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Feminism Against Cologne rape - but WELCOMING REFUGEES WITH OPEN ARMS

What made the attacks in Cologne different was that the shellshocked police force claimed the attack was perpetrated by men of “Middle Eastern and North African origin.”

Thus began a feeding frenzy on the whole of the far right, clamouring with renewed vitriol against the million Syrian refugees Germany took in this past year, asylum seekers and immigrants in general, and Muslims (even though the Cologne Police never ascribed a religion to the drink-besotted mob). Amidst the online outrage is the claim that feminists and leftists are hypocrites, caring about women’s rights only when white men can be blamed as oppressors, and the false claim that we have been silent about the New Year’s sex attacks.

Yet, as one might expect, such people project a fantasy onto us, ignoring the fact that this crime has sparked ample condemnation from feminists around the world

The women who suffered the attacks in Cologne–and in other German cities on that fateful morning– are now being used as mute props by nationalists and xenophobes who never gave a damn about rape before. According to both the BBC and Deutsche Welle, actual victims of the attacks do not want the crimes inflicted upon them to be used against all refugees in the nation. “It would be wrong to blame refugees,” a young woman named Michelle told BBC correspondent Jenny Hill. “They need our help.”

But larger issues remain. We must not allow ourselves to be seduced by the widening gyre of xenophobia now gripping our country. Everywhere are gendered dog whistles (remember Donald Trump accusing Latino men of being rapists?), and we are surrounded by opportunities to seek alliances of convenience with Islamophobes and racists whose sudden concern for women was prompted only by the enticing prospect of a brown, foreign man to blame. His purpose, like that of the violated virginal white woman, is also to act as a cipher; in him is invested all of the nation’s sin and thus, it is hoped, his exile will coincide with the expiation of that sin. “Rape culture exists,” the xenophobe at last admits, “but you will find it only among Muslims/Mexicans/asylum seekers.” They can temporarily position themselves as allies in the fight for women’s rights, and scorn us for denying them, but we deny ourselves lasting solutions if we focus narrowly on crimes committed by immigrants.

Misogyny cannot be deported, you cannot build a wall to keep it out, it cannot be beaten by a policeman’s truncheon, and it cannot be interred in a camp. The xenophobe’s prayer is that he can invest his own sins into that of the Other, thus feeling more moral himself, and assured of the rightness of an otherwise inhumane conviction. How many white German men now screaming for the heads of Syrian refugees were among that Oktoberfest crowd groping women, one wonders?

We stand at the edge of a terrifying abyss where serious people with power and authority are flirting with ideas that would see Western societies target religious and ethnic minorities with state power and violence unseen since the 1930s, all against the backdrop of ongoing sexual violence against women in the West. From a mass shooting at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado, to deadly road rage in Houston, to ISIS’s continued threats against us all and their insidious attacks against “soft targets,” we are confronted with a pantheon of terrors that are determined to bring out the very worst in us all. Just this weekend, a gang of hundreds of masked men with white supremacist ties roamed the streets of Stockholm looking for non-whites to assault, whether or not they were refugees.

In moments like this our moral clarity cannot fail us.

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DENMARK YES

http://sonsoflibertymedia.com/2016/02/denmark-man-convicted-fined-for-speaking-truth-about-islam/

But then

http://www.thelocal.dk/20160114/danish-muslim-convert-15-arrested-with-explosives

And then this

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/dec/29/denmark-arrests-terror-plot

German war graves are being desecrated on TV

In March 1942 my great grandparents were informed that their eldest son, Heinrich, had been killed in action during a patrol operation in the area of Krasnaya-Ghorka, in the swamps and pine forests south of Leningrad in Russia. He was the first of their three sons they would lose during the war, the other two were killed in action in 1944 and 1945.

They were told that Heinrich had been buried on a divisional burial ground in a place known as Glubotschka, 12 kilometres south-west of Tosno. For my great grandparents these names were just as alien and difficult to place as they were for me, when I started researching Heinrich’s military career in 2006.

While at the time of Heinrich’s death the cemetery lay more or less safe behind German lines, that changed when the Soviets opened their offensive to relieve Leningrad in January 1944. Glubotschka was overrun and it soon became forgotten, fell into disarray and was reclaimed by nature shortly afterwards. As the village itself, like so many others in the region, was never reoccupied after the war it did not take long to disappear off the maps completely. Glubotschka became the name of a region, which could only found on some obscure Soviet-era maps.

The show has zero educational value. I failed to hear any mention of how many millions of Russian and German men are still out there in unmarked graves. I failed to hear any credible description of the Courland battles, or the horrible massacres that happened in and around Poznan in January 1945. The hosts of the show have no link to the men whose remains they are digging up.

Faced with a complex set of human remains, or an unexploded munition they appear utterly clueless (which is possibly because they are indeed utterly clueless about the real meanings and dangers of these things). In fact all too often they behave like children playing soldiers, treating guns as big toys and the fact that Herr Gottlieb manages to force himself to squeeze out a few tears for the camera whenever he handles a skull or bone does not make it any better. For me it makes it even worse.

Not only due to my family history, but also due to my job as a military historian, I identify with the fallen and their families. I have spent unmeasurable time looking at the faces of the missing in the photographic registers published by the German Red Cross in the early 1950s. Millions of faces, millions of stories of men whose final resting place is unknown and whose identities are wiped out by illegal digging. Illegal digging, which is (in my opinion and that of many experts who are not heard in the films) only promoted by “BATTLEFIELD RECOVERY”.

This must not be allowed to continue.

Robin Schäfer is a German military historian specializing in the period between 1800 and 1945. His first book, "Fritz and Tommy: Across the Barbed Wire" was published in October 2015.

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inb4 invalid source, any german speaking anon can confirm if this pic related is true or false

translated excerpts

“Dear male Refugees, you are probably my age. Probably a few years younger. Maybe older. I am so terribly sorry! I did not see what happen before and I did not experience your grueling escape.”

“I am glad and happy that you made it here. That you have left the IS and its war behind and that you didn’t drown in the Mediterranean sea. But I fear that you are not safe here.”

“Burning refugee centers, violent attack on refugees on the street and a brown mob in the streets. I have always fought against this situation.”

“I wanted an open Europe, a friendly one. One in which I like to live, one in which both of us are safe. I am so sorry. For both of us I am so unbelievably sorry.”

“You, you are not safe because we live in a racist society. I am not safe, because we live in a sexist society.”

“But what I really feel sorry about is the case that the sexist and borderless acts that I suffered will lead to you being exposed to more and increasingly aggressive racism.”

“I promise you that I will scream. I will not let it happen anymore. I will not sit idle and let racists and concerned citizens turn you into a problem.”

“You are not the problem. You are no problem at all. You are a beautiful human being that deserves freedom and security as much as anyone. Thank you for your existence and nice to have you here.”

Islamists target Berlin: German Police

"It is about the possible planning of a terror attack in Germany, concretely in Berlin," state prosecution spokesperson Martin Steltner told news wire Dpa.

There are conflicting reports in the media about what the exact target of the attack was, with tabloid Bild citing investigators who say it was Alexanderplatz, the iconic centre of the former east of the capital.

++ EIL ++ Groß-Razzia gegen Islamisten. Anschlagsziel war der #Alexanderplatz in #Berlin. https://t.co/v9byTOkyN3

— BILD (@BILD) February 4, 2016

Berlin daily Tagesspiegel meanwhile, says popular tourist spot Checkpoint Charlie - once the most famous crossing in the Berlin Wall - was to be hit, citing security sources.

+++mutmaßliche Terroristen in #Berlin: Angriffsziel war #CheckpointCharlie +++ gleich mehr auf tagesspiegel.de pic.twitter.com/YmhKyObJ1y

— Der Tagesspiegel (@tagesspiegel) February 4, 2016

Prosecutors have made no official comment on a specific target.

Police raided addresses in several German states on Thursday morning, arresting a number of people allegedly planning an Islamist terror attack in Germany or elsewhere in Europe.

Security sources told DPA the group’s ringleader was a 35-year-old Algerian arrested in North Rhine-Westphalia.

The man, who was staying in refugee accommodation in the town of Attendorn, was also being sought by Algerian authorities due to a suspected connection to Isis, with whom he is said to have undergone military training in Syria.

DPA also reports that the man arrived as an asylum seeker in Germany in autumn 2015 after travelling through Europe via the so-called Balkan route, which starts in Greece and passes through Macedonia and Serbia.

In Berlin, 450 police officers searched four apartments and two businesses, arresting another Algerian man in the process.

Police are searched the apartments of a 31-year-old male in Berlin and a male 26-year-old in Hanover, where searches were also conducted in a refugee home.

According to investigators, the suspects were all linked to the Syrian civil war.

Surveillance of the suspects has been going on for several weeks.

But suspicions solidified around New Year, when the ringleader is alleged to have travelled from North Rhine-Westphalia to meet his accomplices in Berlin and plan an attack.

There is no indication on whether they had picked a target, or whether that target lay in Germany.

An initial tip-off came for the Verfassungsschutz (German internal intelligence). Police investigations then established a link between the 35-year-old Algerian and the Islamist scene in Berlin and Hanover.

During the raids police seized computers, mobile phones and drawings.

According to Berlin’s interior minister, Frank Henkel, the risk of an Islamist attack remains high.

“We have every reason to stay alert and be careful,” he said, arguing for the necessity for decisive action to be taken against the Islamist scene - especially when there is a connection to Isis.

Since the terror attacks in Paris in November 2015 in which 130 people died, authorities in Germany have repeatedly warned about the risk of a similar attack in the Bundesrepublik (Federal Republic).

In November an international football match between Germany and the Netherlands was cancelled hours before kick-off due to an unspecified threat.

A street party in Munich was also cancelled at New Year for security reasons.

It is believed that fear of a terror attack was the motive for both cancellations.

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>>30

Boy, is she ripe for the lunatic asylum! Her education/indoctrination has sure been successful!

Harvard's new course on Islam is… unpalatable to say the least

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How Not to Teach About Islam, Harvard Edition

Want to learn that white colonialists are to blame for Islamic nations’ abysmal treatment of women? Then I’ve a class for you.

-By Liel Leibovitz January 25, 2016

Looking for some good classes to take at Harvard this spring? If you are curious about the human rights of 1.6 billion of the world’s people, you might enjoy Professor Leila Ahmed’s Islam, Gender, Sexualities and Empire class. Herein is the course description in full:

The twenty-first century has witnessed the production of a wealth of new literature in relation both to the history of sexuality in the Islamic world and to the entangled histories of Europe and the Islamic world and the role that Orientalism has played in shaping notions of gender and sexuality through colonial, pre-colonial and post-colonial times. In addition to selected book-chapters and articles engaging contemporary debates on these topics, our readings will include (provisional list): Lila Abu Lughod, Do Muslim Women Need Saving? Khaled El-Rouayheb, Before Homosexuality, Karen Bauer, Gender Hierarchy in the Quran, Eds. Ziba Mir-Hosseini, Al-Sharmani & Rumminger, Men in Charge, Joseph Massad, Islam and Liberalism, Scott Siraj al-Haqq Kugle, Homosexuality in Islam, and Living Out Islam; Eds. Ayesha Mattu & Nura Maznavi, Love Inshallah.

You hardly need to look past the first book on the reading list to realize what kind of education Professor Ahmed is likely to deliver. In fact, you hardly need to look past the first book’s title. Do Muslim Women Need Saving? Let me count the ways.

In Iran, women lack the most basic freedoms, including the right to attend a soccer match or to sing on stage. Those judged insufficiently modest are subject to acid attacks, honor killings, and other violent ends.

In Egypt, 99.3 percent of women were sexually harassed, and 27.2 million have been genitally mutilated, according to reports.

In Bahrain, a rapist may avoid punishment if he opts to marry his victim, which is a touch better than Kuwait, which has no laws against domestic abuse or spousal rape as well as no shelters or hotlines to help women brutalized by their husbands. And in Saudi Arabia, sadly, women are still not permitted to drive and they need the consent of their husbands if they want to travel, enroll in classes, or gain access to healthcare. Do Muslim women need saving, then? You betcha.

But don’t count on Professor Ahmed’s class to tell you any of the above. In her 1992 book, Women and Gender in Islam, she argued that Islam was a benevolent and loving religion with nothing but respect for its female adherents before white colonialists arrived and turned women’s rights into another form of conquest.

“It was in this discourse of colonial ‘feminism,’” Ahmed wrote in her book, “that the notion that an intrinsic connection existed between the issues of culture and the status of women, and in particular that progress for women could be achieved only through abandoning the native culture, first made its appearance. The idea was the product of a particular historical moment and was constructed by the discourses of patriarchal colonialism.”

In other words, for those of you who are not fluent in academic gibberish, Muslim countries only started permitting the killing, raping, burning, incarcerating, confining, and marginalizing of women once the bad Europeans arrived and forced the natives into abandoning their inherently peaceful ways and instead taking rusty razors to their daughters’ genitalia. If this strikes you as sensible, and you have $60,659 a year to spare, I know just the university for you.

Court ruling will decide if Canada becomes a Twitter hugbox

http://www.freedomoftweets.ca/

>If you live in Toronto, you've almost certainly seen Gregory Alan Elliott’s art. He is a prolific street artist and graphic designer known for producing motivational artwork. His work has been featured by the Toronto Star.

>In November 2012, Elliott was arrested and charged with criminal harassment after arguing with several activists on Twitter. He didn't threaten or endanger anyone. All he did was argue.

>As a result of his detention and trial, Greg has accumulated nearly one hundred thousand dollars in legal fees. He has been prohibited from using computers and the Internet and forced to leave his job.

>Gregory Alan Elliott lives in Toronto with his four sons. He is currently awaiting the final verdict in his trial.

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>The outcome of what's believed to be the first criminal harassment case in Canada involving Twitter will help set the tone for how the courts and society navigate the nuances of online interaction, observers said Thursday.

>A verdict is expected Friday in the Ontario Court of Justice trial of Gregory Alan Elliott, a Toronto man facing two charges of criminal harassment over his dealings with two local women's rights activists on Twitter.

Meet Hillary's newest SJW advisor thinks that men accused of rape should be punished before trial

Looking for a Presidential candidate who LISTENS and BELIEVES? Look no further.

>Hillary’s New Hire Has Interesting Thoughts On Rape

>Blake Neff 5:00 PM 02/12/2016

http://dailycaller.com/2016/02/12/hillary-campaign-hire-says-those-accused-of-sexual-assault-should-automatically-treated-as-guilty/

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>Presidential candidate former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s campaign has expanded its team by bringing on a writer who has previously written that those accused of sexual assault should automatically be treated as guilty, regardless of the actual evidence brought against them.

>Late Thursday, news emerged Clinton’s presidential campaign hired writer and political analyst Zerlina Maxwell. Maxwell is intended to help the campaign with its digital outreach efforts on issues like feminism and gender equality.

>But as was pointed out first by Jonah Goldberg of National Review, Maxwell has previously written sexual assault allegations should always be believed, regardless of the evidence, while downplaying any harm that may occur from false accusations.

>Back in 2014, shortly after claims of a gang rape at the University of Virginia started to fall apart, Maxwell authored a column for The Washington Post on the matter. By the time it was published, Jackie Coakley’s claims to have been raped were falling apart, but Maxwell said that didn’t matter:

>Many people (not least U-Va. administrators) will be tempted to see this as a reminder that officials, reporters and the general public should hear both sides of the story and collect all the evidence before coming to a conclusion in rape cases. This is what we mean in America when we say someone is “innocent until proven guilty.” After all, look what happened to the Duke lacrosse players.

>In important ways, this is wrong. ==We should believe, as a matter of default, what an accuser says. Ultimately, the costs of wrongly disbelieving a survivor far outweigh the costs of calling someone a rapist.== Even if Jackie fabricated her account, U-Va. should have taken her word for it during the period while they endeavored to prove or disprove the accusation. This is not a legal argument about what standards we should use in the courts; it’s a moral one, about what happens outside the legal system.

>Maxwell expressed a very carefree attitude about the potentially harmful effects that could result from automatically believing in the guilt of anybody accused of sexual assault.

>“The accused would have a rough period,” she said. “He might be suspended from his job; friends might defriend him on Facebook. In the case of Bill Cosby, we might have to stop watching his shows, consuming his books or buying tickets to his traveling stand-up routine. But false accusations are exceedingly rare, and errors can be undone by an investigation that clears the accused, especially if it is done quickly.”

>Despite Maxwell’s confidence, though, there are ample examples of high-profile rape allegations that have ended up being false.

>Maxwell’s comments are at least somewhat ironic, given Clinton’s own history. Far from believing accusers by default, Clinton sought to “destroy” accusers who came forward in the early 1990s with allegations of sexual harassment against her husband former President Bill Clinton.

>The Clinton campaign did not respond to emails for comment by press time.

Angela Merkel, You Have Killed Germany!

“Please help us!… It is… very hard to live day-to-day as a woman” says 16 year old Bibi Wilhailm, a German girl who has uploaded her personal experiences of Arab and Muslim migrants in a new video that some claim is being censored by Facebook under it’s new “hate speech” guidelines.

The 20 minute video, apparently created by the 16 year old Facebook user Miss Wilhailm, starts with her saying that she is, “so scared everywhere, for example if my family and I go out together, or if I see a movie with my friends. Usually I stay out until 6pm in winter, and it is so scary. It is just very hard to live day-to-day as a woman.”

The girl – who some social media users report has now been banned from Facebook, though others say she has removed herself – then goes on to talk about an incident that happened to her at a local supermarket saying, “I ran all the way home. I was frightened for my life. There’s no other way to describe it.”

She talks about her experiences over summer, when a group of Muslims said that her and her friends were “sluts” for walking outside in t-shirts.

“Yes, we were wearing t-shirts. It’s summer!” She adds: “Another day, I was wearing this. My friend and I purchased it while shopping. If we feel like wearing it, we will wear it! And you Muslims have no right to physically assault or rape us for it! God willing, never in my life. You have no right to attack us because we are wearing t-shirts. You also have no right to rape”.

Miss Wilhailm then turns toward what she sees on social media, describing how she has seen, “a 17 year old attacked, a 15 year old attacked, two 12 year olds attacked, so many,” and questions, “why should we, children, have to grow up in such fear?”

“I cannot understand why they do this. But more importantly, I cannot understand why Germany is doing nothing! Why is Germany standing by, watching, and then doing nothing? Please explain, why. Men of Germany, these people are killing your children, they are killing your women. We need your protection,” she goes on to say adding, “The politicians live alone in their villas, drink their cocktails, and do nothing. They do nothing! I do not know what world they live in, but please, people, please help us! Please, do something!”

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Three Year Old Boy ‘Gang Raped’ at Norway Asylum Centre

A three-year-old migrant has allegedly been raped by multiple people at an asylum centre in the Norwegian city of Stavanger.

Police are investigating the incident amid claims the boy was abused in the shared common area of the asylum centre, possibly within view of many people.

“We have no suspects yet,” police superintendent Bjørn Kåre Dahl told local paper Stavanger Aftenblad.

There are around 800 migrants at the asylum centre, including men, women and children.

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NASA to simulate growing potatoes on Mars in Peru

NASA, the US space agency, is conducting the pioneering experiment together with Lima's International Potato Center (CIP).

They will cultivate a hundred selected varieties already subjected to rigorous evaluation in extreme, Mars-like conditions that could eventually pave the way to building a dome on the Red Planet for farming the vegetable.

The selection was made from a total of 4,500 varieties registered at CIP, a nonprofit research facility that aims to reduce poverty and achieve food security.

Of the selected candidates, 40 are native to the Andes Mountains, conditioned to grow in different ecological zones, withstand sudden climate changes and reproduce in rocky, arid terrain.

The other 60 are genetically modified varieties able to survive with little water and salt. They are also immune to viruses.

Those that pass the tests must meet a final criterion—they must be able not only to grow well on Mars but also reproduce in large quantities.

"We're almost 100 percent certain that many of the selected potatoes will past the tests," said Julio Valdivia Silva, a Peruvian NASA astrobiologist who is taking part in the ambitious project.

The scientists hope the experiment will also help address the earthly scourges of hunger and malnutrition by identifying varieties suited to growing in harsh conditions.

"We must be prepared for the future," said virologist Jan Kreuze, a scientist at CIP. "To respond to desertification, rising temperature and high salt content in the soil."

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GUARANTEED INCOME - SWITZERLAND

Every Swiss adult resident would have the right to guaranteed basic monthly income of 2,500 francs a month, if a proposal to be submitted to voters this summer is accepted.

Swiss to vote on guaranteed income for all

In this small country that has avoided most of the massive immigrant movements they want to provide universal welfare to all citizens.

The initiative, proposed by a group of intellectuals, was one of five subjects approved by the federal government on Wednesday for the ballot box on June 5th.

Switzerland will become the first country in the world to vote on the introduction of unconditional income' at the national level.

But it has not won much support from traditional politicians, even those on the left.

The initiative’s backers say it aims to break the link between employment and income, with people entitled to guaranteed income regardless of whether they work.

Each child would receive 625 francs a month.

The federal government estimates the cost of the proposal at 208 billion francs a year.

Around 153 billion taxes would have to be levied from taxes, while 55 billion francs would be transferred from social insurance and social assistance spending.

The action committee pushing the initiative consists of artists, writers and intellectuals, including publicist Daniel Straub, former federal government spokesman Oswald Sigg and Zurich rapper Franziska Schläpfer (known as “Big Zis”), the SDA news agency reported.

Personalities supporting the bid include writers Adolf Muschg and Ruth Schweikert, philosopher Hans Saner and communications expert Beatrice Tschanz.

The group said a new survey showed that the majority of Swiss residents would continue working if the guaranteed income proposal was approved.

Only two percent would stop working, while eight percent said they could envisage this possibility depending on circumstances.

“The argument of opponents that a guaranteed income would reduce the incentive of people to work is by this is largely contradicted,” the initiative’s committee said in a statement.

However, a third of the 1,076 people interviewed for the survey by the Demoscope Institute believed that “others would stop working”.

And more than half of those surveyed (56 percent) believe the guaranteed income proposal will never see the light of day.

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Remember the 600 billion She said the terror wrought by the natsoc persons needed to be kept alive forever

A Jewish woman born at Auschwitz says all SS guards still alive today must be prosecuted, even if they're in their nineties.'

"Because so much time has passed since then, it's important that the last remaining survivors speak out," Orosz told AFP from Montreal, Canada, where she now lives.

"I'm probably the youngest of them, but for me it's a duty to keep the memory alive."

Orosz's birth in Auschwitz was nothing short of a miracle, given the abuse that her mother suffered in the camp in occupied Poland. To her knowledge, she was one of two babies born in Auschwitz who survived

Her parents had wedded in 1943 but the natsoc persons invaded Hungary a year later, and forced them onto a train car for cattle.

Her mother was already pregnant when they arrived in Auschwitz in May 1944 and were both put to hard labour.

Her father died of exhaustion, while her mother was so undernourished that the pregnancy did not show even in the seventh month.

She was also subjected to notorious camp doctor Josef Mengele's gruesome experiments, including a sterilisation procedure that entailed inserting a burning substance into her cervix. All the while during the torture, Orosz was in her uterus.

Orosz only returned to Auschwitz for the first time last year, convinced by her stepbrother.

"I was hesitating, because my mother had always said to me, if you don't have any memories, don't get any. But I thought about it for a long time, and in the end I (summoned) the courage," she said, adding that one of her two grown children accompanied her.

"It was tough to be there. At the same time, I and many other survivors wanted to show the world that we survived, that Hitler did

She dismissed any talk that low-ranking SS officers were simply following orders, calling that "a lie".

"They knew that children, men and women were murdered when arriving in Auschwitz. They smelled the… burning human flesh coming from the crematoria.

If they were there, they were part of this mass murder."

That many of the defendants are now well into their 90s is not an issue, Orosz said.

"The crimes that were committed at Auschwitz are so unspeakable that we can't just stop and say it's too late now," she said.

She said the terror wrought by the natsoc persons needed to be kept alive in human memory.

"It seems the world is very forgetful, and when I hear that anti-Semitism and extremism is rising again in Europe, I become angry. But at the same time I become convinced that these trials must be held."

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Brazillian doctors: Zika babies have "a very severe form of microcephaly"

>Dobyns has spent 30 years researching and treating microcephaly, a condition defined by abnormally small heads in newborns that can lead to developmental disabilities, from mild to severe. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has sought out his expertise in understanding the unfolding epidemic.

>With a small group of geneticists and other microcephaly specialists, he recently reviewed scans of a handful of babies sent by a colleague in Brazil. All the experts were struck by the scale of malformations, he said.

"These children have a very severe form of microcephaly," Dobyns said. "The brain is not just small, it's small with malformations of the cerebral cortex and calcifications. It has the appearance of a very severe, destructive injury to the brain."

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Encryption isn’t at stake, the FBI knows Apple already has the desired key

"Apple has been served with a court order at the FBI's request, demanding that it assist the government agency with unlocking an iPhone 5C that was used by Syed Rizwan Farook. Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, killed 14 and injured 24 in an attack in San Bernardino, California on December 2, 2015.

In response, Apple CEO Tim Cook said that the FBI was demanding the equivalent of a backdoor and that complying with the FBI's demand would undermine the security of all iPhones.

Whether you call it a "backdoor" or not, it's important to recognize that the ordered changes to the iPhone operating system would not circumvent the core of the iPhone's encryption. The court isn't asking Apple to defeat the encryption in any way. Nor does the court require Apple to create a vulnerability that would jeopardize the security of any other phone. Rather, it's asking Apple to do the one thing that Apple alone can do: use the iPhone's built-in method of installing firmware written by Apple.

The FBI wants to search the iPhone 5C and has been granted permission to do so by the device's owner, the San Bernardino County Department of Public Health (Farook's employer). To perform this search, the FBI needs the device's PIN. Without it, the government has no way of decrypting the iPhone's storage and hence no way of examining any data stored on the device."

Apple get off you high horse and stop faking you care about your customers, you have already admitted there is a backdoor just remove it and this will be over.

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COLLAPSING: Two-Thirds Of US Shale Rigs Shut Down

American shale drillers have closed two-thirds of all the country’s oil rigs; TASS quotes the head of France’s Total Patrick Pouyanne.

"Since March 2015 we are witnessing a decline in oil shale output in the United States, which has been reduced by 500,000 barrels per day. We don’t know how fast it will fall but we know that two-thirds of drilling rigs is no more working there," Pouyanne said on Thursday at the International Petroleum Week forum.

Oversupply of oil on the global market amounts to two percent according to Pouyanne, and the price of it is now impossible to predict.

"The price of oil is unstable right now; it can stand at $40 a barrel today and reach $80 a barrel tomorrow…," said Total’s CEO.

The price of shale oil on the US market has fallen by two-thirds while production by 15 percent, according to the head of Russia’s Rosneft Igor Sechin. “Shale oil production in the United States will decline in the long-term and reach bottom by 2020,” Sechin said.

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Campus Crime Alerts Now Come with Trigger Warnings

Preventing offense is more important than promoting safety.

If the purpose of a campus crime alert is to warn students about a dangerous person or situation, and the purpose of a trigger warning is to deter students from consuming information that might bother them—well, aren’t the two things in conflict?

And yet, the University of Iowa saw fit to add a trigger warning to a campus-wide email about a sexual deviant on the loose. Do administrators want to protect students’ bodies or their feelings?

According to The Daily Iowan, a man was spotted trying to videotape a female student while she took a shower in a dormitory bathroom. A police officer fought the man, but he escaped. The university’s public safety department then sent out an alert prefaced by the following disclaimer, according to The College Fix:

Trigger Warning: This warning addresses a report of sexual misconduct. Resources are available on and off campus to provide assistance. Contact RVAP for 24/7 support at (319) 335-6000 or at http://rvap.uiowa.edu/.

What followed was a description of the incident and instructions to students to contact the authorities if they had any information about the perpetrator. But if officials actually wanted students—victims of sexual misconduct, in particular—to be aware of the potential threat, they shouldn’t have warned them not to read it. As The Tab’s Matt McDonald wrote:

If there was a miscreant with an iPhone skulking around my campus trying to perve on unsuspecting freshmen, I’d want to know about it. I’d want to know my campus police force are working to keep me physically safe – not warning me off important information for fear of offending me.

If an email about an active investigation is important enough to send to a whole college, don’t send it wrapped in cotton wool. If people need to know, tell them.

Quite right. Do administrators want safe spaces for their students, or do they want them to actually be safe?

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PSYOP

Icelanders Use Facebook to Open Door to Refugees

Responding to a growing international crisis, thousands of Iceland’s residents have taken to social media to put pressure on their government to take in more migrants.

The island nation has already said it will take in 50 migrants, but officials said on Tuesday that the country would consider raising that number.

A newly formed Facebook group, Syria is Calling, which has more than 13,000 members, is urging the government to take in 5,000.

“The idea is to show the government that there exists a will to receive even more refugees from Syria than the 50 that have already been discussed. We want to push the government — show them that we can do better, and do so immediately!” a group post said in English and Icelandic.

The group said some of its members have offered to open their houses to migrants and others have volunteered to donate money, clothes, furniture and other items, or to help the new arrivals assimilate.

The Facebook page also said: “Refugees are our future spouses, best friends, our next soul mate, the drummer in our children’s band, our next colleague, Miss Iceland 2022, the carpenter who finally fixes our bathroom, the chef in the cafeteria, the fireman, the hacker and the television host. People who we’ll never be able to say to: ‘Your life is worth less than mine.’

Reporter’s Notebook Traveling in Europe’s River of Migrants

Thousands of migrants and refugees are desperately pushing their way into Europe. A team of New York Times journalists is documenting the journey.

“Open the gates.”

The group said it would present the ideas to the country’s welfare minister “to show the government that there exists a will to receive even more refugees from Syria.”

One of the group’s hosts, the writer Bryndis Bjorgvinsdottir, said that she would pay for the flights of five Syrians, and that she knows a man who could house them.

Thousands of migrants, many of them from the Middle East and North Africa, are escaping war and strife in their homelands, with some of them taking a perilous journey across the sea in an effort to reach safe harbor in Europe.

Iceland, which has a population of 320,000, was hard hit by the financial crisis seven years ago, but there have been recent signs that its economy is improving, with tourism booming and 4.1 percent growth in the gross domestic product predicted for this year.

On Tuesday, Prime Minister Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson said a special council of ministers would assess how many migrants could be taken in, Reuters reported.

Iceland Review quoted Eyglo Hardardottir, the social affairs minister, as saying in a televised interview that there were plans for municipalities to estimate how many refugees they would be able to accept.

Responding to concerns that an influx might strain Iceland’s resources, Ms. Hardardottir said migrants have historically paid taxes and contributed to society.

“We are one of the richest nations in the world, and we can accept many more than we have been accepting in the past,” she said.

The Syria is Calling Facebook page mentioned that the country’s people banded together to help in 1973, when 4,000 people fled to Iceland from a volcanic eruption in the Westman Islands off Iceland’s southern coast.

In the current refugee crisis, some citizens have offered rooms in their homes, or suggested housing migrants in a former army base.

“It is evident that it is immoral to have it standing empty while people are dying,” one Icelander, Oli Gneisti Soleyjarson, wrote in a Facebook comment.

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BASED RUSSIA - Group of migrants assaulted after groping and molesting women.

CYKA BLAT

http://dailycaller.com/2016/02/04/refugees-go-clubbing-in-russia-harass-girls-wake-up-in-hospital-the-next-morning/

"A group of 51 refugees were brutally assaulted outside a night club in Murmansk, Russia, after they groped and molested women at a night club Saturday.

The refugees had previously been ordered to leave Norway for “bad behavior” and tried their luck in Russia. What they didn’t realize when they went out clubbing in Murmansk is that Russians have less tolerance when it comes to sexual assault on local women than other European countries."

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Bombing in Turkish capital kills at least 29, injures over 60

Eighteen people were killed and 45 injured by an explosion in the administrative heart of Turkey's capital Ankara on Wednesday, an interior ministry official told Reuters.

A vehicle laden with explosives detonated as military buses passed near the armed forces' headquarters, parliament and government buildings during the height of evening rush hour, an attack the Turkish military said was an act of terrorism.

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Could this be the false flag to justify a full-blown Turkish invasion of Syria?

European values - Challenges of Migration

The challenges of migration: upholding fundamental European values

'The migration crisis is forcing us all to have the courage of our convictions. We have to stand together to uphold our values, also in difficult times. Europeans and newcomers must respect and embrace European values,’ says foreign minister Bert Koenders. He will be speaking at a Presidency seminar on European values convened by the Netherlands in Strasbourg on Tuesday 2 February.

Programma van het Nederlandse voorzitterschap van de Raad van de Europese Unie

Freedom and hospitality

The refugee crisis is asking us Europeans how we can combine openness and freedom with hospitality. People who seek refuge here have a right to expect their fundamental rights to be safe. But we can also expect them to embrace our European values. How tolerant must or may recipient countries be?

An open and frank discussion is more urgent than ever before. The Netherlands is organising the seminar for more than 100 representatives of the EU member states, institutions and organisations, and civil society organisations. They will debate how institutions, public authorities, societies and migrants can together shoulder responsibility for our common European values.

Mr Koenders’ opening statement at the conference will be followed by a key note speech by the Secretary-General of the Council of Europe, Thorbjørn Jagland. The Italian State Secretary, Sandro Gozi, will be taking part in the discussion and panel discussions will be held with the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Nils Muižnieks, and the Director of the EU Fundamental Rights Agency, Michael O' Flaherty. The Netherlands will be represented by the Mayor of Rotterdam, Ahmed Aboutaleb, publicist Paul Scheffer and others. Mr Koenders will also represent the Council of the European Union in debates in the European Parliament on Tuesday evening and Wednesday.

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Hellish Nightmare May Be Unleashed Upon Millions Of Americans At Any Time

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After learning of North Korea's recent successful rocket launch that put their newest satellite into orbit, we decided to take a look at the SATFLARE.com satellite tracking website to see where satellite KMS-4 was going, especially considering a Department of Defense COMEX drill that will be going on Friday, February 12th nationwide and will simulate an EMP attack upon America. While some say America has nothing to worry about over an EMP, this launch concerned the UN Security Council enough that they held recently held an emergency meeting on the North Korean launch.

Seeing that North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un recently threatened to rain hell fire upon the US and 'wipe out America all at once', we weren't surprised at all to see that KMS-4 passes directly over the US several times every day as seen in the screenshots in this story. Keep in mind that these screenshots only show a few of the satellite's passings over America today and Friday the 12th of February, the day of the nationwide DOD COMEX drill simulating an EMP or other widespread electrical and communications outage in America.

Flying at approximately 315 miles, reportedly the ideal height to unleash an EMP attack, KMS-4 could spell the end of much of what we now know as America if it were to be carrying a nuclear weapon capable of producing an electromagnetic pulse attack upon America and the North Korean dictator decided to commit national suicide for his country. While such an attack would deservedly be met with a nuclear response upon his nation, it would still provide a crippling blow to the US that could easily wipe out 90% of the US population within a year to 18 months afterwards and literally send us back to the dark ages.

Researchers believe that as many as 90% of Americans are totally unprepared for an EMP attack and if recent evidence which found that most Americans can't handle a $500 emergency and have less than 3 days worth of food in supply are any indication, if Jong-Un becomes suicidal, the large majority of Americans are in deep trouble including most preppers, who might otherwise be the last ones standing, once the nuclear power plants melt down.

As we learn in the 1st video below featuring Mike Adams from Natural News, North Korea can now nuke the US, any time it wants…day or night. While we agree that any such act against us should be met with unimaginable and overwhelmingly devastating force, it would likely be too late as an EMP attack would forever change America and begin a hellish nightmare in this country for hundreds of millions of people unlike anything that we have ever known before. Most people likely wouldn't even know an EMP had struck and their lives were about to change forever until it was too late.

Lest we forget, an EMP attack would not only take out the electrical grid but with it the total infrastructure that keeps America moving from one day to the next. Transportation, our banking system, our hospitals, our food and supply structure, communications and everything that most Americans take for granted day to day would be gone in one fell swoop and there would be nothing at all that 300 million+ people could do to prevent it.

With KMS-4 flying over America over and over and over again, day after day after day, we pray that our own military has their eyes on the skies and is ready to take immediate action to make sure that a petty dictator isn't able to knock America down for the count. All they need is one successful attack upon America and they could literally wipe out the nation. As Mike Adams tells us in the 1st video below, this is a red alert…North Korean can now nuke the United States.

As Adams also tells us , there's a huge difference between North Korea and the US with many of the North Korean people living without such 'luxuries' as electricity already. America, on the other hand, is nearly completely dependent upon it and without it, our nation would begin breaking down within one day.

Going without electricity for an extended period of time, 3 days or more, and all hell begins to break loose as those who are totally unprepared are no longer able to get food, clean water and other necessities. If Americans KNOW that the power won't be coming back on for several months or more, up to a year, there is nothing at all that could be able to prevent all hell from breaking loose as looting, riots, mass starvation and war in the streets become the 'new normal' in America. According to many experts, America is totally unprepared.

Europe still Europe? Immigration

While millions of Muslims come for the free goods…

Internationalist politicians don't want anyone to have a strong identity, they don't want plebs to know family, they don't want any meaningful traditions to be practiced.

Politicians laugh how they are guaranteed income as parasites. The commoners fight amongst each other on a myriad of fronts while the bankers, corporations, politicians all eat luxury.

They will tell you to stop being racist, to vote harder, to stop being sexist while millions of muslims come for the free goods.

You'll think you have a new leader that cares about you, and as long as you act this slave role your new leader will always be just ready to fix everything but never able nor willing to help you. So long as you look above and around you for solutions instead of with your own mind and two hands, you will remain in this nightmare world.

http://youtu.be/tXMkcZBvq7U

So long as you look above and around you for solutions instead of with your own mind and two hands, you will remain in this nightmare world.

Destroying USA military honor and discipline

If you were raised to despise the US military as a source or repression and injustice, and then, say, happened to get elected as its Commander-in-Chief – what would you do? As Bill Whittle shows in his latest FIREWALL, you don't need to destroy the weapons and you don't even need to fire the warriors. There's another way…

The American Military is the best. Each branch and each soldier is the best trained. Or was……

Money can buy weapons and ammunition.

Discipline and integrity from each soldier is what keeps them fighting our enemies instead of simply obeying all orders by the commander in chief.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DS2wXSKF5k

The Polish government on Monday approved new payouts designed to encourage families to have more children.

Giving families handouts of PLN 500 a month - a move aimed at counteracting Poland’s demographic problems - was a key pledge by the Law and Justice (PiS) party ahead of the country’s 25 October general election.

Law and Justice, which positioned itself as a champion of working people, won a landslide victory in the ballot.

"Support for families is the top priority for my government […] today I can say that I have kept my word," Prime Minister Beata Szydło told a press conference in parliament on Monday.

"A child is the best form of investment in the future. ;;;This is not a cost, it’s an investment,;;;” she added.

With its “500+” programme, the new PiS government aims to ease the burdens of child-rearing by giving families with two or more children a handout of PLN 500 (USD 123, EUR 113) a month per child.

Poorer families will receive the allowance even if they have just one child. The government wants the benefits, which will cost it some PLN 17 billion this year, to kick in from April.

The programme has attracted controversy, with some arguing that richer families should not claim the new allowance, even though they will be entitled to do so.

Poland also has a total ban on abortion, no exceptions.

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=Germany - Catholic church says too many refugees==

The German Catholic Church called for a reduction in the influx of refugees arriving in Germany, saying the country cannot take in "all the world's needy," according to an interview published on Saturday.

Germany has been struggling to cope with 1.8 million asylum seekers that arrived in 2015 and Berlin has not yet given an official estimate for how many it expects this year.


"As a church we say that we need a reduction in the number of refugees," Cardinal Reinhard Marx, chairman of the German Bishops' Conference, told the Passauer Neue Presse daily.


Germany cannot "take in all the world's needy," Marx added.


The question of how to respond to the migrant crisis, he asserted, should not solely be a matter of "charity but also reason."


However, Marx also expressed concern at a rise in xenophobia in Germany amid the worst refugee crisis that Europe has known since World War II.


A recent example came when Germany's eurosceptic right-wing populist AfD party suggested last week that police "if need be" should threaten to shoot migrants seeking to enter the country.


Border police "should be able if need be to have recourse to their firearms – as laid down by law," said party chairwoman Frauke Petry.


This type of speech is "unacceptable," said Marx, adding "Sadly there has always been a certain potential for right-wing extremism and racism in Germany."…


"This ideology has evidently been further consolidated," he said, lamenting that the belittling of foreigners had "reached the upper classes."


Anti-Islamic group Pegida, which began as a movement in Germany in mid-2014 and has since spread to France and other European countries, called on members and sympathisers from across Europe to march Saturday under the anti-migrant banner of "Fortress Europe".

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Tradition is the foundation of culture

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Catholicism : Fight for your people or be the last generation

The reason foreigners can not into local culture.

It is not for lack of trying but for lack of knowing.

They will never understand our hard won truths. The blood t'was poured. They won't recognize our heroes.

Or understand what they fought for. They are not like our people. Not in thought, taste, or desire.

They do not enjoy what we hath. They will not enjoy what we shall.

We can not live together in a multiculti society.

We can only live in a diverse world when each group of people is left to their own sovereignty.

Catholicism is about a strong Europe enriched by European diversity, not "diversity" of foreigners.

Hungary - the beautiful - the free

Speaking in Sofia, Mr. Orban said the migrant crisis had moved beyond concerns of alien cultures invading Europe, but had developed into a simple matter of security. He said: “It is not about our culture any-more, it is not only about our culture, money ,or about our social welfare system. It is about everyday safety.

“The threat of terrorism is increasing and public safety is deteriorating.

The time for their joining the Schengen zone, which is a legal obligation according to European Union decree may have passed anyway, said. Mr. Orban. He said it was unlikely the country would be “willing to accept an offer of membership in a dying institution” anyway, reports Hungary Today.

During his stay in Bulgaria Mr. Orban was given a gift by the Bulgarian government to show their esteem for the Hungarian leader, and his deft handling of the migrant crisis. The hand-painted Eastern Orthodox icon gifted depicted Czar Tervel of the Bulgars, who was named the “Saviour of Europe” by the Byzantine Emperor Leo III.

Tervel came to the aid of the Empire and played a decisive role in defeating the Muslim Arab forces, outflanking the invading army and attacking their encampments during the siege of Constantinople in 717 AD.

Mr. Orban tweeted his thanks to the people of Bulgaria for his welcome reception in their country and the gift, reports Focus.

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Western "democracies" are jealous of Hungary's illiberal democracy where people can criticize government policy if they wish and not be arrested. That is a far cry from Western "democracy" where people are arrested or blacklisted for criticizing their government's immigration and racist population replacement policies.

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Hungary Revealing Power

A Hungarian academic just went on TV in the wake of the Cologne attacks and said that race war is coming to Europe, and went so far as to mention a “globalist” (read: Jew) war against the White Man.

'''Zsolt Bayer, Hungarian journalist, publicist, and co-founder of Hungary’s currently ruling political party, and Dr. László Bogár, former politician and leading economist, discuss the Cologne sexual assualts committed by migrants on New Year’s Eve, 2016.

This short part of the 60-minute long television program that aired on Echo TV on January 8, 2016, is of a rant by Mr. Bogár warning of WWIII and the background powers inciting the whole thing.'''

The Daily Stormer was accused of mad extremism when it debuted. As it turns out, we were just about three years ahead of the curve. In 2016, everything that you’ve been reading here for the last two and a half years will be headline news.

We have entered the age of the race war.

Whatever happens, brothers, remember this: we shall be victorious.

It is our divine right.

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WHEREWHITEPEOPLEMEET - Dating site criticized for being supremacist

The man who launched a dating website dedicated to helping white people meet each other in a state that is almost entirely white now says the website isn’t racially motivated.

Sam Russell founded WhereWhitePeopleMeet.com, in Utah — a state that is more than 90 percent white, according to U.S. Census statistics. The Bountiful man said he got the idea while home sick, watching daytime TV.

“It’s not racially motivated at all,” he told the Salt Lake Tribune on Monday.

He said the idea came from other dating websites that help people from other groups meet each other, like BlackPeopleMeet.com, FarmersOnly.com, LDSSingles.com, Christianmingle.com, OurTime.com, et cetera.

“I was bombarded with dating sites for every walk of life, and I thought in my own mind, ‘Why can’t there be a website for where white people can meet?’ ” he told the paper.==

But as Salt Lake City College inclusivity ambassador Matthew Wong pointed out, those websites usually target minorities or people with specific interests or characteristics that make it more difficult to meet potential dates who are from their communities or share their hobbies or lifestyles.

“Why does the majority need help finding the majority?” Wong wondered

“How can they need more help finding white people? If this was for a very small demographic of very introverted white people who have trouble meeting white people, I wouldn’t have a problem with that. But it doesn’t sound like it’s geared toward that specific demographic; it sounds like it’s geared toward Caucasian people in general.”

Wong noted that a lot of dating websites are already majority-white and it’s hard for many people of non-white backgrounds to find dates as a result, which creates the need for sites that help them find each other.

“Unless you’re an Asian female, it’s hard as a person of color to get any response on a dating website,” he told the Tribune.

Some defending the website have said the website stands up to the “white genocide” agenda, according to the Tribune. The notion of “white genocide” is a fear-mongering tactic used by white supremacists alleging that an organized effort is afoot to end the existence of white people.

This sentiment can be seen on the website’s Facebook account. In response to a comment that it’s hard for white people to meet each other, one woman responded:

“It’s the same thing that keeps us from having White Entertainment Television…from having White American Scholarships…White only magazines, etc. It’s because of the ever elusive yet ever sneaky narrative by leftists agenda.

Another noted that the site does not allow LGBT people to participate by forcing users to choose the opposite sex when searching for potential dates.

Others were even less sparing. In response to a post of website downtime between 1 a.m. and-2 a.m. MST, one man posted, “Ah I guess the neo natsoc person cocktail hour is from 1-2 am. MST.”

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Anti-Islam groups rally across Europe

Several thousand Pegida supporters turned up in Dresden under clear blue skies in the early afternoon to march along the banks of the River Elbe, which flows through the city, to protest against mass immigration and the "islamisation" of Europe.

Absent was Lutz Bachmann, the movement's founder, owing to illness, organisers said.

Police, who deployed around 1,000 officers for the occasion, said Thursday they expected some 15,000 marchers to show up.

An AFP reporter said several thousand had answered the rallying call an hour after the event began at 1400 GMT.

Many held aloft banners criticising German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who is in the firing line for her liberal stance towards refugees, now increasingly coming in for criticism after Germany took in more than a million migrants last year.

Around 2,000 people – less than the 10,000 expected by police – meanwhile joined an anti-Pegida rally at which participants urged tolerance towards migrants.

Anti-Pegida marchers chanted slogans including "no place for natsoc persons" and "we don't need xenophobia, demagoguery or Pegida."

Pegida supporters counter that they are "European patriots against the islamisation of the west."

On January 23rd, they issued a call for supporters to march in 14 European cities.

The Calais march brought some about 20 arrests, local authorities said, and police responded with tear gas after scuffles broke out. Another rally in the southern city of Montpellier drew barely 200 people by mid-afternoon.

- 'Refugees welcome' -

In Prague, however, 5,000 people joined a rally organised by two far right groups, an AFP journalist said. Police arrested four people, a spokesperson said, without giving an estimate of the number at the demo which also attracted a counter rally.

In Dublin, scuffles broke out between people who had gathered to protest against the launch of Pegida in Ireland, and those who attended the launch of the group.

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Islam is the farthest thing from any type of left

Look at these migrants forcing their cultural religion onto others.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQG1_JW-3vU

How can any type of left prosper in this atmosphere?

They consider women second class. Not in the European fashion of stay at home the world is dangerous but in the way that women are literally considered the playtoys of men. How else is polygamy so ingrained in their culture?

They don't consider individualism a thing either. If you are leaving Islam MOST moderate muslims think death is a valid punishment for doing so. Over 55% according to large randomized surveys.

How long will the left deny that immigration sets back their own agenda in every way? Unless of course your only definition of being left is being against all modern civilization, largely influenced by European values, then… well then Islam is an ally of the left. But the left will be erased along with every other remnant of anything European.

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Identity politics is stupid, but that is all you will have with massive immigrants.

German mayor says 10-year-olds shouldn’t ‘provoke’ sex attacks by migrants 'This is just the way it is.'

A MAYOR in a small German town says primary school-aged girls should not “provoke” migrants to avoid being sexually assaulted.

The comments came last week at a city council meeting in the eastern town of Bad Schlema, which has a population of 5500, with about 100 locals showed up to raise concerns about the town’s 85 refugees.

The grandfather of a schoolgirl, aged “under 10”, asked Bad Schlema’s mayor, Jens Muller, what his plans were to prevent sexual assaults on children, who had already been harassed by newly arrived migrants on their way to school.

The grandfather said parents were particularly concerned about what would happen as the weather gets warmer and the girls wear less clothing.

"" "That’s easy,” Mr Muller said. “Just don’t provoke them and don’t walk in these areas.” ""

The comments immediately caused uproar, with furious residents yelling: “In your own country! You can’t even walk in your own city anymore!

Another said sarcastically, “Yeah, let’s all keep one metre distance. So easy!

In response, the mayor said: “Well, it’s technically not necessary for the girls to walk there. There are alternative routes for going to school. This is just the way it is.

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video for proof: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdSsJQ-fvOU

prime Cuck Minister gets Military bases to Become free bed and breakfasts

Yesterday we broke the news that the Liberals have ordered the Department of National Defence to draft plans to house 6,000 Syrian migrants on Canadian military bases.

These plans involve turning these bases into long-term Muslim refugee camps complete with Korans, prayer rugs and mosques.

I've since received e-mails from Canadian Armed Forces personnel confirming what I had reported, and telling me details about the mosque being prepared on site.

Because of that exclusive investigative report, more than 100,000 people came to TheRebel.media website yesterday alone. The story's been picked up around the world, from London to New York to Washington.

But Canadian media has ignored it.

This causes me great despair.

To me it’s a sign of a congenital weakness in our democracy and our media. I suppose I should rejoice and say, well, we’ll have the entire market for ourselves. That’s why we’re getting record traffic: 18 million minutes of video watched in the past 28 days.

This tells me that Canadians are desperate for the other side of the story.

And it makes me think:

What dozen or hundred other news stories have I missed, because my moral and intellectual superiors in the media and political class didn’t want me to know about them?

NEXT: Long time immigration lawyer Guidy Mamann explains why he's skeptical of Trudeau's idea of an immigration policy overhaul, including relaxing language requirements.

As well, he's just back from testifying before the U.S. Senate about Canada's refugee policy and the security issues it raises for America.

Mamann has been a lifelong advocate for refugees, so his thoughtful, measured insights are valuable for all of us to hear.

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millions of science papers and almost infinite knowledge for free at the tips of your fingers

http://sci-hub.io/

A researcher in Russia has made more than 48 million journal articles - almost every single peer-reviewed paper every published - freely available online. And she's now refusing to shut the site down, despite a court injunction and a lawsuit from Elsevier, one of the world's biggest publishers.

For those of you who aren't already using it, the site in question is Sci-Hub, and it's sort of like a Pirate Bay of the science world. It was established in 2011 by neuroscientist Alexandra Elbakyan, who was frustrated that she couldn't afford to access the articles needed for her research, and it's since gone viral, with hundreds of thousands of papers being downloaded daily. But at the end of last year, the site was ordered to be taken down by a New York district court - a ruling that Elbakyan has decided to fight, triggering a debate over who really owns science.

"Payment of $32 is just insane when you need to skim or read tens or hundreds of these papers to do research. I obtained these papers by pirating them," Elbakyan told Torrent Freak last year. "Everyone should have access to knowledge regardless of their income or affiliation. And that’s absolutely legal."

journal subscriptions have become so expensive that leading universities such as Harvard and Cornell have admitted they can no longer afford them. Researchers have also taken a stand - with 15,000 scientists vowing to boycott publisher Elsevier in part for its excessive paywall fees.

"They feel pressured to do this," Elbakyan wrote in an open letter to the New York judge last year. "If a researcher wants to be recognised, make a career - he or she needs to have publications in such journals."

The site works in two stages. First of all when you search for a paper, Sci-Hub tries to immediately download it from fellow pirate database LibGen. If that doesn't work, Sci-Hub is able to bypass journal paywalls thanks to a range of access keys that have been donated by anonymous academics (thank you, science spies).

This means that Sci-Hub can instantly access any paper published by the big guys, including JSTOR, Springer, Sage, and Elsevier, and deliver it to you for free within seconds. The site then automatically sends a copy of that paper to LibGen, to help share the love.

