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The Trudeau Deception

"Federal Liberal Party Leader Justin Trudeau is a neo-conservative with better public relations than his counterpart Stephen Harper.... In fact, aside from his stance on legal marijuana, there is essentially no difference between him and Harper...The only thing that separates Trudeau from the other candidates is his stance on legalization. But what Trudeau is advocating is not the end of prohibition, it's just a different version of it." - Dan Dicks

Germaine Greer: Transgender Women Are 'Not Women'

BBC: Australian-born academic and writer Germaine Greer has said that in her opinion, transgender women are "not women".

She also claims that "a great many women" who are not transgender think transgender women - who she refers to as "male to female transgender people" - do not "look like, sound like or behave like women".

Greer did say that she would be prepared to use female pronouns when referring to someone, if that was their preference, "as a courtesy". (+ video) » | Saturday, October 24, 2015

BBC: Caitlyn Jenner: Standing ovation at sports awards ceremony » | Thursday, July 16, 2015

Professor: Germany May Soon Have 8 Million Muslims and an Islamic Political Party

BREITBART.COM: A German political expert has warned that a successful Islamic political party is not a far off thought given Germany’s rapidly changing demographics. In an interview with the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung newspaper, Prof. Jürgen W. Falter, who specialises in political extremism, noted that Chancellor Angela Merkel’s position on migration may soon change, claiming “Pandora’s box is opened too far”.

Prof. Falter said: “I do not think that the position of Mrs Merkel, with time, will be held. Her words are rowing forward, but below the surface, back already… certainly this has something to do with the fact she sees that she has to get the genie back in the bottle… a Pandora’s box is opened too far.

“[Her migration policy] was probably not meant the way it has arrived. But it sounded like an invitation to the entire world, unlimited refugees are welcome.”

His views on the rise of the Alternative fur Deutschland are also worthy of note, claiming that it was destined to become a small, regional party before the migrant crisis, but that now, it can flourish without really doing much at all.

And he warned about the rise of an Islamic political party in Germany – small versions of which may already have been witnessed elsewhere in Europe, such as with Tower Hamlets First in East London, and the Respect Party in Bradford, both in the United Kingdom.

He posits that despite Mrs. Merkel’s kind welcoming of many Muslims, it is unlikely they would vote for a party with the word “Christian” in its name. » | Raheem Kassam | Friday, October 23, 2015

Thousands of Refugees Enter Slovenia as Ljubljana Seeks EU Help

SLOVENIA is in chaos after it became the latest hotspot in Europe's escalating migration crisis as thousands of refugees attempt to cross its borders.

Tensions reached breaking point overnight on the Slovenian border with Croatia as thousands of migrants began to gather after rail services travelling north were suspended.

Deutsche Putschfantasien

TAGES ANZEIGER: Die Autorität Angela Merkels wird in ihrer Partei mittlerweile offen infrage gestellt. Wolfgang Schäuble wird bereits als Übergangskanzler gehandelt.

«Wenn Schäuble Kanzler wäre, würde es anders laufen»: Solche Stossseufzer seien unter Abgeordneten der CDU bereits zu hören, schrieb gestern die «Frankfurter Allgemeine», die der Partei traditionell nahesteht. Ob es sich dabei nur um Fantasien handelt oder ob diesen Fantasien schon umstürzlerisches Gift beigemischt ist, ist derzeit schwer zu sagen. Sicher ist, dass in der Partei von Kanzlerin Angela Merkel zusehends Panik herrscht. » | Von Dominique Eigenmann, Korrespondent, Berlin | Freitag, 23. Oktober 2015

Russia Is 'VERY DANGEROUS' – Now Saudi Arabia Blasts Putin's Bid to Wipe Out Evil ISIS

The Saudi foreign minister branded the bombing
campaign 'very dangerous'

EXPRESS: A SAUDI official has blasted Russia's bid to wipe out the Islamic State terror group branding it "very dangerous".

The Middle East nation's foreign minister Adel al-Jubeir said Moscow's bombing campaign was fuelling the Syria crisis rather than helping to end it.

He said: "We believe that the Russian interference in Syria is very dangerous because it exacerbates the conflict."

He also claimed the country's war can only be ended if President Bashar al-Assad – a long-time ally of Vladimir Putin – is overthrown.

