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At least 40 rescued, 2 dead as boat capsizes after machete fight near Puerto Rico
At least 40 people were rescued in open waters by the U.S. Coast Guard and two people died after their boat capsized several miles from a tiny, uninhabited island west of Puerto Rico following a fight that involved a machete, officials said on Monday.Survivors said there was an estimated 60 people aboard, according to the Coast Guard.The Coast Guard said the makeshift boat capsized late Sunday after a fight in which some people were severely injured by a machete, forcing the group to jump into the water despite not wearing life vests.Survivors had spent more than 12 hours in the water when someone on a boat passing near Mona Island noticed them at around noon on Monday.CBP, COAST GUARD INTERCEPT MIGRANT VESSEL HEADING FOR PUERTO RICO; 40 APPREHENDED INCLUDING UZBEK NATIONALThe person alerted authorities and helped rescue four people at that moment.Rescue efforts were still ongoing as of Monday evening.The Coast Guard said it was not immediately known where the people who were on the capsized boat were from.Migrants fleeing poverty and violence have long traveled from Hispaniola, the island shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic, to Puerto Rico and other islands, moving through the Mona Passage.Many of these migrants navigate the passage on makeshift boats that can capsize in treacherous waters.This incident marked only the latest deadly voyage.In June 2022, 11 Haitian women and girls were buried in Puerto Rico after their grossly overloaded boat capsized in open waters northwest of the U.S. territory.COAST GUARD OPENS FIRE ON BOAT SMUGGLING 25 CHINESE NATIONALS NEAR FLORIDA AFTER IT REFUSED TO STOPLast week, police in the Turks and Caicos Islands detained a makeshift vessel carrying 60 Haitian migrants.In June, 240 Haitian migrants were detained near the the Turks and Caicos Islands.Gang violence has displaced a record 1.5 million people across Haiti, where more than 3,000 people were reportedly killed between January and June, according to U.N. data.Armed men control an estimated 70% of Port-au-Prince and portions of land in Haiti’s central region and beyond.The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Where Robots Do The Most Housework
Where Robots Do The Most Housework
Over the past two decades, domestic robots like robot vacuums and lawn-mowing robots have evolved from gimmicks for tech lovers to actual mass-market products.
Today, these automated little helpers are capable of performing household chores as good as, if not better than humans, freeing up valuable time for their owners to focus on more important things such as (paid) work, family or leisure activities.
With advancements in technology, domestic robots have not only become smarter and more efficient, but also become a lot more affordable, with decent vacuum robots now available for just a couple hundred dollars.
As more households embrace smart technologies, the demand for these robots continues to grow, promising a future where mundane chores are handled effortlessly, leaving homeowners (and renters) with more time to enjoy the finer things in life.
As Statista’s Felix Richter reports, according to Statista Consumer Insights, adoption of vacuum and lawn-mowing robots is still limited, though, with fewer than 1 in 5 respondents in each surveyed market calling either of the two their own.
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Interestingly, domestic robots are particularly unpopular in South Korea and Japan – two of the countries with the highest density of industrial robots.
Tyler Durden
Tue, 09/29/2026 – 02:45
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British Schoolkids Told To List Only The Positives Of Mass Migration
British Schoolkids Told To List Only The Positives Of Mass Migration
Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news,
Children as young as seven are being sat down in British classrooms and told to list the “positive” aspects of migration – and only the positives. No pressure on housing. No wages. No hotels. No community strain. Just the approved script.
Show Racism the Red Card, which brands itself the UK’s “leading anti-racism charity,” has produced lesson plans that treat migration as an unalloyed good.
Pupils are being handed headlines such as “how many more migrants can we take?” and instructed to rewrite them in a cheerier register – “migrant workers bring fresh hope to British economy” is the model answer. The materials describe the exercise as “an opportunity to explore what is positive and good about migration.”
Children as young as seven are being taught that migration is a “positive” force in Britain by a charity whose funding was cancelled by a Reform council
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— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) September 27, 2026
It’s pure insidious indoctrination.
The same packs tell British kids that women and children make up 80 per cent of refugees worldwide. They do not mention that adult men account for around three-quarters of those landing on British beaches in small boats.
Pupils are told it is “false” to claim most people fleeing their countries are adult men. They are told asylum seekers survive on £6.42 a day and are banned from working. They are not told what hotels, HMO placements and the rest of the support system actually cost.
