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  1. NR: Currently, Colistin is the most potent antibiotic drug-of-last-resort. It turns out that Communist Chinese farmers have broken international regulations and used this powerful medicine to combat disease outbreaks in large CAFO (Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations) production enterprises.

    The toxic wasp venom that could help protect humans against superbugs

    • Polybia paulista is an aggressive social wasp endemic in south-east Brazil
    • MIT researchers studied the antimicrobial properties of a toxin
    • created variants that are potent against bacteria but nontoxic to human cells

    NOTE: If we are fortunate, this new venom-based antibiotic will outperform Colistin. Some 70 percent of tilapia consumed in the USA comes from China. Do you want to take the chance of becoming Colistin-resistant, all for regular, inexpensive fish dinners? We’ll not even discuss new reports detailing how tariff-affected farmers are now feeding these fish with pig feces and poultry droppings in order to cope with the increased cost of animal feeds.

  2. Clintons’ speaking tour a flop; promoters turn to last-ditch effort

    Ever since the Clintons launched their “Evening With a Clinton” tour, things have hit the fan. They were struggling to get people to their shows so they were selling tickets for as low as $6.55 before the show began. Their new marketing plow – more like last ditch effort – at getting people to attend their event is by selling tickets on Groupon. Tickets on the Clintons’ website go between $89 and $399. But, if you’re looking for a real steal, Groupon has them for $35. …

    The Clintons reportedly sold 3,300 tickets in Toronto, despite the venue being able to accommodate 19,000.

  3. The Nonbinding Migration Pact That Was Too Much for Trump

    Diplomats from around 180 countries will be gathering in Marrakech, Morocco for a ceremony on Monday to sign the U.N.’s Global Compact on Migration, a landmark agreement aimed at promoting international cooperation to manage the unprecedented population of migrants and refugees in the world. The United States will not be among them. The United States announced it was pulling out of talks over the pact in December, describing it as a threat to U.S. sovereignty.

    The agreement has also proved controversial in Europe. Italy became the latest country to pull out of the agreement last week, following the lead of Austria, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Poland, Estonia, and Switzerland. Hungary, whose prime minister, Viktor Orban, has vocally opposed EU migrant quotas, quit while the agreement was still being negotiated. Belgium’s government is currently on the verge of collapse over disagreements about the compact; Prime Minister Charles Michel says he will be attending the meeting in Marrakech merely in a “personal capacity.”

    Act one. Scene two. Take three. “Europe Grows a Brain – The Prequel”. Roll ’em!

  4. Working while they wait, migrants seek jobs at US border

    TIJUANA, Mexico – Before dawn each morning, migrants slip away from a Tijuana shelter within sight of the U.S. border to head to jobs across this sprawling city. Moving solo or in pairs, they are easily recognized by their determined strides as people with someplace to be.

    By sunrise, another crowd has gathered at a corner near the shelter to wait for job offers. On a recent morning, a dozen migrants scrambled into the bed of a Dodge pickup, their enthusiasm bringing a chuckle from the driver. The migrants didn’t even know where they were going or when they’d be back — some carried bedrolls — but said the work would be peeling tomatoes. [more at link]

    NR: So, exactly what is it that has prevented previous waves generations of illegal immigrants from pursuing this same legitimate path?

    [crickets]

  5. For first time, Pearl Harbor remembrance takes place without a single USS Arizona survivor present</a

    Just before 8 a.m. local time Dec. 7, 1941, Japanese warplanes shattered the Sunday quiet at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. It was an attack on the United States that would soon thrust the country into World War II.

    Despite a radiogram that was urgently pushed to all U.S. military in the area (“AIRRAID ON PEARLHARBOR X THIS IS NO DRILL”), the surprise attack destroyed or damaged more than a dozen American ships and hundreds of aircraft.

    More than 2,400 Americans were killed. But the greatest loss of life occurred on the USS Arizona: Of the 1,512 on board at the time, only about 300 survived. The ship rests, sunken, at the bottom of the harbor — along with the remains of hundreds of victims.

    Over the decades, survivors of the sinking of the Arizona have been a fixture at memorials and events marking the attack, a date which has indeed lived in infamy.

    But on Friday, for the first time in more than seven decades, no Arizona survivors were present at Pearl Harbor when officials commemorated the 77th anniversary of the attack.

    Only five Arizona survivors are still alive: Lauren Bruner, 98; Lou Conter, 97; Lonnie Cook, 98; Ken Potts, 97; and Don Stratton, 96.

    None was able to travel to Oahu this year, the Associated Press reported.

    NR: Never forget.

  6. Mercury-Bound BepiColombo is About to Start Using the Most Powerful Ion Engines Ever Sent to Space

    The first engine was test-fired on November 20th, and after an initial period, was put into full throttle. It maintained maximum power for 5 hours, and then the process was repeated for each of the other three engines. During this whole procedure, the performance of the ion engines was monitored in precise detail. The Flight Dynamics team determined that the spacecraft was performing within 2% of its expected value during the first two firings. Analysis of the last two firings is ongoing, but if it’s the same, BepiColombo is well on its way. [more at link]

    NR: Although mentioned by Konstantin Tsiolkovsky in 1911, this technology was first given practical consideration by Robert H. Goddard (whose great grandson I know) back in 1906. All the same, it wasn’t until 1959 that a working ion thruster was built by Harold R. Kaufman at the NASA Glenn Research Center. Also know as the gridded electrostatic ion thruster (or Kaufman drive), it operates by ejecting a highly charged stream of excited gas atoms. These particles push against the ionization chamber’s walls and thereby generate thrust. Four beam sources which provide a maximum combined thrust of 290 mN (millinewtons) makes it the most powerful ion engine in space.

    More often used by Soviet-era satellites for steering and positional correction, this is one of the first times that ion beam drives are the principal source of a spacecraft’s propulsion. This is a very daring mission in that the engineers had a very short window for engine testing and calibration before the probe changed orientation and its antennae no longer pointed towards Earth.

    The test regimen was rather critical due to how BepiColombo’s seven year trip to Mercury will include 22 ion thrust arcs. A thruster burn arc can last for up to two months and still use less fuel-weight to produce the same acceleration as high-energy chemical burns that last for minutes or hours.

    In fact, I have a set of large diameter (~8″ – 200 mm) ion beam source carbon grids in my high tech collection because ion beam etching (or ion milling) is a very useful method of finely controlled layer removal for both fine pitch semiconductor fabrication processing and the preparation of SEM (Scanning Electron Microscope) specimens.

    • Modern thoughts:

      Those ion beams are sexist!

