More than a thousand migrants arrived in Italy yesterday, traveling in ten separate rubber boats. Meanwhile, a group of African migrants blocked an Italian highway with large appliances to protest the living conditions at their asylum welcome center.
In other migration news, a Swedish municipality near Stockholm plans to house migrants in spare rooms in a nursing home, due to an acute lack of other accommodations.
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Jobless Claims Drop Confirms Economy’s Strength
The announcement from the Department of Labor on Wednesday masked the remarkable record: the seasonally-adjusted initial claims for unemployment insurance filed by workers following a job loss during the week ending November 18 — 239,000 — are approaching levels not seen since the early 1970s when the workforce was much smaller. This is reflected in the unemployment rate — 4.1 percent — the lowest rate seen in 17 years.
What’s more remarkable is that this followed the hurricanes that devastated parts of the southern states and Puerto Rico, which is still struggling to get back on its feet. This is the 142nd straight week that claims remained below the 300,000 mark, the longest such stretch since 1970. This reflected that fact that the U.S. economy created 261,000 jobs in October.
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134 Earthquakes Rocked San Andreas Fault in One Week: ‘Prepare Now’
In the first pargraph of this online news article: The 134 earthquakes that have had the San Andreas fault line rocking and rolling this past week are igniting fears that the “big one” could be just around the corner.
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Re-Cloning of First Cloned Dog Deemed Successful So Far
(Phys.org)—A team of researchers with Seoul National University, Michigan State University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has re-cloned the first dog to be cloned. In their paper published in the journal Scientific Reports, the group describes duplicating the clone and offers an update on how the dogs are doing.
Back in 2005, researchers at Seoul National University reported that they had cloned an Afghan hound, the first dog to be cloned. Since that time, hundreds of other dogs have been cloned, as well, offering an opportunity to learn more about the potential benefits and possible drawbacks of cloning animals for. Now, in another first, the researchers with this new effort report having cloned the clone they cloned.
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(CNN) As a wave of stories unfold about sexual harassment and assault by men in power, a senior Democratic leader says her party should reflect on how it handled such charges when they were leveled against former President Bill Clinton.
“Not only did people look the other way, but they went after the women who came forward and accused him,” says Kathleen Sebelius, the former secretary of Health and Human Services and Kansas governor. “And so it doubled down on not only bad behavior but abusive behavior. And then people attacked the victims.”
Sebelius extended her criticism to Hillary Clinton, and the Clinton White House for what she called a strategy of dismissing and besmirching the women who stepped forward—a pattern she said is being repeated today by alleged perpetrators of sexual assault—saying that the criticism of the former first lady and Secretary of State was “absolutely” fair. Sebelius noted that the Clinton Administration’s response was being imitated, adding that “you can watch that same pattern repeat, It needs to end. It needs to be over…
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Switzerland: Islamic ‘Hate Preacher” to be Expelled
A district court in canton Zurich has given a Muslim preacher, accused of promoting violence, an 18-month suspended prison sentence. It also ordered the 25-year-old Ethiopian to be deported and banned from re-entering Switzerland for 15 years.
The preacher was on trial for calling for the burning of Muslims who are not devout enough in their worship.
Police arrested the cleric in October of last year, after receiving reports of the controversial sermon delivered at the An’Nur mosque in Winterthur, in north-eastern Switzerland. The man is also charged with distributing pictures of executions online and of violating labour regulations by working without a permit.
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Citing Quran, Kuwaiti Pundit Says Israel ‘A Legitimate State, ‘ Not an Occupier
In a rare public move, a Kuwaiti writer has urged Arab recognition of the State of Israel as a legitimate, “independent sovereign state,” and Israelis as a people with a right to their land.In an interview to Kuwait’s Alrai TV channel on Sunday, translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute, Abdullah Al-Hadlaq said “there is no occupation. There is a people returning to its promised land.” Get The Times of Israel’s Daily Edition by email and never miss our top stories Free Sign Up
Al-Hadlaq’s comments elicited a backlash on Arabic websites and on social media, where commentators variously labeled him a “fool,” a “traitor,” and a Zionist agent. Comments to a Facebook post with the Alrai video were laden with expletives.
In the interview, Al-Hadlaq expressed admiration for the Jewish state and its values. He called for a rejection of the prominent regional narrative that Israel was “plundered” from the Arabs, describing this as an outdated mentality.
“When the State of Israel was established in 1948, there was no state called ‘Palestine,’“ he said…
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New Footage From Inside Riyadh Ritz Carlton Reveals Princes Swapping Assets for Freedom
A BBC reporter and film crew has gained rare access inside Riyadh’s “gilded cage” — the Ritz-Carlton which became a luxury prison after a dozen or more princes were detained during the shocking events which began with Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman’s (MbS) internal purge on November 4th.
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A Radiation Cloud, And a Mystery, From Russia
MOSCOW — When a container of radioactive waste exploded at the Mayak factory 60 years ago, in one of the worst accidents of the nuclear age, the episode was so shrouded in secrecy that even residents of nearby towns had little clue of the danger.
