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  1. PETITION: COMPASSIONATE WELFARE OF BEEF AND LAMB – https://www.beefandlamb.co.uk
    All halal and kosher certified products are to be prominently labelled as such. It is strictly forbidden for some Sikhs, Hindus, Buddhists and Christians to consume any halal or kosher certified product or religiously slaughtered meat. Without clear prominent labelling we could be consuming it without knowing. All we are asking for is clear labelling to make an informed choice.
    https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/229231

    • It is a lot easier to blame inanimate object then to address and correct the social policies that have created the climate of violence.

  2. Children of North Korean Mothers Find More Hardship in the South

    More than 32,000 North Koreans have escaped to South Korea since a famine hit their country in the 1990s, and their harrowing journeys are often made worse by having to spend years in limbo in China, according to defectors, human rights researchers and South Korean officials. Some are trapped there for years, forced to work in the sex industry or live with men in the countryside who could not find Chinese wives before the women enlist the help of human rights activists and smugglers to reach South Korea.

    NR: Heartrending accounts of risking all to escape North Korea.

    (Video narration soundtrack is very jumpy but hits the high points in five minutes.)

  3. Palm Oil Was Supposed to Help Save the Planet. Instead It Unleashed a Catastrophe.

    In the mid-2000s, Western nations, led by the United States, began drafting environmental laws that encouraged the use of vegetable oil in fuels — an ambitious move to reduce carbon dioxide and curb global warming. But these laws were drawn up based on an incomplete accounting of the true environmental costs. Despite warnings that the policies could have the opposite of their intended effect, they were implemented anyway, producing what now appears to be a calamity with global consequences.

    The tropical rain forests of Indonesia, and in particular the peatland regions of Borneo, have large amounts of carbon trapped within their trees and soil. Slashing and burning the existing forests to make way for oil-palm cultivation had a perverse effect: It released more carbon. A lot more carbon.

    NR: As usual, The Law of Unintended Consequences™ bites back and bites hard.

    • From the same article:

      NASA researchers say the accelerated destruction of Borneo’s forests contributed to the largest single-year global increase in carbon emissions in two millenniums, an explosion that transformed Indonesia into the world’s fourth-largest source of such emissions. Instead of creating a clever technocratic fix to reduce American’s carbon footprint, lawmakers had lit the fuse on a powerful carbon bomb that, as the forests were cleared and burned, produced more carbon than the entire continent of Europe.

  4. Muslim classmates torture the only German in a German school+++
    In a school in Kassel, Hesse, an 8-year-old girl was bullied and assaulted by classmates. Father Mike F. explains the reason for the exclusion by her classmates in the German mother tongue of his daughter. “The other children spoke their own language in the playground. Only recently, a headmistress sounded the alarm: 103 first-graders were enrolled in a school in the Berlin district of Neukölln last summer. – Only one of them was a child of German parents. Similar conditions can be found in the Hessian primary school that Yara attended. In the Bild newspaper, headmistress Martina Bleckmann confirmed that the proportion of migrants in the first grade of the 2017/2018 school year was 95 percent. According to her father, Yara’s parents were offered Turkish and Islamic lessons for her daughter, and the teacher’s lectures at a parents’ evening were translated into Turkish by an interpreter. According to her father, the 8-year-old was the only German among her classmates who couldn’t find a connection, and even got used to the bad German of the other pupils. In June the situation escalated. “Yara was pushed by a classmate, then he scratched my daughter’s skin on her belly with a sharp object so that she was bleeding heavily,” Mike F. told the tabloid Bild. Another time, three Arab classmates would have taken the 8-year-old into the sweatbox and choked her. Because the school allegedly did not pursue the attack any further, the family informed the police and applied for a change of school. Yara now feels comfortable in the new primary school.
    Read more:
    https://searchlight-germany.blogspot.com/2018/11/muslim-classmates-torture-only-german.html

    • Full bearded ‘schoolboy’? Asylum-seeker visiting UK school as a 15yo sparks DEBATE

      Parents in the British town of Ipswich are not too pleased after finding out that an Iranian asylum seeker, apparently aged around 30, was placed in their children’s school, for 6 weeks.

      The man is now facing deportation with The Home Office investigating the case.

  5. A pardon by Trudeau/Obama should be in order. The Heterosexual White Male did it. Not, ‘The Girl in the Red Hot Pants.’

    “A cross-dressing pilot who was put in charge of a major airbase was in fact a double killer who was unmasked by a detective in an interview which finally undid his double life.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6427169/How-Queens-cross-dressing-pilots-police-interview-gave-away-life-rapist-murderer.html

    The infant-child disorders: Islam, Socialism and Sexsquirrelity.

    The totalitarianism to come: that calls rationalization a Hate Crime. Because their peace with the devil, (that grows within them into a new slave-identity), knows it will die if the truth gets out.

  6. Breaking: Dystopia to hand out OPM (other people’s money) with UBI (universal basic income). Rumors has it that this will be followed by a UBSSHPWAMZV (Universal Basic Subsidized Stash of High Potency Weed to Anesthetize the Masses into Zombie Voters)

    Peas Be Upon You. Diversity and Inclusion.

    http://trendingnewsdesk.com/UBI-c/#forward

    • ONce you start paying people to not work you need something to keep the peaceful, otherwise they will get bored and start all sorts of trouble just to have something to do.

      • … otherwise they will get bored and start all sorts of trouble just to have something to do.

        What’s that old saying about “idle hands being the devil’s workshop”?

  7. UK Police Ignored Sex Abuse of Sikh Girls by Pakistani Men for Decades – Reports (sputniknews, Nov 26, 2018)
    https://sputniknews.com/europe/201811261070130701-uk-police-ignored-sexual-abuse-sikh-muslim-gangs/

    “According to the Sikh Meditation and Rehabilitation charity team, the alleged abuse of Sikh girls by Muslim grooming gangs had long been neglected – even though such instances can be traced back to the 1960s.

