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The UK outlaws puppy mills and bans third-party sales from pet stores

Emily Birnbaum
The Hill
Fri, 14 Dec 2018 16:15 UTC
puppy mill
The United Kingdom is cracking down on "puppy farms" with a ban on third-party sales of puppies and kittens, including by pet stores.

The decision was finalized after a public consultation found 95 percent of the country supported the ban. Animal Welfare Minister David Rutley said Sunday that the law will go into effect soon.

"This ban on third party sales of puppies and kittens is part of our commitment to make sure the nation's much-loved pets get the right start in life," Rutley said in a statement.

The new law means that those who want to adopt puppies or kittens will have to consult directly with a breeder or a rehoming center, according to the government.

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"Stop the treason": Big turnout at fifth week of protests against Serbian President


Sputnik
Mon, 07 Jan 2019 01:27 UTC
Serbia protest corruption president
© AP / Darko Vojinovic
Thousands have taken to the streets in the Serbian capital of Belgrade late on Sunday to protest - for the fifth week in a row - the policies of the country's president, Aleksandar Vucic.

Demonstrators carried banners with the words, "We are the people," "Stop the treason, defend the constitution and back the people" and "down with the thieves" as loudspeakers played recordings of the president's 'promises.'

Protesters are demanding electoral reform, better living conditions for retirees, public control over the distribution of wealth and various anti-corruption measures.

Comment: Movements of various sizes protesting the corruption of those in power are cropping up throughout Europe:
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"Slave law": Budapest protest against PM Orban's allowable overtime ruling


Sputnik
Sun, 06 Jan 2019 23:29 UTC
budapest protest orban slave law
© AP/Matin Monus/MTI
An estimated ten-thousand Hungarian protesters took the streets of Budapest this weekend denouncing the country's new labor code, which increases a workers' allowable overtime from 250 to 400 hours a year, in a move that union leaders have dubbed the "slave law."

Union workers claim that the law, proposed by Prime Minister Victor Orban's right-wing Fidesz party, seeks to increase Hungarian company profits at the expense of workers by adding an extra workday per week.

While some protested new courts that many have noted are easily manipulated by the PM, others attacked state-controlled media.

"The TV is lying," protesters yelled while others carried banners with the phrases "sweep away the regime" or "national strike," the Guardian reported.

Comment: If people want to work extra hours then surely that's their choice. If, however, people are unhappy with low wages that force them to work more than would be considered fair and companies are taking advantage of their workers, that's a different issue.

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Russia tops list of Germany's biggest fears... but US is only 1 point behind


RT
Sun, 06 Jan 2019 19:57 UTC
Russia army
© FILE PHOTO. Sputnik / Evgeny Biyatov
The US, Germany's closest strategic ally, came surprisingly close to the 'bogeyman' Russia in the list of countries that the Germans fear the most, leaving North Korea and others lag behind, a new poll revealed.

Incredibly, as many as 55 percent of Germans believe the US is almost an equal threat to their country as Russia, which scored 56 percent in the latest study by Forsa pollster, Bild reports. Other countries that usually dominate mainstream airwaves trail far behind.

For instance, only 27 percent of Germans feel threatened by North Korea, which until recently was the main source of nuclear weapons-related news. The reclusive state is followed by Turkey (24 percent) and Saudi Arabia (23 percent). China is deemed a threat to only 16 percent of respondents.

Comment: Obviously the West's campaign to demonize Russia isn't enough to distract from the actual threat the US poses - and it's the US that has military bases in Germany:

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Brexit yellow vest rally outside Greggs mistaken for anti-vegan sausage roll protest

Joe Roberts
Metro
Sat, 05 Jan 2019 00:01 UTC
greggs vegan sausage roll
A pro-Brexit rally has got a lot of people very angry for all the wrong reasons.

That's because the 'yellow vest' demonstrators in Manchester were contained by police outside a branch of Greggs.

If you hadn't heard already, the Geordie bakers have been in the news all week for a certain vegan sausage roll, so the very sight of middle-aged men gathered outside Greggs made some jump to the wrong conclusions.
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Audience member at Iowa campaign event asks Elizabeth Warren 'why she took the DNA test'

Christal Hayes
The Reporter Online
Mon, 07 Jan 2019 12:11 UTC
Elizabeth Warren
© John Minchillo/Associated Press
Elizabeth Warren is making her first campaign tour around Iowa, a crucial state for the probable 2020 competitor, but was quickly forced to address an issue that's likely to hurt her in the race for the White House.

