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  • 'At the limit,' Mexico buckles under migrant surge to U.S.

    06/13/2016 2:06:39 PM PDT · by Lorianne · 13 replies
    Reuters ^ | 10 June 2016 | Gabriel Stargardter and Julia Edwards
    Mexico is struggling to stem the flow of Central American migrants traveling to the United States ahead of the U.S. presidential election, causing major concern in Washington, which is weighing sending more agents to help. In 2014, Mexico moved to strengthen its southern border when a surge in child migrants from Central America sparked a political crisis in the United States. Last year, Mexico detained over 190,000 migrants, more than double the number in 2012. But official data examined by Reuters shows that fewer migrants have been captured in Mexico this year even as the number caught on the U.S....
  • Pink Pistols urges gays to arm themselves: ‘Guns did not do this, a human being did’

    06/13/2016 2:04:55 PM PDT · by Red in Blue PA · 52 replies
    “I say again, GUNS did not do this,” she added. “A human being did this, a dead human being. Our job now is not to demonize the man’s tools, but to condemn his acts and work to prevent such acts in the future.” Ms. Patton argued that stricter gun control would only disadvantage law-abiding citizens. “It is difficult, if not impossible, to foresee such an event,” she said. “But if they cannot be prevented, then they must be stopped as fast as someone tries to start them.” The Pink Pistols, an LGBT gun-rights organization that has 45 chapters nationwide, boasts...
  • Donald Trump BANS Washington Post From Campaign Events!

    06/13/2016 1:50:55 PM PDT · by Pinkbell · 109 replies
    Donald Trump Facebook ^ | June 13, 2016 | Donald J Trump
    Based on the incredibly inaccurate coverage and reporting of the record setting Trump campaign, we are hereby revoking the press credentials of the phony and dishonest Washington Post.
  • Hillary Clinton: Increase Outreach to Muslims, Ban ‘Assault Weapons’

    06/13/2016 1:50:45 PM PDT · by Sir Napsalot · 64 replies
    Breitbart - Big Government ^ | 6-13-2016 | AWR Hawkins
    During a June 13 interview on CNN, Hillary Clinton said the U.S. needs to increase its outreach to Muslims, while simultaneously pursuing a ban on “assault weapons” and .50 caliber rifles. Clinton’s comments come one day after alleged Islamic terrorist Omar Mateen walked into the gun-free zone at Pulse Orlando and killed 50, wounding 53 others. Chris Cuomo started the interview by pointing out that Clinton is under increased scrutiny for her refusal to talk about radical Islamic terror. He said, “[Many point out that] President Obama won’t use the words ‘radical Islamic terror,’ that it seems to be either...
  • After more than $1.6 billion in U.S. aid, Iraq’s army still struggles

    06/13/2016 1:50:06 PM PDT · by Lorianne · 3 replies
    Washington Post ^ | 10 June 2016 | Loveday Morris and Missy Ryan
    The renewed training program is limited to the near-term fight, and there is no guarantee of what level of support the next U.S. president will want to provide. At the same time, only limited progress has been made in addressing the frustration Iraqi Sunnis have with their Shiite-led government, a core reason some of them initially welcomed militants into their cities. That jeopardizes the longevity of any territorial victories U.S. trainers hope to achieve. “Logistics remain the longest pole in the Iraqi tent,” said Col. Steve Warren, a U.S. military spokesman. “Spark plugs, spare tires, gasoline, water, food.” Improvements have...
  • Rep. Barney Frank says Orlando shooting reinforces case for surveillance of 'Islamic Element'

    06/13/2016 1:48:10 PM PDT · by MaxistheBest · 42 replies
    MassLive.com ^ | 06/13/2016 | Michelle Williams
    Barney Frank, a long serving member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts, voiced concerns regarding the safety of gay Americans, an "Islamic element" in terrorism and an increased need for surveillance and gun control. Frank spoke of the attack at a gay nightclub in Orlando this weekend in an interview with the New York Times Monday. "It's an attack against gay people but it does not reflect a general deterioration of our standing in America," he said. "It reflects the virulence of the hatred in this sector of Islam." Frank represented Massachusetts in the House for 32 years,...
  • Donald Trump just announced he is banning the Washington Post from his campaign events

