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Stock Down

Investment manager: This stock market is 'nuts,' parallels with 2008 crash

Wall street
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Equity markets are not looking healthy and the fact that many investors are still buying stocks after last week's sell-off is a worrying sign, investment manager Peter Toogood told CNBC.

He said investors continue buying despite the current consensus that central banks are moving towards a tighter monetary policy, and the correction seen last week.

When asked if he would be buying anything at this point, Toogood said: "Not really, to be honest, not a lot. It's going to be one of those markets where you're going to, I suspect, get a bear market and it's going to be the reality of how far does it go down before (incoming Federal Reserve Chair) Powell & co. reverse QT (quantitative tightening) and start saying OK we need to be the supportive mechanism again."

Attention

Mexican authorities detain over 500 US-bound migrants in one weekend

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© AFP Photo/GUILLERMO ARIASBorder wall prototypes rise at the US/Mexico border in Tijuana, Mexico on January 22, 2018
Mexican authorities detained more than 500 undocumented migrants over the weekend, mostly Central Americans trying to reach the United States, many of them risking their lives, officials said.

Many of the migrants, who were detained in six different operations, were being trafficked by smugglers in unventilated trucks with no food or water.

More than 200 others were found crammed into six "safe houses" used by criminal gangs in the state of Tamaulipas, which borders the United States.

They had paid their traffickers up to $4,000. More than 100 of the migrants in that group were minors.

Comment: Trump unveils plan for immigration deal: Citizenship plan for 1.8 mn undocumented immigrants, restrictions on chain migration


Palette

Michelle Obama unveils official portrait - audience reaction says it all

Michelle Obama portrait
© Reuters/Jim BourgArtist Amy Sherald and former first lady Michelle Obama participate in the unveiling of Mrs. Obama's portrait at the Smithsonians National Portrait Gallery in Washington, February 12, 2018.
An official portrait of former first lady Michelle Obama was unveiled at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery Monday morning.

The painting was done by Baltimore artist Amy Sherald, who is known for her social justice painting style.

"Let's just start by saying, 'Wow,' again. Let me just take a minute. It's amazing. Wow," Obama said after the portrait was unveiled. The moment was met with a gasp and applause.

All presidents and first ladies have their portraits done and hung in the Portrait Galle

Comment: Barak's portrait is equally bad. So much for illustrating the dignity of the highest office in the land. It's entirely consistent with an SJW's distortion of reality.


Pills

Sony apologizes after 'Peter Rabbit' allergy scene drives SJW's into anaphylactic fits

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You know we're not going to be okay are we? Remember that scene in Terminator II when a young John Connor sees two boys shooting each other with toy guns, looks to Arnold Schwarzenegger and says, "we're not going to make it, are we?"

"It's in your nature to destroy yourselves," replies the former California governor in his best-known role.

Of course, we were talking about the impending nuclear war in that film series. For us, I feel like the fears of nuclear war have greatly diminished, overtaken by the encroaching tyranny that seeks to not offending anyone.

Comment: It's astonishing that parents are up in arms over this fictional allergy scene when we hear barely a murmur over the sordid and widespread sexualization of children.


Handcuffs

Reports say UK police outsourcing digital forensics to unaccredited firms

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Police forces across the UK are reportedly failing to meet a minimum quality standard for analyzing digital data, and have outsourced digital investigations to unaccredited private laboratories.

At least 15 police forces were found to have outsourced digital forensics work on mobile phones and computers to private firms, according to a report in the Guardian. Meanwhile, some 27 police forces failed to meet an October government deadline to bring their in-house laboratories up to minimum quality standard for digital analysis.

One private forensics firm, the Stoke-based Sytech, continued to have work sent to them by Greater Manchester Police, despite the firm being told to halt its operations following a failed inspection by the UK Accreditation Service, according to the newspaper. RT has contacted UKAS, Sytech and Greater Manchester Police for comment.

Comment: Oligarchs never miss a trick in the pursuit of profit.


Fire

The wages of LIES: CNN to lay off dozens of employees after falling short on revenue projections

Jeff Zucker
Joe Pompeo writes at Vanity Fair that CNN, led by its president Jeff Zucker, will soon lay off dozens of employees - mostly from "several high-profile digital initiatives" - after the left-wing news network failed to reach revenue targets.

From Vanity Fair:

[D]espite the so-called Trump Bump, CNN appears to be re-thinking at least some elements of its digital strategy. I've learned that CNN, a key property in AT&T's planned takeover of CNN's parent company, Time Warner, is targeting big savings on the digital side, with as many as 50 jobs around the globe scheduled to be eliminated this week, according to people familiar with the matter, who noted the exact number could still be in flux.