    A new report by the Sikh Meditation and Rehabilitation Team charity alleges systematic sexual exploitation of British Sikh girls by Muslim gangs of predominantly Pakistani men.

    While cases started to appear in the courts in 1971, it goes as far back as the 1960s: the girls would be trapped by “fashionably-dressed adult Pakistani men travelling in flamboyant vehicles to predominantly Sikh dominated areas and schools,” the study alleges.

    Young Sikh women across the United Kingdom would reportedly be groomed by one man and then passed round to other members of the family.

    The study, entitled the Religiously Aggravated Sexual Exploitation of Young Sikh Women Across the UK, further suggested that police ‘recklessly ignored’ complaints for reasons of ‘political correctness’.

    “Over the course of three decades, Sikh community leaders in the West Midlands repeatedly assert that when families or community representatives contacted the police regarding the abuse of children, their information was consistently met with disinterest and their claims met by inaction. With the emergence of multiple similar cases across the UK, the perceived failure to act has now been attributed to the ‘political correctness’ that inhibited authorities and agencies from addressing the racial and cultural dimensions understood as causative factors behind the abuse,” the report said.

    The report was backed by the Labour Party and said that it wasn’t meant to be a “witch-hunt against any individual, community, culture of faith”. It was intended to bring changes, which it said, was impossible unless the facts were laid out.

    Labour MP Sarah Champion has called for an independent investigation into abuse of Sikh girls in the UK:

    “I was shocked when I first heard about the organised abuse of Sikh girls by mostly Pakistani men. When I started speaking to Sikh women, I could not believe how widespread the grooming and abuse was – and that this has been going on for decades.

    All forms of sexual exploitation must be prevented. We need to speak of the abuse of Sikh girls to take it out of the shadows and make sure the authorities take it seriously. There needs to be a full investigation into the systematic abuse of Sikh girls”.”

    • Police ‘IGNORED Muslim gang sex abuse’ over ‘POLITICAL CORRECTNESS’ fears (express, Nov 26, 2018)
      https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1050382/muslim-gangs-sex-abuse-british-sikh-women-police-ignored

      “POLICE “recklessly ignored” decades of sexual abuse by predominantly Pakistani Muslim gangs on British Sikh women because of “political correctness”, a bombshell report claims.

      Girls were often groomed before being passed to other family members, according to the Sikh Meditation and Rehabilitation Team charity. The group’s The Religiously Aggravated Sexual Exploitation of Young Sikh Women Across the UK” report” looked at alleged abuse against Sikh girls from Indian backgrounds. The alleged abuse dates back to the 1970s, according to the Daily Mail.

      The report said: “The research has found verification demonstrating a history of predominantly Pakistani grooming gangs targeting young Sikh females for over 50 years.

      “The over representation of such perpetrators in selecting non-Muslim victims would appear to be indicative of a wider acceptability in certain sections of the community towards the targeting of young females from outside of the Pakistani community and/or Muslim faith.

      “Due to the failures of law enforcement agencies and local authorities in addressing the problem, such networks have continued to flourish.”

      One 1971 complaint allegedly involved an 11-year-old who was jailed for imprisoning a Sikh girl in Slough.

      Sikhs also reported girls being “used as sex slaves”.

      In a bombshell claim, the report attacks police for failing to act on the abuse allegations.

      It said: “Over the course of three decades, Sikh community leaders in the West Midlands repeatedly assert that when families or community representatives contacted the police regarding the abuse of children, their information was consistently met with disinterest and their claims met by inaction.

      “With the emergence of multiple similar cases across the UK, the perceived failure to act has now been attributed to the ‘political correctness’ that inhibited authorities and agencies from addressing the racial and cultural dimensions understood as causative factors behind the abuse.”

      The report has been backed by Labour Party MP Sarah Champion.

      She demanded a full investigation into claims of abuse of Sikh girls in Britain.

      Ms Champion said: “I was shocked when I first heard about the organised abuse of Sikh girls by mostly Pakistani men.

      “When I started speaking to Sikh women, I could not believe how widespread the grooming and abuse was – and that this has been going on for decades. All forms of sexual exploitation must be prevented.

      “We need to speak of the abuse of Sikh girls to take it out of the shadows and make sure the authorities take it seriously.

      “There needs to be a full investigation into the systematic abuse of Sikh girls.””

  8. Libyan coast guard rescues 113 Europe-bound migrants (abcnews, Nov 26, 2018)
    https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/libyan-coast-guard-rescues-113-europe-bound-migrants-59414451

    “Libya’s coast guard says it has rescued 113 Europe-bound migrants, including women and children, off the country’s Mediterranean coast.

    Monday’s statement by coast guard spokesman Ayoup Gassim says the migrants, including 17 women and four children, were intercepted on Saturday off the coast of the western Libyan city of Sabratha.

    He says the migrants were given humanitarian and medical aid, and were taken to a refugee camp in the western town of Zawiya.

    Libya has emerged as a major transit point to Europe for those fleeing poverty and civil war elsewhere in Africa. Traffickers have exploited Libya’s chaos following the 2011 uprising that toppled and later killed longtime ruler Moammar Gadhafi.

    Libyan authorities have stepped up efforts to stem the flow of migrants, with European assistance.”

  9. Egypt creates new human rights watchdog – to protect itself (abcnews, Nov 26, 2018)
    https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/egypt-creates-human-rights-watchdog-protect-59412110

    “Egypt has created a new high-powered human rights watchdog agency, but its primary mission isn’t to protect Egyptians from violations. Instead, the body is foremost aimed at protecting the government from allegations of rights abuses and defending it on the international stage.