    06/13/2016 1:46:28 PM PDT · by COUNTrecount · 82 replies
    Scoopnest ^ | June 13, 2016 | Ben Jacobs
  • Obama Loosens Restrictions on U.S. Forces Fighting Taliban in Afghanistan

    06/13/2016 1:42:08 PM PDT · by Lorianne · 11 replies
    New York Times ^ | 10 June 2016 | Matthew Rosenberg
    As the United States braces for an especially bloody summer fighting season in Afghanistan, President Obama inched closer this week to allowing American forces to once again directly battle the Taliban, loosening restrictions on airstrikes and on ground combat in support of Afghan forces, the administration said on Friday. The president’s decision to expand the military’s mission just seven months before he leaves office signaled just how far the United States remains from achieving his goal of ending the American military role in Afghanistan. Under the new rules, airstrikes will no longer have to be justified as necessary to defend...
  • Why record low interest rates are a cause for alarm, not celebration

    06/13/2016 1:39:26 PM PDT · by Lorianne · 4 replies
    Telegraph (UK) ^ | 11 June 201 | Jeremy Warner
    UK rates may be at an all time low, but they are even lower elsewhere, particularly on the Continent, where the European Central Bank has been so busy buying up government debt that in Germany and Holland the stock of available bonds has been almost completely exhausted. There is virtually no yield left at all on 10 year German bunds, against which their UK equivalent look positively bountiful. So utterly desperate has this hunger for yield become that there are now an astonishing $10 trillion of government bonds worldwide trading on a negative interest rate. Some corporate borrowers too have...
  • Rubio Contemplates Senate Run After Orlando Shooting

    06/13/2016 1:38:54 PM PDT · by Angels27 · 38 replies
    Roll Call ^ | 6-13-16 | Niels Lesniewski
    Sen. Marco Rubio said Monday that seeking another term as a senator from Florida has not been part of his family's plan, but the mass shooting Sunday in Orlando has given him pause about his future. "My family and I will be praying about all this, and we'll see what I need to do next with my life with regards to how I can best serve," the former presidential candidate told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt. 50 people including the gunman were killed in the shooting at a gay nightclub, Pulse, in Orlando early Sunday morning. Hewitt asked if Rubio...
  • Islamist or Progressive? It's getting hard to tell the Difference

    06/13/2016 1:38:51 PM PDT · by Kaslin · 8 replies
    American Thinker ^ | June 13, 2016 | Jeffrey T. Brown
    As we are inundated with “it’s the gun” misdirection following last weekend’s terror attack in Orlando, let’s look at what has recently come to pass on the left for acceptable political action. After all, what leftists hate to admit is that before one of their own engages in violence, whether on a street in Chicago, or at a Republican campaign event, or a nightclub in Orlando, myriad other deviations from psychological-normal must have had to occur. Well-adjusted, intellectual people do not default to violence to achieve their goals. It’s hard to know where to start, but let’s start with an...
  • Algorithms could render banking jobs obsolete

    06/13/2016 1:36:50 PM PDT · by Lorianne · 13 replies
    Santa Fe News ^ | 12 June 2016 | Hugh Son
    re the humans of finance an endangered species? People are still the lubricant that oils the wheels of finance, toiling at innumerable tasks-executing and settling trades, writing analysis, monitoring risk. That’s about to change. Squeezed by low interest rates, shrinking trading revenue, and nimbler technology-based competitors, banks are racing to remake themselves as digital companies to cut costs and better serve clients. In other words, they’re preparing for the day that machines made by men and women take over more of what used to be the sole province of humans: knowledge work. Call it self-disruption. Consider venerable State Street, a...
  • How negative interest rates are undermining the economy

    06/13/2016 1:33:50 PM PDT · by Lorianne · 9 replies
    Money Week ^ | 10 June 2016 | John Stepek
    was talking about the bond bubble earlier this week. Seems I’m not the only one who’s a bit worried. Bill Gross, founder of Pimco (now at Janus Capital), tweeted “Global yields lowest in 500 years of recorded history… This is a supernova that will explode one day.” Aside from making the pedantic point that a supernova is itself an explosion (according to my limited knowledge of astronomy at least), I find little to disagree with here. The big question is – when will the bubble burst? We discussed that on Monday. But in the meantime, it’s worth asking – what...
  • Fearful of EU Disintegration and Mired in Crisis, France Wants Britain Punished for Brexit Revolt

