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Midterm elections: Sorry Dems, voters reject your political correctness shtick - and for good reason

Glenn Harlan Reynolds
USA Today
Tue, 23 Oct 2018 06:00 UTC
political correctness
Democrats push for political correctness, Republicans mock them for it, and most Americans are uncomfortable with it. No one wins with PC culture.

Democrats are hoping to administer a tough midterm-election blow to the Republicans - akin to the "shellacking" President Barack Obama got from the Tea Party in 2010 - as a means of shutting down President Donald Trump. But it's looking iffy now, post-Kavanaugh, and if they fail, they'll have the politically correct culture that has moved from college campuses into the Democratic Party to blame.

As I wrote in these pages back before the 2016 election, opposition to PC culture was a major source of Trump's appeal to voters. While most politicians, even Republican politicians, were afraid to challenge it head-on, Trump was unafraid, mocking the PC social justice warriors even on their own ground.

Since Trump's election, the response among Democrats has been to double down. After all, if Trump's against politically correct culture, then they have to be for it. But that puts them right where Trump wants them to be, because PC culture is highly unpopular.

Most Americans don't want to be 'woke'

Comment: The upcoming midterm elections have quickly become another flashpoint in the rapidly growing US political, cultural and ideological divide - and the further deterioration of any cohesion America once had.

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Briefcase

Evil: Nestlé sued for continuing child slavery overseas while headquartered in US


RT
Wed, 24 Oct 2018 19:21 UTC
child slavery
© Reuters / Yusuf Ahmad
A federal appeals court in San Francisco has reinstated a lawsuit by a group of former child slaves accusing food conglomerates Nestle and Cargill of perpetuating slavery at Ivory Coast cocoa farms.

The ruling described the plaintiffs as ex-slaves who were kidnapped and forced to work on cocoa farms for as long as 14 hours a day without pay.

The judges said in a unanimous decision that the group could proceed with its claims despite the alleged abuses having occurred overseas.

"In sum, the allegations paint a picture of overseas slave labor that defendants perpetuated from headquarters in the United States," the court wrote.

Comment: Is Nestlé vying for the top spot of most evil and pathologically run corporation in America?? Sure looks like they're trying! See:

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Bad Guys

Israeli police arrest monk & forcibly remove other protesters in East Jerusalem


RT
Wed, 24 Oct 2018 15:57 UTC
The arrest of Monk Macarius Orshalemy.
© Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate JerusalemThe arrest of Monk Macarius Orshalemy.
Video footage has captured Israeli police manhandling a group of Coptic Orthodox monks who were protesting outside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in East Jerusalem's Old City.

Israeli forces can be seen dragging Monk Macarius Orshalemy along the ground before forcibly handcuffing him. The monk is pinned down for several minutes before being yanked to his feet and carried away.
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Bad Guys

The US Census Bureau: Cradle of identity politics

Michael Gonzalez
Quillette
Tue, 23 Oct 2018 18:55 UTC
government office
© Census.govKeypunch operators at the U.S. Census Bureau's National Processing Center in Jeffersonville, Indiana, hard at work preparing for the 1980 Census.
The phrase "grievance studies" recently has entered public discourse thanks to a scandal by three liberal academics who set out to expose the vacuous nature of critical theory, post-colonial studies, queer theory and other sub-disciplines within the social sciences. Mathematician James Lindsay, writer Helen Pluckrose, and Portland State philosophy professor Peter Boghossian spent a year writing fake papers, which they then pitched to journals specializing in these fields. Seven passed peer review and were accepted for publication. As various commentators (including several here at Quillette) have noted, the hoax has shown what many have long suspected - that ivory-tower academics who study in fashionable fields inhabit ideological domains far removed from those of ordinary people.

But while observers have correctly focused on the lessons that may be inferred about high academic culture in the United States, it should be noted that the drifts of the liberal arts into postmodern gibberish has not been an isolated phenomenon. The trend also has its cheerleaders in government, even in Donald Trump's very own Washington D.C. backyard.

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Eye 1

Teens arrested after beating, threatening boy with gun on camera


RT
Wed, 24 Oct 2018 18:56 UTC
bully video gun to child head
© Facebook screenshot
Disturbing footage depicting a juvenile holding a gun to another child's head is being investigated by Missouri police after it went viral on social media.

