Saturday, February 06, 2016
History for February 6
History for February 6 - On-This-Day.com:
Aaron Burr 1756, Babe Ruth 1895, Ronald Wilson Reagan 1911 Actor, 40th President of the United States-Today in Ronald Reagan History
Zsa Zsa Gabor 1919, Tom Brokaw 1940, Bob Marley 1945 - Musican (The Wailers, Bob Marley and the Wailers)
1778 - The United States gained official recognition from France as the two nations signed the Treaty of Amity and Commerce and the Treaty of Alliance in Paris.
1926 - The National Football League adopted a rule that made players ineligible for competition until their college class graduated.
1932 - Dog sled racing happened for the first time in Olympic competition.
1933 - The 20th Amendment to the Constitution was declared in effect. The amendment moved the start of presidential, vice-presidential and congressional terms from March to January.
1952 - Britain's King George VI died. His daughter, Elizabeth II, succeeded him.
1971 - NASA Astronaut Alan B. Shepard used a six-iron that he had brought inside his spacecraft and swung at three golf balls on the surface of the moon.
1973 - Construction began on the CN Tower in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
1987 - President Ronald Reagan turned 76 years old this day and became the oldest U.S. President in history.
Friday, February 05, 2016
Know Liberals Who LOVE Talking Up Socialism? Next Time Hit Them With These 5 Facts
Know Liberals Who LOVE Talking Up Socialism? Next Time Hit Them With These 5 Facts:
"Anyone that has paid even the slightest bit of attention to the presidential campaign of self-declared socialist and independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders knows that he is rather fond of the type of socialism practiced in Northern Europe.
In fact, Sanders has made it quite clear that if he is elected he will do everything he can to further transform America politically and style it after the “democratic socialism” of alleged utopias like Scandinavian countries, such as Denmark.
The economically illiterate supporters of Bernie Sanders like to refer to Denmark as a perfect example of how socialism can be successful, but there are a few problems with their claims, according to Mad World News."
"Anyone that has paid even the slightest bit of attention to the presidential campaign of self-declared socialist and independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders knows that he is rather fond of the type of socialism practiced in Northern Europe.In fact, Sanders has made it quite clear that if he is elected he will do everything he can to further transform America politically and style it after the “democratic socialism” of alleged utopias like Scandinavian countries, such as Denmark.
The economically illiterate supporters of Bernie Sanders like to refer to Denmark as a perfect example of how socialism can be successful, but there are a few problems with their claims, according to Mad World News."
New Hampshire Predicts 78% of GOP Nominees Despite Only 82% Resemblance with U.S.
New Hampshire Predicts 78% of GOP Nominees Despite Only 82% Resemblance with U.S. | WalletHub®:
It’s primary season, and New Hampshire is first on the electoral docket — as usual.
Like the Iowa caucuses that precede it, the New Hampshire primary routinely invites a storm of media attention both for what some criticize as “unfairly” holding the earliest position in the primary-election cycle as well as reliably forecasting the Democratic and GOP nominees — with 56 and 78 percent accuracy, respectively.
The mystery that baffles most about the impressive predictive abilities of the New Hampshire primary is grounded in the fact that the state is largely rural with a relatively tiny and demographically homogeneous population.
New Hampshire’s roughly 1.3 million residents are 94.0 percent white, compared with the nation’s 77.4 percent.
Those two simplifications summarize why critics so readily dismiss the state as “unrepresentative” of the U.S. and therefore unworthy to serve as the first litmus test for effectiveness of a candidate’s platform.
It’s primary season, and New Hampshire is first on the electoral docket — as usual.
The mystery that baffles most about the impressive predictive abilities of the New Hampshire primary is grounded in the fact that the state is largely rural with a relatively tiny and demographically homogeneous population.
New Hampshire’s roughly 1.3 million residents are 94.0 percent white, compared with the nation’s 77.4 percent.
Those two simplifications summarize why critics so readily dismiss the state as “unrepresentative” of the U.S. and therefore unworthy to serve as the first litmus test for effectiveness of a candidate’s platform.
Feds Spend $156,340 to Talk About Food Deserts
Feds Spend $156,340 to Talk About Food DesertsThe National Endowment for the Humanities is spending more than $300,000 to talk about “food deserts” in Pennsylvania and sea level rise in Miami.