    06/13/2016 1:31:20 PM PDT · by Lorianne · 15 replies
    Wolf Street ^ | 09 June 2016 | Don Quijones
    As support for a British exit from the EU strengthens, at least according to the latest polls that give some people whiplash, policy makers on both sides of the English Channel are finally beginning to think about the days, weeks and months after June 23. Some countries, such as Germany, seem more inclined to favor a soft, pragmatic approach in the event of a Brexit, while others, led by the government of France, are calling for a more punitive response. As originators of the phrase “Pour encourager les autres,” (to encourage the others), it is fitting that France is leading...
  • The Pension Bubble: How The Defaults Will Occur

    06/13/2016 1:29:29 PM PDT · by Lorianne · 7 replies
    Sprott Money ^ | 10 June 2016 | Peter Diekmeyer
    Experts worry about stock, bond and real estate market excesses. But a bubble is forming that dwarfs them all: in pension plans. Millions of Americans and Canadians who are counting on pension benefits to fund their retirements risk being severely disappointed. The hard money community has, of course, been aware of this for some time. However in recent years, even the elites have been taking notice. One such group, the International Forum of the Americas, will be holding its fourth annual pension conference in Montreal next Monday. There politicians, financiers and monetary policy officials will discuss the declining rates of...
  • European Banks Fleeing German Banks Like Rats From A Sinking Ship

    06/13/2016 1:27:31 PM PDT · by Lorianne · 4 replies
    Contra Corner ^ | 10 June 2016 | Lee Adler
    Smaller banks often deposit funds in bigger banks. The level of banks’ deposits at other banks is a reflection of their confidence in the system as a whole. The ECB measures and is kind enough to share with us the level of bank deposits in other banks in Europe, breaking the data down by country and the Eurozone as a whole. Banks have been pulling their money out of other banks in Europe like rats deserting a sinking ship since 2012. Even the advent of QE in 2014 only slowed the stampede. European banks are still gettin’ out of Dodge....
  • Islam - The Truth every person needs to see

    06/13/2016 1:06:23 PM PDT · by BornToBeAmerican · 8 replies
    youtube.com ^ | 2014 | Zvi Yehezkeli and David Deryi
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  • Dutch PM says he’s ‘totally against referendums’

    06/13/2016 1:00:56 PM PDT · by Olog-hai · 6 replies
    EurActiv ^ | 06/13/2016 11:29 | (EurActiv.com with agencies)
    Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte today (13 June) admitted a referendum called by euroskeptic groups on whether to back closer ties between Ukraine and the EU had been “disastrous” after voters soundly rejected the pact. “I’m totally against referenda, and I’m totally, totally, totally against referenda on multilateral agreements, because it makes no sense as we have seen with the Dutch referendum,” Rutte told a conference of European MPs. “The referendum led to disastrous results,” he added. …
  • NATO battalions to defend Baltic states and Poland

    06/13/2016 12:55:50 PM PDT · by Olog-hai · 7 replies
    EU Observer ^ | 06/13/16 19:05 | Andrew Rettman
    Each of the Baltic states and Poland will shortly host 1,000 or so NATO soldiers to deter Russian aggression, the Western alliance has said. “We will agree to deploy by rotation four robust multinational battalions in the Baltic states and in Poland. This will send a clear signal that NATO stands ready to defend any ally”, NATO head Jens Stoltenberg told press in Brussels on Monday (13 June). He said the battalions are part of “a much bigger shift in our posture” in reaction to Russia’s behavior in Ukraine. […] The bigger shift includes a rapid reaction force of 40,000...
  • WATCH LIVE: Trump gives anti-terrorism speech in NH [grand slam!]

    06/13/2016 12:41:45 PM PDT · by catnipman · 94 replies
    The Hill/YouTube ^ | 6/13/2016 | The Hill Staff
    Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is giving an anti-terrorism speech in New Hampshire, a day after a gunman killed 49 and injured 53 others in an attack on a gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla.