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  • Mayor Adams says migrants could be housed on cruise ships

    09/19/2022 1:27:31 AM PDT · by Libloather · 55 replies
    NY Post ^ | 9/19/22 | Katherine Donlevy
    New York City shelters are so overwhelmed by the migrant crisis that Mayor Eric Adams is considering using cruise ships as temporary housing. “We examined everything from the legality of using any type of cruise ship for temporary housing,” Hizzoner during an interview on WCBS Sunday. “We’re looking at everything to see, how do we deal with this?” Adams made the suggestion just hours before The Post reported that a record number of 9 buses carrying migrants traveled into the city. Each bus typically carries between 40 and 50 migrants. The influx is crippling the New York shelter system. Full-time...
  • Today's Toons 9/19/22

    09/19/2022 1:24:34 AM PDT · by pookie18 · 15 replies
    The Briefing Room ^ | 9/19/22 | pookie18
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  • China values UN relationship despite human rights criticism

    09/19/2022 12:58:00 AM PDT · by Jyotishi · 4 replies
    The Pioneer ^ | September 19, 2022 | Associated Press
    Beijing -- As world leaders gather in New York at the annual UN General Assembly, rising superpower China is also focusing on another United Nations body that is meeting across the Atlantic Ocean in Geneva. Chinese diplomats are speaking out and lobbying others at an ongoing session of the Human Rights Council to thwart a possible call for further scrutiny of what it calls its anti-extremism campaign in Xinjiang, following a UN report on abuses against Uyghurs and other largely Muslim ethnic groups in the western China border region. The concurrent meetings, on opposite sides of the Atlantic, illustrate China's...
  • 'I am helping them get to their preferred destination': Democratic El Paso mayor justifies sending 58 buses of migrants to NYC - and says 'we don't send anyone where they don't want to go'

    09/19/2022 12:41:48 AM PDT · by Libloather · 27 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 9/18/22 | Katelyn Caralle
    El Paso's Democratic mayor said Sunday that he is only busing migrants to New York City to help them get to their final destination as critics pointed out the hypocrisy in the left condemning Republicans for doing the same thing. Mayor Oscar Leeser said migrants aren't coming to the U.S. just to land in his border city, but instead are looking to go to other places in the country – potentially where they have family or other sponsors. 'The people are not coming to El Paso,' Leeser said. 'They're coming to America.' He said that authorities in El Paso speak...
  • How Putin held Europe hostage over energy | FT Energy Source

    09/19/2022 12:30:51 AM PDT · by SmokingJoe · 13 replies
    Financial Times ^ | Sep 08 2022 | FT
    Russia's invasion of Ukraine has prompted the biggest shake-up of European energy markets this century. This film explains how Europe became so dependent on cheap Russian gas, and explores the hard choices facing the EU as it tries to balance energy security and climate ambitions. Read more at https://on.ft.com/3D7bv31
  • Trans Totalitarianism: Time For Moral Panic

    09/19/2022 12:21:23 AM PDT · by gattaca · 20 replies
    American Conservative ^ | August 16, 2022 | Rod Dreher
    The phrase "moral panic" refers to a fear-driven mass overreaction to a phenomenon that is either false or minor. Witch hunts are the usual manifestation of a moral panic. There are no witches (well, technically not true, at least these days, but the witches didn't poison the well), so to freak out and persecute women because they might be a witch is a classic example of moral panic. The Satanic abuse craze of the 1990s is another. Again: a "moral panic" ensues when there is a mass freakout over something that doesn't exist, or is extremely minor and in no...
  • Social media platforms’ ‘flawed policies’ amplify election fraud claims: report

    09/19/2022 12:20:15 AM PDT · by Libloather · 15 replies
    The Hill ^ | 9/19/22 | Rebecca Klar
    Social media companies have weak policies on misinformation and have failed to enforce them consistently ahead of the 2022 midterms, according to a new report released Monday. The report, from New York University’s Stern Center for Business and Human Rights, faults Meta, Twitter, YouTube and TikTok for not taking a proactive approach to address misinformation, including a growing trend of election denialism and false claims of fraud. They say the lack of a proactive approach threatens the approaching election. Although social media companies have pledged to tackle election misinformation, the report said the companies’ “flawed policies and inconsistent enforcement result...
  • The State Funeral of Her Majesty The Queen