Jubeir described Assad as the magnet that "attracted foreign fighters from all over the world" to fight for ISIS against his regime. » | Tom Parfitt | Friday, October 23, 2015

Refugees 'Look Like an Army', Says Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán

Refugees gather around a fire on the Slovenia-Croatia
border on Thursday.

THE GUARDIAN: Rightwing leader says the flow of people consists of ‘economic migrants and fighters’ along with refugees as Hungary offers trains for people to return to Turkey

Hungary’s prime minister Viktor Orban has described the refugees entering Europe as “looking like an army” as he defended his hardline stance against migrants.

Speaking at a gathering in Madrid of conservative parties from across the continent, Orban said: “What he [sic] have been facing is not a refugee crisis.

“This is a migratory movement composed of economic migrants, refugees and also foreign fighters. This is an uncontrolled and unregulated process,” he told the European People’s party congress.

“Right to human dignity and security are basic rights. But neither the German nor the Hungarian way of life is a basic right of all people on the Earth. » | Agence France-Presse | Friday, October 23, 2015

THE GUARDIAN: Hungary closes border to refugees as Turkey questions EU deal to stem crisis: Police use barbed wire to seal the border with Croatia as the Turkish president ridicules the offer of aid in exchange for help controlling the passage of migrants » | Agence France-Presse | Saturday, October 17, 2015

Germany to Push for Compulsory EU Quotas to Tackle Refugee Crisis

THE GUARDIAN: Merkel is said to want hundreds of thousands of refugees brought directly from Middle East to control numbers and avoid perilous journeys

Germany is to push for more ambitious and extensive common European policies on the refugee crisis, according to policymakers in Berlin, with compulsory and permanent EU quotas for sharing probably hundreds of thousands of people to be brought to Europe directly from the Middle East.

New European powers replacing some national authority over border control, and the possible raising of a special EU-wide levy to fund the new policies are also on Berlin’s agenda.

The plans, being prepared in Berlin and Brussels, are certain to trigger bitter resistance and major clashes within the EU. Berlin backs European commission plans to make the proposed scheme “permanent and binding”. But up to 15 of 28 EU countries are opposed.

The plans will not apply to the UK as it is not part of the EU’s passport-free Schengen zone and has opted out of EU asylum policy, saying it will not take part in any proposed European refugee-sharing schemes. » | Ian Traynor in Berlin | Friday, October 23, 2015

Iran and Saudi Arabia Ramp Up Hostile Rhetoric to New Levels

THE GUARDIAN: Riyadh and Tehran have thrown diplomatic niceties to the wind and are attacking each other without restraint over Syria and Yemen

The propaganda war between Iran and Saudi Arabia, bitter rivals on opposite sides of the Middle East’s biggest current crises, is hotting up, with near daily exchanges and insults between ministers and state media outlets.

In the past week alone senior figures from both countries have cast diplomatic niceties to the desert winds and attacked each other publicly. Adel al-Jubeir, the Saudi foreign minister, said on Monday that Iran was “occupying Arab lands” in Syria - where it supports Bashar al-Assad. Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, Iran’s deputy foreign minister, retorted that the Saudis were in no position to complain as they were “occupying” Yemen - where Tehran backs the Houthi rebels.

Iran ramped up its anti-Saudi rhetoric after the recent hajj tragedy in Mecca but it went on the offensive at the start of the Saudi-led campaign in Yemen in March, with a Revolutionary Guard commander predicting the “collapse of the House of Saud … in the footsteps of Zionist Israel”. » | Ian Black | Friday, October 23, 2015

Religious Violence Flares in Indonesia as Mob Torches Aceh Church

Authorities tear down a church in Aceh Singkil, enforcing a
decree from the local Muslim-dominated religious harmony forum.

THE GUARDIAN: Muslim vigilante is shot dead as small Protestant house of worship attacked and authorities move to ‘ensure security’ – by demolishing more churches

Indonesia is struggling to live up to its national motto “unity in diversity” after a mob attack on a church left one dead and the authorities responded by demolishing more churches.

The attack took place in the conservative province of Aceh, the only region in Indonesia that has sharia law and where religious tension has been brewing for months.