    The new body reflects an attitude of the state under President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi that sees criticism over human rights as intended to undermine the government and cause instability at a time when it is facing militant threats and trying to rebuild a battered economy.

    Officials have already started a campaign against “false rumors” and “fake news” and have in some cases detained those who speak out. At the same time, the government has sought to redefine or broaden human rights, declaring new “rights” to fight terrorism and protect the state. Critics see that as an attempt to legitimize and draw international attention away from alleged abuses by security forces…”

  10. 2 attacks in Somalia; Islamic cleric who played music killed (abcnews, Nov 26, 2018)
    https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/extremists-kill-islamic-leader-10-followers-somalia-59412245

    “Somalia was hit by two violent attacks Monday, one killing an Islamic cleric and 17 of his followers for playing music and a second killing at least six people in a car bomb blast in the capital, Mogadishu, police said.

    The car bomb was detonated Monday at a busy junction in Mogadishu’s Wadajir district, said Capt. Mohamed Hussein. He said 15 people were injured and the blast appears to have been aimed at soldiers who were gathered at the junction.

    In the northern city of Galkayo, a prominent Islamic leader and at least 17 of his followers were killed by extremists for having music in their religious ceremonies, say police.

    Two suicide bombers exploded in front of the preacher’s residence, which is also a Sufi shrine, and then four gunmen stormed the building and opened fire, said Ahmed Awale, a police officer in Galkayo. At least 20 others were injured, he said.

    Somali security forces responded and there was a battle with heavy gunfire in the building. Three attackers were killed in the shootout and one was captured alive, said Awale.

    Somalia’s extremist rebels, al-Shabab, have claimed responsibility for the attack in Galkayo.

    The attack killed Sheikh Abdiweli Ali Elmi, who has hundreds of followers and has been controversial because videos show him and his followers chanting religious poems with music, which some extremists say is not Islamic. Sheikh Elmi had defended his actions, saying music is not contrary to Islamic teachings.”

    • The attack killed Sheikh Abdiweli Ali Elmi, who has hundreds of followers and has been controversial because videos show him and his followers chanting religious poems with music, which some extremists say is not Islamic.

      If it’s fun or entertaining, it most certainly cannot be Islamic. Note the near-total absence of Islamic liturgical music. Just one more example of just how barren this barbaric ideology continues to be.

  11. Afghan officials: Taliban attacks kill 20 police, 10 troops (abcnews, Nov 26, 2018)
    https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/afghan-official-taliban-ambush-police-convoy-killing-20-59411714

    “A Taliban ambush of a police convoy in western Afghanistan killed 20 policemen while 10 troops died in an insurgent attack on an army checkpoint in the north, Afghan officials said Monday as minority Shiites took to the streets in Kabul for the second day to protest the arrest of local militia commander.

    During the demonstrations in the Afghan capital, the protesters opened fire at the police, wounding four policemen. Deputy interior minister Gen. Akhtar Mohammad Ibrahimi said 44 policemen were also injured when protesters hurled stones and other hard objects at them.

    The Taliban ambush took place in western Farah province on Sunday afternoon. Along with 20 policemen killed, four were wounded, including the deputy provincial police chief, said Dadullah Qaneh, a member of the provincial council.

    The convoy was on its way to the district of Lash wa Juwayn to introduce newly appointed district police chief when it came under attack, said another council member, Abdul Samad Salehi. The newly appointed chief was also killed, said Qaneh.

    In northern Faryab province, the Taliban attacked an army check point in Qaisar district, killing 10 troops, said Mohammad Tahir Rahmani, head of the provincial council. Three soldiers were wounded while the fate of five others was unknown.

    The Taliban, who in recent years have taken over nearly half of Afghanistan, claimed responsibility for the Farah attack, the latest in a series of brutal, near-daily Taliban assaults on Afghan military and security forces throughout the country. The insurgents made no statement on the Faryab assault.

    The Taliban view the U.S.-backed government in Kabul as a dysfunctional Western puppet and have refused repeated offers to negotiate with it…”

  12. She is a Libertarian and tends to go further down that road then most people are comfortable with.

    3 Ways the State Commits Backdoor Gun Confiscation

  13. First gene-edited babies claimed in China

    HONG KONG (AP) — A Chinese researcher claims that he helped make the world’s first genetically edited babies — twin girls born this month whose DNA he said he altered with a powerful new tool capable of rewriting the very blueprint of life.

    If true, it would be a profound leap of science and ethics.

    A U.S. scientist said he took part in the work in China, but this kind of gene editing is banned in the United States because the DNA changes can pass to future generations and it risks harming other genes.

    Many mainstream scientists think it’s too unsafe to try, and some denounced the Chinese report as human experimentation.

    https://www.apnews.com/4997bb7aa36c45449b488e19ac83e86d

    • First genetically edited BABIES created by ‘dangerous and irresponsible’ scientist

      A scientist from China claims to have created the world’s first genetically edited babies.

      He Jianhui, a scientist at the Southern University of Science and Technology of China in Shenzhen, says he altered the DNA of twin girls to prevent them from future infection with HIV.

      During his controversial study, Mr He claims he altered embryos for seven couples during IVF treatment, with one successful pregnancy.

      However, his ‘research’ is yet to be independently confirmed by anyone else.

      https://www.mirror.co.uk/science/first-genetically-edited-babies-created-13646290

      • We all knew it was coming. This is stepping down on a very slipppery slope with the very real possibility of the totalitarian governments gaining the ability to design and grow a compliant population that won’t oppose any government action. We are entering into waters that have only been seen in Science Fiction so we really don’t know where this ability is leading us.

        • We are entering into waters that have only been seen in Science Fiction so we really don’t know where this ability is leading us.

          I am obliged to disagree. There is an immense body of expertly written work specifically dealing with the consequences and outcomes of genetically editing the human genome.

          It is why there are those who refer to Science Fiction writing as “predictive analysis”.

