The refugee crisis, captured in one staggering animated graphic

It can be difficult to fully comprehend the scope of the refugee crisis flaring up across Europe based on the numbers alone.

That’s where Lucify comes in.

The Finnish data visualization site took the U.N.’s monthly count of asylum-seekers from 2012 through 2015 and used the numbers to create an amazing animated graphic. Each moving dot represents 25 people leaving their home country and moving into another.  Read more

Online Freedom Declines as Govts Pressure Google, Twitter on Content

Global online freedom declined for a fifth consecutive year as governments around the world stepped up surveillance and censorship efforts, a study showed Wednesday.

The annual report by non-government watchdog Freedom House said the setbacks were especially noticeable in the Middle East, reversing gains seen in the Arab Spring.

Freedom House found declines in online freedom of expression in 32 of the 65 countries assessed since June 2014, with "notable declines" in Libya, France and Ukraine.

The deterioration also stems from governments pressuring Internet firms -- including US giants like Google and Twitter but also locally-based services -- to remove disputed content, even satire which is aimed at leaders, the Freedom House report said.   Read more

Telegraph: 6 Years Into Recovery, Is Recession Looming?

The average economic recovery has lasted about six years in the past half-century, spurring discussion about how much longer the current rebound will last.

The Great Recession, which was the worst economic contraction since the Great Depression, ended in 2009, making this recovery about as long as the last one during the presidency of George W. Bush. In response to the decline, the Federal Reserve cut interest rates to record lows of near zero percent, where they’ve stayed since December 2008.  Read more

Dueling Forces: 2 Most Positive, 2 Most Negative Influences on Economy Read more: US Economy Likely Crawled Last Quarter But Outlook Brightens Important: Can you afford to Retire?

The U.S. economy has resembled an especially dizzying roller-coaster ride this year, with a hurtling dive followed by a steep climb leading to yet another slide.

On Thursday, when the government issues its first of three estimates of growth in the July-September quarter, it's expected to show an economy slumping from global weakness and reduced corporate stockpiling — but poised to rise again.

Economists' consensus forecast, according to FactSet, is that the economy eked out just a 1.7 percent annual growth rate last quarter, a subpar pace by any standard.

"We got a lot of weakness during the summer from a widening of the trade deficit and a drawdown of inventories," said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Analytics. "But I think the consumer will lead the way to stronger growth in the fourth quarter."  Read more

AS JIHAD ADVANCES, HUFFINGTON POST STILL PUSHING MUSLIM VICTIMHOOD MYTH

As presidential candidates are finding it tougher than ever before to ignore the reality of the global jihad, the Huffington Post is working harder than ever to push the Muslim victimhood myth.

Friday it published a whiny article by a hijab-wearing Muslim political science professor, Dalia F. Fahmy, titled “Silence on Rising Anti-Muslim Sentiment is Racist and Un-American.” This is bitterly ironic coming from HuffPo, which is unflaggingly silent about the worldwide jihad threat.

“Fear of Islam,” Fahmy claimed, “has become more prominent in everyday political discourse than ever before.” Imagine repeating this with a straight face in 2015, when Jews are being stabbed by Muslims screaming “Allahu akbar,” not just in Israel, but in France as well, as imams preach sermons in mosques while brandishing daggers and suicide vests, exhorting Muslims to stab Jews and “cut them into body parts.”  Read more

Tom Selleck Embarrasses Obama And Liberals… Explains Importance Of Family, Hard Work, And THIS

Hollywood is infested with liberals. They all worship Obama, their messiah. There are very few Hollywood stars that are Conservative, although there a few. One of those stars is the legendary TOM SELLECK from the iconic Magnum P.I. smash hit TV series and more recently, the star of CBS’s Blue Bloods!

Selleck has always said what he believes and has very strong family values. In the video below, he shares his thoughts on the importance of working hard and the family structure. He describes everything that we Conservatives believe in and that’s why liberals are furious!  Read more

EEOC wins $240,000 damages for Muslim truckers fired for not delivering beer

“The EEOC argued that the company could have easily reassigned the drivers but did not and sued it for religious discrimination.” If that is true, then the company was indeed in the wrong, although not necessarily to the tune of $240,000. More often, the Muslims who bring these kinds of suits have refused reassignment to positions that would allow them to practice their religion without hindrance — as in the notorious case of Imane Boudlal, who insisted on wearing her hijab while working at Disney, and sued after refusing multiple offers from Disney to place her in positions where her hijab would not violate their longstanding dress code.  Read more

The Irish Slave Trade: The Forgotten WHITE Slaves… 58.9k SHARES

We’ve all been taught the horror’s of the African slave trade. It’s in all the school books and in plenty of Hollywood movies and has been shoved down our throats since Obama took office. But for some reason the largest group of slaves in the British Colonies in the 17th Century doesn’t get mentioned at all- the Irish.

