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Refugees In Jordan Use Iris Scanners To Purchase Food

The UN World Food Programme (WFP)  has launched an iris scan payment system in Jordanian supermarkets. The technology has been set up to enable Syrian refugees staying in migrant camps to conduct purchases at local shops using their eyes instead of cards, cash, or vouchers. RT reports: With a wink of an eye refugees at King Abdullah Park camp made their first purchases at a local supermarket on Tuesday, as part of the new program designed to simplify the redeeming of their monthly UN food aid.

David Cameron’s Auntie Joins Protest March Against Tory Cuts

The Aunt of British prime minister David Cameron took part in a demonstration against Tory cuts to children’s centres in his own Oxfordshire county. Auntie Clare was was waving a banner which read: “No ifs, no buts, no cuts. Last week David Cameron’s own mother Mary spoke out against cuts to local children centres and signed a petition against the cuts. The Mirror reports: Clare Currie, who last week spoke out against cuts which will lead to the closure of 44 children’s centres, joined the anti-austerity demonstration on Saturday, and waved a banner reading “No ifs. No buts.

The Western World has passed away. It is no more.

The Western World has passed away. It is no more.

The Russians ask this question: Where were the German men while their women were raped by refugees?

The same question can be asked of Americans. Last year at “spring break” in Panama City Beach a white girl was raped on the beach by several blacks in broad daylight while hundreds of people watched without intervening.

http://russia-insider.com/en/society/what-has-happened-west-and-its-men-hypnotic-dance-death/ri12753

Socialism & The Battle Of Ideas

Socialism & The Battle Of Ideas

Authored by Ludwig von Mises via The Mises Institute,

[This article is excerpted from Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis]

It is a mistake to think that the lack of success of experiments in Socialism that have been made can help to overcome Socialism. Facts per se can neither prove nor refute anything. Everything is decided by the interpretation and explanation of the facts, by the ideas and the theories.

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