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Migrant caravan undeterred despite facing border bottleneck after Trump tightens asylum rules

William La Jeunesse
Fox News
Fri, 09 Nov 2018 23:28 UTC
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© Associated PressThe caravan, numbering roughly 6,000, spent one more night in Mexico City before continuing north to Queretaro.
A major shot across the bow from President Trump on Thursday may give migrants in the Central American caravan second thoughts about entering the U.S.

The caravan, numbering roughly 6,000, spent one more night in Mexico City before continuing north to Queretaro.

However, in a statement issued jointly by the DHS and DOJ, the administration said migrants will not be allowed to enter the U.S. illegally to file asylum claims, which is how the vast majority of roughly 150,000 Central American families and children entered the U.S. last fiscal year.

Instead, they will be required to enter through official ports of entry, like those near San Diego, Yuma and El Paso. By issuing the new directive, the President is creating a bottleneck by funneling tens of thousands of illegal immigrants to already overcrowded ports.
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Crushing small businesses: New Amazon-Apple agreement will boot all unauthorized Apple refurbishers off Amazon Marketplace

Jason Koebler
Motherboard
Fri, 09 Nov 2018 22:06 UTC
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© John BumsteadRefurbished Mac computers
Amazon told independent refurbishers that it will now only allow "authorized resellers" to sell Apple products on Amazon Marketplace.

John Bumstead is a computer refurbisher who, every year, saves thousands of laptops from the shredder. He buys MacBooks en masse from electronics recyclers, fixes them, then sells them on Amazon Marketplace or wholesales them to vendors who do the same.

Friday morning, Bumstead got an email from Amazon informing him that he'd no longer be allowed to sell Apple computers on the platform, thanks to a new agreement between Apple and Amazon that will only allow "authorized resellers" to sell Apple products.

"As part of a new agreement with Apple, we are working with a select group of authorized resellers to offer an expanded selection of Apple and Beats products, including new releases, in Amazon's stores," the email says. "You are receiving this message because you are currently selling, or have previously sold, Apple or Beats products. Your existing offers for those products will soon be removed from Amazon's online store in the United States. Please contact Apple if you would like to apply to become an authorized reseller on Amazon."
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Norwegians complain after NATO soldiers in Trident Juncture leave behind 'sh**ty mess'

Ross Ibbetson
Daily Mail, UK
Fri, 09 Nov 2018 20:37 UTC
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A tank causes traffic to build up during an exercise in Trondelag, Norway on November 1
More than 400 complaints have been made about NATO soldiers making a mess after the largest joint exercises since the Cold War.

Some of the complaints are about soldiers relieving themselves in public areas, close to kindergartens and leisure facilities, according to NRK.

'This is terrible, it's about having common decency. We have to clean up after soldiers who have relieved themselves. It's literally a s**ty job.' Major Marianne Bø of the Norwegian Armed Forces told the public broadcaster.

Major Bø said they had received complaints about US and Swedish soldiers.
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Jordan Peterson: My 75-minute explication of evil ... 'What fun is life without a little death?'

Jordan Peterson
Vancouver Sun
Thu, 08 Nov 2018 19:51 UTC
Dylan Klebold
© JEFFERSON COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT VIA GETTY IMAGESDylan Klebold examines a bowling pin used for target practice at a makeshift shooting range on March 6, 1999, about six weeks before unleashing the worst school shooting in U.S. history at Columbine High School.
The last two days in Cambridge were relentless, but in the best possible way. My wife Tammy and I flew in early in the morning from Amsterdam after three days of nonstop press and talks. Then we slept for three hours and found The Maison du Steak, which served an excellent ribeye. The waiter knew of my work and said that it had helped him. We snapped a picture together.

I spoke that night to a capacity crowd of 1,850 at the Corn Exchange - originally a warehouse where farmers and merchants traded cereal grains, but a concert hall since 1971. Pink Floyd's founder Syd Barrett played his last concert there; it has housed performances by everyone from Boxcar Willie to David Bowie.

