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NY Times disdains wage raises for blue-collar Americans

Neil Munro
Breitbart
Sun, 29 Dec 2019 03:48 UTC
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Wages for Americans have jumped since ICE arrested almost 700 illegals at several labor-intensive chicken plants in Mississippi — yet the New York Times disdains the extra cash as "little."

On December 2018, The NYT reported the wage-gains since the August enforcement:
[Juan] Grant, only two years out of high school and still finding his way in the world. He said it felt good to be earning $11.23 an hour, even if the new job entailed cutting off necks and pulling out guts on a seemingly endless conveyor of carcasses. It was about $4 better, he said, than what he used to earn at a Madison County cookie factory.
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... the opportunity to earn more than $11 an hour can still turn heads in this part of Mississippi. Mr. Grant was not the only person to jump at the chance the raids provided. Niah Hill, manager of the Sonic Drive-In in Morton, said 10 of her workers quit soon after the raid at Koch Foods. "When they heard about the raids they all went over there and got jobs right away," Ms. Hill said. Carhops at this Sonic make $4.25 an hour — three dollars less than the state's minimum wage — plus tips, she said.
But the NYT's reporter dismissed the economic gains for working-class Americans, with a quote from a press release issued by the University of Pennsylvania:

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Pete Buttigieg says possession of all drugs should be decriminalized

Scott Shackford
Reason.com
Mon, 30 Dec 2019 01:25 UTC
Pete Buttigieg
© Brian Cahn/ZUMA Press/Newscom
Pete Buttigieg
Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, and Democratic presidential candidate, told a newspaper editorial board that he doesn't want to put people in jail for possessing or using drugs — not even meth, cocaine, and ecstasy.

Buttigieg's statements to the Des Moines Register's in a meeting right before Christmas is garnering him some new national attention for his blunt declaration that America should not imprison drug users.

His comments start at about 55:15 minutes into this hour-long interview below:

Comment: Scott Adams considers Buttigieg's position to be a tactical weakness for the Trump campaign, as it is antithetical to Trump's base of support:



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Protests over Citizenship Act: Indian PM launches outreach campaign, tweets Sadhguru video


India Today
Sat, 28 Dec 2019 01:48 UTC
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is inviting the public to express support for the Citizenship Amendment Act with a new hashtag, as protests against the controversial law continue
Narendra Modi
© PTI
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has launched an outreach campaign with the hashtag #IndiaSupportsCAA to gather support for the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), which has sparked furious, sometimes deadly protests across India in recent weeks.

PM Modi's official website tweeted that the CAA "is about giving citizenship to persecuted refugees and not about taking anyone's citizenship away".

At around the same time, PM Modi tweeted a video featuring spiritual leader Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev, who he said had provided a "lucid explanation of aspects relating to CAA" and "calls out the misinformation by vested interest groups".

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Good Riddance 2019, The Year of The Woke Police

Douglas Murray
Daily Mail
Mon, 30 Dec 2019 20:18 UTC
Demonstrators take part in 'Women Demand Bread & Roses' protest organised by Women's March in central London, January 19

Demonstrators take part in 'Women Demand Bread & Roses' protest organised by Women's March in central London, January 19
This was the year of 'woke'. Or at least the year that 'woke' made its biggest land grab. For anyone lucky enough not to have encountered the term, woke is essentially political correctness after a course of steroids. Its followers spend their lives punishing any wrong-think committed, which can include thinking something everyone thought until yesterday. And includes saying things that are true.

The main inspirations for the wokerati are anything to do with relations between the sexes, race, LGBT issues, and the last of these (Trans) in particular. In each case a legitimate rights debate is weaponised into a culture war.

This year started in the manner in which it meant to go on. In January, former policeman Harry Miller was contacted by Humberside Police after a member of the public reported him for allegedly 'transphobic' comments made on Twitter. His offence? The 53-year-old posted a limerick that questioned whether trans women are biological women. The police recorded it as a 'hate incident'.
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Cultural rot: Daily Telegraph wants men to give their wives a "cheat pass"

Serban V.C. Enache
The Duran
Mon, 30 Dec 2019 18:01 UTC
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It's not enough that for almost 100 years, Christmas has been hijacked by mindless, materialistic consumerism, now the cultural degeneracy must be pushed further. It was done in a satanically clever manner, replacing the birth of Jesus Christ with a fat, old guy in a red suit that brings presents - this new character being a caricature of Saint Nicholas, especially cooked up to replace both the Saint in question and [the New Testament] God.

This year, the Daily Telegraph, a so-called respectable, intelligent, conservative, UK publication, called on husbands to give their wives a pass for Christmas and allow them to cheat on them. The publication made the same call back in 2018 in an article titled: Why men should give their wives a cheat pass this Christmas and was ridiculed on social media. In essence, the Daily Telegraph ran a huge advertisement for a book whose author supports 'women sexual liberation' [from their husbands], claiming that societal decline is proof of the book's thesis.

