Soros foundation takes aim at Facebook, calls for congressional oversight

The head of billionaire George Soros’ foundation called for congressional oversight of Facebook, after the social media giant finally took some responsibility for hiring a PR firm to smear its critics as agents of Soros.

“So @facebook decides to drop a turkey on Thanksgiving eve, with admission that Definers was tasked by company leadership to target and smear George Soros because he publicly criticized their out of control business model. Sorry, but this needs independent, congressional oversight,” Open Society Foundations head Patrick Gaspard tweeted on Wednesday night.

Gaspard was responding to an admission by Facebook’s outgoing Head of Communications and Policy Elliot Schrage, who owned up top hiring a PR firm – Washington, DC-based Definers – to attack Facebook’s critics and label them agents of Soros, a billionaire and prominent liberal donor.

In a blog post, Schrage admitted that he tasked Definers with pushing the Soros angle, namely that the billionaire was funding the activist group ‘Freedom from Facebook.’

After learning that Soros did in fact fund some of the group’s members, Schrage said Definers “prepared documents and distributed these to the press to show that this was not simply a spontaneous grassroots movement.” Schrage maintained that Facebook did not ask Definers to create ‘fake news,’ despite a former employee telling NBC that Definers had its own “in-house fake news shop” to spread its message.

The relationship was revealed in an explosive New York Times report last week that accused Facebook’s senior leadership of mismanaging a multitude of scandals, from ‘Russian interference’ in the 2016 election to the Cambridge Analytica privacy debacle earlier this year.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg both denied any knowledge of the company’s hiring of Definers, despite an official statement describing the relationship between Facebook and Definers as “well known in the media.”

Soros’ associates have been relentless in calling for change at Facebook, even since before the New York Times’ story broke. In January, Soros himself called Facebook and other Silicon Valley tech “monopolies” a “menace” to society whose “days are numbered.” Last week, Michael Vachon, an adviser to the chair at Soros Fund Management, called on Facebook to undertake an audit of all of its lobbying and PR relationships.

Soros sold off Facebook stocks before they tanked, documents show

Nor were they buying Zuckerberg’s protestations of innocence.

“I find it hard to believe that one would go after someone like George Soros…without some clearance at the highest levels,” Gaspard told CNN on Tuesday night.

Zuckerberg appears to be holding firm, though. In his own interview with CNN on Tuesday, the 34-year-old CEO issued his trademark style of meandering, deflective denial when host Laurie Segall asked if he knew anything about the affair.

“Well…uhh…I learned about this when I read the report as well…I don’t think this point was about a specific PR firm, it was about how we act. That’s why I think it’s not just important what we’re doing with this one firm, but that we go through and look at all of the different PR firms and folks we work with,” Zuckerberg replied.

After spending much of the year apologizing for one privacy screw-up after another, Zuckerberg is once again back in the spotlight. Despite falling stock prices, shareholder moves to oust him, and now Soros’ wealth and influence pushing against him, Zuckerberg was defiant.

Asked whether he’d ever step down as Facebook’s chairman – Zuckerberg is both chairman and CEO of the company – he replied “that’s not the plan.”

“There are certainly going to be issues that we need to work through over time,” Zuckerberg continued. “But I think that while we are doing that, we can’t lose sight of all of the really positive things that are happening here as well.”

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November 23, 2018 0

SOCIALISM . . .

THIS IS ACCURATE!

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Swedish government spent €1000 on rent per migrant – per day

By EMMA R. 23 November 2018

While tens of thousands of elderly Swedes are homeless, and over 300,000 pensioners are starving, the Swedish government spent €1000 a day on rent per migrant.

In 2015, Stockholm hosted a number of “unaccompanied refugee children”. Entrepreneurs requested up to €1000 in rent per migrant from the city, which did not protest, but with taxpayers’ money paid the price requested.

“Not a single child in Stockholm shall be homeless”, said Åsa Lindhagen, head of social services in Stockholm at the time.

“We shall not have any children living on the street, and when lots of children come here, our absolute top priority will be to ensure that they have a roof over their heads.”

Later medical age tests have shown that most of these “children” were in fact adults, who also lacked valid asylum reasons.

However, an amnesty law was recently approved in Parliament, which gives these men the right to stay in Sweden, despite earlier refusals, to attend a secondary education at the taxpayers’ expense.

€1000 per day per “unaccompanied minor” corresponds to a monthly rent of €30,000. For the whole country, the cost of the “unaccompanied minors” was €2.6 billion during 2015, which is almost as much as the annual cost for the police and the judiciary.

One night at the 5-star Grand Hotel costs from €200. Hostels in central Stockholm cost from €20 per night.

November 23, 2018 0

IEDs Found in London Flat Trigger Terrorism Probe, Arrest

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By Dan Lyman

UK police have launched a counter-terrorism investigation after two improvised explosive devices (IEDs) were found in a flat in London.

