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Swedish Professor of Economics Mats Hammarstedt has rejected claims that mass migration can be economically beneficial over the long term, citing problems of integration. Professor Hammarstedt, who teaches at the Linnaeus University in Växjö and the Institute for Business Research, said that integration failures, particularly of asylum seekers, have contributed to a much higher unemployment rate among migrants over the long-term. In an article for the Swedish publication Dagens Industri, Hammarstedt said: “The lack of integration of foreign-born people into the labour market is well documented and the situation has remained largely unchanged in recent decades.” He added: “Every year,...

A French immigration investigator has claimed that some 100 people-smuggling gangs are running illegal migrant routes across the English Channel to Britain. Following the bust of a trafficking network in the UK — which was raking in some £1 million per month by offering a “VIP” service to illegal migrants — officials have uncovered a vast network of people-smuggling gangs operating in France. Speaking to The Times, a senior investigator for France’s national immigration policing unit said that he believes there are about 100 gangs providing safe houses for migrants and hiding speedboats to help launch the migrants in the...

TOKYO - A top Japanese defence official on Friday urged U.S. President-elect Joe Biden to “be strong” in supporting Taiwan in the face of an aggressive China, calling the island’s safety a “red line.” “We are concerned China will expand its aggressive stance into areas other than Hong Kong. I think one of the next targets, or what everyone is worried about, is Taiwan,” State Minister of Defense Yasuhide Nakayama told Reuters. Nakayama, Japan’s deputy defence minister, urged Biden to take a similar line on Taiwan as outgoing President Donald Trump, who has significantly boosted military sales to the Chinese-claimed...

France faces a new wave of asylum seekers from Afghanistan, with many coming from conservative areas and some openly supporting groups like the Taliban. Over the last five years, the number of Afghans arriving in France has increased fivefold from just over 2,100 asylum seekers at the height of the migrant crisis in 2015 to nearly 10,000 reaching in the country last year. According to a report from Le Figaro, Afghan migrants made up 90 per cent of the 3,500 residents of a makeshift migrant camp in the north of Paris that authorities dismantled just weeks ago. “While waiting for...

The Christmas morning bombing in Nashville left a wake of destruction that was captured in dramatic photos and videos that made downtown Music City look more like Baghdad or Beirut. Cellphone footage shot shortly after the massive blast caught victims wailing in panic and screaming for help as flames consumed vehicles parked along North Second Avenue and black smoke filled the sky. The explosion, which could be felt for blocks, rocked the city just as dawn was breaking around 6:30 a.m. Officials said cops were already at the scene, having responded to a report of shots fired about 30 minutes...

Joe Biden lost a sea of Latino, Asian and immigrant votes in the election after being accused of taking them for granted and not putting in enough campaign outreach before November 3. Detailed voter analysis by The New York Times that was released on Friday revealed how precincts where Latinos and Asians make up at least 65 per cent of the population in cities like Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Miami and Philadelphia, pulled away from Biden. He still won the overall Latino and Asian vote, but not by as much as in years past.

A GANG of 15 laughing migrants pelted a British lorry driver with rocks and bricks in a terrifying attempt to storm inside and cross the Channel. Andy Couper, 57, suffered cuts and bruises when they smashed his window and "all tried to jump into the cab" as he queued at the border in Calais, France. Meanwhile video footage of separate attack on Brit trucker Greg West this week showed a gang lobbing oranges and loo roll at his cab and banging on the doors. Hauliers warned that drivers are increasingly being threatened and physically attacked by migrants. It's believed that...

On August 31, 2019, a 34-year-old Afghan, armed with a knife, killed a student and injured several passers-by when exiting Laurent Bonnevay metro station in Villeurbanne, in the Rhône. The author had been subdued by several witnesses then indicted for "murder and attempted murder" . ... On this date, the psychiatrist Natalie Giloux had noted "schizophrenic disorders" with "hallucinatory syndrome". In particular, she felt that his mental disorders had been accentuated by heavy cannabis use. In June, his colleague Jean Canterino had diagnosed schizophrenia with delirium of persecution, with a religious theme, having caused "the abolition of discernment" of the...

One of the nation’s more accurate pollsters is bullish on Sen. Kelly Loeffler’s chances to win her runoff race against Raphael Warnock but less confident that Sen. David Perdue will best Jon Ossoff. “We see the Warnock-Loeffler race as one that will be less close. We feel more confident that Loeffler is going to probably prevail,” Robert Cahaly, the chief pollster for the Trafalgar Group, told the Washington Examiner. “We feel more confident that the other one is going to be closer.” Trafalgar’s most recent polls in Georgia show two different races developing, with Loeffler leading Warnock by almost 7...

