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The Arctic Ocean is warming up, icebergs are growing scarcer and in some places the seals are finding the water too hot according to a report to the Commerce Department yesterday frontier the Consulate at Bergen, Norway.

Reports from fishermen, seal hunters and explorers all point to a radical change in climate conditions and hitherto unheard of temperatures in the Arctic zone.

Exploration expeditions report that scarcely any ice has been met as far north as 81 degrees 29 minutes.

Soundings to a depth of 3,100 meters showed the gulf stream still very warm.

Great masses of ice have been replaced by moraines of earth and stones, the report continued, while at many points well known glaciers have entirely disappeared.

Very few seals and no white fish are found in the eastern Arctic, while vast shoals of herring and smelts which have never before ventured so far north, are being encountered in the old seal fishing grounds.

Within a few years it is predicted that due to the ice melt the sea will rise and make most coast cities uninhabitable.

I must apologize. I neglected to mention that this report was from November 2 , 1922, as reported by the AP and published in The Washington Post 96 years ago. This must have been caused by the Model T Ford’s emissions or possibly from horse and cattle farts

THE WOLF STREET REPORT
by Wolf Richter • Apr 14, 2019 • 18 Comments • Email to a friend

Wolf RichterApr 14, 2019
The Biggest Risk for Stocks: The moment share buybacks get slashed.

A stock market that is so uniquely dependent on corporations buying back their own shares in record amounts is in a very fragile position because share buybacks have a history of suddenly getting slashed when times get tough. And then, who’ll be the buyers? (11 minutes)

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Canadian Government Cracking Down On Asylum Laws
Jennifer G. HickeyApril 10, 2019
More than two years after his infamous #WelcomeToCanada tweet declaring his nation open to all, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is facing a border crisis of his own due to an “elevated number” of refugees and illegal border crossers. So, his government is moving to close a legal loophole often exploited by those claiming asylum.

The government’s 2019 budget includes a provision which would prevent refugees from seeking asylum if they made similar claims in countries with whom Canada has an immigration information-sharing agreement, such as the U.S. and U.K.

It stipulates that “failed asylum claimants who entered into Canada at irregular crossings or between official ports of entry will also be removed on a priority basis.”

The 392-page omnibus budget bill also calls for increased spending on enforcement to deal with the rise in asylum seekers and illegal border crossings that has “challenged the fairness and effectiveness of Canada’s asylum system.”

One of the reasons why more aliens are trying to cross illegally is because the Safe Third Country Agreement between the U.S. and Canada says asylum-seekers are prohibited from claiming refugee protection in Canada if they arrive at an official border checkpoint from a safe country, such as the U.S.

According to Globalnews, an internal memo prepared for Canada’s immigration minister prior to a January 2018 meeting with then-Secretary of Homeland Security Kristjen Nielsen showed the Canadians were increasingly concerned the effectiveness of the agreement, which it maintained was “no longer working as intended.”

In an effort to sidestep the law, the memo said asylum seekers were “crossing into Canada between ports of entry where the agreement does not apply. This has brought to our attention gaps that may be creating a pull factor for people to cross illegally into Canada.”

Like its southern neighbor, the Canadian government has been struggling to deal with the surging numbers of illegal immigrants in the last few years, specifically financing enough immigration judges to respond to asylum claims.

The 2018 budget allocated an additional $72 million to the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (IRB) over two years to increase capacity so they can deal with the growing number of refugee protection claims. Last year, there were almost 30,000 preapproved refugee arrivals, which is distinct from asylum claims.

Just as radical activists and open-border advocates in the U.S. have criticized efforts to enforce the nation’s immigration laws, groups in Canada fired up their rhetoric and fear-mongering too.

“We are shocked that the government would use an omnibus budget bill to strip away human rights protections from vulnerable refugee claimants,” said Maureen Silcoff, Litigation Committee Chair of the Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers. “Removing these protections will result in costly legal challenges, and is bound to create further delay and confusion in the refugee system.”

One could assume from of those “costly legal challenges” would be lodged by Silcoff and her associates.

