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Is red the new white? Daft celebrities and media compare MAGA hat to KKK hood

RT
Fri, 25 Jan 2019 16:07 UTC

As footage of the standoff between teenagers and a Native American once again polarized the US, several commentators and celebrities compared the Trump supporters' red hat to the KKK hood, and thus, to the roots of all evil.

"The red MAGA hat is the new white hood," tweeted actress Alyssa Milano in response to the video of a confrontation between a MAGA hat-wearing teenager and a Native American elder.

Milano was joined by commentator Angela Rye during a segment on Chris Cuomo's show. She called the 'Make America Great Again' hat as "maddening and frustrating and triggering" to look at "as a KKK hood."

Comment: The extreme left has gone off the rails and even being faced with reality doesn't change their course. The problem is the extreme has clearly entered the mainstream.

AP-NORC poll says 6 in 10 Americans blame Trump for government shutdown

Steve Peoples, Emily Swanson
Associated Press
Fri, 25 Jan 2019 04:54 UTC

A strong majority of Americans blame President Donald Trump for the record-long government shutdown and reject his primary rationale for a border wall, according to a new poll that shows the turmoil in Washington is dragging his approval rating to its lowest level in more than a year.

Overall, 34 percent of Americans approve of Trump's job performance in a survey conducted by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. That's down from 42 percent a month earlier and nears the lowest mark of his two-year presidency. The president's approval among Republicans remains close to 80 percent, but his standing with independents is among its lowest points of his time in office.

"Trump is responsible for this," said poll respondent Lloyd Rabalais, a federal contractor from Slidell, Louisiana, who's not affiliated with either political party.

'It's about our honor': Russian athletes file $4.5mn lawsuit against author of report on alleged 'Russian doping'

RT
Fri, 25 Jan 2019 14:35 UTC

Members of the Russian national rowing team have filed a lawsuit against Canadian lawyer Richard McLaren, the author of the WADA-sanctioned report on alleged Russian doping, seeking compensation for their "damaged reputation."

McLaren, who led an investigation initiated by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), claimed that hundreds of Russian athletes across various sports had benefited from an alleged state-sponsored doping system which supposedly existed in the build-up to the 2014 Sochi Olympic Games.

McLaren's findings led to a massive crackdown on Russian sports bodies and athletes, with the most severe punishment being the country's ban from the Rio Olympics in 2016 and PyeongChang Games in 2018, with large numbers of national athletes missing out.

Comment: Good for them! Mclaren should face consequences for the horrendous lies that he spread and the damage that he did.

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Orwellian Nightmare: Oregon could become first state to require in-home surveillance of newborn babies

Paula Bolyard
PJ Media
Fri, 25 Jan 2019 14:35 UTC

If Oregon Governor Kate Brown has her way, the Beaver State will become the first to require universal home visits for newborn children in the care of their own parents.

Senate Bill 526, introduced this month in the Oregon Legislative Assembly as part of Brown's budget, orders the Oregon Health Authority to "study home visiting by licensed health care providers." Lawmakers went so far as to declare that SB 526 is an "emergency" measure - one that requires a resolution by the end of the year. The intro to the bill, the language of which has not yet been crafted, reads:

The Oregon Health Authority shall study home visiting by licensed health care providers in this state. The authority shall submit findings and recommendations for legislation to an interim committee of the Legislative Assembly related to health care not later than December 31, 2019.

Council of Europe calls on UK to ensure Muslim couples wed under civil law to protect women from Sharia

RT
Fri, 25 Jan 2019 14:35 UTC

© Reuters / Olivia Harris
A woman wears a Pakistani wedding veil ahead of her traditional Islamic wedding blessing, London

The UK should make it a legal requirement for Muslim couples to register their unions as civil marriages, before or during their Islamic ceremony, according to the body that oversees the European Convention on Human Rights.

The Council of Europe, an organisation made up of 47 nations, passed a resolution on Tuesday, warning about the role of sharia councils on family, inheritance and commercial law, stating that they "clearly discriminate against women in divorce and inheritance cases."

They named the UK, along with Albania, Azerbaijan and Turkey, in a resolution highlighting conflicts between sharia law and universal human rights. It called on the UK government to ensure the protection of those in vulnerable positions, and said it should run awareness campaigns to teach Muslim women about their rights.

Comment: Also see: Sharia law recognized in landmark British divorce ruling

Gideon Levy vs Benny Morris: The fight for the soul of the one-state solution

Jonathan Ofir
Mondoweiss
Fri, 25 Jan 2019 14:35 UTC

For nearly a week now, a fierce ideological fight has been taking place on the pages of the Israeli daily Haaretz, between Israeli historian Benny Morris and Haaretz columnist Gideon Levy.

It started with Morris giving a long interview to Ofer Aderet in which he issued dire predictions for the future of the state of Israel. This has become a back-and-forth (Morris-Levy-Morris-Levy) that is a fight for the soul of the one-state. Both essentially agree, that the two-state solution is no longer an actual possibility. Thus, the discussion becomes, "What kind of a state this is, and what it will become."