In the clip, which shows the child in the red shirt being punched repeatedly, a person off camera can be heard angrily instructing the kneeling victim to kiss the feet of an assailant.

The video then takes an even more disturbing turn when a second individual holding a camera phone approaches the cowering victim and points what appears to be a gun at his head. A 17-year-old boy and two other persons of interest have since handed themselves in for questioning, according to Independence Police Department .

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Eye 1

Murderer trades location of wife's body for gaming & Xbox privileges


RT
Wed, 24 Oct 2018 17:44 UTC
xbox controller
© AFP / Thomas Samson
Convicted killer Doug Stewart has reportedly been granted access to an Xbox games console in prison after he finally led Michigan police to the whereabouts of his missing wife's body.

More than eight years after he was sentenced for the murder of Venus Stewart, convict Doug Stewart came clean this week about what he did in the aftermath of the 2010 slaying.

In what seems like a macabre reward, the Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC) agreed to grant Stewart some requests, including access to an Xbox games console, reported MLive.
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Bug

Monsanto shrugs as Glyphosate destroys ecosystem

Robert Bridge
RT
Wed, 24 Oct 2018 07:52 UTC
bee protester against monsanto
© AFP / John Macdougall
While it lacks the same Hollywood punch as an asteroid scoring a direct hit on planet Earth, or a tidal wave wiping out New York City, the mass extinction of insects would be no less catastrophic to humans.

Around the world, people are beginning to ask the same worrisome question: where have all of the bugs gone? Not that anyone particularly misses the disgusting creatures, mind you, but it would be nice to know what happened to the party.

In parts of Germany, for instance, insect populations in dozens of nature reserves around the country have plummeted by more than 75 percent over the last three decades, according to a long-term study released last year by the Krefeld Entomological Society (KES).

Comment: The evidence is very clear that Glyphosate is a seriously toxic compound and should be banned from the planet:

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Family

Propaganda failing: Polling company IFop finds 50% of Western citizens don't buy media claims about Russia

Paul Antonopoulos
Fort Russ News
Wed, 24 Oct 2018 16:42 UTC
european newspapers
© David Hogwood
Lately, Russia has been countless times the news focus in the western media. We must recall the so-called Skripal affair when Moscow was blamed for poisoning the former Russian spy and his daughter, Russia's alleged involvement in chemical attacks in Syria, and interference in the American presidential election.

However, as research shows, the population of Western countries tends not to believe everything the media tells them.

Almost half of respondents in France, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States do not believe in their media coverage of Russia.
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Cow

Trade war escalating: Beijing plans complete ban on American soybeans


RT
Wed, 24 Oct 2018 16:25 UTC
soybeans
© Reuters / Aleksandra MichalskaA US farmer holding soybeans, Erwinville, Louisiana, US, 2018
The world's biggest buyer of soybeans, China, which has been curbing purchases of the crop from US, now seeks to stop imports altogether. The move is part of the escalating trade war between the two countries.

Soybeans are used in China as a protein-rich feed for livestock (such as pigs and chickens), with more than a third of supplies coming from the United States. Last year, American farmers sold more than $12 billion worth of soybeans to China, which is their largest export market.

Comment: Trump unfortunately has opted for a short-term strategy with good home-town optics, that will ultimately damage and isolate the US even more than it already is.

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Oil Well

What sanctions? US, Japan & India join new Russian LNG project


RT
Wed, 24 Oct 2018 12:05 UTC
Ice-breaking tanker Christophe de Margerie is docked in Arctic port of Russia
© Reuters / Olesya AstakhovaIce-breaking tanker Christophe de Margerie is docked in Arctic port of Russia
Russia's energy major Rosneft will build a new liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant in partnership with US ExxonMobil, Japan's SODECO and India's ONGC Videsh, Reuters reports.

The estimated $15 billion cost would be spread among the four firms, according to the news agency's information. Rosneft, Exxon, SODECO and ONGC Videsh are all partners in the Sakhalin-1 LNG project. The new plant was intended to be built by Rosneft and Exxon, but the project was later joined by Indian and Japanese firms.

Sakhalin-1 is led by Exxon with a 30 percent stake. Another 30 percent belongs to SODECO, while Rosneft and ONGC Videsh own 20 percent each. LNG is not a subject of the anti-Russian sanctions, but Russian companies are facing problems with getting loans abroad.
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