      Scientist comes forward to describe her humiliation from being mansplained at work.

      Companies going into liquidation due to lawsuits.

      LGTQ+ spokespronoun said it was pleased that White Straight Male industries were all closing down. Muslims, Communists and African Leaders were their friends, it added.

      Old Thoughts:

      The story of the Russo Finnish war ot 1939 when Russia invaded, was one of where their Soviet Generals were lackeys to The Party, where display of talent, ingenuity and leadership would get them sent to the Gullag, and so The Mediocre ran their Army.

      The same for Western Politicians and Industry Leaders.

      Collapsing in on itself.

      • Karelia was stolen from Finland by the Russian invasion in 1939. The Marxists today, have still not returned it.
        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karelian_question

        This land was then filled with imported settlers.
        “The area is inhabited mostly by people who moved there from Ukraine, Belarus and Russia, and their descendants.”

        The same at replacing Europeans by marxist-promoted boardeless countries.

        This war, like the Despots of Islam treat muslims, the Soviets pushed their Prolitariat into massed-attacks for the Fatherland instead of the Fatherheaven.
        https://youtu.be/WR2FqMUVZzc

        The House of Peace and the House of War.

        This war continues.

  7. Astronomers Count all the Photons in the Universe

    Spoiler Alert:

    4,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Photons

    NR: Ruins everything, doesn’t it?

      • “I’ve got one hidden in a dark place they missed.”

        Aha! A photon hoarder! Let’s get a dekko at your ration book, mate. What’s all this then? Your Photon Coupon isn’t even clipped! Care to tell our studio audience and all the folks at home just how you came into possession of this particular photon, without even using your rationing coupon?

        It’s bad enough that we’ve ended up requiring fourteen layers of bureaucracy just to process a parking ticket without your ilk skulking around with their secret stashes of photons, sterile neutrinos, and negative-index metamaterials.

        I swear, I’ll have a Spanish tummy by the time I’m done purchasing who-knows-how-many electron credits solely in order to report this entire, senseless episode. All because a youse, with your color TV sets, and your Tony Jacklin golf clubs, and your bleeding Masonic secret handshakes, you flippin’ holiday wallies just cannot continue to live without an extra photon secreted on the premises in case an unexpected guest drops by. Well I’ll tell you something laddie. When you’re walking home tonight and some homicidal maniac comes after you with a stoichiometrically misaligned cluster of hoarded spin-neutral bozons, don’t come crying to me!

        Do you even have the faintest idea of how time consuming it is to identify a specific quanta for the purposes of a search warrant? The Liberal judge will have me for brekkies if I request a blanket document. ‘Ere now, ’nuff of all this fuss and bother, you are hereby banished to the shadow realm until (with the aid of night vision goggles) you see the error of your ways…

        Speaking of goggles:

  8. Many U.S.-bound caravan migrants disperse as asylum process stalls

    TIJUANA, Mexico (Reuters) – Thousands of Central American migrants spent weeks traveling north through Mexico in caravans, walking and hitching rides when possible, only for many to give up hope and turn back when they met resistance at the U.S. border.

    Others hopped the border fence, often directly into the hands of immigration authorities on the U.S. side, while still others dug in at temporary lodgings in Tijuana for the long process of seeking asylum from a reluctant U.S. government.

    As rain poured down on a former music venue in Tijuana that holds a diminished crowd of 2,500 migrants, Jessica, 18, grabbed her feverish 1-year-old daughter and took her inside to a friend while she figured out what to do with her broken tent.

    Jessica had traveled from El Salvador, and said she and her husband were waiting in the Barretal camp for the right moment to try to cross the border illegally.

    “Getting asylum is really difficult,” she said. “They ask you for a lot of evidence and it’s impossible. It’s not like they say it is.”

    Other migrants face the same dilemma. Of 6,000 who arrived in Tijuana in the caravans last month, 1,000 have scrambled over border fences, and most of those were detained, the head of Mexico’s civil protection agency David Leon told local media on Wednesday. [more at link]

    • From an image caption at the link: “Thousands of Chinese Muslim extremists are currently in Idlib, Syria… what happens when they return?”

      Who says they get to return at all? Communist China’s stranglehold on the foreign travel of its citizens makes it just as easy to keep someone out as it is to keep someone in. Especially with Red China’s bright and shiny new “Social Credit” system, people of questionable motives or actions almost can be frozen in place.

      You’d tend to think how any returning Chinese Muslim extremists would have a Social Credit balance which could only be tallied using negative numbers normally associated with black hole equations.

  14. Rioting engulfs Paris as anger grows over high taxes

    Central Paris was filled with the rumble of armored police trucks and the hiss of tear gas on Saturday, as French riot police fought to contain thousands of yellow-vested protesters venting their anger against the government in a movement that has grown more violent by the week.

    A ring of steel surrounded the president’s Elysee Palace — a key destination for the protesters — as police stationed trucks and reinforced metal barriers throughout the neighborhood.

    Stores along the elegant Champs-Elysees Avenue and the posh Avenue Montaigne boarded up their windows as if bracing for a hurricane but the storm struck anyway Saturday, this time at the height of the holiday shopping season. Protesters ripped off the plywood protecting the windows and threw flares and other projectiles. French riot police repeatedly repelled them with tear gas and water cannon.

    Saturday’s yellow vest crowd was overwhelmingly male, a mix of those bringing their financial grievances to Paris — the center of France’s government, economy and culture — along with groups of experienced vandals who tore steadily through some of the city’s wealthiest neighborhoods, smashing and burning.

    https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-france-paris-riots-macron-20181208-story.html

    • “… groups of experienced vandals who tore steadily through some of the city’s wealthiest neighborhoods, smashing and burning.”

      Smells like Antifa to me! “Stinks” might be an even better word.

  15. In Gaza protests, Israeli troops aim for the legs

    GAZA CITY, Gaza (AP) — Israeli forces deployed along the volatile border with the Gaza Strip have fired live rounds at rock-throwing Palestinian protesters ever since demonstrations against Israel’s long-running blockade of Gaza began in March.

    And for eight months, Israeli snipers have targeted one part of the body more than any other — the legs.

    The Israeli army says it is responding to weekly assaults on its frontier by Palestinians armed with stones, grenades and firebombs. The military says it opens fire only as a last resort, and considers firing at the lower limbs an act of restraint.

    https://apnews.com/6035b1d3293c4a298145afbff50ab844

    • “The military says it opens fire only as a last resort, and considers firing at the lower limbs an act of restraint.”

      A little more range time and maybe they’ll be able to hit right between the legs.

