Australian politicians plan to pass a bill that would make immigrants take an “Australian values” test and have a higher level of English proficiency as a precondition to citizenship, Reuters reported Thursday.
“What we are doing is strengthening our multicultural society and strengthening our values,” Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said in the Australian capital of Canberra. “Australian citizenship should be honored, cherished. It’s a privilege.”
The bill is expected to pass through Parliament and become law.
As part of the initiative, the multiple-choice test that quizzed applicants on “Australian laws, national symbols and colors of the Aboriginal flag” would be replaced with a more thorough test on Australian values.
“If we believe that respect for women and children and saying no to violence … is an Australian value, and it is, then why should that not be made a key part, a fundamental part, a very prominent part, of our process to be an Australian citizen? Why should the test simply be a...
President Donald Trump welcomed Sarah Palin for dinner at the White House on Wednesday, and she brought rockers Ted Nugent and Kid Rock with her.
The trio were photographed in the Oval Office with President Trump, and they even took a photo in front of the Hillary Clinton portrait:
This Does NOT Belong In America...
...And They Know Better...
BERLIN -- The Stasi Museum in Berlin is a monument to the ultimate surveillance society. It is housed in the old Stasi headquarters. The Stasi were the state police of communist East Germany; whose job was to spy on the population.
On display is every type of spy gadget imaginable for a pre-internet era.
One in six East Germans were either full time spies or informers for the Stasi, watching their neighbors.
When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 and East Germany collapsed, East Germans looked forward to living in freedom. But now, some are beginning to wonder just how free the new Germany is.
Germans Fear Speaking the Truth
Last year a married couple was convicted for creating a Facebook group that criticized the government's open door migration policy.
At the trial, the man complained that Germans cannot be critical of refugees without getting labeled 'Nazi.'
And 60 others accused of writing so-called hate speech online had their homes raided by...
