Thousands Flood The Streets In Germany As Fury Over Refugee Sex Assaults Reaches Boiling Point

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Over the last several days, more information has come to light with regard to the wave of sexual assaults that occurred across Europe on New Year’s Eve.

What some observers initially assumed was an set of isolated attacks in Cologne’s city center now appears to have been a bloc-wide phenomenon as women from Austria, to Switzerland, to Finland come forward to report being accosted by what some police say were gangs of drunken Mid-East asylum seekers.

“In Sweden, police said at least 15 young women reported being groped by groups of men on New Year's Eve in the city of Kalmar,” AP reports, adding that “in Finland, police said they received tipoffs on New Year's Eve that about 1,000 predominantly Iraqi asylum seekers were intending to gather near the main railway station in Helsinki and harass passing women.” 

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“Women with or without accompaniment went through a literally 'gauntlet' by the heavily intoxicated men masses, as one can not describe it," a clumsy translation of a report by the German Federal Police reads. Some have suggested that the string of attacks was initially played down by the media and by German authorities in an effort to avoid triggering an anti-migrant backlash. Indeed, the mayor of Cologne, Henriette Reker, got herself in a bit of hot water for comments which seemed to suggest it is German women’s responsibility to keep would-be attackers at “arm’s length” and to not send the wrong message to “people from other cultures” by acting too “jolly and frisky.”

Meanwhile, Angela Merkel is attempting to salvage the “yes we can” narrative vis-a-vis Berlin’s refugee open-door policy while simultaneously condemning the attacks.

On Friday, Cologne’s police chief Wolfgang Albers was dismissed in connection with his department’s mishandling of the ordeal.

According to a draft document seen by Reuters, Germany may now change its policy with regard to the deportation of refugees. "The paper says refugees and asylum seekers who have been sentenced to prison or probation should be barred from eligibility for asylum,' Reuters writes. "Why should German taxpayers pay to imprison foreign criminals," Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel asked. "The threat of having to spend time behind bars in their home country is far more of a deterrent than a prison sentence in Germany." 

("Respect us! We are not fair game even when naked!" a sign held by Swiss artist Milo Moire reads)

"Women's groups and many politicians have long been arguing that Germany's sexual assault law is archaic, with loopholes that mean groping and surprise attacks are not necessarily prosecutable unless the woman tries to fight off the attack - which police often advise against," Deutsche Welle notes. "There have been very many cases that you and I would probably unequivocally describe as rape or sexual assault that haven't come to a conviction, because the women allegedly didn't defend themselves enough," Elke Ferner of the Social Democratic Party's women's group told the broadcaster.

That law is about to be changed thanks in part to the attention the New Year's attacks have brought to the issue. 

And speaking of drawing attention to the attacks, protesters are once again massing in Cologne where "thousands" of demonstrators took the streets on Saturday. "The protesters included the Islamophobic Pegida movement and the right-wing extremist Pro Cologne party" USA Today says.

More than 1,500 police officers were deployed across the city in anticipation of the rallies. Here's more from DPA

Cologne police are gearing up for a day of highly charged demonstrations, with 1000 far-right protesters expected to hit the streets in response to the mass sex assaults and thefts targeting women on New Year's Eve.

 

Hundred-strong teams of police were deployed on Saturday to locations across the western German city, totalling 1700 officers, a spokesman said.

 

The Islamophobic Pegida movement and the right-wing extremist Pro Cologne party were to stage a rally on the square in front of the main train station, where about 1000 intoxicated men are thought to have robbed, sexually assaulted and, in some cases, raped women during turn-of-the-year celebrations.

 

Of the 32 suspects identified by police in Cologne, 22 are asylum seekers, the German Interior Ministry said.

 

One suspect was carrying a document with Arabic-German translations of sexist phrases and threats, which mass-circulation tabloid Bild published on Saturday.