Listed “benefits” include filling vacancies, plugging skills shortages, propping up social care and closing the “pension gap” with young foreign workers. There is no matching column for crowded classrooms, GP waiting lists, suppressed wages at the bottom end, or what happens when too many people arrive too fast into towns that never voted for any of it.
Sunderland’s Reform-led council has now ended a 30-year relationship with the group. Council leader Christopher Eynon said the authority would no longer back “politically charged organisations with an agenda.”
Labour Party chairman Bridget Phillipson called the cut “misguided, cruel and in no way backed by the people of Sunderland.” Nigel Farage took the opposite view: “As ever an innocuous sounding organisation has a hard-Left agenda.”
The lesson catalogue goes well beyond migration. It covers activism, Black History Month, the meaning and purpose of demonstrations, Windrush, Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities, “what makes a happy home,” how to support people experiencing racism, anti-Semitism, and racism in online gaming, which the plans call “extremely common.”
Anti-racism is one thing. Turning seven-year-olds into activists for a live political project is quite another.
The charity’s own “Migration. Making Britain Great” programme was built to “counter and alter the negative narrative surrounding migration.” That is the point. Not to weigh evidence. To alter the narrative.
A Department for Education spokesman said pupils should receive “a balanced presentation of opposing views on political topics,” and that schools must promote fundamental British values. “This isn’t optional, it’s the law.” The SRTRC packs do not look like balance. They look like one side of an argument, laminated and handed out as fact.
The same project has been running through British schools for years.
More than 1,100 schools and nurseries signed up to City of Sanctuary’s Schools of Sanctuary scheme. Suggested reading for children as young as five includes Kind by Alison Green, which tells pupils that people who “had to leave their homes and their countries because of danger” are “brave and amazing,” then offers the line: “Sometimes people say there’s no room for anyone more. But maybe you can say ‘There’s plenty of room! Come on in!'”
Everybody’s Welcome by Patricia Hegarty is even blunter: “Everybody’s welcome, no matter who they are, wherever they may come from, whether near or far.”
Then-shadow education secretary Laura Trott slammed the findings, stating “Classrooms should be places of learning not promoting political ideology.” She added, “Portraying the arrival of small boats as a positive thing in books for children as young as five is indoctrination, this is an illegal practice.” The organisation’s aim, she noted, was to turn pupils into “ethically informed change makers.”
The far left Green Party went further. A leaked dossier called for a Department of Migration to push into classrooms “the need for and moral obligation of asylum and humanitarian protection.” Not an argument. A moral obligation – taught to children who cannot yet vote.
The BBC opened another door. Pro-migrant charity Heard, which has taken seed support linked to George Soros’s Open Society Foundations, met producers of the CBBC show Pickle Storm – a comedy about a young “alien” fleeing persecution and settling in a British town.
Heard described the work as a way to “tap into children’s media and directly impact framing of migration in children’s content.” The corporation claimed the group “had no power to influence editing or production.”
Picture books. Lesson plans. Children’s television. All are amplifying the same narrative.
While seven-year-olds are told to accentuate the positive, boats in the English Channel have delivered an army.
Home Office figures put small-boat arrivals since Labour took office on 4 July 2024 at 83,279. Regular Army strength sits at 83,000. Shadow home secretary Chris Philp put it plainly: “Labour has let an entire army-sized population cross the Channel illegally. More people have arrived in small boats than we have soldiers defending Britain. That is completely bonkers.”
Former Royal Navy officer Chris Parry said Labour’s intake amounted to six-and-a-half divisions of fighting-age men. “That’s more divisions than were in the Allied assault wave on D-Day.” Almost 90 per cent of those intercepted since 2018 have been male; two-thirds aged 18 to 39.
Farage, writing after another surge of landings, said: “It is utterly insane.” Ordinary Britons, he added, “rightly ask if successive governments cannot stop people from arriving illegally in broad daylight… then what exactly is the point of having a border?”
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has herself warned that the UK’s “generous” benefits and asylum support system is “drawing illegal migrants across the Channel.” The Home Office says significant numbers of those in the boats are economic migrants. That is the adult conversation. The classroom version skips it.
Nobody needs a think tank paper to decode this. Charities write the worksheets. Schools deliver them. Broadcasters soften the story for the same age group. Parties draft “moral obligation” into education policy. And the raw numbers keep arriving on beaches.
The children being trained to rewrite “how many more can we take” will inherit the housing queue, the school places and the social care system those arrivals load. They are not being equipped to judge that. They are being equipped to applaud it.
Tyler Durden
Tue, 09/29/2026 – 02:00