That secrecy proved deadly.
Among the estimated 272,000 people who were exposed was a newborn girl who withered and died from radiation sickness. Taisia A. Fomina, a friend of the family’s, recalled that the girl’s father, ignorant of the danger, welded a bed frame from irradiated metal recycled from the nuclear plant. The child was poisoned as she slept.
Residents learned of the radiation risk only a year after the accident, said Ms. Fomina, now 84. “Some rumors went around town that something blew up at the factory, but we didn’t know what,” she added. “Of course, they didn’t tell us.”
Now, another possible accident at Mayak, a plant at the heart of Russia’s nuclear program, and the paucity of information coming out about it, is again raising alarms…
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Wilders Says Russia is “No Enemy” Ahead of Moscow Visit
Russia is “not an enemy” to the Netherlands, Dutch anti-EU politician Geert Wilders said in an interview published on Wednesday (22 November), ahead of a visit to Moscow in the New Year.
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WB Module of Ansarullah Bangla Unearthed. Jihadi Plan to Kill Indian Bloggers Under Hindu Guise!
Three terrorists of Ansarullah Bangla Team with Al-Qaeda and IS links arrested in Kolkata.
Upendra Bharti | HENB | Kolkata | Nov 23, 2017:: On the tip off from the central bureau of intelligence, the Special Task Force (STF) of Kolkata Police has arrested three suspected terrorists including two Bangladeshi nationals from Kolkata station on Tuesday.The arrested persons are members of Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT), a banned terrorist organisation of Bangladesh, said Murli Dhar Shama, Deputy Commissioner of STF.
According to Sharma, three of them might have links with dreaded terrorist organisation Al-Qaeda. ABT is accused of killing several free-thinker bloggers in Bangladesh.
ABT has also developed links with the deadly Islamic State to cater Jihadi activities in South Asia region specially in Bangladesh, India. Maldives. Nepal. and Sri Lanka…
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Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young has protested about British right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos getting a platform to speak at Parliament House in Canberra.
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A Melbourne disability pensioner charged with funding Islamic State fighters in Syria has been freed on a $50,000 surety.
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Tasmanian politician Jacqui Lambie and Waleed Aly clashed on the Project, where Aly repeatedly asked Lambie if she regretted previous controversial comments on sharia law.
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Ecuador Warns Assange Over Catalonia Comments
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is under fire once again — this time from the government of Ecuador.
Assange has been holed up at its London embassy since 2012, after Swedish prosecutors filed rape charges against him.
The country’s foreign ministry has asked Assange to stop making statements that could affect Ecuador’s diplomatic relations. The demand came after Spain complained about contacts between the Australian activist and Catalan secessionists. Assange has been vocal in his support for Catalonia’s independence and has taken to social media to criticise and goad Spanish authorities. In September he offered a reward for information on the use of Spanish security forces during the region’s independence referendum.
Ecuador’s president is scheduled to visit Madrid next month and Quito is keen to stress its support for Spain’s territorial integrity.
This is the second warning for Assange — in November the embassy cut off his internet after Wikileaks published emails from Hillary Clinton’s U.S. presidential campaign.
Ecuador says it will continue to grant Assange asylum and protect him from any attempt to extradict him to the United States.
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‘Explosion’ Detected Near Route of Missing Argentinian Submarine, Navy Confirms
An abnormal sound detected in the South Atlantic ocean hours after an Argentinian navy submarine sent its last signal last week was “consistent with an explosion,” a navy spokesman has said.
Captain Enrique Balbi described the blast as “abnormal, singular, short, violent” and “non-nuclear”. It was detected at 10.31am on 15 November along the route that the ARA San Juan had been following when it last made radio contact three hours earlier.
The sound has been pinpointed to within a radius of 125km. Six vessels are attempting to locate the submarine, in an area that was previously searched.
The explosion was detected by US sensors and by international agencies responsible for the detection of nuclear explosions around the world, Balbi said. Two Nasa planes are continuing to overfly the area in search of the submarine.
With the seven-day limit on the ARA San Juan’s oxygen reserves having been reached on Wednesday morning, what hopes that remained were pinned on the submarine having been able to replenish its oxygen supply by surfacing at some point during the past week.
Relatives of the crew gathered at the Mar del Plata navy base reacted with anger when informed by navy officers of the latest report.
“They didn’t say they’re dead, but that’s what seems logical,” said Itatí Leguizamón, the wife of Germán Suárez, a sonar operator. “We don’t believe they didn’t know from before. They’re perverse bastards who’ve had us here for a week.”…
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The Papua New Guinea army has been brought in to help police evict hundreds of asylum seekers who are refusing to leave the Manus Island detention centre.
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Pictures have emerged of the brand new accommodation arranged for 600 asylum seekers formerly detained on Manus Island.
