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Protests over Citizenship Act: Indian PM launches outreach campaign, tweets Sadhguru video


India Today
Sat, 28 Dec 2019 01:48 UTC
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is inviting the public to express support for the Citizenship Amendment Act with a new hashtag, as protests against the controversial law continue
Narendra Modi
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi has launched an outreach campaign with the hashtag #IndiaSupportsCAA to gather support for the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), which has sparked furious, sometimes deadly protests across India in recent weeks.

PM Modi's official website tweeted that the CAA "is about giving citizenship to persecuted refugees and not about taking anyone's citizenship away".

At around the same time, PM Modi tweeted a video featuring spiritual leader Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev, who he said had provided a "lucid explanation of aspects relating to CAA" and "calls out the misinformation by vested interest groups".

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SOTT Focus: Good Riddance 2019, The Year of The Woke Police

Douglas Murray
Daily Mail
Mon, 30 Dec 2019 20:18 UTC
Demonstrators take part in 'Women Demand Bread & Roses' protest organised by Women's March in central London, January 19
Demonstrators take part in 'Women Demand Bread & Roses' protest organised by Women's March in central London, January 19
This was the year of 'woke'. Or at least the year that 'woke' made its biggest land grab. For anyone lucky enough not to have encountered the term, woke is essentially political correctness after a course of steroids. Its followers spend their lives punishing any wrong-think committed, which can include thinking something everyone thought until yesterday. And includes saying things that are true.

The main inspirations for the wokerati are anything to do with relations between the sexes, race, LGBT issues, and the last of these (Trans) in particular. In each case a legitimate rights debate is weaponised into a culture war.

This year started in the manner in which it meant to go on. In January, former policeman Harry Miller was contacted by Humberside Police after a member of the public reported him for allegedly 'transphobic' comments made on Twitter. His offence? The 53-year-old posted a limerick that questioned whether trans women are biological women. The police recorded it as a 'hate incident'.
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Cultural rot: Daily Telegraph wants men to give their wives a "cheat pass"

Serban V.C. Enache
The Duran
Mon, 30 Dec 2019 18:01 UTC
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It's not enough that for almost 100 years, Christmas has been hijacked by mindless, materialistic consumerism, now the cultural degeneracy must be pushed further. It was done in a satanically clever manner, replacing the birth of Jesus Christ with a fat, old guy in a red suit that brings presents - this new character being a caricature of Saint Nicholas, especially cooked up to replace both the Saint in question and [the New Testament] God.

This year, the Daily Telegraph, a so-called respectable, intelligent, conservative, UK publication, called on husbands to give their wives a pass for Christmas and allow them to cheat on them. The publication made the same call back in 2018 in an article titled: Why men should give their wives a cheat pass this Christmas and was ridiculed on social media. In essence, the Daily Telegraph ran a huge advertisement for a book whose author supports 'women sexual liberation' [from their husbands], claiming that societal decline is proof of the book's thesis.

'Martin, whose 2015 book Primates of Park Avenue: A Memoir became a New York Times bestseller, is not alone in her espousal of such ideas. This year has seen, if not an explosion, then at least a creeping insinuation into our culture of the idea that monogamy might not be the only approach to long-term relationships... Meanwhile we've had an MP, Labour's Jess Phillips, recommending that schoolgirls should be taught about orgasms.'

Comment: See also: Feminist hysteria: The Telegraph publishes article urging men to give their wives permission for infidelity this Christmas

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London club-goers panic as knife-wielding man prowls the streets

Chiara Fiorillo
The Mirror
Mon, 30 Dec 2019 17:52 UTC
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© London Crime LDN & U.K Crime/TwitterThe knifeman tried attacking another male prone on the floor.
Clubbers on a night out were herded into a strip club when a man with a huge knife tried to stab another male in the street.

Terrifying footage shows a fight breaking out in Shoreditch, East London.

As people shout and run along Hackney Road, a man holding a giant blade approaches another male on the floor and tries attacking him.

A woman can be heard screaming "No, no, no, please" as the attacker slashes at the man prone on the floor near Browns lap dancing club.

A man who appears to be a bouncer repeatedly shouts for the victim to get inside as he tries to protect people from the knifeman.

Three people were arrested in connection with the incident, according to the Met Police.

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Berlin: Suspect firing blanks triggers Checkpoint Charlie


The Local
Mon, 30 Dec 2019 17:45 UTC
german police
© DPAA special task force at the location on Monday afternoon.
A major police operation at Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin on Monday was triggered by shots fired from a blank gun, police reported.

There was no robbery, which witnesses had initially reported, according to a police spokesperson.

The suspect linked to the shooting was in the Starbucks a few meters away from the former Checkpoint Charlie border crossing, according to the police. However, the suspect had not threatened anyone, reported police.

