT activist groups that there is an “epidemic” of trans homicides motivated by transphobia and racism in the U.S.
Chelsea Clinton, doing what the Clintons do best, weighed in vapidly on Nov. 20: “Since 2013, more than 150 trans people have been murdered in the U.S., the majority Black transgender women. On #TDoR2019, we remember and honor the lives lost, hold their loved ones in our hearts and must commit to doing all we can to end this epidemic of violence and hate.”
Though the sentiment is valid, the claim she repeats is not. There is no “epidemic” of violent homicides against trans people in the U.S. How do I know? From data released by the Human Rights Campaign and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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Britain’s First Transgender Couple to Allow Their 5-Year-Old Child to Begin Transition
Claim they didn’t encourage the transition.
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Favorite Drag Queen Storytime Author ‘Likes’ Pedophile Instagram Post
Children’s author shows support for proud pedo.
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Over a Century of Corrupting American Education
Countless books have been written regarding the damaging effects of what American education has become along with the Outcome Based Education Skinnerian International Curriculum and how it destroys our children. For a full overview of the continued damage to America’s children, I would suggest purchasing Crimes of the Educators: How Utopians Are Using Government Schools to Destroy America’s Children, by Samuel Blumenfeld and Alex Newman. Pdf Link
Blumenfeld puts the blame squarely on the shoulders of the educational leaders who decided early in the last century to change the purpose of education from its traditional academic function to a radical social one. High literacy was an obstacle to their progressive agenda, so the teaching of reading had to be changed to produce a more socially desirable result. The results for the nation have been disastrous.
In 2012, I was privileged to meet Samuel Blumenfeld at a conference in Maine. Sam’s topic was, “Making Americans Illiterate.”
He told of the destruction of our great country and our education system and commented that in the 1920s, he received an excellent education in reading, writing and arithmetic in New York City. The progressive education push had started, but because of the depression, it had not yet been implemented for lack of funds. Now it flourishes and our children are the subjects of this deliberate corruption of academic education.
Twenty-seven years ago, in 1993, Americans were stunned to learn that nearly 90 million Americans have such poor literacy skills that they can scarcely cope with the demands of our high-tech economy. Imagine the lack of literacy today after nearly 11 years of Common Core State Standards implemented in 48 states in 2009…
Sam found the origin of the “look-say” reading method and it was taken from Rev. Thomas H. Gallaudet who in the 1830s had a school for the deaf and dumb. He devised this technique to teach his students to read because they could not hear sounds. Gallaudet persuaded the Boston schools to use his primer and it ended up a disaster for Boston education, so they returned to phonics until America’s Lenin, John Dewey, showed up around the turn of the last century and started using it again to dumb down America’s children.
John Dewey (1859-1952) began a movement that transformed the American educational landscape. Dewey shared the theory behind this movement in an essay he wrote in 1898 entitled, “The Primary Education Fetish.” He stated, “The plea for the predominance of learning to read in early school life because of the great importance attaching to literature seems to me a perversion.” The foundation of his thinking was the theory of evolution, and he exalted this argument to a new loftier level by applying evolution to education.
Dewey’s movement had a new vision for schools. He wanted to use schools as instruments for the reconstruction of society. Dewey didn’t want to educate children to think for themselves: “Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society which is coming where everyone is interdependent.”
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Pope Francis Declares That Christian Fundamentalists Are “A Scourge”
The Pope considers millions upon millions of American Christians to be a plague that is infecting our planet.
Why does it seem like virtually everyone wants to attack Christian fundamentalists these days?
Two weeks ago, Pope Francis made some extremely controversial remarks, but those remarks really didn’t get much attention from the mainstream media. Of course if the Pope had targeted the LGBTQ community or some other favored group, it would have instantly made headlines all over the globe. But he didn’t. Instead, Pope Francis specifically attacked fundamentalists, and in today’s world that is considered to be perfectly okay. The following comes from the official transcript of the remarks that the Pope made on the 18th of November…
“Beware of the fundamentalist groups: everyone has his own. In Argentina too there is a little fundamentalist corner. And let us try, with fraternity, to go forward. Fundamentalism is a scourge and all religions have some kind of fundamentalist first cousin there, which forms a group. “
Ostensibly, these remarks apply to fundamentalists from all religions. But by mentioning Argentina, the Pope made it exceedingly clear who his real target was.
There aren’t any “Muslim fundamentalists” or “Hindu fundamentalists” in Argentina. The fundamentalists that he was referring to are the Christian fundamentalists in Argentina, and in the very next sentence he denounced such people as “a scourge”.
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‘Wax My Balls’ Trans Activist Complains That Gynecologists Won’t See Her
Transgender activist Jessica Yaniv, who lost a lawsuit against beauty salons for refusing to wax her balls, is now complaining about gynecologists refusing to see her.
Back in October, Yaniv lost her case and was forced to pay $6,000 in damages after accusing three women of “discrimination” when they refused to wax Yaniv’s male genitalia.
Now the trans activist is upset at gynecologists who refuse to serve transgender patients.
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“Following new legislation introduced on Monday, Ontario would create “animal protection zones” where fines would be far higher for acts such as trespassing.” I find the Texas style (shooting a trespasser) would work better. After one or two examples the activities would, no doubt, stop completely.
““People are underestimating the force of angry kids,” the 16-year-old Swedish activist toldcrowds in Lisbon, Portugal. “They’re angry and frustrated.”” By now I sort of wish people would just laugh her in the face…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1Y3CDkLBK0
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Of course the Pope thinks Christian fundamentalists are a scourge, he is a Jesuit and they are under oath to destroy Protestantism.
5% GDP growth and 12% wage growth! Sweet Jesus! I wish we had it that good in the US.
“A conservative is someone who wants to preserve the things he loves.”
The lefts’ slogans sound so much better, “Move forward! Choose progress! ”
The conservative is at a disadvantage, a conservative slogan would be something like “Hesitate”.
It doesn’t quite have quite the same ring to it.
Two quotes from Sir Roger. The last quoted from memory.
I’m glad he’s being recognized.