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Norwegians react: Twitter mocks Trump after he said he wanted Norwegians rather than people from 's***hole' countries

Emily Crane
Daily Mail
Sat, 13 Jan 2018 13:01 UTC
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© APTrump made headlines on Thursday when he lashed out about immigration reform, demanding to know why the US should accept citizens from what he called 's**thole' countries.
Twitter users are telling President Donald Trump that no Norwegian would ever give up access to free healthcare and a longer life expectancy to move to his 's**thole country.

Trump made headlines on Thursday when he lashed out in a meeting with lawmakers about immigration reform, demanding to know why the US should accept citizens from what he called 's**thole' countries.

He was speaking about people from Haiti, El Salvador and various African nations, people briefed on the meeting told the Washington Post.

'Why are we having all these people from s**thole countries come here?' Trump said.

Comment: You have to admire Trump's ability to court controversy, given even his throw-away statements can cause such an uproar. It's also rather telling that Trump's comments have been interpreted as 'racist' rather than how they were obviously intended. See also:

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These are the fourteen Palestinian children Israel murdered in 2017

Maureen Clare Murphy
Electronic Intifada
Sat, 13 Jan 2018 09:51 UTC
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These are the Palestinian children killed by Israel in 2017.

Fourteen Palestinian boys and girls under the age of 18 were shot dead by Israeli occupation forces in the West Bank and Gaza Strip during the year.

There were 21 fewer children killed than in 2016, which was the deadliest year for Palestinian children in the occupied West Bank in the past decade.

In addition to those 14 shot and killed during 2017, a child died of wounds sustained in an Israeli drone strike years earlier.

Another was killed by Israeli ordnance while grazing livestock. A baby living in temporary shelter, his family homeless as a result of Israeli bombing, died of cold exposure.

Palestinian children also died because they were unable to secure permits to leave via the Israeli-controlled Erez checkpoint for medical treatment unavailable in the besieged Gaza Strip.

Emergency room doctors were unable to resuscitate a seriously ill 9-year-old girl in the West Bank after Israeli soldiers denied her family passage at a checkpoint; a trip that normally would take 15 minutes took her family 90 minutes after they were forced to detour and go through a different checkpoint.

No Israeli children were killed by Palestinians during the year. An Israeli woman wounded during a bus stop bombing in 2011, when she was 14, and who had never regained consciousness, died of her injures in 2017.

Comment: Children in Palestine are not just murdered by Israeli forces. In The IDF vs The Teenage Girl: Palestinian Activist Ahed Tamimi Arrested For Slapping Soldiers Who Shot Boy, we read:
Sadly, what is happening to Ahed is not the exception. Since 2000, at least 8,000 Palestinian children as young as 12 have been arrested and prosecuted by the Israeli military. The Israeli military detention system is notorious for the ill-treatment of children.The extent to which Shin Bet interrogators practice torture has been described as 'institutional'. In its 2016 report, Amnesty International found that Israeli forces and Shin Bet personnel had "tortured and otherwise ill-treated Palestinian detainees, including children, particularly during arrest and interrogation", with methods such as "beating with batons, slapping, throttling, prolonged shackling, stress positions, sleep deprivation and threats".

According to research of Defence for Children International - Palestine, almost two thirds of Palestinian children detained in the West Bank had endured physical violence after apprehension. In several cases (23% in 2013, for example), children have been either shown or made to sign documentation, presumably 'confessions', in Hebrew - a language they do not understand.


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Wal-Mart raising starting hourly wage to $11 and delivering bonuses in wake of US tax overhaul

Matthew Boyle
Blooomberg
Thu, 11 Jan 2018 19:24 UTC
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is boosting its starting hourly wage to $11 and delivering bonuses to employees, capitalizing on the U.S. tax overhaul to stay competitive in a tightening labor market.

The increase takes effect next month and will cost $300 million on top of annual wage hikes that were already planned, the world's largest retailer said Thursday. The one-time bonus of up to $1,000 is based on seniority and will amount to an additional $400 million. The company is also expanding its maternity and parental leave policy and adding an adoption benefit.

Wal-Mart, the nation's largest private employer, has fought in recent years to improve its image in the U.S., as it weathered criticism over its treatment of employees. With the wage increase and bonus payment, the company seeks to even its pay gap with resurgent rival Target Corp., while simultaneously sending a high-profile thank you to the U.S. government for slashing the corporate tax rate.

