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Saturday, July 29, 2017

IS TRANSGENDERING CHILDREN CHILD ABUSE? TOP PSYCHIATRIST TALKS TO TUCKER CARLSON

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  • Children and adolescents are not small sized adults.  They are wired differently, and they perceive reality in their own way. 
  • Kids need to daydream
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    However, when it comes to sex education, school authorities do not respect their stage of mental development and are pushing a nefarious identity politics agenda on their captive audience. 
  • This experiment will end badly for both kids and society.  
  • Most of us were lucky to have had a real childhood.  But today's children are being robbed of their innocence and are sexualized for the sake of teachers' and politicians' social agenda.  That agenda assumes that the more homosexual and transgendered people there are, the more influence they will have on society.
  •  Children are very vulnerable to influence from those in authority.  Many teachers are militant ideologues who have forged a curriculum for the indoctrination of unusual and kinky sexual practices before children have the mental capacity to understand them.  
  •  It is no surprise that some kids get confused and are now claiming to identify with the opposite sex in a similar fantasy world as kids in past generations identified with cowboys, astronauts, or princesses.  
    Magical moments of childhood
  • Adults, who should be there to protect them and guide them, are inflicting even more damage on them by promoting sex reassignment procedures at a very young age, which includes the chemical sterilization of boys and girls.  According to top pediatrician Michelle Cretella, this is child abuse.
  • Incidentally, the province of Ontario, Canada, will remove even little kids from their homes if their parents object to the kids identifying with the opposite sex.
  • The Minister of Children and Youth Services, Michael Coteau, who introduced the bill, said earlier this year that a parent’s failure to recognize and support a child’s gender self-identification is a form of child abuse, and a child in these circumstances should be removed from the situation and placed into protection.
VIDEO Top Pediatrician Michelle Cretella denounces the castration of young children in sex reassignment procedures 
      Transgender Ideology Is Child Abuse
Tucker Carlson On Identity Politics
 


I’m a Pediatrician.
How Transgender Ideology Has Infiltrated My Field and Produced Large-Scale Child Abuse.

By Michelle Cretella

Portrait of Michelle CretellaMichelle Cretella, M.D., is president of the American College of Pediatricians, a national organization of pediatricians and other health care professionals dedicated to the health and well-being of children.

Transgender politics have taken Americans by surprise, and caught some lawmakers off guard.
 
Just a few short years ago, not many could have imagined a high-profile showdown over transgender men and women’s access to single-sex bathrooms in North Carolina.
 
But transgender ideology is not just infecting our laws. It is intruding into the lives of the most innocent among us—children—and with the apparent growing support of the professional medical community.
 
As explained in my 2016 peer reviewed article,Gender Dysphoria in Children and Suppression of Debate,” professionals who dare to question the unscientific party line of supporting gender transition therapy will find themselves maligned and out of a job.
 
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Wednesday, July 26, 2017

STUDY - EVEN A SINGLE TREE CAN CHANGE THE WEATHER IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD

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  • Years ago I visited Venice, Italy, for the first time and was deeply disappointed.  I had hoped to find a city of magical beauty, but all I saw, when not gazing at the canals, was dilapidated buildings that had once been impressive, narrow claustrophobic alleys, and NOT A SINGLE TREE OR PLANT IN SIGHT.   To find them you must make a trek far from the city centre.  The land is awfully expensive and sidewalks are narrow.  No space to spare for trees. 
  • Being from Vancouver Island I'm used to seeing greenery everywhere, even in winter. 
  • We have a real need to be around plants and trees.  They do much more than produce our much needed oxygen.  They also help us mentally and spiritually by beautifying our surroundings.
  • We like to blame carbon emissions for climate change, but a more likely culprit is the massive deforestation occurring all over the world.  If one single tree can influence neighborhood climate, just imagine what the demise of millions of trees can do.
  • The following article tells how even a single tree can help improve the weather in our neighborhood.    
SCIENCE DAILY - Even a single urban tree can help moderate wind speeds and keep pedestrians comfortable as they walk down the street, according to a new University of British Columbia study that also found losing a single tree can increase wind pressure on nearby buildings and drive up heating costs.