They came as slaves: human cargo transported on British ships bound for the Americas. They were shipped by the hundreds of thousands and included men, women, and even the youngest of children.  Read more

3Q GDP Another Reason to Delay Rate Hike

Weakened exports and temporary inventory gluts are projected to have taken a sharp bite out of U.S. economic growth in the third quarter.

Amid a slew of economic data scheduled for release this week, the first reading of third-quarter gross domestic product (or GDP) due out Thursday will be one of the most closely-watched as the self-described "data dependent" Federal Reserve mulls the timing of the first interest rate hike in nearly a decade.

Forecasters are predicting the report will provide an already-reluctant Fed with another reason to delay liftoff at least until December.

“The economy stumbled in the third quarter as both payroll employment and GDP growth slowed,” said economists at IHS Global Insight.  Read more

Obama just fell for a classic Russian ruse

Recent Russian efforts to magnify its Middle East influence have been accompanied by a seeming surge in Kremlin “reasonableness.” In fact, Russian calls for new Syrian elections and sharing intelligence with Western powers are nothing more than exercises in “maskirovka,” Russia’s classic technique for disguising its real objectives.

Gullible Westerners, following a long-established pattern, are falling for the ruse.

And a ruse it is. Russia’s goals haven’t changed, only its propaganda.

For example, by offering to attack ISIS targets if Washington and the Free Syrian Army share intelligence regarding those targets, Moscow is trying to blunt criticism that its strikes so far have targeted the FSA itself.

Russia needs no help finding ISIS, and knows full well America won’t help Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, even indirectly. Instead, Putin’s aim is to envelop the United States in a web of cooperation that further legitimizes Russia’s dramatically enhanced Middle East presence.  Read more

BOMBSHELL: Obama’s Pentagon Refuses To Target ISIS Training Camps… NO Airstrikes Allowed

We all know Obama has no desire to defeat ISIS. They are all related to him in one way or another. And they have the same ideals. He has absolutely no interest in fighting terrorism. He is more interested in racial divide here in America. It’s easy. It takes far less effort. And he doesn’t care about the collateral damage here in America. Obama is a scumbag.

That being said, the Washington Free Beacon is reporting that the Pentagon doesn’t even care about targeting ISIS training camps. Does this seem like a strategy to you? BOMB THE HELL OUT OF EVERY ISIS TRAINING CAMP IN EXISTENCE YOU FRICKING MORONS! Come on now, for God’s sake who in the hell is in charge of this crap? A bunch of spineless disgusting liberal idiots.  Read more

THE LEFT’S WAR ON COMMENT SECTIONS

The internet was born open but is becoming closed everywhere. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the rush to shutter readers’ comments sections at major news organisations. Cheered on by intolerant, snobbish cultural elites, news organisations from The Verge to The Daily Beast have, in recent months, informed their readers to take their opinions elsewhere.

Dozens of progressive blogs and news outlets are following suit, citing “abuse” and “harassment” as the primary reasons they no longer want to hear the opinions of their readers. But that’s not what is really going on.  Read more

The Fight to Stop EPA's Carbon Regulations is Underway

After President Obama announced in August that EPA would issueunprecedented carbon regulations that would restructure America’s electricity system, defenders of affordable and reliable electricity waited waited … and waited … and waited for the "Clean Power Plan" to be published in the Federal Register.

When those regulations were finally publish, the U.S. Chamber and others swung quickly into motion to block the Administration’s unlawful action.

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Dems roll out bill to close gun sale 'loophole'

Senate Democrats rolled out legislation Wednesday aimed at blocking guns from being sold without a background check.

The proposal, from Democratic Sens. Richard Blumenthal (Conn.), Chris Murphy (Conn.) and Dianne Feinstein (Calif.), would close a loophole that allows federally licensed gun retailers to sell a gun without a background check after 72 hours.

It is referred to as the Charleston loophole after the South Carolina city where Dylann Roof allegedly killed nine people in a mass shooting. The FBI said earlier this year that Roof was able to buy a gun after the three-day wait time for a background check expired.  Read more

Once Upon A Time In America…

Once upon a time in America…

We called it going without healthcare. Now we call it Obamacare.

We called them Anti-American liars. Now we call them Democrats.

We called them Nazis. Now we call them U.N. delegates.

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New Video Angle Shows that Student Attempted to Punch Police Officer

Earlier today, a video surfaced online showing a South Carolina police officer “taking down” a black female youth inside a classroom.

Liberals like Star Trek actor George Takei went wild, claiming racism and police brutality as they’re known to do, however, the facts are on the cop’s side.

Funny how that works.

Here’s the original 15-second clip…  Watch

HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS SERVE AS PALLBEARERS FOR HOMELESS VETERANS WITHOUT LOVED ONES

When three homeless veterans were laid to rest last week, their funerals were given dignity and respect from an unlikely source: high school students.

Five seniors and a junior from the University of Detroit Jesuit High School and Academy in Detroit, Michigan served as the pallbearers for funerals of veterans who had not been claimed by loved ones.