The projects are part of the federal agency’s “Humanities in the Public Square” initiative, which awarded $3.6 million worth of grants in December.
“The pressing challenges facing our nation call for dialogue and understanding,” said the agency’s chairman, William D. Adams.
“There is ample evidence that communities across the nation are eager to come together to discuss the critical issues that face them as citizens and neighbors.”
“Using the unique insights of the humanities, these projects address a diverse range of subjects in order to bring new audiences and organizations together,” Adams said.
Those diverse topics include “food deserts,” environmentalism, and the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri..."
PROOF: Uncovered Documents Confirm MASSIVE Obama Lie to Americans and Congress
PROOF: Uncovered Documents Confirm MASSIVE Obama Lie to Americans and Congress:
“These internal documents show the Obama administration took the nation’s creditworthiness and economy hostage in a cynical attempt to create a crisis so the president could get what he wanted during negotiations over the debt ceiling,” committee chairman Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, said in a statement.
It’s no shock that President Obama was willing to hold America hostage to get his way during the debt limit negotiations and avoid a government shutdown. However, the sheer extent of it is almost unprecedented."
“These internal documents show the Obama administration took the nation’s creditworthiness and economy hostage in a cynical attempt to create a crisis so the president could get what he wanted during negotiations over the debt ceiling,” committee chairman Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, said in a statement.It’s no shock that President Obama was willing to hold America hostage to get his way during the debt limit negotiations and avoid a government shutdown. However, the sheer extent of it is almost unprecedented."
The Peace of Submission :: SteynOnline
The Peace of Submission :: SteynOnline
During the Cold War, the Soviet Union funded "peace movements" throughout the west - because for the Soviets "peace" meant "the absence of opposition".
During the Cold War, the Soviet Union funded "peace movements" throughout the west - because for the Soviets "peace" meant "the absence of opposition".
In our time the new peace movement is Islam.
And so we are told today, from the podium of a mosque with "extremist" "links", that the very word Islam means "peace".
Actually, it means "submission" - ie, the absence of opposition.
And so we are told today, from the podium of a mosque with "extremist" "links", that the very word Islam means "peace".
Actually, it means "submission" - ie, the absence of opposition.
The only difference between then and now is that instead of being chanted by scrofulous hippies protesting outside a Nato air base the old line's being peddled to us by the President of the United States.
Odd.
Odd.
~At the end of September, I spoke in the Danish Parliament on the tenth anniversary of the Mohammed cartoons. (See my speech here.)
Afterwards I was hustled off-stage and, a little weary and the worse for wear, gave an interview in a rather handsomely appointed ante-room on the subject of Chancellor Merkel and her Million Muslim March.
You might be interested in what I had to say - remember this was two months before the Paris attacks and three months before the New Year sexual assaults and the cover-up by German police and media.
Click below to watch:
Thanks to Frau Merkel, everything old is new again:
‘Multicultural Toilets’ For ‘Global Defecation’ Seek To Stop Migrants Pooping On The Floor
‘Multicultural Toilets’ For ‘Global Defecation’ Seek To Stop Migrants Pooping On The Floor:
German bathroom manufacturers are developing “multicultural toilets” to help ensure Middle Eastern migrants need not adapt to European sanitation norms.
Multiple reports have emerged of recent arrivals finding themselves utterly “mystified” by Western loos.
Some have resorted to doing their business on the floor or outdoors, others
The issue caused some serious confusion last year, with one small German village being accused of racism after issuing leaflets politely asking migrants to use to the correct facilities.
With 1.5 million migrants from the Middle East and North Africa arriving in the country last year, solving the problem without facing such accusations of bigotry presents a sizeable business opportunity.
Enter the Global Fliegenschmidt toilet manufacturers based in Coswig, Saxony-Anhalt, who have announced their plans to develop a mobile “multicultural toilet” complete with a squatting platform and water hose for migrant friendly sanitation.
The design was shown to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung national newspaper, who gave a gloriously politically correct write up of the new product, branding it, “Universally applicable: the refugee toilet is ideal for the globalised defecation.”
have used showers, and many migrants will have never seen toilet paper before.
German bathroom manufacturers are developing “multicultural toilets” to help ensure Middle Eastern migrants need not adapt to European sanitation norms.
Multiple reports have emerged of recent arrivals finding themselves utterly “mystified” by Western loos.