Since the surge of illegal crossings began in 2017, the Canadian government has also struggled to house the growing numbers. They were forced to open up Olympic Stadium in Montreal as a temporary shelter, and the Canadian military was tasked with building other shelters to process the asylum seekers crossing into Quebec.

The problem of illegal border crossings goes both ways. Data released in March by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), shows 4,316 people were apprehended along the border last year, up from 3,027 in 2017 and 2,283 in 2016.

Although the U.S. has a less-than-cooperative partner along the southern border, perhaps there is some hope for closing legal loopholes and stopping violations of immigration law on both sides of the northern border.

Migrants break border gate, force their way into Mexico

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican authorities said a group of about 350 migrants broke the locks on a gate at the Guatemalan border Friday and forced their way into southern Mexico to join a larger group of migrants trying to make their way toward the United States.

The National Immigration Institute did not identify the nationalities of the migrants, but they are usually from Central America.

A similar confrontation occurred on the same border bridge between Mexico and Guatemala last year.

The institute said the migrants were acting in a “hostile” and “aggressive” way, and accused them of also attacking local police in Metapa, a Mexican village that lies between the border and the nearby city of Tapachula.

The group of 350 pushed past police guarding the bridge and joined a larger group of about 2,000 migrants who are walking toward Tapachula in the latest caravan to enter Mexico.

Claudia Jaqueline Sandoval, 43, from El Progreso, Honduras, was walking toward Tapachula with her 6-year-old daughter. Another son and a daughter are already in the United States.

“I have been HIV positive for 16 years,” said Sandoval, but her reason for going north was not just medical treatment. “It has been two years since I heard from my son” in the United States, and money is scarce, she said.

There are already several groups of migrants in the southern border state of Chiapas who have expressed frustration at Mexico’s policy of slowing or stopping the process of handing out humanitarian and exit visas at the border.

A group of several hundred Cuban, African and Central American migrants have been waiting at the immigration offices in Tapachula for documents that would allow them to travel to the U.S. border, where most plan to request asylum.

Some members of that group have scuffled with immigration authorities and broken windows at the offices in recent days, accusing officials of making them wait too long for papers.

And another group of an estimated 2,500 Central American and Cuban migrants have been stuck for at least a week further west in the Chiapas town of Mapastepec, also waiting for papers.

Russia Says ‘New World Order’ Being Formed
by L Todd WoodApril 12, 201978 90435
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Russia Says ‘New World Order’ Being Formed
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Meeting of CIS Council of Heads of State. September 16, 2016. Bishkek

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov declared today that the Western, liberal model of society is dying, and a new world order is taking its place. Lavrov made the comments at his annual meeting with students and professors at the Foreign Ministry’s Diplomatic Academy, reported Russian state news agency TASS.

“The Western liberal model of development, which particularly stipulates a partial loss of national sovereignty – this is what our Western colleagues aimed at when they invented what they called globalization – is losing its attractiveness and is no more viewed as a perfect model for all. Moreover, many people in the very western countries are skeptical about it,” Lavrov said.

According to him, global development is guided “by processes aimed at boosting multipolarity and what we call a polycentric world order.”

Tensions flare up in the Union State…again

“Clearly, multipolarity and the emergence of new centers of power in every way requires efforts to maintain global stability and search for a balance of interests and compromises, so diplomacy should play a leading role here,” Lavrov went on to say. “Particularly because there are a lot of issues that require generally acceptable solutions. These include regional conflicts, international terrorism, food security and environmental protection. This is why we believe that only diplomacy can help make agreements and reach sustainable decisions that will be accepted by all.

“The US and its allies are trying to impose their approaches on others,” Lavrov noted. “They are guided by a clear desire to preserve their centuries-long dominance in global affairs although from the economic and financial standpoint, the US – alone or with its allies – can no longer resolve all global economic and political issues,” he said.

“In order to preserve their dominance and recover their indisputable authority, they use blackmail and pressure. They don’t hesitate to blatantly interfere in the affairs of sovereign states.”