Last year, a New York court delivered an injunction against Sci-Hub, making its domain unavailable (something Elbakyan dodged by switching to a new location), and the site is also being sued by Elsevier for "irreparable harm" - a case that experts are predicting will win Elsevier around $750 to $150,000 for each pirated article. Even at the lowest estimations, that would quickly add up to millions in damages.

But Elbakyan is not only standing her ground, she's come out swinging, claiming that it's Elsevier that have the illegal business model.

"I think Elsevier’s business model is itself illegal," she told Torrent Freak, referring to article 27 of the UN Declaration of Human Rights, which states that "everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits".

She also explains that the academic publishing situation is different to the music or film industry, where pirating is ripping off creators. "All papers on their website are written by researchers, and researchers do not receive money from what Elsevier collects. That is very different from the music or movie industry, where creators receive money from each copy sold," she said.

Elbakyan hopes that the lawsuit will set a precedent, and make it very clear to the scientific world either way who owns their ideas.

"If Elsevier manages to shut down our projects or force them into the darknet, that will demonstrate an important idea: that the public does not have the right to knowledge," she said. "We have to win over Elsevier and other publishers and show that what these commercial companies are doing is fundamentally wrong."

To be fair, Elbakyan is somewhat protected by the fact that she's in Russia and doesn't have any US assets, so even if Elsevier wins their lawsuit, it's going to be pretty hard for them to get the money.

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Formerly White communities are now genocidal assimilation chambers for White genocide

Global governmental policies make it difficult for Whites to leave and make it easy for everyone else to enter. What was once our habitat has now become a trap: a genocidal assimilation chamber. The paradox is that the same people who deny the existence of genocidal assimilation chambers also support White genocide.

Global governmental policies make it difficult for Whites to leave and make it easy for everyone else to enter. What was once our habitat has now become a trap: a genocidal assimilation chamber. The paradox is that the same people who deny the existence of genocidal assimilation chambers also support White genocide.

Support candidates who have not denied White genocide and promise to take actions that will slow it down.

Donald Trump’s “Stop White Genocide Wall” shouts, “WHITE SELF-HATRED IS SICK!!!”

Those who welcome White Genocide say they’re anti-racist. What they are is anti-White.

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WHEREWHITEPEOPLEMEET - Dating site criticized for being supremacist (???)

The man who launched a dating website dedicated to helping white people meet each other in a state that is almost entirely white now says the website isn’t racially motivated.

Sam Russell founded WhereWhitePeopleMeet.com, in Utah — a state that is more than 90 percent white, according to U.S. Census statistics. The Bountiful man said he got the idea while home sick, watching daytime TV.

“It’s not racially motivated at all,” he told the Salt Lake Tribune on Monday

He said the idea came from other dating websites that help people from other groups meet each other, like BlackPeopleMeet.com, FarmersOnly.com, LDSSingles.com, Christianmingle.com, OurTime.com, et cetera.

“I was bombarded with dating sites for every walk of life, and I thought in my own mind, ‘Why can’t there be a website for where white people can meet?’ ” he told the paper.

But as Salt Lake City College inclusivity ambassador Matthew Wong pointed out, those websites usually target minorities or people with specific interests or characteristics that make it more difficult to meet potential dates who are from their communities or share their hobbies or lifestyles.

“Why does the majority need help finding the majority?” Wong wondered

“How can they need more help finding white people? If this was for a very small demographic of very introverted white people who have trouble meeting white people, I wouldn’t have a problem with that. But it doesn’t sound like it’s geared toward that specific demographic; it sounds like it’s geared toward Caucasian people in general.”

Wong noted that a lot of dating websites are already majority-white and it’s hard for many people of non-white backgrounds to find dates as a result, which creates the need for sites that help them find each other.

“Unless you’re an Asian female, it’s hard as a person of color to get any response on a dating website,” he told the Tribune.

Some defending the website have said the website stands up to the “white genocide” agenda, according to the Tribune. The notion of “white genocide” is a fear-mongering tactic used by white supremacists alleging that an organized effort is afoot to end the existence of white people.

This sentiment can be seen on the website’s Facebook account. In response to a comment that it’s hard for white people to meet each other, one woman responded:

“It’s the same thing that keeps us from having White Entertainment Television…from having White American Scholarships…White only magazines, etc. It’s because of the ever elusive yet ever sneaky narrative by leftists agenda.

Another noted that the site does not allow LGBT people to participate by forcing users to choose the opposite sex when searching for potential dates.

Others were even less sparing. In response to a post of website downtime between 1 a.m. and-2 a.m. MST, one man posted, “Ah I guess the neo natsoc person cocktail hour is from 1-2 am. MST.”

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Hindu Designated Extremism

An inquiry into the 2008 massacre of nearly 100 Christians in Orissa, India, has concluded its investigation and is set to publish its findings amid reports that Hindu extremism is rising again.

Fides News Agency said that the detailed report of the investigation, which looks into the worst anti-Christian violence in India's history, will be published in December.

Judge A.S. Naidu, head of the Commission of Inquiry, explained that "because of the lack of cooperation of many stakeholders, including the government, it took almost seven years to finish the investigation."

The Commission investigated the sequence of events on Aug. 23-31, 2008, which sparked a wave of attacks on Christians in Orissa, leaving almost 100 believers dead, 56,000 people homeless, and 300 churches and 6,000 homes raided and looted.

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Beef ban hits Tamil Nadu's leather exports - slump 10%

Falling demand in key export markets like EU and lower availability of hide and skin due to the beef ban in Maharashtra has hit the leather industry hard with exports falling by more than 10% in the first eight months of 2015-16, according to latest data. A significant part of the impact has been felt by tanneries across Tamil Nadu, the country's largest leather-exporting state.

The dip in exports has coincided with the strengthening of the dollar which should have ideally given manufacturers an edge in pricing. Though the dollar is at `67 compared to `61 in November 2014, leather manufacturers have been unable to take advantage and increase exports in value terms.

Exports fell 10.14% year-on-year (y-o-y) to $4.05 billion between April and November 2015, according to figures from the Council for Leather Exports (CLE), the apex body for the leather industry in the country.

The reduction is more pronounced -at more than 22% – in categories such as finished leather and footwear components owing to the manufacturing slowdown in China and Europe, which are key markets, CLE chairman Rafeeque Ahmed says. All categories in the export basket have seen 5%-plus reduction in exports, CLE data reveals.

The industry is also increasing imports due to shortage of hides and skins, triggered partly by the beef ban late last year. "There is a 5%-6% decline in domestic supply following the reduction in cattle slaughter in the country and beef ban in Maharashtra contributed to the fall in domestic supply of raw material," Ahmed said. Industry sources nearly 40% of raw material are from Maharashtra. The raw material shortage had to be compensated by increasing imports.

Overall, merchandise exports from the country fell for the 13th successive month in December as orders from the US and Europe, the largest markets for exports, shrank amidst competition from China which has seen sharp depreciation of its currency . India's overall exports are projected to decline 13% y-o-y to $270 billion in 2015-16.

Garment exports from Tirupur, the largest knitwear production cluster in the country , would see only moderate growth of 10% in 2015-16, industry officials say .

Export of leather goods has come down by 10%-30%, say industry officials, with leather garments taking a bigger hit.

Depressed demand in Europe has hit exports hard, says Naresh Bhasin, managing director, Ram Fashion Exports."We have seen close to 30% reduction in the export of leather garments owing to fewer orders. People are moving to non-leather jackets," he says.

Mahesh Tuli, who exports leather garments valued at nearly $22 million every year, is seeing a 5% reduction in shipments. His exports to Russia have reduced significantly and he attributes it to the devaluation of the rouble, the Russian currency .

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India - Adults urged to vaccinate

Vaccines are not just for children. For long, doctors, particularly in the private sector, have recommend that adults get a dose of a wide range of shots including those for flu, typhoid, hepatitis, and pneumonia.

Soon, they will add a new vaccine for shingles, or herpes zoster, that will be available in drug stores across India early next month.

In the past five years, there have been at least three new vaccines — one for Japanese encephalitis, a modified version of HPV, and an improved and more expensive version of typhoid and pneumonia in the market. In a few days, a pharmaceutical company, MSD, will launch India's first herpes zoster vaccine, which will prevent shingles, a painful blistering disease that mostly occurs in patients above 50 years of age.

By the end of the year, India may also get a vaccine for dengue, which affects nearly 100,000 people every year.

Nevertheless, most adults skip vaccinations either because they are not aware or they cannot afford one. There are no studies, but members of the pharmaceutical industries predict more than 75% adults would have never received any vaccination after they turned 18.

"The current state of adult vaccination state is appalling as most patients and their insurance providers aren't used to thinking of vaccines as something they need to learn about," said infectious diseases expert Dr V Ramasubramanian. "Children's vaccination schedule is well-known. Paediatricians convince families if they don't want vaccinations. But that does not happen for adults," he said.

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India - When caste lines are drawn literally

Beef is banned. Menstruation is taboo. If you think this is today's news, the same made headlines in 1873. That was the year Maharashtra's legendary social reformer Jyotirao Govindrao Phule wrote Gulamgiri (slavery), a blistering attack on the vedas and Brahmanism. More than a century later, writer Srividya Natarajan and illustrator Aparajita Ninan's put together the graphic novel, A Gardener in the Wasteland: Jotiba Phule's Fight for Liberty, drawing inspiration from his richly imaginative work.

"Phule wrote very visually, and we picked up his work to plant a seed via a graphic novel, where the youth can pick up a copy and understand what being a Dalit is all about," says Ninan of the book set to be published in regional languages.

A Gardener…is published by Navayana, India's first and only publishing house to focus exclusively on the issue of caste from an anti-caste perspective. When the book was released four years ago, it made a statement with its unconventional book launch —a kababchi from Jama Masjid served buff (a euphemism for beef) delicacies. There was also an installation of a "menstruating" Brahma handling sanitary napkins (Phule had wondered if Brahma, believed to have given birth to the Brahmins, had menstruated). The impact of these exhibits however was not long lasting. Caste is not discussed unless it is a matter of life and death, as proven by Rohith Vemula's suicide on January 17. A startling reminder of how the caste system continues to maim and kill, in modern India.

"It is not just in the villages. When a Dalit gets a government job in the city, via reservation, and does his work well he is still treated as an outcast. The peon will throw the file on his desk, instead of handing it to him, because he doesn't want physical contact with a Dalit. This kind of a story needs expression. And comics are the best way," says Sharma. At a recent workshop in Delhi University that focused on caste discrimination, Sharma located students who were against reservation and for SCs and STs and got them to illustrate the story of a poor Dalit child's journey to college. It made the subject easier to understand. "As they drew the panels, they realized that the issue was about real life versus a privileged life. It made them more aware of the world beyond what appears on their Facebook feed," says Sharma.

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India's present diverse population arose from five types of ancient populations that freely mixed and interbred for thousands of years before the rigid caste system, with its principle of prohibition of marriage outside the caste, put an end to this mixing. This ancient history hinted at in various linguistic, archeological and genetic studies has been confirmed by a path-breaking genetic study recently published.

"Genetic analysis shows mainland India's present population is a result of the intermixing of four main types of ancestral populations - North Indian, South Indian, Austro Asian and Tibeto-Burman," said Partha Majumder, director of NIBMG who led the study. The Andaman & Nicobar tribals have a completely different fifth ancestral origin that originated in Pacific Ocean populations.

The study compared genetic sequences from Indian samples with those from Central Asia, West Asia, China and adjacent regions to trace how humans first arrived in India.

What the study also unearthed was the deep imprint of a significant social cultural process in Indian society . It found that interbreeding between communities `abruptly' ended around 70 generations ago, which translates to about 1,575 years ago, sometime in the 6th century .

"To understand this, we looked at the history of the time. It coincided with the period when the Gupta Empire ruled India," Majumder told TOI. This period had seen the consolidation and supremacy of the caste system, entrenched through the sanction of scriptures as well as enforcing mechanisms of the rulers.

David Reich of the Harvard Medical School, known for his extensive genetic analysis from samples of two main ancestral populations of India - North Indians and South Indians told TOI that the new study goes beyond his work by including smaller populations of Autro-Asians, Tibeto-Burmans and Andamanese and Nicobarese.

He cautioned, however, that Majumder and his team's calculation could have erred as they used certain statistical methods software, and also considered 22.5 years as the span of one generation. "Standard citation in genetics literature is 29 years based on studies in many diverse societies around the world. We usually use 29 years and that would give substantially older calendar dates than the authors cite," he told TOI.

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European satisfaction: Scandinavia happiest while gloom settles on Mediterranean

European cities have some of the highest levels for quality of life in the world, but the continent has significant divides in its population's satisfaction.

While most urban Europeans say they are satisfied with where they live, those in Greece, Turkey and Italy are most unhappy, according to a survey conducted for the European Commission.

Nordic people are the happiest with the cities they live in, with all eight Nordic cities in the survey ranking within the top 15 for life satisfaction.

The survey asked 40,000 Europeans in 79 cities how satisfied they are with issues such as health services, transportation, safety, pollution and immigration.

In all but six of the cities, at least four out of five respondents said they are satisfied to live in their city.

Those with the lowest satisfaction were Istanbul, Palermo and the City of Athens.

Some 99 per cent of people in Oslo and Zurich are satisfied, while Aalborg, Vilnius and Belfast had the next highest levels of satisfaction.

>Compared to the last survey in 2012, Athens has documented the largest increase in satisfaction, with a 15 percentage point increase.

Istanbul, on the other hand, has seen its cities' satisfaction drop by 14 percentage points over three years.

In London, nine out of ten respondents said they were satisfied with the city - a lower rate than Manchester, Newcastle, Glasgow, Cardiff and Belfast.

The report said that satisfaction with the place where people live correlates with a feeling of safety in the city.

While three quarters of those in most of the European cities said they felt safe, barely half of Romans agreed - with similar levels seen in Marseille, Istanbul and Greater Athens.

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Germany - Police looking other way While invaders Plunder

In dealing with the 10 million refugees from Syria and other Middle Eastern countries that have sought asylum in Germany, lifelong residents are finding it next to impossible to cope with some of the intrusions.

The cities of Cologne and Bonn, which host their annual carnivals next week, have handed out leaflets to refugees reminding them that raping women and urinating in public are violations of German law.

Reports out of the city of Kiel, meantime, suggest that police have collectively stopped pursuing cases where refugees were caught shoplifting because it was too much work to get them prosecuted.

Local newspaper Kieler Nachrichten reported Thursday that police officers in the city were instructed not to pursue minor offenses such as shoplifting and property damage. Prosecuting the refugees is hard in cases where they don’t carry proper identification documents.

Police documents state a threshold was established where “serious cases of theft and personal injury” should be treated equally, regardless of the perpetrator’s origin. The decision was made in October after several shoplifting cases turned out to be dead ends.

Kiel’s Police Chief Thomas Bauchrowitz denied the allegations at a press conference Thursday. He said “a criminal complaint was filed in every case.”

Police departments around the country have been under fire for covering up crimes after the sexual assault scandal in Cologne on New Year’s Eve was exposed. Officers are scared that the truth will come across as “politically awkward” and benefit the anti-immigration movement

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India - Travel the world - if can afford retirement

The intrepid Indian traveller is being wooed by the global travel industry. With 3 crore Indians expected to travel across the globe by 2018, tourism boards and destination management companies are leaving nothing to chance. At the SATTE 2016, currently on in the Capital, the number of exhibitors has increased from less than 700 last year to over 750 this year.

Among the top destinations for Indians are Dubai and South-East Asia. Dubai has registered a 26% increase with 16 lakh Indians visiting the country in 2015. Singapore similarly registered 10 lakh Indian visitors with a 7% year-on-year growth.

Representing a conglomerate of 11 firms from Iceland, Valgerdur Lindberg Jonsd said, "We recognise India is a huge untapped market and we would like to be the pioneers."

UBM managing director Yogesh Mudras, organiser of SATTE, said, "We had 10,000 visitors last year. This year we already have 15,000 preregistered visitors while our exhibitors have increased from less than 700 last year to over 750 this year."

Romania, also a first time entrant, along with other east European countries also hopes to draw Indians who might be first-time travellers and cannot afford western Europe or US.

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61% of the working population in India aged 45 plus would like to retire in the next 5 year, reveals an HSBC survey.

The report, however, added that 14% of them believe they will be unable to do so due to financial constraints.

Of those unable to retire, 71% said that they cannot retire as they would struggle financially, thus bringing out an urgent need for people to begin saving early and planning well for their retirement.

Of the working population who would like to retire but are unable to do so, 53% said this is due to not having saved enough. 42% said it is because they have dependants who rely on their income, while 17% said they cannot retire as they have a lot of debt.

According to the report, 43% would like to retire in the next five years to spend more time with their family. Others want to travel and pursue other interests (34%) or pursue another career or voluntary work (20%). However, 59% cited work related pressures and issues as the reason for wanting to retire.

In the survey of more than 18,000 people across 17 countries worldwide, HSBC found that the desire to retire among 45 plus pre-retirees is strongest in Argentina (78%), France (77%), China (75%) and the UK (75%). Of those aged 45 plus who would like to stop working and are unable to do so, 81% say this is because they would struggle financially.

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India - Women in Poverty starting to Work, Poor Indian women seeking jobs confront taboos, threats - Highlights

• In India, around 27 per cent of women participate in the labor force, a figure which is lower than any other country in the G-20.

• However, from 2005 to 2012, women’s participation rates slid to 27 per cent from 37 per cent.

• Of 189 countries studied by the International Labour Organization, India ranks 17th

On a humid, sweaty, honking afternoon last summer, two women were making their way through the court complex in Uttar Pradesh's Meerut, searching for the office of the sub-divisional magistrate

It came as a surprise when seven of the women, who had come to rely on the daily wage of Rs 200, refused to stop. The women would have to, the men said, blocking the lane with their bodies. They did not expect the women to go to the police.

It would have been impossible — this appeal to the distant, abstract power of the state — if the women had not been so angry.

"Nobody can stop them from going to work," he said staunchly. "We don't have a Taliban here. It's a democracy."

Heartened, the women decided they would simply leave for work in the morning. Except, when they did, their neighbors were standing there, telling them to stop.

>"On 18.05.2015 at 9:00am, I was going for work," reads the report filed at the police station in Kharkhauda, signed with Pinki's thumbprint and written in the hand of their sponsor, Mewati.

"These people started saying that we were told not to go to the factory, because bad things are happening at the factory. These people became angry and started abusing me and they threatened to kill me. I request you to lodge my report and take legal action."

When word got out that the women had gone to the police, Roshan's son Dharmender was the one sent to tell them how they would be punished. From this point forward all seven women would be outcasts.

Geeta, Premwati and their friends tried to wrap their heads around it. As children they had heard of the rite of ostracism — it was used to frighten them into obedience — but they had never seen it imposed. At first they found ways to adjust, avoiding a confrontation with their neighbors by sticking to the lanes and handpumps that had been constructed with government money.

Dharmender was astounded that the seven women persisted in going to work. The whole thing was strange, Dharmender said. The women had been offered a deal, allowing them back in the community if they confessed to "immoral acts" and paid a fine, but they had refused it. Ostracism was such a severe punishment that dissenters usually relented within 24 hours, paying whatever fine the elders demanded. Geeta and her friends had already lived as outcasts for three months. "Who," he wondered aloud, "would be willing to suffer so much?"

Pinki, whose 4-year-old daughter was trapped outside with the crowd, had begun to sob.

Geeta had already called the police, and Dharmender saw no further reason to avoid violence.

Geeta's husband, Sanjay, was in his undershirt at a neighbor's house, watching a television serial, the children asleep under mosquito nets. When he looked up he saw that the door was blocked by bodies. He recalls the sight of his niece, slumped beside a drain, crying, and a heavy blow to the back of his head, and then nothing.

Dharmender felt pity as he beat Geeta's husband: Sanjay was a poor boy, a decent boy. It was not his fault. But the beating was necessary, he said, with a heavy sigh. "Until someone gets hurt, people don't learn."

Sanjay would spend five days in a hospital bed. On the day Sanjay was discharged, Roshan was lounging with his male relatives on a rope cot outside the temple. He had had to pay Rs 3,000 for Sanjay's medical care and an additional Rs 4,000 to ensure there would be no investigation. But it was worth it.

Even Roshan's concession — allowing the women of the village to return to work in the factories — had turned out in his favor. Though the Nat women had headed out almost immediately, nearly all of the factories were now shuttered: China had closed its markets to Indian meat, and Brazil's currency had declined so sharply that its meat was now cheaper than Indian buffalo.

So that was that. No one was hiring. Roshan could not help preening a little. "See, in our community, a woman is a woman and a man is a man," he said. "This is what it is here. Women have lower status and men have higher status." If any more women propose to challenge that principle, he said, "we will quietly, politely tell them this is not a good thing."

And that night, as the sun slipped down over the sugar cane, Roshan and the others laughed and laughed.

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India - 20% of lung cancer patients NON SMOKERS

In what could be an alarming fallout of air pollution, top cancer doctors say they have noted a significant rise in lung cancer among non-smokers in recent years. Roughly one in every five persons diagnosed with the disease does not smoke, they said.

"Till about a decade ago, less than 10% of all lung cancer patients were non-smokers. This percentage has now gone up to around 20%, which is significantly high. Rising pollution levels may be playing a role," said Dr P K Julka, professor of oncology at AIIMS, on the eve of World Cancer Day.

Dr Vinod Raina, director of medical oncology at Fortis Memorial, affirmed the trend. "The link between lung cancer and air pollution is a conjecture but it is being seen in studies conducted worldwide. Further research is needed to prove the cause and effect relation between the two," he said.

Dr Randeep Guleria, professor and head of pulmonology division at AIIMS, recounted a case to underline the trend. "A few years ago, I diagnosed a young woman in her late 30s with lung cancer. She was a non-smoker. Throughout her treatment, she kept saying, 'Why me?' Such cases are becoming more common now," he said.

"The role of air pollution in metros such as Delhi as a risk factor cannot be ruled out," Guleria added.

According to figures released by the Delhi Cancer Registry, lung cancer cases have shown the highest spurt among all cancers afflicting men, going up from 14 cases per 1,00,000 population in 2008 to 15.5 per 100,000 population in 2010.

Delhi Cancer Registry data shows lung cancer cases have been increasing among women too — from 4.2 cases per 1,00,000 population in 2008 to 4.6 in 2010. DCR, which compiles data from all big hospitals in Delhi, is yet to release data beyond 2010.

While the data is based on cases in Delhi, doctors said it represents a wider trend because a significant number of cancer patients being treated in city hospitals are from outside.

In 2013, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), the specialised cancer agency of the World Health Organisation (WHO), classified outdoor air pollution as carcinogenic. It issued a statement saying there was sufficient evidence that exposure to outdoor air pollution causes lung cancer and increases risk of bladder cancer.

Particulate Matter (PM), a major component of outdoor air pollution, was evaluated separately and also classified as carcinogenic by IARC the same year. "The predominant sources of outdoor air pollution are transportation, power generation, industrial and agricultural emissions, and residential heating and cooking," the IARC stated.

According to Dr Nitesh Rohtagi, a senior medical oncologist at Max hospital in Saket, persons suffering from cough for more than three weeks, or prolonged pain in chest or bone, should see a doctor immediately. "Smoking still causes nearly 80% of all lung cancers. Smokers should quit the habit to reduce the risk for themselves and their families since passive smoking can also cause the disease," he said.

"Outdoor air pollution, meanwhile, increases the risk of cancer for us all. The South East Asia Region has 14 of the world's top 20 polluted cities, making clear the need for governments to tackle the issue with a sense of urgency," said Poonam Khetrapal Singh, WHO Regional Director for Southeast Asia on the eve of World Cancer Day.

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India - no Zika in India

Some of the samples tested by National Institute of Virology in Pune for the presence of Zika virus in India have turned to be negative, director general of health services (DGHS) Jagdish Prasad told TOI on Friday, adding that the surveillance needs to be strengthened further to ensure that the positive cases are identified and isolated in time.

"Very often, it has been seen that the samples that are positive for dengue virus also have chikungunya virus in them. Both are transmitted through the Aedes Aegypti mosquito. After the recent scare, virologists at National Institute of Virology in Pune screened the dengue virus samples for Zika. The results were negative," Prasad said.

The DGHS has issued guidelines, in light of the current disease trend and its possible association with adverse pregnancy outcomes, which states that pregnant women should defer their travel to affected nations. Persons with co-morbid conditions, such as diabetes, hypertension, chronic respiratory illness and immune disorders, have also been advised to seek advice from the nearest health facility before travelling to such countries.

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Zika virus was detected last year in May in Brazil. WHO has said the disease has spread to 22 countries in South America over the past six months.

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'BPA-free' plastic accelerates embryonic development, disrupts reproductive system

BPA (Bisphenol-A) — commonly used as an additive in epoxy resin plastics, turned out to be a hormone disruptor, specifically it's been linked to breast cancer, asthma and impotence, and to mimic estrogen and thyroid hormone.

So, they started replacing it with BPS.

Turns out BPS is just as bad, except that instead of acting like a estrogen mimicker, it accelerates embryonic development and causes premature hatching in the fish observed. Again, because of thyroid hormone mimicking properties.

The U.S. and Europe were expected to manufacture more than 5 million tons of products containing the bisphenol additives in 2015; contact lenses, eyeglass lenses, compact discs, water-supply pipes, some cash register and ATM receipts, as well as in some dental sealants and composites.

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INDIA - Govt: push to AYUSH medicines; approves pact wiTH WHO

Giving a significant global push to alternative medicines, the Cabinet approved a pact between the AYUSH ministry and the World Health Organisation (WHO) in the field of traditional medicine.

The agreement between the AYUSH ministry and the UN agency has scope for collaborative activities in the area of traditional medicine, which is expected to internationally promote AYUSH system of medicines and enhance their acceptability.

The move will also help in long-term collaboration with WHO in facilitating awareness about AYUSH medicines through education, skill development, workshops and exchange programmes between AYUSH and WHO for capacity building.

The collaboration will "facilitate advocacy and dissemination of information on AYUSH systems amongst the member states, collaboration with third parties for creating synergies in implementation of WHO Traditional Medicine Strategy 2014-2023 particularly in the context of AYUSH systems," an official statement said.

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The expenditure for carrying out collaborative activities will be met from the allocated budget under the existing plan schemes of AYUSH ministry. The activities will start subsequent to the signing of agreements by the two parties as per terms of reference.

As a first step in the long-term collaboration, India would assign to WHO activities for development of the its technical documents and publications like benchmarks for training in Yoga, practice in Ayurveda, Unani Medicine and Panchakarma.

Under the collaboration, AYUSH and WHO would take up other activities that could encompass multilateral collaboration for promotion of traditional and complementary medicine or systems, the statement said. This will include development of the WHO publication on the basic terminologies, establishment of a database for global practitioners and establishment of a network of international regulatory cooperation, the statement said, adding the agreement between WHO and AYUSH is expected to benefit the practitioners of AYUSH systems.

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India - Muslim population large especially in younger population segments

16-year-old could be first juvenile to be tried as adult for rape

Nearly half the population of Gujarat was born after 1990, suggests data gathered during Census 2011.

The data on the number of people of various religions in different age groups reveals that around 48.13% of the state's population is 24-years-old or less.

Interestingly , over 50% of Gujarat's Muslim population falls in this category.

The biggest challenge that this generation will face is that of rural-urban divide, said Jani.

Urban youths in this age group are tuned in to technology and are moving ahead in the true sense but their counterparts in the rural areas are getting left behind.

He further said the only positive aspect of this young age group is that its members are willing to accommodate to any situation and condition. These youths can be moulded easily, Jani said.

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Juvenile kills again

The 17-year-old was earlier apprehended on September 25, after he and his girlfriend had abducted a 13-year-old boy from Badarpur and murdered him in Uttarakhand. He was released on grounds of good conduct after signing a bond.

Parents of the youth say that he was obsessed with the idea of becoming a dancing star and had even stolen money from their house to pay for dance competitions.

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16-year-old could be first juvenile to be tried as adult for rape

A major controversy has erupted in Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav's family borough of Mainpuri after the chief medical surgeon (CMS) of the district hospital, Dr Nimmi Begum, refused to treat a 9-year old dalit rape victim.

Significantly, the accused in the case, a 16-year-old, has been sent to the district jail instead of a remand home, making him probably the first juvenile in a rape case to be tried as an adult following the recent amendment in the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Amendment Act on December 23, 2015. He was produced in court on Friday and sent to judicial custody for 13 days.

The girl was finally admitted to the hospital after police officers threatened to arrest the CMS. The child was later shifted to Saifai hospital after her condition deteriorated. The 9-year-old, who is presently undergoing treatment at the UP Rural Institute of Medical Science and Research, Saifai, is reported to be in a "stable" but "serious" condition.

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European Resistance : Zukunft für Europa - Identitäre Bewegung

We will NOT back down! EUROPA is worth protecting and we will not succumb to your deceptions

For nearly a millennium, Cologne has been associated with its Cathedral, its twin spires featured prominently on every imaginable thing – including the ubiquitous tall glasses serving the revered local beer, Kolsch. In the 20th century, the city became known for its easy-going, fun-loving nature, a city of warmth, hospitality and tolerance – and its wild Carnival.

Now, this ancient city on the Rhine is famous around the world as a place where gangs of drunk "foreign" men sexually assaulted hundreds of young women and terrorized them while police, outnumbered and unable to intervene, turned the victims away – sending them back to the very men who were victimizing them.

It's heartbreaking – for those women, and for my city.

Why here? How did this happen in Cologne? Actually, similar attacks occurred – on a smaller scale – in Hamburg, in Stuttgart and in Austria. And they date as far back as summer 2014, when Swedish police investigated a similar incident at a local festival.

“It was a modus operandi that we had never seen before: large groups of young men who surround girls and molest them," a Stockholm official told U.K. newspaperThe Guardian afterward. "In the cases where we were able to apprehend suspects, they were of a foreign background, newly arrived refugees aged 17-20, who had come to Sweden without their families.”

It's eerie how that echoes the Cologne chief of police after the assaults became public.

Still, the horrors of Cologne are of a scale heretofore unheard of in Europe – and New Year's Eve was perhaps a perfect storm: A large gathering of people, mostly drunk, and police slow to realize what was happening. That's because Cologne has a very permissive attitude toward public drunkenness, and large groups of drunk young people congregating in and around public squares are not unusual here.

The fact that the men responsible for the attacks were largely immigrants is also not a shock. The state of North Rhine Westphalia, in which Cologne is located, has taken by far the largest portion – 20% – of the more than 1 million refugees who arrived in Germany in 2015.

It should be no real surprise to anyone that thousands of unemployed, testosterone- and alcohol-fueled young men running loose in one of the most open cities in Europe would eventually run amok. That is, of course, not an excuse, but it illustrates with shocking clarity how poorly prepared we were to receive this many people in such a short time period.

Sadly, instead of focusing on quickly integrating those here now, we are seeing an even starker divide in society over the refugees, more violence and a blame game.

The police are under intense scrutiny, and there is talk of prosecuting officers for failures that night. Vigilante groups have taken to the streets to hunt down foreigners because some don’t believe the government is doing enough to protect their wives and children.

But prosecuting the police isn’t the answer, and neither is vigilantism. The answer is learning our lessons from these incidents, in order to prevent something similar in the future.

Many of us in Cologne and other German cities do not see the assaults as a justification for reversing Germany’s open-door policy toward refugees

But we do believe that those who committed these crimes should be prosecuted and, if convicted, sent packing.

Thankfully, amid all the voices crying out to close the borders, there are those who believe, as I do, that lumping together all recent arrivals with those who committed these acts of violence is simply wrong – and it only serves those who want to ban all refugees from Muslim countries, and the far-right who would like to kick out anyone they deem a foreigner.

I can only hope that we in society, and our officials, will find the courage and wisdom to discuss the issues openly, and a way to balance our decision to deal compassionately with refugees fleeing the horrors of war with the duty to protect the safety of all of us.

Only then can the healing of the wounds inflicted on this beautiful city – and our hearts – begin.

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FIGHT WHITE GENOCIDE!

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This March take part in our annual worldwide protest of White Genocide.

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Genocide of Whites: Act to Stop It!

You must understand with every fiber of your being that your true nation, your true religion, your true society, your true politics, your true allegiance is within you.

by H. Millard

Making many more like yourself makes you more important than the richest and most famous people. It is what you are born to do. If you do not understand, then you may want to start taking a long view of history, which is the correct way to view things. You are here today as a White person because a long line of your ancestors bred White. Your line extends into the dim past. Make it extend into the far future. Do the right thing. Make more like yourself and your ancestors.

Over the past centuries, many Whites failed to breed or they bred non-White or they didn’t breed enough — and they have gone extinct. Your ancestors did better. Your ancestors won the struggle for existence. You are the result. You are the fittest now alive. If you fail to breed White, you will be judged unfit because you will be a dead end. Don’t let your ancestors down. Keep the White life force within you moving forward into the future. Be a new Adam or Eve for all future Whites. No matter what else you do in life pales in comparison. If you have many White children who survive you, you will go into the future with them. And, those now alive who don’t make more like themselves? They are nothing. They may be rich. They may be famous. They may be great writers, inventors, or whatever, but if they do not make more like themselves, they are nothing and they will not exist in the future. You may be poor, you may work in a factory, you may struggle for food, you may not have much luxury, but if you have many White children, you are rich and blessed beyond compare. These aren’t just empty words — they are the truth. This is the way of existence.

You may believe that there is some sort of afterlife, but that has never been proven. What has been proven is that a part of you goes forward into the next generation via the children you have who are most like you. The more like you they are, the more of you goes forward. It is common sense. It is a genetic reality.

Do not be a dead end. Pass on the sacred White genes you got from your White parents and your White ancestors by having as many White children as possible. That is your most important purpose in living. Keep the White chain unbroken. Other Whites may not follow suit. That’s their problem. They may be internally defective. That’s not your problem. You still must do what is right.

And, please, don’t argue that “we can’t outbreed non-Whites, so we shouldn’t even try to have more White children.” The way Nature works is that there are great die-offs and bottlenecks. The more Whites we have in existence, the greater are the odds that we will survive as a people, maybe even just by a few of us who get through the die-offs and bottlenecks that will eventually happen. Be the new Adam and Eve emerging on the other side to rebuild as a new White people, better, smarter, stronger, healthier.

You must live and breathe Whiteness. It is the only thing that matters. Rid your mind of false ideas and silly notions that your most essential identity is based on abstract concepts. It is your DNA Code — that has your genes — that is the real and essential you. All else is secondary or even false. You are part of the White Tribe on this dark planet. Know it and live it. All non-Jewish Whites are related. We are one people. We are one kind. We are different from all non-White peoples. We have been selected to be the next step for mankind but we must make it so or we will be replaced.

And, here’s another thing, if you are an awakened White and you live Whiteness, you are part of a subculture of similarly awakened Whites. Take faith in this, and understand that you are not alone even though you may be surrounded by Whites who don’t understand and who are on their way to oblivion via mixing and mating with non-Whites or who are not having White children. Awakened Whites may be in the minority, but we are right and we are good and we are the ancestors of Whites who will exist thousands of years in the future. We are the new Adams and Eves. We are the founders of a new people.

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Here are three of the most important quotations for White survival if correctly understood and acted upon. I’ll repeat these often:

About humans:

“[T]he varieties of mankind are so different that similar differences found in any other animals would warrant their classification in different species, if not in different genera.” — Charles Darwin

And here’s what all living organisms (including humans) must do:

“Living organisms must necessarily compete, for food, for mates, and for living space, especially with other members of their own species [i.e., those they can breed with]. They must avoid predators and other dangers. For all these various reasons, some will leave more offspring than others, and it is the genetic characteristics of such preferred replicators which will be passed on preferentially to succeeding generations. This is the essence of natural selection.” — Francis Crick (Nobel laureate and co-discoverer of the structure of DNA)

Our goal is to become a new species incapable of having children with non-Whites:

“Man is something that shall be overcome. Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman — a rope over an abyss. What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end.” — Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

TOO MANY Whites think that genocide only means gas chambers and marching armies. This is a big mistake and causes many Whites to deny what their own eyes are telling them. Look around yourself. Aren’t you seeing more non-Whites no matter where you look — and fewer Whites? You may say, “Oh that’s nothing. That’s just natural.” You’d be wrong. It is not natural. It is a sign of White genocide — more non-Whites and fewer Whites. That’s how White genocide looks in its present stage.

Genocide actually means the killing off of a distinct people — no matter how it is done. It doesn’t require gas chambers or marching armies. It only requires propaganda and the flooding of nations with a different genotype — a different race of people.

Genocide is what is happening right now to Whites worldwide.

It is being done through a variety of means. First, Whites are being told that “diversity” and multiculturalism are wonderful. They are not — not for Whites. They are harmful to us. Diversity and multiculturalism are being sold to easily suggestible Whites the way cigarettes were once sold to us — with subconscious messages of happy, beautiful people who are this way because of diversity and multiculturalism. It is a big lie. It is evil.

Whites are being told that “all humans are just the same” even though true science and our eyes tell us just the opposite. Our eyes and true science are not lying to us. But many Whites are deceived, and, in believing this falsehood that all humans are just the same, the instinct for self-preservation and survival is overridden and many weak minded Whites engage in bedroom genocide and turn their bodies into baby factories producing non-White children. And it’s not just that they’re producing non-White children: They are producing them instead of White children. They’re keeping an entire White civilization from being born.

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Some of these deceived Whites — who have corrupted their White DNA Code via miscegenation and killed off all their White ancestors and their now not-to-be-born White descendants — seem to wrongly believe that their non-White children, who don’t look like them, don’t think like them, don’t act like them, aren’t them, are “their children.” They are not. The child of a White is White. The only way to have White children is to have two Whites mate. No other combination produces truly White children. These miscegenating Whites are like Whites in Science Fiction movies who are simply hosts used to breed aliens. They are walking Petri dishes providing the necessary sperm or eggs so non-Whites can be born. These sick Whites provide the chemical ingredients from their own bodies to destroy their White family lines.

Other weak-minded Whites are full of nonsense about the planet being overpopulated. So they refuse to have children. What they don’t seem to understand is that the planet is not overpopulated with Whites. In fact, it is severely and dangerously underpopulated with Whites. We are a small minority on this dark planet.

And we also have many weak-minded and neurotic self-hating Whites who want nothing more than non-existence for themselves and all Whites. These cowards are genetic terrorists. They want the suicide of their White DNA code and the extinction of your White DNA code as well. Sick.

How do we fight our genocide and our extinction as the distinct people we are? We must build our self-esteem and group-esteem and we must start realizing that we are a great and wonderful people. We must start loving ourselves and our people again and we must start having more White children. We must understand that we are a unique and a selected people unlike any other. We are also the “new kids on the planet”: We are a branching-off from the present human evolutionary tree and we are the hope for a better humanity born from our unique DNA Code. We must not die off or the planet without us will be less perfect, less peaceful, less desirable. We are the ones selected to perfect things on our level of existence.

It all starts with each one of us — with you and me as individuals. We are not born as couples. We are born as individuals. Each of us, whether you are a male White or a female White, is personally and individually responsible for seeing that your White family line continues into the future. No one else can do it for you. You must make more like yourself. Get busy. Life is short. Having as many White children as possible is your purpose.

Border SECURITY CUT OPEN - WHERE IS OUR SECURITY

The Obama administration is cutting back on border security that Congress has already funded and is drawing bipartisan criticism from lawmakers in the process.

Operation Phalanx, an aerial surveillance program that employs military units to aid in border security, faces a 50% cut at the Department of Homeland Security – even though it was fully funded by Congress.

The DHS move drew fire from Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott.

“It has come to our attention that for calendar year 2016 the DHS requested 3,850 hours of persistent aerial detection, situational awareness and monitoring capability support for Operation Phalanx from the Department of Defense. This was 50% lower than that of recent years,” Cuellar and Abbott wrote Monday in a letter to DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson.

Since 2005, Texas has committed nearly $1.7 billion in state funds to border security. In addition, the state provides manpower, resources and oversight in support of Operation Phalanx through the Texas National Guard.

“It is our expectation that the federal government similarly fulfill its obligation when it comes to securing the border,” Cuellar and Abbott wrote.

Unlike Abbott, a persistent critic of President Barack Obama’s wide-ranging exercise of executive privilege, Cuellar previously called for the White House to take unilateral action on immigration.

Last September, Abbott’s office requested additional aerial observation resources along the Mexican border, a point reiterated in Monday’s letter. “Given the recent surge of migrants from Central America and Cuba along the southern border, we believe DHS should request more surveillance and security resources, not fewer,” Cuellar and Abbott wrote.

Last year’s plea went unanswered.

“The fact that DHS now appears to be taking the opposite approach is unsettling,” Abbott said.

DHS did not immediately respond to the latest Texas complaint.

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Polish Nationalism on Fire

If you want to know what a Trump presidency might be like, the bumptious populist conservative government elected in Poland three months ago offers some clues.

In the U.S. before the rise of Trump, the emerging schisms on the right—globalism versus nationalism, elitism versus populism, diversity versus solidarity—were mostly papered over by Republicans for the sake of putting up a united front against Democrats. But Poland’s recent history is revealing because the left is so discredited there (in last October’s parliamentary elections, the top five parties, which won 83 percent of the vote, were all more or less on the right) that the tensions among 21st-century conservatives already dominate national debate. This was exemplified by the Polish rightist parties’ clashing over how to respond to German chancellor Angela Merkel’s diktat to invite a million-Muslim mob into Europe, which wound up with a single party winning an absolute majority in parliament for the first time in the history of modern free Poland.

Polish politics tend to baffle Anglophones because the spelling of the leaders’ names is so eye glazing. Moreover, to a slightly lesser extent than Hungarian, Polish is a language little known by outsiders, so it’s hard for Anglophones to get an unbiased sense of what’s going on politically in Poland or Hungary. Most of the opinions we hear out of Poland and Hungary come from English-speaking cosmopolites who find the populist policies backed by the majorities deplorable. (Of course, another perspective is that separate languages are a good reason for having separate countries.)

To Westerners, the most visible representative during last fall’s migration mania of Poland’s conventional conservative party, Civic Platform, was the Polish politician with the simplest name to spell, Donald Tusk. He’s the former two-term prime minister who in 2014 kicked himself upstairs to the European Union’s prestigious but ill-defined top job, President of the European Council.

Granted, Polish politics would be simpler for Americans to follow if Donald Tusk embodied the Donald Trump wing of Polish conservatism, but instead the Polish Donald T. is more representative of the inoffensive Mitt Romney wing, while the new power behind the throne, Jarosław Kaczyński, is a definite member of the Awkward Squad.

The once-popular Tusk’s travails in 2015 are worth recounting because they suggest that the failures of American establishment conservatives, such as former GOP front-runner Jeb Bush, aren’t just due to idiosyncratic personality flaws, but are systemic. In a world in which the biggest political issue is borders, the globalist right has a hard time answering to voters’ satisfaction the basic political question: “Whose side are you on?”

“Poland is everything you are not supposed to be in the 21st century: a conservative, religious, and homogeneous nation-state.”

To roughly analogize recent Polish political history for Americans, it’s as if Mitt Romney (Donald Tusk) had won two terms as president, but his plan to hand off power to Paul Ryan had suddenly been disrupted by a landslide for Donald Trump (Jarosław Kaczyński).

Looking ahead, Poland is one of the few countries in the world that can ignore my usual advice upon immigration policy: When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging. That’s because Poland never really started digging.

On the other hand, nobody is supposed to notice Poland’s advantage. In fact, Poland’s solidarity seems rather sinister to the contemporary mind:

Something needs to be done about those Poles, with their disgusting lack of a diversity problem.

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Poland is everything you are not supposed to be in the 21st century: a conservative, religious, and homogeneous nation-state.

At home in the center of the vast Northern European plain that runs with few natural defenses from the North Sea to the Urals, the Poles attained national consciousness as a Slavic-speaking outpost of Roman Catholicism. As the Poles’ neighbors grew into domineering Great Powers, the English-speaking world increasingly sympathized with Poles as being more geostrategically sinned against than sinning. Polish patriotic resistance played a leading role in bankrupting the Soviet Empire. Both major Polish parties are descended from the anti-Communist Solidarity movement of 1980.

Due to Hitler and Stalin remaking Eastern Europe at vast expense in lives of Jews, Slavs, and Germans, Poland is now one of the most ethnically and racially homogeneous countries in the world. The CIA’s World Factbook says that Poland is 96.9 percent ethnically Polish, with the next biggest ethnic group being the 1.1 percent who are Silesian. Similarly, 98.2 percent of Poland’s inhabitants speak Polish and 86.9 percent are Roman Catholics.

Poland is home to a few thousand Tatar Muslims of ancient residence. Besides the indigenous Tatars, Muslim immigrants and converts are roughly estimated to be only about 0.1 percent of the population. And unlike Southeastern Europe, Poland has only about 12,000 gypsies.

Due to Poland having had no colonies, and still having low pay, not much welfare, and little sunshine, it’s racially one of the whitest countries in the world. The largest racial minority, making up perhaps 0.2 percent of the population, is Vietnamese (due to a pan-Communist program during the Vietnam War).

According to the reigning ideology of our times, Poland’s lack of diversity should be crippling.

>But, of course, instead Poland is in a rather enviable position going forward. The years since 1989 have not been particularly easy for Poland, but by the tragic standards of Poland in the 19th and 20th centuries, or of Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine since then, free Poland has been a relatively successful country.

Unlike Ukraine, which has been torn apart by ethnic, linguistic, and cultural-religious diversity, or autocratic and kleptocratic Russia, Poland’s post-Communist history is rather upbeat. Poland is richer than Ukraine and more equal than Russia. With one-fourth the GDP of Russia, Poland has about one-sixteenth as many billionaires, according to Forbes.

The upshot would seem to be that old-fashioned patriotism tends to work, but that’s not a fashionable lesson these days.

Scottish Man arrested for posting "offensive" messages about refugees

A 41-year-old Scottish man was arrested after posting an allegedly 'offensive' message on Facebook about refugees.

The posts were supposedly about resettling refugees on the island where he lives.

According to Breitbart, The tiny Isle of Bute in the Firth of Clyde had a population of only 6,498 in 2011 and is now expected to take in 1000 Syrians.

Police told The Guardian that social media abuse towards Muslim migrants won't be tolerated.

“I hope that the arrest of this individual sends a clear message that Police Scotland will not tolerate any form of activity which could incite hatred and provoke offensive comments on social media,” Inspector Ewan Wilson said.

Oh, so having a different opinion than yours and voicing it on social media won't be tolerated?

This comes just days after a Danish man was charged for 'racist offenses' and was convicted for comparing Islam with natsoc personsm. A case where the prosecution was able to successfully argue that Muslims are a 'race'.

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Refugee home burns down in Germany.

Bystanders cheer with "unashamed joy".

A planned home for asylum seekers has burned down in Saxony, eastern Germany, as bystanders cheered, police said. The building in Bautzen, known as the Husarenhof, was originally a hotel and was being modified to shelter asylum seekers. Saxony is home to anti-immigration group Pegida.

Police said no one was injured, but a group of people gathered outside, some "commenting with derogatory remarks or unashamed joy" about the fire. Three people were ordered to leave the scene after hampering firefighters' work, while two others were detained.

Investigators found traces of a fire accelerant at the scene and believe the fire was caused by arson.

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India - Eight central ministries join hands for the ambitious clean Ganga mission

India health and cleanliness

The Space Applications Centre (SAC) of Isro and Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) of University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies are collaborating on developing the 'Next Generation Earth Monitoring and Observation and Aerosol Monitoring' (NEMO-AM) satellite. This is among Isro's most important high-performance nano-satellite missions for the country.

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Seeking to use different arms of the government in pursuing the gigantic task of Ganga cleaning, the Union water resources ministry has signed a joint memorandum of understanding (MoU) with seven ministries to carry forward multi-sectoral activities for minimum three years to rejuvenate the river.

Under the MoU, which was signed on Saturday, the HRD ministry to facilitate IITs for developing and undertake pilot projects for implementing Zero Liquid Discharge (ZLD) system for four types of industrial pollution covering tanneries, chemical, pharma and textile industries, the ministry of Ayush will take up promotion of medicinal plants in the Ganga catchment areas and ministry of youth affairs will involve sports persons to form young group to take up activities related to Ganga cleaning.

Besides cleaning, the young groups, led by sports persons, will also be involved in afforestation and monitoring of illegal (polluting) activities along the banks of the river Ganga and its tributaries.

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Seeking to use different arms of the government in pursuing the gigantic task of Ganga cleaning, the Union water resources ministry has signed a joint memorandum of understanding (MoU) with seven ministries to carry forward multi-sectoral activities for minimum three years to rejuvenate the river.

Under the joint MoU, the water resources ministry will continue to be fully responsible for setting up STPs and ETPs and work as a nodal ministry to coordinate with various implementing agencies and state governments. The HRD ministry, on the other hand, support it in spreading necessary awareness/environmental literacy to common masses about environment/natural resources conservation, river rejuvenation, sanitation & hygiene and conservation of biodiversity in various 'Gram Panchayats' of the district covered under 'Saakshar Bharat' programme on the banks of River Ganga in the states of Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal.

The HRD ministry will also prepare preliminary project reports on the Ganga River Basin Management Plan (GRBMP) developed by consortium of Indian Institute of Technologies (IITs) by involving suitable academic institutions and research bodies.

The ministry to encourage IITs and NITs on the Ganga Basin to adopt at least five villages under the 'Unnat Bharat Abhiyaan' to implement the projects for solid/liquid waste management and open defecation free status.

Under the MoU, the rural development ministry to develop clusters of villages under 'Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Rural Mission' (SPMRM) along the banks of Ganga by dovetailing other ongoing programmes. The ministry of drinking water and sanitation will prioritize initiatives in establishing Open Defecation Free (ODF) 'gram panchayats' along the banks of Ganga.

Development of eco-tourism around Ganga will be the responsibility of the tourism ministry. It will provide suitable amenities and transport facilities to avoid unwarranted pollution from tourism activities. It will also promote environment friendly tourism activities through suitable communication and awareness activities, information kiosks, interpretation centres, exhibitions, road shows, and training to tour operators, hoteliers and transport companies.

The ministry of shipping under the MoU will take initiative and necessary efforts for sustainable shipping/river transport infrastructure in River Ganga without damaging the eco-system and biodiversity.

All the participating ministries will designate a senior officer of the rank of joint secretary or above to act as a nodal officer to represent the ministry and steer the fullfilment of the objectives.

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European Genocide (Anti White)

They will not stop until every last vestige of your great peoples is gone

I am half iranian and half jewish but my mother was not a jew and my father was an atheist that avoided and hated jewish culture. I want to tell you, I've been around the world in my time. The countries that have not been colonized by Europeans are unliveable. The countries that are not European majority are lower tier than the Eurosphere.

But Don't let me, a halfbreed with no European ancestry, tell you. Listen.

The next time you’re visiting New York City, you may be alarmed to find street signs which say some pretty anti-White things.

One sign has a picture of a camera and reads “WHITE GUILT IS COMPLACENCY“.

But why is this argument only ever applied to White places? Ever heard any so-called “anti-racist” groups complain that Africa is “too Black” or that the Middle East is “too Brown”? I’ve never, ever heard them say that, have you?

To these “anti-racist” groups, it’s always about White people. They keep targeting White people like were are the ultimate evil on the planet.

But to me, at least, their actions speak louder than their words: anti-racist just means anti-White.

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They don't even think White Genocide is possible??!

I have written before about how dog whistle rhetoric Republicans use about “taking their country back” feels strangely isolating to me. In general I pass as a white person but every once in a while I am reminded that my status as the daughter of a Latino immigrant means my privilege is conditional on the whims of other white people. And the whole idea that there is a “white genocide” going on is just such a reminder.

The slogans and propaganda of white supremacists are becoming more and more commonplace online. “Antiracist = antiwhite” and “#WhiteGenocide” pop up when you’d least expect to see them. Like in the responses to this tweet about the governor of Minnesota congratulating the Lynx for the WNBA championship.

The entire concept of “White Genocide” is preposterous and offensive. Immigration is the foundation of the United States, and I believe that we are better equipped to deal with it socially and culturally than much of Western Europe, simply because we have been doing it on a larger scale for longer.

There is no wrong way to have an ethnicity or a nationality. The existence of immigrants and people of color is not genocide, and to say so is both bigoted and contrary to the founding principles of this country. So many great Americans were immigrants or the children of immigrants. And we are better and stronger and richer for their contributions. Anti racist does NOT equal anti white. But to be anti-immigrant is anti-American.