    09/19/2022 12:00:27 AM PDT · by RandFan · 383 replies
    twitter ^ | Sep 19 | Piers Morgan
    @piersmorgan For American followers, I will be co-anchoring @FoxNews coverage of tomorrow’s funeral from 4am ET on what will be a long and historic day.
  • PROFITING FROM PROVERBS – 9/19/2022

    09/18/2022 11:33:31 PM PDT · by Pilgrim's Progress · 2 replies
    King James Bible | 9/19/2022 | pilgrimsprogress
    “The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression. The king's wrath is as the roaring of a lion; but his favour is as dew upon the grass” (Proverbs 19:11).
  • Protesting women take off hijabs after 22-year-old arrested for dress code violation dies [Iran]

    09/18/2022 11:26:58 PM PDT · by Ken H · 16 replies
    Several women hit the streets in Western Iran Saturday and took off their hijabs as a mark of protest over the death of a 22-year-old woman, Mahsa Amini, who was reportedly arrested and beaten up by the country’s police for not properly following hijab regulations.
  • Brandon expounds on his "mental focus" during an interview on 60 Minutes CNS news broadcast on 9/18/2022.

    09/18/2022 11:15:35 PM PDT · by know.your.why · 10 replies
    https://youtu.be/MUTvhgHAT9E ^ | 09/19/2022 | Self
    "Oh, its focused..."
  • AP 28 Nov 1936: 'Arabs Read Hitler' - Mein Kampf bestseller among Arabs in Palestine

    09/18/2022 10:43:07 PM PDT · by Conservat1 · 13 replies
    AP ^ | November 28, 1936
    Arabs Read Hitler "My Struggle" Becomes Best Seller Among Anti-Semitics. BERLIN. November 26 (AP). -- Arabs, who join with Nazi Germany in antagonism to Jews, are reading Adolf Hitler's book "My Struggle." The Fuehrer's autobiography, with its anti-Semitic theroies, has been translated into Arabic and already is a best seller in Palestine, German newspapers say. The German edition once was barred in Palestine during the high point of Jewish immigration there, but Arabs who fought the Jewish influx, are reported much interested in the new translation.Nebraska State Journal Archives, Nov 26, 1936, p. 2 - NewspaperArchive
  • Short-term profits and long-term consequences — did Jack Welch break capitalism?

    09/18/2022 10:22:37 PM PDT · by NeverCheney · 33 replies
    Fresh Air/NPR ^ | June 1 2022 | Dave Davies
    Long before the reign of Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos, there was Jack Welch. Welch, who headed up the General Electric Company from 1981 and 2001, is often thought of as the first celebrity CEO, a businessman who wowed investors and mingled with celebrities. "[Welch's] face was on the cover of magazines all the time," New York Times correspondent David Gelles says. "He emerged as sort of this imperial executive and helped define what I think is still with us today in the form of a certain amount of CEO worship." In his book, The Man Who Broke...
  • That's not a real job opening: Some companies are posting 'ghost jobs' but don't actually plan to hire you — or anyone

    09/18/2022 10:19:14 PM PDT · by Tired of Taxes · 84 replies
    MSN ^ | 9-18-22 | Rebecca Knight, Juliana Kaplan
    After applying to more than 300 jobs in the last six months without a single bite, Will no longer bothers to read job descriptions or research companies. It's just a waste of time at this point, said Will, whose real name is withheld but known to Insider. He spends six to 10 hours a day on LinkedIn churning out applications, but says that he and his peers with similar credentials — master's degrees and MBAs from top schools — are having no luck getting interviews. "I'm seeing all of these articles about how companies cannot recruit people fast enough and...
  • News Summary-Intelligence Report Sunday 9/18/2022 Newsdump Weekend 155 Kids Dead Following COVID Shots, Deadly Protest In Haiti Over Skyrocketing Prices, Pelosi Supports Armenia In Border Fight, Banned Pride March Goes On In Serbia

