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So stupid, it burns! Paris explores climate lawsuit against fossil fuel companies over flooding

Anthony Watts
Watts Up With That?
Tue, 06 Feb 2018 14:28 UTC
Paris flooding
From The stupid, it burns! department, comes this FUBAR press release from Bill McKibben's 350.org. Of course, these idiots don't think to check history for flooding there, because, well, that would be inconvenient.

Paris explores climate lawsuit against fossil fuel companies
Paris, France - The City of Paris decided today to explore possibilities to sue the fossil fuel industry for causing climate damages, following the example of New York and other US cities.

The city council also decided to lobby other major cities such as London to ban fossil fuels from their investments through the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, of which the mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo is president. The council also announced that it will release an update on the progress that has been made since it pledged to divest from fossil fuels in 2015.
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French fishermen protest electrical 'pulse' fishing, blockade Calais and Boulogne


Metro Press
Fri, 26 Jan 2018 14:22 UTC
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Fishermen in Boulogne set pallets and tyres alight on an access road while two French boats blockaded an area of the port where Dutch trawlers unload
French fishermen have blocked the ports of Calais and Boulogne in protest at so-called pulse fishing, which uses electrified nets to stun fish. Fishing boats stopped ferries entering or leaving Calais while a roadblock stopped traffic at Boulogne. Calais is a major link between the UK and France used by thousands of tourists and lorries every day.

The European Parliament recently voted to ban pulse fishing which is mainly used by Dutch trawlers.

The head of P&O Ferries, Janette Bell, said the blockade of Calais was "utterly unacceptable". It was lifted at 16:00 GMT, though the ports were expected to take a while to get back to normal. The fishermen said they would meet government officials on Friday to discuss the issue.

The English port of Dover was also hit by the action, with P&O and DFDS Seaways suspending some scheduled services. DFDS later rerouted some services through Dunkirk while P&O advised some customers to use the Channel Tunnel.
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The true cost of illegal immigration

Ruthie Blum
The Gatestone Institute
Mon, 05 Feb 2018 05:30 UTC
US-Mexico border fence
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The US-Mexico border fence near San Diego, California.
In his State of the Union address on January 30, US President Donald J. Trump referred to the brutal murder of two 16-year-old girls from Long Island in December 2016 by members of the "savage MS-13 gang," responsible for a spate of other gruesome killings in the area, as well.

Many of these gang members, he explained, had entered the United States illegally. "For decades, open borders have allowed drugs and gangs to pour into our most vulnerable communities," he said.

Calling on Congress "to finally close the deadly loopholes that have allowed... criminal gangs to break into our country," he listed the four pillars of his immigration-reform proposal:
  • A path to citizenship for 1.8 million illegal immigrants who were brought to America by their parents.
  • The construction of a "great wall on the southern border" and enforcement by agents patrolling and securing the border.
  • Ending the visa lottery, "a program that randomly plans out green cards without regard for skill, merit, for the safety of American people."
  • Ending the "current, broken system" of chain migration of distant relatives, and limiting sponsorships to spouses and minor children.

Comment: Nothing like a few facts to debunk Trump's immigration policy opponent's talking points. See also:

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Man asks undocumented immigrant to stop peeing at bus stop - gets stabbed in neck

Kevin Lewis
WJLA
Tue, 06 Feb 2018 12:55 UTC
Salvador Gomez-Lopez
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Salvador Gomez-Lopez, 46
An undocumented immigrant urinating in public used a box cutter to repeatedly stab a man who had merely suggested he pull up his trousers and use a proper restroom, police say.

On Nov. 30, around 11 p.m., Montgomery County Police were dispatched to the Wheaton Metro bus turnaround along Georgia Avenue. Upon stepping out of their cruisers, officers saw a man with stab wounds and bloody slashes to his neck, face and stomach.

That victim, plus an uninjured eyewitness, pointed officers toward Salvador Gomez-Lopez, 46, who was allegedly drunk and belligerent. The two men explained that Gomez-Lopez was relieving himself in plain view of fellow bus passengers. When the victim questioned his actions, Gomez-Lopez reportedly reached into his backpack and grabbed hold of a razor-sharp box cutter.
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Illegal immigrant who was deported 44 times in 15 years on top of feds' list

Stephen Dinan
The Washington Times
Tue, 06 Feb 2018 00:01 UTC
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent
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He is the world's most persistent illegal immigrant: One Mexican managed to get deported 44 times in 15 years - which means he also managed to sneak back across the border at least that many times.

The runner-up was ousted 40 times from 2001 to 2015. No. 3, 4 and 5 on the list were deported 35, 34 and 31 times, respectively, according to data provided to The Washington Times by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

While those are the most extreme cases, repeat-illegal immigrants were back in the news this week after police said a twice-deported man was driving drunk in Indiana on Sunday morning when he plowed into pro football player Edwin Jackson and his Uber driver, killing them both.