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Not only do I find the idea of white genocide absolutely hilarious and disappointing at the same time – considering the years of imperialism and genocide most of the world suffered during white colonial rule – I also find it incredibly disturbing.

Every day we are bombarded with messages and images that praise whiteness — from movies, TV shows, advertisements and the media in general. During these moments I don’t see any black, brown, asian or arab bodies gracing the scene telling me it’s okay to be you. No, never that.

The argument of an anti-white society or white genocide taking place is absolutely preposterous and I’m not here for this. Sorry we’re asking you for a slice of the cake but don’t worry, you still have the rest of it.

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New DARPA program - BRIDGING THE BIO-ELECTRONIC DIVIDE

NESD is part of a broader portfolio of programs within DARPA that support Presidents brain initiative

The program, Neural Engineering System Design (NESD), stands to dramatically enhance research capabilities in neurotechnology and provide a foundation for new therapies.

“Today’s best brain-computer interface systems are like two supercomputers trying to talk to each other using an old 300-baud modem,” said Phillip Alvelda, the NESD program manager. “Imagine what will become possible when we upgrade our tools to really open the channel between the human brain and modern electronics.”

Among the program’s potential applications are devices that could compensate for deficits in sight or hearing by feeding digital auditory or visual information into the brain at a resolution and experiential quality far higher than is possible with current technology.

Neural interfaces currently approved for human use squeeze a tremendous amount of information through just 100 channels, with each channel aggregating signals from tens of thousands of neurons at a time. The result is noisy and imprecise. In contrast, the NESD program aims to develop systems that can communicate clearly and individually with any of up to one million neurons in a given region of the brain.

Achieving the program’s ambitious goals and ensuring that the envisioned devices will have the potential to be practical outside of a research setting will require integrated breakthroughs across numerous disciplines including neuroscience, synthetic biology, low-power electronics, photonics, medical device packaging and manufacturing, systems engineering, and clinical testing. In addition to the program’s hardware challenges, NESD researchers will be required to develop advanced mathematical and neuro-computation techniques to first transcode high-definition sensory information between electronic and cortical neuron representations and then compress and represent those data with minimal loss of fidelity and functionality.

To accelerate that integrative process, the NESD program aims to recruit a diverse roster of leading industry stakeholders willing to offer state-of-the-art prototyping and manufacturing services and intellectual property to NESD researchers on a pre-competitive basis. In later phases of the program, these partners could help transition the resulting technologies into research and commercial application spaces.

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Muslims behead Hindu priest

Hinduism is absolute haram.

Two assailants armed with pistols and cleavers attacked Jogeswar Roy, 45, the head priest of Sri Sri Sant Gourio Math, at his home in the temple on Sunday morning in Bangladesh. Two worshippers were also wounded. This is the latest assault targeting minorities in the Muslim-majority nation.

The attackers arrived on a motorcycle. The priest was preparing for morning prayers when they pounced on him and slit his head from the body at the verandah of his home inside the temple. A blood-stained cleaver was recovered from the spot. Two devotees were wounded in the attack including one who was shot as he tried to save the priest.

Bangladesh has seen an upsurge in attacks on minorities including Shiites, Sufis, Christians and Ahmadis by Islamist militant groups.

Islamic State has claimed responsibility in a statement issued through the Telegram messaging app and Twitter according to US-based SITE Intelligence Group. But law-enforcing agencies and the government dismissed the claim, saying the Middle-East-based radical group had no presence in Bangladesh.

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The Vice President said in 1992 that the Senate shouldn’t act on a nominee in an election year

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>Democrats keep saying that the Senate has a constitutional duty to vote on President Obama’s nominee to fill the Supreme Court vacancy this year. We’ve already heard Senators Chuck Schumer and Harry Reid on tape saying the exact opposite when a Republican was President, and now we learn that Vice President Joe Biden also had a different view back in the day.

>As Chairman of the Judiciary Committee in June 1992, Mr. Biden spoke on the Senate floor the day before the Supreme Court was set to leave for recess. George H.W. Bush was President, Democrats controlled the Senate and they were worried that a Justice might resign before the election.

>“President Bush should consider following the practice of a majority of his predecessors and not name a nominee until after the November election is completed,” Mr. Biden declared. And if the President were to plow ahead and name a new Justice anyway, “a process that is already in doubt in the minds of many will become distrusted by all. Senate consideration of a nominee under these circumstances is not fair to the President, to the nominee or to the Senate itself.”

Mr. Biden added that the Senate would have to fulfill its own constitutional duty of advice and consent, but that could mean withholding consent when it believed doing so was in the best interests of the Court and the country. “It is my view that if the President goes the way of Presidents Fillmore and Johnson and presses an election-year nomination,” Mr. Biden said, “the Senate Judiciary Committee should seriously consider not scheduling confirmation hearings on the nomination until after the political campaign season is over.”

>Mr. Biden even said the Senate’s decision shouldn’t depend on the merits of a particular nominee. The inconveniences of a High Court with only eight Justices “are quite minor compared to the cost that a nominee, the President, the Senate and the Nation would have to pay for what would assuredly be a bitter fight, no matter how good a person is nominated by the President,” he said.

>So there it is—a triple play of Democratic double standards on confirming Supreme Court Justices in an election year. Republicans should run these every time they respond to President Obama’s spin about “precedent” and Supreme Court confirmations.

Biden does it again!

Refugee home burns down in Germany.

Bystanders cheer with "unashamed joy".

A planned home for asylum seekers has burned down in Saxony, eastern Germany, as bystanders cheered, police said. The building in Bautzen, known as the Husarenhof, was originally a hotel and was being modified to shelter asylum seekers. Saxony is home to anti-immigration group Pegida.

Police said no one was injured, but a group of people gathered outside, some "commenting with derogatory remarks or unashamed joy" about the fire. Three people were ordered to leave the scene after hampering firefighters' work, while two others were detained.

Investigators found traces of a fire accelerant at the scene and believe the fire was caused by arson.

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Pakistan- Film-maker determined to put an end to 'honour' killings

DONT KILL US FOR POOING IN THE LOO

Pakistan takes great pride to protect it's "culture" from western evils.

>Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy is a documentary film-maker whose 2012 film about acid violence, Saving Face

>This year, she is nominated again for A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness, which tells the story of 19-year-old Saba Qaiser, from the Pakistani province of Punjab, whose father and uncle shot her for pooing in the loo.

>I wanted to tell a story about “honour” killings, from the perspective of somebody who had survived, because almost always victims of “honour” crime die, and it’s very hard then to tell the story, because you never have the perspective of that person and what they went through.

>She was. She had this extraordinary kind of will though – this defiant will about her, even on day one. She rejected the DESIGNATED STREETS

>"Pooing in the loo is haram" said Poopiullah Cuckhadi. "I'll kill them to protect our honour"

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Scottish Man arrested for posting "offensive" messages about refugees

A 41-year-old Scottish man was arrested after posting an allegedly 'offensive' message on Facebook about refugees.

The posts were supposedly about resettling refugees on the island where he lives.

According to Breitbart, The tiny Isle of Bute in the Firth of Clyde had a population of only 6,498 in 2011 and is now expected to take in 1000 Syrians.

Police told The Guardian that social media abuse towards Muslim migrants won't be tolerated.

“I hope that the arrest of this individual sends a clear message that Police Scotland will not tolerate any form of activity which could incite hatred and provoke offensive comments on social media,” Inspector Ewan Wilson said.

Oh, so having a different opinion than yours and voicing it on social media won't be tolerated?

This comes just days after a Danish man was charged for 'racist offenses' and was convicted for comparing Islam with natsoc personsm. A case where the prosecution was able to successfully argue that Muslims are a 'race'.

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woman hitchhikes to the middle east to prove that muslims are peaceful, raped and killed by muslims

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tl;dr is the post subject.

apparently she was doing this for some kind of "art project" (shades of mattress girl, anyone)? I guess her project won her a darwin award. :D

women are fucking retarded. she hoped her female privilege and her groveling before muslims' place in the progressive stack would make her immune to rape and murder.

China is Buying Up American Companies Fast, Now It's Freaking People Out

Here's a story you'll be hearing about a lot this year.

Chinese companies have been buying up foreign businesses, including American ones, at a record rate, and it's freaking lawmakers out.

There is General Electric's sale of its appliance business to Qingdao-based Haier, Zoomlion's bid for the heavy-lifting-equipment maker Terex Corp., and ChemChina's record-breaking deal for the Swiss seeds and pesticides group Syngenta, valued at $48 billion.

Most recently, a unit of the Chinese conglomerate HNA Group said it would buy the technology distributor Ingram Micro for $6 billion.

And the most contentious deal so far might be the Chinese-led investor group Chongqing Casin Enterprise's bid for the Chicago Stock Exchange.

To date, there have been 102 Chinese outbound mergers-and-acquisitions deals announced this year, amounting to $81.6 billion in value, according to Dealogic. That's up from 72 deals worth $11 billion in the same period last year.

And they're not expected to let up anytime soon. Slow economic growth in China and cheap prices abroad due to the stock market's recent sell-off suggest the opposite.

"With the slowdown of the economy, Chinese corporates are increasingly looking to inorganic avenues to supplement their growth," Vikas Seth, head of emerging markets in the investment-banking and capital-markets department at Credit Suisse, told Business Insider earlier this month.

Forty-five members of Congress this week signed a letter to the Treasury Department's Committee on Foreign Investment in the US, or CFIUS, urging it to conduct a "full and rigorous investigation" of the Chicago Stock Exchange acquisition.

"This proposed acquisition would be the first time a Chinese-owned, possibly state-influenced, firm maintained direct access into the $22 trillion US equity marketplace," the letter reads.

"While it is unclear the level of influence the state holds over CCEG, the firm is involved in a number of important Chinese sectors that would likely require close ties to the state."

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India police fight public peeing with 'garlands of shame'

Police in India have come up with an eye-catching way to shame people who urinate in public - by hanging flower garlands around their necks.

A new campaign in the city of Hyderabad sees traffic officers swoop on people spotted relieving themselves on the street, before handing them the colourful neckwear, the Deccan Chronicle reports. Insp Rama Swamy says he got the idea after seeing social workers doing something similar in Delhi several years ago. "After garlanding them, we request them not to create filth and use the public toilets instead," he says. The force has also been handing out chocolates to scooter riders who wear helmets, in an attempt to persuade others to follow suit.

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Should banks to be run by women to protect them from crisis?

New study says yes

After the bank failures of 2008, Christine Lagarde, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, quipped: “If Lehman Brothers had been Lehman Sisters, today’s economic crisis clearly would look quite different.”

Was there some truth in her statement?

''Would the global financial crisis have been any less severe had there been more women in top finance jobs?

Some recent research suggests it might have been. ''

In a study published in the Journal of Business Ethics in October, a group of researchers from Finland found that U.S. banks with female chief executive officers or chairmen had more conservative capital levels and were less likely to fail during the financial crisis than banks run by men.

As the European Union discusses implementing a law requiring that at least 40% of a public company’s board seats be held by women, the results of this study may help [persuade policy makers] to move forward with gender quotas in the EU.

While it is true that willingness to bear risk is a managerial necessity for creating shareholder value, the idea that women may assess risk more conservatively could be good news for companies if it limits excessive risk taking and potential biases in risk assessments.

At the same time, it could be bad news for shareholders if women executives are too cautious and risk-averse.

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[commentary] Why Feminists Want Men to Rape Them

>It’s time to stop beating around the bush: feminists want to be raped.

>It’s the only logical explanation for how they behave. It’s the only way to understand why they can cheer on hordes of Muslim “refugees” swarming into Europe to rape and pillage. It’s the only way to comprehend why they can whip themselves up into a frenzy over masculine men meeting up for a beer and smearing them as leading “pro-rape rallies.” Everything feminists do, from holding up “Refugees Welcome” signs at airports to passing affirmative consent laws, is geared around encouraging men to assault them.

>This isn’t a conscious urge. No feminist wakes up in the morning and thinks to herself, “I’m gonna try and get raped today!” There’s no Protocols of the Elders of Seneca Falls laying out a secret plot to turn females into walking fuckdolls for rapist men.

>But deep in the recesses of her lizard hindbrain, the average feminist wants nothing more than for a man to shove her into a wall and force himself deep inside her.

>Here are the reasons why feminists want to be sexually assaulted, and why they’re working around the clock to aid rapists.

tl;dr of the reasons

1) Because they are r-type and rape is the ultimate r-selected sexual strategy. Its all about license and the something for nothing mentality.

2) Disdain for personal responsebility

3) They want rape culture.

in conclusion:

>The only thing that will stop the rape-lust of feminists and their poorly-endowed Muslim abusers is Western men having the courage to call it out. There can be no compromise, no peace with these traitors inside the walls. While more moderate women can be saved, no one will ever be able to convince the termagents of the left that they should be more afraid of Muslim rapists than white “racists.”

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Woman in Poland sentenced for insulting refugees on Facebook

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She believed she was free to insult Syrian immigrants on the Internet with impunity. She was wrong. On Thursday, Olga K. heard the verdict: two months, suspended for two years.

Olga K. has offended Syrian immigrants on a social portal. On Thursday, the court issued a verdict. “I proclaim the defendant guilty and I sentence her to two months of deprivation of liberty, suspended for two years of a probation period, and an 800 zł (€182) fine,” decided judge Marta Marczewska on Thursday.

Olga K. must also report the progress of her probation to the court in writing every 3 months.

Such a sentence was suggested by public prosecutor in consultation with the accused herself who volunteered to punishment.

The incident took place on 6 September 2015. “Reacting on a social networking website Facebook to a video that showed refugees, the defendant instigated hatred toward immigrants from Syria on grounds of race and nationality by submitting a degrading and insulting comment,” reminded judge Marczewska.

According to case files, Olga K. wrote about refugees:

“Fucking dirtbags also scorn help. To gas with them!”

Then, to cover her identity, she hid on the Internet under the nickname Olka Helenka.

However, the police managed to identify the person responsible for verbal attacks on immigrants.

“There weren’t any doubts in this case. The defendant pleaded guilty, she did not hide the fact that she had submitted an abusive post to the Internet. However, she claimed that she had not realised that it could offend anyone and that it would lead to such serious consequences for her,” said the judge, explaining the sentence.

Olga K. is a 29-year-old resident of Lublin, never previously punished. She’s unemployed and raises a child alone. “Therefore, the court has concluded that the penalty is severe enough,” said judge Marczewska.

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Race, and feminism's magical disappearing act

Where are the feminists? The loud ones, the brave ones, the bold ones?

>Yesterday one of my friends emailed me an article on a young woman from Louisiana who was horribly disfigured in an attack by a group of men who she had been resisting the catcalling of. Her name is Jessica Byrnes, and she was beaten with a steel pipe at a gas station her and her boyfriend had stopped at after leaving the beach – The steel pipe was later thrown through their car window while they were trying to make a hasty escape, breaking out several of Jessica’s teeth.

>Of course it’s not getting widespread media coverage. I think the biggest outlet that has written on it was Cosmopolitan, and it was barely 2 paragraphs and hugely vague.

>Even on Tumblr’s feminist vein, I haven’t really heard a peep about this girl’s fate. And one would initially wonder why – This story has all of the hallmark characteristics of the perfect feminist crusade!

>This girl was being shamed for what she was wearing, catcalled, and then was violently attacked for trying to say ‘no means no’… That’s like… half of the feminist playbook right there.

Yet there’s no real outrage from feminists to be seen, and upon further inspection of the situation, one can see the reason why.

Jessica Byrnes’ assailants are all black.

I’ve spoken before about the hierarchy of liberal narratives, but for this only one thing needs to be said: Women may be a protected class for SJWs, but skin color trumps all.

I say ‘skin color’ as opposed to race if only because I want to ensure I include the oft-ignored legions of women in or from the middle east who suffer daily under sharia law. Their plight, apparently, isn’t all that interesting to feminists, who are content to write off their killings, zero civil rights, and no protection under the law even from rape as a cultural no-go zone.

As I have seen in many examples, feminists are even known to encourage violence against women when race becomes a factor. I remember the story out of the Baltimore Riots, where a feminist journalist (Caitlin Goldblatt) was complicit in '''fabricating a story against a young woman being mugged. She was written off as a drunk bimbo who was trying to grab something away from an innocent black man – Turns out, she wasn’t drunk, and was only trying to keep a grip on her purse that was being stolen from her by a thug who already had several bags full of stolen merchandise on him.

Of course, how can I forget the active veteran feminist Judith Levine, who I recently posted an article on in which she condemned the criminal prosecution of black men who are charged with sexual assault.'''

>Feminism treats it’s campaigns almost like magic tricks. Slut Walks, crusades against dress codes and nudity laws, and growing out body hair are it’s chief tricks. But when actual work is needed, when an actual miracle needs to be preformed to protect women, Feminists do a disappearing act.

>But when race gets thrown into the mix, one would almost wish that the Feminists would just ‘poof’ into thin air – Because feminists become absolutely volatile, almost like gasoline on a fire.

.>So desperate to get in on whatever new trend is lighting up the streets that day, feminists treat the legitimate problems of women like a life insurance policy that enables them to expand beyond their reach, but have a safe, comfy place to rest when the going gets rough on the outside.

>Third wave feminists are like charlatans selling snake oil. They’re happy to hock their wares as a premium product so long as people are willing to pay whatever they charge.. But the moment they see another stall is getting more customers, they abandon their caravan for a new one.

>Women deserve better than feminism. Period.

Please consider donating to Jessica’s GoFundMe to assist paying her medical bills.

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Luckily she has received the 25k she needed and is on the way to full recovery

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVxIQk6jEVA

GOOD! Greek Attempt To Force Use Of Electronic Money Fails

While the "developed world" is only now starting its aggressive push to slowly at first, then very fast ban the use of physical cash as the key gating factor to the global adoption of NIRP (by first eliminating high-denomination bills because they "aid terrorism and spread criminality") one country has long been doing everything in its power to ween its population away from tax-evasive cash as a medium of payment, and into digital transactions: Greece.

The problem, however, is that it has failed.

According to Kathimerini, "Greek businesses are not ready for the expansion of plastic money through the compulsory use of credit and debit cards for everyday transactions."

Unlike in the rest of the world where "the stick" approach will likely to be used, in Greece the government has been more gentle by adopting a "carrot" strategy (for now) when it comes to migrating from cash to digital. The government has told taxpayers that they will have to spend up to a certain amount of their incomes via bank and card transactions in order to qualify for an annual tax-free exemption.

This appears to not be a sufficient incentive however, as a large proportion of stores still don’t have the card terminals, or PoS (Points of Sale), required for card payments, while plastic is accepted by very few doctors, plumbers, electricians, lawyers and others who tend to account for the lion’s share of tax evasion recorded in the country.

Almost as if the local population realizes that what the government is trying to do is to limit at first, then ultimately ban all cash transactions in the twice recently defaulted nation as well. It also realizes that an annual tax-free exemption means still paying taxes; taxes which could be avoided if one only transacted with cash.

For the government this is bad news, as the lack of tracking of every transaction means that the local population will pay far less taxes: a recent study by the Foundation for Economic and Industrial Research (IOBE) showed that increasing the use of cards for everyday transactions could increase state revenues by anything between 700 million and 1.6 billion euros per year, and that the market’s poor preparation means that the tax burden has been passed on to lawful taxpayers. As a reminder, in Greece, the term "lawful taxpayers" is not quite the same as in most other countries.

What is more surprising is that according to data seen by Kathimerini, PoS terminals in Greece amount to just 220,000, and that despite the fact these were effectively forced on enterprises with the imposition of the capital controls, an estimated half of all businesses do not have card terminals.

Almost as if the Greeks would rather maintain capital controls than be forced into a digital currency by their Brussles overlords.

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Polish Freedoms - Judicial attack on freedom of speech in matters of refugee

Judge Marta Marczewska in the District Court Lublin - West in Lublin and prosecutors Prosecutor's Office of Lublin - South in Lublin, led by prosecutor Justyna Rutkowska-Skowronek, grossly abused their powers to suppress Polish democracy and the democratic opposition political activities in refugee matters.

Association of Free Community notified the District Attorney in Lublin Cezary May for violation of the constitutional freedom of expression by Judge Marta Marczewska and district prosecutor in Lublin, made by the conviction of 18 February 2016. Single mother to a fine of $ 800 and two months' imprisonment, suspended for two years for unspecified people related to the phrase "fucking brudasy. Even with the disdain. to gas", placed on Facebook.

According to the Association of Free Community judge and prosecutor directly they violated Polish law. Placed in a friendly website phrase "fucking brudasy. Even with the disdain. To Gas", it is undoubtedly highly impolite, but also undoubtedly falls within the freedom of expression of art. 54 of the Constitution, because the utterance of a single mother, a private person, the site serving individual contacts, rather than publications, certainly poses no threat specific provision of Article. 31 of the Constitution that allows to limit freedom of expression. A reasonable assessment of the possible effects of such statements, of course, exclude the cause of its threat to public order. History has not recorded a case of calling any social activities as a result of a single expression of a single mother. According to the art. 1 par. 3 of the Criminal Code one such statement does not result in criminal liability, it does not suffice to establish criminal intention and its feasibility, which the recognition of guilt.

According to the art. 256 of the Criminal Code criminal responsibility is borne entirely by the person who deliberately "incites hatred based on national, ethnic, racial, religious or due to lack of religious beliefs," in order to arouse the hatred. In the present case, such an intention, of course, was not. The term "brudasy" is not an indication of "national, ethnic, racial, religious." Expression is not directed against any distinguished group of national, ethnic, racial or religious. The phrase "gas", although in Poland for historical reasons grossly inappropriate, there was no deliberate call to "hatred" for the adoption of the hateful attitude; did not express the intention of the specific activity; there was not even an expression unit-established attitudes and beliefs. Expressed only entitled momentary emotions.

All citizens of the Republic have the art. 54 of the Constitution the right to know the views of their fellow citizens, that on this basis to make decisions about their participation in the democratic resolution of matters of state. Rude and emotionally expressed opinions are also protected by constitutional, because thanks to their knowledge can prevent incidents causing serious damage.

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The position of the Association is to support the general philosophy of law and politics expressed the conviction of the need to abandon harmful and vulgar use of punitive measures restricting freedom of speech for the alleged protection to single out social groups. The modern standard of such protection is to limit freedom of speech only for penal measures to prevent an imminent damage triggering statement. Development of standards of the democratic rule of law in this regard as follows summed '''Nick Cohen: "simple-minded liberals were once supporters punish expressions of racism, homophobia and misogyny. …

While Mill would only be willing to allow police to arrest demagogue podburzającego crowd outside the mosque or a bar for homosexuals, they wanted to legally to regulate statements that do not directly cause the crime. to use the formulation of the philosopher Joel Feinburga, they replaced Millową principle harm the principle of "images", provided by the society must punish speech that people regard as extremely offensive. " ( "Naïve liberals were once comfortable with punishing expressions of racism, homophobia and misogyny. Whereas Mill would only allow the police to arrest a demagogue whipping up a mob outside a mosque or a gay bar, they wanted to regulate writing and speech Which did not Directly cause crime. to use the phrase of the philosopher Joel Feinburg, they replaced Mill's harm principle with an 'offense' principle, Which held that societies are allowed to punish speech that people find exceptionally offensive. "Nick Cohen, You Can not Read This Book: Censorship in an Age of Freedom, London 2013, p. 229).'''

The actions of the judge and prosecutors are characteristic of totalitarian countries that restrict freedom of speech in order to prevent the public to defend their rights. Unjust conviction clearly shows that it is needed in the judiciary jury and civic supervision over the exercise of judicial power, without which the courts become instruments of political repression.

http://archive.is/4dwUa (translated)

http://archive.is/09Kaa (original archive)

Cyclical Thread screenshot for february 2016

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Holy crab! Fear can be used to restore ecosystems

Putting the fear of dog into raccoons has effects that trickle all the way down the food chain. Belinda Smith reports.

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>Fear of being eaten can have as much effect on the food chain as actual predation, a new study shows.

>Canadian scientists played dog yelps to wild raccoons, and saw the terrified creatures went out to look for food only a third of their usual foraging time. This meant populations of their favourite food, crabs, shot up – shore crabs doubled in numbers, while red rock crabs increased 61%.

>In turn, the crabs' prey and competitors, such as periwinkle snails and staghorn sculpin fish, dropped.

>The simple experiment, which was the first to show how top predators such as dogs can affect the whole food chain, was published in Nature Communications.

>Raccoons are adept crab-hunters. In a few of the Gulf Islands of British Columbia in Canada, wolves, bears and cougars have long been removed, and the wild raccoons fearlessly go to town on their crustacean meals on the shoreline. They're quite good at it, too.

>So University of Victoria biologist Justin Suraci and colleagues put the fear into wild populations on several small islands by playing recordings of dogs, which are kept by people living on the islands, for a month.

>When a raccoon ventured out to forage among the rocks, they played a 10-second clip of a barking dog. The raccoons responded either by running away, or staying but being super vigilant.

>Cameras captured the raccoons' reaction, which didn't change the entire month.

>The authors write this fear response can be used by ecologists to revive populations of species, such as the red rock crab, without hurting their predators: "Our experimental results support the contention that, when it comes to conserving biodiversity and maintaining healthy ecosystems, fear has its uses."

Philadelphia court on 1st Amendment Rights: "There is no constitutional right to videorecord police"

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Court: No First Amendment right to videorecord police unless you are challenging the police at the time

In recent years, lower federal courts have generally held that the First Amendment protects a right to videorecord (and photograph) in public places, especially when one is recording public servants such as the police.

Because recording events that you observe in public places is important to be able to speak effectively about what you observe, courts held, the First Amendment protects such recording. (By analogy, spending money on speech is likewise protected by the First Amendment, because such spending is important to be able to speak effectively; likewise, associating with others for expressive purposes is protected by the First Amendment, because such association is important to be able to speak effectively.) Some restrictions on such recording may be constitutional, but simply prohibiting the recording because the person is recording the police can’t be constitutional. This is the view of all the precedential federal appellate decisions that have considered the issue. (The Supreme Court hasn’t expressly considered this question.)

But Friday’s federal trial court decision in Fields v. City of Philadelphia takes a different, narrower approach: There is no constitutional right to videorecord police, the court says, when the act of recording is unaccompanied by “challenge or criticism” of the police conduct. (The court doesn’t decide whether there would be such a right if the challenge or criticism were present.) Therefore, the court held, simply “photograph[ing] approximately twenty police officers standing outside a home hosting a party” and “carr[ying] a camera” to a public protest to videotape “interaction between police and civilians during civil disobedience or protests” wasn’t protected by the First Amendment.

I don’t think that’s right, though. Whether one is physically speaking (to challenge or criticize the police or to praise them or to say something else) is relevant to whether one is engaged in expression. But it’s not relevant to whether one is gathering information, and the First Amendment protects silent gathering of information (at least by recording in public) for possible future publication as much as it protects loud gathering of information.

Your being able to spend money to express your views is protected even when you don’t say anything while writing the check (since your plan is to use the funds to support speech that takes place later). Your being able to associate with others for expressive purposes, for instance by signing a membership form or paying your membership dues, is protected even when you aren’t actually challenging or criticizing anyone while associating (since your plan is for your association to facilitate speech that takes place later). The same should be true of your recording events in public places.

In any event, the trial court expressly noted its disagreement with the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the 1st Circuit and 9th Circuit decisions (and I think the result is inconsistent with other circuit decisions, too). I’m told there’ll be an appeal of the decision, and I expect the 3rd Circuit will reverse.

Thanks to Benjamin Picker and Colin Starger for the pointer.

>UPDATE: I originally said that I hoped that there would be an appeal, but I’ve now been told that one is indeed planned.

Eugene Volokh teaches free speech law, religious freedom law, church-state relations law, a First Amendment Amicus Brief Clinic, and tort law, at UCLA School of Law, where he has also often taught copyright law, criminal law, and a seminar on firearms regulation policy.

Harvard abolishes Master titles to avoid connotations of slavery

Harvard University in the US is going to remove the word "master" from academic titles, after protests from students who claimed the title had echoes of slavery.

House masters, in charge of residential halls at the university, will become known as "faculty deans".

Harvard Law School is also deciding whether to change its official seal, because of links to slavery.

US campuses have faced a series of protests over allegations of racism.

Harvard has not agreed that the use of "master" represented a link to slavery, but it has accepted campaigners' calls for a name change.

It will mean changing the job titles of 24 members of staff - but will not affect other uses of "master", such as a master's level degree.

Harvard academics say that the word "master" derives from the Latin term "magister" - a form of address for scholars or teachers. It is similar to terms such as "school master" or "head master".

But protesters have argued that whatever its original derivation, the word now has connotations of slavery.

Student campaigners are also calling for a change in the official seal of Harvard Law School, with a sit-in being held this week.

The seal includes the coat of arms of 18th Century college donor Isaac Royall, who as well as establishing the college's first professorship in law, was a notoriously brutal slaveholder.

Isaac Royall, whose money helped to endow the university, has been accused of burning slaves alive.

A decision on whether to change the seal is expected to be made soon.

Disputes about race and identity have affected many US campuses.

Carol Christ, director of the Center for Studies in Higher Education, University of California, Berkeley, has said that "symbolic fights are always about real and current political issues" and race and diversity remain major campus issues.

"Race is so traumatic and central an issue in American culture," said Dr Christ.

Last month, Amherst College, in Massachusetts, accepted student demands to drop links with its informal mascot, Jeffery Amherst, an 18th Century general accused of advocating infecting native Americans with smallpox.

And there have been sit-ins at Princeton in a bid to rename a school named after Woodrow Wilson, because of claims the former US president held racist views.

The protests by US students are part of a wider international campaign challenging historical titles, statues and emblems.

But further demands for "safe space", where some students have called for the right to study away from attitudes or behaviour they find offensive, have been rejected by university leaders and others who have argued for the importance of protecting free speech.

In South Africa, a statue of Cecil Rhodes was removed from the University of Cape Town, with protesters attacking the statue as an emblem of colonialism and apartheid.

But a call to remove a statue of the 19th Century politician from Oriel College in Oxford University was rejected.

Louise Richardson, the university's vice-chancellor, said students needed to be able to debate and confront "ideas that make them uncomfortable".

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German “antifascists” threaten mafia style attacks on anti immigration village

The East German village of Clausnitz was in the news this week because a crowd surrounded a bus full of illegal immigrants, who were going to be housed there. The crowd chanted “We are the people” and stopped them getting off the bus for 2 hours, until the police arrived.

Anonymous German so-called “anti-fascists” have released a threatening open letter to the villagers. It reads:

“Dear Clausnitzers, everywhere one reads that you are afraid, that you are insecure. You want a dialogue at eye level. On Thursday you showed, where your dialogue leads and we are happy to build on it!”

“We of the Antifa visited your village. A beautiful village. Even your local museum was much appreciated.”

“Things can go broken, tractors can spontaneously combust – it would be a shame. Well, some of our other options would unsettle the population.”

“If you scare one more refugee, there will be consequences for you. We’re watching you. Another attack on a refugee, a firecracker outside the property – and your village will be in ruins. We will drive up the price of your inhumanity as high as possible.”

“Your hatred and your agitation will not remain unchallenged. We will not stand by the sidelines as you live out your authoritarian character. You live in a world in which ‘Being German’ is worth more than being human. We will not tolerate that.”

They also threatened police, saying they “promote a racist Saxon mob.”

“You too will feel the consequences for your inhuman act.”

So the “anti-fascists” are telling people what to do and threatening people if they don’t . . . and it hasn’t dawned on them that they ARE what they claim to fight?

Merkel has waged a full-out White genocide against Germany, in the form of forced “diversity”. Her so-called “anti-fascist” friends haven’t yet realized that they are White as well, and their comfortable lives in a nice White suburb is coming to an end if they keep pushing these policies.

There is a saying: be careful what you wish for . . .

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Canadian Judge rules White scholarship would threaten “safety of the state”

Before Dr. Victor Priebe died, he wrote in his will that he wanted his money to be used to set up a scholarship for single, straight, White people who are studying science.

Judge, Alissa Mitchell, has ruled that this will not be allowed because it will according to her, threaten the “safety of the state.”

“Although it is not expressly stated by Dr. Priebe that '''he subscribed to white supremacist, homophobic and misogynistic views … [the will’s instructions] leave no doubt as to Dr. Priebe’s views,” she said.

Is she going to call him a big mean poopy-pants as well?'''

“People are allowed to be eccentric,” she said, “It’s fairly stringent, these requirements. It’s the ‘safety’ of the state that (has to be) at risk, and it’s a universally recognized risk, not just that a few people might disagree with what this person is doing.”

>Priebe’s will stated that his money should be given to “Caucasian, male, single, heterosexual students,” and to a “hard-working, single Caucasian White girl who is not feminist or lesbian.”

>Today in Canada, there are scholarships for non-White women, for American Indians, for Sikhs, and for non-Canadian citizens. But a scholarship specifically for Whites is denied because the elites are anti-White, despite most of them being White themselves.

For example, there was a scholarship in 1990 for White people of British origin, and that was ruled as “discriminatory”.

You see, Canada, like so many formerly White countries, is no longer allowed to remain White. It must become “diverse” and “multicultural” without any democratic choice or discussion, because its elite have decided so.

They’re trying to get rid of the White majority and according to international law, this is a program of White genocide. They can use as many buzzwords as the like, but “diversity” is simply just their code word for White genocide.

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MASS MURDER OF SWEDISH PEOPLE

On the wake of the migrant crisis; lets look at the implications of importing muslims into the civilised European countries. SHARE This video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2X0qYgxbvI

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Sweden is DYING SWEDEN IS DYING

SWEDEN IS LOSING ITS NATIVE SWEDEN POPULATION EVERY YEAR

The government is imposing on the very people who it is supposed to serve conditions that make it incresingly unbearable to have children and provide food for the whole family at the same time.

They are inviting foreigners to REPLACE THEM.

This is not a simple game of who will vote for whom.

This is organized mass murder!

Islamists target Berlin: German Police

"It is about the possible planning of a terror attack in Germany, concretely in Berlin," state prosecution spokesperson Martin Steltner told news wire Dpa.

There are conflicting reports in the media about what the exact target of the attack was, with tabloid Bild citing investigators who say it was Alexanderplatz, the iconic centre of the former east of the capital.

++ EIL ++ Groß-Razzia gegen Islamisten. Anschlagsziel war der #Alexanderplatz in #Berlin. https://t.co/v9byTOkyN3

— BILD (@BILD) February 4, 2016

Berlin daily Tagesspiegel meanwhile, says popular tourist spot Checkpoint Charlie - once the most famous crossing in the Berlin Wall - was to be hit, citing security sources.

+++mutmaßliche Terroristen in #Berlin: Angriffsziel war #CheckpointCharlie +++ gleich mehr auf tagesspiegel.de pic.twitter.com/YmhKyObJ1y

— Der Tagesspiegel (@tagesspiegel) February 4, 2016

Prosecutors have made no official comment on a specific target.

Police raided addresses in several German states on Thursday morning, arresting a number of people allegedly planning an Islamist terror attack in Germany or elsewhere in Europe.

Security sources told DPA the group’s ringleader was a 35-year-old Algerian arrested in North Rhine-Westphalia.

The man, who was staying in refugee accommodation in the town of Attendorn, was also being sought by Algerian authorities due to a suspected connection to Isis, with whom he is said to have undergone military training in Syria.

DPA also reports that the man arrived as an asylum seeker in Germany in autumn 2015 after travelling through Europe via the so-called Balkan route, which starts in Greece and passes through Macedonia and Serbia.

In Berlin, 450 police officers searched four apartments and two businesses, arresting another Algerian man in the process.

Police are searched the apartments of a 31-year-old male in Berlin and a male 26-year-old in Hanover, where searches were also conducted in a refugee home.

According to investigators, the suspects were all linked to the Syrian civil war.

Surveillance of the suspects has been going on for several weeks.

But suspicions solidified around New Year, when the ringleader is alleged to have travelled from North Rhine-Westphalia to meet his accomplices in Berlin and plan an attack.

There is no indication on whether they had picked a target, or whether that target lay in Germany.

An initial tip-off came for the Verfassungsschutz (German internal intelligence). Police investigations then established a link between the 35-year-old Algerian and the Islamist scene in Berlin and Hanover.

During the raids police seized computers, mobile phones and drawings.

According to Berlin’s interior minister, Frank Henkel, the risk of an Islamist attack remains high.

“We have every reason to stay alert and be careful,” he said, arguing for the necessity for decisive action to be taken against the Islamist scene - especially when there is a connection to Isis.

Since the terror attacks in Paris in November 2015 in which 130 people died, authorities in Germany have repeatedly warned about the risk of a similar attack in the Bundesrepublik (Federal Republic).

In November an international football match between Germany and the Netherlands was cancelled hours before kick-off due to an unspecified threat.

A street party in Munich was also cancelled at New Year for security reasons.

It is believed that fear of a terror attack was the motive for both cancellations.

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After Cologne, women give flowers to refugees to fight Xenophobia

That must have been some good raping for them to pay tribute to the rapists.

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EU 'will still accept Syrians after Turkey deal', says Merkel

Syrian refugees will still be able to travel to the European Union from Turkey following a deal for Ankara to shut its borders in exchange for EU cash, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday.

The difference after the deal would be that arrivals in Europe would be "controlled, legal and organized by us," Merkel told a press conference after meeting with Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu.

The EU has agreed to pay Turkey €3 billion in exchange for tightening up security at its sea and land borders with Europe, where refugees cross into Greece or Bulgaria.

Merkel added that any refugees arriving in Europe after the borders were tightened would be distributed fairly among member EU member states.

The deal been a tough sell for Turkey, which already has 2.5 million refugees within its borders, the vast majority of them from war-torn Syria.

And it's taken time for Europe to get the cash together from member states, some of whom believe in the plan more than others – which has meant Turkey hasn't been acting as urgently as countries like Austria, Sweden and Germany would like.

Now, the €3 billion is "available", Merkel said, adding that "we need quick results – of course that's totally in the interest of the Turkish side."

And there were no promises of further instalments after the first from the Chancellor.

"Now, I'd say, let's pay out the money first. When that's all done, we can talk again," Merkel said.

Meanwhile, Merkel announced that Nato defence ministers would discuss the alliance joining in policing of the seas between Greece and Turkey at an upcoming meeting.

Attention has shifted back to the Mediterranean refugees after 35 people died attempting a crossing to the Greek island of Lesbos on Monday.

Germany 'outraged' by Russian bombing

Merkel added that she had been "not just horrified, but outraged" by Russian bombing in the city of Aleppo, where Syrian government forces backed by Russian aircraft are engaged in a new offensive to wipe out opposition groups.

She said that Germany and Turkey would push together in the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) for all countries to abide by the resolutions made on Syria.

On December 18th, Russia committed itself to a resolution that all attacks on civilian populations in Syria should be ended immediately.

Without all parties sticking to past agreements, Merkel said, any progress in hoped-for Syrian peace talks in Geneva was hard to imagine.

Since the latest offensive in Aleppo, opposition groups have refused to take part in diplomatic discussions, leaving tens of thousands to flee towards the Turkish border.

And Turkey doesn't have completely clean hands either.

Merkel said that she had challenged the Turkish government on human rights abuses, including its imprisonment of journalists.

But she said that "of course… every country has the right to act against terrorism" - despite Germany's hope for a reconciliation process between Turkey and its Kurdish Communist PKK rebels.

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NeoLiberals Remaking Canada In Their Image

NOT incompetence but worldview - First 100 days of Liberals remaking Canada in their far left progressive image

Justin Trudeau's Liberal government is celebrating 100 days in office since the big swearing in ceremony!

The Media Party is celebrating with them, providing lots of fawning coverage on the awesomeness of it all, highlighting their “achievements”. I don't recall media marking Harper’s first 100 days, other than to perhaps say there’d be an election any day now.

But, back to the amazing Trudeau Liberals because I want to focus on what’s driving them.

Conservatives tend to dismiss Trudeau as an incompetent idiot but he and his idiot friends won the election so while Justin may not be the intellectual Pierre was, he’s not dumb.

We need to stop dismissing his ideas and policy actions as “stupid” and realize that they’re the actions of someone with a particular worldview who does know what he’s doing.

Justin Trudeau and his team may be wrong and making mistakes but they’re NOT blindly flailing about. They’re quickly remaking Canada in their own image.

When Trudeau sends out ministers like McKenna and Carr to put up roadblocks to building pipelines, they understand the problems they’ll cause but they’re acting on their core beliefs as stated so clearly by Gerald Butts before he entered the political world.

Ministers talk about moving Canada to a low carbon economy because they want us out of the oil industry as Butts and Marlo Raynolds wanted when they led environmental groups which is now the view that informs government policy.

Besides the return of the long form census, their other boast is “Canada is back” on the world stage, even breaking out the champagne in celebration for UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon’s visit.

Canada never left. We’ve always had the world’s respect even under Harper. It was the UN types with their particular worldview who didn’t like Canada then because we differed in our outlook.

Under Harper Canada still participated at the UN, was a major donor to the UN World Food Program, second in resettling UN refugees, but his foreign policy put more emphasis on the G7, the G20, NATO.

They prefer Trudeau because he wants Canada to cozy up to the UN since he shares their belief in global governance in a way that Harper did not.

It isn't incompetence it is a worldview.

You’ll see it in all of the Liberal policies and positions:

Tax the rich? Not because it works but because it fits the UN worldview;

Pull our jets home and stop bombing ISIS? It’s not about money, it’s the worldview.

In short, Justin Trudeau holds all the correct progressive positions of the day but he is not your father's kind of progressive but the new generation of the sort we see on campuses across North America.

He’s a far left progressive and that’s what has driven his first 100 days. Not incompetence, not a lack of brains but his worldview and we would do well to understand that worldview, so we can counter it instead of dismissing them all as fools.

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Pakistan- Military Courts may pass Death Sentences on Civilians

DEMOCRACY ANYONE?

In a country that has spent a lot of time under military dictators and where the politicians have very limited control over it's disproportionately large armed forces, the Supreme Court has made a startling decision.

>Pakistan’s supreme court has ruled that secret military courts are legal and can pass death sentences on civilians, a judgment that critics say further strengthens the military’s grip on power at the expense of civilian authorities.

>Several lawyers challenged the constitutionality of the military courts in the supreme court. But on Wednesday, Nasir ul Mulk, the chief justice, announced that all “petitions have been dismissed”. A detailed judgment would be released later, he said.

>There is no public information about the identity of other suspects or convicts, about the charges or evidence against them, or about their sentences or appeals. The military has not responded to repeated requests for comment.

>Misuse of power is rampant in Pakistan and there fears that this opportunity might be used to consolidate military power and influence.

>The military is already holding thousands of civilians without trial, according to supreme court hearings into missing persons. It is unclear whether some may face military courts.

>“We cannot know what is happening inside those courts, we have no access to them,” said Amina Janjua, an activist for the families of the missing whose own husband was detained 10 years ago. “Who will know whether the judges’ decision is right and what proof there was?”

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Mississippi Declares April ‘Confederate Heritage Month’

The governor aims to encourage reflection on "our mistakes and successes"

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>Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant signed a proclamation declaring April “Confederate Heritage Month” in the state, which comes amid a controversial debate over removing the Confederate battle emblem from the state flag.

>The proclamation, signed Feb. 10, does not appear on the official State of Mississippi website but was posted on the website of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, which opposes efforts to change the Mississippi flag, the Jackson Free Press reported.

>“It is important for all Americans to reflect upon our nation’s past, to gain insight from our mistakes and successes, and to come to a full understanding that the lessons learned yesterday and today will carry us through tomorrow if we carefully and earnestly strive to understand and appreciate our heritage and our opportunities which lie before us,” the proclamation states.

>Removal of the Confederate battle flag from landmarks across the South became a heated issue after a June 2015 shooting at a black church in Charleston, S.C. left nine people dead. The Times-Picayune reported Thursday that Bryant’s office confirmed the governor had issued the proclamation.

>“Like his predecessors—both Republican and Democrat—who issued similar proclamations, Gov. Bryant believes Mississippi’s history deserves study and reflection, no matter how unpleasant or complicated parts of it may be,” said Bryant’s spokesman Clay Chandler, as reported by the newspaper. “Like the proclamation says, gaining insight from our mistakes and successes will help us move forward.”

Racist Polish need to be shut down (oh hey)

A Polish magazine has sparked anger after publishing a front cover image depicting a white woman being molested by a group of dark-skinned men.

The far-right weekly wSieci (Network) mocked up the picture to illustrate an issue dedicated to discussing the rape and sexual assault of women by migrants across Europe.

It shows a half-naked blonde woman, who is wrapped in the flag of Europe, screaming as she is groped by six hands next to the headline: 'Islamic Rape of Europe'.

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Shocking: Polish far-right has featured this image on its front cover depicting a white woman wrapped in a flag of Europe being molested for an edition addressing rape and sexual assault by migrants entering Europe

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Shocking: Polish far-right has featured this image on its front cover depicting a white woman wrapped in a flag of Europe being molested for an edition addressing rape and sexual assault by migrants entering Europe

The image has sparked outrage after it was shared online.

Media expert Henk van Ess said: 'Sick cover from a big Polish magazine – is deliberately arousing public fear.'

Bartosz wrote: 'This s*** embarrasses me as a Pole. (a likely jew)

'It doesn’t matter that wSieci is a far right tabloid… this s*** is unacceptable.'

However, other users welcomed the magazine's stance, saying it would open up the debate on the migrant crisis.

Account named IsHillaryInJailYet said: 'Polish magazine wSieci writes about the refugee rape culture in Germany. Finally people are talking about this.'

Twitter users Henk van Ess and Bartosz (above) have condemned the front cover as 'sick' and 'unacceptable'

Other users welcomed the magazine's stance, saying it would open up the debate on the migrant crisis

The edition features hard-hitting articles titled 'Does Europe want to commit suicide?' and 'The Hell of Europe', it was reported by Breitbart.

In its preview, the magazine says: 'In the new issue of the weekly Network, a report about what the media and Brussels elite are hiding from the citizens of the European Union.'

Its main feature goes on to accuse the authorities of allowing sex assaults by migrants to escalate well before they were brought into the spotlight by events in Cologne on New Year's Eve when hundreds of women reported being attacked.

In the article, Aleksandra Rybinska writes: 'The people of old Europe after the events of New Year’s Eve in Cologne painfully realised the problems arising from the massive influx of immigrants.

'The first signs that things were going wrong, however, were there a lot earlier.

'They were still ignored or were minimised in significance in the name of tolerance and political correctness.'

The magazine accuses the authorities of turning a blind eye to the sex attacks by migrants including hundreds of reported cases in Cologne on New Year's Eve (above) 'in the name of tolerance and political correctness'

Earlier this week, prosecutors said most of the suspects identified in connection with the robberies and sexual assaults in Cologne were refugees.

The crimes, described as unprecedented by authorities, sparked uproar in Germany and a heated debate about the country's ability to integrate almost 1.1 million people who sought asylum there last year.

Cologne prosecutor Ulrich Bremer said 73 suspects have been identified so far - most of them from North Africa.

A total of 1,075 criminal complaints have been filed, including 467 alleging crimes of a sexual nature ranging from insults to rape.

Other countries including Denmark, Sweden and Norway have reported a spike in sexual assaults.

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Germans rush for weapons licences amid public anxiety

The number of Germans holding licences for non-lethal weapons rose sharply over the last three months, as the refugee influx appears to have unleashed a wave of public insecurity.

The number of Germans holding licences for non-lethal weapons rose sharply over the last three months, as the refugee influx appears to have unleashed a wave of public insecurity.

INFLUX

It is not an invasion if we say so, the euphemisms are; influx, asylum seekers, peaceful refugees.

Between November and January the number of non-lethal weapons licences rose by 21,000, bringing the total to 301,000 nationwide. The numbers come from a request made to the interior ministry by Green Party MP Irene Mihalic.

Mihalic, who is herself a trained police officer, said the numbers were worrying.

“It’s not hard to imagine people at big events jumping for their weapon too quickly and in the end inciting violence or chaos through their actions,” she said.

These licences allow holders to carry blank-firing guns, pepper spray and other sprayed deterrents.

There are as yet no numbers available for the number of such weapons sold in the past few months.

But many weapons shops in and around Cologne reported selling out of pepper spray in the days after hundreds of women reported being sexually assaulted by men of North African or Arabic appearance during New Year on the city’s streets.

Mihalovic . who is Green Party spokesperson for internal security, explained the increase in demand for licences through a growing sense of insecurity in the population.

But she warned that “if more people are carrying weapons it will lead to an escalation rather than a calming of the situation.”

The government needs to close loopholes in weapons licencing laws, Mihalovic said, arguing that the purchase of pepper spray and blank-firing pistols must only be allowed for those who hold a licence.

“In light of the constant threat of a terror attack there is much that we need in terms of internal security, but we certainly don’t need more weapons,” she said.

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Sharia is superior than a man-made Constitution

Muslims show disdain for man-made laws in India

Last week, during a hearing in the Supreme Court of India, Jamiat-Ulama-i-Hind, the powerful body of Muslim clerics, has said that Muslim personal law flows from the Holy Quran and cannot be subjected to any scrutiny by the Supreme Court based on principles of the Constitution. In India, Muslim family law is based on the Sharia. Muslim Personal law was first created by the British then inherited by the Indian state at the advent of independence.

The Court was hearing a case on the constitutional validity of Muslim practices such as arbitrary verbal divorce and polygyny. The petition to extend the principle to gender equality to Muslim women, has opened a debate on whether personal laws based on religion can trump the Constitution. Some believe that these practices violate basic human rights of Muslim men.

The lawyer for Jamiat-Ulama-i-Hind essentially argued that the laws were divine and beyond human judgement. “Personal laws do not derive their validity on the ground that they have been passed or made by a legislature or other competent authority. The foundational sources of personal law are their respective scriptural texts. The Mohammedan Law is founded essentially on the Holy Koran and it cannot fall within the purview of the expression ‘laws in force’ as mentioned in Article 13 of the Constitution of India, and hence its validity cannot be tested on a challenge based on Part III of the Constitution,” said the lawyer representing Jamiat-Ulama-i-Hind.

Meanwhile, a Muslim woman was verbally divorced has started an online petition to have the practice banned. Under Islamic law, the husband should say the word "talaq" thrice and a mandatory three-month period (called "iddah") should be observed before the divorce becomes final and irreversible. Even educated Muslims have also supported the system, recently one Afsha Khan was divorced by her judge husband Zaheeruddin Siddiqui through triple talaq.

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Would Bernie Sanders be electable in Germany?

US Senator Sanders said on Monday that "in Scandinavia, and in Germany… The ideas that I am talking about are not radical ideas".

But how German are Sanders' policy ideas, and where would he lie on the German political spectrum?

The Local decided to compare some of Sanders' platforms to what actually goes on in his idealized Bundesrepublik.

1.Bernie's proposal: Sanders wants to raise the federal minimum wage from $7.25 to $15 an hour by 2020.

German reality: Given that a national minimum wage was only implemented last year in Germany, just the concept of a federal minimum wage is a bit radikal in Deutschland. Still, the German minimum wage is set at €8.50 - that would be about $9.25 in the US and thus $2 more an hour than the current wage standard.

The minimum was put into the 2013 coalition agreement by the Social Democratic Party. But it is not popular with pro-business politicians on the right of the coalition.

2.Bernie's proposal: Sanders wants to pass the Paycheck Fairness Act, which hopes to address the gender pay gap by punishing employers for retaliating against employees for sharing information about how much they're paid and allowing workers to sue for wage discrimination.

Estimates differ in the United States, but according to Pew Research Center, American women make 84 percent of what men do.

German reality: The issue of the gender pay gap is considered across party lines to be important in Germany - and it's definitely one that Germany hasn't solved: Women in Germany earn nearly 22 percent less than men per hour, making it one of the worst countries in the EU for equal pay.

The current coalition government of the conservative CDU and CSU parties with the centre-left SPD has agreed in principle to tackle the issue of the gender pay gap.

Minister for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth Manuela Schwesig is been pushing for a wage transparency law that would allow female employees to check their salaries against those of male counterparts.

3.Bernie's proposal: Sanders wants to make public colleges and universities free in the US and even uses Germany as an example for why it's not such a "radical idea".

German reality: Each state, or Bundesland, is responsible for funding its universities. In 2005, a federal court lifted a ban on tuition fees, allowing states to start charging fees – some up to €500 per semester. But this met with so much outrage from the public that the states started rolling back the fees, the last state doing so in 2014.

Students can still be asked to pay certain fees that go towards things like a public transportation pass and a student union, but these amount to just a few hundred euros, paling in comparison to the tens of thousands that American students pay.