Some have resorted to doing their business on the floor or outdoors, others The issue caused some serious confusion last year, with one small German village being accused of racism after issuing leaflets politely asking migrants to use to the correct facilities.
With 1.5 million migrants from the Middle East and North Africa arriving in the country last year, solving the problem without facing such accusations of bigotry presents a sizeable business opportunity.
Enter the Global Fliegenschmidt toilet manufacturers based in Coswig, Saxony-Anhalt, who have announced their plans to develop a mobile “multicultural toilet” complete with a squatting platform and water hose for migrant friendly sanitation.
The design was shown to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung national newspaper, who gave a gloriously politically correct write up of the new product, branding it, “Universally applicable: the refugee toilet is ideal for the globalised defecation.”
have used showers, and many migrants will have never seen toilet paper before.
Expert: North Korea prepping EMP attack on U.S.
Expert: North Korea prepping EMP attack on U.S.:
"Former Ambassador Henry Cooper – who was President Ronald Reagan’s chief representative in the “Star Wars” initiative negotiations with the Soviet Union and SDI director under President George H.W. Bush – said North Korea is preparing its Sohae satellite complex for a launch on a southern trajectory, which is said to be a test.
Cooper told G2 Bulletin the United States lacks sufficient anti-ballistic missile defenses in the southern part of the U.S., especially if the satellite turns out to be a nuclear device that could orbit above the U.S. and explode at a high altitude, affecting the lives of all Americans."
"Former Ambassador Henry Cooper – who was President Ronald Reagan’s chief representative in the “Star Wars” initiative negotiations with the Soviet Union and SDI director under President George H.W. Bush – said North Korea is preparing its Sohae satellite complex for a launch on a southern trajectory, which is said to be a test.Cooper told G2 Bulletin the United States lacks sufficient anti-ballistic missile defenses in the southern part of the U.S., especially if the satellite turns out to be a nuclear device that could orbit above the U.S. and explode at a high altitude, affecting the lives of all Americans."
The New Religion of Anti-Racism Can Turn Disagreement into Heresy
The New Religion of Anti-Racism Can Turn Disagreement into Heresy | HeterodoxAcademy.org
John McWhorter recently noted the resemblance between religious fervor and anti-racist activism:
John McWhorter recently noted the resemblance between religious fervor and anti-racist activism:
An anthropology article from 1956 used to get around more than it does now, “Body Ritual Among the Nacirema.” Because my mother gave it to me to read when I was 13, of course what I remember most from it is that among the Nacirema, women with especially large breasts get paid to travel and display them. Nacirema was “American” spelled backwards—get it?—and the idea was to show how revealing, and even peculiar, our society is if described from a clinical distance.
These days, there is something else about the Nacirema—they have developed a new religion. That religion is antiracism. Of course, most consider antiracism a position, or evidence of morality. However, in 2015, among educated Americans especially, Antiracism—it seriously merits capitalization at this point—is now what any naïve, unbiased anthropologist would describe as a new and increasingly dominant religion. It is what we worship, as sincerely and fervently as many worship God and Jesus and, among most Blue State Americans, more so.To someone today making sense of the Nacirema, the category of person who, roughly, reads The New York Times and The New Yorker and listens to NPR, would be a deeply religious person indeed, but as an Antiracist. This is good in some ways—better than most are in a position to realize. This is also bad in other ways—worse than most are in a position to realize.
One of the rituals of this quasi-religion is the acknowledgment of white privilege. It was demanded of the University of Missouri president. As McWhorter explains:
The Antiracism religion, then, has clergy, creed, and also even a conception of Original Sin. Note the current idea that the enlightened white person is to, I assume regularly (ritually?), “acknowledge” that they possess White Privilege. Classes, seminars, teach-ins are devoted to making whites understand the need for this.
McWhorter notes that several private schools in New York are now offering courses in White Privilege. There are also college courses and a conferences on White Privilege and people far to the left of McWhorter, like Corey Robin, have written about the emptiness of some of these conferences. If you look at anti-racism as a religion, however, this collective ritual makes sense as a symbolic religious gesture..."
Read on!
Read on!
Feel-good story of the day-----Man Ejected From Hole in Plane was Actually the Bomber Who Made the Hole
Man Ejected From Hole in Plane was Actually the Bomber Who Made the Hole | Mediaite:
"Ever since news broke that a man was ejected from a hole in the side of a Somali plane, we’ve been hearing two things:
1. the hole was probably caused by a bomb but we don’t have details on that bomb; and
2. there were no details on the person who was flung from the plane.