During a Saturday morning event in Sioux City, audience members were given the chance to ask the Massachusetts senator questions. The first? A query about her decision to take a DNA test and release the results on her Native American ancestry.

"Why did you undergo the DNA testing and give Donald Trump more fodder to be a bully?" an audience member asked the Democrat.
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Tucker Carlson: The American Dream is dying because of the economic and cultural attack on males


Fox News
Thu, 03 Jan 2019 00:00 UTC
Tucker Carlson
America's middle class is in decline because American families are collapsing. A study in 2015 found that falling male wages cause a quarter of the decline in marriages.


Comment: Oppression against males in the West (as strange as it may sound) is now so ubiquitous and pervasive that it behooves one to take a step back and really see - based on the plethora of data now available to us - that it is, in fact, a societal scourge on the well-being of men and women alike.

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'Gender parity in torture': Twitter unimpressed as Maddow celebrates CIA's trio of war harpies


RT
Mon, 07 Jan 2019 02:28 UTC
Gina Haspel

CIA Director, "Bloody" Gina Haspel
Women now control all three directorates of the CIA - a historic milestone for gender equality in the clandestine regime change/assassination sector. Rachel Maddow seems to be celebrating, but why is Twitter full of party poopers?

CIA Director Gina Haspel has appointed a fellow female comrade, Cynthia "Didi" Rapp, as deputy director for analysis, making her the highest-ranking analyst at the agency. Elizabeth Kimber was named the first female deputy director for operations in December, joining Dawn Meyerriecks, who has been the agency's deputy director for science and technology for several years now. As a result, the main branches of the CIA - operations, analysis and science and technology - are now headed by women.

NBC News toasted the agency's all-female leadership with an article detailing the new "sisterhood of spies". MSNBC's Rachel Maddow - usually busy hallucinating about Vladimir Putin hiding under her bed - rushed to tweet the story, in an apparent endorsement of the new trifecta of unaccountable girl power.
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Great March of Return's 42st Friday: IDF wounds 46 civilians, including 7 children, 4 journalists and 6 paramedics


PCHR
Fri, 04 Jan 2019 00:00 UTC
Gaza 41st Friday March Return
On Friday evening, 04 January 2019, Israeli forces wounded 46 Civilians, including 7 Children, 4 Journalists and 6 Paramedics, in an excessive use of force against the peaceful demonstrators in the eastern Gaza Strip though the demonstrations have scaled down for the tenth week consecutively and despite absence of most means usually used during the demonstrations since the beginning of the Return and Breaking the Siege March 9 months ago.

According to observations by PCHR's fieldworkers, Though the demonstrators were around between tens and hundreds of meters away from the border fence, the Israeli forces who stationed in prone positions and in military jeeps along the fence continued to use excessive force against the demonstrators by opening fire and firing teargas canisters at them, without the later posing any imminent threat or danger to the life of soldiers and despite the prevailing calmness for the 9th week since the Great March of Return started on 30 March 2018.

Comment: Israel is impervious to all of the tepid condemnations for their crimes against humanity and so far there haven't been enough countries willing to risk courting the displeasure of the psychopathic state to force change.

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Trans teens who bind their breasts are causing irreparable damage to their body

Megan Fox
PJ Media
Thu, 29 Nov 2018 23:43 UTC
breast binding
© Wikipedia
I remember when I was a little girl reading about the female toddlers in China who had their feet bound to keep them small and stop them from growing. The Chinese people would do this because they believed small feet on a female were attractive. The end result was a horrific, painful deformity that crippled the woman for life. The same magazines would show us the Africans who stretched their lips and necks with large metal rings. The neck stretching was incredibly dangerous because after the neck had stretched past a certain point, it could no longer hold up the weight of the head without the heavy metal bangles. I remember staring at the photographs of deformed feet and necks without being able to understand why people would harm themselves in such a way. I was grateful I had not been born in such a place. Try to watch this video without physically shuddering.

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