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Trump effect: Black unemployment hits 17-year low in U.S.

Michael W. Chapman
SNSNews.com
Mon, 18 Dec 2017 15:57 UTC
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According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics( BLS), the unemployment rate for black Americans is the lowest it has been since the year 2000, 17 years ago.

In November, the national unemployment rate for black Americans, ages 16 and over, was 7.3%.

The last time it was 7.3% was in the year 2000, during the months September, October and November.

During the Bush and Obama years (2001 -2016), the black unemployment rate fluctuated between 7.7% and a high of 16.8%.

Back in September 2017, the rate was 7.0%, a low that had not been seen since April of 2000. Prior to that, going all the way back to 1972, the black unemployment rate never fell below 7.0% and was largely in the double digits throughout the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s.

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'Nigerian Prince' email scammer turns out to be 67-year-old Louisiana man


RT
Sat, 30 Dec 2017 15:53 UTC
Michael Neu Nigerian prince
© Slidell Police Department / Facebook
The mastermind who claimed to be Nigerian royalty in order to conduct a well-known 'phishing' email scam has been arrested in Louisiana.

Michael Neu, 67, was arrested this week following an 18-month investigation by Slidell Police Department's Financial Crimes Division. He has been charged with 269 counts of wire fraud and money laundering and is believed to have set up hundreds of scam email accounts costing unassuming citizens thousands of dollars.

The scam emails involve a well-known trope that is almost as old as the internet: A person claiming to be a Nigerian prince, or their representative, emails you requesting personal financial information in order to expedite the transfer of a massive inheritance of which you were hitherto unaware.
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'War on cops' is police propaganda - cop deaths on the decline while citizens killed by cops at epidemic levels

Jay Syrmopoulos
The Free Thought Project
Fri, 29 Dec 2017 12:00 UTC
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Data from 2017 reveals that the idea that there is a "war on cops" is nothing more than police propaganda, as the number of officers killed in the line of duty dropped to the second-lowest total in more than 50 years.

Conversely, there were over 1,000 people killed by cops for the fourth year in a row, according to the website killedbypolice.net, which operates a database of individuals killed by law enforcement officers.

According to data from the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund, a nonprofit aimed at honoring officers and improving safety, as of December 28:


Comment: As cops continue to become further militarized and trained in the 'us vs them' mentality, the numbers of public casualties will continue to rise. The idea that cops are there to serve and protect the public are long gone by. See also:

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Apple's ill designed Chicago store: bird poop, falling ice and cracking windows

Jay Korziarz
NY Daily News
Fri, 29 Dec 2017 13:37 UTC
Chicago’s new flagship Apple store struggling with falling ice, cracking windows

Is the issue an anticipated compromise or design oversight?
For all of its fancy engineering and architectural accolades earned since opening in October, Michigan Avenue's glassy new Apple store is struggling with an apparently unexpected adversary: Chicago's wintery climate.

According to a report by The Verge, frozen chunks of snow and icicles sliding off the riverfront building's gutter-less, laptop-esque roof pose a serious threat to pedestrians. The dangerous condition forced Apple employees to close-off portions of Pioneer Court with caution tape and deploy signs reading "Watch for falling snow and ice."

Falling ice wasn't the only winter-related issue facing the Foster + Partners-designed flag ship store this week. According to pictures posted to the discussion forum at Skyscraperpage, Chicago's recent cold snap caused at least one of the store's glass panels to develop a crack.
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Déja vu: Trump's approval rating exactly matches Obama's at the end of first year

Chris Black
IWB
Thu, 28 Dec 2017 12:49 UTC
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Let me begin with a rare tweet, courtesy of Matt Drudge, a guy who doesn't tweet much and also the owner of world's biggest news-aggregator, the Drudge Report obviously:
Rasmussen Poll shows Trump at 46% APPROVE this morning, with 53% DISAPPROVE... What about Obama at same exact date first year in presidency?? 46% APPROVE, 53% DISAPPROVE!