  16. Back me or get Jeremy Corbyn and no Brexit: Theresa May warns against voting down deal – as she reveals how she keeps calm by eating PEANUT BUTTER out of the jar and even has a ‘bloody difficult woman’ mug on her desk

    Theresa May today warns her warring party that if they vote down her Brexit deal they risk handing the country to Jeremy Corbyn – and being stuck permanently in the EU.

    The Prime Minister uses a powerful interview in today’s Mail on Sunday to plead directly with the dozens of Tory MPs who have threatened to rebel in Tuesday’s historic Commons vote on her Brexit deal.

    Mrs May, who says she has received thousands of messages of personal support from voters, tries to avert the rebellion by ‘weaponising’ the prospect of Mr Corbyn becoming Prime Minister.

    Such is the scale of the expected revolt – more than 100 Tories, by some estimates – that a growing number of senior Government figures are urging Mrs May to delay the vote and embark on a final bid to secure last-ditch concessions from Brussels this week.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6475169/Theresa-Jeremy-Corbyn-No-Brexit.html

  17. Far right breakthrough in Andalucía send shockwave through Spanish politics

    The anti-immigration, anti-feminist Vox party has gained a foothold unseen since Franco’s death. Voters reveal what drove them to extremes…

    Sam Jones in Seville
    @swajones

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    Seville, capital of Andalucía, has seen a surge of support for the Vox party in some districts.
    Seville, capital of Andalucía, has seen a surge of support for the Vox party in some districts. Photograph: Ian Dagnall/Alamy

    Los Remedios doesn’t have the feel of a political frontline. Rowers glide along the green waters of the Guadalquivir, a huge Christmas tree sits beneath a warm December sky and the nearby churrería is already bedecked with artificial poinsettias.

    Beneath the Spanish flags that stripe many balconies, residents and the odd labrador stroll down citrus-tree-lined boulevards, past designer shops and a tobacconist’s with bottles of Moët in its window.

    Oranges, however, aren’t the only things ripening in this comfortable Seville neighbourhood, or beyond. In last Sunday’s Andalucían regional elections, the tiny Vox party became the first far-right grouping to win seats since Spain’s return to democracy following the death of General Franco in 1975.

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/09/far-right-andalucia-seville-vox-party-shockwave-spanish-politics

    • “In last Sunday’s Andalucían regional elections, the tiny Vox party became the first far-right grouping to win seats since Spain’s return to democracy following the death of General Franco in 1975.”

      And in other late breaking news, Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead.

    • the gateway pundit – Leaker James Comey told Congressional Hearing:
      “I Don’t Know” – 166 Times, “I Don’t Remember” – 71 Times, “I Don’t Recall” – 8 Times

      AND he said he didn’t know that
      Christopher Steele was passing information to Bruce Ohr, who was giving it to the FBI.

      As we reported earlier—
      Unfortunately for Comey, the Hill reported earlier in the week that a long email chain was uncovered that the Republican House members added to the list of documents they would like President Trump to un-classify and release to the American public.

      Former FBI Director James Comey is reportedly in this long email chain which is dated October of 2016 – just before the FBI obtained its first FISA warrant on Trump campaign advisor Carter Page.

      more :
      https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/12/leaker-james-comey-told-congressional-hearing-i-dont-know-166-times-i-dont-remember-71-times-i-dont-recall-8-times/

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      Rep. Goodlatte: Comey’s lack of memory was ‘truly stunning

  19. Report: Pres. Trump demanding South Korea increase funding for U.S. troops

    OAN Newsroom
    UPDATED 1:45 PM PT – Sat. Dec. 8, 2018

    The president is reportedly urging South Korea to commit more funding for U.S. troops stationed in the Asian nation.

    According to a report from the Wall Street Journal released Friday, the president is seeking to have South Korea pay up to $1.6 billion annually.

    Currently under an agreement between the countries, which expires at the end of the year, South Korea gives the U.S. $830 million annually, in relation to the 28,000 soldiers deployed there.

    The report also suggests South Korean president Moon Jae-In is not inclined to increase funding.

    Representatives from both countries are set to meet next week.

    https://www.oann.com/report-pres-trump-demanding-south-korea-increase-funding-for-u-s-troops/

  20. China says U.S. should withdraw arrest warrant for Huawei executive

    BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s foreign ministry called in the U.S. ambassador on Sunday to lodge a “strong protest” over the arrest in Canada of Huawei Technologies Co Ltd’s [HWT.UL] chief financial officer, and said the United States should withdraw its arrest warrant.

    Meng Wanzhou, Huawei’s global chief financial officer, was arrested in Canada on Dec. 1 and faces extradition to the United States, which alleges that she covered up her company’s links to a firm that tried to sell equipment to Iran despite sanctions.

    The executive is also the daughter of the founder of Huawei.

    Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Le Yucheng told U.S. ambassador Terry Branstad that the United States had made an “unreasonable demand” on Canada to detain Meng while she was passing through Vancouver, China’s Foreign Ministry said.

    “The actions of the U.S. seriously violated the lawful and legitimate rights of the Chinese citizen, and by their nature were extremely nasty,” Le told Branstad, comments similar to those he made to Canada’s ambassador the night before.

    China strongly urges the United States to pay attention to China’s solemn and just position and withdraw the arrest warrant on Meng, Le added.

    “China will respond further depending on U.S. actions,” he said, without elaborating.

    Le also told the Canadian ambassador on Saturday that there would be severe consequences if it did not immediately release Meng.

    https://www.oann.com/china-says-u-s-should-withdraw-arrest-warrant-for-huawei-executive/

    • China says U.S. should withdraw arrest warrant for Huawei executive

      Communist China says this, Communist China says that,
      Communist China can bite my everloving clank.

      Meng Wanzhou has directly, disproportionately, and personally profited from her role as Huawei’s CFO whilst knowingly participating in the theft of intellectual property from America. Let her answer in open court as to why she should not be convicted and jailed for conducting corporate espionage against interests based in the USA.

      No more clowning around like how Clinton, Bush 2.0, and 0bama did through their twin terms in office. None of this “No glot clum Flyday”, “One from column A, one from column B”, “With six you get eggroll”, “No tickee, no washee” horse pucky.

      Beijing is about to learn that the devil Trump calls all the best tunes.

  21. Ocasio-Cortez hasn’t even been ‘inaugurated’ and she’s already abusing her authority
    By LU Staff December 8, 2018

    For those who missed it, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez reminded her constituents in November of how out of her depth she is by referring to her “inaguration” on Jan. 3. Since that time, she has suffered near-daily lapses of foot-in-mouth disease, public attention to which evidently got under her skin, prompting a snide tone in her attempts to defend herself from her detractors. When someone of this intellectual persuasion goes from being clueless to condescending, her remarks rise to the level of an unfunny joke.

