Category Archives: Global Politics

Fox News Host Turns Against Network & GOP LIVE On Air: ‘I’m Done!’ (VIDEO)

 

Indicating Ben Carson as one of the worst offenders, Perino said that she was furious with them defending Donald Trump’s long history of sexually assaulting and harassing women. Recently, a number of women have complained that the Republican nominee has displayed sexually aggressive behavior toward them, while tapes of Donald Trump bragging about molesting female acquaintances have been released, making unseemly remarks about underage girls, and admitting that he was a sexual predator have come to light in recent weeks. The Republican nominee settled a sexual harassment suit filed by Jill Harth back in 1997, but other women have come forward recently, including one that claimed that Donald Trump raped her when she was 13 years old.After two of the other panel members joked that her mic was going to be cut off because of these statements, Perino said:‘Yeah, because women should be seen and not heard, apparently.‘After 20 years of defending these guys, done.’

Source: Fox News Host Turns Against Network & GOP LIVE On Air: ‘I’m Done!’ (VIDEO)

The caliphate′s cubs: ′Islamic State′ and child soldiers | Middle East | DW.COM | 15.10.2016

The increased appearance of child suicide bombers appears to coincide with IS losing more and more territory and fighters. American military sources say that the group lost 45,000 fighters in two years and has only some 15,000 left. The operation for the liberation of the IS’ capitals of Mosul and Raqqa is underway and over 50 percent of IS-held territories in Iraq have been liberated.To mask the defeat, IS has increased its bomb attacks using trucks. Pictures posted afterwards of the drivers show that many of them are teenagers.Sources say that as many as 60 percent of the IS fighters are under 18. Kirkuk police chief Sarhad Qadir thinks IS is playing its last card. “They know they will be defeated,” he says.

Source: The caliphate′s cubs: ′Islamic State′ and child soldiers | Middle East | DW.COM | 15.10.2016

Trump Accuses Clinton of Guiding Global Elite Against U.S. Working Class – The New York Times – Translation: German-American Trump uses anti-semitic code words and themes to gain advantage

“Mr. Trump focused on the very issues and themes that obsess conspiratorial anti-Semites: They believe that there is an elite group of Jews who control the media, the government, and banking, and who are trying to destroy white America,” he said. “They also believe that most of Hillary Clinton’s donors are Jewish.”The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.Others drew a more direct comparison between Mr. Trump’s words and those of anti-Semites.In the speech, Mr. Trump also accused the “Clinton machine” of wielding control over the news media, as well.“The most powerful weapon deployed by the Clintons is the corporate media, the press,” he said to jeers from the audience.While the allegations were aimed at Mrs. Clinton, who is a Methodist, Jews have long been accused of conspiring to control institutions like banks and the media in order to amass wealth and power.In 1931, for example, the author A. N. Field described the creation of the American Federal Reserve as the moment the “German-Jew engine of control” enslaved the United States, according to the Anti-Defamation League. That conspiracy theory has survived the ensuing decades and, even today, such anti-Semitic beliefs remain prevalent around the world, according to A.D.L. polling.In West Palm Beach on Thursday, reporters covering Mr. Trump returned to a table reserved for the press to find a sign bearing a swastika and the word “MEDIA” scrawled on it, Jim Acosta, a senior CNN White House correspondent, reported.

Source: Trump Accuses Clinton of Guiding Global Elite Against U.S. Working Class – The New York Times

How Nazi terminology is creeping back into politics – The Local – “Proof that death patterns can be revived – problem is that while the patterns may be strategic, mass death is its predetermined end.”

Some politicians too have been using racially charged words such as “völkisch”, a term meaning “ethnic” but used by the Nazis to describe people belonging to the superior German race, and “Umvolkung” – the fascist idea of replacing racially inferior populations with the German people.The leader of the anti-migrant right-wing populist party AfD, Frauke Petry, who has never been shy of controversy, last month suggested that “völkisch” be rehabilitated and wiped of its negative connotation.”I do not use this term myself, but I don’t agree that it should only be used in a negative context,” she told Die Welt daily, drawing a chorus of condemnation.Die Zeit columnist Kai Biermann pointed out that “the term völkisch was a synonym for extreme nationalism and racism. It is, until today, a symbol for Nazism and its ideology to exterminate and murder everyone who is not German.” The columnist charged that Petry had dug up the term because “it expresses the wish to reject everything that does not belong to one’s people”. “It stirs up the fear that too many foreign people are coming who can change the status quo,” he wrote. A politician belonging to Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union went on to also use the term “Umvolkung”. While the Nazis had used the word to define the Germanization of people in regions seized by the Third Reich, today it is used in the far-right milieu as shorthand for immigration. Bettina Kudla drew fire when she said in a tweet that: “Merkel disputes it … The Umvolkung of Germany has already begun. Action is needed!”