  14. Trump tells Mexico to ship migrants home or see border permanently closed

    President Trump offered Mexico some advice on deporting migrants massed in Tijuana and threatening to storm the U.S., telling the neighboring nation in a tweet to send them “back to their countries” by plane or by bus – or face a permanent closure of the border.

    Trump’s tweet followed a vow from Mexico to deport migrants who tried to illegally enter the U.S. The Trump administration has said asylum claims from members of a series of caravans originating in Central America must be processed outside the U.S., and that all those entering illegally will be denied. A federal judge has at least temporarily ruled against the policy, but the administration has taken steps to harden the border.

    “Mexico should move the flag waving Migrants, many of whom are stone cold criminals, back to their countries,” Trump tweeted early Monday morning. “Do it by plane, do it by bus, do it anyway you want, but they are NOT coming into the U.S.A. We will close the Border permanently if need be. Congress, fund the WALL!”

    The missive came after a chaotic Sunday that saw hundreds of migrants from a caravan that originated in Central American pushing past Mexican riot police and rushing the border at the port of entry in San Ysidro, Calif., in a major test for both U.S. border authorities and Mexican officials.

    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-tells-mexico-to-ship-migrants-home-or-see-border-permanently-closed

  15. ‘We will close the border permanently if need be’: Trump threatens decisive action unless Mexico deports caravan migrants as hundreds storm border and officers fire tear gas and rubber bullets as ‘rocks and bottles’ rain down on them

    President Trump threatened to permanently close the U.S. border with Mexico on Monday, saying he’ll take the drastic action if members of a swelling migrant caravan are not deported back to their Central American homelands.

    U.S. Border Patrol fired tear gas canisters and rubber bullets at a group of migrants on Sunday, including families with young children, as hundreds tried to storm the border.

    San Diego Sector Border Control chief patrol agent Rodney Scott said Monday morning on CNN that when the migrants approached border fences, they ‘immediately started throwing rocks and debris at our agents, taunting our agents.’

    ‘And once our agents were assaulted and the numbers started growing – you know we had two or three agents at a time facing hundreds of people at a time – they deployed tear gas to protect themselves and protect the border.’
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    Carla Provost, the chief of U.S. Border Patrol, told the Fox news Channel that ‘our agents were being assaulted. A large group approached the area and they were throwing rocks and bottles at my men and women, putting them in harm’s way as well as other members of the caravan.’

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6429561/Trump-threatens-decisive-action-Mexico-does-not-deport-caravan-migrants-hundreds-storm-border.html

  16. Thousands of Additional Migrants Headed to U.S. Border

    Thousands of additional migrants are expected to arrive Tijuana, Mexico, expecting to claim asylum at the U.S border. The migrants expected to arrive are in addition to the approximately 5,000 migrants who already arrived in this border city during recent days.

    Jean Guerrero from KPBS first reported on the expected migrant arrivals after she spoke to a group who had just made their way to Tijuana, Baja California.

    https://www.breitbart.com/border/2018/11/25/thousands-of-more-migrants-headed-to-u-s-border/

  17. Internal documents Facebook has fought to keep private obtained by UK Parliament

    New York (CNN)The British Parliament has obtained a set of internal Facebook documents the company has fought for months to stop from being made public, according to Facebook and a lawyer involved in a suit against the company.
    The cache of documents, some of which may include correspondence between Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and company executives, stem from a lawsuit in California that outlines a litany of allegations against Facebook. Among them: claims about the company’s alleged disregard for user privacy, and the claim that Zuckerberg devised a plan that forced Facebook’s rivals, or potential rivals, out of business.
    “We allege that Facebook itself is the biggest violator of data misuse in the history of the software industry,” Ted Kramer, the owner of Six4Three, the company suing Facebook, told CNN in an interview this summer.
    Parliament obtained the documents days before a hearing scheduled for Tuesday in London. Lawmakers from seven countries will meet for what they’re calling the inaugural “International Grand Committee on Disinformation.” Lawmakers had asked for Zuckerberg to appear, but Facebook instead chose to send one of its CEO’s deputies.

    https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/24/us/six4three-facebook-uk-parliament/index.html

  18. Pres. Trump says Clinton Foundation has been selling political influence

    OAN Newsroom
    8:33 PM PT – Sun. Nov. 25, 2018

    President Trump suggests the Clinton family has been selling political influence for decades.

    The President, in a tweet today, highlighted recent reports which found donations to the Clinton Foundation dropped by 42% last year.

    He also claims it’s evidence the Clinton’s used the foundation to engage in “pay-to-play” politics.

    President Trump also suggested the State Department may have served the interests of the family’s donors when Hillary worked as the Secretary of State.

    https://www.oann.com/pres-trump-says-clinton-foundation-has-been-selling-political-influence/

  19. Russia ignores Western calls to free captured Ukrainian ships

    MOSCOW/KIEV (Reuters) – Russia on Monday ignored Western calls to release three Ukrainian naval ships and their crews it fired on and captured near Crimea at the weekend and accused Kiev of plotting with its Western allies to provoke a conflict.

    Ukraine in turn accused Russia of military aggression and put its armed forces on full combat alert, saying it reserved the right to defend itself. Ukrainian lawmakers were due to decide later on Monday whether to approve President Petro Poroshenko’s call to impose martial law in Ukraine for two months.

    With relations still raw after Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea from Ukraine and its backing for a pro-Moscow insurgency in eastern Ukraine, the crisis risks pushing the two countries towards a wider conflict and there were early signs it was reigniting Western calls for more sanctions on Moscow.