Comment: Breitbart also reports:
Walmart plans to increase its employees' starting wage to $11 an hour, expand maternity and paternal leave benefits, as well as provide a one-time cash bonus up to $1,000. The company added that they will offer financial assistance to their associates who decide to adopt a child; the credit will total $5,000 per child and may be used for expenses such as adoption agency fees, translation fees, and legal costs.

The combined wage and benefit increases will impact well over one million Walmart employees. McMillon added:
We are early in the stages of assessing the opportunities tax reform creates for us to invest in our customers and associates and to further strengthen our business, all of which should benefit our shareholders. However, some guiding themes are clear and consistent with how we've been investing - lower prices for customers, better wages and training for associates and investments in the future of our company, including in technology. Tax reform gives us the opportunity to be more competitive globally and to accelerate plans for the U.S.
The American economy continues to prosper under President Donald Trump. Well over 100 American companies gave their employees up to $2,000 in bonuses after President Trump signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. Several corporations such as AT&T, Comcast, and Nationwide also increased their 401(k) match rate, raise their minimum wages, and increased domestic investment because of the Republican tax bill.

Reports suggest that Apple will repatriate roughly $200 billion in foreign cash because of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

American unemployment claim benefits remain at a record 17-year low and American consumer sentiment reached its highest level since 2000.

President Trump tweeted on Thursday, "In new Quinnipiac Poll, 66% of people feel the economy is "Excellent or Good." That is the highest number ever recorded by this poll."
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Flashback Crazy doomsday cult: Israel National News op-ed calls for nuclear strike on Germany and Iran


Times of Israel
Wed, 11 Mar 2015 09:33 UTC
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'20-30 nuclear bombs will assure the job gets done,' opinion piece on right-wing Israel National News site says

Right-wing media outlet Israel National News published an opinion piece Tuesday calling on Israel to launch nuclear bombs at Iran and Germany, only days after the outlet came under fire for publishing a piece accusing a war widow of killing her husband over her pro-peace views.

In the opinion article published Tuesday, the author claims that only through nuclear annihilation of Iran and Germany, with 20 or 30 nuclear bombs each, can Israelis prevent the state's destruction.

"If Israel does not walk in the ways of God's Bible," author Chen Ben-Eliyahu wrote in Hebrew, "it will receive a heavy punishment of near complete destruction and doom and only a few will be saved."

Comment: The pathological things that Israelis read on their media! Another example:

Disgusting Israeli journalist: Israel 'should exact a price' from Ahed Tamimi 'in the dark'

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UK citizen 'increasingly anxious' - facing jail in Dubai for being witness to punch-up in hotel bar


RT
Fri, 12 Jan 2018 21:27 UTC
Asa Hutchinson
© Asa Ricki Hutchinson /FacebookAsa Hutchinson, 21
A British woman who witnessed a fight between her friends and a drunk Swedish man in Dubai is "increasingly anxious" charges against her will not be dropped. She is facing jail time.

Asa Hutchinson, 21, from Chelmsford, Essex, claims she was not even present when the fisticuffs broke out between her friends and the 50-year-old man, who was reportedly intoxicated. The group were leaving Dusty's bar and restaurant in the Dubai International Financial Center when they saw the man had passed out on one of the couches.

Hutchinson's pals started taking selfies of him, but as the man returned to his senses and found himself at the center of a photoshoot, he started throwing punches at them.

Hutchinson, who works as a key account manager for global transportation company Time & Motion, claims she only arrived at the scene of the fight once she heard the commotion.
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"Due to tax reform": Walmart employees will get peanuts for pay raises - while 1,000s of workers lose jobs amid store closings


RT
Fri, 12 Jan 2018 14:52 UTC
Walmart employee
© Eduardo Munoz / Reuters
Without any warning, Walmart closed dozens of Sam's Club stores and laid off thousands of workers. Meanwhile, the retail giant also announced some workers will get a raise, and others, a bonus of up to $1,000, citing tax reform.

Walmart announced on Thursday it is closing 63 of its Sam's Club stores. In some cases employees showed up to work having not been told of the closures, a company spokesperson said, CNBC reports. They only learned the news when they found their stores locked up with a notice announcing the decision, according to Business Insider.

Sam's Club has not said how many employees are losing their jobs. Each Sam's Club warehouse employs around 175 people, meaning more than 11,000 could be affected by the layoffs, according to Business Insider.