As it turns out, it’s all probably the same thing.
The guy who was sucked from the plane is most likely the one who detonated the bomb, according to some reports.
According to Heidi Vogt at The Wall Street Journal, the man was allegedly able to get through security with no incident by showing up to the airport in a wheelchair.
Once he and his chair were loaded onto the aircraft by staff and the plane took off, he moved to a regular seat.
Then, he attempted to blow up the plane.
She got her information from a “Western diplomat briefed on the situation.”
It was already known that only the man died, while two other passengers were injured.
Everyone else onboard remained unharmed and the plane made an emergency landing.
As awful as it is that we live in a time when this is almost normal enough to warrant me saying this, it could have turned out worse."
"Ever since news broke that a man was ejected from a hole in the side of a Somali plane, we’ve been hearing two things:
1. the hole was probably caused by a bomb but we don’t have details on that bomb; and
2. there were no details on the person who was flung from the plane.
As it turns out, it’s all probably the same thing.
The guy who was sucked from the plane is most likely the one who detonated the bomb, according to some reports.
According to Heidi Vogt at The Wall Street Journal, the man was allegedly able to get through security with no incident by showing up to the airport in a wheelchair.Once he and his chair were loaded onto the aircraft by staff and the plane took off, he moved to a regular seat.
Then, he attempted to blow up the plane.
She got her information from a “Western diplomat briefed on the situation.”
It was already known that only the man died, while two other passengers were injured.
Everyone else onboard remained unharmed and the plane made an emergency landing.
As awful as it is that we live in a time when this is almost normal enough to warrant me saying this, it could have turned out worse."
Something Slimy: The Signs of Bad Science
Something Slimy: The Signs of Bad Science | HeterodoxAcademy.org:
In The Chronicle there is a stunning interview regarding the Flint, Michigan lead-poisoning problem, with Virginia Tech professor Marc Edwards, who helped expose the government-academic complex.
Adam Smith’s The Theory of Moral Sentiments speaks to the ethics of inquiry, if only indirectly.
In The Chronicle there is a stunning interview regarding the Flint, Michigan lead-poisoning problem, with Virginia Tech professor Marc Edwards, who helped expose the government-academic complex.
Edwards explains his morality-based method of checking into whether science is sound:
So when you start asking questions about people, and you approach them as a scientist, if you feel like you’re talking to an adult and they give you a rational response and are willing to share data and discuss an issue rationally, I’m out of there. I go home.But when you reach out to them, as I did with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and they do not return your phone calls, they do not share data, they do not respond to FOIA [open-records requests], y’know. … In each case I just started asking questions and turning over rocks, and I resolved to myself, The second something slimy doesn’t come out, I’m gonna go home. But every single rock you turn over, something slimy comes out.
The experience is familiar to me as editor of Econ Journal Watch, a journal of economic criticism. Numerous authors have told us backstories like Edwards’. Moreover, we have found that commented-on authors, when invited to reply to published criticism, sometimes simply do not respond.
Smith says that “Reserve and concealment…call forth diffidence. We are afraid to follow the man who is going we do not know where.”
And Smith describes the virtues of frankness and openness:
Frankness and openness conciliate confidence. We trust the man who seems willing to trust us. We see clearly, we think, the road by which he means to conduct us, and we abandon ourselves with pleasure to his guidance and direction. … We all desire, upon this account, to feel how each other is affected, to penetrate into each other’s bosoms, and to observe the sentiments and affections which really subsist there.
And implications for science seem to follow, as where Smith says:
But this most delightful harmony cannot be obtained unless there is a free communication of sentiments and opinions.
Researchers are free to communicate in the sense that the government won’t lock them up for telling the truth.
But when government agencies and concomitant constellations of groupthink play such a huge, central role in funding and validating research, there is unfreedom in a broader sense, which Edwards explains nicely in the Chronicle interview.New Video Alleges Planned Parenthood Used ‘Accounting Gimmicks’ to Hide Profit From Sale of Fetuses | Video | TheBlaze.com
New Video Alleges Planned Parenthood Used ‘Accounting Gimmicks’ to Hide Profit From Sale of Fetuses | Video | TheBlaze.com:
“Planned Parenthood’s self-interested political maneuvers will never silence free speech or the citizen press,” Daleiden said in a statement. “The new video released today shows that no amount of half-baked barratry can conceal Planned Parenthood’s barbaric harvesting and profiting off baby body parts.”