    This unflattering trait was on display again in a tweet she posted on Dec. 7, but this time she didn’t stop at trading barbs. She threatened her interlocutor, Donald Trump, Jr., with the threat of subpoena, which many are insisting is an ethics violation.

    The tweet came in reaction to a meme about socialism the president’s son posted on Instagram:

    https://libertyunyielding.com/2018/12/08/ocasio-cortez-hasnt-even-been-inaugurated-and-shes-already-abusing-her-powers/

  22. Obama administration illegally authorized $310 million in free legal advice to illegal aliens
    By Jeff Dunetz December 8, 2018

    One lawbreaker deserves another, it seems. According to an investigation by the Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI), former President Barack Obama’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) awarded multiple contracts worth over $310 million to a single nonprofit group in 2015 and 2016. The purpose of the contracts was to provide attorneys for Unaccompanied Alien Children (UACs) so they could avoid deportation from the United States. Per the document used to solicit attorneys, UACs are:

    https://libertyunyielding.com/2018/12/08/obama-administration-illegally-authorized-310-million-in-free-legal-advice-to-illegal-aliens/

  23. More UN Chicanery

    by Bruce Bawer
    December 9, 2018 at 5:00 am

    https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/13397/united-nations-chicanery

    In Britain, the rage over Muslim rape gangs and Theresa May’s Brexit foul-up is spreading. In Germany, anger about Merkel’s recklessly transformative refugee policies is mounting. In France, the growing cost of immigrant freeloaders to taxpayers has sparked the most sensational public demonstrations since 1968. In Italy and Austria, opponents of the Islamization of Europe now hold the reins of power. Elsewhere in Western Europe, more and more citizens are standing up to their masters’ open-borders dhimmitude.

    Yet much of this principled and patriotic resistance may turn out to be for naught, thanks to the so-called Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, which is scheduled to be signed by representatives of the UN member states at a December 10-11 conference. Supporters of the compact are quick to reassure its critics that it is not a binding treaty and that it reaffirms the concept of national sovereignty. Nevertheless, when you come right down to it, it is nothing more or less than a dangerous effort to weaken national borders, to normalize mass migration, to blur the line between legal and illegal immigration, and to bolster the idea that people claiming to be refugees enjoy a panoply of rights in countries where they have never before set foot.

  24. Democratic Countries Should Back out of the UN Global Compact

    by Judith Bergman
    December 9, 2018 at 4:00 am

    https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/13398/un-global-compact-withdrawal

    The ongoing and bitter dispute between the EU and its Eastern European member states — countries such as Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic — that have refused to take in migrants as part of the EU’s quota system, might be approaching some sort of compromise. In an internal document circulated to EU interior ministers in Brussels in early December, Reuters reported, EU member states that refuse to host migrants in their countries could be exempted from doing so, if instead they show “alternative measures of solidarity.” According to diplomats, these “alternative measures” are apparently EU code for “paying into the EU budget or paying toward development projects in Africa”.

    “The document,” Reuters noted, “said the European Union would need a proper mechanism to avoid a situation in which all EU governments opted to pay their way out of any hosting responsibilities and would set an eight-year period for any arrangements”.

    Already in October, European Parliament President Antonio Tajani had said that EU countries who refused to host refugees could instead pay more for EU migration and development projects in Africa. “No relocation – (then) more money for Africa,” Tajani said.

    “We cannot force (others to take in refugees),” German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas also said in October, “but those that do not do so must possibly contribute in another way such as… in Africa. Everyone needs to take on some of the responsibility that we all have” .

    • “We cannot force (others to take in refugees),” German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas also said in October, “but those that do not do so must possibly contribute in another way such as… in Africa. Everyone needs to take on some of the responsibility that we all have”.

      Boy howdy, “such as… in Africa”, sure thing. Go right ahead and get your Socialist fü¢kbuddies to throw another billion taxpayer Euros into the Dark Continent’s sub-Saharan aid incinerator. Just don’t expect any right-thinking person to hang around waiting to wring out your tear-sodden hankie when all that money ends up being used to pay for mink-wrapped whores, Dom Perignon Champagne, and iced Beluga caviar—or just ends up getting stuffed into some secret offshore numbered account.

      See: “For God’s Sake, Please Stop the Aid” by Kenyan economist, James Shikwati.

      • How much goes into numbered accounts for the Western Politicians pushing for the money to be sent to Africa?

        • “How much goes into numbered accounts for the Western Politicians pushing for the money to be sent to Africa?”

          None. We have relatively well enforced bribery and transparency laws. It’s the recipients who don’t have those awkward, annoying impediments to business-as-usual.

          The “Western Politicians” get their jollies from highly conspicuous (i.e., well-publicized) virtue signalling whose reward is the MSM’s endless slobbering adoration.

          Really well organized “Western Politicians” enter high federal office with the requisite foundations and well-greased backchannels already in place. It makes funneling all that covert high-dollar graft and random financial incentives just so much easier.

  25. EGYPT – Prosecution investigating authenticity of video of tourists scaling, posing nude on pyramid: Minister tells MPs

    Egypt’s Minister of Antiquities Khaled El-Anany told MPs on Sunday that the prosecution is currently investigating a video that was recently posted online reportedly showing a foreign couple scaling what appears to be the Great Pyramid of Giza.

    El-Anany said that prosecution is investigating “how a Danish photographer and his girlfriend were able to scale the Pyramid of Khufu, and whether they really filmed an explicit pornographic video atop the Pyramid.”

    The minister filed a memo on Friday with the prosecutor-general to investigate the short viral clip, which shows the couple illegally climbing to the top of the Great Pyramid of Giza and posing naked for a picture.

    The video was uploaded on YouTube on 5 December by self-described photographer Andreas Hvid, who posts images on social media of different sites from high vantage points around the world, sometimes depicting nudity.

    El-Anany, addressing the members of parliament’s media, culture and the antiquities committee on Sunday morning, said that “I demanded that experts be tasked with checking the video and determine whether they are real or fake.”

    “The prosecution authorities will tell Egyptians how the two tourists were able to scale the Great Pyramid of Khufu, whether the video is real or fake, and negligent officials will be brought to justice,” El-Anany said.

    “The explicit video has sparked fury and outrage among Egyptians in general, and the officials affiliated with the Ministry of Antiquities in particular.”

    “I stress that scaling the pyramids is strictly forbidden,” said El-Anani.