The Week That Perished
by Takimag April 14, 2019
The Week That Perished
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Julian Assange
The Week’s Stingiest, Mingiest, and Whingiest Headlines

JULIAN ASSANGE ARRESTED
Master hacker and exotic dancer Julian Assange has been holed up in London’s Ecuadorian Embassy since 2012 when they offered him refuge from some rather flimsy rape charges regarding a 2010 incident in Sweden.

Now the Ecuadorians have sent him kicking and screaming into the hands of police officers who hauled him into court to face charges for skipping bail in the UK. He was then slapped with a US extradition request for hacking an estimated 750,000 classified documents. He is expected to face further charges in the US for espionage, a crime that carries a potential 20-year sentence.

As fate would have it, his arrest came one day after Assange’s Wikileaks website released a trove of documents accusing Ecuador of an “extensive spying operation” and a month after the IMF approved a $4.2 billion aid package from Washington to Ecuador. Officials accused Assange of being a stinky and combative tenant who was prone to smearing feces on the walls. To be fair to the Ecuadorians, Assange does look like he’s aged 40 years since being holed up in their Embassy and bears the appearance of a man who smells terrible.

Airheaded tit monster Pamela Anderson, who claims to have had a sexual relationship with Assange while he was in captivity, went on Twitter to accuse Ecuador of expelling Assange because he “exposed” them. She also accused the UK of being “America’s bitch” and that they “need a diversion from your idiotic Brexit bullshit.”

You may want to take it down a notch, Pam. You’re not helping.

THOSE WACKY RAPPERS AND THEIR KOOKY DEATH THREATS
A long time ago, Chuck D from black nationalist hip-hop group Public Enemy said that “rap is black America’s CNN,” which would make sense if CNN anchors were constantly threatening to slit bitches’ throats and shoot people between the eyes over the slightest sign of disrespect.

A 26-year-old Florida rapper named Christopher Maurice McCallum—he really needs to work on the name there if he ever wants to sell records—has been arrested and charged with threatening a mass shooting after he posted lyrics on Facebook threatening to “catch you at a Gator game and shoot the whole campus up.”

Other rappers are throwing their support behind the legal appeals process for Mayhem Mal, née Jamal Knox, who was arrested in 2012 after police found a loaded gun and fifteen bags of heroin in his car. Shortly after his arrest, Mr. Mal released a rap track threatening the two officers who’d busted him—and naming them in his song. He was subsequently jailed for making terroristic threats. His defenders claim the legal system and “society” simply don’t understand hip-hop and that the lyrics aren’t meant to be taken seriously, even though, you know, he mentioned the two cops by name.

French rapper Nick Conrad has been punished—if you could call it that—with a suspended fine for a video he made called “Hang White People” that shows Conrad kidnapping, torturing, and hanging a white man. It also contains the lyrics “I go to the nurseries, I kill the white babies. Catch them quick and hang their parents!” As with Mayhem Mal, Conrad and his supporters are claiming that white people are taking it all way too seriously because they are racists who don’t understand or even attempt to appreciate the deep nuances and complexities of black culture.

NHS STAFFERS QUIT OVER TRANNY-KID PROGRAM
In 2010, 94 British children were referred to the Gender Identity Development Service clinic for possible counseling as to how to poison themselves with hormones and delude themselves that they are anything other than the gender in which they were born.

“Are you starting to feel that they’re just messing with our heads?”
Last year, over 2,500 children were referred, and at least five clinicians have resigned, claiming that gender conversion therapy for children is scientifically untested and potentially dangerous. According to one of the clinicians, all of whom are unnamed:

I felt for the last two years what kept me in the job was the sense there was a huge number of children in danger. I was there to protect children from being damaged….This experimental treatment is being done on not only children, but very vulnerable children.

Carl Heneghan of the University of Oxford underlines the idea that none of this gender voodoo has been established as safe or even efficient:

Given paucity of evidence, the off-label use of drugs in gender dysphoria treatment largely means an unregulated live experiment on children.

The message is clear: The only reason one would object to using children as sexual guinea pigs is because one is blinded by irrational hatred.

