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