'Martin, whose 2015 book Primates of Park Avenue: A Memoir became a New York Times bestseller, is not alone in her espousal of such ideas. This year has seen, if not an explosion, then at least a creeping insinuation into our culture of the idea that monogamy might not be the only approach to long-term relationships... Meanwhile we've had an MP, Labour's Jess Phillips, recommending that schoolgirls should be taught about orgasms.'

Comment: See also: Feminist hysteria: The Telegraph publishes article urging men to give their wives permission for infidelity this Christmas

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London club-goers panic as knife-wielding man prowls the streets

Chiara Fiorillo
The Mirror
Mon, 30 Dec 2019 17:52 UTC
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The knifeman tried attacking another male prone on the floor.
Clubbers on a night out were herded into a strip club when a man with a huge knife tried to stab another male in the street.

Terrifying footage shows a fight breaking out in Shoreditch, East London.

As people shout and run along Hackney Road, a man holding a giant blade approaches another male on the floor and tries attacking him.

A woman can be heard screaming "No, no, no, please" as the attacker slashes at the man prone on the floor near Browns lap dancing club.

A man who appears to be a bouncer repeatedly shouts for the victim to get inside as he tries to protect people from the knifeman.

Three people were arrested in connection with the incident, according to the Met Police.

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Berlin: Suspect firing blanks triggers Checkpoint Charlie


The Local
Mon, 30 Dec 2019 17:45 UTC
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© DPA
A special task force at the location on Monday afternoon.
A major police operation at Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin on Monday was triggered by shots fired from a blank gun, police reported.

There was no robbery, which witnesses had initially reported, according to a police spokesperson.

The suspect linked to the shooting was in the Starbucks a few meters away from the former Checkpoint Charlie border crossing, according to the police. However, the suspect had not threatened anyone, reported police.

Whether the shots were fired in the Starbucks or on the street in front of it was still unclear. Witnesses had alerted the police around 1:20 pm. The police cordoned off the area. A special police task force (SEK) approached and searched a house nearby.
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Chinese scientist He Jiankui jailed for creating world's first gene edited babies 'in the pursuit of personal fame and gain'

Hannah Osborne
Newsweek
Mon, 30 Dec 2019 07:00 UTC
He Jiankui
The Chinese scientist who created the world's first gene edited babies has been jailed for three years for his illegal experiments, state officials have announced. He Jiankui was also fined three million yuan ($430,000) for his work, which he announced at the International Human Genome Editing Summit in Hong Kong in November, 2018.

At the summit, He told attendees how he had modified embryos so they would be more resistant to HIV. His work led to the birth of twin girls, named Lulu and Nana.

His announcement was met with worldwide condemnation and shortly after he was fired from his position at the Southern University of Science and Technology in Shenzhen. He was then apparently placed under some form of house arrest while authorities in China investigated his work.

In January, state news agency Xinhua announced that the government had concluded He had carried out gene editing activities on humans despite this practice being banned in the country. The case was then handed to the Ministry of Public Security. Xinhua said He's actions had violated scientific and ethical integrity and that the people involved in the research would be "dealt with seriously according to the law."

Comment: See also:
CRISPR scientists want a moratorium after China's gene-edited baby debacle
China's CRISPR twins might have had their brains inadvertently enhanced

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'Flow of global capital impossible to stop': Foreign investments in Russia expected to jump 70% this year despite sanctions


RT
Mon, 30 Dec 2019 17:21 UTC
Moscow
© Global Look Press / Konstantin Kokoshkin
European companies have been investing in the Russian economy in ever-increasing numbers, says Kirill Dmitriev, head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF).

According to Dmitriev, EU states played a significant role in driving overall foreign investment into Russia, which has also increased significantly during the year.

"At the start of this year, I forecasted that foreign direct investments [FDI] to Russia would increase by over 50 percent [in 2019]; many raised questions about this figure​​​. Now we see that by the end of this year FDI will grow by around 70 percent. It is a very significant growth," Dmitriev told Sputnik news agency.
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Google's dangerous monopoly-based foreign policy

Matt Stoller
Substack
Mon, 30 Dec 2019 11:51 UTC
Google blacklists conservative sites
© AP/Thibault Camus
Today I'm going to write about Google's exceptionally dangerous decision yesterday to de facto cut off Turkey's access to Android phones.
Google has told its Turkish business partners it will not be able to work with them on new Android phones to be released in Turkey, after the Turkish competition board ruled that changes Google made to its contracts were not acceptable...

The regulator had asked Google to change all its software distribution agreements to allow consumers to choose different search engines in its Android mobile operating system. The probe was triggered by a filing by Russian competitor Yandex.

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