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Tuesday, July 25, 2017

ARE GROWING HOMOSEXUALITY AND PLUMMETTING SPERM LEVELS CAUSED BY ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS? The increasing scientific evidence.

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VIDEO Where are Europe's men? The 'testosterone recession' and girly men

By Faith Goldy of Rebel Media

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The growing incidence of human homosexuality is being framed as a social and political issue and normalized by legislation in almost all western countries. 
 
But instead of being a matter of personal choice and an expression of sexual freedom, scientists are now providing evidence that homosexuality can also be regarded as a biological aberration, an abnormality caused by environmental toxicity. 

Industrial pollutants in the water make fish develop abnormal sexual organs.  Male fish are turning into females, and this cannot be attributed to fish personal choice.  

Soybeans, which are included in various forms and names in many processed foods, have chemicals that mimic estrogen.  Soy's genistein and daidzein act so similar to estrogen that they are known as phytoestrogens (plant-produced estrogens).    Even low doses of these soybean chemicals can seriously alter men's hormones and sexual characteristics.

IS SOY FEMINIZING THE WEST?
VIDEO by Faith Goldy of Rebel Media
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Something nefarious is going on in our environment, but those with a particular political agenda are trying to ignore and cover up scientific evidence that debunks it. 
 
Homosexuality has always existed and its causes go from psychological to biological.  But something has happened to western males in the past couple of generations that may result in their demographic demise.  Not only they are becoming much more feminized in personality and sexual preferences, but their sperm levels are dropping precipitously. 
 
And by the way, to feminizing chemical pollutants we must add the socially and psychologically toxic effects of modern militant feminism that viciously derides and condemns traditional male qualities.  Mothers, female school teachers, and the liberal media relentlessly berate masculinity, and thus we now have the perfect chemical and psychological storm for the destruction of western men.
 
Sperm levels among Western men
 PLUMMET to record low
The UK Express:  A study shows that the count among men from Europe, North America and Australia has fallen by more than 50 per cent in 40 years.   And the study indicates the rate of decline is not slowing down with samples from between 1996 and 2011 still showing sharp decline.   Scientists have suggested that “chemicals in commerce” are partly to blame for the stark numbers.  

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Friday, July 21, 2017

THE REAL DUNKIRK IN COLOR PHOTOGRAPHS - A humiliating World War II defeat was later turned into victory, only to be squandered by today's generation as Europe willingly commits suicide

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  • Millions of Allied soldiers and resistance fighters suffered torture, were maimed, or died in order to save Europe from the Nazis. 
  • A couple of generations later Europeans have willingly surrendered their nation states to another supremacist and intolerant ideology, as millions of Middle Eastern and African migrants take over the continent and irrevocably destroy its culture.
  • Streets are now the scene of recurrent acts of terror.  Citizens are killed with bombs, knives, ramming vehicles, and are randomly attacked with disfiguring sulphuric acid, while thousands of women and children are gang raped.   The European heroes of yesterday are gone.  Today's feminized European men watch all these horrors and look away.
  • Public passivity, political correctness, and outright treason by intellectual and political elites have combined in one mass act of European cultural and demographic suicide.   What would Winston Churchill say?
  • In 2014 British politician Paul Weston was actually ARRESTED for quoting Winston Churchill.  
  • Mr Weston was arrested for publicly quoting an excerpt critical of Islam from Churchill's book The River War.
  • After spending several hours in a cell at Winchester Police Station, Paul Weston was charged with Racially Aggravated Crime, under Section 4 of the Public Order Act, which carries a potential prison sentence of two years. After public outrage he was later released.  Read More
The 'miracle of Dunkirk' in colour
Images show a flotilla of British ships making their way across the Channel as part of the rescue attempt in 1940, while another sees a group of soldiers wading through the sea as they make their way towards a boat (centre).  
Royston Leonard, the man who restored the original black and white photographs into colour versions, said: 'I see a beaten army but not a defeated one. We went to war still stuck with ideas from World War One. We weren't ready for a modern fast-moving war like World War Two. At that time, we were not ready for modern war. But this just shows how by working together even defeat can become a victory.'  
The evacuation of British soldiers from Dunkirk (left and right) was one of the largest military operations of the war, with approximately 338,000 men rescued from the beaches during Operation Dynamo.
 
