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US monthly trade deficit rises to near decade high as Trump tries to narrow the gap


RT
Fri, 06 Apr 2018 14:32 UTC
decaying manufacturing plant
© Eric Thayer / ReutersFILE PHOTO: The abandoned and decaying manufacturing plant of Packard Motor Car is seen in Detroit, Michigan
The monthly negative balance between American exports and imports surged to multi-year highs in February. The trade gap rose 1.6 percent to $57.6 billion, the US Commerce Department reported on Thursday.

It is America's highest monthly trade deficit since 2008, attributed partly to surging commodities prices. President Donald Trump's administration has been seeking to eliminate the gap, saying that the United States is being taken advantage of by its trading partners. Imports from China dropped 14.7 percent in February.

Comment: China will defend its interests 'at any cost' as Trump threatens $100bn more in tariffs

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Sergei Skripal no longer in critical condition after being allegedly poisoned with most deadly nerve agent of all time


RT
Fri, 06 Apr 2018 16:03 UTC
Salisbury Hospital
© Chris J Ratcliffe / AFPA general view shows the main entrance to Salisbury District Hospital in Salisbury, southern England
Poisoned ex-spy Sergei Skripal is no longer in critical condition and has responded well to treatment after a nerve agent attack last month, the hospital treating him says.

Sergei, 66, and his daughter Yulia, 33, were poisoned by a nerve agent in the British city of Salisbury. The pair were found slumped on a bench in an attack that sparked sanctions and political unrest across the globe in the weeks that followed.

"He is responding well to treatment, improving rapidly and is no longer in a critical condition," Christine Blanshard, Medical Director at Salisbury District Hospital, said in a statement, according to Reuters.
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Austria to ban Islamic headscarves for pre-pubescent girls


RT
Fri, 06 Apr 2018 16:00 UTC
islamic girls
© Ahmad Al-Rubaye/ AFP
The Austrian government wants to forbid girls in kindergartens and primary schools to wear headscarves. The ban would prevent discrimination and the development of "parallel societies," Chancellor Sebastian Kurz says.

"The veiling of small children is something that definitely has no place in our country," Kurz said in Vienna on Wednesday.

The move will be part of the so-called "Child Protection Act" which - alongside other measures - is aimed at encouraging people to assimilate into Austrian culture. The chancellor stressed that it is meant to give children equal opportunities and curb the emergence of "parallel societies" in the country.

Those words were echoed by Vice Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache, who reiterated that it is important to prevent the development of political Islam and to let children grow up free.

Kurz also argued that there is no religious rule ordering children to wear Islamic head coverings. In many Islamic cultures, doing so is not a requirement for girls until they reach sexual maturity.

Comment: Aside from the dangers of parallel societies and discrimination, there's another problem alluded to by Kurz: forcing young girls who grow up in Islam to wear the veil sexualizes them. It's the Islamic equivalent of forcing young girls to wear make-up, short shorts, and tank tops.

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'The Russians are coming!' Faulty warning siren leads to invasion freak out in small Norwegian town

Chris Kitching
Mirror
Fri, 06 Apr 2018 15:10 UTC
Vadso Norway
© alamy.comVadso residents can see Russia in the distance on a clear day
A faulty warning siren sparked fears of a late-night Russian invasion in a sleepy Norwegian town just miles from the border.

Frightened locals called the police when the Civil Defence alarm went off in Vadso.

Anxious residents feared a war had broken out when the wailing siren sparked panic just before midnight on Wednesday, the local police force revealed.

Russian troops weren't flooding across the border, but it remained unclear what caused the alarm to go off.
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Black parent in North Carolina unhappy with 'white privilege' propaganda sent home with her 8-year-old son

Dave Urbanski
The Blaze
Thu, 05 Apr 2018 15:48 UTC
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© WTVD-TV video screenshot
When Amber Pabon's 8-year-old son came home one day last month from Hunter Magnet Elementary in Raleigh, North Carolina, a two-sided piece of paper in the second-grader's folder got Mom quite upset.

The handout was about white privilege, WTVD-TV reported.

"My son comes home to me and asks me, 'Mommy, are white people better than me?'" she recalled to the station. "He's 8 years old. What does he need to know about racism or white privilege?"

Pabon noted to WTVD that her son is "not looking at the color of your skin, he's not looking at your hair, your eye color, what you're wearing. No. He wants to play with you because that's what children do - they play with each other."

The sheet is titled "Step 3: (Begin to) Understand the Concept of White Privilege," the station reported, adding that Pabon said she didn't receive any previous steps or forms about the topic.

The handout also notes that it's part of an initiative from the school's PTA Advocacy Team "focusing on generating awareness and empathy to create a safe and equitable Hunter Community," WTVD said.

Pabon alleged the subject matter was taught in the classroom, the station reported, adding that a district spokesperson said the information isn't part of the school's curriculum.

Comment: It's as if all the self-styled anti-racists decided to get together and figure out how to increase resentment and racism while appearing to be trying to lower such sentiments. Because that's what the result of this approach will probably be: hardening the beliefs of actual racists, making non-racists resentful, and teaching young black kids to be resentful towards white people. Good job, SJWs!

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Cornell chemistry professor states 'Novichok so simple to make, many labs could do it'


The Skwawkbox
Thu, 05 Apr 2018 15:26 UTC
David B Collum
Cornell University Professor of Organic Chemistry David Collum
Boris Johnson is on a hook of his own making after he was exposed as making a false claim in an interview that Porton Down chemical weapons facility had 'categorically' told him there was no doubt that Russia was the source of the poison used in the Salisbury attack. Porton Down's CEO yesterday told Sky News that the facility had not identified the source.