    Russia’s rouble currency weakened 1.4 percent against the dollar in Moscow on Monday, its biggest one-day fall since Nov. 9, while Russian dollar-bonds fell.

    https://www.oann.com/russia-reopens-kerch-strait-to-shipping-after-standoff-with-ukraine/

  20. China heaps pressure on Taiwan president after poll defeat

    TAIPEI (Reuters) – Chinese state media heaped pressure on Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen on Monday after her ruling pro-independence party suffered heavy defeats in local elections at the weekend, as party officials sought to work out what went wrong.

    Tsai, who faces a presidential election in a little over a year, resigned on Saturday as chairwoman of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) after losing key battleground cities in mayoral polls to the China-friendly Kuomintang.

    The DPP now only controls six cities and counties to the Kuomintang’s 15.

    Han Kuo-yu, the Kuomintang’s mayor-elect in the southern port city of Kaohsiung, and the most high profile of the party’s winners, said he would open the door to contacts with China.

    Beijing has refused to deal with Tsai’s administration since she took office in 2016, accusing her of pushing for the island’s formal independence.

    That is a red line for China, which considers the democratic island sacred Chinese territory.

    https://www.oann.com/china-heaps-pressure-on-taiwan-president-after-election-defeat/

  21. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez equates migrant caravan to Jews fleeing Holocaust
    By Daily Caller News Foundation November 26, 2018

    New York Democratic Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Sunday compared members of the migrant caravan attempting to enter the United States to Jews fleeing Nazi Germany during the Holocaust.

    Members of the caravan on Sunday rushed the border at the San Ysidro port of entry, which connects Tijuana, Mexico and San Diego, Calif.

    https://twitter.com/twitter/statuses/1066772298068357121

    https://libertyunyielding.com/2018/11/26/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-equates-migrant-caravan-to-jews-fleeing-holocaust/

  22. Migrants make border rush south of San Diego; repelled by smoke pellets; *UPDATE* Mexico will deport perps
    By J.E. Dyer November 25, 2018

    It wasn’t long from announcement to execution. On 23 November, we reported that migrants in Tijuana were planning to rush the U.S. border en masse in an attempt to overwhelm defenses being maintained on both sides by Mexican and U.S. law enforcement.

    On Sunday morning, a group of about 500 migrants (according to local news reporting) made a concerted effort to get past Mexican federal police on the south side of the port of entry between Tijuana and San Ysidro (in the U.S.). When the federales formed up in riot gear and set up a barrier, the group of several hundred migrants took off toward the sloping engineered banks of the Tijuana River, which they crossed on foot to reach the border fence on the river’s north side.

    https://libertyunyielding.com/2018/11/25/migrants-make-border-rush-south-of-san-diego-repelled-by-smoke-pellets-pepper-spray/

    • This isn’t “human desperation”; this is political manipulation, using children as tiny human shields. The later behavior of the border-rushers clarifies what’s going on. They laugh, high-five, run around like youthful fools, try to get the best video they can. Some of them wave Honduran flags and shout as they approach a weak area in the fence (apparently a gate on hinges), where they’ve broken through. They pile up at the aperture, eagerly watching to see what happens on the other side. They throw rocks – always a thoughtful approach when seeking asylum in someone else’s country.

      This is pure political manipulation by the radical left trying to achieve their goal of a one world socialist hell hole. The Dems are wording hard to get the migrants/invaders inside the US in the hopes they will vote Dem.

  23. Biofuels mandates ‘unleashed a catastrophe’ for our planet
    By Hans Bader November 25, 2018

    Gridlock that stops any legislation from being passed is usually better than “bipartisanship.” To get bipartisan support, legislation has to buy off power brokers and special-interest groups in both political parties. A classic example is America’s harmful legislation requiring the use of biofuels. It has resulted in the destruction of vast areas of tropical rainforest, massively increasing greenhouse gas emissions.

    The New York Times describes this in a story called “Palm Oil Was Supposed to Help Save the Planet. Instead It Unleashed a Catastrophe.” “A decade ago, the U.S. mandated the use of vegetable oil in biofuels, leading to industrial-scale deforestation — and a huge spike in carbon emissions.” In some areas once covered by rainforest, there are now “only charred stumps poking up from murky, dark pools of water.” As the Times explains:

    https://libertyunyielding.com/2018/11/25/biofuels-mandates-unleashed-a-catastrophe-for-our-planet/

  24. Iraqi Security Forces Eliminate Senior Daesh Leader ‘Katkut’ – US-Led Coalition (sputniknews, Nov 26, 2018)
    https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201811261070142689-iraq-daesh-leader-coalition/

    “The US-led coalition reported earlier in October that with help of Iraqi Special Forces they managed to arrest 10 members of a suspected network that provided funds to the Daesh* terror group.

    The Combined Joint Task Force — Operation Inherent Resolve (CJTF-OIR) of the US coalition stated Monday that Iraqi servicemen had eliminated a top-ranking Daesh officer.

    “Combined Joint Task Force — Operation Inherent Resolve’s partner, the Iraqi Security Forces eliminated an ISIS [Daesh] fighter and senior leader known as ‘Katkut,’ during an operation on Nov. 21, in Salah ad Din province, Iraq,” the release said.

    The coalition explained that the Salah ad Din Operations Command dispatched forces to capture Daesh fighters after a rocket attack, and the Iraqi Security Forces killed the terrorist as he was fleeing the scene.

    Katkut used to operate out of the area, which lies southwest of Mosul, and led an Daesh mortar detachment, according to the coalition.

    “His attacks resulted in the deaths and injuries of Iraqi civilians and security forces; they also induced damage and destruction to infrastructure within Salah ad Din and Ninewah provinces,” the release said…”

  25. Lebanon rejects Russian military aid offer (reuters, Nov 26, 2018)
    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-russia/lebanon-rejects-russian-military-aid-offer-idUSKCN1NV1Z9

    “Lebanon this month turned down a long-standing offer of Russian military aid that had caused concern for the United States, a major backer of the Lebanese army, a senior Lebanese political source told Reuters.