In the new video released by the pro-life group, Melissa Farrell, Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast’s director of research, said that “we get requests a lot for fetal tissue.”
“Planned Parenthood’s self-interested political maneuvers will never silence free speech or the citizen press,” Daleiden said in a statement. “The new video released today shows that no amount of half-baked barratry can conceal Planned Parenthood’s barbaric harvesting and profiting off baby body parts.”In the new video released by the pro-life group, Melissa Farrell, Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast’s director of research, said that “we get requests a lot for fetal tissue.”
Neo-Nazis on Street Patrol to 'Keep Europe's Women Safe from Migrant Sex Attacks'
Neo-Nazis on Street Patrol to 'Keep Europe's Women Safe from Migrant Sex Attacks' » Louder With Crowder:
"...But when you strip people of their security, when you force on them a new culture which refuses to assimilate and worse, rapes women and children, there tends to be this thing some scientists refer to as “backlash.”
In this case, it’s taken the form of Neo-Nazis in Finland.
A gang of vigilantes led by a violent neo-Nazi go on night time ‘migrant patrols’ on the streets of Finland, with some talking of ‘ethnic cleansing’ in the wake of the country’s mounting immigration crisis.
The self-styled ‘Soldiers of Odin’ march in a mob, wearing bomber jackets with their logo on the back. They have vowed to take direct action to ‘protect their wives, girlfriends and children’ after a migrant influx to the liberal Scandinavian country.
The gang – which claims to have cells across Europe – says it mobilised after a rise in migrant-related crime over the past 12 months because the Finnish government has ‘screwed everything up’.
MailOnline gained exclusive access to the gang’s leadership and visited its secretive headquarters – which was packed with Nazi memorabilia and White Supremacist propaganda.
Oh boy. Let’s start with the obvious and work our way back to the poop swastica.
Look it, I’ve even numbered it for you.
That’s love.
"...But when you strip people of their security, when you force on them a new culture which refuses to assimilate and worse, rapes women and children, there tends to be this thing some scientists refer to as “backlash.”
In this case, it’s taken the form of Neo-Nazis in Finland.
A gang of vigilantes led by a violent neo-Nazi go on night time ‘migrant patrols’ on the streets of Finland, with some talking of ‘ethnic cleansing’ in the wake of the country’s mounting immigration crisis.
The gang – which claims to have cells across Europe – says it mobilised after a rise in migrant-related crime over the past 12 months because the Finnish government has ‘screwed everything up’.
MailOnline gained exclusive access to the gang’s leadership and visited its secretive headquarters – which was packed with Nazi memorabilia and White Supremacist propaganda.
Oh boy. Let’s start with the obvious and work our way back to the poop swastica.
Look it, I’ve even numbered it for you.
That’s love.
- Crime has risen since European countries took in Muslim migrants. Not just a few, mind you, millions of migrants (read Sweden’s Open Islamic Immigration: Now Officially the Rape Capital of the West).
- Governments like Germany have actively covered up said crimes of said migrants because feelings. Otherwise known as “political correctness.”
- Women have been raped, sexually assaulted, robbed. As the migrant numbers rise, so does the rapey crime spree.
- Government solutions to these Muslim migrant crimes has been to tell women and girls to cover themselves up. Or to hand out leaflets about not raping women. Sometimes, there’s been zero response at all.
- Women have tried taking action into their own hands via weapons like pepper-spray. In Denmark, a teenager was charged with posessing a weapon (pepper-spray) which she used to fend off a rapist.
- The women of Europe, like this German teenager, are fed up, scared, and are asking their men to fight back and defend them, since their governments will not...."
History for February 5
History for February 5 - On-This-Day.com:
John Boyd Dunlop 1840, Andre-Gustave Citroen 1878, Henry "Hank" Aaron 1934
Charlotte Rampling 1946, Barbara Hershey 1948, Christopher Guest 1948
1885 - Congo State was established under Leopold II of Belgium, as a personal possession.
1917 - The U.S. Congress passed the Immigration Act of 1917 (Asiatic Barred Zone Act) with an overwhelming majority. The action overrode President Woodrow Wilson's December 14, 1916 veto.