Whether the shots were fired in the Starbucks or on the street in front of it was still unclear. Witnesses had alerted the police around 1:20 pm. The police cordoned off the area. A special police task force (SEK) approached and searched a house nearby.
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Chinese scientist He Jiankui jailed for creating world's first gene edited babies 'in the pursuit of personal fame and gain'

Hannah Osborne
Newsweek
Mon, 30 Dec 2019 07:00 UTC
He Jiankui
The Chinese scientist who created the world's first gene edited babies has been jailed for three years for his illegal experiments, state officials have announced. He Jiankui was also fined three million yuan ($430,000) for his work, which he announced at the International Human Genome Editing Summit in Hong Kong in November, 2018.

At the summit, He told attendees how he had modified embryos so they would be more resistant to HIV. His work led to the birth of twin girls, named Lulu and Nana.

His announcement was met with worldwide condemnation and shortly after he was fired from his position at the Southern University of Science and Technology in Shenzhen. He was then apparently placed under some form of house arrest while authorities in China investigated his work.

In January, state news agency Xinhua announced that the government had concluded He had carried out gene editing activities on humans despite this practice being banned in the country. The case was then handed to the Ministry of Public Security. Xinhua said He's actions had violated scientific and ethical integrity and that the people involved in the research would be "dealt with seriously according to the law."

Comment: See also:
CRISPR scientists want a moratorium after China's gene-edited baby debacle
China's CRISPR twins might have had their brains inadvertently enhanced

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'Flow of global capital impossible to stop': Foreign investments in Russia expected to jump 70% this year despite sanctions


RT
Mon, 30 Dec 2019 17:21 UTC
Moscow
© Global Look Press / Konstantin Kokoshkin
European companies have been investing in the Russian economy in ever-increasing numbers, says Kirill Dmitriev, head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF).

According to Dmitriev, EU states played a significant role in driving overall foreign investment into Russia, which has also increased significantly during the year.

"At the start of this year, I forecasted that foreign direct investments [FDI] to Russia would increase by over 50 percent [in 2019]; many raised questions about this figure​​​. Now we see that by the end of this year FDI will grow by around 70 percent. It is a very significant growth," Dmitriev told Sputnik news agency.
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Google's dangerous monopoly-based foreign policy

Matt Stoller
Substack
Mon, 30 Dec 2019 11:51 UTC
Google blacklists conservative sites
© AP/Thibault Camus
Today I'm going to write about Google's exceptionally dangerous decision yesterday to de facto cut off Turkey's access to Android phones.
Google has told its Turkish business partners it will not be able to work with them on new Android phones to be released in Turkey, after the Turkish competition board ruled that changes Google made to its contracts were not acceptable...

The regulator had asked Google to change all its software distribution agreements to allow consumers to choose different search engines in its Android mobile operating system. The probe was triggered by a filing by Russian competitor Yandex.

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Family

SOTT Focus: Clueless Extinction Rebellion Protesters Don't Know What CO2 Stands For

Amari Roos
Sott.net
Mon, 30 Dec 2019 14:27 UTC
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"We are Extinction Rebellion, and we are rising up because we believe we should stop global warming, because it's caused by humankind, because of CO2, which is... something in the air, and it's bad, and it's increasing, and don't get us started about carbon dioxide"
Exctinction Rebellion (ER) is a silly movement that was originally established in the UK in May 2018. A snapshot of what ER activists have been up to includes gluing themselves to an electric bus, going on hunger strike, attempting to glue themselves to the top of a train, smashing windows at the Department of Transport with a hammer and screwdriver, attempting to shutdown an airport, and attempting to spray 1,800 liters of fake blood at a government building in London (the latter attempt backfiring embarrassingly).

ER has also reached the Netherlands with a Dutch version of its website trying to lure in people from all ages to join their nonsensical cause and protests. In the week of October 7th, 2019, hundreds of ER members attempted to block the Stadshouderskade in Amsterdam, an important road in the city.

Perhaps most revealing of all, however, was when Mark Baanders, a reporter with the controversial Dutch broadcaster PowNed, went to the protests and discovered how little the protesters actually knew about what they were protesting about.

The following is a transcript of some parts of the interview:

Comment: See also: Extinction Rebellion: The upper-middle-class death cult we should ridicule out of existence

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Montenegro's 'religious freedom' law is a travesty - Is it not oppression if a 'pro-Western democrat' does it?

Nebojsa Malic
RT
Fri, 27 Dec 2019 14:39 UTC
serbia orthodox
© AFP / Savo PRELEVIC
Adopting a 'religious freedom' law that opens the door to persecuting a particular faith would normally be seen as a horrifying breach of human rights, but when done to Orthodox Serbs in Montenegro, the West doesn't seem to mind.

Montenegro's ruling regime rammed the controversial law through the parliament in the dead of night between Thursday and Friday. Every single amendment of the opposition Democratic Front (DF) - proposed to alleviate concerns that the bill was deliberately targeting the Serbian Orthodox Church (SOC) - was rejected. When some DF members disrupted the session in protest, all of them were arrested and jailed.

The bell tolls for the Serbs

Even though the law, as written, could be used to go after the Roman Catholic Church or the Islamic community, members of the Bosniak (Muslim) and Croat (Catholic) ethnic parties supported it, further demonstrating that its real purpose was to go after the SOC.

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