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This is a really ignorant article. He is are ignoring so many truths because they don't fit the narrative he wants to promote.

Almost everything he wrote was parroting the neo liberal legacy media.

As an example: Reform is not a far right party. The legacy media during the protests only showed pictures of young white short haired protestors when in fact the protests were made up of people from many ethnicities and age groups.

The protests were not caused by misinformation about the attacker of the 3 girls, they were caused by a variety of economic factors and a 2 tier approach to policing. infact the protests began prior to the attack, they were escalating at the time of the attack, the timeframe was coincidental and used by the legacy media as a way to label and undermine the movement.

I hope some German and French people can comment and inform us of the true situations in their countries.

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That Europeans now use their democratic rights to vote for parties that are against mass immigration is not a sign of xenophobia or right-wing extremism, but an attempt to address the massive problems caused by un-checked immigration and multiculturalism. Many of the immigrants are economic, not political, refugees, but lack the education and skills needed to be assimilated and able to contribute to their host countries in a positive way. Accepting large numbers of immigrants from clan-based societies that lack democratic traditions and are followers of intolerant religious doctrines is causing division and ethnical unrest in preciously stable and peaceful countries. This is the cause for eroding norms and values, not people voting for new parties that recognize the problems.

So Trump has been convicted of “multiple felonies including rape”? Maybe some fact checking before publishing next time…

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Associated Press: "Donald Trump became the first former American president to be convicted of felony crimes Thursday as a New York jury found him guilty of all 34 charges in a scheme to illegally influence the 2016 election through a hush money payment to a porn actor who said the two had sex."

Associated Press: "A jury found Donald Trump liable Tuesday for sexually abusing advice columnist E. Jean Carroll in 1996, awarding her $5 million in a judgment that could haunt the former president as he campaigns to regain the White House." -- Eds.

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Those convictions say more about the degenerate legal system in America than about the integrity of President Trump. A jury in New York convicted Trump of rape/sexual assault despite their being zero witnesses to the crime. The plaintiff was unable to say which year the alleged assault took place, which makes it impossible for the defendant to provide an alibi. The plaintiff waited decades before filing her accusation, and was unable to provide any medical evidence to at least suggest some kind of activity had taken place that approximately matched the accusations. The judge was clearly hostile to Trump. None of this mattered to the jury, who took the opportunity to punish someone they disliked intensely.

The author knew all this, but still wrote his article and comment. This sort of behaviour is most commonly referred to as lying, and those who do it to influence public opinion are considered dishonest and to lack integrity.

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Yes, that is correct and bad enough, but the author wrote RAPE which is wrong!

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Not to belabor this, but here is the judge's statement as it appeared in The Washington Post:

"After Donald Trump was found liable for sexually abusing and defaming E. Jean Carroll, his legal team and his defenders lodged a frequent talking point.

Despite Carroll’s claims that Trump had raped her, they noted, the jury stopped short of saying he committed that particular offense. Instead, jurors opted for a second option: sexual abuse. “This was a rape claim, this was a rape case all along, and the jury rejected that — made other findings,” his lawyer, Joe Tacopina, said outside the courthouse.

A judge has now clarified that this is basically a legal distinction without a real-world difference. He says that what the jury found Trump did was in fact rape, as commonly understood.

The filing from Judge Lewis A. Kaplan came as Trump’s attorneys have sought a new trial and have argued that the jury’s $5 million verdict against Trump in the civil suit was excessive. The reason, they argue, is that sexual abuse could be as limited as the “groping” of a victim’s breasts."

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Why does your analysis miss the reason why Muslims and North African are not welcomed to Europe? It has nothing to do with racism and everything to do with decreased levels of safety and increased levels of crime. Europe has no problem of immigrants from non-Muslims countries because those citizens come to integrate and obey local rules and customs. Only Muslims demand that the host countries must adjust to their needs. That’s why Europe is against Islam. Not racism.

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According to the author of this deranged opinion piece, nasty, racist Europeans are oppressing the poor, huddled masses of Muslim men seeking a life on welfare and the opportunity to rape European children at whim. Perhaps the author could explain some of the benefits of allowing these invaders into Europe. That might solve the problem.

As for the situation between Thailand and Myanmar - most Thais sympathise with the Burmese, who are fighting for their lives against an evil regime. Part of that sympathy stems from the fact that Thais have suffered under similar rulers, and they know the Thai and Burmese military are very close.

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