    El-Anany also stressed that the Ministry of Antiquities has rejected offers from some of the world’s most wealthy people who wished hold their wedding parties by the pyramids.

    “It is strictly forbidden that any kind of celebrations be held around citadels, tombs and temples,” said El-Anany, adding that “when some alleged on social media that a wedding party was held at Luxor’s Karnak temple, I decided to refer this case to the prosecutor-general, but we discovered that it was just a dinner party that was organised in line with the rules.”

    El-Anany said that “organising wedding parties is allowed at the front of some mosques and some ancient forts.”

    “Some also alleged on social media that a wedding party was held at the temple of Philae in Aswan, but it was just a two-hour dinner party without belly dancing or alcoholic drinks,” said El-Anany.

    “I urge all to exercise caution because what is published on social media mostly turns out to be untrue, and let prosecution authorities do their investigation on the explicit video.”

    http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/319788/Egypt/Politics-/Prosecution-investigating-authenticity-of-video-of.aspx
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    https://www.facebook.com/AndreasHvidPhotography/

    https://www.andreashvid.com/nude-art

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    • “El-Anany said that prosecution is investigating “how a Danish photographer and his girlfriend were able to scale the Pyramid of Khufu, and whether they really filmed an explicit pornographic video atop the Pyramid.”

      Whatever would we do without Denmark’s innovative and iconoclastic ‘tude?

      That said, the world would be wise to brace itself for another round of Motoon Magnitude Melees™. This planet’s far-too-easily abraded Muslims will finagle some way of taking offense at this, even if they must first lay claim to having built the pyramids. Face it, there ain’t no way this readily inflated crisis will be let go to waste. The excrement just hasn’t hit the twirling blades quite yet.

      Why, imagine all of the embassies to be burnt and cars to be torched. If Islam can’t get some Paris-scale riots out of this, then its spinmeisters are slipping rather badly.

  26. France tells Trump to stop interfering in its politics

    ( AFP ) The French government on Sunday urged Donald Trump not to interfere in French politics after the US president posted tweets about the protests rocking the country and attacked the Paris climate agreement.

    “We do not take domestic American politics into account and we want that to be reciprocated,” Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian told LCI television.

    “I say this to Donald Trump and the French president says it too: leave our nation be.”

    Trump had on Saturday posted two tweets referring to the “yellow vest” anti-government protests that have swept France since mid-November and sparked rioting in Paris.

    “Very sad day & night in Paris. Maybe it’s time to end the ridiculous and extremely expensive Paris Agreement and return money back to the people in the form of lower taxes?” he suggested.

    Trump had earlier posted: “The Paris Agreement isn’t working out so well for Paris. Protests and riots all over France.

    “People do not want to pay large sums of money, much to third world countries (that are questionably run), in order to maybe protect the environment. Chanting ‘We Want Trump!’ Love France.”

    Earlier this week Trump retweeted one of several posts falsely claiming that French protesters were chanting his name.

    The videos that have been used to support this claim were in fact filmed at a far-right protest in London earlier this year.

    The protests in France are not directly linked to the Paris climate agreement which was signed in 2015 and has since been abandoned by Trump, to the dismay of French President Emmanuel Macron and other Western leaders.

    Spurred by rising fuel prices — in part due to tax hikes aimed at helping France shift to a lower-carbon economy — the “yellow vest” protests have grown into a broad movement against Macron’s policies and governing style.

    Other French politicians have also responded angrily to Trump’s latest tweets, including a lawmaker from Macron’s party who dubbed the US leader “Donald the Senile”.

    “DON’T INSULT MY COUNTRY DOTARD,” Joachim Son-Forget posted, employing an antiquated insult previously used against Trump by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

    Trump had weighed in on the protests in previous tweets, deploring the “large and violent French protests”.

    Despite their differences — Macron is a 40-year-old centrist and Trump a 72-year-old rightwinger — the French and US leaders initially enjoyed warm ties.

    But relations have soured in recent months, not least over Trump’s rejection of the climate agreement and hard-fought Iran nuclear deal.

    Last month a fresh row blew up after Macron gave an interview calling for a “European army” and arguing that Europe needed to be more independent from the US in its defence policy.

    Macron is further thought to have riled the US president during commemorations marking the end of World War I when the French leader took aim at Trump-style nationalism in his speech.

    Le Drian, like other members of the government, stressed that Macron wanted a dialogue with the protesters and would offer solutions when he addresses the nation early next week.

    “I think his remarks will be strong enough for the movement to halt, or at least for the hooligans to be put off,” the foreign minister said.

    He expressed concern over remarks among some protesters calling for an “insurrection” in France.

    “As foreign minister I travel around the world and I know — you can witness it in certain countries — how fragile democracy is,” Le Drian said.

    “I hear people saying, ‘This is an insurrection’. That is not the republic I know.”

    https://www.gulf-times.com/story/615740/France-tells-Trump-to-stop-interfering-in-its-poli
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    Bloomberg – Macron’s Minister Tells Trump to Stay Out of French Politics

    French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian dismissed Donald Trump’s comments on the Yellow Vests protests in Paris, saying the U.S. president shouldn’t meddle in France’s affairs.

    On Saturday, Trump sought to tie the violent protests across France triggered by higher fuel taxes with the Paris climate accord treaty he’s denounced. He said protesters were chanting his name in the streets, a claim Le Drian disputed.

    “The protesters didn’t protest in English!” Le Drian said in a radio interview with RTL. “We don’t participate in America’s domestic politics and we would like that to be reciprocal.”

    He said President Emmanuel Macron already told the U.S. president to stay out of French political life.

    Sunday was quieter in Paris, with museums and shops reopening and protesters — most wearing yellow safety vests — gone from the streets. About 1,700 people were arrested nationwide in skirmishes late Saturday, and an estimated 179 were hurt in the French capital as extreme-right, extreme-left and anarchist elements defied riot forces, according to the police prefecture.

    “The Paris Agreement isn’t working out so well for Paris,” Trump said on Twitter on Saturday. “People do not want to pay large sums of money, much to third world countries (that are questionably run), in order to maybe protect the environment.”

    The president ended his tweet asserting that protesters had chanted “We Want Trump!”

    Last weekend Trump also cited the protests in France to defend his decision to pull the U.S. out of the December 2015 climate agreement.

    In fact, the accord has played no part in four straight weekends of protests, which began over fuel taxes but have expanded to pension issues, a higher minimum wage and restoration of a wealth tax.

    Last week Macron’s government reversed course and suspended a planned fuel-tax increase.

    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-09/french-minister-dismisses-trump-s-comments-on-paris-protests

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    • France tells Trump to stop interfering in its politics

      In your, wildest, wettest, Oedipal dreams, Micron.

