The United Nations is currently dealing with what it calls “a cancer in our system” — namely, “peacekeepers” in the Central African Republic who have been paying to have sex with young teen girls.
According to The Washington Post, “[O]fficials have learned about what appears to be a fresh scandal. Investigators discovered this month that at least four U.N. peacekeepers in the Central African Republic allegedly paid young girls as little as 50 cents in exchange for sex.”
Africa is likely to become one of the biggest stories of 2016, and not because of some horrific new disease or harrowing new war. Instead, an unprecedented new dynamic is about to shape the continent. The U.S. and China, major powers with a minor footprint, are both poised for much deeper and more direct involvement in African affairs.
Boo hoo hooo… Do-gooder privately sponsors a family of seven from Syrian, gets her panties in a bunch when landlords aren’t interested in renting to them.
The conversations started off well. “And then when I mentioned seven people and Syrian refugees, the tone changed. So we didn’t even go and look,” she said.
The landlords switched from enthusiasm to downright discouragement. They described the bedrooms as small, or said they preferred long-term tenants, she recalled.
“This is a humanitarian crisis. … My feeling was that people should just step up and do that little bit extra,” said Ms. Onufryk, who is part of a sponsorship group called Abraham’s Children Together that is a partnership of a church, a synagogue and an Islamic association.
Hmm… funny… why can’t the family just live in her house? Or does she not want them there, preferring someone else foot the bill and provide the shelter she signed on for when she sponsored them? Why is it “people” (ie, not her) who need to “step up and do that little bit extra.”
Oh, and of course she assumes it’s because of racism instead of landlords get to decide whether or not they want a family of seven with no current means of support in their privately owned two-bedroom apartments.
One landlord told her he would not rent to Syrian refugees and then hung up.
“Being an affluent, blonde white woman, I’ve never really experienced any prejudice in Canada. And so when someone told me they wouldn’t rent because I was asking about Syrian refugees, I was flabbergasted,” she said.
Affluent, huh? Again, what about her house?
Spoiler alert: they got an apartment at $400 below market price. In other news, the waiting list for regular folks to get into affordable housing is 10 years in Ontario, but who cares about regular folks anyway?
As always, the comments are better than the actual article:
If these refugees are “sponsored”, the sponsors should co-sign the leases, otherwise what is their sponsorship worth? If they are not willing to take on the financial risk of the refugees they have sponsored, why should the landlord?
Too bad this woman isn’t so quick to help find affordable housing for Canadians struggling with low income, low paying jobs and the high cost of rental housing.
I don’t really see why there is a problem. I read in the G&M comments over the last couple of months 20 or 30 people say they would take in a family – and that was only in the G&M. You mean they didn’t take them in?
Just as his TV show I Am Cait has turned out to be a ratings flop (despite all the spin from media), it seems no one really wants to see Bruce Caitlyn Jenner in person either. Jenner “quietly cancelled” a five-city speaking tour due to low ticket sales:
We spoke to the Toronto venue and they told us there were still “a lot” of tix left for Caitlyn’s speaking engagement when she backed out. Despite that, we’re told it was absolutely canceled purely due to the scheduling issues.
Jenner’s appearance was to be part of the long-standing series Unique Lives and Experiences, which describes itself as “developed in response to women’s requests for intellectual entertainment and provides them with a forum for meaningful dialogue and stimulating interaction.”
Yeah, we can see how a member of the Kardashian clan would be hard-pressed to appeal to their target audience, what with the whole “meaningful” and “intellectual” requirements.
Well, now it’s winter in Europe, and the hangover from the drunken decision to import hundreds of thousands of military aged Muslim men into Western Europe has only just begun. Those who say this wasn’t predictable are frankly, idiots.
But we will go a step further and predict that Angela Merkel will go from Time Magazine’s Person of the Year to sharing the same fate as Oliver Cromwell, with the German people posthumously digging her up to hang her within a generation.
The only countries that did not drink the Kool-Aid it seems are the former Soviet block nations who, ironically, have not been exposed to decades of cultural marxism, and therefore still retain some cultural identity, integrity and common sense.