1924 - The BBC time signals, or "pips", from Greenwich Observatory were heard for the first time. They are broadcast every hour.
1952 - In New York City, four signs were installed at 44th Street and Broadway in Times Square that told pedestrians "don't walk."
1962 - French President Charles De Gaulle called for Algeria's independence.
1972 - Bob Douglas became the first black man elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, MA.
1987 - The Dow Jones industrial average closed above the 2,200-point for the first time. The market closed at 2201.49.
1997 - Investment bank Morgan Stanley announced a $10 billion merger with Dean Witter.
John Boyd Dunlop 1840, Andre-Gustave Citroen 1878, Henry "Hank" Aaron 1934
Charlotte Rampling 1946, Barbara Hershey 1948, Christopher Guest 1948
1885 - Congo State was established under Leopold II of Belgium, as a personal possession.
1917 - The U.S. Congress passed the Immigration Act of 1917 (Asiatic Barred Zone Act) with an overwhelming majority. The action overrode President Woodrow Wilson's December 14, 1916 veto.
1924 - The BBC time signals, or "pips", from Greenwich Observatory were heard for the first time. They are broadcast every hour.
1952 - In New York City, four signs were installed at 44th Street and Broadway in Times Square that told pedestrians "don't walk."
1962 - French President Charles De Gaulle called for Algeria's independence.
1972 - Bob Douglas became the first black man elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, MA.
1987 - The Dow Jones industrial average closed above the 2,200-point for the first time. The market closed at 2201.49.
1997 - Investment bank Morgan Stanley announced a $10 billion merger with Dean Witter.
Thursday, February 04, 2016
Gowdy Launches Tweetstorm After New Immigration Policy Announced: ‘We Must Send a Clear Message’ | TheBlaze.com
Gowdy Launches Tweetstorm After New Immigration Policy Announced: ‘We Must Send a Clear Message’ | TheBlaze.com:
"After Border Patrol agents testified Thursday about the Obama administration’s new immigration policy, South Carolina Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy shared remarks from his opening statement via a Tweetstorm.
The U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency recently received orders to release illegal immigrants and no longer order them to appear at deportation hearings. Gowdy was not pleased."
"After Border Patrol agents testified Thursday about the Obama administration’s new immigration policy, South Carolina Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy shared remarks from his opening statement via a Tweetstorm.
The U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency recently received orders to release illegal immigrants and no longer order them to appear at deportation hearings. Gowdy was not pleased."
Montana Takes Huge Stand Against Obama, Tells Him to Take Refugees and Shove 'Em!
Montana Takes Huge Stand Against Obama, Tells Him to Take Refugees and Shove 'Em!:"Forty-eight out of the 50 states have been shunted with the nearly 1 million refugees over the past 35 years, in over 180 cities and towns, thanks to the U.S. State Department and the United Nations.
The two states that have remained “uninfused” are Wyoming and Montana."
10,000 Migrants to be Housed in Berlin's Luxury Hotels While Local Homeless Go Without Shelter
10,000 Migrants to be Housed in Berlin's Luxury Hotels While Local Homeless Go Without Shelter:
The Berlin Senate has announced an audacious, and some would say totally inappropriate plan to house 10,000 migrants in mid level to luxury hotels in the city with a total price tag of at least 600 million euros.
The senate has requested a contract with Grand City Hotels to lease out 22 hotels to house migrants in the city.
According to German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine the senate entered negotiations with London-based Hampton Holding, the owners of the popular Holiday Inn and Wyndam hotels in Berlin.
The costs break down at 50 euros a night, 1500 euros a month and 18,000 euros a year.
The costs to rent an apartment in Berlin, even in the centre of the city average far lower prices.
The company who own various hotels in the city like Hotel Berlin Mitte, the Berlin City East and City West, have been incredibly attracted to the idea as the government guarantees an occupancy rate of 95 per cent, something the hotels may only see seasonally rather than all year round when the capacity averages 60-65 per cent at best..."
The Berlin Senate has announced an audacious, and some would say totally inappropriate plan to house 10,000 migrants in mid level to luxury hotels in the city with a total price tag of at least 600 million euros.
The senate has requested a contract with Grand City Hotels to lease out 22 hotels to house migrants in the city.According to German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine the senate entered negotiations with London-based Hampton Holding, the owners of the popular Holiday Inn and Wyndam hotels in Berlin.
The costs break down at 50 euros a night, 1500 euros a month and 18,000 euros a year.
