Social Issues

Just as the market broke back into the red for the day, it broke...

• *BATS SYSTEM STATUS: "ALL BATS" ROUTING STRATEGY DISABLED

Seriously!!

Greek police deployed tear gas during a demonstration in Syntagma Square in Athens, where a general strike is taking place. Around 50,000 Greeks marched on parliament in Central Athens on Thursday, chanting anti-bailout and anti-government slogans. #Violences en #Grèce pendant la #grèvenationalehttps://t.co/9MsrafB3jd — RT France (@RTenfrancais) February 4, 2016         Press TV reports: Black-clad youths hurled stones and petrol bombs at police, who responded with rounds of tear gas and stun grenades, Reuters reported.

As Europe struggles to cope with a migrant crisis that’s already the worst refugee catastrophe since World War II and which threatens to spiral even further out of control once the weather turns in the spring, officials have offered a variety of possible “solutions” to the various refugee-related “problems” that have cropped up.

Some are better than others.

Jim Buterbaugh is pissed off.

Jim is from Whitehall, Montana, a sprawling metropolis of 1,038 residents. Whitehall is about a two hour car ride from Missoula, where community organizers calling themselves “Soft Landing” have lobbied to resettle around 100 refugees per year through the International Rescue Committee’s Reception and Placement Program.

A UN panel of experts has issued a scathing attack of the plight of black people in the United States, urging American authorities to establish a body who would be responsible for making reparations to the descendants of Africans who were brought to the US and sold into slavery.  Vice News reports: Speaking at a press conference in Washington, DC, three members of the UN Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent said that Congress should pass the Commission to Study Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act, a bill that Michigan Representative John Conyers last introduced i