      Your nation has both nuclear weapons and a restive, domineering Muslim population that is curbed less than a stray dog. This pair of basic facts leads to the unavoidable conclusion that some form of intervention looms in the not-too-distant future.

      This same menace is proceeding apace in the UK as well, and, when the time comes, will elicit the identical same response from neighboring countries and America.

      NOTE: One can only hope for whichever outgoing administration that holds power during the interregnum of a Muslim electoral win, will voluntarily surrender and covertly transfer all warheads and service components or spares out of the country to a secure (i.e., non-Islamic) location.

      To resume: That other surrounding non-nuclear nations manage to refrain from voicing, what can only be, the very darkest concerns regarding these impending strategic fiascos is symptomatic of how thoroughly Europe’s various Deep States (much less the EU) all are ordaining Political Correctness.as their new scripture.

  27. France knife attack: Three women stabbed by knifeman at train station

    Mulhouse station in the east of France witnessed the violent attack today, with two of the victims believed to be in a critical condition

    Three women have been stabbed in a knife attack at a busy train station in France, according to reports.

    The attack took place at the main train station in the eastern city of Mulhouse – close to the Swiss and German border.

    It is believed the unidentified perpetrator, a young male, has been arrested and put in custody by police having fled the scene.

    Described by onlookers as ‘unbalanced’, he is said to have stabbed one victim in the back in the station waiting room.

    She sustained serious chest injures- and local authorities say she was a German woman with her 10-year-old daughter.

    FranceInfo report that a second woman was stabbed in the stomach on the station forecourt, while the third woman is unhurt with the attackers clothes becoming torn.

    There was a doctor reportedly on hand to provide crucial first-aid treatment to the victims, two of whom are in a critical condition in hospital.

    The French capital Paris has seen violent protests for a fourth consecutive weekend, with thousands demonstrating over fuel tax rises – setting fire to cars and clashing with police.

    There are have been further angry protests across the country – but it is unclear if this attack is linked.

    https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/breaking-france-knife-attack-three-13710059

  28. Couderc (Gilet Jaune) appelle à l’Acte V samedi prochain et les week-endssuivants

    Christophe Couderc : «Emmanuel Macron et son gouvernement ont pour mission la liquidation de la France.

    Comme tous mes camarades Gilets Jaunes, j’appelle à l’Acte V samedi prochain à Paris, et il faudra faire cela tous les week-ends. (…) Macron ne peut pas finir son Quinquennat.»

    – BFM TV, 8 décembre 2018, 23h23

      • Ah, yes. That European vice which, in their sneering condescension, they forever lord over us unsophisticated, backwoods American colonials … nuanced dialogue. Where would our world be without such impeccably articulated diplomatic psychobabble and delicately applied “soft power”?

        Personally, I think there’s more than a few of us who’d like to know.

        Dare I say that Trump’s unarguably successful caravan rollback may have inspired those of the lemony livery with respect to curtailing their own “immigration” (particularly the borderless type that’s all the rage in modern Europe)?

    • Woman violently dragged by French cop during Yellow Vests protest in Lyon

      Yellow Vests protesters and riot police clashed in central Lyon on Saturday, resulting in several arrests, as thousands of people took to the streets.

      The riot police deployed tear gas, and were filmed overpowering protesters and dragging at least one of them on the ground, as they faced off with some of the 15,000 protesters — as reported by the media — in Lyon.

  29. Cyprus police detain 40 Syrian migrants after boat arrival (abcnews, Dec 9, 2018)
    https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/cyprus-police-detain-40-syrian-migrants-boat-arrival-59710687

    “Cyprus police say they have detained 40 Syrian migrants after a boat dropped them off along the ethnically split island nation’s northwestern coast.

    Police said Sunday authorities had initially located the boat about 25 kilometers (15 miles) off the island’s coast late Saturday. The migrants, including two women and a child, set out from Mersin, Turkey.

    The migrants disembarked in the country’s breakaway Turkish Cypriot north before crossing on foot to the internationally recognized southern part where they were found by police near the northwestern village of Pyrgos.

    Police said all 40 people have been taken to a reception center on Nicosia’s outskirts for processing.

    Cyprus says a recent spike in migrant arrivals has turned the tiny country into the EU’s top destination for asylum-seekers per capita.”

  30. Indian troops kill 3 rebels in 18-hour-long Kashmir fighting (abcnews, Dec 9, 2018)
    https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/indian-troops-kill-rebels-18-hour-long-kashmir-59708452

    “Indian troops killed three rebels on the outskirts of disputed Kashmir’s main city on Sunday, ending a nearly 18-hour-long gunbattle, officials said.

    Indian paramilitary spokesman Sanjay Sharma said the three militants were killed on the outskirts of Srinagar. Two counterinsurgency police officials and a soldier were wounded, he said.

    Sharma said Indian troops had surrounded a neighborhood on Saturday on a tip that militants were hiding there. As the troops began conducting searches, militants opened gunfire, triggering intense fighting in which three combatants were killed, he said.

    Police identified one of the slain militants as a teenage boy who had joined rebel ranks in August.

    The fighting sparked anti-India protests and clashes as residents tried to march to the site of the battle.

    Government forces fired warning shots, shotgun pellets and tear gas at the stone-throwing protesters. At least five people were injured in the clashes, police and residents said.

    Residents said government forces blasted at least five houses with explosives during the fighting, a common tactic employed by Indian troops during counterinsurgency operations in Kashmir.

    Authorities also suspended internet services on cellphones in Srinagar, also a common tactic during gunbattles and anti-India protests to discourage further protests and dissemination of protest videos by Kashmiris.

    Kashmir is divided between rivals India and Pakistan and both claim the territory in its entirety.

    Most Kashmiris support rebel demands that the territory be united either under Pakistani rule or as an independent country, while also participating in civilian street protests against Indian control.

    Rebels have been fighting Indian control since 1989. India accuses Pakistan of arming and training the rebels, a charge Pakistan denies.

    Nearly 70,000 people have been killed in the uprising and the ensuing Indian military crackdown.”

  31. Blast wounds 6 at religious gathering in Karachi in Pakistan (abcnews, Dec 9, 2018)
    https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/blast-wounds-religious-gathering-karachi-pakistan-59707405

    “Pakistani police say an overnight blast targeting a religious gathering of an ethnic party has wounded six people in the southern port city of Karachi.

    Saturday night’s blast took place as hundreds of supporters of a faction of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement were present in the neighborhood of Gulistan-e-Johar. No one has claimed responsibility and authorities say all of the wounded are listed in stable condition.