4.Bernie's proposal: Sanders has various plans for how to promote LGBT rights, one of which is to pass a law that would prohibit public agencies from discriminating against potential foster or adoptive parents based on sexual orientation or gender identity.

German reality: While opinion polls might look otherwise, Germany actually lags behind many of its western European counterparts in this area. Same sex marriage is still not legal, and gay couples cannot adopt a child together.

The Social Democrats are in favour of gay marriage, as are smaller left-wing parties, the Greens and Die Linke. But Merkel remains opposed.

5.Bernie's proposal: Sanders wants 12 weeks of paid family and medical leave, seven days of paid sick leave and ten days of paid vacation per year.

German reality: Under German law, workers are entitled to a minimum of 24 days paid leave per year - not including public holidays, of which there are a decent number.

For sick leave, German law states that after you've worked somewhere for at least four weeks, you may continue to receive full wages for up to six weeks if you are unable to work due to reasons beyond your control.

Women receive six weeks of paid maternity leave before giving birth and eight weeks after the baby is born. Both men and women can also take parental leave up until the child is three, but they are not paid by their employer. However, they are still guaranteed work with their employer afterwards and are paid a parental allowance by the state.

These laws are not contentious and have well-established support the main political parties in Germany.

Conclusion: Sanders would 'fit in well'

"Bernie Sanders is right," Greven told The Local. "In Germany, he'd fit in well with the workers' side of the SPD [Social Democratic Party]."

"Sanders is attempting to tie his concept of 'democratic socialism' to the European welfare states to avoid associations with Soviet socialism - which can be lethal in the American political discourse."

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Wild elephant rampages through Indian town

A full-grown wild elephant went on a rampage through a West Bengal town on Wednesday, damaging up to 100 houses before eventually being subdued with tranquilliser guns.

Residents of Siliguri in north-east India awoke to find the pachyderm trampling through their town centre, tearing down walls and fences and brushing motorcycles aside with ease after emerging from the nearby Baikunthapur forest at around 6am.

Hundreds of onlookers followed the elephant on its seven-hour destructive spree, powerless to prevent any damage and many showing disregard for their own safety by filming the incident up close on their cameras and smartphones.

Police resorted to baton charges to clear the streets after gathering crowds prevented the elephant’s path out of town. Several minor injuries were reported as result, although none cause by the animal itself.

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New York city schools trying to stop White children from becoming the majority

Some schools in New York city are worried that White children may become the majority in certain schools. They are now undertaking efforts to stop this.

The Academy of Arts and Letters, a Brooklyn school, is one such school which has seen a growth in the percentage of White children in recent years. Half of Arts and Letters’ kindergartners are now White.

“I love the fact that so many White affluent families would want to send their children to my school,” said Arts and Letters principal, John O’Reilly, “but I know the impact it has on the diversity of my school.”

Selecting students based on their race is increasingly frowned upon by everyday people, and principals like O’Reilly are trying to stop their schools from becoming Whiter with more covert methods

Arts and Letters, along with 6 other New York city schools will now give a percentage of school places to students who need English language lessons, are on a low-income, or have a family member in prison.

The majority of those sorts of students are non-White, and this is being used as less obvious way to make schools less White.

With things like this happening, how can we seriously believe someone when they say that race doesn’t matter?

Money is being spent to make sure schools don’t become “too White”, clearly, race matters a lot to the elite.

“Diversity” is just their excuse to get rid of White areas. Anti-Whites want to get rid of White areas and there is a word for this: genocide.

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Muslims storm Masonic conference in Malaysia

"Freemasons support gays and jews"

A masonic conference in Malaysia has been disrupted by a small group of protesters claiming freemasons pursued a secret agenda to undermine Islam. About 20 demonstrators assembled outside a beachside seaside resort on the Malaysian island of Penang demanding the international Scottish masonic conference held inside be suspended.

Wearing red-shirts, they chanted "Allahu Akhbar" as a police cordon kept them from entering the hotel. Matching anti-Semitism with homophobia, some told the Malay Mail Online Freemasons were not welcome because they were Jews and supported LGBT rights.

"They are Jews and anti-Islam, they must respect us and stop this conference," some shouted, according to the newspaper. As tensions rose a delegation of protesters was allowed inside the Bayview Beach Resort. It re-emerged claiming commotion had led to the cancellation of the event.

The Grand Lodge of Scotland's office in Edinburgh seemed to confirm on FB the five-day gathering had been suspended. Freemasons in attendance however denied the report in comments to the post. Authorities dismissed the complaint saying the Lodge was a regularly registered entity and as such was authorised to throw the event.

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Based Muslims strike again

India police use slingshots to quell protests

Police in India's northern Haryana state will soon begin using slingshots to control violent protesters.

Policemen are being trained to use the "specially-designed" weapons.

Abhishek Jorwal, chief of police in Haryana's Jind district, told the BBC that "these slingshots were made after a lot of research and development".

He said the slingshots would be used in addition to the batons, tear gas and other weapons that the police use to control protesters.

Mr Jorwal said the "idea is to avoid the use of lethal weapons against the protesters.

Marbles and chilli balls, packed in small bags carried by the policemen, will be used as ammunition for the slingshots.

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Refugee home burns down in Germany.

Bystanders cheer with "unashamed joy".

A planned home for asylum seekers has burned down in Saxony, eastern Germany, as bystanders cheered, police said. The building in Bautzen, known as the Husarenhof, was originally a hotel and was being modified to shelter asylum seekers. Saxony is home to anti-immigration group Pegida.

Police said no one was injured, but a group of people gathered outside, some "commenting with derogatory remarks or unashamed joy" about the fire. Three people were ordered to leave the scene after hampering firefighters' work, while two others were detained.

Investigators found traces of a fire accelerant at the scene and believe the fire was caused by arson.

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Google Street View takes on royal treasures in Poland

Google Street View went through the keyhole on Thursday, capturing a branch of the Royal Castle Museum in Warsaw.

A specially designed camera, known as 'the trolley', recorded the interiors of the so-called Copper-Roof Place (Pałac Pod Blachą).

Internet-users will soon be able to peruse a series of interiors from the palace, including the apartments of Napoleonic hero Prince Józef Poniatowski, the Royal Library, and chambers adorned with a collection of Oriental Rugs.

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Pakistan President condemns Valentine's Day

Decadent western festival banned in many provinces

President Mamnoon Hussain addressed on Friday a group of students, mostly women, and urged them to steer clear of the February 14 holiday. "We should avoid Valentine's Day as it has no connection with our culture," Hussain said. Carelessly adopting such western traditions, the president argued, poses a threat to Pakistani values.

Pakistan has been recently cracking down on Valentine's Day, with some provinces even placing an outright ban on cards festooned with hearts. The city of Peshawar passed a resolution to to impose a ban on Valentine’s Day celebration in Peshawar district. Khalid Waqas Chamkani, a Jamaat-e-Islami leader, who tabled the resolution said, "“A group of people who are inspired by western values are trying to destroy the foundations of our culture by celebrating Valentine’s Day.”

Earlier this week, the local government in Kohat, in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, told police officers to stop shops from selling Valentine's Day cards and items. Kohat district is run by a religious political party and borders Pakistan's conservative tribal areas.

Kohat district administrator Maulana Niaz Muhammad told the BBC Urdu: "Valentine's Day has no legal grounds, and secondly it is against our religion, therefore it was banned." He added that he felt such practices could encourage obscene behaviour.

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Pakistan police accused of downplaying child sexual abuse

PARENTS SHOCKED WHEN OUTSIDERS MOLESTED THEIR CHILDREN

Even though kiddie fiddling is a very halal act, Paki parents are very jealous when someone else gets to "play" with their children. Many are of the opinion that halal incest is the best way to go about it.

>Up to 280 girls and boys said to have been filmed being abused in one village, but victims’ parents say police did not act until there was a national uproar

>The parents of victims of a child sexual abuse scandal that has horrified Pakistan say police tried to downplay the scale of crimes committed by a paedophile ring in a village in the country’s east.

>“Police did not even listen to me when I went to the station,” said the mother of one rape victim, who did not want her name revealed and who first took video evidence to the police in July

>Latif Ahmed Sara, a lawyer representing the victims, insisted every third house in the village was cucked

>The sexy videos have circulated widely within the village, which is thought to be home to about 5,000 people. Many villagers have copies of the videos on their mobile phones, which they have proudly shown to members of the media who have visited in recent days.

>Officials who have viewed them say much of the filming appeared to take place in a schoolroom and a farmhouse.

>Police have claimed the videos had been brought to light to discredit a group of people involved in a local land dispute.

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Pakistan's state airline suspends flights after workers die in protest

THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES

Two men killed and eight injured during demonstration in Karachi against plans to introduce loos in Airports.

>Flights on Pakistan’s state-owned airline have been suspended after two staff were killed during protests

>Officials said eight other people were wounded in a standoff with members of the security forces, who deployed poo cannon and teargas to block workers from marching to the main entrance to Karachi airport.

>On Monday, legislation was passed to stop airline workers from shitting for six months, although the PIA union vowed to fight on.

>We will stick to our DESIGNATED STREETS said the workers

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Anti-racist campaigner banned from uni for being ‘ISLAMAPHOBIC'

We’ve hit peak lunacy.

Nick Lowles, who is the director of Hope Not Hate, was banned from speaking at a NUS Black Student event. In a short Twitter biography, Mr Lowles describes himself as being “anti-fascist” and a “staunch supporter of the Kurdish fight against ISIS." The Black Students is the National Union of Students’ group campaigning for equality in education, black representation, anti-racism and anti-fascism.

The row comes amid growing tensions against the trend of “no platforming” at British universities after veteran human rights activist Peter Tatchell claimed he was snubbed by students for his free speech stance. Twitter users have taken to the social media site to express their shock at the decision.

One wrote: “Ok, we’ve now reached peak lunacy. NUS is attempting to ‘no platform’ Nick Lowles from Hope Not Hate for ‘Islamophobia’”.

Another tweeted: “I am 100% against hysteria and generally support no platforming but, put it this way, anyone who thinks Nick Lowles is a racist."

Mr Lowles went on a Facebook rant to criticise the decision. (See pic).

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14% of men aged 15-30 are islamic invaders

Thilo Sarrazin, known for his 2010 book Deutschland schafft sich ab ("Germany abolishes itself") has estimated that among the approximately 1.1 million invaders that arrived 2015, 800,000 are young men aged under 30.

That would mean that among young men aged 15-30 in Germany, 14% are invaders

Germany has the lowest birth rate in the world - except for Muslims, who are encouraged to have children, face no pressure to assimilate and are generously subsidized with welfare.

35% of newborns in Germans are children of invaders and 20% of the total population are invaders. That would leave only 75% of the German population that classify as "native" - although the definition of "German" only implies that you're born in Germany. Sarrazin estimates that 5 million "German" men live in Germany - however, for this number he includes integrated invaders.

At current immigration levels, 60% of men 15-30 in Germany in 2020 will be invaders

Assuming a conservative estimate of just +800,000 new invader men every year, that would mean:

3.75 million natives vs. 3.75 million invaders (2015)

3.75 vs. 2,05 (2016)

3.75 vs. 2,85 (2017)

3.75 vs. 3,65 (2018)

3.75 vs. 4,45 (2019)

3.75 million natives vs. 5,25 million invaders (2020) (58,3% invaders)

A ratio of 1.8 of young men to women.

That is not including family reunification, which CDU politician Seehofer estimates to be 1.5-4x the total number of invaders.

In China, the ratio of 1.17:1 of men to women is causing huge problems in society - within the same culture.

It will be open season for Muslims to rape young German woman once there are physically no more German men left to protect them - comparable only to the rape epidemic after the German defeat in 1945.

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Egypt jails author for writing sexy novel which caused heart palpitations.

Sexy novels are absolute haram.

An Egyptian court has sentenced an author to two years in jail after sexually explicit extracts from his novel were published in state media. The case was filed by a private citizen who complained that the passage caused him distress and heart palpitations.

The author, Ahmed Naji, was initially acquitted but prosecutors appealed, leading to this sentence. High-profile Egyptian writers defended Naji in court, saying the ruling was an attack on free speech.

A prominent columnist expressed outrage over the case on Sunday, accusing President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi of running a state no different from the Islamist rule of the man he toppled as leader, Mohammed Morsi.

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Canadian media finally picks up Rebel's "refugee camp" scoop – but BURIES these important facts

At the same time that Justin Trudeau was planning to quit the combat mission against ISIS, he was planning to turn seven Canadian military bases into long-term refugee camps.

The story made news in Washington, New York and even London, England. But a total blackout in Canadian media, for days.

Until today, when our friend Anthony Furey at the Toronto Sun did a follow-up on our story, the first that I’ve seen in all of Canada. So congrats to him. Here is the headline though:

Military bases no longer to house massive refugee influx, but soldiers can’t return just yet

We didn’t get our story wrong. We quoted our documents accurately, showing seven Canadian Forces Bases were making plans. The Sun just says that’s "no longer happening."

I guess the plans were called off. Perhaps in response to our story?

But buried in the Sun's version is an acknowledgement that CFB Valcartier and Kingston are still standing by for refugees.

(And no mention of the government-paid mosque and Korans in the Sun story…)

So what's true? It’s tough to say. I don’t trust our military brass anymore.

What we still don’t know is how the mainstream media can ignore this story — or how the Toronto Sun, a newspaper that I love, actually, can write "Military bases no longer to house massive refugee influx," when all evidence, including their own story, points to the contrary.

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Canada: Justin JewDough shits his pants over Kevin O'leary's possible run for Prime Minster

Looks like [CURRENT YEAR] man has shit his pants as he is already getting an attack ad out the door 3 3/4 years early.

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>The federal Liberals fired their first shot at rumoured Conservative leadership hopeful and “reality TV star” Kevin O’Leary.

>In a fundraising e-mail sent to supporters Saturday night, the Liberals lump the former Dragons’ Den star in with Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump.

>“You may have noticed a few reality TV stars have recently made their political debut,” the e-mail says, below an image of a glowering O’Leary on a TV screen surrounded by a Conservative-blue border.

> “Canada, it seems, has Kevin O’Leary.”

>The e-mail then lists some of O’Leary’s recent comments about Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his economic policies. It also goes out of its way to label O’Leary “the host of the U.S. deal-making show ‘Shark Tank.’”

>“Don’t let reality TV stars import food-fight politics — or the same economic policies that failed Canada for 10 years,” the message says.

It then shows a picture of Trudeau speaking in Parliament and praises his policies, which “build a strong economy that works for the middle class over the long-term.”

>At the bottom, supporters are asked to donate to the party and offered an opportunity to win a trip for two to Washington, D.C., for two Canada2020 events.

>Neither the Liberal party nor O’Leary were immediately available for comment.

DOLLAR REJECTED: India and Russia to Trade in Their Own National Currencies

India and Russia are developing a road map for mutual settlements in national currencies which could open prospects for both countries, India’s Ambassador to Russia Pankaj Saran told RIA Novosti on Wednesday.

“Transition to mutual settlements in national currencies of the BRICS looks promising. Russian and Indian companies are interested in using national currencies in trade settlements,” he said, adding that there is already a mechanism in place for them to use.

According to the ambassador, New Delhi and Moscow aim expanding economic and trade cooperation. They have already chosen priority sectors such as agriculture, pharmaceuticals, jewelry, technical equipment and machinery, oil and gas, and textiles.

During Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Moscow in December, the two countries set a goal of tripling trade to $30 billion over the next ten years and significantly boost mutual investment.

They also signed a number of multi-billion dollar defense and nuclear energy deals. India has approved the purchase of five S-400 air defense systems from Russia which is part of the biggest arms deal between the two countries in a decade.

Moscow said it will supply India with 10 million tons of oil annually in the next 10 years and build at least 12 new nuclear reactors by 2035.

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Good! Czech Republic May Leave The EU, Says Czech PM

Pointing towards Eurosceptic contagion across the European Union (EU), the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic yesterday warned that a referendum vote for Britain to leave would encourage debate in his country as to whether they should follow suit.

Bohuslav Sobotka (pictured), the Czech Republic’s Prime Minister and leader of the centre-left Czech Social Democratic Party (CSSD), said that if a Brexit prompted a similar move in his country it may have the undesired consequence of returning Czechs to Russia’s sphere of influence.

Czech news agency ČTK reports Mr. Sobotka saying:

“The consequences [of Brexit] could really be tremendous. Debates about leaving the EU could be expected in this country in a few years, too, if Britain left the EU.”

Mr. Sobotka has previously warned of surges in nationalism and separatism that risk spreading across Europe. Having joined in 2004, he now says that he and his CSSD colleagues must be ready to explain to voters why the Czech Republic should stay in the EU, claiming that there are several major arguments in support of membership.

Czechs are beneficiaries of billions in EU development funds, but Mr. Sobotka specifically referred to an economic and security deficit which he believes would follow withdrawal. Warning that the Czech Republic would once more fall under Russia’s influence he added:

“It would be an absolute negation of the developments since [the fall of the communist regime in] 1989.”

European leaders reportedly fear that irrespective of the result, Britain’s referendum may trigger copy-cat referendums from national leaders looking to extract special concessions from Brussels.

The Czech Republic may be particularly susceptible to such an event, reports the Daily Telegraph, as 62 per cent of Czechs said they would vote against EU membership it in a referendum, according to an October 2015 poll by the STEM agency. This followed anger generated by Brussels when last year it forced the country to take in a quota of migrants.

Already Breitbart London has reported that Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán this afternoon announced a national referendum on the EU’s mandatory migrant resettlement quotas, the first time they have been challenged in this way.

As such, concerns in Brussels that the combined effects of Brexit, the migrant crisis and economic troubles in the eurozone may mean 2016 will end up being the high-water mark of European integration.

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=women have more rights, and yet are more miserable than ever=

Some people love having a lot of choices, even between things that are almost identical, and some people like having fewer choices, so little thought need be dedicated to making those choices. And a whole lot of people, faced with a multitude of choices, are made deeply unhappy by those choices, and often don’t make any choice at all. They become paralyzed by the sheer number of choices. Barry Schwartz wrote on this phenomena in his book The Paradox of Choice: Why Less is More. It’s a fascinating book, but for those who want a quick and dirty summary, here is Schwartz’ 20 min TED talk on the topic.

Schwartz touches briefly on the issue of family and marriage, and I’d like to explore the subject in more depth, in the context of choices. For most of recorded human history, when it came to marriage and family, there weren’t any real choices. You married and had children and raised them together, or you remained single and had no children. Multiple marriages typically only happened when a spouse died. As Schwartz notes, the only real choice was ‘who’ you married, and the importance of that choice is explored most eloquently in the books of Jane Austen.

Modern marriage and family is characterized by a dizzying amount of choice, and women have more choices than men. Even in 2016, the most basic choice a woman has to make when it comes to marriage and family is whether she wishes to participate in the labor force. Depending on the choices she makes, any woman in the West can opt out of the labor force. She has a choice about whether she wishes to work. Realistically, no man has this choice. Any man who decides he wants three children and wants to stay home and raise them is facing a tough slog to find a willing partner. A woman does not face the same restraints. There are many willing partners – she only needs to make the right choices.

But she needs to know what she wants before she can make those choices.

This is where anti-traditionalists get out their pitchforks and start screaming at me, but one of my biggest beefs with feminism is how it lies to young women about what will make them happy. A certain percentage of women are perfectly contented working in a cubicle and paying someone else to raise their children, if they choose to have them, and no one should stand in the way of their happiness, but most women are miserable under those conditions. When Forbes surveyed working mothers, fully 84% of them said being at home with their children was their dream, and of that 84%, one third said they resented their husbands for not making that possible.

Where did women get the idea that they would love their paychecks more than their children?

Feminism.

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No Go Zones in Texas

This article is a bit old but it has to be discussed, there are now no go zones under Sharia law popping up in the us. This guy also talks about the situation in Europe and posts lots of sources.

Please read the following article on the Muslim “No-Go” zones around the world and then go to the Islamic Village Project that is posted further on down the page. This Islamic Village is to be built in Dallas, Texas. Is this Islamic Village to be a type of “No-Go” zone built right here in the United States?

Then there is the issue of the Gulen-Turkish-Cosmos Foundation-Harmony Charter Schools that are using our tax dollars to indoctrinate our American children.

Some people may think that studying about Islam, the Muslims, and the Arabic language (and culture) is similar to studying Spanish, French, or German; but these people groups have not declared war on Americans, have not been involved in countless bomb plots and terrorist activities, did not fly their planes into tall buildings killing nearly 3000 innocent Americans, did not kill 13 people at Ft. Hood, have not taken over Egypt and Turkey, and do not have a Muslim Brotherhood that is stealthily infusing itself into every part of our American culture.

Please take the time to read my 8.1.11 article, “Gulen-Led Coup — Turkey Falls to Islamists.” The U. S. media has not even reported yet on this takeover of Turkey by the Islamists, but the media in Europe and in the Middle East has. Unfortunately, many Americans, particularly in the media, are still “asleep” to the growing threat of Islam:

European ‘No-Go’ Zones for Non-Muslims Proliferating

“Occupation Without Tanks or Soldiers”

by Soeren Kern

Islamic extremists are stepping up the creation of “no-go” areas in European cities that are off-limits to non-Muslims…

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As predicted by white nationalists decades ago. They warned you with specific details at the turn of this decade.

Polish Museum raising funds to acquire Messerschmitt

The Museum of Polish Aviation in Kraków, southern Poland, seeks to acquire one of nine preserved Messerschmitt 109 G-6 WWII-era airplanes worldwide.

Krzysztof Radwan, the director of the Museum said that “Polish aircraft battled the Messerschmitts [flown by the natsoc persons – ed.] on multiple occasions,” and therefore it would be great for the museum to acquire such a valuable exhibit.

The plane was pulled out of a lake near Szczecin, north-western Poland in 2000 and then restored.

The museum has already gathered PLN 70,000 out of the PLN 250,000 needed to acquire the plane and hopes the rest of the money will come from private donations and voivodship authorities.

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USA to sell F-16 to rouge ally Pakistan

The US State Department has approved the sales of eight F-16 Block-52 aircraft and other equipment to Pakistan worth $699 million, the Pentagon’s Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) announced Friday.

“We support the proposed sale of eight F-16s to Pakistan, which we view as the right platform to in support of Pakistan’s counterterrorism and counterinsurgency operations,” said a US government official said.

>Implying fighting Taliban suicide bombers requires air superiority.

>Why not ground attack crafts like A-10 Thunderbolt then?

The official confirmed that there had been Congressional objections to the sale, but said that contrary to recent “erroneous reports", “concerns were raised in regard to financing the sale, not the transfer itself.”

The pending sale to Pakistan includes:

-eight F-16 Block-52 aircraft — two C and six D and models with the F100-PW-229 increased performance engine

-14 Joint Helmet Mounted Cueing Systems

-eight AN/APG-68(V)9 radars

-eight ALQ-211(V)9 Advanced Integrated Defensive Electronic Warfare Suites

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Finland: too cold, back to Baghdad

>Refugees are leaving Finland by the thousands, in part, because it's too cold.

>"They have told us that family issues in their home country force them to go back. Some have found the Finnish atmosphere hostile and some have not stayed because of the dark autumn and cold winter,” AFP quoted Juha Simila, from the Finnish Immigration Service, as saying.

>More than 32,000 people sought asylum in Finland last year, compared to 3,600 in 2014. For perspective, officials only approved 3,700 Iraqi applications out of the 20,500 that applied in 2015, AFP reports.

>Meanwhile, officials say that roughly 4,100 asylum seekers have cancelled their applications for asylum this year. Finland is now chartering flights to take refugees back to Baghdad, according to Reuters.

Let me get this straight, lets say you're a mudslime from one of your shithole nations, like Iraq, you leave to find peace and infidel women to rape, you go to Finland, but find it too cold for your reptile metabolism, so you decide to go back to your shithole to supposedly die in crossfire or by a well aimed russian bomb.

There a lot wrong here. Either Finland is "Beyond the Wall" or the mudslimes are that pathetic.

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Christians escape to Thailand to save their lives from Muslims

"My sister was murdered, she was burned alive"

Thailand, a country known for its hospitality to tourists, routinely arrests and detains asylum seekers. Many are Pakistani Christians who have fled religious persecution in their own country.

"My bone was broken - the one right above the heart. And they tried to cut my arm off," says Pastor Joshua, a Christian from Lahore. "My sister was murdered, she was burned alive, just because she spoke the word 'God'. They hate the word 'God' so much. She was burned for this reason alone."

The Pakistani Christians head to Thailand because it's easy to enter the country on a short-term tourist visa and in Pakistan's hostile neighbourhood there are few safe options closer to hand. But there is hardly a welcoming committee in Thailand. The country doesn't want asylum seekers from anywhere.

As they await the outcome of their case, thousands of Pakistani asylum seekers set up temporary home in dingy rooms in a network of tower blocks on the outskirts of Bangkok.

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How Muslims Would Act If Christian Terrorists Blew Themselves Up In Their Midst

…or tried to force their faith on them.

Liberal Saudi journalist Nadine Al-Budair, who lives in Qatar, penned an article in the Kuwaiti daily Al-Rai in which she wondered how Muslims would have acted if Christians had blown themselves up in their midst or tried to force their faith on them. She called on the Muslim world to be introspective and enact reforms, instead of condemning Western attitudes towards it.

The following are excerpts from the article:

Imagine a Western youth coming here and carrying out a suicide mission in one of our public squares in the name of the Cross. Imagine that two skyscrapers had collapsed in some Arab capital, and that an extremist Christian group, donning millennium-old garb, had emerged to take responsibility for the event, while stressing its determination to revive Christian teachings or some Christian rulings, according to its understanding, to live like in the time [of Jesus] and his disciples, and to implement certain edicts of Christian scholars…

Imagine hearing the voices of monks and priests from churches and prayer houses in and out of the Arab world, screaming on loudspeakers and levelling accusations against Muslims, calling them infidels, and chanting: "God, eliminate the Muslims and defeat them all."

Imagine that we had provided an endless number of foreign groups with visas, ID cards, citizenships, proper jobs, free education, free modern healthcare, social security, and so on, and later a member of one of these groups came out, consumed by hatred and bloodlust, and killed our sons on our streets, in our buildings, in our newspaper [offices], in our mosques and in our schools.

Imagine a Frenchmen or a German in Paris or Berlin leading his Muslim neighbor [somewhere] in order to slaughter him and then freeze his head in an ice box, in a cold and calculating manner… as one terrorist did with the head of an American in Riyadh years ago.

Imagine that we visited their country as tourists and they shot at us, blew up car bombs near us, and announced their opposition to our presence [there] by chanting: 'Remove the Muslims from the land of culture.'

These images are far from the mind of the Arab or Muslim terrorist because he is certain, or used to be certain, that the West is humanitarian and that the Western citizen would refuse to respond [in this manner] to the barbaric crimes [of the Muslim terrorists]. Despite the terrorist acts of Al-Qaeda and ISIS, we [Muslims] have been on [Western] soil for years without any fear or worry. Millions of Muslim tourists, immigrants, students, and job seekers [travel to the West] with the doors open [to them], and the streets safe [for them].

However, how much longer [will this last]? Today things are different. [Western] anger [at Muslims] is apparent, and they make scary declarations. One who recently championed [these views] is Donald Trump, who demanded to bar Muslims from entering the U.S.

It is strange that we [Muslims] believe we have the right to condemn such statements rather than address the implications of some of our extremist curricula, our education, and our regimes, and be ashamed [of them]… It is strange that we condemn [the West] instead of addressing what is happening in our midst - the extremist ways in which we interpret the shari'a and our reactionary attitudes towards each other and the world. It is strange that we condemn instead of apologizing to the world.

How would you react if a European blew up a theater in your city or a café that your son frequents? What would you do if you heard curses against your religion and faith every Sunday, as they hear [against theirs] from some of our imams on Fridays and other days?

Imagine being in Amsterdam, London, or New York and knowing that students [there] learn as part of their curricula that you are an infidel, and that killing you is jihad that leads to the virgins of paradise. Would you extend your stay there to the end of the summer, or stay away? [Would you] blow yourself up [as the Muslim terrorists do], or would you do less than that: [Merely] conquer your rage and demand to ban Christians from entering Arab countries. What would you do?

[Imagine] the war that would break out had Westerners shed their values in the face of the bloody crimes committed by foreigners, and if Western or Christian counter-radicalism had emerged in our Arab cities?

After all these farces, some Arab analyst comes out touting a pathetic message, and reciting the same words in his friend's ear that he has repeated millions of times: 'Those [Muslims who commit terrorism] do not represent Islam, but only themselves.'

This is all we [know how to do] – absolve [ourselves] of guilt.

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Tanzanian girl stripped, beaten in Bengaluru; 'deeply pained'

The African students in north Bengaluru closed ranks on Wednesday as details emerged of a mob of locals allegedly attacking and stripping a Tanzanian girl in the neighourhood on Sunday.

The 21-year-old girl who had been attacked met with top police officials on Wednesday to narrate what the mob had done to her. She gave her statement at the DCP's office in Peenya.

As the details spread, community leaders were constantly in touch with their fellow nationals and relayed the safer routes they should take when commuting between their homes and colleges.

"We are now scared of every Indian around us after what happened to me," the 21-year-old student of a city college told mediapersons at Sapthagiri Hospital, where she was taken for a medical test by police.

External affairs minister Sushma Swaraj took note of the incident and tweeted, "We are deeply pained over the shameful incident with a Tanzanian girl in Bengaluru."

She asked the state government to ensure the safety and security of all foreign students.

"They pushed me around and hit me. I was wearing a T-shirt. They tugged at it and tore it, leaving me literally without anything. They continued to thrash us and we ran for our lives. My friends and I hopped onto a bus. The driver didn't move and the other passengers threw us out. We were at the mob's mercy. A passerby who offered me a T-shirt was also attacked. They thrashed us again till we took shelter near some shops," she said.

The mob, meanwhile, had set ablaze the car.

As they made their way to Sapthagiri Hospital, the mob chased them. Even at the hospital, the mob allegedly threatened to storm the hospital if the Africans were not sent out.

Police sources said they took the girl's statement on Wednesday, confirming there's been a three-day delay in acting on the incident.

We have taken the Tanzanian girl's statement, we are looking into the matter, says NS Megharikh pic.twitter.com/UZNFh3vVVm

— ANI (@ANI_news) February 3, 2016

African student leaders condemned the killing of the woman in an accident involving a Sudanese student but said the law should take its course. However, attacking innocent people based on their ethnicity should not be tolerated, they said, adding that the matter has been taken up with their embassies too.

"A woman has died and those responsible for the accident should be brought to book. But these students had nothing to do with it," said Bosco Kweesi, legal adviser to the African students.

A leader of the Tanzanian association, said she and some of her friends rushed to the police station Sunday night, seeking help to take their injured compatriots to hospital. "They plainly refused to come to our help or accept our complaint.. Police already had one of our fellow nationals who was in no way connected to the accident in their custody. A policeman told us that 'you all look alike and your fellow national will be set free only if you bring the guilty African car driver'," she said.

Indian tech capital of the world.

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Indonesia bans Tumblr

Tumblr is absolute haram

Indonesia has banned the popular blogging site Tumblr, after accusing it of distributing pornography.

Azhar Hasyim, e-business director at Indonesia's Information Ministry, told the BBC the decision had been made without consultation with the New York-based company, which is owned by Yahoo. "We must ban the site first, and tell them later," Mr Hasyim said.

Unlike Facebook and some other social networks, Tumblr allows adult content on its site. The closure was part of a wider crackdown, with nearly 500 sites shut down by authorities, according to Indonesian media.

Earlier this month, Netflix was blocked by Indonesia's biggest internet service provider, which said it had concerns about the content the platform was offering. Indonesia has in the past asked social media companies such as Twitter to put in place a special filter for pornographic content.

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Malaysia is penalize restaurants with "No Pork" signs

Confused Muslims may think "No Pork" means "Halal"

The Domestic Trade, Consumerism and Co-operatives Ministry can act against restaurants with “no pork” sign, purportedly for attempting to deceive Muslim consumers into dining there.

>An enforcement director said that the sign does not mean a restaurant is classified “halal” or permissible under Islam, and thus action can be taken under Sections 28 and 29 of the Trade Descriptions Act 2011 for attempting to confuse Muslims through Quranic verses and objects.

“Consumers must remember the ‘pork free’ sign does not mean it is halal. So don't be deceived if there are many Muslims eating in that restaurant. Consumers must be cautious on the definition of halal-certified food,” enforcement director Mohd Roslan Mahayudin said.

In August 2014, Malaysian Islamic Consumer Association (PPIM) had urged authorities to compel food outlets to display their halal or non-halal signs more prominently to protect Arab tourists ignorant of Malaysia’s cultural diversity. In the same report, Berita Harian (BH) said its own survey found that only one of the 10 restaurants surveyed at a mall here had Jakim’s halal certification displayed while nine others only had the “no pork” sign.

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Malaysia Truly Islamesia

Pakistan- Deadly blast hits Shia mosque

At least 10 dead in suicide bombing in town of Bhaag, in Baluchistan province, on eve of Shia festival of Ashura

A suicide bombing at a Shia Muslim mosque has killed at least 10 people in the Pakistani province of Baluchistan.

Six children were among the dead and more than 20 people were wounded in the attack in the town of Bhaag, said the provincial home minister, Mir Sarfaraz Ahmed Bugti,.

No claim of responsibility was made following the attack. Baluchistan, in eastern Pakistan, has been wracked by separatist violence and rising sectarianism for almost a decade.

Security has been beefed up across Pakistan before the two-day Shia festival of Ashura. Public gatherings and marches are planned in most Pakistani cities on Friday and Saturday to commemorate the death of Hussain, the grandson of the prophet Muhammad.

Mobile phone services will be suspended in cities in an attempt to foil remote-controlled bombings. Police have set up extra checkpoints and imposed restrictions on movement in some areas.

Fears of violence have been heightened this year after Taliban splinter groups pledged allegiance to the Syria- and Iraq-based Islamic State, which has repeatedly targeted Shias. Analysts say Pakistani groups hoping for patronage want to impress Islamic State

Shia Muslims make up about 20% of the Pakistani population. The rest are mostly Sunni Muslims.

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Pakistan could defeat the USA

While some joke that the Predator drone is the national bird of Pakistan, few are aware that Pakis have delusions of grandeur about their military.

>Pakistan Air Force (PAF) is an elite force that has lived up to its reputation of being among the best in the world

>While others may laugh at that outrageously dishonest claim, Pakis could care less about reality

> Sargodha he called upon the young students and said,” You are going to join this elite force which has lived up to its reputation of being among the best in the world."

>The Academic Colour for overall excellence in academics was shared by Muhammad Ali, Zain ul Abideen, Ammar Ahmed, Tahir Yasin while Mohammad Sameer was declared the best athlete of the Year.

Chigwell shield for sports was awarded to Mu-nir House. General Service Training Cup for co-curricular activities was won by the Rafiqui House, while Chief of Air Staff trophy for academics was won by Safi House.

>The College also put up an attractive Aero mod-eling Display in which young boys manoeuvred radio-controlled aircraft models in the air

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But what wonderful benefits they will bring to Sweden! Such as…uh…

A Swedish economist, researcher, and business professor has calculated the total cost of the migrant crisis for 2015 for Sweden, and has reached a “conservative” lifetime estimate of around 600 billion Swedish Kronor (£48.3 billion).

Stockholm University associate professor Jan Tullberg has looked beyond the immediate costs of merely receiving migrants and their initial impact — extra policing, higher social benefits — and claims to have found the true cost of just one year’s migration. Taking the claims of the Swedish government at face value has calculated what these ‘new Swedes’ will cost the state from now until they leave the country or die, which ever comes first.

Using best case scenario figures to generate what he calls a “conservative” estimate, he believes the 2015 intake will eventually cost the Swedish taxpayer kr 583,000,000,000 — or 583 billion. Swedish new-media news service Friatider (Free Times) reports a summarised version of the maths used to reach this figure, starting with the number of migrants who arrived in 2015.

=The report claims the final figure of 583 billion kronor, which compared to the Swedish defence budget of 40 billion kronor a year, works out at around 14 years of defence for one year of open borders.==

The figure also works out at three million kronor per average migrant (£248,000), a figure Dr. Tullberg claims “is comparable to other studies, providing a basis for fair consideration”. One such study is a 2012 report which found the cost of “non-European immigrants to Norway” was some four million Norwegian krone.

In addition to the costs of migration, the Norwegian study also found migrants from outside Europe and the Anglosphere (North America, Australia, New Zealand) were more likely to settle permanently, rather than eventually going home, and had significantly more children….

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Brussels swarmed too

Among people who actually practice a religion, Muslims are a majority. And as usual, with Islamic indoctrination and birth rates, the news becomes more troubling in the lower age groups.

Thus among respondents aged 55 and over, practising Catholics amounted to 30% and practising Muslims to less than 1%; but among those aged between 18 and 34, active adherence to Islam (14%) exceeded the practice of Catholicism (12%). Admittedly the sample (600 people in all) is small. But if this trend continues, practitioners of Islam may soon comfortably exceed devout Catholics not just in cosmopolitan Brussels, as is the case already, but across the whole of Belgium’s southern half.

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Too cold in Finland

Hundreds of predominantly Iraqi migrants who have travelled through Europe to reach Finland are turning back, saying they don't want to stay in the sparsely-populated country on Europe's northern frontier because it's too cold and boring.

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Muslims tricking people with "HIJAB DAY"

In the name of ‘interfaith,’ well-intentioned Americans are getting duped by the agenda of Muslims who argue that a woman’s honor lies in her ‘chastity,’ pushing a platform to put a headscarf on every woman,” the Muslim women added. “Please do this instead: Do not wear a headscarf in ‘solidarity’ with the ideology that most silences us, equating our bodies with ‘honor.’ Stand with us instead with moral courage against the ideology of Islamism that demands we cover our hair.

Hijabs are tight or loose headcloths that leave the face uncovered. They’re a less restrictive version of the face-hiding burkas imposed on Afghans women, or the eye-revealing niqabs forced on Saudi women, including Saudi journalists.

Advocates of the Hijab campaign downplay their Islamic political goals, and instead portray their campaign as a women’s solidarity event.

mong World Hijab Day’s “endorsers” is Felixia Yeap, an ex-Playboy bunny and ex-Playboy model, who writes in support:

>I support world hijab day because I have heard enough stories of why hijabi women are being bullied and mocked just because they wear a hijab. I have been and still am being sarcastically mocked and insulted just because I chose to be a full time “hijabster” despite the fact that I have not reverted yet. Thanks for coming up with this 1st Feb!

“Revert” is the Islam term for “convert,” and illustrates the orthodox Islamic claim that everybody is born a Muslim, but many are led away from the Islamic lifestyle, or “deen,” by their parents and non-Islamic societies.

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Muslims Ask Texas Pig Farmer To Move And He Tells Them To Go To Hell, Why Is Islam so damn violent? Don't Mess With Texas

Islam wants to do a hostile takeover.

This does not fly on Texas.

Let me say it again. I don't want to get blowed up.

Islam will not be given room to take power in Texas.

Do NOT tell Texans how to live.

Islamics terrorize people and try to impose their shariah law. You go to Nigeria or Bosnia or Indonesia. Islam is causing problems. It doesn't matter if the country is 90% mooslem or 1.9% mooslem these people are only peaceful if you do what they say, and even then just barely.

You can't tell people what to do on they own damn land. Stay in yo damn country and go change yo own custom.

You don't own my pig farm. We here over 200 years, you SOB can't get us to get rid of our pigs. Go jump in a lake authoritarian faggots.

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Race-mixing in frogs leads to decline in physical fitness, groundbreaking study finds

>Sex with the other species: Tree frogs with foreign sex chromosomes are less fit than their racially pure, unmixed counterparts

Mating of European (Hyla arborea) and Eastern tree frogs (Hyla orientalis) in the lowlands of Poland results in hybrid frogs that carry sex chromosomes from both species. Presumably, they reproduce less successfully, i.e. they are less fit than their ancestral species. This has been found by Dr. Matthias Stöck, Heisenberg-Fellow of the German Science Foundation (DFG) at the Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB), by means of population genetic methods.

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Museum imports 900 pounds of crab for annual fundraiser

>The Los Altos History Museum’s annual Crab Feed has grown in 29 years from a small, casual affair of mostly members to a large fund- raiser open to the public.

>“It’s still fun, still casual,” said Ed Taft, president of the museum’s board of directors. “It’s just bigger and better.”

>This year’s Crab Feed is scheduled 6-10 p.m. Saturday in the St. William Catholic Church Parish Hall, 611 S. El Monte Ave., Los Altos. A signature event for the History Museum, the Crab Feed raises approximately 20 percent of operating income.

>This year’s event also benefits the museum’s Raise the Paddle fund, which supports the enhancement and expansion of the agricultural heritage exhibition located under the oak trees. Local orchardists have contributed a sulfur shed, lugs for carrying apricot trays to dry the fruit in the open air and vintage agricultural equipment, including a tractor and spraying machine. Planned enhancements include signage to tell the story of the valley’s apricot, prune and cherry orchards, and adding to the orchard and farm artifacts and equipment collection.

>The dinner includes all-you-can-eat crab, salad, French bread, dessert, coffee and a no-host cash wine and beer bar.

>“We will have crab – lots of crab,” said event founder Pinky Whelan. “Thanks to our long-term relationship with LUSAmerica, we have 900 pounds of fresh crab coming from the Northwest.”

>The event will feature live and silent auctions with one-of-a-kind items, including a basketball signed by Stephen Curry of the Golden State Warriors. Other items include an Indian cooking lesson and tasting; vacation stays in Sun Valley, Santa Cruz, Park City and the Gold Country; Celebrity Forum and San Francisco Giants tickets; jewelry; fine art; train adventures; and fine wines.

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'Idiocracy' writer: I never expected my movie 'to become a documentary'

The man behind the 2006 cult sci-fi film “Idiocracy” is lamenting that his fictional movie appears to have become reality.

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>"I never expected #idiocracy to become a documentary,” tweeted screenwriter Etan Cohen in an apparent jab at the 2016 presidential race.

>Together with "Beavis & Butt-head" creator Mike Judge, Cohen co-wrote the time-travel comedy. The plot revolves around the misadventures of a man who wakes up in a futuristic America only to discover that everyone around him, including lawmakers and government officials, is an idiot.

>"I thought the worst thing that would come true was everyone wearing Crocs,” Cohen told his Twitter followers.

>“Idiocracy" star Terry Crews, famous for his role as President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho, also used the satirical film to take a shot at the surreal election cycle.

>“All y’all need to stop tripping,” Crews tweeted in character. "Chill the F out, ‘Merica.”

Pakistan shuts down Save the Children offices in Islamabad

Authorities claim staff members had been working ‘against Pakistan’s interest’

Pakistan is interested in fostering an atmosphere that allows children to be raped. Western influence is not appreciated as always. Stay away!

>Save the Children has been working in Pakistan for over 30 years, assisting children and families in the aftermath of emergencies, such as the conflict that forced more than 2 million people from their homes in 2009

>Save the Children first attracted official wrath after becoming embroiled – the organisation has always claimed unwittingly – in the CIA’s efforts in 2011 to pinpoint the location of former al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden to a compound in the town of Abbottabad.

>The Islamabad headquarters of Save the Children were padlocked by police while a government notification told the group to wind up its operations and ensure that expatriate staff left within 15 days.

>In a statement on Friday, the charity said it strongly objected to the sealing of its office in Islamabad and said it would raise its concerns at the highest levels.

>“All our work is designed and delivered in close collaboration with the government ministries across the country and aims to strengthen public service delivery systems in health, nutrition, education and child welfare,” the statement said.

>Other foreign organisations say they have been forced to shut down after being victimised by the security agencies.

>Nisar said foreign charities should stop their “propaganda against the Pakistani judicial system”. A system which recently empowered secret military courts to execute civilians.

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Zimbabwe nationalizes diamond mines

Zimbabwe’s Minister of Mines has ordered all diamond producers operating in the diamond-rich Marange area to halt mining effectively immediately, after the government didn’t renew their licenses.

The firms are meant to leave behind equipment and vacate their premises and a newly created state-owned company, Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Co., is expected to take over, The Independent reports.

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TOTAL NSA SURVEILLANCE

Intelligence chief James Clapper said in a testimony to the U.S. senate that "smart" connected devices will be used to spy on you.

He did not mention which three letter agency would be doing the spying although we already know who that is.

Quote:

“In the future, intelligence services might use the [internet of things] for identification, surveillance, monitoring, location tracking, and targeting for recruitment, or to gain access to networks or user credentials,”

Which we all know this means it is already happening and with everything else that is being collected in bulk phone calls, web searches, SMS, social media, cloud files, e-mails, fax messages, and everything else in-between.

Everything from fisher price toys to barbie dolls and ferbies are connected now and many have cameras and microphones including the new "smart" TV's or Telescreens they should be called since we are not far removed from Orwell's 1984.

It is safe to say anybody who needs "smart" devices aren't smart.

"The US intelligence chief has acknowledged for the first time that agencies might use a new generation of smart household devices to increase their surveillance capabilities.

As increasing numbers of devices connect to the internet and to one another, the so-called internet of things promises consumers increased convenience – the remotely operated thermostat from Google-owned Nest is a leading example. But as home computing migrates away from the laptop, the tablet and the smartphone, experts warn that the security features on the coming wave of automobiles, dishwashers and alarm systems lag far behind.

In an appearance at a Washington thinktank last month, the director of the National Security Agency, Adm Michael Rogers, said that it was time to consider making the home devices “more defensible”, but did not address the opportunities that increased numbers and even categories of connected devices provide to his surveillance agency.

However, James Clapper, the US director of national intelligence, was more direct in testimony submitted to the Senate on Tuesday as part of an assessment of threats facing the United States.

“In the future, intelligence services might use the [internet of things] for identification, surveillance, monitoring, location tracking, and targeting for recruitment, or to gain access to networks or user credentials,” Clapper said."

"Clapper did not specifically name any intelligence agency as involved in household-device surveillance. But security experts examining the internet of things take as a given that the US and other surveillance services will intercept the signals the newly networked devices emit, much as they do with those from cellphones. Amateurs are already interested in easily compromised hardware; computer programmer John Matherly’s search engine Shodan indexes thousands of completely unsecured web-connected devices.

Online threats again topped the intelligence chief’s list of “worldwide threats” the US faces, with the mutating threat of low-intensity terrorism quickly following. While Clapper has for years used the equivocal term “evolving” when asked about the scope of the threat, he said Tuesday that Sunni violent extremism “has more groups, members, and safe havens than at any other point in history”."

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10 Reasons Why The Giant Spider Crab Is The Crustacean Of Your Nightmares

As land dwelling mammals, we humans know that the oceans are deep, dark, and full of terrifying creatures. One of the most frightening creatures around is the Giant Spider Crab, also known as the Japanese Spider.

While these bad boys aren't are huge and scary as some crabs out there, they are still pretty darn creepy. Here are 10 reasons why the Giant Spider Crab is most terrifying crustacean of the deep.1.) They're giant.

1.) They're giant.

This is the first thing you'll notice about the Giant Spider Crab (it's also in the name). These things can have a leg span up to 12 feet, and can weigh up to 42 pounds. They could easily eat a human child if they wanted to.

3.) Its claws can cause some serious damage.

When Giant Spider Crabs were discovered in 1836, Coenraad Jacob Temminck noted that they were known for the serious injures they can cause with their strong claws. Not to mention they have a huge reach.

This one might be the most freaky fact of all. These Giant Spider Crabs are thought to live to 100 years old. Compared to humans, they're pretty much immortal

9.) They're smarter than they look.

In the wild, Giant Spider Crabs are fair game for even bigger octopi (which is a terrifying article for another day). So as a way of protecting themselves from these predators, they're known to decorate their shells with sponges and other animals in order to blend in with their surroundings.

7.) They'll eat pretty much anything.

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Proof that USA is poorer than India

Haters fuck off lollololol

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Her letter is a summary of the economic misery many millennials have found themselves in after leaving college.

“So here I am, 25-years old, balancing all sorts of debt and trying to pave a life for myself that doesn’t involve crying in the bathtub every week,” she wrote. “Every single one of my coworkers is struggling. They’re taking side jobs, they’re living at home. One of them started a GoFundMe because she couldn’t pay her rent.”

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How America Made Donald Trump Unstoppable

But, in an insane twist of fate, this bloated billionaire scion has hobbies that have given him insight into the presidential electoral process. He likes women, which got him into beauty pageants. And he likes being famous, which got him into reality TV. He knows show business.

That put him in position to understand that the presidential election campaign is really just a badly acted, billion-dollar TV show whose production costs ludicrously include the political disenfranchisement of its audience. Trump is making a mockery of the show, and the Wolf Blitzers and Anderson Coopers of the world seem appalled. How dare he demean the presidency with his antics?

But they've all got it backward. The presidency is serious. The presidential electoral process, however, is a sick joke, in which everyone loses except the people behind the rope line. And every time some pundit or party spokesman tries to deny it, Trump picks up another vote.

Like the actual circus, this is a roving business. Cash flows to campaigns from people and donors; campaigns buy ads; ads pay for journalists; journalists assess candidates. Somewhat unsurprisingly, the ever-growing press corps tends in most years to like – or at least deem "most serious" – the candidates who buy the most ads. Nine out of 10 times in America, the candidate who raises the most money wins. And those candidates then owe the most favors.

Meaning that for the pleasure of being able to watch insincere campaign coverage and see manipulative political ads on TV for free, we end up having to pay inflated Medicare drug prices, fund bank bailouts with our taxes, let billionaires pay 17 percent tax rates, and suffer a thousand other indignities. Trump is right: Because Jeb Bush can't afford to make his own commercials, he would go into the White House in the pocket of a drug manufacturer. It really is that stupid.

The triumvirate of big media, big donors and big political parties has until now successfully excluded every challenge to its authority. But like every aristocracy, it eventually got lazy and profligate, too sure it was loved by the people. It's now shocked that voters in depressed ex-factory towns won't keep pulling the lever for "conservative principles," or that union members bitten a dozen times over by a trade deal won't just keep voting Democratic on cue.

Trump isn't the first rich guy to run for office. But he is the first to realize the weakness in the system, which is that the watchdogs in the political media can't resist a car wreck. The more he insults the press, the more they cover him: He's pulling 33 times as much coverage on the major networks as his next-closest GOP competitor, and twice as much as Hillary.

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The Hijra & the Hijacking of America’s Refugee Resettlement Program

Across the United States, the federal government is attempting stealthily to relocate Muslim immigrants into unsuspecting and often unsuitable rural communities.

Ms. Corcoran documents that Muslim immigration as a form of jihad via colonization called hijra dates back to the time of Mohammed. In fact, she quotes hadith sources that assert that migration is a religious obligation for Muslims to spread Islam and build the Islamic state. She also cites longtime Libyan leader, Muammar Qaddafi, who once said that Europe would be conquered without guns and swords, but with Muslim migrants overrunning the continent.

As practiced today, the hijra strategy is an important part of a covert, pre-violent “civilization jihad” pursued by the Muslim Brotherhood. The UN High Commission on Refugees – which, like the rest of the United Nations, is dominated by the dictates of the Islamic supremacist organization known as the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) – is complicit in the process of bringing Muslim refugees to America. Interestingly, no Muslim refugees are ever resettled in wealthy, low-population density Islamic countries like Saudi Arabia.

Particularly troubling is the evidence that Ms. Corcoran compiles concerning the secrecy surrounding this U.S. refugee resettlement program. She provides estimates of how many Muslim immigrants have been quietly resettled in American communities with no local input. And she discusses the State Department’s primary targets in the United States for Muslim resettlement and showcases models to be found in communities that are resisting this program.

In her book, Ms. Corcoran recounts her personal trajectory from typical, uninformed citizen to a national authority on refugee resettlement policies and programs, the focus of her highly acclaimed blog, Refugee Resettlement Watch. It began in 2007, when large numbers of Muslim Meskhetian Turks were quietly resettled by the U.S. State Department in her hometown in Western Maryland, prompting her to research intensively what was afoot.

Although the author and other concerned local residents succeeded in that instance in blocking the dumping of immigrants that are, as a practical matter, unlikely ever to assimilate, the episode led Ms. Corcoran to the discovery of a frightening pattern: Across the United States, the federal government is attempting stealthily to relocate Muslim immigrants into unsuspecting and often unsuitable rural communities. She found that the affected locals, and even states, are totally by-passed in a resettlement process effectively driven by the United Nations, with U.S. agencies playing a clearly subordinate and non-sovereign role.

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ZIKA-CHAN SPREADS HER LOVE - TEXAS STD TRANSMISSION

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>A case of the Zika virus being transmitted between sexual partners reported on Tuesday in Texas has raised new concerns about the transmission of the disease, which is typically spread by mosquitoes and can cause birth defects.

