Category Archives: Global Politics

Trump redirects over $200 million in U.S. aid for West Bank, Gaza | Reuters (when racists rule in DC)

U.S. National Security adviser John Bolton told Reuters this week that UNRWA, which extends aid to Palestinians displaced by the 1948 war of Israel’s founding and to millions of their descendants, was “a failed mechanism” that violated standard international law on the status of refugees. “I think it is long overdue that we have taken steps to reduce funding,” Bolton said, adding that “much of UNRWA’s expenses really go to perpetuating the refugee status of the Palestinian people.”

Source: Trump redirects over $200 million in U.S. aid for West Bank, Gaza | Reuters

Trump aide Miller’s ancestor flunked naturalization test

Most interesting to Smolenyak is that this research “is so easy. You don’t have to go very far back.” It’s startling, she says, “how many of the people who are virulently anti-immigration are children or grandchildren or great-grandchildren of immigrants. We should have to work a lot harder for these stories, but there they are, on the lowest, easiest branches.” She originally expected that such views would be held by people whose stories go further back on the American timeline, but former presidential candidate Mike Huckabee and his daughter, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders, whose roots begin in the 1600s, are the exception. “Most of the rest of the time you think you’re going to have to really dig in and go very far back, you don’t,” she says. “Why are the children and grandchildren of immigrants so eager to keep immigrants out?” It’s the desire to make that point — “to point out to people who are being needlessly mean and spreading misinformation that they are conveniently forgetting their own family, which in turn means forgetting our national commonality” — that keeps Smolenyak and others in this fight. It’s why, when Miller said earlier this year that “we favor

Source: Trump aide Miller’s ancestor flunked naturalization test

Germany cracking down on armed far-right Reichsbürger | News | DW | 11.08.2018

Germany’s government has said it confiscated firearms from hundreds of members of the Reichsbürger scene. Authorities have identified some 2,000 more people who identify with Germany’s most idiosyncratic far-right group.

Source: Germany cracking down on armed far-right Reichsbürger | News | DW | 11.08.2018

Data sheds light on how Russian Twitter trolls targeted Canadians | CBC News

Source: Data sheds light on how Russian Twitter trolls targeted Canadians | CBC News

The fact that these trolls also targeted Canadians comes as no surprise to Stephanie MacLellan, a cybersecurity analyst at the Waterloo, Ont.-based think-tank the Centre for International Governance and Innovation

“Russian trolls went after other liberal democratic countries — and Canada has been a vocal defender the liberal democratic order, like the NATO alliance,” said MacLellan.

“This goes with the general trend [of the Russian government] trying to undermine countries that oppose its ambitions.”

Monday Open Thread | Let’s Catch Up On State Sanctioned Kidnapping

YOU STEAL THEIR CHILDREN and then try and deem them INELIGIBLE to get their own children back? DA PHUQ? I will remind people that THEY HAD A PILOT PROGRAM for STEALING CHILDREN. A Pilot Program tha…

Source: Monday Open Thread | Let’s Catch Up On State Sanctioned Kidnapping

Stealing people’s children has become a BILLION DOLLAR INDUSTRY, ladies and gentlemen.

Another update Sunday Morning from a Congresswoman who has been on this topic from the very beginning.

The Horrifying American Roots of Nazi Eugenics | History News Network

Source: The Horrifying American Roots of Nazi Eugenics | History News Network

In 1904, the Carnegie Institution established a laboratory complex at Cold Spring Harbor on Long Island that stockpiled millions of index cards on ordinary Americans, as researchers carefully plotted the removal of families, bloodlines and whole peoples. From Cold Spring Harbor, eugenics advocates agitated in the legislatures of America, as well as the nation’s social service agencies and associations.

The Harriman railroad fortune paid local charities, such as the New York Bureau of Industries and Immigration, to seek out Jewish, Italian and other immigrants in New York and other crowded cities and subject them to deportation, trumped up confinement or forced sterilization.

The Rockefeller Foundation helped found the German eugenics program and even funded the program that Josef Mengele worked in before he went to Auschwitz.

Opinion | What Was Maria Butina Doing at the National Prayer Breakfast? – The New York Times

On Oct. 5, 2016, with one National Prayer Breakfast under her belt, Ms. Butina direct messaged a Russian official on Twitter: “We made our bet. I am following our game. I will be connecting the people from the prayer breakfast to this group.”

After the election, Ms. Butina informed someone the complaint called “U.S. person number one” that she would be bringing along some “VERY influential” Russians to the breakfast. After the event — which President Trump attended, just as previous presidents have — Ms. Butina emailed one of its organizers to thank him for “the gift” of his “precious time during the National Prayer Breakfast week — and for the very private meeting that followed. A new relationship between two countries always begins better when it begins in faith.”