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Half of Germany's potential army recruits unfit, lack motivation or have no citizenship

RT
Sun, 27 Jan 2019 16:21 UTC

German military is plagued by various blunders these days, and there is one more - it emerged that only half of potential recruits are suitable for service, Bild revealed. Others are reportedly unfit or have no German passport.

Bad news about the imperfect state of the Bundeswehr are coming regularly, but this one seems to be even worse, according to Bild am Sonntag tabloid. Citing internal army papers, outlet writes that only half of the 760,000-strong pool of potential recruits is eligible to serve.

The rest of young candidates have no German citizenship, fail to meet minimum fitness standards or reject the idea of military service at all. Meanwhile, the army themselves refused to acknowledge the problem, telling Bild: "We are on the right path."

The reality, however, looks murky as around 25,000 army jobs are up for grabs due to the lack of available personnel. In addition, every fifth civilian position in the Bundeswehr remains vacant.

Comment: It's telling about the state of society that the story is the same all over the Western world; equipment doesn't work, those applying aren't fit for duty and the eligible population has no desire to participate:

Italy's Salvini preparing legal action against crew of German NGO migrant ferry for 'using immigrants in political battle'

Breitbart London
Sun, 27 Jan 2019 00:00 UTC

Italy's interior minister Matteo Salvini said Sunday he was gathering legal evidence against the crew of a Dutch-flagged migrant ferry as calls grow for 47 migrants to be allowed to land.

"We have concrete elements to declare that the captain and crew of the Sea Watch 3 have put the lives of those on board at risk by disobeying precise directions days ago to disembark them in the nearest port, not Italy!" Salvini said.

"The evidence will be handed to the judicial authorities," he said, accusing captain and crew of "a crime and a clear desire to use these immigrants in a political battle".

Salvini has refused to open the ports to the mainly sub-Saharan African migrants picked up in the Mediterranean over a week ago, saying the ship had had a chance to make port as it sailed through Libyan, Tunisian, and Maltese waters.

Comment: More on Italy's efforts to curtail illegal migration:

Russian senators slam German journalist for criticizing Siege of Leningrad commemoration

RT
Sun, 27 Jan 2019 17:43 UTC

Russian Senators have lambasted a German journalist, who criticized the parade commemorating the end of the Siege of Leningrad - one of the most tragic events of WWII - in a bid to take a jab at the Kremlin.

St. Petersburg will see a parade on Sunday to mark the 75th anniversary of the end of the blockade of the city by the Nazi Germany troops that lasted almost 900 days and claimed about 1 million deaths mainly from starvation. But for a journalist at Suedduetsche Zeitung, one of the most popular national dailies in Germany, this is a wrong way to mark the occasion.

"It surprises me that this criticism ... comes from a German journalist," the deputy head of the Russian Senates Defense and Security Committee, Franz Klintsevich, said, commenting on the piece published by the German daily. The journalist, who wrote this piece, must be either "ignorant of history" or "lacking ... mercy and compassion" to write something like this, the senator said in a Facebook post.

Israeli settlers raid West Bank village with help from IDF, murder Palestinian father of four

Yumna Patel
Mondoweiss
Sun, 27 Jan 2019 17:38 UTC

Israeli settlers shot and killed a Palestinian father of four during a raid on the al-Mughayyir village in the central occupied West Bank district of Ramallah on Saturday night.

Palestinian officials and local media outlets reported that a group of Israeli settlers raided the village under the protection of armed Israeli soldiers - a common occurrence in areas of the West Bank located close to settlements - causing clashes to erupt with Palestinian residents of the village, who tried to fend off the settlers.

During the confrontations, a settler reportedly shot and killed 38-year-old Hamdi Saadeh Naasan.

The Palestinian Ministry of Health said in a statement that Naasan, a father of four young children and a former prisoner, arrived to the hospital in critical condition and succumbed to his wounds shortly afterwards.

The ministry also said that Israeli settlers shot Naasan in his back with live ammunition.

Ma'an News Agency quoted local sources who said that Israeli settlers attempted to raid the village's northern entrance, descending from a mountaintop into the outskirts of the village, "under the heavy protection of Israeli forces."

Serious injuries inflicted on Yellow Vest protestors are unprecedented, say French ER doctors

Chris Tomlinson
Breitbart
Wed, 23 Jan 2019 17:27 UTC

Doctors, activists and others are sounding the alarm over the number of serious injuries suffered by Gilets Jaunes (Yellow Vest) movement activists at the hands of police during the past several weeks.

The French Interior Ministry has claimed that in the first nine weeks of the Yellow Vest protests around 1,800 protesters and 1,000 police officers have been injured but have not separated out those with serious injuries, L'Express reports.

Doctors in France's emergency rooms say that some of the injuries have been extremely serious, blaming the police use of "flash-ball" shots which have led to some of the most serious injuries, including at least four protestors, two of them women, who have lost an eye and suffered some form of disfigurement.

Comment: Prominent Yellow Vest activist shot in the head by French police - Becomes 18th protester to lose an eye

Documentary filmmaker David Dufresne has revealed the details of some of the most serious injuries, listing protestors who have lost hands, had jaws shattered or their eyes ripped open.

21 killed, 50+ injured in bomb attack on Catholic cathedral in Philippines

Daily Mail
Sun, 27 Jan 2019 17:31 UTC

The Philippine government says it will 'pursue to the ends of the earth the ruthless perpetrators' behind bomb attacks that killed at least 21 people and wounded dozens during a Sunday Mass at a cathedral on a restive southern island.

