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Mexican authorities reports 250% spike in Africans trying to enter US through border

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© Agence France-Presse/Guillermo Arias
African migrants seeking asylum in the United States, line up outside a Mexican Migration office, on October 3, 2016, in Tijuana, northwestern Mexico.
Mexico has seen an astounding 250% increase in Africans trying to enter the United States through the southern border, according to the latest figures released by the Mexican government's immigration agency, known as Unidad de Política Migratoria. The stats include the first eight months of 2019 and reveal that, during the same period last year, 1,507 Africans were apprehended in the country compared to 5,286 this year. During the same period 4,783 migrants from India and Bangladesh were also detained in Mexico, according to the data made public this month.

The information is alarming considering Africa and Bangladesh are hotbeds of terrorism and the fact that all the migrants are heading north into the United States. "These migrants, although less in numbers compared to migrants from Central America, increased significantly in the country," a Mexican newspaper article states, confirming that "their principle objective is not to stay in Mexican territory but rather cross the border towards the United States." The story also reveals that a growing number of Cubans, Haitians and south Americans, mainly from Brazil and Colombia, have also been apprehended by Mexican authorities trying to make their way to the U.S. border.

Comment: African migrants clash violently with Mexican police after being denied 'free entry' to US


Magnify

Famed pathologist Michael Baden says Jeffrey Epstein's death was homicide

Dr. Michael Baden
© AP
Dr. Michael Baden
New York City's former chief medical examiner insisted Wednesday that Jeffrey Epstein's death was a homicide.

Dr. Michael Baden was hired by the pedophile's family to observe his autopsy after he was found hanged in his federal lockup in Manhattan in August.

"I think that the evidence points toward homicide rather than suicide," Baden insisted on Fox News Wednesday.

Comment: Does anyone still believe Epstein committed suicide?

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Cell Phone

Student charged with manslaughter for texting boyfriend to 'go die'

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© Andrés Benitez/Westend61 GmbH/Newscom
Massachusetts prosecutors persist in attempting to hold young women responsible for the conduct of troubled young men. This week, the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office announced criminal charges against 21-year-old Inyoung You, for allegedly being so mean to her boyfriend that he committed suicide.

You has been indicted on charges of involuntary manslaughter. Her case echoes the 2017 prosecution of Bristol County, Massachusetts, teenager Michelle Carter, who was convicted of involuntary manslaughter after she sent pro-suicide messages to her depressed boyfriend, who later killed himself. She was 17 and he was 18 at the time.

In the present case, 22-year-old Alexander Urtula committed suicide this past May, on the same day he was supposed to graduate from Boston College. Urtula and You had been dating for 18 months, according to Suffolk District Attorney Rachael Rollins. In the months leading up to his death, You allegedly sent Urtula 47,000 text messages, including some that said things like "go kill yourself" and "go die."

Comment: Should people be held responsible for their words? What if the words weren't meant to be taken seriously? Where's the line between words said in anger and actual bullying? These are all important questions and not things to be dismissed because the perpetrator was a young woman.

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Safe

What Bitcoin can teach us

Bitcoin
The great Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek said it best: "The root and source of all monetary evil is government control of money."

Ironically, most fully developed by free market economist Milton Freedman, monetarism has become the source and root of the current evils of the world economy-runaway debt, widespread stagnation and the revival of socialism.

These evils of top-down money face serious challenges from digital alternatives on the Internet and from the perennial case for gold.

Both these forms of money offer escape from government-ruled monetarism. They also offer monetary systems that affirm Friedman's cogent theories of freedom rather than his erroneous ideas of control.

Gold has been ascendant in Asia, which has become the new spearhead of world economic growth and capitalism, with tax rates generally between one-half and one-third of those in the West.

Meanwhile, around the globe, transactions are shifting toward the Internet. Although online purchases remain between 6-7% of all commerce, Internet trade is expanding rapidly.

Comment: See: Crypto contradiction: Boom Bust explores how governments try to control cryptocurrencies that were not meant to be regulated


Heart - Black

Whitewash: Israel closes investigations into three Palestinians murdered in 2018

IDF soldiers
© Cpl. Eden Briand, IDF Spokesperson's Unit
Israeli soldiers take part in "Lion of the Valley" training exercise, August 2017.
The Israeli military has closed the case files of three Palestinians who were killed by its forces in 2018, prompting backlash from rights groups like B'Tselem who initially investigated the killings.

The Military Advocate General's Corps (MAG Corps) closed the cases of three Palestinians who were killed in the occupied West Bank, which B'Tselem described as "unjustified."

