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Denmark passes law requiring new citizens to SHAKE HANDS at naturalization ceremony

Ross Ibbetson
Daily Mail
Thu, 20 Dec 2018 18:25 UTC

Comment: That this even became an issue requiring legislation is due to a couple of high-profile incidents where Muslim migrants refused to shake hands with government officials at photo-ops welcoming them as Danish citizens. This farcical situation would never have arisen if all prospective citizens were led to understand that if they want to move to Europe at all, they must INTEGRATE with their new culture, not wholly import their own. Absolute madness...


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Thousands of people protested in Aarhus, Denmark over the summer in defiance of the Danish Government's face veil ban brought in on August 1
Denmark has passed a law requiring any new citizens to shake hands at their naturalization ceremony.

Critics say the new legislation targets Muslims, who may be reluctant to touch members of the opposite sex for religious reasons.

Some of the mayors who are expected to take part in the ceremonies have complained that the new law signed on Thursday uses them against the populace.

Denmark brought in a face veil ban on August 1 which drew massive protests from Muslim women and human rights groups.

It was decided over the summer that new citizens should take part in a ceremony where they sign a declaration pledging their belief in Danish values.
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Blue Planet

Turkey and Russia pushing forward to a resolution in Syria

Tom Luongo
The Strategic Culture Foundation
Wed, 19 Dec 2018 17:13 UTC
Purtin Erdogan
© Agence France-PresseTurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (R) and Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) address a joint press conference following their meeting at the Presidential Complex in Ankara on September 28, 2017.
Turkish-US relations are terrible and deteriorating by the day despite bromides to the contrary. Actions speak louder than words. And that has been all President Trump seems capable of anymore, words not actions.

Since the beginning of l'affair Khashoggi Turkey has been extracting concession after concession from the US as the Trump administration tries to salvage its soon-to-be-unveiled Middle East peace plan.

The latest concession may be the biggest. There's a report out now that the Trump administration is readying the extradition of cleric Fethullah Gulen, who President Erdogan believes was behind the coup attempt against him in July of 2016.
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Broom

The possible impact of America's withdrawal from Syria


Adam Garrie
Wed, 19 Dec 2018 12:00 UTC
US Syria
Now that the Pentagon has confirmed that the US will in fact withdraw its troops from Syria, here are the implications of the pull-out for other parties to the ongoing conflict in Syria.

Israel

Beyond a shadow of a doubt, Israel stands to lose the most from a comprehensive US withdrawal from Syria. As it became ever clearer that the Assad government was going to remain in power in Damascus, Israeli officials up to and including Premier Benjamin Netanyahu lent ever more support towards the provocative cause of forming a Kurdish ethno-statelet in the parts of north-eastern Syria occupied by US forces. Israel's strategic rationale for such a move was clear enough. While Israel ideally wanted the anti-Zionist Assad replaced by a weaker or more pro-western leader, once such an ambition became untenable, Tel Aviv began aiming for a plan to box Assad in between the illegally occupied Golan Heights in south-western Syria and a would-be Kurdish ethno-statelet in north-eastern Syrian territory.

As Israel's relations with Turkey continued to deteriorate ever more over the last year, Israeli officials and pro-Netanyahu agitators became ever more explicit in their calls for a Kurdish ethno-statelet on legally recognised Syrian soil. As not a single state in the region supported such a move, the only hope that Tel Aviv ever had in respect of creating a "second Israel", would have been for Israeli leaders to convince the US that creating a "second Israel" on Syrian soil was somehow a cause worth risking a split in the NATO alliance for. As Turkey's army is the second largest in NATO after that of the United States, it goes without saying that if the US set up such a "second Israel" relations with Turkey would have been broken beyond repair.

Comment: It remains to be seen whether Trump will be entirely successful in his withdrawal of American chaos creation in Syria. Or whether Israel, its partner in crime, will allow it to happen without lashing out. But regardless of any insidious moves the deep state attempts in reaction to this announcement, it is notable that Trump dared to even announce it all - even if this is the second time he's said it!: Also check out SOTT radio's:

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Bizarro Earth

US Senators congratulate themselves after approving bill that makes LYNCHING federal crime (yes, it's 2018)


CNN
Thu, 20 Dec 2018 17:09 UTC
US Senate
The Senate approved a bill on Wednesday that would make lynching a federal crime after more than a century of such attempts to outlaw the act.

The Justice for Victims of Lynching Act, which passed unanimously, was introduced earlier this year by the chamber's three African-American senators: California Democratic Sen. Kamala Harris, New Jersey Democratic Sen. Cory Booker and South Carolina Republican Sen. Tim Scott.

The proposal outlines the specific act of lynching -- a mob killing without legal authority -- and would add lynching to the federal list of hate crimes. Harris touted the vote on Twitter, calling the moment "history."


Comment: Uhm, isn't this, like, 100+ years late??

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Attention

Propaganda alert! US, UK accuse China of waging commercial hacking campaign

Patrick Wintour
The Guardian
Thu, 20 Dec 2018 16:55 UTC
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© Sputnik / Kirill Kalinnikov
The US and UK have taken the unprecedented step of accusing hackers linked to the Chinese government of waging a sustained cyber-campaign focused on large-scale theft of commercial intellectual property.

Two Chinese nationals were charged in the US in relation to a campaign across Europe, Asia and the US that breached Chinese bilateral and international commitments, American prosecutors said.