A mob wielding sharp weapons torched the small Protestant church in the district of Aceh Singkil last week, saying it lacked an official permit. One Muslim vigilante was shot dead in the attack, while thousands of Christians fled to a neighbouring province.

Bishop Elson Lingga visited Aceh Singkil the day after the attack and said there was a deep sense of unease in the villages. “After the event everyone is suspicious of each other, thinking, ‘Are they the ones that reported us?’ They are afraid of their Muslim neighbours,” he said. » | Kate Lamb in Jakarta | Friday, October 23, 2015

Western Media Enraged by Assad’s ‘Red Carpet’ Visit to Moscow

The US and Turkey, two of the Syrian President Bashar Assad’s key opponents, have not cheered his visit to Moscow, with the White House slamming it as a “red carpet welcome.” Russian and Syrian leaders were meeting for crisis consultations and planning.

Germany Braces for Rise in Anti-immigrant Attacks

THE GUARDIAN: Report leaked to German media says far right is spurred on by arrival of refugees

Fears that anti-immigrant fervour is growing in Germany have been given fresh impetus by security experts who have warned the country to brace itself for a rise in xenophobic attacks as a growing number of protesters turn to violence to vent their anger over Europe’s refugee crisis.

A confidential report by the Federal Criminal Office (BKA) that has been leaked to German media said the far-right scene had been spurred on by the continuing influx of refugees to Germany and experts believed that what it referred to as the group’s sense of “agitation” towards the government’s asylum policy was set to intensify. It warned that asylum seekers, volunteers and politicians were under particular threat.

While the far right is usually considered to consist of disparate groups who operate heterogeneously, many have found ideological consensus in the refugee crisis, according to the assessment, as pressure increases on Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government to get a grip on the situation. » | Kate Connolly in Berlin | Thursday, October 22, 2015

Europe's Glory Days At An End, Warns Juncker

THE TELEGRAPH: The European Union faces an age of comparative economic decline, while the 'love' affair' of integration is at risk, says Jean-Claude Juncker in downbeat assessment of Europe's future

The European Union faces long-term economic decline and the “love affair” of integration is at risk, Jean Claude-Juncker has said in a downbeat assessment of the bloc’s future.

“Economically, we see the end of Europe’s glorious years compared with what others are doing,” the president of the European Commission said.

The “dream” of a unified continent is at risk from “fissures and fractures” of national divisions and separatist movements, he said.

“The European Union is not going very well,” Mr Juncker said. “And so we must ensure that we keep alive the ambitions, hopes and dreams of Europe.” Read on and comment » | Matthew Holehouse, in Brussels | Thursday, October 22, 2015

Le tueur en Suède était proche de l'extrême-droite

LE MATIN: L'homme qui a tué avec un sabre un enseignant ce matin dans une école fréquentée par des jeunes issus de l'immigration, à Trollhättan, était un sympathisant d'extrême-droite.

Portant un masque rappelant celui de Dark Vador dans la «Guerre des étoiles», l'assaillant a fait irruption dans l'école et attaqué plusieurs personnes, enfants et adultes, frappant apparemment ses victimes au hasard.

Ce drame rarissime dans le royaume scandinave s'est produit jeudi matin à Trollhättan, ville industrielle à une heure de route au nord de Göteborg, dans un établissement «à problèmes» accueillant 400 élèves, dont un grand nombre de jeunes migrants arrivés récemment dans le pays. » | jeudi 22 octobre 2015

The Nazi Collaborators: The Grand Mufti

In this film, history evidence is shown, showing the Muslim Brotherhood and the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem [Haj Amin al-Husseini] working alongside Adolf Hitler in World War 2. Coinciding with Psalms 83, it does show who is behind the "Arab confederacy". Verse 8 shows that Germany, modern day "Assur" or "Assyria", is with them. This film should show how the Muslim Brotherhood and the nations they have control over is a military arm of the king of the North, rather than a future King of the South(or Arab confederacy) as some claim.

The Truth about Jerusalem’s Grand Mufti, Hitler and the Holocaust

Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin al-Husseini meeting
with Adolf Hitler in Dec. 1941.