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Wednesday, July 19, 2017

YANKEE STADIUM TO BE NAMED A PALESTINIAN HERITAGE SITE BY THE UN? - Why not? - With UN help Arabs are using identity theft to take over ownership of Jewish heritage sites and ALL of Israel, while denying Jews any links to the land and its history

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Identity theft and identity fraud on a grand scale seems to be getting worse - and much of it occurs with the full endorsement of governments, international institutions, and liberal society in general - often in blatant denial of science and history. 
 
Men can assume a woman's sexual identity.  They just put on a dress and call themselves Miss.  In Canada you can be charged with hate crimes and fined or jailed for you use the wrong pronoun when referring to a transgender.  DAILY WIRE
 
If US Army male recruits want to assume a female sexual identity, the government will pay for expensive sex reassignment surgery.  While they wait for such surgery, they are allowed to use toilets, showers, and dormitories with those of biological women.  The same goes for women recruits assuming a male sexual identity. 
 
Those sex change surgery expenses, by the way, have a higher priority than helping heroic and ailing war vets get proper health care and housing.   
 
Rachel Dolezai was exposed not long ago after having fooled the NAACP for years by passing herself off as black and holding a senior position in that Afro-American organization, although she was 100% white.  She insists that feeling black is just as legitimate as being black, and many liberals agree with her. 
 
Feelings now override science, and political agendas override historical facts. Muslims have always coveted Israel, and Jerusalem in particular, so much so that they invaded that land in the 7th century and built a mosque on top of the sacred Jewish Temple Mount.  
 
Not only that but invading Arabs from Arabia have assumed the "Palestinian" identity and now they deny Jews all links to their ancient land, although Jewish history in Israel dates back thousands of years. 
 
 
Using the viciously anti-Semitic United Nations as a tool, Muslims are now officially grabbing for themselves ownership of Israel's undeniably Jewish heritage sites. 
 
This didn't just happen.  The Muslim takeover of Israel after their defeats on the battlefield in 1948, 1967 and 1973 is ongoing due to Israeli politicians passive complicity, which some people have characterizes as downright treasonous.
 
To put this on an international perspective globalist politicians such as Angela Merkel and her cohorts have launched an agenda aimed at erasing national borders and western national identities.   Hence the flood of millions of Middle Eastern and African migrants into European countries, unleashing all sorts of internal social and economic crises at city and national levels. 
 
Former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton too aimed at weakening  American national sovereignty by  opening the country's borders and inviting millions of migrants from all over the world.
 
The globalist mindset aims at the destruction of the nation state in favor of international governance, and the dissolution of indigenous cultures in favor of 'diversity'. 
 
When applied in Europe and the USA it is denounced as contrary to western civilization interests.  When globalist Israeli politicians weaken the country and put its very survival at stake with appeasement of Arabs and promises of partition for an Arab terror state, the world calls it 'the peace process'.  
 
Ancient Jewish kingdoms of Israel and
Judah, dating back thousands of years ago
Israeli politicians, many of them corrupt, have knowingly allowed Arabs to defeat Israel not with armies (because Israeli men and women fight like lions to defend their land), but with an aggressive program of delegitimizing of Israel, its history, its culture, and its right to exist. 
 
Successive Israeli governments have routinely refrained themselves from fighting back against (1) the Arabs' process of character assassination against the State of Israel, and (2) the Arabs establishing new facts on the ground in their long-term plan for an eventual complete takeover of the country. 
 
The Israeli budget aimed at defending Israel in the PR field goes from insignificant to non-existent.  
 
The Israeli government provides the Palestinian Authority with TV and radio frequencies, which the Arabs use to spew a daily genocidal message of hate.
 
Children educational program on moderate Palestinian Authority television.  TV frequencies courtesy of the government of Israel.
 
Large swathes of historically Jewish land have been surrendered to the enemy in the name of 'peace' - but with no peace as a result.  Maybe at most a temporary truce, as in the case of Egypt and Jordan.   
 
 
Arab countries have NOT given up on their intention to successfully conquer ALL of Israel.  It is part of Islam's mandate that once a land has been held by Muslim rule, and then lost, it must be reconquered.  
 