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Migrant Crisis-Hit Italy See Half of Citizens ‘Feel Like Strangers in Their Own Country’
People across the West increasingly feel like they are “strangers” in their home countries, with Italy leading the pack.
Ipsos Mori research, cited by Chatham House fellow Matthew Goodwin, notes that some 49 per cent of Italians — who have borne the brunt of the migrant crisis recently — agree with the statement: “These days I feel like a stranger in my country.”
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Over a Thousand African Migrants Arrive in Italy Wednesday
Eleven rescue operations coordinated by the Italian Coast Guard brought some 1,100 African migrants to Italy Wednesday, including one woman who gave birth in a rubber boat.
The migrants had set out from the coast of Libya in 10 rubber boats and one small wooden vessel, but were intercepted and shuttled to Italy before they had gone far into the Strait of Sicily.
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Sweden to House Asylum Seekers With Seniors in Retirement Home
Ekerö municipality plans to house recently arrived asylum seekers alongside the elderly in a retirement home due to the shortage of available housing.
The municipality, located within the county of Stockholm and is the residence of the King of Sweden, has had difficulty finding housing for newly arrived migrants. The local government has announced that it will accommodate migrants in spare rooms in the Söderströmsgården retirement home, Mälarö Tidning reports.
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Watch: African Migrants Create Roadblock in Italy to Protest Living Conditions at Welcome Center
A group of some 20 African migrants blocked a local highway in southern Italy with heavy appliances to protest the quality of food and living conditions in their migrant welcome center.
According to Italian media, the young, male asylum seekers staged their roadblock Tuesday morning on the provincial highway running from Sessa to Mignano in the province of Caserta, between Rome and Naples. Protest laid heavy appliances such as stoves and refrigerators as well as large black garbage bags laid across the road to keep traffic from passing.
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Anyone wanting to familiarize themselves with the inflicted idiocy that now grips an entire country, then please take note of the soon to be made infamous, Swedish Madhouse.
STOCKHOLM — The Church of Sweden is urging its clergy to use gender-neutral language when referring to the supreme deity, refraining from using terms like “Lord” and “He” in favour of the less specific “God.”
http://nationalpost.com/news/world/swedish-lutherans-urge-use-of-gender-neutral-words-for-god
Sweden , the perfect blueprint for a nation wishing to commit suicide.
From above news link.
Claiming to be a peaceful muslim
No more fanatical than Mohammad ? ? himself as “-
Seems like the advice of Mohammad to “unsuspecting” muslims is to be taken seriously ! !
One ignores Mohammad’s “teachings” at their peril even though Mohammad did not do this.
It does seem that Mohammad did even worse things to “unbelievers”
https://www.trunews.com/article/le-pen-claims-shes-victim-of-banking-fatwa
** Eleven rescue operations coordinated by the Italian Coast Guard **
Rescuing your enemies. The West is pathetic. Feeble, dim, awash in lies, and hostile to decency and common sense.
A continent of reverse Darwinism where the stupid, feeble, gullible have a better chances in general, and the strong and smart have to hide. Degeneration of the gene pool continues apace.
Yes, correct! Watch out because, if you have nice house, car or clothes, these savages be vandalising, destroying what you have.
Faces full of rage and hate, that you have things they can only dream of!
I want to see all these traitors bought off political herd in Europe in the gallows asap.
They imported, are still importing our murderers.
Theresa May, Rotherham??? Merkel???
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[…] they have imparted to millions of us, and the wars we must now fight to free Europe from socialist nazis.
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“In other migration news, a Swedish municipality near Stockholm plans to house migrants in spare rooms in a nursing home, due to an acute lack of other accommodations.” read: “rape conditions just made easier for the perpetrators”
https://www.rt.com/news/410652-george-soros-one-world-government/.
Many or most Arabs will not recognise Israel as legitimate, that is going to be a long reality, but the rest of the world? That is up to Israel, if its own recognition means much to it.
http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/a-nation-without-borders-how-the-occupation-unwinds-israel/
We hear a lot of PP financial corruption in Spain… it is high level, clan like. What we do not hear much of is socialist corruption, which is also in line with the ideology, splashing out with other people’s money, creating unneeded positions and constructs to funnel funds to adherents. Here is a look at how that stands :
http://www.theolivepress.es/spain-news/2017/11/24/andalucia-jjunta-under-susana-diaz-has-only-recovered-only-0-5-of-almost-e1-billion-stolen-in-ere-corruption-scandal/
Not forgetting that a lot of the corruption took place in departments she headed or was associated with.
How does this look to the average Spaniard, given the tensions with PP, and the below reality
http://www.theolivepress.es/spain-news/2017/11/24/critical-spains-income-inequality-one-of-the-worst-in-eu-as-40-of-young-still-unemployed/
I am not sure, I don’t think it is a very comfortable reality though.
If the “refugees” don’t like the appliances they’re given, let them live without appliances.
If they don’t like the housing they’re given, let them live in the streets.