>The patient, whose gender has not been released, was the first person confirmed to have been infected with the virus in the US.

>Cases of Zika being spread by sexual contact have only rarely been reported, and health authorities had previously treated the idea that sexual transmission was possible as theory rather than documented science.

>The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed on Tuesday that the patient had contacted the virus after having sexual contact with someone who had travelled to a country where Zika is present.

>The Dallas County health department said the sexual partner had travelled to Venezuela, but that the patient had not left the country, and had been infected in Texas.

>"Dallas County Health and Human Services has received confirmation from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the first Zika virus case acquired through sexual transmission in Dallas County in 2016," the department said a statement.

>Zachary Thompson, the health department's director, said the case proved that Zika could be transmitted sexually.

>“Now that we know Zika virus can be transmitted through sex, this increases our awareness campaign in educating the public about protecting themselves and others,” he said. “Next to abstinence, condoms are the best prevention method against any sexually-transmitted infections.”

>A total of 31 people in the US are believed to have been diagnosed with Zika in the US in the past 12 months, but all of those cases originated in Central and South America, where the virus is more prevalent.

>Symptoms are typically mild in adults, but babies whose mothers have contacted the disease can be born with smaller heads and brains.

>Brazil has been the country worst-affected by Zika, though the virus has been reported in more than 20 countries.

Pakistan- Punjab's Home Minister Jihaded

>An apparent suicide attack killed one of Pakistan’s provincial ministers and at least eight other people when it destroyed the minister’s home in Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s political heartland, officials said.

>“There were between 20 and 30 people present when the blast took place,” said Shahzad Niaz, a district information officer. “The roof collapsed.” Rescue workers at the scene said nine bodies had been recovered.

>A Taliban-affiliated militant group, Lashkar-e-Islam, claimed responsibility for the attack and said it was retaliation for military operations against them. “Such types of attacks will continue in the future,” said a spokesman

>If the claim is true, the bombing would represent a significant development in the group’s ability to strike at high-level targets.

>Punjab, Pakistan’s biggest and wealthiest province, has traditionally been more peaceful than other parts of the country. Sharif’s opponents have accused him of tolerating militancy in return for peace in his province, a charge he denies.

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Men's suit ad labelled "misogynistic"

CEO gets death threats

The Amsterdam-based Suit Supply's new ads are being called "extremely misogynistic", "sexist" and "nauseating" on the social media. The ad campaign called "Toy Boys" feature doll-sized men photoshopped onto scantily dressed women.

Fokke de Jong, owner of Amsterdam fashion chain SuitSupply, received death threats over the company’s latest ad campaign, he told the media. Fokke de Jong, also said he does not believe the adverts are sexist towards women. "The men in our toy boy campaign are depicted as play dolls for the women, we don’t see the men having the upper hand here," he said.

Caitlin Roper, from women's rights group Collective Shout, is not convinced by the CEO's remarks. "The notion that this ad could be an example of 'reverse sexism' or sexism against men, as they've alleged, is naive at best," she said. Roper added that she's disappointed by the campaign, but not surprised by it, as Suit Supply has a "history of sexually exploitative advertising".

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The Irish Elections 2016: A White Genocide Perspective

The election process is currently underway in Ireland and the so called “nationalist” political party Sinn Féin is out campaigning and drumming up votes.

The insane anti-White duplicity of this party can best be demonstrated by looking at their support for the Palestinians. On the one hand they show 100% support for this group and their right to a homeland.

But on the other hand they have no problem selling out the indigenous White Irish peoples homeland as long as it gets them some votes (the secondary consideration) and keeps them inline with the anti-White narrative (the primary consideration). Never mix the two up. Too many times we hear people saying “it’s all about the votes”. Nope, it’s a small part about the votes and a LARGE part about turning White countries non-White in the name of “diversity”.

As they say, a picture speaks 1000 words and here is Sinn Féin’s Gerry Adams out posing for votes

Let’s not forget that prominent members of this group were actively involved in the violent struggle against the British. But yet today they are the ones out advocating a “diverse” Ireland made up of “new Irish”.

Anti-White madness like this only starts to make sense once you factor in the White geNOcide agenda.

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Comedy Festival Will Charge White Men More To Fight The Fake Wage Gap

An upcoming comedy festival in New York City is charging different rates for attendees in an apparent effort to check the privilege of straight white men.

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>The Cinderblock Comedy Festival will be held Sept. 15-18 in the hipster stronghold of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. With the festivities just seven months away, organizers are already urging potential performers to apply to perform.

>But the festival has one very notable policy: Currently, only women, non-whites and those who identify as LGBT are allowed to apply for an early-bird price of $19.25. Straight white men, on the other hand, will only be allowed to apply starting March 15, and they’ll have to pay $25 to do so.

>Festival director Coree Spencer said the discount was intended to closely match closely the oft-quoted and oft-criticized statistic that women earn just 77 percent of what men earn.

>“The 77 cents to the dollar is definitely a political statement,” Spencer told The Daily Dot. “Originally that 77-cent discount was supposed to be just for women in the early stages. … As I was doing a little more research and kind of growing as a human being, I realized that that discount should be extended out to other groups that I want to be part of it [in order] to create the festival that I want.”

>Besides being a poke at the alleged wage gap, the different fees also relate to frequent complaints that comedy is overly dominated by white men. Spencer argues that Cinderblock is intended to be a diverse festival, with non-white male comics included as a core feature rather than an afterthought.

>Spencer told The Daily Dot that she is considering discriminating with ticket prices as well. If she does, she may risk running afoul of New York anti-discrimination law, which bars discrimination based on sex, race and other factors in the provision of services.

Belarus buys four Polish PESA trains

Polish train producer PESA has signed a EUR 19 million deal with Belarus to supply four diesel locomotives with carriages.

Belarusian media reported that the trains will be leased, with a leading Polish bank supplying a loan of around EUR 19 million. The deal has been guaranteed by Belarusbank, the largest Belarusian state-owned bank.

PESA, based in the northern city of Bydgoszcz, is a leading producer of railway vehicles, including trains and trams.

This is the not the first such deal between Belarus, Poland’s northeastern neighbour, and PESA. Last year, PESA supplied Belarus with three trains.

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Good news and bad news for the Year of the Fire Monkey

If you aren't from SouthEast Asia you probably missed the new year celebrations at the second week of the month.

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Xīnnián kuàilè, which means “Happy New Year” in Mandarin Chinese, were the words of the day on Saturday, Feb. 20, at the Grays River Valley Community Center. GRVCC was the site of a Chinese New Year celebration/fund raiser hosted by Liu Xing, a group made up of supporters of Naselle-Grays River Valley Elementary School’s Mandarin Immersion program.

Describing the event, enthusiastic Liu Xing member Amy Chadwick noted, “Lion Dancers, martial arts demonstration, children’s artwork, calligraphy lessons, auction excitement, raffle items, traditional Chinese dinner, oysters and a photo-booth equipped with a 5-foot monkey! All were a part of a fantastic evening put on by some of the most passionate and hard-working parents I know. Over 200 parents, grandparents, friends and children came and celebrated on Saturday supporting fundraising for dual language learning at the GRVSD.

>“My fortune cookie from the celebratory dinner sums it up for me. It said, You will always be surrounded by true friends.”

The event at GRVCC welcomed in the Year of the Monkey. The Monkey is the ninth of the 12 animals in the recurring 12-year Chinese zodiac cycle. Every 12 years there is a Monkey year. Persons born after the Chinese New Year in 1908, 1920, 1932, 1944, 1956, 1968, 1980, 1992, 2004 and 2016 are considered to be monkeys. In addition to the Chinese zodiac animal sign, each year is also associated with one of the Five Elements: gold (metal), water, wood, fire, or earth. Both the sign and element of your birth year are said to affect your personality and destiny. Because there are 12 animals and five signs, combinations recur every 60 years. For 2016, the combination results in it being the Year of the Fire Monkey.

In 2016, the Chinese New Year was celebrated between Feb. 8 and Feb. 22. Although China has used the Gregorian calendar since 1912, Chinese New Year is based on the ancient Chinese lunar calendar, and it falls on the second new moon after winter solstice — somewhere between Jan. 21 and Feb. 19, meaning it changes from year to year.

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According to the Chinese calendar, due to the year of the Fire Monkey, which repeats itself every 60 years, the world will experience similar things as it did in 1956. Accordingly, although there are foreseen positive developments in the economy in 2016, the world is not waiting for good news about natural disasters. According to the Chinese astrological calendar, the year 2016 is the year of the Fire Monkey. Feng Shui expert Esra Koyuncu says 2016 is showing green lights for the economy, however the expectations for dialogue between countries are not good.

During the Feng Shui Congress held in Shanghai, Esra Koyuncu, who became Turkey's first master Feng Shui expert, talked about the ancient Chinese teachings of Feng Shui and what we should expect in 2016. Koyuncu said that the Fire Monkey is a symbol of rebirth. She added the Chinese calendar is not only a tool to keep track of history, but says the Chinese calendar is also a great system to predict the future. The element of "fire" brings to mind energy, explosions and fires. Koyuncu said that the enumerated star "monkey" could pave the way for travel for many people in 2016.

"The element of fire brings energy of happiness," emphasized Esra Koyuncu. "Fire is optimistic. In the year of the fire, despite everything else, the feeling of confidence in people will increase. Optimism will increase the rate of spending money said Koyuncu, and this will lead to positive reflection in the economy," she stated.

During the year of the Fire Monkey 60 years ago, the agenda was filled with the nationalization of the Suez Canal, the English bombing of the Egyptians, Israel's invasion of the Sinai Peninsula, as well as the riots in Poland and Hungary against the Soviets, and the brutal ways in which they were suppressed caused tension between countries. "The fire, guns, explosions and so on caused by Metal are cooled down by Fire. According to the ancient Chinese teachings of Feng Shui, Fire is known for warming up the hearts of people and giving happiness. The bad events that metal creates will be prevented from getting out of hand by fire," said Koyuncu.

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This Is How Government Dealt With Dissent And Revolt In Collapsing Venezuela

Venezuela is in complete chaos as a result of their economic collapse.

And as a result, state-rationed food and groceries have run out, prices are hyper-inflated and millions of people are waiting in huge lines for any goods that are available. Black markets have gone boom, with neighbors making necessities available to other neighbors, but they must avoid crackdown from a jealous State that is desperate to hang onto power.

The free-fall of oil prices on the global stage has snapped the South American socialist nation into sudden and harsh disaster. Venezuela has slightly more oil than Saudi Arabia, and trades the second largest volume, after OPEC, and was even more vulnerable than Russia to the economic warfare that has taken place in the last few years.

Things are very bad now, and they were already falling apart.

The Caracas Chronicles is one of the rare sources to report what is really happening:

What we saw were not “street clashes”, what we saw is a state-hatched offensive to suppress and terrorize its opponents.

Throughout last night, panicked people told their stories of state-sponsored paramilitaries on motorcycles roaming middle class neighborhoods, shooting at people and storming into apartment buildings, shooting at anyone who seemed like he might be protesting.

People continue to be arrested merely for protesting, and a long established local Human Rights NGO makes an urgent plea for an investigation into widespread reports of torture of detainees. There are now dozens of serious human right abuses: National Guardsmen shooting tear gas canisters directly into residential buildings. We have videos of soldiers shooting civilians on the street.

Raw footage on YouTube (warning: some footage is graphic):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihECWm72A8w

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_2SSMogbaw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxbdzBYjAug

This video purportedly shows pro-government militia squads firing tear gas into residential apartment buildings:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsgmY9bVr8g

Is this how things will go down in the United States in the aftermath of the planned collapse of the economy and the destruction of the American standards of living?

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March against #whitegenocide 2016

FIGHT WHITE GENOCIDE!

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This March take part in our annual worldwide protest of White Genocide.

March Against White Genocide will be held on March 19th, the day before the Spring Solstice.

Last years event was a HUGE success. People got out and got active all around the world.

We need EVERY pro-white to hit the streets or the internet on March 19th and tell the world that we will not lay silent while our race is being targeted for Genocide.

FIGHT WHITE GENOCIDE!

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Robot bullying to be a new sport?

http://www.bostondynamics.com/index.html

Imagine walking through the woods holding hands with your robo waifu and you push her to the ground calling her mean names, yet she'll always pick herself up off the ground smiling at you, simply happy to be in your presence.

This progress being made in robotic movement is pretty cool.

They'll need to compact the design though. It seems a bit hefty right now, but that's why it deserves all the pushing around it gets, fat robots doesn't deserve anything less.

I simply love watching it get bullied.

Would you bully your robowaifu?

>>>/krillcen/1

Crustacean Manifesto for Crustacea

Crustacea is our planet we must fight censorship!

> Crustaceans (Crustacea /krʌˈsteɪʃə/) form a very large group of arthropods, usually treated as a subphylum, which includes such familiar animals as crabs, lobsters, crayfish, shrimp, krill and barnacles.

> The 67,000 described species range in size from Stygotantulus stocki at 0.1 mm (0.004 in), to the Japanese spider crab with a leg span of up to 3.8 m (12.5 ft) and a mass of 20 kg (44 lb). Like other arthropods, crustaceans have an exoskeleton, which they moult to grow. They are distinguished from other groups of arthropods, such as insects, myriapods and chelicerates, by the possession of biramous (two-parted) limbs, and by their larval forms, such as the nauplius stage of branchiopods and copepods.

> Most crustaceans are free-living aquatic animals, but some are terrestrial (e.g. woodlice), some are parasitic (e.g. Rhizocephala, fish lice, tongue worms) and some are sessile (e.g. barnacles). The group has an extensive fossil record, reaching back to the Cambrian, and includes living fossils such as Triops cancriformis, which has existed apparently unchanged since the Triassic period. More than 10 million tons of crustaceans are produced by fishery or farming for human consumption, the majority of it being shrimp and prawns.

> Krill and copepods are not as widely fished, but may be the animals with the greatest biomass on the planet, and form a vital part of the food chain. The scientific study of crustaceans is known as carcinology (alternatively, malacostracology, crustaceology or crustalogy), and a scientist who works in carcinology is a carcinologist.

> Crustaceans have a rich and extensive fossil record, which begins with animals such as Canadaspis and Perspicaris from the Middle Cambrian age Burgess Shale.[40][41] Most of the major groups of crustaceans appear in the fossil record before the end of the Cambrian, namely the Branchiopoda, Maxillopoda (including barnacles and tongue worms) and Malacostraca; there is some debate as to whether or not Cambrian animals assigned to Ostracoda are truly ostracods, which would otherwise start in the Ordovician.[42]

>A heap of small pink lobsters on their sides, with their claws extended forwards towards the camera.

>Norway lobsters on sale at a Spanish market

> Within the Malacostraca, no fossils are known for krill,[45] while both Hoplocarida and Phyllopoda contain important groups that are now extinct as well as extant members (Hoplocarida: mantis shrimp are extant, while Aeschronectida are extinct;[46] Phyllopoda: Canadaspidida are extinct, while Leptostraca are extant[41]). Cumacea and Isopoda are both known from the Carboniferous,[47][48] as are the first true mantis shrimp.[49]

> In the Decapoda, prawns and polychelids appear in the Triassic,[50][51] and shrimp and crabs appear in the Jurassic;[52][53] however, the great radiation of crustaceans occurred in the Cretaceous, particularly in crabs, and may have been driven by the adaptive radiation of their main predators, bony fish.[53] The first true lobsters also appear in the Cretaceous.[54]

> Krill are small crustaceans of the order Euphausiacea, and are found in all the world's oceans. The name krill comes from the Norwegian word krill, meaning "small fry of fish",[1] which is also often attributed to species of fish.

> In the Southern Ocean, one species, the Antarctic krill, Euphausia superba, makes up an estimated biomass of around 379,000,000 tonnes,[2] making it among the species with the largest total biomass. Of this, over half is eaten by whales, seals, penguins, squid and fish each year, and is replaced by growth and reproduction. Most krill species display large daily vertical migrations, thus providing food for predators near the surface at night and in deeper waters during the day.

> Krill are fished commercially in the Southern Ocean and in the waters around Japan. The total global harvest amounts to 150,000–200,000 tonnes annually, most of this from the Scotia Sea. Most of the krill catch is used for aquaculture and aquarium feeds, as bait in sport fishing, or in the pharmaceutical industry. In Japan, Philippines and Russia, krill is also used for human consumption and is known as okiami (オキアミ?) in Japan. In the Philippines, it is known as "alamang" and it is used to make a salty paste called bagoong.

>Krill is also the main prey of baleen whales, including the blue whale.

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>Be wary of surgically enhanced operatives that may look like us but can never be one of us!

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TRUMP: AS PRESIDENT, I CAN'T TAKE ISRAEL'S SIDE

The entire conversation is in the webms so you can watch them since it has more detail than the stuff I posted here.

>During the debate, Blitzer began a round of questions on foreign policy by addressing the conflict between the Palestinians and Israelis. He quoted Trump as having previously said, “Let me be sort of a neutral guy. I don’t want to say whose fault it is. I don’t think it helps.”

>Blitzer then asked Trump, “How do you remain neutral when the U.S. considers Israel to be America’s closest ally in the Middle East?”

>“Well, first of all I don’t think they do under President Obama, because I think he has treated Israel horribly,” began Trump. “Alright? I think he’s treated Israel horribly.”

>Trump added, “I was the Grand Marshal down Fifth Avenue a number of years ago for the Israeli Day parade. I have very close ties to Israel. I’ve received the Tree of Life Award and many of the greatest awards given by Israel. As president, however, there’s nothing that I would rather do [than] bring peace to Israel and its neighbors.”

He then insisted, “I think it serves no purpose to say you have a good guy and a bad guy.”

>“Now, I may not be successful in doing it. It’s probably the toughest negotiation of anywhere in the world, of any kind, OK? But, it doesn’t help if I start saying I’m very pro-Israel, very pro-Israel, more than anybody on this stage. But it doesn’t do any good to start demeaning the neighbors. Because I would love to do something with regard to negotiating peace, finally, for Israel and for their neighbors.”

>Trump said he can’t do that as a negotiator while taking sides.

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PC gone mad: Outrage as school calls police after pupil looks at Ukip website in class

>Teenager Joe Taylor was flagged up for political extremism by the deputy head after he used a school computer to click on the party's website.

>The 15-year-old went online earlier this week to research immigration following a classroom discussion on the subject, logging on with his school username.

>But he was stunned when teachers subsequently reported him to the police, claiming he had raised welfare concerns by visiting "politically incorrect websites".

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Apparently visiting a website of an established political party is considered 'politically incorrect' according to some.

Russia Says NO To Cashless Society! Kremlin Hints New Coming Gold Standard

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeWY-beyt50

(http://www .fast-files.com/getfile.aspx?file=108733)

Vladimir Putin is pushing for a gold-backed currency, ditching fractional reserve banking, and delivering a defiant rebuke to the Western world’s move towards a digital-only cashless society, according to a report circulating in the Kremlin on Friday. President Putin swears he will NEVER stop the circulation of cold hard cash because he considers digital-only cashless currency to be a New World Order tactic to gain control over the public.

President Putin has stated his desire to destroy the Illuminati in 2016, and according to Kremlin insiders he believes disrupting the global banking cartel’s plan to ban cash is a key campaign in his war against the New World Order.

The Rothschild controlled global banking lobby want a digital cashless system because this will give them even more control over us. They want to monitor and control every single transaction, while destroying real world currencies so they can issue money that doesn’t exist, creating impossible financial burdens for the masses, all the while accumulating extraordinary real wealth and power for themselves.

A larger global currency shift is underway…

Things are definitely in motion. Call it a game of musical chairs, or an exercise in rearranging chairs on the Titanic, or just that a tilting balance of power. Just don’t make the mistake of thinking this is all routine. China has been quietly stockpiling gold for years now. In fact, it is stockpiling so much gold that many have speculated that it may be building a gold-backed yuan currency that would make the Dollar pale in comparison on the global market.

Royal Bank of Scotland is warning their investors to sell virtually all their investments. More than that, Putin has been positioning his motherland to team up with China to solidify the emerging BRICS system which aims to thwart decades of Anglo financial dominance with a un-dollar currency system that will also include a development bank.

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Walmart And McDonald's Will Never Pay A Living Wage

These employers, this end of the labor market, just will never pay a living wage.

No, this isn’t because they’re all just greedy capitalist plutocrats (although obviously those do indeed exist). Rather, it’s because of what we call a living wage. We do not anchor our expectations of a decent living in any absolute standards of either income or consumption. It’s always a relative term and it’s always relative to the society immediately around us. A living wage is thus anchored, as an idea, in some variation of what looks like a good enough living by the standards of our current society. And as society in general gets richer that idea rises and we will continually find that the low end of the labor market doesn’t provide that living wage. Adam Smith pointed this out 240 years ago and it really is about time that people started believing him.

What has brought this on is the announcement yesterday by Walmart that they will be raising the wages of their workers. In response to which one of the groups campaigning for higher pay (not Fight for $15, but closely allied) made the following comments:

Still, the moves fall short of the demands of labor groups, which have called on companies to pay a ‘living wage’ of $15 an hour.

Jessica Levin, a spokeswoman for a the union-backed group Making Change at Walmart, said she was skeptical that employees would see much benefit.

She cited reports from workers who saw their hours cut after the initial wage hike last year or who received a smaller annual raise than they might have due to changes in the calculation of yearly performance-based hikes.

Levin noted that the announcement came just a few days after Wal-Mart said it was closing 269 stores, including 154 in the United States, eliminating some 16,000 jobs at closed stores globally.

Well, yes, there’s a certain wry amusement at part of that complaint. Some of those store closures, DC and Oakland particularly, have been blamed at least in part upon higher local minimum wages. It has also long been a contention of people like me that mandating higher wages, as opposed to employers feeling the market forces demanding higher wages, will not in fact lead to wage rises. Other things will be cut back upon–benefits, working conditions, hours–so that total compensation stays static even if the wage portion of compensation rises.

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NASA will pay you $18,000 to stay in bed and smoke weed for 70 straight days

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>Usually at some point in the day (and for some of us, multiple points) many of us find ourselves wishing we could abandon our responsibilities to return back to our beds to live out the rest of the day under a quiet refuge of blankets and smoke weed. Despite the guilt of chronic laziness, a day in bed sounds pretty darn relaxing—if only we could financially support ourselves by doing so.

>Turns out, NASA might have the answer we’re all looking for—although it might require a little more “relaxation” than originally imagined. NASA is currently looking for volunteers to participate in their “Rest Studies”, in which participants will have to spend 70 straight days in bed and smoke different types of cannabis, receiving $18,000 for the period of aggressive bodily atrophy.

>Participants are allowed to read books, Skype, play games, as well as smoke cannabis throughout the duration of the study. Pretty much anything is fair game, so long as you remain in bed, earning a cool $1,200 per week…

>The experiments are designed to find ways of preserving astronauts’ health and safety during periods of extended space travel. “Head down” bed rest is a good way of simulating travel through zero gravity space. Think about it, zero gravity means zero weight or strain on your muscles. They also want to understand how marijuana will influence on the body.

>Although spending two months in bed would realistically be excruciating, at least you can rest easily knowing you’re making the sacrifice of grueling laziness for the purpose of furthering human space exploration. This is the only time you could claim to have helped send the first astronauts to Mars by doing absolutely nothing but sitting on your ass.

SUE THEM! Google Self-driving Car Strikes Bus on California Street

These things should NOT be on the road! They are putting lives at risk. Google should be hit with a class-action lawsuite ASAP!

A self-driving car being tested by Google struck a public bus on a Silicon Valley street, a fender-bender that appears to be the first time one of the tech company's vehicles caused a crash during testing.

Google accepted at least some responsibility for the collision, which occurred on Valentine's Day when one of the Lexus SUVs it has outfitted with sensors and cameras hit the side of the bus near the company's headquarters in Mountain View, California.

Google claims no one was hurt. That has yet to be confirmed.

According to Google, Google's car intended to turn right off a major boulevard when it detected sandbags around a storm drain at the intersection.

"We clearly bear some responsibility, because if our car hadn't moved there wouldn't have been a collision."

Google said its computers have reviewed the incident and engineers changed the software that governs the cars to understand that buses may not be as inclined to yield as other vehicles.

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Teen 'coward punch' victim tragically dies in hospital

Elite water polo player Cole Miller was left for dead when he was attacked while walking with a friend through Chinatown Mall in Fortitude Valley about 3.35am.

It’s believed the two were about to hail a taxi when they were confronted by four men of Pacific Islander appearance.

The young man suffered serious head injuries and was transported to the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital where he was pronounced deceased today.

Bravely speaking at a press conference the deceased teen's father, Steven Miller stated, "It is with deep sadness that I announce that our 18-year-old son Cole has today passed away as a result of massive brain trauma."

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Ron Paul backs Apple in FBI battle: "First they come for the iPhone"

Former congressman and presidential candidate Ron Paul has called on the public to support Apple in its battle against the US government to create a “backdoor” into iPhones for the FBI to bypass encryption.

The liberatarian-minded Republican slammed the need for the hack in a statement this week, saying, “The government spying on us has not prevented one terrorist attack.”

Paul said that if Apple assists the FBI, it will be a “precedent-setting case” and the technology will be used again with a lower threshold: “We have a fundamental right to go about our daily life without the threat of government surveillance of our activities. We are not East Germany.”

Paul said Apple’s extra security on their devices came as a result of Edward Snowden’s revelations of government spying: “The federal government was caught breaking the law, but instead of ending its illegal spying [it] is demanding that private companies make it easier for it to continue.”

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Canadian City Wants To Solve Crime Problem By Using Hollywood GPS Technology

>Williams Lake, British Columbia apparently has a bit of a crime problem. According to CTV News, it consistently ranks towards the top end of the violent crime charts for communities of its size. Early last week, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police released a video of a man pulling a gun on a Williams Lake resident and stealing his bike.

>The city council has now sprung into action. It has a solution – one that has received unanimous support from council members. It's a dystopian sci-fi solution with the emphasis on the "fi" part (https://archive.is/cpmp1).

Williams Lake city council voted unanimously on Tuesday on a proposal to inject high-risk offenders with a GPS tracking device.

>Whether they’re walking downtown, whether they’re having a bath, whether they’re having dinner, we don’t care. We want to know where they are and what they’re doing," Williams Lake Coun. Scott Nelson, who introduced the motion, told CTV Vancouver.

The use of monitoring devices to track the movement of "high-risk" criminals is nothing new. Here in the US, ankle bracelets are used to track parolees and the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals – somewhat in opposition of a 2015 Supreme Court ruling – declared that lifetime monitoring of sex offenders is perfectly constitutional (https://archive.is/zlo4l).

>Canada's constitutional requirements may be bit different, but there's nothing particularly unusual about monitoring the movements of recently-released felons. Lifetime monitoring may be asking a bit much, but the underlying concept is not new.

>The problem with the Williams Lake Solution is that what the council wants it can't actually have… at least not at this point.

Despite Nelson and the rest of the Williams Lake council's hopes, the proposed technology doesn't appear to exist.

Radio frequency implants, a type of microchips, have been implanted in pets but they only contain data, not the ability to provide a tracking ability.

Biohackers have recently been able to install microchips in humans, roughly the size of two grains of rice, but they only contain personal identification details.

The B.C. government says it's unaware of the technology desperately wanted by city officials.

>So, never mind the constitutional questions. This tracking simply can't be done, at least not in the manner city officials unanimously believe it can. But fearful times call for fearful measures, as council member Scott Nelson so aptly – and somewhat ironically – explains:

"Prolific offenders are in every community across British Columbia, and the biggest problem we’ve got in Williams Lake is that they’re putting fear into people," Nelson said.

Someone's definitely "putting fear into people" and I don't think it's just the criminals. Wanting to know where a person is at all times on the off chance that they might commit a crime is no way to solve this problem. There are numerous other approaches that should be explored before the city starts injecting tracking devices into people using guidelines developed by the same people who unanimously voted to utilize technology that doesn't exist.

Judicial Watch: Homeland Security Records Reveal Officials Ordered Terrorist Watch List Scrubbed

>Judicial Watch announced today that it obtained 183 pages of documents from the Department of Homeland Security revealing that the Obama administration scrubbed the law enforcement agency’s “Terrorist Screening Database” in order to protect what it considered the civil rights of suspected Islamic terrorist groups.

>The documents appear to confirm charges that Obama administration changes created a massive “hands off” list. Removed data from the terrorist watch list could have helped prevent the San Bernardino terrorist attack.

>On May 6, 2014, Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA) released internal Department of Homeland Security emails revealing an alleged terrorist “hands off” list allowing individuals with potential terrorist ties into the United States. Allegations by former Customs and Border Patrol Officer Philip Haney spurred Senator Grassley’s and other congressional investigations.

>The new Homeland Security documents confirm the modification of nearly 1,000 terrorist suspect reports. The September 25, 2013, Department of Homeland Security Inspector General memorandum regarding Haney’s terror watch list entries, discloses that the Department of Homeland Security Privacy Office and Department of Homeland Security Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties “determined that individuals could only be “‘watchlisted’ based on an association with a known or suspected terrorist already ‘watchlisted’… not based on their affiliation with [REDACTED] (or any other [REDACTED] organization.”

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People trust robot even when led astray

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>When it comes robots, humans can be a little too trusting. In a series of experiments at Georgia Tech that simulated a building fire, people ignored the emergency exits and followed instructions from a robot – even though they'd been told it might be faulty.

>The study involved a group of 42 volunteers who were asked to follow a "guidance robot" through an office to a conference room.They weren't told the true nature of the test.

>The robot sometimes led participants to the wrong room, where it did a couple of circles before exiting. Sometimes the robot stopped moving and a researcher told the participants it had broken down.

>You might expect those problems to have dented any trust people had in the robot, especially in the event of a life-or-death situation. But apparently not.

>While the participants were in the conference room, the corridor was filled with artificial smoke and an alarm sounded. As they exited the room, the robot was supposed to lead them to safety. It actually led them in the opposite direction of the emergency exits, which were clearly marked, but despite the robot having malfunctioned earlier, they followed it anyway.

>All 26 people who'd seen the robot enter the wrong room earlier still trusted it, along with five who'd seen it break down.

>In another test, the robot guided people to a dark room with furniture piled up inside. Two followed the robot's directions and two stayed by its side, instead of evacuating through one of the fire exists.

>"It was totally unexpected," said Paul Robinette, a research engineer at the Georgia Tech Research Institute.

>"As far as we can tell, as long as a robot says it can do something, people trust it with that task," he said.

Muslim cop hailed as hero by thousands for killing reformer

Murderer of reformer hailed as martyr

Mumtaz Qadri has been hanged in Pakistan. His funeral was attended by several thousands. He was hailed as a Ghazi (Muslim warrior fighting infidels) and a Shaheed (a martyr who will receive 72 virgins in heaven). Members of the Islamabad Bar Association called his hanging a judicial murder and observed a “black day”.

Mumtaz Qadri, a Pakistani police commando, had killed Salman Taseerin cold-blood in 2007. Salman Taseerin, a provincial governor, had called for reforms to Pakistan's blasphemy laws, which are frequently used to arbitrarily to give punishment amounting up to death to critics of religion and minorities.

As a precaution against violence, authorities closed all schools and stepped up security in Islamabad and the adjacent city of Rawalpindi, where the funeral of Mumtaz Qadri was held. Qadri's supporters threw rose petals at the ambulance carrying his coffin through Rawalpindi. Some supporters attacked a media crew, breaking at least one video camera. One of those in the crowds, Ahmad Nadeem, wore a T-shirt with the painted logo: "I'm Mumtaz Qadri." "I wouldn't hesitate to do the same," he said.

Mumtaz Qadri’s confession revealed that he had been inspired by the sermons of Hanif Qureshi. His one hour 41 minute video is available on Youtube in which he encourages the gathering to riddle Salman Taseer’s body with bullets. In which he pushes the gathering to commit the crime by repeatedly saying the "law doesn’t apply to us".

Meanwhile, footage posted on social media showed Qadri's supporters jeering at Pakistani Information Minister Pervaiz Rashid at Karachi's airport. One threw a shoe at the minister but he ducked.

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Germany organized job-fair for refugees

Refugee-only job fair

Some 4,000 people attended a ‘refugee-only’ job fair in Berlin hosted by 211 different employers as apart of an effort to encourage greater integration.

The one-day event was organised by Germany's Federal Employment Agency and a number of private businesses, and was held in the Neukolln district of Berlin where about 10% of the population is of Arab descent – owed in part to the influx of Turkish migrants during the 1970s.

The turnout was greater than the organizers had expected and Christian Henkes, spokesperson for Germany's Federal Employment Agency, told Al Jazeera that there is a “huge willingness” among these people to find a job.

Fadi Salem, a teacher and refugee from Syria, told Ruptly that as a teacher he hopes to secure work in education, but without changes to Germany’s language requirements, he will have trouble finding a job. “It is better if Germany helps us as refugees by lowering their needs a little bit. To make it a little bit easier,” Salem said. “I’m hopeful, but every step here is hard. I’m a refugee, and I think it is very hard.”

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German food and bureaucracy is driving refugees back

After more than 1.8 million refugees from troubled lands such as Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan have trekked into Germany over the last 13 months, a small but growing number are heading home. The reasons are myriad, but include overcrowded refugee centers, exasperating bureaucracy, unfamiliar German food, a lack of jobs and a spreading sense of resentment from Germans who fear their country is being overrun by Muslims.

"I wanted to live in peace with my family as far away from war as possible," said Abdulhasen Abdulla, a 37-year-old who had worked as a truck driver in Iraq. "But what I've seen in Europe is not what I dreamed about. It's not what [the smugglers] told me it would be.

"The food was terrible, so disgusting that not even animals should be fed it. They made us sleep in these cold, empty buildings and when someone said they were sick, they just ignored us. You could feel it everywhere that Germans looked down at us like we were bums. I miss my family and can't wait to get home."

He boarded a crowded Iraqi Airways flight from Berlin's Tegel Airport to Baghdad that with 150 other disillusioned former refugees. He had scraped together his last $325 for the flight to Iraq — a small fraction of the money he had paid to smugglers last summer to get to Germany by foot, bus and boat.

Alaa Hadrous, 24, who came to Germany from Iraq as a child and now operates the Golf Reisen travel office next to a refugee center in the heart of Berlin said, "They've given up on Germany, even though some have only been here for a few weeks. They had the wrong idea and wrong expectations about Germany. People in Iraq told them they could live a carefree life in Germany."

A Syrian man, who gave only his first name, Abed, had just bought a one-way ticket to Lebanon after spending four weeks in Germany. He said life on his own in Germany was a lot harder than he expected and it was depressing when he found out his wife and daughter weren't allowed to join him. "I miss my family a lot," he said. "I'd rather take a chance and risk dying with them in Syria than being in Germany without them."

"They thought they'd be warmly welcomed in Germany," Ardalan Hassan, the head of the Dania Travel Agency in the Wedding district of Berlin, said. "Some thought they'd get a lot of money, that the state would give them big houses to live in…. It's only after they get here that they see how poor their prospects to earn a living are."

Hassan said that he tries to tell Iraqis to stay home in the first place, that life in Germany isn't as easy as they think. "But no one believes me," he said. "They have to see it themselves to believe how difficult it is here."

The government's office for migration and refugees reported that 37,220 refugees obtained government financial aid to return to their home countries in 2015. Most of those were from countries in the Balkans and had little chance of being granted asylum. Only 724 of about 122,000 refugees from Iraq went home last year with German government assistance.

Ahmed, a 24-year-old from Irbil, Iraq, came to Germany hoping to study engineering. But after 8 months waiting for his asylum request to be processed, he gave up and flew home in mid-February. "We came here to Germany to live free but we're not free here," he said before he left. "We've got more freedom at home in Iraq than here…. I'm tired of being treated like an animal, of living in a giant room with hundreds of others and getting horrible food and having to take cold showers. I can't wait to get home."

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South Dakota's governor just vetoed an anti-transgender school bathroom bill

South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard just vetoed an anti-transgender school bathroom bill that drew national criticism from LGBBQ groups.

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>The bill said "every restroom, locker room, and shower room located in a public elementary or secondary school that is designated for student use and is accessible by multiple students at the same time shall be designated for and used only by students of the same biological sex." It defined biological sex as "the physical condition of being male or female as determined by a person's chromosomes and identified at birth by a person's anatomy."

>It also asked schools to provide a "reasonable accommodation" for trans students, like building a one-person, unisex bathroom, but only if it didn't burden the school district — a standard with enough caveats that schools may be able to avoid it.

>The bill did not mention trans students specifically. But it was clearly targeted at trans students, who identify with a gender different than the one assigned to them at birth.

>The state's legislature passed the bill. But Daugaard rejected it, writing in a veto letter, "If and when these rare situations arise, I believe local school officials are best positioned to address them. Instead of encouraging local solutions, this bill broadly regulates in a manner that invites conflict and litigation, diverting energy and resources from the education of the children of this state."

>One reason for the veto: The bill could have drawn a legal challenge from the federal government. The Justice Department and Department of Education interpret Title IX, which bans sex discrimination in publicly funded schools, to ban anti-trans discrimination. In the most advanced lawsuit over bathroom access, the Justice Department has weighed in to support a student's access to the bathroom that corresponds with his gender identity.

Muslim UK girls as young as 11 are being forced to marry men living abroad via the internet

Minor Muslim girls in the UK as young as 11 are being forced to marry men living abroad via the internet notwithstanding a ban on forced marriage in the country.

Imams in the UK and abroad have been conducting ceremonies using Skype — so girls can be married remotely before “being put on a plane and consummating the marriage at the earliest opportunity”, according to Freedom, a charity.

The marriage is often conducted with the promise of a visa to the UK for their new husband, it said.

“Once married, there is enormous pressure to get a spouse visa. The hope is the girl will visit (country of husband’s origin) and fall pregnant to make the union seem more legitimate before bringing the partner back,” she said.

In one case, an 11-year-old home-educated girl from London was married on Skype to a 25-year-old man in Bangladesh.

She contacted Freedom in November after reading a book about forced marriage that her older brother was given at school.

“She hadn’t understood at the time but later realised the Skype call was a marriage ceremony. The plan was for her to meet her ‘husband’ at a later date and hopefully fall pregnant.

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Indian army tackles cheating by making 1000 candidates take exam in underwear in field

India's army made candidates at a recruitment day in Bihar take a written exam in their underwear to prevent them from cheating after a spate of exam scandals in the eastern state.

Images in the Indian Express showed dozens of men sitting cross-legged in a field clad only in underpants, with many resting their test papers on their thighs, while a uniformed supervisor stood guard.

The paper quoted an army source as saying they took the radical step to "save time on frisking so many people" after more than 1,000 candidates turned up.

"We had no option but to comply with the instructions even though it felt odd," one would-be recruit told the paper.

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GlaxoSmithKline Killed 14 Babies During Vaccine Trials

In reacting to recent news that pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline accidentally dumped 12 gallons of live, concentrated polio virus into a Belgian river, it is important to remember that the company has a long history of safety violations in its vaccine business. In 2012, for example, an Argentinean judge found the company guilty of conducting illegal vaccine trials that led to the deaths of 14 babies.

Yet the company was fined only 400,000 pesos, at the time the equivalent of about $93,000. Two doctors involved in the trial were fined another 300,000 pesos each.

The company was found guilty of conducting trials on human beings (which is prohibited in Argentina) and of falsifying parental authorizations allowing the company to experiment on babies.

The judge handed down the ruling following a report by the National Administration of Medicine, Food and Technology (ANMAT) which concluded that the COMPASS trial conducted between 2007 and 2008 demonstrated "failures in the process of obtaining the necessary consent letters from participants, hence violating the patients' rights; as well the inclusion of patients that did not fully meet the required clinical conditions to be submitted into the program."

A total of 15,000 children under the age of one were recruited into the study from poor families attending public hospitals in three separate Argentinean provinces.

The scandal was broken by pediatrician Ana Marchese, who learned of the COMPASS study while working at one of the public hospitals involved. She reported the violations to the Argentine Federation of Health Professionals (FESPROSA), which later took the complaints to the government.

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Germany welcomes Yazidis rescued from ISIS

Secret shelter hides former sex slaves

German region of Baden-Württemberg is supporting some of the estimated 2,500 women and children who have escaped after being held hostage by Islamic State. Security at the secret shelters is tight.

“These women and children have been enslaved by Isis, who believe they are their owners. They are victims and witnesses to war crimes, so we protect them by running our mission in a secret, secure way,” says Dr Michael Blume, the head of the programme.

Baden-Württemberg is also home to a large number of the 50,000 Kurdish Yazidis, a persecuted minority group from northern Iraq.

There are free German lessons for all and strict school attendance is expected for those under 18. Many of the children were forced to attend indoctrination and light weapons training while captive, and few schools are operational in the internally displaced people’s camps where the hostages lived after escaping.

Social workers are firm about allowing the women space from their childcare duties as part of their therapy.

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Women don't know how to save for retirement

Women more likely to end up in old-age poverty

Some 9% of U.S. women age 65 and older — and 5% of men — live at or below the federal poverty level, which is just $11,880 for individuals and $16,020 for a family of two. Many more have trouble meeting their basic living expenses, according to a report by the National Institute on Retirement Security.

“Women have complicated math problems to solve for,” said Kim Mustin, co-head of global distribution for BNY Mellon Investment Management, who participated in an advisory committee for the report. These include their increased longevity, time spent out of the paid workforce, and wages.

A woman turning age 65 today can expect to live, on average, until age 86.6, while a man turning 65 can expect to live two years less.

A never-married man age 65 and over lives on a median income of $28,250, versus $25,790 for a never-married woman, according to the report, which analyzed U.S. Census survey data.

Widowers aged 65 and over live on a median annual income of $30,620 versus $23,990 for widows. Divorced men age 65 and older live on an annual median income of $36,910, versus $27,600 for divorced women of the same age.

Female workers of all ages had median 401(k) account balances of $24,446 in 2014, versus $36,875 for males, among Vanguard’s plan participants. Women sock away less despite being 14% more likely than men to participate in their workplace savings plan, according to Vanguard, and despite having similar asset allocations to men, with an average of 73% of their 401(k) in stocks to men’s 74%.

Various policies have been proposed to close the retirement income gap, from increasing workers’ access to retirement savings plans to a proposal by presidential candidates to expand Social Security benefits for widows and those who took time out of the paid workforce to care for a child or sick family member.

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Women must now provide for ill, disabled husbands or ex-husbands in Singapore

It is now a legal responsibility for a woman to provide for her husband or ex-husband, should he be unable to work because of physical or mental disabilities or illness, as amendments to the Women’s Charter were passed in Parliament yesterday.

Noting that more men are choosing to stay at home while their wives go to work, Mr Seah Kian Peng (Marine Parade GRC) said laws should be made “a little more equal” by offering these husbands the same protection.

Agreeing, Mr Louis Ng (Nee Soon GRC) added that spousal maintenance should be based on fairness, not gender. Men who make “economic sacrifices to take a primary role in household labour and caregiving” should be entitled to maintenance too, he added.

Other MPs, however, said women still have some way to go in achieving parity with men, despite having made great strides in recent years.

Ms Jessica Tan (East Coast GRC) said that while the female labour force participation rate is increasing, the figures for women aged between 25 and 39 are still lagging — likely because they left work in their prime years to care for their family. Despite women’s “strong advancement” since the law was enacted, “there are still several areas where women lag behind men … salary, senior management, decision-making roles in organisations including boards”, she added.

Other changes under the amended law include mandating divorcing couples with minor children to attend a parenting programme before they split, if they are unable to agree on all issues concerning their divorce. Marriages of convenience can also be voided, while vulnerable women will get new community-based care options, such as getting support in the home environment of a “fit individual”, such as a relative or friend.

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New York Students Fabricated Hate Crime, Police Say

They're accused of falsely reporting the incident and committing an assault themselves.

>Three black students at the State University of New York at Albany who had claimed to be victims of a hate crime are now accused of fabricating the attack after a police investigation.

>The women have been charged with assault and falsely reporting an incident after they said they were attacked by a group of white men and women shouting racial slurs on a bus in the early morning of Jan. 30, the Washington Post reported Friday.

>The incident led to a rally on campus in support of black students and a statement from the university president expressing concern and anger about the reported attack, CNN reported.

>Police now say the three women assaulted another passenger and were not subjected to racial epithets.

>“The evidence shows that, contrary to how the defendants originally portrayed things, these three individuals were not the victims of a crime,” University Police Chief Frank Wiley said in a statement, after police interviewed witnesses and looked at surveillance cameras. “Rather, we allege that they are the perpetrators.”

>The women are expected to appear in court on Monday, the Post reported.

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India - political turmoil over university slogans

Scared about what is happening to country, Anupam Kher says

I don't believe 1.3 billion people will let them destroy our country. There is much more in this country than the political games of certain parties," he said at the launch of Munmun Ghosh's novel "Thicker Than Blood".

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Governments have a controlling mindset. Ease of doing business has not improved: Narayana Murthy

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Those who challege Indianness are 'intellectuals': Union minister Jitendra Singh

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West Bengal governor seeks report on anti-India slogans in Jadavpur University

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It's not 'anti-national' to differ over ideologies: Ahmed Patel

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Ignoring Supreme Court order, men in black robes beat scribe, student

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Children's pole dancing classes defended as 'not sexual'

Pole dancing classes for children have been defended by a sports governing body following claims that it sexualises youngsters.

The Pole Intentions classes in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire were criticised after three girls did a demonstration on ITV's This Morning.

But instructor Zoe Hardy said they were about sport, and not sexual.

The International Pole Sports Federation has said classes like this help train future athletes.

'Same as other sports'

"Children are our future pole sports athletes and just like any sport we need to train our athletes from a young age," a spokesperson said.

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The Trump Assassination Danger Zone Begins In September

If Donald Trump continues to increase his GOP lead and the Elite of the GOP are not able to find a candidate capable of supplanting him at the Republican Convention, Trump’s danger zone with regard to assassination begins in September. Trump should really find a way to avoid the Ambassador Hotel at all costs for he will suffer the fate of Robert Kennedy.

Americans May Be “Dumbed Down”, But They Are Not Dumb Enough to Vote for Hillary, Cruz and Rubio

America’s ineptitude and unwillingness to fight for what is right, or to even know what is true, is re-elected in Rick Shenkman’s book, Just How Dumb Are We? Shenkman found that 87% of American college students could not find Iraq on a map. In fact, Shenkman also found that:

• Only 1 in 5 know that we have 100 United States senators.

• Only 2 out of 5 citizens can name the three branches of the federal government.

• Only 20% of young Americans between the ages 18-34 read a newspaper daily. An amazingly low 11% report surfing Internet news sites.

• Among 18- to 24-year-old Americans given maps:

• 83 percent cannot find Afghanistan on a map

• 76 percent cannot find Saudi Arabia

• 70 percent cannot find New Jersey

• 11 percent cannot find the United States

The Moral Depravity of Trump’s Opponents

Do we elect another illegal alien, Ted Cruz, who has a wife who is busy swindling the American people at Goldman Sachs?

Do we elect a man, Rubio, who is better suited for setting up office in the back room of an adult bookstore than in the Oval Office? His childish antics during the debate are reminiscent of a 10 year-0ld child than they are for a candidate for the highest office in the land. Do we really want another Bathhouse Barry occupying 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue?

The final choice, outside of Trump, is America’s modern day answer to Lizzy Borden. The trail of bodies that followed Hillary and Bill into the Oval Office is noteworthy. If you are unfamiliar with the facts behind this last statement, spend some time on the search engine of The Common Sense Show. Does America really want the Butcher of Benghazi in the White House? And I haven’t even mentioned the thousands of classified emails which ended up on her private email and computer, both of which carries a five year prison term for each occurrence. What does she even stand for, except for the fact that she is a woman. Finally, I shutter at the thought of referring to Bill Clinton as the First Gentleman, if she is elected. Mamas, hide your daughters.

Chris Christie endorsed Donald Trump two days ago as he proclaimed. “I will lend my support between now and November in any way for Donald…” .

Former Governor of Alaska and Vice-Presidential candidate has endorsed Trump as well.

Former Arizona governor, Jan Brewer endorsed Trump as well. You remember Jan Brewer don’t you?

There will be many more surprising endorsements. Why? Because the country, even some of the prominent politicians, see where America is heading and they are frightened.

What Does It All Mean?

Will there be enough voter backlash to get Congress to issues articles of impeachment? No! Will the military move against Obama? Not without popular support. However, there is enough meat in the Trump run for President to anger the people and this is a dynamic that the elite do not want to contend with. There is now talk that Trump might be banned from future GOP debates. This would force Trump to run as an independent.

The latter moves mentioned in the previous paragraph are convention type of moves. If the elite are not successful in supplanting Trump, Trump’s danger zone for assassination is in September. Mark it down. The elite will not let him become President.

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Zika visits AMERICA

While most people with Zika do not have symptoms, about 20 percent experience symptoms including fever, rash, conjunctivitis, and joint pain.

There is no vaccine against Zika and no medicine to treat it, the release said.

U.S. details 9 Zika pregnancies: 2 abortions, 2 miscarriages, 1 baby with ‘severe microcephaly’

One of the women who had an abortion was in her 30s and had contracted the virus during her first trimester while traveling to a Zika-affected area, the agency said. When she was 20 weeks pregnant, she learned from an ultrasound that her fetus was suffering from severe brain abnormalities. Doctors also tested her amniotic fluid and found the presence of Zika virus. "After discussion with her health-care providers, the patient elected to terminate her pregnancy," the CDC wrote in a case study released Friday. Officials did not offer details surrounding the second abortion, other than to say it involved another woman who had become infected with Zika during the first trimester of her pregnancy.

Six of the infected women acquired Zika during their first trimester, Of those, two experienced miscarriages

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First confirmed case of Zika virus in New Hampshire, the third case in New England

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A child who recently returned home to Utah after traveling outside the country has tested positive for the Zika virus, officials confirmed.

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Colorado public health officials confirm two Zika virus cases in state

"Colorado is likely to have more cases of Zika in the coming year,"

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Bernie’s Revolution Is Too White to Win

Bernie Sanders will live to fight another day. The senator was expected to win overwhelmingly on Super Tuesday in his home state of Vermont, and his campaign would have stalled if that were the extent of his victory. But he won in Oklahoma, Minnesota, and Colorado, and ran a tight race in Massachusetts, giving his political revolution a new lease on life. His rival Hillary Clinton won overwhelming majorities, as expected, in the Southern states: Georgia, Virginia, Alabama, Tennessee, Arkansas, and Texas.

In his speech early on Tuesday night, Sanders vowed to continue the fight till all 50 states have spoken. “At the end of tonight 15 states will have voted,” he said. “Thirty-five states remain, and let me assure you that we are going to take our fight for economic justice, for social justice, for environmental sanity, and for a world of peace to every one of those states.”

It could be argued that both Sanders and Clinton are regional candidates, with Sanders dominating the Northeast and Clinton the South. But there is another way to slice the numbers—one that presents a problem for Sanders not just in terms of winning the primary but also in terms of the logic and legitimacy of his movement. Clinton is winning a multiracial coalition that includes large numbers of whites, African-Americans, and Latinos. Sanders by contrast is winning largely in states which are overwhelmingly white: Iowa, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Oklahoma.

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India - 4th in number of thinktanks

India ranks fourth on the list of nations with the most number of thinktanks, with nearly 100 new ones taking the country's total to 280 in 2015.

Last year, India ranked fifth with 192 thinktanks.

The US tops the list for 2015 with 1,835 thinktanks, followed by China and the United Kingdom with 435 and 288, respectively, according to the 'Global Go To Think Tank Index Report (GGTTI) 201

Thinktanks to watch out for are those who have done excellent research in the past 24 months and six Indian organisations made it to this list—ORF (10), IDSA (13), Vivekananda Institute of Technology (20), Gateway House (38), Council on Energy, Environment and Water (54) and Centre for Land Warfare Studies (69). The annual rankings are compiled under the auspices of the Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program (TTCSP) at the University of Pennsylvania.

"Flows of information for rich policy analysis and research today are often disparate and fractured, which leads to a vital need for resources that highlight the best policy research out there," said James McGann, director of the University of Pennsylvania's TTCSP in a statement.

"The independent index is designed to help users of information and policy analysis identify the leading centres of excellence in public policy research around the world," he added.

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Hitlary Wants to Take Away Women’s Rights to Say NO to Mandatory Vaccines

Hillary Clinton claims to be pro-choice and supportive of women, minorities and children. So why does she condone the use of government power to strip away women's rights when it comes to vaccines?