Metropolitan Police say they have arrested a 48-year-old man “on suspicion of an offence contrary to section 4 Explosives Substances Act 1883,” and he currently remains in custody.

The suspect was apprehended after explosives were discovered in an unoccupied apartment that was in the process of being renovated in Craven Park neighborhood of London.

“Officers attended the address and as a precaution, the block of flats was evacuated and local road closures put in place whilst specialist officers assessed the two devices,” police said in a statement. “Initial assessment was that they were both improvised explosive devices.”

“The two devices were subsequently made safe and recovered from the flat and are now undergoing further forensic examination.”

Police tape is still up outside the house where two suspected homemade bombs were found in an empty flat in Craven Park, Harlesden yesterday morning.

Counter-terror investigating, no arrests so far @LBC pic.twitter.com/FYutEbjiwt

— Rachael Venables (@rachaelvenables) November 22, 2018

Police say they do not have reason to believe the suspect “has links to any terrorist organizations,” but also assert the investigation is in its early stages.

November 23, 2018 0

WESTERN EUROPE Refugees disastrous for German welfare state as almost 50% are illiterate, top professor shows

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The idea that migrants or refugees are needed for maintaining production in western societies has received another blow.

The footage below shows that refugees say they want to be engineer or scientist and continue with a professor who says most refugees are highly qualified.

But after one minute, another professor, Hans-Werner Sinn, shows with several studies, that a lot of refugees can barely read or write and need tremendous amounts of education to get them to work.

Sinn, a top professor and the former President of the Ifo Institute for Economic Research, shows that two-thirds of Syrian graduates in Syria qualify below the threshold of literacy; the ability to read and write.

According to the professor in economics Germany should ask the question “are the right people coming to us?”

“Are those people who come to us the ones that our complex industrialised society needs? Or do those people who come to us need considerable training and education? Which is very expensive.”

The professor gives a clear answer in his college and says for example that it is not efficient “when you take a 25 or 30-year-old and try to teach him basic Latin that would normally be taught at school age”?

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Dog accused of ‘racist hate crime’ in bonkers Britain

By VOICE OF EUROPE 20 November 2018

A dog has been accused of a racially aggravated hate crime after it fouled on the front of a property in the latest of bewildering incidents in Britain.

The so called ‘victim’ dialled 999 and said the dog had done this in a racist attack. It comes amid a spate of incidents including mail being ‘deliberately opened and resealed’, and another canine barking at a person in the street.

Current rules require police to record every incident regardless of the severity or in this case, idiocy. Former Conservative Brexit negotiator David Davis says such incidents are a waste of police time.

However, with police chiefs admitting they have over 900+ officers dedicated to fighting ‘hate’, many are questioning their priorities, in the midst of a surge in knife crime, acid attacks and theft. This, however, is not the first time police in the UK have been ridiculed.

Last week, police searched the homes and arrested men who had burnt a cardboard box supposedly representing the Grenfell tower fire, yet the men had in the eyes of the law commit no crime.

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SOUTHERN EUROPE Italian Minister wants his migration decree to be approved as soon as possible

By PAUL DIJKS 20 November 2018

Deputy Premier and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini urges parliamentary approval of his security-and-migration decree.

“Everything will collapse” if not signed by the 3 December deadline. There will be big consequences if the migration decree is not approved by parliament before timing out.

League leader Salvini speaking at a presentation of a blood-donation initiative at the interior ministry said: “The security decree is necessary for the country and it’ll be approved by December 3 or everything will collapse”.

He has asked that parliament respect the 3 December deadline and further said, “I refuse to think that some people may want to turn backwards”.

November 20, 2018 0

FBI labels Proud Boys an ‘extremist group’

**Most commonly seen scrapping in the streets with Antifa, the Proud Boys have now been designated as an “extremist group with ties to white nationalism” by the FBI.**

According to a document from the Clark County Sheriff’s Office in Washington state, the FBI has labeled the Proud Boys an extremist group, and “warned local law enforcement agencies that the Proud Boys are actively recruiting in the Pacific northwest.”

“Proud Boys members have contributed to the recent escalation of violence at political rallies held on college campuses, and in cities like Charlottesville, Virginia, Portland, Oregon, and Seattle, Washington,” the report continued.

The report stemmed not from an investigation into the Proud Boys themselves, but from the association between a female Clark County deputy and the group, which was found to violate sheriff’s office policy. Antifa groups had circulated a picture of the deputy in a Proud Boys sweater, and threatened to reveal her personal details.

The FBI told The Guardian that it would not “directly address the designation,” adding that it “regularly assesses intelligence regarding possible threats” from a multitude of groups. Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes told the Gateway Pundit that he thinks “it’s just local cops trying to cover their asses if she sues” for being unfairly disciplined.

A fraternal organization, the Proud Boys was founded in 2016 by McInnes. Soon after, its uniform of a black and yellow Fred Perry polo shirt began showing up at protests and rallies across the country, including the deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, last August.