Security officials say the first bomb went off in or near the Jolo cathedral during Mass, followed by a second blast outside the compound as government forces were arriving in the area.

Philippine National Police chief Oscar Albayalde said that at least 21 people died and 70 were wounded. Police and military reports said the casualties included both troops and civilians.

Photos on social media showed debris and bodies lying on a busy street outside the Cathedral of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, which has been hit by bombs in the past. Troops in armored carriers sealed off the main road leading to the church while vehicles were transporting the dead and wounded to the hospital. Some casualties were evacuated by air to nearby Zamboanga city.

'I have directed our troops to heighten their alert level, secure all places of worships and public places at once, and initiate pro-active security measures to thwart hostile plans,' said Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana in a statement.

State overreach: Law denies parents' access to their child's medical records

Josh Scheinblum
KCCI
Thu, 24 Jan 2019 17:07 UTC

A Coralville father recently found out he will no longer have access to his 12-year-old daughter's medical records, so he asked KCRG's I9 investigative team to investigate.

Kevin Christians, of Coralville, said a letter triggered his concerns alerting him he was losing access to his daughter's medical records.

At the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, parents are no longer able to see test results, messages from doctors and other information once a child turns 12.

The letter said the hospital wants children at that age to be more active in their own health care. Christians said he believes 12 is too young to keep parents in the dark.

Comment: This is surely tied to allowing children unfettered access to vaccines, birth control, STD services, abortions and transgender procedures. The nanny state wins again. Soon, parents will just be glorified child-minders while the state makes all the decisions.

Feminism is a disease, and masculinity is the cure

Brandon Smith
Alt-Market.com
Fri, 25 Jan 2019 06:55 UTC

It seems these days like everyone and their genderfluid grandma has some "profound" insight into the minds and world of men. Men and masculinity are spoken of in the media with sharp tones of fear mixed with disdain, as if we are a dangerous aberrant genetic anomaly that needs to be studied under a special microscope that will protect the observer from being influenced by our vitriolic pheromones. The problem is, most of these "experts" on manhood are not men at all, or, their observations of male behavior are tainted with deep-seated resentments. That is to say, they are hardly objective.

Comment: As always, a decent heuristic to live by is that if the mainstream wants you to believe something, believe the opposite, and that will at least be closer to objective reality than the lies they're pushing.

I recently came across an article by The Atlantic titled 'Psychology Has A Healthier Approach To Building Healthier Men'. Written around the same time as the embarrassing failure of Gillette's "Toxic Masculinity" ad campaign, I assume The Atlantic like many other mainstream media outlets was privy to this coming propaganda push and is attempting to rally the leftist troops to defend an ideological partner in crime. YouTube itself has even been aiding Gillette by removing dislikes from the video's vote count, which just goes to show that YouTube (owned by Google) is not a business but a propaganda machine, pure and simple.

Comment: For some background information on Feminism, see:

Alibaba slams US' politically motivated treatment of China's Huawei

Anne Marie Roantree, Sijia Jiang
Reuters
Fri, 25 Jan 2019 04:09 UTC

Joe Tsai, the e-commerce giant’s executive vice-chairman, sharply criticized what he called an attempt by the U.S. government to curb China’s rise via a trade war.

A senior Alibaba executive slammed the United States' treatment of China's Huawei Technologies as "extremely unfair", saying measures by the country to curb the firm's access to their markets was "very politically motivated".

Joe Tsai, the e-commerce giant's executive vice-chairman, also sharply criticized what he called an attempt by the U.S. government to curb China's rise via a trade war.

He struck an optimistic note about China's economy, saying it remained fundamentally strong despite a slowdown, and added that stimulus such as tax cuts needed to be imposed to prop it up even as it battles U.S. efforts to dent its businesses.

U.S. President Donald Trump's administration has not only slapped crippling tariffs on Chinese imports, it has also stepped up scrutiny of Chinese investments in the country and torpedoed many deals citing national security concerns.

Comment: Recent updates on the Huawei case:

Iran discovers untapped oil reserves amid US sanctions

Sputnik
Sun, 27 Jan 2019 16:23 UTC

The discovery comes as Iran has been exploring new crude oil extraction opportunities, while facing severe restrictions on its ability to trade in the global energy market due to sanctions re-imposed by United States President Donald Trump in November 2018.

The National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) found untapped light sweet crude oil near the city of Abadan, Bijan Zanganeh, the country's petroleum minister, has announced.

"This is the very first time we've gotten to crude oil inside the Abadan location," Zanganeh said.

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Society's Child

Half of Germany's potential army recruits unfit, lack motivation or have no citizenship

Italy's Salvini preparing legal action against crew of German NGO migrant ferry for 'using immigrants in political battle'

Russian senators slam German journalist for criticizing Siege of Leningrad commemoration

Israeli settlers raid West Bank village with help from IDF, murder Palestinian father of four

Serious injuries inflicted on Yellow Vest protestors are unprecedented, say French ER doctors

21 killed, 50+ injured in bomb attack on Catholic cathedral in Philippines

State overreach: Law denies parents' access to their child's medical records

Feminism is a disease, and masculinity is the cure

Alibaba slams US' politically motivated treatment of China's Huawei

Iran discovers untapped oil reserves amid US sanctions

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