11/13/2015
Union Leader on Keystone: Obama’s ‘Disdain for Working People is Evident,’ He’s ‘A Pompous, Pandering Job Killer’
In reaction to President Barack Obama’s decision to not allow the Keystone XL pipeline to be built, Terry O’Sullivan, the president of the Laborers’ International Union of North America (LiUNA!), said Obama had “once again” thrown “hard-working, blue-collar workers under the bus” while “doing little or nothing to make a real difference in global climate change.” Read more
No. 1 Sunni Terrorist Group, ISIS, Claims to Target No. 1 Shi’ite Terrorist Group, Hezbollah, in Beirut
The world’s most dangerous Sunni terrorist organization, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), claimed responsibility Thursday for lethal suicide bombings in southern Beirut, a stronghold of the world’s leading Shi’ite terrorist organization, Hezbollah. Read more
Wholesale Inflation Drops for Second-Straight Month
U.S. producer prices dropped in October for a second straight month and the cost of services fell, pointing to subdued inflation pressures that would argue against the Federal Reserve raising interest rates next month. Read more
U.S.. retail sales barely rise in October, up scant 0.1%
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) - Sales at U.S. retailers rose just 0.1% in October, held down by lower spending at gas stations, auto dealers and grocery stores. Economists polled by MarketWatch had forecast a seasonally adjusted 0.4% increase. Although the number of autos sold last month was quite strong, sales fell a seasonally adjusted 0.5%, perhaps suggesting heavier discounting. Sales at gas stations also fell again, but that's a good thing for consumers. Stripping out gas and autos, sales rose a somewhat better 0.3%, the Commerce Department said Friday. So-called control group sales that factor into GDP rose 0.2%. In September, sales were revised lower to show no gain.
Egypt's Great Pyramid has mystery heat spots, scientists say
The Great Pyramid in Giza had researchers seeing spots recently. Heat spots, that is.
While on the hunt for hidden chambers within the pyramid, a group of architects and scientists from Egypt, France, Canada and Japan discovered that higher temperatures registered on three adjacent stones located at the bottom of the Egyptian pyramid. Read more
Administration takes heat for downgrading religious freedom post
The Obama administration is facing new questions on Capitol Hill over its commitment to religious freedom posts, after the State Department -- in defiance of Congress -- appeared to downgrade a diplomatic position created to help persecuted minorities. Read more
Eurozone GDP growth slows as exports weaken
The eurozone economy slowed in the three months to September as exports to large developing economies weakened, a development that makes it more likely the European Central Bank will expand its stimulus programs in December.
The slowdown was led by Germany, the currency area's exporting powerhouse, while Italian economic growth also eased. There were fresh contractions in Greece, Finland and Estonia, while Portugal's economy stagnated. Read more
11/12/2015
Chaos on campus: Students protest, call for heads to roll at schools around country
Chaos swept over college campuses around the nation Thursday, as the ousters of the embattled University of Missouri system’s president and chancellor earlier this week were followed by dozens of other student protests calling for more faculty and staff heads to roll.
A popular professor at Missouri said he resigned Wednesday after students lashed out at him for pledging to give a scheduled exam amid spiraling protests, but the university said Thursday it rejected his resignation.
The Dean of Students at Claremont McKenna College in California, Mary Spellman, resigned in a letter to the community Thursday, after some at the school called for hunger strikes over what they perceived as a lack of support for students of color. Read more
THE MISSOURI POOP SWASTIKA IS THE MOMENT SOCIAL JUSTICE JUMPED THE SHARK
It seems more likely that the swastika is a hoax, just as — whisper it — so many other high-profile black victims on American campuses celebrated endlessly by progressive journalists turn out to be mendacious frauds.
But “facts” haven’t stopped students, and even some idiotic professors, from hurling themselves into grievance-fuelled hysteria on campuses all over the country, even at Yale. Such are the levels of hysteria following this fecal fabrication that Mizzou students hallucinated the KKK into existence yesterday. Read more
The War That You Don’t See
The war that we don’t see is the one being fought right before our own eyes, but our conditioning does not allow us to recognize it. Read more
Utah congressman finds leak of Russian nuclear torpedo plans 'fishy'
A Utah congressman finds the apparent leak of Russia's plans for a nuclear torpedo system on state-run television dubious.
Two Kremlin-controlled channels showed a military official looking at a confidential document containing drawings and details of a weapons system called Status-6.