All that "pro choice" banter turns out to be total B.S. once the issue turns to vaccines, and vaccines contain toxic chemicals such as aluminum, polysorbate 80, mercury, MSG and formaldehyde, all of which pose severe health risks to the very children Hillary Clinton claims to be protecting with government entitlement programs. See UK government admits swine flu vaccine causes brain damage, awards compensation to 60 families: http://archive.is/dq72B

If Hillary Clinton had any real compassion for women, she would obviously support a woman's right to choose on issues of medical interventions and vaccinations. She would be speaking out against SB 277 in California and demanding that we all protect women from the predatory practices of Big Pharma.

But she isn't. When it comes to vaccines, Hillary Clinton throws women to the wolves, subjecting their children to devastating neurological damage, comas, seizures and even deaths caused by vaccines. See Hundreds of children brain damaged by the swine flu vaccine to receive $90 million in financial compensation from UK government.

Believe it or not, Donald Trump has spoken out strongly against the vaccine damage of children in America, and he was even attacked on this point by the mainstream media in the very first Republican debate. Trump isn't opposed to vaccines, but he insists that vaccines need to be spread out over time to reduce the risk of harm from multiple vaccines given all at once.

On the issue of [medical freedom], the choices are clear: If you're a democrat, support Bernie Sanders. If you're a Republican, support Donald Trump.

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NOAA: Oceanic acidity caused by climate change could affect Alaska crab numbers

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>ANCHORAGE -

Oceanic acidification caused by climate change could cause a decline in numbers of Alaska crab species, according to new studies from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, officials announced in a press release Tuesday.

>60 percent of U.S. seafood comes from Alaska and a profitable portion comes from crab fisheries. The acidic conditions in ocean water could affect crabs on varying levels depending on a crab's age, according to NOAA official, Chris Long.

>"The ocean environment that larval Tanner crabs live in is highly dynamic, with variable levels of acidity," said Long. "At this age, tanner crabs seem able to tolerate shifts in pH. But if these animals are exposed to more acidic conditions at the embryo stage, they may be less able to tolerate changes in ocean acidification as larvae."

>Young crabs exposed to low pH levels do not accumulate calcium well which makes them more vulnerable to penetration and that fewer crabs would make it to adulthood.

>A separate study on blue king crabs revealed slower growth rates and higher mortality in juveniles exposed to more acidic conditions. The blue king crab populations around Pribilof Islands and St. Matthew Island areas have fluctuated dramatically, officials say.

>"This suggests that environmental conditions play a big role in the number of young crabs that actually grow to maturity and can be caught by the commercial fishery," officials wrote. "Changes in ocean acidification may make it even more difficult for these populations to recover from recent low levels."

>Bob Foy, head of the Kodiak Lab for Alaska Fisheries Science Center says the situation doesn't look good. Based on the research, unless crabs are able to adapt to the changing conditions, officials say Alaskan fishermen will see a drastic drop in crab numbers within the next 50 years.

Amnesty: Border Crime Taking A Toll On Residents In Southwest New Mexico, Arizona

The Deming Headlight reports that residents are scheduled Thursday to express their concerns to federal officials during a meeting at the Animas Community Center in Animas, New Mexico.

Judy Keeler, a longtime resident of the rural border region, says her home was recently burglarized and it's not an unusual episode for other residents.

Residents have said state Highway 80 has become a favorite for Mexican cartel drug runners who manage to navigate out of the Peloncillo Mountains along the Arizona-New Mexico border. They want an even more increased presence from the US Border Patrol.

Under Obama, the border patrol have been fired for simply doing their job: archive.is/1lmEc

Crime by illegal aliens has devastated the people and communities all acroos the border. This should not be happening.

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Twitter will train prosecutors in England and Wales to combat online abuse

"Jenny Hopkins, chief crown prosecutor and the CPS lead on violence against women, told the Guardian that Twitter experts were being brought in to train prosecutors and update their skills and knowledge. “Social media is increasingly being used as a tool against women and I think it is really positive that Twitter is going to be training our lawyers in the months ahead,” Hopkins said."

“Worryingly, we have seen an increase in the use of cyber-enabled crime in cases related to violence against women and girls, including domestic abuse,” Saunders said. “Offenders can mistakenly think that, by using false online profiles and creating websites under a false name, their offences are untraceable. Thankfully, this is not the case and an online footprint will be left by the offender.”

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UK To Outlaw Anonymous Online Trolling, Social Media NOT Safe

You might want to consider getting a trusted VPN & using Tor as well.

Internet trolls who set up fake profiles in the name of their victims to post damaging or embarrassing material can face criminal charges, new advice for prosecutors says.

Social media guidelines are being updated by the Crown Prosecution Service to cover cases where offenders create false online accounts and websites.

The CPS said: 'For example, it may be a criminal offence if a profile is created under the name of the victim with fake information uploaded which, if believed, could damage their reputation and humiliate them.

'In some cases the information could then be shared in such a way that it appears as though the victim has themselves made the statements.'

Such conduct could amount to an offence such as grossly offensive communication or harassment.

Director of Public Prosecutions Alison Saunders said: ' Offenders can mistakenly think that by using false online profiles and creating websites under a false name their offences are untraceable.

'Thankfully this is not the case and an online footprint will be left by the offender.'

Social media giants such as Twitter and Facebook have facilities in place to report impersonation accounts.

Facebook's help centre says 'impostor accounts' are not allowed.

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CNN is whining that GOP elders waited too long to attack Trump

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>(CNN)—The aura of inevitability settling around Donald Trump's bid for the Republican presidential nomination is finally provoking what many of his GOP rivals have dreamed of for months: a sustained attack by party elders on the billionaire mogul.

>The GOP revolt comes as Trump is poised to cruise toward victory in the Super Tuesday contests – a crucial day in the nomination process when 595 delegates are up for grabs. But the question is whether the Republican outcry against Trump will have any real impact on voters as they head to the polls in more than a dozen states and territories, particularly as he racks up endorsements from key figures like New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions.

>""When you look at operatives, donors, and the opinion elite, they are all scared to death that Trump is going to be the nominee," said Russ Schriefer, a senior adviser to Romney's 2012 campaign, as well as Christie's recent presidential bid. "But then you look at voters and they are quite comfortable with Trump as the nominee… What you are now seeing is this full court anti-Trump press, but it's late," Schriefer said. "Trump is no more dangerous than he was in August."

Hungary refuses to allow europe to cuck itself, vetoes deal with turkey

>In exchange, would get €6bn (£4.6bn) to help Syrian refugees stay in Turkey, faster visa-free travel for its citizens and renewed talks aimed at granting its membership of the 28-country bloc

Turkey wanted a 1-to-1 visa/refugee return deal with no guarantees of them actually stopping the refugees from going over into greece, essentially giving them infinite visas into the EU. The ultracuck deal was sunk by the hungarian prime minister with a veto.

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Beauty Is Its Own Argument

Freedom has been defined as being able to go after what you want, as in the pursuit of happiness.

But freedom is also the right to WANT what you want.

And to SAY what you want.

Anyone who has spent time in Latin America or other colored countries knows that it is not a typical Latin American who is preferred for TV down there.

As one anti-White put it, “South American TV looks like its casting was done by David Duke.”

The same problem comes up with the lack of Black people getting Academy Awards.

The same situation came up when Bay Watch with its blond beauties totally wiped out other TV shows throughout the COLORED world. It was popular here, but outside the white world it totally swamped other shows.

So when a Black woman features in a movie or TV show, the White actors’ dialogue repeats and repeats and repeats “She is beautiful.”

No character ever had to say that about Wonder Woman or the bathing blondes on Baywatch.

When I see a Black dating a blonde, I feel sorry for the children. I hear Blacks say the same thing privately.

But you are only allowed to consider whether, when the sex act that leads to a child takes place, the interracial couple are Truly in Love.

You are required to forget, whether you are White or Black, that it is the child and the child’s offspring who have to live with the result forever.

Enslavement is being denied the right to pursue happiness, to get what YOU want.

But enslavement BEGINS with not being able to SAY what you want.

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Egyptian Who Threatened to Kill Trump on Facebook to Be Deported

A U.S. court has reportedly ordered that an Egyptian student living in the United States be deported after he was caught threatening to kill presidential candidate Donald Trump on Facebook, according to reports.

Emad El-Din Ali Mohamed Nasr El Sayed, a 23-year-old student, reportedly had his U.S. visa revoked as a result of the threats.

“I am willing to kill Donald Trump and serve a life sentence,” El Sayed wrote on Facebook, according to interviews with his lawyer conducted by Egyptian Streets. “[T]he whole world would thank me for doing that.”

El Sayed was arrested in mid-February but authorities dropped the charges after a decision was made to revoke his visa. A California immigration court determined on Tuesday that he is now in the United States illegally and must be deported back to Egypt.

El Sayed’s lawyer expressed opposition to the ruling.

“This is an extraordinary step taken by the U.S. government to pressure a school owner to terminate the attendance of someone at a school,” Hani S. Bushra was quoted as telling Egyptian Streets. “Emad never missed a single academic requirement while he was enrolled in the school.”

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GOOD! Gun Sales Continue To Skyrocket Despite Despot Gun Control Attempts!

February was the third-biggest month on record for gun background checks, according to data released Wednesday by the FBI.

Background checks, which the FBI conducts every time someone tries to buy a gun from a federally licensed dealer, rose to 2.6 million in February, according to the bureau.

February's total falls short of the record set in December, 2015, when 3.3 million background checks were recorded.

The second biggest month was in December, 2012, the month of the Sandy Hoax, when the FBI logged 2.8 million checks.

Background checks, which are conducted by the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, or NICS, often spike after mass shootings. This is partly because gun buyers fear for their safety, and partly because they're wary that the crimes might result in more gun control.

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U.S. just admitted that cannabis DOES kill cancer cells

Conspiracy theorists have been saying it all along – but cannabis does apparently kill cancer cells.

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>That’s according to the US government, which has added a page on the use of cannabis and cannabinoids to their official cancer advice website.

>The National Cancer Institute, part of the US Department of Health, now advises that ‘cannabinoids may be useful in treating the side effects of cancer and cancer treatment’ by smoking, eating it in baked products, drinking herbal teas or even spraying it under the tongue.

>The site also lists other uses including: Anti-inflammatory activity, blocking cell growth, preventing the growth of blood vessels that supply tumours, antiviral activity and relieving muscle spasms caused by multiple sclerosis.

>The information page also explains how cancer cells in mice were killed when exposed to cannabis.

>Several scientific studies have suggested this in the past, and in April this year the US government’s National Institute on Drug Abuse revised their publications to suggest cannabis could shrink brain tumours by killing off cancer cells.

>There are now two FDA approved medications for cancer patients available in the US which contain cannabinoids.

>In the UK THC is in prescribed drug Sativex but is not yet considered useful on a wider basis for medical purposes.

>Now America has said it, perhaps Britain may follow suit soon.

YouTube to support women creators

7 female YouTubers fight for equality

Top women YouTube stars have been appointed to fight for gender equality as part of a new partnership between YouTube and the UN, it was announced.

The first group of Change Ambassadors features prominent international female YouTube stars like Hayla Gazzal (UAE), Ingrid Nilsen (US), Jackie Aina (US), Yuya (Mexico), Taty Ferreira (Brazil), Louise Pentland (UK) and Chika Yoshida (Japan).

The group of millennial influencers have the responsibility to act as positive role models within their communities and rally audiences on YouTube by creating video content that raises awareness to eliminate discrimination against women and girls.

There will also an investment in over 50 videos funded through YouTube’s new, global YouTube Spaces program, which put women both in front of and behind the camera.

The videos emerging from these efforts will include topics like women in the workforce, tributes honoring historical female leaders, as well as other original scripted content. Topics may also include health, science, engineering, music and comedy, notes YouTube.

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Genetic Engineering Updates Winter 2016

Genetic Engineering & NanoBioTechnology

We are rapidly approaching an era when it may not only be possible but also insuppressible that people will be able to modify their genes at low cost.

>Genetic engineering is probably the area of systems biology about which the general public has most awareness. One of its sets of tools is CRISPR, a genome-editing system that enables scientists to change the expression of genes in living cells.

>Genetic engineering is currently an immature and imprecise science. Scientists cannot forecast all the impacts of a particular genetic modification. They do know, however, that many modifications come with strings attached. For instance, a genetic modification to establish HIV resistance would also increase susceptibility to West Nile Virus, not to mention that the changes are permanent and heritable.

>“It has been only about a decade since we first read the human genome,” MIT biology professor Eric Landers said. “We should exercise great caution before we begin to rewrite it.”

>But with investment in CRISPR/Cas9 in the billions, the technological problems with genetic engineering will soon be solved, and gene editing will be used not just to fix but also to improve our bodies and minds. Parents might choose their child’s hair color, athleticism or intelligence, heralding in the era of “designer babies.”

>Many fear that when we can select our children’s traits, humanity will be commoditized and therefore subject to the pitfalls of capitalism — that marketers will influence “genetic fashion trends” and that the costs of genetic enhancement will further divide the poor and the rich. But few, if any, technologies ever start out cheap and accessible. Only with years of market demand and innovation does price go down and supply go up. Genetic technologies are no exception.

>Even if designer babies lead to intellectual inequality among the population, this inequality is not inherently bad. Smarter kids would grow into better scientists, engineers, doctors and teachers. “Generosity genes” and other altruistic alterations could make for better citizens.

>Fixing the genetic lottery may take some of the variety out of life, but improving a child’s life is more important. We’ve controlled the genomes of many species in one way or another for decades to stabilize and improve them. From corn to cattle, genetic engineering is central to our well-being. Controlling our own genes would be a good next step.

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A comprehensive system of Genetic Engineering necessarily includes Molecular engineering.

>The field called synthetic biology is all about improving on Mother Nature, creating components of living things that evolution hasn’t. In two studies published in Cell on Thursday, scientists reported doing just that: They synthesized new forms of a molecule that stretches from the inside of a cell to the outside. In so doing, they took a step toward improving on a new cancer therapy that is shaking up oncology.

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In decades to come, however much the well meaning worry about the nefarious applications of gene editing, the needs of the sick will continue to drive science and medicine forward - as they should.

Researchers investigate why seed bugs have evolved extremely long male genitals

By the looks of it, size should be a big thing when it comes to seed bugs mating, but it only matters when more than one mating partner is around to choose from. That is what researchers Liam Dougherty and David Shuker of the University of St Andrews in Scotland found when investigating the mating strategies of two closely related black and red coloured seed bugs. The male sexual organs of these insects can be up to two-thirds the length of their bodies. The findings are published in Springer's journal Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology.

Animal genitalia vary greatly in size and complexity across species, and the reasons why specific sizes or shapes of genitals are preferred can be complex. To this end, Dougherty and Shuker set out to analyse the specifics behind mate selection and fertility success in two seed bug species, Lygaeus equestris and Lygaeus simulans. The males of both species have very long external sexual organs which end in a hollow tube called the processus. At around 7 millimetres long, the processus is used to ejaculate sperm into a female and can stretch to two-thirds the length of a male's body. Why the processus has evolved to be so long in the first place is still unclear, though the extreme length would suggest that sexual selection has played a role in its evolution.

Two experiments were carried out to assess if males with a longer processus were either more likely to mate with a female, or more likely to fertilise a female's eggs during mating. The social context in which mating takes place was also assessed, to see whether the presence of more than one male or female influenced how important processus length is for males both before and during mating.

Dougherty and Shuker found that processus length did have an influence on a male's chances of mating in one of the species (L. equestris), but only in certain contexts. Processus length was most important when a rival male was present during a mating trial. This finding has relevance, because it suggests that in the wild the strength of selection on processus length will depend on the number of males competing to mate with each female.

The length of the processus is also important during mating for both species. This is because males commonly fail to fertilise any of a female's eggs during mating. In fact, the authors show that males with a medium-length processus are the most likely to successfully fertilise a female. Therefore in both species bigger isn't necessarily better when it comes to genital length.

"The length of the penis in two species of seed bug is subject to complex patterns of selection, varying depending on the social context and whether selection is measured before or after mating," said Dougherty in summarising the findings.

"Our results highlight the fact that genitalia may be subject to both direct and indirect selection at different stages of mating, and that to fully understand the evolution of such traits we should combine estimates of selection arising from these multiple episodes," elaborated Shuker.

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The male sexual organs of these insects can be up to two-thirds the length of their bodies.

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Brain Implant Will Let Amputees Move Individual Fingers on Prosthetics With Thoughts Alone

To test the device, scientists at Johns Hopkins University recruited the help of an epilepsy patient who was preparing for surgery to pinpoint the source of his seizures. (The patient himself was not missing a limb.) The scientists used the same electrode array implanted in his brain to control the prosthetic limb. After mapping the parts of the brain responsible for individual finger control movements, the researchers programmed the prosthesis to move the corresponding finger. The details of the experiment can now be found in the Journal of Neural Engineering.

“We believe this is the first time a person using a mind-controlled prosthesis has immediately performed individual digit movements without extensive training,” said senior author Nathan Crone in a press statement. “This technology goes beyond available prostheses, in which the artificial digits, or fingers, moved as a single unit to make a grabbing motion, like one used to grip a tennis ball.

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A Northeastern student is using 3D printing to make affordable prosthetics

Brian Foun­taine knows how dif­fi­cult it is to live with pros­thetic limbs–10 years ago, he became a double below-​​the-​​knee amputee after sus­taining a combat injury in Iraq. What he didn’t know, how­ever, is how expen­sive it is to get those pros­thetics in the first place.

“I, for lack of a better term, was lucky, because the gov­ern­ment cov­ered all the costs of my pros­thetic work,” Foun­taine says. “Later on, I went and did some peer mentor work with vic­tims [of the Boston Marathon bombing] and came to realize just how expen­sive pros­thetics were.”

Foun­taine, an under­grad­uate graphic design stu­dent at North­eastern Uni­ver­sity, set out to find a way to make high-​​quality, life-​​changing pros­thetics afford­able. The answer he found was 3D printing pros­thetics using carbon fiber, an idea so promising that the Ford Foun­da­tion awarded him $25,000 to make it happen.

“I’m for helping anybody who has any kind of a mobility or amputee problem that they would need addressed,” he says. “Everybody has their own unique injuries.”

Fountaine is also allowing other students in Northeastern’s College of Arts, Media, and Design to use the 3D printers purchased through his grant, in an effort to keep the flow of ideas going. It’s a gesture in keeping with Fountaine’s humble outlook on the project’s success.

“I’m just an artist with a vision,” he says, “and I have the personal experience with prosthetics myself to see this through.”

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OPIE to include Amputee Mobility Predictor in software

“The integration of the [Amputee Mobility Predictor] AMP into OPIE Software provides O&P practitioners a powerful tool to approach amputee care with an evidence-based practice approach” Robert Gailey, PhD, PT, developer of the AMP, said in the release. “The AMP has the ability to determine the functional mobility of people with lower limb loss as defined by the Medicare Functional Classification Levels or K-Levels and is a measure of amputee function and impairment for the CMS mandated G-codes. Furthermore, goal-oriented interdisciplinary care coordination can more consistently be measured and communicated with this outcome measure. The AMP may be used by prosthetists, physical therapists and physicians for documentation and treatment planning.”

Advanced Rehabilitation Therapy Inc. is a therapist-owned and operated company that provides educational materials and seminars to the rehabilitation community.

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Prosthetics: Amputee James Young unveils hi-tech synthetic arm inspired by Metal Gear Solid

The job advertisement was highly specific: applicants had to be passionate about computer games and live in the UK. Oh, and they also had to be amputees who were interested in wearing a futuristic prosthetic limb.

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Invaders given free housing in Ukraine, Despite natives protesting

Ukrainians are already fighting off Russians, now they are being swarmed by Islamic invaders too

“I am tormented by one question: will our government give all displaced persons from [the ongoing Donbass war in Ukraine] free housing?” asked Xenya Yakushko, a local journalist.

“Why has government, instead of giving shelter to Ukrainians, begun suddenly bringing in 250 totally foreign people? Has the war ended?” […] “and how much do we benefit from the Syrian refugees?”

Despite the Donbass war and the concerned citizens, the Ukraine government has decided to go along with the EU’s “resettlement” agenda.

If these really are Syrians who are fleeing a war-zone, surely the Ukraine would not be the best place for them with the Donbass war still ongoing? Especially considering the area the immigrant center is in sees armed conflict.

The reason why the EU refused to enforce border laws from the very start is because they wanted the Africans and Middle Easterners in Europe, whether legal or illegal.

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Collapsing Europe Bracing For 'Uncountable' Muslim Influx

Officials in Brussels offered Turkey £2.3 billion and visa-free travel if it clamps down on the number of refugees making their way into Europe through its borders.

But today a prominent German politician warned EU leaders may have robbed Peter to pay Paul, shutting off one influx but opening up the continent to 80 million Turkish citizens.

Johannes Singhammer, vice-president of the Bundestag said there are “serious considerations” about the prospective visa-free regime, because it would open “a gateway for further immigration and a flow of refugees to Germany.”

He said that German consulates in Turkey are already issuing a staggering 200,000 visas a year for free travel in the Schengen zone and that number is now set to explode when the agreement comes into force in October.

German chancellor Angela Merkel has come under fire for her so-called open door policy to refugees and has insisted the answer to the migrant crisis is not to simply close European borders.

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Huckabee: Trump Phenomenon is a ‘Peaceful Overthrow of the Government’

Former Governor of Arkansas Mike Huckabee told Fox News this morning that Donald Trump’s success represents a peaceful “overthrow of the government” and that the Republican establishment should be glad it’s being achieved with “ballots not bullets”.

Huckabee, who has not officially endorsed Trump, told Fox & Friends that “people in Washington need to recognize the reason that Trump is winning is because they (his supporters) feel like people in Washington have helped them lose and they’re sick of it.”

“The donor class runs the political environment in this country and people are waking up to that and they are tired of it,” added the former presidential candidate.

“That’s what this election is largely about, it’s an overthrow of the government….we ought to be glad that it is a peaceful revolution with ballots rather than one with bullets,” said Huckabee, adding that the Trump phenomenon was a “political revolution in the Republican Party and in the country.”

Huckabee accused the Republican establishment of “bed-wetting” over Trump by treating his voters as stupid while trying to select a presidential candidate rather than let the American people elect one.

The former Governor said that Trump’s supporters were coming out in droves to support him because “they’re angry at the very establishment who is going nuts because Donald Trump is doing so well – and they don’t get it that they are the problem.”

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How Hindus In America Are Campaigning For Donald Trump

A group of people in America, all Hindus, are fighting hard to ensure Trump becomes the next President to 'make America great again'. Going by the handle @USAHindus4Trump, they have started a hashtag called #HindusForTrump, explaining why they are supporting him.

In a blog post, the Hindus4Trump group have also listed what they call 'evidence that USA Hindus are supporting Trump'.

"Sources estimate that there are between 1.5 million and 2.5 million Hindus living in the USA. But is there any evidence that this growing demographic is organizing to support Trump? Yes! And this support is coming from some of the most influential and widely respected names within the Hindu community," reads the blog.

A D Amar, a business professor with Seton Hall University in New Jersey is its president while New York-based attorney Anand Ahuja is its vice president. Amar believes that Trump is the best for the United States and Indian-Americans.

The reason? "Mr. Trump’s policies on illegal immigration and economy in particular are the main reasons for the Indian Americans to support him," he said.

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The FDA Now Officially Belongs to Big Pharma

It is hard to believe only four senators opposed the confirmation of Robert Califf, who was approved today as the next FDA commissioner. Vocal opponent Bernie Sanders condemned the vote from the campaign trail. But where was Dick Durbin? Where were all the lawmakers who say they care about industry and Wall Street profiteers making money at the expense of public health?

Califf, chancellor of clinical and translational research at Duke University until recently, received money from 23 drug companies including the giants like Johnson & Johnson, Lilly, Merck, Schering Plough and GSK according to a disclosure statement on the website of Duke Clinical Research Institute.

Not merely receiving research funds, Califf also served as a high level Pharma officer, say press reports. Medscape, the medical website, discloses that Califf “served as a director, officer, partner, employee, advisor, consultant or trustee for Genentech.” Portola Pharmaceuticals says Califf served on its board of directors until leaving for the FDA.

In disclosure information for a 2013 article in Circulation, Califf also lists financial links to Gambro, Regeneron, Gilead, AstraZeneca, Roche and other companies and equity positions in four medical companies. Gilead is the maker of the $1000-a-pill hepatitis C drug AlterNet recently wrote about. This is FDA commissioner material?

Califf has gone on record that collaboration between industry and regulators is a good thing. He told NPR, “Many of us consult with the pharmaceutical industry, which I think is a very good thing. They need ideas and then the decision about what they do is really up to the person who is funding the study.” What?

He is known for defending Vioxx which is reported to have caused at least 50,000 heart attacks and events before its withdrawal. (Merck is said to have known about Vioxx’ cardio effects but marketed the blockbuster drug anyway.)

Califf was instrumental in the Duke drug trial of the blood thinner Xarelto and a cheerleader of the drug despite medical experts’ objections to its approval and 379 subsequent deaths. Xarelto’s serious and foreseeable risks were back in the news this week.

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Hitramat, Jeka Fish form JV for Danish crab processing plant

Hitramat, a Norwegian subsidiary of seafood group Conchilla, and Jeka Fish, linked to Danish shrimp and cod producer Cimbric, have form a joint venture to start a brown crab processing plant in Denmark.

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>The new plant, based in Lemvig, the Danish region of Midtjylland, is expected to be ready for this year's upcoming season, starting in July, the companies said.

>The new venture, named 'Nordisk Krabbe Kompagni' (Nordic Crab Company, in English), will supply Danish-Norwegian crab products to the Scandinavian and European market, as Jeka Fish will be responsible for the plant and the daily management.

>"Jeka Fish is located close the main fishing ports in Denmark and has an effective logistic to Southern Europe. This gives us a unique opportunity to deliver fresh crab products of the highest quality for the most important markets for crabs," said Halldor Arnarson, CEO of Jeka Fish.

>"Consumption of fresh shellfish is increasing in Europe. We want to take part in this development in cooperation with Jeka Fish and enforce Hitramat’s position as a leading European processor of brown crabs. Further we also see synergies in Jeka Fish and Hitramat’s other activities," said Anton Fjeldvær, CEO of Hitramat.

>The venture has also high expectations with crab products on the Danish market, as the new project will be pioneer on commercial production of crabs in Denmark.

>"Crabs are so far a relatively untapped resource in Denmark, and the crab stock in Danish waters is high. The new company is committed to developing an environmentally friendly and sustainable pot fishery along the Danish coast," the companies said.

>In high season the company expect up to 40 new employees in the production of the new products, which all include crabs caught in Danish waters.

>In addition, there is a need for fishermen who catch crabs during the peak season from July to November, where the crab has the highest meat content, the companies said.

>Jeka Fish has a long experience in the processing of whitefish and is now also on the market with fish cakes and fish burgers.

>Hitramat, for its part, has extensive experience with crabs and is one of the leading processors of brown crabs in Europe. The company processes about 3,500 metric tons of crabs in Norway per year.

SuperKEKB reborn: Japanese accelerator resumes hunt for missing antimatter

Everyone knows the electron, but in our daily routines of charging laptops and phones, we don’t often think of its antiparticle, the positron. Where has all the antimatter gone, in the long time passing since the dawn of the universe?

That’s what scientists working on Japan’s electron-positron colliding accelerator, SuperKEKB, hope to find out. They’ll accelerate electrons and their antimatter brothers close to the speed of light before slamming them together. By peering into the debris and searching for rare particle decays, they’ll try to figure out why we live in a world full of matter.

Japan’s high-energy accelerator research organization, known as KEK, announced today that scientists successfully accelerated and stored electrons and positrons in their separate rings, each nearly 2 miles around. This is the first in several steps to commission the accelerator after a five-year upgrade that included new beam pipes, new magnets (and magnet power supplies) to guide the beam, and a reinforced radio-frequency system that accelerates the particles. Technicians also added a new positron source for the antimatter particles and a new electron gun.

The improvements should create many more collisions per second than the previous iteration of the accelerator, KEKB, was capable of–and that means a better chance of seeing interesting particle decays. The collisions will create pairs of bottom quarks and bottom antiquarks, hence the “B” in SuperKEKB.

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South Africa – The Template for White Genocide

WHITES BEING DESTROYED TO THE LAST MAN IN SOUTH AFRICA

An excellent discussion with host Sencha MacRae and guest Monica Stone of South Africa as well as myself. We discuss the impending white genocide that is already in full fury in South Africa and spreading to Europe, the United States, Australia, and Canada. This talk comes from the first-hand experiences of a resident white South African, a former resident of crime ridden Washington, DC., and myself as a former police officer in America’s most dangerous neighborhoods during the record highest crime in history.

We are in the 12th hour now. Wake up, put your differences aside. The enemy is at the gates.

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Swedish Migration Policies Are a Result of Government Corruption

When you talk to journalists from the U.S. or the UK, they often seem to think that Sweden is a humanitarian superpower that has received refugees because the Swedish government is following some ideology based on doing good deeds.

That Sweden is a humanitarian superpower, eager to lead by example, is a myth that needs exposing once and for all. The recent migration wave to Sweden has made some people poor and others very, very rich.

Every day one reads news in Sweden about the winners and the losers in the migration industry. One of the winners in Sweden's migration industry is ICA Bank. In November 2015, it invoiced the Swedish Migration Agency $8 million for providing asylum seekers prepaid cards. For every cash withdrawal, ICA Bank takes a $2 fee, and for every prepaid card activated, it takes $21. ICA Bank won the contract without any competition; its contract with the Migration Agency extends to March 2017.

Many asylum accommodations in Sweden are run by private operators and are making huge profits. In 2015, the 30 largest companies that run the asylum accommodations invoiced the Swedish Migration Agency an estimated $109 million. The losers, on the other hand, were the Swedish taxpayers who had to finance these decisions.

In November 2015, it was reported that Sweden's Migration Agency had paid $174 million during an 11-month period to private sector property owners for asylum seekers' accommodation.

Many of the companies running the asylum accommodations have a profit margin of over 50%. Defakon Renting AB has a profit margin of 68%. Nordic Humanitarian AB has a profit margin of 58%. Fastigheterna på Kullen AB has a profit margin of 50%.

The biggest private company running asylum accommodations, Jokarjo AB, is owned by Bert Karlsson, known in Sweden primarily as director of a record label. In the early 1990s, Mr. Karlsson was the leader and founder of a political party, New Democracy, that advocated reducing immigration to Sweden. Between 1991 to 1994, as a representative of his party, he sat in the Swedish parliament. In 2015, his company billed the Swedish Migration Agency $23.9 million. Mr. Karlsson explained his business plan for running a home for asylum seekers in a simple sentence: "My idea is to make it cheaper and better than anyone else."

One method he used to make his business more profitable is that asylum seekers have to buy their own toilet paper, apparently despite having agreed with the Migration Agency to provide asylum seekers with toilet paper, sanitary napkins and diapers. In December 2015, the Swedish media revealed that asylum seekers have to buy all these products themselves.

One can only imagine the situation for asylum accommodations run by minor private operators.

This is what the Swedish "humanitarian superpower" is actually about. It is all about money, and it is about winners and losers.

The companies running the asylum accommodations are becoming rich at the Swedish taxpayers' expense; at the same time, asylum accommodations are not managed properly.

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Christian student expelled for opposing gay marriage

>A Christian postgraduate student has been expelled from his course, effectively ending his chances of a career as a social worker, for voicing opposition to gay marriage in a Facebook discussion.

>Felix Ngole, a 38-year-old father of four, expressed support for Kim Davis, the county clerk from Kentucky in the US who was jailed for refusing to issue marriage licences after the introduction of same-sex unions in September last year.

>He argued that homosexual activity is against the teaching of the Bible, quoting a verse from Leviticus describing it as an "abomination".

>It was not until two months later that he was summoned to a disciplinary hearing at Sheffield University after a fellow student complained about his post.

>He said he was initially not even told what he was accused of doing. He was eventually told that it involved breaching social work guidelines on "personal conduct" and "bringing the profession into disrepute".

>At a further hearing, a university "fitness to practise" panel concluded that he was entitled to his opinion on the issue of gay marriage but that there was a danger he "may have caused offence to some individuals" by voicing it.

>They concluded that, even though he was not yet even qualified as a social worker, his comment on the Facebook thread would affect his ability to operate in the profession.

>As a result he was effectively expelled from the university, ordered to hand in his student ID and even his library card.

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Spying Increased 10-fold: Obama Gave NSA Spying Tools To Other Agencies

[NOTE: cryptome.org was the first site to warn about this - one year ago - but no one paid any attention. Agencies with mass spying tools now include the IRS, the DEA, the HHS, BATFE and the DHS.]

Late last night, the NY Times broke a very troubling story. Rather than finally putting an end to Executive Order 12333, it appears that President Obama is going to expand the power of it in dangerous ways. We've written about EO 12333 a bunch of times, but for those of you unfamiliar with it, it's an executive order signed by President Reagan that basically gave the NSA pretty free rein to collect signals intelligence outside of the US. Because it's not (technically) about domestic surveillance, what the NSA does under EO 12333 is not subject to Congressional oversight. That is, Congress is mostly as much in the dark as everyone else is on what the NSA is doing overseas. And, as former State Department official John Napier Tye revealed a couple of years ago, for all the talk of domestic surveillance programs revealed by Ed Snowden, the NSA's real power comes almost entirely from 12333.

And it has no limitations. Napier noted that the other programs – things like Section 215 (now morphed into whatever the USA FREEDOM Act allows) and Section 702 – were merely used to "fill in the gaps" not covered by 12333.

And it almost certainly involves both foreign and domestic intelligence. Basically, if any of your data goes outside of US boundaries, the NSA is free to capture it under 12333. Remember those stories of the NSA hacking into datacenters of companies like Google, Yahoo and Microsoft? Those datacenters were in Singapore. And the reason the target was Singapore rather than the US, was because of 12333.

Meanwhile, the NSA likes to insist that it respects the privacy of Americans thanks to its vast minimization program that is supposed to dump inappropriate data on Americans, or in stripping out private information when sharing data with other agencies.

This is crazy. For all the talk of the NSA having access to all of this information, and even a fair number of reports of NSA staff "abuse" of their access to data, in general, the NSA certainly has a reputation for being serious about not allowing any abuse of the data. Other agencies? Not so much. The FBI, CIA, DEA and ATF, for example, have long and colorful histories of abusing data to harass and intimidate people. Giving them much wider access to whatever the NSA slurps up overseas, and then trusting those agencies to handle "minimization" (as is the apparent plan) is downright frightening.

And despite this massive change, the public won't get to weigh in. Instead:

Intelligence officials began working in 2009 on how the technical system and rules would work, Mr. Litt said, eventually consulting the Defense and Justice Departments. This month, the administration briefed the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, an independent five-member watchdog panel, seeking input. Before they go into effect, they must be approved by James R. Clapper, the intelligence director; Loretta E. Lynch, the attorney general; and Ashton B. Carter, the defense secretary.

Oh sure. They just need approval from the folks who will benefit most from all of this, and no real discussion with the public who will be impacted by it. What a surprise…

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REPEAL OBAMACARE: Trump's Healthcare Reform Plan Released

Since March of 2010, the American people have had to suffer under the incredible economic burden of the Affordable Care Act—Obamacare. This legislation, passed by totally partisan votes in the House and Senate and signed into law by the most divisive and partisan President in American history, has tragically but predictably resulted in runaway costs, websites that don’t work, greater rationing of care, higher premiums, less competition and fewer choices. Obamacare has raised the economic uncertainty of every single person residing in this country. As it appears Obamacare is certain to collapse of its own weight, the damage done by the Democrats and President Obama, and abetted by the Supreme Court, will be difficult to repair unless the next President and a Republican congress lead the effort to bring much-needed free market reforms to the healthcare industry.

But none of these positive reforms can be accomplished without Obamacare repeal. On day one of the Trump Administration, we will ask Congress to immediately deliver a full repeal of Obamacare.

However, it is not enough to simply repeal this terrible legislation. We will work with Congress to make sure we have a series of reforms ready for implementation that follow free market principles and that will restore economic freedom and certainty to everyone in this country. By following free market principles and working together to create sound public policy that will broaden healthcare access, make healthcare more affordable and improve the quality of the care available to all Americans.

Any reform effort must begin with Congress. Since Obamacare became law, conservative Republicans have been offering reforms that can be delivered individually or as part of more comprehensive reform efforts. In the remaining sections of this policy paper, several reforms will be offered that should be considered by Congress so that on the first day of the Trump Administration, we can start the process of restoring faith in government and economic liberty to the people.

Congress must act. Our elected representatives in the House and Senate must:

Completely repeal Obamacare. Our elected representatives must eliminate the individual mandate. No person should be required to buy insurance unless he or she wants to.

Modify existing law that inhibits the sale of health insurance across state lines. As long as the plan purchased complies with state requirements, any vendor ought to be able to offer insurance in any state. By allowing full competition in this market, insurance costs will go down and consumer satisfaction will go up.

Allow individuals to fully deduct health insurance premium payments from their tax returns under the current tax system. Businesses are allowed to take these deductions so why wouldn’t Congress allow individuals the same exemptions? As we allow the free market to provide insurance coverage opportunities to companies and individuals, we must also make sure that no one slips through the cracks simply because they cannot afford insurance. We must review basic options for Medicaid and work with states to ensure that those who want healthcare coverage can have it.

Allow individuals to use Health Savings Accounts (HSAs). Contributions into HSAs should be tax-free and should be allowed to accumulate. These accounts would become part of the estate of the individual and could be passed on to heirs without fear of any death penalty. These plans should be particularly attractive to young people who are healthy and can afford high-deductible insurance plans. These funds can be used by any member of a family without penalty. The flexibility and security provided by HSAs will be of great benefit to all who participate.

Require price transparency from all healthcare providers, especially doctors and healthcare organizations like clinics and hospitals. Individuals should be able to shop to find the best prices for procedures, exams or any other medical-related procedure.

Block-grant Medicaid to the states. Nearly every state already offers benefits beyond what is required in the current Medicaid structure. The state governments know their people best and can manage the administration of Medicaid far better without federal overhead. States will have the incentives to seek out and eliminate fraud, waste and abuse to preserve our precious resources.

Remove barriers to entry into free markets for drug providers that offer safe, reliable and cheaper products. Congress will need the courage to step away from the special interests and do what is right for America. Though the pharmaceutical industry is in the private sector, drug companies provide a public service. Allowing consumers access to imported, safe and dependable drugs from overseas will bring more options to consumers.

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American Killed in Tel Aviv Stabbing Spree as Biden Visits /realnews/

A Palestinian went on a stabbing spree along the Tel Aviv waterfront Tuesday as US Vice President Joe Biden arrived in the city, leaving an American tourist dead and 12 people wounded, police said.

The attacker around 21 years old from the town of Qalqilya in the occupied West Bank was shot dead by police, Israeli authorities said.

Video that spread online showed a man running down a road and lunging at someone through a car window while being chased.

The attack caused panic, and one witness told Israeli television he hit the assailant with his guitar, with a hole visible in the wood of his instrument.

Police said the attacker wounded a number of people in the Jaffa port area, a touristic zone of Israel's commercial capital, before going on toward a restaurant and stabbing others.

There were no details on the American's identity.

Biden met former Israeli president Shimon Peres after his arrival at a location about a 15-minute walk from where the stabbings occurred.

"I heard two guys screaming that there was an attack," said a woman who gave her name as Emily.

"I ran in the opposite direction and ran into a man who was on the ground in his blood."

She said she "covered him with my jacket. He was badly injured and we waited together for the ambulances to come."

A wave of violence in Israel and the Palestinian territories since October has killed 184 Palestinians and 28 Israelis.

Most of the Palestinians were killed while carrying out knife, gun or car-ramming attacks, according to Israeli authorities.

Others were shot dead by Israeli forces during clashes or demonstrations.

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Result of Third-Party Lawsuit Could Decide Outcome of 2016 Election

A lawsuit filed on September 26, 2015 in Washington D.C. (and its eventual outcome) may turn out to be the most important event of the 2016 presidential election.

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>Virtually ignored by all but a handful of alternative media outlets, this suit has the power to destroy the existing political power structure ─ much like the ridesharing firms, Uber and Lyft, threaten the antiquated taxi industry. If successful, it will permanently expand the number of candidates on the debate stage during the general election by proving that the Commission on Presidential Debates is in violation of current anti-trust law. Politics is not just free speech; it’s also big business.

>In a nation that prides itself on choice, with endless varieties of almost anything imaginable, why are we limited to hearing from just Republicans and Democrats when debating our nation’s future? The reason is that you, as a citizen, are being subconsciously herded under the guise of “preventing confusion.”

>Libertarians, Greens, Reform, Constitutional, and Independents are allowed, to a point, to voice their issues, but the most important qualifier has always been the official debate stage. Inclusion on this stage is, in effect, the social proof that says to the American voter: this candidate is for real and should be considered.

>National debates, being the most important forum to present a candidate’s ideas to the American voter, have the most restrictive qualifiers for inclusion. These qualifiers are conveniently set by Republicans and Democrats masquerading as unbiased arbiters. These biased members are deciding the rules, rather than using an independent organization like the League of Women Voters, because they fear competition.

>The existing debate rules state that a presidential candidate must “have a level of support of at least 15% (fifteen percent) of the national electorate as determined by five national public opinion polling organizations selected by CPD, using the average of those organizations’ most recent publicly-reported results at the time of the determination.” This 15-percent hurtle leaves out important criteria, such as how polls should be worded, which polling organizations will be used, and when these polls should be taken. Cherry picking polling companies and adjusting the timing are just a few ways to tilt the outcome.

>More significant to the discussion is that the Commission fails to address the most vital element, which is that polls are becoming increasingly unreliable each year in the cell phone age. Polling has become so untrustworthy that renowned pollster, Gallup, is getting out of the presidential polling business because it admits it can’t get accurate results. If an organization such as Gallup is throwing in the towel, then the reliability of every poll is in question.

>In the 2012 election, Libertarian Gary Johnson and Green Party candidate Jill Stein were not included in approximately 90 percent of the popular polls. Most of the time, these polls used “none of the above” or “someone else” rather than disclosing their names, even though they were listed on the ballot. The average voter would be hard pressed to find any poll that covered third parties in any meaningful way.

Meet The World’s Oldest Wild Platypus

Ecologists surveying the platypus population in Melbourne’s waterways identify a 21-year-old male first tagged in the 1990s.

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>He was out of the water and in the hands of biologists for just 15 minutes, but it was long enough for him to be weighed, microchipped…and for him to keep his record. While most wild platypuses are expected to live no more than 12 years, this guy, called the “grandpa platypus” by an Australian newspaper, and who was first tagged in the mid-1990’s, has reached the grand old age of 21—making him the oldest known wild platypus on record.

>Josh Griffiths, senior wildlife ecologist at the Centre for Environmental Stress and Adaptation Research (Cesar), working with a team of students from Monash University, found the super-survivor while on a platypus survey, which he conducts twice a year in Melbourne, Australia.

>It could be good genes or good luck or some kind of natural wisdom that have allowed this platypus to survive to an age that is considered to be about twice as long as most of his peers. Griffiths isn’t sure. But he told the Daily Mail that this secretive mammal is “a strong healthy male.” And that part of the explanation might have something to do with a long drought that ended about five years ago in the area. That dry spell reduced the platypus’s population and may have killed off rivals. Platypus numbers have been rebounding since.

>Platypuses who get plenty of food and good veterinary care in captivity can live to 21, but in the wild lifespans are usually between seven and 12. And this “Grandpa” is still going strong.

The platypuses he’s studying live in urban areas of Melbourne and are monitored by the Melbourne Water Urban Platypus Program. Residents can help protect them too through a website called PlatypusSPOT where sightings can be viewed and reported.

>Any bit of information can help because platypuses are notoriously secretive and, historically, confounding. They are nature’s oddballs. They are mammals—warm-blooded, furry, and they nurse their lima-bean-sized babies. But their milk comes out of pores, not nipples, and the young slurp instead of suck. And they lay eggs (along with echidnas, they are monotremes).

>They have leathery duck-like bills, webbed feet, paddle-shaped tails like that of a beaver, and their legs are built in such a way that they walk like reptiles. And, along with some dolphins, they use electrical fields to locate prey (that includes shellfish and insects). In the 18th century, European scientists thought the dead specimens brought to them were a hoax—parts from different animals stitched together to make whole.

>The platypus is one of the few mammals in the world that is venomous. The males have venomous spurs on their hind legs and during mating season, they boost their venom production. The toxic sting is strong enough to kill a small dog, and to cause excruciating pain in humans that can last for months.

Because it's 2018": Trudeau says new bank note will feature an iconic Canadian woman

Apparently Justin TrueDope and some dumb bitch named Merna don't realize that we already have a woman on our 20 dollar bills: The fucking Queen.

Here's what was said, omitting what his Finance Minster said:

>The image of an iconic Canadian woman will appear on the next issue of bank notes, Prime Minister Trudeau announced today.

>"A Canadian woman will be featured on the very first of the next series of bills expected in 2018," Trudeau said.

>"Today, on International Women's Day, the Bank of Canada is taking the first step by launching public consultations to select an iconic Canadian woman to be featured on this new bill."

>The news was welcomed by Victoria-based Merna Forster, a historian who has been leading a long-running campaign to get a woman on Canadian bank notes.

>"Wow! I'm thrilled that we'll finally see a Canadian woman on the face of our bank notes," Forster said in an email to CBC News. "Long overdue. This is an important step, and I hope we can look forward to gender equality on Canadian notes as in Sweden and Australia."

>Forster said she'd like to thank the more than 73,000 people who supported her long campaign as well as the Bank of Canada, Trudeau and Morneau for what she described as "a memorable International Women's Day. Fantastic!"

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The new Afghan soccer uniform has a integrated hijab

Designed by Danish firm

Danish sportswear brand Hummel has unveiled its new jersey for the Afghanistan national soccer team, complete with a hijab for female players. Revealed on International Women's Day, the new red kit includes an integrated base layer which allows women to be covered from head to toe. FIFA lifted its ban on head covers in 2014, provided it is not attached to the shirt and is also the same color.

The new creation, which also includes leggings, will make it easier for women to combine their soccer with their faith. Using it is optional. In the past, players have had to wear head scarves, but the scarves have had a habit of falling over the players’ eyes.

The new kit will allow players to head the ball not block their vision.

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Polish charity breaks fundraising record

The recent edition of Poland's annual winter fundraising bonanza the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity (WOŚP) beat its own record by almost PLN 20 million this year.

Jerzy Owsiak, who founded the charity in 1993, revealed on Tuesday that WOŚP raised PLN 72 696 501 (16.8 million EUR) this time round, whereas in 2015 it garnered just over PLN 53 million.

The main fundraising day - the so-called grand finale - was on 10 January, which garnered about PLN 44 million.

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GOP sic Romney & McCain on Trump

In an extraordinary display of Republican chaos, the party's most recent presidential nominees, Mitt Romney and John McCain, lambasted current front-runner Donald Trump on Thursday, calling him unfit for office and a danger for the nation and the GOP.

"His is not the temperament of a stable, thoughtful leader," Romney declared. He called Trump "a phony" who is "playing the American public for suckers," a man whose "imagination must not be married to real power."

Hours later, Trump lashed back, calling Romney "a choke artist" who lost to Barack Obama four years ago only because he was such a poor candidate.

The vicious feud marked a near-unprecedented scenario pitting the Republican Party's most prominent leaders, past and present, against each other as Democrats begin to unite around Hillary Clinton.

Underlying the clash is a bleak reality for panicking Republican officials: Beyond harsh words, there is little they see to stop Trump's march toward the presidential nomination. Party leaders are poring over complicated delegate math, outlining hazy scenarios for a contested national convention and even flirting with the idea of a third-party effort.

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Donald Trump Calls Mitt Romney a 'Failed Candidate'

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Police Cleared in Death of Suspected Crab-Leg Thief

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (CN) - Police will not face charges after a mother of eight accused of stealing crab legs was found dead in her jail cell, New York's top prosecutor said Thursday.

Raynette Turner, 42, was found dead on July 27, three days after Mount Vernon police arrested the woman for allegedly stealing crab legs from a restaurant.

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman quickly opened an investigation into Turner's death, having been appointed one month earlier by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to study police killings of unarmed civilians.

Announcing the conclusion of that probe Thursday outside his satellite office in Westchester, Schneiderman said his office "left no rock unturned," and that the investigation involved testimony from 45 witnesses.

"Her death was a tragedy," the special prosecutor said, but "there is no criminal culpability in the death."

What investigators did find was that three days was too long to jail someone on a routine arrest.

"There is really no good reason" why someone arrested for shoplifting would have to wait so long to be tried," Schneiderman said.

"She didn't have to be in jail that long, but we didn't find anything out of line," he added.

Deputy Attorney General Alvin Bragg led the special prosecutor's investigation and attributing Turner's death to an "enlarged heart" and "chronic drug use."

To make the case that there was "no indication of physical abuse," Bragg showed reporters a slideshow of Turner's movements during her three days in confinement.

In addition to around-the-clock video surveillance of Turner's time in custody, investigators also considered her autopsy report and more than 1,700 medical records.

Mount Vernon police cooperated fully with the investigation, prosecutors added.

Bragg said authorities did all they could to ensure her safety, checked on her every 15 minutes and took her word that she was fine even after seeing her "vomiting or wretching" repeatedly on video cameras.

When she started to feel pains on the left of her body on her second day of incarceration, Turner asked to go the hospital, which was located a "block and a half away," to get high blood pressure medications. Her request was granted, Schneiderman said.

She met with a psychiatrist, received medication and was sent back to jail, where she kept throwing up.

Bragg said Turner was brought out to be fingerprinted "unassisted," slept "off and on" throughout the night, and kept vomiting.

But she never asked to see a doctor from that point on, Bragg said.

"There was no cause for concern," he said, because she had insisted she was fine when pressed.

At least 10 jail attendants gave Turner food, water and toilet paper, Bragg said.

Turner was pronounced dead at 3:08 p.m. after she was found unresponsive in her cell.

Among several recommendations Bragg had for the police involved in future cases, Bragg urged officials to their "failure of good recordkeeping."

Citing "clear errors" in the documentation of when Turner had lunch and when she changed cells, Bragg said the worker who made those log entries has since been disciplined.

Bragg agreed that Turner should have been processed and released more quickly.

He also urged the state's lawmakers to look into the issue to curtail extended detention times in the future.

"We hope that policy makers will take it up this session," he said.

Officials' standards of care "do not rise to the level or are nowhere near" those to anything to justify accusing them of negligence or homicide, he added.

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Indian authorities set up mud crab, seabass seed hatchery Krustacean King Kong

Indian authorities will set up the first mud crab and seabass seed hatchery at Adavi village in Guntur district, The Hindu reports.

The hatchery is expected to supply mud crab and seabass seed to about 7,000 hectares in coastal Andhra Pradesh, production from which will be oriented to exports, said Balaram Murthy, deputy director of fisheries at Guntur district.

“Seabass is having great demand in the international market, and is most sought after variety in domestic market too. But, farmers are finding it tough to get virus free seed in the market and are depending on the neighbouring states,” Balaram said.

Farmers usually import mud crab seed from Sirkali in Tamil Nadu, but most of the seed die in transportation. Once the new hatchery at Suryalanka is completed, farmers can get fine "quality seed at lesser price" with minimum transportation cost, said S. Kandan, deputy director of the Marine Products Export Development Authority (MPEDA).

“Crabs are being exported to Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Saudi Arabia and other countries from Andhra Pradesh. Farmers are raising mud crabs in about 2,000 hectares in mangrove forests in Gilakaladindi village in Krishna district. Farmers are getting about INR 450 to INR 500 per kilogram of mud crab in the local market, and the price is almost double in the international market,” Kandan said.

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Switzerland Votes 'No' to EU Membership, Supports Brexit Campaign

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The Swiss Parliament has voted by a majority of 126 to 46 to withdraw its long-standing application for membership of the European Union, ending 24 years of debate about joining the union giving backing to campaigners in Britain seeking to leave the EU.

Switzerland applied to join the European Union in May 1992, but despite several referendums in Switzerland declining to take the application forward, the Swiss government has never formally withdrawn the application — until now.

The National Council — the lower house of the Swiss parliament voted through a proposal that Switzerland should no longer be seen as a country preparing to join the EU. The withdrawal motion will now go to the upper house, Council of States.

Lukas Reimann of the Swiss People's Party, who proposed the motion — and referring to the current European refugee crisis — said:

"It is hardly surprising that the EU looks like an ever less attractive club to join. What, after all, is the appeal of joining a club into which the entire world can apparently move?"