Shift in identity

Hans Kundnani, political analyst at the German Marshall Fund, noted that politicians would not have used these controversial terms two decades ago. “There’s been a shift in German national identity over the last 15 years or so, and I think the use of these terms has reemerged against that backdrop”, he said. What has changed is that there has been a “resurgence in the collective memory of Germans as victims” in World War II.

Source: How Nazi terminology is creeping back into politics – The Local

Evangelical movement in Colombia: How Colombia’s Evangelists undermined the peace referendum | In English | EL PAÍS – (Politicized “religion” is as anti-peace, as it is anti-Christian…)

Colombia’s media has noted that Gina Parody, who led the government’s Yes campaign in the run up to the referendum, stepped down as education minister following the defeat. Parody, a lesbian, has faced a sustained campaign against from right-wing groups over her sexual orientation.The former minister had been in the eye of the hurricane in the months before the referendum after ultra-conservative Christians accused her of seeking the “gay colonization” of Colombia’s youth when issuing a teacher’s manual on how to deal with gender-related bullying.

Source: Evangelical movement in Colombia: How Colombia’s Evangelists undermined the peace referendum | In English | EL PAÍS

Asian Americans share their own encounters with racism after NY Times editor is told to ‘Go back to China!’: Shanghaiist

Follow kelwoon @kelwoonjoo@michaelluo When I was house hunting, the realtor guy said that my husband is a lucky guy to have a such a beautiful Geisha wife #thisis20168:42 AM – 10 Oct 2016 20 20 Retweets 34 34 likes

Source: Asian Americans share their own encounters with racism after NY Times editor is told to ‘Go back to China!’: Shanghaiist

@michaelluo I was eating fried rice at a friend’s store. Guy walks in and booms “HOW ABOUT THAT. CHINAMAN EAT’N CHINARICE!”

@michaelluo Ching Chang Chong Cho as I was walking out of a Wells Fargo in Chino Hills, CA.

@michaelluo “What’s your background? I can’t tell because of your accent”. My family’s been here since the 1800s.

@michaelluo That one time an employee at the Home Depot bowed with praying hands to me and my dad and said, “Ni hao”.

“Where are you from?”
Chicago.
“No really, where were you born?”
M’F’er, my mother gave birth to me IN CHICAGO. https://twitter.com/michaelluo/status/785282611178512384 

At my 15 yr olds HS, after she introduced herself, a white girl said “No your name can’t be Skye, it’s Ching Chong Oh!”

@michaelluo I was complimented recently on how well I spoke English despite being a Professor born and raised in Florida :-)!

Man on street: How do u say hi in ur language?
Me: HELLO
He changes direction to follow me: No ur real language
Me: speedwalks https://twitter.com/michaelluo/status/785447220774629376 

A woman asked me if my husband was Chinese (I’m Korean) and I said “No. He’s white.”
“You can do that now??” https://twitter.com/michaelluo/status/785447220774629376 

@michaelluo “We should’ve killed all you f***ers in Nam”. I was born in Washington DC & uncle is a US Nam vet. I’m Fil-Am.

@michaelluo I received these texts from my younger sister AS I was reading your article. We’re 1st generation Americans

i get asked all the time, “where are you from?” “california” “no, where are you FROM from” this happened today in nyc https://twitter.com/michaelluo/status/785447220774629376 

@michaelluo Interviewed a sitting Senator for 1/2 hour about Obamacare. Got up to shake his hand–he bowed instead.