    09/18/2022 10:04:10 PM PDT · by Nextrush
    Nextrush Free ^ | 9/18/2022 | Nextrush/Self
    Politics in Minnesota polling done for the Minneapolis Star-Tribune showing Democrats leading races like the one for Governor with incumbent Tim Walz at 48 percent to Scott Jensen's 41 percent. The Democrats also lead in another statewide race for Secretary of State 48-40 percent but the contest for Attorney General very close with incumbent Democrat Keith Ellison at 46 percent with Republican Jim Schultz at 45 percent... Candidates supported by President Trump performing well in polls in Arizona... "Climate" in France today the low temperature on average 7.03 degrees Celsius or 44.65 degrees Fahrenheit... A severe energy emergency in South...
  • UK PM Truss introduces energy plan, ends fracking ban

    09/18/2022 10:02:56 PM PDT · by SmokingJoe · 30 replies
    DW ^ | September 2022 | DW
    British Prime Minister Liz Truss on Thursday unveiled plans to freeze domestic energy bills for two years. Truss also lifted a moratorium on fracking in a bid to secure increased energy supply. The government said it would also review progress towards its target of net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. Truss became Britain's prime minister on Tuesday, replacing Boris Johnson. ===== SNIP ===== What is Truss' energy plan? Truss announced a cap on consumer energy bills for two years in a package that could cost around 150 billion pounds ($173 billion, €173 billion). The plan will be funded by government borrowing....
  • Railroaders furious after unions reveal that no tentative agreement exists, despite sabotage of strike

    09/18/2022 9:45:26 PM PDT · by 11th_VA · 33 replies
    World Socialist web Site ^ | Jacob Crosse 16 September 2022
    One day after leading Democratic politicians and the media announced that tentative agreements had been reached between the two largest railroad workers unions, both unions acknowledged that no final tentative agreements actually exist yet and that workers should not expect to view any details of the agreements for weeks.“Anyone who states that they have seen a final copy of the TA, have a copy of the final TA or knows the final contents of the agreement is not being truthful.” The documents, it continues, “have not been fully reviewed by both parties’ legal counsel” and have not been presented “to...
  • Scientists create matter from nothing in groundbreaking experiment

    09/18/2022 9:42:30 PM PDT · by BenLurkin · 108 replies
    BGR ^ | September 18th, 2022 at 9:02 AM | Joshua Hawkins
    We know that colliding two particles in empty space can sometimes cause additional particles to emerge. There are even theories that a strong enough electromagnetic field could create matter and antimatter out of nothing itself. Big Think reports, in early 2022, a group of researchers created strong enough electric fields in their laboratory to level the unique properties of a material known as graphene. With these fields, the researchers were able to enable the spontaneous creation of particle-antiparticle pairs from nothing at all. This proved that creating matter from nothing is indeed possible, a theory first proposed by Julian Schwinger,...
  • Rep. Nehls says Homeland Security confirmed Venezuela 'sends violent criminals' to U.S.

    09/18/2022 9:25:27 PM PDT · by McGruff · 16 replies
    Just The News ^ | September 18, 2022 | Madeleine Hubbard
    Texas Republican Rep. Troy Nehls on Sunday said the Department of Homeland Security confirmed that Venezuela is sending "violent criminals" to the United States through the southern border. "DHS confirms that Venezuela empties prisons and sends violent criminals to our southern border," Nehls tweeted. "President Trump warned us about this years ago." Former President Donald Trump has said on several occasions that foreign countries are "emptying their prisons" into the U.S.
  • Historical fiasco: Russian commander BLOWN UP his own elite infantry platoon!

    09/18/2022 9:17:27 PM PDT · by UMCRevMom@aol.com · 58 replies
    youtube.com ^ | Sep 18, 2022 | Eagle Claw
    Russian commander BLOWN UP his own elite infantry platoon!