The images were filmed during a meeting of President Vladimir Putin with military chiefs in the city of Sochi on Monday, according to The Guardian. Read more
Neo-Barbarians at the Gate? Western Elites Abandoning Fundamental Values
It is becoming clear that the political and financial elites of the United States, the EU and the Gulf States are waging a proxy war against Bashar al-Assad, the people of Syria and now Russians, blocking all diplomatic avenues towards peace and even calling for "countering" Russia, US blogger Joe Contrarian notes. Read more
4 OUT OF 5 MILITARY PERSONNEL WANT CONCEALED CARRY ON BASES
On November 10, a RallyPoint/Rasumussen Reports poll showed that 81 percent of current and retired military personnel want concealed carry on stateside bases so they can defend their lives in the event of an attack. Read more
An Adult on Campus
Mitch Daniels offers a lesson to college administrators.
We’ve been wondering all week what happened to the grown-ups on American university campuses, and it appears we have a sighting.Mitch Daniels, the president of Purdue University, spoke up Wednesday about the children’s revolt at Yale and Missouri in a letter “to the Purdue community.” Read more
***LIVE UPDATES*** CAMPUS CRAZIES ON ‘MILLION STUDENT MARCH’
A statement from the activists reads: “We are people of all colors, genders, and sexual orientation, and we are united to fight for education as a human right.” Protesters are calling for tuition-free public college, cancellation of student debt, and a $15 minimum wage for college workers… plus a lot of other stuff about “straight white male patriarchy” and rape culture on campus. Read more
Capitalism, Poverty and Public Opinion
Polling suggests that the majority of Americans believe capitalism harms the poor, despite evidence that capitalism has been instrumental in reducing American as well as global poverty. In many cases, when people deride capitalism, they are actually thinking of “crony capitalism” or, more appropriately, “corporatism.” In a recent article for CapX, Marian Tupy analyzes in detail the state of American capitalism and how it aligns with public opinion. Read more
VIDEO SHOWS UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ACTIVIST JONATHAN BUTLER FALSIFIED KEY CLAIM AGAINST PRESIDENT
Jonathan Butler — the University of Missouri grad student who became the public face of the #ConcernedStudent1950 protests that forced the resignation of both the school’s president and chancellor — claimed several times that he was hit by a car carrying the president in early October during the school’s homecoming parade. Read more
The Meaning of Their Service
Our country gives hope to millions around the world, and you—who knew that at one time your job was to fight well—kept that hope alive. By your service you made clear your choice about what kind of world we want for our children: The world of violent jihadist terrorists, or one defined by Abraham Lincoln when he advised us to listen to our better angels?
I searched for words to pay my respects to all of you here tonight and had to turn to others more articulate than I to convey what our service meant. Someone once said that America is like a bank: If you want to take something out, then you must be willing to put something in. Read more
MIZZOU PROTESTERS SEGREGATE BY RACE; WHITE STUDENTS ASKED TO LEAVE ‘BLACK-ONLY HEALING SPACE’
In an ironic development, to say the least, protesters at the University of Missouri (MU) segregated themselves by race Wednesday night, having white students leave a gathering in order to create a “black-only healing space.”
Supporters of the group Concerned Students 1950, which has spearheaded the protest movement at MU, assembled at the school’s student center Wednesday night for a meeting after a planned protest march was canceled due to bad weather. And then, according to activist Steve Schmidt, whites were asked to leave: Read more
MISSOURI LT. GOV KINDER BLAMES LEFT, CALLS MISSOURI EVENTS ‘APPALLING’
Missouri Lt. Governor Peter Kinder says we’re seeing the “fruits of decades of Leftist control” play out at the University of Missouri this week.
Kinder joined Breitbart News Daily on Sirius XM Patriot channel 125 (6AM to 9AM ET) Thursday morning to discuss recent events at Mizzou with host and Breitbart News Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon. Read more
SHOCK POLL: 72% of US citizens agree with Trump’s Deportation Force plan
According to the latest national opinion polls, both public, and private, most Americans agree with Donald Trump’s plan for a “Deportation Force” to remove 11,000,000 illegal aliens from the United States.
Post Debate polling and other “dials” show that Donald Trump’s statement (aided by Ted Cruz’s defense) that “We are a nation of laws, we are a nation of borders” is held by the majority of Americans. Read more
US Government Shocked To Find Job Openings Continue To Surge Above Actual Hires
Something odd is happening in the US labor market.
As the BLS reports in its latest JOLTS report, "the number of hires has exceeded the number of job openings for most of the JOLTS history" which should make intuitive sense for any normal, "growing" economy, where the labor market works as expected. However, as JOLTs also adds, "over the past year, this relationship has changed as job openings have outnumbered hires for several months." Read more
Job openings in September rise to second-highest level on record
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- Job openings rose in September to the second-highest level in the history of the series, the Labor Department reported Thursday. Job openings rose to a seasonally adjusted 5.53 million from 5.38 million in August, though that's short of the 5.67 million peak reached this summer. The series started in Dec. 2000. The quits rate -- an important proxy of worker confidence, since it shows the willingness to look for another job -- was 1.9% for the sixth consecutive month. The hiring rate ticked down a notch to 3.6%.
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