Marriage of a 5-year-old girl in Pakistan has reignited debate over child protection

In October, two men in Pakistan’s Baluchistan province were arrested after police were tipped off that a five-year-old girl had been forced into a marriage contract.

The girl’s uncle said that a local man had insisted the girl marry his son, and forced her father to accept a marriage contract.

“We insisted that she is too young to contract a marriage,” the girl’s uncle told DW, adding that the exchange between the two men had been filmed and then reported to police.

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Tehran Dangles the Samson Option Again

Like a one-trick pony, Iran’s ruling mullahs have played unpredictable so often that they have become predictable in their unpredictability.

Facing a nationwide uprising that seems to continue despite massive repression and shaken by the International Atomic Energy Agency’s unexpectedly tough stance on the never-ending nuclear dispute, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has ordered fresh use of an old recipe, which has two ingredients.

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Plan to ban women from Australian national park sparks outrage

A plan to ban women from access to part of a New South Wales, Australia national park has caused uproar among local Indigenous women, who have branded the move “discriminatory.”

Wollumbin National Park, also known as Mount Warning, is located in the Tweed Shire in far north New South Wales, with the landmark attracting about 127,000 people annually.

Wollumbin Mountain was declared an Aboriginal Place above 2000 feet to the summit by the New South Wales government in 2014 to protect its cultural values and formally recognize it as a place of special significance to Aboriginal people.

No one saw that comin I bet.

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Wellcome Collection closes ‘racist, sexist and ableist’ Medicine Man display

A museum in London is closing one of its main exhibitions following concerns over “racist, sexist and ableist theories and language”.

The Wellcome Collection says the Medicine Man display is ending after a 15-year run.

Founder Henry Wellcome, who died in 1936, collected more than a million objects to give an insight into global health and medicine.

I bet it closes due to boredom.

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What role should police have in Toronto high schools?

Is there a place for police in Toronto high schools?

The subject recently came up again after York Memorial Collegiate Institute was in the news over reports of chaos in the school: massive brawls in the hallway, bathrooms used for drug deals and fights, and teachers being threatened and assaulted.

The racist faction kicked the cops out a couple of years ago because they interfered with the violence.

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Antifa Brawl with Police After Attack on Russia Sanctions Protest

Antifa activists brawled with police on Saturday during an attempt to disrupt a protest against the sanctions war with Russia.

Chaos hit the streets of the German city of Leipzig on Saturday after an attempt by Antifa to violently disrupt a march protesting the Western sanctions war with Russia, their impact on citizens, and the war in Ukraine more generally.

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Iran demands the US is KICKED OUT of the World Cup after US Soccer Federation posted tweet of Iranian flag without Islamic Republic emblem

The US soccer federation displayed Iran’s national flag on social media without the emblem of the Islamic Republic, saying the move supports protesters in Iran ahead of the two nations’ World Cup match Tuesday.

Iran’s government reacted by accusing America of removing the name of God from their national flag and called for FIFA to kick the USA out of the World Cup with a 10-game ban from soccer. Tasmin news agency – associated closely with the Iranian regime – says Iran’s soccer federation will make the request to FIFA, soccer’s governing body.

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Idaho Murders: All the Rumors Dismissed by Police As Mystery Continues

“At this time, no suspect has been identified and we have only released vetted information that won’t hinder the investigation,” Moscow Police spokesman Aaron Snell

Police investigating the deaths of four University of Idaho students have moved to shut down rumors about the case.

The students were found stabbed to death in their beds on November 13 in a rental house. They were housemates Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, Madison Mogen, 21, and Kernodle’s boyfriend, Ethan Chapin, 20.

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Sabrina Maddeaux: Our ‘dysfunctional’ Access to Information system is feeding Canadians’ distrust

Canada has a trust problem, and it’s not one we can afford to overlook. While, for some, “trust” means little more than some vague feel-good vibes, it’s actually a foundation of any functioning society.

When trust begins to erode, it’s very difficult to stop the spread. Distrust may begin with one institution or political party, but it almost inevitably begins to consume others. It eventually reaches outside the political realm, affecting neighbours and communities. Recent polls show only one-third of Canadians believe most people can be trusted.

I don’t trust this article. At no point is the balkanization of Canadian society from mass immigration mentioned.

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Did Trump stumble into this Persona-Non-Grata’s ploy?

Why would a black guy befriend a white supremacist? Even if the two share the same Jew hatred, there is a titanic chasm between them.

It has been reported that Kanye West and Donald Trump had dinner together at Mar-a-Lago. Kanye was not the only guest. Although he was the only authorized guest, he did not arrive alone. He took the liberty of bringing along with him the infamous white supremacist, Nick Fuentes.

Trump claimed later that he had never met Fuentes and knew nothing about his background. But the headlines coming out of the meeting with the two antisemites, where one of whom was a white supremacist, may be very damaging to Trump’s ambition of emulating Grover Cleveland’s second, non-consecutive, successful run for the White House. As a result of the dinner’s reverberation, Trump may lose support among blacks, Hispanics, Jews and many independents who despise racism and bigotry, while providing fresh and broad exposure to Kanye, who would, later on, chew over the nature, the gist, and the back-and-forth between him and Trump.

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̷F̷o̷x̷ ̷t̷o̷ ̷g̷u̷a̷r̷d̷ ̷H̷e̷n̷h̷o̷u̷s̷e̷ – Trudeau government unveils long-awaited plan to confront an ‘increasingly disruptive’ China

Trudeau government unveils long-awaited plan to confront an ‘increasingly disruptive’ China

Canada’s long-awaited Indo-Pacific Strategy describes China as “an increasingly disruptive global power” on the world stage — a social and economic force that’s too big to ignore but is also increasingly focused on bending international rules to suit its own interests.

Using some surprisingly blunt language, the strategy says the Canadian government needs to be “clear-eyed” about China’s objectives in the Far East and elsewhere. It promises to spend almost half a billion dollars over five years on improving military and intelligence cooperation with allies in the region.

“China’s rise, enabled by the same international rules and norms that it now increasingly disregards, has had an enormous impact on the Indo-Pacific, and it has ambitions to become the leading power in the region,” says the 26-page document, which was provided to the media in advance of its formal release in Vancouver on Sunday.


Junior refuses to divulge which Candidates received ChiCom funding last election, my guess is the majority were LPC 5th Columnists.

This is all just smoke and mirrors, it’ll be business as usual for Canada’s China class.

From the Globe: This is a bit like a rapist wrapping themselves in the cloak of women’s rights.

Goldy Hyder, president of the Business Council of Canada, said the government’s new policy is based on a “realistic assessment of risks and regional tensions, with a candid recognition Canada must continue to work with China on global priorities such as emissions reductions.”

 

I guarantee Xi doubled over with laughter when he saw this. – h/t Mauser

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GUNTER: Tardy Trudeau shows contempt, again

It’s not as if Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was all that late for his appointment at the Rouleau commission on Friday.

No doubt, plenty of brides were later for their weddings this past summer than Trudeau was (approximately five minutes) for his testimony regarding his invocation of the Emergencies Act last February against the truckers’ convoy in downtown Ottawa.

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