Let's look first at Morris' predictions in the first interview:

This place will decline like a Middle Eastern state with an Arab majority. The violence between the different populations, within the state, will increase. The Arabs will demand the return of the refugees. The Jews will remain a small minority within a large Arab sea of Palestinians, a persecuted or slaughtered minority, as they were when they lived in Arab countries. Those among the Jews who can, will flee to America and the West.

Act 9 of Regime Change in France: Yellow Vests Protesters Remain Determined - Vincent Lapierre Reports

Le Média Pour Tous
Fri, 25 Jan 2019 14:33 UTC

With the French establishment media under-reporting or misreporting the Yellow Vest protests in France - and with Western media of course following suit - accurate, unfiltered on-the-scene coverage is sparse.

Independent reporter Vincent Lapierre has been 'embedded' with Yellow Vest protesters since the movement began back in November, publishing video reports on his channel Le Média Pour Tous of each of the major Saturday protests in Paris.

The following is his video report from 'Acte IX' in Paris, which took place on Saturday 12th of January. Click on the captions icon (cc) for English subtitles.

Meet the Yellow Vests: working men and women, unemployed people, pensioners, parents, patriots, of foreign descent, Antifa, hoods from the banlieues, country-folk, and privileged students...

Yellow Vests group gears up for European elections, comes under fire from comrades

RT
Fri, 25 Jan 2019 01:43 UTC

A group of French Yellow Vests has announced it would put forth a list of candidates for the upcoming European Parliament elections. Yet the move has attracted a wave of criticism from their fellow protesters.

The Citizens' Initiative Rally (RIC) announced its decision to field a group of candidates for the upcoming May elections on Wednesday, unveiling first 10 names. The list is to be expanded, as the group plans to get 69 more candidates on it.

"The citizen movement... has shown the need to transform the anger into a political project capable of giving answers to the French people who have supported it," the group said in a statement.

Comment: How the Yellow Vests were going to organize themselves was always going to be tricky, but, for now, rather than attempt to reinvent the wheel they could tweak the system already in place; one idea put forward was the ability to vote to remove a politician at any point in time if they show they're not fulfilling their campaign promises:

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France's Yellow Vests protests: Why it's different this time

Claudio Grass
Mises Institute
Thu, 24 Jan 2019 11:00 UTC

When the first demonstrations on the streets of Paris were reported nine weeks ago, nobody could have foreseen the endurance, the tenacity and the viral effect of the Yellow Vests movement. After all, the French are known to protest and to strike, it's part and parcel of their culture. However, by the time this article is being written, protests, marches and demonstrations have broken out in a multitude of European cities.

Comment: The Yellow Vest movement spreading, now going global

Why Was it Different this Time?

To begin with, it is worth taking a closer look at the situation in France, the point of origin of this "contagion." There are a few very important elements that set the Yellow Vests apart from past protests. For one thing, unlike previous demonstrations, this one wasn't led by the unions, nor was it organized by any identifiable political body. The protesters had no unified or homogenous political beliefs, party affiliations or ideological motivations. In fact, through interviews and public statements of individuals taking part in the demonstrations, it would appear that any organized elements, or members of the far-left or the far-right were a slim minority among the protesters. And while those few were the ones largely involved in the violent clashes with the police and the destruction of private and public property, the crushing majority of the Yellow Vests were peaceful, non-violent and largely unaffiliated with any particular political direction.

Comment: See also: 'The gilets jaunes are unstoppable' - French Author

Record numbers of children identifying as transgender in UK and abroad

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Fri, 25 Jan 2019 10:08 UTC

Kids as young as ten are switching gender by deed poll as record numbers of UK youngsters identify as transgender.

The Sun reports that the UK's Deed Poll Service has seen a sharp rise in the number of parents forking out £35 to change their child's title from Miss to Master, or Master to Miss, in the past five years.

A quite shocking stat is that the service says one child under the age of 16 makes the change every day, often with a new first name. Louise Bowers, a senior deed poll officer, said:

"We used to issue a couple every couple of months - but now it's seven to ten a week.

"The majority are teenagers, 14 or 15, but they go down to aged ten."

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Society's Child

Is red the new white? Daft celebrities and media compare MAGA hat to KKK hood

AP-NORC poll says 6 in 10 Americans blame Trump for government shutdown

'It's about our honor': Russian athletes file $4.5mn lawsuit against author of report on alleged 'Russian doping'

Orwellian Nightmare: Oregon could become first state to require in-home surveillance of newborn babies

Council of Europe calls on UK to ensure Muslim couples wed under civil law to protect women from Sharia

Gideon Levy vs Benny Morris: The fight for the soul of the one-state solution

Act 9 of Regime Change in France: Yellow Vests Protesters Remain Determined - Vincent Lapierre Reports

Yellow Vests group gears up for European elections, comes under fire from comrades

France's Yellow Vests protests: Why it's different this time

Record numbers of children identifying as transgender in UK and abroad

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