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From The Independent
America’s white working class is dying – and that has disturbing implications
US President Barack Obama speaks on the economy and job creation at Smith Electric Vehicles in Kansas City Getty
I’ve been living in this country for most of the past 25 years, and I’ve been writing this column for the past 10 of them. Astonishing events have taken place in that quarter century: victory in the Cold War, the 9/11 attacks, two hot wars against Iraq, the most devastating economic and financial crisis since the Great Depression, and the election of the first black president.
But half obscured, something else has been going on. It’s insidious and so much part of the background music of daily life that, unless you’re directly affected, you barely notice it. But I would argue that it’s more important than any of the above for America’s sense of itself. I’m talking about the slow, seemingly unstoppable decline of America’s white working class.
Startling rise in death-rate of section of middle-aged white Americans
Normally, such trends are the stuff of books, not of headlines. But last week came a headline that brought what’s been happening into appalling focus: it refers not to an individual tragedy but to an academic study, dry and scientific – yet also the distillation of tens of thousands of separate human tragedies. America’s white working class is dying. Literally.
From Russia Today
‘Scratch my back’: EU will offer African elite visas & money to stop flood of migrants
Published time: 9 Nov, 2015 00:16
Shagarab Eritrean Refugees camp at Kassala in East Sudan. © Stringer / Reuters
The EU will offer African states fewer travel restrictions, more foreign exchange scholarships, and a €3.6 billion fund to incentivize them to control the influx of migrants to Europe. The offer is to be made during a summit in Malta next week.
“There is no secret that the Africans are looking for opportunity for legal migration, work permits and these kinds of things, while the Europeans are focusing more on returns and readmission,” an EU official told EU Observer.
Some 140,000 Africans have arrived in Europe by boat this year, according to the International Organization for Migration, while the European Union is predicting that 3 million new unregistered migrants from around the world will enter the continent by the end of 2017.
The latest available draft of a 14-page Action Plan from October 26, which is to be discussed at the summit, outlines the quid-pro-quo.
The plan aims to “promote mobility of students, researchers and entrepreneurs” and double the number of Erasmus student exchange scholarships offered to top students, as well as “simplify entry proceedings” and “facilitate the procedures related to applications for legal migration, including family reunification.”
In return, the countries along the main migration routes are expected to “strengthen capacities of countries of first asylum, transit and destination,” essentially by building more refugee camps south, rather than north of the Mediterranean. A previous draft of the plan had explicitly called for building “pre-screening” centers, where asylum seekers could be evaluated on their worthiness to go to Europe, while the new one concentrates on vague “return and readmission policies” that would see thousands of migrants repatriated from Europe.
A migrant dives into the water from an overloaded wooden boat during a rescue operation 10.5 miles (16 km) off the coast of Libya, August 6, 2015. © Darrin Zammit Lupi / Reuters
The program will be funded by a new commitment of €1.8 billion, which is yet to be collected, and previously allocated international aid in the same amount, which together will form an Africa Trust Fund available to those states that sign the agreement.
African states are also expected to boost “national capabilities to control land, sea and air borders, as well as maritime surveillance capabilities.”
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From Russia Today
‘US-led coalition disjointed in fighting ISIS as some members have own plans’ – Iraq’s ex-PM
Published time: 8 Nov, 2015 09:42
© US Navy / Reuters
The US-led coalition has been “unbelievably” inefficient in fighting the terror group Islamic State, possibly because some members have their plans for the terrorists, Iraq’s former PM told RT.
Nouri al-Maliki, who stepped down as the head of the Iraqi government last year and remains a vice-president, believes that Iraq was targeted by a “regional conspiracy” and is at risk of breaking up. He also said inviting Russia to target Islamic State targets in Iraq could play a positive part in the debacle.
Describing the effort of the international coalition led by the US to cripple ISIS fighters in Iraq, Maliki said it was “inefficient”.
“It’s unbelievable and unacceptable that more than 60 nations comprising this coalition that have the most modern aircraft and weapons at their disposal have been conducting their campaign in Iraq for 14 months and IS still remains in the country,” he told RT’s Arabic-language sister-channel Rusiya Al-Yaum.
Maliki cited the loss of the city of Ramadi and the major oil refining center Baiji to ISIS, both of which happened after the coalition started bombing the terrorists, as proof that not enough is being done by the coalition.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Report: Investigators ’90 percent sure’ bomb downed Russian airliner
(JTA) — Investigators looking into the crash of a Russian airplane over the Sinai Peninsula say they are “90 percent sure” that a bomb on board is the cause.
“The indications and analysis so far of the sound on the black box indicate it was a bomb,” an unnamed Egyptian investigation team member told Reuters on Sunday.
It is the most specific confirmation made so far about the crash of the Metrojet flight bound for Russia. All 224 people aboard were killed in the Oct. 31 crash, including a former program director for Hillel Russia.
Last week, U.S. news outlets including CNN and NBC quoted unnamed American officials as saying that intelligence gathered by the United States suggested that a bomb caused the crash.
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From Russia Today
TPP ‘worst thing Harper did for Canada’ & will cost hundreds of billions – ex-Blackberry tycoon
Published time: 9 Nov, 2015 06:13
Jim Balsillie © Lucas Jackson / Reuters
Canadians have been “outfoxed” in the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement and will now be forever bound by a deal harmful for innovation, Jim Balsillie, former co-CEO of Research In Motion (BlackBerry Ltd.), has said, after studying the fine print.
Balsillie, who helped turn BlackBerry into a global player and is on the list of 100 richest Canadians, predicted that TPP will cost Canada hundreds of billions of dollars, lamenting that its provisions on intellectual property will deal a blow to the future Canadian innovators.
“I’m not a partisan actor, but I actually think this is the worst thing that the Harper government has done for Canada… I think in 10 years from now, we’ll call that the signature worst thing in policy that Canada’s ever done,” the businessman and philanthropist told The Canadian Press after delving into the 6,000-page deal.
These are not mere words for Balsillie, who is also the founder of Canada’s Center for International Governance Innovation.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Larry David calls Trump a racist on ‘SNL,’ earns $5,000
(JTA) — Comedian Larry David heckled billionaire presidential candidate Donald Trump during his appearance on “Saturday Night Live” and will pocket $5,000 for it.
“You’re a racist. Trump’s a racist,” David yelled from offstage during Trump’s opening monologue on Saturday night.
The Deport Racism PAC had offered a $5,000 bounty for “anyone on the set of the show or in the studio audience who yells out or gets on camera during the live TV broadcast clearly heard in the TV broadcast saying “Deport Racism” or “Trump is a Racist.”
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