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There are indeed better sources to use
Haaretz confirms that she did indeed say she was happy to be a fascist although no reference to the rest of the quote
https://www.haaretz.com/.premium-how-a-likud-mk-talked-her-way-to-the-top-1.5277198
“proudly proclaiming “happy to be a fascist” in a televised interview”
And another time calling Sudanese migrants a cancer.
In regards to the broader claim we should add that related references to the rise of fascism in Israel are made by prominent commentators inside Israel itself.
Barak, Israel’s ex-prime minister has warned that his country is “infected by the seeds of fascism.
Israeli Maj.-Gen. Yair Golan in a Holocaust Remembrance Day speech compared Israel with 30s Germany
Israeli journalist Gideon Levy warned that he saw the “first signs of fascism” in Israel.
The nationalist right-wing extremist views seldom get reported by the main news outlets here in the UK but they are very influential in directing public opinion in Israel and are not on the margins but inside the government, such as Ayelet Shaked, a justice minister, who asserted that “the entire Palestinian people is the enemy” and called for its destruction, “including its elderly and its women, its cities and its villages, its property and its infrastructure.”
170,000 antisemitic Google searches are made in the UK every year, with 10% of them involving violent phrases such as “Jews must die” or “kill Jews”, research has revealed.
Antisemitic searches are higher in Wales than in any other part of the UK by proportion of the population, and lowest in Scotland.
They always come as a surprise. As Morgan Stanley Investment Management’s Ruchir Sharma notes, professional forecasters have missed every U.S. recession since such records were first kept half a century ago.
It’s easy to see why there’s reluctance to predict recession: There’s often no concrete evidence for it, even if signs of a slowdown become visible. Growth in pre-recession quarters is often strong
“We’ll never be able to develop macro models capable of predicting demand-side recessions. And we shouldn’t even try,” wrote Scott Sumner, an economist and professor at Bentley University in Waltham, Massachusetts
Another report seemingly saying that it is worse than we first thought
Orban predicted that there would be two civilizations in Europe: One “that builds its future on a mixed Islamic and Christian coexistence” and another in Central Europe that would be only Christian.
Tories seek alliance with the trade unions…
I think there is a valid criticism that taste is determined by the availability of supply. As long as veganism remains a niche market, it is doubtful it will significantly grow and that was the point I was making…Greggs a mainstream food processor, but of course, now that they have detected a profitable market, we perhaps will see more vegan products on the shelves.
But this also caught my eye
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46811358
Dog and cat food from insects. How long before Greggs do a grasshopper pasty?
Well worth the read revealing that on the very first day in the senate AOC compromised her “principles”
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/jan/09/greggs-unveils-extra-profit-vegan-sausage-roll
Roger Whiteside, the chief executive, said the firm had been taken by surprise over their popularity and the level of publicity surrounding the launch, and was ramping up production in response.“Now that we know it is selling, we want to get it out there as quickly as possible. The shops that do have it are selling out instantly and the shops that didn’t get it are screaming for it.” The Quorn-filled vegan alternative to the traditional meat version.
https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/zionist-fallacy-jewish-supremacy-190108202804743.html
“To maintain this abusive, white supremacist dynamic, Zionist propagandists have promoted the anti-Semitic fallacy that Israel is a Jewish state, which represents Judaism and thus all Jews. This fundamental canard is at the root of Zionist propaganda (aka Hasbara), galvanising support for Israeli settler colonialism and attacking anti-colonial resistance. The logical outcome of this fallacy erroneously determines that critique of Zionism/Israel is necessarily anti-Semitic. Successive Israeli governments have employed this trope as a talking point in order to sabotage critique”
Trump described the Kurds as a “great, great people,” and insisted that “we have to help them.” because “Tens of thousands of Kurds died fighting ISIS. They died for us and with us.”
Mike Pompeo called the Syrian Kurds “great partners” and pledged to include them in future negotiations to end the war in Syria.
“If we leave now, the Kurds are going to get slaughtered,” Right-wing Republican Senator Lindsey Graham
Real Politik
Should we attend but wear red vests…? I believe they are also available in health and safety shops.
Washington Post reports on Tuesday:
“The findings, published Tuesday by the independent economic research firm Rhodium Group, mean that the United States now has a diminishing chance of meeting its pledge under the 2015 Paris climate agreement to dramatically reduce its emissions by 2025.
The findings also underscore how the world’s second-largest emitter, once a global leader in pushing for climate action, has all but abandoned efforts to mitigate the effects of a warming world. President Trump has said he plans to officially withdraw the nation from the Paris climate agreement in 2020 and in the meantime has rolled back Obama-era regulations aimed at reducing the country’s carbon emissions.”According to the Guardian, the jump in 2018 “is the biggest since the bounce back from the recession in 2010. It is the second largest gain in more than two decades.”
The Rhodium Group does not say it is impossible for the U.S. to meet its initial Paris obligations, the path the achieving those reductions is now going to be all that much harder.
“To meet the Paris Agreement target of a 26-28% reduction from 2005 levels by 2025, the US will need to reduce energy-related CO2 emissions by 2.6% on average over the next seven years — and faster if declines in other gasses do not keep pace,” the report notes. “That’s more than twice the pace the US achieved between 2005 and 2017 and significantly faster than any seven-year average in US history. It is certainly feasible, but will likely require a fairly significant change in policy in the very near future and/or extremely favorable market and technological conditions.”Vinnie, Irony rarely works on the web and calling the Catholic church globalist (universalist) was a bit of sarcasm as the term is being seen as a modern description.
As you can see I have been posting a lot of the Pope’s comments – mainly because I agree with James Connolly – that to survive the Catholic church will adopt even a “revolutionary” position, no matter how hypocritical it is to its creed.
“…the man who imagines that in the supreme hour of the proletarian struggle for victory the Church will definitely line up with the forces of capitalism, and pledge her very existence as a Church upon the hazardous chance of the capitalists winning, simply does not understand the first thing about the policy of the Church in the social or political revolutions of the past. Just as in Ireland the Church denounced every Irish revolutionary movement in its day of activity, as in 1798, 1848 and 1867, and yet allowed its priests to deliver speeches in eulogy of the active spirits of those movements a generation afterwards, so in the future the Church, which has its hand close upon the pulse of human society, when it realises that the cause of capitalism is a lost cause it will find excuse enough to allow freedom of speech and expression to those lowly priests whose socialist declarations it will then use to cover and hide the absolute anti-socialism of the Roman Propaganda. When that day comes the Papal Encyclical against socialism will be conveniently forgotten by the Papal historians, and and the socialist utterances, of the von Kettelers, the McGlynns, and McGradys will be heralded forth and the communistic utterances of the early fathers as proofs of Catholic sympathy with progressive ideas. Thus it has been in the past. Thus it will be…”
The head of the first globalist organization attacks nationalism
