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Embattled German Chancellor Angela Merkel is doubling-down on her controversial Muslim immigration policy despite a massive pushback by right-wing parties in Germany and its European Union member states, including neighboring Austria.

Merkel’s stubborn stance has become the bane of her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party. Voters have punished CDU at the ballot, dealing the party a massive blow in the last round of elections on September 4.

The election was a deafening clarion call for change, forcing Merkel to head “toward national elections next year more politically vulnerable than at any time since her early days in office, with implications that extend far beyond Germany’s borders,” according to the Times. “Her continued defense of her decision to admit more than a million migrants to Germany last year has left her increasingly isolated from other leaders coping with anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim sentiment in their electorates, especially after terrorist attacks.”

Even members of Merkel’s own party are now turning on her, condemning the German Chancellor as weak and naive.

Sexual assault of women en masse was unheard of in modern Germany since the rape of Berlin in 1945, following the invasion of Soviet troops. But it became an abrupt reality again in 2016.

The news from Cologne shocked Europe, though the incidents were at first covered up to protect migrants. Police reports show that more than 2,000 men were involved in the sexual assaults. Only 120 of them were ever identified by the authorities. Those who were found were given suspended sentences of a year or less.

According to the tabloid Express, the government is trying to find and prosecute a leaker in their own ranks who gave the press confidential information – namely, that the German government requested that Police did not include the word “rape” in their Cologne report.

Among the German population there are now repeated accusations that German media has an agenda set by the government and that it sets editorial demands in line with the government’s wishes, which are dictated by politics and ideology.

Many German media outlets refused to name or indicate the ethnic origin or religious affiliations of the assailants, fearing that they would feed racist and xenophobic sentiment. The Police did the same and it was only later revealed that they were under orders not inform anyone about the criminal activities of migrants.

Politicians and the media appear afraid to name the the origins of the Cologne attackers, possibly believing that such facts would be politically incorrect, destroy cultural cohesion in Germany, go against Angela Merkel’s plans or have some other, mysteriously undisclosed social consequence.

The scale not only of sexual assaults but of journalistic malpractice, police cover-ups and government involvement in the censorship of private citizens’ opinions is not widely known in Germany because it is not reported. Only thanks to new community-run social networks did the events of Cologne become such a national scandal that mass media had no choice but to start covering them.

There is no sign that any foreign-born criminal, legal or illegal, will be deported for his crimes. State president Hannelore Kraft said they can’t be, as their home countries wouldn’t accept them back. Officials doubt any of them will be convicted...

Residents of Düsseldorf formed a city watch that has over 13,000 members, with the goal of protecting women. Immediately, media and politicians denounced the group, demanding proactive measures taken against it, under the pretence of a fear about “mob justice.”

Accusations of racism and far-right politics were instantly dished out by the government. In other words, Germany’s elected representatives have begun to punish Germans attempting to protect themselves because the government won’t do its job. Again, the media has been complicit in spreading the party line.

At the same time, Muslim leaders such as Imam Abu-Yusuf in Cologne have publicly said:”The women themselves carry responsibility for the attacks, when they run around half-naked and perfume themselves.”

TRUMP MULLS EXPELLING UNEMPLOYED IMMIGRANTS

President Trump is considering an executive order targeting immigrants for deportation if they are dependent on government assistance, a draft document suggests.

The draft order obtained by The Associated Press calls for the identification and removal “as expeditiously as possible” of any foreigner who takes certain kinds of public welfare benefits.

Such immigrants have been barred from the US for the better part of a century and they can already be deported. The proposed order appears to signal a Trump administration effort to vigorously crack down on such welfare cases.

Germany sounds like a cheese-eater's heaven, eh?

n September 2015, the Center for Immigration Studies published a landmark study of immigration and welfare use, showing that 51 percent of immigrant-headed households used at least one federal welfare program — cash, food, housing, or medical care — compared to 30 percent of native households.

The key findings:

— The average household headed by an immigrant (legal or illegal) costs taxpayers $6,234 in federal welfare benefits, which is 41 percent higher than the $4,431 received by the average native household.

— The average immigrant household consumes 33 percent more cash welfare, 57 percent more food assistance, and 44 percent more Medicaid dollars than the average native household. Housing costs are about the same for both groups.

— At $8,251, households headed by immigrants from Central America and Mexico have the highest welfare costs of any sending region — 86 percent higher than the costs of native households.

The greater consumption of welfare dollars by immigrants can be explained in large part by their lower level of education and larger number of children compared to natives.

The new report follows another that found President Obama seeking $17,613 for every new illegal minor, more than Social Security retirees get.

Heh, Walt, a separate cheese department, eh? Aint that special.

Almost 50 percent of sausage is made from processed left over parts of a pig including blood, guts, organs and, of course, head meat.

Trump's approval numbers will rise after firing the acting AG, he did the right thing.

Bissonnette was described in media reports as an ardent nationalist and a strong supporter of the French far-right politician Marine Le Pen. He was known to activists in Quebec for taking positions against feminism and refugees, said François Deschamps, of the pro-refugee group Bienvenues aux Refugiés, on his Facebook page.

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It is an authoritarian response. Administrative and judicial are separate branches by design.