However, one employee at a Sam's Club store in Alaska said all branches in the state are closing as part of a larger downsizing across the US.
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Man charged with assault after cop freaks out and has a panic attack during an arrest

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Thu, 11 Jan 2018 21:07 UTC
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Deputy Justin Johnson, with the Sevier County Sheriff's Office, was called to a Sevier mobile home park back in December 2016, where Brian Keith Mullinax, 41, and his girlfriend, Tina Carrie Jo Cody, 37, live. During the call, which was over a family vehicle dispute, Johnson suffered a panic attack, shot at an unarmed Mullinax for no reason, and now, the county is charging the victims, claiming they made the deputy panic.

As Knox News reports, Mullinax is charged with assault in Sevier County Circuit Court for causing Sevier County Sheriff's Office Deputy Justin Johnson to suffer a panic attack four minutes after Johnson opened fire in a neighborhood without warning in December 2016.

Highlighting the sheer tyrannical nature of these charges, Johnson suffered the attack as Mullinax was face-down on the ground, complying with all the orders, several yards away from the deputy.

Assistant Public Defender Aaron Kimsey says these charges are only being brought because Mullinax was suing the county.

To show just how much of a railroad case this is, despite the entire disturbing incident being caught on video, a year after it, and Johnson has yet to even be investigated.

What's more, Mullinax and Cody were both arrested during the incident-in which they did nothing wrong-and were illegally held without a hearing.
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New rules: States may force 'able-bodied' citizens to work for Medicaid


RT
Thu, 11 Jan 2018 21:15 UTC
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© Alabama Today
The Trump administration's new Medicaid guidelines will allow states to impose work requirements on 'able-bodied' recipients to keep their cover. Critics say the plan violates federal law.

The new guidance allows states to apply for waivers, something that has never happened in Medicaid's 50-year history. Pregnant women, children, the elderly and the disabled are exempted from the requirements.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) administrator, Seema Verma, said on Twitter the new effort will "improve Medicaid enrollees health outcomes by incentivizing community engagement. This is about helping people rise out of poverty," Verma said in a conference with reporters, according to NPR. She cited studies that show a correlation between good health and having a job.


Comment: You have good health so you are able to work. It is much less likely having a job gives you good health.


Comment: Berg (above) said healthcare a human right. Is it?

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Bureaucrats are delighted with Europe's refugee crisis

Dimitris Avramopoulos
Politico
Thu, 11 Jan 2018 13:26 UTC
Migrants keep warm with Red Cross blankets after arriving aboard a coast guard boat at Malaga's harbour on December 7, 2017
© Jorge Guerrero/AFP via Getty ImagesMigrants keep warm with Red Cross blankets after arriving aboard a coast guard boat at Malaga's harbour on December 7, 2017
It's time to face the truth. We cannot and will never be able to stop migration.

The refugee crisis in Europe may be subsiding, but migration globally will not stop. Today, on International Migrants Day, more than 244 million people are living outside their country of birth. Human mobility will increasingly define the 21st century. If we want to be ready for it, we need to start preparing now.
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Activists celebrate the closure of Israeli settlement builder's Madison Ave. store, connection to Kushner

Nora Barrows-Friedman
The Electronic Intifada
Wed, 10 Jan 2018 00:00 UTC
Lev Leviev
© Forbes/LLD
A Madison Avenue diamond store owned by Israeli billionaire and settlement profiteer Lev Leviev shut its doors late last year. The closure is being celebrated by activists who held creative, holiday-themed protests against Leviev's companies for years.

A former Leviev employee, who was at the epicenter of a recent, high-level New York City bribery scandal, revealed in court testimony that employees of Leviev's diamond store had bribed the city's police department in an attempt to repress the protests. Leviev himself had told the assistant that the protesters were "a big headache" for him.

"Every holiday season since 2007 we sang, 'He put a store here in New York, and we will shut him down.' So we're proud to have contributed to the store's closing," said Mindy Gershon, an activist with Adalah-NY, a group that organized protests and boycott campaigns against Leviev's businesses. "Principled civil society campaigns of boycott, divestment and sanctions work, and they won't be stopped by state repression," Gershon added.


Comment: While BDS activists can't repair the damage done by companies and businesspersons who flagrantly profit from catering to illegal settlements, their message gathers attention and traction to effect changes in consumer thinking and habits. Leviev is just one example of an unethical enterprise, brought to public awareness, that will not be doing business as usual.

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