Will be breaking on OANN, and being broken by Ryan Hartwig (formerly of Project Veritas) and Stew Peters. Airplanes were flown into swing states full of phony ballots, and whistleblowers have come forward. They are releasing photos, video, and audio to prove this 100%. There is even a dead man switch to make sure this gets released. Ryan Hartwig and Stew Peters are explaining it all on Twitter, hasn’t been censored yet: https://mobile.twitter.com/realstewpeters https://mobile.twitter.com/realryanhartwig This could be the game changer.

The facts took place on rue des Douves, Tuesday evening, around 8 p.m. A man was seriously injured in the thigh. A suspect was arrested a few minutes later in the station area. According to the first elements, it could be a gratuitous assault. Tuesday evening, around 8 p.m., a man was attacked with a knife, rue des Douves, in the Capucins district, in central Bordeaux. The victim was returning home after a day's work and was reportedly approached by three strangers, a man and two women. The man allegedly quarreled with him and stabbed him in the thigh, before...

MANILA, Philippines — Sen. Juan Miguel Zubiri on Saturday urged the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF) to rethink its plans to avail of vaccines with low efficacy rate, calling this proposition as “unacceptable.”... Zubiri did not mention a specific brand, but he made the remark after the IATF announced that it preferred vaccines made by Chinese pharmaceuticals Sinovac, Sinopharm, and CanSino because of their “affordability and production capability.”... But Brazil, the first country to complete a late-stage trial of the Sinovac vaccine, said on Dec. 23 that the vaccine, called CoronaVac, was only more...

“He that hateth dissembleth with his lips, and layeth up deceit within him; When he speaketh fair, believe him not: for there are seven abominations in his heart. Whose hatred is covered by deceit, his wickedness shall be shewed before the whole congregation” (Proverbs 26:24-26).

Boko Haram terrorists have killed 11 people and kidnapped a priest in Nigeria It is claimed armed men in trucks and on motorbikes stormed Primi village Primi is only a short distance from a village where 200 girls were kidnapped The terrorists looted food supplies and set fire to at least ten homes in the areaBoko Haram jihadists killed at least 11 people, burnt a church and seized a priest on Christmas Eve in Nigeria's restive northeast, local sources claimed today. Security agencies had in recent days warned of an increased risk of attack during the holiday season. Fighters in...

SANAA, Yemen — A 25-year-old woman was beaten to death in front of her two children by Houthi rebels in Yemen's Ibb province, a family member said Friday. Houthi militia members raided the house of Ahlam al-Ashary late Thursday looking for her husband, the family member said. When they did not find him they kicked al-Ashary and beat her with sticks and the backs of their pistols until she died, said the relative, who refused to be named for fear of reprisals. The militants were searching for al-Ashary's husband for his alleged ties to rival forces loyal to the U.N.-recognized...

Family, provincial government appealing acquittals to Supreme Court of Pakistan as provincial high court says there is no justifiable reason for their continued detention. [Islamabad] A top Pakistani provincial court has ordered the immediate release of Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and his three alleged co-conspirators in the brutal murder of US journalist Daniel Pearl in February 2002. Sheikh, a British national of Pakistani origin, was sentenced to death the same year for killing Pearl, but his conviction was overturned by a Pakistani court in April. He is likely to go free on Saturday. The Sindh High Court, located in Karachi,...

TEL AVIV (Sputnik) – The Israeli Iron Dome aerial defense system has intercepted two rockets fired from the Gaza Strip, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said. On late Friday, air raid sirens sounded in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon and areas near the border with the Gaza Strip. “Concerning the previous report about the air raid sirens sounded in Ashkelon and areas near the border with the Gaza Strip, two rockets have been fired from the Gaza Strip at the Israeli territory. The rockets have been intercepted by the Iron Dome aerial defense system,” the IDF said in a...

Here at Delish, we aren't shy about our love for pickles. We'll put them in pretty much anything from hummus to mozzarella sticks to nachos. Sometimes, though, you want to go back to your roots and eat them straight out of the jar, and in such a case, Walmart has the perfect jar to store them in. This Flip Lid Jar is is designed specifically to keep marinated foods fresh while still keeping them easy to serve when needed. For example, items like pickles, olives, or jalapeños that typically come in jars submerged in their pickling liquids would be great...

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden reaffirmed that some higher education will be free if he becomes the president. “In the 21st century, twelve years of school isn’t enough. That’s why under the Biden-Harris plan, community college will be free—and public colleges and universities will be tuition-free for families earning less than $125,000 a year,” he wrote Thursday in a Twitter post. In a string of Twitter posts, the former vice president promoted Miguel Cardona, his education secretary pick, addressed reopening schools safely amid the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus pandemic. He also mentioned doubling the number of school psychologists, counselors,...

Post Christmas sales probably won't be as big of a deal this year as it has been in the past but I'm sure there will be some deals to be had.