Comment: It's interesting that CNN has been hit the hardest on the internet, where CNN has been thoroughly exposed as a peddler of fake news.


Light Saber

Jordan Peterson's battle against identity politics in academia could result in female college students coming to their senses

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"Why the hell are we subsidising revolution?" asked Jordan Peterson on the Joe Rogan show. The Professor's belief is that Women's Studies and related fields are intrinsically teaching Identity Politics. They indoctrinate students to group people up and turn them against each other and against civilised society as a whole.

Some Women's Studies professors even admit to seeing the programs in the same way. Breanne Fahs and Michael Karger of Arizona State University wrote a paper that called "to train students not only to master a body of knowledge but also to serve as symbolic 'viruses' that infect, unsettle, and disrupt traditional and entrenched fields." They went all on to call Women's Studies an "insurrectionary field," using stronger language even than the Dark Professor.

Well there are tentative signs that the Professors actions are having real world results. Especially in America the birthplace of the 'Women's Studies' meme.

USA

Dimwit California Attorney General threatens to sue if Trump administration places citizenship question on census

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra is threatening to sue if the Trump administration includes a question regarding citizenship on the 2020 census.

The San Diego Union-Tribune reports that Becerra worries citizenship questions will dissuade some California residents from taking the census, thereby under-representing themselves and running the risk of a loss of federal funding for certain parts of the state.

Becerra is part of a coalition of 19 attorneys general who are fighting against inclusion of a citizenship. They sent a letter to U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross on Monday, in which Becerra described counting everyone, citizen or not, as a "sacred responsibility." He wrote:
What the Trump Administration is requesting is not just alarming, it is illegal. The Constitution requires that, every 10 years, we accurately count every person in our country, regardless of citizenship status. This is a sacred responsibility. It determines how many Congressional seats each state receives and how billions of dollars in federal funds are distributed. At the local level, it should also produce an accurate population count that our communities can rely on to identify the need for critical services such as disaster relief, infrastructure, public health, and police and fire protection.

Comment: Is this ultimately a matter of having an accurate Census or the ideological battle of how to deal with immigrants?


Pills

This should end well: Delaware students can now choose their own race

Are they really going there? Yes, they apparently are. Too late for Rachel Dolezal, alas. Dolezal identifies as 'transracial' a belief that would have been affirmed if she were a Delaware student today
Rachel Dolezal
© Anthony Quintano/NBC News/APRachel Dolezal, a former leader of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) in the United States, has white parents but identifies as being transracial. She is seen on the set of NBC's Today show on June 16, 2015.
The state of Delaware is poised to adopt what is known as "Regulation 225." Approved both by the Delaware State Education Association and Gov. John Carney, Regulation 225 would safeguard children's "protected characteristics," such as gender, age, race, sexual orientation and gender identity. Section 7.4(1) of 225's Prohibition of Discrimination Code states, "All students enrolled in a Delaware public school may self-identify gender or race, which is maintained in the school."

Gender isn't news. But race? Are they really going there? Yes, they apparently are.

Quenelle

YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki says Facebook should 'get back to baby pictures'

YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki
© Noam Galai/FilmMagic for YouTubeYouTube, led by CEO Susan Wojcicki, has been criticized for struggling to control offensive content on its service.


YouTube may be derided as full of cat videos, but as Facebook pushes aggressively into YouTube's video turf, Susan Wojcicki says it should stick to baby pics.


YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki won't divulge her biggest fear about competing with Facebook, but she will give them some free advice.

"They should get back to baby pictures," Wojcicki said Monday at the Code Media conference in Huntington Beach, California. (By the way, Facebook's already aiming in that direction.)

Video has been an obsession for Facebook, as it tries to swipe the most advertising dollars migrating off television before YouTube can get them. Facebook has been aggressively advancing the number of clips and live streams that bubble up to the top of your News Feed and has rolled out a central hub for TV-like programming called Watch.

"You always have to take competition seriously. You don't win by looking backwards; you win by looking at your customers and looking forward," she said.

Comment:
Wojcicki said Monday that drawing a line about what's appropriate to exist on YouTube is sensitive because "on one side is censorship and the other is too much freedom of speech."
The problem is that it is companies like YouTube/Google, Facebook and Twitter who decide where that line is to be drawn - and there are so many ways in which censorship can be enforced.