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Russian news report reveals thousands of Africans held in Libyan slave camps awaiting shipment to Europe


Comment: Yes, once again, it's necessary to go to Russian media to get an idea of what is going on on the West's shores.


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© Yannis Behrakis / Reuters
This is a very well done report about the immigration crisis from the Russian evening news. You'll find a full transcript of the video below.

Hundreds of thousands of Africans are being held in what are essentially slave camps under brutal conditions, awaiting shipment to Europe via a network of pro-immigration NGOs and human traffickers. It is an eye-opener.

The EU only has itself to blame for this next tsunami of refugees about to storm their shores. The refugees are merely riding the blood red tidal wave NATO-backed wars.

While Italy didn't plan the Libyan War, they were compliant as their NATO masters leveled a stable country - formally one of the richest in Africa.

Bullseye

Lesbian privilege: Ellen DeGeneres tweet shows double standard when objectifying women

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In the wake of the monstrous Harvey Weinstein sexual assault scandal blowing up Hollywood, happy-go-lucky daytime host Ellen DeGeneres tweeted an image and a caption only she could get away with.

"Happy birthday, @KatyPerry," Ellen wished to pop singer and fellow Trump-hater Katy Perry. "It's time to bring out the big balloons!" she added, clearly referring to Perry's breasts.

The photo accompanying the caption is one of Ellen staring straight at Ms. Perry's rack:

The loud feminists eager to blast straight men for their apparent innate toxicity were oddly silent. The #MeToo brigade willing to even blast 90-year-old ex-presidents? Silencio.

This is what you might call "lesbian privilege."

Arrow Down

Plummeting NFL ratings prompt TV execs to suggest canceling ten 'Thursday Night Football' games

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Network executives are scrambling to solve the growing problem of crashing ratings for the National Football League, by cutting games to end the perceived "over-saturation" of football on TV.

To put an end to the sliding ratings, the executives are proposing that fewer games may be the ticket to stop that "over-saturation," with one idea being to cut Thursday Night Football by a whopping ten games.

The idea to trim Thursday Night Football from 18 games a season to only eight was first reported by Sports Business Journal and was part of a plan to reverse the ratings crash that also includes pulling games played in the U.K. back to 1 PM eastern time (6PM London time).

Indeed the amount of football on TV has exploded in the last decade.

"Ten years ago, the NFL had 32 game windows through week six," SBJ reported. "This year, it is up to 39, a 22 percent increase. It's even more crowded in college, where the 2007 windows to this point added up to 105. This year, it's at 179, up a whopping 71 percent."

Comment: Perhaps the populace is finally growing weary of our modern 'bread and circuses'?


Bullseye

Student group at Georgetown targeted for promoting 'hateful' Catholic views on 'sexual integrity'

President of the Love Saxa group at Georgetown University, Amelia Irvine.
© Love Saxa / FacebookPresident of the Love Saxa group at Georgetown University, Amelia Irvine.
A Catholic student group at Georgetown University has been accused by pro-choice activists of promoting hatred and intolerance for advocating a traditional view on marriage. If the organization is branded a "hate group," it will lose its yearly funding of $250 from the university.

Love Saxa, the student group at Georgetown Catholic University that champions old-fashioned marriage between a man and a woman, and which delves into and exposes the alleged dangers of porn and generally promotes Catholic values, was catapulted into the media spotlight following accusations by "pro-choice"student activists that the Christian circle was a "hate group."

The controversy was sparked late in September, when a student submitted a formal notice to the University Assistant Dean for Student Engagement, arguing that Love Saxa's views on marriage are "hateful" and should thus be stripped off its funding, the University news outlet the Hoya reported.

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Bahamas resort offering vacation for plus-sized vacationers only

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© James King
When Shawn-Marie Riley arrived at what's believed to be the world's only plus-size resort, the 375-pound Texan immediately felt right at home.

"Being able to feel 'normal,' even for a little while, was beyond a gift," says the 5-foot-8 benefits administrator of her visit to the Resort, on the Bahamian island of Eleuthera. Riley says she loved it so much, she plans to return next year.

The secret retreat, founded two years ago by entrepreneur James King, encourages fuller-figured tourists to let it all hang out while on vacation. They can loll on chaise lounges built to hold 560 pounds; sleep - or enjoy worry-free sex - on king-size, steel-reinforced beds; and stroll the private beach without what King calls "fear of judgment."

"What's so great is [the Resort's] recognition that people of size have insecurities and challenges that the general public never considers," Riley tells The Post of her visit in November 2015, soon after it opened. "Will they have chairs I can sit on? Will the bed hold my weight? Will I fit in the tub?

Heart

A US citizen apologizes to Russians

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An apology to Russians on behalf of those with American citizenship.

For long we have been filled with information from news agencies that instilled fear against Russia, for long we have provided schools entire manuals of why fearing the "Russian bear" is a productive thing. We look with distrust to people who on average are more highly educated than most American citizens. When I was studying in Western business schools, discussions about anything positive about Russia (which was not discouraged officially) - I suffered from lower grades for explaining positive outcomes of the Russian economy. This happened in several papers, even though I substantiated my arguments with facts.