    The attack happened a day before Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan is expected to visit Karachi, the capital of southern Sindh province.

    The Muttahida Qaumi Movement party represents the Urdu speaking population and its two factions have an uneasy relationship with each other.”

  32. US airstrike outside Somalia’s capital kills 4 al-Shabab (abcnews, Dec 9, 2018)
    https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/us-airstrike-somalias-capital-kills-al-shabab-59712354

    “The U.S. military says it has killed four members of the al-Shabab extremist group with a “self-defense airstrike” outside Somalia’s capital after partner forces were attacked.

    The U.S. Africa Command statement says the airstrike occurred on Saturday near Basra, a community outside the capital, Mogadishu. The statement says no civilians were involved.

    The U.S. military has carried out 39 airstrikes this year against the al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab, Africa’s most active Islamic extremist group, which controls parts of rural southern and central Somalia and continues to stage deadly attacks in Mogadishu and other cities.

    The U.S. airstrikes have picked up dramatically since President Donald Trump took office and approved expanded military operations in the Horn of Africa nation. Airstrikes also target a small presence of fighters linked to the Islamic State group.”

    • US airstrike outside Somalia’s capital kills 4 al-Shabab

      For all of you coders out there: Conditional Statement

      0100 – IF: al-shabab = al-Kebab
      0101 –THEN: Index X and Print “Everybody Goes Home Happy” + Bell Code
      0102 – Is X = 0? – Go To 0100
      0103 – Is X > 0? – Go To 0100
      0104 – Is al shabab = Null Set?
      0105 – Exit Loop

  33. Hunger, lice, filth: Moroccan camp shows migrant challenges (abcnews, Dec 9, 2018)
    https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/hunger-lice-filth-moroccan-migrant-camp-shows-challenges-59709232

    “As Morocco prepares to host the signing of a landmark global migration agreement, hundreds of migrants are languishing in a Casablanca camp rife with hunger, misery, lice and filth.

    These sub-Saharan Africans who dream of going to Europe are a symbol of the problems world dignitaries are trying to address with the U.N.’s first migration compact, being finalized at a conference in Marrakech on Monday and Tuesday.

    Rising numbers of migrants live in the makeshift camp that sprung up on a soccer field near a busy Casablanca bus station, where they are bedded down under tents or shacks built from plastic and wood.

    cant food, a lack of heat and no sanitation are the main worries at the Oulad Ziane camp, as lice and respiratory infections are becoming endemic.

    Morocco embodies multiple dilemmas facing the countries meeting in Marrakech: It’s a major source of Europe’s migrants but is also a transit country as well as a migrant host for other Africans fleeing poverty and persecution.

    The 34-page U.N. Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration is to be formally approved in Marrakech, Morocco, on Dec. 10-11. But the United States and several European countries have said they won’t sign on.

    The Oulad Ziane camp houses African migrants seeking to reach Europe via the western Mediterranean route to Spain after crackdowns by Italy and Malta have slowed smuggling traffic in the eastern Mediterranean. Many of the migrants have already tried the journey north to Morocco’s border with Spain, only to be pushed away by Moroccan police, sometimes violently.

    In the meantime they look for work in Casablanca, hoping to earn enough to pay smugglers to try once again.

    New arrivals at the Casablanca camp came after clashing violently with Moroccan border agents as they tried to scale the fence separating Morocco from Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta…”

  36. New Cuba law that artists say amounts to state censorship will be implemented gradually

    https://www.miamiherald.com/latest-news/article222724555.html

    A new law — reviled by many Cuban artists as another layer of censorship and control over artistic expression but promoted by the government as a defense against vulgarity, poor taste, mediocrity and low-brow cultural influences — went into effect Friday.

    The new measure comes as artists and performers on the island continue to protest, and perhaps in response to those critiques, government officials said Friday that Decree Law 349 will now be rolled out gradually.

    Ever since Decree Law 349 was first published in July in the government’s Gaceta Oficial , there has been plenty of pushback on the island and abroad and a flurry of meetings between government cultural officials and artists, who are still hoping for modifications.

    The law requires prior government approval for artists, musicians, writers and performers who want to present their work in any spaces open to the public, including private homes and businesses.

    But beyond that, it also proposes fining painters and other artists who commercialize their art without government permission. Among the more chilling provisions is the prospect that “supervising inspectors” could review cultural events and shut them down if they don’t believe they meet government standards.

    Individuals or businesses hiring artists who don’t have prior approval also can be sanctioned.

    “No one can say you are an artist or you are not an artist,” fumed Luis Puerta Batista, a Havana artist who sells stylized paintings of jazz figures, mostly to foreigners and on the internet, and teaches art. “Artists are going to keep creating. They are not going to be able to bar creating, but they will restrict selling.”
    And with a family to support, that has him worried.
    Fellow artist Roberto Loeje, who has a studio on the same street as Puerta, calls the decree law “anti-artistic and crazy.”

    Cuban artist Roberto Loeje visits the studio of a fellow artist in Old Havana. Loeje says Cuba’s new Decree Law 349 is “anti-artistic.”

    He especially disagrees with the provision that bars art sales without prior government approval: “If a piece is mine, what is the problem with my selling it? Why is it different from having a piece of furniture in your house and someone comes in and says, ‘I’d like to buy that.’ ”

    Dissident artists have staged protests and social media campaigns, and dozens of dialogues and meetings between unhappy creators from both inside and outside the government [dissidents excluded] and state cultural officials have been going on for weeks.

    During an hourlong “Mesa Redonda” program Friday night, officials from the Ministry of Culture, the National Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC) and the Hermanos Saíz Association, an organization that brings together young Cuban artists and intellectuals, emphasized that critics of Decree Law 349 don’t understand it.
    Minister of Culture Alpidio Alonso Grau defended the breadth of artistic expression in Cuba, which he said is “scarcely found where the market is the censor.”
    Alonso said the decree law would be applied gradually to both state and private sectors.

    • “Artists are going to keep creating. They are not going to be able to bar creating, but they will restrict selling.”

      Go ahead, Cuba. Stifle and crush the creativity of your citizens. After all, the same sort of policies worked out so very well in Communist China, didn’t they?

  38. A group of 50 “yellow vests” cheered as a massive lorry swung round Gaillon roundabout, Normandy, and honked its horn in support.

    Neither President Emmanuel Macron’s decision to scrap the green fuel tax that sparked three weeks of nationwide protests nor dire warnings of rioters marching on Paris to “smash and kill” have dulled their determination to continue manning their barricade.