    “The rejection came on the pretext that Lebanon does not need these kinds of weapons and ammunition, but the reason was maybe because of U.S. pressure,” the source said, confirming a report in Lebanese daily al-Akhbar.

    The source said Lebanon spurned the offer, which had been made early this year, earlier this month.

    The United States is the biggest donor to the Lebanese army, providing more than $1.5 billion in support since 2006…”

  26. Exclusive: German Populist Leader Slams Merkel For UN Migrant Pact Deception (breitbart, Nov 26, 2018)
    https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2018/11/26/exclusive-german-populist-leader-slams-merkel-for-un-migrant-pact-deception/

    “The German government has deceived the public, the leader of the nation’s populist opposition party told Breitbart London, as internal documents from the Federal Foreign Office reveal that Angela Merkel’s government has been the main architect of the controversial UN migrant pact.

    The document, which was highlighted by populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) MP Petr Bystron and can be downloaded from the German government’s website, shows the Federal Foreign Office taking credit for the UN migrant pact, claiming they had worked on the agreement as early as 2016.

    According to the Foreign Office, the German government has been behind both the Global Compact on Refugees and the Global Compact on Migration, saying that while neither are legally binding they were both designed to be “politically binding.”

    While many have pointed to the fact the agreement is not legally binding some, like Belgian International Law professor Pierre d’Argent, have claimed the agreement sets up a “legal framework” that can be used in cases by lawyers to interpret the meaning of the law.

    “…one can imagine that in some cases before international jurisdictions, lawyers use this pact as a reference tool to try to guide them,” d’Argent said.

    The document, which was released in October, also states, “the Federal Republic has sought to expedite the formulation of the Global Compact for Migration politically, content-wise, personally and financially, underscoring the German lead role internationally regarding flight and migration.”

    Co-leader of Germany’s populist AfD party Alexander Gauland told Breitbart London: “It’s becoming glaringly obvious that the German government was trying to deceive the public, and still is. They are trying to retroactively legalize Merkel’s illegal opening of the borders since 2015. If the AfD had not raised the topic of the Global Compact, no one would ever have known about it until it was too late.”

    “Now we are discovering that this contract has been in the works for a long time, and on German initiative, no less. However, those responsible never bothered to mention it. For good reason. We will do everything we can to avert this disaster in the making,” he added.

    The internal documents would largely explain the recent passionate defence of the UN migrant pact by Chancellor Merkel who claimed that opponents of the pact were, in fact: “people who say they can solve everything themselves and don’t have to think about anyone else — that is nationalism in its purest form.”

    Despite her impassioned speech, many countries, such as the USA, Austria, Hungary, Poland, Israel, Australia and others have pulled out of the pact.

    Austrian populist Vice Chancellor and leader of the Freedom Party Heinz-Christian Strache defended his county’s decision saying, “We are only responsible to our Austrian population as government officials. Austrian sovereignty has top priority for us, this must be preserved and protected.”

    • That pretty much sums it up.
      That’s why FreeZoxee won’t satisfy liberterian purists like the Gab founders, but it’s likely to be a more healthful, sustainable platform.

  27. The sister of a teenage boy stabbed to death in a city has said he was targeted “because of his postcode”.

    Jaydon James, 16, known as JJ, was wounded in Coventry at about 23:40 GMT on Saturday, and died later in hospital.

    Jayda James described her brother as the “sweetest, funniest most kind-hearted boy”.

    His grandfather Joe Green said he had lost his life simply because he had gone out to buy some food.

    “He wasn’t a fighter,” said Mr Green. “He went out to get something to eat and lost his life within about 500 yards of his house.”

    https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-46342354

    Note: what context does this make a sense in?

  28. A majority in the Danish parliament on Thursday voted through a bill that could see sweeping physical changes made to underprivileged areas defined by the state as ‘ghettos’.
    The programme, which was announced by Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen in his New Year’s speech and formally presented by ministers in March this year, has been the subject of passionate opposition and debate in Danish media and society.

    READ ALSO: ‘Ghettos must go’: Government presents plan in Copenhagen underprivileged area

    The plan passed by parliament Thursday also sets out preventive measures against the development of underprivileged areas into ghettos in future, Ritzau reports.

    A maximum of 40 percent of housing may be allocated to a form of social housing known in Danish as almene familieboliger (normal family housing) in areas encompassed by the plan. That is likely to require demolition of some housing where it is not economically viable to convert it into other forms, it was reported earlier this week.

    Critics of the programme say that the reforms will move social problems associated with the areas to other locations, rather than provide real solutions.

    https://www.thelocal.dk/20181123/danish-parliament-passes-contentious-ghetto-plan

    • Maybe they’ll disburse “social problems” so wealthy, insulated progs can experience multiculti up close and personal.

  29. Workers at the Canada Revenue Agency continue to snoop on the confidential tax files of spouses, parents, friends, neighbours, colleagues, church members and businesses, despite a $10-million project meant to discourage them.

    Ten months of internal reports obtained by CBC News show the files of at least 10,000 Canadians were compromised by the agency’s employees, who used their privileged access to government databases to make unauthorized forays into taxpayers’ private financial affairs.

    One worker in the CRA’s Calgary office last year kept a detailed spreadsheet on the financial data of 310 people in his community.

    “[T]he investigation concluded that the employee made unauthorized accesses to his own account, and to a total of 310 other taxpayer accounts, including the employee’s spouse, mother, former Team Leader, and two colleagues,” says an Oct. 10, 2017 CRA report.

    “The employee kept the information of the 310 individuals on a spreadsheet in his ‘H’ drive in order to keep track of who lived in his community.”

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/cra-canada-revenue-agency-privacy-breaches-commissioner-employees-1.4916022

    Note: keep this in mind next time the government tells you to trust them with your data

  30. Uninvited, more than one million Han Chinese people have reportedly moved into the homes of Uighur Muslim families to report on whether they display Islamic or unpatriotic beliefs.