I wanted to go to Russia and see it for myself, I distrusted the media and I saw the discourses that sought the opposite justification to my expectations. Although no economy is invulnerable to crisis, the Russian one was no exception, since globalized services make all countries interlink - so, were we not out-casting the stand of the Russian government and excusing every other?

The sanctions and oil prices that were meant to break Russia, had failed to exert the mortal blow that was so desired by an international media, and an economic cartel that seeks to pulverize an economy they can't control, even if their rule over Western powers have brought many nations to collapse.

Eye 2

Austrian police arrest hitman-turned-migrant-trafficker, known as 'Butcher of Pakistan'

migrants crossing Europe
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Vienna police have captured a 35-year-old man accused of killing 70 people in Pakistan. Atif Z. was arrested among a group of 42 illegal migrants in Hungary, local media have reported.

The suspect is on Pakistan's Most Wanted list and was detained following a tip-off in an international police operation near Boly in southern Hungary, from where he reportedly operated a people-smuggling ring.

"This case once again shows the importance of international cooperation in combating crime. I can only congratulate the Austrian investigators on this success," said Austria's Interior Minister Wolfgang Sobotka.

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Las Vegas shooter's laptop found at scene is missing its hard drive

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Paddock's suite room doors at the end of 'hallway 100' in the Mandalay Bay
A laptop computer recovered from the Las Vegas hotel room where Stephen Paddock launched the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history was missing its hard drive, depriving investigators of a potential key source of information on why he killed and maimed so many people, ABC News has learned.

Paddock is believed to have removed the hard drive before fatally shooting himself, and the missing device has not yet been recovered, sources told ABC News.

Investigators digging into Paddock's background also learned he purchased software designed to erase files from a hard drive, but without the hard drive to examine it is impossible to know if he ever used the software, one source said.

The absence of substantial digital clues has left investigators struggling to piece together what triggered Paddock to kill 58 innocent concertgoers and injure more than 500 others on Oct. 1.

Comment: Option 1: Paddock removed the drive in the days before the shooting and disposed of it. Option 2: The drive was removed in the period right before, during, or after the shooting. If the latter, that raises the question: who removed it? Obviously not Paddock - it would have been recovered at the scene of the crime. Either someone with access to the evidence removed it. Or it was removed by someone else in the room.

See: Serious Problems With Official Las Vegas Massacre Narrative


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Pew poll reveals deep fissures on the Right and Left in American politics

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Nearly a year after Donald Trump was elected president, the Republican coalition is deeply divided on such major issues as immigration, America's role in the world and the fundamental fairness of the U.S. economic system.

The Democratic coalition is largely united in staunch opposition to President Trump. Yet, while Trump's election has triggered a wave of political activism within the party's sizable liberal bloc, the liberals' sky-high political energy is not nearly as evident among other segments in the Democratic base. And Democrats also are internally divided over U.S. global involvement, as well as some religious and social issues.

These are among the findings of Pew Research Center's new political typology, which sorts Americans into cohesive groups based on their values, attitudes and party affiliation, and provides a unique perspective on the nation's changing political landscape. Before reading further, take our quiz to see where you fit in the political typology.

The political typology reveals that even in a political landscape increasingly fractured by partisanship, the divisions within the Republican and Democratic coalitions may be as important a factor in American politics as the divisions between them.

In some cases these fissures are not new - they were evident in six previous Pew Research Center typology studies conducted over the past three decades, most recently in 2014. Yet, especially within the GOP, many of the divisions now center on the issues that have been front-and-center for Trump since he first launched his presidential campaign.

This study is based on surveys of more than 5,000 adults conducted over the summer. This was also the data source for our Oct. 6 report, "The Partisan Divide on Political Values Grows Even Wider." These reports were made possible by The Pew Charitable Trusts, which received support for the surveys from The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.

Comment: You can take the quiz here:
Are you a Core Conservative? A Solid Liberal? Or somewhere in between? Take our quiz to find out which one of our Political Typology groups is your best match compared with a nationally representative survey of more than 5,000 U.S. adults by Pew Research Center.

You may find some of these questions are difficult to answer. For example, you may partly agree with both statements, or feel that neither quite describes your view. That's OK. In those cases, pick the answer that comes closest to your view, even if it isn't exactly right.
Pew says only 6% are "country first conservatives". Surely they jest. Maybe that's the way their data parses out based on the profiles they've made, a whole lot more than 6% of America consider themselves "America Firsters".


Bizarro Earth

Dispelling the myths about sexual abuse: Men are victims too, and women are often aggressors - but rates of violence are still lower than ever

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Over the past two weeks, America has been rocked by the revelation that the Hollywood film producer Harvey Weinstein has engaged in numerous instances of sexual harassment and possibly even sexual assault. In response, the actress Alyssa Milano began a social media campaign to raise awareness of these forms of abuse in the world at large, tweeting: