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Belgium commercial court supports local taxi firms by banning Uber in Brussels


RT
Tue, 08 Jan 2019 14:41 UTC
Belgium bans Uber Brussels
The ruling allows only drivers with a Brussels taxi license and a special lamp light on the roof to operate in the Belgian capital.
A Belgian commercial court has supported local taxi firms and said that world-famous Uber services are outlawed in Brussels, according to local media reports citing the court decision.

The court order was issued on December 18 by the Dutch-speaking tribunal of commerce, Belgian news outlets La Libre Belgique and La Derniere Heure said on Thursday. The ruling allows only drivers with a Brussels taxi license and a special lamp light on the roof to operate in the Belgian capital, which hosts headquarters of NATO and EU Commission as well as offices of many other key international organizations.

Each noncompliance may result in a €10,000 ($11,300) fine for the platform, local media said.

The move is aimed to clarify a decision originally made in 2015, which ordered the US-based company to close its low-cost service with unprofessional drivers, Uberpop, in Brussels while the more expensive UberX service remained unaffected. The December order apparently targets all Uber services, however, the French-speaking side is still considering the case.
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Piggy Bank

Neither kosher, nor halal: Belgium outlaws Muslim-Jewish animal slaughter practice


RT
Tue, 08 Jan 2019 13:44 UTC
halal kosher
A ban on the Muslim and Jewish methods of ritually slaughtering animals has come into force in Belgium. Supporters of the move herald it as a humane development while critics have slammed it as an attack on religious freedom.

The ban brings Belgium in line with European Union regulations that require animals to be stunned, so they can't feel pain, before slaughter. However, Jewish and Muslim religious laws require that animals are conscious when they are killed.

Kosher and Halal methods of slaughter involve the animal being killed with a single cut to the neck which severs critical blood vessels. Advocates claim the animal loses consciousness in seconds and it doesn't suffer during the process.


Comment: The question to ask is: Would one simply cut the throat of a human being if helping them to die, and minimal suffering was the primary concern?

So why then would one do this to other earthlings?


Comment: Good call, Belgium.

Muslims and Jews living there: suck it up, cupcakes.

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Birmingham mayor claims Angela Davis lost civil rights award due to 'local Jewish pressure'

Josefin Dolsten
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Tue, 08 Jan 2019 11:33 UTC
Angela Davis
© Mike Coppola/Getty Images for Busboys and PoetsAngela Davis speaks onstage at the Busboys and Poets' Peace Ball: Voices of Hope and Resistance at National Museum Of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C., Jan. 19, 2017.
The mayor of Birmingham, Alabama, said that a civil rights institute withdrew an award for activist Angela Davis due to pressure from the Jewish community.

The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute said in a statement posted on its website over the weekend that it was no longer giving Davis the human rights award.

The group said that "supporters and other concerned individuals and organizations, both inside and outside of our local community, began to make requests that we reconsider our decision" after it nominated the activist in September.
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Info

'Make Trudeau a drama teacher again!' Hundreds of yellow vest protesters caravan across Manitoba, Canada


CTV News
Sun, 06 Jan 2019 15:37 UTC
yellow vest manitoba
© Damen MacGillivray
Hundreds of yellow vest protesters in Manitoba criticized Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's policies by staging a multi-vehicle caravan that stretched for several kilometres.

Their "Yellow Vest Virden-Brandon vehicle convoy" was made up of trucks, semi-trucks and cars driving along the province's Highway 1, between Virden and Brandon, Man. Organizers say it stretched for nearly 10 kilometres.

Protester Ash Swereda told CTV Winnipeg, "we need some changes."

"We got millions of people that want to work and no work, no future," he said.

Fellow protester Sonny Black said he wanted more federal support for pipelines and jobs in Canada's oil industry.

Black works in the oil and gas sector and said he was worried about, "everything Trudeau is doing to kill it."

Comment: There's more similarity between the Yellow Vests in France and the similar ones popping up in Canada than may first seem apparent: Both groups are protesting against the elite's heavy handed attempts to lay all the austerity measures that result from their fantasy climate change non-issue into the laps of the already-struggling average citizen. Hopefully this will catch on in Canada as much as it has in France - it's time for Canadians to be uncharacteristically fed up!

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Attention

American Psychological Association considers 'traditional masculinity' to be 'harmful'

Brianna Heldt
Townhall
Mon, 07 Jan 2019 10:51 UTC
Gender confusion
© AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File
According to the American Psychological Association (APA), being a traditional man is now considered on par with a mental disorder.

For the first time ever, the APA has issued a set of guidelines for how to approach men and boys, specifically, within a counseling practice. The new APA protocols for mental health professionals working with men and boys--released in August and available to read in their entirety in a document titled APA Guidelines for the Psychological Practice with Boys and Men--were recently summed up on the APA's website by the statement that "research finds that traditional masculinity is, on the whole, harmful."