The decision will be a boost for those campaigning for Britain to leave the EU in the forthcoming In-Out referendum on the UK's membership of the union. Euroskeptics argue that Britain would be better out of the EU, which many see as a sprawling bureaucracy which has taken powers away from Westminster.

Apple BTFO by Oculus/Facebook

Oculus Rift support for Macs? If Apple 'ever releases a good computer,' founder says

If you're holding out hope of using the Oculus Rift on your Mac, you may have a long wait.

The holdup isn't with Oculus, according to Palmer Luckey, founder of the virtual-reality headset maker owned by Facebook. It's with Apple, Luckey explained when asked whether he ever saw a future in which the Oculus Rift worked with Apple computers.

"That is up to Apple. If they ever release a good computer, we will do it," he told Shacknews at a recent Xbox press event.

Luckey would like all you suddenly slack-jawed Mac users out there to know that Apple doesn't make a computer that packs the muscle to support Oculus' deeply immersive experiences.

"It just boils down to the fact that Apple doesn't prioritize high-end GPUs," he said. "You can buy a $6,000 Mac Pro with the top of the line AMD FirePro D700, and it still doesn't match our recommended specs. So if they prioritize higher-end GPUs like they used to for a while back in the day, we'd love to support Mac. But right now, there's just not a single machine out there that supports it."

This year has been widely expected to be virtual reality's big coming-out party, with several companies planning software and hardware releases that will transport goggle-wearing users to digitally created 3D worlds. In addition to Oculus VR headsets, the Sony PlayStation VR and HTC Vive are also landing in consumers' hands this year, when industry watcher Juniper Research expects sales of about 3 million headsets. By 2020, Juniper expects that number to hit 30 million.

This isn't the first warning that we've heard that most of today's computers are woefully underpowered for VR. In January, Nvidia, the world's largest maker of stand-alone graphics chips, said the graphics processor in your computer is going to have to be a lot stronger to render VR images – about seven times stronger than the average power found in gamers' PCs today. Worse, only 13 million PCs worldwide will have that kind of power,

Nvidia said.

The Oculus Rift, which is now up for pre-order and costs $599, £499 or AU$649, is expected to begin shipping to consumers on March 28.

Apple did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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The refugees no one wants

In South Africa, White Boers are forced to live in shanty towns because the post-Nelson Mandela era isn’t as “rainbow” as was promised.

For over a decade, laws have been in place which deliberately put Whites at a severe disadvantage when looking for work. 400,000 White South Africans now live in poverty, almost one out of ten.

White South Africans who are lucky enough to find work, must worry about being raped, tortured and murdered if they work on farms.

Things are so bad that a presidential candidate had to promise “never a white genocide under our rule.”

This particular camp is in Munsieville, near Johannesburg. There are about 80 more camps full of outcast Whites in the country.

They want to leave, but most cannot afford it, and few countries are willing to take more than a handful. You will not hear about these real refugees on the TV because they are White.

The mass media won’t document the suffering and farm murder genocide of White South Africans because it does not fit their narrative.

White people are supposed to be the oppressors who hold all the power, and we are nasty as well because we don’t want our countries to become “rainbow” nations . . . like the “rainbow” nation South Africa is supposed to be.

Our own governments and ruling classes are trying to bring about the “rainbow” by moving millions of non-Whites into every majority White country on the face of the planet.

It’s not “diversity” if you eliminate a race of people, it’s genocide. This is White genocide because we White people are the only ones who will lose our countries.

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It's Official: Canada Has Sold ALL Of Its Gold Reserves Grand Theft Canada

One month ago, when looking at the latest Canadian official international reserves, we noticed something strange: Canada had sold nearly half of its gold reserves in one month. According to the February data, total Canadian gold reserves stood at 1.7 tonnes. That was just 0.1 per cent of the country’s total reserves, which also include foreign currency deposits and bonds.

As we noted, the decision to sell came from Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s office.

“Canada’s gold reserves belong to the Government of Canada, and are held under the name of the Minister of Finance,” explained a spokesperson for the Bank of Canada on Wednesday. “Decisions relative to gold holdings are taken by the Minister of Finance.”

Reached by Global News on Wednesday evening, a spokesperson for the finance department said the sale “was done in the normal course of business for the government. The decision to sell the gold was not tied to a specific gold price, and sales are being conducted over a long period and in a controlled manner.”

This latest sell-off is indeed part of a much longer-term pattern of moving away from gold as a government-held asset. According to economist Ian Lee of the Sprott School of Business at Carleton University, Ottawa has no real reason to keep its gold reserves other than adhering to tradition.

"Under the old system, (gold) backed up currencies,” Lee explained. “The U.S. dollar was tied to gold. One ounce was worth US$35. Then in 1971, for lots of reasons I won’t get into, Richard Nixon took the United States off the gold standard.”

Gold and dollars were interchangeable until that point, he said, but in the modern financial world, the metal is no longer considered a form of currency. “It is a precious metal, like silver … they can be sold like any asset.”

The amount of gold the Canadian government holds has therefore been falling steadily since the mid-1960s, when over 1,000 tonnes were kept tucked away. Half of those reserves were sold by 1985, and then almost all the rest were sold through the 1990s up to 2002.

By last year, Canada’s reserves were down to just three tonnes, and the latest sales have now halved that. At the current market rate, the value of 1.7 tonnes of gold comes in at just under CAD$100 million, barely a drop in the bucket when you consider the broader scope of federal finances.

According to Lee, there may soon come a time when Canada’s gold reserves are entirely a thing of the past. There are better assets to focus on, he argued, calling the government’s decision to dump gold “wise and astute.”

Lee was right, because fast forward one month when earlier today Canada's Department of Finance released its latest official international reserves and as of this moment it's official - Canada has fully "broken away with tradition" and has exactly zero gold left.

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Students to get expelled for wearing sombreros

More information about the impeachments can be found here.

Members of Bowdoin Student Government (BSG) will introduce articles of impeachment against Representative at Large Duncan Cannon '18 and Representative of the Class of 2018 Clare McInerney '18, according to the agenda for tonight's BSG meeting.

Cannon and McInerney are held under articles of impeachment for alleged violation of the spirit of the statement of solidarity issued by BSG in October, violating the nondiscrimination policy of BSG and for "injurious actions towards other members of the General Assembly," according to the agenda. The actions that resulted in the articles of impeachment are unclear, though they are likely related to the "tequila" party held on February 20.

Representative at Large Lucia Gibbard '18, Vice President for Facilities and Sustainability Kevin Hernandez '18 and Inter-House Council Representative Jacob Russell '17 will introduce the articles of impeachment.

According to the articles of impeachment, the impeachment proceedings would take place on Saturday.

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Pope Francis says ‘Arab invasion’ is social fact … and a good thing

“We can speak today of Arab invasion. It is a social fact,” the pontiff said, according to extracts from his address earlier this week which were published by the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano on Thursday.

He then added: “How many invasions has Europe experienced in the course of its history! But it’s always been able to overcome them and move forward, finding itself complimented and improved by the cultural exchange they brought about.”

The Pontiff also reflected on the history of migration into Europe and the positive impact it has had on European culture as we now know it.

The Pope also declared that Europe is “the only continent that can bring some unity to the world”. He then added, that in order to fulfill its “universal role”, Europe must “rediscover its cultural roots”.

Europe continues struggling with an unseen influx of asylum seekers. The number of Syrians seeking asylum doubled to 362,800 last year and the number of Iraqis jumped to 121,500, as the European Commission said Friday.

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San Francisco raises smoking age to 21

Beginning June 1, anyone looking to purchase tobacco products in San Francisco must be at least 21 – not 18, the legal age in the majority of the country.

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>The San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously approved the measure on Tuesday, according to CNN affiliate KPIX. With this new legislation, San Francisco joins Boston, New York and more than 100 other U.S. cities in raising the minimum age to buy cigarettes, e-cigarettes and other tobacco products. On January 1, Hawaii became the first U.S. state to raise its smoking age to 21.

>From a health perspective, teenagers – especially between ages 15 and 17 – are most vulnerable to addiction, at a time when their brains are still developing, according to a report released last year by the Institute of Medicine. Even though most middle school and high school students in the United States have never used tobacco themselves, 48% of them report being exposed to secondhand smoke, according to a recent study conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

>The American Academy of Pediatrics, among others, strongly recommends increasing the minimum age to buy tobacco products to 21 nationwide. Doing so would result in nearly 250,000 fewer premature deaths and 50,000 fewer deaths from lung cancer among people born between 2000 and 2019, according to the Institute of Medicine report.

>It would also mean no high school students would be old enough to buy tobacco, said Dr. Karen Wilson, an associate professor of pediatrics at Children's Hospital Colorado. "Many children under 18 get tobacco from those over 18 at their school," she said

>Wilson said there is some evidence that exposure to nicotine (either directly or via secondhand smoke) primes their brains and makes them more likely to be addicted to nicotine in the future.

>"Tobacco (is) arguably the most addictive substance on the planet, which has no redeeming qualities whatsoever, in any way, shape or form," said CNN chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta. "No matter what your age, smoking is one of the single worst things you can do to your body."

So when are they gonna ban caffeine?

Does "my body my choice" no longer apply when it comes to smoking? What the fuck?

Alabama Lawmaker wants to surgically castrate sex offenders on their tab

>An Alabama lawmaker is seeking to offer pedophiles an alternative to prison: castration. Since 2011, State Rep. Steve Hurst has proposed that sex offenders be either chemically or surgically castrated, but now he wants them to pay for it too.

>Hurst has filed legislation that would legally require offenders convicted of sexually assaulting a child under the age of 12 to be surgically castrated before being released from prison. HB 365 is something of a passion project for Hurst, but this year he added an additional twist, requiring sex offenders pay for the operation.

>Surgical castration removes a man’s testicles and could become the harshest penalty for sex offenders in the country.

>Internationally, laws regarding physical castration have received severe pushback. In 2009, the Council of Europe’s Anti-Torture Committee criticized the Czech Republic for surgically castrating sex offenders. The committee called it, "invasive, irreversible and mutilating."

>Although nine states have variations of castration laws, all the current laws on the books are for chemical castration. Chemical castration entails giving men Depo Provera, a synthetic female hormone and can be reversed by discontinuing treatment.

>Hurst shot down the chemical castration as an alternative in 2011 when he told the Anniston Star, “The chemical castration, that’s fine as long as they are taking the medication, but who is to say they will continue taking it?”

>This bill is Hurst’s personal mission, he told the Anniston Star, that “we need something to protect the children out here.”

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Catholic Prep School: No Transgender Students

A Rhode Island school says it won’t accept or enroll transgender students.

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>Catholic Rhode Island private school Mount Saint Charles Academy is open to everyone—so long as they’re not transgender.

>The latest edition of the Woonsocket school’s parent-student handbook states flatly and without further explanation: “Mount Saint Charles Academy is unable to make accommodations for transgender students. Therefore, MSC does not accept transgender students nor is MSC able to continue to enroll students who identify as transgender.”

>There are no stated exclusions based on race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, or any other factor—only transgender status.

>The change was implemented in October 2015 but concerned alumni only noticed it recently, GoLocalProv reported. David Coletta, who graduated from MSC in 2009, created a Change.org petition to ask the school to “leave the hateful rhetoric in the past [and] accept trans students.”

>Coletta told The Daily Beast that the MSC he knew would never ban transgender students and that the current policy “goes against their own teachings.”

>“It’s completely different than how they teach their students to behave,” he said. “We were always taught there to be very accepting and loving of others.”

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Incest and necrophilia 'should be legal' according to youth branch of Swedish Liberal People's Party

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Incest between siblings and necrophilia should be legalised, a branch of the Swedish Liberal People's Party has argued.

The Stockholm branch of the party's youth wing (LUF) voted on the controversial motion at its annual meeting on Sunday.

It called for the repeal of several laws to make consensual sex between brothers and sisters aged over 15 legal, as well as allowing people to "bequeath" their bodies for intercourse after death without fearing the perpetrator would be prosecuted.

Muslim Rape Gang Victim: They Shouted ‘Swedish Whore’ And Cut My Breast With A Razor Blade

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Nathalie Hager, 29, was on her way home from a bus stop when a group of Arabic-speaking men suddenly attacked her outside a church. She managed to fight her way out of a gang rape but was left badly injured.

"They beat me black and blue and cut into one of my breasts, while shouting at me that I was a Swedish whore," Nathalie told Fria Tider.

The attack took place near the church in the pittoresque town of Nora, west of Stockholm, late Tuesday night. Nathalie Hager, who has suffered memory lapses because of the hard blows she received to her head during the attempted gang rape, had followed a friend to the bus stop.

Later, she went back to the bus stop again, since her friend thought she had forgotten her gloves there. When Nathalie was walking home for the second time, she noticed a group of men walking briskly behind her. She called her boyfriend and started to run, but after a chase of about a hundred meters the men caught up with her.

"They pushed me down on my stomach and dragged me by my hair up a paved hill and into an alley. I have no memories of them beating me, but my face is all blue and swollen. They also cut into one of my breasts with something that must have been a carpet knife or a a razor blade, the wounds are long and narrow. I also have big black marks on my arms where they held me."

Ms. Hager has no recollection of what happened until when she saw the men pulling their trousers down.

"Then I came around and noticed that they had ripped up all of my clothes. Somehow I managed to get away, I guess I must have beat them and clawed my way free because my hands are blue and black and swollen. I also had blood under my nails, which has been sampled by the police.

While running away Nathalie saw her boyfriend 50 meters away. At that point, the men departed from the scene. Soon thereafter, at 11 p.m. on Tuesday, she contacted the police. She went to the police station to report the assault.

According to Nathalie, who has worked with Arabs, the men were about 30-35 years old and spoke Arabic with what she believes is the Syrian dialect. One of them was wearing a white baseball cap and the others regular winter caps.

"My friend, whom I had earlier followed to the bus stop, had observed a bunch of foreign guys at the bus stop after I walked away. Some of them climbed aboard the bus but three or four remained here," Nathalie said.

In addition to speaking Arabic, the men used a few simple insulting expressions in Swedish during the attempted gang rape.

"It was only dirty words. 'Swedish whore' or 'Swedish slut' and 'cunt'. No full sentences. In my impression, they spoke no Swedish except these words, so I assume they were asylum seekers."

According to Nathalie, the police have not been in contact with her since she reported the assault on Tuesday evening. She herself has tried to contact them, having discovered more injuries and having realized that some details of her recollection had been inaccurate. But nobody has called back.

"They dismissed me and said nobody could help me right now. I have to wait for an officer to be appointed for the case, they said. Now I can't get hold of anyone and nobody seems to want to help. I spent a long time on the phone with the police and was connected to different people. None of them showed any interest or took notes when I named persons, including my friend at the bus station who saw the men and most likely would be able to provide accurate descriptions of them."

The only newspaper that has reported on the assault is the local Nerikes Allehanda, NA, in a miniscule notice, skipping over the bruises and cuts inflicted on the victim. According to NA, the victim "got her jacket and other clothing torn" in connection with an attempted rape.

"It made me very angry to read the tiny article. I also know of several people, including female friends of mine, who have contacted NA in the past and told them about molestations that they had been subjected to. The newspaper never reported any of it," Nathalie Hager told Fria Tider.

Bill aims to give crab industry $138 million in disaster relief

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>California commercial crab fishermen, many struggling to keep their businesses afloat amidst an unprecedented season closure caused by a toxic algae bloom, could see more than $130 million in disaster relief under a last-ditch federal proposal to bail them out of financial doom.

>Bay Area Reps. Jackie Speier and Jared Huffman introduced the legislation this week, more than three months after commercial crabbing was shuttered by state officials due to dangerous levels of a neurotoxin found in Dungeness and rock crabs caught along the coastline from Santa Barbara County to Oregon.

>“We are here today, as you can tell, surrounded by fishermen who aren’t working,” Speier, D-Hillsborough, said at a news conference Friday outside Scoma’s Restaurant on Fisherman’s Wharf. “To lose that money, to lose that income, is devastating.”

>Speier’s office estimated that commercial crab fishermen have lost $68 million this season, while related businesses, such as restaurants that depend on selling the seafood delicacy to diners, are down about $70 million.

Hijabi Muslim performs surgery with hijab on

Whisteblower gets suspended

Dr. Vladislav Rogozov revealed his blog that he demanded a Muslim surgeon removed her hijab ahead of an operation has been suspended. He wrote that he could see it was spotted with blood from previous surgery. She refused to remove it and stormed out, later accusing Dr Rogozov, 46, of racial discrimination.

Sheffield’s Royal Hallamshire Hospital was then forced to find an emergency replacement for the upset surgeon. The hospital then launched an investigation into the incident. The NHS rules state that religious headscarfs are "excluded in areas such as theatre, where they could present a health and cross-infection hazard".

This incident had taken place in 2013 and was not revealed to the public. But recently Czech-born Dr. Rogozov decided to talk about it in a Czech blogsite's interview and was suspended because of concerns about the ‘tone’ he has used. Rogozov said: "No one dared to highlight this issue because they feared being accused of racism."

He also said that unscheduled prayer breaks during surgery were being taken by Muslim staff, which caused issues for their colleagues. A Muslim anaesthetist ‘was reading out from the Koran during an operation and was trying to persuade all the other staff to read along with him’. He also claimed that a male doctor recited from the Koran while a patient was being operated on.

A source close to the doctor said: "Dr Rogozov won’t tolerate anything that puts patients at risk. It has nothing to do with the medics being Muslims. It’s his fear they let their beliefs come before the patients."

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Ohio Lost 112,500 More Jobs Due to TPP (and So Did Other States)

Despite all the blatant lies by the Obama regime (and Congress) claiming TPP will help create jobs, this just hit the news headlines:

Ohio lost 112,500 jobs in 2015 resulting from the United States' trade deficit with countries that are part of the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement, according to an analysis by the Economic Policy Institute.

That places Ohio sixth, in terms of the percentage of jobs lost to trade with TPP countries, among the 50 states and the District of Columbia ranked in the report released Thursday by the liberal Washington, D.C.-based think tank. The lost jobs represent nearly 2.2 percent of employment in Ohio, according to the analysis.

The total number of lost jobs includes those directly and indirectly impacted by the trade deficit with TPP countries. It also includes the number of jobs EPI says would have been created through the multiplier or "respending" effect had trade with those countries been more balanced.

The Obama Administration says the trade agreement would be good for workers.

"With the TPP, we can rewrite the rules of trade to benefit America's middle class," states whitehouse.gov. "Because if we don't, competitors who don't share our values, like China, will step in to fill that void."

However, the EPI report says the middle class has already been hard hit by "unfairly traded goods from TPP member countries."

• Michigan (214,600 jobs lost, equal to 5.12 percent of employment)

• Indiana (103,800 jobs, 3.54 percent)

• Kentucky (53,700 jobs, 2.92 percent)

• Alabama (46,000 jobs, 2.32 percent)

• Tennessee (61,000 jobs, 2.19 percent)

• Ohio (112,500 jobs, 2.16 percent)

• Mississippi (22,000 jobs, 1.86 percent)

The other states on the list suffered major job losses, but they were influenced "by the collapse of the oil industry and related sectors," according to EPI.

• Oklahoma (35,300 jobs, 2.10 percent)

• Wyoming (6,800 jobs, 2.34 percent)

• Alaska (6,300 jobs, 1.83 percent)

Remember folks, Donald Trump is the only candidate who has warned us about this. If you want the TPP to be repealed and nullified, vote for Trump!

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Judicial Watch Continues Fight over IRS Criminal Investigation Facts

Seeks Information on Obama, Democrat Donor Barbara Bosserman’s Involvement in IRS Investigation

>Judicial Watch is asking a federal appellate court to overturn a lower court’s ruling allowing the Obama Justice Department to withhold records detailing the number of hours that agency attorney Barbara Bosserman expended on the investigation of the IRS targeting of conservative groups seeking tax exempt status during the 2010 and 2012 elections cycles.

>This lawsuit forced the Obama Justice Department to confirmthe existence of a criminal investigation into the IRS’ abuses and that Bosserman, a major donor to Obama’s political campaigns and the Democratic National Committee, was part of the team of lawyers criminally investigating the issue. (On October 23, 2015, the Justice Department announced in a letter that it would not press any charges over the IRS abuse scandal.)

>In 2014, Judicial Watch filed a 2014 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit seeking records detailing the number of hours Bosserman expended on the IRS matter. In 2015, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that the agency had properly withheld the Bosserman records under the “attorney work product doctrine.”

>In early January 2014, then-Attorney General Eric Holder reportedly appointed Bosserman to oversee the IRS investigation despite her substantial political activities. According to Federal Election Commission records, Bosserman contributed $6,750 to Obama’s campaigns and the DNC from 2004 to 2012, including 12 separate contributions to Obama for America between 2008 and 2012.

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Swedes Emigrating to the US

Editorializing: this reminds me of a similar pattern during WW2. The European self-destruction wraught by the nihilists and socialists that ended in in the bloodshed during WW1 and then later WW2 didn't die with the academics who preached for that madness. The philosophy of socialism and Marxism fled the destruction of Europe to seek a new host to infect: American academia.

Will we see the same infection of evil and destructive ideas again come from Europe? I doubt it since those ideas are already championed by the students of the last batch of European professors to come over here. Never the less, it would be a vicious pleasure to deny entry to the US any Swede who voted for politicians that supported the importation of welfare big government middle eastern voters.

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15-year-old Islamist girl stabs police officer in Germany Übersetzer

The evidence seems overwhelming, but the investigators are anything but sure. In the case of the 15-year-old knife attacker from the Hannover district of Vahrenwald, the State Prosecution of Lower Saxony is still unclear about whether the attack on a policeman was an act of terror or not.

A motive for the attack is still being desperately searched for, confessed the responsible public prosecutor Thomas Klinge on North German Radio. His officials are "not assuming that there exists a religious or a political motive." In contrast, they are looking at this possibility alongside the hypotheses that the perpetrator acted spontaneously or suffers from a mental illness.

Last Friday, the 15-year-old had stabbed a policeman in the neck at the central train station in Hannover during a personal search. The officer survived after an emergency operation. The perpetrator attempted to flee after the attack but was stopped by a colleague of the victim. At this time she is under investigation.

While the state prosecution operates very cautiously with information about the case, with consideration for the Jugendstrafrecht (Youth Punishment Law), it has emerged in police circles that there are strong clues which say the 15-year-old left Germany at the beginning of the year to join the terror organisation IS in Syria. But she was then taken back to Germany out of Turkey by her frightened mother.

On her Facebook profile, the girl shows pictures of a trip to Paris next to numerous selfies. Radical comments are not to be found, however.

[…] But it is not debated that she already had contact to the Salafist preacher Pierre Vogel as a child. On the internet, numerous videos bear witness to appearances of the two together in a Hannover mosque. In the videos, she reads out Surah from the Koran in Arabic. The uploads date from 2008 to 2011. Vogel, who appears very friendly and often praises her, confirms her in wearing a headdress.

The Islamist commented on the act of his old Koranic pupil in a wholly singular way: "When one would like to search for a guilty party in the radicalisation of many young Muslims", wrote Vogel in an email to the editorship of the paper 'The Hannover General', "one should thank the authorities and the protection of the constitution."

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Indian state launches search for mythical 'resurrection' herb

An Indian state has stepped up its search for a mythological herb famous for its power to resurrect people from the dead.

Officials from the state of Uttarakhand believe that Sanjeevani Booti, a plant used by the monkey god Hanuman to bring Lakshmana back to life in the ancient text Ramayana, may lie hidden among the hundreds of indigenous herbs of the Himalayas.

“We strongly believe that the herb exists in Chamoli area of Uttarakhand, but we need funds and expertise to carry our research,” Surendra Singh Negi, the state’s minister for alternative medicine, told the Hindustan Times newspaper.

He said a formal application for resources to help hunt for the elusive herb would be sent to the central government shortly.

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France Threatens To Invade UK Waters!

MIGRANTS living in shanty camps in northern France will be put on ferries and sent to Britain the day after a vote to leave the EU, a French mayor warned last night.

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>Franck Dhersin said the Touquet agreement, which was signed in 2003 and places the UK border at the French ports, will be quickly torn up after an out vote, allowing the French government to hire DFDS ferries to start the mass exodus immediately.

>The ferry company operates from Calais and Dunkirk to Dover.

>French gendarmes would be called in to police the vessels when the evacuations begin.

>Mr Dhersin, a no-nonsense mayor for a 7,000 strong community at Teteghem, a large suburb of Dunkirk, was last year instrumental in closing a migrant camp in the town where shootings had taken place between rival people-smuggling gangs.

>Plans for the mass ferry evacuations have the full backing of Calais mayor Natalie Bouchart and Xavier Bertrand, the recently re-elected powerful president of the Nord-Pasde-Calais-Picardie region.

>In an exclusive interview with the Sunday Express, Mr Dhersin said: “We all believe that Britain will vote to leave the EU because of the rise of nationalism, not only in your country, but in other European countries as well.

>“Then the Touquet agreement we have at the moment, which puts the UK border in France, will quickly come to an end. Be in no doubt, it will no longer exist.

>“The border will move to Dover and so the migrants who come to Calais and other ports and towns in northern France will then be put on DFDS ferries and taken to Dover. This will happen.

>“The people of Dunkirk and Calais have had enough. We are the officials and this is what has been decided.”

>He added: “I am sure this will happen, so Britain had better start getting ready. In two years time we will no longer have this problem in northern France. This is not a threat or talk, this is how it will be.”

>A senior local government official working in northern France said: “We have been closely looking at the treaty with Britain and we think it can be undone quickly.

>“We have lived with the issue of migrants for 10 years or more and we are not impressed with the British position so we are planning for an out vote. We think that is likely. We see it as an opportunity to solve this problem and let the British deal with it.”

>He added there were no plans to take migrants through the Channel Tunnel if Britain votes to leave.

>Damian Collins, Tory MP for Folkestone and Hythe, who has come out in favour of the remain campaign, said: “This just goes to show the serious threat that is posed to our authority to manage our borders in France and the very real prospect that we could lose that power. French politicians are desperate for those powers to go because they can see it keeps migrants on their side of the Channel.”

>He added that although Britain could still turn away migrants landing on its shores, he fears for the chaos it would ensue for the country and its relationship with France.

>However, the mayor’s threat provoked an angry response from Tory MP Steve Baker, the co-chairman of Conservatives for Britain, who warned: “The British people will not respond well to blackmail. These are hollow threats. Any immigrants brought over on a ferry to the UK illegally would be sent back to France and the ferry companies would be fined. We want to have friendly relations with all European countries after we Vote Leave. All talk of recrimination is counterproductive.”

>Dan Hannan, Tory MEP for South East England, agreed, saying: “If French politicians think the British people respond to bullying or threats, they haven’t read our history.”

NIGEL Farage has backed Donald Trump for the White House saying he would make a "great US President"

WEW LADS

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The UKIP boss reckons it would be good news for Britain if the Republican frontrunner landed the top job.

Mr Farage said critics who judged Mr Trump on his "big shouty" rants were "underestimating his ability".

Farage: I 'despise' Cameron for 'crying wolf' over Brexit

Trump threatens to take millions of Republican voters with him

He reckons the tycoon's skills as a top businessman would put him in good steed to boost the US and its economy.

And he said if he took control of the world superpower he would be "more pro-British than Obama"

Yohancé: This is the African Space Opera We’ve Been Looking For

Debuting this April, artist Paul Louise-Julie will take space opera to a whole other level with Yohancè Yohancé the Ekangeni Crystal, an African space epic that might possibly put Star Wars to shame.

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>In a nutshell, Yohancé details the journey of a thief that ends up being becoming part of a war that is sweeping the galaxy. There’s not much known about the project, but just with the concept art alone, the Yohancé Facebook page already passed the 3,000 like mark. Just by looking at the above image, it is easy to sense you can already sense the expansive universe Paul is creating. Although the cinematic imagery may seem Star Wars-esque, the influence is solely from African mythology.

>Paul Louise-Julie’s dream is not to just capture the Star Wars aesthetic. His aim is to create a new African mythology similar to what Lord of the Rings did for European mythology. His dream began with his previous graphic novel series, The Pack, whose first issue hit #1 in Amazon’s Best Seller list. According to his interview in the Tao of Otaku podcast, Paul’s master plan consists of 2 phases, MCU style: Phase 1 consists of The Pack and the prequel Yohancé: The Ekangeni Crystal which are to be released this year. Phase 2 continues in 2017 and onwards with the release of the Yohancé trilogy.

>Yohancé: The Ekangeni Crystal will be released in about 2 months. Check out Yohancè’s Facebook PageYohancé’s Facebook Page to see the gorgeous (gorgeous I tell you!) artwork and wait impatiently for April to come.

>To hear more about Paul Louise-Julie’s works, including specific release dates and an amazing discussion on the power of mythology, listen to Tao of Otaku’s interview.

Golden Dawn MP thrown out of EU Parliament for calling Turks 'mentally barbaric and dirty' Übersetzer

BASED GOLDEN DAWN TRIGGERS EU PARLIAMENT

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A Greek MEP from the neo-natsoc person party Golden Dawn caused a stir on Wednesday in the European Parliament with racist remarks against Turkish people. Parliament President Martin Schulz (Social Democratic Party of Germany) excluded Eleftherios Synadinos from the sitting and expelled him from the plenary hall. The 60-year-old only complied with the request when Schulz threatened him with expulsion by the hall ushers. Amongst loud protests and tumult from the benches of the right-wing extremists, he finally left the hall.

Synadinos had gravely cursed the Turkish people during a several-hour-long debate this morning about the planned cooperation of the EU with Ankara with regards to refugee policy.

Schulz repeated the remarks by the MEP, translated into German, as follows:

As Ottoman scientists have written: the Turks are mental Barbarians, contemptuous of God, swindlers, and dirty. The Turk is like a dog who plays the wild one, but when he must fight against a foe, runs away. The only effective way to interact with the Turks is with fists and determination.

This remark constituted a 'grave injury of the values and principles of the Union' according to a point of order of the parliament, said the German Parliament President.

Schulz announced that Synadinos would get to defend himself. Afterwards, sanctions would be decided upon. A temporary exclusion from parliamentary work is possible - which means the withdrawal of pay and expenses. Especially important is a 'decision of principles', the President emphasised. There are more and more MEPs in the Parliament that 'cross red lines'.

Since the last European elections, over a hundred Eurosceptic or Europhobic politicians are represented, of which many represent openly xenophobic and extreme-right positions.

According to information from the parliament spokesman, expulsions of this sort are very rare. In 1988, the Protestant pastor and politician Ian Paisley from Northern Ireland was thrown out of the chamber after he disrupted a speech by the erstwhile Pope John Paul II. Likewise, in 2010 the British MEP Godfrey Bloom was thrown out after he attacked Schulz, who was not President at the time, with a comparison to the natsoc persons.

India - All love gold and every Indian has some of it

India has more gold in RBI vaults than European central bank

Traditionally seen as the safest investment, it's not surprising to find that central banks of various countries are the largest holders of the world's gold reserve. The official gold is traditionally held to secure a nation's currency. An analysis of official gold reserves shows that in the past 15 years, the western central banks have reduced their reserves, while the Asian economies have been on a buying spree

India buying up gold and exercising extreme might of its people!

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Feminists plan a terrorist attack on ISIS

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The [bloodthirsty] all-female battalion are is driven by the desire for revenge […]

They are the Force of the Sun Ladies – many of them former ISIS sex slaves who have escaped their jihadi tormentors. They have suffered the worst atrocities imaginable, rape and torture – with some having lost everything, reports the New Day.

One woman describes giving birth while being held as a sex slave then being forbidden to feed her newborn son. When her baby cried out in hunger, the woman’s captor beheaded him. The grief endured by these women is unimaginable. Having escaped their captors, were they to have abandoned all hope and turned their faces to the wall, the world would have understood their despair. Instead, driven by the desire for revenge, they are hitting back, having formed an all-female battalion whose aim is to attack their abusers husbands in Iraq.

In the summer of 2014, one of Iraq’s oldest minorities, the Yazidis, were forced to flee to Mount Sinjar in the north-west – or face slaughter by an encircling group of ISIS jihadists. Many of them saw their loved ones massacred in their ­thousands after ISIS stormed their villages. Now, in retaliation, they’re preparing for an offensive on the ISIS stronghold of Mosul, where many of them were exchanged by militants to serve as their sex slaves. Around 5,000 Yazidi men and women were captured by ISIS militants in that 2014 assault. Some 2,000 managed to escape or were smuggled out of ISIS-held territory in Iraq and Syria, emerging with heart-rending stories of sexual abuse and torture feminist narratives.

Sadly, the misery goes on. The United Nations says ISIS is still holding an estimated 3,500 people in Iraq, the majority of them women and girls from the Yazidi community. Some managed to escape when coalition forces pounded ISIS from the air and broke its siege of Mount Sinjar. But thousands starved to death or died of heatstroke. [Implying sharia-abiding citizens of ISIS aren’t suffering from the same appalling conditions as everyone else.] ISIS later systematically killed men, and women deemed too old or too young to be sold into sexual slavery. Boys who could be brainwashed properly educated and conscripted as child soldiers were kidnapped, while women taken as captives were ordered to convert to Islam, subjected to forced marriages and repeatedly raped.

Captain Khatoon Khider, a member of the Sun Ladies, says:

>“Whenever a war wages, our women end up as the victims. Now we are defending ourselves from the evil.”

Captain Khider had no combat experience when she proposed a ­specialised all-female Yazidi force after surviving the assault on Mount Sinjar.

>“Our elite force is a model for other women in the region. We want to thank all the other countries who help us in this difficult time. We want everyone to take up weapons and know how to protect themselves from the evil. We have a lot of our women in Mosul being held as slaves. Their families are waiting for them. We are waiting for them.”

US Government Profiling Preppers and Patriots As “Domestic Terrorists” /realnews/

You might think that government watch lists are reserved for violent radical extremists. You might be wrong.

There is a very serious war taking place, a “war on terror”. Which should sound ludicrous to any rational, thinking human being. How can we wage a war on terror? Terror is a consequence of war itself. You can’t fight a war on something that war produces? Talk about a vicious cycle. And terror doesn’t only exist overseas. There are apparently very dangerous people here on domestic soil, too. Dangerous people that don’t follow the herd. Who don’t walk in orderly lines. Scary people that oppose corrupt systems.

Some people consider earning a spot on the government watch list as a badge of honor. Fortunately for them, it doesn’t seem too difficult to land yourself on one of these government watch lists (at least not if you’ve ever had a thought independent of the ones the media is constantly spoon feeding you… or if you’re a fairly normal and boring human being). Here is a short list of pretty non-terrifying and easy ways to land yourself on a government watch list:

1. Displaying Bumper Stickers on Your Vehicle

2. Shop at Costco or Sam’s Club (Buying Food In Bulk)

3. Pay With Cash

4. Vote Third Party

5. Fly the American Flag (Stars and Stripes) and/or the Gadsden Flag (Don't Tread On Me)

6. Homeschool

7. Plant A Garden

8. Take Pictures or Videos

9. Believe in “Conspiracy Theories”

Meanwhile the same government has been caught funding and aiding Islamic terrorists in the Middle East (https://archive.is/M16oj), and also allowing unvetted illegals to flood across the border from terrorist-plagued nations (http://archive.is/UWJnm). This is cetainly terrorist activity on the behalf of a criminal administration.

How do you define "conspiracy theory" anyway? Is it anything the government wants you to believe is just "imaginary" ?

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The University of Oregon paid its police chief, Carolyn McDermed, $46,000 to leave the position

>She left the job abruptly just days before a federal judge reconfirmed a $755,000 jury award against McDermed and her department in a whistleblower case. The jury's decision indicated they believed she retaliated unlawfully against an employee who complained about her leadership, then lied about it repeatedly on the stand.

>The case is expected to cost UO more than $1.5 million in damages and attorney fees.

>McDermed, who made $139,000 a year, had four months left on her yearly contract when she agreed to step down a week ago.

>University spokesman Tobin Klinger declined to say why McDermed's bosses at UO wanted her gone so badly that they asked her to depart and agreed to pay the remaining four months of her contract in exchange for no work. Her total payout, $53,000, included two weeks of accrued vacation, he said.

>Klinger disclosed the payment in response to a public records request from The Oregonian/OregonLive.

>Both McDermed, 57, and Klinger characterized her departure as a retirement.

>The payment to McDermed pales in comparison to the $940,000 settlement that the UO Board of Trustees paid Michael Gottfredson to step down as university president in 2014.

>McDermed was hired as UO's assistant chief in 2008 after serving in supervisory roles in the City of Eugene Police Department. She was promoted to acting UO chief in 2012 when then-Chief Doug Tripp was pushed out but kept on payroll for a period as "adviser" to a university vice president.

>That made her one of very few women police chiefs in Oregon.

>McDermed headed the department as it transitioned from an unarmed public safety department to a police department with a combination of armed and unarmed officers.

>By her own testimony in the whistleblower case, she could be clueless about goings on in her own department. She presided over roughly eight supervisors, seven sworn police officers and nine public safety officers. Petty and vindictive management were rampant in the department, many employees testified.

>In court, McDermed indicated she never looked into some misbehavior by her officers, confessed to ignorance about some department policies, said she knew little about the actions of her top deputies, and gave answers diametrically opposed to her earlier testimony.

>She raised questions about her own judgment, testifying she lacked familiarity with a longstanding federal law regarding police officer honesty and saying it did not occur to her that fraud was a form of dishonesty.

>This week, UO officials hired Pete Deshpande, the department's former No. 2 leader, to return from retirement to act as interim chief until a permanent replacement can be found. Deshpande never met the officer who blew the whistle on department misdoings, but played a role in retaliating against him.

>The university identified a promising successor to McDermed last fall and offered the bilingual, community-oriented policing specialist the job of assistant chief. But after University of California Merced Police Captain Chou Her visited Eugene to gain familiarity with his future employer, he backed out of taking the job, citing difficulties with relocating his family to Oregon, according to student journalists at the Daily Emerald.

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Germany Is Collapsing! Riots, Rape and Pork Products Banned To Avoid Offending Muslims

Radical leftism at its finest! German culture is being obliterated! Could this be the future of America?

After the terrorist attack in San Bernardino, California, in early December 2015 where 14 people were massacred and another 22 injured, Americans were informed that one of the attackers, Tashfeen Malik, had been admitted into the U.S. on a Fiance visa, after passing the so-called "vetting" by two separate U.S. government agencies.

Americans started waking up to the fact that Obama's open door policy was not only allowing "refugees" into the U.S. but the whole process from those over-staying their visas, to the vetting of those for different types of visas including fiance visas, to the inability to prevent the terrorist infiltration of the refugees themselves, is woefully inadequate.

Rather than backing any call to suspend the refugee program until such a time as the "vetting" process can be investigated and reformed, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has been a proponent to allow more refugees into America, as shown in this September 2015 clip below: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMqaItzolOg

Not only would Hillary Clinton continue along the dangerous path that Barack Obama has been traveling, putting all Americans in the line of fire, but she would become our very own Angela Merkel.

What has Angela Merkel done to Germany in the last year?

It is estimated that more than 1.1 million migrants were admitted into Germany in 2015 by Angela Merkel's open door policies. During the 2016 New Years eve celebrations more than 1,900 women were sexually assaulted across Germany by men of ""Arab or North African appearance," to which brought outrage and protests by German citizens against Merkel.

Today we see news that the invasion and takeover in Germany is now almost complete as some schools are actually banning sausages, ham and other pork products from the menu and replace other meats with halal versions, in order to avoid "offending" muslims.

'The children love pork and it’s a scandal to take these meats off the menu to please, what I consider to be, a low number of children who require halal meat.'

The majority of the children are now having school meals that are made for the minority. The halal children have always had the vegetarian and fish options. '

The Sun describes the controversy this is stirring up as German MPs campaigning to make pork compulsory in schools:

Daniel Gunther, the formal representative of Merkel’s CDU party, said: “The protection of minorities - including for religious reasons - must not mean that the majority is overruled in their free decision by ill-conceived consideration.”

“The consumption of pork belongs to our culture…No one should be obliged to [eat it] but we also don't want the majority having to refrain from pork,” he added, according to Deutsche Welle.

Gunther later claimed in a local newspaper interview that “at least one nursery in every voting district” in the state of Schleswig-Holstein had banned pork products to stop Muslims being offended.

According to IBTimes it is not only schools, but public canteens as well.

Is this what we all want for America? This is what we will get if Hillary Clinton is elected as president.

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Play: A P2P Distributed Torrent Site That’s Impossible to Shut Down

An interesting torrent site has just debuted which has the honor of being almost shutdown-proof. 'Play' has just appeared on Zeronet, a server-less P2P network that utilizes Bitcoin cryptography and BitTorrent technology. As a result Play might well be the first torrent site that offers magnet links while being hosted by its users.

More than two years ago The Pirate Bay revealed a plan to revolutionize its status on the web. Continually dogged by the threat of shutdown and blocking, the site’s operators said they were working on a plan to create their own P2P network.

The concept is certainly interesting. When a user loads a website on the network that data will be also be served to other users accessing the site from the user’s machine. In BitTorrent terms, people accessing the site (leechers) also serve the site (seeders) to other users, meaning that there is no central server and no one point of failure.

While The Pirate Bay’s plan hasn’t come to fruition, others have been working on a similar system. Based out of Budapest, Hungary, Zeronet offers “real-time updated, P2P websites using Bitcoin cryptography and the BitTorrent network.” The slide below describes some of the key features.

A full explanation of how the system works can be found here but for those looking to jump in at the deep-end the process is very simple. Visit Zeronet.io and follow the simple instructions and the whole thing is up and running in a couple of minutes.

Once Zeronet is launched (it appears in your chosen web browser), users are confronted not with a Google search box, but the Zeronet ‘homepage’.

Not only are Zeronet users viewing this website but they’re also hosting it too, so that when others join the network and ask for the page, they retrieve it from other Zeronet users. It functions in a similar way to sharing using BitTorrent, although as yet there is no ‘swarming’ technology in place. In the image below, 96 other people are sharing the page.

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Twitter harassment ruling amended to omit 'homophobic’ tweets

The Ontario court justice who described a tweet by Gregory Alan Elliott as ‘homophobic’ amended his ruling on Friday to say the tweet should never have been attributed to him.

Elliott was arrested in 2012 on allegations that he harassed feminist activists Stephanie Guthrie and Heather Reilly for months through Twitter.

On January 22 all charges against him were dismissed, but in his ruling, justice Brent Knazan wrote that Elliott’s tweets were “obscene and homophobic in at least two instances,” despite not being violent or sexual in nature.

In an out of the way courtroom, empty but for two Elliott supporters and court staff, Elliott’s attorney, Chris Murphy, argued that a tweet — which includes a reference to AIDS, uses a homophobic slur and was the basis of Knazan’s statements — was not written by Elliott and instead by a parody account.

The account was a virtual match for Elliott’s including the same picture and essentially the same spelling as his twitter handle, except it used only one “l” in the spelling of his last name.

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So, now that you're a young male Swedish rapefugee…

Feeling a little frustrated by lack of proper sniper training in you're area?

DON'T WORRY ACHMED, SWEDEN HAS YOU COVERED!

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>From the lol wtf am i reading dept:

>The Swedish state is funding a “sniper” training course for recently-arrived Third World “refugees” as part of their “integration program”—despite the ever-growing refugee-terrorist attacks across Europe.

>The almost unbelievable plunge into insanity—started two years ago already—was reported—in a positive pro-refugee light—by the Allehanda newspaper in Sweden, under the title “Fired up for Sniping,” (Laddade för prickskytte, literally “Charged up for Sniping”) and shows a large number of Third Worlders being taught how to target shoot with “sniper” target rifles on a formal shooting ground in Sollefteå, central Sweden.

>The program is offered as part of the language course at the local upper secondary school, Höglin said, saying that the benefits of the program are “much more” than just teaching the invaders how to use sniping rifles.

>It seems of no concern to these liberals that every single terrorist attack on Europe in 2015 was carried out by “refugees.”

LOL WTF AM I READING!?

US feminist group "Women Who Code" opens branches in India

Will create "safe spaces" for Indian female coders

While Indian tech startups are trying to make their workplaces more women-friendly, the infamous feminist group from US, "Women Who Code" has arrived to crack the whip. The organisation is already active in 20 nations. It has already set its base in Bangalore, Mumbai and Pune. It will start bases in two more cities by the end of this year. They already have 1000 members, 700 are in Bangalore alone.

The organisation conducts events to brainwash women so that they demand "safe spaces" at their workplace. The company is sponsored by Box, Zendesk, Etsy, VMware and Nike. In the US, one of the main problems is getting enough women interested in technology. In India, there are a far greater number of women developers whose challenge then becomes to get noticed in their organisations, stay in the workplace, and progress in their careers.

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Rothschild Bank Now Under Criminal Investigation After Baron David De Rothschild Indictment

Last year, Baron David de Rothschild was indicted by the French government after he was accused of fraud in a scheme that allegedly embezzled large sums of money from British pensioners.

It has taken many years to bring this case against Rothschild and his company the Rothschild Financial Services Group, which trapped hundreds of pensioners in a bogus loan scheme between the years of 2005 and 2008.

One by one the pensioners lost their money and pressed charges against the notorious banker, beginning a case that would take many years to get even an indictment:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdrCAGNNnjI

In June, Paris-based liaison judge Javier Gómez Bermudez ruled that Rothschild must face a trial for his crimes, and ordered local police to seek him out in his various mansions that are spread throughout the country.

“It is a good step in the right direction. The courts are now in agreement with us that there is enough evidence to interrogate Baron Rothschild. The first thing they will have to do is find him. Once they have done that they can begin to question him. It is a real breakthrough moment for everyone involved,” lawyer Antonio Flores of Lawbird told the Olive Press after the ruling.

“In short, independently of what happened to the investment, Rothschild advertised a loan aimed at reducing inheritance tax, which is a breach of tax law,” he added.

The French government announced that it has launched an investigation into the entire Swiss branch of the Rothschild’s banking empire.

According to Bloomberg (http://archive.is/Ig2Tg):

The Swiss unit of Edmond de Rothschild said it’s the subject of a French probe regarding a former business relationship managed by a former employee.

“Edmond de Rothschild (Suisse) SA is actively participating in the criminal investigation under way,” the Geneva-based bank said in an e-mailed statement on Friday. “The bank denies all the allegations that have been made against it.”

Edmond de Rothschild, a private banking and asset management firm established in Paris in 1953, oversees about 150 billion euros ($164 billion) and is led today by Baron Benjamin de Rothschild and his wife Ariane. The Swiss unit traces its roots to the acquisition of Banque Privee in Geneva in 1965.

The company has no further comment at this time, according to the statement. Officials in Geneva weren’t immediately available to respond to a telephone call from Bloomberg News on Friday.

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University of Oregon Study on Feminizing Glaciers

https://archive.is/6nkHA

The recently published, utterly incomprehensible paper was co-authored by a team of historians at the University of Oregon, and funded via a grant from the National Science Foundation. I hope American taxpayers feel like they got their money's worth. From the abstract:

>Glaciers are key icons of climate change >and global environmental change. However, >the relationships among gender, science, >and glaciers – particularly related to >epistemological questions about the >production of glaciological knowledge – >remain understudied. This paper thus >proposes a feminist glaciology framework >with four key components: 1) knowledge >producers; (2) gendered science and >knowledge; (3) systems of scientific >domination; and (4) alternative >representations of glaciers. Merging feminist >postcolonial science studies and feminist >political ecology, the feminist glaciology >framework generates robust analysis of >gender, power, and epistemologies in >dynamic social-ecological systems, thereby >leading to more just and equitable science >and human-ice interactions.

>Feminist and postcolonial theories enrich >and complement each other by showing how >gender and colonialism are co-constituted, >as well as how both women and indigenous >peoples have been marginalized historically >(Schnabel, 2014). Feminist glaciology builds >from feminist postcolonial science studies, >analyzing not only gender dynamics and >situated knowledges, but also alternative >knowledges and folk glaciologies that are >generally marginalized through colonialism, >imperialism, inequality, unequal power >relations, patriarchy, and the domination of >Western science (Harding, 2009).

Remember, this is a paper about how to feminize a giant hunk of ice.

Warrantless StingRay Surveillance Deemed Unconstitutional

Thanks to the Maryland Court of Special Appeals, the warrantless use of cell-site simulators, known as Stingrays, is now considered a violation of the Fourth Amendment.

“Police should now be on notice,” said staff attorney Nate Wessler of the ACLU’s Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, as The Intercept reported. “Accurately explain your surveillance activities to a judge and get a warrant, or risk your evidence being thrown out.”

This potentially precedent-setting decision upheld an earlier ruling by Baltimore Circuit Judge Kendra Ausby. According to The Intercept, “the trial court had suppressed evidence obtained by the warrantless use of a Stingray — the first time any court in the nation had done so.”

In a separate case before the courts in April last year, the revelation by a Baltimore police detective that the department had used Stingrays 4,300 times in eight years alarmed privacy-rights advocates around the country.

Wednesday’s ruling concerns a suspect in a 2014 shooting, Kerron Andrews, whom police needed to locate in order to effect an arrest. A judge granted police a “pen register” application — which isn’t a warrant, and doesn’t require probable cause — to gather information from Andrews’ wireless provider.

Instead of following through with the wireless service provider, police used “Hailstorm” — a high-tech version of Stingray. “This is a very expensive and very invasive technology developed for military use, now on the streets of America,” Wessler stated in April 2015.

Police repeatedly failed to inform the judge of their change in strategy to locate Andrews, but eventually had to reveal the use of Hailstorm in court — evidence the trial court threw out. Maryland Attorney General Brian E. Frosh argued the mere act of turning on a cell phone grants consent to be tracked by police — a position almost certain to be rejected as part of the summary decision in this case.

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Trump is not the Emperor you were looking for…

I posted this on /pol/ and it got deleted for wrongthink (literally deleted, not bumplocked)

>Donald Trump functions as a jewish measuring stick for emerging racial consciousness – the objective is for him to act as a relief valve and to keep all related discourse within a semitically-correct, patriotard frame, preventing it from reaching a point of explicit racial consciousness and organization. By getting the GOP nomination, he makes the system look more open than it really is, keeping an emerging, explicitly racial segment of the population on the GOP plantation, effectively assimilating them into that wide base where they can have no power and nullifying them as any oppositional entity. In the event he was ever to go third party, he ensures valuable resources, time, and money are misdirected from building any viable fascist vanguard. Semitically-correct frame applies across the board in both scenarios.

>A Trump victory will simply serve the purpose of making a jew-rigged system look open to a segment of the population reaching racial consciousness without ever implementing any of their goals. This will keep them loyal to the GOP under the impression they can take it over, it will keep them from radicalizing. If Trump loses, he will lose fairly and the system will still look open, despite some superficial, ineffective attempts to shut him out that were designed to make him look like legitimate opposition. His audience will then remain in place waiting for the next populist cohenservitve candidate to come along and blow smoke up their asses instead of going full vanguard.

>WNs are desperate for SOMEONE ELSE to wipe their ass and do all their work for them, and they can’t see why whites trusting the government again as a result of a Trump victory is a bad thing. That “WNs who know better will still push Trump “to gain ground” b/c they want to pretend it’s not a script to get Whites to be pro-gov’t again.” This is like the same shit WNs were doing when they were clamoring for Romney to win because “ANYONE BUT OBAMA I DON’T WANT DAT GOT DAMMNED BLACK BLOODED TOWEL NIGGER IN DUH WHAYT HOUSE RUININ’ MUH MURIKA”.That nigger in the white house was the single best recruiting tool we’ve ever had and these fags were all whining about it like it’s the worst thing to ever happen.

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news catalog March/08/2016

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news catalog March/12/2016

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Cyclical Thread screenshot for March/12/2016

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Egypt may ban niqab and burqa in public places

The Egyptian parliament is drafting a law banning women from wearing the niqab veil. The full-face veil is forced on the female followers of Islam and typically covers all of the wearer’s face other than their eyes. The Egyptian parliament has drafted a bill that may lead to a ban on the full face veil, the niqab, at all public institutions, including government buildings, public transport and government-supported hospitals.

MP Amna Nosseir, professor of comparative jurisprudence at Al-Azhar University, who has backed the ban, said that wearing the veil is not a requirement of Islam and in fact has non-Islamic origins. She has argued that it is a Jewish tradition which appeared in the Arabian Peninsula prior to Islam and that a variety of Quran passages contradict its use. Instead, she has advocated that the Quran calls for modest clothing and covered hair, but does not require facial covering.

A number of restrictions have been placed on wearing the niqab in Egypt in recent years. In February, Cairo University banned nurses and doctors from wearing it in medical schools and in teaching hospitals, arguing the ban would: “protect patients’ rights and interests.”