    Sent to homes in Xinjiang province by the Chinese government, American anthropologist Darren Byler said they were tasked with watching for signs that their hosts’ attachment to Islam might be “extreme”.

    The informants, who describe themselves as “relatives” of the families they are staying with, are said to have received specific instructions on how to get them to let their guard down.

    Watch more

    China blacklists millions from flights amid ‘social credit’ system
    As devout Muslims would refuse cigarettes and alcohol. this is seen as one way of finding out whether they were extreme.

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/china-uighur-muslim-people-move-homes-xinjiang-china-religion-a8648561.html?utm_source=reddit.com&utm_source=reddit.com

    • reuters – Hundreds of scholars condemn China for Xinjiang camps

      WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Countries must hit China with sanctions over the mass detention of ethnic Uighurs in its western Xinjiang region, hundreds of scholars said on Monday, warning that a failure to act would signal acceptance of “psychological torture of innocent civilians.”

      Beijing has in recent months faced an outcry from activists, academics and foreign governments over mass detentions and strict surveillance of the Muslim Uighur minority and other ethnic groups that live in Xinjiang.

      In August, a United Nations human rights panel said it had received many credible reports that a million or more Uighurs and other minorities are being held in what resembles a “massive internment camp that is shrouded in secrecy” in the region.

      Representatives from a group of 278 scholars in various disciplines from dozens of countries called on China at a news briefing in Washington to end its detention policies, and for sanctions directed at key Chinese leaders and security companies linked to the abuses.

      “This situation must be addressed to prevent setting negative future precedents regarding the acceptability of any state’s complete repression of a segment of its population, especially on the basis of ethnicity or religion,” the group said in a statement.

      Countries should EXPEDITE ASYLUM REQUESTS from Xinjiang’s Muslim minorities, as well as “spearhead a movement for UN action aimed at investigating this mass internment system and closing the camps,” it said.

      China rejects criticism of its actions in Xinjiang, saying that it protects the religion and culture of minorities, and that its security measures are needed to combat the influence of “extremist” groups that incite violence there.

      The country’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi has said the world should ignore “gossip” about Xinjiang and trust the government.

      But after initial denials about the detention camps, Chinese officials have said some people guilty of minor offences were being sent to “vocational” training centers, where they are taught work skills and legal knowledge aimed at curbing militancy.

      Michael Clarke, a Xinjiang expert at Australian National University who signed the statement, told reporters that China sought international respect for its weight in global affairs.

      “The international community needs to demonstrate to Beijing that it will not actually get that while it’s doing this to a significant portion of its own citizenry,” Clarke said.

      https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-xinjiang/hundreds-of-scholars-condemn-china-for-xinjiang-camps-idUSKCN1NW04C

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      Michael Clarke, “Beijing’s ‘March West’: One Belt, One Road and China’s Quest

      Michael Clarke is Associate Professor and Graduate Convenor at the National Security College, Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU.

      He has written extensively on the history and politics of Xinjiang, Uyghur separatism and terrorism, and Chinese foreign policy in Central Asia in a variety of academic publications, while his journalistic writing on these topics has been published by the Wall Street Journal, CNN, The National Interest and The Diplomat.

      This Central Asia Program event was held at the George Washington University’s Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies November 3, 2016.

    • Hudson Institute – China’s “War on Terrorism” and the Xinjiang Emergency

      For the last sixteen years, the Chinese Communist Party has been telling the Chinese people and the world at-large that it is waging its own “war on terrorism” in the Uyghur homeland of Xinjiang, known to Uyghurs as “East Turkestan.” Xinjiang has since become the most heavily garrisoned and surveilled part of the People’s Republic of China.

      As many as one million Uyghurs are now detained in Communist Party “political re-education” camps, where they have been subject to torture, medical maltreatment, and other abuses.

      Meanwhile, the “stability” of the region has become essential for PRC’s strategic “One Belt, One Road” initiative, and the Communist Party has used its influence around the world to stifle criticism of the human rights emergency in Xinjiang that it has created.

      What is at stake for the Chinese Communist Party in Xinjiang?

      How has the PRC’s conduct and repression in Xinjiang affected its foreign relations, including with Pakistan, the countries of Central Asia, and the Middle East?

      What do we know about the policy debates among Chinese authorities and the people of China concerning Xinjiang and what, if any, are the dissenting views?
      What does the PRC’s conduct in Xinjiang tell us about the nature of the Communist Party’s power and the PRC’s ambitions to transform itself into a superpower?

      On September 5, Hudson Institute hosted a discussion on the PRC’s “war on terrorism.”

      The panel will include Dr. Michael Clarke, associate professor at the Australian National University; Louisa Greve, director of external affairs for the Uyghur Human Rights Project; Andrew Small, a senior transatlantic fellow at the German Marshall Fund; Sean Roberts, an associate professor at George Washington University; and Rushan Abbas, a former Uyghur Service journalist with Radio Free Asia. The discussion was moderated by Hudson senior fellow Eric Brown.

  31. Massive protest in Pakistan over acquittal of Christian woman sentenced to death for blasphemy

    Thousands of Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) members and supporters flooded the streets of Sukkur on Sunday for the so-called ‘Million March’. Protesters are condemning the Supreme Court’s recent acquittal and subsequent release of Asia Bibi, a Christian woman sentenced to death for blasphemy. MMA president Fazal-ur-Rehman attended the mass rally and addressed the protesters from a makeshift stage.

  32. ‘Don’t forget our history, we are all immigrants’: Pro-migrant march held in San Diego

    Over a hundred protesters marched in San Diego on Sunday, voicing their support for the migrants in Tijuana who are being denied entry into the US. The rally comes as a group of the migrants clashed with border police after trying to breach the US-Mexico border crossing near Tijuana on Sunday.