"The main thrust of the subsequent research is that traditional masculinity - marked by stoicism, competitiveness, dominance and aggression - is, on the whole, harmful," the January article from the APA goes on to read. "Men socialized in this way are less likely to engage in healthy behaviors."

Progressive beliefs about a number of hot-button social justice and political issues such as sexism, patriarchy, and male privilege seem to be behind the new guidelines. More specifically, modern conceptions of gender appear to be driving the organization's updated approach to men.


Comment: So in other words, the social justice radical left has impregnated what's supposed to be an authorative structure based on evidence backed research with their ideology and political agendas. Not that the APA cares, they were all too happy to help out the CIA with their torture program when it suited them.


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Alarm Clock

Second body found in home of Democratic megadonor Ed Buck in California

Samuel Chamberlain
Fox News
Mon, 07 Jan 2019 15:04 UTC
buck_clinton
© FacebookEd Buck, right, poses with Hillary Clinton
A man died early Monday at the West Hollywood home of prominent Democratic donor Ed Buck, his attorney confirmed to Fox News -- 17 months after a male escort died in the same apartment.

Attorney Seymour Amster told Fox News the unidentified victim was a "longtime friend" of Buck and said the two had known each other for 25 years. Amster said the victim "reached out for [Buck's] help" Sunday night and began acting "in a bizarre way" after he arrived at Buck's apartment.

"As far as we're concerned, this is an accidental death," said Amster, who added that police had released the scene and Buck was not under arrest.

Comment: LA cops investigating prominent Democratic donor after gay prostitute found dead at his home

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Car Black

Chicago City's car racket: Seizes and sells cars over tickets, but still sticks drivers with the debt

Elliott Ramos
WBEZ Chicago
Mon, 07 Jan 2019 23:05 UTC
Chicago botello car sold illegally
© Manuel Martinez/WBEZSandra Botello, 42, stands for a portrait on the spot where her car was seized and eventually sold to a private tow company in the city of Chicago on December 20, 2018.
Sandra Botello moved to Chicago five years ago for what she called "the opportunities."

Now 41, she and her children had been evicted from her home in Idaho when her landlord's property was foreclosed.

The move to Chicago indeed delivered opportunities. She earned an associates degree and then enrolled at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and now works as an executive administrative assistant downtown. And, two of her four kids snagged scholarships to private schools.

But her time in Chicago has also been mired with a major hurdle. It started with citations for the city road tax collected through "city stickers." After failing to keep up with ticket payments, the city seized her car and sold it to a private towing company, only to have none of the sale price applied to her debt.

Botello is not alone.
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Attention

NAACP connects earthquake warning signs in Oregon to white supremacy


AP
Sat, 05 Jan 2019 00:00 UTC
NAACP earthquake signs
A new city policy requiring public signs on brick buildings warning they might collapse in an earthquake is part of a long history of white supremacy aimed at forcing black people to move out of neighborhoods, the NAACP of Portland, Oregon, says.

The group on Thursday decried the policy affecting some 1,600 unreinforced masonry buildings that are on average 90 years old, many in areas with a predominantly black population, The Oregonian/OregonLive reports .

The policy "exacerbates a long history of systemic and structural betrayals of trust and policies of displacement, demolition, and dispossession predicated on classism, racism, and white supremacy," the group said.

The NAACP said the policy will make it tougher for owners of brick buildings to get loans and will discourage investment. It says that means buildings will have to be sold, and that developers will demolish and redevelop, increasing the cost to live there and forcing current residents out.
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'The devil spoke to me through app': Uber driver admits to murdering six people in 2016 Michigan shooting spree


New York Post
Mon, 07 Jan 2019 21:45 UTC
uber driver murder
A man charged with killing six strangers between picking up rides for Uber pleaded guilty to murder on Monday in Michigan.

Jason Dalton's surprise move occurred as lawyers and a judge planned to pick a jury in Kalamazoo County court. There was no deal for Dalton: He pleaded guilty to murder and attempted murder, and he faces a mandatory sentence of life in prison with no chance for parole.

"I've wanted to do this for quite a while," Dalton told a judge.
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Bad Guys

Illegal aliens in DACA program surged Hispanic vote, flipping GOP counties blue

John Binder
Breitbart
Thu, 03 Jan 2019 21:27 UTC
vote illegal aliens
© Getty Image
Illegal aliens enrolled and eligible for President Obama's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program helped surge the Hispanic vote in the midterm elections, which resulted in historically GOP counties turning blue for Democrats.

A study by the Latino Policy & Politics Initiative reveals that the country's Washington, D.C.-imposed policy of mass illegal and legal immigration - whereby more than 1.5 million foreign nationals are admitted every year - has aided in not only demographically shifting the American electorate but also turning once-Republican counties across the country over to Democrats.
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