JEWISH JOURNAL: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu went too far in recent comments that Nazi collaborator Haj Amin al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem before and during World War II, played a “central role in fomenting the Final Solution” by trying to convince Hitler to destroy the Jews during a 1941 meeting in Berlin. But Netanyahu was right on when he emphasized the Mufti’s Holocaust complicity and activities before, during, and after the war when the Mufti lied about alleged Jewish intentions to expel Muslim and Islam from Jerusalem’s Temple Mount—the same lie that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas repeats today in support of the current “knife Intifada.”

Netanyahu said: “Hitler didn't want to exterminate the Jews at the time, he wanted to expel the Jews. "And Haj Amin al-Husseini went to Hitler and said, ‘If you expel them, they'll all come here.' 'So what should I do with them?' he asked. He said, 'Burn them’.”

Netanyahu’s quotation of the Grand Mufti is word-for-word accurate, but it is not true that the Fuhrer needed the advice of Islam’s leading anti-Jewish fanatic to implement the Final Solution. That was his dream as far back as 1919 as a letter that he authored and signed now on display at the Simon Wiesenthal Center Museum of Tolerance documents.

Prime Minister Netanyahu has been accused of “a dangerous historical distortion” and even “Holocaust Denial” from the predictable political quarters who even dismiss the Grand Mufti as “a lightweight” inconsequential in the history of the Holocaust. This claim wrongly mitigates the Mufti’s mindset and crimes as one of the Hitler era’s leading anti-Jewish haters. » | Abraham Cooper * and Harold Brackman ** | Wednesday, October 21, 2015

* Rabbi Abraham Cooper is Associate Dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center.

** Dr. Harold Brackman, a historian[,] is a consultant for the Simon Wiesenthal Center.

Police Uncover Far-Right Plot to Attack Refugee Shelters in Germany

THE TELEGRAPH: The discovery comes as a leaked police report suggests far-Right nationalists could attackc refugees as well as political leaders supportive of them

Police in Germany have uncovered a plot by far-Right extremists to attack refugee shelters using “highly dangerous explosives”, prosecutors said on Thursday.

Three people have been arrested in connection with the plot following police raids in the Bavarian town of Bamberg. Prosecutors were seeking arrest warrants against a further ten suspects.

They are believed to have been planning an attack on two government shelters for asylum-seekers in the town.

Prosecutors said they intended to throw explosives into the shelters to spread “fear and terror”. » | Justin Huggler, Berlin | Thursday, October 22, 2015

IRS to Recognise Same-sex Marriages across US

THE INDEPENDENT: The move by America's tax agency underscores a cultural and legal acceptance of same-sex marriage

The IRS has said that the terms "husband" and "wife" will now apply to same-sex marriages, regardless of where the ceremony was carried out.

In a move that underscored both a cultural and legal acceptance of same-sex marriage, the tax agency - formally the Internal Revenue Service - posted new regulations that implemented the Supreme Court’s historic ruling this summer.

Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew said the new regulations posted on Wednesday would ensure "that all are treated equally under the law". » | Andrew Buncombe, New York | Thursday, October 22, 2015

Al-Husseini's Critical Role in Instigating the Holocaust

ARUTZ SHEVA: The Palestinian Mufti may not have initiated the Holocaust, as PM Netanyahu intimated, but he certainly played a very major role.

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has drawn much flack for saying that the Mufti of Jerusalem gave Hitler the idea of exterminating European Jewry – but there is in fact much evidence of the Mufti's very significant involvement in the diabolical scheme.

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Netanyahu quoted the testimony of Adolf Eichmann's deputy at the Nuremberg trials after World War II, who said: "The Mufti was instrumental in the decision to exterminate the Jews of Europe. The importance of his role must not be ignored. The Mufti repeatedly proposed to the authorities, primarily Hitler, Ribbentropp and Himmler, to exterminate the Jews of Europe. He considered it a suitable solution for the Palestinian question."

Eichmann's deputy also said: "The Mufti was one of the instigators of the systematic extermination of European Jewry, and was a partner and advisor to Eichmann and Hitler in carrying out this plan."

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Even if it was Hitler himself who came up with the idea of exterminating Jewry, it is important - in light of the support shown by PA leaders for the current wave of murderous terrorism - to understand the decades-old roots of Arab support for killing Jews. » | Hillel Fendel | Wednesday, October 21, 2015


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