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Activist, writer, researcher, addicted to sharing information and facts.

Italy’s Matteo Salvini: EU has ‘ruined our country’

Fascists good at lying and then stealing countrymen’s money!

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Deputy premier Matteo Salvini has suggested EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker had “ruined Europe and our country.” Disputes over Italy’s budget with the EU come ahead of next year’s EU elections.

Hitler ′forced′ to invade Poland, AfD youth leader claims | Germany| News and in-depth reporting from Berlin and beyond | DW | 05.10.2018 – How can Germany allow his o go on!?!

Within the AfD, Steinke’s thoughts on Nazi ideology were known well before his unequivocal Facebook post lambasting von Stauffenberg. Sources close to Steinke leaked a recorded conversation to DW of him with a colleague in which he justifies Nazi Germany’s invasion of Poland in September 1939. Steinke can be heard saying that describing Germany’s invasion as an act of aggression equates to a falsification of history. Steinke claims Hitler was “forced” to act in this way and that “every politician would have acted just like Hitler.” Neither Steinke nor the AfD were willing to comment on the recording.

Source: Hitler ′forced′ to invade Poland, AfD youth leader claims | Germany| News and in-depth reporting from Berlin and beyond | DW | 05.10.2018

DOJ Abruptly Drops Effort To Deport Freed Pizza Delivery Worker Pablo Villavicencio

DOJ Abruptly Drops Effort To Deport Freed Pizza Delivery Worker Pablo Villavicencio

The Department of Justice appears to be abandoning its effort to deport Pablo Villavicencio, the pizza deliveryman detained by ICE while dropping off a catering order at the Fort Hamilton army base in Brooklyn this summer. The abrupt reversal comes just three days after the Manhattan U.S. Attorney’s Office moved to appeal a court ruling that permitted Villavicencio to remain with his wife and two daughters while he continued his application for permanent residency. [ more › ]

If Brett Kavanaugh makes it through, women’s anger will be unstoppable | Suzanne Moore

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Women are sick of being silenced and controlled. The rage unleashed by Trump’s supreme court pick will not subside

“Do you want to be arrested?” the cop asks Amy Schumer. “Yes” she says simply. She was one of the 302 women held after protesting at a Senate office building against the likely confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the US supreme court. They were arrested for “unlawfully demonstrating”. One of the chants in the crowd was: “This is what democracy looks like.” Indeed, this is what democracy looks like when trust in its institutions has been shattered and civil disobedience appears to be the only option. Women’s silence explodes into anger. Anger and disbelief. What does it take to be listened to many asked, after Dr Christine Blasey Ford, the “perfect victim”, gave her testimony in what was a job interview, not a trial.

What does it take to be believed?

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Congo Ebola outbreak at ‘critical point’ after attack on Red Cross staff | Global development | The Guardian

Two health workers seriously wounded while carrying out safe burials of Ebola victims in north-eastern city of Butembo

Source: Congo Ebola outbreak at ‘critical point’ after attack on Red Cross staff | Global development | The Guardian

Florida red tide sweeps away Republican Rick Scott’s Senate poll lead

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  • Governor blamed for weakening environmental protections
  • Red tide spreads to Atlantic waters off Miami and Palm Beach

Barely a month ago, Republican Rick Scott held a clear lead in the race to become Florida’s next US senator. Now a tidal wave of toxic algae threatens to engulf the campaign of the outgoing state governor, whom critics have dubbed Red Tide Rick.

Wildlife officials confirmed on Thursday that the same deadly algae bloom that overran Florida’s south-west coastline this summer, killing dolphins, fish, manatees and turtles and devastating the area’s tourism industry, had washed ashore on several Atlantic coast beaches.

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