“I was glad and truly honored to have experienced and served those veterans who sacrificed their lives for our country,” one of the students, Joshua Gonzalez, said in a reflection. “Being their pallbearer was just a little something that I could do to repay them for what they did for all of us.”  Read more

Private EMT Suspended For Helping 7 Year Old Girl

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Obama to Chiefs: Oversight Will Strengthen Law

The ‘Black Lives Matter’ protest movement against excessive use of force by police shouldn’t divide law enforcement officers from their communities, and strengthening U.S. gun laws would save the lives of cops as well as citizens, President Barack Obama plans to tell police chiefs on Wednesday.

Obama also is seeking to persuade law-enforcement officials that punishments for non-violent drug offenses should be reduced, arguing that would free resources to address more serious crimes. While violent crime is on the decline in the U.S., several cities have seen a spike in shootings, including Chicago, where the president will speak to the International Association of Chiefs of Police convention.  Read more

Mysterious space object set to enter Earth's atmosphere next month

A mysterious piece of space junk dubbed WT1190F will enter Earth’s atmosphere on Friday Nov. 13, scientists say, plunging into the Indian Ocean about 62 miles off the coast of Sri Lanka.

The object, which was discovered by the Catalina Sky Survey, is being closely monitored by the European Space Agency’s Near Earth Object Coordination Centre (NEOCC).

“The object is likely man made,” explained the NEOCC, in a statement, noting that, at most, it is about 6.6 feet wide. “The object is quite small, at most a couple of meters in diameter, and a significant fraction if not all of it can be expected to completely burn up in the atmosphere.”  Read more

America, this is the worst budget deal since the 1990's calamity

Republican leaders in Congress have just negotiated a fiscal deal that can best be described as unconditional fiscal surrender. ‎It is the worst budget deal to be negotiated by the GOP since George H.W. Bush agreed to violated his no new taxes pledge in 1990 at Andrews Air Force Base.

The result of that capitulation was to make Bush a one-term president and to split the Republican party right down the middle. By raising spending, canceling budget caps, ending the sequester and raising the debt ceiling by nearly $1 trillion this deal has the same catastrophic potential.

Every presidential candidate should be asked where they stand on this deal. Anyone of them that supports it is no friend of taxpayers or balanced budgets.  Read more

Archaeologists discover 3,500-year old Mycenaean warrior and his treasures

If striking gold is great, striking ancient gold must be better.

While digging for artifacts at the Palace of Nestor in southern Greece, an archaeological team headed up by researchers from the University of Cincinnati stumbled upon what they now believe is the grave of a wealthy Mycenaean warrior.

The Palace of Nestor features in Homeric legend, and the recent archaeological efforts seek to study and uncover the palace, which was destroyed by fire around 1200 B.C., but remains the best-preserved palace from the Bronze Age found on Greece’s mainland.  Read more

Ashton Carter: U.S. to Begin 'Direct Action on the Ground' in Iraq, Syria

Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said Tuesday that the U.S. will begin "direct action on the ground" against ISIS forces in Iraq and Syria, aiming to intensify pressure on the militants as progress against them remains elusive.

"We won't hold back from supporting capable partners in opportunistic attacks against ISIL, or conducting such missions directly whether by strikes from the air or direct action on the ground," Carter said in testimony before the Senate Armed Services committee, using an alternative name for the militant group.

Carter pointed to last week's rescue operation with Kurdish forces in northern Iraq to free hostages held by ISIS.  Read more

Adam Smith’s Ethics: Happiness

While Smith thought the state should be restricted to questions of commutative justice, he didn’t think other aspects of ethics were merely matters of taste.

Why all this talk about Smith’s moral theory? After all, what can we really say in judgment of other people’s peaceful and personal choices? As Mises said, “no man is qualified to declare what would make another man happier or less discontented.” Can’t we libertarians rely on the liberty principle for politics and leave everything else to individual choice? Well, I think Smith would say “no” for two reasons; one public, one private. Firstly, how people choose to live affects others, even when no coercion is involved. From raising children to caring for the elderly, from sponsoring the fine arts to alleviating poverty, our choices have a profound impact on others and on the concatenation of social affairs. Secondly, morality affects our own personal flourishing. Pace Mises, we can, in fact, talk meaningfully about virtue and recommend that others modify their habits.  Read more

Survey: 49% of College Students Feel ‘Intimidated’ When Expressing Beliefs Different From Professors

Forty-nine percent of U.S. college students admit they feel “intimidated” when they express beliefs or opinions that differ from their professors, according to a newnationwide survey of 800 undergraduates.

When researchers asked: “Have you felt intimidated to share your ideas, opinions or beliefs in class because they were different than your professors and course instructors?” 49 percent responded that they did, including 14 percent who said this happens “frequently”.

Fifty percent of survey respondents also said they felt intimidated by classmates when sharing different or unpopular beliefs.  Read more