New Year’s Eve festivities in Germany, particularly Cologne, were a little extra touchy-feely, after a thousand newly arrived not-so Deutsch-y dudes spent New Year’s Eve hanging around a train station getting their grope on with uncooperative local gals, 120 of whom went to the local cops (and at least 2 of the girls weren’t just groped but raped).
In response, Cologne’s Mayor Henriette Reker had a meeting with the chief of police to figure out how to make sure this doesn’t happen again, and then decided to scold the women for asking for it by walking about in public places not taking appropriate precautions to avoid being victimized.
The crisis management team said prevention measures should include a code of conduct for young women and girls, and Mayor Reker said the existing code of conduct will be updated online.
The suggested code of conduct includes maintaining an arm’s length distance from strangers, to stick within your own group, to ask bystanders for help or to intervene as a witness, or to inform the police if you are the victim of such an assault.
TL;DR version of Mayor Reker’s remarks: stop putting yourself within groping distance, you temptresses.
Surprisingly for a continent so terrified of being called a racist that they usually offer their own girls up as sacrificial lambs to the slaughter and look the other way, people got pissed when the mayor basically told women it was their own fault.
Even more so when the police describe the gropey mob as a “peaceful” celebration.
Oh, and it wasn’t just Cologne. Similar things happened all over Germany on New Year’s Eve, and have been happening since the country started getting invaded enriched with its hundreds of thousands of refujihadis simple folks looking for a better life in Germany this summer.
Not to mention that avoiding being within arm’s reach assumes the creeps are all stuck in place and can’t simply move to get within arm’s reach anyway. Also, if all the closest bystanders are also trying to feel you up, exactly what sort of help will they be giving?
As we like to say here at ABP, this is what a real rape culture looks like, or at least, this is what it looks like when you import a million members of a real rape culture.
Dolce & Gabbana are taking a little break from designing for Hollywood ho-bags and metrosexual dudes with eating disorders to do something a little more modest: hijabs and abaya cloaks for Muslim women.
Not sure how modest the fashion shoot for them was, though. I mean, you can see their feet and ankles, they’re wearing red nail polish, which was a big no-no as far as the Taliban was concerned anyway, and just look at that slut on the top left with the bare forearms:
As Pamela Geller puts it:
Cultural jihad from a gay couple, no less. Dolce & Gabbana has revealed the Italian fashion house’s first hijab collection on Instagram. Dolce & Gabbana is designing fashion for an ideology that calls for their deaths. Madness. Imagine Jews designing for members of the Nazi party during the 1940s.
Hey, makes sense, sorta: happy wife, happy life, right? So if you get the wives loving your brand, maybe the husbands will throw you off the building last? Worth a shot, I suppose.
Unfortunately, our media is not guided by the lofty principle of what it is supposed to be about; because history shows that when it comes to these kinds of allegations, some powerful men like Bill Cosby are taunted and hunted, while other powerful men with the first name Bill, who have faced similar allegations, are protected.
I am of course talking about former-President Bill Clinton, who like Bill Cosby, has been accused of rape and has been forced to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit.
The world’s densest network of oil pipelines runs through Saudi Arabia’s Shia heartland, now the epicentre of a deadly struggle.
Saudi Arabia’s drastic decision to behead the Shia cleric Nimr al-Nimr marks a point of no return in the bitter Sunni-Shia conflict engulfing the region. It is a dangerous escalation in the Kingdom’s struggle with Iran for regional hegemony.
Brent crude jumped to a three-week high of $38.91 a barrel as traders began to price in the first flickers of political risk. Roughly a fifth of global oil supply passes through the Strait of Hormuz, where tankers would in extremis have to run the gauntlet past Iranian warships.
On the back of Seymour Hersh’s damning article on the Pentagon decoupling from the Obama admin over its tacit support for ISIS in Syria. Read original article here
Now more bad news for Obama & Hillary tonight as Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy’s three sons and about 150 militiamen have occupied the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge HQ to protest the pending imprisonment of two Oregon ranchers accused of arson, calling on U.S. patriots to ‘take up arms.’ Read More
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