"Nevertheless, and even though the incidents should not have had fatal consequences - not even by the standards of military regulations - the very fact that investigations were undertaken has once again created an illusion of a functioning accountability apparatus," B'Tselem said in a press release on Monday.

"At the end of the day, these belated so-called investigations, too, ended in whitewashing," the group continued.

The cases in question were those of 17-year-old Ali Qinu from Iraq Burin (Nablus), 16-year-old Layth Abu Naim from al-Mughayyir (Ramallah) and 35-year-old Yassin al-Saradih from Jericho.

Pirates

Inside a Kurdish controlled terrorist prison in Syria

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Behind the steel door, the cell is as packed as their eyes are empty -- haggard, scrawny prisoners in orange jumpsuits lying head-to-toe cover every inch of floor space.

An AFP team was given rare access to one of the crowded detention facilities in northeastern Syria where Kurdish forces are holding Islamic State group (IS) suspects.

As a Turkish offensive launched against Kurdish forces earlier this month wreaks chaos in the area, just how solid such doors will be is a question keeping the world on edge.

The men crammed into poorly fortified jails such as this one in Hasakeh hail from dozens of countries that don't want them free -- but don't want them back either.

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Fire

While California burns uncontrollably, lunatic state politicians waste billions on useless energy schemes

WSJ California fires climate alarmists
The Wall Street Journal published a superb article that exposes the government lunacy in California where its climate alarmist propaganda driven Democratic politicians have wasted tens of billions of dollars on energy schemes that are totally useless in having any meaningful impacts on global emissions levels while ignoring the statewide wildfire disaster that is destroying massive amounts of property, thousands of homes and taking hundreds of lives.

The article notes the following Democratic Party California government driven climate alarmist absurd climate actions being taken while ignoring the critical need for aggressive statewide highest priorities and resources commitments to addressing long standing failures by the state in addressing its forest management responsibilities.

Comment: California: Lights are out, the plan all along
Politicians blame PG&E for the recent fires that have ravaged the state, but some of the blame redounds to the politicians. Wildfires in recent years have grown more deadly because timber harvesting and brush clearing were greatly curtailed due to myriad environmental restrictions. In the meantime, crucial infrastructure investment targeted at improving the reliability and safety of powerlines has taken the backseat to the state's demands for a huge increase in renewable energysome of which, ironically, has necessitated the need for more powerlines to connect remote wind farms with the urban centers.
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Hourglass

Former CEO of Scania warns that Sweden is headed for civil war

CEO of trucking company Scania

Leif Östling
Military could be required to quell violent unrest in migrant areas.

The former CEO of trucking company Scania has warned that Sweden is heading towards civil war due to uncontrolled mass immigration.

In an interview with Swebbtv, businessman Leif Östling said that the arrival of so many new migrants who have failed to integrate into Swedish society is creating a fertile ground for violent unrest.

"We've taken in far too many people from outside. And we have. Those who come from the Middle East and Africa live in a society that we left almost a hundred years ago," he said.

Explosions and grenade attacks have skyrocketed in many Swedish cities, with much of the unrest being blamed on migrant gangs. Sexual assaults and violent crime is also on the rise.

Take 2

Kanye West: Dems have 'brainwashed' African-Americans into 'aborting our children'

Kanye West
© Reuters / Kevin Lamarque
Kanye West, who released his latest album "Jesus Is King" last week, claims Democrats have "brainwashed" African-Americans — and are making them "abort" their children.

The 42-year-old rapper and fervent supporter of President Trump spoke with radio host Big Boy on Friday as part of his promotion of the long-delayed, gospel-inspired album.

"We're [black Americans] brainwashed out here, bro. Come on, man. This is a free man talking. Democrats had us voting [for] Democrats with food stamps for years," Yeezy said when asked about those who think he has turned his back on the black community.

"What are you talking about? Guns in the '80s, taking the fathers out the home, Plan B, lowering our votes, making us abort our children ... Thou shall not kill," he continued.

Heart - Black

Entire pride of lions BUTCHERED in South Africa & body parts harvested for BLACK MAGIC

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An entire pride of lions has been brutally murdered by poachers so parts of their bodies could be used in black magic potions. The killers entered a South African game reserve undetected, prompting concerns about an 'inside job.'

The Head Ranger at the Rietvlei Nature Reserve in Pretoria, South Africa, Bradden Stevens, 33, who spent a third of his life caring for the lions, made the grim and grisly discovery last Thursday.

"Jarvis, Bashi, Tawana and Tau were brutally murdered, in what seems to be a muti [black magic] killing," Stevens wrote, in a heartfelt Facebook post. "These last few days have been the darkest I have ever experienced."