 

Several pro-migration counter-protests have also been planned for Saturday, underscoring the division in German society over the government's open-door migration policy, which allowed more than one million people to enter the country last year.

And from Reuters:

Migrants who commit crimes should lose their right to asylum, German chancellor Angela Merkel said on Saturday, toughening her tone as crowds gathered in Cologne angered by mass assaults on women on New Year's Eve.

 

Nearly two dozen asylum seekers were among those suspected of carrying out the attacks, police said this week, heightening tensions over immigration and fuelling criticism of Merkel's refusal to place a limit on the numbers of migrants entering the country.

 

"The right to asylum can be lost if someone is convicted on probation or jailed," Merkel said after a meeting of the leadership of her Christian Democrats (CDU) party.

 

"Serial offenders who repeatedly rob or repeatedly affront women must feel the full force of the law," Merkel told journalists in Mainz, promising a reduction over the longer term in the flow of migrants to Germany.

 

Under German law, asylum seekers are typically only deported if they have been sentenced to at least three years in prison, and providing their lives are not at risk at home.

 

About 1,700 police officers were on the streets of Cologne as protesters, including members of the anti-Islam PEGIDA movement, waited for official permission to march through the city.

 

At a separate left-wing protest, more than 2,000 mostly women gathered close to the train station where many of the attacks, including muggings and sexual assaults, happened.

So once again, we see a deeply divided society, with right-wing demonstrators staging a kind of "we told you so" rally and pro-refugee Germans staging counter protests even as they decry the wave of assaults. 

Meanwhile, the flow of asylum seekers continues unabated. "We had an average influx of 3,200 refugees per day arriving in Germany, and the numbers are not declining in the last days," Ole Schroeder, the deputy German minister, told a briefing in Brussels. "Our problem at the moment in Europe is that we do not have a functioning border control system, especially at the Greece-Turkey border," he added.

Where things from here is an open question but it appears many Germans are at their breaking point. How TIME's person of the year responds may ultimately determine how the world remembers one of the most indelible and revered politicians in European history.

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Sat, 01/09/2016 - 21:22 | 7023893 Government need...
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Semiauto pistol with 10-round mag should thin a small pack of ferals down to manageable size.  Besides, if you drop 5-6 and anyone still wants a piece, take advantage of that spirit and cut the motherfucker up piece by piece.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 21:51 | 7023976 CheapBastard
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There was a cop in nyc who was trying to arrest one of Obama's sons and a crowd of his other sons surrounded him threatening him. He held his back to the wall with his revolver in one hand and the thug in his other hand and asked "who wants to be the first to be shot?...Step forward."

 

Not one thug in the crowd stepped forward to attack him.

 

He stood there for 30 minutes before help arrived since not one of barry's sons wanted to call 911. Finally a black librarian saw what was happening and went home and dilaed up 911 for the cop.

Pretty disgusting but he lived thru it. I remeber his words...'the gun seemed to double in weight every minute he was so stessed out.'

 

Moral of the sotry...keep them at bay and keep a steady hand.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 13:43 | 7022354 El Vaquero
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That's when you pack heat yourself.  Don't depend on somebody else. 

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 22:51 | 7024165 FreedomGuy
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I assert that you do not need State permission to carry or defend yourself, either.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 11:29 | 7021741 TeamDepends
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And the leftoids want to disarm us here in the US! (shakes head) Good luck with that, asswipes.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 13:44 | 7022356 justdues
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Yep thats why in disarmed feminized UK I always carry my trusty Buck 4in

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 23:06 | 7024212 ebear
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"islamophobics"

The response to that is simple:

I don't fear them, I just DISLIKE them.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 13:18 | 7021499 RiverRoad
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2016 Lady Godivas.  You GO girls! 

Give those card-carryin' girls some guns for gods' sake.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 11:15 | 7021675 Tall Tom
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* holding sign, pink shoes (yes, she's wearing shoes)

 

What? You have a foot fetish?

 

Ehhhh..I am almost ashamed to write that I was looking at her other attractive attributes and did not even notice that....almost being the keyword.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 12:24 | 7022001 Strelnikov
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Shoes?

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 21:49 | 7023974 HardAssets
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Yes, who needs a 2nd Amendment when you have a shaved beaver and a protest sign to protect you

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 09:57 | 7021350 falak pema
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you mean a tit for a tat becomes a shit for a shat!

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 10:25 | 7021460 New_Meat
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The babes in SoCal have a high percentage of "technically altered tits".

They trade their tits for tats.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 10:07 | 7021379 Tarzan
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The torrent of refugees is a delight to those in power who have destroyed the Family structure and encouraged the lifestyles of the LGBT.  By destroying coherent families they've destroyed the demographics needed to sustain an economy.  As the birth rate declines because of our decedent lifestyles, the elite are running out of cheap labor.

This is why the Industrialists are the ones lobbying Congress the most to grant illegal immigrants amnesty.

The elite don't give a crap about you or your raped daughters, as long as the show goes on, as long as they can keep the Ponzi afloat with fresh laborers.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 10:32 | 7021476 847328_3527
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True. I saw Zuckerberger join a group of other billionaires petition Congress to relax the importing of hundeds of thousands moar immigrants.

Good for his business profits ... devastating for the middle class American.

Middle Class women better think hard before they support Hillery who vows to raise their taxes and take more of their jobs away with her continutation of cheap working illegal peoples importation.

 

It's ironic to see Democrat voters -- FSA, blacks, union people, etc -- cheer for Obama when he and his Dems Pelosi and Reed work hard to bring more cheap labor to take jobs away from them. They're voting for their own destruction!

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 10:38 | 7021515 The Saint
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I read that 17% of all U.S. jobs are now taken by aliens.  And, Obama and Hillary want to bring in more foreign workers.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 10:47 | 7021558 wizteknet
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More like 60% where I live, and they refuse to higher Americans too.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 14:46 | 7022581 Proofreder
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Higher // Hire

No good schools where you live or you just did not attend very often ??

Idiots abound.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 23:10 | 7024228 ebear
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You misspelled Poofter.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 10:39 | 7021522 crossroaddemon
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There's some logic to it... what kind of dumb ass wants a job?

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 10:44 | 7021534 4 wheel drift
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It's ironic to see Democrat voters -- FSA, blacks, union people, etc -- cheer for Obama when he and his Dems Pelosi and Reed work hard to bring more cheap labor to take jobs away from them. They're voting for their own destruction!

 

because liberals are mentally ill and cannot (or refuse to) realize the effect of their bankrupt mentality and ideas...  and unless this political correctness disease is completely erradicated, the current situation and worse in the future will continue to destroy western culture

fuck these arseholes and fuck the muslims... they need to go back to the ME where they live in the 8th century and there is where they belong

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 10:50 | 7021570 giggler321
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>>Good for his business profits ... devastating for the middle class American.

Lest'us not forget he's joined Buffet as a philanthropist and intends to give away all those profits but not to the middle class no doubt, likely the very same immigrants and needy folk.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 11:03 | 7021640 STP
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Notice how Zuckerberg has those evil red eyes?  Just like Koskinen of the IRS, with those same evil red eyes, pure evil.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 20:32 | 7023743 Kirk2NCC1701
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Phuckerberg is just another Ziolib SAYANIM.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 11:24 | 7021715 FreedomGuy
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It is a delight to the cultural marxist types, not everyone. While industry might like cheap labor I doubt the directors and CEO's who may live in these same cities are thrilled.

This is a leftist meme and notice how they defend it relentlessly.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 12:20 | 7021939 Element
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Extreme pro-immigration ideology is every bit as dangerous, nutty and destructive as the extreme anti-immigration ideology of 80 years ago. Having either one of those extremes dominate is going to work out very badly every time.

Merkel is so far past her use-by date now that its dangerous for everyone to have her in a position of state authority any longer. She's now as unsuitable for authority as a national leader, as a leader from the other extreme anti camp would be. Given the scale of the stupidity she's incited in Europe I'm amazed she has not been removed already. Well overdue to go.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 12:42 | 7022090 Ghordius
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+1 she was given leeway by her own party, and took a few steps without consultation. My impression, from what I gather.

at the party convention the consensus was that she will have to wear a shorter leash, and she looked demure enough to look credibly bashed

interesting is that her popularity abroad is way higher then before (of course on the Left), while at home it plummeted at the right and increased on the left. reminds me of Gorbatschew's trajectory in this

+1 ZH's editor did a nice job with the photographs, well done. two sides, the extreme xenophobes and the extreme xenophiles. there is one of each, imho, in every group

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 13:44 | 7022319 Element
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This mess is going to get worse until not only is Merkel gone but the xenophile ideologues (as you call them) are gone from Govt and civil service senior positions as well. And frankly, its clearly not just Germany that has this problem of unthinking extreme pro-immigration cohorts.

It blows my mind to see Italy sending gleaming new destroyers out to pick up refugees, rather than doing all they can to stop them, deter them and turn them back. As long as the front line states keep doing that and stupidly keeping the welcome mat out, the worse civil conflict will get.

I just can not fathom the mentality I'm seeing, the attitude and twisted rhetoric Merkel sprouts is just as disgusting and insulting as its diametric opposite position.

How can so many people not realize how foolish this is? How can people still try to defend this outrageous mess?

This is such an easy target. I can not figure why they don't realize that this will trigger right violence and radical action all over Europe. But it will become increasingly anti-establishment as well. Are the politicians really that completely out of touch with this situation? Are their advisors really that bad at cluing them in? Or do they just not want to know how dumb this is?

I also I can't understand how Germany or Merkel could possibly be considered more popular, "internationally" for doing this? Who were they polling on this? The population of MENA? And really, what the hell does international opinion have to do with this? Or is it another media owner driven figment, to push crazy self-harming agendas forwards?

The whole thing is a weird irrational farce from where I'm looking.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 16:55 | 7022983 gezley
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It's not weird or irrational at all. The politicians are doing the bidding of their Jew string-pullers. Same old same old. Europe has had this fifth column inside its borders for centuries. Once upon a time European leaders took the people's side and kicked the Jew out as soon as his treachery reached critical mass, but that was when the Catholic Church was strong all across Europe. Today the Church is effeminate, emasculated, and good-for-nothing. In a word - infiltrated.

And that's the way it will remain until the Church wakes up and reclaims the title "Israel" for itself. War against the Jew must begin and end by stripping them of their inheritance and title. There is only one Israel, and that is the Catholic Church. Not those counterfeit fuckers in the Middle East.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 22:56 | 7024182 FreedomGuy
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What is rational is to arm all those fighting age "nice" Muslims and send them back to Syria to prove their bravery. Tell them in six months their women, children and pets will be dumped on the shores so they had better win.

Apart from that it is more rational to re-invade the ME, re-colonize it and leave them there. Better to have them in their own lands killing each other than in your own neighborhood running Sharia patrols. I know it is not PC to say but seriously, are you ready to absorb the entire ME population with it's violent, intolerant and sexually barbaric culture? What is the lesser evil.

They were more peaceful and prosperous as colonies. They had the rule of law and the ability to petition. White guys from Europe cared very little if you were Shia, Sunni, Alawite or the tribe on the left.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 10:11 | 7021403 MalteseFalcon
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"Several pro-migration counter-protests have also been planned for Saturday, underscoring the division in German society over the government's open-door migration policy..."

The invasion is clearly against the the best interest of individual Germans.

The "counter protesters" are either bought and paid for or a brainwashed zombies from the now defunct East Germany.