  33. Muslim Refugee Acquitted in French Rape Case Due to ‘Different Cultural Norms’ (sputniknews, Nov 26, 2018)
    https://sputniknews.com/europe/201811261070144972-muslim-refugee-acquitted-rape-cultural-norms/

    “The refugee in question was previously cleared of other charges – those of a sexual misconduct, after he underscored that the girl he groped on the genitals and who fled the room where it happened without delay, had consented to his actions.

    A French court has acquitted a Bangladeshi refugee for the rape of a 16 year-old high-school girl, with whom he attended the same school in the French city of Saint-Lô, after the attorney argued that the defendant had “different cultural norms,” which might have led to a misunderstanding of the girl’s behaviour or looks. The same refugee was also charged with assaulting another young girl, with both incidents occurring in 2015.

    The judge ultimately gave him a suspended sentence of two years behind bars, Voice of Europe reported, citing the French news website La Manche Libre, adding that the investigators called attention to the male-dominant culture of Bangladesh overseeing that women “are relegated to the status of sexual object” in the largely Muslim country.

    In the first case, the unnamed then 18 year-old refugee was accused of kissing and groping the private parts of a school girl, but was cleared of the charges after he insisted the girl, who managed to leave the room, had consented to it. In wake of the incident, the girl was reported to have attempted a suicide and spent a week in hospital.

    In the second case, which came along four months later, the migrant was arrested again, this time on rape charges.

    Defendant’s Cultural Norms Differ – Jihad Watch
    Addressing the case, Jihad Watch Director Robert Spencer stressed that the refugee’s “cultural norms” indeed are different and are all rooted in Islam, wondering why Western countries can’t enforce theirs.

    “Why can’t France enforce its own ‘cultural norms’? Why can’t any Western country?” he asked, further citing the survivor of a Muslim rape gang in the UK as noting that her assailants quoted the Quran to her.

    Spencer said that the Quran “teaches that infidel women can be lawfully taken for sexual use,” going on to quote a verse:

    “O Prophet, tell your wives and your daughters and the women of the believers to bring down over themselves of their outer garments. That is more suitable that they will be known and not be abused. And ever is Allah Forgiving and Merciful,” (33:59) he quoted, thereby implying that if women do not cover themselves accordingly with their outer garments, they may be abused, and that “such abuse would be justified.”

    EU Migration Woes
    Following a number of similar cases in Britain last year, particularly a case of 17 Muslim men and one woman convicted of raping over 100 underage white girls, the UK government’s senior legal adviser claimed that judges were slapping much lighter sentences on Muslim rapists out of “political correctness.”

    In September, in the latest British trial with regard to the pressing issue of Muslim “grooming gangs,” a woman was filmed testifying on camera that she was “passed around” starting from the age of 13 by around 100 men.

    Just last month in Germany, meanwhile, in a widely reported case, an 18 year-old girl was raped outside a disco by eight men, seven of whom were Syrians. Separately, in June, Germany saw a huge backfire after an Iraqi immigrant was arrested over the murder of a 14 year-old Jewish girl, the incident sparking criticism of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s immigration policy and her contentious decision to open borders back in 2015. Germany remains to date the only EU country to constitutionally guarantee asylum-seekers refuge.”

  34. euronews – Berlin Christmas Market returns two years after terrorist attack

    It’s been nearly two years since the devastating terrorist attack that claimed 12 lives at a Berlin Christmas market.

    Today the market will be reopened by the city’s Mayor in a show of unity in the face of terror.

  35. Three Arrested as Greece Breaks Migrant Smuggling Ring (breitbart, Nov 26, 2018)
    https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2018/11/26/three-arrested-as-greece-breaks-migrant-smuggling-ring/

    “Greek authorities say they have broken a criminal ring that smuggled migrants that had entered Greece illegally to Italy by using small vessels departing from remote beaches.
    A police statement Monday said three men have been arrested for alleged ring membership, while 9 more are being sought.

    The suspects were caught Friday in the southern Peloponnese region, allegedly preparing to take a group of 46 migrants to Italy on a 12-meter (40-foot) long vessel.

    Police said the ring charged migrants, who were seeking to continue their journey to more affluent European countries, to handle the entire Greek leg of their trip.

    It allegedly picked them up at the northeastern land border with Turkey and drove them to the Peloponnese, from where they continued by sea…”

  36. Soros’ Open Society Says Closing Turkey Branch Over Alleged Links to Protests (sputniknews, Nov 26, 2018)
    https://sputniknews.com/world/201811261070146652-soros-open-society-turkey/

    “The supervisory board of the Open Society Foundations (OSF), founded by Hungarian-born business magnate George Soros, decided to close the organization’s branch in Turkey after being accused of having links to the protests in the country, Kaya Heyse, a representative of the OSF office in Turkey, told Sputnik on Monday.

    “The supervisory board of the foundation has endorsed the proposal to halt the operations of its branch in Turkey. Such a suggestion was made in light of unfounded media reports about our activities and speculations, which made the continuation of our work impossible,” Heyse said.

    According to Heyse, under the OSF statutory documents, a branch of the organization might be closed in case its activities are no longer useful or in the conditions when the achievement of the OSF goals is not possible.

    “Our foundation has repeatedly been accused of links to protest actions, which does not correspond to reality. We have informed the Turkish authorities about all donations from abroad as well as about what projects were financed with the money donated in compliance with the local law,” Heyse added.

    Last week, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused Soros of financing protest actions in Turkey in 2013, adding that the billionaire was using his money to send “people across the world to divide and tear up nations.”

    The OSF, that finances NGOs all over the world, and other foundations, related to Hungary-born Soros have often been accused of intervening into the internal affairs of the states. The Turkish branch of the organization was established in 2008.”