The costs to rent an apartment in Berlin, even in the centre of the city average far lower prices.
The company who own various hotels in the city like Hotel Berlin Mitte, the Berlin City East and City West, have been incredibly attracted to the idea as the government guarantees an occupancy rate of 95 per cent, something the hotels may only see seasonally rather than all year round when the capacity averages 60-65 per cent at best..."
UNITED NATIONS TELLS USA TO PAY SLAVE REPARATIONS, CANCEL VOTER ID LAWS, MORE
OverpassesForAmerica – UNITED NATIONS TELLS USA TO PAY SLAVE REPARATIONS, CANCEL VOTER ID LAWS, MORE #o4a #news:
(CNSNews.com) – A trio of U.N. human rights experts ended a fact-finding visit to the United States Friday with a sharp critique of the conditions faced by African-Americans today, and decried the fact that “there has been no real commitment to recognition and reparations” for slavery.
Members of the so-called “U.N. working group of experts on people of African descent” drew a connection between controversial incidents of police shootings of African-Americans to lynching of past years.
“Contemporary police killings and the trauma it creates are reminiscent of the racial terror lynching of the past,” they said a lengthy statement, parts of which were read out at a press briefing in Washington, D.C.
“Impunity for state violence has resulted in the current human rights crisis and must be addressed as a matter of urgency.”
In another present/past equation, the experts compared slavery to the incarceration of large numbers of blacks for drugs offenses.
“The devastating impact of the ‘war on drugs’ has led to mass incarceration and is compared to enslavement, due to exploitation and dehumanization of African Americans,” they declared.
The three – French law professor Mireille Fanon Mendes-France, Filipino human rights lawyer Ricardo Sunga and South African legal scholar Sabelo Gumedze – called for a greater emphasis in school curricula on the history of colonization and the transatlantic slave trade.
They also recommended that “monuments, memorials and markers” highlighting the slavery issue be erected, and for federal and state legislation “recognizing the experience of enslavement” to be passed.
Specifically, they called on Congress to pass “The Commission to Study Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act.”
The legislation, introduced a year ago by Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), provides for the establishment of a commission to study the issue and recommend “appropriate remedies.”
...“The colonial history, the legacy of enslavement, racial subordination and segregation, racial terrorism, and racial inequality in the U.S. remains a serious challenge as there has been no real commitment to reparations and to truth and reconciliation for people of African descent,” it said.
...“The dangerous ideology of white supremacy inhibits social cohesion amongst the U.S. population.”
...But they were highly critical of voter-ID laws, charging that “increased identification requirements in several states served to discriminate [against] minorities such as African-Americans contrary to the spirit of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.”...
(CNSNews.com) – A trio of U.N. human rights experts ended a fact-finding visit to the United States Friday with a sharp critique of the conditions faced by African-Americans today, and decried the fact that “there has been no real commitment to recognition and reparations” for slavery.
Members of the so-called “U.N. working group of experts on people of African descent” drew a connection between controversial incidents of police shootings of African-Americans to lynching of past years.
“Contemporary police killings and the trauma it creates are reminiscent of the racial terror lynching of the past,” they said a lengthy statement, parts of which were read out at a press briefing in Washington, D.C.
“Impunity for state violence has resulted in the current human rights crisis and must be addressed as a matter of urgency.”
In another present/past equation, the experts compared slavery to the incarceration of large numbers of blacks for drugs offenses.
“The devastating impact of the ‘war on drugs’ has led to mass incarceration and is compared to enslavement, due to exploitation and dehumanization of African Americans,” they declared.
The three – French law professor Mireille Fanon Mendes-France, Filipino human rights lawyer Ricardo Sunga and South African legal scholar Sabelo Gumedze – called for a greater emphasis in school curricula on the history of colonization and the transatlantic slave trade.
They also recommended that “monuments, memorials and markers” highlighting the slavery issue be erected, and for federal and state legislation “recognizing the experience of enslavement” to be passed.Specifically, they called on Congress to pass “The Commission to Study Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act.”
The legislation, introduced a year ago by Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), provides for the establishment of a commission to study the issue and recommend “appropriate remedies.”
...“The colonial history, the legacy of enslavement, racial subordination and segregation, racial terrorism, and racial inequality in the U.S. remains a serious challenge as there has been no real commitment to reparations and to truth and reconciliation for people of African descent,” it said.