Comment: See also:

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The government is clearly incompetent, so why do we want it to do more?

Nick Gillespie
Reason
Tue, 06 Feb 2018 13:20 UTC
Ryan McConnell Schumer Pelosi
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The feds can't pass a budget or do much very well, yet a record level of Americans want it more involved in our lives. That's not as crazy as it seems.

By now, you know the score: A couple of weeks have passed, so there's a new deadline looming for a budget agreement to keep the federal government open until the next continuing resolution can be hammered out, maybe after a brief government shutdown, during which members of Congress might even have to bring their own towels to the House gym (the horror, the horror).

The deadline is Thursday, so lots of luck, fellas. You've been getting along so well lately, this shouldn't be a problem at all. Oh wait.

Since the late 1970s, when new budgeting rules were passed, the government has only passed a budget four times before the fiscal year covered by said budget begins. This time around, there's a debt limit looming, too, with Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin saying that the government's credit line will be exhausted by February 28. That's sooner than originally expected, due to the not-at-all-surprising result of the tax cuts passed in December. Lower taxes generally result in lower revenue, after all.
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Mind control? Stephen Paddock allegedly told prostitute that his brain was 'hacked' and he was under gov't control

Matt Agorist
Free Thought Project
Tue, 06 Feb 2018 00:00 UTC
Paddock mind control
A former escort who frequently visited with Stephen Paddock has revealed that the Vegas murderer thought he was a government experiment whose brain was hacked and who could be controlled.

Shocking information on Stephen Paddock was recently reported which has gone completely unnoticed by the mainstream media. The report entails testimony from one of Paddock's high-priced escorts who is blowing the whistle on how a prostitute who met with the deranged shooter just before the massacre has since gone missing and noted how Paddock thought he was under the control of the government.

The escort was reported missing by her boyfriend just after the shooting and now, a former escort who once dated Paddock is speaking out about the sheer insanity involved in this case.

"She was telling girls after work that she was scared something would happen to her," claimed former escort Mikaela, whose full name is being withheld to protect her identity according to Radar Online. "She was booked the day before or the day of the shooting before she disappeared."

Comment: By now it is clear to most who have looked closely at the Las Vegas massacre that much of what we've been told through the mainstream media is a lie: But what to do with the maybe-true statement in the article suggesting Paddock thought he was part of a 'government experiment'? Was it a paranoid delusion - or was there something to it? Apparently Timothy McVeigh of the OKC bombing in 1993 had made some similar statements about being under some form of government mind control. Is there a connection here?

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Amtrak train breaks apart at 125 mph


New York Post
Wed, 07 Feb 2018 09:39 UTC
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Amtrak passenger train #501, derailed near DuPont, WA
Tragedy-prone Amtrak suffered another terrifying setback Tuesday - when a high-speed Acela train broke apart as it raced north toward Penn Station at 125 mph, sources said.

In the third wreck in just one week - and the fourth in two months - several cars of an Acela Express heading from Washington, DC, to the Big Apple decoupled at about 6:30 a.m. and were left held together only by their air hoses.

Sparks flew from dragging cables and the train jerked wildly, but none of the 52 terrified passengers aboard were injured, according to reports.

Comment: Also See:

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Amtrak's high-profile crashes spark concerns but are they justified?


USA Today
Tue, 06 Feb 2018 15:03 UTC
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Amtrak train derailment from 2017
Federal authorities say that a railway signaling system in South Carolina was down for maintenance when an Amtrak train crashed into a CSX freight locomotive on Sunday, causing the deaths of an Amtrak engineer and conductor. (Feb. 5) AP

A spate of fatal Amtrak accidents in recent months is focusing renewed attention on the passenger railroad and its safety record. The latest deadly incident occurred Sunday in South Carolina.

The crashes appear to stem from different causes, and federal investigators are sifting through each to find out what happened.

Comment: Even though in this instance, according to the article, safety incidents are actually steadily decreasing, America's infrastructure is failing, so it appears that the publicity these accidents receive is a factor in the public's concern. Travelling by rail can be a relatively pain-free experience when compared to the invasive and unjust security checks one has to suffer when flying, and if we look to how other countries are managing their rail network, it seems the west has a lot to learn:

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#Metoo ideology mania may result in mediocracy

Heather Mac Donald
City Journal
Wed, 07 Feb 2018 11:42 UTC
The coming mania for inclusion will erode standards of merit and excellence.
rainbow circle and equity
If the #MeToo movement only reduces sexual predation in the workplace, it will have been a force for good. Its most likely result, however, will be to unleash a torrent of new gender and race quotas throughout the economy and culture, on the theory that disparities in representation and employment are due to harassment and bias.
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