All ossies should be declared untermenschen and given explicit second class citizenship until proof of "de-communization" is obtained.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 10:55 | 7021599 skepsis101
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This is bullshit!!!  If anything Germans raised in the east are more conservative, less enamored with the swinging "modern" life of Germany today, and much more likely to be displaced from work by a rising tide of cheap immigrant labor.  Your "decommunization" should more aptly apply to global corporatism, the new world order communism of peasants taxed to subisidize the 1 per cent.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 09:45 | 7021323 Mr.Sono
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How do you say Hitler in German?

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 10:21 | 7021443 cossack55
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Fuhrer

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 12:08 | 7021918 BarkingCat
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They don't need a Hitler. They need someone sane.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 12:09 | 7021922 edifice
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Hitler.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 16:08 | 7022830 KesselRunin12Parsecs
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Bibi

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 12:26 | 7022012 Strelnikov
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"Obama".

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 12:26 | 7022013 Strelnikov
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"Obama".

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 20:35 | 7023749 Kirk2NCC1701
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"How do you say Hitler in German?"

A:  Verdammt, unglaublich, aber wahr -- Er hatte Recht!

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 10:46 | 7021545 giggler321
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>>a physical wall is meaningless in an age of power facilities and other critical infrastructure systems run by strings of 1s and 0s.

Seems to work for the Israelites

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 12:46 | 7022113 Sanity Bear
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move next door to someone with an unchained and untrained pit bull and we'll see how you feel about the meaninglessness of physical walls

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 09:43 | 7021295 KesselRunin12Parsecs
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Taking off all your clothes & standing in the middle of the street only acts as a DETERRENT to the possibility of sexual assault if you're Merkel

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 09:59 | 7021358 Jonas Parker
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Yes, but you have to admit that in winter that is one cool chick in the picture...

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 10:11 | 7021401 SoDamnMad
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only person with balls (well,not exactly)

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 10:36 | 7021503 847328_3527
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I admire her also.

 

However, I have learned form watching blacks in America how to get things done in your favor:

1) elect politicans who represent YOU; and 2) block ariports, crowd obstruct malls, and burn shit down.

 

"The squeeky wheel gets the grease."

~Old Chinee Proverb

Seems to work for them. germans lecturing the crowd from the podium will not accomplish the goal of stopping their politicans form importing millions moar.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 11:01 | 7021618 Son of Loki
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Don't forget protesting on campuses shutting down classes [during finals week, preferably] against all the rayciss food they serve--"Mexican" tacos ... "Chinese" eggs rolls ... "Vietnamese" noodles.

 

Holy crap, and what about those building names! Drives me crazy to walk by the rayciss buildings every freak'n day [especially during finals]!

 

It would make me feel less oppressed to rename it 'The Farrakhan Library.'

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 11:20 | 7021698 HowdyDoody
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"Milo Moire is a self-proclaimed “performance” artist from Switzerland, now famous for pushing paint-filled eggs out of her vagina. You can basically see what happens in the image below. There is also a youtube video, with a censored free version, and the “uncensored”  paid version, but you will have to shell out five bucks for the pleasure of viewing this “art”. Can you imagine a straight woman shelling out $5 to see Milo’s boobs? I can’t."

[Censored image so it is SFW. The real uncenored stuff costs - a girl has gotta make a living]

https://i0.wp.com/media.news.de/resources/thumbs/72/0f/855618581_800x600...

"But it’s not art. Milo Moire’s “performance” is attention whoring in the highest degree, but miss Moire thinks she’s so smart that she could be attention whoring while getting paid for it. Still, this is pitiful in the very least. Swiss people have a higher standard of living, yet Milo Moire charges less for her dignity than a poverty stricken Pattaya prostitute."

https://missannalise.wordpress.com/2014/04/29/milo-moire-convinces-the-w...

 

 

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 11:39 | 7021785 CheapBastard
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I guess the author of that article was so proud of it she/he intentionally left off her/his name.

 

In any case, beauty/art is in the ey of the beholder. Some people think Warhol is art ... some not.

 

 

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