USA - The executive director of a pro-migrant NGO admits on camera that they teach migrants to fabricate sob stories and act emotional in order to claim asylum in Europe. They teach people to pretend to be Christians who pray and celebrate Christmas. They literally call it acting, role playing, and theater. They teach them to lie in order to beat the system.

USA - Ford Motor Co's $11 billion restructuring could cost 25,000 employees their jobs, exceeding the cutbacks General Motors Co announced last week, according to Morgan Stanley. Ford has yet to detail its job cuts, but Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Jonas predicts they could be larger than GM’s in a note to investors. “We estimate a large portion of Ford’s restructuring actions will be focused on Ford Europe, a business we currently value at negative $7 billion,” Jonas wrote. “But we also expect a significant restructuring effort in North America, involving significant numbers of both salaried and hourly UAW and CAW workers.” Jonas said other automakers will be forced to follow GM’s and Ford’s actions as the industry transforms, first to abandon factories building slow-selling sedans and ultimately to retool to build electric and self-driving vehicles.

UK - Ethical veganism could be given the status of a religion in a landmark employment tribunal, as experts have said “it is more than just a lifestyle choice”. Jordi Casamitjana, an ethical vegan, has claimed that he was fired by the League Against Cruel Sports after raising concerns that its pension fund was being invested into companies involved in animal testing.

USA - They are transforming the Internet into the greatest tool of surveillance that humanity has ever seen, and if we stay on the road that we are currently on it is only a matter of time until our society becomes a hellish dystopian nightmare.  I wish that this was an exaggeration, but it isn’t.  Today, the Internet has become the centerpiece of their “Big Brother surveillance grid”, and they are gathering information on all of us on a scale that has never been seen before in all of human history.  But of course it was never going to stop there. Over the past couple of years we have started to watch the elite use all of this information to punish those that are doing or saying things that they do not like.

GERMANY - The former socialist vice chancellor of Germany, Sigmar Gabriel, has described the United States as a “rogue superpower”, saying President Donald Trump sees the world as a “battleground”. The former leader of the Social Democratic Party, who was German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s deputy until March, told Handelsblatt that the election of Donald Trump as President in 2016 was the trigger for him to write a book, where he describes the alienation of Russia from the West and the rise of China, and brands the United States a “rogue superpower.”

GERMANY - Professor of Economics and Law, William Black, who was a top regulator in the S&L crisis, says, “Deutsche Bank is one of the potential sources of the next recession, and you can see lots of people warning that there are signs that a serious recession is pretty likely relatively soon... The whole system weakens itself because it gets caught in this big lie that says we have to pretend that Deutsche Bank is a bank instead of a criminal enterprise.”

UNITED NATIONS - The votes comes as Israel is working to shore up international support for its sovereignty in Jerusalem. A third text, which was approved 99-10 with 66 abstentions, called on Israel to withdraw from the Golan Heights. The United States, Canada and Australia voted against all six resolutions, which are the first batch of some 20 resolutions that the UNGA annually passes against Israel.

EUROPE – Political correctness gone mad! A leading MEP has warned EU citizens they could be “jailed” for criticising migration policies if a new United Nations agreement is acted upon. “One basic element of this new agreement is the extension of the definition of hate speech. The agreement wants to criminalise migration speech. Criticism of migration will become a criminal offence. Media outlets that give room to criticism of migration can be shut down. It is declaring migration as a human right so it will, in effect, become impossible to criticise Mrs Merkel’s 'welcome migrants' politics without being at risk of being jailed for hate speech.”

VATICAN - Pope Francis urged Christians to be “watchful” at the beginning of the Advent season, warning them to avoid spiritual laziness and falling into worldliness. “Even we Christians, who are also the people of God, risk becoming worldly and losing our identity, ‘paganizing’ the Christian style,” the pope told some 20,000 pilgrims and tourists gathered in Saint Peter’s Square for the Angelus prayer Sunday. The pope encouraged his hearers to make the most of the Advent season, the four-week period when Christians prepare for the coming of Jesus at Christmas.

UK - The Bible's book of Genesis has been "confirmed" as evidence suggests every man, woman and child can trace their family tree back to an original man and woman, a documentary has claimed.

USA - American farmers are struggling to find storage for crops that would usually be sold overseas, with some being forced to leave produce rotting in fields as a last resort, as the trade conflict between the US and China continues. Farmers in some US states are being forced into plowing their crops under — effectively burying them under soil in fields — as there is not enough room to store them in storage facilities, and they are unable to sell their products thanks to Chinese tariffs, Reuters reported on Wednesday.

UK - MPs believe that Europe will renegotiate Theresa May’s Brexit divorce deal if they inflict a heavy parliamentary defeat, risking a serious political backlash when the EU refuses to compromise, senior Whitehall officials have warned. After an intense week briefing MPs of all parties on the details of Mrs May’s agreement, officials have been left dismayed that so many MPs still believe that a vote against the deal on December 11 will be a vote for a ‘better’ deal. “The most common response from MPs is that they think they can vote down the deal ‘so we can go back into bat’ against the EU and win fresh concessions whichever alternative option they happen to favour,” said a source involved in the negotiations.

UK - We are in the midst of a constitutional crisis. The European issue has always been about sovereignty. It is ultimately about who governs us and how. The historic referendum vote in June 2016 delivered the democratic answer of the British people, which Parliament deliberately entrusted to them by a vote of 6-1, that they wished to govern themselves, through the members of their own elected Parliament. This is not an ideological abstraction as some like to claim. It is about our democratic self-government. No-one doubts, from whichever side of the debate they come from, that leaving the European Union after 46 years is a fundamental change in our constitutional arrangements.

GERMANY - The Frankfurt headquarters of Deutsche Bank have been raided by prosecutors in a money laundering investigation. Germany's public prosecutor alleged that two staff members have helped clients launder money from criminal activities. Police cars were seen outside the tower blocks that house the headquarters of Germany's biggest bank. Five other Deutsche offices in the city were searched in an operation involving about 170 police and officials. Prosecutors are looking into whether Deutsche Bank staff helped clients set up offshore accounts to "transfer money from criminal activities". In 2017, Deutsche Bank was fined $630 million (£504 million) by US and UK regulators in connection with a Russian money laundering plan.

FRANCE - Rioters ran amok across central Paris on Saturday, torching cars and buildings, looting shops, smashing windows and clashing with police in the worst unrest in more than a decade, posing a dire challenge to Emmanuel Macron's presidency. The authorities were caught off guard by the escalation in violence after two weeks of nationwide protests against fuel taxes and living costs, known as the "yellow vest" movement after fluorescent jackets kept in all vehicles in France. In Paris, police said they had arrested almost 300 people while 110 were injured, including 20 members of the security forces. Police fired stun grenades, tear gas and water cannon at protesters at the top of the Champs-Elysees boulevard, at the Tuilleries Garden near the Louvre museum and other sites. "We are in a state of insurrection, I've never seen anything like it," said Jeanne d'Hauteserre, the mayor of Paris' 8th district, near the Arc de Triomphe.