Johnson's embarrassment has been compounded by the revelation that the Foreign Office (FCO) - which initially dismissed Johnson's falsehood by saying he 'misspoke - had also tweeted the claim. The FCO deleted that tweet yesterday when Porton Down's admission was garnering attention.

The PR/diversion exercise

The Establishment machine has kicked in to try to exonerate Johnson, with the BBC editing video to make Johnson's lie less obvious and claiming that it can't find footage it has only just shown.

The front page of the Times even ludicrously claimed that 'Ministers and security officials" were suddenly able to identify not only the country of manufacture but the very laboratory it was made in.

Comment: According to the professor:
The compounds are simple as hell to make. Doing so without killing yourself would be more challenging but within the capabilities of many laboratories.
Not to mention, one can find the formulas for it on Amazon.

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Facebook sent a doctor to ask top US hospitals to share patient data - report


RT
Fri, 06 Apr 2018 15:28 UTC
Stethoscope
© CHROMORANGE / Bilderbox / Global Look Press
Facebook sent a doctor to top US hospitals in an effort to convince them to share patient data, including illness and prescription information, for a since-abandoned project, CNBC reported Wednesday.

Facebook's project reportedly sought to collect anonymized personal details, which could be then matched up with user data from the social network. The stated goal was to help hospitals figure out which patients might need special care or treatment.

The project never actually got to a phase where it could start gathering data. It was shut down last month after the Cambridge Analytica scandal. It was overseen by Facebook's Building 8, a research division within the company modelled after the US Defense Department's DARPA advanced engineering agency.

The secretive team at Building 8 is busy working on futuristic projects ranging from augmented and virtual reality hardware, to flying robots and brain scanning technology. The comparison to DARPA is not just a passing similarity either: Facebook hired former DARPA executive Regina Dugan to head up the division in 2016, although she left the post 18 months later.

Comment: See also:

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Doing it right: Numbers of young couples marrying surges in Russia - family values on the rise

Irina Povolotskaya
Russian Faith
Mon, 02 Apr 2018 15:40 UTC
russian bride
This is a partial translation / adaptation from a major Russian newspaper, Rossiiskaya Gazeta. Rostov-on-Don is a major Russian city, population 1.2 million. The article has interesting information about state assistance young couples receive to encourage them to form families.

Here's yet another small indicator of how Russian society is slowly returning to conservative values. In the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don, in the Registration Office on its 100th anniversary, almost 27 thousand new families registered in the Rostov Region. This is almost three thousand more families than last year.

These figures were reported at a reception in honor of the employees of the Rostov on Don registration office, in the Rostov regional government.

Annually districts and urban offices of the Registration Office register about 170 thousand acts of civil status.

Behind these numbers are important events in the lives of every person and family. These registrations include 50 thousand births, 30 thousand marriages, 5 to 6 thousand paternity establishments, two thousand cases of name changes, and 400 adoptions.
"The importance of this service is difficult to overestimate. For a whole century the Registration Office has worked together with the residents of the Don River's land and shared all their sorrows and joys, family troubles and solemn events."
said Vasily Rudoi, the deputy governor of the Rostov Region. Today more than 14 million families' events are recorded in the archives.

Comment: Meanwhile in the U.S., single motherhood is (still) on the rise. 40% of babies are born to single mothers. 57% of babies born to millennials are born out of wedlock. Explains a lot, really...

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Flashback Trump argument for voter fraud bolstered: Clinton could have received 800,000 votes from noncitizens

Rowan Scarborough
Washington Times
Thu, 26 Jan 2017 15:22 UTC
hillary clinton
© Evan Vucci/Associated Press/FileHillary Clinton is estimated to have collected 81 percent of noncitizen votes, which may have helped her carry a state, a researcher says.
Hillary Clinton garnered more than 800,000 votes from noncitizens on Nov. 8, an approximation far short of President Trump's estimate of up to 5 million illegal voters but supportive of his charges of fraud.

Political scientist Jesse Richman of Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, has worked with colleagues to produce groundbreaking research on noncitizen voting, and this week he posted a blog in response to Mr. Trump's assertion.

Based on national polling by a consortium of universities, a report by Mr. Richman said 6.4 percent of the estimated 20 million adult noncitizens in the U.S. voted in November. He extrapolated that that percentage would have added 834,381 net votes for Mrs. Clinton, who received about 2.8 million more votes than Mr. Trump.

Mr. Richman calculated that Mrs. Clinton would have collected 81 percent of noncitizen votes.

"Is it plausible that non-citizen votes added to Clinton's margin? Yes," Mr. Richman wrote. "Is it plausible that non-citizen votes account for the entire nation-wide popular vote margin held by Clinton? Not at all."

Comment: "[N]oncitizen voting is illegal and, thus, fraud." Could there be a more basic argument for better border controls along with a comprehensive review of voter rolls? Why would the DOJ frustrate such efforts?

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National Council of Churches calls on white Christians to repent America's 'original sin' of 'white racism'

Chris Reeves
Townhall
Wed, 04 Apr 2018 15:19 UTC
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On Wednesday, the National Council of Churches (NCC), which claims to represent more than 45 million people of faith across the United States, held a rally on the National Mall in Washington D.C. to mark the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination by calling on America to "Act To End Racism."

The event featured a huge list of speakers, most of whom were pastors, priests, or leaders of religious organizations, but the founders of Ben and Jerry's, Hollywood actor Danny Glover, and Black Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson also made featured appearances.

However, regardless of the individual speakers or their personal backgrounds, all of them had one resounding message: White Americans are oppressing "black and brown people" through a deliberate system of "white supremacy," and they must repent and seek redemption by taking action to destroy that system.
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