Comment: Obviously, there is a large disconnect between what the American people think and what the mainstream media tells them to think. A case in point: The American People Are Coming to Terms With The Fact That Their Government Is A Dictatorship

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Iran to shift focus to policing crime rather than women who violate dress code


Al-Monitor
Thu, 28 Dec 2017 00:01 UTC
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© REUTERS/Stringer
Morality police take down the name of a detained woman during a crackdown on "social corruption" in north Tehran, Iran, June 18, 2008.
One of the more notorious images that often comes out of Iran is that of chador-clad women with police armbands and male police officers rounding up loosely veiled, and often young, women into minivans to be taken to police stations. These officers, known as Gasht-e Ershad, or Guidance Patrol, roam busy avenues, especially during the summer, and are often seen harassing young couples or groups of women. Now, according to statements by Iranian officials, these scenes are to be no more.

On Dec. 27, Brig. Gen. Hossein Rahimi, head of Greater Tehran police, said, "According to the commander of the NAJA [Law Enforcement Force of the Islamic Republic of Iran], those who do not observe Islamic values and have negligence in this area will no longer be taken to detention centers, a legal case will not be made for them and we will not send them to court; rather, education classes to reform their behavior will be offered."

Comment: It's nice to see Iran taking a softer approach to policing morality, while in other parts of the world the same can't be said.

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Puerto Rico: 1 million still without power 100 days after hurricane Maria


teleSUR
Fri, 29 Dec 2017 12:00 UTC
People who lost their homes during Hurricane Maria in September rest at a gymnasium of a school turned shelter in Canovanas.
© Reuters
People who lost their homes during Hurricane Maria in September rest at a gymnasium of a school turned shelter in Canovanas.
Though some basic necessities have returned to the island, residents are angry that they are still in "recovery mode."

Puerto Rico is now in its 100th day since Category 4 Hurricane Maria struck the island, damaging vast amounts of infrastructure and nearly eliminating its electrical and running water systems.

Though some of these basic necessities have returned to the island, residents who have electricity say that "blackouts are part of life" and are angry that they are still in "recovery mode."
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Facebook suspends account of man who shared photo of dying wife

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Sat, 30 Dec 2017 12:36 UTC
facebook website
© Facebook
If ever you think Facebook is a haven for free speech and a place where people can freely share their peaceful information and thoughts, you need only browse through our archives to realize how much of a farce that is. Backing up this notion of arbitrary Facebook censorship is a recent post from Elliot Lowe about his now-deceased wife's cancer and how it allegedly got his account suspended.

In this heart-wrenching post, Lowe described his late wife, Donna's battle with cancer.
My wife (donna Lowe) was diagnosed with cervical cancer three days before Christmas, it wasn't until the 10th of January 2017 after further tests and scans (PET Scan) that my wife's consultant at Northampton General Hospital dealt us a further devastating blow that the cancer had already spread to her Lymph nodes in her pelvic area and as a result the cancer had been diagnosed as stage 4b.
Despite a very hard, but brutal fight against the cancer involving daily radiotherapy for six weeks and a chemotherapy session, a session which had to stop due to complications it was a diagnosis that was to claim her life.
He then went on to urge other women to make sure they undergo annual Cervical Screening which could've prevented his wife from dying had they found the cancer early enough.
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Two young siblings killed in house fire in Emmen, Netherlands

Zack Newmark
NL Times
Sat, 30 Dec 2017 12:28 UTC
Gelderland firefighters
© Brandweer Dodewaard / Wikimedia Commons
Two children were killed in a house fire that ignited Saturday morning in Emmen. The victims are a six-year-old boy and his five-year-old sister, a regional police office reported.

Their parents were not seriously injured in the blaze, and were transported to an area hospital for treatment. The family's dog also died in the fire, NOS reported.
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2017 is worst year for US dollar since 2003 while gold on upward trend hits $1310

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Fri, 29 Dec 2017 15:07 UTC
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After tumbling in early December, gold has exploded higher since The Fed hiked rates on 12/13, hitting $1310 today - the highest since Oct 16th.
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