...“The dangerous ideology of white supremacy inhibits social cohesion amongst the U.S. population.”
...But they were highly critical of voter-ID laws, charging that “increased identification requirements in several states served to discriminate [against] minorities such as African-Americans contrary to the spirit of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.”...
Ted Cruz Tries to Re-Create Iowa Success in New Hampshire | TheBlaze.com
Ted Cruz Tries to Re-Create Iowa Success in New Hampshire | TheBlaze.com:
"Cruz cast himself as a long-shot conservative candidate in the state, much like former President Ronald Reagan was when he won the New Hampshire primary.
“Thirty-six years ago, the state of New Hampshire faced a similar election,” Cruz said. “An election where the stakes were every bit as great as they are today. And thirty-six years ago, the Granite State saw the former governor of California coming to it with all of the media saying, ‘This guy can’t win,’ with all of the media saying, ‘This guy is too far to the right, he’s too conservative.’ And besides, the media told New Hampshire, he’s 15-20 points behind in the polls."
"Cruz cast himself as a long-shot conservative candidate in the state, much like former President Ronald Reagan was when he won the New Hampshire primary.“Thirty-six years ago, the state of New Hampshire faced a similar election,” Cruz said. “An election where the stakes were every bit as great as they are today. And thirty-six years ago, the Granite State saw the former governor of California coming to it with all of the media saying, ‘This guy can’t win,’ with all of the media saying, ‘This guy is too far to the right, he’s too conservative.’ And besides, the media told New Hampshire, he’s 15-20 points behind in the polls."
Toxic Loans Around the World Weigh on Global Growth
Toxic Loans Around the World Weigh on Global Growth - The New York Times
Beneath the surface of the global financial system lurks a multitrillion-dollar problem that could sap the strength of large economies for years to come.
The problem is the giant, stagnant pool of loans that companies and people around the world are struggling to pay back.
Bad debts have been a drag on economic activity ever since the financial crisis of 2008, but in recent months, the threat posed by an overhang of bad loans appears to be rising.
China is the biggest source of worry.
Some analysts estimate that China’s troubled credit could exceed $5 trillion, a staggering number that is equivalent to half the size of the country’s annual economic output.
Official figures show that Chinese banks pulled back on their lending in December.
If such trends persist, China’s economy, the second-largest in the world behind the United States’, may then slow even more than it has, further harming the many countries that have for years relied on China for their growth.
But it’s not just China.
Wherever governments and central banks unleashed aggressive stimulus policies in recent years, a toxic debt hangover has followed.
In the United States, it took many months for mortgage defaults to fall after the most recent housing bust — and energy companies are struggling to pay off the cheap money that they borrowed to pile into the shale boom.
In Europe, analysts say bad loans total more than $1 trillion.
Many large European banks are still burdened with defaulted loans, complicating policy makers’ efforts to revive the Continent’s economy.
Italy, for instance, announced a plan last week to clean out bad loans from its plodding banking industry.
Elsewhere, bad loans are on the rise at Brazil’s biggest banks, as the country grapples with the effects of an enormous credit binge..."
Beneath the surface of the global financial system lurks a multitrillion-dollar problem that could sap the strength of large economies for years to come.
The problem is the giant, stagnant pool of loans that companies and people around the world are struggling to pay back.
Bad debts have been a drag on economic activity ever since the financial crisis of 2008, but in recent months, the threat posed by an overhang of bad loans appears to be rising.
China is the biggest source of worry.
Official figures show that Chinese banks pulled back on their lending in December.
If such trends persist, China’s economy, the second-largest in the world behind the United States’, may then slow even more than it has, further harming the many countries that have for years relied on China for their growth.
But it’s not just China.
Wherever governments and central banks unleashed aggressive stimulus policies in recent years, a toxic debt hangover has followed.
In the United States, it took many months for mortgage defaults to fall after the most recent housing bust — and energy companies are struggling to pay off the cheap money that they borrowed to pile into the shale boom.
In Europe, analysts say bad loans total more than $1 trillion.
Many large European banks are still burdened with defaulted loans, complicating policy makers’ efforts to revive the Continent’s economy.
Italy, for instance, announced a plan last week to clean out bad loans from its plodding banking industry.
Elsewhere, bad loans are on the rise at Brazil’s biggest banks, as the country grapples with the effects of an enormous credit binge..."
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