One of the impossibly cool aspects of this 90-city tour has been the chance to visit all these famous and infamous concert halls - The Orpheum in L.A., The Fillmore in Detroit, London's Apollo Hammersmith, Nashville's Ryman Auditorium (original home of the Grand Ole Opry, where 1,200 people sang Happy Birthday to me in June) - and to follow in the footsteps of performers like Johnny Cash, Minnie Pearl, Neil Young, Leonard Cohen. It's an unexpected privilege, with a surreal aspect.

That night at the Corn Exchange, I spoke about Rule 6 from my book, 12 Rules for Life: Set your house in perfect order before you criticize the world.
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Aegis-equipped Norwegian frigate sinks after colliding with oil tanker on way home from NATO's Trident Juncture war games

Tyler Rogoway
thedrive.com
Thu, 08 Nov 2018 20:15 UTC
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Aegis-equipped Norwegian frigate Helge Ingstad is run aground after colliding with an oil tanker on its way home from NATO's Trident Juncture war games, 8 November 2018
We still don't know many details surrounding what appears to be a particularly desperate incident that occurred near Bergen, Norway overnight, but in this case, a picture is worth a thousand words. The Aegis combat system equipped Norwegian frigate Helge Ingstad had a collision with the oil tanker Sola and suffered significant damage. According to reports and the photo in the embedded tweet below, the damage was so bad that the captain ordered the ship's crew to run the vessel aground near the entry to a fjord to keep it from sinking.


The photo shows the vessel grounded and listing badly with its stern sitting very low in the water and a giant gash running down the starboard side of its hull. Helge Ingstad had been participating in the massive Trident Juncture wargames taking place primarily off the coast of Norway. Some accounts state it the frigate was returning to port when the incident occurred.


Comment: The tanker in question had just left the Sture oil terminal, which is where the frigate collided with it.

The collision between Ingstad and Sola TS is similar to the collisions the USS McCain and USS Fitzgerald underwent in the Pacific Ocean last year, when seventeen US Navy sailors were killed.

Ingstad is going to cost Norway's entire defense budget to replace.

The frigate has all but sunk at this point:



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Breadbasket of the world: Russia's grain exports rose more than 54% this year


RT
Fri, 09 Nov 2018 19:04 UTC
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© Global Look Press / Konstantin Kokoshkin
Exports of Russia's wheat and meslin flour expanded by 54.3 percent from January through September of 2018 against the same period a year ago, according to the latest statistics from the Federal Customs Service.

In terms of money, the grain exports reportedly amounted to $6 billion, marking a 62 percent growth. In September alone, the value of grain exports increased by 1.4 percent compared to the same period a year ago and totaled $898.1 million.

The data also showed that imports of grains to Russia dropped 11.1 percent in the first nine months of the year, totaling $245 million. Imports of barley declined by an enormous 94 percent to two million dollars, while purchases of corn by Russian producers fell to $127.6 million, marking a 7.6 percent drop.
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Citizen complaints lead to the firing of over 300 police officers in Russia this year


RT
Fri, 09 Nov 2018 18:47 UTC
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© Sputnik / Ilya PitalevRussian policemen
Russian police have had to dismiss around 300 officers since the start of 2018 after citizens reported misconduct, Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev said.

There have been at least 45,000 complaints about the actions of police officers this year, Kolokoltsev said.

Following inquiries initiated by the reports, 300 officers lost their jobs, and 65 were fired over "loss of trust," he said. Some of them, among other things, provided cover for the drug trade, the minister said, adding that every such case is "an emergency" for the police.

Comment: The Russian government seems to be showing itself far more responsive to its constituents than the US. The dismissal rate for America's bad cops is abysmal.

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40% of UK Millennials would dodge draft if WWIII breaks out


RT
Fri, 09 Nov 2018 18:51 UTC
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© Reuters / Henry NichollsMilitary cadets take part in the Trafalgar Day parade at Trafalgar Square, London, Britain October 21, 2018.
British Millennials apparently have no appetite for wartime heroics - 41 percent said they would pass on military duty if WWIII breaks out and conscription is reintroduced, a new poll found.

A YouGov poll, conducted September 19-20, shows that Brits who reached adulthood in the early 21st century are reluctant to answer the call of duty even if their nation is in imminent danger.