@michaelluo When I was house hunting, the realtor guy said that my husband is a lucky guy to have a such a beautiful Geisha wife

Hillary Came to Debate. Trump Came to Hate | Dame Magazine

So it was abundantly clear that the GOP candidate didn’t care to discuss policies or issues with a single undecided voter at the town hall last night; he far was more obsessed with settling scores with the Clintons, mostly imaginary, and to exonerate himself (by his own standards). He eagerly brought the tenor of the debate down to the sleazy, smirking level of one of his many Howard Stern show appearances. Trump frequently gaslighted Clinton, called her “a liar” (at least nine times according to CBS News) and “the Devil,” and at one point sputtered that she had “hate in her heart.” He seemed unaware of how Congress actually worked, accusing former New York Senator Clinton for not having the magical ability to pass laws or enact legislation by herself, as if by royal decree or fairy dust. He was a hot mess of aggressive body language, crossing repeatedly into Clinton’s personal space, especially when she passed to his side of the stage to address a question posed by one of the town hall participants. He seethed and scowled over her shoulder, a furious, hulking manchild accustomed to intimidating women by proximity.

Source: Hillary Came to Debate. Trump Came to Hate | Dame Magazine

NY Times editor told to ‘Go back to China! Go back to your fucking country!’ by woman in streets of NYC: Shanghaiist

And then in an open letter to the woman that was published in The New York Times:

Maybe I should have let it go. Turned the other cheek. We had just gotten out of church, and I was with my family and some friends on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. We were going to lunch, trying to see if there was room in the Korean restaurant down the street. You were in a rush. It was raining. Our stroller and a gaggle of Asians were in your way.

But I was, honestly, stunned when you yelled at us from down the block, “Go back to China!”

I hesitated for a second and then sprinted to confront you. That must have startled you. You pulled out your iPhone in front of the Equinox and threatened to call the cops. It was comical, in retrospect. You might have been charged instead, especially after I walked away and you screamed, “Go back to your fucking country.”“I was born in this country!” I yelled back.

It felt silly. But how else to prove I belonged?

Source: NY Times editor told to ‘Go back to China! Go back to your fucking country!’ by woman in streets of NYC: Shanghaiist

Right-wing demonstrators attack police station in Magdeburg | News | DW.COM | 09.10.2016

The incident at the central station in the northeast German town of Magdeburg, 156 kilometers (97 miles) west of Berlin, had started on Saturday late afternoon with the arrest of a 32-year-old man for an attack on a pedestrian. The victim sustained head injuries.Police said they were hindered in making the arrest by several, partially-masked individuals who had taken part in a demonstration of right-wing extremists in Dessau-Rosslau, 60 kilometers to the south east.The suspect had resisted arrest, attempting to take a baton from one of the officers. Magdeburg police said he had only been arrested by using “considerable effort and with the use of pepper spray.”Eleven of the man’s associates tried to get to the arrested man but had been pushed back by police before being expelled from the station.There were also reports that the extremists were calling on a further 50 of their number to recover the man from custody.A total of nine men and two women between the ages of 15 and 33 were arrested.Right wing violence on the riseThe number of violent crimes with a right-wing political motive has been rising substantially in Germany. Figures from the interior ministry for 2015 recorded 1,485 violent far-right crimes, up from 1,029 in 2014.The ministry reported a large increase in the broader category of “hate crimes” such as offences of a racist or antisemitic nature, or targeting people because of their religion. They rose 72 percent in 2015 to 10,373 from 5,858 the previous year.At the time, German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said, “The rise in right-wing politically motivated crime is above all evident in xenophobic incidents.””That is unacceptable and will be met with strong measures by the police and justice system,” the interior minister said.

Source: Right-wing demonstrators attack police station in Magdeburg | News | DW.COM | 09.10.2016

Six Reasons Conservatives Should Not Vote for Donald Trump

I come before you today, Hillary haters, as one of your standard-bearers. I find her utterly loathsome. I literally wrote a book on her failures — you can buy it for the low, low price of 99 cents on Amazon dot com. I started the first anti-Hillary super PAC of the presidential cycle back in 2013. My bona fides are real.But here is the painful reality. As truly awful as Hillary Clinton is, Donald Trump is far, FAR worse. It is not even close. Trump is a clear and present danger to our republic. And no matter how deep and abiding your mistrust is of Hillary, you cannot pull the lever for Trump. Let a charter member of the vast, right-wing anti-Clinton conspiracy convince you.

Source: Six Reasons Conservatives Should Not Vote for Donald Trump