A US indictment unsealed on Thursday in unison with a series of British statements accused Chinese hackers of obtaining unauthorised access to the computers of at least 45 entities, including commercial and defence technology companies and US government agencies such as Nasa and the US navy.

Comment: Where's the evidence these nationals are connected to the Chinese government? As usual it's just another baseless accusation as a part of the West's propaganda campaign against the rising power of China. Beijing doesn't need to employ these alleged 'illegal methods' to 'replace the US as the world's leading superpower'. The US has already made its bed and has only itself to blame.

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Red Flag

President Xi: No one will dictate what China will or will not do


Bloomberg
Tue, 18 Dec 2018 18:23 UTC
Xi Jinping
© Wang Zhao/AFP via Getty ImagesXi Jinping on Dec. 18.
President Xi Jinping said China would stick to its policy agenda, despite pressure from the U.S. and others to allow more competition in its economic system and reduce support for state industry.

Xi told an audience of party officials, military leaders and entrepreneurs in a speech Tuesday that "no one is in the position to dictate to the Chinese people what should and should not be done." The 80-minute address in Beijing was held to mark the 40th anniversary of the Reform and Opening Up campaign that unleashed the country's economic boom under then leader Deng Xiaoping.

In remarks that ranged from the economy to the environment to Taiwan and the South China Sea, Xi presented his agenda as the logical outcome of the country's post-1978 "reform era" and Chinese history more broadly. He reasserted his contention that the country had entered a "new era" under his leadership and was poised for a bigger role in world affairs.
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Cookies

UN chief defends plan to push tens of millions of migrants into foreign countries: 'Migration powerful driver of economic growth'


RT
Wed, 19 Dec 2018 11:05 UTC
Morocco migrants
© ReutersAfrican migrants climb the border from Morocco to Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta
The number of international migrants worldwide has continued to grow rapidly in recent years, according to statistics from the United Nations (UN). It has reached 258 million last year, up from 220 million in 2010.

Human migration is "a powerful driver of economic growth, dynamism and understanding," said UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday in his message commemorating the International Migrants Day.


Comment: Sounds like the UN chief is living in a globalist bubble: Poll: 89% say multiculturalism has failed in Bradford, UK


According to Guterres, migration "allows millions to seek new opportunities that benefit communities of origin and destination alike." He said that "when poorly regulated, migration can intensify divisions within and between societies, expose people to exploitation and abuse, and undermine faith in government."

Comment: If it were true that mass migration boosts economic growth (it isn't), why are European economies, which have been undergoing uncontrolled mass migration for years, tanking? Also check out SOTT radio's:

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Chess

Russia, Iran & Turkey report progress towards new Syria constitution body

Jamey Keaten
Fox News
Thu, 20 Dec 2018 11:01 UTC
Mohammad Javad Zarif Sergei Lavrov Mevlut Cavusoglu Iran Turkey Russia Syria
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, left, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, center, and Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, right, shakes hands after a joint statement following the consultations on Syria, at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2018.
The foreign ministers of Russia, Iran and Turkey agreed Tuesday to facilitate convening the first session of a committee to draft a new Syrian constitution early next year, saying they hoped it will lead to the launch of a "viable and lasting" peace process.

In a joint statement read out by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, they said the work of the committee should be governed by a "sense of compromise and constructive engagement."

But U.N. Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura said "there is an extra mile to go in the marathon effort" to ensure a credible, balanced and inclusive constitutional committee. He refused to elaborate in his comments to reporters in Geneva following the meeting.
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Dollar

US promises a $10.6B aid package to Mexico & Central America, but still no deal on asylum seekers

Tracy Wilkinson and Patrick J. McDonnell
Los Angeles Times
Thu, 20 Dec 2018 11:01 UTC
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© Guillermo Arias / AFP/Getty ImagesCentral American migrants, many with young children, who traveled in a group to the Mexico-U.S. border gather at the entrance of a temporary shelter in downtown Tijuana on Monday.
The United States on Tuesday announced it was adding billions of dollars to an ambitious Mexican development project for that country's southern region and Central America as a way to deter migration.

But neither Washington nor Mexico City announced any headway in the Trump administration's goal of keeping Central American asylum seekers in Mexico and out of the United States.

In simultaneous announcements in the U.S. and Mexican capitals, the U.S. State Department and Mexican Foreign Secretary Marcelo Ebrard said the United States has committed to $5.8 billion in public and private money for Central America and an additional $2 billion for southern Mexico.
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Stop

Nikki Haley thinks Mohammed bin Salman should 'ditch his thuggish nature'

Tim Rogan
Washington Examiner
Thu, 20 Dec 2018 11:01 UTC
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Before pointing the finger at Russia and Syria, the U.S. should answer for its own record
In a gaggle with a small group of journalists on Tuesday, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley told me that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has been "careless at times" and "has to lose the thuggish nature in which he has been acting."

Haley's robust comments go further than other Trump administration officials, most notably President Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. But perhaps recognizing that the young prince will likely still be around if she pursues higher office in the future, Haley was also calibrated in her assessment.

When I asked her for her view of the prince, she noted, "That's an interesting question," and paused for a few seconds before answering. But then Haley cut to the crux of the issue most in the news at present, the crown prince's culpability in the murder of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi. "First and foremost," Haley said "[the crown prince] owes us some accountability for what happened to Khashoggi. Without question."
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