    “We’re ready to spend Christmas and New Year on this roundabout,” said Kevin Coget, 26, a “yellow vest” who has been “filtering” traffic every day since November 17 in one of thousands of such roadblocks around France. Seasonal decorations and the Santa Claus hats worn by several protesters proved his point. [more at link]
    (For whatever reason, the URL is a mite squiffy.)

    The real point being that if Paris remains occupied all the way up to Christmastime, there’s a lot of romantic holiday vacations that will be canceled, not to mention a steep decline in business-as-usual for all of the barricaded Arrondissements (especially the pricey ones). What better way to anger even the elite than by crimping their haute couture stylin’?

    With 89,000 police deployed across France, that’s millions of Euros per day being squandered by Micron in the name of refusing to relinquish what can only be described as lame duck power. That alone should tell the indigenous French people all they need to know.

    Let’s please hope beyond hope that the genuine Yellow Vests have learned their lesson about what Antifa stands for and just how destructive they are to all around them. As with Islam, there is no “shared agenda” to be had with the Antifascists, not for love nor money—nor would any sane group or person want such a thing. And also, exactly like Islam, temporary alliances are just that, temporary.

    Screening out all masked, (i.e., “black bloc”) protestors would go a long way towards restoring damaged Yellow Vest credibility. Right now, even if they don’t know it themselves, they are political walking wounded. That the French President is ready to be measured for a wooden overcoat matters not, as there will be the usual raft of career politicians who will not be dislodged by Micron’s however-much delayed absquatulation.

  39. DAILY MAIL _ UK _ Muslim chaplain, 49, is arrested at prison gates after ‘trying to smuggle £60,000 worth of Spice into Belmarsh’

    Chaplain arrested after allegedly trying to smuggle £60,000 worth of illegal drugs into Belmarsh prison in London

    Mohamed Rawat, 49, was caught at Belmarsh jail allegedly carrying more than 60 sheets of paper soaked in the highly addictive synthetic substance spice

    Volunteer chaplain Rawat has been banned from going back to the prison while he is under investigation

    […]Dealers have recruited dozens of prison officers to smuggle in drugs while others have used drones to fly contraband over the walls.

    Spice is particularly sought-after behind bars because it cannot be detected in drugs tests and can be sprayed on to sheets of paper.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6475273/Muslim-chaplain-49-arrested-trying-smuggle-60-000-worth-Spice-Belmarsh.html

  42. US ‘do more’ mantra no longer works with us, we won’t take dictation from them – Pakistani minister

    A visit by the US representative to Pakistan this week was a sharp contrast to the rhetoric Washington used towards Islamabad lately. Threats and demands will not work with the Pakistani government, a cabinet member told RT.

  43. Snitch on right-wing parents, kids! … says German kindergarten brochure

    A 60-page advice brochure for German kindergartens instructs teachers on how to identify and deal with children from ‘far-right’ families.

    Critics say it encourages spying and equates wearing braids and dresses with nationalism.

  45. Short report “exposing”, basically online “morality patrolling”. Muslim men posting revenge porn, doxxing “loose” women etc:

  48. More than 150 governments to adopt U.N. migration pact in Morocco (reuters, Dec 9, 2018)
    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-europe-migration-un/more-than-150-governments-to-adopt-u-n-migration-pact-in-morocco-idUSKBN1O80TN

    “More than 150 countries will join a United Nations conference to adopt a global pact to better handle migrant flows, a senior U.N. official said on Sunday, less than the number that initially worked on the plan.

    In July, all 193 U.N. members except the United States finalized the so-called Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration to better handle migration.

    Since then, the text has come under fire from European politicians who say it could increase immigration. At least six European Union members – mostly in formerly Communist Eastern Europe – have shunned the accord

    U.N. Special Representative for International Migration Louise Arbour said more than 150 governments had registered for the event in the Moroccan city of Marrakesh set to adopt the accord on Monday, without giving details.

    The pact is not legally binding but can provide very useful guidance for countries facing migration, she told a news conference.

    “Many challenges will stand in the way of its implementation, not least the toxic and ill-informed narrative that too often persists when it comes to migrants,” she said.

    In the latest political turmoil over the pact, Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel relaunched his government on Sunday as a minority administration after the biggest party in his coalition quit in a dispute over signing the compact.

    The right-wing N-VA pulled its ministers after Michel refused its demand that he not agree to the pact.

    Also on Sunday, Chile’s Interior Ministry Subsecretary Rodrigo Ubilla told El Mercurio newspaper that the country’s representatives would not attend the event, saying: “We have said that migration is not a human right. Countries have a right to determine the entry requirements for foreign citizens.”

    In November, Austria’s right-wing government, which holds the EU presidency, said it would also withdraw, saying the accord would blur the line between legal and illegal migration.

    Australia also said in November would not sign up to the migration agreement because it would compromise its hardline immigration policy and endanger national security.

    Among other leaders, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, whose 13-year chancellorship has been marked by her open-door migrant policy, will attend the event.

    The Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration is a framework for cooperation and aims to reduce illegal migration, help integrate migrants and return them to their home countries.”

  50. Morocco’s DGSN, DGST Dismantle 2 Irregular Migration Networks Near Tangier (moroccoworldnews, Dec 9, 2018)
    https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2018/12/259928/moroccos-dgsn-dgst-dismantle-2-irregular-migration-networks-near-tangier/

    “A source told Morocco World News that on Saturday, members of Morocco’s General Directorate for National Security (DGSN) and Morocco’s General Directorate for Territorial Surveillance (DGST) dismantled irregular migration networks operating from the southern Atlantic side of Tangiers, between the points of Oued Taddart and Briyech, north Morocco.

    Read Also: Morocco Busts International Drug-trafficking Network, Seizes 1 Ton of Cocaine
    The operation also led to the arrest of 68 irregular migrants, including 45 Moroccans and 3 sub-Saharan migrants.

    Five members of the networks were arrested. Authorities also seized a vehicle used in the transport of migrants, and 2 zodiacs.

    Earlier this week DGSN and Morocco’s National Criminal Judicial Brigade (BNPJ) dismantled a criminal network involved in irregular migration that operates from Casablanca, Oujda, and Berkane.

    The police carried out the dismantling operation simultaneously and arrested 16 individuals.

    Throughout the year, Moroccan officials have shared the number of aborted irregular migration attempts.

    In October, governor and director of immigration and border surveillance Khalid Zerouali said that Morocco’s security forces aborted approximately 65,000 irregular migration attempts annually since 2016.

    The number has more than doubled from an average of 32,000 annually between 2003 and 2015 to nearly 65,000 since 2016.”