National Identity
Democratic Vice Presidential candidate Tim Walz said on Tuesday that the “Electoral College needs to go,” forcing the Kamala Harris campaign to release a statement saying it does not support abolishing the Constitutional mechanism for presidential elections.
At two campaign fundraisers on the West Coast, Walz called for abolishing the Electoral College, arguing that it forces candidates to focus too much attention on a handful of battleground states, The New York Times reported.
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Read MoreThe fear of a terrorist attack is soaring among Germans, a pollster finds, a worry rising in parallel with concern about crime and extremism.
Germans are some of the most fearful of the potential for terror attacks in the world, pollster Ipsos Mori find in their periodic barometer of global sentiment on concern for key issues. Terrorism fear has increased from four to 20 per cent in just one year, the pollster states.
Only one country in the world of the 29 major states po
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Read MoreNearly half of Germany’s welfare recipients are foreign nationals, with migrant groups such as Afghans and Syrians showing high dependency on state benefits. Left-wing populist leader Sahra Wagenknecht criticized the country’s migration policies, calling for reforms to protect the welfare system.
•Foreign Welfare Dependency: 48% of Bürgergeld recipients in Germany are non-citizens, including 2.7 million foreign nationals.
•Migrant Unemployment: 47% of Afghans and 55% of Syrians rely on welfare, despite a decrease from the European Migrant Crisis.
•Populist Criticism: Sahra Wagenknecht condemned Germany’s migration policy, arguing that unrestricted access threatens the welfare state.
•Welfare Strain: The growing number of migrants receiving state aid is increasing pressure on Germany’s social systems.
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The Italian government has authorized the deportation of an Islamic extremist imam on the grounds of national security as the country continues to counter extremism and radicalization within its borders.
Zulfiqar Khan, the imam of a mosque in Bologna, was informed of his expulsion from Italy this week, following an order signed by Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi. He had been living in the country since 1995 having arrived from Pakistan and held a residence permit.
A police statement said Khan had “manifested a fundamentalist vision of t
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Read MoreAustria remains in political limbo following last month’s national elections, as Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen announced that no party has been given a mandate to form a government yet.
After hosting talks with the leaders of the FPÖ, ÖVP, SPÖ, NEOS, and the Greens at the Hofburg Palace on Wednesday, Van der Bellen made it clear that he expects more clarity from the top three parties by the end of next week before any mandate is issued.
The right-wing Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ), led by Herbert Kickl, em
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Read MoreConcern among Spaniards about immigration has surged in the past year with 57 percent of citizens believing there are now “too many” immigrants in the country, new polling shows.
A recent survey by the 40dB Institute for El País and Cadena SER revealed that 75 percent of Spaniards now associate immigration with negative concepts such as insecurity, crime, and overburdened public services. The increase in concern — up by 16 points over the last year and a half — reflects a considerable shift at a time when the migrant crisis, particularly on the Canary Islands archipelago is at the forefront of public debate.
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Read MoreVancouver police are investigating recent protests supporting the terrorist group Hamas that involved the burning of a Canadian flag.
The Vancouver Police Department (VPD) said recent protests marking the first anniversary of the Hamas attacks on Israel last October involved acts that were “intolerable, offensive, and unsafe.”
“These acts include people burning a Canadian flag, making inflammatory comments about various nations, including our own, and expressing solidarity with terrorist groups,” VPD said in an Oct. 8 statement on the X platform. “We have heard from community members, and others, who are deeply offended.
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Read MoreThe one-year anniversary of the horrific attack on innocent Israelis was celebrated across many cities in Canada by terrorist-sympathizing citizens, one of whom shouted through a loudspeaker “Death to Canada.”
The disturbing scene was captured by The New Westminister Times out of Vancouver.
Speaking through a loudspeaker in front of a crowd gathered at Vancouver’s Art Gallery, a woman said “Death to Canada,” as well as “Death to the United States” and “Death to Israel” for good measure.
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Read MoreOne in 100 people in the U.K. are illegal immigrants and the country is home to more illegal migrants than any other European nation, a new Oxford study has found. The Telegraph has more.
There are up to 745,000 illegal migrants in the U.K., accounting for one in 100 of the population, according to the research led by Oxford University experts.
This is more than double the 300,000 in France and ahead even of the upper estimate of 700,000 in Germany, which has the second-largest population of illegal migrants in Europe.
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Read MoreMedia subsidies buy “social cohesion,” says a report by Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge’s department. The report defended 100 percent payroll rebates under a program the Canadian Association of Journalists praised for saving unemployable reporters from working in hardware stores.
“The crisis in local journalism is a threat to social cohesion,” said the report. It praised the Local Journalism Initiative, a fund offering 100 percent rebates for the hiring of reporters at a $19.6 million annual cost. The subsidy is separate from a $595 million bailout that pays a maximum $29,750 yearly rebate per employees of government-approved newsrooms.
“The Local Journalism Initiative contributes to social cohesion by h
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