Brawl outside NY Proud Boys event leads to arrests, spawns 2 opposite stories

McInnes describes the Proud Boys as a ‘Western chauvinist’ group, made up of men who are unapologetically right-wing and opposed to feminism, political correctness and white guilt. McInnes has distanced himself from the alt-right as a movement, but the Southern Poverty Law Center still considers the organization a ‘hate group.’

Facebook and Instagram have banned accounts associated with the Proud Boys, and both Amazon and PayPal have cut ties with the group too.

The Proud Boys made headlines in October when some of its members brawled with Antifa militants outside a New York Republican event. Both sides pummeled each other after three Antifa members jumped a Proud Boy on his way out of the event. The NYPD arrested three people.

Earlier on this summer, video footage of a Proud Boy knocking out a baton-wielding Antifa protester at a riot in Portland, Oregon, went viral. The incident was one of many confrontations that have occurred between the right and left in Portland in recent months.

A loose collective that counts anti-Trump #resistance types and militant anarchists and communists among its members, Antifa’s street protests have been classed by the FBI and Department of Homeland Security as “domestic terrorist violence.”

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Twitter CEO Dorsey unleashes ‘hate speech’ storm with sign denouncing India’s caste system

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is facing accusations of inciting hatred and violence in India, and has upset both activists and Hindu nationalists, by holding a sign denouncing the Hindu caste system.

Dorsey posed for a picture with six women in India brandishing a poster that read “Smash Brahminical patriarchy” during a visit last week to discuss the role of Twitter in the country.

After the photo was posted on the social media platform on Sunday evening, Dorsey was quickly accused of inciting hatred and violence against Hindu nationalists and India’s Brahmins, the highest group who sit atop the rigid caste hierarchy.

A policy officer for Twitter later apologised to offended users, telling them neither Twitter nor Dorsey endorsed the message that the caste system and male dominance should be dismantled, which in turn angered Indian activists who oppose the patriarchal system.

The legal director of Twitter Vijaya Gadde, who was also at the off-the-record meeting, apologised to users explaining that they were gifted the poster and the photo was intended to be “private.” Gadde acknowledged they should have “been more thoughtful”.

The response was less than satisfactory for activists who questioned why Twitter wouldn’t endorse a message to denounce an oppressive system. The uploaders of the photo also accused Dorsey and Gadde of “throwing us under the bus to save your skin”, claiming the image was not, in fact, “private” but was captured by a Twitter rep and mailed to the group to share.

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GERMAN SCHOOLGIRLS ASKED TO WEAR HIJABS FOR SOCIAL EXPERIMENT

German Schoolgirls Asked to Wear Hijabs For Social Experiment

To test if German citizens acted racist towards them

Paul Joseph Watson | Infowars.com – NOVEMBER 19, 2018

German schoolgirls were asked to wear Muslim hijabs as part of a social experiment to test whether German citizens would be racist towards them.

Six girls donned Islamic headscarves before visiting downtown Lünen. According to a male teacher who observed the group, older people looked at the girls with skepticism and when told about the social experiment responded by saying, “Stay out of here with that garbage.”

The participants said that the hijabs made them feel more self-conscious, strange and that they were being watched.

The Gates of Vienna website complained that the girls were being prepared “for life under sharia”.

“It’s as if they’re being coached on the way to behave once Islam becomes dominant in Germany — which will probably happen within their lifetime,” commented the blog.

While expressing sympathy for Muslims being discriminated against by Germans, the story fails to mention the fact that bullying of non-Muslim German children in migrant-heavy schools is a huge and growing problem.

The mother of a student in a Frankfurt school told BILD that her daughter was being bullied by Muslim girls to such a degree that she had to “take them out of school for protection.”

“She was beaten and verbally attacked on the way to school,” said the mother, explaining that abuse was because her daughter has blonde hair, doesn’t wear a headscarf, has a German-Hebrew name and is a Christian.

When the headmaster was informed of the situation, he told the mother to cover up her daughter with a hijab.

Earlier this year, the president of Germany’s Teachers Association warned that schools with over 70% migrant students are spiraling out of control, with attacks on female teachers and Jewish students becoming commonplace.

Heinz-Peter Meidinger told BILD that a story in Berlin about Muslim migrant students circulating ISIS beheading videos was not a lone case and that such propaganda is “spreading like wildfire”.

While the left have attempted to celebrate and fetishize the hijab, in the rest of the world it serves as a symbol of oppression.

According to Muslim reformist Asra Q. Nomani, the headscarf represents a “purity culture” that “covers, segregates, subordinates, silences, jails and kills women and girls around the world.”

Meanwhile, Germans are being indoctrinated to accept the new way of things following Angela Merkel’s open border policy, which allowed in well over 1 million predominantly Muslim migrants over the past three years, with commercials and TV shows increasingly celebrating Islamic culture.

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