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Oil Well

Crackdown on illegal immigration in the US hurts oil drillers

Tsverana Paraskova
Oilprice.com
Tue, 15 Oct 2019 06:00 UTC
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U.S. crude oil production growth may have slowed down this year, but the largest oil-producing counties in the Permian basin continue to feel a shortage of labor.

The predicament for small oil services business owners in New Mexico is aggravated by the surge in worksite audits, investigations, and arrests as part of U.S. President Donald Trump's tougher stance on illegal immigration.

A growing number of owners of oil-related businesses in the second-biggest oil-producing county in the United States, Lea County in New Mexico, now avoid hiring undocumented immigrants for oil field work, fearing the clampdown on immigration will affect their business, Reuters reporter Andrew Hay writes.

There are still oil field services business owners who continue to hire an illegal labor force.

Yet, those who want to play by the rules find themselves between a rock and a hard place. On the one hand, President Trump's pro-oil policies clash with impact from the crackdown on immigration, which makes business owners idle drilling rigs and equipment not because they have drilled out all the shale wells in Lea County, but because they can't find legal immigrant workers to do some of the dangerous difficult jobs on the oil field that some Americans shun.
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Attention

Pastor shares how he was threatened by radical leftists for agreeing to show new Jordan Peterson 'propaganda' film at church

Dave Urbanski
The Blaze
Tue, 15 Oct 2019 18:42 UTC
Jordan Peterson
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Filmmakers Patricia Marcoccia and Maziar Ghaderi have been making the media rounds for their new documentary on Jordan Peterson — the Canadian psychologist who's exploded in popularity for his no-holds-barred opposition to all things politically correct — and the pair received a text in the middle of their interview with Seattle paper The Stranger.

The text came from a pastor outside of Portland, Oregon, who agreed to show the film — "The Rise of Jordan Peterson" — at his church and had been getting complaints and threats as a result, the paper said. The pastor forwarded one of the threats to Ghaderi, the Stranger reported:
"Fair warning," it read, "several community organizations are planning to shut down your showing of the Jordan Peterson propaganda film. While many of us aren't Christian and some even flat-out condemn the religion, we do not want any harm to come to your place of worship or those within. However, we cannot allow fascism to continue to rise and will not tolerate its presence in our city, whether it is on the streets or on the waterfront or in a church. Read some history books, read about eugenics, read about sex and gender and then compare it to Peterson. Pray on it if you must. Do the right thing. As much as we joke about it, we really don't want to have to bring out the guillotine to fix society."
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Cell Phone

Just like #PodestaEmails? Project Veritas says Twitter throttling #ExposeCNN


RT
Wed, 16 Oct 2019 18:00 UTC
Twitter app
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Though the recordings from inside CNN by Project Veritas are generating lots of interest, the hashtag is not auto-completing or showing up as trending on Twitter. But if it really is being throttled, it wouldn't be the first time.

The conservative gadflies at Veritas, best known for making undercover videos of mainstream media figures saying things they'd rather keep private, have released a flurry of videos from inside CNN since Monday with the help of a whistleblower technician who worked for the network. The recordings purport to show CNN as being obsessed with resisting President Donald Trump.

Even before the first video dropped, however, Veritas director James O'Keefe made a point of showing how the hashtag #ExposeCNN is not being allowed to trend or auto-complete on Twitter, despite being vastly more popular than others suggested in its stead.
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Blackbox

Notorious Portland antifa activist dies under mysterious circumstances

Andy Ngo
The Post Millennial
Tue, 15 Oct 2019 17:36 UTC
Sean Kealiher
On Saturday morning, a Portland-area man was killed under mysterious circumstances.

Twenty-three-year-old Sean Kealiher, who was known locally in the Antifa community under the pseudonym "Armeanio Lewis," died of blunt-force trauma after being hit by a car, according to police. The vehicle that allegedly hit him had been shot at and was found crashed outside the building of the Democratic Party of Oregon. Local politicians, media and activists are praising Kealiher as a progressive hero. Full disclosure: I had numerous run-ins with Keahiler in my capacity as a journalist documenting antifa's activities.

So far, no one knows what really happened on early Saturday morning when Kealiher was killed. Portland Police have mostly kept mum about their early investigation, though they are pleading for witnesses to come forward. Antifa ideologues have a code of never allowing each other to cooperate with police. Police did confirm that the crime scene and car showed damage from gunfire. Unsurprisingly, the police and emergency responders were never called by Kealiher's comrades. In fact, a homeless man who lives in a tent across from the Democratic Party headquarters told local media he saw Kealiher's friends drag his body into a car, leaving a trail of blood.

Despite the uncertainties, this hasn't kept the local media from running stories that insinuate — without evidence — that he may have been targeted for his left-wing activism. Many headlines have focused on the fact that Kealiher was fatally injured after leaving Cider Riot, an antifa pub found by state regulators this year to be a militant left-wing hotbed where patrons were allowed to carry illegal weapons.

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Blue Planet

World Bank: India has halved its poverty rate since 1990s


The Hindu
Wed, 16 Oct 2019 17:35 UTC
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New Delhi skyline: If the world will be transformed by China's development, imagine what it will be like by the time India is done!
India has halved its poverty rate since the 1990s and achieved a seven plus growth rate over the last 15 years, the World Bank said on October 15.

India is both critical to the success of global development efforts, including eliminating extreme poverty, and as an influential leader for global goods such as addressing climate change, the bank said ahead of the annual meeting between it and the International Monetary Fund.

The country has achieved annual growth exceeding 7% over the last 15 years, halved its poverty rate since the 1990s, and enjoyed strong improvements in most human development outcomes, the World Bank said.

Comment: This is what the climate scam, the war on terror, and the constant coups were meant to thwart: the development of the world's two most populous countries. But it's unstoppable...

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Bizarro Earth

Siblings outraged brother was shot while he was robbing Dollar General store at gunpoint

Holly Matkin
DefenseMaven
Mon, 14 Oct 2019 16:55 UTC
Dollar General robbery
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"Yes, he's robbin' y'all. Oh well! Call the police!" the armed robbery suspect's sister told WHIO.

Dayton, OH - The outraged family of an armed robber who was fatally shot while holding up a Dollar General store said that the employee who shot him had no reason to bring a gun to work.

"You do not take matters into your own hands and bring a gun to work for safety! Period!" the suspect's furious sister told WHIO in an interview.

The incident occurred at the Dollar General store on Gettysburg Avenue at approximately 6:20 p.m. on Oct. 9, WHIO reported.

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Bullseye

Best of the Web: I am a trans woman - but I think this woke world has gone too far

Sophia Narwitz
RT
Wed, 16 Oct 2019 17:12 UTC
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Trans people have lost the plot. Every day, an increasing amount of absurdity floods in as they do more harm than good. They scream for acceptance without realizing that the ones damaging their image aren't bigots, but themselves.

From anger directed at celebrities for the rational belief that parents shouldn't decide whether their three-year-old is trans, to a culture of outrage that freaks out at the most minor of offenses, transgender activists have become detrimental to my, and others', very existence.

Not helping matters is the fact that these people are laying bombs within our language in the hope they trigger, so they themselves can become triggered. Saying 'transgendered' instead of 'transgender' can see you labeled as transphobic, as can saying 'transwomen' instead of 'trans (notice the space) women.' This is a linguistic minefield with the sole intent of catching people off guard. And those who are caught in its blast are branded as bigots.

This concept is nonsensical, as it's one thing to correct someone who made a grammatical mistake, but another thing altogether to get outright offended when someone makes a simple error, and that's what is occurring. A turn of events which only pushes people away as no one wants to associate with a group of people who become so easily upset.
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Bulb

The shine has worn off: Canadians are over Trudeau's image obsession, lack of substance & broken promises

Pablo Vivanco
RT
Wed, 16 Oct 2019 16:56 UTC
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Whether Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Liberal Party government wins or loses in the Canadian federal election later in October, it is clear that the honeymoon is over for voters.

By any measure, it was a remarkable meteoric rise.

Despite polling at 25 percent just three months before the 2015 election, Trudeau led the battered Liberals to a historic win that saw the party increase its percentage of the vote by close to 21 points from its showing in 2011. More importantly, the party grew from 36 seats to 184 to secure the largest increase in seats in Canadian history and a healthy majority government.

Trudeau pledged to abandon the callous policies and cynical outlook of his predecessor, Stephen Harper, in favor of a 'progressive' agenda based on economic growth and compassion and justice for those who were being ignored or left behind, especially Canada's indigenous communities.

His family pedigree gave many Canadians reason to believe that he was indeed a new brand of reformer, especially for those who can trace their entry into the country to the immigration policies created by the liberal government of Pierre Elliot Trudeau, Justin's father. Regarded as a maverick politician, Pierre also introduced the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and famously deployed a foreign policy that made him no friends in Washington.
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Arrow Down

How we pale to previous generations

Victor Davis Hanson
National Review
Thu, 10 Oct 2019 18:52 UTC
Jerry Brown California rail
© Robert Galbraith/ReutersThen-California Governor Jerry Brown (center) signs a railroad rail during a groundbreaking ceremony for the California High Speed Rail project in Fresno, Calif., January 6, 2015.
A distant generation created; we mostly delay, idle, and gripe.

Many of the stories about the gods and heroes of Greek mythology were compiled during Greek Dark Ages. Impoverished tribes passed down oral traditions that originated after the fall of the lost palatial civilizations of the Mycenaean Greeks.

Dark Age Greeks tried to make sense of the massive ruins of their forgotten forbearers' monumental palaces that were still standing around. As illiterates, they were curious about occasional clay tablets they plowed up in their fields with incomprehensible ancient Linear B inscriptions.

We of the 21st century are beginning to look back at our own lost epic times and wonder about these now-nameless giants who left behind monuments that we cannot replicate, but instead merely use or even mock.

Comment: This is what happens in a society based on boundless control. It's an effect of the criminal mind. We've become immobilized, disassociated from our centers of ability and talent. Essentially, our creativity is warped to churn out an endless assembly line of rules and regulation. This is part and parcel to the rise of the safetyism and perpetual victimhood. We've been gradually herded toward a traumatized, frozen landscape where slightly offensive jokes or comments (real or imagined) are seen as grave injustices in need of censure and control. At this point, the great threat to human kind is less the inter-species predator known as the psychopath, and more the commonly shared, all-too-human deficit that embraces our own destruction.

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Road Cone

Nuremberg train station shut down for counter-terrorism drill amid security concerns over right-wing extremists


RT
Wed, 16 Oct 2019 16:40 UTC
counter-terrorism drill Nuremberg train station
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Nuremberg's central train station was shut down on Tuesday evening as 300 German police officers took part in a counter-terrorism exercise on-site, with cops taking turns at playing armed attackers targeting rail passengers.

Hundreds more in support staff were involved in the drills, described by Middle Franconia Head of Police Roman Fertinger as the "largest in 20 years."
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