In the meantime, Israel and the so-called Palestinians have signed several formal agreements where only Jews are expected to fulfill their obligations while the Arabs routinely ignore theirs.   And so it goes day after day, year after year. 
 
Most Israelis inexplicably appear to be in denial of this grand scale theft and betrayal (or is it treason?).    Voters continue to elect the same "right wing" parties and politicians that have repeatedly betrayed them in the past - illustrating Einstein's definition of insanity:  to do the same thing over and over while expecting different results.  
 
The much touted Jewish higher IQ may be a myth, if one is to judge by the way Jews have allowed Arabs in cahoots with Israeli leaders to rob them out of their land, heritage and history - without even bothering to fight back. 

Author Jack Engelhard pokes fun at just one incidence of how over the decades Arabs have managed to perpetrate what is nothing less than IDENTITY THEFT on a grand scale - all under the complacent, and at times complicit, eyes of Israeli politicians.   He ponders whether the Palestinians will claim ownership of Yankee Stadium next.
 
As background for the article by author Jack Engelhard further on this page, here are some facts about the Biblical city of Hebron: 

Hebron has a long and rich Jewish history and is the site of the oldest Jewish community in the world.   The Book of Genesis relates that Abraham purchased the field where the Tomb of the Patriarchs is located as a burial place for his wife Sarah. This was the first parcel of land owned by the Jewish people in their Promised Land. According to Jewish tradition, the Patriarchs Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, as well the Matriarchs Sarah, Rebecca, and Leah are all buried in the Tomb.King David was anointed King of Israel in Hebron, and he reigned in the city for seven years. One thousand years later, during the first Jewish revolt against the Romans, the city was the scene of extensive fighting. Jews lived in Hebron continuously throughout the Byzantine, Arab, Mameluke and Ottoman periods and it was only in 1929 that the city became temporarily "free" of Jews as a result of a murderous Arab pogrom in which 67 Jews were murdered and the remainder forced to flee.  After the 1967 Six-Day War, the Jewish community of Hebron was re-established.    JEWISH VIRTUAL LIBRARY

'Hawkish' Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gifted this Jewish city to the Arabs in 1997, confining its Jewish residents to a tiny ghetto where they are constantly harassed, and sometimes even murdered, by the large Arab majority in the city. 

ISRAEL'S WORST ENEMIES are not the Arabs but Jews who betray their own people.   The same process of liberation of Jewish land and heritage by Jewish soldiers in 1967  followed by surrender to the Arabs by Israeli politicians goes for Temple Mount, Judea and Samaria, much of Biblical Jerusalem (now nominally under Israeli sovereignty but in fact controlled and inhabited by the Arabs), Gaza, and the Sinai.   All these places are either officially given up, as in the case of Gaza and Sinai, or are under actual control by the Arabs under the perplexing terms 'disputed' or 'occupied' territories.

Ancient Jewish heritage site
Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron
Recently Arabs elected Abu Sneineh, a terrorist convicted of the murder of six Jews in 1980, as mayor of Hebron.   

Abu Sneineh was one of four Palestinian terrorists who on May 2, 1980 attacked a group of Jews in a Hebron alley, firing and hurling grenades at them.

The four terrorists involved were sentenced to life in prison, but were later released by the Israeli government in one of repeated 'gestures' towards the Palestinians that have resulted in the release of thousands of Arab terrorists and criminals, many of whom go on to murder more Jews.
 
The United Nations has for some time been in the grip of an alliance of Arab and other openly anti-Semitic countries with an agenda almost exclusively aimed at demonizing and delegitimizing Israel.  Recently UNESCO declared Hebron an 'endangered Palestinian heritage site', thus erasing thousands of years of Jewish history. 
 
Previously, on October 2016, UNESCO published its decision that Israel has no rights to Jerusalem, and that Jews have no connection to the Western Wall and Temple Mount.
 
 
 
UN to name Yankee Stadium
a Palestinian Heritage Site   
 
You can hardly blame Abbas for going after other peoples historical treasures since the Palestinian Arabs have no history of their own…other than terrorism.
 
by Jack Engelhard, author of, among other books, Indecent Proposal, 
later made into a movie with Robert Redford and Demi Moore
 
Well why not? If they own the Cave of the Patriarchs all bets are off and they own EVERYTHING, including Yankee Stadium, which to American culture is hallowed ground for the memories of Babe Ruth, Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, Reggie Jackson and at this rate, some day Aaron Judge.

In fact I’d be surprised if Mahmoud Abbas hasn’t already put in his bid. All he has to do is ask and UNESCO says sure, it’s yours.

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Sunday, July 16, 2017

THE NEWS IN CARTOONS - JULY 16, 2017 - THE TRUMP AND THE RUSSIANS saga continues - CNN SINKS EVEN LOWER with blackmail and more fake news

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Thursday, July 13, 2017

FIVE FATAL THINGS PEOPLE SHOULD NOT DO IN A DISASTER - How normal judgment is clouded in an emergency, leading to bad decisions

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 The Sewol was carrying 476 people when it took a sharp turn and capsized off the southwestern island of Jindo (pictured)
The Sewol ferry sank off the southwestern coast of South Korea on April 2014 after taking too sharp of a turn.  It was carrying 476 people, and resulted in the loss of 304 lives - 250 of whom were high school students.  Passengers followed  instructions when rescue workers ordered them over and over to stay inside their cabins when the boat began sinking.  
  • From all human reactions during major disasters one of them stands out:  blind obedience to instructions as set out by authorities, regardless of whether they make sense or not.
  • Three examples:  The 9-11 Towers, a South Korean ferry that sank full of students in 2014, and the recent fire in Grenfell Tower in London. 
  • In all three instances people were instructed by authorities to stay put, not to panic, and not to flee. 
  • So many lives could have been saved if instead of deferring to authority, people had listened to their own survival instincts telling them to escape. 
  • Sure, there is danger in a pack rushing towards the exits, or jumping into the water, as in the sinking ferry's case.  But anything is better than to sit and wait for an improbable rescue when you only have minutes or seconds left to act.
  • Authorities' mindset is always aimed at avoiding chaos and confusion, rather than to allow people to save themselves.
  • However, in spite of our life-saving instincts, humans also have some psychological glitches that may cloud our thinking in an emergency.  The following article by the BBC explores those glitches and, most importantly, it gives guidelines on WHAT NOT TO DO in a disaster.  Here's an excerpt: 
In a disaster, the speed at which we think through our options goes from bad to worse. The brain’s first port of call is to flood with the “feel good” hormone dopamine. This may seem counter-intuitive, but though it’s usually associated with reward pathways, dopamine also plays a crucial role in preparing the body to face danger. It triggers the release of more hormones, including adrenaline and the stress chemical cortisol. And this is where it gets messy.  This cocktail of hormones shuts down the prefrontal cortex, which sits behind the forehead and is responsible for higher functions such as working memory. Just when we need our wits the most, we become forgetful and prone to making bad decisions.

What Not To Do In A Disaster
By Zaria Gorvett, BBC
 
“I’ll never forget the sound. The sound of metal crunching,” says George Larson, a passenger on Indian Airlines Flight 440 from Chennai (Madras) to New Delhi in 1973. It was 22:30 – pitch black outside. A storm was raging, and the plane was flying low. 
 
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Tuesday, July 11, 2017

EVEN ONE NIGHT WITHOUT PROPER SLEEP CONTRIBUTES TO ALZHEIMER'S disease, says university study - Disrupted sleep increases brain protein associated with Alzheimer's

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  • Lack of sleep is known to be harmful to our health and well being. 
  • Now a study proves that it can also contribute to Alzheimer's disease, as the following article explains.
  • But Alzheimer's may have several origins.   
  • One of them is prions, which are pathogens that can be transmitted from medical tools such as dentists' instruments, from blood transfusions, meat contaminated with BSC, and even from person to person. 
  • This proven and alarming fact is played down by scientists and the media because of its obvious implications for the meat industry, dental care, and other medical procedures.   
  • Prions are microscopic life forms that are neither bacteria nor viruses. 
  • They can travel from grass to cow to human. Or from a contaminated item to you.
  • Certain prions can cause serious neurological damage to both animals and people, including Alzheimer's.
  • What makes prions so dangerous is that they are indestructible by any known method of sterilization.  
  • So while lifestyle and genetics may influence the incidence of Alzheimer's, there are prions lurking in our environment that are a real threat.
  • READ MORE about prions and Alzheimer's HERE
Study:  Disrupting just one night of sleep in healthy, middle-aged adults causes an increase in a brain protein associated with Alzheimer's disease, research shows.
 
Further, a week of poor sleep leads to an increase in another brain protein that has been linked to brain damage in Alzheimer's and other neurological diseases.   A good night's sleep refreshes body and mind, but a poor night's sleep can do just the opposite.
 
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Monday, July 10, 2017

THE ADORABLE BUT QUICKLY DISAPPEARING RED SQUIRRELS now in decline in Britain

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After dedicating two decades to following the secret lives of red squirrels, Neil McIntyre has built up a more intimate portrait through the changing seasons of the year. Pictured: An inquisitive squirrel climbs a fence in photographer Neil’s garden
Red alert! Joyous photos of the much loved native squirrels most of us never see through the changing seasons of the year
  • Reds - Britain's native squirrel species — have long been in decline, and are absent from most parts of the UK 
  • Numbers fell dramatically in Britain from around 3.5 million to about 160,000 after introduction of the grey
  • Shockingly, more than 100,000 reds were shot in Scotland in the first half of the 20th century as vermin 

  • Continue reading and see more photos of cute red squirrels

    Saturday, July 8, 2017

    HAMBURG RIOTS - Violent mobs take over the city during the G-20 Summit demanding an end to Capitalism and its replacement by murderous Marxist oppression - Watch VIDEO on "The End of Germany" with Stefan Molyneux and Lauren Southern, who had to run for her life from angry leftist mobs

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    • Demonstrators climbed scaffolding during a protest last night as world leaders gathered in Hamburg for the G20 summitThe following images are shocking.  How can civilized individuals resort to such destructiveness and violence to make a point? 
    • Perhaps Europe has never been truly civilized.  A few inspired individuals advanced civilization with their philosophical writings and scientific discoveries, while the rest indulged for millennia in almost non-stop slaughter  in the name of territory or religion.   
    • Only a couple of generations ago Germans and their other European accomplices  were enthusiastically rounding up Jews and sending them to gas chambers. 
    • Our grandparents witnessed Europe's descent into savagery. 
    • What will our kids and grandkids see now that the new European demographics include millions of  migrants who will not refrain themselves from using extreme violence to make a point, as they do in their home countries? 
    • Capitalism is far from perfect, but it's better than the other alternatives.  Europe never had it so good as in the decades after World War II.  There was peace, prosperity, and hope for an even better future. 
    • All that now is irretrievably gone because of two generations of spoiled, violent, hateful youth bent on destroying their very own society for its replacement with a utopian Marxism that has NEVER worked in any country in the world. 
    • Hundreds of human beings were murdered in the name of Marxism, mostly by Stalin, Mao, and other dictators.  And let's not forget the DDR, Germany's own Communist East Germany, where people were imprisoned for decades behind a wall.  How soon they forget! 
    • Today political leaders such as Angela Merkel do their own part in destroying Europe through the importation of millions of Middle Eastern and African migrants who are too fundamentalist to ever integrate into European society.

    UPDATE - VIDEO - Lawyer for the Black Block sanctions the burning and looting of Hamburg but not in his neighborhood
    40 second video in German with English translation

    SEE IMAGES of mobs in Hamburg, Germany during the G-20 summit:  assaulting police and random people, burning cars, breaking store windows, looting, and demanding an end to the capitalist system and its replacement with Marxist oppression. 
     
    Protesters march during the "G20 Not Welcome" protests with banners reading 'Capitalism kills' and skeleton make-up
    The alternative:  the same Marxist system that murdered millions in the Soviet Union, Cambodia, China, Cuba, and other Socialist paradises.
     
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    ALSO:  Watch VIDEO "The End of Germany",  a conversation between Stefan Molyneux and Lauren Southern. Lauren has been video reporting from the riot zone.  UPDATE:  Watch VIDEO of the aftermath of destruction: like a war zone.