>>4485204 (lb)
Exactly. Rhetorical: why dont (((they))) use Buddha, why dont they use Mohammed to give credence to their immigration argument? Maybe because they dont view those as a threat? They give themselves away. Hilarious.
Hungary’s Orban: Bringing Africa’s Problems to Europe Will ‘Destroy 2,000-year-old Culture’
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has warned mass migration from Africa would destroy Europe’s culture.
“[W]e should deliver help to Africa and not bring the problems to Europe,” he said in an interview with the Austrian media, adding that the conservative-populist coalition government in Vienna holds the same position as Budapest.
“Some people say that the solution is to bring migrants to Europe because they think it will be good for their country. The Hungarian position is that we don’t want this. There is an ideological difference,” he explained.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2018/12/27/orban-bringing-africas-problems-europe-destroy-culture/
Former Walmart Santa arrested after police find his children’s bodies buried in his yard
Last Thursday, Georgia's Effingham County Sheriff’s deputies searched Elwyn Crocker’s home after receiving a tip that his 14-year-old daughter Mary Crocker was missing.
Deputies found two bodies buried “just inside the wood line,” according to the sheriff’s office. Effingham County Coroner David Exley told USA TODAY the bodies, found feet away from each other, were identified as Crocker's two children.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/12/27/former-walmart-santa-arrested-after-kids-bodies-found-his-yard/2420091002/
Hospitals will be required to post prices online starting January 1
https://www.abc10.com/article/news/nation-world/hospitals-will-be-required-to-post-prices-online-starting-january-1/103-625017951
In Surprise Cabinet Reshuffle, Saudi King Salman Establishes Space Agency, Demotes Foreign Minister
The diplomatic crisis ignited by the killing of Jamal Khashoggi has largely subsided, and Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman's grip on power is, if anything, even stronger than it was before (having faced down incipient challenges from one of his uncles). Which is why it's somewhat surprising to see MbS's ailing father, King Salman, order a limited cabinet reshuffle that moved around some of the key players in the scandal (including Adel al-Jubeir, who was one of the kingdom's key liaisons with western media during its response to Khashoggi's killing) and removed Prince Mohammed bin Nawaf al Saud as the Kingdom's ambassador to the UK, according to Saudi State TV station Al-Arabiya.
Amid the reshuffle, the king ordered the creation of a new political and security council (presumably to help protect his chosen successor's flank) and - in a move that is reminiscent of a controversial decision made by President Trump this year - establishes a new Saudi space agency.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-12-27/king-salman-establishes-saudi-space-agency-demotes-foreign-minister-surprise
YouTube Reportedly Changes Search Algorithm After Writer Complains There Are Too Many Pro-Life Results
A progressive writer was frustrated last week after she discovered a simple search for “abortion” on YouTube yielded a series of pro-life video results.
April Glaser, a journalist for Slate, revealed via Twitter that she contacted YouTube after she typed “abortion” into the website’s search bar and was met with “a horrifying mix of gore and dangerous misinformation
Glaser claimed YouTube changed the algorithm for its search results after she reached out to the Silicon Valley-based company.
In her accompanying article, the Slate writer argued YouTube showed too many pro-life videos, revealing the dangers and graphic nature of abortion. She went on to say the website didn’t feature enough pro-abortion videos.
While Glaser said the “abortion” search results at Google, which owns YouTube, were “relatively staid,” she felt she’d entered “a whole other universe” when she perused the video website.
“Before I raised the issue with YouTube late last week,” she wrote, “the top search results for ‘abortion’ on the site were almost all anti-abortion — and frequently misleading.”
YouTube’s willingness to immediately alter the algorithm to give more favorable results to Glaser went quite a ways in revealing the company’s left-leaning perspective.
This isn’t the first time Google has shown its cards when it comes to abortion.
Earlier this year, during Ireland’s referendum on the legality of abortion, the internet behemoth announced it would prohibit all advertisements coming from international sources — namely, the U.S. — leading up to and during the vote.
But Google didn’t stop there. Eventually, the social media network decided to ban all ads, both foreign and domestic, that pertained in any way to Ireland’s abortion law. That regulation applied to YouTube.
https://www.faithwire.com/2018/12/27/youtube-reportedly-changes-search-algorithm-after-writer-complains-theres-too-many-pro-life-results/
UAE reopens embassy in Syrian capital closed in 2011
https://www.chron.com/news/world/article/Syria-says-UAE-will-reopen-Damascus-embassy/