TEACHER SUSPENDED FOR READING JAMES BALDWIN ALOUD
Philip Adamo is a professor at Augsburg University in Minneapolis. He was recently suspended for reading the following sentence from James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time aloud in class:

You can only be destroyed by believing that you really are what the white world calls a nigger.

Pardon our unbearable whiteness, but that sounds harsher toward white people than toward The Blacks.

Regardless, word spread like racial wildfire among students that Adamo had said the “N” word in class. The next day, students requested that Adamo leave the class, which he did while additional students filled the classroom. Adamo tried to justify his behavior via emails, but it was too late. He was suspended.

He has subsequently apologized and pretended that even mentioning the word causes “harm,” but as anyone who is familiar with leftist totalitarianism knows, attempting to compromise or apologize will only make them sink in their talons deeper.

MAN FINED FOR REFERRING TO A MALE AS A “MALE”
A Canadian Christian preacher who is so blinded by hate that he actually thinks that men are men and women are women has been fined $55,000 for referring to a biological male as a “biological male.”

Last month, a woman in England received a knock on the door by police after she identified a child based on the, er, gender it was assigned at birth. This sort of thing happens again and again on that tiny soggy island that ruled the planet a mere century ago.

Starting in 2015, New York City legalized fines of up to a quarter-million dollars for the crime of calling a boy a boy. In Oregon, a teacher received a $60,000 settlement in 2016 after accusing his/her/its associates of refusing to submit to the delusion that it somehow had swapped out the gender that Mother Nature had given it.

Are you starting to feel that they’re just messing with our heads?

LESBIANS SEEK SPLIT FROM OTHER QUEER GROUPS
Everyone knows that lesbians are the most unpleasant people in the world and that if they truly enjoyed being with other women, they’d smile every once in a while.

As further proof that they can’t get along with anyone, some especially mouthy carpet-munchers are now urging their muff-lickin’ sistas to reject the rest of the “LGBT” community. A self-described “lesbian feminist activist” who has given herself the edgy name of “Angela Wild” rails against the gays, the bisexuals, and the trannies in a rant called “Lesbians need to get the L out of the LGBT+ community.” She claims that the male-to-female trannies, sometimes with penises intact and pointed in her direction, are forcing her to have sex with them under the ruse that it is authentic lesbianism:

Our research findings show that lesbians are under huge pressure within their LGBT+ groups to accept transwomen as sexual partners so as not to be labelled as trans-exclusionary radical feminists – or Terfs – and subsequently excluded by their GBT groups.

Lesbians who responded to our survey also reported experiencing sexual violence from transwomen ranging from online grooming, domestic and sexual violence as part of a relationship, sexual harassment, sexual assault (including in women’s toilets), coercion and rape.

Ms. Wild also claims that lesbos who refuse to have sex with trannies are being called “transphobic bigots” and “Nazis” who should be “dragged out by our saggy tits.”

We have no comment. We just want these dizzy broads to keep catfighting.

STUDY: SEXY WOMEN MAKE OTHER WOMEN VIOLENT
Living in a white supremacist patriarchy as we do, we are endlessly sold the debunked trope that women are something less than innocent goddesses and that they are often manipulative and malicious, especially toward one another.

A recently published study called “Aggression Toward Sexualized Women Is Mediated by Decreased Perceptions of Humanness” only serves to perpetuate such destructive myths:

Researchers have argued that the regulation of female sexuality is a major catalyst for women’s intrasexual aggression….Results showed that women rated another woman lower on uniquely human personality traits when she was dressed in a sexualized (vs. conventional) manner. Lower humanness ratings subsequently predicted increased aggression toward her in a behavioral measure of aggression. This effect was moderated by trait intrasexual competitiveness; lower humanness ratings translated into more aggression, but only for women scoring relatively high on intrasexual competition.

In other words, if women encounter another woman whom they suspect may be sexually attractive to men, they will dehumanize her in order to feel completely righteous about clawing out her eyeballs.

H. L. Mencken once defined a misogynist as “a man who hates women as much as women hate one another,” but his views can be discounted because he was not only a confirmed misogynist but also a card-carrying anti-Semite.

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