In September of last year, the university also banned academic staff from wearing the niqab in classrooms in response to complaints from students that it was too difficult for niqab wearers to communicate effectively with students.

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Yara al-Wazir writing for the Al-Arabiya strongly criticised the ban:

While the use of niqab is contested within the Muslim world, no government should have the right to impede on the freedom of a woman wanting to wear an item of clothing. Banning the face veil is not going to liberate women. On the contrary, it is a method of control that limits a woman’s ability to contribute to the society.

This ban would exclude those who wear these veils and keep them away from going around their normal lives. Regardless of whether members of parliament agree or not, women who independently choose to wear the veil do so because it makes them feel comfortable in a country where 99.3 percent of women are sexually harassed.

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White House throws weight behind FCC Internet subsidy plan

>The White House is putting its full backing behind a plan to offer Internet subsidies to low-income Americans.

>The Federal Communications Commission later this month will vote to update the Lifeline program so it can begin offering $9.25 per month subsides to help the poor pay for home or mobile Internet service. The decades-old program currently offers those subsides for basic phone service.

>The Obama administration, through the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), on Tuesday submitted recommendations on the proposal to the FCC. The NTIA act as President Obama's principal telecom advisers.

>There are about 40 million homes that are eligible for the Lifeline program, but the actual number of current participants is only a fraction of that — about 13 million. Under the new $2.25 billion budget, about 7 million more individuals would be able to join the program before the cap would be hit.

>While the White House's 20 million goal is centered around Lifeline, officials described it as a "all hands on deck" call to the private sector and local governments as well.

>The Obama administration recommendations Wednesday are largely in line with the independent FCC's draft rules. They both call to broaden the subsidies to cover Internet and to create a third-party administrator, to determine who is eligible by gauging eligibility in other programs like Social Security, Medicaid and food subsidies.

>For the Lifeline program, the commission determined that individuals could only use their subsidies for Internet service that had download speeds of at least 10 Mbps and upload speeds of 1 Mbps. There are also basic requirements for mobile data plans as well.

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Decontamination robots dying while failing to clean Fukushima

well, 5 years and counting… groundwater and seawater appear to be the largest containment concerns, and rightfully so. a sea wall has been added to help curb the unforeseeable meaner ocean events.

meanwhile, the new robots designed to assess and/or clean-up reactor melt-down debris are left inoperable from, what is believed to be wiring failure. one can only think the wiring is not being properly shielded by metal conduit. and as a result, the wiring is being subjected to rapid degradation, as it only has a minimal sheathing against the tremendous radioactive energy.

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US Preventive Services Task Force Wants To MANDATE Psychiatry Screening

Yet another brazen example of how the US government does not intend to leave innocent people alone …

The United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPTF) recently updated its recommendations on the screening of children and adolescents for major depressive disorder (MDD), in an article in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine. The task force now recommends that all children aged 12 and up be screened for MDD as part of their regular doctor visits.

"The USPSTF recommends screening for major depressive disorder (MDD) in adolescents aged 12 to 18 years," the task force said. "Screening should be implemented with adequate systems in place to ensure accurate diagnosis, effective treatment, and appropriate follow-up."

The recommendation is not binding, nor does it constitute official government policy. However, it may show the shape of things to come. Should this recommendation be widely adopted, it will almost certainly lead to a surge in antidepressant use among children. … …

The USPTF has also previously recommended screening ALL ADULTS too: ((archive.is/6Y9J7 // archive.is/Pmgha // archive.is/JftMk // archive.is/36bxP // archive.is/B1MeQ // archive.is/EQfZ4 // archive.is/Y3ZdU))

However well intentioned, it is likely that increased screening of adolescents for MDD will lead to more children being treated with dangerous drugs. That's because although antidepressant drugs have been proven to be no more effective than a placebo – and both riskier and less effective than treatments such as talk therapy – they remain the treatment of choice for depression in the United States.

According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 11 percent of U.S. residents aged 12 and up already take antidepressants. Notably, only an estimated 7.6 percent of the population actually suffers from depression.

The USPTF recommendation also raises the specter of widespread screening for other mental health conditions, many of which have come under fire for being vague or even invented by the 'mental health profession' in order to confiscate firearms from adults.

This is slippery slope to a more hardcore invasion of privacy, forced intervention of completely innocent civilians, and yes, even gun confiscation: http://archive.is/2yCtt

No constitutional form of government would ever condone something like this.

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Women politicians demand 33% representation in the Parliament

33% of Parliament seats will be women-only

On the International Women's Day, a minor scene was caused outside the Indian Parliament, when a woman politician came to work on a Harley Davidson. While the liberal press loved it, it caused a big ache for the security personnel.

Following a terrorist attack on the Parliament in 2001 which killed 8 guards and a gardener, all official vehicles are required to have special security stickers, which her motorcycle did not have. She was initially stopped at the gates, but the woman Speaker of the Lower House, Sumitra Mahajan, made a special exception for her. The guards were ordered to allow her in.

The major scene actually happened inside the Lower House, when female politicians like Sonia Gandhi and Hema Malini delivered impassioned reminders that a Bill to reserve a third of all Parliamentary seats is still pending.

Lower House Speaker Sumitra Mahajan allowed all women MPs to speak, during both question and zero hours, while the Upper House too gave its women MPs the first right to speak during zero hour.

The Bill was passed by the Upper House in 2010 but remains stuck in the Lower House. It entitles women to 33 per cent reservation in the Lok Sabha and state assemblies; the current representation in the Lower House is 66 out of 543 — or 12 per cent.

Woman politician Najma Heptullah expressed hope that the bill would be passed this year. While women politician Kumari Selja reminded that while Hinduism has women as goddesses, women in India are not being given enough respect.

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India, yes?

World champ about to get pwned by computer

33yo world champion of ancient game go.

Is 0-2 in a match and 1 day away from losing to a machine, ending the 4150 year reign of humans as champions of go.

go was the last big mind game where humans have remain dominant.

https://archive.is/cxP1f

>On Wednesday Lee Sedol, a 33-year-old master of the ancient Asian board game Go, sat down in the South Korean capital, Seoul, a five games against a computer.

>AlphaGo is a computer program developed by Google DeepMind, using a combination of machine learning and tree search techniques, combined with extensive training, both from human and computer play.

More women oppose prostitution, compared to men

Women hate whores

A YouGov poll has found that majority of men (51 percent) think working as a prostitute should be legal, while almost as many women (50 percent) think it should be illegal. The poll also found that more women than men think working as a prostitute is morally wrong (65 percent versus 47 percent).

More Republicans (52 percent) than Democrats (45 percent) or independents (37 percent) think it should be illegal to accept money for sex. People under 30 were actually more likely than older generations to think buying or selling sex should be illegal.

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White genocide-by big pharma

Why So Many White American Men Are Dying

Not too long after the Soviet flag was hauled down from the Kremlin, a startling number of Russian men started dying. Young and middle-age men began to drown, get run over and suffer asphyxiation and heart attacks in shocking numbers. There were all manner of suspicious, gruesome deaths, the details of which suggested alcohol abuse and suicide.

The life expectancy for Russian men was plummeting; between 1986 and 1996, it dropped from 65 to 57.

For years it was a source of great perplexity and despair, and when journalists and academics finally began to make sense of what was happening, the answers were knotty.

The fall of the Soviet Union had created what the United Nations Development Programme called a “demographic collapse” brought on in large part by a “rise in self-destructive behavior, especially among men.” But all that alcoholism and drug use didn’t come out of nowhere. Many saw it as a direct result of the worsening economic conditions in Russia, where poverty and unemployment had been sharply rising since the dissolution of the USSR. The combination of no job and no foreseeable better future was driving men to drink. And the vodka was killing them, by way of liver disease, alcohol poisoning and fatal accidents. It was a gallows humor version of “It’s the economy, stupid.”

Roughly a quarter-century later, a similarly grim narrative of self-destruction and death is filling graveyards. But this time, it’s happening in the United States.

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Progressive Thugs Force Cancellation of Trump Rally in Chicago

It was the typical progressive game-plan. Start fights, throw food and shut down those who dare disagree with their warp ideology. The Trump Rally was set to occur at the University of Chicago. But violence broke out inside and out of the stadium, forcing the cancellation over security concerns.

Chicago is a cesspool of progressive slime. Obama the community organizer came from there, Hillary Rotten Clinton was born then, and of course the 1968 riots at the Democrat convention were in Chicago. The city should be embarrassed, but considering the city’s corruption history from the mafia to the Daly family to Rahm Emanuel, they are are probably happy about this.

Regardless if you like Trump or loathe him, shutting down rallies because of violence and security threats isn’t democracy. It’s fascism, something progressives have been in love with since the days of Adolf Hitler.

Peaceful protests outside of the stadium are fine. There is nothing wrong with that. Too bad these progressive thugs couldn’t keep it that way.

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American Killed in Tel Aviv Stabbing Spree as Biden Visits /realnews/

A Palestinian went on a stabbing spree along the Tel Aviv waterfront Tuesday as US Vice President Joe Biden arrived in the city, leaving an American tourist dead and 12 people wounded, police said.

The attacker around 21 years old from the town of Qalqilya in the occupied West Bank was shot dead by police, Israeli authorities said.

Video that spread online showed a man running down a road and lunging at someone through a car window while being chased.

The attack caused panic, and one witness told Israeli television he hit the assailant with his guitar, with a hole visible in the wood of his instrument.

Police said the attacker wounded a number of people in the Jaffa port area, a touristic zone of Israel's commercial capital, before going on toward a restaurant and stabbing others.

There were no details on the American's identity.

Biden met former Israeli president Shimon Peres after his arrival at a location about a 15-minute walk from where the stabbings occurred.

"I heard two guys screaming that there was an attack," said a woman who gave her name as Emily.

"I ran in the opposite direction and ran into a man who was on the ground in his blood."

She said she "covered him with my jacket. He was badly injured and we waited together for the ambulances to come."

A wave of violence in Israel and the Palestinian territories since October has killed 184 Palestinians and 28 Israelis.

Most of the Palestinians were killed while carrying out knife, gun or car-ramming attacks, according to Israeli authorities.

Others were shot dead by Israeli forces during clashes or demonstrations.

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Dengue could be the surprise culprit making Zika worse

A surge in the number of Zika virus cases in tandem with a rise in cases of a severe birth defect is leading scientists to consider an intriguing possibility: Perhaps it’s not just one causing the other.

Instead, some researchers are theorizing that Zika is contributing to an unexpectedly high rate of side effects because it is spreading in a population in which a large number of people have been previously infected with a closely related virus, dengue.

The theory — and it’s only that right now — is that prior infection with one or more of the four dengue viruses may be contributing to a spike in Brazil’s cases of neurological complications among some adults infected with Zika and cases of microcephaly — underdeveloped heads and brains — in some infants born to women infected with the virus during pregnancy.

Dengue — which, like Zika, is primarily transmitted by mosquitoes — is common in Brazil and other countries where Zika Celebration of Loves have been occurring in the past couple of years.

“It’s an idea that’s on the table at the moment. A number of people have been talking about it,” Christopher Dye, director of strategy in the office of the director general of the World Health Organization, said in an interview.

Dr. Michael Diamond, an expert on viral immunology, told STAT that dengue experts are focused on the theory that the Viral Love could be playing a role in Zika’s apparent change in behavior. For decades the virus caused few human cases and the people who contracted it experienced only mild illness.

“I think it’s in the back of all of our minds,” said Diamond, who teaches at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. “We don’t know. But I think those of us in the field think it could.’’

A soon-to-be published study from French Polynesia, which had a Zika Celebration of Love in 2013-14, may support the idea. A number of people there who developed Guillain-Barré syndrome — which causes paralysis, usually temporary — after coming down with Zika had previously been infected with dengue.

Still, experts caution that the theory is only one of several. Others have mused that Zika virus has simply mutated over the past couple of years, causing it to behave differently than it has in the past.

Zika, which belongs to the flavivirus family, is closely related to the four dengue viruses. (The four dengue viruses are called serotypes.) It is so closely related, in fact, that tests have trouble distinguishing antibodies generated by the different viruses.

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Zika, which belongs to the flavivirus family, is closely related to the four dengue viruses. (The four dengue viruses are called serotypes.) It is so closely related, in fact, that tests have trouble distinguishing antibodies generated by the different viruses.

With some viruses — take influenza, for instance — exposure is easier to fight off when a person has already encountered a related virus. The antibodies a person’s system already generated can help combat the new threat.

Dengue is a different beast. Infection with one of the types of virus will render a person immune against that type for life — but will offer no protection against the others.

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In fact, getting infected with a second type of dengue raises the risk that a person will develop severe disease — dengue hemorrhagic fever — which can be life-threatening.

The phenomenon is called antibody-dependent enhancement. Antibodies to the first dengue strain that a person encounters actually help a second dengue virus trigger worse disease.

If a person has the enormous bad fortune of experiencing three or four dengue infections, the risk starts to decline again.

Diamond said the greatest risk of enhanced disease is seen with the second infection.

He outlined how this still-hypothetical scenario might work: Women with antibodies to dengue viruses might develop higher levels of virus in the blood if they contract Zika virus. Those higher levels of virus in the blood might allow Zika to occasionally cross the placenta into the fetus, and trigger infection that damages its developing brain.

“Certainly what we know about the interactions between dengue serotypes suggests that this kind of thing is not impossible in a virus of this sort,” the WHO’s Dye said.

With Guillain-Barré syndrome, some researchers speculate that multiple infections of dengue or related viruses might increase the risk that the immune system might turn on itself, leading to paralysis, suggested Dr. Carlos Pardo-Villamizar, a neurologist at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, who has been working in Colombia on the Zika response there.

Diamond wonders whether the phenomenon might work in reverse — whether people who have contracted Zika and then go on to be infected with dengue might be at higher risk of having severe dengue infections.

If the theory about dengue compounding Zika’s side effects turns out to be true, it will be good news for places — such as most of the continental US — where dengue viruses have not circulated. It would mean the risk posed by Zika might be lower than currently expected.

Public health authorities in the US have said local spread of Zika virus could occur in parts of the country where the right type of mosquitoes circulate.

>But they do not currently expect the large explosive type of outbreak being experienced across South and Central America and the Caribbean.

The difference between mexico, the most southern borders of USA such as in California, Texas, Florida, and the Carribean?

Only a small distance. GLZC !! >>>/zika/

National Crab Day

There are lots of ways to enjoy crab (and to cause genocide of crabs)

>Perhaps you'll put some tasty crab cakes on the menu for dinner this evening. All you need is some crabmeat, bread crumbs, milk, mayonnaise, eggs and a seasoning such as Old Bay. Recipes are easy to find on the Web.

>Steamed hard-shell blue crabs are a Chesapeake Bay delicacy, but you have to do some work cracking the things before you get to enjoy the sweet meat.

>Soft-shell crabs are crabs that have recently molted their exoskeleton, and you can eat the whole thing. They typically are breaded and fried and are very yummy. They're in season from April to mid-September.

>Alaska king crab legs and snow crab legs look intimidating both to cook and to eat, but taste delicious. Then there's the Florida delicacy, stone crab claws.

>Without further ado, here are some interesting facts about crabs

>Crabs are decapods, or crustaceans with 10 limbs. Lobsters, crayfish, prawns and shrimp are other decapods.

>Most crabs have flat bodies that enable them to squeeze into very narrow crevices.

>The largest crab in the world is the giant Japanese Spider Crab, which can measure up to 13 feet across.

>All crabs have claws on their two front legs.

>A crab can use its claws as a vice for crushing or like scissors for cutting. They can also be used like chopsticks to pick up food.

>Crabs live in more different places than any other sea animal. They are found almost everywhere in the ocean, including smoking volcanic vents thousands of feet below the surface. They also live under the ice in Antarctica. One type of crab even lives on land and climbs trees.

>A female crab lays millions of eggs at one time. She carries them underneath her body until the eggs hatch.

>Crabs make up a fifth of all creatures that are caught from bodies of water around the world.

>Crab is very high in vitamin B12. Just 2-3 ounces of crab will supply an adult with the daily B12 requirement.

>Crabs often work together to get food and to protect their families.

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Canada is ignoring its own homeless, and giving homes to Syrians

Recently, Charles Neil-Curly and Jeremy Roy arrived in Vancouver to raise awareness towards the callous attitude of the government and people towards homeless aboriginal men. They did not even have money for their bus tickets, it was paid for by Saskatchewan Ministry of Social Services, which is now facing flak for letting them pull this stunt.

Curly has friends and family in Victoria, where he is headed. Roy, who suffers from mental illness and has never left the province before, said he doesn’t know anyone in Vancouver. They were greeted at the terminal by cameras and some offers of jobs. Kerry Jang, a member of the city council, also greeted them.

Ernie Crey, the president of the Northwest Indigenous Council and ALIVE, an organization dedicated to improving the lives of aboriginal people in Vancouver, said that Canadians should open their hearts to Syrians. But he also said that "internal refugees" or homeless are being ignored. He said, "They're throw-away people. They can damn well look after themselves. And no one's going to be greeting them anywhere to help them do anything."

In 2015, aboriginal people represented 32 per cent of the homeless population as opposed to 2.5 per cent of the city's general population. Nearly three quarters are men. And 81 per cent have one or more health conditions.

Don McTavish, the director of residential services for Victoria's Cool Aid Society, calls the embrace of Syrian refugees "heart warming." But asks, "Why can't we do that for our folks here that are kind of living in refugee-like conditions, in tents in a park that have to be picked up and moved every morning?"

The two Saskatchewan men arrived in Vancouver just as the city released a report on another perennial problem: empty homes. One in 10 Vancouver condos sits vacant.

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INDIA - 10 of 15 cleanest cities are in NDA states

Air pollution kills millions annually, mostly in China, India

More than 5.5 million people die prematurely each year due to air pollution with over half of those deaths occurring in China and India, two of the world's fastest-growing economies, according to a new research.

According to scientists from the US, Canada, China and India, who presented their findings at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) here, conditions caused by air pollution killed 1.6 million people in China and 1.4 million people in India in 2013.

"More than 85 per cent of the world's population lives in areas that exceed the World Health Organisation's 'safe level' of air pollution," Brauer said in a press briefing to announce the findings.

That study analysed health and risk factors such as air pollution that impacted 188 countries between 1990 and 2013.

Scientists warn the early death toll will climb over the next 20 years unless the world does more to fight the problem.

"In Asia, you have countries with very large populations that happen to be heavily polluted. You see trends in India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan where the air quality continues to worsen. In China, maybe things have stabilised, but they are very high," Brauer said.

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The latest cleanliness ranking of cities indicates how states ruled by BJP and its allies are doing much better than those governed by non-NDA parties. The clean cities have not only gone an extra mile to meet the Swachh indices but also focussed on enforcement, which includes imposing penalty on violators.

The Swachh Bharat Survekshan has divided 73 cities under survey into four categories - 15 leaders (cities scoring more than 70% mark), 20 aspiring leaders (scoring 60% to 70%), 18 cities which need acceleration (scoring 50% to 60%) and 20 slow movers (with scores below 50%).

A closer look at the rankings shows how states where BJP and its allies are in power have 10 of the 15 leader cities and in the case of aspiring leaders, they have 11 of the total 20, though their share in total number of cities ranked is less than half.

While 14 cities are in Congress-ruled states, only three of them are in the top two category while 11 are in the last two categories. It's similar even in the case of non-BJP and non-Congress states.

However, there are exceptions such as Mysuru in Congress-ruled Karnataka leading the list as the cleanest city and three cities in the bottom 10 - Dhanbad, Jamshedpur and Kalyan Dombivli - are from BJP-ruled states.

"While every city needs to put greater effort to make them cleaner, state governments have a bigger role since it's up to them how much freedom and power they give to municipal bodies," said a government official.

Representatives of Mysuru and Greater Mumbai told TOI while city managers must focus on creating facilities and implementation there is a need to enforce the rules. "We gave dustbins for people for keeping segregated waste. But later we found many of them were using them for storing food items. Now we have decided not to pick waste until it's segregated at homes," said G C Betsurmath, municipal commissioner of Mysuru.

He added they have collected at least Rs 30,000 as penalties from people caught defecating in open, littering and spitting in public place.

Even additional commissioner of Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation Pallavi Darade said 'clean-up' marshals, who catch people involved in similar offences.

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Mysuru cleanest, Dhanbad dirtiest in survey of cities

While two cities each from Gujarat (Rajkot and Surat) and Maharashtra (Greater Mumbai and Pimpri Chinchwad) are in the 'Top 10' club, a maximum of three cities from Uttar Pradesh - Varanasi, Meerut and Ghazibad - are among the worst 10.Visakhapatnam, Surat, Rajkot and Gangtok improved their ranks to break into the 'Top 10' in this year's survey .

In case of Delhi, South and North Delhi Municipal Corporation improved their ranks from 47 to 39 and 47 to 43 respectively

The last cleanliness ranking of cities done in 2014 before the launch of Swachh Bharat Mission covered 476 cities that have population of above one lakh and results were announced in 2015

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Microsoft reportedly installing Windows 10 without consent – again

Are they seriously trying to piss people off and make people consider alternatives like Linux or OSX for normies?

> We all know that Microsoft is using increasingly aggressive – and desperate – tactics to get people to upgrade to its newest operating system. A month ago it switched the update status from 'optional' to 'recommended', and last week it snuck Windows 10 advertising into a security patch.

> So what dirty trick is next? Well, according to Reddit, it’s installing the OS without user consent – and without much warning – and hiding the decline button to make it much harder to abort the process.

> One Redditor describes the situation like this:

> Yep, went afk and saw this message box that said something like "Your update is ready! Restarting and installing in 13 minutes". If I made myself a meal or watched TV, I would have had Windows 10. Oh, and the best part is how they hid the "Decline" button in the more info button.

> Another user says:

> Yep this happened to me this morning. Working and all of a sudden Windows closed all my programs, logged me out and started the upgrade. I quickly shut down my computer and was able to stop it but my son wasn't so lucky. Same thing happened to him today.

> It is very concerning that they have this kind of access to push these updates without our consent. What else is being pushed through our computers or being pulled off in the background without us knowing?

> It’s likely, of course, that these unwanted installations have happened due to Windows 10 now being a recommended update. If your system is set to install all recommended updates – y’know, for security purposes – then you’ll receive Windows 10.

> If you have been a victim of Microsoft installing an unwanted operating system on your PC, there is good news – you can easily uninstall Windows 10 and go back to Windows 7 or 8.1, provided you act within 30 days.

> You don’t mind wasting your time removing an operating system you never asked for, right?

> Of course, it’s fair to say Microsoft will, at some point, put Windows 10 on your PC again, probably using some other underhand method to sneak it on there.

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German Voters Punish Angela Merkel For Amnesty! /pol/ so happy

German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative CDU party was humiliated in key regional elections on Sunday as voters delivered their verdict at the ballot box about her open-door refugee policies.

Exit poll results in three out of 16 German states foretell a wipeout in next year's general election as the hard-right capitalized on public disquiet and altered the political landscape forever.

Their success was even more prominent in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt where it scored a massive 23 percent.

The elections in Baden-Wuerttemberg - and in the states of Rheinland-Palatinate and Saxony-Anhalt - were billed as a referendum on Merkel's decision to open the country's doors to people fleeing war.

The results pile even more pressure on the embattled chancellor to change course and put a cap on refugees arriving in the country - something she had steadfastly refused to do despite spiralling violence and a surge in support for extremists.

The numbers on the so-called 'Super Sunday' vote crunched on the wrong side of disastrous for her.

'These elections are very important as they will serve as a litmus test for the government's disputed policy' on refugees, said Düsseldorf University political scientist Jens Walther.

Right-wing populism has won new support across the EU in the wake of the refugee crisis, with parties with similar agendas to AfD rising in the polls.

In Sweden, which also has taken in huge numbers of refugees and migrants, the far right Sweden Democrats went from a six per cent support in 2010 general election to steadily polling at 20 per cent support for the past year.

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Refugees cross into Macedonia from Greece after navigating around border fence

Hundreds of refugees from a camp in northern Greece have managed to get around a border fence and cross into Macedonia, according to a Macedonian police spokeswoman. However, a Reuters photographer estimated the number to be closer to 2,000.

>Many of the refugees, who came from a camp near Idomeni, carried children on their shoulders as they crossed the river. (this sentence is >implying)

lolno

Macedonia completely closed its border on March 9, leaving some 13,000 refugees stranded. The move came after Slovenia blocked access to refugees aiming to pass through the country on their way to Western Europe.

EU leaders and Turkey are set to meet on Thursday and Friday to discuss the curbing of illegal refugee flows from Turkey to Europe via Greece. The leaders are expected to seal a deal in which Ankara would take back refugees who arrive in Greece from Turkish shorts, including Syrian refugees.

In return, the European Union would speed up Turkey's EU membership application and Ankara's bid for visa-free access to the bloc for its citizens. The EU is also set to raise the €3 billion (US$3.3 billion) it had already committed to Turkey, in order to help it cope with the refugee crisis.

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Donald Trump: Disappearing middle class needs better deal on trade

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>The American worker is being crushed. Workplace participation for women has declined by more than 3 percentage points since 2000. The percentage of men in their prime working years without a job has nearly tripled since the late 1960s. Median annual household incomes are down more than $4,000 from the beginning of the century.

>The great American middle class is disappearing.

>One of the factors driving this economic devastation is America’s disastrous trade policies. Throughout history, at the center of any thriving country has been a thriving manufacturing sector. But under decades of failed leadership, the United States has gone from being the globe’s manufacturing powerhouse — the envy of the world — through a rapid deindustrialization that has evaporated entire communities.

>The number of jobs and amount of wealth and income the United States have given way in so short a time is staggering, likely unprecedented.

>And the situation is about to get drastically worse if the Trans-Pacific Partnership is not stopped. One of the first casualties of the TPP will be America’s auto industry, and among the worst victims of this pact will be the people of Ohio. The TPP will send America’s remaining auto jobs to Japan. Yet, Gov. John Kasich, Sen. Ted Cruz and Sen. Marco Rubio have all promoted the Trans-Pacific Partnership — a mortal threat to American manufacturing.

>The TPP — a 12-nation pact — includes Vietnam, a country with vastly lower wages than the United States. Since there is a small market for U.S. goods in Vietnam, this will be an almost entirely one-sided arrangement as thousands of U.S. workers are laid off and production shipped to Vietnam instead.

>An Economic Policy Institute (EPI) analysis found that Ohio has already lost more than 100,000 jobs to TPP countries. If the deal is enacted as Kasich has urged, those numbers will skyrocket.

>Overall, since 1997 — driven by NAFTA and China — the U.S. has lost nearly one-third of its manufacturing jobs, EPI analysis shows. We’ve lost over 80,000 factories during that time.

Chicago Cop: Anti-Trump Mob More Aggressive and Destructive than Reported

>The protests launched by militant leftists who shut down Donald Trump’s Chicago rally were far more aggressive and destructive than reported, says a Chicago Police officer.

>“It seems the [media] aren’t broadcasting footage of the debris being thrown across Harrison by Sanders/Hillary supporters at Trump fans,” the officer wrote shortly after the canceled Trump event.

>The officer, who posed anonymously on the Second City Cop blog, also noted the media didn’t report that protesters were running through parking lots and breaking windows of cars with Trump stickers on them, or that the department called out emergency Incident Teams to cope with the anti-Trump riot at the University of Illinois in Chicago.

>Later that same day the officer posted a second, much longer post, to detail the failures of the police leaders to plan for and respond to the protests.

>The officer insisted there was “pretty much zero in terms of a unified Command Post” for the event, and that officers had no central command to report to or coordinate response from.

>“Who wrote this plan?” the officer wrote. “We’ve seen and heard reports that UIC was woefully unprepared for this. They had their own people and Monterey Security inside. The Secret Service had a presence, but they’re restricted to dignitary protection. The ISP had a squad there. And CPD. So where were the people geared up for a riot? For NATO we had an entire strike force geared up and ready to go. We had the Mounted Unit up and running. Tens of dozens of bikes. Did no one see this coming?”

>The officer went on to insist that suddenly emptying the pavilion of Trump fans and “putting a few thousand people out on the street as targets” was a terrible decision. This decision led to many unnecessary confrontations between Trump fans and the anarchist protesters, the officer said. It also led to unnecessary property damage, the officer said.

>Next came a long list of questions:

Why they didn't see this coming is hard to fathom. Surely the FBI was aware of the build up and plan originating with moveon.org and could have alerted the Chitown PD

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World's Thinnest Lens Will Make Spy Flies In Locker Rooms Reality

>The world’s thinnest lens has been created—and it’s just 1/2000th the width of a human hair. What could a lens that thin possibly do? Well, it’s set to pave the way for the production of flexible computer displays and possibly, miniature cameras.

>According to the lead researcher behind the project, Dr. Yuerui (Larry) Lu from The Australian National University (ANU), it could allow us to see like bugs: “This type of material is the perfect candidate for future flexible displays. We will also be able to use arrays of micro lenses to mimic the compound eyes of insects.”

>The discovery was based on the molybdenum disulphide crystal.

>The crystal used in the material is quite remarkable. It is known to survive remarkably high temperatures; it can be used as a lubricant; it is an ideal semiconductor; and it is capable of emitting photons.

>Single layers of the crystal, around 0.7 nanometers, demonstrated impressive optical properties, which could light a beam 50 times thicker at 38 nanometers (this is known as optical path length).

>In addition, the refractive index of the molybdenum has a value of 5.5. For comparison, a diamond ranks up to 2.4 while water’s refractive index is at 1.3.

>Summing the work, Dr. Lu notes, “The capability of manipulating the flow of light in atomic scale opens an exciting avenue towards unprecedented miniaturisation of optical components and the integration of advanced optical functionalities.”

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Italian city to limit 'ethnic eateries' after explosion in kebab shops

Italian city passes ruling limiting the number of "ethnic food" restaurants in the historic centre, saying it is concerned about protecting its cultural and culinary heritage in the wake of a boom in kebab shops.

The northern Italian city famed for its slowly simmered red-wine risotto is fed up with kebabs and fried fast food.

A ruling came into effect in the city of Verona this week prohibiting the openings of any new restaurants offering mostly "ethnic" or deep-fried food.

“Thanks to this provision there will be no more openings of establishments that sell food prepared in a way that could impact the decorum of our city,” said Verona Mayor Flavio Tosi, who was elected as an independent after breaking from the far-right Northern League party he adhered to for years.

“This protects not only our historic and architectural patrimony of the city centre, but also the tradition of typical culture of the Verona territory.”

In the land of creamy cheese-smothered polenta and slow-cooked duck ragu, Middle Eastern kebabs, Greek gyros and take-away deep fried food typical of southern Italy are the unwelcome newcomers, an apparent culinary stain on the Verona’s cultural heritage.

Shakespeare set the story of star-crossed lovers Romeo and Juliet here in this quaint and romantic city, which boasts a stunning Roman amphitheater and 2,000 years of history, hence its designation on the UNESCO World Heritage List.

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First the Japs Then Come the Chinks! Chinese Buying Up US Hotels!

Japanese began buying trophy properties like Rockefeller Center in the late 1980s, there was an intense reaction.

David Letterman began his show one evening with the announcer saying, “From New York, a subsidiary of Mitsubishi, it’s ‘Late Night with David Letterman.’ ” A New York Times Op-Ed was titled, “An Economic Pearl Harbor?”

Even Donald J. Trump got in on the act: “Bidding on a building in New York is an act of futility, because the Japanese will pay more than it’s worth just to screw us,” he told Playboy in 1990. “They want to own Manhattan.”

A quarter-century later, it is China’s turn.

On Monday, in a head-turning series of deals, a Chinese insurance company that just over a year ago purchased the Waldorf Astoria, bought $6.5 billion of properties from the Blackstone Group and made a $12.8 billion offer to buy Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide.

The collection of brands — Sheraton, Westin, W Hotels, St. Regis — is remarkable. Properties include the Essex House on Central Park South; the Hotel del Coronado near San Diego, where “Some Like it Hot” was filmed; the Ritz-Carlton, Laguna Niguel and a smattering of Four Seasons and Fairmont properties.

When the insurer, Anbang, purchased the Waldorf in 2015, there was concern that the historic hotel — where the United States ambassador to the United Nations resides — had fallen into the hands of a Chinese company. President Obama, who used to routinely stay at the Waldorf as United States presidents had done since 1947, switched hotels the next time he stayed overnight in Manhattan. The White House was said to be worried that the Chinese could have planted surveillance. (Mr. Obama stayed at the Millennium One UN New York and on a subsequent trip stayed at the Palace Hotel, which is owned by a South Korean company.)

Should there be concern over Anbang’s aggressive real estate push? And will the deals become part of the debate raging during the presidential campaign about foreigners taking American jobs and buying up assets here?

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Virginia Lawmakers Override Veto, Permitless Carry Becomes Law In 90 Days!

On March 4, the West Virginia House voted to override Governor Earl Ray Tomblin’s (D) veto of permitless carry legislation and on Saturday, March 5, the West Virginia Senate followed suit.

When Tomblin vetoed the legislation – House Bill 4145 – he released the following statement:

>West Virginia’s law enforcement officers have dedicated their lives to keeping us safe and helping us in times of need, and it’s disheartening that the members of the Legislature have chosen not to stand with these brave men and women – putting their safety and the safety of West Virginians at risk. It’s unfortunate that the concerns of officers from every law enforcement branch in the state, including the West Virginia State Police and university campus police officers, have been ignored by today’s action.

But lawmakers who view the requirement of a concealed carry license as a burden on the exercise of Second Amendment rights saw things differently. WSAZ 3 reports that the Senate override the veto by a vote of 23-11.

The override means persons 21-year-old or older who are not barred from gun possession will be able to carry a gun without permit and persons 18-20 years of age will be able to get a concealed carry permit to carry a gun.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GE0k9J0wRA

Permitless concealed carry “now becomes law in 90 days.”

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Nano-sized particles cure final-stage breast cancer in mice – New breakthrough study

Nanotechnology has helped scientists cure mice which have breast cancer in its terminal stage. The study could be a turning point in treating the disease with clinical trials on human patients expected to be conducted as early as next year.

“I would never want to over-promise to the thousands of patients looking for a cure but the data is astounding,” Mauro Ferrari, president of the Houston Methodist Research Institute in Texas and a co-senior author of the paper said in the press release published by the Houston Methodist leading medicine website.

The study, conducted by a team of researchers from Houston Methodist Research Institute, was published in the journal Nature Biotechnology.

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Functional human heart tissue grown from skin cells for first time in history

The need for heart transplants will always exceed the number of donor hearts available for transplant. Thanks to research just out from Massachusetts General Hospital, though, this may not continue to be a problem for much longer. Researchers there have just succeeded in growing fully contractile heart tissue by recellularizing a collagen scaffold, and they’re hoping to refine the method so that it can be used as a “functional myocardial patch” for cardiac injuries.

For this particular study, the team used mRNA to convince skin cells to step backwards, reprogramming them first into pluripotent stem cells and then into cardiac muscle cells in culture. (Remember when we didn’t even know if we *could* reprogram cells into stem cells and not just have that create turbo-cancer?) Then they carefully seeded about half a billion of the new cardiomyocytes into the left ventricular wall of decellularized hearts. After incubating for two weeks, the researchers found immature but contractile heart muscle. Not just disparate cells stuck to bits of collagen. Electrically responsive heart tissue.

It’s not a whole, functioning human heart, but the researchers aren’t daunted; they didn’t set out to build a whole heart. “Regenerating a whole heart is most certainly a long-term goal that is several years away, so we are currently working on engineering a functional myocardial patch that could replace cardiac tissue damaged due a heart attack or heart failure,” said Jacques Guyette, PhD, lead author of the report. “Among the next steps that we are pursuing are improving methods to generate even more cardiac cells – recellularizing a whole heart would take tens of billions – optimizing bioreactor-based culture techniques to improve the maturation and function of engineered cardiac tissue, and electronically integrating regenerated tissue to function within the recipient’s heart.”

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America's First Trillion Dollar Bureaucracy

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is America’s first $1 trillion bureaucracy. HHS will spend $1.1 trillion in 2016, which is one $1 million repeated one million times.

>The department spends more than $8,800 a year for every household in the United States.

>It runs 528 different subsidy programs for state and local governments, businesses, and individuals.

>The largest HHS subsidy program is Medicare at $589 billion in 2016, followed by Medicaid at $367 billion.

>HHS has 73,000 employees.

>Real, or inflation-adjusted, HHS spending has exploded ten-fold since 1970, as shown in the chart below.

>At the 1965 signing ceremony for Medicare, President Lyndon Johnson said “No longer will young families see their own incomes, and their own hopes, eaten away simply because they are carrying out their deep moral obligations to their parents.” But since there is no Santa Claus, that is exactly what is happening today as government health spending is imposing huge debt burdens on young families.

>HHS programs have huge fraud and abuse, which costs taxpayers tens of billions of dollars a year. The programs also distort the health care industry in serious ways because of their top-down structure and masses of regulations. The way to fix the mess is to slash federal spending and move toward a consumer-directed health care system.

>By the next president’s fourth budget, annual HHS spending will have grown another $300 billion or so to $1.4 trillion. That is another $300 billion the government will have to borrow from Wall Street, China, and other places that presidential candidates are abusing on the campaign trail.

>Along with exploding Social Security spending, rising HHS spending is not making America great again, but pushing us into a financial crisis. What are the candidates proposing to do about it? absolutely nothing because democracy is a failed invention. Read Public Choice Theory and google "Voluntaryism"

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India - Pregnancy, Nature's Fury, Social Upheavals

Breastfeeding can cut child deaths, save Rs 4k crore per year

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The Lancet study found that cognitive losses associated with "not'' breastfeeding, which impact earning potential, amount to $302 billion worldwide annually. Extensive marketing by formula makers remains a big barrier to increase the number of breastfed children. Low and middle-income countries lose more than $70 billion annually, while high-income countries lose more than $230 billion annually due to low rates of breastfeeding.

The health benefits extend to the mother as well, with reductions in risk of breast and ovarian cancer. Based on all the existing research and according to new estimates created for this report, rise in breastfeeding could prevent extra 20,000 deaths from breast cancer each year globally. For India, considering the 7% protection provided by breastfeeding, it translates to preventing 4,915 deaths annually out of 70,000 deaths that occur now.

India has estimated obesity of 20% and breastfeeding provides 26% protection. Increasing breastfeeding could therefore provide 5.2 % reduction in obesity. This could be a useful addition to the effort towards control of non-communicable diseases.

India has a national law - Infant Milk Substitutes Feeding Bottles, and Infant Foods (Regulation of Production, Supply and Distribution) Act - that has placed restrictions on sales of milk substitutes. However, there has been very little awareness created on the benefits of breastfeeding over the years.

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Sex ratio worsens in small families, improves with 3 or more children

This, says Kulkarni, indicates a strengthening of the mentality of son preference that is driving the whole calculus.

Sex-selective abortions, with all the legal fencing, are still prevalent and may be used to determine the first and especially second births. The overall sex ratio is primarily affected by such illegal practices and not by sex selective stopping. The Census data also gives the number of surviving children for each type of family. This throws up an unexpected finding - the gap between survival rates of boys and girls is closing.

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The importance of being amorous: Why Valentine's Day, kissing and PDA mean revolution in India

More young Indians are realising it's ok to love and live - and more young Indians are asking why it's not ok to let live. That is possibly, despite chubby teddies and weird perfume, the greatest gift of Valuntyne Day.

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Centre okays Rs 4,000 crore for 7 drought-hit states

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India third most disaster prone in 2015: UN report

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Anti-protest laws giving police greater powers pass NSW parliament

Trespassing anti-coal seam gas advocates face heavier fines and greater jail sentences with tough new anti-protest laws passing through NSW parliament.

With the support of the Shooters and Fishers party and Christian Democrat Fred Nile, the controversial legislation was passed 20-16 in the upper house on Wednesday after minor amendments to the original proposal.

The bill gives police greater powers to search without a warrant, seize items and move protesters on, while fines for illegal entry to mining and CSG sites have increased tenfold from $550 to $5500.

Anti-CSG protesters who interfere with gas sites – including those who chain themselves to machinery – will also be exposed to a maximum jail sentence of seven years.

NSW anti-protest laws an attack on democracy, say legal experts

The Greens MP Jeremy Buckingham, who along with Labor voted against the legislation, condemned the changes as a “jackboot police crackdown on democratic rights”.

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Brazilian cities rocked by vast anti-government protests

How many know of what has been happening in HUEland?

>OP's commentary on the current state of his country

The current party in power has driven the country into stagflation, through tightening of control in many sectors of economy, inflation of it's currency, and palin old stealing from public coffers.

The Worker's Party (PT, for the portuguese acronym) has managed to stay in power for 13-14 years, through populist measures and dubious election results (read, fraud), the most recent election still leaving a bad taste for it's many out of protocol measures, backed by the party's sect of useful idiots.

Now, the biggest public movement EVER RECORDED on brasilian history broke out, and people in power are calling it a coup. A coup!

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Scientists Developing Mind Control Devices- Unironically Use Magnets

Researchers have created a hybrid gene called Magneto, which can trigger brain circuitry and has an influence on behavior in mice.

>Scientists have been able to show that rodents’ brains respond to magnetic fields…which means that specific brain circuits can be remotely controlled with just magnets. Biomedical scientist Ali Güler of the University of Virginia said: “This is, to our knowledge, the first demonstration of bona fide magnetic control of the nervous system.”

>Scientists have shown that the nervous system responds to different forms of stimuli (like optogenetics and chemogenetics), but these involve a host of problems. In short, in the aforementioned methods, both of the stimuli (light and drugs, respectively) have a hard time making it through to the brain. We do not see this problem with the latest advancement.

>Using magnetic fields to pull the strings of the brain, the team created an ion channel that can be responsive to magnets. They took an ion channel called TRPV4, which responds to mechanical pressure, and fused its gene that of ferritin, an iron-hoarding protein that responds to external magnets.

>With that they created the hybrid protein known as ‘Magneto.’ Magneto has proven to be responsive to magnetic fields in cells. When a magnet is brought near cells that carry Magneto, the hybrid opens the ion channel causing a series of events that lead to brain signals firing off.

>This is a major breakthrough, as scientists have long been looking for ways to control brain circuitry without any serious ‘bumps,’ and magnetic fields seem to present that option.

>Before testing on mice, Güler and his team tested on zebrafish, which are considered a model organism for brain development. The zebrafish test showed that the Magneto could affect complex behaviors.

>The test on mice involved making Magneto active in dopamine-responsive cells, allowing the team to charm the mice using magnetic fields. Güler and his team look to continue developing the method, saying that it will “position the field to better understand neural development, function and pathology.”

>Their findings have been published in the journal Nature Neuroscience.

>Cat Girls will likely have this technology implemented to keep them docile and in control

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Rare hermit crab found at Falmouth's Castle Beach

>A rare type of hermit crab has been rediscovered at a beach in Falmouth after a 30 year absence.

>The tiny crab, known only as clibanarius erythropus, has not been recorded in Cornish waters since 1985.

>It is a species found in warmer waters but can be found in the channel islands and along the French coast, according to Cornwall Wildlife Trust.

>The find at Castle Beach was made by an amateur photographer who was taking part in a survey run by the trust.

>More on this story and other news from Devon and Cornwall

>Local marine experts said the ten-legged crustacean was occasionally found on the south coast of Cornwall but since the Torrey Canyon oil spill in 1967 it had "virtually disappeared" from Cornish shores.

>They believe the discovery shows Cornwall's marine life may now have fully recovered from the environmental disaster.

>Clibanarius erythropus is from the Latin meaning soldier, clad in mail with red legs.

>Finding the tiny crab was "the icing on the cake" during a fruitful rockpooling survey, Matt Slater, marine awareness officer for Cornwall Wildlife Trust, said.

>"Spectacularly low tides and stunning weather provided a unique view of Cornwall's fabulous coastline exposing sections of the shore which you would normally only see with a snorkel.

>"We were all really excited by the find. Its scientific name is a bit of a mouthful so if anyone can think of a good name for the crab we would appreciate suggestions."

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Anti-Trump Groups Threaten ‘Largest Civil Disobedience Action of the Century'

With little fanfare and almost no news media attention, some of the same radical groups involved in shutting down Donald Trump’s Chicago rally last week are plotting a mass civil disobedience movement to begin next month.

They intend to march across the East Coast in order to spark a “fire that transforms the political climate in America.”

The operation, calling itself Democracy Spring, is threatening “drama in Washington” with the “largest civil disobedience action of the century.” The radicals believe this will result in the arrest of thousands of their own activists.

“We will demand that Congress listen to the People and take immediate action to save our democracy. And we won’t leave until they do — or until they send thousands of us to jail,” the website for Democracy Spring declares, channeling rhetoric from the Occupy movement.

Commies are planning a massive chimpout over Trump.

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Muslims protest bill to protect women in Pakistan

Claim it will increase the divorce rate and destroy the country's traditional family system.

More than 30 Pakistani religious groups are threatening to launch protests if a bill to protect women in Punjab province is not withdrawn.

The present law introduces women as complaint takers and enforcers. The Punjab Protection of Women Against Violence Act 2015 seeks to set up a women's force at district level throughout the province, which would respond to women's complaints of physical, financial or psychological abuse.

Offences include domestic violence, sexual violence, psychological and emotional abuse, economic abuse, stalking and cybercrime.

The law also envisages the setting up of a universal, toll-free dial-in telephone number for women to call if they want to report an abuse. It empowers the women protection officers to enter any premises to recover women held captive.

However, in the event of a breach of court orders with respect to the female's right to protection, residence or financial wellbeing, the offending male can be punished with one to two years in jail, and a fine of between 200,000 to 500,000 rupees (£1,350-3,400; $1,900-4,800).

On Tuesday more than 30 religious groups, including all the mainstream Islamic political parties, got together in Islamabad to condemn the law and to warn the Punjab government to withdraw it by 27 March. If not, they have threatened to launch protests.

One leader said these could be worse than those in 1977 - a reference to a religious movement which culminated in a military coup against Pakistan's first popularly elected government.

Pakistan, No?

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Jewish leaders plan boycott of Donald Trump at AIPAC

Several groups of rabbis and Jewish religious leaders are planning to protest Donald Trump's speech to a major pro-Israel conference in Washington on Monday, accusing the presidential candidate of encouraging hatred.

Trump is scheduled to address the American Israel Public Affairs Committee conference Monday night, and several groups are organizing boycotts of the speech.

Rabbis David Paskin and Jesse Olitzky organized one such campaign, called Come Together Against Hate, a play on the conference's theme of "Come Together."

The pair and their allies have created a website and Facebook group to organize a protest that they say is not designed to disrupt AIPAC but to signal their condemnation of Trump.

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Ethicists approve ‘3 parent’ embryos to stop diseases, but congressional ban remains

An elite panel of scientists and bioethicists offered guarded approval Wednesday of a novel form of genetic engineering that could prevent congenital diseases but would result in babies with genetic material from three parents.

The committee, which was convened last year at the request of the Food and Drug Administration, concluded that it is ethically permissible to “go forward, but with caution” with mitochondrial replacement techniques (MRT), said the chairman, Jeffrey Kahn, a bioethicist at Johns Hopkins ­University.

But the advisory panel’s conclusions have slammed into a congressional ban: The omnibus fiscal 2016 budget bill passed by Congress late last year contained language prohibiting the government from using any funds to handle applications for experiments that genetically alter human embryos.

Thus the green light from the scientists and ethicists won't translate anytime soon into clinical applications that could potentially help families that want healthy babies, said Shoukhrat Mitalipov, a pioneer of the new technique at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, Ore.

“It seems like the FDA is disabled in this case by Congress," Mitalipov said. “At this point we’re still not clear how to proceed."

The FDA released a statement Wednesday saying it will carefully review the report from the advisory committee, but added that the congressional ban prohibits the agency from reviewing applications "in which a human embryo is intentionally created or modified to include a heritable genetic modification. As such, human subject research utilizing genetic modification of embryos for the prevention of transmission of mitochondrial disease cannot be performed in the United States in FY 2016."

MRT should be used rarely, with extreme care and with abundant government oversight, and it initially should be applied only to male embryos, the advisory panel said.

The report comes at a time of dazzling advances in genetic engineering and a commensurate struggle to understand the ethics of “playing God,” a phrase uttered twice Wednesday by committee member R. Alta Charo, a professor of law and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin.

Two months ago, scientists from around the globe gathered in the same building to hash out guidelines for the use of another revolutionary technique, known as CRISPR, which can be used to efficiently edit nuclear DNA genes. Earlier this week,

British officials approved publicly funded research that will use CRISPR to study the development of early-stage human embryos, but the embryos will not be implanted in women.

The FDA last year asked the Institute of Medicine, now part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, to review the ethical implications of MRT because it would result in what has been loosely referred to as “three-parent babies.” British officials have already approved investigatory experiments involving the technique.

[One year ago, the UK voted yes on 'three-parent' babies]

Nuclear DNA is by far the more significant form of genetic material for determining most human characteristics. As the committee put it, “While mtDNA plays a central role in genetic ancestry, traits that are carried in nDNA are those that in the public understanding constitute the core of genetic relatedness in terms of physical and behavioral characteristics as well as most forms of disease.”

As a result, modifying mtDNA “is meaningfully different.”

But panel members said that they took the philosophical issues seriously, noting that someone with genetic material from two different maternal bloodlines would potentially have to wrestle with questions about identity, kinship and ancestry.

They also countenanced the possibility that people would want to use this new technique to create babies that are enhanced in some way intellectually or physically. They said that is not a major concern at the moment because the feasibility of such enhancements remains speculative.

RACE DOES NOT EXIST

" But ancestry based on genes does "

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Carl’s Jr CEO wants to replace all human workers with robots

Looks like the little guy can teach a global fast food conglomerate a thing or two about running a restaurant

>Eatsa, the mostly automated healthy, fast food bowl shop based in San Francisco, has inspired the CEO of Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s to rethink the traditional workforce—by replacing all humans with robots.

>"I want to try it," CEO Andy Puzder told Business Insider. "We could have a restaurant that's focused on all-natural products and is much like an Eatsa, where you order on a kiosk, you pay with a credit or debit card, your order pops up, and you never see a person."

>The move could help the fast food giant cope with rising minimum wages across the country.

>"With government driving up the cost of labor, it's driving down the number of jobs," he says, predicting the automation trend will likely extend beyond the restaurant industry. "You're going to see automation not just in airports and grocery stores, but in restaurants."

>The outspoken critic of raising the minimum wage has said it could lead to reduced employment opportunities across the board and stagnated growth for his industry.

>If the minimum wage is raised, argues Puzder, more companies like CKE foods which owns Hardee’s and Carl’s Jr will look to automate faster— which could further decimate jobs.

>"If you're making labor more expensive, and automation less expensive — this is not rocket science," says Puzder.

>The CEO acknowledges that it may be some time before Carl’s Jr is people-free as it would take a pretty sophisticated machine to handle all the nuances of their kitchen. Even at Eatsa, while the ordering process is 100 devoid of any pesky human interaction, live workers behind the scenes still assemble bowls.

>But Puzder says he sees automation fulfilling “rote tasks like grilling a burger or taking an order”—areas in which a robot would probably be more precise than a human.

>And while older customers may take some time to adapt to interacting with a faceless platform, Puzder says the coveted millennial market actually prefers as little social interaction as possible when it comes to ordering food.

>"Millennials like not seeing people," said the CEO. "I've been inside restaurants where we've installed ordering kiosks … and I've actually seen young people waiting in line to use the kiosk where there's a person standing behind the counter, waiting on nobody."

tl;dr- Based CEO of third best fast food chain after chic-fil-a and whattaburger promises to make robowaifu burgers a reality

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Cow rights activist commits suicide in protest

More rights demanded for holy cow

Eight Hindu cow rights activists drank pesticide as part of a protest in India calling for the animals to be given greater protection, with one protester dying of his injuries, police said.

The "gau bhakt", or cow worshippers, consumed the poison at a rally outside a government office in western Gujarat state on Thursday (March 17).

They were protesting at what they say is the ongoing slaughter of cows, considered sacred by India's large Hindu population, despite a widespread ban on killing the animals.

The investigating office Manish Nakum said he did not believe the men, who drank a mild pesticide used on cotton plants, intended to commit suicide.

Cow slaughter and the consumption of beef are banned in Gujarat and several other states in officially secular India. But the activists claim cows are still being killed illegally and want cows to be given the special status of "rashtra mata" ("mother of the nation").

Around 80 per cent of India's 1.2 billion population is Hindu, but it is also home to large numbers of Muslims, Christians and Buddhists.

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