The number of those who say they would avoid conscription if a world conflict breaks out is considerably higher with Millennials than with other age groups. Overall, only 20 percent of the general population in the UK indicate that they would rather lie low than risk their lives in an all-out war.

Just six percent of Baby Boomers and 18 percent of Generation X members said that would try to dodge conscription.

While the time frames for every 'generation' are loose, 'Millennials' are typically defined as people who were born between 1980 and the early 2000s. 'Baby Boomers' were born in the years following World War II up to around 1964, and are associated with a surge in the birthrate. 'Generation X' or 'Gen X' includes those born from the early to mid-1960s to the early 1980s.

Comment: Ordinarily, this might be a good thing. Rather than avoid conscription because they realize they're fighting on the wrong side (for a government that provokes war and lies incessantly), Millennials most likely wouldn't go to war because they are selfish cowards. Narcissism has been on the rise for the past 30 years or so, a product of the self-esteem generation. Regardless of the true reasons for war, it's usually those with a sense of social responsibility to sign up. Millennials don't have much of that, if any.

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Swedes slam feminist foreign minister for vilifying Jordan Peterson


Sputnik
Fri, 09 Nov 2018 18:41 UTC
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© CC BY-SA 2.0 / Gage Skidmore / Jordan Peterson
Psychologist Jordan Peterson, a University of Toronto professor who rose to international fame for his combative stance against mandatory gender-neutral pronouns, feminism and socialism, recently visited feminist Sweden, invoking blunt attacks from the mainstream media and top politicians.

During a pro-women panel debate in Stockholm, Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom, credited with being the driving force behind the country's 'feminist' foreign policy, minced no words in attacking the Canadian psychologist and fierce critic of identity politics and political correctness, saying that she "can't grasp why people waste so many time on that man".

"I believe [Jordan Peterson] should crawl back under the rock he crawled from," Wallstrom said to a cheerful crowd at the event, which was also attended by fellow feminists Melinda Gates and singer Robyn.

Peterson recently visited Sweden to promote the international release of his new book, '12 Rules For Life, an Antidote to Chaos'.

Despite the fact that Jordan B Peterson received an enthusiastic welcome during his visit to Sweden, numerous Swedish public figures have spewed venom over the popular Canadian psychologist. Sweden's leading daily, Dagens Nyheter, ran an editorial by columnist Lisa Magnusson, in which Peterson was dubbed "the most important influencer for involuntary celibates".


Comment: Funny, because Peterson actually encourages young men to grow up, get married, have children, and be responsible boyfriends, husbands and fathers. And whenever the subject of incels comes up, he points out that if all the women are rejecting you, the problem is with you, not them. Maybe if Magnusson bothered to actually listen to any of Peterson's talks, she wouldn't have to lie. Maybe...


Comment: See also: Clueless Swedish Foreign Minster tells anti-PC academic Jordan Peterson 'crawl back under your rock'

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Playground drama: Entitled mom kicks little boy out of public park because he interfered with her girls-only playdate

Jennifer McClellan
USA Today
Fri, 02 Nov 2018 18:14 UTC
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© Kira_Plett, Getty Images/iStockphoto
A girl's mom got a reality check from Washington Post advice columnist Carolyn Hax after she felt justified in excluding a little boy from a public playground.

The anonymous mother wrote to Hax about her "playground drama." It seems she and other moms of daughters had unofficially claimed a local playground as their girls-only meetup place at a set time each week.

Until disaster struck and a strange mother brought her son to the public park and dared to let him slide, swing and play during their special time.

The girl's mom asked the mom of the boy to leave and was shocked when the other woman seemed upset.
"If she comes back, is there a better way I can approach her? This has been such a sweet time for moms and daughters and having a boy there is naturally going to change things. We live in a world where boys get everything and girls are left with the crumbs, and I would think this mom would realize that, but she seems to think her son is entitled to crash this girls-only time. I know I can't legally keep her from a public park, but can I appeal to her better nature?" the mom asked Hax.

Comment: She was afraid of the little boy's toxic masculinity?

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